How To Deal With MLM Distributors Trying To Recruit You

If you have been involved in MLM you are likely to encounter a distributor from another MLM company trying to recruit you into their opportunity. There are several different types of people that you may encounter, each using a number of different types of strategies to recruit you.

Below I am going to list some of the most common different strategies that I have encountered as well as the rebuttal that I give to people who try to recruit me with these strategies.

Strategy #1 - "The Prelaunch Approach" This is a very common one. The distributor tells you that they just got involved in a company that is currently in prelaunch. This company is suppose to be the next big thing. They will tell you that you need to get in right now on the "ground floor" while the company is in prelaunch because once the company launches everyone who is in beforehand will make a lot of money.

My Rebuttal - I'm not interested in getting involved with a ground floor company. Most new companies fail within the first 5 years. What I'm interested in is to be involved in a rock solid proven company that is participating in a ground floor industry like I'm currently involved in right now.

Strategy #2 - "The Heavy Hitter Joining Us Approach" This is also a very common one. The distributor tells you that "So and So" who is a heavy hitter in the MLM industry is leaving his existing company and joining this company. They might even go as far as to say that some of the leaders in your company are taking a look at their company. The premise is that since this heavy hitter is joining, the company must be good.

The Rebuttal - "So and So" has no impact on my income potential. First off, he or she probably got a special deal that you and I don't know about. Secondly, I already have great leadership and mentorship in so that I don't have to chase behind some heavy hitter who I don't personally have a relationship with.

Strategy #3 - "The fake prospect approach" With this approach the distributor pretends that he or she is a prospect for your business. Right when it is time to sign up, they hit you with the pitch about their opportunity.

The Rebuttal - The reason why I contacted you is because you indicated you were interested in my opportunity. Is that still the case or were you really interested in just pitching me with your opportunity?

Strategy #4 - "The comp plan review or the opportunity review" With this approach the distributor agrees to take a look at your opportunity (or comp plan) if you would be willing to take a look at their opportunity (or comp plan). The distributor will then show you why their opportunity or comp plan is better than yours so that you will sign up with them.

The Rebuttal - I'll ask them a simple question. If I sign up a customer that purchase $100 worth of products how much money will I make? In most opportunities it's going to be anywhere from $1 to maybe $50 max. Or, you won't make anything because the opportunity's minimum product price is like $1000. I will then reply, in my business opportunity on a membership that's $35.95 a month I earn a $207 commission. So why would I switch to your opportunity where I have to make a higher priced sale to make less money?

Now that rebuttal may or may not work for you depending on what your opportunity is. If it doesn't work for you, simply respond "well there's more to a business opportunity than the compensation plan and the facts of the company. A huge contributor to your success is the level of upline support and the relationships that are established. I already have proven relationships with leaders in my company. There is no guarantee that I'm going to get the same level of support if I switch over to you company so we would be just wasting our time reviewing each other's program.

Strategy #5 - "The Increase Your Success Approach" With this approach they will tell you that your upline is lying to you, or holding back from you and so on. They promise to reveal the secrets that will allow you to make $10,000 a month in your current opportunity. Or they might promise to show you how to start recruiting 10-20 people a week. However, the catch is they want to sell you on some high priced training program and eventually recruit them into your opportunity.

The Rebuttal - My first question would be "are you making $10,000 a month" or "are you recruiting 10-20 people a week?" If the answer is no (and 9 times out of 10 it will be), then my response will be "So how can you teach me to do something that you currently aren't doing?

If they do say yes, I will ask them what opportunity they are with. 9 times out of 10 it won't be mine, so I will say "Ok great, give me the names of the distributors in my current opportunity who are producing those types of results with your program. After I verify that this is the case I would be more than happy to consider your program." You won't ever have to consider it because they will not be able to produce that for you.

Strategy #6 - "The You Can Do This Also Approach" With this approach the distributor will try to sell you on the fact that you can do their opportunity at the same time alongside of the opportunity that you are currently doing.

The Rebuttal - I have looked at many of the success stories in my existing opportunity and what I noticed is that not a single person has ever created long term success building more than one opportunity at a time. Every last success story that I have seen in my opportunity, the person or couple was building my opportunity exclusively. Why would I deviate from what the successful people are doing?

Or regardless of what strategy you get you can use this simple rebuttal. You can say, "do me a favor, check this out" and then send them right to this website. They will read this article and get the point.

So for those of you who were sent to this website as well as those of you who want to know how to recruit MLM distributors, here is how you do it.

Develop a real relationship with them. Don't treat them like a recruit. Treat them like a friend. Don't try all of the training tactics that you have been taught on recruiting. We are getting the same training so we know what you are doing already and it doesn't work on us.

At some point in the future if the time is right, you won't have to recruit that MLM distributor. That distributor will come to you.

In the meantime, you need some strategies that will give you some real prospects to talk to. I recommend that you take a look at my Endless Stream of Prospects free report.