In network marketing, there are only two actions that actually generate cash flow for your business.  One of which is marketing, and the other is connecting with your leads!  If you have your marketing skills down right, you’ll be spending more time building those great relationships that are required for you to build your business!  The problem with most people is that they spend too much time on tasks that don’t generate money!  So you must ask yourself, where am I spending a majority of my time?

I personally know that I have wasted a ton of time getting nothing done, because it’s very easy to get lost in the internet.  I’ll begin a project, and before I’m 5 minutes into it I’ll already be wasting time surfing the net.  When I first started out the majority of my marketing was done on Facebook, so you can only imagine how easy it is to get lost on that site.  If we don’t keep ourselves on task with a schedule we will always be able to find somewhere to waste our time on the internet!

Now I know it’s exciting when we are starting to generate leads, so we enjoy looking at those leads multiple times, maybe even checking for new leads every 5-10 minutes.  Right when we get a piece of advertising posted we want to see if it’s generating any traffic to our websites.  You should really try to get down to checking for leads 2-4 times per day.  You’ll also want to schedule a specific period of time just for calling those leads, so that you don’t keep interrupting your marketing time!  The same should go for checking your e-mails.  A few times a day is ok, unless you’re expecting something, but the fact is that checking your e-mail to see if you got a new lead or a commission is wasting valuable marketing time!

The bottom line is that if you want to see the success in your business, stop waiting for it to happen!  You should be spending 2-3 hours per day accomplishing what takes most people 2-3 days to get done, and the reason is procrastination.  If you’re stuck in a procrastination rut, GET OUT OF IT NOW!  As soon as you decide to make it happen, it’s D.O.N.E.  If you’re unsure of where to start, then maybe you should set up a marketing plan with your mentor.   One last point I want to stress to all of you newbies out there, is that you should only be trying to master 1 or 2 different marketing techniques right now.  If you’re trying to get 10+ done in the beginning, chances are you’re getting very little done on a whole lot of things, which means you’re getting a whole lot of nothing done!

Much Success,

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