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Network Marketing Success – 3 Tips to Stay Focused

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:13:05 +0000

There’s been a booming trend lately with so-called internet marketing “gurus”: Big ticket seminars and product launches.

You know the kind.

“Starting in two weeks, you only have three days to pony up $10k for my exclusive product launch, and after that it’s too late to ever learn all the secrets to exploding your income online.”

Then, each day your in-box is pounded with JV/partner/affiliate promotions for the same launch:

“Use my link and I’ll give you an extra bonus”

“Oooh! Oooh! Pick me, and I’ll give you one of my products FREE!”

“No wait! Pick ME and I’ll give you my shirt, my first born, a new car, and a bunch of other stuff that’s really cool I swear.”

What we have here is a classic example of finding a niche and filling it. Only in this case, the niche is people with “shiny object syndrome”.

We get so caught up in trying to grow our business using the latest internet marketing tactics that we float from one new product to another, without ever fully implementing the strategies we learned in the last product we purchased.

We’re stuck on having “the latest and greatest” so that we’re not left out in the cold. Heaven forbid we might miss out on a couple of dollars, when in reality, we’re probably “dropping dollars to pick up dimes” as my momma would say.

“Mad Guru” disease is sweeping the Internet. These ultra pricey products and events are causing most of us to pull our hair out! Why are they so pricey? Many times, it’s because HALF (or more) of the ticket price is being paid out in commissions to affiliates!

And as long as the gurus are raking in the cash, they’ll keep serving the market. Why not? It’s lucrative for everyone who owns a “company store” – selling picks and shovels to the internet and network marketing miners.

Don’t get me wrong. There’s a lot to be learned here. As a Network Marketer, I came online to grow my business using tools and strategies I learned from the Internet. I have created a successful niche and career for myself selling those same picks and shovels to network marketing miners.

You’ve heard it said before “sell the dream, not the deal.” And on it goes in the wild wild Web.

It really got me to thinking about my customers, and what I was sending them. Was I over promoting and under-delivering? I serve a network marketing community where every penny (and second) is precious. To waste the time (or money) of a stay-at-home soccer mom of four that’s trying to keep “the ends” together, juggle multiple family schedules, and have a little free time for her family is ludicrous!

When I went away for four days and came home to over 1400 unread messages in my inbox, it hit me.

The inordinate amount of time I was WASTING reading the same jv promotion over and over was insane: sometimes 2 or 3 emails from the same person in one day!

Frankly, I would have trouble sleeping at night if I pulled these same kinds of shenanigans. Call me nuts, but I’d feel guilty sending out that much email to my list!

It’s painful and shameful to admit, but I’m a recovering “shine-ob-ite” myself. I think I was subscribed to something like 40 different mailing lists – probably more, but I lost count. So, I got VERY selective. My time is more valuable to me now.

But more importantly, it taught me a lesson. As I was culling my in-box that day, I counted MAYBE 20 value added messages that weren’t blatant affiliate/jv promotions. Those subscriptions, I kept. The rest went bye bye.

I’m not ANTI-affiliate marketing. I’m not Anti-Internet Marketing. I’m not even ANTI-guru. I participate in affiliate programs, I sell products and offers to my list. But I also believe in providing substantial value for the return on investment.

The secret is no secret. Build relationships, be friendly, and stop selling everything that isn’t nailed down to your list.

To that end, here are 3 tips to keep you on track with your online network marketing prospecting:

Focus. Mark Joyner talks about that. See your target. Stay focused on your target without distraction, and hit it until you hit it. It may mean picking one of the programs you’ve already purchased, implementing it, and seeing it through to completion. It may mean unsubscribing from all the newsletters, mailing lists and marketing propaganda that are distracting you from hitting our goal. Whatever it takes, if success is to be yours, find one program, dedicate some time to it, and see it through until you get the results you want – or until you’re convinced you need something else to get you there. Stop living in fear. Over 80% of our decision making is motivated out of fear. This was a hard lesson for me to learn. I was constantly reading anything and everything I could to grow my business. The problem was, I wasn’t implementing anything, and couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t successful. Afraid I was missing something, I kept buying, reading and researching without implementing – so afraid that I’d miss out on the next big thing that was SURE to catapult my business. So step out of fear. Know that you have all the tools you need to be successful (because all you really need is you, anyway), and get started. Sure, there are things that will make you more efficient, but when you’re getting started, success is more important than efficiency – especially if you don’t have the money to spend. Be Courageous. Sounds simple, but it’s not easy. You can’t do it without focus and turning away from fear. Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway, according to the card a friend bought for me. Courage is stepping out in faith, beyond where the fear lies – maybe even in the middle of where the fear lies with the focus on a singular goal that you will not be dissuaded from – regardless of naysayers and life’s little happenstances. Once you’ve achieved steps one and two, step three reveals itself, tests you, and propels you toward greatness.

Look at your business, your down line and your goals. Where do you want to be? What are “those voices” saying to you that are paralyzing you in fear? What can you do to drown out the noise, take the first step, and create laser-like focus on your objective?Therein lies the answer to ultimate success.

By: Lisa Young

Network Marketing Revolution – The Time Has Come

admin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:58:54 +0000

My friends, I believe that we in Network Marketing, are at the beginning of a fantastic trend – a revolution in the industry.

For years, the top levels of this business have been dominated by red personalities. You know the type I’m talking about… the “hard hitting, no remorse, all go, never quit until you beg, plead, and bribe every innocent grandmother into your organization” kind of personality. This behavior, among other things, has led to a public misunderstanding of the potential of Network Marketing.

There’s a reason that as soon as one of your friends hears that you’re a Network Marketer, they head for the hills and join the Witness Protection Program. It’s because they’ve probably been hounded by someone else in Network Marketing and lived to tell the story. And BY GOD do they tell the story! They share their negative experience with everyone they know.

WELL GUESS WHAT – THE TIME OF HOUNDING IS OVER

Thousands of Network Marketers have been subject to this behavior and you know what they’ve realized? They’re not comfortable with it. They’ve had enough! They’re starting to see that people aren’t numbers, not everyone is interested in starting their own business, and not everyone is a prospect!

More time is being focused on building relationships with people rather than trying to convince every 2nd person you meet that your DEAL is the best thing in the world for them.

Countless Network Marketers have been burnt by the flames of the red personalities, and they’re ready to do MLM the way it should be done – with honesty and integrity. The next generation of Network Marketers, of all ages, will band together to revolutionize how this industry is perceived by the public.

I estimate that in the not-too-distant future, Network Marketing will be accepted by the masses and will be an awfully strong channel for the world to purchase products.

Move aside Red Personalities. Your time is over.

By: Andrew McLellan

Why Network Marketers Will Not Tell You About Attraction Marketing Or Internet Marketing?

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:36:03 +0000

So, what is attraction marketing? Attraction marketing is a method of marketing that attracts prospects to you that enables you to be positioned as an expert. This new system is state of the art. This new way is quickly becoming the new way many experienced network marketers are doing business, especially on the Internet.

It means you are offering value, service, experience to your potential prospects & customers. Attraction Marketing is a brand new phase to replace the old school ways of network marketing & has emerged as a new process of selling online. Attraction marketing can also be defined as prospects coming to you instead of you having to chase them down. Attraction marketing is also the strategy for driving targeted traffic & highly motivated prospects to your circle of influence. Pre-qualified prospects are the essential life blood of any network marketing business. When using these forms of attraction it is important to remember that you are leading & not selling.

Attraction marketing is promoting your product or service in a way that intrigues your prospects curiosity to want to contact you to learn more about what you have to offer. Direct sales refers to promoting yourself as an expert, offering information that the prospect wants, then finally building a rapport with that prospect. **How Does Attraction Marketing Work with Internet Marketing?*

Attraction marketing is the tide of change that is needed for network marketing. The traditional method of convincing your prospect that they need to buy your product is sales oriented. Attraction marketing on the other hand is the system by which the network marketer can choose proven methods for achieving success.

To get a birds eye of Mike Dillard’s Book on “Building on a Budget Review” to learn how he explains how network marketers build on a budget.

Attraction marketing is by far the most effective form of marketing yourself and your business. Even though prospects may make the choice not to join you in business; the seed has been planted. It may take them more than one time visiting your lead capture website to make a decision. Prospects will flock to you once you have positioned yourself as an expert from your prospects viewpoint. It is important to position yourself early and as your marketing expands you are going to be in high demand.

Successful network marketers are aware of how important action is. If you are failing at this time it is probably not your doing? Success is no longer a selling game, and it has nothing to do with training or operational efficiency or a catchy advertising campaign. Success in any business opportunity is a result of hard work, time and many various other factors that are involved. So, if you are interested in your success make sure that you have qualified training, education & tools need to succeed.

That is the most important ingredient to any business especially when it applies to network marketing.

By: Jonathon Pugsley

Network Market Vs Internet Marketer – Attraction Marketing & Magnetic Sponsoring

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:01:33 +0000

If you have been in and around the industry awhile you will often hear the terms network marketer and internet marketer. In fact, you probably don’t even distinguish between the two when you hear them. There is also Old School and New School versions of both of these types of marketers as well as a hybrid version. You may be asking so what? Who cares what they call themselves? They all want to sell me their opportunity. Ahh, but how they go about selling their opportunity and how they teach you how to sell your opportunity is a key element. And when you hear certain do’s & don’t from them you’ll understand WHY they say what they say and if you should apply their techniques to what you are trying to do. And you’ll be able to discern who’s talking rubbish and who’s talking from experience and expertise.

Let me start off with the term: Network Marketer. Think back to the original days of Amway or Shaklee. These old school network marketers did what we now call belly to belly presentations, hotel meetings, business cards exchanges and they picked up the phone and called everybody and their brother they knew and their brother’s brothers! They quite literally pounded the phone. They created huge lists of resources and databases of everybody they knew. They built relationships with people & got referrals upon referrals. They literally created a network of people they knew and kept on expanding it to all the people their people knew and so and so and so on…

This worked and it still works today. The reason? Even with technology today ,people still want and need to by from people they know, from a referral or people they have done business with in the past.

But the average person looking to make some extra money on the side just didn’t want or have the desire to make all those calls. They were too shy and embarrassed to contact their friends and family or even if they were all revved up at first when they joined, they got knocked down within the first couple of weeks. Face it, we all know what we felt like when someone we knew told us they were selling Amway or Rainbow Vacuum Cleaners!

Then along came the internet…..and they took their rolodex and imported (hand typed) them into a database and now they could communicate to all of their customers, prospects, distributors with a click of a button! WOW! Mail Merge was huge! MLM business started popping up on the internet and they could just send some emails and their loyal followers went running to their website and because they had a PRIOR BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP with these network marketers they bought from them and they went right down the line (hence the term downline line) & were making a killing.

Then we of course went through the pyramid schemes and MLM companies that offered no real products. And gave MLM a rotten name. (We still have them and people still buy into them) No matter what industry you are in you will always have the unscrupulous that will take advantage of the naive.

Then the systems guys created the websites that DO IT ALL FOR YOU! GET PAID TODAY! Direct Sales! Just drive the traffic, no need to make Cold Calls, No Bugging your friends and family & No Sorting – You just drive the traffic and our site will do the rest! 2 Ups and 1 Ups ran ramped. And then they charge you a monthly subscription service to host your website. Guaranteed income for them. The Internet Market was Born! But the Big guys had HUGE advertising budgets. They could AFFORD to drive huge amounts of traffic to their websites. The average newbie doesn’t have those kinds of funds AND are failing by huge numbers. The old networkers were use to that. The idea was and still is just get as many sign ups as you can and the true network marketers will rise to the top! And that is true. They are not lying to you.

Then the Mentoring programs and consultants and the Guru’s came out of the woodwork to try to instill in al that you still have to pick up the phone to build the relationships! But we Americans( 97% of us) don’t want o hear that! We want to be able to buy our way in. Make huge sums of money with no experience. They pick out the 1 success story out of thousands and we believe it will happen to us. The sales letters are really to blame, but one has to some of the responsibility…Huh? The systems guys know that. So they keep rolling out new marketing site that promise the world. And some of these sites really are well put together, but the truth of the matter is most people still need to make a connection with YOU before they buy. They buy on emotion. You have to learn how to trigger that emotion and build the relationship to get the sales. Period.

Now the internet marketer understands that they must build relationships but they don’t want to do it belly-to belly or via hotel presentations. So how do you accomplish that? Article writings, press releases, blogging and oh the ever so popular social network sites that are popping up every day! But the successful ones understand something else. They separate themselves from the masses. If you are doing everything everyone else is doing, do you stand out? Nope. They create their own capture pages and websites. They ARE NOT using the companies affiliate sites. They are not even marketing their business opportunity up front. These guys ARE making money. Good Money. 6K and above. Problem? They are not duplicatable. Again, the average American doesn’t have the desire or knowledge to do what these guys do. The internet marketers are telling you the old school guru’s are off out of date, that you don’t need to make phone calls, bug friends and family, sort thru hundreds and thousands to find the few good ones. And to a degree they are right. On the other hand, the network marketer now has seminars charging you thousands to teach you what you need to know, hence making himself duplicatable. Guess What? In both cases 2%-3% will rise up and become successful. Both as a network marketer student and as a Internet marketer student. It’s the 2% Rule. 2% of the people hold 95% of the wealth.

Great, so what are the other 98% to do? We know there has to be way. And where there is a will there is a way. A blending of the 2 has to come together. And in essence it really is a blending of 3, traditional businesses with brick and mortar offices that use the web to sell their products, old school network marketers and the new Internet Marketers. It’s called Attraction Marketing. You may seen or heard of it already but ignored, it as we Americans have become so desensitized to information. Fact is, so much garbage is thrown at us we tend to overlook the real stuff when it slaps us in the face. I know I did. And I would have quite a few hundred thousand dollars more in my pocket today if I would have taken action when the opportunity was first presented. But the good news is… it’s never to late to start again in this industry, the right way. And one more thing, you have to throw in some good old fashion common sense.

Starting a business, Any Business requires due diligence on your part. And must be taken seriously. What is it you want to accomplish? Is there a real product/service involved that is going to be wanted and need ed by people everywhere? Software is a product; information is a product, (information is the NUMBER 1 selling product out there today), nutritional supplements, education, & travel. Don’t buy in to a business or not buy a business based on some else success or failures. Their success or failure has absolutely NO BEARING on yours. NONE! Remember that. It’s key. Make sure the product or service is something you would actually use yourself. You have to believe in your product. You have to invest in yourself and your business. Becoming a 6K or 7K earner doesn’t happen without training of some sort. But take baby steps and really evaluate what it is you are buying. Learn from the leaders who have been there, done that. Have realist expectations and be creative. If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. And if any one tells you need a huge advertising budget… tell them to pound sand and run as fast as you can.

By: Julie Booz

Network Marketing Tips – How to Succeed at Network Marketing

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:01:40 +0000

Network Marketing is an interesting profession. You will often get people in 2 camps.

Either they love it, or they hate it.

Those that do well in network marketing usually have a few ingredients that allow them to earn a salary that pays for a financially rewarding lifestyle.

1. Hanging on to the Mothership or New Explorer?

To do well as a network marketer, you must be an expert in your craft. The company or your upline can assist you by providing good products that you can market and how to successfully market this business. Your best bet for success is to break away from your upline as soon as possible and become the CEO of your own business empire. The faster you become the expert, the faster your network marketing business will grow.

2. Sell to them En Masse via Database Marketing!

Did you know that people make $10,000 plus each month just having a huge database of niche audience? Once you have the power to drive traffic, to bring customers to a certain venue, restaurant, seminar, you have the power to negotiate for anything you want. The concept works exactly the same for network marketing. You can speak to a network marketing company and ask for free space in order to hold a seminar that sells the company’s products. This is a JV approach to succeeding big time in network marketing.

3. Large ticket items or Small?

Some network marketing products sell for $10, others sell for $50,000. Need less to say, its much better to spend time 1 on 1 with a big customer then with 1 customer buying a $10 product. So choose your company wisely and be sure that the product range is something that connects and sells well with the consumers. Product must come 1st, Business opportunity comes second.

4. The Team Style

To be successful in network marketing requires us to have a strong sponsor in order to have a good start. Look at it this way. If an upline does cold calling and you joined that team. How do you think you will be sharing the business to other business seekers? Most likely, this team will be dubbed “the cold calling team” and that is how this camp will build the business. The team may have conditioning sessions where you are trained to hear 10 “no’s” before you hear a yes. This sort of condition/cold calling regime does work. For me, its a pretty tough way to build a network marketing business and there are many better ways such as database network marketing systems.

Hope these quick tips benefit you!

By: Sherman Choo

Hone Your Internet Network Marketing Skills Now & Succeed Like Never Before! A How To

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:52:28 +0000

Hordes of people keep joining the network marketing industry every single day in the hope of making it big some day. Despite this, it is only a handful few that are able to succeed in the real sense of the word. Have you ever wondered why and what is it that you really need to do to be able to join this select few successful network marketers, so that your network marketing business truly transforms your financial aspirations to reality.

Trust me for what I say, it is possible to witness real success in your internet network marketing business, in a matter of few weeks or at the most, a couple of months, irrespective of the mlm or network marketing company you represent or the product or service that you promote.

And hence what you as an internet network marketer needs to do upfront is to focus, rather focus intensely. The only thing that I am assuming here is that being a network marketer, you are already aware of what you need to promote. Ponder, deliberate & cluster all the thinking capabilities of your grey cells to these three utmost important components: “WHAT to do” ? “HOW to do”? & “WHEN to do”? Don’t underestimate the power of these seemingly simple & generic looking questions. In fact they are the back bone what is the secret of real success of network marketing on the internet. To enable you grasp the essence of this discussion, let’s scrutinize the end results that we are trying to attain by dissecting these three vital questions. The ‘WHAT’ considers a complete checklist of all possible marketing / advertising resources including websites to promote your network marketing or MLM product, service or opportunity. It broadens up your horizons to include every little effective marketing strategy that could enhance your reach to more and more targeted leads, customers etc. that in fact would prove to be the marketplace where you plan to market your business/ product.

To site an example, you may come across several e-books preaching you to use social marketing strategies to enhance your internet reach and sales. But how many social marketing sites do you know about and then do you know, which ones of these are effective and which ones are a sheer waste of time.

The ‘WHAT’ essentially is the guideline of the business plan that you need to draw to be able to succeed. Have you made that? Most likely, the answer would be negative and even in the remote eventuality that you do know about it, it would be very broad & generic, not customised and fine tuned to your particular business. Most likely, you don’t know much. No problem, there is a solution to it.

Next the ‘HOW TO’ deals with the real actionables that you need to carry out to be able to use these sites and strategies for your business. Carrying the example further, do you know how to build a profile on a particular social marketing site like Facebook or My Space or Zenzuu?

Next as a beginner, do you know how to add friends or how to ensure that the visitors to your facebook profile do visit your blog or how to convert your facebook friends in to your customers? The ‘HOW’ in fact is the most important aspect of the three questions, since it is the one that enables you to implement what you know or have learned, in to your network marketing business.

The last one or the – WHEN TO’ deals with the timing for each action. Continuing the above instance further, are you aware of the particular social marketing site that you should start with, when you are just a new beginner and which site should you move on to, when you have created a presence for yourself.

And then, when is the right time when all your content pieces should be linked to each other thru appropriate anchor texts that would boost up your site on the search engines, thanks to correct linkages for appropriate keywords. All this can be replicated in your network marketing business too, provided you know ‘WHEN TO’.

Needless to mention, knowing these three vital aspects clearly and distinctly will save you on a lot of time, energy & money that you would have otherwise wasted experimenting on your own.

To be able to learn this, you either need a mentor/guide who gives you this training one on one and spends loads of time personally with you or a training resource that could teach you all this elaborately, step by step with audio and video tutorials. This is because you may need to run through it more than once to be able to grasp it and then follow it.

The first option is bound to be extremely expensive and hence the only option you have got is to get trained through an extremely elaborate kind of internet network marketing training resource, which holds you by the finger and leads you in to creating your presence across the internet, at your pace.

Internet marketing trainings of this expansive kinds are very few and then high on cost too. Hence what I am going to share with you is precious, rather priceless. The real fact of the matter is that I have included an extremely treasured training resource of mine,at the end of this article, in the resource box, which has powered my network marketing success personally.

All the more,at this point in time, this incomparable training is free to join, so you have a golden opportunity to check it out for yourself, as to how absolutely invaluable & inevitable it could prove to your MLM or network marketing business. And mark me for my words, if you are really serious about succeeding in your network marketing business, and are willing to work the right way ,this training could possibly change the direction of your business almost instantly.

By: Rashmi Mehta

Dillard’s MLM Attraction Marketing Theory – How it Revolutionized Network Marketing

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:24:28 +0000

Mike Dillard, who created the magic network marketing book Magnetic Sponsoring, used the theory of attraction marketing to make more than $354,000 in just a week. No wonder network marketers who wish to earn big want to know more about attraction marketing.

Fortunately, Dillard did not hide his light under a bushel, but decided to teach his business secrets to the network marketing world. As a result of his kind decision, the network marketing world began changing its approach and direction. Thanks to Dillard and his methods, more and more network marketers began using the Internet to build a downline…and they built it really fast.

Dillard’s methods are unique because they teach network marketers to stop hunting for prospects and create circumstances in which prospects begin hunting for them. Using Dillard’s attraction marketing strategies, network marketers attracted a number of prospects, who flocked to them and expressed an interest in joining the business. Dillard, therefore, changed the very texture and flavor of network marketing. Previously a very stressful and frustrating marketing method, network marketing is now extremely rewarding.

A mentor is a must for all network marketers; and this mentor need not necessarily be someone from your upline. You can even access the services of an online mentor. To become a successful network marketer, you require to follow the advice of an expert. This is where attraction marketing comes into the picture.

There are network marketing experts who still encourage you to make a list of warm contacts and present your business plans to them; however, network marketers can achieve better results by using the Internet. You must remember that around one billion people from all over the world use the world wide web. Network marketers who belong to the old school are reluctant about using the Internet and the new strategies of network marketing. They do not understand that fortunes can be made by using Web 2.0. To become an expert in attraction marketing, you must learn to create top Internet content. The Internet is overflowing with innumerable marketing opportunities.

For instance, a network marketer who knows how to design a great landing page can also create video series, eBook, online tutorials and share crucial marketing information with other network marketers. If you have something inspiring to share, you could use your PC to record it, convert it into an MP3 file and upload it Apple iTunes so that the entire world can appreciate it. If you can motivate others, but lack the required technical skills, you can still join social networking sites and share your wonderful marketing advice. This makes you an expert.

The experts are the doers. This is the basic principle of attraction marketing. Avoid hard selling your business opportunity and become an expert. This way you will attract a number of prospects who will ultimately join your downline.

You can use Mike Dillard’s attraction marketing to develop any type of business by making full use of the Internet and other social media.

By: Ellie Gant