Jasmin Anderson

Avoiding the Management Trap

When we become successful at network marketing, we tend to climb into this "management" realm that can be seriously detrimental to you, as well as your downline.

This is the title to Chapter 2 in “Your First Year in Network Marketing.” This chapter is powerful. This whole book is powerful, but I particularly enjoyed this chapter because it really hit home.

Mark Yarnell talks about how we are so passionate and have such an amazing drive for our products and services that we just want to help out our loved ones. Our parents, sisters, brothers, close friends, just people in our lives that “knew us when” and see us now, doing well, and you want the same for our loved ones. So, naturally you share your expertise and go all out of your way to help your loved one build a business, but what Mark describes in this chapter is how you can’t build it for them. No matter how much you want to see them do well, and think that if you gave your efforts things will take off for them as they did for you, you will be sorry and cause more harm than good.

For one, if you build a downline for your loved one, you will be the leader for that downline, and not your loved one. You are but one person and you can not be a strong leader for your own personal team, and your loved ones team. For two, network marketing is about team, and everyone coming together doing their part, pitching in if you will, not everyine looking to one individual to do it for them.

Yarnell describes some pretty good examples of how things can go very wrong if you were to try to take on this task, and build a downline, a business if you will, for someone else. I know you want to help, but there’s a fine line between helping and enabling. You know when you cross it, you can feel it, but you ignore it and when you do, things can and will take a turn for the worse.

Words of advice, just DON’T do it!!

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