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Why Videos Are Very Effective For Network Marketing

2009-02-02T12:51:00.000-08:00

Videos are one of the most effective tools in the network marketing industry. People use videos all the time to promote the viability of their MLM business. They do it in opportunity talks, in training camps and even in large seminars as well in order to hype up the crowd.

Let us examine why videos are so effective and how you can easily apply it in your network marketing business.

• Videos engage the senses of the viewer more than just white copy. Top copywriting trainer David Garfinkel talks about using audio and visual in order to intensify the conversion or closing rate in any sales letter. When you engage the reading mind, the visuals, music and speech, you bond with the reader and you increase your conversion rates exponentially.

• You get to cut down on support issues and you do not need to handle as many objections about your product. Sure, you can write a very good FAQ, but remember that not everyone is endowed with the patience to absorb the meaning of text and good copy. So you will be able to save a lot of time when handling the objections of your prospects (e.g. is network marketing a pyramid scheme, what are the side effects of this product, etc)

• After around 2 weeks, people tend to forget what they learn. In essence, you only retain 10% of what you read but if you use videos effectively, you get to retain around 50% of the information you have absorbed. This is very effective if you want to use yourself as a branding tool (because people who remembers you face and associates your face with the face of an expert will help you to increase your credibility very quickly).

• YouTube has increased the number of online video viewers in the United States alone. Statistics show a large jump namely because of the sharing nature of a user generated community. You can even record a video and get tons of free traffic from Google and increase the number of leads and signups you get for your network marketing business.

However, not everyone has the ability to produce videos instantly. They might need to overcome a huge technical barrier. But with private label rights (PLR), you can get access to videos and brand them as your own – in other words, you own the rights to it, as though you have produced it yourself with your own name as the producer or the creator.

It is a much faster way to take advantage of videos for your network marketing business.

To your success, www.shopgbg.com/timeless

The Difference Between Multi Level And Affiliate Marketing

2009-01-30T12:49:00.000-08:00

There are significant differences between the multi tiered network marketing compensation plan and the affiliate marketing model.

These two models are very important and you must understand the way it works in order to make the most money out of it.

Let’s talk about multi tiered paid structure first.

Multi Level Marketing is a method of receiving compensation through different tiers of overriding commissions. The advantage of using multi tier compensation is that you get to leverage on thousands and thousands of downlines. Your direct downlines will be taking good care of the rest of the network if you play your cards right. But of course, it isn’t as straightforward as it seems. Building a structure like this takes a lot of time.

On the other hand, affiliate marketing and joint venture promotions are very straight forward and you can get paid a huge commission – about 40% to 80% if you were to give sales to someone else. A ‘super affiliate’ is able to generate thousands of commissions by himself. You can build a list of thousands of subscribers and with a single email blast; you can get the word out to all these people and make thousands of dollars in a couple of days.

Let’s look at the disadvantages of each structure now.

The problem with the multi level structure is that if all the downlines are not generating sales, you will be the one doing all the work – you might even need to do extra work and give ‘spillover’ for your downlines. On the other side of the coin, you do not get to leverage on your own team of affiliates if you are in affiliate marketing.

So the best way to get the best of both worlds is to combine the two models and create the ultimate Internet network marketing synergy!

Firstly, you can promote an online MLM program. People still get the benefits of making money from a multi tiered structure. But when you (as an upline) start training your affiliates to build a mailing list, everyone will be your joint venture or JV partner. When one releases a product, everyone else will come running and they will promote your product as an affiliate! And because everybody are in the same network, the loyalty is stronger as everyone is more willing to help one another because they are in the same company.

Using this method, even ‘sidelines’ in a network will be able to benefit each other and promote each other’s info products – cross network. Making money in MLM has never been more fun!

To your success, www.shopgbgcm/timeless

Are Home Parties Still Relevant?

2009-01-28T10:01:00.000-08:00

What is a home party? A home party or a party plan is a network marketing gathering at the home of a distributor (known as the host).

This business model is made popular many decades ago by a company called Tupperware. It works by having a party host organize a Tupperware party and they invite their friends and neighbors to their homes to see their product line. According to the company’s policy, the host who organizes the home party is given lots of free products based on the number of orders taken or the level of sales made during the party. These parties also take place in offices, schools/colleges and even in community groups such as country clubs and churches as well.

In fact, these home parties have extended (but are not limited) to product lines such as lingerie, computer and video games and even sex toys!

Today, the biggest concern for the 21st century is – are home parties still relevant in the Google era? With the introduction of YouTube, you can virtually see an entire product demo unfold right before your eyes. In fact you do not even need to drive out of your house (to the host’s home) to watch the product demo there.

So are home parties still relevant? In my opinion, the answer is yes and no.

You have to learn to be savvier when it comes to organizing home parties. Simply just sending out to invitation cards and pestering your friends and neighbors to come to your home party isn’t as easy anymore because people are getting wiser. They are aware of your ‘schemes’ and they know more and more about MLM.

When you want to pitch your product, you have to be able to engage it in such a way that doesn’t look like you are hard selling or obliging others to buy your product.

On the other hand, when you consider that the Internet is a place that is devoid of the persona, face to face interaction, you will begin to wonder if being virtual is the best way to go or not? There are some things that only the personal touch can achieve, like giving prospects the comfort for them to make a decision. Sometimes, the prospect needs to see and touch the actual product in order to decide if that is the thing that they want to buy.

The best solution is to combine both elements for your home party. You can try running an online ad to gather leads, use record your own YouTube video to show people how the product benefits and finally invite them to your house in order to do the product demo, right after the autoresponder has helped you to build a relationship.

To your success, www.shopgbg.com/timeless

How Badly Do You Want Freedom

2009-01-26T10:01:00.000-08:00

There are three kinds of people in the world – those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what the heck has just happened!

Most of the time, people who want to achieve freedom badly enough will fall into the first category of ‘happening’ people.

Freedom can come in many forms – time freedom, financial freedom or the freedom to spend time with your friends, relatives, church members and other community services. But there is one very important thing about freedom…

Freedom isn’t free! You have to fight for it. The American colonists fought for their independence in a bloody war just because they wanted to be free. But in network marketing, we are fighting a very different kind of war… it is a war of freedom.

The American economy hasn’t been stable as of late. If you do not fight hard for your cash, you will wind up being swept away by the tide. After all, getting more money isn’t an easy affair anymore. Investors are starting to save money. Customers are no longer willing to spend. Banks are tightening their credit and rising oil prices are making lives harder and harder for people.

When you consider time freedom, you must also remember that this is the 21st century. We have microwaves, cable ‘on-demand’ TV, faster downloads, more convenient transport and instant email. However, our lives are not getting easier. People are expecting more and more. Working hours are no longer 9-5 as employees work late into the night for the same pay. For the first time since the history of the industrial revolution, people are actually working more and more for the same or less pay.

Lastly, when you consider the stress of the world and the strain it takes on relationships, you must fight for your loved ones more and more! Being buried in the office isn’t a productive way to live your life. After all, no one lies on their deathbed wondering if they should have spent more time in the office.

When you consider all the facts above, one striking fact remains… Are you working hard enough in your network marketing business? Are you giving your very best for your downlines? Are you working hard to be a good ambassador of your great business opportunity? At the end of the day, are you working hard enough to attain your freedom? Only you can answer this question – how badly do you want your freedom?

To your success, www.shopgbg.com/timeless

Dealing With Whiny Downlines

2009-01-24T09:59:00.000-08:00

Did you know that you need to be very selective with the right kind of downlines in your team?

You see, not every downline who gets sponsored into your network might turn out to be good news. Sometimes, you have to be very firm and tell them why you do not want them in your network.

Consider the following scenarios:

You eagerly chase down a friend of yours, even if he isn’t really the driven type; you still insist that he joins your network marketing company. Later on, he tries it for awhile, faces a lot of rejection and at the end of the day, your friendship is strained after you boss him around or motivate him ‘too much’. You lose your friend and all the time you have spent motivating him.

In another scenario, you try your best to convince this stranger to build the business. This stranger cannot be trusted is worried if he would not succeed, yet you work very hard to convince him that it WILL work. After awhile, your downline wears your patience thin with incessant calls… finally, the downline realizes that network marketing isn’t the right business for him and he asks for a refund on all the products, hence wasting your time, effort, and your commissions are deducted.

Lastly, there are destructive downlines who will ‘try’ something and when it doesn’t work out, they will tarnish your good name and call you a scammer.

Here are a couple of ways to deal with those whiny downlines.

The first thing you need to do is to make sure you do not rely on them too much. When you treat that downline as though he or she is your golden goose, you will be very disappointed in the end.

Secondly, if you are working together with one downline, do not spend too much time with him or her because it creates a dependency mentality on one another. Your downline will take advantage of you because they feel that they are too important for you. They will not appreciate your time and they will suck up your all you resources when you should be spending them with the right people.

Thirdly, you must always keep yourself busy. When you are busy with big team players, your whiny downlines will perceive you to be a very important person and they will work harder in order to fight for your time. After all, you are a leader, do not become the follower by following your downlines everywhere.

When all else fails, you have to be frank with your downline that you are looking for solid business builders, not a cry baby.

To your success, www.shopgbg.com/timeless

Traditional Network Marketing Is Still Important

2009-01-22T09:56:00.000-08:00

Although many people are starting to build their businesses on the Internet, we must never neglect the personal touch of traditional network marketing.

Most new age lead generation strategies rely on using Internet marketing strategies to generate traffic - methods such as search engine optimization, blogging, forum marketing, press release marketing and many other traffic generation methods are good at getting lots of leads, just like autoresponder messages are useful for building relationships, but at the end of the day, nothing beats the human touch because we are all inherently craving for social interaction.

Think back on how you got involved in network marketing in the first place. Did your friend approach you? Did a stranger call you up because they have a ‘business opportunity’ just for you? Most of the time, people get started in network marketing because someone pushed them into it (so you should thank your good friend if they did ‘force’ you into network marketing…)

Bottom line is, not everyone gets started in their first network marketing opportunity because they searched for it on Google. It takes more than a sales letter to open somebody’s mind to the wonders of network marketing.

The other issue with online network marketing is that people fail to remember that the glue that keeps downlines and uplines together is through the personal touch. It is feasibly possible to sponsor thousands of reps within a single day using email marketing or copywriting, but if you do not train your downlines or help them to sponsor new people without you helping them with the ‘spillover’, you will find yourself the only upline doing all the recruiting as everyone you sponsored drops out (you might as well stick to affiliate marketing!)

Sometimes, it is worthwhile to drive out of your house and organize meetings or training workshops for our downlines. Try and fuse together the best of multi level marketing with affiliate/JV marketing. As long as you develop the camaraderie with your people, there will be a very strong bond between the entire team. Imagine, an entire team of network marketers promoting each other’s Internet marketing or info product on the Internet.

The network marketing industry is now a very dynamic and robust industry. We have to use the best of both worlds in order dominate the entire market.

In other words, you must apply the best of ‘high tech’ and ‘high touch’ marketing in order to get the best results.

To your success, www.shopgbg.com/timeless

Recycling Your Blog Traffic For Network Marketing

2009-01-20T12:41:00.000-08:00

Running a good network marketing blog is essential if you want to dominate in an age where the Internet and Web 2.0 is taking over. As more and more eyeballs are getting glued to the Internet and social lives are transferred to the Blogosphere, it is high time that all network marketing reps start a blog to jump start their home business.

But creating a successful network marketing blog requires you to improvise your traffic wisely.

You may be able to pick up traffic from search engines, blog directories or even other people’s blogs, but if you do not learn how to recycle your traffic, there is no way you will be able to monetize your blog for the long term. After all, a long lasting business definitely thrives on repeat sales, doesn’t it?

But what does recycling traffic mean?

It means that you are redirecting or sending your existing traffic back to your blog again and again through newsletters, email marketing or RSS feed subscriptions.

Here are a few ways to recycle traffic get people coming back to your blog for more:

- You must always build a mailing list. Remember, the money is IN the list. You can place an ‘opt-in’ box and offer them a free report to allow them to opt-in to your mailing list or your newsletter. Whenever you write a new blog post, you can always send an email or have it automated, and get them to come back to your blog. This will keep your blog fresh on people’s mind and it builds a very strong relationship between you and your reader.

- The next way is to get them come back by writing your blog post like an E-zine or a newsletter. Write a series of educational messages – like network marketing tips. Split them into various parts, like “how to recruit more downlines” part 1, part 2, part 3, etc. Tell them when they should come back and read more about it. This will give people a reason to come back even if they do not opt in to your list.

- The third way is to get them to subscribe to your RSS feed. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Basically, people who are too lazy to visit your blog prefer to read your content through a reader. Your blog contents will be sent to their reader automatically when you post a topic. So make sure you write often, consistently and always encourage them to visit your blog in your posts as well. In fact, if your content is good, people might even link to your feed and publish your content on their blogs as well!

These are some methods but always remember that content is king. When you write good content, people will automatically come back to your site without you prompting them to do so.

To your success, www.shopgbg.com/timeless

How To Explode Your Traffic With Network Marketing Leaders

2009-01-18T12:39:00.000-08:00

Most people who build network marketing sites are always struggling to get more traffic. Whether to increase their Google AdSense income or to use it as a lead capturing tool to get more downlines, it is always good to have more traffic for your websites or your blog.

Sometimes, they try all sorts of traffic generation campaigns like search engine optimization, banner exchange, posting in forums and many other marketing methods that is ‘typically online’.

Here is one way that you can explode your traffic and it even works if you cannot tell the difference between HTML and HTTP.

You need to go back to the familiar path by exploring offline methods – by approaching network marketing leaders to drive traffic to your website.

You see, network marketing leads have something you want and you will have something he or she wants:

You want them to visit your websites, and they want good information for their network marketing downlines.

You can create a win-win situation out of this.

Firstly, you must focus on writing quality content on your website. Traffic is king but so is content. With these two ‘kings’ working side by side, your website will be unstoppable but you need to have good content on your site before you can drive traffic there.

Next, you can approach your network marketing leaders in this manner. If your network marketing leader is your upline, it makes life so much easier because they will help their downlines to succeed. In fact, they might send all their people to your website if you have good information for everyone to share.

If you are approaching a leader who is not your upline or in a different company, you can position yourself as a product user (to gain their trust) or you can position yourself as a website/newsletter publisher that gives good information to their downlines. The most important aspect is to gain their trust.

It is also a new concept to most network marketing leaders because most of them do not bring their businesses online! Do not underestimate the size of their list either. After all, most leaders usually keep a rolodex of their downlines and they email them all at once using a rudimentary form of emailing system, but nevertheless is extremely effective because one call from the leader and all the downlines will come running (to your website, that is!)

Once people are sending traffic to your website, you can use a lead capturing page to capture leads and you can even market affiliate products to them. But remember to market good quality information products otherwise, the leader will frown upon you.

To your success, www.shopgbg.com/timeless

Network Marketing – Robert Kiyosaki’s Perfect Business

2009-01-16T12:38:00.000-08:00

Robert Kiyosaki, the famous author behind the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series of financial books has talked about network marketing as one of the most perfect business models on the planet.

But why has one who has never been involved in network marketing seem to endorse it as a good business model? Some may claim that this is a hypocritical endorsement, but in reality, Kiyosaki’s findings are founded on solid business building principles and are hence, are valid observations.

To understand what he means by a perfect business, you must understand the background of the E, S, B, I quadrant.

E stands for employee, where you are under legal employment working for an employer getting a payroll. Kiyosaki claims that most employees are stuck in a rat race, where the employee constantly working to pay off his debts to the government, the taxation institutes as well as the banks. He finds that there is little freedom and to exit from the rat race, you must progress into the different quadrants.

S stands for small business. He quips that it stands for solo businessman as well where in order to do things right, you gotta do it yourself! This quadrant of businessmen rarely leverages on others because they not only have the responsibilities of a business owner, they often need to double up as the worker and sales rep, the customer service rep and sometimes, even the delivery guy!

B is the quadrant Kiyosaki wants to get people into where you run a BIG business by leveraging on people ‘under’ you.

Lastly, the ‘I’ quadrant is where big business investors wind up. They use their money to earn MORE money.

Kiyosaki describes the network marketing business model as the perfect business simply because he believes that you can easily jump from the ‘E’ quadrant directly into the ‘B’ quadrant without going through the hardships of the ‘S’ quadrant.

When you start a network marketing business, the most important skills you will learn are business skills. Skills such as managing people, understanding the needs of your customer, how to invest your time and money wisely and lots of self-improvement, mindset changing awareness that will take your business skills to the next level.

The most important aspect about being in a network marketing business is that you get to learn all these business skills at a very low investment (a couple of dollars to a few hundred dollars worth of product investment), the guidance and believe of a mentoring upline, and all the time in the world for someone to develop those business skills. After all, not everyone’s attitudes are alike. A network marketing business will help you to build those skills even if you are a slow learner – because you don’t have to worry about huge rental or inventory costs unlike a traditional business in the S or B quadrant.

The facts indicate that what Robert Kiyosaki says is valid and true about network marketing indeed, being the perfect business.

To your success, www.shopgbg.com/timeless

How To Develop The Right Mindset As An Upline

2009-01-14T12:37:00.000-08:00

What is the role of an upline in network marketing?

Is he a leader like a loud army general or a slow and patient mentor like Master Yoda from Star Wars?

Is he a fearful motivator like Darth Vader or is he a person who exudes confidence and inspires others with motivating words?

We know one thing about an upline; he or she is there with an important role to play, besides just overriding the commissions of his or her downlines. If you are there simply to take advantage of your people and get commissions without doing anything, then you have missed the point about network marketing.

A good upline has the mindset of a leader, mentor, helper, servant and friend all rolled into one. You need to be a person who helps others to achieve their goals, just like what Zig Ziglar says about achieving success only when you help ‘enough’ others to achieve success in their businesses as well.

Think about it this way… if you turn your downline into a superstar recruiter, do you think that it will benefit you greatly? Of course it does, you will definitely be laughing all the way to the bank!

The key point is to go all out to ensure the success of your downlines no matter what the costs. You can’t just think about money or ‘PV’ all the time. If you obsess about it, your downlines will see you as materialistic monkey who is out there to grab their money.

Remember, your downlines are not there for you to boss around either. You just can’t preach about network marketing being the way out of your J-O-B and firing your boss if you are turning into a boss that is even worse than the one they are trying to shake off in the first place!

A good upline doesn’t just motivate their downlines with the stick or the carrot either. There is actually a third motivation factor and it is long lasting – personal empowerment! This only comes when a downline achieves self-actualization about their dreams and their business goals. You will want to train a lot of downlines like these but it would require a lot of patience within you. Not everyone will make it to this ‘level’ but you just got to keep on believing in people until they stop believing completely in themselves.

Whether your own upline adopts this mindset is irrelevant. The most important aspect is to focus on you and your own business. You can’t let your upline do all the thinking for you and expect to have the right mindset as an upline yourself.

To your success, www.shopgbg.com/timeless

The Myth About Network Marketing Saturation

2009-01-12T12:35:00.000-08:00

A lot of people who get involved in network marketing usually have scruples about this scary word – its called saturation.

It means that one day; everyone will join a network marketing company to the point that there is no longer a market for it anymore. When there are too many people in a company, there will be so much competition that it will be nearly impossible to get new downlines yourself.

Some mathematicians even claim that one day, the entire world’s population is not enough to sustain a ‘pyramid structure’ and the whole MLM system will collapse.

This is not true and saturation is actually a relatively small concern. Here are a few reasons why saturation is a myth:

(1) The world’s population is constantly recycling.

The mathematicians may have a point about mathematical saturation, but that principle only applies when the population growth is stagnant or dwindling! This means that they are speculating that there are no new infants being born and people will live forever.

When you put things into the right perspective, there will ALWAYS be people turning 18 (the legal age to join a network marketing opportunity). People will grow old one day but before that happens they will have kids and more and more kids will be turning 18 – this means that there will always be new people who are ready to join your network marketing business every year.

(2) There will always be people looking for more opportunities.

There is a new consumer born everyday. Remember, your network marketing business is all about offering people opportunities. If you give people the right opportunity at the right time, they will take it! Look at the market out there. Someday, there will be an economic crisis because of the cycles of economy. There will always be people who are disgruntled with their work and they want a way out from the rat race.

In other words, there will always be new people coming in; looking for new opportunity and that is where you must be, at the right place at the right time with the right opportunity.

(3) There will always be people looking for a leader

In this short sighted world, leadership is always in demand. Bear in mind, network marketing is not a pyramid scheme because the downline can ALWAYS surpass his upline anytime if he or she works harder.

In your network marketing company, you will be able to position yourself as a trainer or a mentor to someone else. The more people you train, the better a leader you will become. People will always look up to a leader with ample strength and when you are ‘strong’ enough, you can even attract network marketing reps from other companies to switch over and join you.

To your success, www.shopgbg.com/timeless

Why Use Search Engine Optimization For Network Marketing?

2009-01-10T12:32:00.000-08:00

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is one of the most lucrative ways to make money in network marketing.

Let’s explore the concept of SEO.

SEO focuses on organic search engine traffic. This means that you do not have to fork out a cent for paid advertising campaigns like Pay-Per-Click (PPC) or Google AdWords. All traffic on SEO is free.

Furthermore, SEO traffic is perceived to be of a higher quality compared to PPC. When you search for something on Google, where do you click? Left or right? Most probably the sites listed on the left because it somehow seems more popular, right?

That is why SEO is very lucrative.

Next, you need to explore the market for SEO in network marketing.

SEO is good for your network marketing business because it is generally a low competition market (compared to debt consolidation or credit cards) because not many network marketers are bringing their business online… yet. On the other hand, people who are good with SEO might not get involved in network marketing. They generally prefer to spend more time in front of the computer and they could be afraid of network marketing (whether people try and recruit them or they dislike the industry because ).

Simply put, very few network marketers are ‘SEO guys’ and very few SEO guys are network marketers.

So you will be able to get your sites ranked easily.

Here are a few tips you must focus on to get your sites ranked easily on the Internet.

Focus on optimizing your network marketing company’s brand name (e.g. Herbalife, Usana, Agel, Amway, etc) by writing articles about your company and submitting them to article directories like E-zine Articles. Remember to use a proper anchor text for your article and your site – e.g. Amway.

Next, you need to target long tail keywords. A long tail keyword example is – “Lose weight with Herbalife” or “How Transfer Factor Works”.

You can also create Squidoo Lenses and Hub Pages to get traffic and bolster your rankings easily. These two sites are considered high authority sites and you will be able to get traffic if you write content there.

At the end of the day, you don’t need to have a super high ranking site or a blog in order to get traffic. The key is to drive traffic no matter which search engine ranking position you are in – it is no point getting rank no.1 if no one is searching for that keyword at all.

Why The Internet Gives Predictable Duplication Results

2009-01-09T09:58:00.000-08:00

Building your network marketing business on the Internet is becoming an increasingly viable option for people looking for new ways to increase leads and prospects. With ‘offline’ marketing strategies becoming more and more competitive, a cheaper and easier way to generate leads has emerged.

Of course, I am not saying that old school network marketing prospecting methods do not work, by all means, it is still the bread and butter of home businesses, but let us examine the feasibility of these methods through downline duplication.

You see, there are many angles you have to consider:

- Credibility
- Contact
- Charisma

This 3 C’s are all critical factors when it comes to prospecting and they are some of the hardest aspects in order to duplicate.

Credibility wise, your upline may be the top CEO of a former Forbes 500 super company and they can easily sponsor thousands of reps by sheer force of their influence alone, but you can never duplicate credibility for your downline, you can leverage, but it is impossible to ride on your upline’s shoulders forever.

Contact means all the customers a person knows in their circle of influence or in their name list. An upline may have tons of valuable contacts, but if their downlines do not have quality contacts like their upline, it is very difficult to succeed as well.

Lastly, Charisma is one thing that you cannot duplicate. You may observe your upline, the way he or she talks, the way they walk, the books they read and the way they show the plan, but because human beings are uniquely different, it is very hard to be able to duplicate the charisma and influence.

So how does one easily duplicate results in their downline? By using the Internet. You can use the internet to do the following things – increase your credibility as a network marketer using e-books, blogs and forums (you don’t need to rely on your ‘offline’ credibility much), you can also build a large list of contacts through driving traffic and lead generation and finally, you do not even need to have ‘offline’ charisma, you can ‘hide’ behind a computer screen and use your writings and E-products to give a very different online charisma.

At the end of the day, using the Internet may help your downlines to succeed if they are having trouble talking to people or if they are shy and afraid to talk to people.

To your success, www.shopgbg.com/timeless

How To Generate Cash Flow For MLM Using Affiliate Marketing

2009-01-08T12:30:00.000-08:00

I’m sure as a network marketer, you will want these two things more than anything else for your business – more leads and more cash flow for your business.

Let’s talk about cash flow.

You see, getting leads in your business is very important, no doubt. But leads in and of itself that doesn’t transform into money is as useless as window shoppers. Some window shoppers might walk into a shop to checkout your wares, but when nobody is buying your products, you might as well shut down your business because you can’t even pay your monthly rental to keep your business alive.

The network marketing business functions on the same level as opening your own restaurant or a shop:

- You need to buy products every single month or pay for your monthly auto-ship. Now opportunities with auto-ships may be a double edged sword. You have a commitment to pay monthly but so do your downlines (and that translate into a monthly income for you). A program without an enforced auto-ship is good too, but the volume needs to come in order for your business volume to grow. In essence, you have to spend money to buy products; otherwise, your downline will not do so (duplication).

- You need to pay for your gas mileage and other fixed expenses. After all, you have to maintain your day to day expenses. Many network marketers get so fired up about their business until they forget that they have to pay their expenses and they quit because they run out of money.

- You need to invest in training materials as well. That is the only way to move forward as a leader. Books, tapes, CDs, DVDs and seminar tickets are all expensive but worthwhile investments.

Bottom-line, you must have cash flow otherwise you can’t succeed in network marketing.

Let’s explore a way to get cash flow consistently. The first two ways are the most common, while the third way is untapped (mostly by network marketers) and worth exploring.

1. Recruiting new downlines and getting them to buy starter pack. This is one of the fastest, quick money ways to get cash flow. You can also cash in on their monthly auto-ship and other purchases.

2. Retailing – you can make a consistent income when you retail your company’s products to your consumers.

3. Affiliate marketing – this is a very good way to make money from your leads or prospects even if they do not fall into the two categories above.

When you engage in affiliate marketing, your goal as a network marketer is to market a low-cost, generic information product about network marketing. These are information that anyone can use and it has the largest target market due to its low cost and high demand. After all, everyone needs information.

A good affiliate program will pay you anywhere between 40% to 75% for marketing other people’s info products. Even if your prospects do not sign up with you or buy your products, you might as well make money by diverting your leads or traffic there.

At the end of the day, you can make good money by driving search engine traffic, forum traffic, Facebook or MySpace traffic and even bring people to your blog by marketing affiliate products for cash flow to keep your business afloat. Who knows, those customers might even turn into your downlines some day.

Prospecting Strategies: Divide and Conquer

2008-12-31T14:29:00.000-08:00

Many network marketing reps struggle as far as prospecting is concerned.

One of the reasons why they are so uncomfortable when approaching their friends is because they are fighting an uphill battle against their group of friends.

Granted, it is very difficult when you are doing it alone. After all, peer pressure is against you and the only way you can successfully convince your friends to join your network marketing is if you and another partner are working as a team.

The first and most notable example of working together as a team is with your spouse or your significant other.

The man will usually talk business, because most prospects usually perceive the man as the one holding the authority (not that women are inferior, but they have more powerful ROLES in different areas).

The women on the other hand, will do well trying to relate to the prospect through products and services.

With that said, don’t fight to be the boss – learn to examine the situation.

This sort of tag team prospecting is even more effective when dealing with couples because while the man talks about business plans in the living room, the women can chat all about products in the kitchen.

If you do not have a partner, you can always pair up with your upline or a side line (sometimes, it even works with downlines… after all, there is power in numbers). If your upline and you know a mutual friend, greatest leverage you have to convince a common friend to sign up is to use social leverage (after all, ‘everyone else’ is in… what about you?) This works even well if your upline has credibility and is someone who is well respected, you will have better chances for success.

The most important thing is to make sure you do not do this business alone. Network marketing is a business that puts you in business for yourself, but you are NOT going to work by yourself. Trying to go solo in your network marketing business is suicidal because if your downlines try and pick it up, they will each do things their own way (solo) and you will have a heck of a problem when your group reaches a large number.

Another reason why it is very difficult to work alone is because you don’t have all the time in the world to go running around prospecting and taking care of all your downlines at the same time. You need to share the load and give some credit to your downlines as they look out for one another when you are not around.

You are in business for yourself, but not BY yourself. You must learn to divide and conquer as you work together with your uplines, downlines, sidelines and even the staff in the company. When your prospect see you walk down the isle and the managers and staff are all waving to you, it gives you a lot of credibility (when they wave to you and you go, “By the way, that’s the managing director of the company…”)

Remember, there is strength in numbers.

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Definition Of Network Marketing

2008-12-29T14:29:00.000-08:00

There are many definitions of network marketing.

Some people say that it is a business that is all about sharing. Some people say that it is a business that pays you a multi-tiered form of compensation. Many others also say that it is a form of unethical pyramid selling system!

But I truly believe that the right definition of network marketing is a business system or model that allows you to move products through a large network of distributors and consumers. In other words, network marketing allows any person to be in a business for themselves but not BY themselves.

Network marketing requires you to do the following:

(1) Generate leads for your business
(2) Prospecting those leads
(3) Building a solid relationship with them
(4) Selling products and services with them
(5) Training people to train others do the same thing as what you are doing now

What defines network marketing is the fact that it is a business of moving products. In order for you to move products effectively, you must generate leads to accomplish that. But in order to ‘sell’ effectively, you must make sure you spend time generating the right kind of leads rather than useless leads who are not interested in consuming or moving your product.

Once you find the right kind of leads, you must engage in prospecting where you share your business opportunity with your prospect. But don’t just blabber on like a motor-mouth… you need to listen to what problems your prospects are facing and how you can find a solution to their problems with your business opportunity. It could be a financial problem or a personal problem (like proving to their friends and family that they can be successful).

Once you have developed good rapport with your prospects, you can start training them to do the same thing through duplication. It is one of the most important aspects.

Basically, network marketing is also a business where teaching is involved. It is more of an art rather than a science because different people respond differently to different situations. Do not try and become a retail sales superstar by moving tons of products all by yourself. Most of the time, you will burn out if you do not leverage on your uplines or your downlines.

When you learn how to leverage on other people’s expertise, you will be able to function better as a team rather than going solo. Remember, you are building your OWN business but you are not alone in network marketing.

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Low On Budget? Here’s How To Get Free MLM Leads

2008-12-27T14:28:00.000-08:00

If you are having problems trying to get Free MLM leads then it is about time you start to take advantage of what the Internet has to offer.

Gone are the days of trying to meet strangers in parties, motivation and business seminars or even in other network marketing companies as a spy. There are even more extreme cases of people trying to get MLM leads by helping foreigners in airports by carrying their luggage in an effort to get their contact numbers.

This is the 21st century and it would be very awkward to be employing obsolete lead generating methods that were used in the 70s.

If you want to find an effective way to get free MLM leads without running around like a mad ‘MLM’ dog, then you will need to tap into the power of the Internet and build a list of prospects that will follow you no matter what network marketing company or home business opportunity you go to.

Here are my top 4 recommendations for getting free leads.

(1) Start an MLM blog.

An MLM blog is always the starting point for any budding network marketer because if you are not ‘connected’ to the web, you will fall behind. An MLM blog serves as your presence on the Internet and builds your ‘offline’ brand as well. After all, you can never put a price tag on your own name and your name is something that no one can ever take away.

(2) Use Social Networking platforms to start a community

Social Networking platforms are some of the most visited sites on the entire planet! Sites like Facebook and MySpace dominates the Internet with millions of visitors pouring in each day. If you are able to tap into the massive traffic there and start an MLM community, you will always have free MLM leads pouring into your sales funnel.

(3) Join Popular Forums

There are many MLM forums on the Internet that talks about everything under the sun in the MLM industry. Making friends there is a very good way to get free MLM leads, but make sure you do not become a spammer.

(4) Drive Traffic Using Article Marketing

Writing articles is also a very good way to generate lots of free MLM leads. If you have a flair for writing and you can easily produce articles, you can drive traffic from article directories. It is also a very good way to pick up traffic from search engines as well because they tend to rank very well on Google.

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Network Marketing Prospecting Secrets

2008-12-25T14:27:00.000-08:00

Network marketing prospecting may seem like a nightmare to most network marketing newbies, but you can easily overcome your fear of network marketing prospecting by learning to generate your leads using the Internet.

You can still build your network marketing business using old school methods such as cold calling business cards, inviting friends and relatives to your business meetings and putting call cards and running classified ads on the newspapers. However, these methods have been overused to the extent that there are a lot of people who have gotten ‘immune’ to these types of calls. You can learn to be an MLM ‘phone God’, but you might not be able to teach all your downlines to do the same thing.

By going on the Internet you are able to access millions of visitors without talking to a single lead. If you want to be able to master the art of network marketing prospecting on the Internet, it would serve you well to become a master of generating traffic to your websites.

Getting traffic is considered one of the most important aspects in Internet marketing. Your network marketing business will thrive when you have a few hundred hits on your MLM blog and your lead capturing pages.

A common criticism of online network marketing prospecting is that it is very difficult to build a solid relationship on the Internet. Critics deride the fact that network marketing is all about person-to-person interaction and since the Internet does not give that kind of luxury to its users, building a long term network marketing through the net is close to impossible.

On the contrary, building a network marketing business on the Internet is much easier thanks to tools such as Skype, blogs, podcasting, YouTube and social marketing tools. You do not need to be afraid that you can not interact on a personal level with your leads.

You can also build relationships using newsletters. A good newsletter contains a lot of useful information and network marketing tips. You can use your autoresponder to automate the process for you by uploading sections on your newsletter to your autoresponder and it will send it out every single day or at any interval that you desire.

One very important aspect about network marketing prospecting is that you must never pitch your network marketing opportunity on the front end. Remember, only after building strong relationships will you gain their trust. Network marketing is a long term business after all.

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How To Build Depth In Your Network Marketing Business

2008-12-23T14:26:00.000-08:00

You do not need to have a Master’s degree in mathematics in order to understand the mechanics of a network marketing compensation plan.

You have to understand, a subject like accounting might be a difficult subject for certain people, but they still learn about it because they have to balance their checkbooks! The same goes for network marketing compensation plans because one wrong ‘move’ by placing the wrong downline could result in thousands of dollars of lost income!

But one thing is definitely certain; you must build depth in your network marketing business. (Depth means sponsoring downlines who have their own downlines down several levels deep)

Depth building is different from building width. When it comes to building width, all you need to do is sponsor tons of downlines personally. All those downlines are ‘parked’ directly under you and you will be spending most of your time taking care of all those downlines because these people are most likely your personal contacts, friends and relatives.

Building width is very good, but there is one problem… if you go too wide, you will wind up having too many ‘babies’ to take care off. You cannot take care of so many people at once. Face it; network marketing is a business that involves personal training and face to face interaction. To be truly effective, you must be prepared to spend some personal time with your people.

Let’s say that you have 5 downlines that you have personally sponsored. Assuming that you have a full time job, you can only effectively spend one of your nights for each person. Your downlines might have their own prospects and they will bring them to you because you have more experience than your newly signed up downline.

If you have more than 10, it will be very difficult to manage all of them and your downlines will be neglected. This is one of the reasons why some people perceive network marketing to be a bad business… because their uplines have no time for them!

Building depth is very important because you don’t just want to be the person with all the downlines; you want your downlines to have their own people as well! You want them to be independent and strong!

Here’s what you need to do. When you find the right person, the person whom you feel he or she is worth your time, you must train them to find their own downlines first. When they sign up their new prospect, you mustn’t stop there; you must train your downline to help HIS/HER downline to sign up new people as well.

The goal is to reach three levels deep. Why three levels? Because your goal is to teach your downline (the one you personally sponsored) to become a TEACHER. You want that teacher to teach others how to be a teacher as well.

Do you follow me, here? Let me make it really simple:

- You
- Level 1 – Teacher of a teacher
- Level 2 – Teacher
- Level 3 – Learner

You have to follow this formula because it will not work if you stop at level 2. If you stop at level 2, your ‘line’ will not be independent enough. Because you will still be the one teaching teachers over and over again. You will only be independent if you have LEADERS with their own downlines teaching others without your intervention.

Now THAT… is leverage – the key towards building a solid network marketing business.

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Set Up Your Own Profitable Home Based Business

2008-12-21T14:25:00.000-08:00

One of the most lucrative and profitable home based business opportunities that you will find on the Internet is affiliate network marketing. This type of home business model has the potential for unlimited earnings and can become an extremely profitable venture if you invest the time and effort required. This means that while you can expect very decent profits from promoting affiliate products, you will need to invest the time required to understand how to best start such a business.

In case you are wondering, affiliate network marketing is when promote the products of a company in return for a commission on the sales. It is similar to being a salesperson in the offline world. However, one of the most attractive things about building a home Internet business in this manner is that you do not have to worry about interacting with your prospective customers in person. This is why it is such a wonderful opportunity for those who may be a bit shy.

If you decide that this is the path that you will follow, there are virtually unlimited products and companies who need your help. Many of these companies will even supply you with turnkey business opportunities, because they want you to be as successful as possible in your new business.

With these kinds of affiliate network marketing programs, many times you supplied with your own website hosted on the company's server or your own and an arsenal of promotional materials. You do not even have to worry about building your own website or having one built for you. It is in your best interest to study all the materials your company provides and learn as much as possible if you are serious about turning it into a profitable home based business.

Other affiliate programs may offer you a residual home business opportunity. Not only are you paid for the initial sales of the product, but you are also paid a percentage of the sales each month that your customer remains a faithful member. If you are interested in this type of business, then some of the best products to promote are those that people need on a monthly basis, such as web hosting.

Be sure to research the companies you are considering and check out their customer satisfaction ratings. There is no point in wasting effort promoting a product that people are not satisfied with. This makes you look incompetent and will cost you in the form of lost income.

Building a home Internet business via sales from affiliate products can really be the avenue to a profitable home based business. However, your earnings will largely depend on how much effort you put into your business. Treat affiliate marketing like any other business, and you are sure to be extremely satisfied with your new work at home career.

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Use This Key To Unlock Your Network Marketing Goal

2008-12-19T14:25:00.000-08:00

What you are about to read would definitely seem deceptively simple. In fact, most people overlook this factor in their pursuit towards success.

Many of you may have set all the goals that you want and still not get any results. You may have read all the books and attended all the seminars, but you still yet to experience a breakthrough. In this article I will share with you one factor that can skyrocket you to success. On the other hand this factor, if not addressed would impede your success by that much. The factor that is common in all successful people is confidence.

The first way to activate confidence is through affirmations.

Affirmations are a scientifically proven method of rewiring your brain to believe that you can achieve success. This may seem like a rehash of the personal development books, but what I like to address here is the frequent use of affirmations. Affirmations, when used at the correct time, can definitely enhance your performance. The best time to use affirmations is in the morning within the hour of your waking up or in the evening within the hour of your going to sleep. In these two time windows your brain is in the very receptive alpha mode. That is why affirmations should be used at these two times.

The next thing to address is your physiology.

In Neuro Linguistics Programming, physiology directly affects performance. Let's say you're going to make a cold call to a prospect. If you sit slouching, or clasping the phone between your ear and neck, you are not able to be in the physiology of total confidence. As a result, your voice would sound shaky. And even your prospect on the other line could sense that you are not confident.

Your affirmations help rewire your brain to believe and your physiology help you activate that peak performance state. The combination of these two is lethal.

Finally watch your language pattern.

If you have a tendency of always using disempowering language, then everything you have done would have gone to waste. The language you use in your head would ultimately determine what kind of results you get.

Your brain believes everything you tell it, even when you say it in the negative. For example, if you say that, "I am not going to be a loser anymore!"

Guess what, your brain will register "going to be a loser"!

These words make up the sentences of your affirmation. It is very important at this point that you choose the right sentences. The right sentences should make you feel that you have a chance to live the dream.
A combination of these factors would ultimately cause a rise in your level of confidence. With a heightened confidence, your sense of achievement would definitely overpower your fear of rejection. And that is the key to success. Unless you overcome your fear, you would not experience the breakthrough you envision for yourself.

Imagine what you could do with that impenetrable confidence. How many more sales would you be able to close? How would you approach potential mentors? And how quickly could you turn your ideas into fortune? Begin today to apply these three keys to fire your confidence. You may be amazed at how your life unfolds before you.

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How To Get The Best MLM Leads For Your Home Business

2008-12-17T14:24:00.000-08:00

There are two schools of though when it comes to MLM leads.

The first way is the traditional, old school way of getting leads which is to pull out your mobile phone and writing down every single name on that phone onto your name list. Every single person, from your baby cousin all the way to your 60 year old grand aunt.

When you run out of names on your list, you will start to dig through your list of business cards for any name that you can call.

This method is actually very ineffective because you are spending a lot of time going through a list of people who are NOT in your target market. There is no way you are going to be effective if you keep on targeting people who do not have a big dream, people who are comfortable in their jobs or people who just won’t listen to what you say no matter what you say (they see the old beer drinking buddy Joe rather than someone who is pursuing their dreams).

The second and more effective way to get the best MLM leads is to go on the Internet and get your leads. But bear in mind, don’t just get any leads but rather leads that are targeted – that means people who are actively seeking for a network marketing opportunity or people who are on the verge of switching to another opportunity.

These people are the best kind of leads you can find because not only do they give you the least amount of resistance, they are actually people in your target market and you will spend less time and money on marketing costs.

There are many ways you can get the best MLM leads – either through driving free traffic or by paying for traffic.

The advantage of using free traffic is that you do not need to spend any money and you can easily get traffic from organic search terms as well as blogs, social networking sites, social bookmarking, forums, traffic exchanges and even other people’s blogs. Free traffic takes time to generate but it is very good if you are building your network marketing business on a shoe string budget.

Once you have made some money with your leads, you can invest into paid traffic as well. One of the advantages of using paid traffic is that you get to control the amount of traffic you can get. It all depends on your budget and you are the one that sets the cap on your traffic. You can get up to potentially unlimited traffic in a very quick time. Some of the best ways to get the best MLM leads also come from pay per click (PPC) campaigns such as Google AdWords, buying banner advertising and using co-registration leads.

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Network Marketing Success Principle

2008-12-15T14:23:00.000-08:00

In any business in the world today, the 80/20 rule always applies. This means that only 20 percent of the people will get something done while the rest of the other 80 percent will disappear into oblivion.

The same applies to network marketing success. The majority of people will not do anything. Only 20 percent of the people actually get around to doing something about it. But unfortunately, only a small percentage of THAT 20 percent actually achieves network marketing success (some give up after they fail to see results or because they move on to other commitments – not network marketing’s fault).

The first thing you must do in order to take the first step towards achieving network marketing success is to have a dream. Not just any dream but a dream that is HUGE. Do not let other people tell you what you can or can’t do. In Donald Trump’s own words, “If you are going to think, you might as well think big.” After all, you are already thinking anyway, so you might as well think big and achieve big. If you don’t have a dream, a compelling reason to keep you going when the going gets tough, you will definitely drop out from network marketing after you run into challenges.

Besides having a dream, you must have a blueprint for success. It is also not enough to have the ‘WHY’, you must have the ‘HOW’ as well otherwise you will have a big dream and it just stops at the dream part (because your dream never becomes a reality).

For example, there are a lot of network marketing prospecting methods that are considered obsolete by today’s standards. You cannot just do cold calling and pester your friends and relatives by forcing them to join your network marketing opportunity. You need to learn how to handle people and use the Internet to generate leads for your business.

You also need to structure your action plan properly because you need to know how to execute your plans to make your dream a reality. An action plan that works out day by day, week by week, month by month and year by year.

Write down on your time table, what you need to achieve this very day – reading a motivational book, engaging in prospecting activities, retailing some products to your customers and spending time with your downlines training and coaching them.

Without a definite day to day plan, your day will definitely slip by without much action. At the end of the day, it is all about you – don’t rely on your uplines or your downlines for success because if you do, you are building their business instead of your own.

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How To Find People Who Like MLM

2008-12-13T14:22:00.000-08:00

The MLM industry is a very competitive industry. People who are starting their network marketing business from the ground floor level will tend to have many problems trying to find people who like MLM because of the negative connotations people have against the industry over the last few decades.

So how does one find people who like MLM?

The easiest and most obvious answer to this is to look for people who are already exposed to what MLM is all about.

This group of people has probably:

(1) Tried network marketing before and although they haven’t have success in their previous opportunity, is willing to give it another go by looking for another opportunity.

(2) Are already involved in a network marketing opportunity and they are looking for a chance to switch over into a ‘better’ opportunity or go under another upline who is more capable.

(3) Their previous MLM Company has recently shut down due to many different reasons and they are looking for a venue to start their network marketing business all over again.

These 3 groups of people are considered your target markets (which are the people who like MLM).

So what is the most effective way to target these people? Is it possible to bring them into your network?

For starters, the biggest problem most newbies in network marketing is to try to use the comparison tactic to get people to join their network marketing opportunity. They attempt to tell them that my product is better than your product, my compensation plan pays more than yours, my management team has more experience and my upline can help me ‘close’ more prospects compared to yours.

This kind of ‘my company is better than yours’ approach doesn’t win people over because a person convinced against his or her will is of the same opinion still. Even if you win the argument, you ‘close’ the back door and they will lose face when they lose the argument.

The better way to prospect these people is to first, brand yourself as a network marketing expert. Only when you find a way to provide value to other people will they even begin to consider your network marketing opportunity. Building relationships first is more important than entering into a shouting match to see whose company is better. When you can show your prospect that you can add value to their life (their knowledge, their income, etc), they will be more likely to join your network marketing opportunity in the future.

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How To Have Guaranteed Downlines

2008-12-11T14:21:00.000-08:00

Are you sick and tired of wasting time with a prospect, getting played by their initial enthusiasm when they hear you ‘show the plan’ only to find out that they are not the type of person who are willing to commit to a business.

If you are looking for a ‘guaranteed downline’ then it is better that you start looking for them in the right places.

Basically, there are two kinds of markets – the targeted market and the untargeted market.

The untargeted market is normally taught in 99% of the network marketing establishment. Why is this so? Because the majority of uplines and leaders in the network marketing industry go for a ‘shot gun’ approach. This means that they try to grab everything that they can, throw it and see which one of them ‘sticks’. They tell their downlines to make a list of every single living soul on their mobile phones and calls everyone of them knowing full well that new downlines will not succeed at getting even a small percentage of them before they start to drop out!

If you want to go after a guaranteed downline, you must start looking for them in your targeted market! A targeted market is not something that is taught in most network marketing trainings. You must be prepared to go against the grain of what they normally think about it and be a renegade at times!

Finding good prospects in your target market can be achieved by going online and advertising your network marketing websites to the right people. It could be a person who is looking for a cure to a particular product (your network marketing product will provide the cure) or a person looking for ways to increase the number of leads for his network marketing business.

There are many ways you can pull it off, it all depends on the way you want to get traffic.

By using free traffic, you can submit articles to article directories and get people to publish your articles all over the Internet through viral marketing. You can also start an MLM blog and brand yourself as a network marketing expert in the field. Remember branding is very important and a good blog will build trust and relationships. Blogs are also extremely compatible with search engines and you can easily get lots of traffic if you know how to market your blog properly.

You can also use paid traffic such as banner advertising and pay per click marketing campaigns like Google AdWords. With paid advertising, you usually get traffic almost instantly (within 30 minutes) and people will come to your website very fast.

Most important of all, with the right target market and traffic on your website, you spend less time with people who are not going to be your long term partners.

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Which Types Of Prospecting Techniques Do You Use?

2008-12-09T14:21:00.000-08:00

There are two kinds of prospecting techniques when it comes to network marketing… the first way is the traditional way and the second way is the Internet marketing way.

The traditional way is practiced by more than 99% of network marketing reps in the world today and this method was passed from upline to downline for many generations… so how does it work?

It uses a very rudimentary form of approaching prospects and building your name list. The upline teaches the downline to take out his or her phone and literally write down every single name and number on a piece of paper. Then the upline teaches them prospecting techniques how to invite them to take a look at the business opportunity.

They also teach their people to invite people (even total strangers) to hotel opportunity meetings. They bring them in and give a one or two hour long presentation on what is the network marketing opportunity all about and sells them the dream why they can succeed in network marketing. Some meetings do not even mention that they are a network marketing opportunity meeting at all until the very end because they are afraid that people are not yet open minded towards the industry.

Other forms of traditional prospecting include approaching friends and relatives to ‘support’ their business by buying products. They reason that if your dad owns a McDonalds, then it makes sense that you should be eating McDonalds all the time because you are supporting your dad’s business rather than a ‘competitor’s’ business like KFC for example.

The traditional way has a few flaws:

(1) They don’t go for their target market. It is like selling a bible to a devout Muslim.
(2) They do not practice scrupulous marketing tactics sometimes because they might even resort to ‘tricking’ the prospect into attending the meeting and only then revealing that it is a network marketing opportunity at the end.
(3) You can’t eat McDonalds all day. Human beings are designed to do different things and not do things repetitively. Even if your dad owns a McDonalds doesn’t mean you can eat it everyday. Same goes for products – just because you have a bunch of shampoos doesn’t mean that your uncle must use your brand of shampoo every single day.

There is a better way to prospect others which is to use the Internet marketing way. You can get targeted traffic through:

- Search engine traffic
- Pay per click campaigns
- Banner advertising
- Email advertising

One of the biggest advantages of using Internet marketing as a form of prospecting is that you get to segregate the willing buyers from the unwilling crowd. Marketing online gives you the ability to find the right kind of people without pestering all the wrong people. Not only that, it doesn’t require you to resort to unscrupulous tactics because you are being very clear cut what your business is about without the fear of rejection.

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How Does Online Prospecting Works?

2008-12-07T14:20:00.000-08:00

If you are getting sick and tired of dragging your friends and relatives to hotel business opportunity meetings and cold calling dead beat leads and strangers, then it is high time you take a look at your approach to network marketing.

Old school prospecting methods used in the 70s and the 80s are sad to say – obsolete at worst and ineffective at best. It requires guts of steel to face with a lot of face to face rejection on a daily basis. Thankfully there is a better way to get new leads for your network marketing business and that is through online prospecting.

So how does online prospecting work?

There are many ways to get traffic to your website. But you must make sure you implement these four steps if you want to be effective at Internet marketing for your home business.

(1) Drive targeted traffic
(2) Use an effective lead capturing page
(3) Build rapport with your prospect
(4) Pitch the right offer

Here is an elaboration on how online prospecting will work for these 4 key points:

When driving traffic you must always focus on driving TARGETED traffic. It is no point having one million visitors but they are all not interested in network marketing at all! Do not fall for those deals that promise you thousands of leads but you do not know what the qualities of those leads are.

The next way is the use an effective lead capturing page. This is very important because you want to make sure you ‘keep’ the leads from all the money and time you spent form driving traffic to your website. An effective lead capture pages also emphasizes the targeted aspect which is to qualify your leads to see if they are people who are merely browsing through your page or people who are genuinely seeking a way for a better life through your network marketing opportunity.

Once you have them in your name list or your mailing list, you must use autoresponders and communicate with them through your newsletters. Do not fear if you cannot write a good newsletter, just look at the starter kit from business opportunity and take out the best key points or benefits and compile them into an E-course to educate your prospects about you and your opportunity.

Finally, when pitching the offer, make sure you only present your network marketing opportunity to them when you have built a solid relationship.

There are many ways to build your network marketing business on the Internet using search engine optimization, pay per click campaigns, buying banner advertising, co registration leads, traffic exchanges and many more ways.

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Add 20-30 New Reps A Week To Any MLM Guaranteed

2008-12-05T14:15:00.000-08:00

Building a network marketing business isn’t easy – you need to have guts of steel in order to overcome the all the rejection and disappointment.

If you want to learn how to stay on top of the game, you need to explore different prospecting and lead generation methods.

By exploring these three different concepts, you will be able to add 20-30 new reps a week to any MLM… guaranteed! As long as you are prepared to work out the concepts well, you will be able to get a predictable kind of result.

(1) The Magnetic Sponsoring Concept

Magnetic sponsoring is all about branding yourself as an expert in any MLM company. You learn to become the hunted instead of the hunter. This concept is founded by Mike Dillard who started as a waiter and within one and a half years, turned his network marketing business into a million dollar business because he ‘cracked the code’ to network marketing by finding a way to generate leads and turn those leads into money. He even managed to turn leads that didn’t join his network marketing opportunity into cash flow as well.

(2) The Renegade Network Marketer Concept

The Renegade Network Marketer is a concept that goes against the grain of what most network marketing reps know. They learn all their skills from their uplines and their uplines from their own uplines as well. Methods such as building a list of names, cold calling, approaching dead beat leads are all outdated methods are considered obsolete. They practice new ways to bring in leads on the Internet and although this concept is shunned by ‘old school’ network marketers, it has brought results to many people who embrace their techniques.

(3) How Network Marketing Works

How Network Marketing Works is a step-by-step blueprint that teaches network marketing reps how to properly prospect people using the Internet. This course is very complete as it teaches people how to tap into Internet marketing traffic generation methods. You get to learn how to construct powerful lead capturing pages, ready written network marketing articles (to drive traffic), list building methods, audio courses and video courses that will teach you everything about lead generation with network marketing. The courses also teach you how to write promotional emails and get people to buy your offers.

Actually, generating 20 to 30 leads a day is not a big problem. The most important thing is to understand what you are going to do with those leads and build your network marketing the right way.

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Is It Possible To Automated Your Prospecting In Your Home Business

2008-12-03T14:08:00.000-08:00

Building your network marketing business successfully requires you to do a lot of prospecting. But what does prospecting mean? It means approaching potential prospects who might or might not be interested in your network marketing opportunity by educating them on the benefits of joining your company, finding a solution to their problem whether it be financial or personal and then pitching the right kind of offer that suits their needs (product or opportunity wise).
The problem that most people have with prospecting is that they simply do not do enough of it. Remember, you only have 24 hours in a day. How often can you spend your time on prospecting? You can spend all day going out meeting customers – it takes 20-60 minutes just to drive from one place to another, not to mention the time it takes to drive back and heavy traffic you might face. Not only are you limited by locality, you can do everything by yourself as well because you might fall sick one day!
One of the best ways to overcome this problem is to create a form of automated prospecting that allows you to generate additional network marketing leads without your direct involvement. It is very simple to setup an automated prospecting system – all you need to do is to go on the Internet, get the right information about your company in the aspects of publishing your opportunity to the right crowd, and invest in the right tools for your network marketing business.
You will need to invest in a good autoresponder. An autoresponder is a tool that will automate certain tasks like scripted email replies, scheduled emailing and mass email broadcasting. Scripted replies help you to answer questions through an FAQ whenever someone asks a question through your E-mail. You can also schedule E-courses just like an online newsletter to build relationships with your prospects. Finally, if you have any online opportunity you wish to promote such as a product launch, you can send an E-mail broadcast and thousands of people will be notified at the same time.
You must also learn the art of creating an effective pay per click campaign. By using pay per click, you can quickly and constantly drive traffic to your website. You get to control how much you want to spend and how much traffic you want to send in.
As long as you have a properly set up lead capturing page, you can send your traffic there and into your autoresponder to facilitate an almost ‘perfectly’ automated prospecting system. It even works when you are sleeping.

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Follow Your Heart

2008-05-24T14:13:00.000-07:00

I am sure you have had the same experiences i have. I know that people are using the internet to make money. But there are so many programs and products and MLMs, etc!

Own my own bridal business and in 1998, I created a website. I did not have high hopes that brides would purchased their wedding gown on line. But they did. I started posting on an auction site, and sold more.

Over the past few years, the internet has been flooded with competition and my online sales have dwindled. I started investigating other options.

I lost money mostly. I learned a lot. This spiderweb system has me excited!! I know realize you defnitely need multiple streams of income because no single one will make you a lot of money.

I am going to concentrate on the set up of the system and be successful!

You need to look into this one! And it's free!

Good luck to you in your endeavors!