How to find out if your network marketing company has integrity

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When I first started in network marketing I assumed that much like other professions I had worked in that there would be training and a learning curve. Well, as some have found out the hard way that there are many so called ‘gurus’ that cast in the light of integrity would smoke and shrink away hissing like a vampire. Most people who have worked for a traditional company, even fully qualified for the position, expect that their employer has an interest in making sure that any information or training you might be lacking is provided. Not the case here in this crazy business of network marketing.

I’ve heard it termed that it is like trying to herd cats, that is, trying to get distributors to work together and share what is working today. I mean, one of the most respected authors in the industry isn’t even a network marketer! Nice. How’s that for a selling point for building your down-line? Especially, if you take the advice of the majority of companies that chant the mantra “make a list of your friends and family.” My friends and family don’t have an interest in network marketing and if they did they would have no trouble finding an ‘opportunity’ by sifting through their spam folder. So where does integrity come into play in all of this?

Integrity has its first and most important task in looking at the track record of the company owners and the up-line leaders in the organization. I’ll give you an example, I have worked in the construction field for many years and know many contractors and company owners in my home city. There are those that have a reputation for not paying their employees on time-or sometimes not at all. And why is that? Too much overhead? Haven’t been faced with strong enough consequences? For instance, some owners of network marketing companies are serial offenders when it comes to starting a company, riding the profit wave, and then changing the compensation plan after the company is built by guess who? You. And do they do it just once? Not a chance, start, rinse, repeat-as it were.

So if the top ‘experts’ in the field are not even ‘in the field’ and the ‘gurus’ are out to sell their own down-line useless programs to supposedly replicate their success on ‘auto-pilot’ how can one know who has integrity? I myself resorted to prayer, and as funny as that sounds it is the truth! I asked for a mentor and a company with integrity-I mean if you’re going to pray you might as well go all out, right? I was almost frightened by how quickly God answered that prayer, and have found the company that is right for me. I have met two of the three owners as well as the master distributor and every other leader in the company, which is really nice to know that they aren’t afraid to mingle with anyone and everyone in the company. I also know that I am with the right company because for 5 out of the last 6 years they have been in business the have added money back into the compensation plan-I haven’t met any other network marketer that can say that!

So, for integrity the first thing that I would watch for is the selling of tools used to build your down-line. Next, I would suggest making it a point to do your due diligence by finding the names of the owners of the company and researching their former business associations-can’t stress this one enough. And finally, meet them face to face and find out what their philosophies of business are and how they run the operations of the company. If you are just starting out in the industry and need the nuts and bolts of building your team, download the free e-book Success in 10 Steps