Archive for March, 2010
MLM Sponsoring Success Requires These MLM Leads
Posted by: | CommentsTo enjoy massive success with MLM sponsoring in any company, you need to have a constant supply of the right kind of mlm leads.
Our warm market, made up of our friends, neighbors, and Uncle Bob, are usually not the best prospects for our business. Too bad, because most new networkers are still trained to make a list of 100 or more names of their warm market and then start building their mlm business by approaching them.
This leads to a very low rate of success. The majority of warm market prospects are not even interested in, let alone looking for an mlm opportunity. Many in your warm market may hear you out because of your relationship, but 9 times out of 10 you are wasting your time and setting yourself up for rejection.
One of the biggest reasons I was able to become very successful at mlm sponsoring is that early on I learned how to generate my own mlm leads via attraction marketing. I have found that it is important to generate leads very specific to mlm network marketing for best results.
All of my leads start out as contacts generated online by opting in at one of my websites or blogs. All advertising to attract contacts to me is centered on topics relating to mlm network marketing.
Once contacts are in my follow-up system, I build a relationship with them. I provide free training, tips, and other value, and brand myself. Nothing on my websites or blogs promotes my mlm company by name. When the time is right, the contacts approach me for information on my business. At that point, I consider them a lead.
The leads you work should all be actively searching for an mlm opportunity. They should already know you. If you’ve done it correctly, you have already shown them you are a leader and that you have a proven system to share with them. They already know you can help them succeed.
Again, the key is, when the timing is right, the leads contact you!
Learn to generate a constant flow of the right kind of mlm leads and you too can become a heavy-hitter at mlm sponsoring.
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To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
Online MLM Training – Spend Time With The Right People
Posted by: | CommentsToday’s online mlm training tip will show you how to make maximum use of your time and help you grow your business faster and stronger by working with the right people on your team.
Working with the wrong people not only wastes your time and slows the growth of your business, but also becomes very frustrating. Understanding this is especially critical for people new to our industry. A common cause of limited success is spending too much time with the wrong people.
Working with the right people starts by enrolling the right kind of people.
Old-school network marketers spend their time approaching their warm market of friends, neighbors, and relatives. These are people who usually have not even expressed any interest in mlm or network marketing. When they enroll someone like that, those people more frequently turn out to be whiners, excuse-makers, and the first ones to quit at any bump in the road. The time you spend with them is totally wasted!
The right kind of person for our industry is someone who is actively looking for an opportunity. They need to be motivated, goal-oriented, and coachable. Become good at attraction marketing, and top-quality prospects will be calling you daily, asking to join your business.
After you enroll a new business partner, it’s important to get them started correctly from day one. The longer it takes a new business partner to get into action, the greater their chances of failure.
You need a good online mlm training system that is followed by everyone on your team. Start new business partners with clear expectations and a path to follow. That way, even someone with a less experienced sponsor can be successful, too.
I like to encourage new team members to call me as they complete each step in our online mlm training system, as well as any time they need help. Those are the ones I spend my time with. Over the years, I have found that the people who have called me the most have turned out to be the most successful.
Be sure you have a follow-up system with an autoresponder that emails new business partners regularly to keep them in the game. This is also a great way to make it easy for someone to get back in the game if they’ve been sidetracked and been away from the business.
When whiners, excuse-makers, and other negative people come to the surface, make it clear you do not have time for them. Explain that you only spend your time with winners. Invite them to change their mindset. Encourage them to get in the game and refer them back to your online mlm training system.
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To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
iLearning Global Drops MLM – What To Learn From It
Posted by: | CommentsiLearning Global was a network marketing company. It billed itself as a learning resource for entrepreneurs, business owners, and network marketers. The company seemed to be doing well. Many networkers became very successful in it.
On March 17, 2010, iLearning Global announced it was ending its network marketing model, feeling they could no longer be competitive. Bottom line…they are out of network marketing. Many distributors are out of business.
Over the years, other apparently successful MLM network marketing companies have done the same thing, usually with little advance notice. It’s sure to happen again, too.
While no distributor is ever ready for something like that to happen, some were far better prepared than others.
Those who were practicing the old-school style of network marketing of promoting their opportunity and relying on company replicated marketing materials are in a serious situation. They are about to lose their check and all of their hard work. They will have to pick up the pieces and start all over again.
However, the smart networkers who learned and practiced modern attraction marketing are much better prepared for the situation. They have been busy branding themselves as a leader, an expert, and the one you would want to be in business with. They have built a team of people who have joined to be in business with them rather than with the company. They own their database of business partners and know how to use it.
I personally know of several who quickly and methodically moved their team to a new company and replaced their iLearning Global income in a matter of days.
Everyone in network marketing should be asking themselves these questions:
1. What will I do if my company calls it quits tomorrow?
2. Have I shown myself to be a leader, an expert, and one who gives without expecting something in return?
3. Will my team follow me to another company?
Prepare yourself for the possibility that your company may be next to pull the plug. The lesson to learn is that people don’t join companies, they join people. Stop promoting your company. Start branding yourself.
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To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
How To Get Emails Read
Posted by: | CommentsToday’s training tip will help you get a dramatic increase in the number of prospects that actually read your emails.
More than ever before, email is a vital part of successful business-building. And it’s not just because of the universal acceptance of the information age and its convenience. Any serious marketer looking to take full advantage of the power of the Internet will make email marketing part of their marketing strategy.
Today the big buzz in MLM network marketing is Attraction Marketing. Attraction marketing is all about promoting and branding yourself as a leader, an expert, and the one who can help your prospect be successful.
One of the most powerful methods of attraction marketing is to build an email list of targeted prospects and then send them a sequence of follow-up emails providing valuable information such as training, a newsletter, or informative articles to build a relationship with those people on the list.
With people receiving so many emails every day, and so many of them being unsolicited spam, one of the real challenges is getting your email opened and then read by your prospect rather than deleted. It’s important to note that an equally critical part of getting prospects to read your emails is just getting emails delivered to their inbox. But, that’s a a topic in itself and is covered in a separate article.
Open Rate is the industry term for how many people on your list open a particular email. Usually it is expressed as a percentage. There are several ways to increase email open rates.
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Write a compelling subject line.
Test the results for email sent each day of the week.
Test the results for the time of day your email is sent. I have always had best open rates after mid-morning. I am convinced that deleting all of the spam that comes in overnight is a common practice.
Write a strong opening paragraph. Some email programs will show a preview of your email before the prospect decides to open it or delete it.
Personalize the subject line with each prospect’s name to differentiate it from spam.
Customize the “from” field in your emails so prospects recognize you.
Avoid using spam-like tactics such as deliberate misspellings as in Fr.ee or m0ney.
Learn to master these techniques for improving your email open rates. It will lead to a dramatic increase in the percentage of your emails that get read by your prospects.
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Joe Barclay
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Eliminate MLM Rejection
Posted by: | CommentsTraditionally, one of the biggest obstacles to success for new people in MLM network marketing has been rejection. It seems to take the biggest toll when someone is brand new in their business and their enthusiasm is at its highest.
Rejection can come in many forms ranging from a polite “no, but thanks for sharing it with me” to outright rude, insulting, or sometimes even vulgar. Unfortunately, rejection from the people we know and love the most can sometimes be the most hurtful, even though that is usually not their intention.
Nobody likes rejection. Some can take more than others. Everyone has a limit. Rejection has caused many people to quit their new business before they’ve even given it a fair shot.
Typically, new networkers have been taught old-school methods like:
Make a list of 100 friends, neighbors, and relatives to approach.
Call in a favor or two.
Purchase opportunity seeker leads.
Host home parties.
It’s no wonder they suffer so much rejection. They are talking to the wrong people…people who for the most part, are not the least bit interested!
Making the situation even worse, their sponsors have given them bogus advice like:
You just need to talk to more people.
Work through the rejection.
Every ‘no’ you get means you’re closer to a ‘yes.’
No wonder so many give up in our industry.
The good news is that you can build a successful MLM network marketing business without dealing with rejection. And thanks to the Internet, you can do it mostly for free!
The key is to promote yourself, rather than your business. We call it attraction marketing. With the right system, you can brand yourself as a leader and expert in the MLM industry. Using the Internet, you can quickly get enough exposure so that prospects interested in and actively searching for a networking opportunity will be contacting you, rather than you chasing them.
With this approach you can eliminate rejection in your MLM network marketing efforts.
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Joe Barclay
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Online MLM Training To Find People With Strong Desire
Posted by: | CommentsToday’s online MLM training tip is on how to build a large and profitable network marketing business. The key is finding lots of the right kind of people and then taking the time to train them to duplicate the process.
The right kind of people is what’s really important. It’s not about finding people with need. It’s about finding people with strong desire. Many people need more money today. Not all of them have the desire and drive to do something about it!
I have found that there are two elements that are critical to success in finding prospects with strong desire.
The first is an online mlm training and sponsoring system that builds a relationship with motivated prospects. It brands me as a leader and the one who can help them succeed. The system has the prospect contacting me for information on joining my business when the timing is right. This works far better than pitching friends and neighbors or wasting time and money calling phone leads. When a prospect chases me, that’s the first indication of strong desire.
The second element is qualifying those prospects after they contact me. These are some of the qualifying questions I ask:
How serious are you about changing your life?
What would you be willing to do to make it happen?
Would you be willing to learn some simple skills and follow a proven system?
Would you be willing to step outside of your comfort zone?
Would you be willing to devote 7 to 10 hours per week to your business?
Would you be willing to do it consistently for 2 to 4 years?
Would you be willing to work at it even when you didn’t feel like it?
The prospect with strong desire will give a very positive response to each question.
Take your networking business to a new level. Stop looking for people who need money. Start attracting those with strong desire. Plug them into a good source of online mlm training.
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Joe Barclay
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Increase Backlinks – Building Website Traffic With Backlinks
Posted by: | CommentsAn important part of online marketing is learning to increase backlinks to your website.
Backlinks are links pointing to a website or web page from another website. The number of backlinks a site or page has is an important part of search engine optimization (SEO) and generating website traffic. Search engines such as Google use the number of backlinks pointing to a website to help determine that site’s ranking in their index. The higher up a site is listed in a major search engine, the more likely it is to be seen and visited.
However, success with links is not just a numbers game. Link quality is also important. Two factors in the quality of a link are anchor text and relevance. Anchor text is the text you can click on in a link. It tells the search engines what the linked page is about. Always use keyword-rich anchor text rather than “click here”. Links are considered to be more relevant and of a higher value when they come from sites with related themes.
Here are some of the common online marketing methods you can use to increase backlinks and website traffic:
Writing and submitting articles. The resource box of an article provides a place for links to your site.
Video marketing. Include a link in the description of every video you upload (some video sites even make your link clickable).
Social media like MySpace.
Getting your site listed in directories such as DMOZ.
Blog posts and comments.
Posting in forums.
It is important to note that these online marketing methods are all basically free to use. One method to increase backlinks to your website that is not recommended is purchasing links from sites that exist solely for the purpose of trading or selling links. The common term for these websites is “link farm”. Using these links can actually hurt your rankings in the search engines.
Take the time to master linking. You can create a massive increase in your website traffic by using the right strategies to increase backlinks.
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Joe Barclay
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MLM Sponsoring – The Modern Approach To MLM Sponsoring
Posted by: | CommentsMLM sponsoring strategies have developed over the years. Unfortunately, many sponsors are still sabotaging their new business partners with outdated information, ineffective strategies, and flat out lies. And it’s too bad, because with the right approach, successful prospecting and sponsoring in network marketing/mlm are easier than ever!
I have found that one of the most common causes for lack of success in MLM sponsoring is not having enough good prospects looking at your business each day. However, the solutions to this challenge that sponsors offer to their downline many times include poor advice like this:
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You need to buy more leads.
You aren’t talking to enough people.
Every “no” you get, means you are that much closer to a “yes”.
Make a list of 100 friends and neighbors to show your business to.
Work the 3 foot rule…anyone you come within 3 feet of gets pitched on your business whether they are interested or not (and 9 times out of 10, they are not).
You just need to work harder.
Start handing out sizzle cards at the mall.
Put flyers on bulletin boards.
Increase your marketing budget.
Today there are far better solutions to the problem. There are a number of strategies you can put into place on the Internet, mostly for free, to attract top-quality prospects to you. In fact, you can even have those prospects reaching out to you, instead of you chasing them. Also, there are several online mlm sponsoring systems that automate the whole process of sponsoring.
The modern way of sponsoring is to promote yourself first, rather than lead with your business. And it just makes sense. People don’t join businesses, they join people. Learn to build relationships with the right kind of people. Be known as a giver, not a taker. Show yourself to be a leader who can help others have success. Then prospects will actually contact you, asking to see your business.
You can make your business explode with the right approach to MLM sponsoring.
Stop wasting time and money. Generate more free leads and be a top enroller in your company by using my favorite MLM sponsoring system.
To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
Online MLM Training
Posted by: | CommentsTop-notch online MLM training is essential for success in network marketing today. The old-school techniques like bugging friends and neighbors, putting up flyers, running newspaper ads, or buying opportunity seeker telephone leads just don’t get the results they used to. Besides, who has the time or the stomach to try to build their business that way?
The smart way to build an MLM business now is on the Internet. When you learn how to build your business online, you’ll find it’s faster, easier, and cheaper, in addition to being much more effective. To have major success in your business, here are the key areas you need to master in online mlm training:
- 1. A strong presence on the Internet. This should be in the form of your own websites, landing pages, blogs, videos, and articles. Replicated company tools are not as effective. You need to take the time to learn each of these techniques.
2. Learn how to generate big volumes of traffic to these online elements. It really doesn’t matter how good any of them are if you don’t get enough traffic to them. Generating traffic is one of the most valuable skills you can learn.
3. How to take advantage of the traffic you generate, and build a list of your own prospects on a system you have control over. You need to own the list. You do not have control of subscriber lists that are maintained on company or team systems.
4. How to use your list and an autoresponder to continually follow up with and build a relationship with your subscribers, and brand yourself as an industry leader who can help them be successful.
5. Using an online system to expose prospects to your business and enroll them on auto-pilot when the time is right.
You can have massive success in your business if you learn and apply the right online mlm training!
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Joe Barclay
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MLM Lead System Pro Review
Posted by: | CommentsThis MLM Lead System Pro review should give you the information you need to make an educated decision on whether or not to use this system to build your network marketing business, and how to find the right team and sponsor to join.
MLM Lead System Pro (MLSP) is a customizable attraction marketing system. It is designed for beginning and experienced network marketers alike. It can provide a steady source of quality leads and cash flow while building a successful mlm business. It is a complete system that does not require any previous experience or skills in online marketing.
I have used most of the sponsoring systems that have come along over the years. I have even created a couple myself. I have had excellent results with MLM Lead System Pro.
Here are the main benefits I have found with MLM Lead System Pro:
- It provides you with your own personalized websites and landing pages. This is important as replicated company websites are not effective. You need a website that promotes YOU.
- It enables you to build your own list of prospects and follow up with them. This enables you to brand yourself as an expert, a leader, and the one your prospect would want to be in business with.
- It provides a streamlined sales funnel with multiple income streams so networkers can generate cash flow while getting their primary business into profit. You even make money on prospects who have not yet joined your primary business.
- It provides simple, but detailed training on every step of the MLSP attraction marketing process so anyone can have success with it. New members can be up and running in just a couple of hours.
- It provides an automated, natural way to introduce prospects to your primary business after you have built a relationship with them. This is critical because people don’t join companies, they join people. I have found MLSP to be an excellent way to enroll more people.
A number of people have posted an MLM Lead System Pro Review online already. Most are very positive. However, like in anything else, some people have not had success. I’ve found that lack of success with MLSP usually comes down to only a couple of causes.
Some people never take action and follow through completely. While you can sign up and use the default web pages MLSP provides, you will have far better success by customizing them with your own videos and copy. Many networkers don’t make the effort to learn and apply all of the training MLSP provides on how to generate massive traffic to their sites. It doesn’t matter what web pages you put up if you don’t get lots of traffic to them.
Many times their lack of success comes from not taking the time to research sponsors in MLSP and not joining a team that will provide the right mentoring and support. Choose your sponsor in MLSP just like you would a sponsor in a business opportunity. Call potential sponsors and ask them to prove to you they can help you generate a high volume of traffic. Have them show you they dominate Google with top rankings for hot keywords that mlm prospects actually search for in big numbers.
Choose the right sponsor, take advantage of the training, use the system to its fullest, and you can have massive success with MLM Lead System Pro.
Become a top earner in your company. Join a winning team and allow me to personally mentor you to massive success in MLM Lead System Pro.
To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor