102: Public Service Announcement
Your Virtual Upline Podcast
Bob Heilig
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
I have a Public Service Announcement for the entire network marketing industry:
STOP the copy and paste prospecting method! It is KILLING our industry!
Spamming prospects with copy/paste, yucky language is not only killing our industry, it is also killing your own teambuilding results as well!
It is essential that each of us knows the correct way to message our prospects.
Unfortunately, most network marketers, because of using the spammy and unwelcome copy/paste method of reaching out to people, our industry is tainting people's perception of us as individuals and the entire network marketing industry.
Personally speaking, I myself have received the spammiest message!
And this is not to put anybody down, some uplines teach their team to do it this way, but this is a call to all network marketers – STOP the copy and paste prospecting method immediately!
So, listen up as I share the 10 spammiest messages I got and the solutions to each of them for you to create a more effective prospecting message.
Episode Quotes
"The copy and paste prospecting method taints people's perception about network marketing. It's killing the industry."
"Never send a link to anything in your first reach out message."
"People don't look down on network marketing, they look down on network marketers."
"Do not ask people to join you before even knowing them."
"It is not about you. It is about your prospect."
Listen to Learn
00:01 Episode Intro, Public service announcement
05:06 STOP the copy and paste prospecting method, 10 spammiest message that I got
11:47 Message #1 - Sending links in your initial message and hyping up opportunities
15:06 Message #2 - Going for the kill in your first message
17:03 Message #3 - Copy and paste call to action
19:39 Message #4 - Asking people to join you before knowing them
21:41 Message #5 - The initiation
22:10 Message #6 & #7 - The Illuminati message
25:19 Message #8 - It is not about you
26:35 Message #9 - Inauthencity
27:19 Message #10 - You can't make this stuff up
32:44 Share this message and be a winner
35:02 Update about the landing page (yourvirtualupline.com/psa)
Do you want to know the right way to prospect on social media? Visit yourvirtualupline.com/psa and get my social media script guide!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Your Virtual Uline Podcast. My name is Bob Highlake, your host and the |
| 0:08.4 | founder of Your Virtual Uline. This is the podcast for the new wave of network marketing leaders |
| 0:16.0 | that want to make an impact and aren't just building a down line they're |
| 0:20.0 | building a better world. Join us each week and learn how to build a profitable network |
| 0:25.0 | marketing business that gives you complete freedom |
| 0:28.9 | so that you can give back to the world in an even bigger way. |
| 0:34.3 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome to episode 102. |
| 0:39.0 | Today we're going to switch some things up and have a little bit of fun with a serious topic |
| 0:46.3 | Something that I am really passionate about the title of this episode is my network marketing public service announcement and I hope that this |
| 0:58.4 | episode can really put an end to something that is happening inside of this profession that needs to stop. |
| 1:08.8 | It is what I call the copy and paste prospecting method. |
| 1:15.0 | Look, you all know exactly what I'm talking about. |
| 1:18.5 | You've been there before, you open up your DMs |
| 1:21.6 | on Facebook or Instagram, you look and there it is. Some long message with a link in it from someone that you've never met before that's telling you how great you would be for their business. |
| 1:35.9 | They don't even know you and all of a sudden they're coming in right for the kill. |
| 1:42.0 | Look, we've all been guilty of something like that in our time and my hope |
| 1:46.8 | is that you've wise up to the point at least if you've been listening to me long enough to know that |
| 1:52.1 | this stuff needs to stop. |
| 1:54.6 | And you know this is really what I consider to be my public service announcement to all network |
| 2:00.1 | marketers out there that we need to stop this practice but I'm going to deliver |
| 2:05.6 | this message in a way that's going to be a lot of fun and what I'm going to do is |
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