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
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November 12th, 2009Dillard’s MLM Attraction Marketing Theory – How it Revolutionized Network Marketing
November 5th, 2009
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