When you start your network marketing business, it’s a good idea to create a list of your warm market contacts. These are people you will want to notify about your new opportunity.
It isn’t unusual for people in network marketing and MLM to avoid creating this list. There is often a fear of approaching people you know, often a fear of being rejected. I fully understand that, because when I started my business I didn’t say much of anything about it to family and friends. I wanted to be successful first and then I thought it would be a lot easier.
Bottom line, that fear is understandable, but it’s important to get past it. I teach a low key method for approaching warm marketing contacts that will work for notifying friends, family, and acquaintances about your opportunity. I call it warm market notification, and there are different ways you can do it. The bottom line is being professional and putting the opportunity in front of people. You sort and find the ones who are ready to do something, and stay in touch with the rest.
Anyway, when making that list, even if you know a lot of people it’s hard to think of everyone that should be on it. It helps to have a warm market list memory jogger on hand to help you remember people you might not think of right away.
Go through this list one memory jogger at a time, and see who you can think of that fits the description. You will likely come up with far more friends and warm market contacts than you dreamed that you had.
Here is the list:
Immediate family members
Your family relatives
Your spouse’s relatives
Your other in-laws
Who’s your doctor
Your parents’ friends
Who are your friends
Went to school with
Who’s Your dentist
Who watches your children
Who cuts your hair
Who your kids teachers
Who attends church
Your neighbors
Who sold you your car
Parents of teammates
Who you met at a party
Who delivers your mail
Works at the grocery store
Owns a small business
Who is your insurance agent
Who is your broker
Who does your taxes
Who is in the military
Who works on your car
Who repairs your house
Who cleans your carpet
Who delivers your paper
Who cuts your grass
Who sells you gas
Who waits your table
Parents of your kids friends
Who reads your meter
Pest control person
Who have you met on a plane
Who cuts your hair
Who sold you your home
Who is on your holiday card list
Who did you meet on vacation
Who are your customers/ clients
Who is your insurance agent
Belongs to Chamber of Commerce
Who sells you clothes
Who you meet through friends
Who works at your bank
Your kids bus driver
Who photographs your family
Friends on social networking sites
Your college friends
Repairs your house
People you work with
People you meet in forums
You do volunteer work with
People at networking meetings
Who delivers your pizza
Who dry cleans your clothes
Worked with in previous jobs
Manages your apartment
Manages homeowner assoc.
Who works out at your gym
