Zeek Rewards Affiliates: It’s Time To Promote YOU Now

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

The recent news that Zeek Rewards had closed it doors this past week sent shock waves through the network marketing and biz opp industry. Now that the dust is starting to settle, here are a few things you can do now so you don’t get burned in your next (or current) business opportunity.

The situation with Zeek Rewards closing its doors in not unique in our industry.  Companies, for one reason or another, close their doors leaving customers, distributors and investors holding the bag.  Is it fair? No. Did people get hurt? Yes. But it’s just business. But there are things you can do to protect yourself from getting hurt the next time you decide to jump into a business or opportunity.

Affiliates and distributors often times put their hearts and souls into a particular product, service or company only to be disappointed when the company quits on them, leaving them holding the bag.

Shocked and confused, the surviving distributors are left to themselves to figure out what to do. They oftentimes find themselves alone in an ocean of other “opportunity seekers” and quickly become shark bait for all the other predatory opportunists who start pitching them on “the next big thing.”  Many teams start to disintegrate as their associates and affiliates are “lost at sea” to other opportunities.

Now I don’t know if this has happened to  you, but I have been there, done that and bought the t-shirt!  Yep.  I have spent months building a down line in another program, only to see them disappear when the companies closed shop. It wasn’t any fun! And I won’t make that same mistake again.

The biggest mistake people make is that they promote the program, the business or the opportunity, but never got around to promoting themselves as a leader, serving their people.  People get started with a company to get what they want, but they stay with it because of the people they want to work with.

A Zeek Rewards Servant-Leader

I will give a classic example.  I know of one Zeek Rewards leader who build a strong following by leading with value and providing training and support for his people.  He was there for his team and his people knew it.  When Zeek Rewards collapsed, he was in constant contact with his team on SKYPE, doing webinars and putting up recorded voice calls, providing them with instant updates as soon as he had them. His people were in the know. . .  not in the dark. Because of this, his people put their trust in HIM, not in the opportunity. No one can come along and pull them away because they will follow their leader into his next opportunity.

So what should you do?  First of all, make the decision that everything you do from this point on promotes YOU first. Build a team, not someone’s else’s company. That way if someone pulls the plug on your opportunity, you still have the relationships you built, instead of a bag of unused bids that suddenly became worthless overnight. When you create the relationships first, the down lines will follow.

Lesson Learned From Zeek Rewards:
Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket

The sad scenario I have hearing over and over again is that for some Zeek Rewards affiliates, this was their only source of income.  Their lives are being turned upside down because the money tree has died and they do not know what they are going to do next.

The first time this happened to me I resolved never to put all my eggs in one basket and set out to develop multiple streams of income.  That way, if one goes away it may hurt for a little bit, but you know you have several other sources of income still coming in, as you continue to build more for the future.

The Solution

If you have read Mike Dillard’s “Magnetic Sponsoring” course he teaches you how to build a sales funnel that leads with value (an attractive free offer) to build your circle of influence and then take the time to develop a relationship with those who follow. However, most people do not have the time, energy, money or resources to create such a funnel on their own and start to look systems other people have developed to help them do it.  You are looking at one of these systems right now – The Empower Network.

If you haven’t taken the time to explore the Empower Network yet, you won’t find a more complete system than what is offered right here. You can learn more by accessing several of the free videos on this site, simply by clicking the tabs or banners you see on this page. You can learn how you can position yourself as a leader and start building a following rather than just building  the “next big thing.”

I encourage you to take a few minutes to watch at least one video.  I promise you will learn something.  As you watch the videos, think to yourself, “If this kind of value is offered just in the free stuff, what kind of value will I get on the inside?” All I can say is, “More than expected!”

To Your Success!

Steve Scoresby

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