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!
I wrote an article a few weeks back about using Agloco with your MLM team. I just signed into my Agloco account and already I rank in the top 38% of members with referrals.
You really should check this! Get an account, send it to your friends, your downline, your upline - use it to fund your business!
My oldest son turned 10 years old today, and it is really making me do some serious thinking about my life the last 10 years.
You see 10 years ago today he came into this world much to early. He was born 11 weeks early, topping the scales at 1 pound 10 ounces and was just 12″ long. My wife had been in the hospital for a few days before he was born.
You can imagine our shock, first time parents, and what we had imagined having a baby would be like was shattered that day.
Just 8 weeks later he was able to finally come home, weighing a whopping 4 pounds!
I really cannot put into words the blessing we have been given with him. We had many ups and downs during the 8 weeks he was in the hospital. In fact it is still hard for me to really talk about it without getting a lump in my throat.
But now to see him 10 years later. A normal healthy 10 year old boy, does well in school, and is turning out to be a serious little entrepreneur himself! He truly has been touched by the hand of God, and we thank the Lord for him everyday!
I know this is a personal post today. But I just had to share because building a business on the internet has done so much for my family. It has allowed my Wife to be a full time stay at home Mom to our three children. It gives us freedom to make decisions that we want to make for our lives!
The best way to get your new associates plugged into your team and excited enough to hang around for the long haul is to get paychecks into their pockets. In this video I talk about the best way to make this happen.
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Ever heard the old saying “If you build it, they will come”?
Don’t be fooled - it is simply not that easy. If you like most people you have spent countless hours building your capture page and loading your auto-responder - then you “go live”.
Your hopes are high that the traffic to your site will start pouring in, dozens of new leads will be signing up, and your site will be an overnight success. The truth is generating traffic to your site will take time.
So how can you generate endless streams of targeted traffic to your site? The best way I know of is to create multiple streams of traffic, that is traffic from many sources - maybe just a few visitors a day from each source, but they all add up to a big bundle of targeted visitors.
I have come up with four basic tactics that everyone on my team learns to master:
1. Ebay
2. Article distribution
3. Ezine Advertising
4. PPC
The trick is to not spread yourself so thin, that you are a student of everything, but a master of nothing. Focus on one tactic until you really understand it and know how it works. Then when you have it down to where it can almost run on autopilot, move on to the next tactic.
This strategy will also help you with duplication. Once you truely understand how a traffic strategy works, you can then easily teach it to your own recruits, and they can then teach it to their team, and so on.
I am all about generating traffic to my MLM landing pages and you should be as well. Traffic is the life blood of your business, and you need to focus time and energy on a daily basis for maximum success.
I also believe in having multiple streams of traffic, each stream contributing small amounts of traffic that add up to a river of new prospects coming into my profit funnel on a daily basis.
One of the ways I drive traffic to my landing page is by using Squidoo. Squidoo allows you to get an account and then build one page sites that are focused on a specific topic. These pages are called “lenses”, and can be a good source of traffic for you site.
You can see how it is tightly focused on my core mission - teaching people how to create leads for their MLM business on the internet.
You can do some interesting things with a lens. You can add RSS feeds, add images, add a newsletter optin form and post new articles.
The power of your lens really comes into play once it gets indexed by Google. You see Squidoo has a good page rank in Googles eyes. Once your lens gets indexed it will begin to rank high in the search engines for your keywords - so choose them wisely.
You will also need to update your lens at least once a week to keep it active. Squidoo has a ranking system, and the freshness is one of easiest ways to keep it ranked highly.
Just like article marketing, the power of your lense will build over time. So head on over to Squidoo and start building your lense today.
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.
Once you have your website setup and your funnel created for capturing leads and converting them into new associates, you need a way to drive traffic to your landing page.
One of my favorite ways of generating leads for my business is to use Ebay. The massive amount of traffic that Ebay receives can really lead to huge leverage, and huge traffic for your business.
The easiest way to get started is to assemble a simple report. This report needs to be specific and fill a need that your prospects have. For instance, if you sell a diet supplement for your MLM business, you could produce a report that describes your product and how it can help your prospect drop the pounds. It should be educational in nature, and not just push your product relentlessly.
Once you have it written simply convert it to a PDF document so it can be automatically delivered to the purchaser. Ebay allows you to sell digital products, and has a way to provide a link to the buyer once they have made payment.
Once it is done, you can simply start placing auctions. Think about the keywords that people would use to find your product and then include them in your title.
Once the auction is complete, forward the customer to a squeeze page to collect thier name and email, and then deliver the ebook. You now have a lead for your product - that you can market to over and over again!
Of course, you can use this same technique for people that are looking for a home business - and watch your downline grow!
