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Doorstepping

February 22nd, 2010 | Author: John Passmore

If the object of the exercise is to talk to people then anything that gets you doing more of that must be a good thing, right?

So it suddenly dawned on me that it was not so bad that I had ended up “doorstepping” my new distributor.

This is a term from my old newspaper days. It means sitting outside someone’s front door in the hope that they will either come out or – if they’re already out, that they will go in – and on the way, do or say something newsworthy.

The front door in Ilford was slightly different because I was there for Meeting One with my new distributor and he wasn’t home. Also I had driven for more than an hour to get there so there was the potential for feeling miffed.

However I always give people half an hour and so I turned the car round to face their front door and sat there making phone calls. After five minutes someone tapped on my window: Did I know this was a one-way street and I was facing the wrong way?

No I didn’t. Thanks very much. By the way, have a piggy card…

Five minutes later the same thing happened… and then again five minutes after that.

By the time half an hour had gone by, two things had happened to persuade me I should stay for another half an hour: I had given out six cards and had proper little conversations with the people who had taken them. Also I had called a woman in Croydon who sounded interested and we just happened to have a meeting in Croydon in three hours’ time. So it made sense to hang on while she looked at the website.

As it turned out, she decided against it. But never mind, my new distributor turned up an hour late. You have never seen anyone so apologetic. He didn’t know his wife had made arrangements for them to go his mother-in-law’s. He had raced back as fast as he could. He kept on saying how sorry he was. In fact we had a really good meeting. You should have seen his eyes shining as he described the kind of life he plans to give his baby daughter (she’s going to be spoiled rotten).

Moral: Patience is a virtue!

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What’s it all about?

Here you have a diary written from the coal face. This is network marketing and making money from home in real life... in real time.

I write it because I used to write for a living and find it quick and easy - there is no suggestion that anyone else should do the same.

The daily activity described here deals with what we call in my company The Business Development Plan. This is a sheet of paper detailing the activity we set ourselves to complete each day - with a space to tick it off in the evening.

This activity could involve speaking to six new people, posting 20 leaflets through letterboxes, handing out 50 business cards. You can do anything you like. After all, network marketing is your own home-based business and you can spend as much time or as little as you please on it - just as long as you do something every day and you remember that the more you do the more money you make.

For the fact is that whatever you do, you end up talking to people - which is where we came in.

If you'd like to know how the conversations develop, you can find out at www.pigincome.co.uk

And, of course, if you think this business might be for you, have a look at www.lookmoneylook.co.uk

About Me

John Passmore
Woodbridge, Suffolk,
United Kingdom

For 25 years I was a newspaper reporter - ending up as Chief Correspondent for the London Evening Standard. Then I gave it all up and, with my wife, set out to live the simple life on a small boat while writing a column for the Daily Telegraph. Five years and two children later we moved ashore - and five years and another two children after that I ran out of money. Nobody wanted to give me a job and I couldn't afford to start a conventional business. Then at a craft fair in our local community hall, somebody showed me network marketing. It was described as a home-based business that would provide a second income for anyone who wanted to work from home. I was sceptical. There were claims of high earnings and something called a "residual income". But what if it did work? And beside what alternative did I have? So I threw myself into it wholeheartedly (which is the only way to succeed at anything). I'm not saying it's easy or that there were never moments of doubt but if you're prepared to learn and determined never to give up, then there is a statistical certainty that you will make money. I started in April 2005. I was broke and embarrassed. Today I have no money worries whatsoever.