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If you are thinking about going into the network marketing industry, be forewarned that only the strongest, the most dedicated, and most diligent people will achieve star quality greatness in network marketing. The only guarantee a network marketing opportunity can offer is that success is dependent not only in your product or service, but also on you and your ability to satisfy your customers' wants and needs.

What People Want
Whether you are approaching a person as a business partner or as a customer for your network marketing business, always remember that there are three things that people want.

1. People want to FEEL that you respect them for the person they are.
2. People want to FEEL that you care about them and that you are not just interested in recruiting them or selling them something.
3. People want to establish a connection with someone whom they FEEL they can trust and that can LEAD them to success in network marketing!

The Importance of Networking
Networking is critical in any business; however, in the network marketing industry networking is a long-term investment. While not all of your contacts will be interested in becoming a business partner, many of them are potential customers. To reach them, you must be willing to establish contact and illustrate why your product (s) meets their needs. That store clerk you rudely blew off yesterday may become the huge business builder your network marketing competition recruited and the one that you will forever feel “got away.” Treat every person you meet as if your financial future depends on them, because it very well may.

Value Add
When businesses sell you a product, there are often “value add” points that they are using to promote with – a free product, a free service, and superior quality are all value add points. Discounts, informational newsletters, and coupons are also considered value add points. Agreeing to place a person in a new distributor's downline the moment they enroll would be a huge value add when recruiting. In network marketing, build your business the right way by identifying the things that add value to what you are offering. If you do it well and do it often, many of your contacts can develop into new customers or partners for your network marketing business. However, remember that no matter how charming, enthusiastic or persuasive you are networking relationships have a short life cycle. Therefore, once you have identified and built your network of business colleagues, family, friends, professional acquaintances, etc., immediately begin turning those contacts into business partners or customers. Even after building a strong network, this is something you must continually do, as you will lose a certain number of them through reasons you cannot control; they stop using your product because it no longer fits their needs, they can no longer afford it, they become dissatisfied, or even die.

Communication
Equally important is communication. Keep in mind that “communication is like a contact sport, so do it early and often.” One of the biggest mistakes people make in network marketing is that they fail to realize the importance of prompt follow-up after introducing someone to the product or company at networking events. If you do not follow up you will likely lose them to someone who is willing to follow through. Send a “thank you” e-mail and see if they have questions that were unanswered at the networking event. Send them the latest copy of your networking newsletter. These steps will ensure that you have reinforced your relationship and your connection with your contact. This is the perfect time to send them information about the network marketing industry that reinforces the business opportunity that you have presented to them.

Even in network marketing, it is rare to meet people at the exact moment in time when they are seeking a business opportunity in the direct sales industry or when they are disillusioned with a product your competitor offers. So when they are ready to pursue a network marketing opportunity or replace a current product they are dissatisfied with, can you be certain that they will remember the opportunity, product, or service that you offered? They will not if you do not make an indelible impression that is long lasting. It is far easier to nurture an existing contact than it is to revive it once it falls by the wayside. It takes time to develop relationships and in network marketing, you must educate the consumer about the industry as well as the product. During the process, you will find you develop many strong, new relationships. Since the average, repeat customer spends 67% more than new customers, it makes good sense to foster relationships that are providing the most profit for your network marketing business. Stay in touch with customers and potential business partners. Offer them something of value that keeps them connected to you beyond that initial encounter. Identify your “value add” points and then use them effectively.

Teach others to be successful
Once your network marketing business is off and running, you may be tempted to sit back, relax, and let someone else do the work for a change. I can promise you that if you do that, you will find your business collapsing before your very eyes. You must continually help and promote your downline of distributors to grow and be successful. You know that teaching and leading by example were key elements that helped you to quickly recruit your first distributor, earn bonuses and residuals, and build a large network marketing organization. Just like you found out from your enroller/sponsor what it took to be successful and then emulated it, as an enroller/sponsor you too must teach and support those you bring into the business. Sharing your network marketing success story, helping those in your downline to learn the basics, and helping them to develop, execute and follow through on their business plan will foster a relationship that will move each of you closer to your milestones.

If you truly have the desire to be successful in the network marketing industry, jump in with both feet and do not look back. If you stay connected, stay focused, and help your distributors grow their business, they will be forever thankful and you will soon begin to reap the benefits from their commitment to you. Remember network marketing is not just about the money, but also about the relationships and personal growth that you and your team of distributors will experience by coming together and working together.

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When I was young I showed an interest in science and medicine. My Mom wanted me to become a doctor and find a cure for some horrible disease. But during my high school career exploration session I found it really wasn’t for me. But business sure was fun! I never lost my interest in medicine and often look outside the business world for solutions to problems. So I read all kinds of material and a sizeable amount deals with health. The more I read the more I’m convinced my theories on work and health are right. In this article, I’ll share a few ideas about how to improve productivity by keeping your work force healthy. 

We are always told to keep active, eat healthy, stay fit. Recently I read that 70 percent of American women lead a low activity lifestyle, that means they do workout, just not regularly and often. I’m sure the figure is probably the same for the guys but I wasn’t able to find it. 60 percent of American are overweight and live a less than active lifestyle. Most of us are aware of the health problems related to this. 

I remember every job I had, there was always snack food in the office or at meetings. Even at Thunderbird we gave snacks and drinks to executives in the classroom. Food was always in reach. At work we usually had bagels and donuts around, and when the 10:30am hunger hit, you could almost hear those bagels and donuts calling out to be eaten. Sitting at a desk all day doesn’t help either, even when I was going to the gym every other day for an hour and half, half of which was spent waiting to use equipment. 

It is said billions are lost in productivity due to illnesses every year. Illnesses that we shouldn’t have, illness we create because we are not working productively. This is the theme song of every corporate reorganization, “let’s improve productivity!” I say yes, but I don’t say do it by working longer, hard or with less people (in some cases), do it smarter and there are some proven ways to do it that are little used. 

Sick Days 

Every winter it hits us, the flu and cold season. Someone’s kid gets it at school and they bring it to work. Then half the office is sick. People are at work, they are working but are they productive? A German study decided to answer that question. They studied a number of companies which had this problem of people catching colds and bringing them to work. They used the same people, in the same setting over a period of time. At first when someone got sick, they told them to take some medicine and work unless a doctor said otherwise. Later when someone showed signs of being sick and a doctor confirmed, they sent that person home until they were better and could not infect the other workers. They found that the second group was more productive and had less sick leave than the first. 

Most managers I know would tell the person to work, even if sick, after all it’s just a little cold. But the study showed that it was better to make them go home. That worker wasn’t productive but the others were healthy and stayed productive. Where as, when they were all sick, they worked, but at a slower rate. 

Get Physical 

Our bodies were meant to move around and be fit. We are at our best when in shape and moving. When we are fit and in shape our immune system fights off colds and other illness better and we get sick less. So why are you bring donuts to work? Why are there soda machines everywhere? Why are there snack machines filled with candy all over the office building? You put it there, people are going to eat it, that’s how things work! As a manager you want productive healthy people, as an employee, you want to be productive so you get paid more. Having unhealthy snacks in the office hurts everyone. Yes a nice chocolate helps on those stress days, I do it to, but a handful of pecans can do the same and they are healthier too.

Add to this, the way most companies are set up, is really a huge productivity killer. We go to work, sit in an office or cubical and stare at a computer screen all day. I went in for this interview and I was almost scared out of my suit. When you really look at it, it is scary. You sit there and just type and very few companies I have been to encourage movement. If you get up to use the restroom someone looks at you like the bathroom trip Gestapo. So people sit and work. When I was an analyst I had to go through reports, some days I would sit all day and do nothing but type. At the end of the day, my eyes were seeing computer screens everywhere. Later when I was in start ups and guys from the corporate world came to work with us, I had to deprogram them. They were so used to sitting in a cubical they didn’t know what else to do. 

It is said that we should get up and move around for 10 minutes out of every 90 minutes as a minimum. I personally find a 30 minute walk does wonders for solving an idea. Something about getting the blood moving gets the creative juices moving too. Some of my best ideas came while on the tread mill or on a walk. I know this idea works from personal experience. As well, I remember teams I ran as far back as high school. The active ones always seemed to be the productive ones.

While working as the IT manager at a dotcom, I had the chance to start from scratch. Instead of cubicles, the programmers and developers had a big open space, no walls to separate anyone. They also had to move around. This actually seemed to help as people were not frozen in their little space they had to move to each other to deal with each other and could see each other. Which leads to the next point. 

Interact or perish 

As the Exec. Ed. Chair at Thunderbird, I was always interacting with people. It’s what made the job dynamic. Except when I was taking a nap or in a high power meeting, I kept my office door open, as a way to invite people in. I had a soft couch for people to sit on and an extra desk in case they needed one and few nice drinks to appeal to anyone’s taste. In my first semester I went out and networked with people, soon they came to me and my office was in a very active building so it was easy to meet people. Can’t say the same when I was the cubical prairie. 

I remember working in a cubical and feeling cut off from everyone else, even though a thin piece of whatever, separated me from a half dozen people, it still felt lonely. I would stick my head up like a prairie dog every now and then to see if there was life, only to see a few heads bobbing on the sides of the prairie. Life in the cubical prairie is not fun. Especially when your boss is screaming to get to work and you just want to be able to say hello to another person because you feel you are spending more quality time with your computer than anyone else. Even hermits need some human interaction. 

Recently a friend of mine was mad as can be. One of the directors at her company had banned the use of instant messaging programs and was trying to ban personal calls. This at a company where it is common for people to work until 10pm. For some, IM was their contact with the outside world, not much is open after 10pm on a Tuesday night! Stuck in a cubical, this was a way to interact with other people, something that is needed and helps keep people happy. There are numerous studies that show human interaction is helpful and keeps people happy and boost the immune system. So why are we again killing our productivity by isolating people off in little boxes? 

Let people move around and interact. Xerox park is one of the most recognized innovation centers in the world. Some of the biggest ideas to change the world have come from this one place. Back in the 60’s and 70’s when the big ideas that are common place today, were invented. They used to sit around in groups on bean bags talking and interacting. Yeah, that’s right, ideas that allow you to read this article were invented by a bunch of guys sitting on bean bags drinking coffee and talking! No one is going to claim the GUI system or some of the first computer peripherals are silly inventions, our modern business worked would stop working without these inventions. So why isolate people, let them talk, move around. Your goal is increased productivity, not running a day care center for adults. Let them move around and be productive. 

I used to run little brainstorming meetings, we would have drinks from around the world and try out new drinks. Selling cultural experiences was only part of what we did, but this was a great way to help people communicate and brainstorm new ideas. The ideas that came from these session were some of the wildest ideas, but they also were the most influential ideas that made the biggest positive impact. If you had walked by you probably would have thought we were being unproductive comparing a drink from Canada with that from China, but really it was how ideas got started. 

Conclusion 

There is so much that can be said for the way we physically interact at work. So much can be changed. The way we normally do things is out of date and actually anti-productive. New norms need to be put in place that are more in balance with our natural rhythm. This may sound all new age but it’s not. It is just common sense. Work with the body and mind and you get better results with fewer costs. Work against it and your benefits are only short term and the hidden costs of higher taxes to pay for illness, will increase was looking for.

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