45 Seconds to Freedom

So, you're in a network marketing company. Now what?Right, it's time to use that memory jogger list that came in your new marketer network marketing training kit. Don't forget the drunk plumber who messed up your sewer back in '81 when you lived in St. Louis. You now live in LA. I am sure he'll remember you. Unless he is in the state hospital with a wet brain. Anyway, go ahead and make that list of 100, 200, 300, 500, 1000 people. Make sure to list every person you know, have ever met or wanted to meet. Living, dead or yet to be born. This part of the process should take you about 2 hours, according to your up line.OK, got your list done? Did you remember your 1st grade teacher? Just checking. Now it's time to work the phone. Yep, dialing for dollars. Smile and dial. Ready, set, go! Or is it ready, fire, aim? C'mon now, you've been staring at the phone for an hour already. Damn thing won't dial by itself. Must be a technical issue. Better check the warranty. Oh, you don't have a phone that dials itself? Imagine, it's 2010 and they still haven't come up with a phone that dials itself and that will do your presentation for you?Presentation? What presentation? Oh right,the one my up line didn't show me in their non existent network marketing training. Right after they told me all I have to do is invite everyone I breathe on to a "Business Presentation" being put on by a group of "Millionaire Masterminds" who are "associates" of yours. Yeah, that presentation. Well, it's been two weeks now, you talked to one friend that you ran into at the local watering hole on a Monday night ( had to watch football, right? I mean, you can start this MLM business thing tomorrow. Or better yet, next week after you've studied up some more and rested up a bit. Yeah, that's the plan.You mention to your friend at halftime that your "associates", who are "Millionaire Masterminds" are having an "opportunity" meeting next Saturday at the local Motel 6 and live bait shop. The first thing out of his mouth, after an hour and a half of tequila, beer and cursing out his hometown team because they are getting their butts' kicked is, what is it about?"Is it MLM or Network Marketing? Cause if it is, I ain't interested. My wife's' cousins' ex brother in laws' 3rd cousin by marriage was in one of those scams. Didn't make any money. All he ended up with was 50 boxes of soap in his garage."So you now decide that MLM / Network Marketing is a scam, a ripoff the likes of which makes Bernie Madoff look like a philanthropist. Your first mistake was trying to sponsor someone in a bar. What does that tell you about that persons' motivations and desires? Think he has any? And while we're on the subject, if you have a business to run, what were you doing there? I'm not judging, trust me I have spent a lot of time in bars, more than I care to admit. Haven't set foot in one in almost ten years now, but that's another story. The point is that looking for business in a bar ain't gonna get it done. Trust me, I tried it for years, it doesn't work.Did you ever ask your friend if he was even remotely interested not in the business opportunity, but in what financial independence could do for or bring him? Something such as: "John, have you ever thought of what it would be like to own your life?"What would you do if you were asked that question? Think about it, he would probably ask, "What do you mean?"If someone does answer that question in the negative, guess what? In about 45 seconds, you've qualified this person and found out that he is not a person that will most likely be successful in your business. This is what I mean when I say 45 seconds to freedom. Why invite him to an opportunity meeting of 2-3 hours, only to have him tell you what he just told you in 45 seconds? What did he tell with his answer? Simply, that he is not a person that you want to work with. It's called qualifying. Instead of wasting 2-3 hours of your valuable time, you're into this thing about 45 seconds, and that's if you speak slowly. And if you ask enough people a 45 second qualifying question, YOU WILL find people that are worth working with. And you will, in 45 second increments, reach financial freedom.See the difference?