Network Marketing Training – Part 2, Should It Be Live Or Recorded

This is part 2 of a several part series about network market training.  I would tell you exactly how many parts to expect but, I haven’t decided yet.  So, be sure to stay tuned to see what’s next.

This time I want to talk about whether your network marketing training should be done live or if you should be getting your mlm training via recordings (which includes: video, podcasts, etc.).  Is there a difference between live network marketing training or recorded training; what those differences are and do they effect you and your ability to gain the skills needed to grow your home based business?

Live network marketing training.

Let’s take a look at getting your network marketing training in a live environment versus getting your training in some sort of recorded format.  What are the benefits to getting your mlm training live:

Live mlm training is interactive.  You are in an environment where there are other network marketers just like you learning how to grow a home based business.  That means that there are others that can ask the questions that you may be a little too afraid to ask or they could ask questions that you would have never thought to ask.  Either way, you get answers to your questions live and in the moment.  You don’t have to email someone for an answer, or look at FAQs and hope that your question is there with an answer and the best part about getting your network marketing training live is that if you get your answer and you don’t understand it, you can say so.

Live mlm training is just like being in a classroom.  I don’t know about you but when I am in a classroom environment, I learn a lot more and I am more focused on the task at hand, in this case learning the skills needed to grow a home based business.  With your focus only on learning the skills you need, you will grow your mlm business that much faster and because it’s live you establish a routine.  If your live network marketing training classes are held on the same day and time every week, you have no excuses to do anything but be at those classes.

Okay, so those are the biggest benefits to getting your mlm training live rather that in a recorded version.  But there are benefits to getting your mlm training in a recorded format.  Let’s look at the benefits to getting your network marketing training in a recorded format.

The biggest benefit to the recorded format for your mlm training is time.  You can get your training when it fits into yourschedule.  You don’t have to worry about rearranging your schedule just to go to class.  In some cases, you can even take your mlm training with you.  If your classes are in a mp3 format or something like that, you can actually take your network marketing classes with you.  This can come in handy if you have a long commute to and from work for example.

Another benefit to having recorded mlm training is that you get to set your own pace.  In a recorded format, if you are having any kind of trouble, you don’t fully understand something, or you are just a little slower for any number of reasons, you can push the pause button until you are ready to continue.   Of course, this could also be seen as a disadvantage because if you don’t understand something, you don’t have anyone to take you by the hand and help you through the problem.

Well that’s it for this post.  I hope you got a little something from it.  I want you to remember that for every successful person, continuous learning is must.  Knowledge is power and you have to know what you are doing if you want to have a successful home based business.  If you would like to take advantage of getting the best network marketing training I have ever seen, then give me a call.  The best part is that it is both live and recorded.

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Network Marketing Training – Part 1, Who Should Get It

Most of us get into network marketing as a way to earn income from home.  Sometimes we do network marketing in addition to a regular job and sometimes our goal is to do network marketing full time.  Whatever our reasons are, most of us do not have a background in sales and we choose our MLM company based on the presentation that we saw, the products or services that our mlm company offers, and quite often we believe the hype of how easy it is to earn a substantial income from home.

 

Training provided by the MLM Company

 

Our MLM companies and up line leaders will all tell us to attend the training provided so that we can become familiar with the products or services that our company offers.  I agree that we all need to become experts in the products and/or services that our mlm company offers.  If you had a regular brick and mortar store, you would want to know everything about the products that you sell.  You would wouldn’t you?  The same thing applies for a home based business as well.

 

What I can’t figure out is why we are encouraged to focus so intently on training that explains the compensation plan.  I can only guess that our up line leaders and our MLM company wants us to strive to reach the top of that compensation plan and of course we are supposed to tell all of your friends about this amazing opportunity and show them how much money they can make from home if they join right now.

 

In the beginning

 

Let’s go back to who we are when we first looked at this network marketing thing.  My background was in the burglar alarm industry.  I was an office manager and before that I was a solder in the Army.  So, I had experience in leading people and in business (I also have a 2 year business degree) but I didn’t have any experience in sales to speak of.  I may have sold something over the phone from time to time if it would solve a particular problem a customer had with their alarm system but that was not my main job function.

 

What is your background?  It’s really important to take a look at the skills you bring to your home based business.  If you are a stay at home mom, you may have some really good organization skills, but do you know how to prospect?  If you are in sales, that’s great because you may know how to prospect and even close the sale but do you know how to find your target market?  For most people in sales, attracting your target market isn’t something they have to do.  Their companies take care of that part of the business.

 

Can you wear all of the necessary hats?

 

When you own your own business, you have to wear many different hats.  You have to be the boss, the employee, the salesperson, the bookkeeper, the financer, you have to be everything.   Can you wear all of those hats?  I know that you can but you may have to have some training in order to do it and put your home based business in profit.

 

Take a good hard honest look at your background and the skills that you bring to the table.  Having a strong desire to make money from home is not enough to make it happen.  Having a strong desire, a willingness to do whatever it takes, and being teachable is what it really takes to be successful at network marketing.  If you are lacking some skills that are necessary to have a successful home based business, then get the network marketing training to make it happen.

 

Stay tuned for Part 2, where I will be discussing the different types of training.  Until then have a great day and let me know if there is anything that I can do for you.

 

Let’s Grow Together

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Who is Amy Howard

I got started with network marketing back in 2004 after getting fired from a job that I had been going to for 10 years.  I really hated that I got fired.  I also really hated the job that I got fired from but I was working for my ex in-laws and I felt that I owed it to them to give them the best that I had.  They actually did me a favor when they fired me. 

I am now a network marketer and I am currently working with two MLM companies.  I love being able to work from home but it was a struggle to get things going to where I can actually make money from home.

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