"It was hard to get a conversation going because everyone was talking so much" Yogi Berra.

Let's presume that you have read Ann Sieg's e-book The Renegade Network Marketer. You are exited about the possibility to attract prospects instead of you chasing after them and finally your network marketing business takes off. You have already set up Renegade System and the prospects have started to come into your marketing funnel. Your marketing system is doing effective pre-selling and you are ready to work with those which are really interested in your product. But are You prepared for the challenge?

The Renegade Network Marketer Business model claims:

- to completely change your 'old network marketer' mindset

- to add some new people skills to your network marketer tool kit

- to stop being reactive and become proactive.

Being proactive means more than merely taking initiative; it means for you to become responsible for your MLM business, create your own marketing funnel, your own multiple cash - flow streams, and you to become an expert and provide your prospects and clients with what they want!

All good sales and marketing begins by putting the other person first. Seek first to understand, then to be understood! The easiest and one of the most effective ways to accomplish this is to develop effective listening and questioning skills in order to master the communication with your prospects and get what you want and good communications skills also help to build relationships which are essential to Network Marketing.

Although many of us would say that we listen to others all the time, there is a difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is a sensory ability. Effective listening is an active process that involves hearing, attention and understanding.

The benefits of active listening:

-It puts you in a strategic position for gathering information.

-You will be able better tap into your prospects pains and problems.

-You will be able to offer a solution because you will know their needs and core emotional desires.

-You will know what your prospects' hot buttons are.

-You will know what will motivate them to take action (buying your product or sponsoring with you)?

People Grow from Connection.

When you really listen with the pure desire to understand you will be amazed how fast they will open up and become perceptive to your message. They will listen to you because you gave them your attention first.

When you truly listen, clients feel more at ease and will gladly reveal themselves and their concerns about the product or opportunity.

When you empathetically listen you built the rapport - the foundation for trustful long-term relationship. It makes people feel important when you show them that they matter simply by listening to them.

How to become a good listener:

-Genuinely seek the good of the prospects.

-Put yourself in their shoes.

-Seek to understand and stay positive.

-Stop to control - effective listening offers you options for navigating the conversation.

-Suspend the chatter in your head - you could miss valuable information.

-Master a skill of asking questions.

-Be present, give your full attention and don't let your mind wander.

-Follow your intuition.

-Summarize and mirror back what you heard.

-Keep your own emotions in-check and do not allow yourself to become emotionally involved.

How many times have you been in a conversation with someone and realized that you have not been paying attention? When you disconnect, you break the relationship. Life-long business is relationship based.

People Seek Value.

When you truly listen to somebody you become a source of value and a Solution provider for them. People buy solutions! People pay for Solutions! To be a Solution provider is one of the "attraction-based" Internet marketing model pillars. Like most skills, listening requires practice and active improvement. Make your decision to start today!