Anna and Bob Bassett are some great mentors, we have had many conversations about firehosers… many many conversations…LOL This is a blog post from there web site Together to the top Do you know anybody like this? How do you feel when it happens to you? ENJOY!!!

If you have spent more than five minutes on Facebook, you will have met them – the cranked up promoters who barely have time to say hello to you before they start pumping their deal.

Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter calls them “The Firehosers!”

Here’s a conversation I had with a firehoser named ‘Jim Busyguy’ who started by posting on our wall.  He has since disappeared from Facebook and has removed the conversation.  (We’ve changed his name slightly to protect the breathlessly enthusiastic.)  His profile picture was a picture of money, but halfway through the conversation, he found his face.

Throughout the conversation, we’ve provided links that comment on his style.

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Are there simple ways to build your home business? Do you need to buy recycled leads? Do you need a series of paid monthly programs? I DON’T THINK SO!!! Perhaps what you need is some REAL SKILLS! Where can you get the real deal for free??? Ask me I’ll help you!!! Thanks to one of my favorite mentors I’ve learned the real way to a thriving home business..thanks to Tom “Big Al” Schreiter I learned the easy way to wealth….Here’s more great advice from Tom.

Simply walk into any small business on Main Street and ask for the owner.

When the owner extracts himself from the “crisis of the moment” — casually say:

“I was just passing by. Didn’t have a lot to do, so I thought I’d stop by and interrupt your work.

“Now I know you have a lot of things on your mind, cash flow problems, employee problems, tax form problems, landlord problems . . . and you haven’t seen your family in days . . . but hey, let me tell you about me. Let me tell you about my company. Let me tell you about my products and services. Let me tell you about my lifestyle. Let me tell you about . . . “

I wonder: is this is how salesmen got their “warm and caring” reputation?

But you want to sponsor lots of small business owners, right? You know that they are entrepreneurs, hard workers, and take responsibility for their results. In other words, small business owners would be perfect for your business.

The only problem is . . .

They don’t want to talk to you.

Small business owners have their own lives, their own challenges, their own dreams, and very little time. You don’t fit into their plans . . . unless you become part of their plans.

Let’s attack the first challenge now. Here is one way to get time with small business owners.

Method #1: The candy bar guilt trip.

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I Just Found Out……..Did these two lines freeze your brain? My mentor Tom “Big Al” Schreiter said that “I just found out” are the four best words ever used in in network marketing. Do you know why? When you say these 4 words everyone wants to know what you know, it might be important it might be something you have to know!!! Tom said these words have made many people a fortune.

Let’s say you sell skin care, you might say to a woman

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At Indy Lube, getting new customers and repeat customers is easy.

They have a business model that not only rewards the present customer for referrals, but also rewards the new customer who comes into their business. How does it work?

First, a little bit about human nature. We don’t like giving referrals. Why? Because we are not sure that our friends will receive or appreciate the same benefits we do.

For instance, maybe we bought aluminum siding for our home. We’re afraid to give the salesman a list of our friends because they may not need aluminum siding, or may not appreciate aluminum siding. And, at the next outdoor barbecue, we don’t want a friend complaining to us that we sent an aluminum siding salesman to his home and ruined his evening.

Indy Lube solves this problem. They make sure that your referrals receive good value. You fill out an Indy Lube Referral Card and give it to your friend. The referral card is not mailed by Indy Lube. You give the card to your friend. This is personal!

Your friend uses the card to receive $5 off his first oil change. Now, you don’t feel bad about giving a $5 off card to help your friend save a little money. So, the guilt hurdle has been conquered.

Next, Indy Lube gives you a $10 certificate towards your next oil change when your friend redeems his $5 off coupon. Now you’re glad you gave your friend the chance to save $5.

So Indy Lube rewards you for referrals, and gives a $5 gift to the people you have referred. They reward both parties in the referral process. Everyone is happy including Indy Lube. Plus, you feel good about doing a favor for your friend.

Can you copy Indy Lube’s referral model?

Let’s say you sell a $25 product called Hyper-Energy Plus. Your product puts slow, lazy, lethargic people into hyper-gear. In other words, it gives them e-n-e-r-g-y.

You could create a coupon that says:

______________ is a happy, energetic Hyper-Energy Plus user. This coupon is for _________________ personal use only, and is good for a $5 discount on Hyper-Energy Plus.

Your present customer puts her name in the first space, and then puts her friend’s name in the second open space. This personalizes the coupon and carries the implied endorsement of the friend who is a satisfied customer. Your customer is actually pre-selling your next customer.

What does your satisfied customer get in return for promoting these referrals?

Maybe you can put together a little punch card that gives your present customer a free bottle of Hyper-Energy Plus when five referrals redeem their coupon.

Want to be a little more aggressive?

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I’m watching a politically incorrect television show one evening. It’s funny, but a bit sexist. Please note that I am watching the show strictly for research purposes — not for entertainment value.

Two men are trying to get a beter understanding of women. In order to get insights, they interview women in the mall. They ask the women they meet the following question:

“If there was an operation that would make you smarter, but would also make your butt bigger, would you have the operation?”

Every woman interviewed said she would decline the operation.

I thought this was strange. Seemed to me that everyone would want to be smarter, right? So I went out and did my own interview.

Same results.

I even asked my daughter. She said,

“No! I wouldn’t have the operation. Would you?”

My daughter thought that this politically-incorrect question was unfair because it targeted women. However, the purpose of this exercise was to show how prospects make non-logical and very strange decisions.

Well, my daughter changed the question and asked men the following:

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Many distributors use tools to build their business. The buy cds, DVDs, magaines, literature, samples and more to hopefully get their prospect interested in their business.

But have you ever seen a big MLM leader carry around a big flip chart? A Power Point presentation? Handfuls of brochures?

No, of course not.

The leader has learned the skills of how to get the prospect interested by changing the prospect’s mindset.

And tools do a lousy job of changing people’s mindsets.

So if you are a brand new distributor, of course, spend lots of money on tools because you don’t know what to say to change your prospects’ mindsets.

But, as soon as you can, learn the skills of changing your prospects’ mindsets effectively and immediately. Learn how to talk to people.

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I know you all think its about the latest greatest new program/down line builder/ product/ video mail…..blah blah blah..but the truth is building a great income from home does not mean you need to spend a pile of money on a 1/2 a dozen programs, what you really need is a few simple skills and a mentor that cares about you……

Let’s say you live in Chicago and your company just opened into the new market of China. How are you going to build a downline in China when you don’t have a single lead or contact in that country?

Here are some traditional ways that often fail:

1. Buy some names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of potential opportunity seekers and networkers in China. Contact them directly. And what happens?

Usually nothing. These cold leads don’t know you, don’t know about your opportunity, and they certainly don’t trust a cold- calling salesman from Chicago.

2. Buy an airline ticket to China. Get off the plane and aggressively stalk strangers and force them to listen to your sales pitch (in a foreign language). This doesn’t work too well in Chicago where everyone speaks English, so it certainly will have its challenges in a foreign country.

So what can we do?

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Bill Jayne says it all in this famous quote:

“It doesn’t matter what you’re selling. Your direct marketing should never be about the product. It should always be about the prospect.”

How much of your current opportunity presentation is about your company, products, and compensation plan?

How much of your current opportunity presentation is about your prospect?

Great recruiters know that their presentation should be about the prospect’s favorite subject: the prospect.

If your presentation is 100% about your company, products, and compensation plan – think about including more about your prospect. It works.

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More great training from Tom “Big Al” Schreiter…….

Okay, okay. Maybe I’m grossly exaggerating my cerebral powers, but at least the OTHER guy was a genius.

Here is what this marketing genius said:

To sell a woman anything, simply put these words in front of what you’re selling:

1. Sugar-free
2. One calorie
3. On sale

To sell a man anything, simply put this word in front of what you’re selling:

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