Top MLM Blogs

Archive for February, 2010

I’ve spent half a life time looking for the perfect opportunity.  A chance to better myself and shape my future, financially and successfully.  If you’re interested in having success in your own life, then please read my story.
When I was in high school I thought I had the world at my finger tips.  I knew that the harder I worked the further it would take me.  Unfortunately, my future was changed abruptly with one moment in time that I can never take back.  In 1993, at the age of sixteen, I was forced to become another victim of carless driving.  Due to inexperience, I overcorrect and flipped my car after the driver ran me off the road.  My injuries wouldn’t have been as critical if my seat belt hadn’t broken lose and thrown me out the driver’s side window.   A better chance of survival would have been in my favor if it hadn’t been a hit and run.  I was left with a  shattered jaw, a broken hip, chronic head injury and fell into a coma.  When I awoke two months later, I realized that my life would never be the same.  My only thought was “what am I going to do now”?
I will never forget what my doctor told me during rehabilitation, “If you work really hard you can be who ever you want to be”.  So, for the past seventeen years I’ve done nothing but work.  Nonstop.  I’ve worked until it made me sick.  Until it almost killed me.  From working twelve hour shifts in Neruo/Traums to awkward shifts in a Medical Laboratory and years and years of college, my mind and my body were worn and torn.  My doctor gave me two choices, continue working in a hopital until it kills you, or take a break and reconsider your options.   I took his advise and explored my possibilities. How about a baby?
Like usual, things didn’t exactly go the way I had planned.  Instead of having one baby I had three, triplets.  Born at 28 weeks, baby A weighed 2lbs 9oz, baby B weighed 2lbs 13oz and baby C weighed 1lb 14oz.  They were in NICU for three months.  It was a blessing to bring all three of them home together. They’re truly beautiful and now that they’re two years old, they’re truly ornery.  I’ve spent every second with my boys since they were born.  There’s nothing I would rather do, but when they’re busy playing with Daddy or Grammy and Papa, I sit and wonder.  Is there a way for me to remain productive without losing time with my children?  I thought, what if I could work at home?  So, I searched google for a few days but nothing clicked.  I began to lose hope.  I decided to search one more time and there it was, a non hype business model.  The first out of a hundred websites that I could trust.  I was excited and a little skeptic at first but it didn’t take very long to decide that this was a perfect opportunity for me.  The choice I made to join this opportunity has given me a new out look on life.  I’ve found a company that goes out of their way to help you succeed.  My sponsor is always available to answer my questions.  I’ve finally found what so many people have been searching for a long  time. Now I spend time  quality time with my family and enjoy traveling the world.
This could be a new chapter in your life.  A thousand mile journey begins with one step.

For more information about the business that changed my life click here.

You always dreamed of being financially comfortable or even rich, being your own boss, and only working when you wanted.  Suddenly you wake up one day and realize that it’s happened!  You’re there and have everything from your dream.  Wow!  Is it real?  What did you do to get there and, more importantly, can you sustain it?  Yes, you can sustain it, but there is a catch.  You have to keep doing what you did to get there in the first place.  This means you have to keep working.  It doesn’t become a free ride, just because you reached your goals.  Keeping them will be equally if not more challenging.

Think hard about all the things you’ve done with your MLM business to this point.  Consider the network you’ve built.  Look at how you’ve built it and maintained it because inevitably you have probably lost members and subsequently replaced them with new members.  Understand how you built the tier in your immediate downline and how you motivated them to perpetuate the structure.

Congratulations!  You’ve worked hard to attain the status you now have.  You don’t want to throw it away or lose it, so you have to keep working.  By now, you’ve been at it for awhile and it’s very probably second nature.  You get up every day and perform your tasks.  You make your calls, follow your leads, send emails, and work with the folks in your downline to help them with whatever circumstance they may be struggling.  It’s all become an intricate part of your being and the likelihood of you just stopping isn’t strong.  After all, what would you do with all your time, right?  That’s good, because the success will dwindle quickly if you stop.

After you have a complete grasp of all this, keep doing all of it.  Don’t assume you can stop just because you made it to where you wanted to be.  Now you have to do it to keep what you’ve earned.  You cannot expect your downline to support you entirely.  In order to maintain their respect, motivation and support, you have to continue to be you and do your job.  This will encourage and charge them to strive even harder to reach the same success you have attained.   You know this business like the back of your hand.  That’s why you have reached guru status.  Keep raising the bar.  It will do you and your downline a lot of good.

In order to be successful in network marketing, it is important to be aware of MLM pimps and how to spot one in your local coffee house.  Depending on the person, these pimps can either help you make a lot of money or can be just downright annoying.  By now, most people are aware that MLM is dependent upon a strong downline.  However, the jury is still out as to whether building the largest downline possible always translates to strong income potential.  While many try to recruit as many clients as possible in order to make up their downline, doing so sometimes results in a group of people that drain time and resources instead of making you money.

However, although a quality group is obviously important, without a large enough client-base, it will be very difficult to make money.  Because of this, there has become a recent onslaught of MLM pimps.  These pimps tend to troll places such as coffee houses as they often get a fair amount of foot traffic and have a captive audience from which they can easily recruit.

Often found mulling around the same coffee house day after day, these MLM pimps could represent your success or your demise depending on their training, opportunity, and motives.  While there are some that have a valid and reputable business opportunity that could end up being well worth your while, the fair majority will end up taking your money and then leaving you roped into an opportunity that keeps you in a holding pattern without any promise of any real financial gain.  Therefore, it is important to be wary and learn how to spot these opportunists who might be hanging around your local java joint and looking to prey on the unsuspecting folks coming in looking for their daily caffeine fix.

However, should you find one of the often talked about but rarely seen MLM pimps that actually deliver, you will definitely want to take advantage of what they have to offer.  The trick is spotting the money-makers from the money-drainers.  Although it might seem difficult at first, a good tipoff is the way they go about recruiting you.  Those with a more laid back, yet still enthusiastic style tend to have a higher likelihood of being legit.  However, those trying to talk to every Tom, Dick, and Harry with gusto should probably raise a red flag.  So, if you happen to encounter one these opportunistic MLM pimps, it is best to get your coffee and run!

Well, you’ve taken the plunge.  You’ve decided to start your own home based business through a multi-level marketing company.  What now?  Where do you start and how do you get going?  The deer in headlights feeling is pretty uncomfortable so you want to get going quickly so you don’t have to feel it anymore.

Start by doing an inventory of the tools the company you’ve signed on with offers.  They may provide you with a website.  If so, it likely has some kind of back office feature that will allow you to track leads from the website, view your status with the company in terms of sales, points earned, and so forth.  It may even provide you with tools for following up with leads and generating email campaigns.  They may have provided you with brochures or packets and perhaps even business cards.  Most likely that offer a series of training videos or conference calls to help get you started and keep you on track.

After you understand what you already have, make a detailed list of what you need.  If you don’t have the handout materials, like brochures and business cards, you will want them.  You can design a simple one page flyer and business cards and have them printed relatively inexpensively.  Make a list of all the places or people you could contact to sell your product or present the company for recruiting.  List all the places where you could place your handouts for people to read or pick up.  Be creative and think outside of the box.  If a website and back office system are provided, make sure you know how to maximize the use of all the tools offered.

Now that you have all the tools, it’s time to hit the ground running.  Start talking to people everywhere.  Don’t be afraid to pin a small stack of business cards on the bulletin board at the grocery store or leave them on a table at your dentist’s office.  Figure out creative ways to introduce your products to your friends and family.  Make sure they understand what you’re doing, so they can spread the word.  Take advantage of one of today’s most effective tools, social media.  Log into your computer and set up accounts on networks that work, like Twitter, Facebook and My Space, but learn to use them properly.  That means being genuine and authentic.  In other words, be a person and don’t just sell when you’re using these networks, interact and converse with people just like you are face to face.

Not too long ago I was an MLM Newbie-Wet Behind The Ears, but then I was introduced to a Network Marketing Legend that has helped me every step of the way in becoming a Master Marketer .Who new this industry would be so much fun.

Addiction is partially defined as the condition of one being compulsively or habitually occupied by or involved in something.  Is it possible to become addicted to MLM businesses?  Absolutely!  We’ve all heard about one of them, read about one of them or know one of them, the MLM junkie.  This is someone that is crazed about every new gimmick that they come across.  They are convinced that the next one is the best thing since sliced bread and will make them an instant millionaire.  They sign up for every multi-level marketing company find, especially if they think they are getting into it on the ground floor.  When it’s all said and done, they are probably associates in dozens of companies, have spent thousands of dollars getting into these companies and have actually lost money rather than making it.

These are the folks that give multi-level marketing a bad name.  They inundate their friends and family with requests to buy products or sign up as recruits.  They perpetuate the unjustified stereotype of MLM companies as all being get rich quick schemes.  What can be done about them?  Can they be helped and in turn help you by not having to tell them no all of the time?  The answer is only if they want to be helped, just like with any intervention.

If you are in MLM, how do you prevent them from ruining your business?  This is more within your control.  You must promote your business responsibly and consistently.  Being responsible with promotion involves being persistent without being overbearing.  If people see that you are committed to one particular business they will be less likely to assume you and your business are just like the MLM junkie and his businesses.  You can also make sure that you have solid facts and figures to support your claims regarding your business.  This will assure people that your business isn’t one of the fly by night operations just gearing to take people’s money.

The probability of MLM junkies disappearing is slim to none, but their impact on you can be controlled.  On a personal level, you can choose to deny their requests, ignore them or avoid them.  More importantly, on a professional level, you can make sure you and your company are represented on a professional and respectable level.  This should minimize or completely negate the less than desirable impact these junkies could otherwise have on your livelihood.

Not an MLM Junkie anymore,here’s what changed my destiny Master Marketers United.