Friday, March 21, 2008

Network Marketing - Who's Your Network Marketing Coach?

Today in network marketing, we hear a lot about "coaching". While people are talking about coaching so much, do you ever ask yourself if network marketers really know what coaching is?

A coach is basically an expert trainer. In order to be an effective coach, you must have experience in what you are coaching. Today we have a whole bunch of people running around calling themselves coaches and experts (which is easy to claim on the internet), but the reality is that they themselves have no success experience in what they are teaching.

What is dangerous about this is, when you are not experienced in something, and try to act like you know what you're talking about, you'll end up giving people wrong information.

I believe one reason why people fail in network marketing is because they end up with inexperieced leaders who can't even coach themselves to success in their own network marketing business. Can the blind lead the blind? No, I don't think so!

If you are being coached by someone who can't back up their results, and you feel you're hitting a brick wall in your own business because you were'nt taught anything useful, you need to find somebody who can help you. Can they prove their success? Find out if they have a proven system that can be easy enough for you to follow.

Many people jump into network marketing without taking a closer look at who their business partner will be. Make sure you find somebody to coach you who are successful themselves, then l the team by talking to them to find out if the techniques being taught are useful and that the others are having success.

If you feel that something is not right, and you don't feel comfortable, it's okay to start all over again. Be sure that when you start over, you do the proper research on "who" you're dealing with.

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