19: Network Marketing Events: Virtual vs. Live Events

Network Marketing Events

When it comes to network marketing events for building your business, you've got LOTS of options…

Home parties or webinars? Google hangouts or your company's convention? In this episode Dawn and Traci break down how you can use technology to your benefit and when is the right time to get face to face at an event.

The idea for this episode came out of Inner Circle mastermind group when one of our members asked if it was best to build a team using  events and home parties, or using online meetings.

Online and offline are vastly different but the importance of “meeting” face-to-face – whether in person or via an online video channel can not be understated.

Many people talk about network marketing events as “dead” or “old school,” but the truth is they're still very popular and most of the network marketing millionaires built their fortunes with in-person meetings.

That being said, leveraging video conferencing technology like Skype and Google Hangouts to build your business makes sense, for a lot of reasons.

  • No one has to leave their house to attend the meeting
  • The trainer can reach and interact with new team members live regardless of where they live
  • Leaders don't have to fly all over the country
  • No planning for a party (cleaning the house, getting a baby sitter etc)
  • Turn around time to get new business partners can be hours instead of weeks

So, leverage technology but still do face to face

When and how to leverage tools and social media 22social, Facebook fan pages. Building virtually without physically being there.

How To Use Technology to Hold Network Marketing Events

Get brave about video as soon as possible. It will instantly increase your “know, like, trust, remember” factor… People will feel more connected to you and faster if you get in front of them on video. You can even record a message and still have people feel you're speaking directly them, which feels very personal but is one-to-many communication, which equals leverage.

How to Use Google Hangouts as Network Marketing Events

Use Google hangouts for orienting and training your new team members. If you live in a small town, it can be cost and time prohibitive to travel to do home parties and live, in person trainings. Use Google hangouts to bring your team together on a hangout.

Use Google Hangouts to do business presentations and training. Get two people tonight, and get them on a video call. Your upline does the video presentation. You don't have to wait to host a party, get your house ready etc. which means you have much faster speed of implementation.

Use Hangouts as network marketing events online to get momentum and build fast, and rally your team to get them to an event. It's easier to get people to commit to going to the bigger company events when they haven't had to leave their families and spend money to attend a series of smaller events.

You Need to Get Over Your Fear of Video FAST… Here's Why

Being a leader means being confident… decide right now to be a leader, be confident and someone worthy of being followed. You can't hide who you are and still be looked up to as a leader.

Get used to seeing yourself on video. Fear of video. You always look the same in person as you look on video. The faster you develop confidence the faster you can get through your hangups the faster you can build a big team.

The Power of Live Events

If you want to be a successful leader you need to get to your company's corporate events, and you need to get your team to go as well.

Eric Worre Go Pro, power of events. Successful people get people to go to events… your team will never have the same level of belief they have coming out of a company event. Don't be fooled into thinking it can ALL be done online.

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