What’s good about it…
If you want to know what I get out of this business, read this: It comes from someone I talked to on the phone. She had visted the website, we had talked about how the money works. This is what she wrote:
“Hello, John!
“Just thought I’d thank you again for all the information you’ve given me this morning and how much I appreciate you answering my questions honestly and frankly- it makes a refreshing change to the people I usually deal with!
“I am very interested in this opportunity and impressed with the company, the earnings potential and franchise scheme. I look forward to finding out more at the conference on the 10th!
“Look forward to meeting you then! Take care.”
Now isn’t that heartwarming? Isn’t that an anti-dote to all the people who think that if you’re in network marketing, you must go around bludgeoning everyone into listening to you drone on about your opportunity every time there’s a pause in the conversation?
It quite made my day. In fact I was still humming to myself with contentment when a man joined me in the queue at the bank.
“Welcome to the queue,” I said. “Everyone who joins the queue gets a little pink piggy.”
I gave him one.
He looked at it. He went on looking at it. I said: “Are you interested in money?”
He said: “I’m interested in making it.”
I asked him if he had ten minutes. If he did I’d buy him a coffee and tell him all about it.
So we walked up the street while I told him my story and then we ended up in a little cafe where one old man ate a baked potato very slowly and I told my new friend what I had to offer. He was one of those people who grasped it immediately: “I’ve got an enormous customer base,” he said at one point. “Imagine never having to worry about money ever again!” he breathed to himself.
We were only in there for ten minutes. I was in danger of being late for my music lesson. But that was all he needed. In fact he was so grateful that I’d taken the time that he paid for the coffee.
As I left I paused by the table of the old man with the potato: “I don’t know how much of that you overheard…”
“Well, quite a lot actually. It all sounds very interesting.”
So he got a piggy too.
I love this business.