Yesterday I told you a story about the perils of dating your downline romantically.

Today I’m going to talk about “dating” your downline in a non-romantic way. This is one of the greatest retention and relationship strategies that, admittedly, I’m nowhere near as good at as I should be.

Think about this for a minute…

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True Story: I dated a girl in my downline in MLM when I was 25

When I was 25, I started dating a girl in my downline. We’ll just call her Mary.

She was super motivated, building a strong team, and was a TB (True Believer). (TB thing sounds kinda cultish after writing that.)

It all was going fine with Mary. That is, until I decided to start dating someone else.

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Writing this from the plane headed out to San Diego to speak at an event tonight.

As I was boarding the plane from Dallas, about 30 MARINES were boarding with me. If you don’t already know, I spent 6 years in the Marine Corps. (You can call me Sergeant Morris) 🙂

I’m not sure why they’re flying out, but the Marine Corps Recruiting Depot is in San Diego and Camp Pendleton is nearby. I gotta admit, I got filled up with a sense of pride seeing these boys in great shape, chests out, and clean cut with their high and tight’s. (that’s a haircut where it’s about finger length on top at most and shaved on the sides.)

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The Real Secret to Creating Motivation

This is a bit of an “insider” secret to creating motivation…

And before I give you the goods, lemme first ask you…

What is it that creates motivation in the first place?

Hmmmm…

You see, if you don’t know the answer, it’s pretty hard to motivate people to buy, isn’t it?

Yes!

Okay, here’s the answer…

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A New Way to Look at Fear and Kick it in the Keister…

What’s the #1 thing holding you back?

For most, and especially in MLM or Network Marketing, it’s fear.

Fear of rejection is the biggest one in our profession. And before you go on saying you don’t have fear, consider this…

If you sincerely had no fear, you would have already talked to everyone in your life about whatever products you’re selling. (That is IF you really believe in them)

So what to do about it?

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