Have you ever felt really overwhelmed with all the information about network marketing and how you can get free traffic? You’re trying to stay up to date with the new trends, tools, apps, and other marketers. Not only do you try to stay up to date with all of these different softwares and apps, but you also have to stay in tune with comp plan changes, promotions, conventions, super saturdays, etc… It gets to the point where you just want to scream “Oh No! Information Overload!” which can be really stressful trying to keep up with the Jones’ of network marketing.
In a previous post I talked about 8 or 9 ways you can market your business for free. The post was intended to give you more options if you ran out of ways to market your business. It was not intended for you to try them all at once. That can be very overwhelming, and as a result can cause you to quick your business. You shouldn’t really worry about what the next person is doing. If you’re novice at network marketing you should focus on 2 or 3 ways to market your business. Your first 3 months should really be focused on building your list of people and getting your name out there. If you’re using social media such as facebook or twitter I suggest that you try to befriend about 50 people a day, 5 days a week at least. I’ve met people who befriended between 100 to 200 people a day, 7 days a week which can be quite overwhelming, especially if you have a full time job. You also want to write in your blog, doing 1 post per week at least. The main thing is that you do not want to overload yourself.
At some point you may feel like you’re at a fruition with the methods you’re using to market yourself and your business. At this point you may want to turn to a tool or another marketing strategy. You may want to do video marketing and use social bookmarking for your blog for example. At this point you should focus on just these two things. That following month you may want to find a smarter way to blast out your videos and do something else with your blog to make it more attractive. So with each consecutive month you’re always trying to make improvements with what you already have. There may come a time where you want to change focus and do article marketing or maybe email marketing. The point I’m trying to make is as long as you keep your strategies at a minimum, the more you’ll stay focus and the less stress you will be.
To Your Success,
Sherman Smith
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June 1, 2010 at 9:42 am
Kimberly Castleberry
Its so critical that we learn to keep our focus on a few, chose, priority objectives and let the rest (even if they will be important later) set aside for now. Overwhelm comes not from too much to do – as all of us have tons to do – but from poor filtering of that information into what is important to us right now and what is not. It seems counter-intuitive to keep our strategies to a minimum yet that is extremely powerful advice!
Kimberly
PS: Thanks for stopping by my blog!
June 3, 2010 at 12:15 am
sksmith
Thanks for your reply Kimberly
June 1, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Oliver Tausend
Hi Sherman,
you’re offering great advice. It’s all about daily consistent action in order for us to become successful in this industry. And focus is better than spreading ourselves too thin. Thanks for this post.
Take care
Oliver
June 3, 2010 at 12:14 am
sksmith
Thanks for your reply Oliver
June 4, 2010 at 4:59 pm
sksmith
Thanks Oliver. We all need to find our niche and focus on it until we become very proficient.
June 1, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Val Wilcox
Hey Sherman,
Information overload can really crash down on you. I like how you explain to take one thing at a time and become good at that, then move on to the next. This makes a huge difference in moving forward or jumping sideways.
Thanks,
Val
June 3, 2010 at 12:14 am
sksmith
Thanks for your replu Val
June 2, 2010 at 12:17 am
Teach Jim
So right on. Information Overload is more perception than reality. When you are focused, as you suggest, on the things that matter most for your personal and business progress AT THAT TIME there is no overload. You know you are doing the most important thing for you at that time. End of story.
The challenge is when you are not sure where you should be focused and you have no confidence in your efforts. Then you are subject to the winds of information producers.
This issue is resolved when you have a solid proven system and / or mentor(s) directing your path. Only then can you step forward with confidence into the unknown as you learn and ultimately master your area of focus.
Thanks Sherman
June 3, 2010 at 12:13 am
sksmith
Thanks for your reply Jim!!
June 4, 2010 at 5:00 pm
sksmith
Thanks for the comment Jim!!
June 3, 2010 at 4:16 am
Charlene
Very true Sherman! There is soo much info to learn in network marketing & a lot of times we want to try to take it all in at once!! Big no no LOL!!! Taking things 1-2 at a time is not only less stressful, but allows you the opportunity to really focus on what you’re doing, thus breeding results!!!
June 4, 2010 at 5:01 pm
sksmith
Thats a definite… why focus on 10 things at once. You’re bound to go no where! Thanks for the comment Charlene
June 3, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Gabe
Great writing style Sherman. Raw and to the point, yet engaging.
I absolutely agree that you should focus on a few things at a time, get good at them, and then incorporate more strategies. Otherwise you’ll go insane and move to the mountains with no electricity or internet… lol.
Just kidding, but you’ll for sure get frustrated and give up when success is just around the corner. Keep up the good work.
June 4, 2010 at 5:01 pm
sksmith
LOL… thanks for the comment Gabe.
June 4, 2010 at 1:05 am
Karl Larsen
Hey Sherman,
Great advice. I agree that focusing on a few strategies and make them work is a great way to go about your business, not overloading yourself, but staying focused.
Keep up the posts Sherman, I’ll be reading!
Karl
June 4, 2010 at 5:02 pm
sksmith
Thanks for the comment Karl.. I’ll be looking forward to your posts as well!!!