Archive for June, 2010
How To Handle Rejection In Your MLM Business
Rejection stings no matter how you slice it. When you are turned down for that job you wanted or don’t get the employee of the month recognition or if your sales pitch is tossed back in your unsuspecting face it doesn’t seem to be a character builder. It is rejection and it is not all that it is cracked up to be. It does however have a place and a purpose in business.
The sting that you are feeling is a motivator to work at improving the areas you know could use some improvement. Take the time and sit down with a pencil and paper and make a list of what you tend to be doing most often when the rejection happens. What you think might help to identify steps that can change it.
Any one can easily shrug off a bad day or can take it if it’s the beginning of the sales pitch such as cold calling leads. When the first two say “No thank you!” in an unpleasant fashion you truly don’t mind do you?
It is when it gets to the twenty first time that you begin to feel a little dejected. Is it when you’ve begun to develop a relationship of some kind with the customers that you seem to lose the prospect?
During development in any relationship there are going to be touch and go moments. Maybe it is when you are closing the deal that you most frequently lose the prospect. This is always upsetting; having spent your time and invested your knowledge on getting the lead working up to the sales pitch and closing the deal just doesn’t happen. Of course it is upsetting and of course you don’t like losing the investment that you’ve made in the person with whom you are working to develop a business partnership. It stings and it is not easy to accept. No rejection is easy to accept and the further you’ve come into a relationship with the person who has done the rejecting the less you are going to like it. The good news is that you don’t have to like it. Your task is to change it.
It is something that bothers you and it bothers most people who have ever been rejected in any way regardless of what they might tell you. Rejection hurts.
This is fine as long as you let it motivate you to take action on what you think you might need to do differently or how you believe you could change the outcome of those calls. When the rejection always happens at a certain point it is time to take a long hard look at why and what we need to learn to keep it from being a cycle that we endlessly repeat in our business efforts. We also need to work on why we believe that person’s rejection was so important to our efforts.
Granted we had invested long and hard in bringing in that prospect. What made that important? Was it the funds it might have generated? Probably not. Usually what makes the rejection more difficult to cope with is that we believe that the person’s rejection is not just a rejection of the business we offered them or the product we were selling. But in some basic way it is a rejection of who we inherently are. However this is not always true. Usually it is just what it is a rejection of the business because we could have presented it more fully or more attractively or with less push when it was time to close it.
Take the time to change your attitude about what the rejection really means to you and to your business. Find out what you might be doing differently what you could be learning to change how you handle a prospect in each phase of the business development. Ask colleagues to rate you in the various parts of your pitch. Ask them to be honest and you too will need to use that quality. Be honest with yourself about what you don’t know so that you can give yourself the opportunity to learn it and to grow both personally and in your Internet marketing business.
About the writer: Discover Kevin Sinclair’s system for making profits regardless of whether anyone joins your network marketing business.
How To Earn Money Online With A Home Business Income Opportunity
Looking for tips on how to earn money online with a home based business income opportunity? If so then this is for you. In this brief article I’m going to reveal 3 important things that you absolutely must have in order to make money on the Internet with a home based business idea. Hopefully by the time you’ve finished reading this you’ll have a better idea of exactly what it takes to be successful and how to go about getting there.
Starting a home business is one of the most rewarding things you’ll probably ever get involved with. So if that’s true why do so many people fail? Actually it’s quite simple… most entrepreneurs who try to start a home base Internet business fail because they don’t have 3 things in place:
1. A knowledge of how to generate traffic
2. A proven system in place that they can plug into to see results quickly
3. Access to successful mentors who have already become successful
Let’s face it. If you don’t know how to generate traffic to your websites you’ll never make a dime online. Knowing how to drive targeted visitors to your sites is one of the most important skills you can possibly learn and this is something that you should devote a great deal of your time to.
Having a proven system in place is also very important. With the ability to tap into a proven system for success is worth it’s weight in gold and allows you to dramatically lessen the learning curve associated with your new business.
Lastly it’s important to have access to successful mentors who have gone before you and paved the way so to speak. Solid mentorship is a very valuable thing to have and it can often be the deciding factor in whether or not someone becomes successful with their home based business.
Hopefully this article has given you some good ideas on how to earn money online with a home based business income opportunity. Thousands of people are leaving the 9 to 5 lifestyle to enjoy the freedom that working from home can bring and I encourage you to do the same!
About the writer: Fruitfultime is a company produces productivity software. One of its productivity software is FruitfulTime TaskManager.
How To Earn Extra Income With An Online Home Based Business
To earn extra income with an online home based business your WHY needs to create a real burning desire within you. When your why is strong enough it will be the one thing that will help you confidently face the challenges pull you through the tough times and get you over the obstacles that are bound to crop up along the home business highway.
Develop a strong belief in yourself and your own capabilities and this will ward off any opinions from others or negative comments directed at you or your home based business.
When you are certain why you need or want to earn extra income it will make it easier for you to be disciplined in order to avoid the many distractions that come with working at home.
Establish a working routine as early as possible and head for your home office as if you were off to a normal job. The great advantage of having an online home based business is that you can set yourself flexible hours but try and aim to work at your business consistently on a daily basis.
Carefully plan to work around your family commitments. You never want them to feel that your online home based business takes preference over them.
Do let your friends know your routine as soon as possible because friends for some reason think that if you work at home you have time to go shopping with them share a cup of coffee or just sit and chat for hours.
As you will be your own boss and responsible for your own business which is a far cry from being an employee and having a boss to tell you what to do you will need to be able to work on your own plan effectively make your own decisions and stick to them. If you adopt an entrepreneurial attitude and this will reflect in your online home based business.
Be sure to write your goals down and strive to achieve them. Breaking your goals down into short medium and long term goals will keep your focused on your main goal to earn extra income with your home based online business.
By constantly remaining in learning mode you will keep abreast with developments on the internet that could affect your business.
The fear of failure is one thing that keeps many people from achieving success. You need to adopt a Never Quit attitude and be determined to do whatever it takes legally of course to succeed.
Do not set yourself up for a major disappointment by expecting to earn extra income immediately. This is one of the major reasons so many people fail to earn online and quit so early on.
No one can predict when you will start earning extra income and should you decide to quit you could be just a matter of hours away from success. Simply refuse to let failure be an option for you.
Stay focused and concentrate on the business building process and once you have successfully accomplished this then you will earn extra income with your own online home based business.
About the writer: Cynthia Minnaar is the owner of www.cynshomebiz.com and she invites you to visit her Online Home Based Business where she will share ways to earn extra income with you.
