Finding Your Way To A Better Networker

  Written by Carla Gardiner on Mar 2, 2010 7:24 pm

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Have you ever found yourself in over your head on your quest to finding a better way to network? Too much information, terminology unknown to you sends you into a tail spin? Who do you trust? Everyone tells you they are the expert, you find yourself clicking here, clicking there, oh this looks good, read this e-book, get this tutorial for free. Augh, the torture goes on, and on, and on...STOP the madness. 

They say that social networking is the deal, it is where you need to be, where you need to build your list, make sales, skyrocket your income. Who is "they" anyway? The all knowing powers that be? Well, let me share my journey to finding my way to a Better Networker.

It all started with a complete stranger enrolling in my business half way around the world. You see, another distributor ran an ad for one of our flagship products. The distributor succeeded in building a desire for the product, but failed in providing who to contact or where to get it! The prospect was savvy enough to know to go to Google, ran a search for the product and found my personal website. Bingo! New client, new business partner prospect due to someone else's mistake.

My first lesson in online marketing...provide ample opt in opportunities for your prospects on every page. Provide several ways for your prospect to find you, i.e. email address, phone number, website, etc. Follow up with a welcome email to start building that long distance relationship, to cement your client's trust and business in the future.

This propelled me forward into learning more about what the internet really holds out for a network marketer and the potential growth for my business. What I didn't know was how side tracked I was about to get and I totally lost focus on my main objective, marketing my business and products. I found plenty of information alright, too much.

I found experts on every "street corner" professing this expertise and that. I'll give credit where credit is due, some were very knowledgeable and did help me in areas where I was weak. I thank them for that, some are members here at Better Networker. But, some were not, some were what they call "affiliate marketers". Now, don't get me wrong or get all bent out of shape, there is room out here for all of us and I personally have nothing against that niche in the business world, it's just not for me.

After many wrong turns, and lots of dollars spent and I don't know how many "bookmarks" of sites I'll probably never revisit, I finally found this site, a Better Networker. Something was different here, maybe that "the next best deal" isn't crammed down my throat, I'm not really sure. All I know is that it feels safe here, maybe the level of professionalism is what set's it apart. Here at a Better Networker you can find information available to assist you in whatever you are looking for, one bite a time. This allows you to implement and continue to work it into your business so you are not flailing around like a fish out of water.

Here it is 6 months later, after pulling myself back up by my bootstraps once again, and I am back on track. Working my business both offline and online, sponsoring customers, business partners and increasing the revenues I was looking for from the very beginning. So, I hope in sharing my journey with you here, I have been able to expose some of the pitfalls, some of the good, bad and ugly and help you to avoid the bad and reap the good and come to appreciate a Better Networker the same way that I do.

Carla J Gardiner

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