Critical Network Marketing Books For Success

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Once you enter the network marketing industry, you need to discipline yourself into reading network marketing books.  It is a habit you need to develop.  It is not enough to attend meetings, join webinars, or even listen to your mentor or upline.

These forms of training give you the skills you need and help prepare you for the work ahead.  Network marketing books, on the other hand, provide you a larger perspective of the industry and give you tons of information that your trains may not necessarily have.

Get In The Habit Of Reading Network Marketing Books

Another advantage of network marketing books is that they are written and published by proven leaders in the trade.  These are the giants of the multi level marketing industry.  Their books share the insights, knowledge, and hard-earned learnings that they had accumulated over their lifetime.

If the industry were an army, your upline and local mentors may be like captains and majors who handle large battalions and are assigned to capture certain significant fronts.  On the other hand, the authors of the network marketing books are like generals who have seen and won their fair share of  immense battles and can speak with greater authority on the subject.  Your local uplines have a local perspective; these authors have a national or international viewpoint.

How many network marketing industry books should you read?  If the printed word is not your cup of tea, or if you prefer net surfing to actual reading, try reading one a month.  And then try to increase it to two books a month.  Once you have developed the habit, maybe you can read one book a week or one book every ten days.

Every time you read those network marketing books, take notes.  Your mind won’t be able to absorb all the knowledge.  Write down your thoughts about what you read on a notebook or the margins of the book’s pages. If you have questions, write them down, too and try to find the answer in the book later on or through your upline.

Some of these network marketing books have online versions.  They are available through Amazon’s Kindle or Barnes and Noble’s Nook.  You can download them and read them at your leisure in your tablet or computer.  They also have a built-in feature that will allow you to jot down notes at the side.

Start Off With These Network Marketing Books

To start off your list of network marketing books, check the list of the most popular ones among the prominent book Web sites or bookstores.  You may also ask the advice of your upline.

No need for you to reinvent the wheel.

These bestsellers are proven and have helped thousands of multi level marketing practitioners like yourself worldwide.  If they are good enough for your colleagues, they are good enough for you.

In choosing your network marketing books,  start with the most obvious one:  “Network Marketing for Dummies” by Zig Ziglar and John P. Hayes.  This is an important read especially if you are a newbie in the industry.  It covers every major topic that you need to know, from the basics of the industry to recruitment, sales, and compensation plans.  More important, its prose is simple, clear, precise, and fun to read – you will understand the business including its more complicated aspects thoroughly without losing yourself in the jargon.

Among the top network marketing books is one that should address an immediate concern that every network marketer has:  Michael Oliver’s How to Sell Network Marketing Without Fear, Anxiety or Losing Your Friends. This book revolves around the four main principles that make the law of attraction – whatever energy or outlook you project into your work returns to you and influences the outcome of your plans.  You sow doubt, and you will reap disappointment.  You sow goodwill and confidence, you  open doors of opportunities.

Always on the list of top network marketing books is Mark Yarnell’s “Your First Year in Network Marketing:  Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams!”  This one teaches you what you can expect as a newbie, the challenges you will encounter, and the responses that will help you overcome them.

Finally, no list of network marketing books is complete without financial guru Robert Kiyosaki’s “The Business of the 21st Century.”  This one shows in its entirety the landscape of the network marketing industry, its huge potential, the major players and how every single member can contribute to its success and theirs.

Network marketing books are a part of your training; include them in your to-do list if you want to grow in the business.