There is no “magic pill” in MLM
January 18, 2008 – 12:54 pm | by Burke Jones - The Internet MLM Pro->
Are you distracted? One of the problems with getting started building your MLM or network marketing business on the internet is that it is so easy to get distracted, spend a ton of money, and basically make no headway in your business.
So how can you focus your energies on the most important things, and save yourself a ton of money?
1. Stop spending money! You heard me right, there is no magic bullet in any system or strategy. For every traffic generation strategy out there - lets take article marketing as an example - there are dozens of info products that will teach you the “secrets” that will explode your traffic. It can be very overwhelming! What I recommend is that if you want to become an expert, and get started quickly - buy ONE product on the subject, then apply yourself 100% to that traffic tactic until you are an expert! DON’T purchase 3 products on three different strategies all on the same day or even the same week - you will simply become overwhelmed and make no progress.
2. Focus! When you are first getting started you should focus on two simple things. Driving traffic and starting a conversation with your new leads. When you drive traffic to your site (which should be some form of capture page) you will get leads. Then you can follow up with these leads either with email (the easiest and most leveraged) or you can call them. You want to begin a conversation with these leads which builds trust over time - this is what will grow you business.
3. Repeat! Just keep mastering one new traffic strategy before proceeding to the next one. Then and only then learn and master a new one. As you repeat this month after month, your traffic and your leads will increase. At first it might just be a few leads a week, but as your traffic grows, so will your leads until someday you could easily be generating hundreds of leads a day.
4. Start with big goals, but narrow the goals down to achieve small victories. At first you really need to celebrate small victories. Celebrate the first lead you generate, celebrate the first income you have! Start small, and build it over time. What happens is most people expect 100 leads per day to hit their account immediately - which is simply unrealistic. Build slowly over time and you will be building a sustainable business!
If you take these four simple elements to heart, before you know it you will be the next “heavy hitter” in your company - you know who I am talking about - the guy or gal that gets to walk across the stage and the annual convention. How does that sound for a long term goal?
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