Random musings: I am a network marketing professional #TBT

Thursday, July 20, 2017

I am a network marketing professional #TBT

This post is from 2 years ago:

Yesterday Eric Worre, a network marketing trainer, came out with a video on "What do we call ourselves?".

A lot of people go by the term direct sellers, but as Eric pointed out we really don't sell directly to the consumer anymore. Now we usually connect a customer with our company and the customer orders from the company's website and the company ships directly to the customer. We still get our commission but we don't sell directly to the customer anymore...not like when my Mom sold Avon when I was a kid. She would go to customers' houses in her territory, show them what was available, take their order, place the order with the company, get several large boxes from Avon, put each customer's items in bags and deliver them to their home.

Multi level marketing, or MLM, describes how we get paid not what we do. We don't market to multiple levels but we get paid on multiple levels.

Like Eric I think the best term for what we do is "network marketing" because we share our products and services with our friends and family...our network. And every person has a unique network that nobody else shares which is what makes network marketing such a great tool not only for the network marketer but for the network marketing company as well.

As Eric says at the end of every video "My wish for you is that you becoming a network marketing professional because it is a stone cold fact that we have a better way". And I agree 100%.

I am a network marketing professional! And I love what I'm doing.

And like I wrote about here, direct sellers and network marketers need to think differently.