Why People Hate (old school) Network Marketers

When you’re a network marketer you’re going to be taught all kinds of ways to market your business. Many of these techniques are great ways to grow your business and help you reach your goals. However, one technique that I just can’t stand is the 3 foot rule and in this article I’ll tell you why.

The 3 foot rule works like this… talk to anyone and everyone who comes within 3 feet of you about your home based business. That’s right, under this rule you should be talking to people in line at the movies, the grocery store, the dry cleaners, the bank, at PTA meetings, amusement parks, and pretty much everywhere else under the sun.

Now besides the fact that you’d never actually get home if you followed this rule it just seems to me that this is one of the reasons people are so annoyed with network marketers.

Look, when I go to the grocery store I’m going for bread not business. Sure if someone happened to stop me and ask me about my business I’d be happy to talk to them but I have to say if the shoe was on the other foot and some stranger started talking to me in the cereal aisle about residual income I’d think they were absolutely crazy!

Trust me… nobody wants to be in business with a crazy person.

The key my friend is not to talk to everyone under the sun it’s to talk to the right people. Targeted prospecting is always going to be a million times better than talking to random people in a supermarket or wearing a big flashy button that says “Ask me about my business!!!”

So where can you find targeted prospects? Online!

Online marketing is so powerful because it allows you to find tons of people who are actually interested in working from home. So you don’t have to tap strangers on the shoulder and ask them “how do you like your job?”… seriously folks… it’s creepy.

On the Internet you can find forums and social groups all dedicated to people who want to find a work at home opportunity. I’ll take talking to 5 super interested people over 100 completely un-interested people every single time.

So stop using the outdated 3 foot rule and other outdated offline methods and get online today. Your prospects are waiting!