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When you start chasing prospects to join your recently discovered Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) or Internet Marketing program, you reduce your chances of success by at least 75%, simply because of the chasing.

When you start chasing prospects to join the Internet Marketing program you’ve been working on for the last year or so, you reduce your chances of success by, at least, 95%. Why 95%? The answer to that one is, because you’ve almost had it. But, you are something of a hero for getting that far. Fortitude, however, is not enough.

Why did it not work? Where did it go wrong? The answer to that is probably that your up-line leader, mentor, guide and teacher knows nothing of the subject or is out of date.

Let’s examine a few often recommended myths:

1, An 0800 # is mandatory. Wrong!
2, Use a three way call with yourintroducer.Wrong!
3, Success is in the follow-up. Wrong!
4, Start by approaching your warm list. Wrong!
5, Buy only premium leads. Wrong!

There are plenty more but that is enough to raise the curiosity levels.

1, An 0800 # is mandatory. Wrong!

People who will only use 0800 numbers are the last ones you want. (”It makes it easier for my prospects to call me” or “Some of my prospects don’t like to call long distance”.) They are cheapskates who think they are doing you a favour! Why would you send information to those types of people, let alone cater for them?

If you’ve got something good why are you paying for them to talk to you? You will be giving the impression that you’re desperate for business. How far do you think that will get you?

2, Use a three way call with your introducer. Wrong!

Now they will know that they’re dealing with somebody that doesn’t know what they are talking about. You’re telling them how great your opportunity is while presenting yourself as somebody who knows nothing! There are better ways to handle this.

3, Success is in the follow-up. Wrong!

If you don’t follow up, there is still a good chance they will get back to you, if you phone them giving the impression that you need your prospect more than they need you, you are finished. There are better ways to handle this one too.

4, Start by approaching your warm list. Wrong!

This of course brings us back to the title of this article. When you start a new business and tell your friends, plenty of whom know each other, how much money you’re going to make; you’re on very dangerous ground.

To your friends and acquaintances who know perfectly well that you’ve just lost your job or you’re short of money or need a bigger house or you’ve just had twins or what ever, you’re going to make a fool of yourself.

If your up-line tells you to do this, it doesn’t say much for them; if you’re the up-line, advising others, it doesn’t say much for you either, does it?

Now, when you’ve been working at your program efficiently and things are looking up for you, because you took the trouble to find out how to do it properly. Do you think this would be a better time to recruit your friends; do you think they might have reason to approach you?

5, Only buy premium opportunity leads. Wrong!

One of the biggest killers of all! This is a good way to wreck your finances at high speed. Some of these brokers will sell you any thing to get your money, in fairness some of them are honest but do we need them? The answer to that is a 100% NO. There are better ways to handle this one too.

In fact, using those dated MLM tactics is like trying to fill a leaking bucket.

Here’s why:

If you follow the old MLM dogma of cold-calling prospects, handing out CDs’, and spending all your money on opportunity and premium leads you’re almost guaranteed to lose most of your people to competing distributors who know better.

This means you’ll be forced to recruit every day for the lifespan of your business just to combat the constant attrition that will plague your organization.

The old ways worked great when people stayed in and purchased products every month for years at a time, allowing you to build a large, profitable organization.
But, in today’s crazy online world, the average marketer stays for 2 or 3 months, allowing no time for you to recoup your marketing costs.

Most people spend all their money and time calling over-priced leads, ending up talking to some guy who’s really looking for a J-O-B. Others jump from company to company hoping this one will be the one that really works out. But the richest and savviest distributors don’t do ANY of those things.

We do not cold-call leads. We do not show the plan to everything that breathes. Know this:

1, The old school sales routine of cold-calling leads, holding meetings, knocking on doors and trying to “convince” people to look at your opportunity is DEAD.

2, The fastest and easiest way to make money in MLM today is simply to position yourself so that only the hottest, most qualified prospects come to you.

And no matter what all the other MLM “gurus” say about contacting your family, friends and neighbours, attending meetings or cold-calling leads. The two points stated above are the only truths you can absolutely count on in network marketing today.

Seven videos show you how to stop wasting time and money on leads and cold calling. In these videos you are going to learn how to attract an endless stream of new prospects ready to join you. You can have completely free access to these seven videos right now.

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What I’m about to tell you is extremely controversial and it might even make you angry. But if you are thinking about joining a network marketing business and you want to significantly improve your likelihood of success, you need to join a product-based company, not a service-based company. (Service-based network marketing companies sell monthly service subscriptions such as legal services, phone services, Internet services, medical services, etc.)

Service-based network marketing company associates may violently disagree with me and point to all the millionaires from their company. I’m not saying it’s impossible to succeed in a service-based network marketing company. I’m saying that if you are selling services through MLM you’re leaving hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on the table!

Why? Because for the same amount of effort it took you to sell a single $19.95 monthly service, you could have sold many hundreds of dollars worth of products. With a service-based business, your customers couldn’t buy more of your services in any one month even if they wanted to. All services are a flat rate, usually monthly. With products, your customers can buy hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of products depending on their needs or desires. If you want the same amount of sales in a service-based business you’ll need to find a lot more customers.

But not all products in product-based network marketing companies are created equal. Some products are much more consumable than others. For instance, there’s a famous network marketing company that offers very high quality soaps and cleaners. “Where’s the problem?” you might wonder.

Well, these products are so super-concentrated that it might take customers months or even years to consume one bottle. That’s very economical for the customer but it’s a disaster for you if you’re interested in creating consistent monthly income for yourself. You need products that get consumed entirely every month–and nutritional supplements are the best products for network marketers because of that very reason.

Nutritional products are highly consumable and if they are effective your customers will want to buy lots of them to consume for themselves and share with others. That’s probably why the company I mentioned before with the great soaps and cleaners focuses so much attention on their nutritional products!

Another advantage products have over services is your customers are much more likely to experience a dramatic and emotional response to highly effective products versus even the very best services. Think about it: if your customer takes a product and it makes them feel better, gives them more energy and even helps them lose a lot of weight, they’re going to have an immediate positive emotional reaction. They’ll tell their friends about the great new products they found which translates into more referrals for you or even a new associate if your customer is business-minded. Plus, that emotional response creates a pleasurable bond between the customer and your products, increasing the likelihood of long-term brand loyalty.

But let’s say it’s a fantastic service instead. It’s a great legal service, or Internet service, perhaps. Your customer saves money and they get a service that would be very hard to find elsewhere. While your customer is very satisfied with the service and may even be proud of themselves for saving money, there’s no emotional response. It’s a lot less likely that your customers will go out of their way to recommend your services to others. As far as brand loyalty, without an emotional response your customers are much more likely to switch to another brand if they find one that can offer the same or similar service at a better price or with better perks.

To summarize, product-based MLMs are better because your customers can buy hundreds or thousands of dollars per month of your products plus if your products are effective they will create a positive emotional reaction with your customers. Neither of these are possible in service-based MLMs.

Being successful in network marketing can be challenging whether you’re in a service-based or product-based company. And like I said earlier, there are lots of millionaires in service-based MLMs. But if you plan to join a network marketing company, you want as many advantages as possible. That’s why you need to seriously consider avoiding service-based MLMs and join a product-based MLM instead.

Marc Menninger is a professional networker. He runs the website Top Network Marketing, http://www.TopNetworkMarketing.com/ where you can read the free report: “The 7 Characteristics of a Top Network Marketing Company”.

In this industry, everything rises and falls on leadership so developing the specific MLM leadership qualities is absolutely primordial to grow and sustain momentum in your team.

Rate yourself honestly from 0 to 10 in each one of these qualities and strive to become a 10 in all of them.

1. As a Leader, you’re organized and self disciplined. Without discipline there is no organization. When you’re organized you do things more efficiently and waste less time. Have a daily method of operation and follow it consistently. Discipline is the mother of success.

2. As a Leader, you are committed to work hard and be productive. Work constantly to replace unproductive habits for productive habits. Value your time, and your downline’s time above anything. As an example to your downline you want to get at least 10 new distributors a month.

3. As a Leader, you are 100% responsible and 100% self-functional. When you do what has to be done you are being responsible. The more you depend on others the less control you have. Make it your goal to become independent from your upline as soon as possible and make your downline have this goal too. Achieving it will make your team’s growth explode.

4. As a Leader, you are honest. You never use others for your own advancement. Be interested in the long term successs of your distributors instead of their short term productivity. You’re not going to teach things you haven’t done yourself. Honour your commitments.

5. As a Leader, you have total and professional knowledge of the Network Marketing Industry. Be an expert. Know what you’re doing so you can teach others how to do it. If somebody asks you what mlm is, as a leader you must have a simple, direct and convincing answer to give.

6. As a Leader, you maintain a relaxed mental attitude. It simply makes you do your job with more ease and your downline respect you more because it gives a sense of control and mastery. When people respect you, you become more influential and that’s what leadership’s all about.

7. As a Leader, you remain true to yourself. You never compromise your values, beliefs and personal Integrity. Your Leadership style reflects your own personality. Work and develop your leadership skills instead of trying to change your personality.

8. As a Leader, you show respect for your upline, downline and company. You must be supportive of the changes in the company. Treat everybody equally and encourage people on your dowline. Talk about your company with total conviction and never show negativity to your downline because it spreads like a virus.

9. As a Leader, you’re constantly teaching others as well as learning. Spend time adding knowledge about your company. Spend time to improve your marketing skills. Spend time to improve yourself. Use every contact with your dowline as an opportunity to teach. Be willing to share what you know.

10. As a Leader, you have a strong will. This atribute generates all others. If you’re willing to, you’ll develop any skill. If you’re willing to, you will succeed. And never forget: As a leader, always speak from a position of strength, never from a position of weakness.

Leadership is a natural consequence of your actions. If you accept the responsibility of leadership instead of seeking the rewards of leadership, you’ll become a leader in less than time. Always focus on doing what’s right, instead of what’s popular and rember that you’re an example to your dowline so whatever you do, they will replicate. If you display weakness, they’ll weaken but if you display a strong will, they’ll just go for it!

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“Just flap your jaw, talk to everybody, apply the 3 foot rule, make the warm market list, go harass family, friends and strangers and you’ll make it baby, just give it some time!” This is such an huge BS. No wonder why 97% of all Network Marketers fail using this so called “strategies”.

Besides failure it also harms your social life since it makes you be annoying and harms your health too because of all the stress involved with rejection and lack of results. It simply doesn’t work and even if it does with somebody there are better ways.

Yet, your company, “gurus” and uplines teach it to you. Sometimes they don’t know any better (this industry is full of myths), sometimes they’re lying (for ex., to keep selling you their motivational seminars and other BS that really doesn’t matter when you know the right strategies).

Bottom line here: The big dogs who earn the big bucks in this industry don’t waste their time talking to people who don’t care about what they say. They know that the real key to success is to get your costumers come to you first which is, believe me, much easier to accomplish.

Let me reveal you an comfortable truth that will shock the majority of Network Marketers: Not Everyone Is Your Prospect.

Trying to sell an hamburger to a vegetarian is definitely a bad strategy, right? Of course yes. If there are millions of carnivores smelling around for hamburgers why should you care selling them to anybody else?

Your prospects are only those individuals who already exhibited interest in what you’re doing before they even know that you exist!

And by “exhibited interest” I mean that in this very moment, tons and tons of people surf the web, actively searching for info about building an home business or succeeding in Network Marketing. If you give them what they want, you’ll be seen as an expert and that’s the key because people trust experts and follow experts when looking for business opportunities.

People need to believe you before they join your opportunity and experts certainly have more credibility than the guy who pitches at the shopping mall…. If you read a couple of good books on a subject, like the free ebook I’m giving away with this article, you’ll know more than 99% of the population on that subject. Bam, that’s what an expert is.

Now that you know what the rest of the world is eager to know it’s time to attract people to your business. First, you need to share your fresh acquired knowledge . Articles, Blogs, Forums, Newsletters and Ezines will get the job done and are free or cheap to use. Adwords and Pay per Click (PPR is not dead!) are also good choices, among dozens of others.

Second, every day thousands of targeted searchers will find it, read it and more than enough will take action sooner or later. This is where the fun begins because people will get in contact with you begging if they can start doing what you do! Or you’ll call people who genuinely desire to change/start their own MLM business as a result of the info they got from you. These are extremely hot leads generated by your own marketing system!

Conclusion: You’ll routinely sponsor 20 - 30 new motivated people a month without even having to deal with rejection. The heavy hitters built huge downlines fast because they learned and applied this. Now it’s your chance to do the same but if you don’t… I wish you good luck!

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Sponsoring new Distributors into your MLM or Network Marketing business is the lifeblood of your business. Without the knowledge or ability to sponsor, then you are banking on yourself to do all of the work. In other words, you just create another job instead of a continuous income stream that is not 100% based on your efforts alone.

Have you tried everything that your upline has told you to do; yet you still cannot seem to reach your goals? You have read the company manual and tried to be duplicatable but still “It just is not happening.”

Could it be the company you are with, your upline or maybe it is just you? Well, feel relieved. It is none of those. We wanted to find the best training programs that would work with any MLM or Network Marketing Company and get the real answers. Here are some of the tips that we learned.

3 Tips to learn to sponsor 20-25 Reps per month into your business.

1. Take massive action and talk to a lot of people.

Most people think when they first start a Network Marketing business everyone they know will want to be a part of it with them. Wrong!

Most people will say no. There can be a variety of reasons including that these may not be the right people or that the timing may not be right for them.

Adopt the mindset of the 4-S’s. Some will, some will not, so what, someone is always waiting. With that mindset, you do not have to be overly concerned if they say yes or no. You just want to get to the yes or no to save yourself time.

If you talk to a lot of people, the numbers will work in your favor. Do not get disappointed or assume that any one person will want to get into business with you, you just do not know. The person that you think would be great might not see it, so what? Talking to a lot of people will lead you to the right ones so there is no need to worry. There are people out there just like you.

Do not assume anything. People that you think would not be interested in your business or have a need for it might turn out to be your best Distributors. Talk to everyone.

2. Taking action.

When you first start, you might think you have to do it exactly right or be perfect before you begin.

So your plan is to go to training and study all the information on the Internet about your company or product before you go to talk to anyone about it.

Bad plan. The most important step to take is to take action. Most people fail because they do not take action but are stuck in waiting mode. Wait until I learn, wait until I can talk to people perfectly, wait for the right person, wait for my upline to do it because they are better at it. The list goes on and on.

They are always getting ready to get ready and not doing anything. This wastes a lot of valuable time. You will make mistakes, but it does not matter. The right person does not care if you are perfect, they will see it.

Passion by far outweighs knowledge. Like the old saying ignorance on fire, people listen. You learn by doing so just go do it and you will get better.

3. Do not try to sell or convince your prospects.

Your job is to interview prospects and qualify them. You should give them the information and let them decide. You are in the business of providing information; you are not in the convincing business.

If you convince them to get into your business, they will not last. They will be gone in a short period of time. If they are the ones who see it, they will convince themselves.

When you interview the prospect, find out what he or she really wants. If their answer is a lot of money or being rich, then you need to ask more questions. Money is just a pile of dirty paper. It is not the money they really want, but what the money will do for them. Find out what they will do with the money. Get inside their heads and show them how you can help them get what they really want.

There are many more aspects to being able to sponsor 20-25 Distributors per month into your business including how to train your new reps, what to say to a prospect, where to find prospects, how to collect leads on the Internet, how to use email and forums to collect leads, etc.

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We all heard about the millionaires churned out by online stores. We all learned about the neighborhood teenager who raked in big bucks by just sitting in front of the computer. The fact is, the Internet is the new trading melting pot of the world.

While everybody is cashing in on the great Internet gold rush, it is important that you should have ample knowledge about doing business over the Internet. The Web is a vast space and a person can easily get lost in it financially or otherwise. So here are some tips in establishing your Internet business.

1. Niche Marketing

Sure, using a computer and an Internet connection in running a business can seem as the easiest way to earn money. With very minimal start-up and overhead costs, an Internet business can be tempting enough to make you think that you can sell all the types of products that come into mind. This should not be the case; as with traditional business it is important for an Internet business owner to target his or her market carefully.

Find the market you want to serve and sell to them. This way, you can have a specialty product, which online customers will be clamoring up for. Plus, you will be able to plan strategies to maximize your online store if you have a well defined target market.

2. Invest In A Website

A website is a must for serious Internet business. True, there are some online entrepreneurs that rely on other online stores like Ebay, but having your very own website can translate to higher sales. Aside from having a professional look, your website will have more creative functions tailor-made to our preferences. Your website will reflect the kind of business person you are.

3. Simplified Sales Process

It is natural for customers, traditional or online, to shun complicated purchasing steps. Every buying step taken can serve as a barrier that can ultimately turn your potential customers off. A fast and simple buying procedure can increase the traffic of customers buying from your Internet business.

A four or five-step clicks of the mouse should be enough to finish a transaction between you and your customer. A simple payment mechanism in place makes buying from your Internet shop more convenient for your customers. Remember, happy customers mean loyal patrons.

4. Reach Out Personally

An Internet shop does not have any tangible appearance unlike a brick-and-mortar store. Aside from the logo and pictures in your website, if ever you have these, are all that can leave impressions on potential customers. It is therefore wise to reach out to customers personally to build trust and lasting image or goodwill if you must.

As your Internet shop is your front-end store, taking care of the backend processes like asking for feedbacks or comments via telephone or mail will make your business more professional and reliable.

5. Please Your Customers

Everybody loves a free lunch. But while there is no such thing as a free lunch, take care of your customers by giving out discounts or freebies on their succeeding purchases. This simple gesture will make your customers remember your store the next time they purchase online. Slowly your Internet business is getting into their online buying decisions.

Indeed, establishing an Internet business is the most practical and convenient way of starting a business. Follow the tips mentioned and you are sure to increase your chances of success. Good luck.

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