MLM Network Marketing Training-ESTABLISHING A Success WORK ROUTINE in MLM

Working at Home in Network Marketing.

When people think about working at home, work is often the last thing that comes to mind. Sleeping in late, wearing pajamas all day, taking the kids to the park, and other perks of working at home are generally the first things that come to mind. But working at home is only successful if you work. To maximize your work performance as well as to take advantage of the perks of working at home, establishing a work routine is a must. Some things to consider include:

· What are your peak working hours? Are you most coherent in the morning and sluggish in the afternoon? Then set up your Network Marketing work schedule so that the most intensive work is completed in the morning.

· What motivates you? During those times when it’s hard to get to work, what can help you get focused? Music? Coffee? Stretching? Thinking of the commute you will have if you don’t work? Determine what can put you in the working frame of mind.

MLM Goals.

· Set realistic goals. Don’t try to do an entire week’s worth of work in one morning. Pace yourself keeping in mind your peak working hours.

· Set up your home office so that it works for you. Have good lighting, all your equipment and supplies available and a barrier from all possible distractions. · Take care of yourself. Be sure to eat and get plenty of rest. Don’t skip meals or sacrifice too much sleep.

STAYING CONNECTED WITH THE MLM OFFICE

Whether you ever worked at the main office or you have never been there, you need to set up a system for staying in touch with your boss or upline. While your boss or upline will want this to keep abreast of your work, it’s not just about having a watchdog over your shoulder. By contacting your main office daily, weekly or however you set it up, you can not only keep up with what is happening there (i.e. raises or promotions) but also you can have semi-human contact to help break up the isolation of a home office. Establish a regular time to be in touch with your boss or a colleague just to check in and get any important information.

STAYING FOCUSED

Freedom is an awesome responsibility. Some find the freedom of working at home in MLM without the boundaries of schedules, office cubicles and a set routine too difficult. Working at home requires a great deal of discipline and organization. You would be surprised how a one-hour lunch break to watch a favorite soap turns into three hours. Or how distracting dishes and laundry can be. Having a specific schedule and routine is very important to work-at-home success. While working at home allows you to vary this schedule if the need arises, having a planned routine will prevent you from wasting valuable time.

MAINTAINING CAREER ADVANCEMENT

If you have goals leading you up the ladder of success, having a well drawn up work-at-home agreement as well as a method for keeping your supervisor apprised of your work is of the utmost importance. It isn’t unusual for employers to believe telecommuters are less committed to their jobs because they work at home. Further, by not having a daily presence, it is easy for you to be overlooked by managers for promotions or bonuses. Having promotional and financial considerations outlined in your work-at-home agreement can do much to protect your advancing career in MLM and Network Marketing.

Excerpt from Jobs At Home: A Complete Guide to Finding or Creating a Work-At-Home Job. Reprinted with permission from Leslie Truex, author.

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doug Firebaugh / PassionFire Intl http://www.passionfire.com

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MLM Network Marketing Training -MLM Success-10 Phone Calls A Day Keeps The Job Away!

by Robert Blackman

MLM Bankruptcy.

I’ll never forget when I filed for bankruptcy in 1990.
It was horrible.

I had just dumped everything I had financially into my Fathers printing company trying to save it during the “oil crash” in Oklahoma.

It did work, but at a terrible cost.

I lost my good credit saving the family printing business.

I was bitter.

I was determined to restablish my credit.

I found myself wondering how I was going to make extra money while I was running a printing press all day and night long!

Sure, I was in a MLM program that promised to make me “rich” if I just followed my uplines advice.

But, I needed more.

I needed a game plan.

I decided that if I was going to be successful in this “MLM THING” that I would have to start treating it like a REAL business.

I came up with the idea of making at least 10 phone calls a day to my prospects and 10 phone calls a day to my downline members.

Why did I need this?

Simple.

The Network Marketing Success Track.

Without clear-cut goals we all get off track.

Hey, we all get up and go to work because if we don’t, we won’t get paid, right?

Right!

But, if we don’t make those calls what happens?

Nothing.

But, that’s what’s happening now, anyway with your MLM business–nothing. Or, at least not enough is happening to your MLM business–you want more.

So, in order to make your MLM grow on a consistent basis you need to treat it like a “JOB”.

The MLM JOB.

Get up and make those calls before work.
Make those calls on your lunch break.
Make those calls before dinner.
Make those calls after dinner.

Whenever you chose, it doesn’t matter–just do it!

Without this game plan I would of never made the amount of money that I have in MLM.

By getting out of my comfort zone and FORCING myself to call at least 10 people a day I learned what my prospects and downlines members fears and challenges were.

That allowed me to “cater” a game plan for them.
That allowed me to “solve” their problems.

If you’re not talking to your prospects and downline members on a DAILY basis you’re shooting in the dark, in my opinion.

Hey, the only way I come up with advertising IDEAS is that my prospects and downline members give them to me when I’m on the phone with them!

I don’t make these ad campaigns up!
I get them from the frustrated folks I talk to every day!

Get on the phone today!
Make at least 10 calls before work!
Make at least 10 calls at lunch!
Make at least 10 calls before bed!

Make at least 10 calls a day and you’re life will never be the same in this business!

I know.

It changed my life!

Sincerely,
Robert Blackman
www.FreeMLMNewsletter.com

Blessings…

doug Firebaugh / PassionFire Intl http://www.passionfire.com

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MLM Network Marketing Training -MLM Success-Marketing Your MLM Home Business

By Mal Keenan

Copyright © 2004 Mal Keenan

Every successful business venture implements a well thought out marketing plan. The development of a marketing plan along with financial and management plans will generally determine your success or failure in a home-based business.

he fundamentals of a marketing plan are to know your customers well and to know your competitors even better. By identifying these two elements you can develop a marketing plan that will satisfy the needs of your customers, help you understand competitors, and be aware of changes in the market that could affect your profits.

MLM Planning.

It takes planning and research to develop a successful marketing plan. Your home-based business will not become extremely profitable on its own. A marketing plan for your home business should include the level of demand for your particular service or product, how many businesses offer the same service or product, and how you can create a demand for your product through advertising or other promotions.

Also a major consideration in marketing your Network Marketing home business is to determine if you can compete in quality, price and delivery of your product. Even if you use a marketing plan developed elsewhere, you still must cultivate the market by promoting your product in a way designed to attract customers and keep them.

Thorough research of your marketplace will allow you to organize your information, reduce risks, identify sales opportunities, locate potential problems, and gather basic facts about the market to help you set up a plan of action. Market research may seem time consuming but it will save you time and money in the long run.

Developing a marketing plan for your MLM home-based business will supply you with information that can help ensure your success. The most crucial elements of marketing your home business are to describe your target market, determine who your competitors are, a description of your service or product, what you can afford as far as a marketing budget, determining the location of the business, and a pricing strategy. All these factors combined will give you the information you need to make your home-based business a success.

Network Marketing Apathy.

Expecting your MLM business to succeed while you sit idly by is unrealistic and unlikely to happen. You do not have to be an expert to develop and implement a successful marketing plan for your home business.

Research, a sound marketing plan, and effort are all you need to make your home-based business flourish. Occasionally, a business will become highly profitable using a non-traditional approach, but proven techniques including financial and marketing plans are the best way to give your home-based business the advantage it needs to succeed in today’s competitive marketplace.

Your Network Marketing home-based business can generate long lasting income for you and your family if you follow a few simple guidelines. Focus on your customers and their needs, keep communicating with previously non-interested customers, make it easy for your clients to buy, answer questions fully, and provide excellent service.

This, joined with a well thought out marketing plan, will ensure you a successful home business venture. Whether you develop your own unique plan or follow guidelines created and tested by others, marketing your home business can be very rewarding if you make a home business marketing plan and implement it wisely.

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About the author:
Mal Keenan is editor and publisher of Home Business Tips
Newsletter: http://www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com/
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MLM Network Marketing Training MLM Success – The Ten Commandments of Internet Marketing

By Craig Lock

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to
use the Internet, and he won’t bother you for weeks.” –
anon

Introductory Thoughts:

I hope that the following article based on our experiences
may be informative and/or helpful in your online marketing.

A successful online business isn’t built overnight; but is
the result of many late nights. If anyone says that they
can teach you to make a substantial amount of money without
hard work, realize they are talking through “a hole in the
head and are out of their trees”.

After five years doing it, here are my TEN COMMANDMENTS
setting out how to conduct business online (in spite of the
recent demise of so many “high-profile dot-bombs”- ready
availability to large amounts of capital, I believe, can be
a big disadvantage to the small/home business cyber
entrepreneur):

Now time to “get straight into it”…

1. Understand that technology should help you achieve your
business and personal goals. It is merely a tool to move
you forward with your vision: a “means to an end” to HELP
and enable you, rather than being an end in itself, (or
perhaps even be a disabler to “untechnos” like me). So make
modern technology work to it’s highest potential for you
and your business. Spend time learning about various
computer programmes and applications (hard though it may be
for the ‘technically challenged’). Then “use it repeatedly
, so you don’t lose it!” Accept that the vast majority of
www. users are not “technofreaks” (like my “geek
associate”, Bill) and have great difficulty learning new
computer procedures. Well, I certainly do (just ask Bill)!.
However, by making a conscious effort and with discipline
and effort the habit ingrained makes it easier and easier,
as your confidence grows in leaps and bounds.

2. Don’t take the competition for granted…and don’t
“knock” them. Never ever! Accept that no business can be
the best in every facet. The convergence of computer,
media, entertainment and communications means the
underlying structures of the computer world will change
rapidly and soon… or so my “technogeek” associate, Bill
(not Gates) says. The TV/computer/music center is not far
away, I hear.

The net is a world wide market-place, so don’t be too
zenophobic (now that’s a really big word, that I tried very
hard to bring in). I think many Americans (and New
Zealanders too) think that theirs is the only country on
earth in which to trade and is the centre of the world…
and we’re nearly falling off the bottom near Antarctica!

However, we can all compete fairly (“fairly”) against the
competition by transcending international boundaries on a
“global level playing field” – whereby even the “little
guys” can take on the big corporations around the world
(except for their massive marketing budgets, of course!) .
It may mean adjusting your marketing efforts to take into
account some cultural differences (like my rather ‘weird’
sense of humor, or different spelling – although it’s the
same English language). However, I believe people around
the world have more in common than their differences.
Common aspirations, eg. security, to do their best for
their children, etc. Enough philosophical digression,
Craig… and back to your point…

Here in “Sleepy Hollow” (with one of the highest
unemployment rates in the country) in little provincial New
Zealand near the bottom of the world, we sell our various
products around the globe in response to customer needs.

3. Consolidate your business by focusing on what you do
best. Don’t try to be “all things” to your customer, nor
try to offer too many products. Concentrate on perfecting
and marketing your “best sellers” in your CORE business
activities. That is the area which produces the most
profitable results for your organization. (remember the
“80-20 rule” – 20% of your activities produces 80% of your
results/profit and vice versa!). For us it’s creative
writing courses.

Define your “USP” (or “unique selling proposition”) – a
“fancy” term loved by “those marketing types”. What is the
key, that makes your product or service really special?

Now for one rather more philosophical…

4. Honor your parents, your teachers and your communities
and especially your family. Family is most precious of all
and strong and stable family units make for a strong and
stable country. Parenting, I believe is the most noble
occupation of all – and parents want their children to be
safe on line, so supervise them closely. Teach them
responsibility in internet usage… so they don’t push your
telephone bill sky high (as my dear boys do – but then
that’s the price of having and educating children – a tax
on sex!). Teach your children well (as Crosby, Stills, Nash
… and Young used to sing so melodiously) and wisely. Let
them learn that the net is a great EDUCATION tool for the
present and the future and they could be learning
“practical skills on the job” and preparing for a future
technological career.

5. Do not send spam (sending masses of unsolicited e-mail)
– under any circumstances. You are likely to be cut off by
your server. I find it rather irritating receiving
“mountains” of spam and simply delete all unsolicited
e-mail selling products and services… and wouldn’t you do
likewise; because it just clutters up your mailbox?

6. Do not launch your product before the market is ready
for it. Test the market first by doing a survey. Ask
yourself: Is there a NEED for your particular product? In
what way is it distinctive (and superior) to the
competition (world-wide, remember!)? Have all your systems
in place to market it… then always remember, all products
have a definite life cycle…and some are relatively short.

7. Take the business of internet marketing seriously. The
world online population is exploding daily and
exponentially (big word, eh…but what does it mean?). I’m
not sure how many people are online world-wide, but think
it may be in the order of 150-200 million at present and
increasing daily. In addition, I “guess” there are a
similar number of web sites (and many more pages) “up there
in cyberspace”. So the competition is “pretty stiff”! As
the “cyber-revolution” gathers momentum, imagine if
everyone is online one day? Impossible perhaps, but who
knows! What will that do for your business and you? An
unlimited target market for your PRODUCTS – if you are
still going strong by then. VERY EXCITING!

8. Have an effective web presence. Your site should explain
immediately what the visitor will get for their time
online. If it is not clear WHY they should stay, they’ll
leave before they try to find out. Therefore make your site
as interesting and informative as you can. I’ve seen many
sites, where I don’t know the webmaster’s objective, their
purpose. Are they purely for information, or trying to sell
something? Make sure your site loads quickly, because
people soon get tired of waiting in today’s fast /instant
(coffee) world.

9. Always remember MARKETING YOUR PRODUCT EFFECTIVELY is the key to the success of your business. If you don’t get
adequate results, you’ll soon be out of business… as
recurring bills in the post-box without income to pay them
soon take all the fun out of your venture into “cyber”
self-employment.

I spend at least two hours a day purely on internet
marketing: mainly through my various article submissions to
various lists. Most effective!

Don’t forget to use traditional methods of marketing to
promote your business, as in advertising (radio, news-
papers, brochures, and the most effective of all, word of
mouth in your local community). The two strategies (both
on-line and off-line), I believe, work best together in
your marketing plan. I plan to do more off-line
advertising, by allocating a portion of revenue to
marketing, as it comes in.

Even if you have the greatest product in the world, you
will never sell anything if you don’t tell people about it.
It’s like having a billboard in the middle of a forest or a
desert. An example: Just because you have a phone number in
the phone book, doesn’t mean that a stranger will call you.
So it is absolutely vital that you advertise effectively to
bring people to your site; because without advertising,
there will be no TRAFFIC… and without prospects there
will be NO SALES. And without sales there will soon be no
business!

…and finally and most importantly,.

* 10. We are at the forefront of one of the most innovative
and far-reaching inventions in human history. The net is
the most cost- efficient, INSTANTANEOUS, EXCITING and
effective way of marketing products and services around the
globe through modern telecommunications. We live in one of
the most exciting times in human history; so exploit the
AMAZING POWER of the internet to reach hundreds of
thousands of people and perhaps even millions around the
world. Use your creative energies and imagination to the
fullest, by thinking of new ideas of how to market your
particular products. I keep a notebook by my bedside and
leave to my creative subconscious mind just before I go to
sleep. And we all have great powers of imagination as the
source for creative ideas, through the amazing power of the
human mind. Share them to make the lives of other people
around the globe easier in some way.

Summary:

I believe INTERNET MARKETING is the KEY to internet
success, especially if you have a limited marketing budget,
like us. As mentioned, I allocate at least two hours a day
purely to internet marketing, through submitting my
articles on numerous subjects to various ezines and
publishing resources. I find it by far the most effective
way of free advertising to get traffic (= SALES) . Always
remember to have a resource box at the end of each article,
together with your web site address for your Network Marketing business.

Blessings…

doug Firebaugh / PassionFire Intl http://www.passionfire.com

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