71: Gloria MacDonald Teaches How To Get Leads On LinkedIn...

Steve Larsen: What's going on everyone, this is Steve Larsen, and you're listening to Secret MLM Hacks radio and I've got a very special interview and a very special guest to bring on today for the show. So go ahead and stay tuned. We'll cue the intro, grab a pen and paper and sit tight. So here's the real mystery. How do real MLMers like us read and cheat and only bug family members and friends. If you wanna grow a profitable home business, how do we recruit A players into our down lines and create extra incomes, yet still have plenty of time for the rest of our lives. That's the blaring question, and this podcast will give you the answer. My name is Steve Larsen and welcome to Secret MLM Hacks radio. Hi, what's going on everyone. Hey, I'm really excited for today. You guys have a very special treat. I have just been so incredibly impressed with this person. I have actually been watching closely, from am distance. Seeing everything that's been going on. You guys know my take, in the MLM space. I truly believe that MLM nowadays is broken for the way we get it. We get it, and it's not set up correctly. Or there's so many things we got to do in order to actually still be successful with it. And it's not an aspect that's really taught by uplines. And that's not something that ... I'm not anti up line, I'm not anti the man. I'm not anti those things. But it's just the reality. And from a distance, I started watching who the who was. Of all the other people who believe the same thing. And there's more ways to do it. And hey, the Internet's here, and why do we use that. Various things. And we ran across this amazing woman. Gloria MacDonald. MacDonald. Gloria MacDonald, and I'm so excited to have her on today. She is an expert, a pro in the MLM space, using LinkedIn, using various tools and things across the internet. Very honored to have her here today. And thank you so much for being here. GloriaMacDonald: Oh Steven, absolutely my pleasure. I'm thrilled and delighted to be here. Steve Larsen: This is awesome. Very, very excited. Could you ... You have a lot of success now, right. And you're doing all these great things. And I know you've done things with huge players. Was it always that way? GloriaMacDonald: Yeah, yeah. I came out of my mother's womb at the age of two. I was three level diamond in Amway. No. Steve Larsen: You saying you've always been successful, wow. GloriaMacDonald: Yeah, always. And I've never had any struggles at all, you know. Yeah, right. Let me tell you another story. Let me tell you the true story. Steve Larsen: Sounds good. GloriaMacDonald: Yeah. So I started in Amway, in 1979. So right off the top, Steve, and I hate to do this to you, but I have to correct you on something that I've heard you say. With great respect for what you've done. But I heard you say that [inaudible 00:02:43] hasn't changed since the 1990s. And I'm sorry, but it hasn't changed since the 1970s. Steve Larsen: I will take your correction. GloriaMacDonald: I don't fault you for not knowing that, because you wouldn't have been around in the 1970s. I was. Steve Larsen: That's funny. GloriaMacDonald: So it's mind boggling to me. Because people are still doing today, and network marketing companies today are still teaching and training exactly what I was taught in 1979 before the internet existed. Before personal computers existed. You know, there was no such thing as a personal computer. Cell phones didn't exist. I hate to think about what a dinosaur I am. But none of this stuff existed that exist today, that is so powerful that enables us to build our networking businesses in a much more effective and efficient way. And still, network marketing companies are still teaching, and uplines are still teaching, make your list of a hundred people. [inaudible 00:03:57] market. It's like, good god really? You know? Really. So, I went through all the struggles. I've done everything everyone else has done. Done my list of a hundred people too many times. I was an overachiever. So I did, you know, a hundred and fifty people, or two hundred people. Steve Larsen: Sure, yeah. GloriaMacDonald: You know, I- Steve Larsen: What happened from that? Was there a moment where you're like, wait a second. GloriaMacDonald: Well, yeah. What happened from that, was just like everybody else. I got so much rejection. And I burned through my one market. And then, especially back when I started, then what on earth what do you do? You couldn't hop on Facebook or LinkedIn, or whatever. Because those things didn't exist. So you had to be out and about, strike up conversations with total strangers in the grocery store. You know. Steve Larsen: Yeah. GloriaMacDonald: And really networking meetings like we know them today didn't exist in 1979 either. So it was tough. It was grueling. Anyway, and the interesting thing, what I know now that I didn't know then, was all of that old school technique ... And don't get me wrong. Obviously there have been people who have built huge businesses using all those old school techniques. And that's great, and that's wonderful. But why would we still be using that today? Steve Larsen: Right. GloriaMacDonald: When there are far more efficient and effective ways. And the biggest thing about those old school ways, is that they work completely against the way our brains work. They go completely against our human physiology, biology, chemistry, psychology, and you know, our brains job is to keep us safe and protect us. So every time we start to feel any kind of rejection, our brain is literally saying, "Don't go there, don't do that. It's not safe. Rejection's not good. No, no, no, no, no." So why would you put yourself in a position where you're working against your biology, when there are all kinds of ways today where you can work with your biology, and you don't have to ... I mean, literally, you can do rejection-free recruiting. You know that, you're doing it. Steve Larsen: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Now, the first time I heard you say that, I was like, dancing up and down, screaming. Because I was like, yes, yes, someone else! Okay, absolutely. You talk about, it's literally against a lot of the way our chemical make up is put together. GloriaMacDonald: Yeah. Steve Larsen: Which is true. Could you talk a little bit more about that, and what you mean about that? Because that's fascinating. I'm pretty confident most people have no idea about this. GloriaMacDonald: Yeah, I mean seriously, the way our brain works, the job our brain is to keep us safe, and conserve energy. That's the primary job of our brain. And it goes back to millions and millions of years of evolutionary psychology, where literally we had to conserve energy in case a tiger or lion jumped out of the jungle at us, and attacked us. We had to be ready to just fight, or flee. Steve Larsen: Right. GloriaMacDonald: And so we had to conserve energy, and we had to be very very very aware of what was going on around us to protect us. Steve Larsen: Yeah. GloriaMacDonald: And so, even though we're not facing lions and tigers today, in that same way, our brain's job is still to protect us and to conserve energy to keep us safe. And so literally anything that feels uncomfortable to us, the brain recognizes that and says, "No, danger zone, danger zone." It literally tries to shut us down. So rejection's not comfortable for anybody, unless you work really, really, really hard against your brain. But the problem is, the vast, vast, vast majority of people just can't do it. They physically can not do it. They physically cannot re-wire their brain to go against human biology. And they can't re-wire their brain to say, "Nope, doesn't matter. I don't care about being safe." Because...