Stay involved with your new distributors and help them through the process. Be there to help them call their lists and learn how to handle objections and close deals. Work with their strengths to set up strategies for them to succeed in your business. The personal touch will help you build a strong relationship with your distributor.
Getting your prospective customers involved is the key to a exciting presentation. Ask them questions and let them answer. Pass the product around if you can. Let them know that they can raise their hands to ask questions. Getting your audience engaged and actively participating will raise their energy levels and make them more likely to want to get involved.
Put your network marketing material EVERYWHERE! At your local church, in their newsletter, in a community newsletter, on forums, on Craigslist, even at the local supermarket on their community corkboard. The more eyes that see your promotional information, the more sign-ups you're likely to get. Make sure you're only posting it in places that are likely to get the right kind of people reading it, though. For example, a school probably isn't the best place to post an ad.
If your home is in a questionable area, or isn't really presentable on the inside, DON'T invite potential network marketing sign-ups there! Ask to meet them for coffee, or at a park on a nice day. Let them know you'll be running around all day with meetings so you'll need to meet them on-the-go. That will make you look more professional as well. You should buy them a coffee, too!
Post your photo on your network marketing website to add to your credibility. I'd highly recommend having a professional shot taken, but don't make it look too serious or too friendly. A moving shot of you laughing could make you seem unreliable and goofy, but a shot of you without a smile will make you look rigid and cold. Try to get a photo that makes you look approachable and trustworthy.
Go into a meeting with a potential lead as if you were going into a job interview. You have to present an image which matches the role you want to take on, which, in this case, is mentor. In your head before you go, run over the things you believe you might be asked, and have answers prepared but NOT scripted.
Network marketing is a way for businesses to tap into new markets by utilizing the individual networks of independent representatives. In this way they reach large groups of potential customers that they would not likely have had access to otherwise. The businesses, the representatives, and the customers all benefit in this exchange.
Get yourself listed in business exchange newsletters, papers, and magazines. Where I live there is a magazine available in every mall, subway, and office building which is called the Business Xchange. It allows businesses to swap contact information with a little blurb about what they do, and this can build both your network marketing downline and give you access to people who can help you in other ways.
By using the tips above to start your network marketing career and begin your residual income, you are taking the first step in becoming your own boss and a successful business owner. Just follow them one by one and you will be able to break this whole thing down into a more manageable and less confusing task.