Avoid Dwelling on Your MLM Prospects

It often happens, especially when you are new to MLM and network marketing. You are really excited and anxious to start sponsoring…and you find a few prospects.
Suddenly, you begin to feel like you MUST sponsor these prospects. You don’t have many to fall back on, so the importance of sponsoring each one is magnified.
I have a downline associate who became very disappointed when a promising prospect decided to delete themselves from our followup system. To say the least, this associate was crushed because she had put so much emphasis on sponsoring this particular individual.
After speaking with her, I wrote this brief email to summarize what we talked about.
Hi Michelle,
I understand how badly you wanted to sponsor Mr. Johnson. I know you are disappointed because he told you he would be joining as soon as he received his tax rebate check. It seems strange that he deleted himself from our followup system a week later.
Many times, we have prospects who are really not ready to start a home business. They might be looking more for a guaranteed income (like a part time job). They may need money now and can’t wait to build up an income. Sometime, they feel bad about telling you “no”, so they come up with an excuse to wait until later. Then, they either delete themselves as Mr. Johnson did, or simply refuse to answer your phone calls or emails any longer.
Please remember that your business does not depend on any one person. While you don’t have that many prospects in your pipeline right now, your goal is to work consistently and diligently each day to increase this number. Once you have a good number of prospects who are receiving followups, you will find that you start sponsoring people on a regular basis. Until then, I know it is hard not to focus on sponsoring each individual, sort of in a “life or death” sense. Don’t worry, it will get much easier. Just focus on introducing your business to others, and everything will fall into place.
Talk to you soon,
ElevFreak