Your Virtual Upline Podcast

By Bob Heilig

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What's Your Virtual Upline Podcast about?

Welcome to the Your Virtual Upline podcast hosted by Bob Heilig. This weekly podcast will give you the mindset, strategies, and skills you need to build the network marketing business and life of your dreams.

Each week Bob takes a deep dive into topics like leadership, social media, prospecting, recruiting, and so much more! Bob is the founder of ‘The Legacy Leader Movement’, a totally new approach to building a network marketing business. The core values that guide his work, and the messages on this podcast are - faith, love, service, and growth.

Join us each week and discover how to tap into the power of this purpose-driven approach to building your business!

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383: 4 Steps to Launching a...

09.26.2023

Are you wondering how to introduce a new product to your customers and team, but you aren’t exactly sure how to launch it? In this episode, I share the 4 steps to launching a new product, and I reveal the ...

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09.26.2023 383: 4 Steps to Launching a New Product Are you wondering how to introduce a new product to your customers and team, but you aren’t exactly sure how to launch it? In this episode, I share the 4 steps to launching a new product, and I reveal the ...
09.22.2023 382: Getting New Team Members Started the Right Way Today I’m talking about onboarding new consultants, and I’m giving you some important advice and specific things you must do the moment someone signs into your business to really increase the chances of them having success. When you think about ...
09.19.2023 381: Should You Mention Your Company on Social Media? Recently, I received a question from a community member of ours who is wondering if she should be mentioning the name of her company in her social media content. In this episode I give my personal opinion, which is based ...
09.15.2023 380: Are You Trying to Sell Too Much in Your Content? What is the ‘GIVE to ASK’ ratio of the content that you are creating? This is a concept that we teach our students in Love, Serve, Grow, and I want to introduce it to you today. Asking people to buy ...
09.13.2023 379: Are Network Marketing and Social Selling Dying? Today I want to have a very real discussion around the current state of the network marketing and social selling profession. Is it really dying, and are people just not wanting to do this anymore? People have been asking me ...
09.05.2023 378: Strategies for Prospecting People Face-to-Face For today’s show we’re going old-school, as I reveal strategies you can use to prospect people face-to-face, in real life! In this episode, you’ll hear me share some funny stories and things that I used to do to sharpen my ...
09.01.2023 377: How to Be a Better Coach There are many differences between coaching and training, and for a leader, understanding these differences is key. When coaching is done in the right way it results in real transformations, and in today’s episode, I reveal the simple steps you ...
08.29.2023 376: Successful Content isn't Just Measured Through Engagement In this episode, I want to talk about what defines “success” in content creation, going above and beyond just the likes, comments and shares that your social media post receives. Today I present to you four completely different things to ...
08.25.2023 375: How to Handle the Price Objection If you’re someone who has ever struggled with knowing what to do and say when someone pushes back on the cost of either buying your products or getting started in your business, this is going to be a very important ...
08.22.2023 374: My #1 Tip for Running Coaching Calls With Your Team You could spend hours and hours each week on coaching calls, but are you getting a return on those hours you’re putting in, and are the people on your team actually doing the work? In today’s episode, I share how ...
08.18.2023 373: I Want to Help, But I Don't Like to Sell If you’re somebody who feels called to help and being of service feels really aligned with who you are and how you want to show up in the world, but you just don’t like selling, then this episode is for ...
08.15.2023 372: Do Transformation Posts Still Work in 2023? Transformation posts, or “before” and “afters”, are a really popular type of content that we see a lot of in our community and in our profession… but do these posts still work in 2023? We’re going to dive into this ...
08.11.2023 371: Are You Leading With Love or Fear? If you were to take an honest look at your business, have you been leading with love, or have you been leading with fear? A big part of what we teach in Love, Serve, Grow is putting love at the ...
08.08.2023 370: My #1 Customer Retention Strategy If you’ve been struggling with customer retention, you’ll want to listen because today I share my #1 customer retention strategy, and it’s so simple that anyone can do it and instantly start to see better results! Listen to Learn 3:09 ...
08.04.2023 369: Defeat 90% of Your Competition by Just Doing This Whether you refer to our industry as network marketing, social selling or direct selling, there are negative perceptions and beliefs that exist about our profession as a whole. In this episode, I share a different way of looking at what ...
07.11.2023 368: How to Lead Your Team During a Season of Drought In today’s episode, I share the ways we as a company navigated a recent season of drought, with the hopes that what we learned during this time can help you become a better leader, no matter what season your business ...
06.20.2023 367: Does the Way You've Been Taught to Recruit Feel Gross to You? If the way you’ve been taught to recruit feels gross to you, today I’m sharing an Instagram Live I recently did that walks you through a very powerful 3-step process to help you immediately make a shift and start feeling ...
06.16.2023 366: 5 Things to Never Say in a Business Conversation When you’re having a business conversation with a prospect, there are specific things you should NEVER say to that person, and I’m going to be revealing 5 of them in this episode! Listen to Learn 2:30 - Why asking a ...
06.13.2023 365: When Should You Share Your Business With a New Customer? Today I have another strategic episode for you, where I not only answer the question of WHEN you should share your business with a new customer, but I reveal HOW to do it and what to keep in mind before ...
06.09.2023 364: How to Recruit Business Builders to Your Team If you’re struggling with building a team, leading people to success or just finding higher-quality business builders, this episode is for you, as I reveal how to get out of the “stay stuck cycle” once and for all! Listen to ...
06.02.2023 363: A Better Way to Ask a Customer to Host a Party If asking existing customers to host parties is part of your business strategy, then you’re going to LOVE this episode, as I reveal a better way of doing it than you’ve probably been taught! Listen to Learn 1:48 - The ...
05.30.2023 362: Tapping into the Power of Purpose in Your Business [LIVE COACHING] Today I’m sharing a portion of a recorded coaching session that I did with a Mastermind client of mine, Meg Kozlowski. Meg has found that she’s at a place in her business where she’s kind of lost that passion and ...
05.26.2023 361: Are People Experiencing the Real You on Social Media? Today’s episode is short in length (but not in value!), as I give you an exercise to help you be more authentic and relatable with the content you share on social media! Listen to Learn 1:13 - A goal I’d ...
05.23.2023 360: The Most Important Sale You'll Ever Make in Your Business In this episode, I'll be discussing the most crucial sale you'll ever make: selling yourself on YOU! Listen to Learn 2:03 - What you’re really asking people to do when they join your team 3:02 - Why it’s not just ...
05.19.2023 359: How to Authentically Share a Product Sale or Promotion on Social Media In today’s episode, I’m giving you some very actionable strategies and approaches for authentically sharing a product sale or promotion on social media, all in a transformational way! Listen to Learn 2:04 - The most important question to be asking ...
05.16.2023 358: When is the Right Time to Share Your Business with Someone? In today’s episode, I’m breaking down the art of a sales conversation by using a powerful, live coaching session that will demonstrate the framework to use if you’ve ever wondered when is the right time to share your business with ...
05.12.2023 357: 2 Ways to Double Your Sales By Asking for Referrals If you’re not asking for referrals, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity to grow your customer base, help more people and change more lives, all while being more fulfilled yourself, which is why in today’s episode I want to ...
05.09.2023 356: How to Stay Confident When Your Social Media Engagement is Down In today’s episode, I share a really powerful shift in the way that you should approach doing something different and new in your content if you find that people aren’t engaging with, or even watching, your videos! Listen to Learn ...
05.05.2023 355: Your Most Important Job as a Leader Leadership really does start with you, and in this episode, I reveal the responsibility that you have as a leader to lead your team by example, and to not ask them to do something that you’re not willing to do! ...
05.02.2023 354: If I Started a New Network Marketing Business Tomorrow, Here’s What I’d Do Today, I want to answer a question I consistently get, "Bob, what would you do if you started your own network marketing business?". My answer is based off of 2 things: 1. 10 years of experience as a distributor in ...
04.28.2023 353: The Selfish Hour with Megan Weisheipl Hey everyone! We’ve got a special episode today. Joining me today is my very good, close friend and Director of Coaching, Megan Weisheipl. She is here to share an exciting announcement about her brand new book, The Selfish Hour. We’re ...
04.25.2023 352: When Supporting Your Team No Longer Serves YOU Have you ever felt like serving, supporting, and leading your team is no longer serving you anymore but instead is leading to burnout and exhaustion? If you can relate to this, then this episode is going to be very valuable ...
04.18.2023 351: Is Social Media Dying Right Now? The uncertainty of social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) have imposed a big risk for a lot of businesses, especially for those that rely solely on them. Recent statistics and trends show that social media engagements have decreased dramatically. The ...
04.14.2023 350: Why is it so Much Harder to Build a Business in 2023?! I know that many of you are going through a lot of challenges in your business right now - your sales are down, your results are down. You feel that the business isn’t the same as it was in 2020. ...
03.31.2023 349: Why Do We Keep Doing This on Social Media? I want to challenge a very common practice that I see many, many people in our profession doing: Posting on their public social media when they get paid in their business. I see people sharing – “Just got paid!”, “Commissions ...
03.28.2023 348: 3 Easy Sources of Content for Your Live Videos The trend of social media in the last couple years has been all about short-form content – reels, TikToks, stories… It’s not that there isn’t value in doing that, but I don’t see a lot of people going live anymore ...
03.24.2023 347: The #1 Mistake People Make When Selling Health & Wellness Products When it comes to social selling in the health and wellness industry, people tend to give too much INFORMATION during the sales process. Now, I understand that we do this with good intentions… We believe in our products, we’re passionate ...
03.17.2023 346: Top 5 Consumer Trends for the Beauty Industry The beauty industry is doing very well… in fact, it’s actually proven to be almost completely resistant to recessionary trends. In this episode, I’ll be discussing 5 important consumer trends in the beauty industry in 2023. If you sell makeup, ...
03.07.2023 345: Overcoming the Negative Perception of Network Marketing When it comes to network marketing and social selling, we often hear all the negative perceptions around it rather than the OPPORTUNITY it brings to people. This is a real obstacle that many of you face, making leaders feel stuck ...
02.28.2023 344: How to Share Your Business in a Transformational Way The way you introduce your business to a prospect is SO critically important. If you really want to stand out, there is one important shift that you need to make in your network marketing or social selling business in 2023: ...
02.24.2023 343: Happy People Sing Big News: I’m introducing a brand new, free training series next week... (we’re sill in the process of creating a catchy name for it...). But the bulk of this episode is about how being a parent is an incredibly REWARDING, ...
02.17.2023 342: How to Create a Great Customer Experience Have you ever taken the time to step back and consider what the EXPERIENCE is like for a CUSTOMER that buys from your business? If you haven’t yet, then I want you to understand that improving your customer experience is ...
02.14.2023 341: Delay the Ask We’ve always been taught that when we post on social media there NEEDS to be a STRONG CTA (call to action) on every single post. While there’s nothing wrong with CTA’s, social media has changed in a big way over ...
01.27.2023 340: How to Have a Transformational Sales Conversation As I promised in the previous episode, today I’ll teach you EXACTLY what a Transformational Sales Conversation looks like. I’ll help you understand the right questions to ask and what to focus on in a conversation. I’ll share with you ...
01.24.2023 339: How Social Media has Changed in 2023 Most people are all over the place with their social media content - looking and sounding like everyone with no plan or clarity. It’s the main reason why you’re seeing a down trend in your results. If you haven’t realized ...
01.13.2023 338: My 2023 Predictions for Network Marketing The network marketing industry is full of FEAR recently. Inflation, recession, potential wars happening, prices going up and consumers spending less…. The list goes on. A recent report from Forrester says, “Consumers will be highly selective about which brands and ...
01.10.2023 337: The 3 Levels of Value Creation Welcome to 2023 everyone! I hope you had a really wonderful time celebrating Christmas and New Year. Today we are going to talk about CREATING VALUE. (pssst...check out Episode 333 to learn more about the price value equation) The concept ...
12.13.2022 336: The Secret to Finding Business Builders for Your Team Are you frustrating trying to find committed and motivated people for your team? If yes, then read this: You don’t find business builders. This magical unicorn of a person does not exist. It’s NOT about finding business builders. It’s about ...
12.08.2022 335: A Totally Different Approach to Goal Setting Today, we’re going to talk about goal setting. And before you roll your eyes and hit that stop button, I want to let you know that is not another training about setting goals. This is not about results focused, achievement-based ...
12.06.2022 334: The #1 Social Selling Strategy for 2023 Hey everyone! I'm actually going to share with you a recording of a training that I did. It’s about what it takes to win selling on social in 2023. We talked about this two different styles of selling - Transactional ...

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