Hey there Mr LegacyMan, thanks for your reply 
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"Hearing no is a very common in MLM business, you can't have
everyone saying yes right."
Its common when MLM is done the old way. I remember sharing an MLM
biz op with my family, very difficult it was. Got the typical
response, "scam scam". Another fellow I know was told by A*way to
show the plan..just show the plan and they will join. He found an
opportune moment to show the plan to 4 friends in a Spa, and he
quit the same day.
"Consolidate contact list is just one of the way for find people in
your current network."
Good way to start. Then send all these people to an autoresponder.
Use an auto responder to follow up with these people, let them call
you when they are ready, because when people call you instead of
you call them, it cuts down the "Nos" that you have to
endure.
"Buy leads is out of the questions, but cold call is optional
too."
I guess I belong to the category where cold calling is difficult
for me also. Building a relationship out of thin air is not the
easiest thing to do.
"I think no matter what business you are doing. You really need to
network around no matter its to know more people or introduce your
business.
If you do not like network or talk to people, how you gonna get
deals ?"
Networking is important, but networking in the MLM context is a
little different because there is a stigma about MLM. However, if
you introduce your MLM biz as an Internet Biz Op, where sales are
made over the internet with a credit card, it breaks down the
initial barrier people will have toward the MLMer.
Respectfully,
Bahama