*==============================================* M A S T E R N E T W O R K E R The Art of Building A Business by Professor Lon Lindsey MASTER NETWORKER Number 50 December 18,1997 *==============================================* INSIDE YOU WILL FIND: "The Art of Building A Business - The Web We Weave . . .Ethics of Recruiting! The Archive of Master Networker Publications Our weekly one liner. Web Page Design . . . Need someone to make you look, sound and feel good on the web? Very reasonable prices! The humorous side. The Master Networker recommended business web page for the week Master Networker Recommended Readings and how to order. ================================================== Hello fellow "Master Networker" subscribers! This is number Fifty in the Master Networker series. If you happened to miss the first forty-nine publications, you can retrieve them at: http://masternetworker.com/mailfiles/mailfile.html or you can retrieve them by email from the auto-responder: MasterNetworker-issue-#.txt@masternetworker.com Substitute the desired issue number in place of the "#" Example: mailto:MasterNetworker-Issue26.txt@masternetworker.com or go to our webpage and click on previous articles. go to: http://www.masternetworker.com **************************************************************** My wife, children and I are taking a Christmas vacation to the beaches of Florida so we will be gone until the 3rd of January. Instead of taking time to create and email another article while on vacation, I will just wait until I return for sending the next Master Networker publication. I remember last year I took my laptop computer, but it did not have a good modem so it was very difficult to do what I wanted to do . . ...although I had always had a dream to sit on the beach and compose a newsletter and send it. Thanks to Diane Walker, I was able to overcome my modem problems as she invited me to her home to send from her computer. That was the first time I met her and also that is when I fell in love with her husband's smoked BBQ ribs and chicken. That was the start of a great friendship. One year later, I will be seeing Diane again, but this time she no longer is working for someone else. We are having a celebration . . . a BBQ! She is working for herself . . MLM fulltime . . .specifically TPN. Please note our web page of the week because Diane is leading the way for a powerful group called Legendary Ventures. See what it is all about by going to http://www.Lvteam.com/team/mn18013. The main feature today has to do with the ethics of recruiting others online. It can get very complicated due to the "web we weave" through our connections on the Internet. So . . .who can you ethically recruit to the business opportunity you represent? ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> This is a reminder that the Master Networker series is purposely set up for the beginning networker or for those considering networking or even for networkers who have yet to be successful in networking. This means that The Master Networker series covers basic networking principles with the purpose of developing a firm foundation for networking. "The Master Networker" will be void of information that will thrust you to a $90,000 income within 90 days or a $15,000 monthly income without doing any work. Why? Because that isn't how networking works. I've been in networking for thirteen years, and I have yet to meet anyone who has obtained networking riches without working for it . . .especially $90,000 in ninety days. This series is about the real world of networking. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> T H E W E B W E W E A V E W H O C A N W E E T H I C A L L Y R E C R U I T? by LON LINDSEY I'm not aware of a formal code of ethics for recruiting people to your business. Even if there would be, it would be complicated and filled with exceptions because in the process of building a business, we weave a web of many connections. By "recruiting ethics", I'm talking about a standard of conduct with regards to who you can contact to solicit for a business you are representing. In other words, what is morally right in terms of contacting other people who may be associated with someone else? Since there are no formal ethical standards available, it is difficult to expect people to know what to do. Many find out the hard way by receiving the "wrath" of a powerful leader of a group who might go as far as claiming he/she owns her people. At this point, I would like to say NO ONE OWNS ANYONE! We are not a herd of animals that can be bought traded, maintained and sold. We are not comodities. We are people who have built up relationships with other people. Nor do we want to be controlled by one person or group of people. As people, we have the freedom, right and flexibility to hook up with anyone we choose . . . HOWEVER I do feel there are some factors to consider before a person simply goes out and starts recruiting a bunch of people from right under a leader of a group. The problem seems to arise when a person gets access to a group of people. This usually happens when you are fortunate enough to have a leader in your group who brings in many people . . .many of which have a certain amount of loyalty to this leader . . .at least the leader thinks so. In some cases, you may have access to the email addresses of all these people because they are also in your downline as well as the downline of that particular leader. Now, let's suppose another opportunity comes along and you decide to recruit for that other opportunity and you have the email addresses of those in your downline from the first opportunity. This is where the problem is and where ethics come in. If you go to these people, and you have not had any prior contact with them, and you try to recruit them to your new opportunity, that would be considered as trying to "rape" the downline of another person . . thus unethical. I think the key word here is "contact." I might take it a step further ... . "relationship." If you have not made a connection to these people or you have not built up some rapport with them, then I would consider it unethical to approach them and recruit them for another business opportunity. However, let's suppose you connect with them . . ...communicate with them . . . begin building up a relationship with them, then that is different. They now become an acquaintaince of yours . ...someone who knows you. At this point, I feel it become acceptable to make them aware of something you are involved in. Another factor is loyalty. Some people may feel loyal to a leader and will not join with someone else in another opportunity because of that loyalty. That is fine! That shows the leader has developed a loyal following rather than a "controlled" following . . . and there is a difference. I recently heard of a person who threatened to "kick people out of that person's own downline group they were in" if they even as much considered another opportunity offered by someone else. That's not loyalty! That's control! Because of the "web we weave" as we build relationships on the Internet, it is virtually impossible to determine who has original sponsorship of a person. Because of this, ethics must revolve around relationships and connectivity to others. Some people will approach a leader of a group first before going to that leader's downline, but if no connection has been made with the members of that downline, then I feel it is unethical to approach them. There are no rules or laws that govern this sort of thing, but people on the Internet do have a way of spreading the word regarding people and now we are talking about a person's reputation. If I could give you advice, it would be to be helpful and an inspiration to others. When you do that, you will become a leader with your own loyal following. In the process, connect with new people, build up a rapport with more people and in so doing, you are building up your own warm market . . . your own prospect list which you can go to whenever the time is right. You can never go wrong if you go by the Golden Rule! ************************************************************************ GREAT LOOKING WEB PAGES THAT MAKE YOU LOOK, SOUND AND FEEL GOOD! 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