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What Is Network Marketing?

2009-01-29T03:06:00.000-08:00

Author: kevin quigley

To begin with, the concept behind network marketing is simple. Sharing - through product or business philosophy - is the basis of network marketing.

Network marketing is a multi-billion pound industry involving millions of independent business people around the globe. Large companies like Gillette, Colgate-Palmolive, Kleeneze Europe, AT&T and others, have all turned to network marketing because of the very real edge it gives them in both domestic and international marketing.

Network marketing is a 'BIG' small business, which offers everyone, with or without business experience, the opportunity to start and run a home-based business that works. It is the last frontier where 'the little guy', (people like you and me) can make it BIG.

NETWORK MARKETING Vs TRADITIONAL MARKETING

The traditional way of marketing products is to move them from a manufacturer through a network of middlemen. National Wholesalers, regional wholesalers, Cash & Carry warehouses, retailers, - the 'middlemen' - all add their 'valueless' percentage to the price of the product.

By the time the product or service reaches you, the end user, you're not only paying for the product, but a percentage of the price for each and every middleman in the network.

In network marketing there are no middlemen. Instead of paying them, a network marketing company will pay you for whatever amount of product you cause to be 'moved'.

As a sole individual operating alone, the amount of product or service provision you could 'move' from your own efforts, would be relatively small. In network marketing however, the amount you 'caused' to be moved indirectly could be huge.

Here then is the essence of a network marketing compensation plan. For not only will you be compensated for the product or service provision you personally cause to be moved from your own direct efforts, you will also receive indirect compensation for the product or service provision that your 'organisation' 'causes' to be moved.

YOUR 'ORGANISATION'

To be successful in network marketing you will need to build an 'organisation'. That is to say you will need to 'share' the benefits of both the products/service provision and the business opportunity with others. In network marketing this is referred to as your 'downline'.

The 'serious' money to be had in network marketing is to be had from what is termed as 'over-ride' commissions from the 'movement' of product or service provision from the 'downline' your 'sponsor' will help you to build.(In network marketing it is the responsibility of your introducing 'sponsor' to help you build your 'downline'.)

All you need to do initially to build a 'downline' is to 'share' with others the information about the products or service provision and the business opportunity on offer.

Theoretically, if after 'sharing' the information with others and you subsequently attracted just five SERIOUS individuals who decided to join you in your network marketing business - for illustration purposes only - your 'downline' could equate to the following after five levels of geometric growth:

7 Easy Ways to Make More Money in Network Marketing

2009-01-28T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Daegan Smith

7 Easy Ways to Make More Money in Network Marketing

Hit a snag lately? Haven't been able to recruit any new agents? Is you network marketing job paying less and less because you can't generate any sales? You don't have to fret! With these easy network marketing tips, you can revitalize your sales pitch and methods in no time at all!

1. Contacts

Remember that your contacts are your most valuable asset. Who are your contacts? The people you see on the streets? Your next door neighbor?

When considering whom to invite, try those closest to you first. This is because they are most likely to be more open to your suggestions and will be willing to do you a few favors (such as buying that detergent you are hawking). The great thing about this is that they will really mind plunking a few bucks to help jumpstart your business. And when they see that you are doing well, they could very well join you as well.

When you run through the whole list of you clan, what will that leave you with? You will of course have to go to those people that next in line with regards to closeness or affinity to you. And what if that gives out too?

You can always adopt a friendlier stance and chat up that neighbor you never talked to. You could meet new people on the bus and on the train. But remember, you have to like them as people first. Don't go about and look at them like walking piggy banks. People will know if they are being looked upon as 'things.' Always regard them highly and get to know them. Build their trust. The truth is, the friendships you build will be the true reward, and the sales will be just a side dish.

Always ask for referrals from your contacts. This is another sure way to increase your prospects.

2. Believe

If you yourself do not believe in your product, chances are you won't be able to sell it to others. Remember, nothing promotes a product better that a satisfied customer. Let others see you using the product. Say glowing things about it. And most of all, let all that you say be true. If your customer finds out you weren't being honest, you could ruin your business relationship.

When you choose a network business, take into consideration their product. See if you can believe in it and pitch for it effectively.

3. Recruit the right people

Don't just recruit anybody. Make sure the people you recruit share an unbridled passion, and tireless work ethic with like you. If you don't chances are, they will drop out of the networking business and you will not be able to build your downline.

4. Don't force the issue

When trying to close a sale, don't force the issue. If you do, people will get suspicious as to why you are doing so. Are selling them counterfeit items? Are you only interested in your profit and not in your customer's satisfaction? Always keep this in mind: the customer always comes first. Please them, and the profits and windfall from these relationships will follow.

5. Look the part

When recruiting others, you can't say, ""You will get rich with network marketing,"" and look shabby all the while. They'd say, ""I thought you got rich from this thing, why do you look like you didn't."" People will want to see a visible sign of success. You are their only reference point. If you are not convincing as a successful networking agent,

6. Hang in there

Perseverance is a virtue. If money grew on trees, you'd still have to wait for them to grow. Remember the old adage: try and try, until you succeed. Remember that your goal is not to just to get money, but to build upon a good income generating business.

7. Evolve

Don't be satisfied thinking that your techniques at recruiting will forever be effective. Although there are basic principles that should be followed, you can forever improve on your techniques. Today's society is constantly evolving. If you want to catch up with them, you have to evolve in your marketing strategies as well.

Try 'Em

Try these tips. They are sure to give you more confidence in your network marketing strategy!

About the author: Daegan Smith is the leader of the fastest growing team of successful home business enterpernuers on the net. Find out how we're creating financial freedom all across the globe and how to get in on the action FREE =>http://www.comlev.com and author of Internet MLM Success! - ""The Next Revolution in Network Marketing!"" =>http://www.internetmlmsuccess.com

How to avoid the top 5 time wasting activities in your internet mlm home business

2009-01-27T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Joel Teo

Many people love to build their internet mlm business from home on a part time basis. Therefore because it is part time so you need to really be very focused before you can earn serious amounts of money. This article highlights 5 major time wasters in any internet mlm business and explains how you can avoid them somewhat.

Paralysis by analysis Any one who has been building an internet mlm business for sometime will have realized by now that there are 101 internet mlm business ventures online. Most if not all of them have the same concept or rewarding those who refer more people than others. A good idea would be to spend time finding one program that has a monthly payment fee that is acceptable to you and work hard to build that business.

There will always be greener pastures out there and unless you focus and learn what it takes to build one business, you will always be running off to the next best thing without making any money online in your internet mlm home business.

Cold lead calling An internet home based business has the advantage of online lead generation. If you are not using an automated followup system you are seriously wasting a lot of time. Link an automated followup system to your landing page for whatever business venture you want to be involved in and then once someone signs up, your system goes to work and helps them get started.

There is only one of you and if you were to spend time calling cold leads that you purchased off the internet, you might as well join an offline mlm business. Focus your time on generating more targeted website traffic to your internet landing page and start seeing more targeted signups and visitors to your business.

Get rich quick schemes There are many types of scams online. Some of them promise you that you will start making money quickly online. The problem with this is that those that do promise you fast riches also tend to be ponzi scams that run off with your money. You are therefore better off if you spent your time focusing on mlm business ventures and working to promote them. The top internet marketers like Stone Evans, he develops profitable business websites and then spends his energy promoting these websites.

Its all about promotion really in any internet home business. The more leads and people you generate from your promotions the more money you make. Teach your downline this and you will find them thanking you a lot later.

Million Hits Traffic Generation schemes Following from the previous point, some people therefore think that the more website traffic the better their sales. They end up joining some traffic generation scheme and spent their day clicking on traffic exchanges. Personally I think this is a waste of time if you do not do it correctly. Everyone on such exchanges is a business owner and therefore unless you can show your business is better than theirs, you will not get any signups.

Others waste time by purchasing million hits from companies that claim to sell website traffic. These typically are popunder and popup advertising. Most people today online are tired and sick of such ads and as a result their effectiveness online has been dropping.

What works then? Article marketing and Pay Per Click Advertising. Spend time online reading about these two methods and you will start making money online.

Molly cuddling downlines The very basis of an internet home based business is that you want to get downlines who are serious in building a business. You want to attract people who can work on their own and make money on their own. Spending time managing your downlines is the biggest mistake any internet mlm business owner will do as your downlines will start emulating you and your business will not work. Your downlines should be spending their efforts on promotion and not managing the business as this is the basis of network marketing. Teach them that you treat promotion daily as an important thing to do and ask them to do likewise to build their internet mlm business.

In conclusion, like Steven Covey states, first things first. Like any top CEO of a company, spend time on profit making activities first and other less important things second. Take massive action today on the ""right things"" and start seeing massive profits online.

About the author: Joel Teo is the successful owner of several successful internet business ventures. Click here to learn how you can start your own successful internet business today. http://www.massive-profits-online.com Copyright © 2005-2006 Joel Teo the Coolest Guy On The Planet

Network Marketing Training- The MLM Success Secrets of Explaining Your MLM Comp Plan

2009-01-26T03:05:00.000-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

Money.

That is what drives the MLM industry. The quest for a better life, a better future, and a better income.

Why did you join your network marketing company?

For something to do?

Yeah -- right.

That is why 99% of all folks who enroll in MLM companies join -- for a better lifestyle. And the hope of making more money is what drives the network marketing industry.

Every MLM company has a way they pay their distributors, known as a ""Compensation Plan."" Or ""Comp Plan"". Your company has one and that is how you are paid, by the volume you have created by the Comp Plan.

You go out, and create Volume of sales, and you get a certain percentage of the sales. Most plans focus on the sale, or movement of mlm products and services to the marketplace, and that is what drives the wealth vehicle of network marketing.

There are different types of Network Marketing Comp Plans, and there are many more Hybrid forms.

But generally there are 5 different types, and you need to really understand the Plan that your network marketing company has.

The 5 Basic Kinds of MLM Compensation Plans are:

1)The Stairstep 2)The Unilevel 3)The Binary 4)The Breakaway 5)The Matrix

1)The Stairstep

The Stairstep is a simple plan that has requirements that you must meet to get up the ""Stairs of Success."" Each stairstep is a promotion based on Volume usually, and each promotion you make more money. Usually you must qualify each month for the rank you obtain to get paid at that rank. And the stairstep usually has a number of levels it pays down to.

2)The Unilevel

The Unilevel is a simple ""Number of levels"" that the MLM company will pay you, and usually there is no promotion or rank. You make money by getting a certain override off of the volume, and usually there is a requirement of volume to qualify for a check. Most affilaite programs operate this way.

3)The Binary.

The Binary is an interesting design for a Comp Plan. It usually has 2 ""legs"" that you can have ""Business centers"" in, and you have a volume requirement to get paid on each leg. There is what is called ""balance"" in the Binary. You must balance in some form the volume from each leg to make sure you don't have a runaway leg. One leg explodes, while the other one sits idle. You must balance the two, and you usually can override the same volume a number of times with different business centers.

4)The Breakaway.

Some forms of this plan have become somewhat unpopular in the industry, as you can lose the business in a leg you build, once it gets to a certain level of success, and it ""breaks away"" to no longer be a part of what you get paid on. Some other forms do not have this feature -- you can keep your business in every leg, even if it gets to the breakaway point. Depends on the type of stairstep you are usiing. It usually is a stairstep type of Plan, but I have seen it in others as well.

5)The Matrix

The matrix is a computer driven plan that people are placed into your group by computer, and they go in the next available slot. Usually this plan is combined with some form of a Binary, and it does work well if there are a lot of people that are recruited. When you recruit someone, the computer searches down for the next open slot, and positions them there. There are some plans that allow you to override the computer's selection if you want them to go a particular place in your downline.

Ok...so now you must see what kind of plan you have. See your upline if you have any questions at all, and get familiar with the plan you have and how it works.

INFERNO Secret:

DO NOT get too complicated on telling the mlm plan to someone. Keep it simple and make sure they understand that they CAN MAKE MONEY with it, as that is their greatest concern.

They are thinking, ""Can I make money with this? And is anyone else doing it?""

Generally, when you talk about an MLM Comp Plan, you will want to mention 4 general areas about it that many people will want to know about.

1)The First area is Retail Profit.

You must show the prospect that they can earn a retail profit with your products and services...usually it about 40- 50%...

2)The Second Area is Team Overrides.

This is where, just like a Real Estate broker, or Insurance Broker, you can develop a team of Reps and help them become successful, and get paid a certain % of override off of them, just like the Real Estate and Insurance Brokers do. You are sort of a ""Master Broker"" for your company, and help others do the same thing. This is where most people have trouble with MLM. They don't understand that what we do is just like a Real Estate or Insurance Broker, only better.

3)The Third Area is Leadership Bonuses.

This is where you help develop Successful Network Marketing leaders in your group, and you get an additional bonus or override from your group. You get rewarded by helping others develop their Leadership -- the most fair compensation in the world.

4)The Fourth Area are Rewards -- like trips and cars.

This area is a favorite among Network Marketers. Once you have reached a level of success, many companies will give you an additional car payment money, and also take you on trips that you can qualify for -- a great incentive to work!!!

Be sure you understand the components of your MLM Comp Plan. This was just a VERY General Overview, and that is all.

Again.....KEEP THE Network Marketing Comp PLAN SIMPLE.

The More Simple you keep it, the more powerful it becomes, as does your MLM and Network Marketing Success!

blessings...doug

Chain of Fools

2009-01-25T03:05:00.000-08:00

Author: J Square Humboldt

It seems the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval has been replaced by Oprah Winfrey when it comes to a validation of credibility ...

Having said that, if I'm not mistaken, all the former ever meant was that the product or service in question paid to advertise in Good Housekeeping magazine.

Still, in the vast anonymity of the cybermarket, a claim of credibility is vital to those who wish to convince us to send them money. Via her phenomenonally successful syndicated television show, Ms Winfrey's excellence at accurately portraying causes, incidents and situations has earned her a lofty mantle as the Anointess of Authenticity.

We can even see this phenomenon at work on the Longer Life Group's website that hosts my column, as there are products advertised which espouse her name. That's fine, of course, as it's easy for us to discern that the claims of these products are real in that respect (eg- Bob Greene really is her personal trainer). They are, no doubt, good products. If I ever feel the need to lose ten pounds in thirty days, I'll give them a try.

However, in the wild world of cyber-commerce, it seems that some salesmen decided to take a shortcut in this process. They figured it was good enough to merely claim their product was featured on Oprah.

As you've maneuvered through the spam and detritus of cyberspace, it's odds-on you've seen this headline:

'As Seen On Oprah! Teenager Makes $71,000 by Mailing a Simple Letter!'

The sales pitch relates the tale of a kid who diligently sent God-knows-how-many chain letters and wound up with a closetful of $10 bills, or something like that. The pitch goes on to state that this story was also featured on an American newsmagazine, 20/20, and featured in the Wall Street Journal. However, those outlets are merely there for support. It's Oprah that gives this story 'legs,' as they say in the movie business.

The object of the exercise is to induce you to buy into the chain by sending money to one or more of the names on a five-deep list, then removing the top name and adding your name to the bottom, so you can take your turn at collecting all that cash. You're surely aware of the drill.

In theory, this works to an exponential level. Then again, in theory, so does communism in mass society.

Need I say more?

From my research, it's false. Untrue. Never happened.

I went straight to the source and posed the question to the staff of Oprah, asking if any teenager ever appeared on the show and told how his chain letter made him $71,000 or more. Here's the e-mail I received:

""Date: 10 Oct 09:04

""Dear Viewer,

""We don't find any Oprah Show that talked about anyone making a fortune on a chain letter. References to chain letters include the cabbage soup diet, Mrs. Fields cookies and the Angel Network.""

""Thank you,

""Oprah Tapes and Transcripts""

While I do admit a temptation to start a chain letter in hopes of receiving sackfuls of Mrs Fields' cookies by associating it with a real e-mail from Oprah's staff --- after which I would click on that ad featuring Bob Greene so I could buy his weight-loss program --- my common sense tells me that it just wouldn't work.

Still, the purpose of making such claims is to attempt to override your common sense, to get you to think that if Oprah gave credence to the story, then perhaps there is something to it. So, when the 'target' amount they want you to pay is set at the price of a couple of beers or a handful of lottery tickets, the hook is well and truly baited.

What a logical way for you to lose a few bucks! And you will. Whether you send out letters or e-mail, you will lose your money and look silly to your recipients while doing it. Again, we'll discuss that next time.

For now, suffice it to say that as far as this story goes, I'm convinced that Oprah never aired it. The only reference we'll confirm is that Aretha Franklin sang it.

'Chain of Fools.'

About the author: J Square Humboldt is the featured columnist at Longer Life's website, which provides information designed to improve the quality of living. He's at http://longerlifegroup.com/cyberiter.html

MLM Training - Don't Sell Your MLM Business Opportunity Short, Sort Your Way To MLM Success!

2009-01-24T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Richard Knight

Have you ever fallen into the trap of trying to ""sell"" your MLM business opportunity to everyone you call? Or dread calling leads because you're wondering, how you're going to sell ""all these"" people on your MLM business opportunity?

I know alot of MLM Business Owners do this when they first start out!

In my early MLM days my goal at that time was to tell (sell) my prospects on what my opportunity could offer them if they joined or signed up.

But as I later learned, all I should be worrying about was what they (my prospects) could offer ""MY"" business if I decided to enroll them. Which should be your mindset as well. Because as you'll soon realize. . .

It's 10x Easier To ""Sort"" Than To Sell Prospects On Your MLM Business Opportunity.

And that's because, your job as an MLM prospector is not to sell your prospects anything. Your job is to simply weed out the ""Looky lous"" and ""Tire Kickers"" from your list.

And let's face it, not everyone is a Prime candidate for your MLM business opportunity. Because if that were the case, we'd all be making Six Figure Incomes lightning quick.

In fact, it's been said that more than 50% of the population are not fit to be in business for themselves. And what's even more frightening is that the majority of these people, ""Don't Even Know It"".

See, when you try to ""sell"" these types of people, they'll simply string you along, waste your time, your energy, plus your valuable effort simply for the both of you to ""Painstakingly"" find out later on down the line that they weren't fit to be in your MLM business opportunity or ANY Home Business Opportunity, for that matter.

But when you ""sort"", you weed these people out from the get-go. No guesswork, no wasted time, no wasted energy, and best of all no one to waste your time. And that's because when you sort these people out of your list, what you have left is worth it's weight in Gold. People who are ready to change their lives, not just some curious on looker who filled out a form.

So needless to say, the sooner you know how to ""Sort"" prospects, the easier your job as a prospector will be.

5 Key Attributes Your Prospect MUST HAVE Before You Show Them Your MLM Business Opportunity

1 .Desire - They must have some type of ""Passion"" for making a better life for themselves. They need to possess the drive to do ""whatever it takes"" in order to reach their goals. In other words, they have to want to be successful because no one else can force them.

2. Money - Money usually follows desire. If there is enough desire, money is typically not an issue. But let's face it, they need the money or be able to come up with the money in order to purchase your business kit or enroll in your MLM business opportunity.

3. Critical Thinking - Did your prospect review and understand the information? Did the information generate questions? If so, that's a good sign.

4. Decision Making - Can your prospect make the decision to get started if all her questions are answered properly? - If they can't make a Yes or No decision after evaluating your opportunity and getting their questions answered, they're just wasting your time.

5. Instructions - If your prospect has done what you've instructed, then it's fair to say that he or she can follow instructions. And if they can't follow simple instructions now, it'll be a big ""Waste of time"" working with these people later on.

Keep these 5 attributes in mind as you go through your monthly lead list. They'll save you a whole lot of time and will help you find MLM Business Owners that are less likely to be pulled and more likely to be motivated along the way.

When you prospect in this manner, you lead in with strength. It's not about you or your MLM business opportunity... its not about what the prospect said or didn't say in her survey form or pre-screen call... it's not about any of that. It's simply about whether the person is ""wired"" to be in business for themselves or not. If they are, then help them get the information that will allow them to make an educated decision.

It's as simple as that!

We're all looking for Heavy-Hitter MLM strategies that the Big Boys and Big Girls use. Well this is one of them. They don't waste their time trying to pull ""everyone"" into their business. They know who's right and they know who's wrong for their business.

They know all you have to do is find a few ""Right"" ones and they're business will kick off to a flying start.

So remember, ""Don't Sell Your MLM Business Opportunity Short, Sort Your Way To MLM Success!"". Your job isn't to ""show"" everyone your opportunity; it's to ""sort"" everyone who's right for your opportunity from those who are not.

About the author: This article has been written by Richard Knight, founder of 45 Second Prospecting. Richard teaches struggling Network Marketers, and MLM Distributors how to close any MLM prospect in 45 seconds or less with his proven formula - Enroll in his FREE course today. . . http://www.45secondprospecting.com/free-course.htm

Opt-in MLM Leads: An Overview

2009-01-23T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Jimmy Sturo

In multi-level marketing (MLM), or network marketing, the MLM business owner recruits other independent distributors into his or her network. These prospects are called MLM leads, because they have shown some interest in the business opportunity. One of the best ways to contact potential customers or recruits is via email. The MLM business owner, however, must take precautions against sending ""spam"" or unwanted emails to people that are not interested. Thus, opt-in MLM Leads are the best prospects to contact via email.

What does ""opt-in"" mean?

The term ""single opt-in"" means that a subscriber chose to sign up for information from the sender of the email. The term ""double opt-in"" means that the subscriber has confirmed his or her subscription by responding to an automatically generated message sent to the email address. Using opt-in MLM leads give MLM business owners better prospects. One way to ensure the greatest number of opt-in MLM leads as possible is to use a leads capture web page.

An MLM leads capture page is a professionally designed web page designed to encourage people to request more information from you about the MLM business opportunity. This type of web site is valuable in generating MLM email leads, because the web site visitor is already interested in the business opportunity that the company is offering.

While a simple web site registration page may provide space for entering name and contact information, this may be an opportune time to inquire about the person's interest in the business opportunity. This task can be accomplished through a short survey included in the web site registration. The MLM business owner will then have the advantage of knowing that the lead is interested in the business opportunity, and that he is in a position to pursue it.

About the author: MLM Leads Info provides comprehensive information on MLM lead generation and lists, as well as email, opt-in, free, genealogy, targeted and local leads. MLM Leads Info is the sister site of Lead Generation Web .

MLM Success Training- How to Find High Probability MLM Prospects

2009-01-22T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

MLM Success Training- How to Find High Probability MLM Prospects

by Doug Firebaugh

Now that you have come up with a list of at least 50 names in your network marketing contact list, you have gotten started.

INFERNO Secret:

If you do the Memory Jogger WITH THE NEW PERSON-you will get at least 50% more names than if they did it by themselves.

You must RATE them to see who the ""High Probability"" prospects will be.

What is a ""High Probability"" Prospect...?

GLAD YOU ASKED!

It is simply the person in your MLM Memory Jogger who will most likely be more likely to do some form of business with you then not...and you need to call on them first to get some immediate success.

Most of the time it will be people who will truly want to help you and want to see you succeed, and they may be few, or you may know a lot of them.

Many people waste their time on ""Low Probability"" MLM Prospects and it can discourage you, and frustrate you from day one.

Ok.

What do you do to rate them?

You need to ask 7 questions, and rate them 1-5, with 1 being low. And 5 being high.

These are the questions:

1)Does this person care enough about you to help you if you asked them to no matter what?

2)Does this person have a contact base that they have credibility in, and would be willing to call them?

3)Is this person open to new ideas and open to change in their life?

4)Is this person happy and generally positive with their life?

5)Is this person ambitious and willing to work?

6)Is this person open to at least trying a new product to help you?

7)Would this person let you practice a presentation on them to help you?

These are the questions you need to ask yourself about the person. If they score between 30 and 35, they are a very HIGH Probability Prospect.

If they scored between 25 and 29, they are marginal.

If they scored lower than a 24, they may be a good customer, but probably not a very good distributor.

But understand:

Human nature is a very funny thing, and there will be folks that score high, that may not be as good as you think.

And then there will be others who will score lower, that could possibly rock your network marketing world and mlm downline.

But generally speaking, the rating system was very accurate when I was in the field, and usually right on, but again, there were exceptions to the rule, as there are ALWAYS exceptions to the rule in MLM.

The first question is the most important.

If they truly care about you, they will do what they can to help, and a lot of the time, the ones you think won't be open to helping, can be.

Rate your Network Marketing Memory Jogger and then call the High Probability prospects...you will be glad you did in MLM and Network Marketing !

blessings....doug

Associated Myths in MLM

2009-01-21T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Joseph Then

The MLM business is so popular among people that some of them are totally ignorant about the fact that it takes hard work and days of sweat to make it big. There are number of myths associated with MLM business. Whether a person is a fresher or an expert, anyone hardly knows about MLM business in depth. Some of the associated myths are:

Online MLM business makes lots of money in just one month

This is the most destructive myth among the lot of many such myths. People think it is the fastest method of getting rich. They pool in some money from here and there and invest them in MLM business. After a series of failures they realize that it's not just the money that is lost but time too. Only the established and experienced people earn about $ 1000 in a month or so. All those who start from the grass root level can never earn this much initially.

Companies lure by giving attractive ads

When some companies big promises it simply means that if you follow them you get ruined or the company gets ruined in a couple of years or so. Imagine you had made some residual income and lost it after a short span of time. How would you feel? A genuine business should multiply its own money and not divide it with time. Try to stay away from such lucrative but destructive ads. Don't believe them unless you find them out yourself. It can be fatal.

The more sales you make the more you generate money for yourself

The fact is totally opposite of what people think and say. Too many people come together and help each other but in the end make too little sales in MLM business. Distributors make money initially, sometimes quickly, by recruiting family members and friends etc to form a big downline. They get hefty commissions in return, that is how they make quick money. Gradually, all of them start losing all their money; simply because they couldn't mange to sell the product and all there effort and money go in vain. The bottom line is that you make money by enhancing your downline and not by making sales. Sales are the rare possibilities in MLM business.

You are the first member of the company's family tree and you construct the organization downwards

People jump and grab the opportunity thinking that they are going to be the director or the head of all the people they bring in to form a downline. They carry this attitude to work too and suffer all the more. Only with the passage of time do they realize that they are at the lowest level and there is no one actually superior or inferior to them. Ultimately they find out that there is actually no one in the organization. They begin and end at the same level. The factor or the attitude that works in MLM business is that everybody is at the same level. All of them should help each other and contribute their share of hard work to build the company.

In building a home based online MLM business, initially your work would demand you to bring in few but efficient people and provide them all the motivation and aid so that they make sales. Once the team is established and a helping attitude takes firm hold in the team, half the battle is won. To further build your organization just put in your heart and soul to it, nurture it, and let it grow naturally. Then there's no looking back. You would definitely make a mark.

About the author: Joseph Then operates Sign ups company that helps thousands of online MLM marketers increase their downline for the past 5 years. They have served over 3,000 customers with over 50% as repeat customers. You can visit the site at http://www.trafficforless.com

Multilevel Marketing - Benefits & Drawbacks

2009-01-20T03:06:00.000-08:00

Author: Chet Holcomb

If you've ever dreamed of running your own business from home, whether on a full or part-time basis...and are good with people but have very little business knowledge, then Multilevel Marketing (MLM) may be for you. This is especially true if you have a minimal amount of start-up cash.

MLM companies provide a product or service to the consumer via a network of ""independent"" distributors, who usually work from their home.

Reputable MLM companies also provide a low start-up cost, all the training you need, advertising in one form or another, and supply you with a product line-up or service to sell. They also allow you to recruit other distributors and make commissions on their total sales.

The United States Federal Trade Commission, however, cautions anyone from joining a MLM company that pays you for each distributor you recruit, as opposed to only paying a commission on the total sales they generate. This is called 'Pyramiding' and is illegal.

The U.S. FTC also encourages you to thoroughly research a MLM company before signing on the dotted line, and not to sign anything under pressure, but instead, take time to consider all the details. You can check out their Multilevel Marketing Caution Web Page at: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/pyrdalrt.htm. On this page, they also list seven checks you should do before making your decision whether to join or not.

Research is always an important component of any business venture and considering a distributorship with a MLM company is no exception.

Searching the Internet under ""Multilevel Marketing"" returns a recipe of results. These range from government agencies, general information web sites, encyclopedia type sites to a host of disgruntled, former MLM distributors. People who are ""pro"" MLM don't write web sites on the topic because they're usually too busy building their network.

THE GOOD SIDE

Here are some of the benefits of finding a reputable MLM company:

- They have an established and very marketable product line or service, and strive to improve or add to the existing line-up. - Recruiting new distributors will be a streamlined process, and the company will not be involved in Pyramiding. - As a company, they will have a solid track record and good work ethics. - No experience will be required. A good MLM company will provide one-on-one training, as well as motivational seminars and a full compliment of training materials. After all, in Multilevel marketing, when one succeeds all succeed. - A reputable MLM company will be ""Family"" rated, meaning that crude conduct is not tolerated. - They will provide an excellent bonus plan with many incentives for those who excel. - Well-established MLM companies should be able to provide you with resource material to aid you in not only product sales but in recruiting. - They will have minimal start-up fees. - A strong support system. - You will be led by example. - Healthy team competition. - There will be a successful business and marketing plan in place that can be successfully duplicated by others, assuming they apply themselves to the plan and are motivated to succeed. - There exists the possibility of full-time or part-time commitment.

These attributes would definitely belong to an ideal Multilevel Marketing Company, however not all reputable companies excel in all these areas. Some companies will be better in certain areas than others. Do research on the company. Don't just accept the motivational hype used by most MLM companies in order to recruit.

Some MLM distributors are so highly trained that they have a ""come-back"" for almost every statement you make or concern you have. This would be considered a 'high-pressure' invitation to join. Always take time away to cool off - especially if you're excited by what you heard. Sit on your decision for a while and do research. If the company is good, they will still be there when you wake up tomorrow; and yes, you will get a follow-up phone call.

THE DOWNSIDE

While the MLM model can be a great tool to achieve what you want in life, it would be remiss not to mention the downside.

- It is easy to get 'taken' by a disreputable MLM company. Do your research. - If you plan on developing a network - a ""downline"" - it will cost you more money than you realize and take you longer than you think - although this is slight compared to the cost and time required to start up a traditional business. You will spend a lot on resource and training materials that you will end up giving away to prospects and to your downline distributors. - You might spend a lot of money on fuel for your vehicle, meals out, hotel rooms or neck surgery from sleeping in your car. - Some companies insist on a minimum monthly order to maintain your distributorship. - Some companies only pay you for recruiting other distributors and not on their total sales volume. Beware, as this is called 'Pyramiding' and is illegal in most countries. - While you may initially be led to believe that the products sell themselves and that you can make a lot of money with little effort, beware. Most businesses, whether they are traditional, online, or MLM, take a lot of energy and effort to make them successful. Consider a rocket: 60 - 80% of the fuel is used just to raise it a few inches off the ground. - Be ready for a lot of rejection. Approximately 80%+ of the people you contact will turn you down. - It is easy to get caught up in the 'dream' and overspend because, ""Winners always find a way."" It is also easy to be pressured into 'willingly' spending beyond your means. - It could very easily become your life's vocation, with everything centered on it. Some distributors even refuse to attend family weddings etc., because it falls on the same date as their MLM seminar. - Also, like most businesses, when you begin you will be spending much more than you make.

The final judgment: Most business entrepreneurs face the question, ""How much am I able and willing to lose if it doesn't work?"" That is the question you have to ask yourself before you get into Multilevel Marketing.

And of course, what do you want from life and what are you willing to do to get it?

If you enjoy helping others succeed so that you can succeed, are willing to take the risks associated with being in business for yourself, even on a part-time basis, and are willing to put in long days, then Multilevel Marketing may just be the tool you are looking for to achieve your business and life goals.

Here's to success!

About the author:

About the Author Chet Holcomb of http://www.internetpromotions.biz is a successful marketing expert providing advice for web marketers and webmasters on how to promote your website, or product using marketing tools that work. You may reprint this article if all the information/links are kept intact and unchanged.

Success In Online MLM Business

2009-01-19T03:05:00.000-08:00

Author: Joseph Then

Meaning And Functioning Of MLM

Multilevel marketing (MLM), also known as network marketing, is a method of marketing one's products and services through a network of independent distributors instead of selling them through the conventional retailers.

Online MLM business is mushrooming day by day. With the increase in the number of people accessing the Internet, there have been immense opportunties for businessmen to market their products on a large scale. This perfect combination of time and opportunity has been exploited to the maximum in establishing and promoting the concept of online MLM business.

It is one of the most popular businesses as you can start it from home itself. The success of online MLM business lies in the fact that working from home gives you the liberty of working according to your comfort level. There is no one you are answerable to, it is not time bound and the best thing is that you are your own boss. The risk involved is worth it only if you are willing to work hard.

All it takes to do an online MLM business is a little bit of planning and hard work. If the business runs there would be no looking back. The biggest advantage of a network marketing company is that it generates a strong network of members and makes the entire business powerful. The concept of residual income is helpful in working from home within few years of getting into an MLM business.

Functioning of MLM

In a multilevel marketing business each distributor is supposed to perform two tasks. One is of selling the products or services and the other of bringing in some more distributors to sell the company's products or services. A chain of distributors is set up as each new recruit is supposed to do the same two tasks. The entire set up is like a family tree of an organization.

If a distributor sells the products, he or she is given his commission. If the distributor introduced by him or her also sells the product then he or she gets commission on those sales too. If the distributors meet their specified targets of sale they get performance bonuses too. Each distributor helps all those under him or her as he or she benefits from their sales too. This makes them united and helps the company on the whole.

To start an online MLM business first and foremost get registered with one of the MLM firms of repute and sell its products. Some businesses that you can consider for online multi-level marketing are:

- Marketing, advertising, consultation and some management work on computer.

- You can also sell some goods by retail over the net. There are websites of big MLM companies that allow distributors to sell the product via those sites.

- Business related to travel and tourism is the best option for online MLM business. You can sell holiday packages yourself or you can get it sold through distributors.

This is not the whole truth. You need to know some more things about MLM that would help you, sail through critical times and make you successful, for sure. Some of these are:

- You might not find the perfect people who would be qualified and would have enough money to invest in your business. Some might take it for granted and will not be at par with your efficiency and level of working.

- There would be other set of people who would be in a hurry to make it big and get rich. They might find everything boring and slow initially without putting in the right amount of hard work. They would get impatient. You have to learn to deal with all these and be patient.

- Apart from these people, definitely there would be some who would stick to your business. Expansion and contraction of downline are the part and parcel of this business. Your success depends on your perception and hard work.

MLM Training- The Secrets to a Successful In Home and Party Plan Meeting

2009-01-18T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

Network Marketing Training- How to do a Successful In Home Meeting

by Doug Firebaugh

In Home meetings (Private Business Receptions) are a great way to introduce your new MLM business to your warm market...and of course, there is a right way and a wrong way to do them.

What is a Private Business Reception (PBR)?

It is when you invite people over to your home and have a ""social-business"" network marketing meeting for about an hour or so, and dispense information to your friends about your mlm business and products and services.

It is a powerful way to create some ""instant success"" in your business right off the bat, and you can sell a lot of product at a home meeting, or as some companies call it, a ""home party"".

Network Marketing has used this strategy for years, and has proven to be a successful venue for your business. Mary Kay has used it for years, as well as Beauticontrol, Amway, and many others as well.

INFERNO Secret:

At a Private Business reception, ot In Home Meeting, you can talk to many people at once, which is more EFFECTIVE than doing all one on one network marketing appointments.

If you are going to be talking to people, why not talk to them in groups?

INFERNO Secret:

One of the biggest secrets to wealth in MLM...talk to the majority of people you talk to in groups, whether it is a PBR, or Business Opp meetings, or Conference Calls. It multiples your time.

Why do a PBR?

1)It is Comfortable.

Most people who you know wouldn't mind coming over to your home and seeing a short business presentation to help you.

2)It is Convenient.

Many hotels are out of the way to many of your friends, and normally, driving to a friends home is not sn 'out of the way"" thing...

3)It creates a very ""familiar"" environment for business.

Your friends who have been over at your home before, will see this as something that is ""familiar"", and warm.

4)It creates a great 'Social"" Focus as well.

Everybody likes to socialize, and we as humans are social creatures for the most part. This can be fun and even exciting if done well, and it has food involved as well.

I have done numerous (hundreds) of PBRs and let me tell you, they not only were fun, but we wrote business out of them.

OK.

What do you do?

A)Decide who you want to come.

Make a list of the people you truly would like to have at your network marketing meeting...and create a list of about 30 names.

B)Send them Invitations.

Send them an invitation in the mail about your meeting, at least 2 weeks before it happens.

""You are cordially invited to a Private Business Reception at my home on Wed. the22nd, to celebrate the opening of our new business in the Healthcare Industry.

You will learn how important Healthcare is today for our personal lives, and also how to take advantage of a Trillion Dollar industry that is growing rapidly.

It starts at --------pm, and will end in about an hour. Food and drinks will be served and there will be prizes given away.

RSVP.

This invite is short, to the point, and tells them what it is all about. There are many ways to write an invitation, check with your sponsor to see what he/she recommends.

C)Buy the food and drinks for the Reception.

Don't over do it. Sodas and finger foods are nice, and all that is really needed. This is NOT a banquet, but a nice reception to celebrate your mlm business.

D)Follow up with a phone call.

""Hello Nancy? This is Doug...I need your help on something...I recently sent you an invitation to a reception at my home, and I am following up because I really need you there...Can I count on you being there for me?""

INFERNO Secret:

KEY Phrase....""Can I count on you being there for me?"" will double your attendance at your meetings, as most people id they know they are being counted on will show up.

E)Make sure all Audio Video Equipment works...

That is self explanatory.

F)Greet them when they arrive with either a gift or food.

Make them feel welcome and many folks have given away book markers, or anything along those lines as a ""Thank you"" for coming. Food works as well.

G)Have a social time of about 30 minutes prior to the meeting.

Introduce your friends to those they don't know and make sure people are eating and drinking a drink.

INFERNO Secret:

Have a ""Host' Mentality. Be the host and make sure everyone is comfortable.

H)Do a short 20 minute presentation on the Company, Products, and Comp plan. Check to see what your company has available.

Make your presentation fun and informational. Ask a lot of questions to your attendees, and don't sell, but simply tell.

I)After the presentation, hand out the ""PBR Profile""... say ""I need your help. I would like for you to try our products, and also we are looking for a couple of people to partner up with to help introduce our program to this area. You may know someone that could use a secondary revenue source of an extra $1,000 a month. Please fill out the form I just gave you. There are 5 questions.

Name__________________________________

Telephone_____________________________

Email_________________________________

""Do you like the idea of (Whatever the benefits are of your products)

""Do you know someone who could use and extra $1,000 a month without changing anything they are doing?""

""What part of what you have seen tonight did you like the best?""

""What product do you believe will be the most popular?""

""Can you see yourself or someone you know becoming successful in something like this?""

This profile will help you ascertain who truly has an interest and doesn't in network marketing.

J)Hand out the Information Packets.

These simply contain brochures, audios and any other information piece you think they need...

K)Socialize again and answer questions, and set follow up appointments.

Ask...""Which part did you like the best?"" And then set up times to follow up one on one...

INFERNO Secret:

Have a few of your closest friends people bring a drink or chips. This will insure they are there and this works every time...

Also, understand the "" Law of No shows.""

You will have about 60-75% of the people that swear they will be there, not show up. Expect it. It is human nature, and it's par for the course for a PBR.

Yes there are exceptions, and pray you have 40% show up. WHAT A PROBLEM TO HAVE!!!!!!!!!

So.

If you want 10 people to show up, invite 35-4o, and you should have about that many show, and be thankful they do.

Follow up with the no shows and simply say...""I still need your help...when can we get together for 15 minutes?""

There are many ways to do a PBR and In Home Meeting. This is just one way, but a PROVEN way to write a lot of business in MLM and Network Marketing.

blessings...doug

MLM Matrix Compensation Plans --Words of Caution

2009-01-17T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Bob Alter

First off, I assume you understand what a mlm matrix compensation plan is.

My purpose of this article is to give you first hand knowledge and experiences using matrix plans. Although this might sound like I am hammering mlm matrix's to death and also that I don't like mlm matrix's, that is not the case. I use matrix's as a backdoor method to my mlm marketing efforts.

However, mlm matrix's are NOT my primary business.

MLM Matrix Compensation Plans

Words of Caution: #1 Matrix compensation plans have not been around that long and they do not really have that good of track record. Very few companies have made it with a pure mlm matrix plan. Many of them have had to modify their matrix compensation plans in order to survive.

I read somewhere that only 9% of all mlm companies (and believe me there are thousands of companies out there) are using a mlm matrix compensation plan.

On the flip side (to be fair) a couple of mlm companies use a matrix plan and they have been around for 15 years. YES, they have made some major modifications to their compensation plans and that is the major reason they are still around. You simply cannot live on a matrix plan for long term success. Adding a uni-level plan or some other type of compensation on the backend of a matrix greatly increases survival rates.

Words of Caution: #2

Smaller matrix's especially those that have a 2 x or 3x first level will attract lazy mlm distributors.

More In Depth Coverage: if you can earn income from all levels in your matrix without having to sponsor anyone--will attract lazy mlm distributors.

A MLM Matrix compensation plan will attract State Attorney Generals, postal regulators and other regulatory agencies because it will appear to look like a pyramid or even a lottery. To top that off a MLM matrix compensation plan that requires recruiting will create misunderstandings between all parties hence, negative publicity.

Negative publicity will kill a MLM faster than anything.

Words of Caution: #3

Matrix's usually limit the levels you can earn income from. ""Hey Bob, all compensation plans limit the levels you can earn income from, so what's new""? Well, many things are different including how many mlm distributors can be on any of your levels. Uni-level plans have unlimited width.

More in Depth Coverage: Talk to successful mlm'ers and ask them were the majority of their income comes from. Levels 1-4 or anything below their 4th level.

MLM matrix compensation plans limit the levels you can earn income from and usually are structured like this 2x3 or 3x4.

Smart companies who use a matrix plan have added incentives to help the professional mlm'ers earn income from the lower levels. Some add a 100% matching bonus (more discussion on this later), others add a uni-level plan after certain levels have been reached, while other companies will allow for an expandable matrix. This simply means once you fill your matrix you are then allowed to start another matrix.

By starting another matrix you can then capture at least SOME of the downline income LOST IN A MATRIX that would have been paid in a uni-level plan.

100% Matching bonus | 50% matching bonus

You will see this a lot in a matrix plan. That is the companies simple solution to helping professional mlm'ers capture income below their advertised pay lines. ie: 2x3 or 5x5

However, if you take a 3x3 matrix and fill it up you will have 3 on your first level, 9 on your second level and 27 on your third level. By offering you a match on anyone you personally sponsor, you can receive income from levels 4, 5 and 6 if that person you sponsor falls on your third level. Sounds good doesn't it?

Remember, there are another 26 members on your 3rd level and you will never receive any type of compensation if you train these people to fill their personal 3x3 matrix. Why?

Because their new members fall outside your matrix and you didn't sponsor them. This is the major drawback of matrix plans. Yes, even uni-level plans limit your income potential below certain levels, but they include options that allow you to earn income from levels deeper than their normal bottom payline. Oftentimes, they will block you after someone in that particular leg reaches a certain level. Some even break off.

One positive to this spin is the fact that someone has to sponsor the new mlm distributor. Because you will receive a matching bonus, you do have a vested interest in their success. Basically, you will take a greater degree of interest in helping this person succeed. Without a matching bonus, this person would more than likely fall through the cracks.

Word of Caution: # 4

Let's get away from negative thinking and look at a positive way to build a matrix.

MLM Funded Proposals

2009-01-16T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Bob Alter

MLM Funded Proposals Generate Your Own Genealogy Lists

MLM Funded Proposal Defined

A funded proposal is the process of selling an inexpensive mlm product on the ""front end"" and then ""back-ending"" the real product or service (opportunity).

By following the M LM Funded Proposal the process will allow any mlm distributor (including yourself) to cover your advertising costs and allow you to generate your own mlm genealogy lists.

You must have the ""right"" product, that will catch the attention of other network marketers or mlm distributors. This product must ""HELP"" them build their mlm business or it will not work.

If you follow the steps above you will create your very own opt in email list that you can market to for many years to come. Do you ever receive some of the email promotions that state: ""I sent this message out to my opt in list and made $1238.52 the very first day"".

Beginning mlm'ers always have money issues. I remember my first several months with our mlm business, we had to keep a very tight budget. As our mlm downline grew, so did our advertising budget. Eventually our advertising budget reached $2000 per month.

By using the process of the MLM Funded Proposals it will allow you to stay in the business long enough to see the ""real money"" that any mlm business opportunity has to offer all of us.

One Company Fails and Now You Can Steal Their Secrets

A very smart mlm lead generating company opened doors a few years ago and came out with something called a ""MLM Funded Proposal"". The mlm heavy hitters flocked to this business in droves because it was an answer to prayers for some heavy hitters. Today, that company still exists but you don't hear much about them. Maybe, because they lost site of their primary goals or maybe the mlm heavy hitters moved on.........

This mlm company totally forgot about the mlm sponsoring secrets that so many of us use. And now these sponsoring secrets are yours to keep, use and prosper from. Want 10 straight days of more training?

This mlm company totally forgot to keep teaching, demanding and instilling in their mlm distributors head the importance of a ""MLM Funded Proposal"". Had they continued to teach these strategies, they would have thriving downlines and the walkaway income all of us dream about.

However, they didn't do it and fell into the kind of trap that 95% of the mlm establishment teaches and that is why this company is not growing.

You on the other hand, can now prosper from their mistakes and we will show you how to do it and more importantly how to get your downline duplicating your efforts, which means...........

Sponsoring the ""right crowd"". Does that sound good to you?

Learn more about mlm heavy hitters

Bob & Sue Alter

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About the author: Bob Alter is a Christian Network Marketing Consultant who has successfully built several businesses over the 6 figure income level. Bob lives in the Yakima Valley of Washington state with his wife Sue, and children Robbie and Kirsten. Christian Network Marketing Consultants

The Risks and Benefits of Free MLM Leads

2009-01-15T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Jimmy Sturo

One of the main goals of a multi-level marketing (MLM) independent distributor (business owner) is to sell the product or service of the parent company. However, an equally important goal is to encourage the customer to also become an independent distributor within that business owner's network and sell the services or product. Prospects who may be interested in becoming distributors are known as MLM leads.

The MLM business owner can generate his or her own leads through referrals from family members, friends, and acquaintances. These leads can also be generated through a variety of marketing tools, including surveys, event or trade show promotions, and informative websites. One quick and convenient way to acquire MLM leads lists is to simply buy the list from a third party company.

For the new MLM business owner, these methods may be too costly or time consuming. One quick search on the internet will result in a plethora of web sites promoting free MLM leads. While cost savings are beneficial, the term ""free"" can also indicate a situation that is too good to be true.

If the business owner decides to take advantage of some of the free leads available, he or she must take care to look into the background of the third party company that is supplying these leads. It is also important that the MLM business owner check his or her list of free MLM leads against the Do Not Call (DNC) Registry every 90 days. This will ensure that the list is updated regularly and that the leads remain fresh.

The rarely told truth about network marketing

2009-01-12T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Bjorn Hakans

Today I am going to talk about something that seems to be one of those things that people either love or hate. What I am talking about is network marketing, also called mlm or multi-level marketing. Right from the beginning I will say that there is no need to have extreme views about this, it is simply a business model that you can use if you wish.

However, it is crucial that you understand HOW the business model of network marketing works.

I think there are basically two reasons that some people seem to be almost electrocuted, simply by hearing someone mention the word network marketing. Either they have tried it themselves, and because they didn't have a clue on how to do it they failed miserably. Or they belong to the group of people who can't get the idea that mlm = pyramid scheme out of their heads.

This second misconception is easy to debunk. Pyramid schemes are illegal almost everywhere, do you really think large multinational companies could operate year after year on an entirely illegal basis?

Secondly, this view on network marketing shows that the speaker is ignorant. He or she hasn't done an ounce of homework on the various businesses that are available to each of us today, and they are ignorant of the industry itself.

This means they aren't serious. It means they ""would like"" to make more money, but have no intention of making it happen. They continually ""look"" for home businesses, which is enough to satisfy their minds that they ""did everything they could"", but everything they find out there is flawed and are ""scams"". They are looking to buy ""hope"", not a business.

There is a Chinese saying that goes something like this:""If you spend too much time thinking about your next step, you will be standing on one leg for the rest of your life"". Yes, there ARE scams out there, but mlm is not a dirty word and it is not a synonym for scam. Get over it!

*********************************************** BREAKING NEWS! Corporate America a Pyramid Scam? ***********************************************

As for the comparison to a pyramid in general - think of any company that comes to mind. The company will probably have a CEO, president, vice presidents, middle management, a sales force, and hourly employees.

It goes without saying that the guy at the top, the CEO, is going to make the most money, and the compensations continue to decrease down the ladder which starts at his cushy leather chair. The only way to get paid more and move up the ladder is to boot someone else out of their spot - and this is what people call okay and normal!

Not to mention the fact that the corporate slave masters seem to have no problem with working people to the limits...and then kicking them out the door before any of the benefits kick in. (As always there are some exceptions, of course). How is this any less pyramid than network marketing? All people in the company work hard, but ONLY those at the very top has ""permission"" to make a lot of money.

Now, in network marketing the basic idea is that it will be of great benefit to everyone involved to help people who are new reach the top. In fact the whole business idea hinges on this idea - the only way to become really successful in the long term is to help others. Of course there will always be a mathematical limit to how large a network can become, but with todays global marketplace, and a suitable compensation plan, there is usually plenty of room for everybody.

A network marketing company can diversify and find new markets, just like all companies have to.

But what about the miserable statistics of network marketing, the over 90% drop-out rate etc.?

This is mainly caused by the simple fact that not that many people know how to do network marketing correctly. And I must admit that some network marketing companies are responsible for this themselves, by providing useless ideas like making a ""100 list"" etc.

You see, this is a somewhat unique industry. Most people don't realize that network marketing is a business of marketing and promotion pursued by people who have NO IDEA how to market and promote.

Read the above paragraph once more and let it sink in...

If you are going to be involved in network marketing you need to develop both the right mind set and acquire the right knowledge (no, they usually don't teach this in college).

You must learn that when you do this business right:

* You don't have to ""sell""

* You don't have to ask people to join your business.. They ask you!

* You don't have to post ""work at home"" flyers!

* People will PAY YOU to prospect them

You should learn that this is not at all about the Vitamins or whatever product your company is selling. In fact, this is one of the single biggest mistakes people make in network marketing.

About the author: Bjorn Hakans shows you how you SHOULD do network marketing in his free 10 Day course: Magnetic Sponsoring. http://networkmarketing.build-a-solid-homebusiness.com/

Signature Lead Capture Pages - How They Can Help You & Your Business!

2009-01-10T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Carl Sorensen

If you have any experience promoting an MLM or other Network Marketing opportunity online you know all about ""replicated websites"" and that pretty much every Network Marketing company today offers this seemingly useful to all of their distributors.

You will probably agree that if you have had any experience trying to advertise these replicated distributor websites that the response has been fairly poor.

Can we agree on that? If the answer was YES then don't worry... You're not alone... Thousands and thousands of network marketers around the globe have and will continue to aimlessly spend hours and hours of time and oodles of money promoting these websites to no avail... And it's not their fault!

Replicated websites were never really designed to Make The Sale or recruit someone! But You ARE!

The truth is though that you still don't stand the slightest chance of making a sale if you don't first have the Name and contact details of someone who is genuinely interested in your business opportunity. The gold of the Network Marketing industry is LEADS without them you're NOT going to make money. Replicated websites were never designed for the task of generating leads.

Signature lead capture pages ARE designed specifically for the task of generating you a lead of the quality and responsiveness you desire.

A lead capture page is a very simple one page website that will provide a potential prospect with the most important and strongest benefits about your business and/or product. A well designed lead capture page gives the potential visitor the information they seek quickly and funnels them into an immediate decision making situation. They have been presented with the quick information about your product or opportunity and if they want to learn more they'll need to submit their information into your lead capture form.

We can take this one step further by creating what is called a ""signature"" lead capture page. This is a page that would be all about YOU, after all... you're unique and have your own story to sell...

A signature page would quickly introduce yourself, perhaps a short audio, and explain to the visitor that you have found something you truly believe in. Make your personal introduction Primary to promoting your company...

By taking this approach you are immediately taking a step up from your competitors and playing the game on a new playing field at the personal level. And that is what networking is all about isn't it? When a lead submits their information to your Signature lead capture page they are looking to hear from YOU, they have seen you, read about you and your experience with the business and possibly even heard your audio presentation if you have one on the page.

They are a targeted lead custom tailored just for you, wouldn't you like to speak with prospects every day who had actually requested information and were expecting to hear from you and only you? The ""Rapport"" building process has started in your favor even before they have officially met you, Think about it, this could be one of the missing pieces to your lead generation puzzle.

To Our Success! Carl Sorensen

About the author: Carl Sorensen is the founder and owner of http://www.EZLeadCapture.Com and has been building, designing and promoting lead capture pages for network marketers online for nearly 4 years. Carl's has just developed a new lead capture system as well. Check out the website for more details.

Pyramid Schemes Unmasked

2009-01-09T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Jan Greeff

NETWORK MARKETING PRINCIPLES / PYRAMID SCHEMES

PYRAMID SCHEMES AND TYPICAL ORGANIZATIONS ARE BASED ON THE STANDARD PYRAMID

Characteristics · Large investment / Entry fee. · Products are unimportant. · Income comes from recruiting new members. · Those at the top always earn more. · Distributors end up with unwanted stock. · New members must purchase excessive stock. · Typical lifespan is 12 to maximum 24 months.

NETWORK MARKETING IS BASED ON THE CONCEPT OF AN INVERTED PYRAMID

Characteristics · Low financial input and little or no risk. · Value in products / services. · Income from product sales. · Distributors can earn more than their recruiters. · Guaranteed products can be returned for refund. · No need to purchase large stocks. · Stable companies with proven track records.

It is interesting to note that most commonplace structures are based on the standard pyramid, i.e. company staff structures, National, Regional and Local Governments, management structures of clubs, etc. This type of structure allows for very limited room at the top and there is no scope for progress beyond the top for those below.

The concept of an inverted pyramid as it is utilised by network marketing companies was initiated in and is still being used by the church. The main characteristic of this concept is that of support and caring. There is unlimited room at the top and every participant has unrestricted scope for progress, even way beyond their recruiters.

Visit http://wellness.oppiweb.com for more information about this dynamic industry.

About the author: Dedicated to the industry of the 21st Century: Network Marketing, with 16 years' experience in the industry.

Waiora Top Recruiters Using Conversational Recruiting

2009-01-08T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Kevin Paschke

When someone tells me their MLM numbers are down, I usually ask, ""How is your personal recruiting?"" The answer is always, ""down.""

No matter what the problem seems to be in your MLM, it's usually nothing that a fresh group of sponsored people you can help can't cure. If you want to make a solid part-time or full-time income in network marketing, you have to be persistent and consistent with your personal recruiting.

In interviews with top MLM recruiters nationwide we've discovered 7 critical themes that keep recurring.

1 - Recruiting is a process.

It is not done once at 9:00 a.m. or after dinner each day. It is not done the first and fourth Monday nights of every month. You are recruiting each time you share your products and business opportunity with any prospect.

2 - Recruiting is continuous.

It does not stop with the first, fifth or twentieth person you sponsor. As you recruit, your distributors recruit, and on and on. The top leaders we interviewed recruit day in and day out.

3 - Recruiting leverages your time.

The ten hours you invest in your business can create two to ten people who each spend ten hours. Your ten hours have now increased from twenty to one hundred hours invested in your business.

4 - Recruiting sets an example.

If I wasn't a top recruiter with my company, my group would never taken recruiting seriously. By consistently sponsoring 8+ every month (full-time effort), I set a bar for the leadership in my team. My wife is also a top recruiter (after learning Conversational Recruiting™). She sets an example for her team of ladies.

5 - Recruiting has no boundaries.

With your opportunity, you have the opportunity to build an organization across the United States and possibly the world. You will get financial benefits for the rest of your life on sponsorships made by people you don't even know. The sun may never set on your residual income. Great feeling, right?

6 - Recruiting increases your personal development.

Is it comfortable talking to total strangers after our moms taught us, ""Don't talk to strangers""? No. When you break through your comfort zone, you'll experience immense pride in what you can accomplish. And, once you get the habit of hitting your monthly recruiting goal, you'll feel awkward if you don't do it. Start that habit now.

7 - Recruiting is a highly prized skill set by companies.

MLM companies rely on strong recruiters to teach, train and duplicate. Big bonuses are usually in compensation plans to reward top recruiters.

Keep these themes in mind as you develop a strong and profitable business. This is an industry where you write your own check and it starts with consistent recruiting.

About the author: Kevin Paschke is the Co-Creator of www.ConversationalRecruiting.net the best MLM Training - A 200+ page advanced home-study course on recruiting and is the Founder of www.ZeoFreedom.com the Top Waiora Team

MLM Training: How To Call Bad Leads - Part 1

2009-01-07T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Ed Forteau & Kevin Paschke

If you have been purchasing leads over the last couple of years, you have found that lead quality is way down. Let's be honest, right now there are very few quality lead sources out there. Every time we think we've found one, and recommend them to someone, we get let down - so now we don't recommend anyone.

Before we show you a highly effective method of calling bad leads, let's define what a bad lead is. We would define a bad lead as:

1. Someone who is not looking, or 2. Someone who has filled out a form for information but has received so many calls they are not interested in talking to anyone, or 3. Someone who claims to have no money, or 4. Someone who is not interested in this industry, or 5. All of the above

Let us know if we missed someone.

If you do what most networkers do when calling bad leads, you will first try to qualify the prospect. They will try to find out if they actually did fill out a form. They will want to know if the phone number is correct. They will want to know if the person on the list actually lives there.

All networkers do these things, and they tip off the prospect that this is a sales call. They also do something that is fatal to the networker...they hand over control to the prospect. Now here is a very important point: when a prospect is given control, and they believe they are about to be sold something, they will end the call.

Read that last sentence again, because it is very important.

Here is what most opening calls sound like:

Typical Networker: ""Hi, Bob. This is John Smith in Ohio. How are you tonight? Bob, do you remember filling out a form requesting information on starting a home-based business?""

Okay, if this is a bad lead, you are not going to get much further than this. You have just given the prospect the opening to end the call, and most prospects will take it. The opening was asking them if they remember filling out a form. Never ask that question. And - John Smith in Ohio? I don't know anyone from Ohio. The prospect thinks this is another amateur salesperson. How fast can I get this person off the phone?

Here's an example of another opening:

Typical Networker: ""Hi, Bob. As a fellow networker, I thought you might be interested in this business I'm involved in. Is this a good time to talk?""

In this opening, you've tipped your hand right away (which is okay, by the way). The problem is, if the prospect has negative feelings toward the industry, you just put yourself in a hole. If they don't have negative feelings about the industry, the next sentence, ""Is this a good time to talk?"" gave the prospect the opening they needed to end the call. We will show you what we mean in the next example.

In both examples, the networker is trying to qualify the prospect. If you want to be more effective in calling leads, you must try to disqualify the prospect. In Conversational Recruiting™, you will use three moves to open the call. The first move is to cause confusion. The second move is a ""set-up."" And the third move will disqualify the prospect.

Here's a more effective way of opening the call:

Conversational Recruiter: ""Hi! This is Kevin, and you are? Hi, Bob. I haven't caught you at a bad time, have I?""

So why is this opening better than the other two?

First, we didn't use the prospect's name. When the prospect's name is used to open a call, three bad things can happen: 1) The name could be wrong on your list sheet. 2) That person might not live there. 3) You just tipped off the prospect that this is a sales call (which is okay if you handle the next two steps correctly).

Second, when we said, ""I haven't caught you at a bad time, have I?"" we asked a negative question. You see, most networkers will ask if this is a good time to talk. The bad lead has heard this dozens of times, and has learned to say 'no' - which, in most cases, will end the call. The prospect has done this so many times; he now does it without thinking. But when the prospect says 'no' to our question: ""I haven't caught you at a bad time, have I?"" saying 'no' causes the call to continue.

The prospect is thinking, ""What's going on here?""

This is a very subtle, yet highly effective, move. The prospect gets a sales call, and they give their standard reply (which is given on autopilot). They expect the call to end (as it has dozens, if not hundreds, of times before), yet because of their response, the call continues.

The prospect then becomes slightly confused. When someone is confused, the last thing they want is control. They want someone to lead them out of their confusion. Who is in control of the call now? The Conversational Recruiter, of course.

And that is when you make your next move (which we will share with you in the next article).

Go back and reread this article. Read it several times, until you fully understand the subtle difference in the way the Conversational Recruiter opens the call. But before you start calling leads, make sure you read the next two articles, which will explain the entire process of opening a call.

About the author: Ed Forteau & Kevin Paschke help you Attract, Sponsor, Retain, and Develop all the distributors you will ever need. Sign up for their 15 Day Conversational Recruiting™ Advanced Mini-Course at http://www.ConversationalRecruiting.net and put more distributors in your downline now!

Network Marketing Training- The One Question that every MLM Prospect is Thinking

2009-01-06T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

by Doug Firebaugh

There you are.

You are right in the middle of this great mlm presentation and then suddenly the network marketing prospect seems to drift off, and you are losing them. They eventually come back to you, but there for a minute you were a little worried about what you were doing wrong.

You were doing nothing wrong. They were just walking into THE QUESTION.

There you are.

You are in front of 50 people, and rocking the house with a great mlm presentation. And then suddenly, one by one, the mlm prospects seem to be somewhere else, and not with you. You look, and one by one, they are returning. You question what just happened.

Nothing.

They were just walking through THE QUESTION.

Every network marketing prospect that you have talked to, or ever will talk to, asks this question sometime during the path to the Decision in Network Marketing. We all make it, and we all think it with every thing we look at doing or buying. It is done everyday.

Many times, we ask it quietly, and other times we will drift off and think about it, and feeling what answer we can come up with.

Especially in MLM and Network Marketing.

What is THE QUESTION?

""What kind of VALUE do I feel this has for my life, and is it enough Value for me to bring into my life?""

You may not think those exact words, but you will think them in some form.

VALUE RULES in making decisions to change, add, or delete anything in our life. It is the same in Network Marketing and MLM.

The Next time that you are presenting to a prospect, make sure you POUR ON THE VALUE.

These are questions that your mlm prospect will be thinking:

How will this create Value to the prospect's future and family?

How will this create more Value in their lifestyle?

How will this bring more Value than what they currently have or doing?

How will this bring Value to their family?

How will this bring Value to their life and future that they cannot get anyhere or from anyone else?

VALUE is the KEY to unlocking the MLM Success Doors.

Are you turning it in your MLM and Network Marketing business??

blessings...doug

MLM Training- Are You Taking Actions or Are Actions Taking You in MLM?

2009-01-05T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

MLM Training- Are You Taking Action or are Actions Taking You?

by Doug Firebaugh

In Network Marketing, I think you would agree, that most people will take some form of action in Network Marketing. Most always do, even if they are weak actions that produce little. They will ""give it a shot"" in MLM and see what happens.

They will take an action for prospecting, contacting, presenting, following up and getting the decision. These of course are the actions that drive new business. And because of the lack of results, many will end up being frustrated, discouraged, and eventually walking away mad at the industry and start a smear campaign to justify their failure.

They will blame MLM for their failure, and go about making Network Marketing the demon of their life. All you have to do is do a search on any search engine and you will see what I mean. There are many of the ""survivor"" sites that are excuse laden, and promote all the usual ""failure"" research that justify why Network Marketing is a scam.

And I will say this in their defense...some people out there in network marketing should not be in the business, as they do not do this business correctly. But you will find that those types of people in all businesses and industries, especially the entrepreneur oriented businesses like real estate, stocks and bonds, insurance, franchises, and even direct sales.

Even Corporate America is not immune to bad business tactics.

Remember ENRON?

Many folks who do leave network marketing wonder what they did wrong. What they did incorrectly. What they did that did not work. What they did that failed.

The answer is not really in what you did, but more in what you did not do. And it has really little to do with your ACTIONS that YOU TAKE in MLM and Network Marketing.

Let me explain.

There are 2 types of actions in MLM.

1) The actions YOU TAKE.

2) The actions THAT TAKE YOU.

What do I mean? Actions YOU TAKE are the ones that catalyze the response and results, and create the paycheck. They are what you do to build this business as listed above. These alone are not enough for Massive MLM Success.

Actions that TAKE YOU are actions on the inside of your heart and mind with the emotions and the psychology contained within them. Thye have EXPLOSION POWER that can ignite any action you take to have twice the HEAT and FIRE.

Actions THAT TAKE YOU are:

Totally Believing.

TotallyFocusing.

Totally Disciplined.

Totally Determined.

Totally Refusing to fail.

Totally Seeing the Vision.

Totally Expecting Success.

Totally Anticipating Wealth.

Totally Understanding Reality.

Totally Reaching for what you want.

Totally Knowing you will Succeed.

These actions ""take you"" totally to a new level of Power within you and your actions, and whole new level of IMPACT in the marketplace. They take you to a new perception of what you can do, and what you can accomplish. They take you to a whole new realm of expectation of results, and MLM Success.

And most importantly, they take the prospect to a whole new perception of what is possible working with you, as they ""feel"" that you are going somewhere and taking people with you. They are drawn towards you to know more about what you are doing, and where you are going.

All these ""TAKE YOU"" actions are catalyzed by one thing:

DECISION.

Once a decision is made in the heart to succeed in network marketing, these ""take you"" psychological actions kick in, and then, the actions YOU TAKE in the marketplace are:

TWICE AS POWERFUL.

TWICE AS SUCCESSFUL.

TWICE AS EASY.

Why?

These actions now have TWICE THE IMPACT. Decision gives any action you take twice the impact on the prospect.

How do you know when you have made a decision?

Simple.

No other option is possible. Period. No exceptions.

So, if you are taking action in network marketing, and want to massively Succeed, then make a Decision to create massive Success and that will alter your life and destiny, and everything you do in network marketing and mlm.

Then the ""ACTIONS THAT TAKE YOU"" will start to be empowered and catalyzed, and the next thing you know, you will be starting a journey of Massive Achievement in MLM and Network Marketing.

blessings...doug

http://www.passionfire.com/pf_heat

I Know What Color You Are.

2009-01-04T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Duffy Rogan

What do I mean I know your color?

There are 4 personality color types. Red, Blue, Green and Yellow.

And in a nutshell knowing what color personality a person has means you'll understand them better then they understand themselves.

At this point this tells you nothing. No worries it didn't mean anything to me when I first heard about personality colors. But man I wish I knew about this years ago, it would have saved me a ton of aggravation.

Everybody has a color type. And with that color type we act in a certain way. Certain things are important to us. We like to be talked to in a certain way. We like and dislike certain things.

Take me for example. Lets say you were calling me as a potential prospect.

What if you knew how I liked to be talked to? Knew what was important to me. Knew what I didn't like. Knew what I liked. Knew if I was over sensitive. Knew if I needed support. Knew if I like to have fun.

Knew if I would be teachable. Knew if I was money motivated. Knew if I would be a leader. Knew if I was creative. Knew if I needed all the facts and figures.... I could go on and on.

What if you knew all this information and soooooooo much more about me after only talking to me (anyone) for only a few minutes and then gained more and more insight to me the longer you talked to me?

Do you think this would impact your business and your personal life in a positive way?

If I have to answer that for you...honestly click away and go play a video game you're just wasting your time. (Sorry about that I had some guy tell me he saw no value in this. Gee no wonder he's not achieving all the success he could be.)

But for everyone else who sees the power of this. Would you not agree you'd have an unfair advantage on everyone else?

I can give you a brief overview of the four different personality colors. There is much more to learn but this will give you a good idea of the power of knowing color personalities. (They're in no particular order)

First there is Yellow. Yellow's make up 35% of the population and are open and indirect with their feelings. They are the best at using both sides of their brains. They are relationship and family orientated, logical, analytical and teamwork is very important to them. Their voice is soft and gentle and speak in relaxed tones.

Yellows have jobs like teachers, social workers usually any nurturing job. They like giving back to others. They don't like pushy people, aggressiveness, sudden change or animal cruelty.

Some of their weaknesses are. They are over sensitive, take things personally and will buy other peoples excuses.

Talk to a yellow slowly and relaxed and let them know they are appreciated.

Next is Blue (that's me). Blues make up 15% of the population. Blues are open and direct with their feelings. Very right brained, talk fast, very creative, must have fun doing things. Strong on family and relationships, spontaneous and enthusiastic.

Blues have jobs like sales (of any kind), singer songwriter anything that is creative. They don't like not having fun they don't like facts and figures or being sold.

Their weaknesses are being unorganized, scattered and poor savers.

When you talk to a blue focus on fun, talk about excitement. Never try to sell a blue.

Next is Greens. Greens make up 35% of the population. They are indirect and self-contained with their feelings. Right brained, very logical, and analytical. Precise and need to have all the facts and figures. They are savers. Organized, task orientated and accurate. Let's get the kids to college. And they're the best negotiators.

Some of their jobs include, engineers, accountants, CPA, professor. Anything to do with logic and reasoning.

They don't like pushy people. Not having all the facts and figures. Not being on time, aggressiveness. Get depressed easily and are hard to please.

Some of their weaknesses are, they over analyze everything (to death). Hard to please and pessimistic about everything.

When speaking to a green, give them the facts and figures. You cannot overload a green with information.

And finally the Reds. Reds make up 15% of the population. Reds are direct and self-contained with their feelings. Reds are right brained. Their slogan is ""It's my way or the highway"" Forceful, stern and to the point. No chitchat, money is power, take action. Task orientated, Impatient, un-teachable, show me the money.

Their jobs consist of being CEO's, Attorneys, military leaders, and president of the bank.

Reds do not like losing control, indecision, small talk or crying. They don't like talking about time freedom, family or vacations.

Some of their weaknesses are having a big ego, domineering and un-teachable.

When you talk to a red you need to let them think you need them. They like being sold, close them, focus on money, and stroke their ego. Talk about your leaders income.

Now everything I just outlined about the different color personalities is not a judgment it's who people are.

Just imagine if you had this information the next time you talked to a prospect? How do you think your next call would go?

Learn this skill so the next time you're talking to someone and they say something in a certain tone or way or ask you a question. You'll know exactly why they're acting the way they are and why they are asking the questions they do.

Instead of taking things personally or getting frustrated, you'll say to yourself ""Hey you're suppose to act like that or say that because you're a green"" (pick a color)

Master this one skill and your business life and personal life will skyrocket. Guaranteed!!!

Until Next Time.

To Your MLM Success,

Duffy Rogan

About the author: Duffy Rogan is a network marketing coach, and provides free mentoring to anyone in any network marketing company. Save yourself years of failure and frustration and read his FREE ebook http://www.your10stepstosuccess.com

MLM Training- The Right Stuff for Network Marketing and MLM Recruiting

2009-01-03T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

by Doug Firebaugh

MLM and Network Marketing Recruiting.

Many times that word send such a chill down our backs. The reason is, is that Recruiting truly is misused in our industry, and many times lacking the ""right stuff"" when we engage it.

INFERNO Secret:

We all have a tendency to look at things how we see it, and not as they are.

And doing so, this creates a challenge with many mlm distributors, as the ""right stuff"" needs to be focused on, instead of how we feel about and view recruiting. And if a person has the ""right stuff"", they will find that their recruiting will be 10 times more powerful and lucrative, and successful in MLM and Network Marketing.

We enroll in MLM companies, and expect us to go to the top many times with the WRONG stuff when talking to people about our business. We often focus on the wrong things, talk about the wrong things, present the wrong things, and thus create the wrong results for our efforts.

Has this ever happened to you:

Have you ever felt like an appointment was a total waste of time?

The ""right stuff"" is needed to make sure that you are on target and on track with what you are presenting and talking about. Nothing worse than a train headed fast down the wrong track. It is going and in motion, but yet, it is still headed in the wrong direction.

Many folks are like this in Network Marketing. They are blazing down the wrong track. A track of limited and contained possibilites. A track of doubt and worry. And a track of negative expectations that can derail any Success Train in MLM.

Ok...what is the ""RIGHT STUFF?""

The word RIGHT stands for ""Recruiting Is Giving (and) Helping (and) Touching.

First, MLM Recruiting is about GIVING to the prospect what they need to transform their life and future. Give HOPE. Give FAITH. Give a REASON. Give POSSIBILITIES. GIVE to the prospect so they can feel that they have not been taken from, as so many do.

""You have so much potential inside of you, and I would love to be able to help explode that in your life!""

Give and pour into the prospect a power of Success and Achievement.

Network Marketing Recruiting is about HELPING. Help the prospect find the solution to their challenge and HELP them ENLARGE their life, future and destiny. HELP the prospect see what is TRULY possible, not what they think is possible. And HELP them with the HOPE of an incredible life, not a mediocre one. Paint a vivid picture with your words, and HELP them see a new future.

""I wish you could see you through my eyes. It would stun you. You have so much potential to Succeed, it is almost scary.""

Help them see the REAL person that lies within.

MLM Recruiting is also TOUCHING. Touching their heart with Caring and kindness. Touching their minds with pictures that can become real life, with a real ending, and a real Success. Touching their emotions with the Joy of knowing that their life will never be the same after this conversation. They will TOUCH a realm of living that they never thought possible with you and Network marketing.

""How would it feel to know that you would never have to worry about money again?""

Now THAT would be Joy to many! and it is POSSIBLE!

Ok...now let's take a look at STUFF:

STUFF stands for ""Success That Unveils (a) Focused Force!""

If you get it ""RIGHT,"" in your recruiting presentation, then your mlm recruiting will contain a Success connection that will Unveil and reveal to every mlm prospect a Focused Force of Power within them. This Foucused Force of power will ignite and empower and help take the prospect to a whole new realm of possibility of Success and Lifestyle that they once only dreamed of for their life and future.

Now it becomes REAL and POSSIBLE with the RIGHT STUFF.

Do you have the RIGHT STUFF for MLM Recruiting?

Focus in on the RIGHT tactics and perspective, and you will find your recruiting will explode with the ""Success STUFF"" in MLM and Network Marketing.

blessings...doug

How to Pick a Great MLM Company

2009-01-02T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Robert Borhi

Chances are if you're reading this article you are interested in MLM, or network marketing. With the growth of the internet, and people looking to earn some extra money from home, the appeal of an MLM side business has grown over the last decade. Think how convenient it is, you can do it from home in your spare time, you probably already have all the tools you need (e.g.: computer, fax, internet), and you don't have to hire any employees, pay a franchise fee, or even stockpile merchandise anymore.

With this growth in interest in network marketing, many new companies have sprung up to join the ranks of the time-tested, older MLM companies. If you're thinking of starting a side career in MLM, or want to see how your current company measures up, read on for the critical things to look for when choosing an MLM company.

The first thing to look for is stability. At a minimum, it would be best if the company has been in business for 2 to 5 years. It might be cliché, but there is something to be said for 'standing the test of time'. The longer a company has been around, the more chance of it staying around. There are enough things to worry about in network marketing, such as sponsoring and advertising, without having to wonder if your company will be around next year. Even if you're able to build the biggest downline and become the highest earner in the company, it won't matter if they shut down. There are never any guarantees, but a company with a longer track record generally has more chances of longevity.

Who's in charge of the company? Who is the president, and who are the directors? What is their track record? Have they spent time in the network marketing industry, or are they new to it all? What businesses have they been involved with in the past? If you don't know the answer to these questions, call or email the company to find out. It is critical to know the answers to these questions from the outset. If you plan to spend many years with this company, you want to be dealing with people who are honest, savvy, and have integrity in and outside of the business world.

Does the company have one sizzle product, or many products? Generally speaking, the more products the better. The less products you have, the more chance your prospects or potential customers might not be interested. If you're only selling vitamins, and Mary already buys her vitamins from the drugstore, what else do you have to offer her? If you're only selling a juice, and Joe doesn't like the taste of it, what else do you have to offer him? There was one MLM telecommunications company that recently went bankrupt. They basically only had a few products in the telco industry. Perhaps if they had added some nutritional products as well they could have survived. In addition, the products should be competitively priced, and somewhat unique.

How easy is it to get started in your company? Can people join online, or do they have to fill out paper forms? Having the option to join online makes the whole process a lot easier. Can a prospect join for free to start, or do they have to place an order when they join? Having the option to join free will open up your opportunity to many more people. Your company should let people join free and allow them to market the products to earn income. Once someone has joined free, they have partially committed to the business, and it makes it easier for you and your company to follow up with them, via mail or email.

One of the biggest barriers for people entering network marketing is the monthly purchase. Many people aren't sales types, so they usually need to meet their monthly sales quota (at least partially) through a personal purchase to remain qualified for commissions. I can tell you from experience that people will stay around longer if they only need to spend $50 or less per month. I have seen companies that require $150 per month in volume for members to stay qualified, and if those people aren't making money quickly, they will quit. How much volume do you need to do for your company to stay qualified?

The more automated the company is, the better. They should give you a personal company website that you can refer prospects to. A prospect should be able to contact you from that page, and the company should have a series of emails that follow up with your prospects. You should also have a company product website that you can advertise and send customers to. They need to have an online back office where members can log in and check their stats in real time. You should be able to see hits to your web pages, your downline, your commissions, your monthly order, company information, and so on.

If your company has all of the above, then congratulations, you have most likely associated with a winner and have greatly increased your chances for success in network marketing!

About the author: Robert Borhi is a freelance writer who operates a marketing website at http://www.HugeGrowth.com . For information on free advertising and online opportunities, visit his website at http://www.HugeGrowth.com

Your MLM Is Not Making Money Because You're Not Using Common Sense!

2008-12-31T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Brian Johnson

It was a great plan. A company will employ a sales force of satisfied customers that will in turn recommend a product to their friends and family. For doing so, they will be compensated with a discount in price or receive a commission for the products that the people in their ""network"" purchase, based on their ""marketing"" efforts.

It was a win-win for everyone. The customer won because he received a discount on a quality product that he was already using. Plus he was paid for recommending these products to his friends. The company won because it did not have to spend countless dollars on monstrous ad campaigns. It did not have the headache of maintaining a salaried sales force. And finally paid money AFTER a sale was made. It sounded like the perfect system.

But then along came the charlatans and scammers that gave the industry a black eye. These people and companies tarnished the promise of network marketing, turning mlm into a four letter word.

Now the entire industry is topsy turvey. Companies and senior uplines simply focus on recruiting. They tell you that it is all a numbers game and that you just have to plug more people into the system. It is all about your warm market and your warm market's warm market. Leaders sit in training meeting and conferences telling you to find more people. ""Go wide."" ""Go Deep."" There is a huge focus on building your network... but what about the marketing.

Ignoring the marketing aspect of your business is like lifting weights with your right arm while ignoring your left. It just doesn't make sense. It creates an imbalance, and this misalignment in network marketing's Feng-Shui, I'm convinced, is the reason that most people are failing in this industry. This strategy violates the motivations that created the industry and just does not make common sense.

You must market you product. If you represent a product that you would not buy if there wasn't some financial compensation tied to it... find a new product! Then market the hell out of it. Find customers that are happy with the product. This will accomplish two things. It will put money in your pocket quickly (the reason you got into business in the first place). And it will provide you with a happy customer that will be more than willing to introduce this product to his friends and family. This person will be more open to becoming part of your downline, thus providing you with residual income (which is why we chose network marketing as our business)

I am not saying that you should ignore the recruiting aspect of your business. I am telling you to balance the scales. Thus, you will have achieved harmony in the yin-yang of your network marketing universe. With a evenhanded approach you will have more upfront income, from your marketing efforts. And with happy customers instead of ""perpetual opportunity seekers"" in your downline, they are more likely to stay in the business instead of hoping into the next big opportunity.

About the author: Brian Johnson has been consulting for small business, home based businesses and network marketers for more than 7 years. His site http://www.GetPaid2Prospect.Com will introduce you to probably the best FREE generic mlm & network marketing prospecting training course in the industry.

MLM Training- Don't Talk to Strangers! Good or Bad Advice?

2008-12-29T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

by Doug Firebaugh

In our life growing up, we were taught a lesson that was very good advice for children. ""Don't talk to strangers!"" That is great advice and wise counsel for kids in today's world. I even taught my daughter that when she was a toddler. And I will admit, it was a concern of mine with all the meaness and trouble in the world today.

""Don't talk to strangers!"" is still good advice for network marketers as well, if you want to remain a baby in the mlm industry. People will tell you that you are not to talk to strangers as they will reject you.

God forbid.

There are many different philosophies in the MLM industry today, and many are good and some are not so good. You need to find what works for you. But the one thing that will not change is the Truth, and all that comes with it.

The Truth is, talking to strangers can be one of the best things you could do for your business. Anyone who tells you different does not understand what it takes to Succeed in this mlm business.

I have always taught one thing about people that you do not know, better known as the Cold market:

Stangers are simply friends that you have not met yet. Period.

The benefits to talking to people you do not know are enormous, unless someone is trying to sell you the latest and greatest tape of the month CD, website, or DVD telling you not to. Nothing wrong with that. There are some great trainers out there. But you have to ask, what are their intentions... to guide you to Success or something else?

What are those benefits?

1) Talking to Strangers Forces You to Grow.

Personal development is everything in life, and network marketing. It is what keeps your check growing, and your Success growing. And it is what guarantees you not being the same person you are this year, next year. Your income will always grow as you do. Yes, talking to people you do not know to sell them something or recruit them may be a little uncomfortable, but don't talk to them for that reason.

Talk to them to see simply get to know them as a friend, as you do not know evn if MLM will be for them or not. It may not be! But what have you lost by talking to them? Nothing. And you could gain a new friend that could help you find someone who MLM is for.

Talking to strangers grows you on the inside, and helps build within you better people skills and communication skills in network marketing. It grows your leadership, and also your recruiting skills. And most importantly, it grows you to a new level of confidence and knowing you can Succeed in this business.

2) Talking to Strangers Extends Your Reach.

The single most valuable prospecting reason to talk to people you have never met is that it EXTENDS YOUR REACH in the marketplace.

There are about 270 million people in the US alone, and most people today, if you are 25 years or older, know about 1000 folks.

So what that says to the network marketer, is that there are about 249,999,000 people to go for you to talk to. You reach in the marketplace needs to be extended daily. THAT IS PART OF ANY BUSINESS PLAN. It is part of network marketing. And here is the great news...

Everybody that you do not know, knows a person that could EXPLODE your mlm business! What is wrong with finding them?

3) Talking to Strangers develops new Relationships.

The secret to Successful leadership in network marketing is RELATIONSHIPS. And some of the multi million dollar producers in our group were people we did not know, but did meet, and they went on to become some of my greatest friends and still are today. One ""stranger"" I met by accident ended up producing 10 million in volume. And it became and still is a great relationship as well as friendship. If I had not been blessed to meet him and talk to him, because I did not know him, my life would have not been enriched like it has been from knowing him.

If you are looking to develop new relationships that will last a lifetime, many folks that you will meet over the course of your career will be those people.

4) Talking to Strangers is a myth in MLM. There are no strangers. It depends on your perspective.

I do not look at people I do not know as ""strange."" They simply are friends that I have not connected with. Are they interested in the things that I am? Who knows? Many will not be.

But if you truly understand the driving force behind MLM, you will never meet a stranger. Only people who are after something from someone with their own selfish agenda meets strangers. People who are in the life changing business and are what we call ""Transformation Specialists,""(TM) are interested in people that they can help, not be concerned that they do know them.

My advice is simply this:

If you want to remain a baby in this MLM business, then don't talk to strangers. SIMPLE AND PLAIN.

But if you desire to grow beyond the average, succeed beyond the average, get paid beyond the average, lead beyond the average, communicate beyond the average, make a difference beyond the average, and have a lifestyle beyond the average, then TALK TO STRANGERS.

It's your call. But speaking from experience, if you don't talk to strangers, you will end up limiting and restricting your Success massively in MLM and Network Marketing.

blessings...doug

Leaders of Waiora and Other Top Network Marketing Companies Recognize a Balance of Offline and Online Building Are Keys To Solid Success

2008-12-28T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Donna Valdes

""To grow a large organization in network marketing, you must have a strong Internet presence."" Myth or true? There have been three types of distributors when it comes to the Internet, the ""guru's"", the ""newbies"" and the ""ostriches"".

In the past, as the Internet grew in popularity, there is no question that those who were talented profited from marketing on the Internet. Born were ""Internet Guru's"", those that had that talent understood the capabilities of reaching millions of people at pennies of a cost. They saw their volume bolster, customers pouring in, but their success wasn't necessarily measured in organizational volume, but rather hits and visits on their webpages. They became instantly popular within their own company as others clamored to find out what they knew, their secrets to their Internet success. Superstars were born overnight.

Newbies are those distributors that knew a little about the Internet, knew a little about marketing and knew a little about this industry. They jumped on the bandwagon and started devoting their time and energy to Internet marketing and they failed, some miserably. Desperate distributors began paying hundreds and thousands of dollars to ""experts"" of web marketing only to find themselves in a pool of countless others trying to do the same and competition became fierce. Frustration took over where confidence once was home. Those that did manage to market feebly on the Internet, learned how harsh the cyber world was, words like ""spam"" no longer was meat in a can, and ""flaming"" was no longer just about Banana's Foster.

The Ostriches are the distributors that tried to stick their head in the sand. Those rebellious distributors refused to believe the Internet was here to stay, didn't go near it, and laughed at anyone who thought they could make a nickel from it. They believed it was just a phase, there was no place for the Internet in their business, and condemned anyone in their group from using it. Ever try to tell someone that they couldn't do something?

What later became a realization is that the Internet should not be used as a sole means to marketing your business, gathering leads, and prospecting, but rather in conjunction with offline techniques. Whether you are a Guru who remains faceless behind websites and posts, or a Newbie that is frustrated with lack of results, or even those Ostriches who hesitate to logon and would rather get sand in their ears, each group must realize how they have short changed their own business and themselves. After coming to terms with this realization, next work on the solution. If you recognize your strengths, you can work on your weaknesses. Master those and you will be a powerful network marketer. If you go to any top leader and ask them what they do to grow a business, it will be a balanced combination of offline and online marketing. If you are unbalanced, either only doing offline or only doing online, you are missing out on so much potential growth. If you are a Guru, you already know you can build your business online. Now challenge yourself to pick up your phone and call prospects, do a three-way, build rapport with a voice, not an email. If you are a Newbie, you are more likely to understand you need to be balanced, you started there. Just go back to what you know works. Don't abandon offline or online, just work both in balance. For Ostriches, start by seeing what others are out there doing in your company. Go to www.google.com, or www.yahoo.com or even www.msn.com and type in your Company's name. See what pops up. Go explore. Get comfortable.

Those that enjoy solid success in Network Marketing will be masters at offline and online marketing. The bottom line is in order to take your business to the next level, become teachable to learn new techniques. Caution however against going unbalanced yet again. Remain humble. If you are a Guru, then seek the advice and help of some Ostriches in your group. Help each other. That is the beauty of our business. When you work as a team, together you can accomplish more.

About the author: Donna Valdes has been in the industry of Network Marketing for over 10 years, becoming a top Mentor and Coach. Her seminars were attended by thousands who sought help in building their business successfully using the Internet and various online techniques. She has written many articles about Network Marketing, and today devotes her energy to building Waiora International. She is a mother of two children, and works from her home in Largo, Florida

6 Surefire Ways To Profit From Your Network Marketing Program

2008-12-26T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Rizky Nur Zamzamy

Making money through quality Network Marketing has become a very hot topic in today's Internet Marketing industry.

I know it for sure, because as an Editor of Arigola e-Millionaire Newsletter which provides FREE Ad to my subscribers, I notice that the numbers of ads I received which promote Network Marketing programs have increased significantly for the last 3 years.

If you want to take advantage of this growing trend, the following suggestions might be very useful for you to build your own nice residual income through quality Online Network Marketing programs.

1. Join A Quality Network Marketing Program That Has A Good System To Help You Build Your Own Paid Downlines.

Every experienced Network Marketer knows that in Network Marketing the money is in the Paid Downlines who stay and grow.

Therefore, it is so important to make sure that the Network Marketing program you want to join has a good system to help you build and grow your own Paid Downlines.

You know a Network Marketing Program has that kind of system, if they provide you with the following:

1a. Professional Website. (Easy to load, easy to navigate, easy to read and grasp information.)

1b. Powerful sales letter in the website. (The one which is so convincing that turns visitors into downlines.)

1c. List Building System in the website. (Offer something valuable for free to capture the visitors' email addresses, so you can follow-up with your Autoresponder Series.)

1d. Autoresponder. (The machine that automatically send several messages in different set dates.)

1e. Powerful Built in Autoresponder Messages. (7, or 15, or 52, or whatever number of messages that have been pre-written for you and you can set them to be sent for every 2 days, or 7 days, or whatever days that suit you. If these messages are very well written, you will have high conversation rates.)

1f. Certain numbers of leads which will be automatically loaded to your autoresponder every month you stay in the program. (This feature helps you market your network marketing program automatically. While you do nothing, your autoresponder messages do the selling for you.)

2. Work Closely With Your Upline

The fact that your upline has successfully recruited you as his/her downline means that his/her method works.

It's really a simple common sense to ask them for ""their success secrets"". If you succeed from putting their ideas to work, they succeed too.

3. Organize An Advertising Co-Op For Your Organization

Getting quality traffic to your Network Marketing program site can be very expensive, if you do it on your own. But you can save tons of cash, if you purchase it in bulk.

Let me explain.

Let's say you want to buy responsive and quality leads from Marty Foley's well-known Lead Factory, but your budget for that purpose is only $150. With this cash, you can only get $0.30 per lead.

Now, you can ask your downline to do Ad Co-op with you. If you can get 9 downlines who are willing to pay $150 each, your budget becomes $1500. With this money, you can get leads for $0.22 each. So everyone will get 681 leads instead of 500 for the same $150.

What if you just start and don't have any downline yet? Easy. Ask your upline(s) to organize it for you.

4. Get As Many Targeted Prospects As Possible To Trigger Your Autoresponder

You want to do this because you need to expose your series of sales messages to people who are in needs of what you have to offer. The more targeted prospects who send emails to your autoresponder email address, the better.

Apart from importing quality leads you purchase into your autoresponder as explained in point 3, you can also do it by promoting your autoresponder address through:

4a. Ezine Advertising.

Run Solo Ads or Top Sponsor Ads or Classified ads in Ezines of which the subscribers match your prospect criteria. Give them something valuable for FREE to send a blank email to your autoresponder email address. Trust me, it works. I've personally gained hundreds of prospects using this tactic alone.

4b. Google Adwords Advertising

When you use this method, it's like displaying your classified ad in the entire network of Google. It can be displayed million times but you only pay when someone clicks your link. And when they do, they are very targeted. They are your hot prospects.

Therefore, make sure that the link you put in your ad, is the one that directs them to a web page that will make them send their email addresses to your autoresponder address.

4c. Smart Use of Quality Traffic Exchanges or Start Page Exchanges or Hit Exchanges programs.

These programs are free to join and this is how they works: When you join, they will give you a ""surfing"" URL that contains so many web pages in rotation. Usually, you get one credit for each page you surf for 30 seconds. For every 2 credits you've got, they will display your Target URL to other member once.

Nowadays, there are hundreds of them. But the quality ones are not that many. When you use this method, don't put your Network Marketing Program homepage as the target URL. Your target URL should be a web page that offers something so valuable for free to motivate your prospects to send their email addresses to your autoresponder address.

4d. Getting involved in MLM forums

Go to google.com. Research MLM forums. Join the ones that suit you. Don't write any ads at all. Introduce yourself. Involve in discussion that interests you. Provide intelligent answers only in the topic you really know. Invite people to send blank emails to your autoresponder only in your Signature file.

If your posts make people think that you are an expert, chances are you'll get a lot of hot prospects sending blank emails to your autoresponder address.

4e. Quality Article Writing

Once you've gained some experiences that people might like to know about and to learn from, start writing quality articles and submit it to as many article directories and ezines as possible.

If you can put in quality content that your readers like and find it useful, you've built a good reputation. And usually they don't mind to visit your website or subscribe to your mailing list.

And when they do, they are also very targeted and they are also your hot prospects.

Don't forget to use Ad Tracking Device for every promotional tactic and ad you use to know which one gives you the best results.

5. Repeat The Methods That Work Until You Gain Significant Profits

If the methods you receive from your upline work, repeat it. If not, forget it. The same thing goes for other tactics explained in this article.

If you keep repeating what works, chances are you will gain significant profits in no time. What I mean by significant is the amount you receive per month from a particular program is at least 10 times its monthly fee.

Once you reach this stage then...

6. Ask Your Friends To Join Under You And Persuade Them To Do What You Have Done

Well, you've gained profits already. It means that you have a solid prove and you don't come to your friends empty handed. You won't be laughed at. In fact, you will trigger their curiosity and motivate them to join under you.

But be picky here. Choose only those who have interest in making money from home and are familiar with computers and internet.

After they do, explain to them the benefits (read: profits) they will get, if they follow your examples. Be their faithful coach until they earn their own significant profits. Once they reach this stage, tell them to ask their contacts to join under them and follow their steps.

Once you hit success with this technique, CONGRATULATIONS! Your Downline for a particular program has grown like crazy! Without you even knowing it!

It's really possible to make money through quality Network Marketing programs. Provided that you follow those who already ""make it"". The key is you put to work what you've learned maximally. And you can't go wrong.

Rizky Nur Zamzamy is an Editor and Publisher of Arigola e-Millionaire Newsletter, which provide you with the latest info about what works and what doesn't in Internet Marketing and Network Marketing. Visit his site at

http://aemn.arigola.com to subscribe and send a blank email to mailto:arigola@isendinfo.net to take a look at his most profitable Network Marketing Program.

About the author: Rizky Nur Zamzamy is an Award Winning Creative Director of an offline advertising agency in Indonesia. For his 16 years in advertising, he has handled numerous multinational accounts, such as: Toyota, BMW, Unilever, Nestle, Arrow, Savile Row, Gillette, Philips, Shell, Pfizer and Hewlett Packard to name a few. He's implementing what works in offline advertising to gain even bigger results online.

Network Marketing Training- The Amazing Power of the Dream in MLM

2008-12-25T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

MLM Success Training- The Amazing Power of The Dream in MLM

by Doug Firebaugh

""What do you mean I have to Start Dreaming?""

After 20 years in this industry, I have come to know that the foundation of your MLM Success is going to be the dreams that you want to bring to life in your future. Most people, even many of your friends, and family, do not dream like they used to, because we all have been programmed that ""dreamers are not realists.""

Oh yeah? Who sold you on THAT?

We encourage you to dream again.

Why?

Do you know what happens when you DREAM?

You ""Dare (to) Reach Extraordinary Altitudes (&) Milestones.""

That is what your company is about... helping people to:

1) DARE. Dare to become someone. Dare to go beyond where your friends are. Dare to prove everybody else wrong, who says that you cannot succeed in Network Marketing!

2) REACH. Stretch every part of your mind, heart, and soul, and reach for what you want in life, not what someone else wants to give you after they take their part.

3) EXTRAORDINARY. Dare to reach for the Extraordinary Life! Walk in the Extraordinary! Think Extraordinary! Become Extraordinary! Live Extraordinary! Grow Extraordinary!

4) ALTITUDES. You MUST soar higher in life than you ever have with your dream! The higher the Altitude, the more Magnetic the Pull of your Dream to you and the world!

5) MILESTONES. Reach for Extraordinary, Life Changing Milestones! Most people do not ever plan on hitting Extraordinary Milestones in their life let alone MLM. And because of that, they end up getting Millstones of Mediocrity hung around the neck of their future, dragging frustration and doubt all through their life.

Dreaming also is the basis for the WHY!

WHY are you doing MLM anyway?

""WHY"" stands for ""What Has You?""

Inferno Secret:

Whatever has your heart, focus, passion, dreams, and desires, is your WHY.

It could be your children, your family, yourself, your church or faith, or even making a difference in other's lives, or all of the above. Your ""WHY"" is the driving force behind your business, and your dreams.

What Dream has your heart for your family and future?

Dreaming is simply the Art of Painting a VIVID Picture on the canvas in your mind, and letting that become the MASTERPIECE of Change in your life and Network Marketing business.

Here are some thought provoking questions:

""If money were not an object...what would your life be like? Describe it!""

Think about this, and complete it.

What would your PERFECT DAY be like?

Next, complete the list below:

The 10 Things I would like my company to bring into my life that currently doesn't exist:

(This could include a New House, New Cars, Vacations, College Money, New Wardrobe, Charity and Church Giving, Private Schools, Boats, Lake Place, etc).

1) ____________________________________________ 2) ____________________________________________ 3) ____________________________________________ 4) ____________________________________________ 5) ____________________________________________ 6) ____________________________________________ 7) ____________________________________________ 8) ____________________________________________ 9) ____________________________________________ 10) ____________________________________________ 11) ____________________________________________ 12) _____________________________________________

WHY I want these things is simple: (HOW would your life change for the better.)

Turn your ""DreamLight"" on... dust off your dream machine in your Network Marketing business, and crank it up, and let that DreamLight shine on your future once more.

Your Dreams CAN and WILL come true... but first the Light of Hope and Possibility must shine in your heart! And then you shine that light on your friends and family and get them dreaming with you! THAT is Power in MLM and Network Marketing!

blessings....doug

Finding Targeted MLM Leads

2008-12-24T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Jimmy Sturo

The objective of multi-level marketing (MLM) is to sell the product or service and to encourage the client to become an independent distributor, who then sells the service or product as well. Leads are vital for any business to grow, and in order for the business owner to have the greatest success, the leads must be curious enough in the business opportunity to have expressed an interest. The prospects that have expressed an interest in becoming distributors are known as Targeted MLM Leads.

To find targeted MLM leads, business owners must first have ample knowledge of their target market. Are they self-starters? Do they have the commitment necessary to be part of a network? Business owners must also understand the product or service, the company mission statement, and its goals and objectives well enough to offer a good sales presentation. Delivering a presentation, however compelling, to someone that has not shown interest in the product, service, or business opportunity is a waste of time and resources.

Business owners can acquire targeted MLM leads from various sources. The most convenient sources are the companies that compile and sell lead lists. The business owner, however, should be careful when choosing a lead list source, as some may be fraudulent. Some targeted MLM leads are identified through telephone interviews or direct mail response. Business owners can also obtain targeted leads from promotional give-away programs that have high traffic. Usually a person will fill out a simple survey to claim the promotional item, and the business owner can then use the survey to assess whether he or she will be a quality lead.

Network Marketing Training- Secrets to MLM Success During the Holidays- Part 1

2008-12-23T03:06:00.000-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

by Doug Firebaugh

The Holidays.

Sometimes, in MLM and network marketing, it sees when you say those words, network marketers shut down. They simply think that they will start again January 1, and kick it into gear. Network Marketing during the holidays does not exist, and they slow down to a crawl.

Who in the world sold you on that?

That is simply a dumb thing to do.

Yes, during the holidays, people are busy, and people are going places, shopping, and do not want to think about a home based business many times.

But it's because of the focus of ther networker. Many mlm distributors do not know how to work this business and hold conversations during the holiays. Your focus must be different than any other time of the year.

It takes a little finesse.

And you still have many things going for you that will work totally in your favor,and help kick your mlm business into gear the first of the year.

What 2 things are working in your favor during the holidays that makes it easy to create success in your Network marketing business?

1) People are in the Holiday Emotion.

Many folks are in the emotion of sentimental memories. They are remembering past Holdays and their favorite Christmas. They are thinking about the smell of pie and turkey. They are remembering their childhood. They are thinking of parents long past. And many are thinking about the Birth of Christ.

How can you move people to a real powerful emotion that draws them to you?

Ask this:

""What is your favorite holiday memory? Tell me about it.""

People really will think about this, and then will give you their answer. And many times they get excited just thinking about it.

Why would you ask them this?

To open them up, and let the emotion of the Holidays flow, and draw them towards you. This simply will create an opening to talk to them after the first of the year.

""I would love to chat with you the first of the year. I could really use some help on something.""

This simply will open the door to ask for their help in locating some talent for your business or customers that can benefit form your products.

2) People are in the Holiday Focus.

People are focused on many things during this time of the year. One focus is CHANGE.

People are looking to change things more than any other time of the year.

People are focused on EXPECTATION.

They are expecting and anticipating a great holiday season, and also a better new year. Talk to them about the change you can offer in their life. But set a time that is convenient for them.

People are focused on SHOPPING.

There is no better place to meet people than Holiday shopping.

Talk to them about their children. Compliment their children. Ask them about their plans for the holidays. Ask if you can help someone who is struggling with bags of gifts. Talk to people about the crowds in the malls. Talk to people about the prices of goods today. Ask people for their opinion on something you are thinking about buying.

Shopping is a great way for men and women to meet folks who are out and about. Especially in toy stores and books stores. These are great places to meet folks who have kids, and are readers. Readers and parents are great MLM prospects.

And retail clerks who are tired and harried are great prospects to talk to about changing things in 2006.

""Is next year going to be like this year for you working in this retail zoo? Do the crowds get to you sometimes? Here is my card. You deserve better than this. You have an incredible personality. Would love to chat sometime about getting you out of here.""

MLM Success during the holidays is easy and quite fun, if you let it be. But you must keep your ""radar"" on to talk to folks and to help anyone who looks like they could need a hand.

""May I give you a hand with that? Here let me help. My name is doug, what's yours?""

The holiday season is a great time for CONNECTION.

Connect with new people to make new friends and to hold new conversations about the future and 2006.

What a way to start the new year- with 12 new friends that want to help you in your MLM and Network Marketing business!

blessings...doug

Network Marketing Training- Secrets to MLM Recruiting during the Holidays

2008-12-18T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

MLM Training- Secrets to MLM Recruiting During the Holiday Season

by Doug Firebaugh

Seasonal MLM Recruiting.

That is a very powerful concept in MLM....are you aware of it?

Network Marketing Seasonal Recruiting. HOT CONCEPT!

It is when a particular season in the year can bring an awareness of something that timing may be bad for in other parts of the year.

Like right now.

Right now, one thing is especially on people's minds:

Change.

It is the new year, and for the next 6 weeks or so, many people will be looking to make changes and to not repeat last year, this year! And it is a wonderful recruiting time, and you hold what we call a 'Seasonal Conversation' with folks.

The Secret to A Network Marketing Business in 2006. We all know that the secret to this Network Marketing business is EFFECTIVE CONVERSATION. We have been teaching that for 19 years. As well as effective Communication. We are in the business of Communicating with people, and you can hold a 'Conversation of Change' with people right now that will go hand in glove with their thinking.

It is a fact that the first of the year that Gyms get a flood of memberships that last for maybe 60-90 days, and rarely seen again. That is human nature. But you can help people keep that change in their life, whether they want more money, freedom, time, security, control, or whatever.

How?

By asking some simple questions and making some statements during a conversation.

The MLM Business Building Concept.

INFERNO SECRET:

Turn a Conversation into an MLM Business Building Tool.

When you are chatting with someone, here are some 'MLM Magnetic Questions(tm)' you can ask:

1)'What about last year are you not going to repeat this year?'

2)'In one word, how would you describe last year?'

3)'What kind of New years resolution do you have for 2006?'

4)'What would be the one thing you would want to change this year in your life?'

5)'What kind oif raise do you think you will get in 2006? Why so little?'

6)'I am not going to let this year be like last year. Thank God it's over. How about you?'

7)'You looking to change anything this year about your life? Why?'

8)'How would it impact you and your family to have the best year financially this year than you have had in a long while with a home based business?'

9) 'What are your plans for 2006? Any changes? What about financially?'

10) 'What kind of year do you want to have in 2006? What is going to be different?'

Success Possibilities in Direct Sales and MLM. This will lead you into a 'Conversation of Success Possibilities' with you and your potential prospect, and push a Hot Button that may be cooler the end of February.

After the question or statement:

'You know, I have run across something that is going to help me create the change in my life this year I have always looked for, and it possibly could help you. When can we chat? I may need your help as a friend.'

If you are going to be talking to folks anyway, why not do some 'Seasonal Recruiting?'

This is the season for CHANGE.

I suggest you might change what you are doing and talk to people about what is on their mind, and what they want to:

CHANGE.

One of the best ways to change your life in 2006 is MLM and Network Marketing.

blessings...doug

http://www.myidealmlm.com

Network Effectively Online

2008-12-17T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Chet Holcomb

There are many ways to boost your business online - writing articles, search engine optimization, acquiring incoming links - the list goes on; but one of the best ways which is often overlooked is to find forums relating to your line of business and join in with them.

Being a frequent participant on forums can increase links back to your website, increase your chances of being seen as an expert, increase your mailing list, sell more of your product, get new affiliates to sign up, make you new friends - in fact there's not a lot to be said against joining a few forums. However, there are some things to think about before you get started:

DO:

1. Research each forum before you join. Make sure it's relevant to your business and see if the participants are in your target market. Look at how much traffic the forum gets. How busy is it? - there's no point in joining a dead forum with very few posts.

2. Check the forum rules before you post. Some forums will allow you to post adverts for your business while others will object. Check if you are allowed to add a signature at the end of your posts - adding a small biography with a web link to your business is a great way to increase incoming links to your site and to get more traffic.

3. Be polite and treat everyone the way you would like to be treated. Even though you don't meet people face to face you will build up some great relationships if you take the time to give good answers to questions, to be helpful and to respect other people's opinions. And every post you answer adds to your reputation. Use your posts to give genuine, useful advice, not just to plug your business and you'll soon be looked on as an expert.

4. Don't be afraid to ask for advice - no-one knows everything and sometimes you will need help.

5. To make the most of your time on the forums, allow yourself only a certain amount of time each day. Read only the posts that are relevant and that interest you and post answers quickly before moving on. It's very easy to spend the whole day on forums and not get anything else done.

DON'T:

1. Never, ever use a post to blatantly advertise your business, particularly if the forum rules don't allow it. Nothing will damage your reputation faster than spamming a forum.

2. Don't go through the list of forum members, collect email addresses and send them unsolicited mail. At best you'll be banned from the forum and at worst the owners might report you to your ISP.

3. Don't ever get involved in a flame war (this is when a heated conversation on a forum boils over and degenerates into nothing but an exchange of personal insults). It might be really satisfying to say what you think about someone, especially if they've been getting on your nerves, but just imagine what other people will think of you if you do.

In conclusion, treat people online like you treat people in real life. Think of it as a networking event that's taking place on your computer and don't forget that other posts on the forums are made by real people with real feelings.

You already know how to make friends and new contacts face to face. Apply what you already know to online networking and you could be enjoying great success with a global audience.

About the author: Chet Holcomb of http://www.internetpromotions.biz is a successful marketing expert providing advice for web marketers and webmasters on how to promote your website, or product using internet marketing tools that work.

MLM Heavy Hitters Shovel It In Texas - And Elsewhere

2008-12-16T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Michael Dlouhy

A few years ago I got a phone call from a lady in Texas. Sometime earlier, she had started a major corporation, whose name you know. It probably had a branch in your town. It's since been bought out by an even bigger fish.

Anyway, this lady was very gracious. She was going to start an MLM company, and she wanted feedback from some MLM leaders on what she was doing. She flew Linda & me to what must have been the biggest ranch in all of Texas.

We were there 3 days, along with several MLM ""Heavy Hitters"".

***They Told Her She Had a HUGE Winner!***

She showed us her products and she showed us her compensation plan, and she asked for our thoughts.

The Big Boys (and Girls) were flabbergasted by her wonderful products and astonished by her compensation plan.

Every single one of them wanted to be THE master distributor, so she would build the company under them.

***The Painful Truth***

When my turn came, I told her the truth: she was dead in the water. She had a bunch of ""me-too"" products. And her compensation plan was from the dark ages of MLM, piling up money for the leaders and sacrificing all the part-timers who would hope to fulfill their lifelong dream of having their own business.

With this comp plan, the part-timers were destined to fail. They'd never understand why. They would blame themselves, and many would never take the risk again.

Dora (not her real name) pulled me aside before we left and thanked me. Somehow, despite all the smoke coming from the MLM Heavy Hitters, she knew Truth when she heard it.

She stuck to the business she knew.

But if the Heavy Hitters would try pulling that stuff with one of the richest women in the country, imagine what they'd figure they could put over on YOU!

***Have You Fallen For The All-Time Favorite Heavy Hitter Line?***

Tell me you've never heard THIS one before:

""Go get one hundred NO's every day. You're just getting closer to a YES.""

Think about this. Isn't it the stupidest thing? What nitwit came up with this idea? The word ""NO"" has taken more good people out of network marketing that any other word in the English language.

Picture this: all day long you've been flirting with your spouse. At night you take a bath, candles around the tub, soft music, perfect for romance. Some hugging, some kissing.

And your spouse says ""NO!""

GREAT! Just 99 more ""NO""s and you'll get lucky! And those MLM Heavy Hitters tell you ""NO"" is a good thing.

***More Heavy Hitter Marketing Insanity***

Another bit of wonderful Hitter advice for you: ""Talk to EVERYBODY about your business opportunity.""

Oh, man, don't get me started!

There's an old saying you hear from time to time: the reason you have 2 ears and 1 mouth is you should LISTEN twice as much as you TALK.

Take a good look next time you see a Heavy Hitter. I swear, if you look closely, you'll see they have zero ears and THREE MOUTHS!

But for the sake of argument, let's see where their advice leads us.

Let's say you owned a shoe store. You get 300 visitors. If you have the right styles, colors, & price, could you sell some shoes? Absolutely.

But you'd never try fitting a corporate Secretary working at the Trump Towers with men's construction work boots. Not appropriate.

And not everyone wants your business opportunity.

""Talk to everybody"" works great for the MLM Heavy Hitters - the 8% of the population who are salespeople. But if you're part of the 92% who hate pushy, aggressive salespeople, THIS lie will make you feel totally inadequate to ever build a networking business.

***The Key Is Target Marketing***

If you're recruiting, just talk to people who want a home business. Lead with benefits. Tell success stories so that REAL prospects see the value in your offer. And NEVER close them. Just offer them more information. The right people will ask to work with you.

Believe me, it works just that way.

About the author: Michael Dlouhy is a 27-year veteran legendary network marketing trainer who will mentor you and help you program yourself for MLM success .

Pony On A Rope

2008-12-15T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Joe Neid

What a day this is turning out to be....

If you have been with me for a while, you know the story of how my dream came to an abrupt conclusion last November when I received the dreaded ""dear joe, your services are no longer required"" email from the company I helped build; the company that 3 years ago was so important to me, that I left the comfort of my Chicago town house and moved all the way to Scottsdale to be part of.

On that sunny November morning that I received that email, truth be known Gail and I broke out the champaign, and had a celebration! And the champaign did a great job of masking the feeling of uncertainty and a little fear as well.

We had just closed on our new home, exactly 7 days before the email arrived. Big mortgage; big overhead; big void in income. The only thing we had was desire, experience and imagination.

While those are great personality traits to possess, uh, the bank will not accept them as payment of the mortgage.

So the last 6 months have been a rollercoaster ride to say the least. Lots of ups and downs lots of anxiety and joy; and most importantly an unwavering belief in the things that matter most; persistence, consistency, and and absolute confidence in the fact that my outcome is predetermined by my thoughts, my daily action and the ability follow through.

We have been ""getting by"" comfortably...but getting by doesn't excite me nor does it validate what I beleive and teach. I have to dominate, to dream big and live big to be the human manifestation of what I teach my students each day, or I am, as my mother used to say, so ""full of it my eyes are brown"".

Well I do practice what I teach; I am committed to daily goal setting and goal getting; to visualization; to understanding and harnessing the ""law of attraction"", and to never saying never, walking thorugh the door way or infinte possibility and endless opportunity.

I have to tell you the fish are jumping in the boat; my phone has been ringing off the hook with so much opportunity I feel like a fat guy at a smorgasbord!

On this day I have been contacted by 3 established network marketing companies, inquiring about my consulting services and ready to put their money where their mouth is.

Pretty Cool.

I am also putting the finishing touches on the Million Dollar Edge Success System which will ship in the beginning of May; and one of my online marketing programs is hitting like a one arm bandit in Vegas.

Which brings me to the pony on a rope.

All of the cool things that are happening for us are the result of living on the roller coaster at the carnival of life. There ups and there are downs and there are breathtaking moments as we approach another unknown twist or turn, but the pay off is always invigorating. And we are alive and well at the end of the day.

The pony at the carnival? He lives on a rope. Walking in the same circle doing the same thing and getting the same result each and every day.

A sad thing.

If you took the pony off the rope and set him free, he would continue to walk aimlessly in that circle.....a fate worse than death.

My point is this....take the plunge, follow your dream, get on the rollercoaster and enjoy the ride. Just remember the basic things I know will work for you. Goal Setting; Visualization; Law of Attraction and Follow Through.

There is no future in working for another. You may feel secure working a J.O.B. but so does that pony, he loves the security of the rope; but where does it get him? No-where. He just walks in a circle. All day long.

I thought I was comfortable early last November, but as I look back I see I was a pony on someone elses rope. I thought I was in free enterprise, I was kidding myself; I was only working for someone else...... A fate worst than death.

Free Enterprise, self employment, network marketing, direct sales; these are your ticket off the pony rope. Dream Big, Live Big!

Now, all of this carnival talk is making me hungry;

Got any cotton candy?

See you on the Wake Up Call to Success, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12 Noon EST, 617-588-6562.

Joe Neid

www.joeneid.com

interested in the program that is working like a ""one-armed bandit"" in Vegas? send me an email joe@joeneid.com or call me direct a 888-277-4689

About the author: Joe Neid is that rare individual who earned his stripes the old fashioned way; through, focus, diligence, persistence, tenacity and ""roll up your sleeves"" get r' done style no nonsense hard work. He has over 15 years experience as a full time professional in free enterprise, direct sales and network marketing. To participate in Joe's FREE weekly confrence calls get the schedule at http://www.joeneid.com You can also reach him at 888-277-4689

A Bond-ing Experience

2008-12-14T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Joe Neid

Good afternoon my friend, It is actually still morning as I sit here in the valley of the sun crafting this up-date; as I promised I would. So if you are in the west time zones, good morning to you west-coasters as well.

Had a great time last night at the old ball yard. Gail and I took my brother David and his bunch to the Arizona Diamondbacks- San Francisco Giants game last night. (the only good part of living in a city with a ""weak"" team is that you can get a ticket under face value from the scalpers!)

Well when we arrived at the game and were in line to get our dollar hot dogs; Wednesday is dollar hot dog day at Chase Field, (don't tell my trainer that I had 2 of them bad boys) we saw on the TV monitor that there was a ceremony taking place on the field before the game began. Seems as though a guy named Luis Gonzalez had made history the night before by hitting a double thus becoming only the 21st player in the history of the game to hit 300 homers and 500 doubles. Pretty impressive; would you agree?

I have not done the research but I can only imagine how many athletes have played the game since it's inception and Luis Gonzalez, home town hero, is number 21 on the list. Very cool, congratulations ""Gonzo"". Now... let me share with you this mornings revelation; The reason I was most interested in going to the game; the stuff the local and national media is writing about; the story that is on the cover of Sports Illustrated? Barry Bonds. Yes, Barry Bonds left fielder for the San Francisco Giants. Here is the messed up part..... The big story is not that Barry Bonds is one of the 20 guys ahead of Luis Gonzalez or that he is only 6 homers behind Babe Ruth for 2nd on the all time home run list and 47 behind Henry Aaron for all time home run hitter. No; the story every one is talking about is the allegations that Barry Bonds is on the juice; steroids baby. I say..who cares. Steroids were not a banned substance at the time of the allegations. Besides, baseball is a game; it is entertainment and is there anything more entertaining than watching a Barry Bonds moon shot clear the wall in center field? Now I think you are asking yourself; Joe what in the heck are you telling me this for? Well...it's about what you think about talk about and what you put in your brain.Does thinking about or talking about or writing about the tarnish on Barry Bonds legacy empower any of us? Does it?

Nope...it's more water cooler gossip and negative conversation that only drags us down and accentuates the negative.

Give your energy and your focus your conversation and your thoughts to the things that will celebrate the positive that is around us and within us. For some, yours truly included, this is a discipline that must always be practiced. We must always check our thoughts and our focus and make a calculated decision to shut out the negative mumbo-jumbo that is everywhere, and only give life to the thoughts and things that empower life, that lift us up, and draw our attention to what is possible in our lives. It is really simple to do and you will get really good at it when you just take those extra seconds to take notice of what you are giving your energy to.

Oh....and one more thing;

The Diamondbacks beat the Giants 10 to 3;

Luis Gonzalez went 2 for 4 with a triple and 3 runs batted in.

Barry Bonds did not play; but he did receive a $5000 fine from Major League Baseball for wearing non-conforming wrist bands.

What are you going to think about today?

See you on the Wake Up Call to Success; Monday Wednesday and Friday at Noon EST, just call 617-588-6562.

Joe Neid

www.joeneid.com

you can make a fortune on-line if you have the system, email me at joe@joeneid.com and let me share it with you

Talking To Yourself Again? What Are You Saying?

2008-12-13T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Duffy Rogan

We all have Self Talk.

So what is Self-Talk?

Simply put Self-Talk is the running dialogue in your head. It's the words you use to describe the experiences in your life.

It's the words you use when you have challenges. It's the words you use when you're speaking to others.

Hmmmmm sounds like your daily vocabulary.

Look you must realize the power your words command and then choose them wisely.

Anthony Robins said in his book Awaken The Giant Within. ""People with an impoverished vocabulary live an impoverished emotional life; people with rich vocabularies have a multitude palette of colors with which to paint their experience, not only for others, but for themselves as well"".

Many of us don't realize the words we habitually choose to use effect how we communicate with ourselves and therefore what we experience.

Words are very powerful, they can help or heal. They can make us cry or laugh. They can create or destroy. They can comfort or cause pain.

Words create emotions, and those words create action, and from those actions your life is formed. Most of your beliefs are created by words, which means they can also be changed by words.

Simply choosing new words to describe how you're feeling or how you experienced an event can instantly change the emotional experience.

If you describe a fantastic experience as being ""Ok"". That experience is now diminished and flat because of your limited use of words.

You're in control of your life, so you need to consciously evaluate and keep improving the content of your vocabulary to make sure it's pulling you in the direction you desire instead of a direction you want to avoid.

Here's a great example I heard from Anthony Robbins after hearing him speak about this subject at one of his live seminars. After that I re-evaluated my Self-Talk (years ago). And it changed my life BIG TIME!!!!.

Quote: ""If you're in the habit of saying you ""hate"" things-- you ""hate"" your hair; you ""hate"" your job; you ""hate"" having to do something. Do you think this raises the intensity of your negative emotional state than if you used a phrase like ""I prefer something else""? End quote.

Change the phrase from ""I hate"" to the phrase ""I prefer"".

Could it be that simple?

""I'd prefer an new car"", I'd prefer an new hairdo"" I'd prefer a new job"", I'd prefer new clothes"". ""I'd prefer to do something else"".

The intensity of those statements dropped big time because you used different words.

I know this for a fact. If you simply change your habitual vocabulary, and these would be the words you consistently use to describe your life and your emotions.

If you change your habitual vocabulary you can instantaneously change how think, how you feel and how you LIVE!!

I really want to drive this home to you. You're Self-Talk that you're using right now is determining your destiny. Think about that for a second (maybe a little longer). Your words are shaping your beliefs and impacting your actions.

Much of where you are in life right now is due to your Self-Talk. So if you're using words that are disempowering. CHANGE THEM!!! to words that will empower you.

How do you know what you're Self-Talk is? Simple really. When an event or challenge happens in your life how do you react, what do you say? If you're saying it out loud you're probably saying it to yourself, and vice versa.

Here are some examples, and these are from many of the people I speak to on a daily basis. It may be different for you.

When something happens a challenge in your life, do you say to yourself?

""Why does this always happen to me?"" or ""Why did this have to happen now?""

Are your answers something like this?

""It happened because I'm not lucky"".

""It happened because I'm not smart enough"".

""It happened because I wasn't prepared"".

Poor choice of words will give you a poor answer. What if you used words like this when a challenge comes into your life?

""What can I learn from this challenge so I don't repeat it?""

What's funny about this challenge and how can I have fun solving it?""

You see better words produce a better question. A better question will produce a better answer.

Pretty simple but so powersful.

Here's a perfect example of how Self-Talk will empower you. Let's say someone is having a bad day, and you have the joy of running into this person.

And this person is more then happy to piss all over your day because they feel it's their duty to ruin yours and everyone else's day. You know the saying ""If I'm having a bad day everybody else is going to"".

I DON'T THINK SO!!!

Because of my Self-Talk nobody gets to decide how my day is going to be but me. So my Self-Talk to that person is ""I will not get involved in other people's drama and I refuse to allow negativity into my life"".

If that's my self-talk do you think I'm going to have a bad day just because someone else is? If someone is so hell bent on having a bad day let them, but you don't have to.

Why would you want to be a passenger in your own life and allow people to determine what you're going to experience? Take control of your life right NOW!!

Here are some samples of different words you can use to start changing your vocabulary:

Go from Depressed to Not on top of it Go from Failing to Learning Go from I hate to I prefer Go from Irritated to stimulated Go from Overwhelmed to Busy Go from Stressed to Energized Go from Rejected to Overlooked

You get the idea.

Now create empowering phrases you say to yourself each day. Say your Self-Talk each morning and during the day (and when ever you need to) and before you go to bed each night.

If all you do is fill you mind with empowering words and phrases you'll attract everything you want in life. (You're still going to have to work for things, but you'll be working smart not hard)

To get you kick started here is some of my daily Self-Talk:

""Helping people achieve their goals and dreams using no agenda and expect nothing in return. I will achieve all my goals and dreams"". This one was inspired from Zig Ziggler.

""I will not get involved in other people's drama and I refuse to allow negativity into my life"" Wow how does that set up my day compared to other people?

""Being truthful each day is the best gift I can give myself and others"". I think the boy scouts are onto something.

Here is what my team says about our business:

""We are building the largest most profitable, highest retention organization ever built in the history of network marketing easily and consistently through education and teamwork"" Enough said on that one.

Before I end this there is one more thing. Words create pictures in our mind. People with great memories use pictures to remember things.

You've heard of athletes using visualization. A runner sees himself/herself getting out of the blocks perfectly, sees themselves straightening up and getting into full stride perfectly, they see themselves crossing the finish line first and powerfully.

My success in life and in network marketing is largely due to my Self-Talk and visualization (yes and hard work). Do you think anyone becomes successful if they are always saying, ""I'll never achieve anything"", ""It's to hard""?

The difference between successful people and non-successful people is, successful people do what other people won't do. THINK ABOUT IT!!!!

Until Next Time.

To your MLM success; Duffy Rogan

About the author: Duffy Rogan is a network marketing coach, and provides free mentoring to anyone in any network marketing company. Save yourself years of failure and frustration and learn the TRUTH about succeeding in Network Marketing. FREE ebook http://mlmsuccess.bigmlmlies.com

MLM Training: How To Call Bad Leads - Part 2

2008-12-12T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Ed Forteau & Kevin Paschke

In How to Call Bad Leads Part 1, we talked about the first step, in a three-step process, for successfully opening a recruiting call. The first move causes the prospect to become slightly confused. As they attempt to regroup, we use our second move.

Conversational Recruiter: ""Bob, this is a sales call. I'm going to ask you one question, and it's going to take 30 seconds of your time. If the answer is 'no,' the call is over. Is it okay if I go ahead and ask you the question?""

So, what did we accomplish with this second move?

First, we told the prospect that this is a sales call. Now the prospect probably guessed this already, but we were bold enough to tell the prospect why we are calling. This has never happened before. Sales people are never this up front and honest. We just gained some points with the prospect.

Second, we told the prospect that we are going to only ask him one question, and it will only take 30 seconds of his time. The prospect is thinking that this isn't going to take long, and I'll soon be rid of this person. In fact, the prospect might be thinking that in another 30 seconds, I can go back to watching my Three's Company marathon. And, if I give this person any resistance, this call might take a while. I don't want to make a mistake like I did a few seconds ago.

Third, we tell the prospect if his answer is 'no,' the call is over. The prospect is thinking that this is going to be easy. I say 'no,' and Three's Company, here I come. But did you notice what we didn't say? That's right. We didn't say what would happen if he says anything other than 'no.' There are no other options to the prospect. This allows the prospect to relax.

The prospect is thinking, what kind of sales person is this? Sales people never want to hear 'no,' right? Haven't we all been taught that we should get the prospect saying 'yes'? Build up an army of yes's, and when you ask the closing question, the prospect will say 'yes.' Well, that never worked for me. Not once. And I tried it hundreds of time before I decided that it was just bad advice.

Prospects aren't stupid; they can smell obvious manipulation a mile away. That's why that tactic doesn't work. Maybe prospects fell for it back in the 30s, when it was conceived, but it sure doesn't work now.

Fourth, we ask the prospect if it is okay to ask the one question. Again, the prospect is thinking, ask the question; I say 'no'; the call is over; I go back to Chrissy, Jack, the other girl, and Mr. Roper. I think I can handle this. Go ahead and ask your question, pal, I've got 'no' written all over it. Just ask the questions, I've got a show to watch.

The prospect has just gotten out of his daze of confusion. He thinks he is back in control. All is right with the world. It truly is a false sense of security because by allowing us to go ahead and ask our one question, the prospect is 2/3 of the way into our recruiting process... and he doesn't even know it.

We are a couple of moves away from checkmate. I hope he is recording his show.

I know, I know, I said opening the call involved three steps. Well, the next step involves a series of small moves. The best part is, it doesn't matter what the prospect says. If the prospect says, 'no' to our question, the call is far from over. You'll see why in the next, and last, article in this series.

About the author: Ed Forteau & Kevin Paschke are the Creators of www.ConversationalRecruiting.net considered by many top MLM income earners to be the Best MLM Training Course ever developed. Sign-up for their Free 15 Advanced Mini-Course and see for yourself.

Avoid Making these Common - but Very Critical Mistakes - and Increase Your Bottom Line

2008-12-11T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Douglas Peterson

""I'd rather have one percent of 100 people's efforts than 100 percent of my own."" -- Andrew Carnegie

Learn The Secrets Of Successful Network Marketers And Avoid The Three Common Mistakes That Almost All MLM Business Owners Make...And build your MLM empire.

Let's face it 90% of American adults want to make extra money in addition to their jobs. But most entrepreneur wannabees don't have the training and coaching to successfully make it on their own. One way to make life easier on such an endeavor is if you take the time to learn the lessons of others without having to live them yourself you can shorten the steep learning curve. Which is what this article can help you do so you can make money on your own and divorce yourself from the rat race. So let's get to it.

Mistake number 1 people make in network marketing is they don't have the marketing system nor the people skills to be successful in business as a distributor. You must get those people skills because network marketing is NOT a sales business, but a people building business. I know some of you will say, ""you must move product or perform a service to make money."" I don't disagree with you. But know this the only reason people buy from you is because they buy YOU.

Network marketing is a business of creating relationships, and friendships, and partnerships and leaderships. It's a business of know, like and trust. Trust is where it all begins my friend. If a potential customer doesn't trust you will you win them over and gain their patronage? No. Probably not. So understanding people is critical to winning them over without trying to ""close the deal."" People don't care how much you know, but how much you care about them. Win them over to your corner with empathy. Not feigned empathy (by seeing them as another paycheck), but genuine and sincere empathy.

Moreover, network marketing is comprised of 95% part-timers. So you must have a marketing system that works for the part-time distributor if you want to create that ongoing, reoccurring, residual, passive income. Instead of a system that works for the five percentile. Because part-timers will struggle and fail then quit with a bad taste in their mouths. The industry has seen too many casualties.

Mistake number 2 is that people don't believe in themselves. They don't believe they deserve success. They don't belief that they can have a loving relationship; a great career; a thriving business; their dream car and home. They don't believe they deserve to live their dreams and desires and live life on their terms, to own their life. They don't believe they have as much right to everything their heart desires. Nor expect the very best in life (be it a lavish lifestyle or simple abundance) for themselves. So they just settle for mediocrity - for second best.

The third mistake is the most critical mistake. It's when new comers join a sham company without realizing it. All the training, all the mentoring, all the coaching, all the guidance and all the help won't save you if you make this critical mistake. And you'll probably wind up a bilked and battered distributor.

You can avoid such abuse by doing you 'due diligence'. This is more imperative than ever because the one issue of growing concern is: Who is looking out for you, the distributor?

In other words, how many mlm companies out there are truly distributor-friendly ... meaning, that really value them by putting the distributor's interests above their own interests, i.e. profits?

A few? Maybe. I hope more than that.

Unfortunately some distributors got swindled by their company's executives who chose to double-cross them by modifying their compensation plan, or make the distributor jump through a few hoops to get their 'paycheck' so they, the mlm business ersatz can line their pockets with commissions instead of paying the distributor who rightfully earned it. And, if they miss just 1 step their check is forfeited, in effect. Or, get expelled and loose one's position in the organization without notice.

Companies have terminated their loyal employees just before they retire after they have given them 20+ years of service so the corporate executives can keep that pension the employee worked hard for. What's the difference?

MLM scams are nothing more than a 'sucker's bet' for the unsuspecting distributor just like when Ponzi bilked unsuspecting ""investors"" with his scheme 100 years ago. If the distributor makes any money it's because the mlm ersatz is ""throwing them a bone"" ... until they decide to pull the rug out from under them and keep the commissions for themselves or payoff the attorney(s) on retainer.

Carnegie's essay ""The Gospel of Wealth"" (1889) set forth his idea that rich men are ""trustees"" of their wealth and should administer it for the good of the public.

Today, we, network marketers, should expect owner/executives in mlm companies to have integrity and act with probity. But, today that is not the case in all companies.

What could be more odious in the mlm industry than business ersatz swindling their distributors, vis-à-vis executive fiat to ""alter the deal"", in some way?

Scams leave clues, much like the legitimate bizops. IF the distributor does their 'due diligence' they would have the prescience, so to speak, to avoid the scam and not get ripped-off by any mlm ersatz. Unfortunately, the ""terms & conditions"" contract, a.k.a. ""Policies & Procedures"" can be SO long, 35, 35 or even up to nearly 70 pages long, that it may feel like trying to ""find a needle in a haystack"" when reading to find any devious or slick ""gatchas"" peppered throughout. Moreover, the distributor is a customer FIRST because they make the company, therefore, are the company. So the only reason the mlm ersatz makes ANY money is because the customer-distributor moves product thru consumption, retailing and building the business through distributor sign-ups.

Now for some good news. You, the distributor can seek retribution from back-stabbing larceny by getting even, in a way.

How? You can and should dump the company. By resigning you take with you your most precious assets you worked for that nobody can ever take from you.

Such assets would be your leadership skills; your business building skills ... and bring as many team members with you as you can. For, this economic repudiation withers away the sham.

You now have the wisdom and experience to achieve the same income level quicker. And more.

So, how well does your mlm company measure up?

Hopefully you found your home (and not marry a sham).

However, you can't be too careful, can you?

Do you know if your mlm company is the real deal or a sucker's bet?

Do you have the prescience, if you will to see signs the company is about to 'garnish' your income, thus negatively impact your lifestyle?

The best insurance against distributor larceny is doing you 'due diligence.'

About the author: Douglas Peterson is one of many professionals in Mentoring for Free who is willing to help others who want to own their life by building their own thriving business. He offers the eye-opening free ebook, Success in 10 Steps here http://www.my-free-ebook.com and learn how to get the tiger of network marketing by the tail. Call 508-272-3481 anytime. Email: uwyn@juno.com.

Network Marketing Recruiting - The 'Long Tail' Theory

2008-12-10T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Michael Dlouhy

If YOU don't understand ""The Long Tail"" of network marketing recruiting, your chance of success is pretty small.

Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands ... probably millions of people have quit network marketing, totally frustrated, thinking they failed.

The truth is, they just worked the wrong theory.

The Long Tail is a different way of looking at MLM. In the heavy hitters' business model, you buy leads, call the leads, 98% don't join, it's over, burn 'em off, next, next, next. And the 2% who do join you get disillusioned by no income in the first 6 weeks, so they're off to some other pie-in-the-sky bizop.

versus ... in the Long Tail model, you offer people a valuable freebie in exchange for their contact information. Then you call them up, you talk, you find out what they want & need, you offer them help, you build ""know, like & trust"" with them.

You continue contacting them at least once a month and over time, they'll begin to join you in your business. The result is, you are leveraging every minute and dollar you spend to the maximum. And you wind up with people who really want to be in business with you ...

***People Who Will Actually Build YOUR Business***

Network marketing recruiting is a relationship-building process for 2 main reasons:

1. You can't sell a lick and you know it - so there's no chance you'll ever build any kind of business based on you selling something or recruiting somebody. That is why buying a list of leads from some unknown source - or even a known source - makes no sense whatsoever.

2. Your #1 goal is to create an income to support the lifestyle you want, an income which you can pass down to your children's children. That means you must find business partners who will stick around. And that means you can't just sell them something. You have to build a relationship with them ... which you may do quickly ... or which may take months or years.

The key is to make time work for you. If you're just burning through a list of purchased names, you are always fighting time, because none of those people has had the time to get to know you. But if your goal is to ""stock the pond"" with real business partner prospects, and build a relationship, then time is working in your favor. The longer they know you, the more contacts you'll make with them, the more likely they'll start to see YOU as someone very special in this business.

***People Haven't Changed Much Over The Last Thousand Years***

They still want love. They want passion in their personal lives and their professional lives. They want self-satisfaction & health, security & achievement, freedom & trust, fun & financial independence.

People will still want these things a thousand years from now.

The mistakes I see people make in this business astonish me ... the wrong directions they take and the worthless busywork they do.

If you want happiness and fortune & fulfillment in your life, if you want a lifetime of luck, you need to create relationships with people. To do that, you need to study people and understand them. If you will only do that, the opportunities you'll be presented with are endless.

For you to have great success, it's critical that you have that ""Long Tail"" viewpoint of building relationships. Over time, those relationships will pay off for you.

That's why you must promote YOURSELF to people, not some product or company. Unexpected things can happen to products or companies. But if you build the relationship of YOU and that person, then eventually, there's a good chance you are the one they will come to for help and/or advice ... and/or your business opportunity, whatever it is at that particular time.

***It's Not The Product Or The Company Or Even The Money That Is The Magic***

Most people focus on the money. Recruit someone today. Sell a product today. When they call people, they churn & burn. If a prospect won't join now, today, then hang up and call the next one.

The problem is, people quickly spot that ""me first"" attitude. It's what they've come to expect. It gets you nowhere except frustrated and out of the network marketing business.

It's time to realize that the magic isn't the product, the company, or the money. The magic is YOU.

One way to make money in any market is to simply be there and see things in their early stages. Get involved and contribute to others in the same market. I learned long ago how important it is to your financial success & your happiness to be able to predict the future, by seeing things as they really are now.

***See Into The Future***

You can do that, too ... all it takes is a strong commitment. Understand the problems people have in network marketing, and what causes them, and what the solutions are. And if you know that much, it's easy to build value-based relationships with people, because they will know that you are sincere, that the information you are giving them is true ... and that you are helping them.

This is all I have ever done in network marketing, and I promise you, it works like crazy. This very article is a perfect example.

The majority still believe network marketing recruiting is a sales process. There are very, very few who realize that the big organizations are built by people who understand The Long Tail ... the value of building long-term relationships.

Most people are still focused on making money right now, this afternoon at the latest. But for the money to happen, you must first be a person willing to give value to others with no expectation of return. And your plan should be to continue doing exactly that, over time, so that you can take advantage of The Long Tail of network marketing recruiting.

About the author: Michael Dlouhy is a 27-year veteran legendary network marketing trainer who will mentor you and help you program yourself for MLM success .

Training the New Network Marketing Distributor: Laying Down a Track To Run On- Step 1 of 3

2008-12-09T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Bruce C. Bailey

Laying Down a Track To Run On Training the New Network Marketing Distributor - Step 1 of 3

Most people who get into a network marketing program want things to happen quickly. Initial presentations usually touch on the way money can be made, and the numbers often look staggering. What most of those initial presentations don't explain is how difficult it is to get started and to acquire the skills needed for success in network marketing.

For many new distributors, this is their first venture into network marketing. They are unsure about how to begin and often are tentative in their initial approaches. That can be the ""kiss of death"" for a presentation. After all, who wants to go into business with someone who is not sure about what they are doing?

To be successful in network marketing, new distributors need to learn from someone who is already successful. When new distributors know how to proceed, they can build their downline with confidence. Only one person in a hundred is a ""self-starter."" The other 99 will require that you invest time into their success, and show them how to begin.

There are three steps to building your downline: 1. Laying Down A Track to Run On 2. Being a Good MLM Sponsor 3. Working Depth With Your MLM Downline

Today, let's talk about the first step, i.e.

Step 1 -- Laying Down A Track to Run On

Making sure your downline has a ""track to run on"" means they must first learn about the company: * facts and information about the management team; * product features and benefits; * compensation plan and how you make money; * enrolling prospects and order processing; * who your upline is; and * developing their presentation portfolio.

In addition to the above, having a track to run on involves knowing how to: * develop effective communication skills, i.e. to speak with people in a way that reduces tension, neutralizes objections, and increases participation; * use tools (e.g. websites, CDs & DVDs, newspapers, brochures, etc.); * promote home meetings, regional gatherings and conventions; * share information with warm and cold market, leads, referrals; * edify upline leaders; and * conduct an effective 3 way call.

When you sign up a new distributor, immediately have them make a list of ten prospects. Then, you should send each of those prospects some company information and a short note stating that you are sending the information to them at the request of a mutual friend. If you have an informational website, include the URL in your letter. After the information has gone out, have your new distributors follow up with their prospects and set up a three-way call. When you do this, you (1) get your new distributors to immediately begin building their organization, (2) get sponsor and distributor working together, and (3) your new distributors will know what to do when they sign up someone, i.e. exactly what you have done for them! This stimulates business and creates tremendous momentum in the downline.

Sounds simple, but many sponsors violate this strategy. If it's done right, and your new distributors see how easy your success is to duplicate, you will find that them running on that same track, teaching their downline how to get started. You'll see business builders emerging, and that's when your business will really take off.

Bruce Bailey, Ph.D.

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Why You Will Fail In Network Marketing-- Unless You Read This!

2008-12-08T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Brian Johnson

Did you know that 90% of all people in the network marketing fail! That's correct 9 out of every 10 people that come into this business will never achieve their hopes and dreams. One of my favorite quotes is, ""Success leaves clues."" But so does failure. So if you want to be successful, do what the successful people have done. If you want to avoid failure... avoid doing what the people who have failed have done.

People flock to network marketing because of the simplicity of the system. They hear that the opportunity is a turn-key system that succeeds for everyone who follows it. So why do people fail, in record numbers in such a system? They fail because, they pick and choose which parts to follow and which parts not to follow.

A system will not work if you do not follow ALL of the steps. It's like following the directions on a map. If you turn left when you are suppose to turn right, you may eventually get to your final destination, but it may take you much longer. You may even end up lost in the wilderness. And if you have a team of people following you, you may lead them astray in to that same wilderness.

So, what are the 4 key mistakes most people make who fail in this business?

1. They talk too much. Most of you in your excitement about your new business will try and go out and explain it to everyone you know, expecting them to be as enthusiastic as you are. This is a mistake! Although most people don't admit it, they make decisions on an emotional basis and THEN use logic to support their decision. You are excited about your business because you are emotionally invested in it. After you got emotionally invested then your brain came up with the logical reasons why you could do this business. Your friends and family work the same way. Follow the system that is in place weather it's a video presentation or sizzle or conference call. These have been designed to push the emotional buttons of your prospects FIRST, then the logical ones. Follow your scripts! Before adding words check with your up-line. It is amazing how adding just 2 or 3 extra words can make or brake your business. Also you want to keep the process as simple as possible. Remember this business is about duplicating success. Always KISS your business (Keep It Simple, Silly). That way your downline will be able to duplicate your success.

2. They fail to do something everyday. Your business, my business, almost any business is built on momentum. It is always harder to get it started, but once it gets started, it is easier to maintain. But once you stop, you have to start the hard process of getting started again. Think about that diet or workout you may have started at once upon a time. I'm sure you decided that I am going to get in shape or lose weight. You may have started off great, but then... you miss that one work out or you cheat that one day, thinking ""Its just one day!"" But that one day makes it easier to skip another day. Then it becomes a week... Now you have to start all over again. Make doing something everyday a habit. They say it takes a habit 21 days to develop. Prospect consistently for 21 days. It will seem hard at first, but in 21 days, it will be almost second nature. You may not see the benefits today, but with 30-90 days of consistent action, you will definitely notice some results.

3. They Don't Treat Their Business Like A Business. You have to invest in your business. In network marketing the asset that you have to invest the most is your time. We are all given 86,400 seconds in each day to invest. What we don't use, we lose. We can not save any on the seconds that we do not use. Therefore, we do not have any ""spare"" time. It is either used or lost forever. In other words you can work your business full time or part time, but not in your spare time. Plan the hours that your business will be open and work during those hours. It could be 7 hours a week or 70 hours a week. Just plan out that time and use it effectively. Spend 80% of your working time prospecting. The other 20% should be used training your downline and self development. Now you can use the hours outside of your work time to do extra prospecting, team building or self development, but think of this as overtime, which will pay off in the future.

4. They Quit Too Soon. Less Brown wrote a book, ""Its Not Over Until You Win"" I truly believe that is one of the biggest problems with people in this industry. People give up too soon. You wouldn't quit your job if they didn't make you a national director or vice-president in 3 months of (inconsistent at best) part-time work. So why should you expect it here. However, statistically it takes more than 10 years of grueling dedicated hours to become senior management in the corporate world. In the network marketing field, over 90% of the people who stay around for more than 3 years reach a senior sales level, working part time. What sounds like a better deal to you? Stay with it. Don't quit. If you do, the clock will start all over again. Remember, its not over until you win!

Nine out of 10 people fail in this industry because they are not willing to work hard and are looking for easy money. You don't have to be one of the failures. The road to network marketing success is filled with obstacles. It is your decision if you are going to use them as stumbling block or stepping stones. Also, don't get fooled by the simplicity of system. They system is very simple, but it is not always easy!

To your wealth,

Brian Johnson

Arm Your Downline For Success

2008-12-07T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Bruce Bailey, Ph.D.

""Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them.""

- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene i (58-90)

Hamlet may not have been talking about network marketing, but his words do apply. Almost every network marketer has experienced the ""slings and arrows"" of the naysayers, those often well-meaning friends and relatives that stand in the way of our making an ""outrageous fortune!"" Experienced network marketers, clothed in the armor of past success, are less vulnerable to outside influences. The new distributor, however, is vulnerable, and that ""sea of troubles"" can act as a barrier to reaching their true potential.

What did the knights of old do to prevent an injury? That's right - they armed themselves. Their armor was heavy and cumbersome, and they needed a squire to help them prepare for battle. Well, the same is true for your new distributors. While the armor they must use is less cumbersome than that of the knights, you must help them arm themselves for success. In other words, you must be their squire.

What do I mean by ""arming for success?""

When a new distributor joins your network marketing organization, they are moving into an environment that demands strong armor. There are a lot of ""slings and arrows"" that can hurt their chances for success and create a sea of troubles -- of doubt, disbelief, even failure.

As Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert T. Kiyosaki points out, most people in this world are afraid to experience success. They are held back by negative thinking, and consequently suffer the pain of mediocrity. Because they have not been armed for success, and are more focused on security and survival, they subject themselves to a life of servitude and poverty and being someone else's employee.

Arm your new distributors from negative thinking and potential disaster. How? By understanding why so many people are negative about network marketing and the prospects of the success it can bring.

Let's face it. There are a lot of people out there that do not want you to become successful. When you are successful, you point out the lack of success in their lives. When you take away any excuses they've been hanging onto and you force them to look at their lives as they really are, it makes them very uncomfortable. You've heard of the expression ""Misery loves company."" Well, it's true.

Doug Firebaugh, network marketing guru, calls it the ""Unspoken Understanding,"" which is simply the silent agreement that most people have with each other, namely ""don't mention my mediocre life, and I won't mention yours."" Your success and the success of your new distributors, just points out the naysayers' mediocrity.

Leaders help others. If you are going to be successful in network marketing, you must arm your new distributors against people who will try to convince them their business won't work. Show your downline you want them to be successful. Encourage them. Show them how the most successful network marketers have achieved their success, and teach them to model those attitudes, habits, and actions. Remind your distributors that they are the CEO of their lives. Arm them with the power of positive thinking so they don't let others live their lives for them with their negative attitudes.

To paraphrase Hamlet, by opposing negative thoughts, we end them.

Bruce Bailey, Ph.D.

About the author: Dr. Bailey has transformed the incomes of scores of MLMers. His never-miss tactics have been used by thousands to turn their MLM dreams into realities! For FREE access to his e-course, visit http://www.myidealmlm.com

What are MLM Leads

2008-12-06T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Flemming Andersen

When you are starting up your own at home business, you will find that you need to have your business advertised and given the push that it needs to get off the ground. It is so important to make sure that you are getting the most of your home based business and MLM leads is just the thing to help you do just that.

You will find that MLM Leads can take your business to higher places and let it expand and grow into the company that you have always wanted it to be. They do all the dirty work for you and allow you to concentrate on the more important things there are in the business world. We will help you get the leads that you need so that you can easily get your business off the ground and moving in the right direction.

Working with MLM lead will give you the top marketing network leader to generate fresh leads that will make your business thrive. The main goal of this idea is to make sure that all of the customers are happy and generate massive high quality clients that will bring in a lot of success to your company.

You can trust MLM Leads to provide clients with honest, reliable and motivated solutions. We will do all of this at great and affordable prices that will make any company be able to afford this type of marketing idea. You will be glad that you made the decision to choose MLM leads for you business-networking ideas. You will gain more success than you would if you were to practice other methods of receiving work.

It is easy to get all the information that you are going to need about MLM Leads online. You can go and find out what you have to do to register and the cost of the program. You will also be able to hear about all the other happy customers that entrust their company to the hands of the MLM Leads service. This is going to help you make and confirm your decision to go on with all of the services that are available to you and your home based business.

You can not only find great marketing idea, but also help with investments and long term marketing plans. You can get all of the help that you are going to need to make sure that you financial future is stable with MLM Leads. You can make sure that you have all the information that it takes to keep you and your business stronger than ever. Not only will you get help for your company, you will find the help for your mortgage needs and other important investments.

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About the author: The author work with SEO and Adsense and delivers info on different kind of products. To find the best MLM Leads for you, the author provides a detailed website with info and resources on MLM Leads.

Training the New Network Marketing Distributor: Working Depth With Your MLM Downline - Step 3 of 3

2008-12-05T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Bruce Bailey, Ph.D.

In Step 1, ""Laying Down a Track to Run On,"" we talked about how to get your new distributor started the right way. In Step 2 ""Being a Good MLM Sponsor,"" we discussed how you should go over ""The Rules"" of your operation with your downline so they can develop the discipline to grow their (and YOUR!) business. In this, the third step of the series, we'll discuss ""Working Depth,"" or making it too expensive for your downline to leave the business!""

Step 3 -- Working Depth With Your MLM Downline Working depth means sponsoring your downline when they sponsor their new distributors. It means assisting your business partners to help them get their downline (and YOURS!) started the right way.

Essentially, you're taking the track that you've laid out for your downline to run on and getting them to pass that knowledge on to their personally sponsored distributors. Naturally, they're going to need help helping others and that's where you, as their sponsor, come in. This is the essence of network marketing, i.e. building relationships and helping others succeed.

How deep should you go? Theoretically, you only have to go down two levels, i.e. lay out the track for the people you enroll and for the people they enroll. If everyone follows that format, the method perpetuates itself.

In reality, however, not everyone is going to approach the business the same way. Some will work a their own pace (usually more slowly than you would like!), or will want to ""tweak"" the methodology to fit their style. So, don't just think ""one or two levels."" Realize that you can do this with EVERYONE in your downline that's willing to be coached, whether you personally sponsored them or not. The downline pays the upline; if a new distributor enters your downline, and is willing to work to grow the business, why wouldn't you work with them? They may not bring money to you directly, but they will bring it to you indirectly. Who pays the downline that pays you? Their downline. Your success depends on their success, so don't be afraid to work deep into your organization.

Remember, one of your goals should be to make it too expensive for your downline to leave the business! If you don't build builders, you'll never acquire the lifestyle that can come from having a significant passive residual income stream.

In closing, let me reiterate something from Part 2 - you can't change human nature. People will only do what they are willing to do. However, people can change themselves if they are willing to change. Being a good sponsor means showing your downline the benefits of (a) following a proven track, (b) being a good sponsor themselves, and (c) working depth.

When you work with your downline to create an independent network of builders, and help them to develop other builders who, in turn, develop more builders, you've found the winning formula.

One last thought: don't take it personally if some of your downline distributors don't turn into dynamic business builders. As long as you have done your part in educating them, you've done all you can do. You can't build their business for them. While you can provide inspiration, they must provide the perspiration!

Work with your distributors; give them tasks to accomplish each time you contact them. But, that's about all you can do. If they don't want to build their business and be responsible for their own success, then you must spend your time on those who have earned it, i.e. those who are willing to take responsibility.

To your success!

Bruce Bailey, Ph.D.

How To Explode Your MLM Business In 3 Minutes

2008-12-04T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Terry Edwards

How To Explode Your MLM Business In 3 Minutes

Here is a great tip on how to introduce anyone to your MLM / Network Marketing business by using your companies 3 minute sizzle line message. If your company doesn't have a recorded sizzle message for prospects to listen to, consider making one yourself. It's very easy to do.

Let's say for example you have a friend, co-worker, etc., that you want to introduce your home business to. What should you do? How should you present the business opportunity to them? Here is an easy 5 step system that anyone can use successfully.

*Step 1 Get your friend or co-worker to listen to your 3 minute message by simply saying this:

""____, I want you to hear something real quick. Hold on.""

If you have them on the phone, do a 3-way call to the message. If you are with them in person, dial the message on your cell phone and let them listen to it.

Don't tell them what the call is about or let them know anything about your business before letting them hear the message. That's the key! If you tell them about your business first, then they already have enough information in their mind to say no. You don't want that to happen to you.

*Step 2

After the message is over, ask them ONE simple question. ""Are you open to more information?""

If no, then you know they are not a prospect and that's just fine.. If they say ""Yes, I'm interested"", then move on to step 3.

*Step 3

This is the step that you want your prospect to hear a little more information about your company and your products. Do a 3-way call into your companies recorded overview line. If you don't have one, then 3-way them onto one of your companies live conference calls.

After the call, ask them if they can see an opportunity here? Then share your story about what the products have done for you, or what the business has done for you.

If they are excited, or have lots of questions, 3-way your upline. Let them answer the questions and tell your prospect their story.

*Step 4

Give them your website to look over. Give them some sample product to try if possible. Possibly give them a CD or DVD to look over.

If you haven't already 3-wayed them to your upline leader, then you want to do so now. Let your prospect hear from someone who they do not know. It gives great credibility and shows you work as a team. They won't be alone.

3-way calls work! It's a proven method to put people in your business

*Step 5

FOLLOW UP!

This is the most important step of all. If you want to explode your business, you must follow up with your prospect. Call them back in a day or two and simply ask them how things are going? Ask them if they have had a chance to look over your website, etc.

If they have more questions, and you can't answer them all, 3-way your upline leader. You want to keep following up until you get a yes or no answer.

Why should you use this system?

It is simple and it works!

Here's why:

Everyone you show your business to is going to look at it from this point of view: · Can I do this business? · Can I do what you are doing? · How easy will this be for me?

If your prospect hears you giving a 20 minute breakdown of the comp plan, or a detailed analysis of the chemical compound of your nutritional product, etc., they are going to feel that they must do the same thing. Then guess what happens next? They feel overwhelmed and shut down to your opportunity.

But...if they see that all you need to do in order to sponsor other people is to: · Have someone listen to a 3 minute message · Listen to a recorded or live overview call, · 3-way them with your upline · Give them samples and follow up

Then they know they can easily do the same things. The key is to keep things simple and let the tools do the work for you. If you will do this, then I can promise you that you will see your business grow...and grow FAST!

About the author: Terry Edwards is a full-time network marketer and spends most of his time helping others succeed in their business. To learn more about the business Terry is actively working, go to http://www.cashinongas.com or call 800-349-6960.

Who is likely to Succeed in Network Marketing?

2008-12-03T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: E K Gann

The one that is most persistent. The one that is most self motivated. The one that is most likely to make things happen. The one that will not take ""NO"" for an answer. The one that will help more people successful.

Those are some of the qualities of a successful network marketer.

What you have done in the past is not important. Most importantly is what you will do from now.

About anyone can be successful in Network marketing , and off course not everyone will. Success belongs to the ones who are willing to learn how to work the business properly. Willing to attend training, follow advices and most importantly willing to do what needs to be done. Willing to sell and recruit, and keep on selling and recruiting. Willing to help another person to be more successful that himself.

There is no special qualification required. There is no limitations on the age. No requirement on previous experiences needed. Even applies to people with little or no working knowledge at all. A person who will likely to be successful in network marketing just need an interest in this business. A person who is seriously looking for freedom over his destiny. A person who is looking for more contacts and getting profit out of the process. A person who is looking for a new social lifestyle and new friends. A person who is looking for his lost fortune.

So your may realized now that almost everyone qualifies to be successful in network marketing!

In a nut shell; a person who have the ambition and willing to take that into action. A person who is self motivated will succeed in network marketing. The most successful network marketers are those who will do what it takes and whatever it takes. These are the people who make thing happen, not just watching things happen and definitely not those who will ask:"" What happened"" later.

Are you the one choosing to be successful in network marketing; or are you chosen? You can and will be choosing for successful people to work with you in network marketing; but these same people do not want to choose for themselves to be successful in this business, then success in network marketing will elude them. You know by now who and what type of people will in turn make you more successful in network marketing.

About the author: This article is written by E K Gann. His aim is to work together and help others starting business online. Especially beginners who are facing problems and difficulties getting resources, and those in need for Personal Development; in marketing, sales, self improvement, motivation and continue education. He has been following the footsteps of a man who earns $3,244,842.32 in 27 months! You can do the same. Find out:http://www.altmarketingresources.com

3 Important Tips That Will Make Your Marketing Explode!

2008-12-02T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Greg Gibson

3 Marketing Tips That Will Guarantee Your Online Success.

I want to talk about something important in any marketing campaign.

What to do after you decided what you're marketing. 3 very important points.

1. Focus is very important. Unless you are focused with your marketing plan, failure is just a matter of time. What do I mean by focus? Focus is having a sense of direction. Knowing what you want from your marketing efforts. It's can also be called the Why in marketing. Many times we begin a marketing venture and within a short period of time we have switched to something else. Imagine starting a brick and mortor business, spending your hard earned cash investing in inventory, products, advertising, building expense, etc and within what 30 to 60 days you decide to do something else. Now, the bad thing is that you continue to do this over and over again only to find failure. Solution. Focus on just 1 program at a time. Make is successful and if you want to do something else you can. Also choose your program wisely, it should have some value to you. If you don't use your own products or services, you don't see a value in it. No one else will. So Focus.

2. After you decide what you want to market, Make a list daily on what your task will be.What do I mean by a list? Well, let me say it another way. Would you buy a home if the builder just wakes up one morning starts building without a ""to do"" plan? A list of what he wants to accomplish that day. A master plan on what the final product will look like. Well, marketing is the same. You should have a plan or list. You need to decide what you want to accomplish before you begin daily, weekly, monthly, etc. This will give you a sense of direction. With that sense of direction you will see growth. One important secret to make this easier to accomplish. The internet is a wealth of information, you will always find something directing your attention away from your focus. Solution. Get on and off the internet when you finish our list. Afterall, isn't freedom one of the things you're looking for. That's the beautiful part of the list. You will have a feeling of accomplishment by completing your list. That will go a long way. Remember if you don't plan, you plan to fail.

3. Find a Mentor. If you can find a mentor in the area you're marketing, that should save you lots of time. I have to say something about mentors or teachers. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. You probably heard this before. It's true, you can find mentors everywhere. Books, tapes, even the internet. This is an ever growing process. Become an expert. Read everything you can get your hands on relating to your topic. You will become an expert. It may not happen as quickly as you want, but when it happens.

I didn't want to cover how to market because if you don't have direction you're find yourself skipping all the steps anyhow. Remember, Focus, Things To Do List, Find a Mentor.

Put these 3 important facts into effect and you'll see that your future with marketing online will change drastically and quickly.

Focus on Success and Success will happen. If you Focus on failure, failure will happen.

See ya at the top..

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About the author: I been marketing online for a few years now. I'm also a banker by profession. I help people put together plans to change their financial lives offline and online. The Principles are still the same.

How to build a great business with MLM Leads

2008-12-01T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Flemming Andersen

When you are starting out with a new business, it can be scary. You are not going to know if your company is going to make it or not. You are not sure of the road ahead and the future is very uncertain for many. When a business is new and trying to make a go at it, it is a good idea to have the backup that is necessary from a great company like MLM Leads.

This company will help you get started with all that you need to know about how to get your business moving in the right direction. When you are not sure what to do first, you will find that a great business company like MLM Leads, will help you get your company off the ground and running at its full potential.

You can get great calling leads when you choose to use MLM Leads. You will have a great list of prospective buyers and you can go from there. There are no cold calls anymore when you are given the information that MLM offers. You will find that every call you make will be a potential customer waiting to make you money.

There are a few ways to use the leads that MLM provides. There is the web posting. This will mean that you will have high search engine rankings. You can also have pay per click and there is also high pop up advertising. With these kinds of methods of advertising your company, you will get your name across to all of interested people that would benefit from your company.

There are so many interesting things that MLM Leads can do for people. There are debt consolidations, mortgages, and so much more. There is an endless list of possibilities for you and your company when you are using MLM. You cannot go wrong when you decide to give us a try. You can build your company up overnight with the endless adventures that you can take with this fortune making company.

So many fresh leads are added every day and will produce great ideas for customers. There is a great range of MLM Lead packages to ensure the quality of any new company's budget. You will get to choose the package that makes the most sense for you. There are no hassles and no worries to have. All you need to do is trust the work that we can do for you and your new and uprising company. There is no reason to wait any longer. Getting started now, will only benefit you and your business.

You can find out all of the great things that MLM Leads has done for other people too. There are already many satisfied customers that will help you in making the decision to use this great and helpful company now.

For more info visit: http://www.onlinecompany.org/

Network Marketing - Something To Consider For The Baby Boomer Generation

2008-11-30T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Lori & Andy Chiango

If you are a Baby Boomer you are in your mid forties or beyond.

How many jobs have you had? Are you satisfied with your current profession? Do you have children in college? Are you prepared for retirement? Is the job you are doing helping you realize your dreams? Do you dream of having more time? Do you dream of being excited about what you are doing? Do you dream of having a higher quality of life, more vacations, more quality time with family and friends, more financial security or whatever your definition of a higher quality of life is?

Do you feel stuck and frustrated that roughly half of your life on this Earth has past and you aren't quite where you thought you would be or want to be?

These are all normal questions for the Baby Boomer generation. For some there is total contentment. But for those who are still looking, seeking, hoping for more there is a means to that end. That end can be something different for everyone. But there is a way to realize it whatever it is.

So where can you keep your current job (until you choose to move on), cultivate a new opportunity, create unlimited income potential, achieve a healthier personal and family lifestyle, pay those college tuitions, establish financial security for retirement, and have the means to pursue any dream you may have?

Let's consider for a moment a network marketing approach, to some known as multi-level-marketing or MLM. It can be done over the phone, Internet, from home, or just about anywhere in the world. Some may be thinking, ""Amway"", ""the pyramid thing"". The answer is No. Network Marketing has changed. Look for the company with the right endorsements, the right tools, the right approach, winning products, and impeccable timing. The company that has all these things will lift a person out of the daily rat race cycle and into a new, happier, healthier life with more free time and unlimited earning potential.

This is not to say that being successful in Network Marketing does not require effort and at time long hours. But, the flexibility in those hours, satisfaction in owning one's own business, no boss, no employees, with very high if not unlimited earning potential can be extremely satisfying. Matter of fact for some Baby Boomers, It may be the first professional satisfaction ever experienced. Being happy with one's profession can enhance a person's quality of life alone.

Once established, the effort to maintain an income level with the right network marketing company will diminish drastically, providing for more time with the family and once again an overall healthier more satisfying, less stressful life style.

This is not to suggest that your dream is or should be to become a Network Marketer, but to suggest that network marketing is a very viable way to establish the means to realize your dreams.

Baby Boomer or not, if you have not considered network marketing as an alternative to the daily routine and the rut the American employee seems to be in. Perhaps you should. The possibilities are endless and the dream is yours to realize.

About the author: Lori and Andy Chiango, both business professionals with a young family living in New England, wrote this article. They are now XELR8 distributors. XELR8 is a company providing nutritional products endorsed by over 350 professional athletes and celebrities, is publicly traded and fully funded. Check out www.XELR8yourDream.com , take the tour, request your FREE sample tin and ""accelerate"" yourself towards any dream you may have. You wil

Welcome to AA-Turbo Charge Marketing!

2008-11-29T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Remel Garganera

Username is: wealthraiser

URL is: http://www.aatcm.com/wealthraiser

Please take the time to read this e-mail NOW.

You are among the first to be invited to pre-register in this world wide pre-launch. In this email our management team will cover many items with you. It is vital that our initial pre-launch group has a broad understanding of what AA-Turbo Charge Marketing is all about. The pre-launch link was only sent out to a group of people hand-selected by management. You are in a position that could hold tremendous value in the coming days, weeks and months.

We know we have had our hands on the most exciting product ever unveiled by way of the MLM Industry. Over the past 32 hours we have assembled a team that many companies in the industry would gladly pay over 5 million in signing bonuses for this team that has committed to introducing the AA-Turbo Charger to the world via MLM. We appreciate their expertise and sincere commitment to the successful launch of AA-Turbo Charge Marketing.

When word gets out about all of the leaders who have taken position with AA-TCM there will be thousands taking sub-positions. Most of these leaders build 2-5 programs at the same time and their teams are trained to do the same (multi-MLM-tasking).

One of the leaders that signed on to AA-TCM built a 300 MILLION dollar network marketing company and was the FIRST distributor in the history of the industry to draw a $100,000 per month check. Here is what he has to say about AA-TCM:

About AA-Turbo Charger Product..

""This is the ultimate demo product""

""It does the selling for you""

""The silent salesman""

All of us in this industry have tried to sell a product or a service and most times it would take an hour, sometimes days or even weeks to demonstrate the value of a product or service. With The AA-Turbo Charger it takes about 10 seconds to demo it and about 20 seconds for a person to make up their mind that they ""GOT TO HAVE IT"" and pay $25. for it on the spot. Some of you have done a Google search about this product and found that the initial version was on the market in November of 2005. Yes, the product was featured at the CES show in Las Vegas in January 2006. Back then the product was being test marketed and was not the version we have today. Try to do a Google search about the AA-Turbo Charger and Network Marketing and you will NOT find a word about it. Why?

Because the ink is still wet and we are the first to introduce this product the way it should have been introduced from the very beginning. Yes, Network marketing via the internet and person to person. This is the beginning of a roll-out that is going to bring back the excitement of network marketing to many around the world.

Here is how the co-founder of AA-TCM likes to demo and introduce the product to people and maybe you will catch his vision of the product by us telling you about it. He first shows just the main piece which looks like a 55 caliber bullet or tube of lipstick. He says you are looking at a ""mini miracle"" here. It is a 25 Billion Dollar Product. It is the answer to 1.4 Billion Problems. It will solve any financial problem. It will pay for your dreams. It will pay off your mortgage, put your children through college, it will allow you to travel around the world and then some. He then goes on to say ""it is a silver bullet with a computer chip at the point."" He than unscrews the bottom of the unit showing that it contains a single AA battery. By now people's curiosity is at an all time high. They are thinking, ""is it a mini computer?"". What can it be? It is at this time when he pulls the 10 adapters out of his pocket and SPRINKLES them over the unit and says it is the ONLY portable charger powered by a simple AA battery that will fit into any cell phone in The World and it cost only $25 and will give you up to an average of TWO HOURS talk time and FORTY HOURS standby time.

And then it happens. in 8 out of 10 cases the persons pupils dilate and their excitement just over powers them and they say,

""I GOT TO HAVE THAT!""

""CAN I GET ONE?""

""CAN I SELL THEM?""

""CAN I GET 100 OF THEM?""

I love this one...ACTUAL QUOTE!

Yes, this is an MLM distributors dream come true. In this industry we always try to share a company or an opportunity that people have not heard of as of yet. NEVER BEFORE has anyone ever had a product that 99 out of a 100 people DO NOT EVEN KNOW EXISTS. This will soon change with AA-TCM. We are now ready to let the world know.

About the author: None

The MOST Important Step to Gaining Internet Network Marketing Success . . .

2008-11-28T03:05:00.000-08:00

Author: Daegan Smith

how do we change the overwhelming odds against the average Network Marketer?

We use A Perfect Internet Network Marketing System!

This took me over 6 months to finally crack the code and is the cornerstone of my personal success.

What I'm about to share with you is the #1 breakthrough that took me from spending 4 hours a day - 5 days a week paying upwards of $500 a month for leads and having no success, to spending less than an hour a day actively promoting my business and recruiting over 25 new reps in my first week without ever picking up a phone!

Not only that, my total downline grew to over 40 people within that very first week, so my recruits started duplicating my success!

So . . . pay attention!

For the average home based Internet network marketer to be successful certain things MUST be in place.

I will list them here:

o Lead capture page designed specifically for your Network Marketing Company:

This page must contain strong sales copy that tells the prospect why he wants to opt in for more information. The best way to do this is to offer a High Value Free Report in exchange for their contact information.

o Free Report specifically designed for Your Network Marketing Companies Opportunity:

The free report must be highly informative. It must explain all of the features and benefits of joining your network marketing organization as an independent distributor and must focus on the support and resources available to the new recruit should they choose to purchase a distributorship.

The company's products and compensation plan must be clearly explained here as well. Testimonials should be used as well as online audio and video sales presentations as they are extremely powerful sales conversion tools.

o Follow up Email System:

Attached to the Free Report there must also be a follow up system of auto-responding emails that continually markets to the lead. Most leads don't act immediately and must see a marketing message at least 7 times before they take action.

The email follow up system must have strongly worded sales copy and should have a system for getting through spam filters.

o A Continual Feed Back System that uses the Fear of Loss: (CRUCIAL!)

Along with the email follow up system there must be a feedback system that will alert the prospect by email when new prospects join your network marketing organization.

This invokes the fear of loss in your prospects by telling them that if the next prospect in line upgrades to a paid position before they do they will FOREVER loose commission on that prospect.

The prospect needs to see that if they do not taking immediate action there are negative financial consequences. This is an extremely powerful psychological sales conversion tool!

o Strong Support:

It's one thing to get someone to buy a distributorship, but it's a totally different thing get them to work the business effectively. There must be an email follow up system once a new distributor signs on to ensure that he receive adequate training on how to market successfully.

The email system will help insure duplication, but there must also be human support at this point. After a new distributor signs up, they must know that someone else cares about their success. Strong relationships between upline and new distributors are crucial.

o A Good Product or Service:

In order for this entire marketing process to work, the system must be backed by a strong and ethical network marketing organization that sells a high demand product that people want and would purchase even if there were no compensation plans attached to it.

o You:

You must be an active part of your business. You must be willing and open to learn new ideas and tactics at all times. You must have a passion for your business and truly believe in the product that you plan to build your organization around.

""You can't just be part of your business your business must to be part of you!""

-Johnny Wimbrey

Conclusion:

I've listed the basic components of a perfect Internet Network Marketing system.

Here is why this system will work for anyone.

This system will involve NO cold calling because the prospect will opt in to request more information specifically about your business before you even talk to them.

Remember, cold calling generic business opportunity leads and hearing lots of NO's and that is what causes most new network marketers to fail, so we want to avoid this at all cost. This is what this system is designed to do!

Let's review these 3 major points we've discussed thus far:

1.Have your prospects opt- in specifically for more information about your product and business plan. By giving them a detailed report explaining all of the above before you even speak to them your chances of a successful sales conversion will be greatly increased.

2.The email follow-up and fear of loss systems are crucial and will increase your chances successful sales conversion exponentially.

3.Further, having uniform training and exceptional support are the basics and must be present.

By using this system I currently convert 18% of my leads into recruits and I've never had to call a lead until after they've joined my business.

In fact, if I do talk to a lead before they join my downline it's because they felt compelled to call me.

But most of the time . . .

By the time I call my, ""lead turned recruit"", they are excited to hear from me because at that point I magically transition from being the guy trying to sell them on something over the phone to the guy that's going to help them make a whole lot of money!

And guess what?

No one EVER rejects the guy that's going to help to make them a lot of money!

Pretty slick right?

About the author: Daegan Smith is the Author of ""Internet MLM Success"" - The Next Generation in Network Marketing! Learn the Secret to using the Internet to Exploding your Downline Growth the Simple, Fast, Rejection-Free Way!"" For the exciting Details Click Here NOW! =>

http://internetmlm success.mlmlessons.com

How to Make More Money in Network Marketing

2008-11-27T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Ken Bauder

Have you hit a snag? Are you unable to get new agents? Are you earning less because you can't generate new sales? Revitalize your methods and sales pitch with these easy network marketing tips.

Your nextdoor neighbor or someone you see on the street can become your most valuable asset, your contacts. Try the people closest to you first. They are usually willing to do a few favors for you like buying the soap your are selling.

They don't mind spending a few dollars to help you start up your business. When they see how welling you are doing, they may join you. After running thru your list of relatives, go to your friends.

Don't forget to talk with neighbors and fellow commuters. Treat them like new friends. Get to know them, building their confidence and trust as you go. The friendships you build are the main thing, sales are secondary. You also increase your prospects by asking for referrals from your contacts.

You must believe in yours product in order to sell it to others. Others should see you using the product and saying good things about it. Always be truthful. Dishonesty will ruin your business relationship. This is why it is so important to choose the right product for your network business.

Recruiting people with a great work ethic is important so they will not drop out of the networking business and stop your chances of building your downline.

Don;t force the issue when trying to close the sale. Customer comes first. Please them and the profits and windfalls will follow.

Dress for success. You cannot recruit others if you look shabby. You should look like a successful networking agent in a money making business.

Remember it takes time to build a successful business. Try, try and try again, you will succeed. By following basic principles your techniques will improve. Remember society is constantly changing and you must too.

About the author:

Ken is the web owner of http://www.tv-satellite.biz Satellite TV , a website that provides information and resources about Satellite TV and discounts for Dish Network and DirecTV. You can visit his website at: http://www.tv-satellite.biz/satellite/directv-satellite.html

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How to get people to ask you for a prospecting tool.

2008-11-26T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Tom ""Big Al"" Schreiter

How to get people to ask you for a prospecting tool. by Tom ""Big Al"" Schreiter

I had lunch last week with Gerry Vannoy. He told me how he tripled the number of prospects who ASKED HIM for a prospecting tool. Here is what he does.

Gerry uses the book, ""How To Get Rich Without Winning The Lottery."" He used to place the book on his table when eating at a restaurant. He noticed that prospects from other tables would look at the book, but would never approach him.

So Gerry started putting two books on the table. Now the prospects started to come to him and asked him if they could see a copy of the book.

It seems if there is only ONE book, prospects are hesitant to ask. If there are two books, prospects feel comfortable about approaching you and asking about the book.

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How To Get Swamped With Prospects Begging To Join Your Network Marketing Business.

Art Jonak and Keith Schreiter wrote this 14-page report. Lots of good ideas for your distributors to get more prospects to come to them.

I particularly like the section:

""Creating prospects on demand by not answering your telephone.""

If you haven't downloaded or copied the report yet, do it now. Just go to:

http://mlmlessons.com/pdf/swampedreport.pdf

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A choice your prospect can't refuse.

Everybody does network marketing every day, but they just don't get paid for it.

We constantly recommend restaurants, music CDs, movies, places to go shopping, and even places to take vacations. Recommending and promoting is in our blood.

That means every prospect you talk to does network marketing, right?

So why not give your prospect a choice he can't refuse?

Simply say:

""You already do network marketing every day. You can get paid for it . . . or you can continue doing it for free. The choice is up to you. And if you choose to continue doing it for free, that's okay. Charity work is good. It makes the world a better place.""

And then let your prospect decide.

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For more reprinted newsletter issues, visit http://tomschreiter.mlmlessons.com

About the author: Tom Big Al Schreiter is the author of the Fortune Now Newsletter, a generic training resource for professional network marketing leaders. If you'd like to read some free back issues, go to http://www.fortunenow.com or get the current issue free by calling 281-280-9800.

Why choose MLM Leads?

2008-11-25T03:06:00.000-08:00

Author: Flemming Andersen

With MLM Leads, you will get honest and reliable network leads. You will have great prices and all of the promising clients that you can take on. When you are starting a home based business or any other type of new company, you will find that you will have to start somewhere with clients. You will have to find a way to get more and more clients and this is the way to start.

When you are choosing to work with MLM Leads, you are going to get a high level of satisfaction and guarantee. You will not have to worry about find a new and improved job market to sell to; you will have everything that you need at your fingertips. You will have a lot of leads and not have to pay a high cost for them.

The best part about choosing MLM leads is that you are getting great service at an affordable price for your company and you are not going to have to deal with the middleman. This is what is going to save you money for you new and upcoming business. Many leads turn into prospective customers and then will make a profit for the company. This is a great way to start for any newly formed company.

When you choose MLM leads you will fill out the appropriate paperwork online and then you will be all set up. All of the information that you are going to need will be mailed to you so that you are fully informed. You can view all of the promising leads and even download them on the spot. You will not find better and faster service than right here. You are going to be happy that you decided to go with the company that will service you the best and make you the most company.

With MLM Leads, you will even find that you can get a great list for phone prospects. This will help you spread the word about your business and get your foot in the door of most companies that are looking for your services. This is an awesome opportunity for any new and upcoming star in the business world. You will not have to worry about getting leads and great business adventures with MLM Leads.

You will not find satisfaction anywhere else like you will when you are using a great company like MLM Leads. You will have all of the customers and soon the money will be pouring in for your company to profit. You are not going to find another service to help you start and build up your customer cliental like that of MLM. Once you see what you can achieve, you will never want to use any other company again.

For more info visit: http://www.onlinecompany.org/

A FREE endless supply of the Best Multi-Level Marketing Leads.

2008-11-23T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Jeffrey S. Ragan

If you've ever been involved in MLM, Multi-Level Marketing or Network Marketing (all the same really), what's the one thing you run out of after 3-6 months in the business?

It's warm leads right? I know, I've been there. Of course it makes sense to first talk to people you know (warm market) since they would most likely listen, perhaps buy your product and even join your organization.

If you like the idea of MLM and have any reason to hold back from talking to your warm market, please read on. If you've failed in MLM like I have 3-4 times, this article can help you big time.

Maybe you've been involved in other companies and already wore out your warm market! Does your circle of influence run when they see you coming? Have you felt like your relationship with all your friends and family has been damaged? Am I striking a few chords here?

Ok, enough doom and gloom. What you're about to read is a true story and I can prove it. I'm still involved personally in MLM but this article is in no way designed to recruit people into my organization. In fact I will not even tell you what company I'm with.

I have one goal with this article. To show YOU how to use the Internet to build an endless flow of warm market leads and never pay a dime for them. They'll be your own leads, not shared with anyone else.

In fact you can easily duplicate yourself with the serious players in your downline and build a HUGE organization.

PUTTING THE ""NET"" INTO NETWORK MARKETING

If you have wondered how to use the Internet to build a successful worldwide organization, you're reading the right article.

Using the Internet to build warm market leads is possible if you do it the right way. I'm not talking about using the FREE website from the company you represent. How can you expect to stand out from the crowd when you and thousands of others have the same website?

The search engines have gotten wise to this and these sites never really rise to the top in search results anyway. Some search engines consider them SPAM. What you need is a way to be noticed, and have people finding you, and calling you on the phone or sending an e-mail.

To have a successful business it boils down to 4 steps;

STEP 1) Recruitment/Lead Generation/Relationship-Building ""New Blood"" is essential to the sustained growth of any Network Marketing company.

STEP 2) Sales Conversation Leads/prospects vote with their wallet and purchase a product (or more than one).

STEP 3) Ongoing Consumption Converted customers are regular, loyal users of the product or service you offer (i.e., satisfied committed fans).

STEP 4) Replication Customers move to the next level and become active distributors who build their downlines by introducing members of their families and close personal friends to the products and the opportunity.

This sounds kind of simple right? Not necessarily. If you have no leads, you have:

* no sales conversion

* no ongoing consumption

* no one to replicate

* no PAYCHECK

It's very easy to understand why people fail at Network Marketing when they do it offline. Nearly all people have a problem with working up the courage to recruit and generate new leads. THEY FEAR REJECTION. Offline, it's not easy to just go up to strangers, people outside your ""warm market"". That's why most offline Network Marketers never really get much done. They quit (in their minds) before they started! People have been programed to fail from infancy.

GENERATING LEADS IS MADE FOR THE NET

I don't care how bashful you may be, you can build a successful MLM business without leaving your home. You no longer need to keep expanding your circle of friends to have people to talk with about your products and opportunity.

I know this fly's in the face of the vast majority of companies out there. They preach ""Warm Market"" only. In fact many of them discourage the use of the Internet for liability reasons. There is a way to use the Internet and still stay in compliance with your company.

Now many have tried to take the offline methods of building a business and forcing it down the throats of the online world. It just doesn't work.

It's time to put the NET into NETWORK MARKETING. How would you like to have motivated, potential customers and business-builders calling you?? We all know that you cannot push a chain, put you can pull it!

That's why it's important for you to understand the details of how this could work for you. Many of the large Diamond Distributors in a great number of companies are doing this.

For you to get YOUR share of the Best Multi-Level Marketing Leads on the net, you need to know how the Big Guys do it.

That's a subject for my next article. I'll reveal to you how it's done step by step. Their secret is out. Also, I'll share with you living proof of a person (not myself) who's building his business this way. People call him, he never makes a phone call, talks to strangers or has to leave his home.

About the author: Mr. Jeffrey Ragan has been a small business consultant for nearly 20 years working with local business people.

He's built businesses, sold them and retired when he was 41 years old. Only recently has he entered the business world again.

For additional information on how to find the Best Multi-Level Marketing Leads FREE just click to learn more.

Common MLM Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

2008-11-22T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Joseph Then

As in any lucrative market, there are those seeking to turn a quick dollar with questionable methods. MLM is no exception. Too often, poorly operated or corrupt MLM programs victimize would-be multi-level marketers. In order to avoid participation in a MLM program you can trust, there are a few things for which one can look.

Reputation, of course, is essential. Strong MLM programs are often recognizable by the reputation they have within the MLM community. You should research any MLM program in which you are considering involvement in order to determine it has a sufficiently strong reputation among others in the MLM field.

Staying with reputable programs does provide some guarantee of program honesty and reliability. However, if one relies exclusively on established programs they may miss out on great new opportunities that are not yet credibly established. If you are considering involvement in a newer MLM program, there are still ways to act smartly in order to protect yourself.

The program should be closely and carefully reviewed. Methods of payment calculation should be made clear--there should be no mystery associated with your involvement. Research regarding the program should show its claims to be consistent with traditional strong business practices. Unrealistic claims or promises can be a sign that a new MLM program is unlikely to prove to be a strong performer.

In addition to alignment with a reliable program, successful MLM participants will also carefully evaluate its income potential. Commissions on sales should be competitive with industry standards. Potential downline income should also be attainable and fairly distributed. Problems on either prong of the two-pronged MLM benefit structure can make a program far less beneficial than others.

There is no way to guarantee each and every experience with MLM programs will be positive. Just as we encounter poor service or bad deals regularly in the offline world, we can expect our share of problems with online MLM programs. However, by being sufficiently skeptical and approaching potential new programs objectively and critically, one can protect themselves against many frequently encountered pitfalls. MLM offers such exciting opportunities that it can be easy to ""buy into the hype"" before making sure the facts support program claims. Avoiding this easy to make mistake using the methods outline above can improve the likelihood that your MLM experience will be a great success.

What Is The Straight Scoop On MLM Leads Programs?

2008-11-21T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Michael Lemm

Here's a great perspective on what goes in to being successful with leads. With success likely measured by whether you enroll someone... or not....in your primary business.

First & foremost understand that ""you"" are the key variable in that success. The list of factors could include:

-- your method of contact -- your copywriting abilities -- your phone skills -- your company -- your product -- your pay plan -- the investment -- your confidence -- their confidence in you -- your ability to create relationships -- your follow-up -- and a million other things.

Bluntly....understand that quality leads are just one component. The rest....quite literally....is in your hands. DON'T FORGET THIS FACT!!

I've tried leads from most of the current leads programs....for my money (literally) I've stuck with one company (I won't tell you who here because that would smack of self serving advertising.) The others were too expensive, performed poorly, or both. Your and others' experience/opinion may differ of course. And therein lies the first personal decision you must make, which company do I choose?

Each leads company has pros & cons that will be specific to your own preferences. Kinda hard to extrapolate to ""you"". Has to be your own decision based on your criteria....obviously.

I do suggest....if you haven't already....to listen in on any info calls each company offers that you can (if they have them). If they don't offer them....contact management and ask questions. Both should be a benchmark of any decision on choosing a leads source....and an ingrained habit of every Networker interested in utilizing a leads program.

A little tip for those looking into a leads program....invite a few folks you trust from your organization to listen to a call with with you (upline, sideline, downline leaders). Each of you will ""hear"" something the others don't. You can compare notes afterward and make the best decision for you as a group. Afterall you will have the best success as a group rather than an individual. So decide as a group. Buy in is easier then too. Which means sustained joint effort leading to the organizational growth and momentum you're all looking for together. That's the best way to implement a leads program.....and exactly how the good ones are designed to work. Join together....work together.

Now remember that what you offer and how you offer it are key variables to success with leads programs (see above list). The what is up to you (your primary MLM)....the how is helped along by the program's system and training in support of your primary MLM's concept. Keep in mind you should definitely use whatever approach your company trains to (phone scripts, emails, conference calls, direct mail, etc.). You combine the specific leads system, tools, and training (if any) with your company specific marketing approach.

The best leads are fresh, non-shared (exclusive), double opt-in, pre-surveyed leads. You want leads 48 hours old or less, not 30-90 days. Even better are real time leads delivered immediately after they submit their ""request"". You also want leads that aren't sold to a gazillion other folks. No more than 1 plus you. Just how receptive do you think they'll be to you if you're the 99th person to contact them? You also want people who've expressed a DEFINITE interest, not those responding to a free offer or sweepstakes ploy.

Also look at what tools the program makes available for you...if any. For example, do they have autoresponders with unlimited capability? Are the leads easily importable via CVS format? Do they also provide you a generic lead prospecting site explaining the concept of a home business that you can use to supplement your company marketing tools....and to generate your own leads if you wish (nice ice breaker)?

Training is another important factor. Do they consistently share practical, tested, from experience tips designed to show you exactly how to use a leads program to build a business? In short does the training allow you and your group to create a duplicable approach?

Now if the company is a ""leads only"" source...no tools or training included.... that's not all bad. At a minimum the cost should be more indicative of the lead quality itself. Just evaluate per above and focus on lead quality...especially targeting (for example...by zip code or company specific).

Plus, PLEASE understand that it takes time. You need to honestly and aggressively work a leads program for at least 3-6 months to get it rolling. If you're not commited to that stay away. In fact, if you're that impatient Network Marketing isn't for you anyway.

The bottom line of all these tidbits is this.

Be smart...find a program that fits your criteria per the above comments. Then plug in your group and GET TO WORK!

About the author: Michael is the owner of FreedomFire Communications including Real Time Leads ....and the Moderator for HomeBasedBusinessForums.com. Michael also authors Best MLM Resources where you're always welcome to drop in and catch up on the latest tips, ideas, tools, leads, news, and insights.

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Global Domain Internation. Why this is the best Mlm Company around

2008-11-20T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Stanley Amazan

Today, I will discuss Online Classified ads.

If you do a google search for the term classified ads, you will noticed that there are thousands of classified ads website that are available online. Finding the right one to advertise in is a whole other story. The classified website that I use is called Usfreeads- They allow you to post your adverts for free. They have a main page rank of 5 and the Business Opportunity section has a page rank of four. They also have hundreds of back links to them. I have been using Usfreeads for many years now and had success with them in the past and I plan on having success with them in the future. Last week I started posting ads to usfreeads like a bat outta hell to promote my GDI Business Opportunity. I have had some pretty good responses in the short amount of time the ads have been up. So far with one week of testing I found that they are producing a lot of quality leads for me. I get about 5 new prospects per day from 20 ads that I have on their website.

As with everything you do online, your ad copy is the most important factor. I continuously rewrite my ad copy and heading to see what type of response I can get from each one. So far it's been good. One thing to note about us free ads is that they offer you the ability to have your ads featured. When you feature your ads, your ads stay on their website longer, they get more views, they are shown on over 50 of their sister sites and they are put first before the free ads as well as their gold members ads. I have always said that free traffic is good, but sometimes it's just not enough to get your business up and running. I have about 5 feature ads to date and plan on having about 25 feature ads by the end of the month for a total of 100 ads on their website.

One thing I noticed is that people that browse classified ads are very active. By active I mean they will reply to your ad and asking you to send them more info. Some of them want you to call them so you can answer some of their questions about the business opportunity you are promoting. If you can call them and tell them the benefits of GDI, then your chance of getting them to take the free GDI trial is very good.

If you want to test GDI and see how it converts than I suggest you start placing some ads online on classified ads websites. Don't think just because you place 1 ad online you will get thousands of hits to your GDI affiliate link. No, it doesn't work like that. However if you place 20 or more ads your chance of succeeding with GDI are looking good. Remember GDI is free to join. Click the visit in7minutes.ws link to get your 7 day trial. I will pay 10 dollars for you to try it out for a month

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Fundamentals to Make Your Network Marketing Sell

2008-11-19T03:04:00.000-08:00

Author: Joseph Then

You are now confident that you can make things work. You have tested it yourself. You have checked on private resell and label rights and found no hindrances to this. You have a good product and a program that can really work. Actually, you are by now aware that in network marketing selling, there are no hard and fast rules. The flexibility of strategizing for network marketing is what actually makes it the more exciting. Now you want to venture out and test your muscles. But just to be certain that your network marketing sells, you want additional assurance, just for good measure. If you are among those who are now at this stage in their venture, check this out.

Ask yourself again. Do I really have the right products?

Having the right program and products to promote are of course the most vital. In fact, too many people look at the product first before the organization. Having the right products of course makes sense especially to beginner network marketing outfits. Being confident in what one sells, being sure in what fits the interest of your targeted customers and what can move the market gives that added edge in selling your network with authority and credibility.

How about the program? Does your program give out a strong payout structure? The program structure either addresses an underserved market or tackles an existing one at a different approach. Nonetheless, multi level marketing is often perceived as hard/push selling. A strong payout structure is therefore strongly expected and many network marketing firms address this very well.

Hard work. One who enters an MLM will immediately see for himself that there are so many opportunities open and that they will be able to generate income immediately with little effort. Wrong. Even with the boundless opportunities available, hard work at network marketing pays great dividends. No network marketer has ever been so effective as those who continually direct effort at selling the products as well as building the downline.

Marketing There are several techniques that have proven time and again to be effective in getting your name out there. Word of mouth - this is the best king of advertisement. You get endorsement from friends and customers that have already tried your products. Referrals - Satisfied customers generating other customers. Website - Creativity at getting prospects attracted to your products and services. Signatures - That is sent out with every E-mail composed is also good way to market your products. Business Card Exchange - Partner with another network marketer to get your name out there. You can include another marketers call card with your orders and vice versa. Conducting surveys, although seldom done on the web, are very good sources of customer pulsing. Adoptability

Keeping updated about developments, new offerings, programs and techniques is essential to the success of a network marketer. Common to all successful network marketing participants is that they actively seek out new things that they can use. They subscribe to newsletters, forums and programs that are available. The thing that can make network marketing fail is the sticking out to one single and simple method that can be adopted without change.

The most important factor to the success of your company however is still you. The level of commitment that you put into your work, can spell that much of the difference, as well as the ability of the organization to mold you into the business leader that you eventually want to become.

About the author: Joseph Then operates has been studying MLM business and has developed a new system in building any MLM downline.

You can visit him at http://www.TheSecretsofMLMSuccess.com

Keys to MLM Success

2008-11-18T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Joseph Then

MLM does present a spectacular opportunity, but in order to take advantage of that opportunity, participants in MLM programs must have an understanding of how to succeed in the business. There is no simple answer to ""how do I make MLM work for me."" The flexibility and uniqueness of MLM strategies, after all, are part of what makes the process so exciting. However, there are certain characteristics every successful multi-level marketer needs to have.

First, of course, is choosing the right program. Anyone hoping to be successful with MLM needs to choose the right products and programs to promote. Often, especially for beginner marketers, choosing a product that fits with existing interests makes a great deal of sense. It provides the marketer with an understanding of his or her market and allows him or her to ""speak"" credibly and with authority on the product.

A strong interest in a product is helpful, but it is probably not as important as choosing a MLM program that has a strong payout structure and either tackles an underserved market or approaches an established market in a unique manner. This is one characteristic common to both MLM marketing and other business opportunities. MLM programs should allow for recruitment of a strong downline, enabling one to take advantage of the sales created by their recruits. Likewise, MLM participants should strive to align themselves with reputable programs when evaluating their options.

In addition to choosing the right product, another key to MLM success is hard work. Often, new multi-level marketers see the seemingly infinite opportunities provided by a MLM structure and mistakenly believe they will be able to generate a substantial income immediately and without effort. The boundless opportunities in multi-level marketing do, however, require effort on the part of the marketer. Fortunately, hard work for MLM users tends to produce very real and significant results.

Talented MLM participants always consider both parts of the two-pronged MLM structure. They focus not only on selling the selected product, but also upon recruiting other talented marketers to participate in the program. Those who focus only on direct sales find themselves reaping only a fraction of the total benefit available to them. Similarly, those who direct all efforts toward building a downline are unable to grab their share of immediate sales income. Keeping one's eye on the ""big picture"" is essential to successful MLM participation.

The most successful multi-level marketers are also dedicated to improving their techniques and learning more about the industry and its evolution. MLM programs and approaches change and keeping abreast of new programs and new techniques is critical to success. Most MLM experts subscribe to numerous ezines and newsletters. They actively seek out information and strategies in marketing forums and are always on the lookout for any new thing they can use toward their advantage. Any MLM participant who hopes to find a single simple methodology they can always embrace without change is likely to encounter disappointment.

There are other keys to online MLM success that mirror success in any business. One must be committed, motivated, and patient. MLM offers one of the greatest opportunities for financial gain available--one need only bring the right attitude, dedication and strategy with them to make the most of their MLM involvement.

MLM Training- 5 MLM Success Secrets to 2006 Goal Setting

2008-11-17T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

MLM Training- The 5 Secrets to MLM Success in Setting Goals for 2006

by Doug Firebaugh

HAPPY NEW YEAR in MLM and Network Marketing!

It's 2006!

And now, the question has to be asked, as it is always asked at this time of the year:

What goals are you planning for 2006?

Or let's be honest:

Do you even have any goals for 2006 for your MLM business?

So many folks in Network Marketing will have the same year they had last year, and the year before, because they have not set any goals (I call them targets) that will focus and inspire them to greater success in their Network Marketing business.

How about you?

Would you like a little help in setting some targets to shoot for, and help you become excellent at ""Target practice"" in MLM? These are so simple to do, but yet many do not do it in Network marketing.

Many networkers ""wing it"" every year, and plan no goals or targets, and end up with a business 10% of what it could have been if they had taken the time to plan for Success in MLM. They ""shoot from the hip,"" versus ""shoot from their greatness"" that they should be shooting for. Success is a target that is looked at, aimed for, and shot towards daily. Are you planning on doing that?

Your ""Success Targets"" or goals, should be 5 things in MLM. And these 5 things should be the driving focus of your goals. If your Success Targets fall into line with these 5 parameters, you will have a tremendous increase in odds of MLM Success in 2006.

You MLM Success Targets should force you to REACH for Success in 2006! We will take the acrostic REACH and see how your goals should be:

1) R...stands for REALITY BASED.

You Success targets hould be based in reality, not fantasy. They should force you to Reach, nor Wreck. They should force you to pull out your best, not pull a muscle. No matter what the goal, it should be reality focused.

You can make all the goals you want that are nothing more than fantasies, but Success Targets are goals that stretch you, not stress you in MLM.

What do you REALLY want to do with your MLM business this year? Make it reality based, and break the steps down to baby steps, and you will find that your Success Targets are being ""bulls-eyed"" every time!

2) E...stands for ENERGIZING.

Your MLM Success Targets need to excite you, and energize you. If they do not energize you, how are they going to energize others?

They will not.

Your goals should FIRE YOU UP when you think about them, and take action on them. They should energize you every time you teel others about them, and plan on achieving them in network marketing.

Are you and do they?

Get some Success Targets that will create some energy with you and your prospects. You will be glad you did!

3) A...stands for ACCOUNTABLE.

Simply, your network marketing success goals should be accountable and countable. Can you measure your goals and keep track of where you are with them? If you cannot, you will weaken the chance of achieving them.

Be accountable to at least an upline, or support team member. Create some responsibility to the goals, and their Success. It will accelerate your MLM Success!

4) C...stands for CONSTRUCTIVE TIME LINE.

You need to have a time line that has a beginning and an end. You need to know when the goal is supposed to be started, and completed. And it should be a step by step MLM Success construction process that has a focus of when it needs to be completed.

A time line is the ""winner's line"" that we shoot for, and move on past. It is a step along the way to greatness in network marketing.

Do you have a Constructive Time line or a Destructive Dead line?

HUGE difference!

5) H...stands for HAVE IT IN WRITING.

In MLM, you need to put your Success Targets in writing! It crystallizes what is in your mind to what is down on paper.

It MAKES IT REAL.

And when you put something in writing, you will find that it becomes more of a focus for you, and more of a focus for your mlm actions. Writing it down can take a goal from a thought to an action quickly. And it can help create structure and organize your plans and actions so they all work together in your MLM Success pursuit.

These are the 5 parameters that your goals should be fro your Network Marketing Success. If you do this, and if you follow the system of breaking it down into baby steps of Success, you will have a mind blowing 2006 in your MLM and Network Marketing business!

blessings...doug

MLM Training- The MLM Disease You MUST Not Catch!

2008-11-16T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

"" With no attempt, there can be no failure.....

with no failure...no humiliation.....""

William James.

Procrastination.

What a lovely word for Network Marketing and MLM.

Sounds almost like a disease that you want to stay away from or get innoculated from, and to run from.

Especially in MLM. You must RUN like crazy to not catch this disease.

Guess what?

With most Network marketers, it is a form of a disease that has infected millions of people and they sacrifice their future for the comfort of the present with no risk.

Sound familiar?

You know that you have greatness inside of you as a network Marketer.

You know that there is a Powerful You inside and in your MLM business.

You know that there are things in your life you would just love to attempt and go for, but , well...

You don't want to be humiliated from failure. Who does in MLM?

You don't want to put your reputation at risk and ruin your great ""Image"" folks have of you.

You don't want to hear the cry of the mediocre with all their excuses of why you should not try to enlarge your life and lifestyle.

After all- this IS network marketing.

Let's be REAL HONEST.

Humiliation only exists in your mind. It exists nowhere else. You create it, and you give it life. And procrastination is a great catalyst for it.

Defeat is an acceptance, not an event in MLM.

And nothing great has ever been accomplished in this industry without the risk of possibly facing adversity and rejection.

Yes,the storms of adversity can blow strong.

But Greatness on the inside is USELESS if it is not crystallized on the outside of your life and Network Marketing business.

That is what Useless means:

""Use Less.""

You use so much Less of your gifts and talents because the the greatness inside of you lies dormant. And you continue to use less of your talent for greatness as you grow older, all for the acceptance of other's opinions and ""fitting in.""

""Fitting in "" and Being Accepted has an enormous cost sometimes.

The cost of the REAL YOU.

So then procrastination kicks in, and you start the path of struggle and frustration.

Go for what you want and forget the storms in life and in MLM.

INFERNO Secret:

All adversity is temporary.

Yes, you may have glitches and challenges and temporary setbacks, but that is not humiliating.

Humiliation is knowing there is Greatness inside of you, and you never released it due to the safety of procrastination and ""no risk fear.""

And always knowing deep down inside.

""I could have been hugely successful.""

Yeah, you could fall flat on your face if you do what you passionately want to do with your life.

But what if you get up and try again.

Then what if you DO succeed?

What if you KNEW you could've and didn't even try to Succeed?

Deep down inside-- That is REAL humiliation due to procrastination in MLM and Network Marketing.

blessings...

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Unkown Sercts of Your Opportunity Meeting That Will Make You Money!

2008-11-15T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Brian Johnson

Not another meeting! That kept me out of the network marketing business for a long time. I had some success with network marketing; I was actually a top 10 producer. I then spun that business in to a ""real business"" that went phenomenally well and then phenomenally crashed. Then I got a ""real job"" in management with a fortune 100 company that merged so many times that it became too management top heavy.

So I decided to go into sales. At least, I could control my own destiny. By after spending too much time selling a very expensive product to people I knew couldn't afford, I got an attack of consciousness.

I wanted to get back into network marketing. I liked the freedom. I liked helping other people make money. I liked backing a product that I believed in.... But I didn't want to go to any meetings!!!

And you probably feel or hear the same thing from some of your ""hot prospects"", people who you know would be great in your business, but just don't want to go to meetings.

And why would they! Most ""meetings"" are unproductive. They drone on and on with no fulfillment or promise except that of another meeting. Who wants more of that?

You should! But not without a little reframing.

Your regular opportunity meeting serves two purposes. The presentation is designed to push the emotional buttons of your prospect. It gives them the permission to dream once again. It allows them to think ""Maybe I can take control of my life!"" It gives them the hope of freedom, from the shackles of financial bondage. And it gives them permission to get back onto the highway of life instead of letting it pass them by.

But more importantly it sells YOU that dream all over again. Your opportunity meeting is a mental recharge for you, after a week of getting beat up by life. Most of the people in the world are like the majority of people in the movie the matrix. They are living out some kind of programming that allows them to mindlessly live out their lives. It is those of us that choose to take control of our lives that realize life is to be lived.

Your weekly meeting also serves as your mastermind group. If you haven't read it yet, get the book Think and Grow Rich. It talks about the importance of a mastermind group; a group of like minded individuals that work together to help each other achieve their goals. Before and after these meetings you can hear stories of people's success. And more importantly these people are willing to help you obtain success because the have a vested interest in your success.

You will get to meet and talk with some of the most successful people in your organization. Remember you are a reflection of the company you keep. So spend your time at these meetings plucking the brains of the successful while avoiding the whiners (because there will be a few of them there, too). You don't get to be a $30,000 a month earner, hanging around people making $300 a month. And unless one of those earners is living with you, you need to get out to your meetings and hang out with them. As a matter of fact, you will probably notice that the people that come to the meetings the most are the ones making the most money. So if you want what they have... do what they do. GO TO THE MEETINGS!

Instead of looking at your opportunity meeting as just another meeting look at it as a social event. Use it to refuel your passion and commitment, not just to your business... but to yourself.

To your wealth,

Brian Johnson

MLM Training - The 29 Characteristics of an MLM Leader

2008-11-14T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Tim Sales, author of ""Brilliant Compensation""

1. A network marketing leader doesn't wait until he/she gets a large group before becoming a leader. It can't work that way, because you would never get the large group if you're waiting to be leader first! Nor does the leader wait until they feel they possess the knowledge to lead - rarely they do. My observation is that leaders select themselves by taking on responsibility (the total reason something happens or doesn't happen), rather than just the desire to lead. Want to be a leader? Go grab enough responsibility that it makes you feel like quitting every day...then don't quit - congratulations, that's LEADERSHIP. From that basis there are many other attributes you can develop.

2. At events, the leader arrives early and reserves chairs for their entire group on the front row. Yes, there are normally only two front rows (left and right)...If you're on the 2nd or 3rd row - you're still considered a leader. I spent five years getting up earlier than anyone else to make sure that my group had the front row. What I've found is that there are very rarely more than two leaders in any room. Please understand what I mean by this. Once a person gets to a certain level of success they will stop doing these simple leadership things because of ego. They suddenly become ""too knowledgeable"" to sit and listen to a speaker that has less time in the MLM business than them. If you remain humble and hungry the world is yours. So is the front row, by the way.

3. A true leader realizes that there is a difference between being a leader and being a leader of people. More on this later.

4. Network marketing ""works"" under many conditions, but when those relationships between you and your organization become tight and a ""esprit de corps"" is created, there's nothing like it. I do mean nothing.

5. Appearance is impeccable. Even in jeans.

6. A leader ""appears"" organized, much like ducks cruising smoothly across the water, however, no one sees or knows how radical and out of control their feet are peddling.

7. Leaders of people treat their people with respect. Respect means you have a good opinion of their character or ideas. Simply put, you are interested in your people - their ideas, their complaints, their fears, their successes - THEM!

8. As a leader you develop or find five ""Top Producers."" Devote yourself to them. Find three qualities that you like about each person. Write those in your day planner. Review them frequently, thinking of how you can help bolster one of those attributes. Bolstering an attribute can be many things - from a good verbal acknowledgement, to giving a telephone headset to someone as a gift who is working hard at making calls, to being their friend when they have a personal crisis.

9. New leaders are let down often by those they devote themselves to. Why? Because you selected the wrong person to devote yourself to. You only get good at character choosing with experience. Track record is really the only place to look first. What has the person been doing with their time... and what does the person do with his or her time? People are what they spend their time doing. Most great leaders begin in a hole and are mad about being there. Of highest concern is whether or not the person has been advancing. If they're not, it might take a lot of work on your part. Perhaps more than you have. Every person who's ever had the tough decision of choosing between lose two or lose one knows that this is one of the toughest decisions in life. Albeit controversial, do not sink yourself if doing so won't save your mate. Cut away when you feel you're being pulled under. If you help ""able"" people, they will help more people. If you try to help an unable person they may sink you on their way down.

10. The network marketing leader gets the product or service ""specialist"" in front of their group - whether it's in person, on a conference call or on an audio or video. Example: Your company carries a nutrition line created by Dr. Whoever. He specializes in human nutrition and created an ingredient that is in your products that is truly unique. The leader will somehow get that doctor on a conference call with his or her group to raise their belief in the products.

11. A network marketing leader always gives ""back"" more. Example: Let's say that there's a foul-up in processing distributor agreements in your downline. You get the distributors on the phone with a customer service rep that handles the situation. You know that that customer service rep really worked hard to help the situation. Yes, it's their job... BUT, the leader will send that customer service rep a bag of M&M's or flowers or something to say ""thank you for going above the call of duty."" What do you think that customer service rep will do for your group now? Just about anything.

12. The leader climbs the ladder and finds out who the decision makers are at the company and gets to know them but never bugs them. This is positioning yourself so that opportunity can see you. This is different than you seeing opportunity. Suddenly you find yourself speaking at the convention... hmm, I guess it was just luck. Yeah, right!

13. At the company conventions the leader will introduce the corporate staff to their organization and vise versa. Even the order takers! Take the time to do this because it creates a sense of belonging for both the corporate staff as well as the distributors. Imagine the difference when a biochemist for a company has met 100 real people with dreams and passions about selling his/her product. Do you think that creates a stronger passion for the biochemist to create better products? Absolutely. All of this ""belonging"" and ""passion"" was created because of your leadership.

14. A leader in network marketing is the switchboard of information and communication. They're not ""in the loop."" They ARE the loop.

15. A leader can always be reached by fax, email and or phone. Returned communication will occur in less than 24 hours. If that's not a possibility the message will indicate that it might be longer.

16. A leader never exposes weakness and fear to their organization. Some view me as being ""inhuman"" or robotic on this. What I mean by this is that the leader must always maintain their certainty about the MLM business opportunity. I've never met a person in my life that doesn't have fear and weaknesses. If you've got fears or doubts about your company get over them or get out. Fly to the company today and get your concerns handled. Come back and be a rock for your group. I guarantee they'll follow you. Conversely, share with them your little uncertainties and they'll be so relieved that you're ""human"" and...they'll also find another leader to follow.

17. Recognizing that everyone is growing, a leader never invalidates the efforts of anyone in his or her organization. One person brings six guests to a meeting, another brings two, and the third brings none. The leader is able to notice that person number three is there - which might have been a major growth step for them. So instead of criticizing them for not bringing a guest - they praise them for being there.

18. The leader is always searching for and praising something about his or her people. ""Little babies love praise, but grown men will die for it."" Men in battle will risk their lives for a ¼"" x ½"" ribbon they pin onto their shirt above their left chest pocket. They wear this ribbon for the world to see. Forgo praise and you've missed out on the most powerful tool in your leadership arsenal. Praise for things they've yet to do, and you'll create a person who withdraws from the group because you made them a fake.

19. If you share this list with your group - share whose content it is. If you don't you will also be guilty of the last sentence of item #18. Seeking praise, respect, fame, etc. for what you didn't do, makes you feel like a fake.

20. A leader uses and teaches new technologies in their organization - but only if it truly works. Don't drive your organization down dead ends.

21. Leaders are ethical examples. If you ""sneak"" your people past the registration table you've just ruined their perception of you. They can never trust you and they shouldn't. You've got one shot at doing this right.

22. A leader creates alliances with needed national and international (if applicable) groups to ensure their group has support and representation. If no group exists, build it.

23. Leaders are more concerned about the growth of their people than the growth of their bonus check. Focus on the growth of your people, your bonus check will take care of itself.

24. A leader never says what they can get others to say. Example: My company calls and says, ""We'd like you to speak at the company convention."" I accept graciously, and then ask ""Would it be possible for me to include a new leader named _________? They're a good speaker and I would love to share the stage with them."" See, a leader wants his or her people to be leaders.

25. A leader never, ever speaks ill of anyone - even if they deserve it.

26. A leader acknowledges other leaders in the room. ""We are honored to have in the room with us Mrs. 77. She conducts business meetings in the 44 area.""

27. A leader doesn't get bent out of shape because they don't get a return phone call from the corporate office - or the upline! More than once I've sent pizza to a department with special instructions to the delivery person telling them to say, ""This pizza has already been paid for by Tim Sales. He asks only that after enjoying the pizza that you call him at 555-3797."" Everyone laughs and guess what? You get a phone call with the right tone in their voice for getting something done. Anyone can complain - they're use to that. A leader finds amusement in creating more effective forms of communication.

28. A leader has a crystal clear vision about their networking marketing company and where they're taking it. If the company doesn't have something, they don't complain, they figure out how to convince the company to get it.

29. A leader, after reviewing this list will print it out and does at least one item everyday.

There are more - but this should get you started.

With growing respect and admiration for you,

Tim Sales

www.timsalesMLMtrai ningnews.com

About Tim: In 1989, near the end of an 11-year tour with the US Navy Underwater Bomb Squad Team, Tim answered an ad in the Washington Post newspaper that led him to his first and only network marketing company. Five years later his network marketing income rose to over $150,000 per month with over 56,000 people in his organization. His most noted contribution to the Network Marketing Industry is the ""Brilliant Compensation"" presentation and he is a highly respected mentor and trainer for the entire MLM industry. Get his free monthly MLM training newsletter, filled with the practical and proven strategies Tim used to successfully build his downline around the globe. Have the first issue sent immediately to you by going to

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MLM Training - When to Develop Multiple Streams of Income

2008-11-13T03:05:00.000-08:00

Author: Tim Sales, author of ""Brilliant Compensation""

Can you make more money by diversifying into investments such as stocks, bonds, real estate, etc, and have your money working for you? Or would you make more money by really focusing and investing your money back into your MLM business?

Three items to think about when answering this question for yourself.

A. What else would you do with your time?

B. What else would you do with your money?

C. What else would you do with your attention (def: The ability or power to concentrate mentally.)?

Every investment (stocks, bonds, real estate, your sister's business) requires that you learn about it. And just the learning costs time and attention. And it is the using up of your attention that rarely gets factored into the ""diversify your money"" advice.

Probably what's most important here is, the greatest amount of money you will ever lose, is that amount you will never make because of misuse of A, B, & C from above.

I was listening to a radio talk show about 10 years ago and the advice given was to, ""Select the top 3 stock market sectors based on trends. Put 1/3 of your investment capital in each. Wait 10 years and you should be wealthy off your passive investments."" I was making about 50 thousand dollars a month above my expenses - so I thought ""why not?""

I chose the following sectors: Health Care, Technology, and Telecommunications. After losing about ½ my money I changed to three different sectors. I looked at my portfolio today and I have lost another $11,848.78.

Don't get me wrong; there have been times I've made over $50,000 dollars in the stock market- in a day. Fun! And there have been times I've lost $150,000 dollars - in a day. Not fun. In addition to that, I've spent an enormous amount of time on my ""passive"" investments. Many hours (per week) have gone into ""pondering"" (wasting item C from above) what the stock market is going to do next. Reading newsletters, magazines, newspapers, watching the stock market news and commentaries on TV. And still my return has been negative.

The only thing that has remained very stable and predictable is my network marketing income. Had I taken the same amount of money, roughly $500,000 and invested it into promoting my network marketing business - would I have had a greater return? Yes. So what about the ""Rich Dad Poor Dad"" philosophy of ""Buy assets that produce more income""? Or the more common way it's stated, ""Create multiple streams of income""? As you may know, I created a prospecting tool based on that philosophy www.mlmbrilliance.com where I explain to prospects how wealth is created by investing in assets. So I'm very close to this subject. However, if you listen closely to the way I stated it in the online prospecting tool, I say, ""So what are assets? Well the most obvious ones are; stocks bonds, real estate . . "" Then I say, "". . education and businesses."" And to that I'm referring to educating yourself about businesses. Whether that be your MLM business or your pinball machine business.

Two common mistakes in making decisions on A, B, & C from above are:

1. Making decisions based on now vs. decisions based on future. Of course you need to pay your bills now. They're screaming at you! But keep in mind what I talk about in Brilliant Compensation www.mlmbrilliance.com - it's not faster (in the long run) to tie your young son's shoes than teaching him how to do it himself. If you tie his shoes for him - you silence the screaming urgency, but you're still stuck with the job UNTIL you teach him to tie his own shoes. When you make financial decisions, make sure you're looking at the long-term. Residual income is sweet.

2. Making decisions based on ""could you"" instead of what you ""will you"" do with your time, money or attention. Example: A guy determines that it's a poor use of his time and attention to mow his own yard - so he hires the boy down the street to cut his grass. Now, what does he do with that extra time (A), and the extra attention (B)? He watches TV. Bad choice. When he was making the decision to hire the lawn boy he thought, ""it's a waste of my time to mow the grass when I could be doing more important things like building my network marketing business."" Make sure when you free up any of the three resources you use them wisely.

Summary: My personal opinion is invest your time, money and attention into KNOWING your network marketing business and getting really good and profitable at it. Continually reinvest your profits back into your network marketing business by promoting it more- that's where the high return is. When you have a surplus of income, buy a secure investment like Treasury Bills http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/of/ofbasics.htm until you're ready to learn another business FULLY. By business I'm including all investment activities as well. Then focus your time, money and attention (from the surplus only) on knowing THAT business.

From my experience, diversifying my ""money"" has done nothing more than dissipated my focus, which has in turn lost a lot of money, time, and attention.

Much respect and admiration,

Tim Sales

www.timsalesMLMtrai ningnews.com

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MLM Training - 9 Proven Actions to Get Your Downline Producing More

2008-11-12T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Tim Sales, author of ""Brilliant Compensation""

Tim, ""How do I motivate my downline?""

I am asked this question frequently. Let's get clear on what is meant by the question - How do I motivate my downline? It means, ""What can I do to get them to produce more?""

Does anything work?

This is one of my favorite subjects because it's so misunderstood. Historically people have tried the most asinine things in an attempt to ""motivate"" human beings. Slavery and threatening of life, rallies and hype-driven events, even people running across hot coals. The US Navy has done many different experiments to try to get men to produce more. They've tested whether men who go out drinking together produce more. They've put men who hated each other together and men who were best friends together to see which would produce more.

None of these have worked... for very long. People can come out of a Tony Robbins event super excited and ""motivated."" But after a day or two - maybe even a week - they're back to their previous production level.

I might as well go ahead and let the cat out of the bag because he's practically ripping the bag open at this point. YOU CAN'T MOTIVATE YOUR DOWNLINE! But you can get them to produce more. Which is what you really want FOR them and FROM them anyway. To get your downline to DO more, to get them to exhibit confidence, cheerfulness, and discipline requires you to do two things... GET THEM EFFECTIVE AT WHAT THEY DO and make it in their interest to do it. The US Navy concluded that when production was high, more production occurred.

Effective MLM training is the only thing that truly works

So for you - trying to get your downline to produce more - or produce anything - you must train them. You might be saying, ""But I train my people every Saturday! I give them a training manual. I do conference calls."" I realize you may have been working very hard at training your downline. But, the test of effective training is not whether you conduct training. It's whether the student can do it! NOTHING ELSE.

List of what to train your downline

Here's how and what I recommend you train your downline on.

* How to establish goals

* How and what to know to be effective (most of which is on this list)

* How to promote

* What to say to people when they make phone calls

* How to set appointments

* How to present the MLM business or products

* How to sell the business or products

* How to sponsor People (the correct procedures and sequence)

* How to train new distributors

To get your downline to produce and produce more, you need to get them effective in each one of these areas. When they can do each of these things, they will be motivated because they are effective. They WILL produce because they feel ABLE to produce.

Bomb squad trained me

I did not just come up with this system overnight. I worked it up and down until it worked. I got the concept from something I learned in the bomb squad.

Before my network marketing career, I was in the US Navy Bomb Squad. Only one man is allowed to go work on a live bomb. No sense in blowing two bomb-techs up because of one man's mistake! When we headed down to work on the bomb, we took a piece of plexiglas and a grease pencil. When we were getting ready to do the first step of defusing the bomb we would: a) Write what we were going to do. b) Do the item. c) Check it off as being done.

Then go to step two. Write it down, do it, then check it off. The reason we did this exact sequence is because if the bomb blew up, the other bomb squad techs knew that very valuable information was written on that piece of plexiglas. When they retrieved the plexiglas they would see that item 1 and 2 were okay to do. But item 3 upset the bomb - don't do that step!

The items written on that Plexiglas became our ""Standard Operating Procedures."" Obviously leaving out that last step that upset the bomb! It was our sequence of defusing that bomb when we faced it again. I applied the same principles to network marketing and the above list of activities. These activities are the only activities that make money in network marketing.

Be a great coach As a coach, if you have your distributor keep a record of how many times he/she does each activity you can coach the exact item that THAT distributor is having a problem with. If you don't use this list and try to coach - you're coaching on what you think the group needs. Or you're coaching a ""pet"" category of your own. I've observed closely new distributors. They don't ""engage"" into the business until they feel confident in what to say to their prospects. Therefore, they need to know how to do items 1-5 before you have them on the phone. See, it doesn't make sense to know how to do New Distributor Training before they know how to set appointments. I've known lots of distributors who've quit that still know the compensation plan. I know plenty of failed distributors who know how to train a new distributor who have never sponsored anyone.

I don't know a lot of distributors who have quit who can set appointments and have the prospect show up. My point is, first train your distributors to be able to invite, and then train them how to present, and then train them how to train.

Other items important in getting your downline to produce:

Ethical behavior. People will not follow (or produce for) someone who is unethical or dishonest.

Boldness. People will follow boldness because they like following in the footsteps of a bold leader. What does it take to be bold? You must produce yourself. Let your downline see you face your fears. Let them see you make phone calls, let them see you do presentations; let them see you standing there waiting for your guests.

Be interested in them. Show your people that you are interested in their goals. Put your front line's goals on your refrigerator. Talk to them about their goals. This is where the ""make it in their interest to do it"" comes in.

Be the source of information. Always be up-to-date on the latest information. This means you stay connected to the company's source of information. Also, teach your downline where your sources are - otherwise you will always be stuck with the job. I think you can tell that I don't agree with the philosophy of ""leaders are found not made."" Train your distributors to be effective and they will be self-motivated. This is very different from you trying to ""pump them up,"" which doesn't work.

Much respect and admiration,

Tim Sales

www.timsalesMLMtrai ningnews.com

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More On MLM Lead Generation

2008-11-11T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Michael Lemm

A few more brief comments on MLM lead generation....

1. The quality of the lead source is only one factor.....important but not as much a contibutor as ""you"". You are the determiner of the real success with any lead source. That's why peoples experiences vary so much.

2. Success with leads is most about numbers, time, & ""you"". Sufficient numbers, followed consistently over time (minimum of 3-6 months), & applying a disciplined method of follow-up will show results with most any lead source.

3. A quality generic lead source is a good thing (must be pre-qualified, 48 hrs old or less, non-shared, & exclusive to warrant quality label). Company specific leads are a better ""good thing"". Generating quality leads yourself is the best ""good thing"". Doing all 3 is the ""really best good thing"". Everything else is a waste.

I'm sorry but comments like ""I tried a batch & they didn't work"" (insufficient numbers & time).....""they sucked"" (absent detail on your contact/follow-up method, numbers & time).....etc. don't really support a position very well.

Understand that there really are only a very few legit quality lead sources (private generators not available to general public) that all the quality leads programs use to some extent. Plus the quality leads programs will also generate their own leads too as a major part of their ""program"".....AND give you the ability to do the same thing. So actually there's not a lot of difference between the top lead programs....and there are very few of them.

The others are just knock offs buying the leads from wherever they can get them at the lowest cost possible....and/or creating their own co-registration leads (folks who ""sign-up"" for some kind of a freebie or a contest) then reselling them to you.....pure junk.

Just because it's cheap doesn't make it good. Just because it costs more doesn't make it bad. Cost is relative to each individual when all ""you"" factors discussed in my article ""What's The Straight Scoop On MLM Leads Programs?"" are present & functioning effectively.

Herein lies your first business decision when it comes to leads. Do you buy them from a quality source (generic &/or company specific....financial cost but saves you time & effort of generating them yourself).....or do you generate your own (invest time & effort but lower your financial cost).

Your choice based soley on what's best for you.

And remember...you CAN do both.

About the author: Michael is the owner of FreedomFire Communications....including Real Time Leads ....and the Moderator for HomeBasedBusinessForums.com. Michael also authors Best MLM Resources where you're always welcome to drop in and catch up on the latest tips, ideas, tools, leads, news, and insights.

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MLM Training - The Secret to Being an MLM "Natural"

2008-11-09T03:05:00.001-08:00

Author: Tim Sales, author of ""Brilliant Compensation""

In this article I am going to take your MLM training to the next level when it comes to effectively communicating with your prospects. That next level is for it to become ""natural"" to you.

There are several definitions for the word natural and it is very important that you know which natural I'm referring to.

1. Not acquired; inherent; born with. THIS IS NOT THE NATURAL I'M TALKING ABOUT.

2. Free from artificiality, or inhibitions. THIS IS THE CORRECT ONE.

Definition one is referring to something that one is born with such as blue eyes, seven feet tall, etc.

Definition two is that you can rattle off your address without thinking about it. Natural, as in the way you know a favorite song. Or something you've said or sung many times.

Okay - so how is it you know your address? My guess is, you moved in, you got your address and you had to do an address change with the post office. You pulled out the piece of paper your new address was written on and you reference it several times to make sure you wrote your new address correctly. Then you wrote it on a FedEx envelope and remembered it all accept the zip code - hmm, is it 92105 or 92150? You find out and now you have it. If you never wrote it again you'd perhaps forget it again, but if you use it frequently you ""just know it"" - and you are certain you know it.

By the way... how is it that you know that the name goes on the first line, street address on the second and city, state, zip on the third line? That's the formula it goes in... right?

For inviting, to be natural and sound natural you must smoothly and correctly transition from one part of the formula to the next. The trick to that is to know exactly when to transition. Like from Greeting to Qualify. When you don't greet long enough, you don't get a prospect who will give you their need/want. Greet too long and your prospect feels you're wasting his time and will hastily get off the phone with you.

You also have to know... when the prospect says... (example: I'm sort of sick working for someone else) - I know they qualify to be in my MLM business.

Or, when the prospect says... (example: I don't remember signing up for anything; why are you calling me!$&*$) I know they just disqualified themselves from being in my business.

You have to know the rest of the formula as well but they are much easier than these two.

So just how do you get good at these transitions?

Two ways I know of:

1) Invite over and over until you can ""sense"" it. Like letting the clutch out on your car - the first few times are rough.

2) Another way is to listen to someone else do it and then model what they do because very often prospect's responses are similar.

You may have heard about a training CD series I released called ""Professional Inviter."" In this training, I recorded my live prospecting calls so that you can hear me do these live calls with prospects. I even break down each section of the ""Inviting Formula"" so you can hear those very critical ""transition"" points and how to use them. There's a link at the end of this article for ""Professional Inviter"" if you want to check it out. In the meantime, here's some helpful information for using the Inviting Formula with example transitions:

1) Greet - get someone who will talk freely and openly to you. Example transitions: ""Yeah, I requested more information because I'm looking to open my own business and I'm just looking around to see what's out there.""

2) Qualify - find out their needs/wants/don't-wants (as it relates to your MLM business). Example transitions: ""Well, I just know there's more out there. I'm sort of sick of working for someone else. I just want to be able to enjoy my life without always having to punch the clock.""

3) Invite - based on relevant information gathered in qualify. Your prospect doesn't have to give you any information here... but, depending on how they respond to your invite will decide if you move straight to ""Close to Action"" or if you do step 4.

4) Handle any Questions/Objections - that are stopping them from getting what they've stated they need/want/don't-want. Example transitions: After you've handled an objection and they use words like, ""Yeah, I can see that."" ""Yeah, that makes sense."" ""Hmm, I've never thought of it that way."" ""Well, it's really not a big deal to me... I've just heard that.""

5) Close to Action - create agreeable steps to move them towards getting them what they've stated they need/want/don't-want. Example transitions: Anything that indicates they need to get off the phone. ""I need to be hitting the sack."" A child trying to talk to them. ""It's been good talking to you.""

6) Follow-up - re-contact them. Anytime they suggest that they can't talk right now. Or if you've closed to action. Example transitions: ""Now's not a good time."" ""You've caught me at a bad time.""

Much respect and admiration,

Tim Sales

www.timsalesMLMtrai ningnews.com

The article above makes reference to the Inviting Formula, - which training is included in the CD series ""Professional Inviter,"" which teaches network marketers how to say the right thing to every prospect. In this set, you eavesdrop into Tim's live prospecting calls and hear exactly what he says to prospects to get them interested in his MLM business. Listen to a sample live prospecting call by going to

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Simplicity and duplicity in networking MLM

2008-11-08T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Sandra Stammbeger

Ask some of the more successful MLM marketers and they will tell you that the key factor in networking MLM is simplicity.

Networking MLM is a very simple business. But keeping it simple does not mean that hard work is not involved. One of the common mistakes is that people try to make it complicated.

Even if a complex system achieved great results for you, others will find it difficult to copy. In networking MLM, personal success is not your greatest asset.

Your greatest asset is having a system that guarantees the success of everyone using it. The success of others, and your success, is dependant upon their ability to do the same things you do. Keep the least experienced of those in your network in mind when you set up a system of doing things for your organization to follow.

Everything you do must be simple enough so that everyone can quickly duplicate your efforts and achieve the same phenomenal results as you.

In MLM networking, you should not do things that require special skills, resources which are available only to you or to a limited number of people. Open up your business to a much larger pool of people who can become successful. You need to build your network as quickly as possible. You can only meet with a few people each day and can personally close even fewer sales.

But using an MLM networking strategy, you can help others quickly learn to do the same simple things as you. When they do, they multiply your efforts.

Go for the same phenomenal results. This is quality duplication. Each person in your MLM networking, from top to bottom, must be able to exactly duplicate what you are doing and be able to teach others to do exactly the same thing. How large a sales team you can build depends on how well it is duplicated.

To ensure duplication, you need a system or processes that anybody and everybody can follow and teach. You cannot duplicate a person but you can duplicate a system.

In building a successful and long-term network, the MLM networking system must rule. Remember a system is only as good as it is duplicated.

The more complex a system, the less likely quality duplication will be achieved. To make sure you duplicate well, follow the System you are provided with religiously. There is no perfect system and your time is better spent perfecting your ability to duplicate it rather than perfecting a system.

Take this example. Ray Krocs, the founder of MacDonald's cannot be duplicated but the MacDonald's franchise system can be and is, to almost 100% perfection in 18,000 outlets worldwide.

Keeping it simple. To ensure you do things that your distributor can learn from and duplicate.

Is what I am doing easily duplicable? Is it simple enough to be duplicated? Keep asking yourself this same questions and if you answer ""yes"" at least 75 % of the time, you are on the right track.

The most successful people in MLM networking business understand that everything must be kept simple in order to grow your business. Show others how simple it is to do what you do. They need to see you do it, and then believe it is simple enough for them to quickly duplicate to achieve the same good results in your MLM networking.

About the author: Sandra Stammmberger is the owner of Marketers Insider News. An information portal for online marketers. For more information on MLM, affiliate programs, and Seo visit her site at http://www.marketersinsidernews.com

MLM Training - How to Keep Your Downline Interested, Focused and Productive

2008-11-07T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Tim Sales, author of ""Brilliant Compensation""

This bulletin is about how you as a leader can add incentives so your downline will produce more.

What I'm going to share with you here DOES NOT REPLACE what you learned in ""9 Proven Actions to Get Your Downline Producing More,"" which was the importance of a well trained distributor. Training is the backbone of motivation. Nothing motivates a person more than fully knowing what to say on the phone, how to say it, and having confidence that they can do that.

How to use incentives

Adding incentives can be thought of as games you can play to keep your MLM business fun and in the spirit of play. I'm talking about dynamic, exciting incentives to increase your downline's enthusiasm, and make them excited and looking forward to doing the business. And in turn, have that enthusiasm translate into products sold and new distributors signed up.

This also creates a fun culture around your organization. And, as hard as it may be to believe on the surface, it is widely acknowledged that distributor recognition is as effective a motivator as an increase of income. Recognition raises self-esteem. It shows your distributors that you care about them, and you value and appreciate the effort that they put forth. You can't put a price tag on that. And once they know that you care about them BY YOUR ACTIONS, they will show you something you may not have thought possible. They will give you their best performance ever.

What you're trying to achieve with incentive programs is an increase of performance. The two important factors are: a) What performance to reward

b) What to reward achievers

What performances to reward:

* Any of the 13 activities in Pocket Tracker. Such as the number of appointments set, number of presentations, the number of retail sales, etc.

* Total number of guests at meetings or on conference calls

* New distributors per week/month/quarter

* Retail products sold

* Training steps completed

* Highest volume, highest Increase in volume, and highest increase in volume percentage and pin level achievement

What to reward achievers:

* Two things you should always do for small achievements are handwritten thank-you cards and delivered balloons or flowers. Those two things should be a staple in your business.

* At every training meeting you do, you should give at least two awards to high achievers. If you do a newsletter - be sure to recognize your achievers in the newsletter. Get their picture with their guest(s).

* Weekly, whoever had the most guests at the meeting or everyone who had over three guests gets a free dinner.

* Professionally done certificates - in a frame ready for hanging on their wall.

* Recognition pins are good. * Prospecting leads for high activity. Like whoever has the most number of prospects on the conference calls gets 20 free leads.

* Apparel - such as company shirts or hats.

* Convention tickets are a great one. Everyone who sponsors five new distributors in the next two months get a free national convention ticket.

* Travel is always a good one- Ski trip, beach trip, cruise, family trip.

Points that can hurt your program:

* Lack of MLM training - I've mentioned this already but it tops the list as being most important.

* Reward the achievers immediately at the end of the program period.

* Keep the program simple. If there's a ton of twists and turns - no one knows what they have to do.

* Frequent winners - if the same people win every time, others get discouraged. So change the program so that it rewards the super achievers as well as others.

* Lack of follow up after the program -at the end of the program right after the awards ceremony, pass out a 3x5 card and ask for comments.

* Lack of communication - someone has to be driving the incentive program. This means constant communication. Send pictures of the destination if it's a trip. If it's a car, send pictures of the car. Keep the incentive in front of them a couple of times per week.

* Lack of a good rollout. The means plan the program. Plan the promotion. Plan the award.

Let's say we're going to do a Schools Out Game that ends on Jun 1st. The winner gets a trip for four people to Disneyland for four days. March, April and May are the performance months. The winner is leaving as soon as school's out! This gets kids involved as well. We start promoting the program February 15th. Awards ceremony will be at a bar-b-q outing on Jun 1st where all family members are invited. At this event we will also announce the next program... Back to School Game.

As you can see this creates a wonderful unity between everyone as well as a fun culture.

Enjoy your MLM business!

Tim Sales

www.timsalesMLMtrai ningnews.com

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....MLM Lead Generation Tips....

2008-11-06T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Michael Lemm

Network marketing is really about numbers. All we have to do is to sift and sort through heaps of people over and over again. [Easier said than done....right?]

""Professionals sort, while amateurs try to convince."" Most marketers simply don't have a proven formula for sorting through enough prospects on a monthly basis to create momentum in their organization, and momentum, my friend, is 90% of the game...

You and your downline need safety in numbers: you need an ongoing stream of the best Pre-Qualified Leads possible. Once you have enough people to share your opportunity with, and have a system to engage them, you have mastered the game.

Therein lies 3 key issues....

* a quality lead source (self generated, purchased, or both) * a method to contact, engage, qualify, follow-up, and close your leads * an easy transition to duplicate your approach throughout your organization

For the 1st issue.....

I recommend the services of my friend Carl Sorensen to learn how to generate your own leads through EzLeadCapture . Carl will set you up with a system that includes lead capture pages tailored to your specific business and target market.

For a purchased lead source (if you'd rather someone else do all the set-up and generation work for you...so you can focus on the contact thru close aspect) I recommend something like Traffic Oasis, Leaders Club, or Real Time Leads. You'll want leads as exclusive as possible (sold to no more than you and 1 other), targeted (such as by zip code or company specific), and fresh (instant to 24 hours). You'll also want them in quantity for co-oping with your Team.

Personally....I recommend you do BOTH. Generate your own leads AND buy quality co-oped leads. The more leads you and your Team have to work with the better.

For the 2nd issue.....

Don't just wing it. You won't get anywhere that way. You need to follow a consistent planned out approach everytime throughout the whole process. For this effort, I recommend you read the manual ""How To Recruit Your Way To Millions"". You'll have 100+ pages of practical...proven...step-by-step directions...easily duplicatable. The real ""what works"" basics...no airy fairy metaphysical or oogly googly rah rah stuff.

Here's just a small sample of some of the practical ""how to's"" information shared in the manual:

.....how to qualify your prospects. Exact approach and what to say. An easy to follow guide that'll walk you through step by step.

.....doing a week-by-week and even a call-by-call evaluation of yourself. What did you do right, what communication made your prospect react, what could you do better - and actually write those things down and work on them on the next call you make. Perfect for learning, growing, and improving your ""style"".

For the 3rd issue.....

Simply share your chosen lead generation method(s), and the ""How To Recruit"" manual with your organization. Make both...especially the manual...part of your training system for new reps. The manual itself can easily be used by you to train your Team and promote duplication of effort. Great road map to follow.

Imagine what would happen if you and your entire Team learned and applied these tips and ""how to's"" TOGETHER....greater momentum, duplication, and consistency that's what.

Now THAT'S the name of that tune.

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MLM Training- The Secrets to NOT Quitting in MLM

2008-11-05T03:04:00.001-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

Frustration can be a killer to your business. And rightfully so, as we all go through frustration from time to time.

You know --where you don't feel like doing anything. Talk to anybody and you are starting to doubt this business really works.

At least for you. Been there?

You right now may be thinking that you want to do this business, but nothing is working and you seem to be working your rear end off. You make the calls, and nothing happens. You follow up and nothing happens. Your prospects disappear without a trace.

You are thinking--""Can I REALLY do this?""

But yet you are BUSY.

Busy at doing what?

There is a difference in MLM between EFFICIENT and EFFECTIVE.

The average distributor in this business is Efficient. Bur LEADERS in this business are EFFECTIVE.

EFFICIENT we have heard is doing things right. And yes, you must do things right or this business will not work as it should.

EFFECTIVE is doing the right things and THEN doing them right.

Most people in MLM never grow past Efficient(If they even grow at all) and they work their enterprise the best they know how, and yet it seems to never really move that much.

You seem to be doing everything right.

But the question is -- are you doing the right things?

There is only one thing we will ever get paid for in MLM and that is COMMUNICATION. Simply:

Your Job is to do one thing:

Create EFFECTIVE Exposures and a LOT of them.

That's it for the new person. That is what you should focus on and no more.

Here is a Radical Paradigm Shift for you:

Your job # 1 is NOT to sell. Your job is NOT to recruit. Your job is NOT to train. Those are FRUITS of an EFFECTIVE Exposure. Those are what GROW and Blossoms from an EFFECTIVE Exposure and Communication.

Your JOB #1 is to create an EFFECTIVE exposure about your business and products through magnetic communication which attracts the prospect to take action.

You may be BUSY, but busy at making ineffective Exposures, which are killing your business and your self esteem and it it can be corrected so easily.

What creates an EFFECTIVE Exposure?

Three things:

1) IMPACT. Your job is NOT of INFORM but IMPACT. Most people who are BUSY and EFFICIENT focus on DETAILS --Facts, and the information. Folks who get rich in MLM create an IMPACT and they are not focused on Details but Destiny. The prospect's destiny--they move the prospect on the inside by talking about what waits for their life and future on the outside.

They are not focused on their paycheck --but the PROSPECT.

And they are not focused on the Process as much as the Power of Change as they know they are in the LIFE CHANGING BUSINESS.

2) Emotional Connection.

You must create an Emotional Connection with the prospect.

How?

Simple --you focus on what they want to change for the better or add to in their life the most, and then show them how your business and products can help bring that into their life.

They must develop and emotional connection to the product, or the business, or you as a Leader and you must create the possibility that what their life is missing can be obtained through you and your company. And then show them how.

With an EFFECTIVE Communication called a PRESENTATION.

3) VALUE.

Let me ask you a question:

Would you buy a car that had no value to you?

Would you buy a house that had no value to you?

Would you buy a pair of shoes that had no value to you?

Of course not.

Guess what?

Your prospect will never start moving towards you as long as they don't see VALUE in what you are offering, what you are doing, and who you are.

VALUE RULES SUPREMELY!

You MUST show Value to the prospect in everything that you do and say.

How?

Find out what THEY VALUE in their life, and show them how your Business, Products, and YOU can help increase that in their life. I call it the ""4 Major Wants of Lifestyle"":

People are looking today to ""INCREASE, EXPAND, ENLARGE and EMPOWER their and their family's life"" and you simply must show them how you can help them do that.

What are you spending your time doing in MLM?

Selling?

Recruiting?

Training?

Being BUSY?

How about getting EFFECTIVE at Exposing your business and products, and let all of the above be a FRUIT of your actions --not the sole focus?

If you do that, your results will blossom abundantly like fruit on a tree--a MONEY TREE!

And your growth will be UNSTOPPABLE in this business of MLM and Network Marketing.

blessings....

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MLM Training- The TRUTH to Birthing MLM Success

2008-11-04T03:07:00.001-08:00

Author: Doug Firebaugh

MLM Training- The Truth of Birthing MLM Success

by Doug Firebaugh

"" A person dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better, wiser..""

Anonymous

In network marketing and mlm, you can find many things that can hurt and cause pain.

Criticism.

Embarrassment.

Rejection.

Self Doubt.

Arguments.

Stress.

Jealousy.

Hurt.

Pain.

Heartache.

The list of pain in life goes on and on and on. And it can be sometimes worse in network marketing.

but --There is Good News!

At times during your day in MLM, you will feel a little piece of you inside almost ""dieing"" from someone's words, anger, criticism, and the like. That is all part of going against the grain and doing things that most will not do, and personally grow in ways most never will.

But--

A seed has to die in order to create the growth. that includes Success and Network Marketing.

Are you aware of that?

A seed has to die to create the catalyst for the new growth to shoot forth.

Network Marketing is like that too. It teaches you lessons about growth from the seeds it plants in you daily from your actions and results.

And with the Morning coming, you will know that it is a brand new day and that yesterday has planted it's seeds, and now you wait for the growth that will take place to propel you to greater heights in MLM.

Life hurts at times. We know that.

But when a little piece of you inside feels like it could die -- due to pain from other folks...

Let it die. And the growth of a better and wiser person will shoot up from that seed of hurt someone planted yesterday.

It may not sprout overnight -- but it WILL grow.

And you WILL get through what you are currently facing, whatever seed that is..and no matter how painful and how strong.

I promise.

Been There. Done that. Got the T-shirt.

And after 21 years, I am still working and training in MLM and Network Marketing and you will be succeeding as well years from now.

That is how you birth Success in Network Marketing and MLM. Let what is hurting you and holding you back die-- to give birth to MLM Success.

blessings...