If you had to tell us your story, where to develop myself. Confused and depressed, I enwould you begin? tered a company to clean houses. I didn’t like that In my childhood, definitely. I loved working with my grandparents at a little retail store they had in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico. My grandpa used to pay me with bubble gum, but then I sold all that bubble gum at school. I got in a lot of trouble for that, but I just loved sales and being in contact with people! After finishing high school, I went to study at University of Guadalajara, 160 miles away from Uruapan. Then, I started working at a big telephone company as a saleswoman and later I was promoted to sales manager. I got married and in 2000, my husband and I migrated to the United States, where our daughter was born some months later. My life changed completely. I went from being financially stable to having nothing. Due to unexpected circumstances, I had to stay in the US, where the only person I knew was my father. He gave us a place to stay while we settled. My husband started looking for a job, but finding one was really difficult. My daughter was growing and so were our expenses, so I started to look for work too. I found a job at a dry-cleaning business in our neighborhood, which was perfect, because they allowed me to have my daughter with me. I met many people in that place and started doing catalog sales on the side. Everything was going well until, all of a sudden, I started to feel tired and depressed. Surprisingly, I found out I was pregnant. I had to leave my job, but I kept in contact with the dry-cleaning customers. Then, I started a daycare for their children. I kept doing sales, but I was always looking for a better option, even though my husband found a steadier job, where he was paid better than me. That was good, but I am a woman who doesn’t like to depend on anybody. I’ve always worked hard to get what I want and now I had two more reasons to fight: my children. I felt frustrated, because I knew I had the abilities to make more money, but I couldn’t find an area
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job at all, but I did it. After some time, I realized I was working a lot of hours for very little money, and I couldn’t even take care of my children. Finally, in 2015 I joined a network marketing company and that’s how my life changed “from tragic to magic.”
What was it like to get started in network marketing?
It was not easy. The person who enrolled me was not really committed to the business. But that didn’t stop me. I saw how other leaders worked and I wanted to get similar results. That was my goal. I started developing my abilities through audios and seminars, and as soon as I enrolled my first direct partner, I shared with her all I’d learned. I found a great mentor, José Luis Pastrana, who taught me Armand Puyolt’s Five Steps to Success, which is an incredibly effective method to follow. Then, the creator of the Five Steps, Armand Puyolt himself, became my second mentor. Thanks to these two leaders, who are now my friends, I found the way to real financial results and to building strong networks.
Can you share us those five steps to success?
Of course! First, keep the product with you all the time, so you can share samples and complete retail sales on the spot. Second, look for prospects, which means starting conversations even with strangers. Third, follow-up. Nowadays, we have dozens of ways to keep in touch with someone: a phone call, a text message, and so on. Fourth, classification, which means separating prospects who want to stay as consumers from the ones who want to join the business. Fifth, duplicating this process with all my teammates.
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