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/
A Simple, Step-by-Step Plan For Earning
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Blessings…

doug Firebaugh / PassionFire Intl http://www.passionfire.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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MLM Network Marketing Training -MLM Success- The Top 7 Mistakes Made in MLM

You’ve done it. You’ve signed up with a network marketing company. You’re ready to get started with your teams advertising system. You’re ready, set, go. All the ads hit, you’re excited. Like a kid who can’t wait to go to Disney World, you wait for the responses to pour in.

After 2-3 days… Nothing.

Why didn’t anyone respond?

Don’t worry. You’re not alone. Matter of fact, this is a common scenario in MLM. People get jazzed, sign up with their uplines co-op, fire off a few hundred emails, get the postcards, and nothing comes of it.

Marketing experts they are not. You, of course, are smarter than that, which is why you’re reading this special report right now. You want to know the top 7 mistakes people make in MLM, and you want to know the solutions to them.

The Top 7 MLM Mistakes:

Here they are:

1.) ** Using “Institutional Advertising” **

Institutional advertising is advertising that does not focus on your prospects. Rather on you, your company, your pay plan, your products, your bonus pool, your packaging, or the sales people at the home office.

Anything that does not focus solely on your prospect is institutional advertising. Think of Coke-A-Cola. That’s institutional advertising. Their sole purpose is brand their name into your mind. That way when you get thirsty and want a soda, you buy a Coke.

You must focus on your prospects ego and their desires. What they want takes priority over what you or the MLM company you’re with wants. Tell them what’s in it for them.

Solution: Create prospect focused advertising and drop your ego and appeal to the prospects ego.

2.) ** Fell Into Management Mode **

This one is a biggy. In order to make money in network marketing (or in direct selling) the life blood is new business. For the first 2-3 years new business is what drives your income.

If you spend all of your time managing people and none of it actually acquiring new business you’ll fall into a mode where your income levels off or just drops. This is management mode and it will stop you dead in your tracks from making long term income from MLM.

Solution: Always be moving forward, building your group. Leading by example. By building.

3.) ** Making MLM Your Business **

One of the most sobering and completely real facts of MLM is that you do not own your own MLM business. At any moment in time the network marketing company you’re with could shut it’s doors, change it’s policies, cut the popular products (not likely, but happens) or any number of things that would instantly stop your income or cut it by 50%.

Making MLM your business limits you. Stops you from seeing all of the possibilities outside the MLM industry. Instantly turning your income into something that is in reality, not yours. Make MLM a part of your business. Not the sole reason it exists.

Solution: Expand your business into other areas. Not just MLM.

4.) ** Not Being Personal **

MLM takes time, money, more time and more money to develop. As does any profitable business. However, in the day of emails, fax machines, web sites, online video, and super technology, it is easier than ever to forget you are working with real live people with real live problems and worries.

Adding a personal touch to the process will build your credibility, and build trust with those you plan on working with.

Solution: Add a personal touch and build trust

5.) ** Not Being Realistic **

Technology makes it easier for you to contact more and more people at an ever growing rate. Which leads some people to hype up their claims. Hyped up claims are not always so outrageous they instantly appear full of hype.

Some of them are subtle, like, “No direct selling.” Which seems like a benefit, because people hate to sell. In truth, direct selling is network marketing. You are not as aggressive about it. But you will, and always be selling something to someone.

Solution: Be Realistic and understand network marketing is a selling business.

6.) ** Losing Focus **

Losing focus is easy. Thousands of ways to advertise and reach your market exist. Pick 1 or 2 or 3 of them. Not all of them. Focus on what works, and drop what doesn’t. If you know it’s not working after a few weeks, don’t do it anymore.

Truly effective advertising works in just a short time. Not 3 years. Save yourself time and money and find an alternate way to reach your market once the way you’re using proves itself to be ineffective.

Solution: Focus only on one, two or three advertising strategies at time. And focus on them until they prove to be ineffective.

7.) ** Becoming a Computer Jockey **

A Computer Jockey? What’s that? Computer Jockey’s are people who sit there in front of their computer and try to work their MLM business completely online. 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

This is just insanity. While the world wide web does offer more affordable ways to reach your market. It isn’t the only game in town and placing print ads and sending sales letters to people offline is not only effective, but sometimes more effective.

Solution: Try advertising offline as well to expand your reach.

Respectfully,
Joe Schroeder

Joe has authored 32 audiotapes, eight manuals, booklets, featured on the cover of Upline Magazine and Six Figure Income Magazine. Find out who Joe recommends for generic training and leads by visiting http://www.BeAMLMHeavyHitter.com

Blessings…

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

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