The Give And Take Of Network Marketing.

When I first started writing and posting articles online a few years ago, one of my team members sent me an email.  At first reading I thought it was a joke but after reading it again, I realized he was dead serious.

 The concern was that I was going too far in giving out free information in my articles to non-members of my team.  After all, the email concluded, someone else might use what you are teaching.

Hello.  That is the whole object of this game of article marketing.  Provide useful information to my fellow network marketers which they could implement in their own businesses (whatever they may be).

For a few seconds I did think dark thoughts of how these techniques could be used against me or my group members.  When I came to my senses I realized that what I put on paper is what I have garnered from experience.  And, even more importantly, what I have absorbed from all of the top earners in the companies I have been associated with (as well as network marketing companies that I was not a part of).

 I think of it as splicing together all of the bits and pieces of multi level marketing knowledge and then passing it forward.    If an article of mine helps to build anyone’s business, that’s fine.  If it doesn’t, I guess my two cents worth on various network marketing topics was not worth the two cents.

 Anyway I responded to my team member essentially expressing the same feeling as above.

 His response email to me was that I really was not logical and did not see what was happening.  I was giving free, helpful training…network marketing readers were taking the information and giving nothing back in return.  

 Perhaps giving out free training builds value.  Value for the blog it is written on, value for the LinkedIn group it is being read in, value to Twitter, etc.  That is exactly why I give.

 You can do the exact same thing.  Maybe you know of a prospecting technique that has made you a sponsoring maniac.  Maybe you have figured out a way to make TribePro work for you in building your leads.  Speaking about leads, maybe you know of a lead generation system that will catapult all of our network marketing businesses.  Share new ideas with all of us.

 One of the ways you will know that you are succeeding at building the value of YOU, INC. by freely giving away information is when you get an email from one of your team members questioning your giving and “them” taking.