Networkers, farmers and gardeners
Do you actually have a farmer or a gardener in your circle of acquaintances? If so, maybe you should meet him or her for a coffee. Because we could learn a few important principles about our network-marketing-business from them.
For example, farmers who grow crops understand a lot about the principle of sowing and harvesting. They know that no harvest is possible without sowing. First, something has to be given and invested: Seed of goog quality, a lot of work to sow the seed and a lot of patience to let the seed ripen until the harvest. They also accept that not every seed rises and bears fruit later.
So the network-marketer too has to make diligent contacts, have recruitment talks and sign in new partners, so that some of them will be successful later. He also chooses his seeds carefully by not letting everyone into his group. Rotten seeds and withered seedlings are not even brought into the downline.
Farmers and gardeners also trust that the plant will develop from the seed under the soil - although they cannot see it on the surface for a long time. No gardener would come up with the idea of digging up the soil after a week to see if anything is already happening. He knows that this will destroy the germinating plant.
However, many sponsors are impatient and ask their new partners about their sales after only two days. They build up pressure that suffocates the newly planted distribution partner. The patient farmer waits until the seedling sprouts out of the ground by itself. He knows that it is useless to pull on the stalk to accelerate growth.
The bed and the field want to be watered and fertilized so that something can grow. In network-marketing, these are training courses, events, personal support and encouragement for new partners. This also helps against weeds and other pests that threaten the growth of delicate plants. In the network business these are the nasty remarks of some relatives and acquaintances, the occasional rejections and disappointments.
Trained farmers, experienced gardeners and successful networkers know and live the law of cause and effect: If I want to harvest more, I have to sow more. If you don't sponsor enough, you can't expect an abundant harvest even with the best fertilization and irrigation. But those who give generously know that the law of duplication always works: One grain of wheat turns into a spike of wheat with fifty-two new grains, one day a newly registered sales partner turns into a team of perhaps a hundred committed networkers.
Get to work and sow lots of seeds - you can't stop the fat harvest!
