The typical MLM training is killing your business. Personal development is fundamental but it goes hand-in-hand with doing the proper things that bring results. And that’s where most people fail…

On November 11th I was hanging out with Tim Sales at his house in Park City…

A casting crew came in to shoot a video of Tim and his family.

I was watching the whole scene, taking pictures, sneaking behind the camera guy. I was axious to see the end product. Well… you will see it down here… but what’s most important for you is the message Tim is trying to communicate to you and the lack of success of most networkers. This could change your life forever like it did mine.

In my early days of building an organization, I’ve had my share of struggles. From inviting family members to an opportunity meeting, to harrassing strangers on street corners, to passing out flyers at the mall, to approaching sick patients at the doctor’s office, to buying leads and calling at all hours of the night, to building websites and doing social media. I couldn’t stand it when my friends would ask me how my “lucrative home-based business was doing”. I flew to seminars and workshops all over the country always thinking this time would be different.

While I was listening to Tim’s interview, I captured something that is not mentioned in this video… He said he had enough of this parade of people getting on the stage and saying “If I can do it, you can do it too!” He said the training has always been geared towards motivation.

You see, Tim has built an organization around the world and personally trained hundreds of thousands of distributors from many different companies, and after retiring for 13 years from building his own organization, he’s now back in the game.

He told me “Stephane, I never really felt so alive in the last 13 years. Now that I’m back building again, I don’t know why I had left for so long.”

After my initial 11 years of trials and errors, I decided to contact Tim and “recruit him as my sponsor”. From that day, everything began to change.

I can tell you from personal experience, Tim Sales train his team thoroughly. That’s the only way you can truly help your people succeed.

Tim used to be on the Navy bomb squad. He learned his best lessons in life through that experience. If he did not do the job properly, the consequences could be catastrophic. In network marketing things are not as drastic but if you don’t do your job properly, you are jeopardizing your business.

By providing the right training, the growth of your business becomes predictable. You can spot the next leader on your team and who needs more assistance to move to the next level.

I’ve had many mentors in the business and none provided me the kind of support and hands-on training to move towards my goals. I often times felt confused, not understanding why I seemd to be doing the right things but my commission check didn’t match with my efforts. But training and coaching helped me identify where my weaknesses were, correct them and achieve my goals.

It’s time consuming to train, but that’s the only way you create true leaders. Tim Sales will tell you that the best MLM training is designed to make you effective, not just designed to motivate you, after all “being effective at creating the results you want is what motivates you”.

If you’ve been reading my blog for some time, you know that I write about many different subjects. And everytime I pick up the phone, I find a lot of people confused about how to build their business online.

Is this how you feel?

What would you most like to learn? I will try to help you with your specific questions and concerns. Simply leave your comment at the bottom of this post and tell me what you would like to learn.

Tim Sales MLM expert explained the industry to Larry King. There’s quite a buzz going around because Tim Sales sat down with Larry King at a network marketing convention and explained to him how and why M.L.M. is NOT a pyramid or a Ponzi scheme…and he understood it.  

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MLM success stories are looked at as heroes. Are they really? Or are they just following on the same path you are? What if you knew you are one stage away from total success? From reaching all of your dreams, living the lifestyle and having all the money to do the things that are important in your life?

Last year I learned a valuable lesson in my network marketing career as I learned to surf behind a boat. But before I tell you about my experience, let me tell you where I got my understanding of the learning process. It comes from the “ Conscious Competence ” learning model.

It is not clear who originated the very first ‘conscious competence’ learning model. Various modern authors are named, but sources as old as Confucius and Socrates are cited as possible earliest originators. But the model clearly explains the 4 stages you go through in your business. Not understanding these stages is the fundamental reason for the failure of a lot of training and teaching in the network marketing industry.

Now back to my surfing experience…

Each summer I would go on the lake and watch people surf and do wakeboarding. It looked so easy. I was at the ‘Unconsciously Incompetent ‘ stage (this is the fantasy stage – ‘Oh, I can do this, I’ve done snowboarding, surfing doesn’t look too hard’).

Next thing you know, my brother calls me and says “Stephane, come over I just bought a surf, let’s go try it.” That second stage is called ‘Consciously Incompetent ,’ (This is the reality stage: ‘Oh my God, what have I gotten myself into – this is so much harder than I thought.’).

If you are a visual, watch this short video below, you’ll have a good laugh… or pitty for me

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Have you ever wondered why some people sponsor 8 out of 10 people they talk to while others can’t find a single prospect interested in their offer?

One of the most important skills to master in this business is how to communicate in a way that gets your prospect to immediately want to join your company or buy your product.

Communication happens in different formats. It can be person-to-person, through a video, through a salesletter. But the structure of your presentation is always the same if your goal is to get an excited prospect anxious to buy from you.

Let’s talk about your salescopy here but keep in mind, the format is the same for a video, an audio or a one-on-one presentation.

Your salescopy is your hard working sales person. Without it, you’re not gonna get very far.

It’s very frustrating because I find people who spend more time on their website design, or on driving traffic and they neglect their salescopy because it’s not as fun.

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