Veteran VS Newbie – Whom To Prioritize?

Veteran VS Newbie – Whom To Prioritize?

Conquering A Veteran VS Educating A Newbie

Recently I read an article describing that the key to the success in building large downline organization is by recruiting veteran MLM members. The author of the article emphasizes the importance of bringing veterans into your downline organization in order to build a big and fast growing downline organization. There is the truth in that statement which none can deny. Veteran MLM members in many aspects are more superior than newbies. You are surely a lucky player if you can recruit many veterans into your organization. But the problem is that it is not an easy thing to find and recruit veterans who are readily leave their present companies for your new company without reasonable and logical reasons. Being successful in an MLM career takes a long and difficult process. Sometimes one needs to spend up to 2 to 3 years of hard work to reach a stage of mediocre success. With a company employing demanding system of compensation plan, it will take even longer to succeed. So, if you need to recruit a person who has reached a stage of even a mediocre success in order to quickly build your organization, you really need to work hard to conquer him. You really need to prepare a barrage of reasonable reasons to toss at him to get him into seriously consider your proposition to make him your downline. Then, if you find it easy to succeed in conquering the so-called veteran, you still have to question the quality of your easy-to-get veteran. Is he really a leader in his former MLM company or no more than mere an MLM adventurer who moved from one company to another thinking that he has not found the right MLM company for himself to succeed.

If you find it hard to get a veteran of any quality, you had better spend your resources on sponsoring a totally new prospect and educating him so that he has the quality you desire. Recruiting a veteran or a newbie each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Despite his superior quality especially in terms of his experiences, a veteran also poses some disadvantages which may be unnoticed at first sight. On the other hand, despite his lacking of experiences, a newbie is more teachable, easier to manage and to cooperate with, more adaptable to a newly established teamwork situation. Because as a greenhorn he positions himself to be more of a learner than a teacher. So, in terms of teachability, a newbie will have higher probability than a veteran. A veteran will possibly try to control and direct you instead of listening to you if you don’t have any records of success in this venture.

Benefit of Recruiting A Veteran

If you get a quality veteran, he will certainly bring more experiences to your organization because of his long time involvement in this venture. You don’t need to teach him the basis of MLM business anymore. You can sell his name for promoting your business and enlarging your downline organization. When you sponsor a new prospect, you can always refer to him as an example of how so good and attractive your business is in the eyes of a veteran member of other MLM company that he readily left his former company for yours.

Provided that he is a truly qualified leader in his former company, you can rely on him and share your responsibility for creating new leaders in your downline organization instead of teaching a newbie from zero to be a leader. The growth of your downline organization will be faster than you initially expect.

Negative Sides of A Veteran

If you get a lower quality veteran, you will get a bigger burden instead of high profits from taking him into your downline organization. Instead of helping you develop your leadership quality, he may behave on the contrary because he feels more experienced and more knowledgeable than you in this venture. If you are a person of a weak personality, instead of pushing you up he may take over your leading position and leave you behind. This happens in MLM companies employing increasingly demanding compensation plan as you get higher in your position.

Benefits of Recruiting A Newbie

A newbie, as his status indicates will behave as such hopefully. He will bring fresh and hopefully bright thought and attitude into your downline organization. If you are lucky, you will find many would-be leaders among your prospects who are newbies. A newbie will certainly more receptive to your ideas, thoughts, and goals. And more importantly he does not bring negative and traumatic experiences of the past involvement in MLM into your organization. He is starting with a fresh and clean mind and hopefully ready to share your dream of success. To offset his lack of experiences you can have him read recommended books on MLM and Networking Business and personal development, have him follow trainings offered by your company, and have him learn from more experienced members in your organization.

Negative Sides of A Newbie

Your newbie members may not have clear idea of what to expect in their first involvement in MLM. Some newbies may not be as tough as you want them to be. Instead of supporting you in boosting the growth of your organization, they may put more burden on your resources (time, money, and thought). Many of them may not be able to keep pace with your steps because they behave in unproductive ways in doing their business. They may require too much from you and do too little for your organization. And you tend to consider that all their faulty behaviours and thoughts are forgivable because they are new in this venture.

Conclusion

Both veterans and newbies will bring potentially positive and negative qualities into your downline organization. Even if you get a veteran among your newly sponsored members, there is no guarantee that he will perform the way you expect him to. If your main focus is only on recruiting veterans, you tend to view and think of newcomers as second priority in your search for would-be leaders in your downline organization. Whereas the greater number of prospective quality leaders exists among newbies. In conclusion I would say that it is a lot better to be open minded towards the two types of prospects because as human beings they are basically the same. Their only difference is that the one is earlier introduced to the business and possibly know more than the other one.

Majelis, an active member of Indonesian RBC LifeSciences with ID # 21689475 http://rbcindonesia.com/