HOW MANY OPPORTUNITIES DO YOU WORK?
Are you involved with more than one network marketing opportunity?
I recently saw a post online that read:
“… I just recently bailed on 2 opportunities that I feel were not producing results. I am still a member of others, but I am looking for another.”
What caught my eye wasn’t the fact that he just “bailed” on TWO opportunities, it was the phrase:
“I am still a member of OTHERS.”
Now I didn’t read the whole thread, and he looked like a sharp guy so he may well be very successful in this industry, but it did cause me to reflect on how many opportunities people are joining/working out there, and why. As a trainer, I often see people involved with so many things that they can hardly keep them straight, let alone excel in any of them. Their strategy seems to be to keep trying things until they find something that’s going to “work.” I feel this approach is based on a false assumption:
“That the “RIGHT” opportunity is out there (somewhere) and if one keeps searching long enough and trying enough things, they’ll eventually find it and hit it big.”
The reality is there are many good opportunities out there, and sure, some are better than other but there are no “perfect ones.”
Usually, your success in an opportunity has a lot more to do with “you” and how you approach your business, and the team you assemble, than the opportunity you join. (Assuming you’ve joined a decent one).
To maximize your success, work on “YOU.” In my own downline I’ve watched some people make hundreds of dollars, some fail, and others make six figures or more.
Why?
Experience, skillset, mindset, persistance, resolve… Who you are (or are becoming) can be a big determiner of your success, more so than what company you join. I’ve observed people join companies that are “older” and slower growing and go on to make six and seven figures. Could they have done “better” in a different company – perhaps. But… I’ve also watched people join fast moving start-ups and fail while others go on to succeed wildly right along side them.
I think this illustrates that if you acquire the right skillset and mindset, success will chase you regardless of where you go. I share the tactics (and mindset) that changed things for me in my personal coaching classes.
So… how many opportunities should you be working? The argument for working ONE is compelling:
FOCUS FOCUS on ONE thing, and do it extremely well, and create undiluted success that catapults you into the stratosphere. If you’ve joined an opportunity that’s good, and it’s not working for you – the temptation is to go find one that will. (It’s always easier to change our opportunity, than change ourselves).
But more often than not, it’s “US” who needs to change. I know it was for me when I first started out. A good argument also exists for working more than one:
DIVERSIFICATION
There are people who join multiple opportunities and build some very profitable income streams. What’s right MAY depend on your reason. Are you chasing after that elusive “something” that’s going to work and be your “magic bullet?”
If so, STOP. That’s not the best reason to work multiple opportunities. If you’re building a traditional opportunity it’s smarter to work ONE.
The FOCUS you model to your team will encourage THEM to focus which ultimately can build huge organiziations. If you’re working 3-5 things, what’s that saying to your downline? Odds are, they’ll do the same and it may not be the same 3-5 things you’re working… thus everyone’s efforts are dilluted.
On the other hand, if you’re opportunity is more of a short-term venture OR, is more of an online build that’s closer to an affiliate model, then diversification is a smart play and you’ll want to assemble a portfolio of income streams. Do you agree or disagree? If you’re someone who has “tried” multiple things and that’s lead you to “the one” that’s really paid off, what was it that “it” had the others didn’t? If you ever have to pick another winner some day, do you think you can or do you think it’ll be more trial and error?
What’s YOUR approach and how’s it working out for you? Submit Your Application and you can have a coaching call with either me or one of my business coaches to see if your approach is a winner.
Untill Next Time,
Tom
