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Free Exclusive MLM and Biz Opp Leads? 2008-03-06 15:37:19 Free Exclusive
MLM and Biz Opp Leads
? Is this actually possible or is this just a pipe dream?Well, first things first, one of the biggest misconceptions on the internet is the concept of a free lead. There is NO SUCH THING as a free lead. A lead is ALWAYS going to cost you something. To generate a lead either requires a financial investment on your part or, in the case of a free mlm lead, it requires the investment of your time. An investment of your time is ALWAYS more expensive than an investment of money. You can always make more money to replace any money that you have invested in the past. However, you can NEVER make more time to replace time that you have invested. Once time has been invested it can NEVER be gained back.Always remember that.Therefore, whenever I refer to genera
MLM Secrets of Success - The Power of Branding Yourself 2008-03-05 20:45:20 MLM Secrets
of Success
- The Power of BrandingYourself
By Jonathan BuddThere's no better marketing tool than name recognition. Name recognition is how major corporations continue to push small business out of various markets. They design a new product, put there company logo above the product name and it sells because people trust their other products.It's easiest and most effective to run a small business staying involved in a single niche... but obviously it isn't the most profitable and keeps you at a certain level, the small business level. Since different niches overlap in certain ways the only way to accomplish effectively marketing in different niches is too develop name recognition. With a percentage of a specific niche already aware of your ability to deliver a product you hav
Compensation Plan - How to evaluate a MLM comp plan 2008-03-04 20:56:41 One of the most confusing subjects in MLM and network marketing is evaluating the compensation plan. It's a shame really. How in the world do you expect to make significant money as a distributor in your network marketing company if you don't even understand how you get paid and how you are compensated?While you don't need to know every single detail of the compensation plan, you do need to know enough to figure out what you have to do in order to reach your income goals. Today, I'm going to go over the five different types of compensation plans available in network marketing as well as how to evaluate
the compensation plan for any network marketing company you are considering participating in.While no compensation plan is the same, I have found that most network marketing companies ba Read more:Compensation
Does Traditional Network Marketing Work? 2008-03-02 01:07:16 In a word...Yes.While I prefer to use the internet to build my network marketing business, the large majority of my team builds their business using traditional network marketing strategies. I got a young lady on my team who is at level 4 in our comp plan whose organization last month put out production that many people at level 6 in our comp plan would envy!The gentleman 2 levels above me earned over $80,000 last year in our network marketing business part time. He can't even spell internet.Anyone who tells you traditional network marketing strategies don't work, they are either naive, stupid or have an agenda, plain and simple.Check out this conference call featuring 6 and 7 figure income earners who built their entire businesses using traditional network marketing strategies.-death-of Read more:Marketing
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Forum Attraction Marketing Web 2.0 For Network Marketers 2008-02-29 22:33:42 Here's an article about a strategy that certainly isn't talked about as much as it should be. I have used this strategy to recruit distributors in the past as well as other distributors in my organization and best of all it's free! So check this article out and if this works for you and your business implement it immediately!Roosevelt CooperFree Web 2.0 For MLM Report========================================ForumAttractionMarketing
Web 2.0 For Network Marketers
By Carl CoffinThere are literally thousands of online forums. A forum is essentially a community of like minded people who post and share in discussions. As a network marketing professional I know that I need to be networking every day. Forums enable you and I to leverage our time, learn from others, and generate prospects for
How to get free traffic to your network marketing web site 2008-02-28 10:11:37 One thing that I love about building my network
marketing business online is the ability to generate leads for my business for free. The internet is one of the only marketing vehicles out there that allows you the ability to generate leads and sales for your business for absolutely no cost whatsoever.This is very powerful!What happens if you have a distributor on your team who has gone through his warm market has worked with his team, but unfortunately has no more prospects to talk to and doesn't have any additional money to invest to get more prospects to talk to? Most distributors would be stuck and have nothing to offer them.However, if you understand internet marketing you will know that there are many ways to generate prospects for your business for zero cost.The following are some Read more:traffic
Is Network Marketing the "Perfect" Business? 2008-02-27 13:30:12 It is often said that network marketing is the perfect business. It seems logical that many people in the business say this, since a statement like that could draw new people into the business. "This really is the perfect business!" could be just what your prospect needs to get the courage to make the decision and join your network marketing company. But is that all it is? Just a great statement to be used in an attempt to close people, or is there actually any truth to it?Of course not everybody shares this positive image of the industry. Many people think quite the opposite of network marketing. Bus loads of people would laugh when someone would refer to it as 'the perfect business' because they don't even consider it a business in the first place. They might still have the picture of a Read more:Business
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How Barack Obama Can Help You Recruit More Distributors In Your Multi Level Business 2008-02-26 17:35:47 A couple of years ago, nobody ever heard of BarackObama
. Now he is the front runner for the democratic nomination and could very well be our next President of the United States. How is it that Barack Obama has seemingly come out of nowhere to potentially become one of the most powerful men in the world today and more importantly, how can you use it to recruit more people into your multi level business?It's quite simple.If you really take a look at what his message is, Obama is basically offering the American people two things. He is offering hope and he is offering change.As a result of this message, he's got thousands upon thousands of people lining up to see him speak like he was a rock star or something. He raising millions upon millions of dollars in donations. He's getting endor Read more:Business
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How To Deal With Attrition In Your Network Marketing Business 2008-02-25 10:54:11 I was recently reading a discussion board and one of the topics that was posted was about attrition in network marketing. The person asked if there was any way to stop attrition in network marketing and if not how do you limit attrition in your network marketing business. In order to understand how to effectively deal with this, you must understand the bucket theory.Building your network marketing business is like pouring water into a bucket. However, this bucket has a hole at the bottom of it that cannot be repaired. Therefore in order to keep the bucket filled, you must pour more water into the bucket on a regular and consistent basis then you have leaking out of the other end of the bucket.There are many ways that you can deal with attrition in your network marketing organization.Th Read more:Business
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MLM Creative Ideas - How Ron Paul, iPhones and American Idol Will Help Your Marketing 2008-02-24 13:57:07 This is amazing.I was just watching a video on someone's blog the other day and the gentleman on the video was talking about how long it took for him to get to a point where he had 1000 people visiting his blog on a monthly basis.When asked what did he do to get so many people to visit his blog, he spoke about taking advantage of popular trends like American
Idol, Ralph Nader running for president the 106 carat diamond that recently went for sale, the Oscar ballot and more!Then I come across this article today and he's talking about the EXACT same concept. The only difference is that he's talking about it from the prospective of how you can use it to help you recruit for your MLM business opportunity.So, first, I'm going to share the article with you and then I'm going to share with you s Read more:American Idol
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Why You Should Have A Passion For Residual Income 2008-02-23 20:28:13 You really truly should have a burning passion to build a lasting residual income. What does income mean to you now? It means having the money to eat, have shelter, pay living expenses. You need a constant income to meet your needs and be comfortable.Mostly people's income is obtained from the work they do, the hours they put in to a job. That situation poses problems. There is a real danger, which is also a common harsh reality many people have found themselves having to unexpectedly go through. Perhaps you right now are in the condition of being in between jobs.Many have faced the tribulation of lost income. It is a dire situation that happens through being let go by your employer for any number of reasons or no reason at all.Downsizing, cutbacks, firings, weeding outs, whatever. Maybe y Read more:Income
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Are You A Recruiter Or A Sponsor In MLM? 2008-02-21 13:38:38 There is a difference between being a recruiter and being a sponsor in MLM. A recruiter is someone who is able to successfully convert prospects into new distributors for their company. Many people believe that the top recruiters are the ones who make the most money in MLM. This is actually not correct. It is the top SPONSORS that make the most money in MLM.So what's the difference?A sponsor is someone who has mastered the art of sitting down with a brand new distributor and helping that new distributor get into activity mode. A good sponsor will out earn a good recruiter any day of the week.I was recently looking at a report that my company produces that shows the top recruiters in the company. Interestingly enough while the people that were at the top of the list were making money, Read more:Sponsor
What Does An MLM Or Network Marketing Guru Know That You Perhaps Don't? 2008-02-20 22:46:45 I came across this article the other day and I found it very interesting. While to be quite honest, I don't believe most people who get involved in network marketing can pull this particular strategy off effectively to have success, if you are one of the few that can, you can become a very serious player in the industry. I think a better approach for the average person of this strategy is to become an affiliate for someone already doing this, similar to the Magnetic Sponsoring program. Check this article out and let me know what you think!Roosevelt CooperClick Here For Your Free Direct Sales Training ReportWhat Does An MLM Or Network Marketing
Guru Know That You Perhaps Don't?By [ WestHave you ever been in the situation where you have joined your MLM or Network Marketing
Company, made t
Are You A Rocking Horse In Your MLM Business? 2008-02-19 13:38:26 I recently read a quote that goes as follows:"Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"-Alfred A MontapertThere are a lot of "rocking horses" in the MLM industry. Are you one of them?Too many people confuse motion and progress. Our upline and company leaders don't help in this regard either. They say things such as..."All you have to do is follow the TTMP principle...Talk To More People!""Massive Activity Equals Massive Results""I follow the three foot rule. Anyone that gets within three feet of me is going to hear about my business!""Make up in numbers what you lack in skill."Now don't get me wrong. Activity is very important when building a MLM business. If you aren't that good yet, you can in many instances make up for it in Read more:Business
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Do Scripts Work In Network Marketing? 2008-02-18 10:21:23 There are many trainers that advocate the use of prospecting scripts when a distributor is moving a prospect through the recruiting and sales process in network marketing. There is a tremendous amount of value in using scripts in network marketing. However, the value isn't what most people think.Many distributors use scripts because they are looking for the perfect words to say to their prospect to get them to sign up as a customer and/or as a distributor. They believe that since the script was developed by someone who has had a lot of success in network marketing, all they need to do is say the same words this successful person says and they will have success as well.This, however is not true.The power of the script does not come from the specific words that comes out of the mouth of a Read more:Marketing
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Four Tips to Get New MLM Distributors Started Right 2008-02-14 22:16:14 As a leader of your MLM team, the recruiting of a new distributor onto your team is only the beginning of your job. Your next responsibility is to assist him or her in getting started right.Inventory is critical in any business, especially a MLM business. You want to make sure your new team member has enough inventory to do business. Here are four tips to help your new MLM distributors launch their business instead of just start their business.1. Personal Use: The quickest way to learn the business as well as be sold on it is for new distributors to actually use the company's products and/or services. If the person doesn't make an effort to use any products and does not believe in them, should you have even sponsored him or her in the first place? Make sure your new folks are not only s Read more:Right
Are You Maximizing Your Multi Level Marketing Compensation Plan? 2008-02-13 14:38:01 So you joined a multi level marketing company and you are very excited about it. You plug into the system and begin to market your products & services. However, over the course of weeks, months or even years you take a look at the income that you have been paid and you realize that you are not satisfied with your income.How do you rectify that?One question you really need to ask yourself is "Am I maximizing the compensation plan?"Sometimes I hear leaders in the industry say that you don't need to understand the compensation plan. All you need to do is go out and talk to more people. I disagree.Would you take a job if you didn't know how you were being compensated?Of course not. That's common sense. One of the primary reasons why you are taking the job to begin with is the compensa Read more:Compensation
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Work Smarter Not Harder In Your Network Marketing Business 2008-02-11 15:49:57 It's a numbers game...Exposure is everything...The person who talks to the most people makes the most money...How many times have we heard these sayings in our network marketing careers? Probably all the time. While these sayings are very true, many times if we aren't careful, these sayings can actually HURT us in our business instead of help us in our business.Yes it is true that network marketing is a numbers game. However, I want you to consider the following:Are you familiar with how to mail a letter or a package? Of course you are. Let's suppose that I was going to pay you $1 per person for mailing out a letter for me to a list of people that I had. I have one million people on this list with their names and addresses. I provide you with the names, addresses, the letters and t Read more:Business
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How Much Money Do You Make? 2008-02-06 18:02:20 How much money do you make from this business?If you want to see the average distributor get very uncomfortable, watch them when a prospect asks them this question.This is a very tough question to answer for many distributors for a couple of reasons. If you aren't making what you feel is a good amount of money then you feel that if you tell the prospect what you really make, the prospect won't be interested. If you make a lot of money then you feel that if you tell the prospect what you really make, the prospect won't believe you or will assume that you were "lucky" or that you "got in early" and the opportunity isn't available to them to do the same.So what do you do? How do you handle this very sensitive question?Some trainers teach that you shouldn't tell them. They say that this qu Read more:Money
Stop Saying You Are Full Time In Your MLM Opportunity! 2008-02-05 19:02:25 Some people just don't get it. I hear all the time about distributors telling their prospects and their fellow distributors about how they are full time in their MLM opportunity. They talk about how their company is the only thing that they do and how they get up when they are done sleeping and all of the other clichés that we hear from the full timers.They just don't get it.Let me let you in on a little secret and if you get this, you will understand how to break the code in your MLM opportunity.You DON'T want to be full time in your MLM Opportunity
!Now I use to say at the beginning that I want to go full time, blah blah blah, etc. I didn't know any better. I am part time in my MLM opportunity and I will ALWAYS be part time in my MLM opportunity. I NEVER want to go full time!Now I kn Read more:Full Time
There's Got To Be An Easier Way To Build A Network Marketing Business! 2008-02-04 22:44:55 I just had two very interesting conversations today.The first conversation was with one of my prospects. He was previously a distributor in my network marketing company. His concern was that he was already familiar with the way most distributors teach how to build the business (i.e. make a list of friends & family and the three foot rule). However, he had no interest in building the business that way. He told me that he is currently a part of an internet marketing program and that he wanted to incorporate internet marketing techniques to build the business.The second conversation was with a fellow distributor that I haven't spoken to in a long time. He is sideline to me. He was telling me that he wants to get going again in the business but that he was frustrated trying to build Read more:Build
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Doug Firebaugh Says "In Network Marketing, It is NOT About You" 2008-01-30 22:55:39 I'm a big fan of Doug Firebaugh.If you never heard any of his stuff, you need to especially if you do a lot of prospecting over the phone.Here is an article he wrote. Very well needed in this industry. Sometimes if we humble ourselves we would recruit more people and have more success.Check it out:Roosevelt Cooper Training- In Network Marketing
, It is NOT About You by Doug Firebaugh"Have more than thou showest... speak less than thou knowest..."-- William Shakespeare Ego in MLM and Network Marketing
can kill your business. Know anyody that has a big one? As one of my mentors Ben Johnson, 5 billion dollar producer says: "Ego is a reverse disease. The person that has it is not sick, but it makes everybody else around him sick." Ol' Willy knew what he was talking about when he wrote that
Free MLM Marketing Tips: How to Avoid 6 Deadly Marketing Mistakes 2008-01-29 17:31:38 As someone who is involved in MLM, you are probably using different marketing techniques to build your business. The following are free mlm marketing tips that cover the 6 deadly marketing mistakes that need to be avoided at all costs.Marketing
Mistake #1: Calling it quits too early. This is the biggest mistake that most people involved in MLM make. Marketing your MLM business is like pumping a well. When pumping a well, you pump and pump and pump and the water doesn't come up right away. However, you know if you continue to pump the water will eventually come up. It's the same in Multi-Level marketing. You don't just quit using one particular marketing strategy because you failed. It could mean you need more education or to run a series of tests (e.g. headlines, ad copy, various in Read more:Avoid
MLM Sales Prospecting Methods Part 7 - Attraction Marketing & Funded Marketing 2008-01-28 19:53:11 In part 6 of this prospecting series, I talked about how to use pay per click marketing to rapidly produce prospects for your products, services and opportunity who will be so hot that in many cases they will CALL YOU instead of you chasing after them.In this final part to this prospecting series, I will share with you one of the most advanced techniques in prospecting. In my personal opinion, this method of prospecting is probably not going to be right for 99% of your organization and if you teach it to them, you will probably distract them and they will probably fail. However, for the relative few in your organization that this type of prospecting might be right for, this select few can revolutionize your organizational growth and your income.This method of prospecting is called attrac Read more:Attraction
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The Importance Of Attending Your Company's Convention 2008-03-12 17:52:24 I just arrived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for my network marketing company's international convention that is taking place this week. Interestingly enough, a lot of people in our industry don't see the value in attending their company's convention. In fact, in many cases it is looked down upon, frowned upon and referred to as a "rah-rah" session.That couldn't be further from the truth.Ever since I got involved in the network marketing industry, I made it my business to attend my company's convention each and every time the company has one. The reason why is because I realize the importance of attending it and the benefits that it provides.I hope to convey to you today what these benefits are so that if you haven't made it a practice to attend, you will do so.The first and foremost reaso Read more:Convention
The Mindset of A 7 Figure Income Earner In Network Marketing 2008-03-08 15:07:27 I just received this email from my up-line Diamond Executive Director in Pre-Paid Legal Services. This is a gentleman that has earned over 6 million dollars with our company. I thought this would give you all some great insight as to how the top people in our industry think.A couple of notes to help you understand some of the terminology used:Diamond Executive Director - An individual that has created 11 lines of sponsorship in which at least one person in that line of sponsorship has reached the executive director level.Executive Director or ED - The leadership bonus position in Pre-Paid Legal. In order to qualify for ED, you must reach the 5th position in the compensation plan (called Director), help at least one other person on your team do the same and have 75 sales come through you Read more:Income
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Exploiting the Power of an MLM Forum 2008-03-14 06:35:02 Exploiting the Power of an MLM Forum
by Victor RodriguesInformation is power and in the world of multi level marketing (MLM) there is nothing more powerful than a MLM forum. Yet be warned that not all forums are created equal and even though some offer an astounding array of niches and rooms where information may be gleaned quickly, easily and succinctly, others turn out to be little more than network marketers' tepid attempts of dressing up their promotional campaign under the guise of a forum approach. Exploiting the power of an MLM forum requires you to spend a bit of time there to get a feel for the posts and posters and to be able to ascertain the genuineness of the information provided. Begin by simply checking out some of the bugger forums devoted to multi level marketing and
How To Handle Any Objection Quickly 2008-03-16 21:58:54 One of the biggest challenges that distributors in multi level marketing face is handling objections from prospects. Many times, distributors get nervous or even frustrated when a prospect gives objections as to why they cannot or will not get started either as a customer or as a distributor. However, if you learn how to handle objections, you will significantly increase the amount of customers you are able to sign up or distributors you are able to recruit into your multi level marketing business WITHOUT increasing the number of prospects you need to speak to.When dealing with objections, one of the key skills that you need to develop is to be able to determine whether the prospect is giving you a true concern or whether the prospect is simply not interested and is just trying to get ri Read more:Handle
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