January 28, 2009
Are You Struggling To Get Where You Want In MLM?
Unless you work on yourself and the thoughts you have and allow in your head, chances are you simply won’t succeed.
In fact, you may spend years feeling like you’re bashing your head against a brick wall. And in a way, you are. The brick walls in your head will stop you quicker than any actual brick wall.
The good news is if you’ve faced rejection you’ve realised, it didn’t kill you! (and remember they didn’t reject you, just the offer). First of all, realise that not all people will see opportunity. That’s one reason why only 5% of the population are incredibly wealthy. When someone says no, think to yourself, ‘well, they’re the reason I will succeed!’
August 25, 2008
What is it YOU want?
Why have you decided to start (or are looking at) your own MLM business?
Was it the MLM Business Plan? The chance of MLM Success? Were you looking to the fun of building an MLM downline?
No, probably not!
You may, like most people who join an MLM business, be looking for a way to create freedom and achieve financial freedom. Freedom for yourself and you loved ones in time, finances, the everyday stresses most people experience.
The light went on at a meeting, or talking to someone already in the industry, maybe even when you were looking up MLM online?
Most people see the way life could be, and that is a fantastic first step. Grab your chance to change your life!
Many people get into MLM with the faint dream that one day they could be free, but never make up their mind what this means to them. This means they never make up their mind to go through the challenges faced in any endevour worth pursuing. This means they, more often than not, give up and then say ‘MLM doesn’t work’ Let’s be fair, did you give it a real go?
Did you decide when learning to walk that after falling down 10times, you would stop? 20 times?? 30times??? Pick your self up…
What is it YOU really want?
August 17, 2008
3 Tips On How To Avoid The Scams While Selecting A Work Home Business Opportunity
This article is written by Warren Knight. Home Businesses are certainly are wonderful way to create freedom in your time, money and life, but not all ‘opportunities’ are just that. There are things to look out for! Hopefully this artciel will give you food for thought.
There are many great work home business opportunities in the world today and to find them the only thing you need to do is to spend some of your precious time seriously searching for it. Among these opportunities there are many scams involved, people are out here only to make money and to swallow your money they would say just anything under the sun. Then how do you find a legitimate home business opportunity? Let me give you a few hints on what you need to look for.
1) You should always keep your distance from business opportunities that promise you fast money. Now it is not always the cases but the possibility of quick money mainly depends on you, the more hard work you put in the better your chances to earn fast money. But the scams actually tell you that you can earn fast money without doing much of work. Never believe them, they are just fooling you. It is only through hard work people make quick money.
2) You need to check any business opportunity through and through before you decide on joining them. Just because a company sounds good you can’t be joining it, you surely need to completely check out the company. You should also check with the better bureau whether any complaints have been registered against this company. You should also check through other sources like people working there, they would be the best source of information. It is mainly from them that you would get the best possible feedback.
3) You should always contact the people who are trying to get you involved or get you signed up for the business opportunity and see how long it gets them to contact you. And even if they do contact you try to get a hold on someone who you could use in the future. You should also try to find out the kind of customer care or support that the company provides and also try to clear all the possible doubts you have about the company. Usually in the case of scams you either wont get an answer to your question or you would not find someone to talk to about the business.
These three important tips would actually help you decide which business opportunity to join and will also help find out if it is legal. There are plenty of legitimate business opportunities out there. It would only take you some research to find out which is the best business opportunity for you.
August 16, 2008
How To Recruit Distributors For Your MLM Business (Part 5 Of 5)
Become a mentor yourself.
There is no better way to assess your skills than helping someone else.
Since your goal is to establish a robust downline, mentoring is part of the picture. This is how networks get going. One marketer helping another.
It’s the real advantage of MLM, we aren’t competitors, our success is linked.
When you mentor someone else, you get a new look at a system you might take for granted. There is nothing like fresh eyes to reinvigorate and enthuse us. You will get as much (if not more) from mentoring as you give, and your “student’s” success will feel as good as your own.
Mentoring also opens you up for referrals.
Becoming known as someone who is willing to help can be an important selling/recruiting point. While we sell our company and our system (and that has to be solid) we also sell ourselves.
People are looking for relationships and a feeling of connectedness. No one wants to go it alone with just reading material or tapes. Creating a sense of team spirit and group effort is crucial for expanding your downline.
August 13, 2008
How To Recruit Distributors For Your MLM Business (Part 4 Of 5)
Know your company.
Eventually, you are going to be interacting directly with someone who is interested in pursuing an MLM business. Whether it’s a phone call, Skype, or in their living room, you are going to be asked questions about payment, growth, and company structure. These are the same questions you had when you started. Know the answers cold.
Having all the information ready shows your expertise and instills confidence. You wouldn’t want to work with someone who wasn’t clearly knowledgeable about their own business, and new recruits are just as wary. You want people to ask you questions. Avoid those who aren’t inquisitive. They will come on board quickly and jump ship just as quickly.
Only by understanding and learning all the ins and outs of your affiliate company, your product and your marketing strategy can you recruit effectively. Learning ‘the game’ gives you a leg up on others who are just pretending. Use this.
August 10, 2008
How To Recruit Distributors For Your MLM Business (Part 3 Of 5)
Recruiting Distributors
It’s a nice problem to have, but it can seem overwhelming. Why a ‘nice problem’? Because it means you have advanced far enough along to offer something of value and are ready to start and build your own downline. You’ve already leaped ahead of 95% of your peers who are all talk and no action. But the next plateau can seem impossibly high.
Start with your mentor.
Your mentor is often the person right above you in your organization’s structure. This isn’t always so, you may have someone else (or several someones) who can walk you through the process. It maybe someone else in your not some immediate upline. In any case, while you may have good ideas of your own, relying on the experience of another successful MLMer is the shortest path to effective recruiting. They can give you real world and recent examples of what did and didn’t work for them. Remember, one of the keys to MLM is profitability for your downline, and you are downstream from someone who wants you to do well. Take advantage of this free knowledge base.
Mine the net for good ideas.
There’s no reason you can’t educate yourself by reading forums and getting tutorials. While your company will have materials to start you off and a plan for establishing your own downline, you can discuss with other people what they are doing and see what appeals to you. Online MLM is an ever growing and changing field, to be involved, you have to get involved. Forums and discussion groups abound. Find a couple to read and post to.
Use an automated system for online leads.
It isn’t the answer to everything, but automated lead generation through online marketing has transformed MLM. It used to be that only an incredible amount of door-knocking and driving around to meetings would get you prospects. This is still done and has the undeniable power of face-to-face interaction, but the Internet allows modern MLMers to tap into a global pool of interested people.
With a website that contains useful information, you gather email addresses. By offering a report or other information potential MLMers want, you start building an email list. You leverage this list by sending out a newsletter about your business and training emails. The recommended number of training/informational emails is 7 to 10, before you reach the ‘hard-pitch’.
The hard-pitch is necessary to separate out the pretenders from people who actually will commit. This is the weakness of automated systems, without the face-to-face you get with traditional seminar presentations, you are relying on emails to build relationships. The onslaught of mass emails means you are competing with other marketers and only have text to do it with.
Good written communication skills are essential. You are trying to express those things you would in a one-on-one meeting- your passion, the winning structure and methods on offer, and your own unique personality. Anticipating questions (and answering them) as well as heading off skepticism and the natural human urge to stick with what we know- all this has to be done ‘hands off’.
August 6, 2008
How To Recruit Distributors For Your MLM Business (Part 2 Of 5)
Mine the net for good ideas.
There’s no reason you can’t educate yourself by reading forums and getting tutorials. While your company will have materials to start you off and a plan for establishing your own downline, you can discuss with other people what they are doing and see what appeals to you. Online MLM is an ever growing and changing field, to be involved, you have to get involved. Forums and discussion groups abound. Find a couple to read and post to.
August 4, 2008
How To Recruit Distributors For Your MLM Business (Part 1 of 5)
It’s a nice problem to have, but it can seem overwhelming. Why a ‘nice problem’? Because it means you have advanced far enough along to offer something of value and are ready to start and build your own downline. You’ve already leaped ahead of 95% of your peers who are all talk and no action. But the next plateau can seem impossibly high.
Start with your mentor.
Your mentor is often the person right above you in your organization’s structure. This isn’t always so, you may have someone else (or several someones) who can walk you through the process. It maybe someone else in your not some immediate upline.
In any case, while you may have good ideas of your own, relying on the experience of another successful MLMer is the shortest path to effective recruiting. They can give you real world and recent examples of what did and didn’t work for them.
Remember, one of the keys to MLM is profitability for your downline, and you are downstream from someone who wants you to do well. Take advantage of this free knowledge base.
