Network Marketing Training – Does It End The Three Foot Rule ?

The End Of The Three Foot Rule?

I’ve never used the three foot rule.  Even thinking about using it made me feel like a stalker.  Fairly early in my Network Marketing career I learned about another way to build a business.  A way to systematically create success for myself and my team.  But I’m getting ahead of myself…

My first sponsors in MLM were a dedicated couple, who were committed to building a downline, supporting their team and creating success for themselves and for us.  They strongly believed in the product.  They used all the company endorsed brochures and presentation materials.

They even arranged for a local sales consultant to teach us how to use the “three foot rule” in the grocery store to get “targeted” strangers to try our products.  (We were supposed to look in the carts of our fellow shoppers and offer to share our products if they were buying things that seemed to be meeting the same need.)

My sponsors hosted tasting parties at their house every week and team training sessions at least twice a month.  These included how to get more people “flipping the chart” and “tasting the juice.”  They taught us how to get involved in BNI and other networking events.  The list goes on.

I just want to be clear that my sponsors worked hard, they were dedicated and they did mostly exactly what their upline told them to do for nine months.  At that point, after spending thousands more than they had made, they left the industry, going back to build a business where they had previously experienced success.

They took responsibility for their failure, never blaming the company, the pay plan or us for their results.  And they never questioned the system of which they were a part.

They completely believed the message that has permeates MLM - “Anyone can do this, all you have to do is share.”  They made their warm market list (theirs wasn’t the 100 recommended by their upline, it was over 400 and always growing),  they consistently shared the juice, flipped the chart.  And they failed.

They are part of the tragedy of this industry.  The completely avoidable tragedy that makes their story more tragic still.  Their failure was unnecessary.  It was the clear result of using outdated thinking to build a modern business.

The tragedy is that modern ideas and strategies are readily available.  But you have to take the next step.  You have to seek them out, because it is very unlikely that your sponsor is any more successful than mine was.

And it doesn’t matter how wellmeaning and dedicated they are.  If they don’t have what you want, then they can’t teach you how to have it either.

You’ve already taken the first step.  You’re here looking for ways to create the success that you haven’t found elsewhere.

To learn what I learned, take the next step.  Click here.

You are Awesome!

MLM Success Sponsor