Imagine that you walked into the first day of your new job. The receptionist greets you and shows you to a cubicle. You’re confident that someone is going to come and give you all the information you need to start your job. But people keep walking past your cubicle without speaking to you. You don’t even know where the bathroom is or what your duties are. You had such great excitement in taking this job, but now you wonder why they hired you. They clearly don’t care about you. And they obviously don’t need you or someone would be putting you to work. You’re beginning to regret taking the job.
The truth is, an awful lot of home business hopefuls have the same experience.
They find that after they sign up they’re afloat without a solid environment and culture to drive growth in their businesses and their understanding of the home business industry in general. And they have no place to plug into with people who catch their vision and no consistent training message.
The failure to provide a consistent, powerful system sets people up for failure. People need success quickly, and they need an environment that nurtures that success.
We see this reality across all forms of business. For example, if you buy a McDonald’s franchise, your success and your very right to continue in your franchise is determined by following the McDonald’s system. If you do it, you’re a millionaire. If you don’t do it, you lose your franchise. That’s how important a system is to success.
So why don’t more home businesses HAVE solid systems? And what if you had one available to you?
This post uses a real life, highly successful home business system to illustrate the power you can have behind you with the right company, the right products, and the RIGHT SYSTEM.
You first have to understand that a solid system that will duplicate and drive double digit growth gives you:
1. Leadership opportunity;
2. Training and development opportunity; and
3. Group dynamic.
The absence of any one of these means you don’t have a solid system.
You have to have a system that takes people from where they are today to where they want to be tomorrow.
I didn’t make that up. My colleague Eric Vill reminded me of this recently with those words, and he should know.
At the height of a worldwide recession in 2008, it was a solid success system that drove the first year of double digit growth for this home business in Europe.
That system began with one leader stepping forward. Then another and another.
Then leaders from America came over to pour gasoline on the fire started by local leaders. None of the Americans were teaching anything new, per se, but, as Eric put it, it was the same system they shared but with different music from their voices.
And there were people ready to soak up the music and play the music with their unique voices.
Once people become part of a vibrant system, Eric explained, they catch embers from that system and turn into system builders themselves. You build a culture that transcends the ups and downs of people’s lives or the economy.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that a solid system that sets up duplication and drives leadership means that you won’t have to work.
Your job as part of a proven system is to feed the system with people you are franchising. Then the system pays you back as it feeds the people you bring.
So take stock of your own home business by asking:
1. Does my business offer a proven success system with all of the necessary elements?
2. Am I retaining and nourishing a stable team with what my company offers?
3. Am I becoming a better leader because of the system I’m using?
If you can’t answer yes to all of these questions, you’re always going to struggle to build a distribution network that will pay you anything more than retail and wholesale income.
I don’t believe in struggling or “looking for things that work.” I believe in doing what’s been proven to work and walking a proven path. I learned to walk in the home business industry in the shoes of some of the most successful people in the industry following the epitome of a success system.
Ready to stop struggling and stop looking for what works?
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