The growth of the network marketing team is the success of your business. Is developing a network team an easy task? Of course not, it takes much effort to add a like-minded person to your network. Many people try to add anybody, people who are not even interested in business to the network. Well, if there’s any prerequisite for network marketing, it’s a passion for business. If a person is not interested in network marketing, don’t force them to start a business. Only like-minded and truly interested people will work hard and well with your team. So, the first step to building a good team is to pick the right members. It is similarly important to train your downline.
Most of the people who enter a network marketing business do not have prior experience. Neither do they have professional training. Even though skills and expertise are not just to start the business, it’s better for a business owner to develop them. As an upline who sponsored new people to the business, you should help them get training too. It will turn out for the best of everyone in the network if the team is well-trained.
So, sponsoring them to the business doesn’t mean your responsibility is over. In fact, it’s just the start. You have to be a mentor, trainer and advisor. At the same time, you have to let the members learn on their own and be independent at some point.
In this article, I am going to discuss why and how to train your downline for network marketing success. And yes, your success also depends on the performance of the downline, not just yours.
7 Tips to Train Your Downline for Network Marketing Success
1)Know your Downline
The people who join your network marketing team comes from different walks of life. They have a unique interests, hobbies and talents. Your job is to get to know them and identify their talents. A business person should be able to identify the right talents and channel it in the right path. By knowing them, you will also notice areas the new person is not good at. Understanding their downsides can give you an idea about how to help them. So, if there’s any best way to start training your downline for network marketing success, it is by learning about them.
2)Give Basic Skill Training
The main reason many networks team are inactive and people quit is because there’s no training. There are also people who join thinking that network marketing is easy to succeed. The business can be burdensome if you are not skilled or do not have expertise. So, give basic training for core business skills. Give them some marketing tricks and techniques, things you are learnt from experience and more. Make sure they have basic level training for networking, marketing, management and communication. Also, give feedback on their performance and suggest ways to improve. Provide basic training to all new business owners in your team.
3)Suggest to them Books and Courses to take
A successful business person not just focus on a single way of training. There are many ways to learn, it could be books, online course and more. Suggest to the downlines the books and magazines that can help them grow as a businessperson. There’s plenty of things a person can learn from a book and apply it to the business. It is also important that each business owners put an effort to learn individually other than the group training. Depending too much on the uplines for support can be a serious hurdle on the way of growing. In the book, Your First Year in Network Marketing, the authors talk about how too much dependency can make a person fail in network marketing. So, by letting them take online courses, read books and so, you are making them independent and learn about the dos and don’ts in business.
4)Take them with you for Marketing Meetings
The best way to learn is from experience. Watching you meet and talk with the customers will help the downline get an idea of marketing meetings. For network success, direct marketing has a crucial role. Taking new downline with you for meeting can give them an idea. After a few meetings itself, they will be able to grasp the mannerisms and the topics. When I first started network marketing, my upline took me to their presentations. Watching them discuss and answer had made a great impression on me. I am still continuing to follow many things I learned from them in the initial days. So, take the downline with you for meeting, it will be the best way to train them for network marketing success.
5)Conduct Workshops and Seminars
Don’t stop training with the couple of training at the beginning of each recruit. But give training once in a while through workshops and seminars. In these events, you can talk about the market change, new measures to take and more similar topics. This discussion can be insightful the downline and keep the network team united. Workshops are great short programmes where you can teach the downline some valuable skills or share your knowledge. You can also invite people who are interested in network marketing to the meeting. They will have a chance to meet the business people and know more about the business.
6)Inspire them to Improve
Asking them to work a certain way is good, but not enough. A good mentor and leader will not just give advice, but inspire them through their actions. So, your business and the effort you put in should inspire the downline to work hard. Only an honest and charismatic business person can inspire others. So, be helpful, honest and uphold your work ethic. It will inspire and teach your downline to lead a truthful business.
7)Set Common Goals
Having a common business goal can build unity and team spirit. When the team have a common goal and team spirit, they will come and work together often. A team workspace is always uplifting and motivating. It’s the perfect place to share knowledge and master skills. Everyone has some resources to contribute to the team. So, the common goals can improve a person and work as training. It also contributes highly to business success.
