{"id":23511,"date":"2018-12-17T00:27:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T05:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlmnation.com\/?p=23511"},"modified":"2019-05-08T20:17:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T01:17:30","slug":"503-doug-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlmnation.com\/503-doug-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"503: How to Approach Successful People and the Importance of Timing by Doug Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.simplecast.com\/d6639bad?color=f5f5f5\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cI get up every morning, bright and early. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. And so I go to bed early. I get up and grind it out and just keep on going, no matter what.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doug Parker has learned first hand the importance of duplication and he shares the tools he uses to achieve it; invitation, presentation, and validation. Throughout his career, he has found that sticking with the basics is a critical technique for growth. Doug also describes how to recruit up and he details the process of onboarding a prospect from start to finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Who is Doug Parker?<\/h1>\n<p>Doug Parker grew up in rural East Texas and became an entrepreneur at an early age. In the last 20 years, he has led multiple companies to success including a financial services company that was chosen by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in America.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, one of his employees introduced him to network marketing in 2013. Doug was impressed and got started with the goal for his MLM business to create an extra income stream to cover all his monthly expenses and to send his two kids to college.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Doug is a network marketing leader who leads an organization of over 2,000 consultants and over 4,000 customers. He\u2019s a National Consultant, a Top 50 Income Earner in his company and has won multiple awards for a billion dollars company.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"a-b-r-La\"><\/pre>\n<h1>One Habit<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I get up early and grind it out. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Best Advice<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not about addition. It\u2019s about duplication and multiplication. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fortune is in the follow-up. <\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Favorite Quote<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou can have everything in life you want if you will just help other people get what they want.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Zig Ziglar<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Recommended Books<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2R1pjnS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cSee You At the Top\u201d by Zig Ziglar<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2God9RY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDisrupt You\u201d by Jay Samit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Recommended Prospecting Tool<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conducting a phone call with the prospect while they are watching the corporate videos. At the end of that process, I ask them a series of questions that either leads them to getting started or asking questions, which I can then turn into a three-way call. <\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Recommended App<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zoom<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slicktext.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slick Text<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Contact Info<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/douglasparker.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personal website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambitiousradio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ambitiousradio.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Show Ambassador<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colette Lefaivre<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/clefaivre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What Did You Learn?<\/h2>\n<p>Thanks for joining me on the show.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>So what did you learn?<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>If you enjoyed this episode please share it on social media and send it to someone that needs extra motivation in their MLM business.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Do you have any thoughts or comments?<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Please take 60 seconds to <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mlm-nation\/id978189040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leave an HONEST review<\/a> for the MLM Nation Podcast on iTunes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Ratings and reviews are extremely important for me to make this show better.<\/p>\n\n<p>Finally, don\u2019t forget to <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mlm-nation\/id978189040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe to the show on iTunes<\/a> so that you get updates and new episodes downloaded to your phone automatically.<\/p>\n\n<p>Subscribe to\u00a0our show: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/mlm-nation\/id978189040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5wb2RjYXN0bWlycm9yLmNvbS9tbG0tbmF0aW9u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/show\/mlm-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stitcher<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5wTKx60413amxvAqp85WT5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Business--Economics-Podcasts\/MLM-Nation-p1183276\/?topicId=129356680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TuneIn<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/mlm-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff \u201cI get up every morning, bright and early. 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