Welcome to Network Marketing Pro, my name
is Eric Worre. Today, I want to talk
about dealing with challenges with your
upline; how to solve a challenge with
your upline. If you're new to network
marketing, that means the person maybe
above you in the structure.
Maybe they're your sponsor. Maybe there's
somebody in leadership above you. And
there are different kinds of challenges
with your upline. Challenge number one is
they don't give you any support at all.
Okay, let's talk about that one before I
get to challenge number two. You get no
support, they signed you up; they kicked
you to the curb and you feel
completely upset because you're not
getting the direction and the
encouragement and the involvement that
you want.
Here's my best advice, most of the top
earners in network marketing got
virtually zero support from their upline
and here's the great gift in getting
almost no support. If you have an
incredible upline that does everything
for you, then you don't have to become
much as the leader. But if you don't have
an amazing upline then you have to rise
up and become the leader that you're
supposed to be. So my advice for you, if
you don't have upline support is
emotionally say goodbye to that as an
expectation. Be appreciative that you got
connected to the network marketing
opportunity and walk away from that
expectation that you're going to get a
lot of support. And mentally treat
yourself like you are frontline to the
company. Like there is nobody connected
between you and the company. You are your
own ecosystem. You are your own
leadership. You are your own support.
You're going to figure it out. You're
going to solve it. You're not going to
use them as an excuse; you're going to go
take charge.
Okay? So say goodbye to your upline in that
way and step into a higher form of
leadership.
Nobody's owed anything inside of network
marketing. Some people feel like well, I
got ripped off. I didn't get a good upline,
somebody else got a good one.
Maybe the gift was you're not getting
the best upline in the world.
Okay, so
that's number one. Number two, challenge
with upline is maybe they're mean. Maybe
they're aggressive. Maybe they're pushy.
Maybe they're bossy. Maybe they're
treating you like an employee. Maybe
they're talking to you in a way that
that you don't like. My advice to you
with that, is the same. Have the
conversation with that person and say
thank you for your advice.
I know it's probably well-intended. This
particular style doesn't work with me,
I'll take it from here.
I'll take it from here. I will work to
build my organization
the way I see the most successful people
in network marketing building their
organization.
I don't have a strong need to be a
disciple of someone else; I do that by
choice, not by chance, not by circumstance.
I do that by choice.
So thank you for the introduction. I'll
take it from here. In a nice way. Right? If
they're aggressive with you just let
them know that that's not okay and
create a boundary. And if you need to
disconnect from them when it comes
to communication because it's too much,
feel free to do that. A third issue with
uplines is actively sabotaging you
and this happens from time to time. You
have an upline that is threatened
by you or there's a personality conflict
or they have an agenda of some sort
that's different from yours. So they
actively try to sabotage you.
Now this is a little bit more tricky, and
they do that, by you know,
talking, down about you
to other people, maybe even, talking down about
you to the company. With this it's a
little bit tricky, because you've got to
be strategic, right? If someone is playing
politics, with you, inside of your company,
then you can't just
ignore that. My advice to you, is build a
relationship, beyond them, with the
important people in your company, with
other important leaders within your
organization, corporate, and field, and
build a relationship with your team, with
other field leaders, and other
corporate leaders, as a means to defend
yourself, against these attacks. Because
sometimes people get sideways, and if
somebody's playing politics, we try to
get away from politics, in network marketing,
but it happens sometimes. If somebody's
playing politics, you need to be able to
at least understand what's happening, to
be able to diffuse, what it is, that
they're trying to do. Some people just
wash their hands with and say "Hey I just wanted
to get out of politics." Well guess what in
big business, all big business, there's a
little bit of politics you're going to
have to deal with. Building good
relationships with your home office is
important. Building good relationships
with field leaders, top field leaders, is
important, for this very issue. If someone
says something, false about you,
those people, because they have a
relationship with you, would say "Well
that doesn't sound right.
I'm just going to reach out to that
person, and I'm gonna find out for myself."
So this diffuses gossip. This diffuses, all
kinds of sabotage, type, activity. And I
don't want you to feel like this happens a lot,
but there are some leaders that are
watching right now, that would say "Yeah that's
my world." Because at some point it got
personal, at some point there became
some issue between you and the upline,
and you're not quite sure how to
deal with that. So I hope that little
advice, serves you well. So let me just
recap. One. You're not getting support?
Be the support. Two. Somebody's mean to you or
is treating you in a way that you
don't like, treating you, talking down to
you, or being demeaning to you, in
whatever way? Same advice as number one.
Just disconnect from that, negative
association, and decide that you're going
to take charge of your business. And
third, is,
if you're getting, destructive input
from your upline. Then you need to take
charge of building the relationships
that are going to help you defend your
business. Take charge of building your
relationships with the company. Take
charge of building relationships with
your team. Take charge of building
relationships with other top leaders,
within the organization. So you are able
to deflect, and diffuse, those types of
issues. Anytime you want to get rid
of bad behavior, anywhere in life, is
stop accepting it. If you accept
somebody else's bad behavior, you give
it, that you give that behavior approval. So,
from now on, just don't approve of bad
behavior. And provide resistance, and
boundaries, when people engage in
improper behavior, or control what you
can control, and take charge of your own
business. Okay. So I hope that's helpful for
you.
We deal with a world, you know, all,
everything in network marketing works
perfect, until you add people to it. And
then it gets a little messy, you know,
because everybody's personality is
different. Everybody comes with different
baggage. Everybody comes with different
insecurities, and doubts, and fears. We just
have to acknowledge that. Give it some
grace, and build our businesses.
Ok. So I hope that serves you. If you know
somebody that needs to hear it, please
pass it on to them, and that's our show
for today. Ladies and gentlemen my wish for
all of you is that you decide to become a
network marketing professional. You
decide to Go Pro. You decide to not be
needy. You decide to defend your business.
Because it is a stone-cold fact that we
have a better way.
Now let's go tell the world. Everybody have an
amazing day. And we'll see you tomorrow.
Take care. Bye Bye.
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