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I got a call today from a tele-network marketer. I understand why people do the whole cold-calling thing, but this guy totally sucked. First of all, I think this guy’s been calling me for weeks now. But when I get the old “unavailable” number on my caller ID, I do what most people do when they don’t want to be bothered. I let the phone ring.

So today I got sick of seeing that unavailable number. Mind you, I don’t get a lot of calls on my home line. I have a cell phone for personal calls, and I have a phone number through Skype on my computer for my business calls. So in order to end these “unavailable calls” on my home phone, I decided to pick it up the call today.

“Hello?” I asked. The caller on the line replied, “Hi Jason. This is … (I don’t remember his name. I kind of wish I did so I could find him and let him know what a jackass he can be on the phone). And then he said, “Are you still with Carbon Copy Pro?”

I answered, “I was never with Carbon Copy Pro.” So he said, “That’s weird, I have you on my list as being from Carbon Copy Pro.”

I guess this was his way of making small talk. But I had no time for this. My wife is sick. And I’m trying to take care of her and be a good husband and don’t want to deal with this guy who obviously doesn’t care if he’s annoying and bothersome or not.

So I said “I’m not really interested” in order to let him know that I want to get off the phone, but not in a rude way (that’s not my style) or anything. Just wanted to let him know that I wasn’t interested in what he had to sell me.

So he replied: “You’re not interested in Carbon Copy Pro? But I’m not in Carbon Copy Pro.”

And I said, “I’m not interested in Carbon Copy Pro.”

So he quickly and not-so-politely replied, “I don’t like your attitude!” and hung up on me.

I just kind of laughed. It was kind of annoying, but I have more sympathy than disdain for this guy.

You see, I was once in this guy’s boat. I too, once was a guy who called people who didn’t want to be called. I was also once a starter of awkward, annoying, and pointless conversations.

I never hated what I did as much as I did when I cold called network marketing and home business leads. No matter what your lead source tells you, these people DON’T want to hear from you. They DON’T want to hear about your opportunity.

And the other reason I have sympathy for this guy is because I know he is kind of limited in his choices of marketing. He can either:
1) Approach his friends and family
2) Find people in the community
3) Or Market Online

I don’t think I have to get into the negatives of 1 or 2, so obviously choice #3 is the only one left.

And the greatest part of internet marketing is that every person I talk to actually wants to talk to me. I don’t know about you, but I never want to talk to people who don’t want to talk with me. I want to have enjoyable conversations with people who want to have them with me.

And that’s what internet and attraction marketing marketing is all about.

OK. Now that we know that we want to market online. The question now becomes: how do we market online?

The simple answer is…

Right here.

Enjoy. And take this extremely seriously. This is exactly what you should be using to build and fund your network marketing organization until you are making at least $10,000 a month.

It’s also what you should be using to train your downline. It is everything you will ever need for marketing.