If you have been involved in the MLM industry for even a small 
amount of time you have undoubtedly heard the term Heavy Hitter. 
No, we are not talking about fat baseball players. We are talking 
about those people that are making mega bucks and that are the 
top earners in their company and have gotten their often at the 
expense of their people under them. 

The term Heavy Hitter conjures up thoughts of fame and fortune. 
Maybe not the fame most people would think of but in the MLM 
world these people take on a mightier than thou aura that many 
worship but only very few will ever attain. How few you ask? Well 
so few that when you do the math the number is almost as close to 
zero as you can possibly get. With those numbers I wouldn't even 
think of trying to become a heavy hitter!

I know what your saying. "I thought this article was about 
becoming a heavy hitter." Well it is about learning to make money 
like the heavy hitters without having to be like them. First of 
all the heavy hitters are all about numbers. Do the numbers! Do 
the numbers! Make 100 dials a day! Dial for dollars. These are 
the things they will tell you. 

People are not numbers they are people. They have dreams, desires 
and goals just like you do. They have loved ones who they are 
mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts and uncles 
to so why should they be treated like a number. This recruiting 
method only teaches others to be recruiters and not sponsors. 
Heavy hitters never know their personally sponsored peoples "WHY" 
or even their dreams, goals or their spouses or children's names. 

"NO is a good thing" is another great lie that the heavy hitters 
will tell you. Just get 100 "NO's" and you are just that much 
closer to getting a "YES". For most people its like get two or 
three "NO's" and then you are one step closer to quitting. The 
word "NO" takes a lot of good people out of this industry. Just 
imagine, you go out for a nice candle light dinner then maybe a 
movie where you hold hands and cuddle with your spouse, you get 
home take a nice hot bath, listen to some soft music, then do 
some more hugging and kissing. Then your spouse says "NO". 99 
more NO's like this and maybe you will get lucky.

"Talk to EVERYONE" is another great line the heavy hitters will 
tell you. Just like you wouldn't try to sell construction boots 
to a housewife why would you want to talk to everybody about your 
opportunity. Not everyone wants your opportunity. This method of 
talking to everyone only works for about 10% of the population. 
The other 90% hate, aggressive, pushy sales people and they hate 
thinking they have to be that way to be successful in this 
business. Only target people who want your products and services.

Another tool the heavy hitters give you is self-talk. Just look 
in a mirror and say: "If it is to be, it's up to me." True, 
success may be in you and only you but that does not mean you can 
be successful without help form others. My mentor has studied and 
analyzed a ton of network marketing companies in his 26 year 
career and has found that every single company that was not 
relationship driven even though they had a remarkable product 
or service eventually failed. He also learned that every 
relationship driven business no matter how bad the product or 
company survived. 

If you still want to be a heavy hitter that's fine just be warned 
that these methods are not duplicable and that your business will 
become more of a sales business. Sure you may get a lot of people 
into your deal but after a year very few will still be left. You 
will continually have to get more and more people in your deal to 
make any money. Why not sponsor people into your business that 
want to be in your business and not people that you slammed into 
the business. If you had to sell your people on the business then 
you will have to sell them every month to do the business. This 
sounds like too much work to me. Learn to do the business 
correctly, work hard for the next two or three years so the 
business will pay you, your children and your children's 
children.  

Ralph Greene lives with his wife Naomi Greene and their two 
children. For years he has owned various businesses. Now he 
helps people achieve success in network marketing. Get your 
complimentary copy of "Success in 10 Steps" at: 
http://greene.bigmlmlies.com/?mad=3549