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Dear friends, welcome back! Today will continue our A-Z series about Network Marketing.  Today’s topic is V for Vision for stay-at-home mums.

For some mums, their life is their dream life. They are happily married with their own children. They stay-at-home because they choose to be a stay-at-home mum.  Their vision may be to live a good life, supporting their spouses and children to reach for their potential.

If you are in that category, I am challenging you to think deep and hard if that is really the life that you would like to live?

My Stay-at-Home Decision

I have my own career in Hong Kong prior to migration to Australia some 20 years ago. My children were still young, 9, 5 and 7 months. It had been my dream for years to be able to stay home and watch them grow. For many years, they had been spending more time with our domestic helper than with us.

When we arrived in Australia, I considered myself lucky as we can afford to have just one single household income.

However, my decision to stay home also brought some ‘bonuses’. I do not enjoy cooking dinner.  Neither do I enjoy doing household chores. I always joked about that I enjoyed the parenting journey but not the part as a domestic helper.

What I did not realize then was that I could, if I chose to, also build another stream of income through Network Marketing whilst staying home! In that case, the extra income would allow me to have some household tasks outsourced. That mean would mean a lot MORE quality time with my children.

Yet, like most mothers with younger kids, that idea of making extra money was simply not on my agenda. I was totally embracing my stay-at-home mum status.

Your Stay-at-Home Decision

Why do you choose to be home with your kids?

Do you sometimes feel that you have so much more to offer to the marketplace than ‘just’ a mum?

Don’t get me wrong. I have the highest respect for mothers who choose to stay home and be there for the kids. In my view, it is one of the most honourable thing to do.

However, did your decision to stay home come with another ‘bonuses’ that you may not necessarily love? Are those others things that you may not like to do taking away your quality time with the kids? I certainly sometimes felt that way when my kids were young.

What about the ‘bonus’ of adding stress to the spouse? The cost of living is rising fast so fast that some families are feeling the stress.

If you have the vision of bringing about a better future for the kids and the family, you may wish to consider other options that you can take up, from the comfort of your home.

Today’s Mums have more options!

Setting sail to where you want to go is possible, even you are a stay-at-home mum.

Helpful Question to Ask Yourself

Am I totally happy and content with the current life?

Could I possibly do something NOW so that in case disaster strikes, I have more options?

If I am not going ahead with creating an additional stream of income, what is the real reason? Is it because I am living according to other people’s expectation? Am I really living an authentic life? A life that is truly meaningful?

If I do not act on my vision, what am I giving up? Financial independence? Freedom? Other worthy causes?

Hello! For those of you who are new to this blog, I may say a few things about this series before I start. This A-Z series on Network Marketing is aimed at helping stay-at-home mums who may wish to explore this wonderful business model. It is also great for those stay-at-home mums who are already in this profession but are finding it hard to enrol new members or grow their organization.

Does it mean that if you are not in those categories, this blog is not for you? Absolutely not!

The knowledge and insights I share here can help anyone who have a genuine desire to live a better life through embracing Network Marketing.

U-Turn for Dani Johnson

In the Network Marketing arena,  we often hear stories about how someone’s lives had hit rock bottom before they had their lives turned around through Network Marketing. A famous example is that of Dani Johnson. She grew up on welfare and in a drug-infested environment. She was  also abused and ended up homeless at 21. Her personal trauma and violent conditions, however, did not dictate her future. She went on to became a millionaire at the age of 23.

She is now in a blessed position to give back to people in need.

You may be wondering how could someone like Dani succeed in such a short time? What actually triggered her to take a U-Turn from her poverty circle of friends?

Dani once shared that one day when she came out of the water from the beach, she heard God asking her to leave behind her messed up life. She followed the calling, went straight to the car, drove miles away and just re-started her life afresh. Through her willingness to learn and desire to be successful, the rest is history.

Why Making a U-Turn?

In Dani’s case, it was a calling from God.

For stay-at-home mums who are living a comfortable or even a lovely life, why would they wish to make a U-Turn?

Here are just a few of the most common scenarios that a U-Turn is necessary:

– The bread winner of the family gets sick and cannot work

– The bread winner loses his job because of poor economy

– The husband leaves the family for another woman

– The husband becomes abusive and unbearable

In any of those situations, the stay-at-home mum is forced to make a U-Turn when UN-PREDICTABLE things happen.

Why NOT Making a U-Turn While Things Are Going Well?

Change is scary for most people. Change represents the unknown. It literally represents death (of an era or something)!

Comfort zone is an interesting zone.  Sometimes people would rather stay in the uncomfortable but tolerable situation until they are forced to make a U-Turn in life.

Living by default is another reason that most people just stay in whatever situation that they are in UNTIL something happened to them.

Habit is something that is closely related to living by default. They just keep on doing the same things. Hence the same results.

Now Look at Something Predictable!

Many people’s life is highly predictable.

A person who is not saving money is predicted to be in financial crisis when disaster hits.

A person who is not in the habit of creating another additional source of income is predicted to be in crisis when something happens to his job or health condition.

A person who follows another person’s success footsteps is predicted to be successful too.

What is Your Choice?

Leaving things to the hands of UNPREDICTABLE circumstances?

Or, Start taking charge of something that is highly predictable?

Some stay-at-home mums may now be saying “I don’t have much of a choice! I do not have any work experience!“

REALLY? Did Dani have any experience in succeeding in Network Marketing when she made that bold step forward?

In Network Marketing, one of the key success ingredients is to have a simple Team Building formula. Most people who do not truly understand the simplicity of doing Network Marketing erroneously believe that they have to be the sales type in order to be successful. I am going to debunk this myth.

It is really sad to see that this myth stopping many stay-at-home mums from even considering the possibility of owing their own Network Marketing business, one which can give them the ultimate freedom to be at home with their children.

I am going to illustrate why a sales expert may fail in Network Marketing. I will then go on to suggest that a stay-at-home mum may do a better job.

‘Salesman Failure Syndrome’

I learned about this awesome success tips from Don Failla’s book ” The 45 Second Presentation That Will Change Your Life” many years ago. Don and his wife Nancy Failla are a success story and they enjoy a lifestyle that most people can only dream about.

Don made it clear that Network Marketing is a method of marketing that is different from Direct Sales.

We must understand that our aim is NOT to sponsor team members into a Direct Sales organization. We are sponsoring them into a Network Marketing program.

A typical successful sales person would have no problem sponsoring people into their organization due to their great people and sales skills. Without first teaching the sales person to rein in his or sponsoring efforts, the organization will grow in a linear manner.  Let say, she sponsored 5 people in a month, did that again in the second month, and again in the third month. She ended up having 15 new team members.

Now, compare with a new member with the SAME people and sales skills but has been trained to focus on Team Building. From the initial 5 new team members, she would WORK WITH THEM to help them build their own 5-people group. After another month, if all five were able to sponsor THEIR OWN FIVE, the totally number of team members would be 30 (the initial 5 PLUS another 25). For another month, the 25 people each helping 5 would mean another 125!!

You can now see clearly why doing a traditional sales job in Network Marketing can be a disadvantage in Network Marketing.

Leaders must make sure that new team members do not fall into this ‘Salesman Failure Syndrome’ trap.

This is NOT a Perfect World

Yes, I can guarantee that some of you would be saying that this is NOT a perfect world. If  it were that easy, many network marketers would have made it to the top.

You are right. This is NOT a perfect world. Yet, from the first 10-20 people who join your organization, a few would be potential leaders. Work with those who appreciate the business opportunity and willing to work towards their dream. Teach them the POWER of duplication. The TRUE power lies in each serious player bringing in other serious players.

It does not take a mathematical genus to work out how some people can reach significant rank advancement in just months.

It is all about Team Building!

“Duplication is sexy. Helping new people break ranks is sexy.  Actually making money is sexy. “ ~ Randy Gage 

Team Building Tips

I found this successful tips from Randy Gage inspiring:

• Building a large successful market is not easy; it’s not supposed to be.
• But building a large network that achieves steady growth is simple.  It’s done by leading a large group of people, to follow some simple actions over a sustained period of time.

How to lead a large group of people? By starting from one new team member. Then another. Then another. Then another….

Gandy’s key tips lie in these words : simple actions AND over a sustained period of time.

Having said that, there is always a smarter way to work!

Success Tips for Stay-at-Home Mums

You be the judge which is easier –

Sponsoring many many people without supporting them to grow into bigger leaders?

Or,  sponsoring a lot, choose the key leaders and inspire them to grow and develop their own leaders?

How do we sponsor people?

We use manipulative sales skills or simply share from our heart?

There is no secrets. No shortcuts. Only truth.

Choose your strategy wisely and see your Network Marketing business grow exponentially!

In Network Marketing, the concept of having a system is not new. However, not too many new network marketers really understand the power of a system.

For many years, I was in constant productive mode and was slowly building my network marketing organization on a very part-time basis. I must admit that for a long time, both my sponsor (also my friend) and I were scratching our heads as to why some people who were doing so well in our company while we were just plodding along.  My sponsor then went on an amazing journey of exploration. We improved on our skills. The team was growing. Yet, it was still not the type of results that we would love to have.

The Missing Ingredient

Looking back, I can see clearly that what we were missing was a simple system.

My sponsor was a stay-at-home mum. We both had a clear understanding of the power of leverage in Network Marketing. We knew that in order for us to reach our goals, we have to teach others how to do the business. It is definitely NOT about each of us able to enrol new team members. It is about having a simple system that any ‘ordinary’ person can follow.

During the exploratory journey, we encountered Tom Challan. That was a defining moment for me!

Here is what Tom shares in his website:

“I learned that it was possible to have a life and make money. I learned that it was possible to build a wildly successful business with a system that wasn’t predicated on me training absolutely everyone I enrolled. I learned for the first time how to take the spot light off me and simply outsource, so all I had to do was focus on one simple, productive, money-making task each day…RECRUIT.

This knowledge helped me enroll 500 representatives into my business within the following twelve months. In fact, that next year we earned over $211,000. We became the #1 income earners of our company in record time; meanwhile, our 500 reps turned into 40,000. Following our example, many of those individuals also became top income earners.”

Great insights indeed!

However, I made another key mistake that I want no-one to go through.

The Wrong Path

I trusted that after studying many great leaders’s ways of doing network marketing, I could come up with my own simple system! My ego was s-o-o-o-o–o big then that I believed that I could do that even my sponsor was later too busy to do any recruiting any more!

How wrong I was!

I found myself busy re-inventing the wheels. Busy in figuring out how to ‘blend in’ all the gems from various leaders and come up with a simple system. Busy holding training sessions to support my team leaders. Busy in searching online lead generation solutions. Busy in a lot of tasks but recruiting.

The result? After qualifying for the company’s Leadership Forum for two consecutive years, I found myself failing to qualify in 2010! I was also way behind my goal of getting qualified for the car bonus in February 2011.

Oops! A big smack on my face!

At last, I knew that what I had been focusing on was not helpful for the whole team.

A New Beginning

By March 2011, after much serious thoughts into the future of my Network Marketing career,  I was contemplating leaving my existing team. I could not possibly invent a simple system on my own.

After much research, I quit in July 2011 with the full intention to return to the same network marketing company but joining another great mentor’s team. My new beginning of my professional network marketing career re-started in late October 2012 (after a proper 12-month wait).

You may have heard that results speak the loudest. I am very happy about the progress of my team. The simple system and mentorship have helped me to achieve the level of success that would have taken me much longer to achieve.

I have just qualified for the Leadership Forum again this year, after the 3 -year break!

I look forward to a new beginning with my new found team.

Success Tips For YOU

If you are not in Network Marketing but is seriously considering joining one, find a team with a simple system AND a great mentor. Those two ingredients alone would help you tremendously along your Success Journey.

If you are already in a team that does not seem to have a simple system in place, I encourage you go upline to see if there is a system that you can tap into. Generic systems such as the one offered by Tom Challan and some other great leaders are great.  The down side about using those systems is that you do have to invest extra money.  Besides, our simple system is unique to our company. These are the main reasons that I chose to find an existing mentor in my own network marketing company. My success is my mentor’s success. He has great incentive to help me shine. Similarly, there is great joy in me helping my team leaders shine.

There is always a better way!

Success Tips From You

As a strong advocate for the Network Marketing profession, I’d love to hear your success tips too.

Does your team have a simple system? Could you share some insights with our readers?

Have you had a time in your network marketing career that you did not have  a simple system in place?  How was that affecting the growth of your organization?

Please share – both your positive and negative experiences.

Dear friends,

Welcome back for another dose of Network Marketing Success Tips!

You may have heard that Network Marketing is a people business and that relationship is key.

You may even heard the term ‘Relationship Marketing‘ instead of the more factual term ‘Word-of-mouth Marketing’ or ‘Network Marketing’. In essence, it is a business model that is about people recommending and promoting products that they love using. Most people feel good about sharing exciting things with others. Good relationship sometimes helps in getting the message across.

However, relationship is over-rated.

What I mean is that having great relationship with others do not automatically imply success in Network Marketing.

The Role of Relationship

Let’s examine how relationship plays out in Network Marketing in three stages of one’s Network Marketing business:

(1) Prospecting Stage

Trusted relationship certainly has a clear advantage over cold leads from advertisements. The prospect is more likely to review what we have to offer.  However, like any other businesses, the products or services may not be what our friends or relatives would like to have.

Hence, Great relationships do NOT equate to getting a sale.

Professional Network Marketing Success Tips

When a person have decided that the product/service or business opportunity is not for her, respect that. Ask for referrals.

(2) Presenting Stage

With rapport already established and great relationship, any initial sales filter that might have would have been down to the minimum. The presenting stage is a step where a 2-way conversation occurs. The prospect gets to have all his or her questions or concerns answered. No hypes. No manipulative techniques. Just honest straight talk from a professional network marketer.

Would everyone whom we present end up buying products or joining the business? Absolutely not!

Professional Network Marketing Success Tips

Do NOT expect a ‘Yes’ reply simply because you have great relationship with your prospect. The relationship only makes it easier for your prospect to review the information in a non-judgmental manner.

Relationship is  precious. Do not try to beg, convince or manipulate your prospect to say ‘Yes’.

For stay-at-home mums, the last thing that they want is to have alienated their friends or relatives!

Respect others’ right to say ‘No’. Ask for referrals.

(3) Team Building Stage

Inspiring a potential team leader to be their best is one of the key roles of a professional network marketer.  With great relationship, a mentor can have an honest and straight conversation with the potential leaders at the coaching or mentoring sessions.

For a stay-at-home mum,  the challenges is usually around these areas – mindset, confidence, feeling towards prospects saying ‘No’ and time-management. New team members must feel that they have a safe supportive environment to discuss the challenges with their mentor. The mentor’s role is like a guiding rope for the new member.

The mentor helps the potential leader to focus on their vision. Challenges along the way would not be an issue. The daily routine tasks of ongoing learning and prospecting matter the most!

In the case of a potential leader who is not really ready to play a bigger game, respect that.  For some, their desire level may not be great enough. For others, their comfort zone may be too small. Whatever the reason is, we can only help those who are ready.

Professional Network Marketing Success Tips

Do not abandon those who are not ready to step up. Keep them in the loop. keep caring and approachable. Some will get inspired as other team members in the organization  move forward. Others might still remain in their comfort zone. That is okay too. Some team members may never wish to take up the business side.

Again, respect their circumstances. Ask for referrals where appropriate.

Relationship is King

Have I said enough about keeping the relationship strong?

No-one that I know would like to be successful at the expense of alienating their friends or relatives!

The good news is, a professional network marketer will not be losing her friends or relatives. A well trained team member is able to pick up clues – verbal and non-verbal – if someone is a ‘suspect’ or a genuine ‘prospect’. I do not mean to be disrespectful here. I just feel that using those terms that I learned from Jeffrey Combs is immensely helpful for new team members.

Relationship is King! Respect brings long term success. Referrals are the result of great relationships.

I talked about the importance of having a Prosperity Mindset in my last blog post.  Many readers shared that a positive, abundant mindset is crucial for success. If you are not in Network Marketing, you may be thinking….

“What if I don’t have the prosperity mindset? Am I doomed?”

Here is the GREAT news! As Sue Price mentioned in her comments, the thoughts can be shifted with ‘a click of the fingers’.

Here are just some of the proven techniques that can help:

Education – Allow yourself to be educated about various means and resources for achieving a prosperity mindset

Affirmation – Verbally affirm the abundant thoughts and feelings

Visualization – Visualize the success that you deserve and feel the feelings

Association – Associate with people of abundant mindset and attend seminars and webinars

Awareness – The First Step for Mindset Shift

As my friend Sherman Smith pointed out in one of his comments, one must be aware of the negative self talks first. Catch the negative talks and use techniques to deal with it.

It has been suggested by many leaders that it takes at least 21 days to change a habit. In order that we can completely shift the initial poverty mindset to a prosperity one, we have to stick to the techniques for at least 21 days.

Again, awareness is important. We must understand that during the journey of transformation, it is quite normal that the negative self-talk will come up now and then.

Once identified that the self-talk or any external comment is a dis-empowering one, replace it with a positive one.

Here is one example, happening in your own head:

“Network Marketing is only for those highly focused sales people. Stay-at-home mums cannot easily reach the top because of all the family commitments.”

Replace with this:

“I know that network marketing is great for stay-at-home mums. I can learn the skills. Many mums have done so! It is definitely not a profession reserved for people in sales.”

Another example, maybe from your good friend Mary:

“If it is that easy, you would have achieved success in network marketing in your previous attempts. Why waste your time and energy again?

Replace with this:

“Mary has not had any success in network marketing before. I am going to follow the footsteps of my mentor who has success in this industry.”

Example 3, maybe from your husband:

“Don’t be silly! Who do you think you are? You have not even had a job for over 10 years!”

Replace with this:

” I know that this network marketing business model works.  My husband has not done it before. I will follow what my mentor teaches.  I will follow the system and do whatever it takes.”

Quitting Too Soon

This is the number 1 reason that network marketers ‘failed’.

The failure actually indicates a job NOT well done. Those who failed simply failed to stay on track!

Here is a quote for you all to ponder:

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas Edison

Hello, welcome back to the fun series about Network Marketing success for stay-at-home mums! Please read on even though you are not a stay-at-home mum. The ideas and knowledge that I am sharing apply to everyone.

First of all, I am not a Mindset Strategist. I am certainly not an expert either. However, I do know the power of my sharing. All stay-at-home mums have the right to know the truth.

Very often, stay-at-home mums, especially those who have been parenting for a L-O-N-G while, tend to underestimate their ability. To start a business, traditionally, we need CAPITAL and COURAGE the most. Would you agree?

Let’s examine this. In a married couple scenario, there is typically only one single source of income. In today’s economy, living in the city is expensive.  Giving the children ahead start in life experiences is expensive. Even higher education s expensive in Australia! Most stay-at-home mums are not likely to have the start up capital for a business.

The good news is, there are some businesses that do not require a lot to start up. Typically, these are online options. No staff. No rent. No stock.

The great news is, Network Marketing is one of the many options. And…. it does not have to be online either.

Even though there are numerous network marketing,  affiliate marketing, eBay business success stories,  many stay-at-home mums still decide NOT to get started because they lack the COURAGE to do so.

A Helpful Question to Ask is:

What Do I have to Lose?

Now, let’s look at COURAGE. This is where mindset matters.

For example, for a stay-at-home mum who is considering doing Network Marketing as a means to add another income to the family, here are two different outcomes:

(A) Believers – they have done their research AND understand that Network Marketing is a legitimate business model for moving products or services.

Prosperity Mindset – If Mary who is a single mum with three young children can make it work, I surely can too.

Poverty Mindset – Yes, I know that Mary have been doing well in Network Marketing for the past couples of years. Yet, I am not sure if I am as good as her. She has a warmer personality. She has many more friends and relatives. She is more organised….(the list goes on forever!)

(B) Non-Believers – They do NOT believe that Network Marketing is one of the best marketing model on earth. They mistakenly believe that doing Network Marketing equates to running a business illegally.

Prosperity Mindset – 

It is interesting how so many people are saying that Network Marketing is a legitimate business model. Could it be that I have been misguided and therefore limiting my choices?

Poverty Mindset – 

Even if Network Marketing is a legitimate business model, I am not sure if I am smart enough to learn the skills required.

Helpful tips: Have there any success stories from someone of similar backgrounds?

There are so many competitive products in the market, I am not sure if the products that I will be promoting are competitive enough?

Helpful tips: Have other distributors in the SAME company, promoting the same products, been successful?

Some time ago, I have written a post about how a stay-at-home mum may be able to contribute more to the family.

You may be wondering why do we need more options in life if life is good. The answer is simple. Life is unpredictable.  Having just one source of income may not be the best way to keep the ‘happy days’ going in case anything goes wrong.

Am I a pessimist? Definitely not!

Imagine these scenarios:

– your husband’s company is struggling in the volatile economy, there is a real chance that he will be retrenched

– your husband is having tremendous stress at work because of the long EXTRA hours that he needs to put into his work in order to keep his job

– your husband is strike by cancer or other debilitating illnesses that is compromising his ability to continue working

– your husband has an accident that is causing him the job. He can no longer bring in the regular weekly income for months

You got an idea. It does not take a genius to realize that may be it is wiser to generate another income stream as a financial safety net.

Some Mums Have More Options

Typically, those women who have been in the workforce have an advantage.

I know ex-corporate stay-at-home mums who have successfully started their own consultancy or training businesses by harnessing their business knowledge and skills.

I also know passionate stay-at-home mums taking up new ventures such as personal coaching, fitness training, website design, arts and crafts, hand-made jewallery, etc

There are, of course, those stay-at-home mums who have already accumulated enough wealth to embark on other investments such as shares or properties.

What Happened to This Category?

Stay-at-home mums who have not been working since the birth of their first child.

What options do stay-at-home mums have if  they are not highly educated or having special business skills’?

What options do they have if they too wish to take control of their financial future and their life?

Having a job typically would mean leaving kids to day-care or after-school care. Some stay-at-home mums would consider that too much of a compromise as they want to be there for the kids.

Most people would take up part-time jobs that they can do whilst the kids are at school or businesses that can be done from home.

Network Marketing as Another Option?

Given that the investment for a network marketing business is typically very low, it is easy for any stay-at-home mums to get started.

Generally speaking, the overhead is also very low. Very often, the ‘investment’ is actually the money that she would normally spent on other brands.

Industry leader Tim Sales has also included 11 video clips to answer some of the most commonly asked questions.

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Feedback From YOU

I would love to hear from you if you are a network marketer. If you are also a stay-at-home mum, what were some of the the initial challenges?

If you are NOT in this industry, I would love to hear YOUR way of adding another family income too.

Dear friends,

This blog title may look and sound clumsy. Yet, I believe it can help you appreciate the importance of doing Network Marketing the professional way.

Recently, I have been talking about how stay-at-home mums can work smart and start building a home-based business through the Network Marketing model.

Sadly, when it comes to ‘marketing’, some people subconsciously relate to images of sleeky sales persons.  The idea of being in the sales and marketing field alone would keep most stay-at-home mums from entering this wonderful Network Marketing profession.

What Exactly is Network Marketing?

What is the BIG Issue Here?

To be honest, network marketing is simply the promotion of products or services that a network marketer loves. As industry leader Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter describes brilliantly, most people are doing network marketing every day. They are just not being paid for!

When a network marketer shares with honesty how the products or services have helped him or her, that is network marketing in action. The sharing of information is something that ALL of us have been doing since a tender age.  The truth is,  most people have this built in mechanism to protect them from being hassled by sleeky sales persons. This is why to be effective in the honest sharing of information, the sales filters must be reduced to the minimum.

How?

Relationship is key.  A professional network marketer has the skills to build rapport and earn the trust BEFORE he or she even starts to share information.

Here is another question: How to achieve the desired level of trust?

Transparency is key. I mean absolute transparency. Let our friends know upfront that there is  no arguing. begging or convincing.

Arguing does not help with relationship building. Caring do! Instead of arguing, how about asking questions?  For instance, if your friend believe that Network Marketing is a scam, ask if she is open to check out a short video clip that explains the industry very well. Use third party material. No arguing. Just information sharing.

Begging does not help with relations either. A professional understands that not every one would love the products or services that she loves. Begging makes awkward relationships, resulting in friends and relatives avoiding the network marketer. This is the last thing that any stay-at-home mum wants. The stay-at-home mum’s world is small enough. Why risk alienating more people?

Convincing does not help either! When someone join the Network Marketing business just because of the network marketer’s persuasive skills, they typically would not stay on long enough to see the results. When faced with the first few obstacles, they will quit. They are not in the business for THEIR own reasons.

What works?

Be a friend. Be caring. Be a listener. Be skilful enough to paint a picture for other mums using stories.

Through skilfully telling stories, other people can relate to what is possible for their future.

Story telling? Isn’t this one of the day-to-day tasks that a stay-at-home mum does?

Caring and sharing?  Sound like good mothers  (and fathers) are generally great at that!

As soon as our friends realize that we are there to help them, as their alliance, the dynamics of the conversation shifts to our favour. Honest two-way dialogues bring about honest results.

If the products or business is not what our friends need AND want, bow out respectfully.

Finding this fascinating?  This is the most professional way to do network marketing. Why annoy others by arguing, begging or convincing when others are not needing or wanting to embrace what you have to offer?

Our Mission is World Peace

I remember so well about Tom’ Big Al’ Schreiter’s teaching!

Basically, he states that when others give excuses for not using the products or doing the business, they are not ready. He jokingly mentioned that a network marketer’s mission is to create world peace. Stick to the rules. Strictly No Arguing, No Begging and No Convincing. Be a professional and you will have peace. You get paid for having meaningful conversation with other people.

Your Thoughts and Insights

As always, I’d love to hear your thoughts and insights. If you are already in this industry, care enough to share some of your past challenges?

Have you applied the No Arguing, No Begging and No Convincing rule?

Initially, I wanted to write about M for Marketing. I feel that it does not totally reflect why a stay-at-home mum would want to take up the challenge to establish her own home-based business. I have decided to choose this title instead.

You may have heard about this: when people want to buy a drill, they do not want a drill, they want a HOLE. The drill is simply a tool to create the hole.

When a stay-at-home mum wants to establish a home-based business, it is usually the money factor involved.  Similar to the case of needing a drill, a stay-at-home mum does not want money. She wants what money can allow her to achieve. Here are some examples:

– Having enough money set aside for the kid’s education

– Having the peace of mind that there would be more than enough when her husband retires

– No need to worry about her husband’s losing his job due to business closing down or down-sizing

– No need to be stressed when her husband’s business is not going well due to bad economy

– Having the joy of being able to contribute financially to the family

– Having the opportunity to support causes that are important to her

– Having the ability to impact on other people’s lives through her own success story

Making a Difference

You can probably now pick up the theme that money is NOT what a stay-at-home mum wants. She wants to make a difference.

It can be making a difference in the quality of life of hers , the family members’ or even other people’s lives!

‘Marketing’ in Network marketing depends on our ability to articulate what we can offer to the people who need AND want our products or business opportunity. In the latter case, the network marketing company is simply a TOOL.

In the case of stay-at-home mums, I have successfully built my network marketing business doing it part time. I can make a difference to other mums who also want to start adding another stream of income to the family. My mission is to empower other stay-at-home mums to reach for their potential. There is a better life outside the kitchen.

Unlike the case of a stay-at-home mum in the 1950s, today’s stay-at-home mums can create a stream of income working from home too.

Networking Marketing is one of the ways that a stay-at-home mum can achieve the ultimate work-life balance.