A lot of us join a network marketing program because we want to be our own boss. I know that was the case for me. After I was let go from a job that I had for more than 10 years, I wanted to be able to take control of my career. There is, however, one problem with being your own boss – you are also your own employee. How to you balance being the employer and the employee? Who wins?
The Art Of Compromise
When you are a part of a network marketing program, you have to wear many different hats. You have to be the boss, the office manager, the accountant, the gofer, and everything else in between. One of the things you have to be able to do is compromise.
As an owner of a business, you want to get the most out of your employees. The problem is – YOU are the employees. One of the things that you can do to help you compromise is to sit down first as the employer (the boss) and list all of the things that you would like to have accomplished. Make sure that you give priority to the MLM income producing activities.
For example, you know that your most of your MLM income starts with prospecting. So as the boss, you would like your employee to spend as much time as possible prospecting.
As the employee, you don’t like prospecting so much. It’s tiring and can be stressful, because of that you don’t really want to do any prospecting at all. You would much rather do other things. Unfortunately, there isn’t anyone else that can do the prospecting for you. What do you do?
Meet in the Middle
The boss wants 6 hours of prospecting every day. The employee wants 1 hour a day. Why not do 3 hours a day and make sure to give your employee a reward for doing anything over 3 hours of prospecting.
I know this may sound kind of funny having a conversation with yourself about how to run your network marketing business but believe me, it works.
In order to be able to create the MLM income that you are looking for you have to be able to do all of the jobs that come with owning your own business. And one of those jobs is making a realistic schedule that the network marketing boss and the employee can both live with.
