We Need A Mentor Listing: Mentors Are The Secret Weapon of Network Marketing
There is something very powerful about helping other people and that’s why I like the Network Marketing industry. If only you could access a mentor listing using Google. Network marketing offers the average person the opportunity to establish their own business with little or no investment, then it offers them the training they need to accomplish it. Even more importantly it offers people the experience, insight, encouragement and help of other people who have already succeeded…mentors. To me mentoring others is the single most gratifying aspect of this industry. By mentoring new business owners and entrepreneurs I feel that I am paying back some of the great mentoring I received early on as well.
My first mentor was the man who sponsored me into network marketing. It was through his encouragement and due to my respect for him that I even considered a network marketing business opportunity. I objected vehemently at his suggestion that I join network marketing because I was not going to sell. He quietly spoke from experience and said, “It’s really a lot less about selling than you think, and if you go to the meeting with me, you’ll see a room full of people who are motivated to help you succeed. Will you just keep an open mind and go with me to the meeting?” That’s what it took. And that was my first mentoring lesson. Because helping someone their shift their mindset like that is true mentoring.
Overcoming fears is another area for mentoring. I remember my fear of contacting leads. Another mentor had me come to his office and we talked for a few minutes about the goal of the call. Now it was a goal, not an embarrassment. Then he went over a very simple few sentences he thought conveyed my intent and told me to just say that. Now it was a task of remembering the sentences and saying them. Hmm. Once I removed these calls from a predisposition of fear and placed them in a task and objective mindset, I was able to make the calls. Helping someone overcome fear and take action is true mentoring.
Coaching, explaining, encouraging…all mentoring. Helping someone diagnose why they have failed so they can learn and improve? Mentoring. Holding someone accountable for the objectives they set themselves? Again mentoring. Imparting solid, hard-earned business, marketing, psychological, communications and personal advice? You guessed it. Mentoring.
There is an expression in network marketing that I find true. You are in business by yourself, but you don’t have to be alone. And that refers significantly to mentoring and really defines the true network marketing experience and mindset. I hope you appreciate the mentors you have had in life as I do. Access to a strong, experienced business person as a mentor is probably one of the most important reasons for joining a business.
