The Fastest Path to Success in Network Marketing
The Fastest Path to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional
In this video, Eric Worre shares the fastest path to becoming a network marketing professional. He emphasizes the importance of surrounding oneself with positive and productive people in order to improve one's own skills and mindset.
Importance of Association
- Be careful who you become friends with because your friends have an influence on your life.
- You become the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
- Surround yourself with focused and productive people in order to improve your own skills and mindset.
Applying Association in Network Marketing
- Get around people who are learning, growing, and striving to be better.
- Choose from a large pool of people within your company or upline/downline who can help you improve specific skills such as recruiting or presenting.
- Listen, take notes, observe what successful individuals do, and try to emulate their actions.
Conclusion
- Surrounding oneself with positive influences is crucial for success in network marketing. By improving oneself through association with successful individuals, one can achieve their goals faster.
Earning Your Way In
In this section, the speaker discusses the importance of earning your way into a successful group and how to become part of it.
Becoming Part of a Successful Group
- The speaker advises that you cannot just barge your way into a successful group. You have to earn your way in by being helpful and not needy.
- He suggests that you should aim to be at the lowest level of the five people you spend the most time with because those who are more successful than you will pull you up.
- The speaker explains that if you come in at the bottom rung of their circle of influence, it's likely that they may distract them or pull them down, so it's essential to earn your place.
How to Earn Your Place
- The speaker shares his experience when he started in network marketing and had 18 jobs by age 22. He found a mentor named Michael Nelson and spent more time with him by helping him set up local meetings and carrying his bags.
- He advises finding ways to be around successful people without demanding their time or being needy. For example, he drove 12 hours to shadow someone doing meetings in Detroit and slept in his car because he couldn't afford a hotel room.
- The speaker emphasizes that being hungry, ambitious, willing to learn, give back, and serve others is crucial for earning your place in a successful group.
Gaining Access to Influential People
In this section, the speaker talks about how he gained access to influential people in his local market, upline and home office. He also shares how he used audio cassettes from personal development giants like Jim Rohn and Brian Tracy to improve his communication skills.
Gaining Access
- The speaker gained access to influential people by serving in his local market, upline and driving 14 hours to the home office.
- He drove a "nasty ridiculous" car and parked it around the corner when meeting with anyone.
- The speaker listened to audio cassettes from personal development giants like Jim Rohn and Brian Tracy repeatedly while driving. This helped him use their language in conversations with more successful people.
Connecting with Influential People
- The speaker found a way to connect with one of the top leaders in the company he admired by giving him ideas and sending him quotes.
- After hosting a training event, the speaker sent a card thanking the leader for his time and expressing interest in working together someday.
Importance of Excellence
- The speaker wanted to work with committed people who were excellent because he believed that excellence would rub off on him.
- By listening to audio cassettes while driving, the speaker turned his car into a "drive time University" where he could learn from personal development giants.
The Power of Association
In this section, Eric talks about the importance of surrounding yourself with positive and successful people. He emphasizes that good associations require effort and work, while bad ones happen automatically.
Surround Yourself with Greatness
- You can earn your way into any group of successful people by being a servant to them and helping their mission in life.
- Focus on surrounding yourself with greatness, positivity, learners, and people who are constantly growing.
- Limit your association with negative people or cut the cord if necessary for the sake of your own future and contribution to the world.
- Expand your association by being so busy and surrounded by greatness that petty small thinking ideas don't even find their way into your mind.
Choose Your Associations Wisely
- Bad associations happen automatically like weeds in a garden, while good ones require effort and work.
- Avoid negative influences that distract you from your purpose or chip away at your self-confidence.
- Sacrificing your life to keep negative people happy is not worth it.
- Make hard decisions to disassociate with some negative people for the sake of your own future, purpose, and contribution in this world.
Conclusion
Eric's message is clear: choose your associations wisely. Surround yourself with positive and successful people who will help you grow. Avoid negative influences that distract you from achieving greatness. Remember that good associations require effort and work but are worth it in the end.
Importance of Mentors
In this section, the speaker emphasizes the importance of having mentors in one's life and how they can help shape one's success.
Many Mentors are Not Met in Person
- The speaker explains that many of his greatest mentors were not met in person.
- These mentors came in the form of audio, video, and books.
- Despite never meeting them, they were still instrumental in his success.
Becoming Powerful Enough to Meet Mentors
- The speaker shares that eventually he became powerful enough to meet many of his mentors.
- He encourages listeners to do the same.
Pruning Negativity from Life
This section focuses on removing negativity from one's life and replacing it with positive influences.
Removing Negative Associations
- The speaker urges listeners to take a look at their lives and remove negative associations.
- He compares this process to pruning weeds from a garden.
Replacing Negativity with Value
- After removing negativity, the speaker advises listeners to replace it with incredible value.
- He emphasizes that everyone is worth it.
Becoming a Network Marketing Professional
This section encourages listeners to become network marketing professionals and surround themselves with greatness.
Decision to Become a Network Marketing Professional
- The speaker wishes for all listeners to decide to become network marketing professionals.
- He encourages them to go pro and surround themselves with greatness.
A Better Way Exists
- The speaker asserts that there is a better way through network marketing.
- He urges listeners to tell the world about it.
Conclusion
In this final section, the speaker concludes by wishing everyone a great day and looking forward to seeing them next week.
Final Thoughts
- The speaker concludes by wishing everyone a great day.
- He looks forward to seeing listeners next week.