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Like Annabelle, many people doing network marketing feel alone and want someone to work with that is not their upline. If they don't find anyone they'll just become another NM statistic.

Crazy idea:

Find a cross-company buddy. After all, aren't we all really in the same boat?

We experimented with this in the New School program. Cross-company people did calls together - someone from Herbalife buddied up with someone from Shaklee. Someone from Arbonne teamed up with someone from Neways, someone from NuSkin teamed up with someone from Pre-Paid Legal,..etc.

We started with Cold Cadaver Calling. That's practicing on local cold market folks to improve your own speaking skills - like medical students practice on cadavers to learn where the lungs are, before they operate on YOU.

How'd it go? Here's from Connelly, a gent who'd never done cross-company anything before:

"Kim,

I teamed up with Bernie and Nicole for some Cold Cadaver Calling (CCC). This was the ONLY way I was able to do my first CCC. Bernie went first and I listened...After Bernie made some calls, and a few screw ups, I got the courage to do it.

After I made a few contacts with Bernie on the line and a few screw ups, I found that no one tried to take my head off. Then Bernie and I teamed up with Nicole and we did more calls. We all helped each other with rough spots in our scripts and delivery. Each time it got easier. Now, I can make a CCC anytime.

Through the contacts I've made in the class and on NMC, I hope to be able to take my newbies and do cross-company calls with those people. Cross-company is great. It lets us see that our opportunity is not the only one and that it isn't the only greatest thing since sliced bread.

"I learned a thing or two about some new great products. Ann and I were scheduled to do some buddy calling. Instead, we got to know each other and each other's products. I bought some cat food from her company.

"Cross-company also helps us by giving us a neutral person to objectively critique us. We can focus more on helping our newbies instead of thinking, 'Oh no, my newbie should have had that one. We missed a sale. I missed a commission.'

"Kim, the cross-company buddy idea is brilliant. Thanks for sharing it."

With that kind of reaction from the participants, we just offered it to the Network Marketing Central members. The cross-company buddy program is on the house to any NMC member.

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