Network marketing allows ordinary people to enter into a home based business on a fair and even paying field where distributors have the same chance to earn income. This rather small and innocent business will one day grow to be a huge international distributorship bringing you income from many countries. Most people who actually are introduced to network marketing quite often are sold the big dream of riches before being coached and trained to what it takes to become successful. There are certain factors that play an important part if you are going to do this as a hobby or build this into a huge mlm business that will give you financial rewards and a solid residual income for life. Here are the five most common mistakes distributors make when trying to share their opportunity with others or sell their products to earn an income:

• Talking Too Much: It is best we learn to ask questions first of our prospects rather than telling them what to do. Open ended questions are the best such as ... "what do you mean by saying you take no vitamins", or... "can you explain why you don't believe in supplements". By asking such question you are speaking less and making your prospect talk more. You can judge what is really on his or her mind and then tailor make your answers to suit their queries whether it be for vitamins or financial freedom.
• Talking Big: This is very common when distributors oversell the business opportunity and make the new comer feel they will become rich overnight in the trillion dolar industry of Wellness. Imagine a new distributor making alot of money in week one or month one and then nothing happens after that. What will he do? Quit with frustration. What if you were to mention to him honestly that this is a part time home business that may take 3 to 5 years to grow to a residual income stream. Yes! Some people become very successful over night but the average distributor takes a bit longer. So if a person joins you and can see an increase in income dolars over the months no matter what it may be he or she will not quit as they know it will be just a matter of time before they get to their goal of financial freedom.
• Talking Deep: Quite often a new distributor will take it upon themselves to want to learn everything before they go out and share their business opportunity with others. When your prospect hears your opportunity in such detail the silent question they may be having in their mind is ... "Can I do this?" ... "Do I need to know all this technical stuff before I earn a dollar?" With that in mind they will politely say no to you. Just share with them the basics of the financial opportunity and give them answers that are relevent to their questions. By asking the right questions you will learn in time that most people will join you either for the products or business or give you referrals. Make your answers as simple as possible.
• Talking Down: This is quite common when a distributor looks down at a prospect and try to tell him or her that the opportunity is the best thing on this planet. Try to be humble and respect the other person's profession.
• Talking Bad: Never ever try to run another company down by saying yours is better. This will make the guest defensive and will may lead him to change his mind. So be fair and respect his situation and maybe he may listen to you or give you a referral to your business opportunity. Instead of talking bad about someone's products or business opportunity you could say to your friend that you too felt the same 4 years ago. Then when a friend shared with you some information you started to ask yourself questions.

Here is a short story how you too can share your supplements without making someone upset. Here are two senarios:

• Example 1: If you went up to someone and sold at retail that person alot of vitamins promising that he or she will get better fast on your product. Now a few days later this customer of yours may meet another vitamin distributor who sell a potent organic juice of some kind. This customer may think of buying that product because it's being sold as organic or herbal, only to be drunk twice a day and there is no need to buy so many vitamins. The juice supplier will sell the idea to your customer that your product is a drug and drugs don't work so why not try something organic. So you loose a customer. You can also loose a customer if you sell your product as a cure for a specific disease. Yes, some people may benefit from your product and get well but it may be because they were most probably lacking in a certain nutrient in their diet initially that the product was abundant with. Now if they do get better they will stop your product as they feel they don't need it any more. So lets look at example 2
• Example 2: What if you approached your client with the products that may lead them to buy from you instead for many years. Would that make you happy. Well! You can ask open ended questions as " What do you know about vitamins and why we need them in our diet today?" Now when your client answers, you can tailor make your reply to suit his objections. For example, a friend of mine shared this with us: He said " My grandparents had 10 children and my father still lived with his parents when he married. So I grew up in a joint family of 10 uncles and aunties, and many cousins, far too many to count. My mother along with my aunts and grandmother would daily shop at the local market across the road and cook 7 main dishes for every meal. We had fresh local food and alot of variety in our diet everyday. Unfortunately today I cannot give my children that as I have a 2 children family and the variety and freshness is impossible as we only cook 2 different dishes per day and shop once a week as we live too far away from the shops. So though we do have our carbohydrates and protiens we find it hard to know if we are getting the right amounts of micro nutrients in our diet each day. This is why we take a supplement after each meal to supplement or add to what may be missing in our diet. When I first heard this I was covinced that nutrition as a supplement was vital in todays world of fast foods and stress.

Now the question arises as to what supplement I must take to stay healthy. The answer lies in a scientific journal called "The Comparative Guide to Nurtional Supplements". This is an independent study and helps lead us to look at vitamin supplements objectively. What the author, Dr Lyle McWilliam, has done is look at 13 different authorities in the field of human nutrition and look at what their recommendations are on nutrient levels for the human body. He then created an average score or a blended standard which is the mean of all the results.

 He then compared vitamins from different manufacturers against this blended score. The further away from the standard the lower the score the product received. This does not mean that other products are bad but rather they ranked lower as to what the experts have agreed to be as a perfect supplement. Now the product I am using or rather recommending to you is the closest to that standard. In other words it has more of all the essential nutrients that we need in our diet today. Why don't you take a look at the benefits  and see how it can make a difference to your health right now." Now if you approach your clients in such a way you will certainly not offend them but rather they may be attracted to try your product.