The Christian Network Marketer's Podcast

This past week we launched the Christian Network Marketer’s Membership site and you can check it out at cnmcommunity.com/members. We put together a whole course on what God has to say about goal setting, planning, mindset and other related topics that come up in network marketing. We review how to make goals that actually work and some of the dangers of some goal setting ideas out there. We even talk about how to help your team reach their goals and how you can be a better coach. Each month we will create new content on how to integrate God and your business. The membership site is only $22 per month and you can cancel anytime, but we hope you won’t.

Today’s interview is with community member Anna Keck, and we talk about how she has seen God working in her, and in her business. This is such an awesome story and we hope you are encouraged and inspired by it. You can reach out to Anna via email at [email protected]. Thanks for listening.

James 1:9

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.

We are often quick to take rejection (customer or team member not doing something) personally, or get frustrated. Our first response might be to “overcome the objection” but what if we were quick to listen? What would that sound like?

Earlier this week we heard a passage from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book Life Together.  And today, I want to focus in on one section.  Listen as I read the following:

“Christians…so often think they must always contribute something when they are in the company of others, that this is the one service they have to render. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking.”

Proverbs 18:13 

He who answers before listening, that is his folly and shame.

Spending the first major part of your sales presentation listening is the key to connecting with customers, and explaining your products properly once you understand the customer’s situation.

Earlier this week we heard a passage from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book Life Together.  And today, I want to focus in on one section.  Listen as I read the following:

“Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God’s love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear.”

Proverbs 18:13

He who answers before listening, that is his folly and shame.

It’s time for a heart to heart, from your customer. Please stop giving me unsolicited advice and shoving your solutions down my throat. Are you not sure what to say when you hear that I have a problem if you aren’t going to tell me how amazing your product is? Listen to today’s business tip for the answer.

As we focus our time in prayer this week, we are going to be talking to God about a passage from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book Life Together on listening and the role of listening in the Christian life.

“The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God’s love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear.

So it is His work that we do for our brother when we learn to listen to him. Christians, especially ministers, so often think they must always contribute something when they are in the company of others, that this is the one service they have to render. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking.”

“Love with no agenda.” That’s Kristen’s new motto. And without an agenda, she accidentally rank advanced. What?!?!? Take a listen as I chat with Kristen Ferguson, one of our CNM Community members and we chat about what God is doing in her business.

If you would like to reach out to Kristen, you can email her at [email protected].

Also, be sure to sign up for our Goals, Mindset, and God mastermind at cnmcommunity.com/2017goals. We will pray about our goals, talk about goal setting in a way that lines up with Scripture, and answer questions we have received about meditations, mantras, and how to help our team reach their goals. It’s only $22 and you can learn more at cnmcommunity.com/2017goals.

Philippians 2:12-16

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,  for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

We can’t just “stop complaining.” We need to replace this bad habit with a good habit, which is to celebrate impact and wins. Listen to today’s tips on how to purposefully build positivity into your routine with your sales, your interactions with your team, and in your coaching sessions with your team.

Philippians 2:12-16

“Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.  Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.’ Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.”

Self-control is not something that we do by just working harder.  It is God working in us.  Such hope to know we don’t do it alone.  Listen in.