So yesterday I asked about whether or not it is acceptable to have private training calls and message boards only for your network marketing team. (See this post)

So far the responses were split.

Some people feel it’s great because it gives them a competitive advantage over other teams. Other people feel that it is a negative aspect of our industry. They feel all training should be open and publicly available.

So here is my problem. I already have a team of well over 3750 people. If I host a training I can fill up a 150-250 person free conference bridge just from my team. If I opened that training up to everyone I’d end up having members of my team who can’t get on because the conference bridge is full.

So am I supposed to open up a training call to everyone? Or should I foot the bill for a bunch of people who joined someone else in the company?

You see on Monday someone called me arrogant because I wouldn’t give them access to my private team training forum. This is a guy personally sponsored by one of the top 10 distributors in our company. His IMMEDIATE upline includes 4 top 20 people, a distributor of the year, and someone who was twice runner up for distributor of the year.

Should he really need additional training? Shouldn’t he have enough training from the 4 immediate upline who are all top figures in our company? Shouldn’t he try and duplicate what these 4 successful leaders are already doing? Why should he call me “arrogant” for not allowing him access to my “team” training web site?

Am I being irrational?

What do you think?

Click on the little number of comments to the right and let me know what you think about this. Is it ok to offer private trainings or forums for your network marketing team? Should I open up and make my material available to those outside of my team or am I slighting my team (and the fact they paid at least $400 to join) by giving this material away free?

I can’t wait to read your responses.

- Ben Fitts

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