How to Connect With your MLM Prospects

October 21st, 2008 | by Chris |

Corporate businessman portrait If you are building an online MLM you always have the choice to how far you intend to go when communicating with your prospects, from just emailing them to phone-calling them or meeting them in person. But most of the times meeting them can increase the conversion rates. Of course that would be difficult when a prospect is on the other part of the country or even in a foreign country, but there are also many that are using the Internet for generating local leads. And of course don’t forget some good offline advertising methods like newspapers or magazines.

In case you decide to meet them in person you need to know how to communicate with them correctly in order to build a connection with them and increase your chances to sign them up in your multilevel marketing company as distributors or turn them into customer. And it’s not always about what are you going to tell them, although it is important. Many times how you tell it, the tone of the voice you use, and even your body language can contribute to the end result.

And what you need is a good balance when you are talking with them. Do too much of something and you risk of being perceived as too arrogant. Do too little and they may not give any attention to you.

How to Create a Magical Connection With Your Prospect by Tim Sales

Have you ever been sitting in a restaurant talking with someone and the two of you are so engaged in conversation that it is as though you are the only two people in the restaurant? Better yet - the only two people on the Planet?

How about…

“We’re just on the same wavelength” or “I feel like I’ve known you all my life” - these are phrases that are typically stated when people are trying to describe this magical connection.

Could all these have a common denominator? I believe so. It’s that two (or more) people are talking with the same assertiveness level. The word assertive means the force a person uses to make their opinion known.

This is where art and finesse come into my otherwise systematic approach. So when you’re presenting your product or your company, how forcefully you communicate to your prospect is what I’m referring to with “your assertiveness level.”

In another way of looking at this, picture that you have infinite volume in your voice and you get to choose how loud you will tell your prospect about your company - this is your assertiveness level. If you scream you will probably be using too much assertiveness. If you whisper you will probably be using not enough assertiveness.

If I were to blame only one thing for the less than perfect reputation of multi-level marketing I would blame using too much assertiveness. This subject begs to be understood. I explained a small portion in “Professional Inviter” - but as a presenter you need more skills.

Some people can handle a lot of assertiveness being pushed their way and some cannot! What happens when someone cannot handle much assertiveness? They back away and withdraw from you. What happens when your assertiveness level is not enough for the prospect? They will be bored with you as you lack the conviction they require and they’ll walk away from you. Therefore it is critical that your assertiveness level be approximately the same as your prospects’. There are several methods or strategies to raise or lower your assertiveness towards another person. As I go through this list, keep in mind that I’m teaching you this from two different perspectives - one, I want you to see how you can raise or lower your assertiveness and the second reason I’m teaching this to you is for you to be able to tell what level of assertiveness your prospect is at.

Here are the main methods you can use to adjust your assertiveness level:

Voice volume:

If you speak very loudly, you can easily be too assertive. Speaking very softly, that is, not quite heard by your prospect - will result in you using too little assertiveness. Neither of these are optimum.

Body language:

Your body language includes how you stand or sit. The closer you stand to the prospect the more assertiveness you are using. The further away you stand from the prospect the less assertive you are. Shoulders squared to the prospect – more assertive, talk with your hands - more assertive, lean back when you talk – less assertive and even the color of your suit makes you more or less assertive!

Facial expression:

A strong face with head tilted up with no smile will have more assertiveness than a cowardly look with head tilted down. We all know how to look mean, angry, happy, sad or surprised - we all know these emotions we wear on our faces… well, each of these contributes to your assertiveness level.

Direct or dispersed words:

This has to do with the aggregate number of words you use to say something. If someone asks you a question and you reply, “NO”, it’s much more assertive than if you were to answer, “Well I see your point but I’ve not really seen that over the long term.” Your answer is the same - no. But the assertiveness level is reduced or dispersed.

Timing:

There are many “time frames” you should be aware of when presenting. I will go into depth on this on the upcoming conference call. This one may explain why the prospect “was interested” and “now they’re not” - what happened!?

Repetition:

Repetition is the number of times you repeat something or the frequency with which you repeat something in a given time frame.

Hopefully you can now see that there are several things that go into having or using the right amount of assertiveness. Please join me on the upcoming conference call (scheduled for Wednesday, October 22nd at 9 PM Eastern) and I will explain this very crucial subject for you in detail so you know how to adjust your own assertiveness to your prospect’s easily.

I’d like to know what questions or comments you have about this topic. If you consider yourself “shy” - please tell me why. If you feel you sometimes “come on too strong” - please tell me why.

Leave your comments and questions at the end of this article at www.brilliantexchange.com and I will discuss them on the free training call:

http://www.brilliantexchange.com/MLMSuccessTips

Respectfully,

Tim Sales

P.S. Don’t forget that to be a good presenter, you first have to be a good inviter. If you don’t already have Professional Inviter, I urge you to get it now so you too can have results like these: “Since using the techniques espoused by Tim, my sponsor rate has increased to 70%. That’s pretty good in my book.” - Bruce Rouse

http://www.professionalinviter.com

Also don’t forget the MLM brilliance from Tim Sales an excellent tool that can greatly help you in prospecting.

If you liked what you have read please consider subscribing to our newsletter because we want to keep you informed.