No matter what you do for a living, the more you know about the people you associate and communicate with, the better you can understand their wants and needs. It is especially useful to try to gain members for your multi-line marketing (MLM) business. As the saying goes, choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic or optimistic, know the temperament of your MLM recruit.
Everyone in the entire world has certain definite personality traits. Some take to computers like ducks to water, while others can put pen to paper and show off their skills as artists or poets. Still others may be the class clown, while their opposites will not say their own name unless tricked. Which brings me to the point of this article; To maintain the gift of the word, we need to be able to identify with whom we are speaking.
As a recruiter for an online business, you need every advantage possible because there are so many people trying to get people to follow them to their sites. No matter if you are working with, for, or just meeting for the first time, there are certain traits you can look out for if you are also trained. When you know how to judge what characteristics people have, relating to them becomes easier!
In order for people to follow your lead, you need to earn their trust, and there are so many snake oil vendors in Cybertown that no one is sure who they can trust. Until you meet them, you are just another person on Skype or on some website looking to pick their pockets. You have to look like a genuine person, not a plastic person who wants their plastic.
To decipher people you have to identify their personality; everyone has a different personality unique to their character. In online circles they use the color system and it is much easier to pronounce than medical terminology.
Phlegmatic=Yellow
Melancholy=Green
Choleric=Red
Sanguine=Blue
Phlegmatic/Yellow: Introverted/Want to make friends/Calm down/Patient/Controlled/ David Letterman is one
Blues/Green: Introverted/Needs facts and figures/Analytical/Pessimistic/Socially insecure/Jerry Seinfeld
Angry/Red: Outgoing/Stay out of the way/Born leader/Emotionless/Aggressive/General Schwarzkopf
Sanguine/Blue: Outgoing/Must have fun/Cheerful/Spontaneous/Must be front and center/Robin Williams
There is so much information about the choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic and sanguine characteristics that I will try to write at least one article for each one. Then you will know the temperament of your MLM recruit, or at least have a general idea of what to look for! There may be combinations of two or more; some people are characterized by a distinctive temperament and a mixture of others!
This can be invaluable as you develop the skills to differentiate temperaments and apply the traits to the people you hope to recruit! I will document the differences in my next articles, until then, choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic or optimistic know the temperament of your MLM recruit! By the way, I’m Blue/Green or Sanguine is my dominant temperament with a strong second to Melancholy.