Learning The Art Of Networking

Learning to network is one of the most important things you will ever do. Real networking is the art of building long term relationships. It’s not about how many people you can get to know, it’s about how deeply you know them.

Building great long term relationships takes time, and you need to take that time to allow the relationship to grow before you ever think of asking them to do something for you or participate in what you are doing.

To accomplish anything in this world you need others and they need you. If you think you know it all, you’re wrong and without input, partnership, and guidance from other people you will accomplish very little in your life.

Fortune is in the Follow-Up

There is one tool that I believe every network marketer should have. Most networker marketers think their biggest challenge is getting qualified leads. But I can assure you that the problem is not getting the leads. The problem is what you do with them AFTER you get the leads!

Making sure you can keep track and follow up with your prospects in a timely and organized manner is absolutely key to building a successful network marketing business.

6 Reasons Why I Chose the Oprius Contact Manager

The following is a review of the Oprius Contact Manager and some of the reasons why I chose Oprius. If you want further clarification on the content please leave a comment and I’ll get back to you with an answer.

Oprius is without a doubt the best follow up tool I have used to date.

Yes I am biased.

However, I believe you will agree with me after reading my review that Oprius is pretty much the complete package.

The Oprius Contact Management system was developed from the ground up entirely for network marketers. It has given me the essential tools I needed to automate my marketing strategies, leverage my time, and stay organized. It has helped me with every aspect of contact management from

• lead follow-up
• auto-responder communication
• scheduling calls, emails, or meetings
• creating “lead capture” and/or “landing” pages

1. Everything is in One Place

This is one aspect of Oprius that I love. Before I found Oprius I was using 4 pieces of software. Outlook, Excel, Word and Aweber [an autoresponder].

Outlook has many limitations. Three things I couldn’t find a good work around for that really ticked me off were

• locating prospects quickly. If there was no email address in the prospect details it dropped out of search
• could only search 2 things - name or company in my case
• wouldn’t search across groups

Before I started using Oprius my follow-up was a real shambles with bits of paper and notes everywhere. Worst part - most of it was in my head. As you’ll likely appreciate this is not ideal.

Since I’ve been using Oprius I never lose important details and can easily locate information quickly. This is really important when a prospect phones me and/or starts discussing their hopes dreams and aspirations - their WHY - this is the really important stuff that I absolutely want to record and be able look up again within 30 seconds.

Again [because this can't be over emphaised] because everything is integrated in a single place I can easily find and update any prospect or client file that I’m looking for with ease because all my calls, tasks, appointments, emails, and list mails are integrated in one place which helps me run my business like a professional.

2. Stress Free Calling

Making my phone calls is stress-free with Oprius’ unique phone assistant. Oprius came loaded with customizable phone scripts that were provided by the Queen of Cold Calling - Wendy Weiss. I have modified these and added my own as I needed.

I often find myself phoning other countries and time zones. This used to be very confusing. The way I used to over come overcome this problem was to load my prospects into a spreadsheet that sorted by country/zip codes. Apart from being a lot of work to load data into the spreadsheet it was not foolproof. Having someone yell down the phone “It’s 4am f….**!! off” was not an experience I enjoyed.

I don’t have this problem anymore as Oprius has an excellent feature that lets me know what the local time is where I’m phoning. So no more embarrassing moments.

3. Stay in Touch

I am now able to effortlessly stay in touch with the people who matter most to my success by using the Oprius stay in touch reminder. Even when I am away from my computer I am never late for a call or appointment because Oprius sends a reminder text message right to my cell phone.

4. Import Contact Data

One thing that really tipped the scales in favor of Oprius was that there was no need for me to re-enter all my contact information again. Oprius has this great little wizard that effortlessly imported my data straight from Outlook/Excel so I could start working right away.

5. Complete Video Guides

The built in tutorial videos, detailed help system, free live weekly training webinars, and toll free support number, have been a god send because I now don’t “sweat the small stuff”. If I need to find out something I go look it up or phone someone. If my team need to find out something I point them at this step by step resource and they go do it themselves.

What a time saver !!

6. Oprius is Intuitive and Very Easy to Use

After the initial set-up I have found my Oprius system is a breeze to use. Most of the time I don’t even need to go search the video’s to answer a query because it is so intuitive to use.

Here’s the kicker. If you have a system that is proven to work for your business it can become the template for your downline when they are ready to invest in Oprius. And I don’t just mean the $14.99 per month after your free 30 day trial. I mean the worry free time saving. This translates into less stress and more income because nothing can slip through the cracks.

Oprius offer a free 30-day trial [without having to enter your credit card], so I’d recommend you take the time out to take it for a test drive by going to: Oprius Contact Manager. Alternatively watch the Oprius Video first to see all the awesome features that will help you to improve your follow up and build solid relationships with your clients and prospects - just like it has done for me.

Don’t forget to tweet or post your comments on Oprius below after you have taken your 30day trail or if you are already using the Oprius prospecting follow up system in your business

To your success….

Simon Smith

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