Tips For Building Your Own Network Marketing Empire

1. Use all your products in as many creative ways as possible. Your product experiences become your basis for retail sales.
2. Think about what you will do with your Network Marketing asset income ALL THE TIME and let yourself FEEL how it will feel.
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4. Create and maintain a list of people to prospect and how to get a hold of them…there ought to be hundreds of people on it. Do NOT pre-judge their interest.
5. Study MLM like you are pursuing a four-year degree in it. Read and listen to EVERYTHING.
6. Manage your beliefs. Study, listen to and watch people that have the beliefs you want. Learn to believe in what you want as an expectation.
7. Create a business plan…a simple one that you WILL follow every day. Boil it down to a daily action plan, then let the plan work you.
8. Treat your opportunity like any new career. Dedicate yourself to mastering it.
9. Work at least part time — 10 to 20 hours a week. Sometimers only get paid sometimes.
10. Learn to SELL the income opportunity as well as you might sell the products. More people are interested in the money.
11. Sell income and free time more than a business opportunity or home-based business. People want holes, not drill bits.
12. Don’t push ropes. Work with the willing. Work only with those who work, not those who promise to work.
13. Give yourself options from which to pick your leaders. Sponsor enough people to create some odds in your favor.
14. Sponsor and keep sponsoring until you find an Ace (worker). Then, take them DEEP! (There are always four aces in every 52 cards. Oddly enough, there are usually at least four builders out of every 52 you sponsor).
15. Be mindful of “placing people” under people. No one likes being given up for adoption. It is not as good an idea as it sounds.
16. Sponsor as though you could only do so for the next 12 months and then had to build it all from that.
17. Prospect as though you believe everyone is at least interested. They would be, if they knew what you knew…wouldn’t they?
18. Keep a prospecting pace and attitude as though the company was paying you $10,000 a month JUST to introduce people to it.
19. If all you had to do was introduce the company to get paid, who would you talk to? What would you say? What would you do if they said no? Do the same thing with the same attitude and you will earn $10,000 a month and more.
20. Some will; some won’t. So what? Who’s next?
21. Remember, the more people who say no, the closer you are to the one who says yes. The odds PROVE it, so bank on it.
22. If time and opportunity permit, get to know people before introducing them to your opportunity. Find out what is important to them and what is missing.
23. Never be cute or creative about what it is you do. Be straight about the opportunity. Answer every question directly, followed immediately by your own question.
24. Call people by their name. They love hearing it and will love you for remembering it.
25. Leapfrog! Show people that it is who they know that can make them successful. Paint the picture of their success through their prospects.
26. Drip on everyone that has said no. What they meant was, not now. Send them something every month. Life will change for them.
27. Offer people about one-third of what you think their full-time income is. Less is boring. Much more is unbelievable.
28. Offer a specific amount of income as soon as possible. Some or a lot of money is difficult to visualize. $500 next month is hard for anyone to pass up.
29. Don’t beg people to join. Beggars are not attractive. Offer the opportunity and be just fine with them not being ready.
30. Be mindful of what you are doing when you offer the opportunity to others. Would they want to do what you are doing? Prospecting for the income opportunity while working a booth at a flea market does not work.
31. Do you look like your opportunity is working for you? Are you having fun? Are you dressed attractively? Are you groomed attractively? Does your car look scary to ride in? Is your home inviting? Do you speak positively about life and others?
32. Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care. Listen!
33. Edify, edify edify! Sell your sponsor, your upline, and corporate leaders. Sell them to your prospects and new distributors powerfully. Practice this.
34. Know your competition. Visit other companies’ opportunity meetings. Study their websites. See their strengths and weaknesses. Learn from them.
35. Support the dreams of your competitive distributors. Do not undermine their opportunity or attempt to lure them away. Many of them may soon be looking for something new.
36. Paint a vivid, powerful picture of the income opportunity for your prospects. People have to see it in their mind’s eye first to believe it.
37. Learn to sell the unique advantages of your opportunity: longevity, integrity, million-dollar empire builders, immediate income, paid weekly, personal development opportunities, unique products, products that create asset income, your sponsor, your upline, your corporate leaders…
38. Craft and practice your personal story on every product with which you have had success, as well as why you are engaged in the opportunity. Be brief. Be powerful. Think of how others could interpret what you say. Think of how you could say it so that they will believe you. What would it have to sound like for you to be interested?
39. Be on ready alert to offer any one of your success stories on e-mail, in meetings or on any conference call when given the opportunity. Information tells…stories sell. Master your stories. BE BRIEF. STAY ON TARGET.
40. Craft a Story Letter — a 3/4-page letter on non-company letterhead that tells the story of how and by whom you were introduced to your company; what the products did for you and what it was about the income opportunity that compelled you to take advantage of it.
41. Use your Story Letter as your primary piece of prospecting literature. Send or hand it out with anything else you offer to prospects. Add it to your web page. Update it as often as you have something powerful to add.
42. Prospect anyone and everyone with whom you would consider working. Some of the most successful Network Marketing leaders today first joined as very unsuccessful people. And, the more successful one is already (to a point of about $500,000 annual income) the easier they can see this working; the more contacts they have and the more credibility they have with those contacts. From the lowest to the highest and everyone in between…prospect them all! Remember tip #27? Offer them 1/3 of their current full-time income.
43. Less successful people will respond to immediate income, the opportunity to sell product and weekly checks starting next week. Even $50 to $100 will make a huge difference in their lives. And, they are willing to do more for it.
44. More successful people respond to monthly income and longer-term asset income and are usually willing to do less for it. Financially successful people are often dominated by their business or career and are looking for a way to replace a portion or all of their income. They are usually willing to wait longer and will invest more to make it happen. Most people that earn up to $500,000 a year could not maintain their lifestyle off liquid assets if their income stopped for more than two or three months. Being broke is a relative concept.
45. Master the Art of Leapfrogging™. Leapfrogging is showing the prospect who they know that should be successful, most often using occupations as the anchor. Paint a picture on a yellow pad of how their group should grow (1st level, 2nd level, etc.) based on knowing people in certain occupations. The leapfrogging conversation starts by asking, “Who do you know that is a __________?” More successful people must be leapfrogged so that they can see how it is who they know, or what lead generation system they have access to, that will earn them the money; not how much time they put in themselves.
46. Master the Art of Listening Through Objections™. Prospects’ objections are rarely true, even for them. These objections are merely a form of resisting being “sold.” Never argue, not even subtly. Always listen: embrace, define, embellish, purge, and address.
47. Master showing your career plan: Four who get four who get four, two who get two, etc.. Focus on the four cornerstones of why it works: The People (how to amass all those people), The Sales (how do you expect $100 or your active requirement from each), The Compensation Plan (an average of 10%) and the Residual Asset Value (5 to 20 times the asset annual income)

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7 Tips for Network Marketing Success

You probably have an image firmly planted in your mind of what network marketing (also known as direct sales or multilevel marketing) is all about--housewives buying and selling Tupperware while gossiping and eating finger sandwiches, or a high-pressure salesperson trying to convince you how easily you can become a millionaire if only you and your friends and their friends and so on would buy and sell vitamins with him.

Both of these images couldn't be further from the reality of network marketing. It's neither a hobby nor a get-rich-scheme but an opportunity for you to earn money running your own part- or full-time business.

But what does it take to succeed in this industry? Vincent J. Kellsey, director of member services for the Direct Selling Women's Alliance, an organization that provides a variety of resources to women and men in the direct-selling industry, offers these tips for making it:

Choose wisely. There are six key elements you should be looking for [when selecting an opportunity]. Number one: stability. How old is the company? Number two is excellent products or services that consumers will use and need more of.

Number three is the pay plan--how even and fair and generous overall is the distribution? This is really crucial as the pay plan represents exactly how you'll get paid--or not get paid. There are really only two questions to ask [regarding this]: How many pennies out of each sales dollar get paid back to the distributors each month, and how fair is the distribution of these pennies between the old members and the new members?

Number four is the integrity of the company and the management. As much as possible, [investigate] the experience of the CEO, [their] experience in the network marketing industry, and their background. [Have] they been successful in other companies in the industry? Do they have a good reputation?

Number five is momentum and timing. Look at where the company's at, what's going on with the company, and if it's growing.

Number six is support, training and business systems. You may have [chosen] a great company with excellent management, products that make a difference, a pay plan that's uniquely fair and very generous, and momentum and stability, but if you don't have a system in place that works, all of that [doesn't matter]. Most companies will have a transferable training system that they use, and that's where mentorship comes in.

Practice what they teach. [To succeed,] you need to be willing to listen and learn from mentors. The way this industry is structured, it's in the best interests of the [MLM veterans in your company] to help you succeed, so they're willing to teach you the system. Whatever [your mentor] did to become successful, it's very duplicatible, but you have to be willing to listen and be taught and follow those systems.

The higher-ups. It can be called various things, but the general term is the "upline," meaning the people above you. How supportive are they? Do they call you? Do they help you put a plan in place? Are they as committed to your success as they are to their own? You should be able to relate to [the people in your upline] and be able to call them at any time to say "I need some help." How much support there is from the people above you in the company is very important.

Take up the lead with your downline. There's a term in the network marketing industry called "orphans"--when somebody is brought in and then the person who brought them in is just so busy bringing in other people that they don't spend the time to teach and train [the new person]. You should be prepared to spend at least 30 days helping a new person come into the industry--training them, supporting them and holding their hand until they feel confident to be able to go off on their own. You really need to ask yourself, are you willing to do that? Are you able to do that? This is really about long-term relationship building. It's not about just bringing people into the business and just moving forward. It's about working with these people and helping them to develop relationships.

On the net. People are utilizing [the internet] as their main marketing tool. [You can set up your site] with autoresponders so when you capture leads, the autoresponder can follow up with that person. One of the greatest keys to success in this industry is follow-up. Many people will have someone call them who's interested or they'll call the person and say they're interested, but then they don't follow up with it. Automation on the internet has allowed a much more consistent method of following up.

The only drawback with the internet is people who utilize it to spam. If there was one thing I could put forward to say, "Do not do" when utilizing the internet as a marketing tool, it's spamming because that can give a very bad reputation not only to you but also to the company you're working with.

Taking care of business. This is a business, and just like if you were running a franchise or a storefront, you [should have an] accountant. You have all the same write-offs tax-wise that you have with running a [full-time] business, so it's very important to [do your research] prior to getting involved, before you start making money from it. How is that going to affect you tax-wise? What are your write-offs?

It's important to set up a [support] team around you. I'd suggest seeking out lawyers who deal in network marketing, so they're very versed in all the laws and how that affects [your business.]. There are also accountants who specialize in dealing with homebased businesses specifically in the direct-selling industry.

Don't quit your day job...yet. Never leave your full-time position unless you're absolutely certain that the income that's coming in with this company is going to be there. [Be sure that] you've been with the company [for awhile] and that you know it's a stable company, and the income that you're earning is equal to or greater than the income you're earning from your job before quitting.

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Discover the 9 Time-Proven Secrets Used by Top Money Earners in Network Marketing Today.

#1 – Network Marketing Professionals Know Their Target Market

You MUST understand your audience best suited for your small business opportunity. You must be in touch with their needs, there inner most desires for change. You must know what drives them to want to better their life.

Knowing the people that would like to lead a different, more satisfying life will help you succeed in network marketing.
#2 – Have Your “Why” Established

This is very important. This is your major driving force, your reason WHY you decided to make a move and become a network marketer. It could be family, financial freedom or even time freedom. Make sure it is strong and you have it written down in a place that you can look at it on those days when speed bumps seem to appear around every corner.

If your ‘Why’ isn’t big enough to keep you driven, then I am sorry to let you know, statistics state that the chances of you continuing on are NOT in your favor.
#3 – Network Marketers Do NOT Chase Family and Friends

One of the first things that most network marketing companies have you do, when you join them, is ask you to create a list of ALL your family and friends so you can reach out to them with your home-based business opportunity. This list of names is known as your warm market.

The worst thing you could ever do for your personal life and friendships would be to make your future meetings awkward. It is suggested to leave your friends and family approach tucked away, for just a little while, at least until you understand proper network marketing prospecting and recruiting better (if you have the support and backing of an experienced network marketer there with you, then go for it).

For some eye-opening and educational teaching, follow the link for the High-Energy & Authoritative Network Marketing Invitation Process – where the secret formula of the Network Marketing Pros will be Revealed!

To make it clear, DO NOT EVER chase, beg, guilt or even attempt to convince anyone, especially your warm market to join your opportunity. When you decide the time is right and your approach is warranted, it is suggested by the network marketing pros to see if your family or friends are open to your home-based, small business opportunity.

The network marketing professional will never chase their family members or friends attempting to convince them that this is the best opportunity to cross their paths since the invention of the wheel.
#4 – Choose ONLY a Couple of Marketing Strategies to Master at a Time

Don’t overwhelm yourself with trying to accomplish too many marketing projects at one time. Like any network marketing business, there is a learning curve to overcome, so be patient and hang in there. It is common-place to get discouraged, but your success will be won through tenacity and perseverance.

See what other successful network marketing pros are doing and learn from their successes. Doing this will cause you to begin mimicking the way that the successful marketing professional acts or thinks. Ultimately, doing this can lead to a higher success rate overall.
Tip #1 – If you encounter a road block along the way, don’t try to deal with it yourself, contact your upline for help.
#5 – Personal Development – NEVER Stop Educating Yourself

YOU must put in the time to work on yourself daily. The top leaders and top income earners in today’s network marketing world are also top learners. These network marketing professionals are avid readers with a daily ritual of self improvement. If you were to research any of these leaders, you will discover that they have a sizable bookshelf of accomplished reading.

Simply put, if you take a look at any one who’s made any significant amount of money in this network marketing industry, you will be assured that they work on their personal development daily and have the library to back it up.
Tip #2 – If you want to see significant growth from your network marketing efforts, you must constantly improve your knowledge. Read success books, research the Internet for social media strategies along with network marketing tips. Plus, any other topics to position yourself to be successful.
#6 – Include Social Media in Your Everyday Business Activities

Are you still skeptical about the power of social media marketing to aid in the increased the exposure of your business? It has been stated that social media may soon drive MORE traffic to your website than SEO. For more information, follow the link to Insider Information… Social Media May Soon Drive More Traffic Than SEO!

If your online business does not have a social media program in place to help spread the word about your business, then you are missing out. The basis of any good marketing strategy would be to include social media in your daily business activities. There are many locations to begin the building of your business relationships… one good place to start would be to focus on Facebook groups within your niche.
#7 – Network Marketing Professionals Stay Consistent

Consistency in network marketing is a must. Create a plan, write it down as a To-Do List and remain consistent. You MUST be consistent in your actions… without actions on a consistent basis, your business will fail.

When posting content, consistency is key. Not only for better SEO rankings with the major search engines, but when your followers see you posting at a certain time, they come to expect it. If you want your followers to remain loyal, you MUST remain consistent.

A great article about article about blog posting and consistency can be found on my sister site: How I Got My Alexa Ranking Below 100K in 3 months!

Even if you are not seeing the results that you want in your network marketing business, don’t give up. Some days will be tougher than others… keep in mind that virtually every network marketing pro had thoughts of doubt at one time or another, but they kept pushing on, which brings me to my next tip.
#8 – Do NOT Ever Quit!

The ONLY way you can ever fail in network marketing is by quitting. This might sound cliche, but it is true. The successful network marketing professional’s of today at one time or another, had thoughts of quitting but didn’t, and that’s why they are where they are now… TOP INCOME EARNERS!

Network marketing does take time, but be assured the Results WILL SOON Follow!
#9 – Network Marketers MUST Provide Value to Their Prospects

Listen CAREFULLY… we as network marketers are in the people business “People Don’t Join a Business – They Join YOU!”

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