Last post we discussed why you want to keep sponsoring until you have four lines chasing you. Here’s the other thing you must know. You want to be having six to 10 lines at the events. Those extra lines are the bamboo plants…
Here’s what that means:
If you’ve ever seen many motivational speakers, then you’ve probably heard them talk about planting and tending to bamboo. If you’re not familiar with the process, you plant the bamboo seed and of course it’s underground. You have to water and nurture it, but you can’t see anything. It’s germinating and growing roots.
You keep watering, but still see nothing. For months. Many, many months. Then when it finally breaks ground, it will shoot up four or five feet very rapidly. And that’s the way people building Network Marketing.
The germination process can seem long and doesn’t necessarily show above ground. But if you’re watering and nurturing, the foundation is being laid. And those are the extra lines you want to have an the events.
Of course you want your four growing lines there. But you also need to have two to six other lines in attendance. They are the bamboo you’re nurturing – that will grow into your next crop of growing lines.
-RG
Fabulous post, especially your analogy of a networking business being like bamboo. Bamboo roots are very strong and can take on a life of their own once they get going… I suppose this is similar to your network marketing businesses downline after you’ve got some key-distributors in place that are real builders ;)
Great post. : )
I have read where it takes as long as 17 years for the bamboo seed to break ground. I live where bamboo sticks that are brown and have no visible green left are stuck, pushed into the ground and literally in days they are growing and in weeks you have a fence or a hedge you cannot get through.
Something about the ground and the way it rains here.
I have noticed that bamboo and humans are different. Takes more humans to get the four needed to build your fence.
I believe it’s only four years, but still, that’s a long time!
-RG
Great analogy Randy, makes since when you put it that way.
I only just heard last week about the bamboo trees seemingly slow growth. A wise plant that understands the importance of building a solid foundation and isn’t so worried about quick ‘results’. Something we can all learn from!
Once the Chinese bamboo tree grows above the ground, it literally shoots up
ten feet in a single week. But if you had stopped watering it at any length while growing roots below the ground, the tree would have died.
If you only plant and take care of four plants if one dies you loose 25% of your team. You must always plant more seed than the harvest you want to reap. Great stuf Randy. Thank you
Very thankful for you and your wisdom. You ROCK RG !!
Great post RG.
Bamboo is amazing it can grow upto 60cm in a single day, as long as the environment is good.
That is why we named the Facebook Application for Network Marketers , Bamboo it allows Distributors to expand their Social Network quickly without the constant chasing & harassing many Distributors do,
Using Bamboo App is like Using the Power of Attraction in Facebook & Twitter.
You have planted my head with a lot of good ideas the last year. But this is on of the best tips so far. WOW
Gracias Randy
Muy buen Ejemplo.
Love this post! I was in such a rush to push the bamboo grow and it was a huge mistake! I put my people under so high pressure that they hardly stood. Consequently, quite a number of my “bamboo seeds” quit even before they broke the ground! Now I have learned how to “keep watering” and let people ample time to grow. I build my network wide also.
Thanks Randy for your great works!
We’ve always said we build from event to event Randy .
- Warren little
I believe so that planting and nurturing a bamboo tree is worth doing like an IR that is building his/her network on a solid foundation. This kind of IR is more concerned on developing a long lasting network rather than having a short term gain. Earning points is not bad but if those were earned out of sacrificing the stability of an organization, these gains are all nothing.