Turn your team members into gold with these five support tips

Success in network marketing involves having (or developing) a skill in training your people to be at least as successful as you are. Since your associates are great people, I want to talk about a couple of great ways you can support them and get them off on the best start (or restart!). 

1) Do calls with them

 Once the person has drawn up an initial list of contacts, sit down with them (either in person or over video chat) and do some calls with them. That means listening in to their calls and also letting them listen in to a few of yours. Never expect your people to do something that you aren't willing to do yourself. During these calls, just listen, don't say anything. Stick to positive reinforcement by noting everything they do correctly, and don't worry too much about what they're doing wrong. Sometimes the biggest barrier when it comes to making calls is just doing it while skill at it comes later. If you start them out making calls and give them good feedback, they'll never have time to develop anxiety about it.

2) Have a good list of training tools that will help them

An advantage you'll have over people just coming in to this business is knowing which training materials are and aren't very helpful. That means whenever you see a video or read a book or article that's exceptional, add it to a list with a little note about why it's important. Business best practices and product information are the most important. Keep your list of links as lean as possible so it's accessible to newer people.

3) Connect them with upline leaders

If you're in a good company, you ought to have access to someone that's been really successful with it. A quick call or lunch with a person who has become rich from doing what you're teaching is very important to make the whole thing come to life for your person. It's one thing to tell them they can earn a hundred thousand dollars a month: it's another to sit them down with a real, down to earth person who's doing it.

4) Help them set goals, and mark their victories

Obviously, if your company has ranks, recognize your people when they advance in rank, possibly with a special team meeting solely for that purpose. You might also recognize them for things like weight loss goals if you've got a health product. You can always congratulate them when it looks like they're meeting their goals here. I think the best kind of goals to set are regular activity goals. For example, when the person spends a full month talking to five, ten, twenty, or thirty leads a day about the business (whatever the personal goal is that they set), recognize that. Maybe even congratulate them with prizes, because that skill and regular activity is what will lead them to success.

5) Connect them with a power partner

If you have two people with similar business goals, get them together. When your business is thriving the way it's supposed to, you won't have time to give everyone in your organization the attention you would give your best friend on an ongoing basis. But if you can set your people up to be friends, that enables you to give them the benefit of strong social connections in the business. People with strong friendships in the company are more likely to stay loyal to your company when others tempt them. They also have an ongoing source of validation as they see each other meeting and overcoming the same challenges. You may also consider matching your people based on how competitive or cooperative they are. Some people are really energized by friendly competition, whereas others are put off by it.

Network marketing is changing the way people think about work and business. It provides you with a way to change people's lives by putting you in a position to give them training and support to be successful. But it starts with you. Send me an email and you can get the training you need and get started today in the best industry in the world today.