How to reach out to your old contacts?

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This is one of the most common questions. When you have shown you biz opp to your closest friends and family members you will need to go through some older contacts.
There are two different schools of approaching your old friends. Unfortunately most of the trainers teach, in my opinion, what you shouldn’t do. They say: rebuild the trust, rebuild the relationship and then pitch them with your business. This is in my opinion one of the reasons why network marketing profession has a bad name. Why? Because you are inauthentic as your main intention was to recruit them to your team not to catch up and refresh the friendship. If you will not be honest with them than they will sense it. They will feel that something is wrong and will ask themselves what does he want from me.
So if you truly want to rebuild the relationship with someone by all means do that just don’t bring the business. You can do it later. However if you want to contact them just because you think they might be good addition to the team then be honest with them. Let them know upfront what’s the reason of your call. You can say something like that: “Hey Frank, Karol here (make sure they know who they talk to). I would love to catch up with you but the true purpose of my call is…” and tell the truth. I use the words: “Look this is crazy but recently I have started new business and we are growing like crazy. At the moment I am looking for some sharp people that I can trust to join my team. I don’t know if this is appropriate or not but hey are you open for new opportunity?”

There is couple of benefits of this type of approach.

First of all they know that you are honest with them and know what can expect when meeting you. Secondly you keep a good reputation for yourself, your company and network marketing profession.
Thirdly you can get the answer “yes” or “no”. And if this is a “no” than it’s quick “no”. Believe me, quick “no” is much better than slow “no”. It saves you and your friend a lot of time and energy. You want to use your time as much effectively as possible. So be okay with quick “no”, because it will bring you faster to next “yes”

More about reconnecting with old friends in the video below.


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Karol Kubiak

P.S. If you need some motivation there it is.

“Having a million of friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to have someone who will stand next to you when million others will be against you.”
“Live the life that your friends will be bored when you die.”
“We most likely trust strangers, because they have never let us down.”
“The best friend is someone who can, without knowing the reason of your grief, to bring the joy back”
„True friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
“A friend is someone who knows everything about you and still likes you.”
“Everyone can sympathise with friend’s pain, but it requires wonderful character to be able to celebrate friend’s success.”
“Even when you give the person all treasures in the world, it will not give him happiness without having a friend to share this with.”
“Don’t explain yourself. Friends will understand anyway. Enemies will not believe anyway.”

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