Network Marketing Journey

Scratch that …Today’s Network Marketers ARE Politicians.

We see the politics on the news, and in commercials all day everyday. Most of us are feed up with the name-calling and backstabbing long before the elections are done.

They often behave asses immaturely, don’t they?

At every turn they are trying to get the upper hand, win votes and if it means exposing the opponents underbelly–so be it. Sometimes I wonder if they go home feeling sick to their stomach for all the mudslinging.

What bothers me even more is that network marketers are the same way with all of the he said, she said drama.

Google Alerts keeps me on top of the things being said about me, my projects and any specific people I want to follow. This technique allows me to have a birds eye view of the situation and hear more sides of an issue than just my own.

However, there is one side effect. I’m inundated by email after email which points me to blog posts, articles and forum rants filled with the kind of poison you’d expect from an Anti-MLMer.

These individuals seize any bit of bad news about a competitive company in their niche and blab all over the net about how their deal is better because they don’t have that problem–or any other such nonsense.

Just a moment ago I was going through these alerts and it lead me to a post criticizing a companies representatives for believing in their company enough not to freak out about a hiccup. A hiccup which got the company a lot of negative attention.

First of all, its negative in its intent to belittle another person (in this case a large body of people) and secondly the post was published yesterday and the issue he’s ranting over had become a non-issue before the new year.

I think the biggest paradigm shift for 99.7% of networkers is the notion of being helpful and working together, rather than attempting to pull each other down.

Networking is about coming together, co-existing for the betterment of each individual by doing the things we were put on this earth to do. Not spreading gossip, innuendo OR news flashes you really don’t understand yourself.

Recently Ty Tribble sent out an email via his newsletter recommending we reach out and get a hold of a networker we respect and offer to serve them.

He’s right. We need to make more of an effort to serve, teach and learn from each other instead of acting as if we are always at odds.

Who can you serve? Reach out to them. Get to know them and build a relationship without expecting to gain something from it.

Believe me, you get to keep what you give away.

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