It’s Impossible To Chase Two Network Marketing Rabbits At The Same Time.

How many network marketers do you know that are working two network marketing businesses simultaneously?  Better yet, how many people on your team are working two business opportunity at the same time: yours and something else?

 Oh, no.  None of my team members would ever do that. 

 It’s great to feel that way but the reality is that most network marketers are fickle and will fall victim to thinking I can easily do both.  This is especially attractive when the new venture is positioned as making a boatload of money and spending little time doing it…matter of fact you can easily do this along with what you are presently doing.  Your team member becomes convinced that his new business will provide the funds to keep him alive and remaining in your business too. 

 Unfortunately this does not happen in the real world.  If your team member has a little success with the new venture, he/she will drop out of your business reasoning that they could be making more money with the new if they devoted all their efforts to it.  Or if no money is made with the new venture (which is more often the case) then your team member will give up on both, exhausted at trying to chase two dreams at once with little positive results from either.  (Kind of like chasing two network marketing rabbits at the same time…you will catch neither.)

 As soon as you find out about what your team member has done or is about to do – by taking on a new “side” venture – it’s time for a chat.  Explain the futility of trying to serve two masters: trying to serve two network marketing companies and how it does not work.  If they elect to continue doing both, my friend, it’s decision time for you.  Do you continue working directly with this person knowing that this person is giving your team partial effort?

 But you don’t understand, Andy.  He/she told me that since both ventures do not compete with one another, it will be fine.  No.  Each venture will compete for your team member’s time and attention.  And, let’s face facts, if your network marketing business was EASY, they would not have been open to listening to or joining their other “latest, greatest, easiest, fastest money maker on planet earth period” venture in the first place.  Your team member hit a bump in the road with your business and is seeking a less bumpy business venture “on the side”.

 Let me give you an example.  It involved one of my personally sponsored team members, who by the way would constantly call me with questions ALL answered on our company’s website.  Quite by accident I discovered that he had a website not only promoting our company but two other “non competing” network marketing companies with it.  Our talk included me telling him that this was unfair to our entire team and he had a choice on his hands: drop the other two companies or he was free to contact our upline for assistance but I would no longer work with him.  He opted to not drop the other companies and within six weeks had completely dropped out of ours.  (P.S. Shortly thereafter he dropped out of the remaining two mlm ventures only to replace them with other get rich quickers.  One of these was a pay $10 deal and make hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few months.)

 You, and your team members, selected your rabbit, your network marketing company for a reason.  Mostly because you felt as though it would lead to financial success, freedom from any job and the time to enjoy life with your family.  Do not lose sight of this dream and exhaust yourself chasing more than one business opportunity.  If you gave it your best shot and it still does not work for you, by all means find another rabbit to chase…but not at the same time.