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MLM Network Marketing Excuses
Posted by: | CommentsOver the years, I’ve been amazed by the lame excuses that hold people back from the success they could enjoy in MLM network marketing.
When excuses are holding you back in your business, you really have 2 choices…quit the business or overcome the excuse. Assuming you have a big “why” for being in your MLM opportunity, and you are in it for the long haul, it just makes sense to clearly identify any excuse that’s blocking your success and learn how to get past it.
Although I have heard literally hundreds of excuses offered for lack of success in MLM network marketing during my career, all of the excuses revolve around a few basic themes. Here are the most common excuses networkers use and how to overcome each of them.
Time. Networkers complain they don’t have enough time, live in a certain time zone, or work a certain shift. The problem really isn’t lack of time, it’s lack of direction. Start by treating your MLM like a business. Establish a set work schedule, whether it’s 5 hours per week or 20. The only activities that matter in our business are exposing new prospects to the opportunity, following up with them, and enrolling and training them to duplicate the process. Eliminate other activities.
Prospects. The excuses networkers offer include not being able to talk to friends or family about the business, not knowing enough people, getting poor quality leads, or not being good at sales. The number one cause of lack of growth in MLM network marketing is not having enough good people looking at your business each day. There are a variety of ways to generate excellent prospects, both online and locally. Every networking company and team offers training on prospecting. Learn it.
Sponsor. The frequent excuses are that a sponsor left the business, the sponsor doesn’t know what he or she is doing, or that there are no leaders in a local area. Make it your responsibility to learn the business. Learn to be a leader. Many top income earners in our industry were orphaned years ago. Reach up-line for help. Reach cross-line for help. One of the best things about networking is the willingness to share with others. Ask for help.
Downline. The usual excuse is that the downline is not productive. Face it, some people will quit, many will never do any work, some won’t return your phone calls. When team members offer these excuses, my suggestion is always the same…enroll more new business partners and help them be successful. Focus on the winners on your team. Never waste time or fret over the losers.
Economy. This is probably the weakest excuse of all. Fact is, the down economy of the last few years has actually been a blessing for our industry. More top-quality people than ever are looking for another source of income. Take advantage of the fact that it presents an opportunity to recruit up to better prospects, and that nothing will grow your business faster than recruiting up.
If you are not having the success you were hoping for as a networker, take an honest, objective look at yourself. If excuses are holding you back, identify them and take the necessary action to overcome them. Don’t let excuses block your success in MLM network marketing.
Enjoy Success In Any MLM Network Marketing Business
To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
MLM Network Marketing Starts With Marketing
Posted by: | CommentsFor years, we have taught our business partners that the two essential elements necessary for big success in MLM network marketing are developing the right mindset and mastering an array of marketing skills. Developing the mindset of a leader is another topic in itself and is covered in a separate article.
Today’s article focuses on marketing. Everything in mlm network marketing depends on and starts with marketing. And unfortunately, most networkers have no marketing experience prior to joining the networking industry.
In its simplest sense, marketing is the combination of things you do to cause more people to buy your mlm product or service or to join your team as a business partner. It’s what creates sales!
To have real success in our industry, you must have a well-planned strategy for marketing your mlm. It should start with developing and maintaining a steady flow of qualified, motivated prospects looking at your business each day. The number one cause of networkers not enjoying the success they hoped for almost always traces back to not having enough good prospects looking at their business.
Today, most networking companies provide excellent training on how to build their business. And individual teams within a company usually offer additional training on their specialized approach. The initial training for any new networker should cover developing a marketing budget and setting realistic goals that you can measure your performance against. If you are in the process of selecting an mlm network marketing opportunity, the available training should be a major criteria in your choice.
While our team specializes in online marketing and search engine domination, most of which can be done for free, we still teach a number of offline and local methods also. We have found that a business will get the best results by applying a mix of several marketing methods.
In addition to marketing your product or service, or your company and its opportunity, it is vital to promote yourself too. This personal branding is called attraction marketing. When you learn to use attraction marketing effectively, prospects begin seeking you out instead of you searching for them.
The good news is that marketing is easy to learn. There are many different strategies you can use effectively in our industry. In addition to the training provided by your company and team, you can gain marketing skills through books, the Internet, and by closely studying marketing you are exposed to in your daily routine.
To have real success in mlm network marketing you must master marketing!
Learn To Master Marketing
Be A Top Money Earner In Your Business
To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
MLM Training – Be Your Own MLM Customer
Posted by: | CommentsFor sure, the major attraction to the mlm network marketing industry is the ability to make significant money. When done right, it allows you to make not just an immediate cash flow but substantial long-term residual income, too.
In our industry, the income streams can come from the monthly billings of either customers or business partners. Over the years, our team’s mlm training has focused on teaching our business partners to enroll a mix of both business-builders and customers to maximize their immediate and long-term income.
Another big attraction to MLM is its reputation for quality products or services at competitive prices. You should be the very first customer in your MLM network marketing business. Here are the 3 major reasons why:
To enjoy the benefits of a better product or service. If you do not truly feel that your product or service is a better value than anything else on the market, you are in the wrong business. You need a strong belief to be successful in our industry. I won’t even waste my time mentoring a team member who does not have a strong belief in what we do.
Accrue points to promote to the next level of achievement in your company. I will be the first to tell business partners that buying their own product or service ONLY for the points is flat out lazy. In our initial mlm training, we teach our team to sell the service and build a strong customer base. However, earning points from your own purchases is another great reward.
Develop your own personal story and credibility. Prospects and new business partners alike will look to you for an example of what to do. It will be very difficult to expect them to use your product or service if you don’t use it yourself. Plus, having personal stories of experiences you have had with your product or service make great recruiting presentations.
Build your network marketing business the right way. The initial step in your MLM training should be to become your own first mlm customer.
Learn To Acquire More MLM Customers
Be A Top Money Earner In Your Business
To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
How To Improve Website Conversion And Generate MLM Leads Faster
Posted by: | CommentsMany people in the network marketing industry still rely on working offline in their local and warm market or following old school business-building methods like purchasing mlm leads.
However, with all the buzz in recent years about attraction marketing and the desire to build a business in a quicker and easier manner, an increasing number of network marketers are looking for online ways to generate mlm leads.
In its simplest form, the technique to generate online leads is to put up a website or landing page, drive traffic to it, and get a percentage of visitors to opt in by leaving their contact information. Increasing web site traffic is a major topic in itself and is covered in a separate article. The other important part of lead generation is increasing the percentage of visitors who opt in once you get them to your site. This is called conversion.
Here are the 9 major strategies we teach our team members to increase conversion at their website or landing page. Successful conversion all starts with effective website design. You must design the website or landing page to do just one thing and do it well..get the maximum percentage of traffic to opt in.
1. Your page must have a clean design, be fast loading, easy to read, and deliver the information the visitor is expecting to see.
2. Do not include links pointing off to other pages. Avoid using flashing images and other distractions.
3. As in any marketing, you still must use compelling headlines and body copy. Face it, just getting a prospect to opt in is a form of selling!
4. Lead the prospect by the hand and make it clear what they need to do. For example, tell them to enter their first name and email address in the box below.
5. Make it clear what the prospect will get for opting in. People are increasingly reluctant to give out their personal information. Let them know you have what they are looking for.
6. Do not ask for any unnecessary information on the opt in form. The less information you request, the higher your conversion rate will usually be.
7. Include a bonus for opting in.
8. Maintain and display a clear No-spam policy.
9. Continually test different versions of your website or landing page. That is the only way to really know what delivers the best results.
Increasing the percentage of visitors who do opt in is just as important as increasing traffic to your website or landing page. Learn how to increase conversion on your website or landing page and you will generate more mlm leads.
Learn To Generate More MLM Leads
Be A Top Money Earner In Your Business
To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
MLM Network Marketing Is A Viable Option For Job Seekers
Posted by: | CommentsThe recent economy has left millions of Americans out of work and many million others working fewer hours per week than they would like to. On top of that, many people are now working jobs at a lower pay rate than they are used to.
As a result, many millions are feeling their standard of living shrink. They are giving up not only luxuries, but necessities also. Many families have taken in their parents or adult children because they can no longer survive on their own.
Job security is a thing of the past. I have lost track of how many top-quality people, used to earning a significant income, have responded to my marketing in recent months, searching for another option.
More and more Americans are searching for another source of income. People ask me all the time if MLM or network marketing is a viable alternative for job seekers. My answer is always the same…Most definitely!
Here are the main reasons starting an MLM business makes sense to job seekers.
MLM or network marketing is a proven home based business model. It has provided a dream lifestyle of both financial and time freedom to many people around the world who never would have achieved it by working a traditional job.
Top-notch training is readily available. The person who introduces you to the business has a financial interest in your success. The network marketing industry is based on teamwork and taking pleasure in seeing the next person have success.
Start-up costs are low. MLM is the one way people with limited finances and without previous business background can generate a substantial income working a very part-time schedule in a business of their own.
By combining the right training and marketing system with diligent effort, new networkers can create income quickly and build long-term residual income, too.
Yes, MLM or network marketing is a viable alternative for job seekers.
Be A Top Money Earner In Any MLM Business
To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
3 Free Strategies To Generate Motivated MLM Leads
Posted by: | CommentsOne of the challenges in network marketing is having enough good prospects looking at your business each day. What we call our warm market, those people we know and come in contact with, can be one of the most effective ways to grow a business. However, many networkers, especially those new to the industry are unwilling to make a list of friends and neighbors to approach.
There are a number of companies that generate mlm leads and sell them to networkers. I have found lead quality to be an issue with most purchased leads. Disappointing results can come from purchased leads being overused, older than expected, or prospects who are not even interested in network marketing. Furthermore, for networkers on a limited budget, buying leads may not even be an option, even if they can find a reliable source.
We have had far better success training our team to generate their own quality mlm leads. New networkers do not have the time or money to experiment. We teach proven methods that are quick and easy to implement. Here are three free marketing methods you can use to generate a steady flow of top-notch mlm leads.
Free Online Classified Advertising. While there are a large number of Internet websites offering free classifieds, I have had consistent results with only two, Craigslist and Backpage. They are fairly similar, and provide a large number of categories for ads in a large number of cities. Both require ads to be of proper content and placed in the appropriate category.
Article Marketing. This has proven to be one of my favorite and most effective marketing strategies. You write informative articles on topics that you are considered an expert on, and then submit them to article directories. Each article includes a resource box which has links to your website or blog. It’s a great way to generate excellent mlm leads.
Video Marketing. You can make your own videos with a webcam or simple video camera. You can even brand a video with your web address or phone number. Then you submit your video to video sharing sites such as YouTube. YouTube is rapidly becoming one of the most popular sites on the Internet. Video is a great way to establish a relationship with prospects and drive traffic to your website.
Don’t let a lack of contacts slow your business down. Consistently implement these free marketing methods and you can generate a steady flow of quality mlm leads.
Generate A Steady Supply Of The Highest Quality MLM Leads
Be A Top Money Earner In Your Business
To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
How To Get More Support From Your MLM Sponsor
Posted by: | CommentsFew things will have more impact on your success in network marketing than the team you join and the mlm sponsor you work with. Over the years I have found that choosing the right mlm sponsor is a more important decision than even the choice of the business itself. Equally important to choosing the right sponsor is building a relationship with him or her and earning as much of the sponsor’s time and support as possible.
One of the challenges for all leaders in our industry is knowing which team members to spend their time with. Identifying the right business partners will cut down on wasted time and lead to better duplication of the team’s system and an increase in overall business volume.
Here are the qualities we teach our business partners to look for that indicate that a team member is worthy of more of your time. You can use these as a guideline to help earn more of your sponsor’s time.
Show yourself to be a motivated leader or future leader from day one in your new business.
Complete each step of your new business partner training and report your progress to your sponsor.
Show yourself to be a self-starter who does not require a lot of hand-holding.
Develop clear goals and share them with your sponsor.
Show a desire to do whatever it takes to be successful in network marketing.
Try to solve problems or answer questions yourself before asking for help.
Demonstrate that you are coachable by following the team’s system.
Enroll new business partners on a regular basis
Attend all training webinars, conference calls, and events.
And most importantly, ask for help when you really need it.
A good sponsor wants to help you succeed. Take the time to learn how to earn more support from your sponsor. Those who work closely with a good mlm sponsor have a far greater chance of huge success in mlm network marketing.
Learn The Secrets To MLM Sponsoring
Be A Top Money Earner In Any Business
To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
MLM Sponsoring Is Based On Exposing
Posted by: | CommentsOne of the most important skills that anyone building a business in the mlm network marketing industry needs to learn is effective sponsoring. Recruiting or sponsoring new people into your business and then helping them duplicate the process is what creates a large organization and large residual income checks.
Most networkers still go at mlm sponsoring all wrong. They try to sell people on their opportunity, even if they are not interested. They overwhelm their prospects with way too much information. This turns prospects off and convinces them that the business is difficult and time consuming to build. As a result, their team never grows like it could.
For years, we have taught our business partners to focus on exposing new people to the business rather than trying to sell them. We let the tools provide the information. We train our team to invite people to review a simple website and ask them for their opinion.
Here’s how and why it is so effective.
Exposing is much less time consuming. By putting the emphasis on simply exposing more prospects, it becomes easier for team members to have a much larger number of qualified people looking at their business each week. Network marketing is a numbers game. The more qualified people you have looking at your business each week, the more new team members you enroll.
Inviting people to review a simple website is easy. Anyone can do it, even brand new business partners. Plus it is very non-threatening to prospects and shows the potential new business partner that the business is something that would be easy for them to do also.
Because it is both quick and easy, exposing new people is a business building technique that duplicates. All new team members down through the organization start using it immediately.
Stop hard-selling prospects on your business. Learn to focus on exposing more people and let the tools do the work. You will have much greater success with mlm sponsoring.
Learn How To Master MLM Sponsoring
Be A Top Money Earner In Any Business
To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
Is Your MLM A Secret?
Posted by: | CommentsOver the years I have watched a large number of people in the MLM network marketing industry fail to have the recruiting and sponsoring success they had hoped for simply because they did not do the simple things to promote their business.
They spent a small fortune on generic websites, voice mail boxes with 800 numbers, autoresponder systems, and other online tools that were supposed to take care of building their mlm. They spent countless hours each week updating one or more social media sites. Like clockwork they attended every conference call or training webinar available.
But they failed to do the easy, and in most cases very inexpensive things they could do to expose the people they already knew or came in contact with on a regular basis to their opportunity. They avoided anything that might result in face to face contact with a prospect. In fact, in many cases, it was almost like they were keeping their MLM a secret!
While our team specializes in using the Internet to build the business, there are a number of simple and low-cost marketing techniques we teach our team to use in their local market. These are so effective that they are part of our initial training for new business partners. They can bring immediate results to new team members while they are learning to master the Internet.
Here are some of the local marketing techniques that are often overlooked.
Send a personal letter to friends and family. Let them know you have started a new business. Invite them to look at your website. Ask for their feedback and any suggestions on who you might be able to help with it.
Add a signature file to the bottom of every email you send. Keep it brief. Include your website. Most email programs will do this automatically for you.
Put your website address on your cars. Check both online sources and at your local print shop. Vinyl lettering is very inexpensive.
Drop cards, sometimes called sizzle cards, are a brief classified ad placed on a business card. Drop cards are very low-cost. There are a number of online companies where you can design your own card. Look for places to leave drop cards as you go about your daily routine. Include one in all outgoing mail.
Take advantage of the many simple, low cost ways to promote your business. Recruiting and sponsoring will be much more effective if you stop keeping your MLM a secret!
Learn How To Master MLM Network Marketing
Be A Top Money Earner In Your Business
To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
MLM Leads Are Not Always Good Prospects
Posted by: | CommentsMLM leads can play an important role in your success. However, it’s important to understand that the quality of mlm leads varies tremendously and not all mlm leads are good prospects for your business.
Watch this video to learn which mlm prospects I won’t even enroll into my business. That’s right…there are many prospects I will not enroll!
Then subscribe to my free training to learn how you can enjoy a steady supply of the highest quality mlm leads.
Have A Steady Supply Of The Highest Quality MLM Leads
Be A Top Money Earner In Your Business
To your success,
Joe Barclay
Online MLM Mentor
