What My Worthless Sponsor Did Not Tell Me

This is an updated reprint of the 'worthless sponsor' article I wrote and published in 2003. 

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How many distributors have you known or know that have quit because they thought they were abandoned by their worthless sponsor shortly after joining their program? Are you one of those as well?

So, what is the solution to a worthless sponsor?

There is no perfect network marketing company or sponsor. All companies have unique sets of strengths and weaknesses or challenges. Their product may be superior but the compensation plan may not be. Or their compensation plan is the best, but the training program has a lot to be desired. Hopefully, while doing your research and homework while looking for a business to join, you are keeping a list of pluses and minuses.  In the end you should pick a company that "fits" you and has challenges with which you can live.

The same thing applies to selecting a sponsor. But what your sponsor does or does not do has no bearing on whether or not you are successful with your business. The best way took at a sponsor is someone who is willing to mentor you or help you shorten the learning curve.

Beyond that, what is required is a realization or understanding of what business or environmental factors are totally within your control.

A simple life maxim is to only worry about those things you can control. Everything else is unimportant. The same thing is true in business.

As a network marketer, you have no control over:

    the weather
    politicians in Washington DC
    what your worthless sponsor does
    what your downline members do
    what McDonald's charges for a Big Mac
    who wins the Super Bowl or World Series
    what your competition does

As a network marketer, you have control over:

    the number of opportunity meetings you attend
    the number of self-improvement and sales books you read
    the number of people you contact
    what time you get up in the morning
    what you eat for lunch
    your leadership skills
    your commitment to learn

The key to success is to determine whether you can obtain the skills and resources to sell products and sponsor more people committed to learning and becoming leaders. And if you have the burning desire to make a change in your life, then there should be no roadblocks to prevent you from getting what you need. It has been said that the key fundamental to success is "learn, teach and teach to teach." With a commitment to learn, you've taken the first step.

Take a look at the successful people within your company. The successful people who are leaders that have learned about the company and product, the necessary activities to succeed and the process of repeating the required steps. This is done through reading company product literature, attending meetings and contacting people. Attending meetings and reading company literature reinforces the distributors learning. Contacting people reinforces product and company knowledge. This is knowledge that the prospective client does not possess. The exchange of knowledge between you and the prospective client ultimately leads to the exchange of money for product.

These are the things that a worthless sponsor cannot do for you.

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