I had an enlightening conversation with a network marketing business colleague the other day.  This is someone I've known for years and who originally taught me to prospect via telephone.  He has a nice system for doing that, but it turned out to be just not my thing, and also not a thing for people who want to do Internet marketing combined with network marketing.

He was calling to ask me what I thought about a new MLM training course he had come across.  This is kind of ironic, since I had told him about my experience in Internet marketing and network marketing as well as the trading course that I support here.

He Was Pretty Excited

Now my friend was pretty excited about the system.  I can understand that as it is pretty exciting when you learn how to combine Internet marketing with network marketing.  It opens up a whole new world of possibilities for you.  He was learning about affiliate marketing, creating your own products, and learning how to create your own personality on the Internet for people to find.  Of course, these are all things that I teach here and in the MLM training course I support.

I let them go on for quite awhile and he was me a lot of the things that I had told him previously, but he wasn't paying attention then apparently. When he finally wound down little, I tried to explain to him that we do the same thing in our course.  But he would have none of it.  And he would go on another tirade for several more minutes.  I would try to contribute some of my experience and knowledge on the subject, but  he would just completely ignore what I had said and go back on another tirade.

But He Didn't Want To Listen

I'm sure you've met people that, no matter how much you try to help, they just don't want to take your advice and system doing it their own way.  I had kind of thought, this fella would be a little different, since he is on the leading edge in his own way, but that turned out not to be the case.  He has been the expert is own area for so long, he is not open to accepting that someone else may have more experience and knowledge in an area that he does.

This isn't to say that I'm the mega-expert and know everything, but I am confident that I know more than this individual, because we stay in contact and I keep up with what he does.  And I have definitely spent when more time, and had more success, in online marketing than he has.

It Will Just Slow Him Down

Is they sell a coming very by the situation, but I'm really not.  This is a little frustrating that I can help someone who's going down a similar path, but they have no interest in being helped.  When you start anything new, as he is doing, you're going to make mistakes.  I made those mistakes.  I can help guide him to success more quickly with the system.

Thinking more creatively, I could have helped them out on conference calls, we could have recorded audio sessions and do other collaboration.  But this experience with this one phone call made it fairly clear to me he has no interest in collaboration.  He wants to be the big cheese.

And that's fine, he can make his own mistakes and we'll see where we are this time next year.

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