Read The Entire Ann Sieg Interview Transcript Below:

Vince Reed 0:00 – 0:02

Network Marketing Nation, Episode Seven.

Ann Sieg 0:03 – 0:15 (sound bite)

But boy, oh so satisfying far and above the money, quite honestly, is to know man, I’ve got bankable skill sets that I can turn money out of thin air.

Vince Reed 0:15 – 0:25

You’re listening to Network Marketing Nation, where six and seven figure top earners share their stories. My name is Vince Reed, Internet marketing trainer and coach. Prepare to be inspired.

Vince Reed 0:35 – 1:57

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Alright, I’m extremely excited, I’m here with the one and only Ann Sieg. Ann Sieg is an author, speaker, trainer, and top earner in the network marketing industry. Ann has been featured on numerous radio programs, media outlets, books, and other publications. Her true passion is educating and teaching others how to be successful. Ann has developed a unique ability for helping beginners overcome their obstacles that are holding them back from reaching their goals. Her training has created an unparalleled number of success stories. Ann is one of the top earners in her network marketing company and has made over $20 million in her career. In her most recent network marketing company, she became the number one recruiter in less than six months, earning her a brand new Jaguar. Now she’s here on Network Marketing Nation to share her six and seven figure success story with you.

Ann how are you today? Are you ready to rock and roll?

Ann Sieg 1:57 – 2:00

I absolutely am, I’m doing awesome and how are you today, Vince?

Vince Reed 2:00 – 2:09

I am awesome and it is an honor and pleasure to be here with you. I’ve been a fan for many years and I’m excited, I know the listeners are going to get a lot of value from you.

Ann Sieg 2:09 – 2:16

Thank you and likewise working with you. We did a promotion, I don’t know, a year ago or so and that was a lot of fun to work together.

Vince Reed 2:16 – 2:30

Absolutely. So you know, obviously, I just shared a bunch of cool and amazing things that you’ve been able to accomplish over your career.

Is there anything I left out that maybe you want to fill in the blanks or share more that people don’t know about you?

Ann Sieg 2:31 – 3:19

I guess I’ll just mention my background. I raised three boys for which they’re all grown up. At the time of this recording, 25, 27, the eldest will be 31 really soon. All my boys have worked in my business and currently my eldest son is my business partner, my youngest son works for me, and my middle son – we just had a trip to China – and he now lives in China. So I’ll just say I run a family business and I just really appreciate the family economy and I built my business around my family economy and it’s through that that I’ve been able to reach these really amazing accomplishments. It was so not by myself, just saying. But through that collective effort with my family.

Vince Reed 3:19 – 3:28

That’s awesome and that’s the beautiful thing about this industry; the freedom and the time to do those types of things. At least that’s why I love it and obviously it sounds like the same for you as well.

Ann Sieg 3:28 – 3:30

Yep, absolutely.

Vince Reed 3:30 – 4:01

So tell me, let’s kind of move into some of these awesome questions. So you’ve made obviously millions of dollars in this industry and one of the things that make you I think special is you’ve done it in network marketing, you’ve done it as an affiliate marketer, creating your own products, events, you’ve done so much and you know,

tell everyone listening what it feels like to have reached your goals and to be able to say you’ve made $1 million in this industry.

Because I know a lot of people get into this industry with that in mind, and I just want them to know what that feels like to be able to hit those kinds of numbers.

Ann Sieg 4:02 – 6:04

Well, it’s I suppose surreal. I mean, it’s all happened so long ago, so to speak. When things really scaled is when I came online and it was a very remarkable zero to hero kind of thing just by being able to leverage the Internet. So here it’s funny, my eldest son was over this afternoon and talking about the span of our development and our accomplishments, like our first event and what our offer and up sell was. And now the way we’ve progressed so much since that time, the biggest take away for me really is the skills that I’ve developed, primarily from the perspective – I’m a baby boomer woman – women tend to outlive men. And so my mindset has always been, I’m in continual skill-building mode because I know it’s through my skills that I’m able to better secure my financial future because it’s a very progressive space and you really do need to keep learning. I rarely sit still, I have a very strong driving ambition – I don’t know how to account for it, but it is what it is. I’ll just say I am highly energized by the accomplishments but I don’t .. I continue to progress. And it’s really fun. I hope this is a good take away for folks. It is really empowering to go through that learning curve, and it can be very arduous, but boy, oh so satisfying far and above the money, quite honestly, is to know man, I’ve got bankable skill sets that I can turn money out of thin air, basically. You know, put it on my list, etc. I know the formula and it was well worth learning, so very empowering skill sets that yep, they took time to learn, but every bit worth it that I can take this into my future. I can’t impress upon people strongly enough the importance of that.

Vince Reed 6:04 – 6:40

Absolutely, absolutely. Understanding that when you learn these things, you’re not just learning it just so I can make money today; these are skills that you can take with you and continue to impact people for years to come. That’s awesome. So you know, the next question is an interesting one because everyone getting started, you know, they’re competing with a lot of distributors and reps and people that are doing the same things as them. You know, tell the listeners why a person would want to join your team.

Is there something that you guys do that makes you guys a little bit different than other reps or distributors or companies out there?

Ann Sieg 6:41 – 9:26

Yep, it’s two-fold. Number one, I have to say because I’ve been online for 11 years and I actually got in network marketing direct sales – here we go, here’s the number – 28 years ago. So I have a long span of time and history that gives me this really broad perspective. Without exception, people must be in a strong community. I have an extremely well-developed community that started with a funnel – it was an MLM – I was building four years ago. And so Facebook, group pages, this kind of thing which they vary tremendously from page to page, etc. and how the group has managed. I develop leaders. I have a leadership .. an entire platform. My latest development in that is called TLC Mastermind with Ann Sieg. I develop leaders and it takes a really unique ability to do that. It takes a lot of love and patience, care, devotion. Quite akin to raising a family, which I’ve done. So they all … personally, I believe that I just don’t know of many entrepreneurs that can make it on their own and network marketing isn’t even designed to be a make it on your own gig; it’s all very … networking, it’s people. So anyway, the community is definitely a huge hallmark. Secondly is within the marketplace is the need to be able to differentiate whether you’re doing that locally, online, it really doesn’t matter. And where I had my big turning point was learning how to differentiate by leading with value, education pieces. This was offline, it was a health awareness seminar that I did. But I’ll just say with that understanding, I also – with all the programs I built online since ’07, ’06 – is I set up my own affiliate system for them, for my own “reps distributors” so that they can have that differentiation in the marketplace rather than relying on the company standard marketing pieces which can vary from company to company. And the biggest issue there is saturation, it becomes fatigued and very boring. They see the same old, same old and it’s company replicated websites, so just to recap: they’ve got to have a really healthy community, by the way. A lot of communities tend to be those bravado, ego-pushing or ego-strutting kind of stuff and it’s real annoying. So my leadership team, it’s a servant leadership kind of community, so they’ll be well-served and cared for and groomed up to be leaders if they so choose. And then our own marketing system that we provide our folks.

Vince Reed 9:27 – 10:15

That’s awesome and just for everyone listening, this is something that is a progression and if you notice, one of the things I really like that you said earlier on was that you keep even to this day developing new skill sets that you then can share down and another thing you said that was powerful was that you develop leaders. And if you’re getting into this profession without that mindset, if you think it’s just going to be about you and .. it’s the wrong industry for you. So keep those things in mind. So moving forward, you know, obviously it’s clear why people should get started with you: you’re investing in yourself, you’re basically walking the walk, you’re in the trenches, and you’ve got a lot of experience.

So with that experience, if you could go back in time, you know, what piece of advice would you give yourself when you got started?

Ann Sieg 10:15 – 12:15

Well, I would say the best piece of advice that could have been provided to me: MLM, network marketing, oftentimes is pitched as a get-rich-quick. You know, I mean it’s you come in starry-eyed, and by the way again, this is going back to 28 years ago. But I’m a hard worker, I’m realistic and I’m willing to put in the hard work. But I think a framework from the onset is to set realistic expectations that you’re now going to be in skill building mode. And I like myself to be treated as a grown up with the true framework and not be falsely mislead. And I think people have really appreciated that about me over the years is that I give the straight up on people, so that doesn’t feel like a lot of phony bologna and they’re just being misled. So for me, because my background is education, my parents were etc., give me the true framework. I’m good on that. You know, you tell me I’ve got skill building ahead of me, I’m good. Added to that is you have to develop salesmanship. We sell stuff, and some people are uncomfortable with that, they flinch, this that. They have to step up and develop salesmanship. So I would say know that your company probably can’t cover all of that; in fact, it’s almost a given. And so seek outside help and support relative to the skill building because who knows to what extent internally what that company has to truly offer, like anathema against internet marketing, for example, and I just flat out wouldn’t go with any company that doesn’t allow me to do that. But you’re going to have to know, you are now in the salesmanship space, and get excited about it. It’s a blast, I love it, I really really love sales. So fall in love with sales, reach out, and get outside training for it as appropriate.

Vince Reed 12:15 – 12:33

Absolutely. Now here’s something interesting, and I’m always curious to know the answer to this.

You know, how did the first person sponsor or recruit you onto their team or bring you into this industry?

How did that conversation go? Because I know that person was a pretty lucky person to have Ann Sieg on their team.

Ann Sieg 12:33 – 13:52

Well I didn’t end up growing a big team with that one, this is now offline as we say. But this is 28 years and my boys – well, I only had one child at that time and I was pregnant with my second one. So anyways, in our neighborhood they had, it’s called, Walk to the Highway or something like that. We have a high bridge that leads across the Mississippi River. Anyways, I’ll just say they had vendors for several blocks, 12-15 blocks, etc. And so this little gal had her little table where there was a free offer. So that free offer – we didn’t have opt-in back then, 28 years ago. But it wasn’t opt-in in this way. I would get a free facial if I gave her my name and contact info. And there was no email address back then, just my phone number. So it was the free offer thing and by golly, then my name went into the fish bowl and I was going to win a free facial! And little did I know that was her lead generation method, you know, I was just kind of naive to things and she followed up. She called me and invited me – I think I had the facial first and what do you know, next thing I’m going to a business opportunity. It was Mary Kay, by the way, was my first MLM or direct sales. But so that’s how I got recruited.

Vince Reed 13:51 – 13:56

Wow, was it difficult to get you in or right when you saw it, were you like, “I’m in”?

Ann Sieg 13:56 – 14:33

I was pretty open, I mean, to this day I’m a very open-minded person. I don’t fall in the camp of, you know, there’s a lot of negativism out there and I just don’t feel that way. I feel the world is filled with opportunity and I’m open to it. So I wanted to advance our family and so I jumped in. And my husband has always supported me in everything I’ve done. I don’t have a negative husband deal going on, so I’ve been really blessed that way. But I like opportunity and I’m willing to try and if I fail, I guess it is what it is and I move on.

Vince Reed 14:34 – 14:53

Awesome. So tell me your worst story of rejection. Was there ever a time like when you got started – I know you said you obviously have a lot of experience.

Was there ever a time where you talked to someone and after that conversation you just wanted to hide under a rock?

It was just the worst story of rejection you possibly can remember in your career.

Ann Sieg 14:54 – 16:13

I was actually going out to eat for my middle son’s birthday and going out for pizza, and this was my offline MLM, the last one so to speak that I built offline before I came online and this had a whole bunch of product lines. So anyway, I was unashamedly out there with my recruiting practices. So it’s my son’s birthday and there’s the waitress and I’m eyeing the waitress, gonna hit on her, you know? And so my boys are watching this and I could see my two younger ones were too embarrassed and they got up and left. Like, she’s going to go into her deal. I mean that’s how shameless I was. And so sure enough I got her contact info, which I’m sure she felt pressured, you know, she’s the waitress. And then I followed up with her and she was going to law school and you know, sure there was rejection but more it was embarrassment that kind of sort of ruined a birthday dinner. So that was really what bothered me more was being just so in that mode turned on at all times and now doing it online, I get to be in the offline world and have peace and not deal with that kind of stuff. But that was a negative experience.

Vince Reed 16:13 – 16:18

Absolutely, so having the family kind of disperse.

Ann Sieg 16:17 – 16:22

Yeah, they didn’t want to see my pitch and they were just like, “We’re out of here.”

Vince Reed 16:22 – 16:51

So you know, those are all great learning lessons. If you can deal with that and you know, you’re going to be successful. And that’s kind of why I lead into the next question because if you have success, you often have a lot more rejection than you have people telling you yes.

So what’s your best story of success for yourself and maybe for someone on your team?

Do you have a person who’s done some amazing and for you personally, what would you say is your number one success story?