The same applies to network marketing success. The majority of people will not do anything. Only 20 percent of the people actually get around to doing something about it. But unfortunately, only a small percentage of THAT 20 percent actually achieves network marketing success (some give up after they fail to see results or because they move on to other commitments – not network marketing’s fault).

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The first thing you must do in order to take the first step towards achieving network marketing success is to have a dream. Not just any dream but a dream that is HUGE. Do not let other people tell you what you can or can’t do. In Donald Trump’s own words, “If you are going to think, you might as well think big.” After all, you are already thinking anyway, so you might as well think big and achieve big. If you don’t have a dream, a compelling reason to keep you going when the going gets tough, you will definitely drop out from network marketing after you run into challenges.

Besides having a dream, you must have a blueprint for success. It is also not enough to have the ‘WHY’, you must have the ‘HOW’ as well otherwise you will have a big dream and it just stops at the dream part (because your dream never becomes a reality).

For example, there are a lot of network marketing prospecting methods that are considered obsolete by today’s standards. You cannot just do cold calling and pester your friends and relatives by forcing them to join your network marketing opportunity. You need to learn how to handle people and use the Internet to generate leads for your business.

You also need to structure your action plan properly because you need to know how to execute your plans to make your dream a reality. An action plan that works out day by day, week by week, month by month and year by year.

Write down on your time table, what you need to achieve this very day – reading a motivational book, engaging in prospecting activities, retailing some products to your customers and spending time with your downlines training and coaching them.

Without a definite day to day plan, your day will definitely slip by without much action. At the end of the day, it is all about you – don’t rely on your uplines or your downlines for success because if you do, you are building their business instead of your own.

The first way is the traditional, old school way of getting leads which is to pull out your mobile phone and writing down every single name on that phone onto your name list. Every single person, from your baby cousin all the way to your 60 year old grand aunt.

When you run out of names on your list, you will start to dig through your list of business cards for any name that you can call.

This method is actually very ineffective because you are spending a lot of time going through a list of people who are NOT in your target market. There is no way you are going to be effective if you keep on targeting people who do not have a big dream, people who are comfortable in their jobs or people who just won’t listen to what you say no matter what you say (they see the old beer drinking buddy Joe rather than someone who is pursuing their dreams).

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The second and more effective way to get the best MLM leads is to go on the Internet and get your leads. But bear in mind, don’t just get any leads but rather leads that are targeted – that means people who are actively seeking for a network marketing opportunity or people who are on the verge of switching to another opportunity.

These people are the best kind of leads you can find because not only do they give you the least amount of resistance, they are actually people in your target market and you will spend less time and money on marketing costs.

There are many ways you can get the best MLM leads – either through driving free traffic or by paying for traffic.

The advantage of using free traffic is that you do not need to spend any money and you can easily get traffic from organic search terms as well as blogs, social networking sites, social bookmarking, forums, traffic exchanges and even other people’s blogs. Free traffic takes time to generate but it is very good if you are building your network marketing business on a shoe string budget.

Once you have made some money with your leads, you can invest into paid traffic as well. One of the advantages of using paid traffic is that you get to control the amount of traffic you can get. It all depends on your budget and you are the one that sets the cap on your traffic. You can get up to potentially unlimited traffic in a very quick time. Some of the best ways to get the best MLM leads also come from pay per click (PPC) campaigns such as Google AdWords, buying banner advertising and using co-registration leads.

On November 15th I paid $100 for a limted test of this traffic stream that will last for 30 days. All of my traffic has been sent directly to the landing page at My World Plus (http://burke.myworldpower.com).

So far I have generated 62 Leads and 2 Member upgrades, and I still have about 15 days left on the advertising purchase. This is a great deal! Right now I have recovered half of my initial cost, and I expect to completely cover my intial expense within the next 15 days.

Because of this success, I am putting together a TEAM ADVERTISING COOP for my team in MyWorld Plus.

How this works is that each share will cost $100. Every team member that purchases a share of the coop will have thier personal URL placed into a rotator. So for each share they purchase they will receive one “hit” to thier site. If they purchase 2 shares they would get 2 hits per rotation.

The way this traffic source works is that they more you spend, the less the traffic costs. So by pooling our money, we should be able to make a massive purchase - as well as share the risk a bit.

I will keep you posted on the results!

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One of the reasons why they are so uncomfortable when approaching their friends is because they are fighting an uphill battle against their group of friends.

Granted, it is very difficult when you are doing it alone. After all, peer pressure is against you and the only way you can successfully convince your friends to join your network marketing is if you and another partner are working as a team.

The first and most notable example of working together as a team is with your spouse or your significant other.

The man will usually talk business, because most prospects usually perceive the man as the one holding the authority (not that women are inferior, but they have more powerful ROLES in different areas).

The women on the other hand, will do well trying to relate to the prospect through products and services.

With that said, don’t fight to be the boss – learn to examine the situation.

This sort of tag team prospecting is even more effective when dealing with couples because while the man talks about business plans in the living room, the women can chat all about products in the kitchen.

If you do not have a partner, you can always pair up with your upline or a side line (sometimes, it even works with downlines… after all, there is power in numbers). If your upline and you know a mutual friend, greatest leverage you have to convince a common friend to sign up is to use social leverage (after all, ‘everyone else’ is in… what about you?) This works even well if your upline has credibility and is someone who is well respected, you will have better chances for success.

The most important thing is to make sure you do not do this business alone. Network marketing is a business that puts you in business for yourself, but you are NOT going to work by yourself. Trying to go solo in your network marketing business is suicidal because if your downlines try and pick it up, they will each do things their own way (solo) and you will have a heck of a problem when your group reaches a large number.

Another reason why it is very difficult to work alone is because you don’t have all the time in the world to go running around prospecting and taking care of all your downlines at the same time. You need to share the load and give some credit to your downlines as they look out for one another when you are not around.

You are in business for yourself, but not BY yourself. You must learn to divide and conquer as you work together with your uplines, downlines, sidelines and even the staff in the company. When your prospect see you walk down the isle and the managers and staff are all waving to you, it gives you a lot of credibility (when they wave to you and you go, “By the way, that’s the managing director of the company…”)

Remember, there is strength in numbers.

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Over the coming weeks and months you will be able to look over my shoulder and see the exact marketing methods I am using to grow this opportunity - this is unprecedented!

There are so many people out there calling themselves “gurus” - who can you trust? I am laying it all on the line with this one folks - success and failures, you will see them all!

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TRANSCRIPT:

Hi. This is Burke Jones, and this is the Internet MLM Pro podcast. I am back! That is right, folks. I know it has been a while since you have actually had a real podcast from me.

I have got some new technology. I’m using my iPhone. I’m using a voice recoring application. You know, the quality is probably really not what you would get with a better microphone, but I’m really going to go for some quality of information rather than peak performance on the audio file. I hope to start doing this much more frequently.

Two quick things. Be sure and keep an eye on my blog. I’m launching a case study that I started a month ago. I am going to start posting results of that case study on my blog. My blog is located at internetmlmpro.com/mlm-blog.

OK, guys, in this episode, I want to talk about content creation. We hear all the time about how you got to put content out there on the web, distribute articles, and make videos.

All of that goes out there to brand yourself as a leader and drive traffic back to your landing pages so that you can generate subscribers and build that relationship with people via email.

But who has the time to make a video, write an article, write blog posts, do all these different things? It just can become really overwhelming. So what I want to talk about right now is how to generate one piece of content and turn that into two or three different pieces of content.

What I am talking about is, and I am going to use this podcast episode as an example, as I am recording this, I am generating an MP3 audio file of this podcast. Then what I am going to do is I am going to send that MP3 file off to a transcription service.

And if you just search for “podcast transcription service” at Google, you will find a lot of companies that do this. They have people that for very inexpensively will listen to your podcast and type it up into an article, just transcribe it word for word.

So I am going to send off this audio file; I’m going to have it transcribed. That is going to give me a blog post, or content for my Squidoo page, or content for a Hub page, maybe even an article.

So right now, by creating one audio file, I have already created an audio file and I have created a text file for my blog or for other traffic generation strategies using article marketing.

Then what I am going to do is I am going to take this audio track and I am going to grab some pictures from royalty free photography sites and I am going to put together a video, or I might even just put a picture of myself up there and let it be shown with my website on there for the whole length of this podcast.

So by just recording this one time using my phone as I am driving around town here, I have created three different pieces of content that I can distribute across the web to further brand myself and generate, drive traffic to my website. That is it today for this podcast, folks. Thanks for tuning in. Like I say, look for many more of these to come on a much more regular basis from me. I always try to bring you some good tips and case studies as we go.

If you need to contact me for any reason, just to tell me how much you love this podcast or anything else, send me some feedback to Burkejones@Gmail.com. Until next time folks, to the top.

If you want to be successful marketing your MLM business on the internet you really need to have a system in place that does three things - if you get one of these wrong you are destined for failure.

What are these 3 critical components of an affective MLM marketing system?

1. Highly optimized lead capture page
2. Automated follow-up via phone or email
3. Utilizes the powerful marketing tactic - the “fear of loss”

In this installment I will focus on discussing breifly the lead capture page.

For any lead capture page to really convert it needs three basic ingredients. A strong headline, feature and benefit bullet points, and a bit of mystery to draw the prospect in.

Get these right and you will have a winner. You see people will only spend a milisecond deciding if the page is worth reading further - this is where the headline comes into play. The first thing a prospect sees when they hit your page is the headline - and it must draw them in.

After the headline most people will scan the remaining text on the page - probably not reading every word - and within just a few seconds will make a decision to share their name, email, etc in return.

This is where the “mystery” comes into play. You want to tease the visitor with just enough information that it peaks their interest, but does not give the entire story. So you want to hint at the solution to their “pain” but not give them the complete answer. This will further encourage them to part with their private information and subscribe to your mailing list where you can further develop the relationship with them.

But that is for the next part of this article…stay tuned for Part 2 of Your MLM Marketing System!

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So how can you turn your business around and create a bullet proof scenario for success?

It is actually a very simple plan that can be broken down into 3 easy steps:

1. Begin building on the internet. In todays economy people that are searching for a home based business immediately think of the internet as the first stop for a business. You need to be generating your own free leads using the internet.

2. Put yourself in a position of profit. If you are not making money in your MLM you have a very expensive hobby not a business. When you generate leads as indicated in step one, you need to market products and services to those leads where you make commissions when a lead makes a purchase. Then you can sponsor the real business builders from a position of profit.

3. Drive massive traffic to your landing pages or lead capture pages. It is actually easier today than ever before to drive massive traffic to your web sites. The best way is to tap into the huge traffic sites like YouTube, MySpace, EzineArticles and other social sites offer. It is very easy to build you “reputation” or position yourself as a leader using this free tools.

Using this simple system will allow you to build a MLM business that is immune from failure. The traditional methods taught by nearly every MLM company out there simply will not work for 95% of the population. So start building your business on a solid foundation today.

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Burke Jones here from Internet ML’M Pro - and this is longer than my typical
emails to - but it is important so read every word.

One of the primary factors of using the laws of attraction marketing to grow your
net’work marketing business is to position yourself as an expert in the field.

This does not mean using the strong arm tactics of the 1980’s to ram your
opportunity down the throat of anyone unfortunate enough to be standing next
to you!

So how do you tap into the powers of attraction marketing using the internet to
explode your prospecting system?

You create great content! AND freely give it away!

As people search for information on their business, you show up everywhere they
turn. You have a blog, you have articles, you do PPC marketing - you are
everywhere.

One of my favorite places that I send all my coaching clients to get started is a web
2.0 site called Squidoo.

At Squidoo you can build what they call a “lens” for zero cost. These lenses can be
on any topic you desire. Of course for our purposes you will want to stick with
subjects related to M’LM and Net’work Marketing - after all we ARE wanting
prospects to grow our business with.

Here are a few quick facts about Squidoo:

- Over 10 million page views per month
- A lens is loaded every 1/4 second
- Squidoo was the 14th FASTEST growing site on the web in 2007!
- Squidoo has a PageRank of 7

Does this sound like a place you would like to be? IT SURE DOES!

I have built many lenses, and once built they continue to bring me traffic and leads
on auto-pilot FOREVER! This is true LEVERAGE!

Do the work once, and profit FOREVER!

Here is an example of one of my personal lenses:
90 Day MLM Success Plan

Now even though Squidoo is very user friendly some people are still intimidated
of the thought of creating content and building a lens, or just simply don’t have
enough hours in the day to get the work done. This is where I can help….

I have tamed the Squidoo Beast - I know the modules to use, I know how to write
great content and promote a lens for maximum benefit.

So for the first 5 people to take me up on this offer here is what you will get:

1. One custom designed lense targeted around the theme you provide me. (it
must be M’LM or Network Mar’keting related ie. your company, etc) You will provide
any links you want, etc - it will look like you built the lens - your an INSTANT EXPERT!

2. After the lense is built, I will transfer complet ownership to you. You can update
it, change it, etc - it will be transfered to your free Squidoo account that I can help
you set up.

3. I will also promote the lense so that it gets maximum exposure! I have several
sneaky tactics that will drive you lense up in the search rankings - plus I will also
promote your lens on my blog!

As you can see I am giving away the farm to the first 5 lucky people to take me up
on this incredible offer!

I have seen similar services charge as much as $249 for this type of service - but
you won’t pay anywhere near that much - in fact you will get a custom built Squidoo
lens - with all original content created by yours truely - for the low one time price
of just $127!

If you want in on this deal - you need to simply sent me $127 via Paypal to this
email address: burkejones@gmail.com

But you must act quickly - this offer is going out to thousands of my subscribers,
and I only have limited time which is why the offer is only for the first 5 people
that take quick action!

If you are the 6th person to take action, I will immediately refund your money -
that is how serious I am about limiting this offer!

So send your Paypal payment right now to burkejones@gmail.com and I will get
started on your lens!

Your partner for success,

Burke Jones
“The King of F’ree Leads”

P.S. - Remember, you get to pick the topic - you tell me what you want, and I will
create a custom lens around that theme!

P.P.S. - If you want to see a couple of lenses I have built in the past that rank very
high (like #1) in Google you can see them here:
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However, I realized about a month ago that I had seriously been neglecting my health. My blood pressure was beginning to rise right along with my weight. I knew I needed a change.

So I started running. Now, there is no way that a mildly overweight, out of shape guy like myself can just go out and run for 3 miles - I would probably kill myself. So I found a great running program called the Couch to 5k program - you can find out more here. Right now I just began week #4 if you care to see what I am doing.

Basically I run/walk 3 times a week. Each week the time spent running increases and the time spent walking decreases. So at the end of 8 weeks you are running non-stop for 30 minutes.

It is a great program, but it does take dedication.

One of the things I have learned over the past year is that dedication is really what is required for success. If you are dedicated week in week out to taking consistent action you will have success in this industry. The biggest secret to my success has been the ability to focus on the things that really matter - like traffic generation and front end profits.

By taking consistent action in my running program I am transforming myself from a couch/computer potato to a runner - and it is easy! The skills I have learned by building my business through dedicated action transfer to other parts of my life like running.

Today - right now - take action. Then do the same thing tomorrow. Before long it will be a habit - and you will not be able to stop yourself. The best part is that success will quickly be your reward.

I have some big things coming your way in the next few weeks. It is getting very exciting around these parts!

She was a great dog, always very healthy - and turned out to be wonderful with our children as our family grew.

Over the past several months she really began to fail. In the last couple of weeks it had gotten really bad. She appeared to be in extreme pain, and would simply fall over walking across the floor - and forget about her going up or down stairs alone. The average life span of Dals is 11-13 years, and she had exceeded that by 6 months.

We had been to the Vet several times in the last couple of months, and there was simply nothing that could be done for her at her age.

So this morning we had to say our final good byes to our family pet and she passed away peacefully with me at her side. It will be strange and quiet night for us all.

I know this has absolutely nothing to do with business, but I have found it hard to focus today - it is strange how a pet dog can become such a part of a family!

We will miss you Sadie!

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You see the problem is that the really nice money is made 2 or 3 years down the road in most network marketing companies. It simply takes this long for your team to grow to a point that you can experience the real residual income benefits that MLM and Network Marketing can offer.

So how do you stay in the game long enough? You are no doubt spending money every month on your business and this can only continue for so long before your broke!

Easy! Get plugged into a funded proposal system that will allow you to profit from leads even if they never join your network marketing opportunity.

Let me show you a couple of examples to see what is very easy to accomplish.

Here is just one payment for two weeks of commissions….

What would this kind of money mean in your life?

With this type of income, you can easily cover you monthly business expenses, reinvest in more advertising - or just take you favorite person out for a great meal!

By combining Network Marketing with affiliate marketing and a good funded proposal system, it really puts you in a position of ultimate power - lead abundance and positive cash flow!

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Hello Burke,

Thank you so much for putting together the Internet MLM Pro Secrets e-book. I’ve been involved with MLM marketing for about 7 years, made some money but as we all know spent more than I’ve received in residual income. I can not Thank you enough for helping me to refocus on what the primary responsibility was to marketing. It’s not about the product It’s about people and mainly it is about ME. People will respond with genuine concern and will definitely want more information when they have established a bond and or connection with you. I’m wiping the slate clean and revamping my energies towards these goals.

1. Establishing my credibility
2. Focusing on my clients needs and how i can assist them
3. Following advise from just One Mentor

Thank you,
Otelia Johnson
Ohio

Drink It, Feel It, Share It
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Otelia has the right strategy firmly implanted in her soul - as it takes hold, and she takes action, her success will increase.

This is valuable stuff folks, and the key to your success. Otelia did a fantastic job boiling down the three simple things that are required!

So what resource did Otelia use to “wipe the slate clean” and refocus?

This is the Answer… Internet MLM Pro Secrets

I promised I would give you a quick road map, so just like the children in “The Magic Treehouse” book who point at a picture and magically transport to that location - you can “magically” insulate yourself from failure.

There are two ways to create this insulation, and virtually guarantee yourself success - if you take action.

First, put yourself in a position of lead abundance! You will never do this by bugging your friends and family or buying expensive leads…you must create your own.

The best way to do this is to simply create your own lead capture page on your own website and drive traffic to that page. However….

If the thought of creating your own thing is keeping you from getting started, the next best thing is to plug into a generic system, that brands you as a leader - and does all the heavy lifting for you. All you need to do is add traffic.

The best generic system I know of is Power Prospecting System (<= Click there) by Daegan Smith. This system brands you as a leader, has high converting landing pages, and gives you the entire system on a silver platter.

The next thing you need to do is give yourself a way of earning money! As your leads enter your system, you need a way of making money from them even if they never join your primary business.

The easiest way to do this is through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing allows you to offer your subscribers other peoples products, by recommending them, and when they purchase you make a healthy commission.

The Power Prospecting System has this function built into the system, so it makes it very easy.

However, if you are not using PPS, where should you turn to find affiliate products for this niche?

One quick way is to simply look at the sites of products you have found for a link that says “Affiliate Program” or something like that.

Here are a couple of my products that offer affiliate commissions:

Internet MLM Pro Secrets - $7.00 100% commissions paid instantly to your Paypal account. Here is the link you need to use:
http://www.internetmlmpro.com/mlmreport/?e=YOURPAYPALEMAILADRESS

MLM Auction Secrets - 50% Commissions paid monthly. Here is the link to sign up for the affiliate program:
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By implementing these two strategies, you will have the “magic” that will allow you to stay in business long term.

Get started building your own “Magic Treehouse” today…

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Kristi, who is a very thorough interviewer, will spend an hour grilling me on what actually works best for generatng M.LM leads.

You can listen in for free. Tune in to learn lots of proven ways to grow your M.LM business on the internet.

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For those of you without children under 10 years old, “The Magic Treehouse” is a great story about a brother and sister that have a treehouse full of books. The “magic” happens when they open a book and point at a picture - they are instantly transported to that place for the rest of the story.

In the current book we are reading they actually travel to a moon base. My kids really get a kick out of this imaginary story.

So after I tucked them in I started thinking about how dreams can propel your business forward. Much the same way that the children in the book, point at a picture and transport themselves to that situation - you can do the same thing.

Unfortunately, in this industry many of us are faced with so much rejection and disappointment that we stop believing in the “magic” that are those dreams we started with.

You really do need some way to protect your dreams like they are the most fragile creation on earth. After a bit of thinking I wrapped my mind around a couple of ways to put this protection in place….

First, put yourself in a position of lead abundance. When you have more leads than you can talk to in a single day, one little rejection will not stop you - after all you have hundreds more leads where they came from.

Secondly you must have a source of income in your business. Lets face it, in most network marketing companies, you simply don’t make much money when you first sponsor someone, or get that customer going. The power comes when you organization takes on a life of its own, and you begin to benefit from the work of your entire team.

In the next installment I will examine each of these in more depth and give you a quick action plan to move your business forward.

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Things are going well here at the Internet MLM Pro headquarters!

I took a few hours off today to take my lovely Wife out to dinner and recharge my batteries - I have been burning the midnight oil on this “MLM Auction Secrets” course.

A few days ago I created a brand new eBay account to do a little case study using the powerful tactics that will be revealed in “MLM Auction Secrets” when it launches on Monday.

Here is the case study video…..

If you have any questions about the course, please leave me a comment here on the blog!

I will be in touch….

After the call I received this email:

“Hello Burke:

I finally understand this stuff. This was IMMENSELY helpful.

Thank you. I am looking forward to getting my hands on that Ebay report.

If I am not on the list that will find out about it; please let me know.”

(name withheld for privacy)

This course holds some powerful strategies that will transform your business.

Now for the update…I have been burning the midnight oil getting this thing completed. I just received a call this morning from the duplication facility, and all systems are go!

The will have the courses duplicated and ready to ship on Monday, March 10th.

I don’t have a launch time set yet, so keep your eyes glued to your email.

I will be in touch one more time over the weekend with a little case study I have put together this week. You will not want to miss it!

It has been a busy week around my house. Last week my Wife had to have a procedure done on her heart - she has been suffering from a “inappropriate sinus tachacardia” for some time. So the doctors decided to go in and try to fix it - for six hours! It was the longest six hours of my life!!

She is doing well now, and I have been the ever helpful husband catering to her every need and taking care of our 3 small children. Hey, if I can’t pat myself on the back who can?

Anyway…

So just what is “MLM Auction Secrets”?

I’m glad you asked! “MLM Auction Secrets” is a complete course that will show you step-by-step how to exploit the power of eBay to sell truckloads of your product AND generate hot exclusive leads for your business.

“MLM Auction Secrets” is a complete system that will allow you to stop buying expensive leads, generate your own exclusive leads not only as prospects but also for customers of your product.

Here is a quick screen shot of my Gmail account to show the quantity of leads I was generating back in November - it has gone up since then by implementing the “ninja secrets” of the system!

What would 10+ new prospects a day do for your business? How about 10+ new customer leads?

It is easily accomplished using the tips, strategies and tactics that “MLM Auction Secrets” will reveal to you.

It looks like the courses won’t be ready to ship until Friday at the earliest - I will keep you posted with the exact date things will “go live” when I can set the firm date.

I will be back in a couple days with even more information on this exclusive “MLM Auction Secrets” course.

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them right here on the blog!

One of the biggest struggles in this industry is finding good MLM leads. Unfortunately, most of the problem comes from the fact that the ideal target market has not been indentified before you start your marketing efforts.

Let me illustrate with a quick story…

The other day my lovely Wife sent me to the store with a short list of items that we needed for our home. On the list was written “Finesse Hairspray” - yes it was for her - I am not much of a hair product guy.

So I headed over to the hair spray aisle and began my search. I looked and looked, but could not find “Finesse Hairspray - black bottle.”. I must have spent five minutes looking at each and every bottle on the aisle - who knew there were so many brands of hair product! Finally I came to the conclusion that the store simply did not have “Finesse Hairspray” and finished my shopping.

When I got back to my car I gave her a quick call to see if I needed to go somewhere else. She could not believe that the store did not have it. I said the only black bottle on the shelf was “Tresemme”. At which point she exclaimed, “That’s it!”. She had mistakenly written the wrong brand name down on the shopping list. Sure enough I went back in and instantly found what she wanted.

Now your probably wondering how this story relates to your target market and generating MLM leads for your business, so let’s look at this from a business perspective.

When we first get into this business we are told to target our friends and family. Then when that does not work, we are told to purchase generic business opportunity leads. Sure this tactic might get you a few new associates, but from my perspective these two groups of people are not your ideal target market, and the struggle will continue for you.

Just like when I was trying to find the wrong hairspray on the shelf, and did not have success, targeting the wrong group of people will also lead you to failure.

However, once you identify the precise market to suck your MLM leads from, life becomes much easier. In exactly the same way I instantly found the correct hairspray once I knew the right brand name, you will be able to enroll new associates at a record pace!

You can choose up to three answers, but please only choose the answers that interest you (i.e. if you are only interested in one of the choices, please choose just the one). I’ll let you know in about a week what the results of the poll are, and what I can do to help answer some questions.

Here is the Poll:

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What I’d like to do is tailor my content to the interests of the Internet MLM Pro community, so your input is most certainly appreciated.

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Burke Jones
“The King of Free Leads”

But you really need to hear, as Paul Harvey says, “the rest of the story”!

So, I was attending the annual parent-teacher conference for my oldest son. Who by the way is doing exceptionally well! Am I a proud Dad or what?

When I got back in my car after the conference I whipped out my iPhone to see what new email had arrived while I was busy at the conference - yes I am addicted, so leave me alone.

While I was in the conference, I received an email from my Network Marketing company saying that I had just enrolled a new member.

Now, the important thing to understand is that I had never spoken personally with this individual. I had never sent them any email other than what was already loaded in my autoresponder. And yet, this individual still joined my business!

This is what I call leverage! Forget about all that stuff your upline keeps telling you is leverage - junk like buying leads and bothering your friends and family…

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Let me explain with a quick story. Last summer I attended Webelos (Cub Scout) camp with my oldest son. On one of the days at camp they got to shoot BB guns. (Which by the way is one of the reasons I love Scouting - it lets boys do things boys like to do, but we have managed to allow them to be politically incorrect - but that is another story!)

The boys were instructed on the range safety, gun safety and proper shooting technique. They were taught how to aim the BB gun by aligning the front sight and the back sight on the target.

Surprisingly the boys were very good shots in general. They were finding their targets, aiming, and hitting the mark.

Now just imagine if they were suddenly blindfolded, and the targeted started bouncing up and down. Do you think they would experience the success they had been experiencing? Highly unlikely!

This same idea holds true in your business. You have to identify the market, by finding out what need or desire your product can fill - this is your target market. Once you understand this your business is bound for success.

However, if you pick wrong, or misunderstand what your target market is, it will be just like shooting a BB gun blindfolded while the target is moving - success will be difficult to obtain.

So before you take your first action in your network marketing or MLM business, be sure that you have identified your target market with laser guided precision. Then and only then will the marketing efforts you make be rewarded with success.

Hold on to your wallet! Buying leads is the quickest way to failure that I have ever seen. Sure it works for a very small percentage of distributors, but typically they have spent a bundle to learn the techniques and tactics required for this success. There are two reasons that your upline recommends buying leads for your Mona-Vie business - leverage and money.

Lets break this down and take a look at leverage. You see it works for your upline, because they have hundreds of suckers under them just like you. If a small percentage of their downline manage to sponsor someone it adds up to massive growth for their business. Unfortunately, you will probably never experience the same success.

What about the money aspect? The real industry secret is that your upline is probably making a commission on every lead purchase you make. Just imagine that they make 20% of every purchase you make, and every purchase of the 100 other people on their team - do you think that would add up to some serious cash? I bet it would!

So what can you do so you can manage to stay in this business long enough to experience the true power of residual income we have all been promised?

Simple…generate your own exclusive leads and send them through a funded proposal follow-up sequence, so you can make some cold hard cash, even if they don’t join your primary business!

For starters I love how Donald writes - I like his style. This book was a quick read even though it comes it at 368 pages - yes the print is big with plenty of white space

So what did I get out of it? Plenty! If you are positioning yourself as a leader in this industry of Network Marketing, I can assure you that you will to.

What is the biggest thing I took away from it? Work harder than anyone else and you will succeed!

The book was loaded with stories from Donald’s own life the clearly bring this point home. Even at his lowest points financially, he still worked hard, took chances - and clearly kicked a__.

There is no doubt that Donald is ruthless in business - much more than I would ever be, however, he seems to justify his style in a manner that ends up making sense.

Donald does not “think” he is a leader - he KNOWS he is a leader (and even speaks repeatedly of how good looking he is and his great hair). I do think this is an important thing for us to think about as MLM’ers - stopping “thinking” you are a leader and simply acknowledge that you are! Leadership is not given it is a mindset that is taken.

Should you read “Think Big and Kick Ass”? Absolutely, it was worth every penny I spent on it. And as a bonus it has given me tons of ideas for articles and emails - so stay tuned….

“You are so lucky to know how to use the internet to build your business…”

Or

“You are so lucky to have a growing team…”

Whenever I hear statements like these I am reminded of a professional golfer name Gary Player. Gary was a top player back in the 70’s, in fact he won 9 majors - and 3 masters - this guy was top rated.

Many of the commentators called him “diminutive” - he was smaller than many of the other players. So how did he do so well on the links?

Simple - he worked harder than anyone else. He was always practicing, excersising and working on his game. He simple out hustled everyone else on the course, before he stepped onto the tee-box.

In the U.S. Open he hit an incredible 5 iron shot and landed the ball right next to the pin and sunk it. The commentators said “Gary, unbelievable, you got so luck.” Here is how he responded….

“It seems the harder I work, the luckier I get.”

I love this statement - in fact it is one of those statements that I keep posted next to my computer.

It really is true - outside of a very few “lucky” people that win the lottery - successful people became succesful by working extremely hard!

So how does this relate to your network marketing business? Simple - get started doing something. Just because you are in network marketing, it is no magic bullet to wealth and success. You simply have to work, put your head down and get busy, and massive MLM success will come your way.

Then people will say to you “you are so lucky”…and you will simply smile and remember this story.

This conversation reminded me of this proverb that I had heard many years ago, and still keep posted on my bulletin board. I like it because I really think it says a lot about taking action in life and business.

“You can’t cross a chasm in two leaps.” - Ancient Chinese Proverb

I see far to many people really want to acheive success, but they simply fail to take the actions necessary for success. Here are some of the common causes I see:

- Seeking Perfection: People are so critical of their work, they fail to ever launch. Listen folks, if you are getting started, it does not have to be perfect to work! You can always tweak and redesign later, just get something out there.

- Feeling Overwhelmed: Many people look at my business or other leaders online, and think they have to have everything in place on day one. You don’t need to have your own products, you don’t need to videos, articles, multiple websites on day one. You just need one thing - a lead capture page! Then you can build from there!

So isn’t it time to stop standing on the edge of the chasm? Get ready to take that one major leap to make it to the other side - take action on your business today. Figure out how to make just one thing happen everyday and before you know it you will land on the other side of the chasm - the side that few find because they are trying to make two leaps to the other side.

Okay, folks here is the story! I am holding two very powerful phone calls this week, and have 5 spots up for grabs.

I will be sharing a secret technique that has been responsible for massive growth in my business. You will learn one laser targeted strategy for generating leads AND selling tons of your network marketing companies products - for free! This is a laser targeted strategy that you will be able to immediately implement.

Here is how this will work. Simply leave me a comment right here on my blog - telling me why you want to be on the calls. I will pick 5 lucky winners from the list.

There are a few strings attached:

1. The two calls will be held live on Tuesday & Wednesday of this week (Feb. 19th & 20th) at 11:30 am Central Time. You must be available to either call in or listen live on the web - if you cannot commit, please do not ask to participate.
2. You must be willing to write a testimonial for me after the calls. Don’t worry, the information will be top notch, so it will be easy and ethical to provide the testimonial! If you can provide a picture of yourself to be included with the testimonial that will be even better!

So, if you can meet the above requirements - leave me a comment now!

On Monday (Feb. 18th) at Noon Central Time I will pick the winners and announce them right here on the blog!

I am totally pumped about these calls and have the entire outlined penciled out - the information rocks. Remember these are free, educational calls - no selling or recruiting on my part - just pure content!

I still have a bit more content to add to the lens, but I thought I would go ahead and get the link loved started so it will get indexed in the search engines.

If you have not started using Squidoo, you really need to start - it is a great strategy to leverage your content! So head on over to my new lens - “MLM Funded Proposals” and take a look. Be sure and give it a rating while your there…

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Hi,

I find my greatest problem is getting guaranteed “free” traffic to my
Website. I do use Traffichoopla.com - they give a list of the very
best Traffic Exchanges. I only use 1 Safewlist - themadvlad.com.

Have you any suggestions with regard to getting traffic to my Website?

Thanking you - Marge.
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Marge, great question! I also appreciate the links you have sent me, I will check them out as well.

I am a big fan of traffic exchanges and mailing list builders for a couple of reasons. First they take very little time to set-up and keep them running. They may or may not bring in floods of traffic, but when you get a enough trickles from different sources it all adds up to a flowing river of traffic to your landing pages.

I am particularly interested in traffic builders that let you email other users. This is different from a Safe List - which I have not found to be very effective. The type of system I am referring to allows you to email other members of the site to promote your site.

Here are the four of these sites I am using right now to grow my list and build my business:

List Bandit
List Joe
Your Lucky List
ListDotCom

All four of these come with a free version - however, you really want to take a strong look at the one time offer which will be shown only once on your first login to the system. I have purchased the one time offers in all four of these programs because it is worth every penny!

You see the free versions will work, but you will be limited on how many members you can email and how often you can email them. To truely leverage the system, I take advantage of the membership upgrade when offered, which will allow you to email more members, more often.

So what should you email them? Keep your email short and simple. Give you link at least 3 times in the body of the email. You should only promote one link per email - and it should go to a lead capture or squeeze page. The least effective way to use this resource is to send them to your company provided web site.

You would either send the traffic to your personal site or one of the generic prospecting systems out there. You want to get the lead and then be able to build a relationship with that person over time.

If you have any questions about this free mlm traffic tip, or just want to let me know your own thoughts, please just leave a comment right here on the blog!

What makes this program successful is getting your malls out to as many people as possible. So should you purchase generic biz-op leads to find more people to present your opportunity to? Unfortunately, this is what many new owners will do, and they will typically be met by failure. What you really need to think about is finding the “right” person to present your opportunity to. It is better to have one really targeted prospect than dozens of unqualified and uninterested prospects - which is typically what you find when you buy leads for you Power Mall business.

Many MyPowerMall leaders understand that they can easily attract the most targeted lead of all - a lead who is already involved with network marketing. By attracting these leads - those that are already involved in the industry you can dramatically shorten you path to success. In addition, what if these leads actually paid for themselves?

By pushing your leads through a funded proposal system - which offers them tools and training they want and need - you can actually create income for yourself outside of your PowerMalls business. This income will allow you to cover your monthly expenses, pay for more advertising and probably keep your spouse or significant other happy!

If this sounds like a better way to build your “My Power Malls” business, grab your FREE CD Here!

I have been thinking about this recently in my own business, and I have done three things that help me tremendously, so I thought I should share them so that others may benefit.

1. Big Goals - I always start with my biggest goals first. These are goals that I would like to realize in 3 to 5 years. These are important because they let you dream big and these goals give you the freedom to do exactly that.

2. 6-12 Month Goals - I typically do this at the beginning of the year, but do it whenever it makes sense to you. What I do is take a sheet of paper and write down specific goals to be completed during these time periods. Typically these are task oriented or project oriented. So in my particular business it is setting goals for web site traffic, number of new leads per day and products that I would like to develop for my team and customers.

3. Weekly Based Task List - At the start of each week I indentify the imporant tasks I need to accomplish to work towards my 6 to 12 month goals. These tasks are in addition to the normal tasks I do simply to keep my business running from day to day.

When you break you goals down into specific action and short term tasks and goals, it is much easier to keep moving forward towards you “big dream” goals that you will eventually realized by staying on task.

I am reminded of the question “How do you eat an elephant?”…..”one bite at a time!”

Simply by taking small “bites” on a daily basis eventually you will have “eaten” the entire goal - and you will have realized substantial progress in your business.

While big goals are good, sometimes we need to break them down into smaller slices so that we can make progress. So last night that is exactly what I have done.

My short term goal is to get started on PPC traffic. Now I consider myself the “King of Free MLM Traffic”, but I know I am missing out of huge traffic simply because I have not taken the time to get my PPC campaigns set up correctly.

So that is my goal for this week! By the end of the week I will have a whole new traffic stream implemented and generating hot fresh leads for my business.

What is your goal for this week? Leave me a comment and let me know…

“I am just getting started, what do I write articles about?”

Watch the video, and leave me a comment with your thoughts.

Yesterday I received this great question from Susan:

My biggest struggle is finding leads. I know you have to spend money to make money, but when you are starting out, thats just not feasable.

So if I look a bit below the surface of her email, the real question is how can I get started generating my own leads with little to no money.

It appears that she may be coming from the point of view where she was probably purchasing generic biz-op leads and the cold calling them. From my experience this is simply a quick and painful recipe for disaster. I have never seen one company that will pay enough on a new associate for you to cash flow this - the leads are simply too expensive, and the rejection is to great!

I also think it is a mistake to think that we can build a business - any business (MLM or otherwise) - with no money. You must have some money to get started.

So let me give you a quick run down of a simple system that will get you started with $40 bucks out of pocket maximum - which will allow you to generate your own leads, and make a profit from those leads.

Step One (less than $20.00) - Get a web hosting account (Try Dream Host for a good deal - I use them!)

Step Two (Free) - Create a simple lead capture page. Don’t know how? Just look at some examples and model yours around the ones you like best.

Step Three (about $20.00) - Set up an account at Aweber so that you can actually capture these email addresses and names. Then you will be able to build a relationship via email with your new leads.

Step Four (Free) - Start writing articles and submitting them to the article directories like EzineArticles.com. If you write one article a day you will be amazed how your traffic starts to build.

So you can generate high quality MLM leads using the internet. Just don’t become overwhelmed! Take action on this plan and it will work for you.

To learn more about how I am building my business using the internet, be sure and pick up your FREE CD here.

My Wife and I are packing our bags and heading off tomorrow morning for a short get-away in San Diego. My parents arrived this morning to handle the kids for the week, which our kids and Grandparents alike are totally excited about!

We are really looking forward to this trip. We don’t get this chance very often - and three kids keep you pretty busy. It will be nice to simply be together and relax.

On top of that I have been working very hard the month of January - and I have some really big projects planned for February (keep your eyes on your email for the announcements) - so I am looking forward to recharging my batteries and coming back home next week reinvigorated.

In any business sometimes you have to take a step back, relax, and return with a new energy. I do hope to use the break to really do some thinking. Many times we are so busy in our daily routines, that we don’t allow ourselves a chance to be quiet and simply think - which is something I love to do.

Thats all for today. I need to get some audio teleseminars and videos loaded onto my iPhone before we leave!

See ya on the other side….

My two boys and I are actively involved in Cub Scouting. Yesterday was the annual Pinewood Derby race. For those I you might not be familiar with the Pinewood Derby it is basically a toy car race.

Each boy receives a block of wood, 4 nails that are the axles and 4 tires. They then carve and shape the wood to look like a car and mount the wheels.

Of course just like anything in life it gets pretty competitive so we ended up spending hours polishing the axles, painting the car and basically making it as fast as possible.

So the day of the race my two boys were nervous with excitement and anticipation.

Each boy gets to race four times. It was interesting to watch their emotions as the races progressed. My oldest son came in third place on the first to races.

He was getting upset because my other son had come in second in both of his races.

Then in his third race my oldest son came in first! Oh boy, his emotions instantly swung the other direction and he was on top of the world.

I found it so interesting how their emotional state could swing so dramatically from the success or failure of thier last task.

This same situation seems to affect many adults as well as they begin to build their MLM businesses.

The mark of a true entrepreneur is that they do not become so emotionally involved it each event. They look at each success or
failure as a learning experience.

When you get to a point in your own mind that each activity is not judged as a success or failure but rather just one point in a journey to success, life becomes so much more fun.

The problem is that most of the ways we are taught to build our MLM businesses simply don’t allow us to reach this point. From my experience it really takes two things to happen in your business before you can get your mind around this.

You have to place yourself in a position of lead abundance. If you have more leads than you can physically contact you don’t get as concerned over every rejection.

But you also must put yourself in a positive cash flow position. You simply cannot continue to lose money each and every month and have the mindset you must have to succeed. If you do not have positive cashflow you don’t have a business you have a hobby.

This is the game I play everyday, and it rocks! So right now make the decision to not ride the emotional roller coaster of each race as my son did. Instead get started today building a real business where emotions don’t have to rule your life.