A mentor is a leader and a teacher. In network marketing a mentor is someone who you can go to for advice in building your network marketing business.

There are a couple of key points you need to keep in mind when you take advice regarding your business.

Are you familiar with the idea that you never take financial advice from your brother-in-law who lives in a mobile home!

The same concept applies to network marketing and mentoring. Your sponsor, or well-meaning upline distributors, may not necessarily be the best person to mentor you on building a business.

One of the advantages to the network marketing business model is a successful upline can benefit on the time they spend with their downline in terms of financial rewards. The compensation plan behooves an upline to take some time to mentor a downline as ways to grow their business.

This is truly a win-win situation, but as a new distributor it is your job to go upline until you find a successful network marketer to mentor you. Your direct sponsor may or may not be that individual.

Another important factor to keep in mind with mentoring is finding someone who you can relate to. Networking in general works best when people like to be around each other.

The Internet makes it very easy to network with other MLM distributors. You can do this on social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter. Skype is another tool where you can talk to individuals on the Internet for free.

This really doesn’t work as well if you do not like the person who is trying to mentor you. So when you are looking for a mentor try and find somebody that you can relate to and would enjoy working directly with.

You have specific responsibilities as a network marketing distributor as they pertain to your mentor. Your job is to not constantly bug them with every little detail.

This is especially true when you can find the information in your network marketing member’s area. Don’t bother your mentor with details on questions that you can find yourself with a little bit of effort.

To get the maximum benefit of working with a mentor you want to deal specifically with business building type of questions. This is why it’s important to work with someone who has experience and knows the best way to handle certain situations.

These are a few tips on network marketing and dealing with a mentor. A good one is invaluable to the success of your business.

Mark Molina is a marketer, mentor and family man who
teaches you how to explode your network marketing
business using simple, proven automated tools.
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