Do things get slower in the summer?
Yes.
Can you build a big business during the summer?
Yes.
Get Rich During the Summer Slow- Down
Huh?
How can I say things slow down in the summer and you can build big?
Common sense. Well, common sense and organized planning.
Those two things led to the biggest months I’ve ever had in MLM. But it’s even bigger.
Everybody says the fall is a great building time, so if you have a big summer and have momentum coming into what most people believe is a ‘good building time’ you just get that much bigger.
Organized Planning
We’ve got to understand that MLMer’s are prone to ‘convenient’ thinking – we tend to rationalize our sloth and contradict ourselves if we are not careful.
What does virtually every MLMer say?  If you treat it like a hobby it will pay you like a hobby. If you treat it like a business, it will pay you like a business.
Here comes the ‘contradiction’ of convenience. Â We no sooner get done saying ‘if you treat it like a business…‘ then say our business is not like other businesses and that is always followed with some convoluted reasoning as to why making calls in the future is a good move.
Good Grief. Talk about wanting it both ways.
What do restaurants do with the same challenges? The good ones, that is.
Plan ahead.
During holidays restaurants don’t need to push, at other times they do. Most good restaurant owners, all good business owners for that matter, understand business planning.
Good planners know the difference between strategy and tactics so they hit their objectives. They use common sense, understand their competition and leverage information, not commonly held beliefs to construct rock-solid business plans that give them momentum coming into easier times. They don’t wait for the seasons to change. They are running a successful business.
What does that mean?
It means they define the ‘alleged’ slower times instead of letting the ‘alleged’ slower times define them.
Common Sense
Let’s say Al believes summer is slow, so he slows down. So will Harry’s group.
Nancy, on the other hand, decides she’s not buying in (you’ll learn why you shouldn’t buy in by viewing the short video below)…and builds during the summer.
So Al believes things pick up in mid-September. What does Al have to do in mid-September?
Get his group and himself going again. It will take at least 3-4 weeks to get rolling again.
Nancy hits September 15th with a white-hot team and things get even easier.
Nancy has built a 10-week head start on Al that he will never be able to close up.
And the same sin will be committed by Al and his team again at Holiday season, falling another 10 weeks behind.
Wait, it’s worse for Al. He’ll repeat that every year, 2x a year. He gives one of his competitors 10 weeks.
There are 1000 Als to every 20 Nancys.
Nancy not only kicks butt in the summer…she hasn’t had to DO ANYTHING to eliminate 98% of her competition.
How much easier would it be for you if 98% of your competition vanished 2x a year…December and Summer…
What does Nancy know that Al doesn’t?
Winners Plan Ahead
If we are going to make some money, we need to learn some network marketing skills.
Once we know the skills we need to use a key component from Think and Grow Rich, organized planning. Read what Hill has to say here.
This week in Go90Grow, the course we offer to a limited of members, we are building out, as Hill writes, the ‘perfect plan’ for each and every member.  So many of them are doing so well that we’ll be offering, for the first and only time, a summer session. Those that check it out will hit September 15th as highly skilled professional networkers with more well-trained people in their group, while Al and his team sit at the beach or hit golf balls ‘waiting’ for things to pick up.
Everybody knows the course fills…fast. You can get on the early notification list right here…
Common sense and organized planning will change the lives of some people this summer. What’s cool is that it is not about luck.
believe
mark januszewski
world’s laziest networker
Great blog post Mark as usual. Love the Travel is expensive summer time approach! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing. I was reminded that we should think outside the box and do what other’s are not. I was also reminded by your post of one of my favorite quotes, “If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always gotten.”
Make it an awesome day!
It’s amazing how often I’ve heard this over the years yet people still take the summer “off”, wrongly thinking that growth will be non-existent. Retail may go down, but sponsoring can increase dramatically.
Thanks for the video,I enjoyed it and will put it into action.
Have a great summer.
Teri.
yes Mark i will put this video up
Thanks, I think I will use something along the lines of “camping is a great summer activity, its a shame our jobs have to get in the way of that. Some people keeping an open mind though, have learned how to camp more, and work less.”
Cheers.