Ask yourself honestly whether you are ready to learn and apply time-tested business principles to your network marketing business or whether you are looking for get-rich quick tricks. If you are ready for the former, keep reading…

Network Marketing Tips for Time Management

Time is your #1 most precious resource. Guard it wisely. As you take on the role of a leader in your team, the demands on your time will be intense. Develop limits and share them with your team early to avoid having your business suck up every available second.

Specific network marketing tips for time management include…

• Schedule an end time for all meetings and events and stick to it.
• Insist that team members pre-qualify a prospect before you (as an upline) spend time with the person.
• In a third-party upline situation, give no more than 15 minutes of your time for a first interaction. (You will protect your calendar this way and make yourself seem more desirable because you don’t have all day to spend with one person.)
• Don’t get in your car unless you’ve spoken to the person by phone. If they sound like a lousy prospect on the phone, don’t spend 2 hours driving to see them. Duh.
• Set aside team office hours for coaching and advice. Perhaps between 3-4:30 pm. Respond to inquiries from your downline ONLY during those hours. Give them instructions for how to reach you “in an emergency” and give clear rules for what defines “an emergency”.
• Make a video of frequently asked questions and refer people to it. Do not answer any question on the phone that is already answered by your FAQ video.
• Spend 80% of your time with your top producers and 20% of you time with everyone else. People have to earn your face-time and attention by making positive things happen first.
• Teach your emerging leaders to follow these network marketing tips for time management.

Network Marketing Tips for Recruiting

Recruiting is the lifeblood of your business. The enthusiasm and initial bulk orders of new distributors are essential to your team momentum and growth. Recruiting is a skill just like riding a surfboard. Very few people are “natural” recruiters. And, no amount of watching other people recruiting is a substitute for getting out and doing it yourself. (Think about the surfboard analogy).

Recruiting also has parallels to baseball. If you are batting .300 in baseball you are doing really well. But that still means that you don’t get on base 70% of the time. Baseball is a game of learning to accept frequent failure and celebrate rare successes. Recruiting in network marketing is the same. You must mentally expect to fail most of the time and take joy in the successes.

Specific network marketing tips for recruiting include…

• Practice, practice, practice…recruiting is a skill
• Practice out loud. Practice with a mirror. Practice with people.
• Schedule some practices. (Just like baseball, not every day is day game. Have you ever left your house thinking “Today I’m going to practice my recruiting?” Probably not. You probably leave the house intending to recruit. Try telling yourself the whole day is about practice, and see how different your attitude is.)
• Learn how to invite, before you try to learn to recruit. The art of inviting is what the new person needs to perfect. If you can invite someone to an event and have them show up, the host of the event will do the recruiting. HINT: Poor inviters are never great recruiters. Become a master inviter first.
• Only recruit when you are happy. Keep some happy music nearby or play with your puppy before you recruit.
• Recruiting lasts until at least 30 days after the enrollment. Once the prospect has signed the paperwork or placed their first order you actually need to keep recruiting them. They aren’t fully onboard or committed until they have a recruit of their own.
• Teach your emerging leaders to follow these network marketing tips for recruiting.

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• Network Marketing Training: 4 Questions to Ask Before Investing in a Program
• Network Marketing Lead Generation Fact and Fiction
• How to Explain the Network Marketing Business Model

1. Make a List The Night Before

Before you go to bed, make a list of exactly 5 items that MUST be accomplished the following day. This list is primarily focused on your important items, rather than the urgent stuff. Important taskslike strategic planning, thanking existing customers, ongoing professional education and market research tend to get crowded out by the urgent if you don’t commit to doing them in writing.

2. Sleep

No matter how much work there is to do, you will be more productive and effective when you are well-rested. Sleep 7-8 hours per night. Develop a calming bedtime ritual to help you get a sound, restorative sleep. One of the reasons I am so productive is that I am rarely ever tired.

3. Nourish Your Body

This goes together with sleep. You will not build a billion dollar business running your body on plain bagels and white bread. You need 9-13 servings per day (Yes you read that right) of fruits and vegetables. You will be amazed at how good your body feels and how mentally alert you are if you do this. 2 simple ways are 1) getting a juicer and using it daily or 2) purchasing a high-quality juice blend.

4. Leave Email for Last

If you can, don’t touch email until the end of your day. I rarely check email before three pm. If you cannot do this, look only every 90 minutes and then spend no more than 20 minutes responding before beginning another 90 minute “no-interruptions” period. Craft an email autoresponse message that tells people exactly where to go for FAQs and exactly what to do if they need your urgent attention.

5. Give Specific Instructions on Your Voicemail

Record a new voicemail greeting daily and mention when you’ll be returning telephone calls that day. Provide clear instructions about where to find answers to FAQs and how to prepare for your return phone call.

Stiching it all together…

Last night at eleven pm I was still typing on my laptop, but knew I needed sleep for a full day today. I made a list of five things to do today including writing this article, return calls from my network marketing leads, and complete the content of my network marketing mentor landing page. This morning I had some coffee and a juice that I blended from fresh strawberries, a tangerine, frozen blueberries, fresh spinach, orange juice concentrate, and a high-quality whey protein. My email and phone are off as I write this, but the messages send people to helpful pages on my website and inform them when I’ll be replying to messages today.

Make these 5 simple changes yourself and watch your productivity soar.