My 5 Favorite Excuses For Not Building A Network Marketing Business

For we network marketers, excuses are like toilet paper.

 Excuses flow out of the mouths of some team members as easily as toilet paper flows from its holder.  And, like toilet paper, excuses will come to an abrupt end and then it’s time to discard the cardboard tube it came on and replace it with a new roll.

 If you have been involved with network marketing for any length of time, you have probably heard them all.  If, however, you have been a networker far beyond any length of time, you have heard the same excuses over and over again.

 Some of my absolute favorites:

1. ”I’ve done my best but no one is getting in”.  Anything short of talking to 5 to 10 new contacts a day, 7 days a week plus at least a daily blog update with an article that you can blast over social media networks, is not giving it your best.  (Not to mention cutting a daily video on some network marketing topic.) 
2. ”There must be something wrong with our products. No one wants to buy any from me.”  Right.  That’s why your network marketing company is doing $100 million to $1 billion (or more) because something is wrong with their products.  Chances are this person is not their own best customer.  If you are not buying and using your company’s products yourself, how in the world can you justify being involved in that company or getting others to at least buy its products as your customer?
3. ”I approached my best friend to see the business presentation but he can smell a scam a mile away and he told me this definitely is a scam.”  Perhaps your best friend will provide you with a financial future as building your network marketing business will do.  Oh, and perhaps your best friend could tell you a better way to use your time so that what you do today in network marketing will pay you for years to come.
4. ”Once I got involved, I realized that it really is one of those pyramid deals.”  A pyramid deal, huh?  Let us look at the structure of the company you work for: you have a president, maybe a few vice presidents then a whole lot of managers.  Below the management team is the workforce.  That looks like a pyramid structure to me.  (Take a look at our government: president at the top, 435 members of congress, 300+ million citizens at the base…yup, that one resembles a pyramid structure as well.)
5. ”I’m too busy with my day job to do anything else.  I don’t know why I got involved.”  Obviously you got involved because you were too busy with your day job and wanted out.  But when you realized that it was work (hence our name netWORKers), far from easy, you decidd to make a speedy exit.

 Whatever the excuse for a team member not building their business, do not drag yourself into their world.  Let them pull and pull at their toilet paper roll of excuses.  While I think it is imperative that you make the attempt to get them refocused, do not get upset when this leads to even more and more excuses. 

 The question is: who owns the problem? As the leader of your team you would like nothing better than to keep everyone motivated.  In reality you should work with the motivated and not anyone on your team who is a card carrying member of the excuse-of-the-month club.  It wastes your time and drains your energy.

 As you have heard so often: you can make excuses or you can make money but you cannot do both.