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Crazy idea:
Find a cross-company buddy. After all, aren't we all really in the same boat?
We experimented with this in the New School program. Cross-company people did calls together - someone from Herbalife buddied up with someone from Shaklee. Someone from Arbonne teamed up with someone from Neways, someone from NuSkin teamed up with someone from Pre-Paid Legal,..etc.
We started with Cold Cadaver Calling. That's practicing on local cold market folks to improve your own speaking skills - like medical students practice on cadavers to learn where the lungs are, before they operate on YOU.
How'd it go? Here's from Connelly, a gent who'd never done cross-company anything before:
I teamed up with Bernie and Nicole for some Cold Cadaver Calling (CCC). This was the ONLY way I was able to do my first CCC. Bernie went first and I listened...After Bernie made some calls, and a few screw ups, I got the courage to do it.
After I made a few contacts with Bernie on the line and a few screw ups, I found that no one tried to take my head off. Then Bernie and I teamed up with Nicole and we did more calls. We all helped each other with rough spots in our scripts and delivery. Each time it got easier. Now, I can make a CCC anytime.
Through the contacts I've made in the class and on NMC, I hope to be able to take my newbies and do cross-company calls with those people. Cross-company is great. It lets us see that our opportunity is not the only one and that it isn't the only greatest thing since sliced bread.
"I learned a thing or two about some new great products. Ann and I were scheduled to do some buddy calling. Instead, we got to know each other and each other's products. I bought some cat food from her company.
"Cross-company also helps us by giving us a neutral person to objectively critique us. We can focus more on helping our newbies instead of thinking, 'Oh no, my newbie should have had that one. We missed a sale. I missed a commission.'
"Kim, the cross-company buddy idea is brilliant. Thanks for sharing it."
With that kind of reaction from the participants, we just offered it to the Network Marketing Central members. The cross-company buddy program is on the house to any NMC member.
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