How Long Have You Been Doing This? A Very Scary Question!

Have you ever been asked the question, "How long have you been doing this business?" Most network marketers have been asked this question; and if they have not been asked the question, they eventually WILL be asked!

How Long Have You Been Doing This: A Different Perspective

I would like to turn that question around and make it more of a philsophy, or a different way to think about it.



After you have made a presentation to a potential network marketing team member, a lot of times they will ask you,"Well.....how long have you been doing this?" They are trying to figure out in their own mind how successful they might be if they were to join you.



Perhaps they are thinking in their own minds that they are more successful in general than you, and that if you could do it successfully, then maybe they can too. Or perhaps they are thinking the opposite, that they are not as successful as you, therefore, they might not do as well as you.



That is what is going on in the back of their mind when they ask you that question.

How Long Have You Been Doing This?: Why Does the Question Scare Us?

Many network marketers fear the question because they don't know how to answer it. If you are relatively new, you may be thinking that because of your newness, it means that you don't have any success, that you have no experience, or that you have no results yet. It is natural to wonder why you should think that your potential team mate would want to join you.



If you HAVE been in your business for a length of time, and they ask you that question, the first thought that might go through your mind is: "Oh, boy! I have been in this business for a long time, and I have no success! I am going to appear to be a failure!"



So sometimes we fear the question because we don't know how to answer it.



So let's take that question and make a change in philsophy about it.

How To Deal With The Question How Long Have You Been Doing This

It is really NOT about how long you have been in the business, whether that be a couple of weeks or a couple of decades. What it IS about is how many conversations have you had with people in the time that you have been in.



If you have only been in the business for a couple of weeks, but you are talking or having conversations with a lot of people, you are on the right track. Those conversations can be belly-to-belly or face-to-face, or they could be done by social media or other internet options. They are all conversations. The more conversations of any kind that you have, the more success you will find.



On the other hand, if you have been in for a long time but have NOT had many conversations, you will not be as successful as someone that has been in for a short time but has had many conversations.



It is not how long you have been in the business that makes a difference, but how many conversations you have had during the time that you have been in the business. A person in the business for only 2 months but that has had 100 conversations will outperform a long-time person in the business that has only had 50 conversations.



In former times, it was much more difficult to talk to 100 people person to person. In today's world, you use social media, create a video, push it out, and you can be talking to hundreds of people with just the click of your mouse. It is now easier to talk to many people than ever before. And it could even be thousands of people!



If you would like to learn more about connecting with more people online, take a look at this video:

Summary of How Long Have You Been Doing This

So, don't think in terms of how many months or years you have been in your network marketing business. Instead, think in terms of how many people have you had conversations with. And how many MORE people you are going to have conversations with.



Use the internet and start talking to more people! That will take the fear out of the question "How long have you been doing this?"



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