John David Mann is one of the most recognizable and well-respected names in network marketing. As co-founder (with John Fogg) and senior editor of Upline®, Editor in Chief of Network Marketing Lifestyles and the current Editor in Chief of Networking Times, he has been keenly observing and insightfully commenting on the Network Marketing world for more than 15 years. And... John has been one of the top-earning distributors with the same networking company for nearly 20 years. John's book, The Go-Giver is now available in 11 languages. He is also the author of The Zen of MLM. To learn more about John and to subscribe to his monthly eLetter, Just click the link to visit John's website: JohnDavidMann.com
Your Job is to Show Others Your Faith Master motivator Zig Ziglar recently said, “People with hope take action. Encouragement is the fuel on which that hope runs. That encouragement is what everyone needs.”16 That’s a great job description for a network marketer: you are that fuel; you create a context for action by fueling that…
Tell Me What To Do – So I Won’t Have To Do It Among orchestral musicians, there is a favorite story about Fritz Reiner, the brilliant maestro and stern taskmaster of the Chicago Symphony. Reiner was famous for his tiny, hyper-controlled conducting movements (more or less the opposite of the grand-sweep-gesture Leonard Bernstein school). One…
Develop the skill of identifying ‘the heart of the matter’ “Just a minute!” How often have you heard that? “I’ll be off the phone in a minute…This’ll take just a minute to explain… We’ll be finished here in just a minute…” How nice it is when it’s actually true! A minute seems so, well, convenient.…
Keeping Leadership in Perspective It’s easy to forget that without the magnetizing effect of the leadership, the team effort likely would never have coalesced in the first place. If we were to elect a patron saint of network marketing from the annals of history, Archimedes would get my vote. Archimedes, you may recall, is the…
All the reasons you can’t succeed aren’t worth a teaspoon of honey I was seventeen and dissatisfied. So were my friends. We were dissatisfied with the schools where we currently punched our time clocks five days a week. We wanted to create a better way, a way where we took the pursuit of our education into…
The X and Y of Networking “How do women do network marketing differently than men?” My first impulse is to answer, “Not nearly as differently as some seem to think.” One of the fundamental values, benefits and joys of this jewel of free enterprise is that by its intrinsic nature, it is not a genderly partisan…
It’s always the days, always the hours How does your day end? Do you succumb to gravity and crash into the mattress feeling defeated? Nod off to Jon, Jay or Conan? Or spend a moment looking back over the panorama of your day and pronounce it, like God on the sixth day, “Very good”? Some nights,…
Create a Culture of Commitment – What are the most important factors in determining whether or not a particular marketing situation will last for the long haul? What are the most important factors in determining whether or not a particular marketing situation will last for the long haul? What factors determine whether or not this…
Money is not a measure of your goodness or worthiness; it is a measure of your impact. It’s pure physics. No fair! If you’re a parent, you’ve heard this strident mantra, doubtless many times. Grown-ups say it, too, or think it anyway. No fair! is the universal human code for, “I don’t understand: why did things…
If we believe in the value of this business, let’s make a pact: let’s stop speaking fluent Hyperbolese, and give authenticity a shot. “Dad, when we can afford it, can we hire a misogynist?” The request was reasonable enough; my son’s seven-year-old shoulders were aching for a good massage. Heck, if he didn’t have the right…