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7 Critical Tips for Success in Network Marketing

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:33:00 -0400

7 Simple Tips for Breakthrough Success in Network Marketing and Home Businesses

One of the most common problems in the Network Marketing and home business field is the very high failure rate and lack of proper education. In a business that often is sold on hype and empty promises, it allows the average person to chase their dreams and build a business that could potentially provide financial freedom for life.

However, most people spend more than they will ever make and an exceptionally high number of people will quit within their first 90 days. Now, this could be attributed to the fact that honestly alot of people are just not cut out to be entrepreneurs and the most people are just not willing to the pay the price of sacrifice to achieve the results.

Having said that, for the 5%-10% of people who truly have the desire and hunger to succeed, sometimes are left without a clear blueprint for success and without the real skils needed to become a 3%er. They are still being taught to do home parties, chase friends and family and cold call leads. This may work for a small minority of people , but the most valualbe lesson I ever learnt was that the only way to increase your income and success was to increase your value in the marketplace.

Following are 7 tips that will definetely increase your value in the marketplace and allow you to gain skills that will set you up for life.

No 1) Stop pitching your opportunity. In a world where there are literally millions of distributors and thousands of opportunities all claiming to have the best product and the best income plan, there is really only one way to stand out from the crowd. STOP pitching your business and start providing value. People are not looking for products or companies , they are searching for solutions and want to find a leaader that can help them. Build your own brand.

No 2) Invest in Your Own Education - Gone are the days where you can hand out a few flyers or cold call leads in order to acheive results that will set you free. Competition is at its highest and with more and more people turning to the internet searching for answers - it makes complete sense that you need to dominate the internet putting your marketing out there exactly where people are searching. The most successful top earners all have been educated in the latest effective marketing training that allows them to generate hundreds of leads every day.

No 3) Build a list - You may have heard the saying before that 'The money is in your list' . Well, its true! Without a list, you dont have a business. You need a list that you can market to and people buy from people they like and trust. So build a list, build a rapport with that list and then market to your list. Then repeat.

No 4) Automated Sales Funnel - Customers who have already purchased from you are your best customers and more likely to buy from you again. You need an automated sales funnel in place that will upgrade your new customers to your higher priced items without you actually having to make the sale. Start with a lower priced item providing valuable information and then funnel them into your higher priced items. This is exactly how all the industrys leaders build their business.

No 5) Monetize Your Leads - No matter what business or opportunity you are promoting , 95% of your leads will not want to join your business. However, if you own your own list and have everything else in place above you can monetize your leads with other offers or tools that you are an affilaite of so you are not going broke just trying to sell your opportunity. Doesnt that just make good business sense?

No 6 - Traffic to a Lead Capture Page - Without leads your business will die. Always be on top of the latest marketing strategies and always be testing for new ways to generate leads. When you have leads flowing in consistently, its a given that you will grow your business.

No 7 - Products that Make You Money - Last but not least. Make sure you are marketing a good product that can make you big commissions. For the same amount of work as marketing a product that only makes you less than $100 per sale you could be making literally thousands of dollars per sale. Its no more effort when you have a good sales funnel in place and despite what your limiting beliefs may allow you to think - People who are serious about changing their financial future are willing to invest money to make that happen. Signing up for $10 programs will see you chasing your tail for years. Think bigger and start treating your business as a business and not a lottery ticket and you will see great things happen.

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Network Marketing Australia

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:26:00 -0500

Network marketing Australia is dealing with its own fair share of criticism and no-sayers. If you look at the industry as a whole you could easily say it is suffering because most Australian adults are sick and tired of being sold on the countless products, dreams and promises of most MLM companies.

We had enough!

As an insider I know too well how hard it is to sell people on something you believe can change their lives for the better – even if you are right in the assumption. Fact is, people don't want to be sold to.

Unfortunately most Australian based network marketing companies still haven't seen the light; or so you think. The truth is, you couldn't be further from the truth. What many struggling distributors don't realize is the fact that companies know too well their old-style marketing methods don't work anymore.

Therefore the question remains “why do they do this to us?” The answer is simple, albeit disappointing; they make more money that way. Network marketing Australia and around the world knows that people will never advance their business with cold-calling, flyer dropping, home party style marketing.

But if they handed you the knowledge on a silver platter when you first join they could never sell you their crappy lead generation sites, their company flyers, their brochures, DVDs, CDs and everything else they throw at you at company events.

Luckily you have a choice

While network marketing Australia companies often have great products and services their marketing practices simply don't work for the masses. This is the number one reason the industry has a bad reputation in the eyes of the general public.

Unless we educate ourselves about proper lead generation tactics that bring the prospect to us without having to poach them from anywhere, we will continue to struggle and fail.

Successful network marketers know this and they have mastered the art of direct response marketing to help them build a successful business that makes them money while they sleep. Network marketing is about earning residual income, not trying to sign up every person and their dog into your opportunity.

Where to from here?

You can choose to continue with your struggles or learn smarter ways to build your network marketing Australia business. Failing to change your ways will probably result in your ultimate failure because if you were successful already you wouldn't be searching for solutions right now

3 Tips to Supercharge Your Lifepath Unlimited Business

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:19:00 -0500

Running a home based Lifepath Unlimited business that is built on the foundations of your dreams can often be a very frustrating experience. When you first joined the company you probably did so because you had a dream, a vision – to live a life of freedom and happiness thanks to running your own MLM business from the comfort of your home.

Why most MLM businesses fail

Sadly enough, that dream lasts a few months for most new home business owners until the reality hits them hard. Initially you do everything you are told at the live company meetings; you talk to your friends and family, you KNOW that they NEED your help to break them free of their own shackles and yet, people just don't seem to understand that your product and opportunity is the answer to all their problems.

MLM businesses like Lifepath Unlimited fail because of the way you are told to market your business. Even so your business opportunity offers people a way out of the rat race with fabulous products, people will not be responsive to your offer unless you manage to market to them the smart way – and not the hard way.

Don't believe everything you are told

If you want to supercharge your Lifepath Unlimited business you must not buy into the outdated marketing practices you are told by your upline. Do you seriously believe they are making a ton of money because they speak with all their friends and family, or drop flyers, post community board notices and what not.

Join the revolution of the new-rich by utilizing the Internet

Network marketing opportunities were flying of the shelves back in the 1980s when everything was new and people still believed into the dreams painted by the companies. Today, we are not only a whole lot more smarter, but also more educated. We now know that those old-style marketing methods don't work anymore. If you want to see results and build a successful business you must be online.

3 tips to do it right, starting today

The following 3 tips will help you turn your stale Lifepath Unlimited business into something much more powerful, something that can indeed be capable of generating a ton of sales, set you free financially and allow you to live happily ever after:

1. Dispose of the company lead generation site: If you currently pay the company to supply you with a generic lead generation site to capture online leads stop right here. Forget these generic sites because they don't work!

Instead pay someone else to set you up with a unique, highly targeted website, blog or both to really take advantage of the potential of the Internet.

2. Stop spending more than you make: I know that it is very easy to get swept away when you are told to do this and that in order to really see results in your business, especially if you are among like-minded people at a company event.

These events are cleverly designed to excite you, to make you spend money on company branded tools and brochures. While it's true that it takes money to make money you have to learn to draw the line somewhere, and put a hold on your excessive spending – at least until you have enough cash flow to do this without losing sleep at night.

3. Learn all you can about direct response marketing: If you truly want to excel in your Lifepath Unlimited business opportunity then you must learn all you can about direct response marketing. It's the one way traditional MLM and direct sales business model opportunities can still work in an age where prospects are way more clued up about the system and more inclined to turn you down on sight as soon as they smell a cold sale.

MLM Companies - The Inside Scoop

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:06:00 -0500

After spending 4 years committed to my MLM company and constantly fighting attrition and battling to duplicate my efforts I wound up in huge financial debt and was working more and more hours to try and remain afloat. I am pretty sure there are so many others who relate to my story. When I read The Coffee House Letter I was blown away by the honesty of the letter and how much of it was not only happening to me but everyone else around me. To gain access to this free report that the infamous Mike Dillard wrote and is now helping thousands of people enter your name and email from the link below and don't say I didnt warn you!

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6 Hot tips by Mike Dillard

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:38:00 -0500

Here is some great practical advice I received from Mike Dillard. If you dont already know Mike Dillard is a self-made millionaire. He went from waiting tables to millionaire status in 18 months – so he is definetely someone you want to listen to.

So, here’s what Mike says:

Tip 1) What do other network marketer’s want? This is the question you need to ask yourself in order to attract them to you. Give them what they want. Solve their problems for them. Then you will attract them effortlessly.

Tip 2) Do not spend time trying to convince people why they should join you! Newbies do this all the time, the pros never do. Give people real value and you will never have to pitch your business ever again.

Tip 3) If you are buying leads, you are lazy. Learn to generate your own, otherwise go and get a job.

Tip 4) Every night before you go to bed write down 5 things you want to achieve the next day. This way you will wake up with your goals in mind. And with each task you complete you are one step closer to achieving your ULTIMATE goals.

Tip 5) Confidence is a decision. People judge you by the way you look and sound, so if necessary give yourself a physical/mental make-over. In your videos and your pictures do not look like you just got out of bed.

Tip 6) Learn copywriting. You will need to master this skill in order to write ANYTHING in this industry – even something as simple as ad copy. You need to know the phsycological triggers that make people respond and take action.

I have aligned myself with both a business opportunity and marketing system that applies and teaches all these strategies and if you too would like to be successful in your business then visit my pages on my blog and submit your details to get in contact with me.

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MLM Leads

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:13:00 -0500

One of the most important factors besides your mindset for succeeding in MLM or Network Marketing is generating enough traffic and leads to build your business. However, this is also one of the most difficult and frustrating parts of getting your business off the ground.

Most MLM Companies will you give you an action plan when you start up with your company training and it usually involves writing out a list of family and friends, doing 3 way calls and holding home parties. This method works for some- but for the majority of people its like chinese torture and results in alienating all your friends and family and a mental battle convincing yourself that every no is a closer to a yes.

When you run out of 'warm list' to talk to a common practice is to buy overpriced MLM leads from vendors who sell your leads several times over and solicit their leads through cheap offers online advertising free prizes and seeking jobs. I spent thousands of dollars and sacrificed a huge amount of time calling dead beat leads in my previous MLM because my upline kept telling me that this would produce six figure incomes.

I dont know what possessed me to listen to unqaulified advice when there was no evidence of anyone succeeding with this method previously and I knew it was doomed to fail. Eventually buying MLM leads was deemed a failure and on they moved to the next method that was unproven.

Desperate, broke and frustrated I began to research online for an understanding of generating my own MLM Leads. This led me to understand the rejection free formula using cutting edge internet marketing strategies from the worlds best internet marketers where suddenly leads were calling me about my business and people were joining me , even without speaking to them first!

There are a ton of free marketing strategies as well as paid marketing strategies for generating an avalanche of MLM Leads online all on autopilot and without being tied to the phone talking to dead beats and time wasters. Imagine the difference to your life when you have your internet leads coming in for you 24/7 , and your system doing all the telling, selling and explaining for you ?

No more cold calling, yellow pages, trade shows or begging your customers for referrals. When you are generating 50+ leads a day, you call the shots, and decide who you want to work with. Not all MLM Leads are worthy of your time and building a team of qualified people is really the only way to duplicate your efforts and leverage your time.

There is only way to become an expert in the art of generating your own MLM Leads and that is to forget everything you have been taught about buying leads and targeting your friends and family and get an internet marketing education from the top 1% of income earners in the industry.

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Liberty League International Changes its Name to Polaris

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:38:00 -0500

The one thing that is on people’s minds right now is - Is Liberty League International a Scam? Well I am not going to talk about my opinion here because quite frankly there is enough unsubstantiated opinion floating around on the internet.

What I do most certainly know is that Liberty League International is being investigated by the Fair Trading Commission in NSW. Is this related to the name change along with compensation plan changes within the company? Well that I dont know – but Liberty League International has now changed its name to Polaris Media Group.

Some of the other major changes within the company are:

A whole new range of products 20+
A new pay plan that offers a back end residual pay plan (which seems remarkably similar to MLM)
New websites and marketing strategies

I do know that some of these changes have made some of the company’s representitives a little nervous and feeling deflated as its not the same company and plan they signed up for. With the introduction of a whole new product line though it does seem fair to say that there is now a viable retail option for the products.

Liberty League however, is not the first company to make changes or receive complaints or lawsuits. In fact some of the biggest companies in Network Marketing that have been around for 30 years or more and still growing strong have been through many law suits and attacks by the public. Its a part of the growth of a company I believe. People love to sling mud though and I do have to laugh at the reaction of the public , particularly those who are stuck in a job and dont believe making more than $50K a year is possible. Its particularly interesting to find ‘review’ sites (scam alert sites) that have a whole string of threads and posts about scams and that target traffic to their blog (woops I mean “review” site) by attracting mud slingers for more traffic. People dont spend hours building a review site blog for the fun of it and without a purpose – its either to direct traffic to their own money making opportunity or they are making money by monetizing the blog itself.

Wether Polaris Media Group manages to remain trading is yet to be seen, but if the company does have a strong foundation and built on integrity then it will remain to grow. If it doesnt, then alot of reps will be left without an income and alot of them without any great marketing skills to be able to pick up and just use their skill to market something else.

I am not in any way associated with Liberty League, however , I did at one point look at it and the reason I chose not to pursue it and chose my current direction was because ultimately I knew that I had to become valuable in the marketplace and get an online marketing education. I needed to become a skilled marketer so that I had skills that no one could ever take from me and that no matter what company I was with or what happened I had something of value to offer and could simply choose to market anything and have the skills to do that.

I guess the moral of this whole story is dont let your business opportunity be all about the product and promoting the company. Its incredibly essential for YOU to become your own best commodity and get the education in marketing you need to make a success no matter what.

To Your Success

How to Choose the Best Network Marketing Businesss

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:14:00 -0500

Network Marketing and Multi Level Marketing have been around for at least 50 years and has produced many multi-millionaires within the industry. There are still some companies trading publicly today that have been going strong for at least 30 years or more and spread to well over 70 countries and millions of distributors. So, of course, as a new person looking for a network marketing business you want to choose something that has a track record but let me ask you this. Is the company being successful necessarily going to mean that the majority or distributors are successful.

Unfortunately, this is not the case. In fact its quite common that around 97% of people will spend more money than they make or quit within their first 90 days. Why does it have such a high failure rate? Well mostly because most network marketers are taught to convince and sell their business to anyone who will listen. They are taught to believe that their network marketing business is needed by everyone around them. The sad fact is, that most people do not have that entreprenuerial drive that is actually required to succeed.

I have witnessed huge growth and duplication in certain cultures where belly to belly marketing is done with enthusiam, but for most of the western world people want to work from the comfort of home, work their own hours and not have to any cold hard selling.

There are many opportunites out there – too many to list and a large majority of those are made up on nutritional or supplement companies. Each one of these, convinced that they have the best products on the planet. Most distributors are taught that recruiting will be easy because the product sells itself and because of that everyone will just be dying to join them. If you have had any experience at all with this, you will know that is a flat out lie. It has nothing to do with your products, and everything to do with leadership and systems that help teach people ‘how’ to be successful.

In the era of the internet, people now are way more inclined to want to work a business model that can be run on the internet and in order to do that then you have to know how to market. Alot of companies out there ‘pretend’ to be an internet marketing business but then still teach you to buy leads , cold call friends and family and hold home meetings. When choosing the best network marketing business online you must make sure they have a system and education platform to teach you how to become a skilled and professional marketer because without those skills your business is doomed.

You do not want to be tied the phone calling all your leads, you also need a system that can sift and sort for you , so that you can focus your time on marketing and fine tuning your marketing skills. There are companies out there now that even have call centres in place to call your leads for you. When deciding on a Network Marketing business make sure you choose one that will leverage your time so that you are not just peddling products for tiny commisions and working it like a job.

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How to Generate Free MLM Leads

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:46:00 -0500

One of my favourite marketing strategies is Pay Per Click on google adwords as its fast at producing leads and you can control your leadflow. However, as a newbie marketer this method is the hardest to master and of course the most costly.

However, there is a way that you can put out some content on the internet ONCE and have traffic from that one post for years to come. Its called article or content marketing and its extremely powerful in not only getting you highly targeted leads, but it also gives you, as the author, enourmous internet presence as well as you being seen as a leader and authority on the subject.

When you create a blog post, a squidoo lens, an article or video on youtube, that little piece of marketing stays on the internet forever and if you do your research first in what keywords to use to rank high, you may even have your content come up on PAGE 1 OF GOOGLE! I know, because I have had several videos and articles that have come up on the first page of google within 24 hours.

It’s extremely powerful and its like having your own piece of real estate on the internet and there is NO limit to how much real estate you can own on google for free.

Imagine if you just created 10 articles or videos with linkbacks to your website and you submit them to just 6 article directories – thats 60 pieces of content created from just 10. Now, imagine if you get serious and do 1 piece a day for 90 days, and then submit them to again 6 directories, thats 540 pieces of content out there bringing you free traffic and leads.

Now, assuming you only get an average of 5 visitors per month from each article (this is just an example), then this equates to 2700 visitors to your website each and every month for free. As you can see, what may only take about 30-60 mins a day and by leveraging certain tools to distribute your content you can have a little army of content pieces out there working for you 24/7.

This is a great strategy if you are on a bootsrap budget and I can assure you is highly effective. You only have to go and google my name and see exactly how I have created a web on content out there or linking back to me.

Now, get to work and start leveraging the internet.

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