Time…how you manage it will be the difference between success and failure in your MLM business. We all want the holy grail that network marketing can provide us, which is complete time freedom. The issue is that it comes as a cost - you must put in the time at the beginning to build your business so that you can enjoy the freedoms that will come realistically in one to two years.
I hear so many people that complain about not getting anything going in their business. When I ask them what they are doing, and they answer truthfully, it is usually not enough to make the impact they want in a quick fashion. Somewhere in the conversation they typically use these words “I don’t have the time.”
So lets break that down a bit and see how we can change it. Personally time is also an issue in my life, but I have managed to find ways to build my business quickly, generate dozens of leads a day and make money while still having a personal life. So how do I manage my time?
For starters I use the internet almost exclusively because it allows me to leverage my time and effort. Almost everything I do on the internet will continue to provide me benefits even when I am not working. For example using article distribution, I can write an article once, post it online, and it will continue to bring in leads for months to come. Every post I write for my blog will be online for ever, and provide leads that come from the search engines.
By using a email autoresonder I can communicate with hundreds or even thousands of people per day, building relationships and gaining new friends and business associates. I could never communicate with this many interested prospects if I was doing all of my business building in my warm and hot market.
Here is what I do to carve out three extra hours I can spend building my business each day. I get up at 30 minutes earlier each morning. I work on my business over my lunch hour. I work after I get the kids to bed up to two hours.
The biggest secret is that when you sit down to work, really work! Don’t start surfing the internet or reading forums. Instead spend that time writing articles, posting videos, contributing meaningful content to forums - this is how create success. So many times I have sat down to “work” and I ended up simply wasting 60 minutes surfing the net, and not actually doing something productive to build my business.
With a little thought and dedication, you can easily carve the time needed to build a success internet based MLM business.
Would you like to be a network marketing success in any company that you choose? It is much easier than you would believe. In fact it really does not take anything or anyone special - each person has the ability to be a success in network marketing with just a couple simple tips.
The biggest secret to having more success than you have ever had before is to personally brand yourself as a leader. Don’t worry this is not some kind of magic that you will take years to learn. Branding is as simple as positioning yourself to add value to another persons life.
If you are looking to build your network marketing team on the internet, you can add value to your prospects by simply showing them ways that they can also build their teams online. Everyday new people are joining the internet marketing arena, and each one of them is searching for answers, answers that you have.
If you don’t know how to market on the internet, why not get started today learning the craft. Educate yourself on just one area, and become proficient at it. Now you can share that knowledge with others, and be attractive as a leader to that person. Once you have mastered one principal, move onto another area, and again share what you have learned. Do you see how easy this is?
Don’t be afraid of branding yourself as a leader! Step up to the plate and make it happen - the results will be astonishing once you get started.
In any business; online, offline, MLM, retail or service - you need to have a system that allows you to both leverage your time, and provide easy training for new employees or associates. If your involved with MLM you understand that as your team grows, so does the amount of time you spend training your new associates. You need to have a system so that each new person receives exactly the same training in the same manner - whether you do it, or your downline does it.
So what does a MLM recruiting system look like if you are building your business on the internet? For my team I use a three step system that everyone plugs into, and the best part is that it is automated.
Step 1 - Traffic Generation
Without traffic going to your web site, your business will be dead in the water. The old saying “build it and they will come” simply does not apply to the internet. So the first step in my system is to teach my new team members how to generate traffic to our landing pages. At first I only teach them how to leverage Web 2.0 and generate buckets of free traffic. Once they start earning some income to cover advertising expenses we branch off to cover paid sources of traffic.
Step 2 - Viral Traffic Generation
In addition to the traditional traffic generation system like article marketing, MySpace, Facebook, etc. we also plug into Viral Traffic Generators. These type of systems give you credits or page views. You accumulate these credits as people sign up using your link and activate their own accounts. Do you see how well this fits into a MLM marketing plan? As you team grows, you get more credits which equals more traffic to your landing page.
Step 3 - The Funded Proposal
It is very important that your system include a funded proposal. A funded proposal system allows you new team members to be in a position to profit from their leads, even if the lead never joins your primary business. Making income outside of your MLM might be a new concept for many. However, as you know most MLM companies have a minimum monthly expense to keep active - in other words you must purchase something every month. This can quickly get expensive for the new associate, and if the financial pain threshold is hit, that new associate will disappear. However, if you are using a funded proposal, it will not be hard for you new associates to earn enough to cover their monthly MLM expenses. By allowing them to earn money quickly, you will help that new associate stay in the game long enough to enjoy the residual income that is offered by network marketing.
If you follow and implement these three steps for your own MLM recruiting system, you will soon find that you have more time, more new associates, and more money than you ever had before!
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Do you know what the biggest killer is of new MLM associates? The fear of rejection! Yes, it will strike every new team member, and your business, at some point in your growth. So lets talk a bit more about this killer and how to completely eliminate it.
The way most MLM organizations teach you to grow you team, and in fact the way I was taught to grow mine originally, is to work in your hot or warm market. Almost every organization teaches you to build a list of names, and start contacting them and introducing your business.
What happens very quickly is that you brand new baby associate starts hearing “no” - and if all they hear is “no” you are very lucky. Chances are what they will hear will be even worse, and much more critical. This is when they fear of rejection starts to set in, and will quickly kill their business if left unchecked.
The fear of rejection actually affects any person involved in sales. I have two young sons that are involved in Cub Scouts. Every year they sell popcorn for their primary fundraiser. This year the boys really wanted to work hard and sell tons of popcorn. So the first day we headed out into the neighborhood full of excitement.
Guess what happened? The first five houses we went to all said “no” to them. I could see their excitement beginning to diminish, they did not have the glimmer in their eye when we started. The good news is that we did start selling, and they quickly realized that they were getting more purchases than denials, and they kept at it and succeeded in meeting their goal!
Of course, in this example we are dealing with kids emotions. However, in MLM we are dealing with adults, and very real financial concerns and elements of personal pride.
For most new associates after they hear “no” or “are you crazy, this is a pyramid”, the fear of rejection will overcome them and they will disappear into the night never to return - and even more disturbing, their dreams are gone as well.
So how can you turn this around, and give your new associates a way to have more leads then they know what to do with? Get them started building a list of subscribers using the internet, and even better get plugged into a system that provides income, training, and leads.
By using the power of the internet you can literally build relationships with hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals. How do you do this? By having a high conversion landing page and an email autoresponder.
The autoresponder allows you to leverage you time and communicate your message with more people on a daily basis than you could ever communicate with face to face.
By using the internet to build your MLM business you are also completely eliminating the fear of rejection. If someone is not interested they will simply unsubscribe from you mailing list, but it won’t matter, because you will have added 3 new people to replace that one.
To learn more about how you can eliminate the fear of rejection, generate unlimited leads, make multiple streams of income, and sponsor new associates at a record pace visit The Downline Code.
In this video I outline my 90 Day plan to explode my downline. I realized that I had been neglecting my own business as I helped those new members on my team get started. I will continue to help my team, but I also need to set some goals for myself and my personal business and stick to them. Hence the public video….
I admit it I am somewhat of a MLM news junkie. If you read any of the forums you have may have heard about the uproar between Barry Minkow of Fraud Discovery Institute and Usana Health Sciences. I won’t get into all the legal filings, of which there are plenty, but I thought this was an interesting story to discuss for a bit.
You see, Barry likes to go after Network Marketing companies. This time he has chosen Usana Health Sciences as his target. Of course Usana has fired back, and the court battle is ensuing.
Barry has made at least 7 videos as of this time and posted them on Youtube. What he did was go out and find disgruntled Usana reps and interview them. They are real tear jerker’s - people have spent tons of money on their businesses, and not made a dime. Of course Usana can point to people that have done well.
However, the facts speak for themselves, over 95% who get started with a network marketing business fail - this includes Usana and all the other top rated companies out there. Barry would like you to believe that this problem is exclusive to Usana - it is NOT!
The real problem lies in how people in any Network Marketing business are trained to build their companies. You see most MLM companies use the same tired tactics - make a names list, go to hotel meetings, bug your friends, hack off your family, purchase leads, yadah, yadah, yadah!
It simply takes to long for most associates to build a team big enough to actually enjoy the residual income that network marketing can create. While they are waiting for this to happen, they are spending hundreds of dollars a month on products, training cd’s, etc. Most new distributors quickly run out of money and quit.
The solution to this problem is build a business around you. So your business is “You Inc.” and you just happen to be a distributor of XYZ company, but you also have many other profit streams that bring in the big cash while you are slowly building your MLM business.
This is the solution - listen closely - generate your own leads, build relationships with those leads over time, sponsor some of the leads into your primary business AND profit from all those leads that never join your primary opportunity.
If this sounds like a better way to build your business, pick up your copy if Internet MLM Pro Secrets today!
So your a Melaleuca representative working hard to build your business. You have burned through your friends a family. Now what?
Typically your upline will tell you to start buying leads. So you turn to the search engines in search of a lead source.
If you do a search for “Melaleuca Leads” you will find a whole host of companies offering the best “double gold certified telephone interviewed leads” all for a low, low price. You sign up, hand over your credit card and get your first batch of these wonderful leads.
You spend hours on the phone, leaving messages, getting hung up on, talking to a bunch of cold fish. Several months later you have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on these leads, and your team still isn not growing.
Does this story sound familiar?
It does to me. Just change the company name and it is my story veratim. That is until I found a better way to generate leads, leads that are exclusively mine, leads that I can profit from over and over again even if they never join my primary business.
You see by using the internet you can easily tap directly into the target market you are looking for. Set up a simple lead capture page, and begin to build a relationship with these leads over time using email.
What if they never join your business? Not a problem, you can offer them other products as an affiliate and generate unlimited revenue from each and every lead on your list.
If this sounds like a better way to build your Melaleuca business, be sure and subscribe to my free newsletter to learn more! –>
One of the biggest problems I had when I first got started in network marketing was this thinking: spend today, get paid today.
You see MLM really does not work this way and I saw many new associates joining me with this same thinking. The reality is that MLM is more like a marathon rather than a sprint.
In a sprint you use all your energy over a very short distance - the race is won or lost in minutes.
However, for a marathon, you need to pace yourself. The marathon is won or lost in hours, not minutes. The same applies for your MLM. As you build your team, you leverage grows at the same time. However, not everyone you sponsor will be a leader. Some may be simply interested in the products, and will not be out recruiting.
So how to you pace yourself, like running a marathon, when building your MLM business? The bottom line is that you and your associates really need to see some financial reward to keep interested. The easiest way is to create a funded proposal system for you and your team.
This system allows you to generate your own leads. Not only that it allows you to earn money quickly, just like running a sprint, which is a good incentive to keep everyone interested in the business! It allows you to make cash today, and build your MLM business slowly - just like running a marathon.
Doesn’t this sound like a better way to build your MLM business? I sure think so, and so does my team!
Do you ever wonder why 95% of your recruits quit before they ever make a dime? Do you want to know how to improve the odds of your new associates staying around long enough to actually help build your team and make true residual income?
Listen, the rules of MLM have changed. Gone are the days of hotel meetings, cold calling lead lists and bugging your friends. Today you have the ability to truely leverage your time. You have the ability to prospect 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
How?
The internet baby, the INTERNET!
Here is just a quick example. I took off with my family for a week of pure vacation. I only turned the laptop on two times, once to email my father some pictures, and the other to place a new recruit in my organization.
I had never spoken to this new member. He had came into my “funnel”, purchased my ebook, and signed up on my team a few days later.
On top of enrolling this new associate, I also generated 52 new leads. These are now in my funnel. Learning about me, learning about my system - I am building a relationship with them, and it all started when I was “on vacation”.
You see my marketing system works 24 hours a day 7 days a week, even when I am not in front of my computer. This is how you can build true leverage into your network marketing organization. This is how you can generate 10 to 15 new leads a day, and sponsor 15 to 20 new associates a month, all without ever picking up the phone. –>
If you expect to make it, and I mean make it big in network marketing you have to be able to survive financially long enough for the residual income of your MLM business to take off.
For most people the true payoff in MLM will have 2 or 3 years from now - with consistent effort. Most people give up long before this point, simply because they are tired of dealing with a negative cash flow situation. What if there was a way that you could set up a system where you could generate cash rolling in daily, even if none of the prospects join your business.
This is what happens with a funded proposal system! You generate the lead through your opt-in landing page. Then you build a relationship with that lead over time. But you are not only building a relationship, you are also setting up a way for you to profit, even if they don’t join you in your business.
How do you do this? By using a funded proposal system!
This system could either be your own product, or someone elses where you can act as an affiliate and generate income when one of your leads make a purchase using your link. Most programs will pay once or twice a month. However some like “Internet MLM Pro Secrets” will actually instantly deposit the commission directly into your Paypal account.
Do you see the power of this model? How nice would it be to have your monthly business expenses completely covered by the income being generated outside of your MLM business. Now you can really start to enjoy any residual income that your MLM business spits out!
The funded proposal concept will enable not only you, but also your new associates to really have a solid chance of “making it big” in your MLM business!
