Challenge Your Upline? What to do if your upline doesn't believe in attraction marketing methods?

Written by Drea Tosta on May 5, 2009 9:56 pm

Hello guys and gals,

Drea here and I would like to share with you a struggle of mine for quite a while. For the past year or so, I have steered away from MLM to market information products.

The main reason why is because when I first joined my MLM company, my upline was steadfast on the old traditional methods of marketing. You know the deal...

* Your warm market

* Make a list of 100 people

* Talk to everyone you see

* Buy leads

Blah, blah, blah... right?

So, I challenged them and brought up the idea of attraction marketing and how to bring people to you instead of chasing after others. I was so shocked at the response I got from them.

It was like I insulted their mother.

My upline got real stern and explained that our product sells by people using it and that's the only way it'll work. Plus, any other methods of trying to sell this stuff will go against all of their hard work they've put into making it work.

Next thing I know, I'm not getting anymore phone calls or emails. It's like I got black listed for bringing up a fresh approach ~ that's also waaaay more effective.

So, their feelings got hurt, then they got pissed, and I haven't even touched my MLM business for over a year because I know you have to have support from your upline to make it work.... which was painfully obvious that I wasn't going to have that.

Now, I want to get back into the MLM game but my upline probably won't support me. Even if they end up being on my side, they won't share my views on the marketing aspect...

So, my question is...

How do I run my MLM business without the support of my upline?

Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help...

Drea