What Do You Do If You Have a Lousy Upline?

Too bad about networking is that often you cannot choose your uppermost upline. The guy just earns money from your efforts but doesn't do anything to help you. Worse, he even does silly things that affect you and other downlines negatively. So, what do you do if you have a lousy upline like that?

Complain?

Complain is the last thing you should do. Well, there are times when complaints are justified, but not always. Often it just adds to the problem. You just prove that you are as sick and a pain in the neck as your upline is. Some downlines rebel against or bad-mouth their leaders. That's not clean network marketing.

Request Change of Upline?

Requesting to be transferred to another group is not a solution. It will disturb the whole system and even mar the image of the company. So beforehand, know the nature of the group you're joining into. And anyway, most uppermost uplines are like that--useless to you. So why bother? It would be a never-ending transfer if you look for the perfect upline. There's none.

Be the Exact Opposite

Just be the exact opposite of your lousy upline. Determine to help your downlines, and the greatest help you can give is to train them well in the business--product and marketing. And you can only do this if you are yourself well trained. An expert. Only experts can train others. So study well the product and marketing and attend training seminars. Forget about what your upline can do to you--and which brings us to next very important point.

Forget about Your Upline

Forget him or her. Just do the business. Build up your own team. Build up from 7  to 10 people under you who would also build up others to be like them. Be the leader you hoped your upline would be. So, what do you do if you have a lousy upline? Produce your kind of the upline from your trainees.

Don't Perpetuate Yourself to Active Leadership

Be the leader, but don't perpetuate yourself to that role. Imagine if all your downlines would just rely on you to the business for them, leading them and taking initiatives for them. You'd surely die. They'd kill you! Train others for leadership. Give them roles and responsibilities. When they're fully functional, then you can have some rest and free time for yourself. They should train others who would train other people for leadership. Make it a goal to have a team of leaders--and righteous leaders at that! That's what clean network marketing is all about. That's powerful righteous network marketing!