Dealing With Whiny Downlines

Did you know that you need to be very selective with the right kind of downlines in your team?

You see, not every downline who gets sponsored into your network might turn out to be good news. Sometimes, you have to be very firm and tell them why you do not want them in your network.

Consider the following scenarios:

You eagerly chase down a friend of yours, even if he isn’t really the driven type; you still insist that he joins your network marketing company. Later on, he tries it for awhile, faces a lot of rejection and at the end of the day, your friendship is strained after you boss him around or motivate him ‘too much’. You lose your friend and all the time you have spent motivating him.

In another scenario, you try your best to convince this stranger to build the business. This stranger cannot be trusted is worried if he would not succeed, yet you work very hard to convince him that it WILL work. After awhile, your downline wears your patience thin with incessant calls… finally, the downline realizes that network marketing isn’t the right business for him and he asks for a refund on all the products, hence wasting your time, effort, and your commissions are deducted.

Lastly, there are destructive downlines who will ‘try’ something and when it doesn’t work out, they will tarnish your good name and call you a scammer.

Here are a couple of ways to deal with those whiny downlines.

The first thing you need to do is to make sure you do not rely on them too much. When you treat that downline as though he or she is your golden goose, you will be very disappointed in the end.

Secondly, if you are working together with one downline, do not spend too much time with him or her because it creates a dependency mentality on one another. Your downline will take advantage of you because they feel that they are too important for you. They will not appreciate your time and they will suck up your all you resources when you should be spending them with the right people.

Thirdly, you must always keep yourself busy. When you are busy with big team players, your whiny downlines will perceive you to be a very important person and they will work harder in order to fight for your time. After all, you are a leader, do not become the follower by following your downlines everywhere.

When all else fails, you have to be frank with your downline that you are looking for solid business builders, not a cry baby.

Johannes Frisch

http://joefresco.co.cc