Network Marketing Tips | Hi My Name Is Bonehead
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How many times have you been approached by someone who starts a conversation off with something like this…
I took this from a conversation from a message I got on Facebook..
Hey Larry, it’s John…I saw you promoting your business on Facebook and I’m the kind of person who likes to actually get to know people on Facebook and learn from each other. Tell me a bit about yourself & Your business and what it is that you do?
Thank You
John
My reply:
Hey Mike! Well… Offline I teach martial arts, been involved with martial arts for about 20 years…
…Online I consider myself an internet network marketer.. I focus on promoting Empower Network, it has been very good to me since nov of 2011….
I have been marketing on the internet for about 12 years.. Blew about $130,000 the first half of the decade, then eventually I learned from my mistakes..
Now, it’s my aim to help people successfully build empower network..
How about you?
Mikes Response:
Thats great Larry….So what are you currently doing to Generate leads to bring in cashflow for your business.
Network Marketing Tips|Failing To Build A Meaningful Relationship With A Potential Prospect
Keep in mind this person isn’t my friend, just some random guy who saw me share a blog post on Facebook. Notice how I asked him a question at the end of my statement back to him. Also notice how he didn’t bother to answer my question.
From his response and lack of courtesy it told me he wasn’t interested in making friends. I actually researched him a little bit and found he sells leads. By far one of the worst marketing tactics is trying to sell to someone when they first introduce themselves.
Begging is also not attractive – > If you need help don’t look for handouts. I have always joined something someone is in, if I wanted some help from them. It’s the right thing to do. Asking for free help is rude. Do you ask a doctor for free help? Do you call a lawyer and say excuse me do you have a minute to answer a question?
Network Marketing Tips|Don’t Look Desperate
It doesn’t matter if your living on welfare your spouse is on life support and your kid only has 1 eye and 1 leg. Don’t look or act desperate when you are trying to build a network marketing team. Believe it or not the laws of attraction are always in effect. I do realize that people go through hard times, I certainly have had my fair share of them. But you should always present yourself in a professional manner.
Professionals don’t beg people to get in their business. They don’t try and sneak in a sales pitch whenever they can. The reason is because real professionals don’t have to, people come to them.
That is the right way to do an online business network marketing or otherwise. The only people that facebook spam are people that are lazy and people that are struggling.
The moral of the story, don’t spam me on Facebook or I am going to talk about you on my blog 🙂
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I see things like this all the time. Pseudo-personal comments from people that appear to want to get to know you….. only to find out that they are just looking to further their own interests. It’s a bit frustrating, and it’s made me a bit skeptical any time I run into someone looking to genuinely interact with me. The Internet really seems to remove all need for a personal touch and encourages the shameless pursuits of quick cash (begging, spamming, things like that)
Hey Paul, I have to agree with you 🙂
I think you hit the nail on the head, the internet allows you to hide behind your computer.
I see it in the martial arts world too, lots of people are ninja’s and love to flame other people..
Hi Larry,
Building relationships has got so much important that people don’t think twice after engaging with other person that what he is upto,they just want to cell their services anyhow.Its like having a salesperson right behind your door asking about is there anybody home. 🙂
I think you have done the right thing by showing the conversation between you both.Hope he will improve his strategies and atleast bother what others want to say to him.
Hi Aditya, I do what I can to help open peoples eyes up to what goes on in the online marketing industry.
And that’s what a good online marketer does Larry.As once you are online you cannot hide anything and make other people live in darkness.One has to show path so that they one can see beyond the darkness.
Hi Larry!
i agree with you that when you are make a relation in your professional then don’t make him a friend.you behave him as a professional person.one more thing that you have blew many of thousand dollar in begining but you have learned and make a experience that how to handle market .i like it.
I used to think like that when I was new to this industry. Over the years, I realized that people will shun away from you the more I did that.
This article has proved me right. Anyways, your advice really made sense to me all these while. Thank you so much for your help!