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Last week, I was assured that if I joined Shop YTB that I would not be solicited. After all, this came from someone VERY familiar with YTB
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If you have been in network marketing any length of time you probably have heard someone say talking to your warm market is the only way to build…. and someone else say the internet is the only way. Note here that I said “only”.
Marketing, Network marketing, Online marketing, Other, Warm market
I was copied on an email* between a Rep and the YTB Compliance Department. The Rep was trying to ascertain if he was able to have a website that directed to his YTB sites.
June 3, 2009 10:37am
Okay for me to do one like it?
http://vernandvicky.itravelhq.com/booktravel.phpJune 3, 2009 8:39am (guessing time difference)
This is a YTB Competitor and it is not okay to use this site.
Thank you,
Eran L. Distler,
Compliance SpecialistJune 3, 2009 11:37am
But Eran – This is a YTB site. Is it no longer valid or something?June 3, 2009 9:39am
This is not a YTB site that I am aware of. I will check with the Director of Marketing, James Tackett, to see if we have approved this site.
Thank you,
Eran L. Distler,
Compliance SpecialistJune 3, 2009 01:00pm
This is not a YTB site and the Director of Marketing has never seen it before. This is a competitor’s site.
Thank you,
Eran L. Distler,
Compliance Specialist
Please visit the site in question and tell me what competitor this site belongs to? If they are a competitor, they seem to be using YTB’s SOT numbers. And what is frightening, is that Scott Tomer just gave the YTB Home Office Team the MVP Award for being “the best and the brightest in our company”. My guess is that they had a sale on 25 watt bulbs in Aisle 19!
But they really ought to let these people know that they are no longer involved with YTB–apparently they don’t.
Hello XXXX XXXX,I want to thank you for taking the time to receive more information about a company that is revolutionizing the travel industry. With a lot of “opportunities” out there, I want you to know I appreciate your time and I know you won’t be disappointed!
Do you want more out of life? More time with your friends and family? More time for you? More money? Do you enjoy taking vacations?
Why not join an online travel agency with a home-based business plan that is publicly traded, partnered with Travelocity and ranked #11 in leisure travel in the world?
Think about these questions for a moment.
Do you book your travel and vacations online like most people? Would it make sense to book your travel and vacations online, pay a comparable price or less and get paid 60% of the commissions when you did? What if everyone that you told booked their vacation and travel online, paid a comparable price or less and you still received 60% of the commissions, would that make sense? This is just the tip of the iceberg!
Knowing what you know today, if you could go back in time when Bill Gates started Microsoft and he asked you if you would join him, would you? Of course!
Would you want to see more information about a company that is growing faster then Microsoft was when they started?
Your Travel Biz (YTB) can change your future!
If you are looking for just an extra $500.00 per month or a new career change, YTB and our automated marketing system can help you make it happen! You can have your own state of the art online travel agency!
Please review my website to learn all of the exciting details: Travel with us Vern and Vicky
Be sure to view our Video Presentations while you’re there.Bruce Shuell, opportunities in life don’t go away, they just go to someone else that sees them and acts upon them. If you are willing to plug into our easy to use system and work hard, then this is the chance to be a part of the largest industry in the world, TRAVEL!!!
Thank you again for your time and interest. I look forward to speaking with you soon!
*Yes, I have the emails and yes the Rep with YTB reads this blog and yes he can confirm them.
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By: Wil Chirinos
One of the old techniques on how an MLM works is to have distributors draft a list of targeted prospects from their warm market.Now that you’ve run out of your warm market, how do you build an MLM business beyond your friends and relatives?
The problem with this Network Marketing Training Principle is two fold:
1. People might not have the need or the desire to consume the products you’re marketing or just are not interested in the so called ” opportunity” to generate an additional income.
2. If this is the second, third, or even fourth time around you talk to your warm market about another one of your “business ventures”, they have grown immune to your pitch.
Warm market marketing is the hardest market there is. As long as you are not making tons of money, expecting to build a business talking to your friends and family will lead to failure unless you learn how to break out of your limited circle of friends and family and find other prospects for your business.Your warm market list alone is not going to help you build a residual income business in the long run.
So how should you grow your business?
Go back to marketing principles.
Here are four steps that you would need to master to be able to advance your MLM business beyond the prospecting barrier of your warm market.
1. You must learn to target your market for your products.
Position your products or services in the market place. Define your target market, what are the benefits of consuming your products, what value they bring to an individual. Once you answer these questions, you will be able to identify your potential customer base.2. You need to deliver the right message to that targeted sector of the market. The “right” message should be the message that solves their problems. This message is based on their own desires and needs, not based on the fact that you would like to make another buck when they purchase your products.
3. You need to facilitate the purchase by basing it on what is the best choice for the consumer, the ease of payment, shipping, follow up and support calls.
4. This prospecting message needs to be delivered to the right targeted audience at the right time based on the consumers’ own time table.
These 4 essential marketing principles bring me to my point on how an mlm works:
Learning about marketing, learning how to market your products is an essential component to building a thriving business in network marketing. This is a grossly understated component in any company-sponsored MLM training.
If you were to take what’s being taught in any MLM program and bring it into another field of business, for instance, retailing, those techniques would never stand a chance of surviving.
Can you imagine Coca Cola having its employees draft a list of its employees’ warm market to sell its products to?
A good upline leader who has spent any time studying marketing principles should be able to tell his downline members:
· How /where to find leads for your products/services for not more than 20 cents per lead as opposed to $5, $10, or even $20 for so-called opportunity seekers leads.
· What to say to a lead once you find that prospect based on his needs.
· How to facilitate the purchase for that consumer.
· How to determine if the consumer is ready to make a purchasing decision solely based on the consumer’s own time table.
These basic components should be addressed as you embark to work with your mentor/sponsor in your network marketing company.In order to break the friends and family barrier, you need to learn how to put the marketing back in network marketing. Develop the skill set of a marketer, learn how to position your products in front of a hungry consumer market that is seeking the very same products you offer.
Article Source: http://netmlmarticles.com
Wil Chirinos helps struggling distributors improve their marketing skills. Learn about his Network Marketing Training Workshop by accessing his brutally honest Report and subscribe to his newsletter.
The rest is here:
http://mlmtoday.blogspot.com/2008/01/4-essential-network-marketing-training.html
Marketing, Network marketing, Other, Prospecting, Warm market
by Michael Lemm
OK, before anybody get’s their shorts in a bunch let me make it clear I’m not advocating hype. Quite the contrary… I hate it.You know the type. “Make a million in your underwear”… “$100,000 with no
selling and no sponsoring”… “We build it for you”… “Our secret system guarantees you’re success”….yada yada.But why do we see so much of it? I don’t think you can just shrug it off to “they don’t know any better,” or “their values are lower.” It’s too prevalent. In fact, some so called “gurus” teach it! You know, the “headlines that sell” type of info products, ezine articles, conference calls, seminars and such.
Why?
Well, I set out awhile back to do a simple little experiment testing “hype” vs “no hype”. I found a few message boards that are really nothing more
than a free for all, anything goes advertising stage (not hard to find, unfortunately). I posted a few ads with catchy (if I do say so myself) hype headlines and content (otherwise known as emotional drivel).I also continued my normal “tell it like it is,” “this is the real truth” marketing habits in my usual locals.
What happened?
To my dismay, the hype ads received lots of “hits” and a decent amount of sign-ups. The honest approach received the usual steady but not “massive” performance.
The results? (Pay attention, kiddies…here’s the moral of the story)
The folks who became customers and sub-agents from the honest upfront approach were much fewer in number, BUT more solid! The customers were
loyal users and offered referals. The sub-agents actually grasped the concept
that you have to sell product to earn income (hey Junior, it’s called Network Marketing, not Network Recruiting, for a reason. Duh!) Plus those they recruited were brought in under the “honesty” label, too, and were taught to
sell also.Hmmmm….doing things the right way? May be slower (by appearance) but definitely the kind of structure to build.
The others — those emotional “I’ll jump” looking for a good time crowd?
How did they fare?
Briefly… they didn’t do diddly.
Customers dropped after a short time or never fully activated and paid.
The sub-agents sat on their hands waiting for something to happen. They all
had the attention span of my teenage son on a Friday night… in a theater
full of equally hormonally challenged teenage girls.No focus… no effort… all looks with no substance.
Now, see the difference?
You may get numbers and “massive growth” from hype, but it’s all smoke
and mirrors. Doesn’t mean squat.While the less flashy professional and honest approach gets results. Real results. It may not make the headlines. But it will sneak up on ya. Before you know it, you’ve got a heck of business the others won’t have.
It pays to be a tortoise. Plod along to the finish line.
Let the hare run around like a fool. You can send him/her a post card from your yacht!
Hope ya learned something….
Be honest… be helpful… be yourself… and have fun.
Take your pants off in public. Wear your heart on your sleeve.
Or maybe you’re more sedate, more low keyed. It doesn’t matter.
What matters is that people leave you thinking, “I just met a real person, a genuine human being, a positive honest spirit not trying to trick me to do anything.”
All the Hype Masters are missing the boat when they try to take you where they want you to go. Whatever they build won’t last.
Get real. Be honest. Tell your story and listen. Care.
You’ll build a business….a real one that lasts.
Article Source: http://netmlmarticles.com
Michael is the owner of FreedomFire Communications including Real Time Leads….and the Administrator for HomeBasedBusinessForums.com. Michael also authors Best MLM Resources where you’re always welcome to drop in and catch up on the latest MLM tips, ideas, tools, leads, news, and insights.
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What is better than one blog with a catchy name like MLM Today?
How about one blog page that also includes headlines from another blog with an equally catchy name like Network Marketing Today!
Located comfortably in the sidebar, I have added a recent headline widget from my other page.
Did I mention that it was FREE!
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As you may have read, Alticor is launching a new site called Fanista.
Below is a sample of the invitation email posted at Idolator.
Like you, I’m an ardent fan of all things entertainment. That’s one of the reasons I am so excited to be a part of a new company called Fanista.com. It is a web site made for real, impassioned fans. The site’s community is focused exclusively on music, DVDs, games and books, and is a place where members can share their reviews and opinions as well as shop. In its simplest form, Fanista.com is an attempt to replicate online what we all do in the physical world: champion the artists and entertainment we love. Also, like the real world, there is NO charge or subscription fee to do what it is we all do so naturally.I’d really love for you to be one of the first reviewers. Why? Well, to be honest, we need you — someone smart, inspiring and articulate to help us build the foundation of the community. From what I’ve read of your writing, seems you fit the mold.
And we’re willing to reward you for your efforts if you’re interested. Through our unique “Common Interest Commerce,” or “CIC,” rewards program, users who become CIC members can earn up to two levels of commission: 5% of every purchase made by the friends they bring in, and, when their friends become CIC members, another 5% of every purchase made by the friends of their friends. Users can also earn insider perks and achieve social status for establishing themselves as tastemakers and “experts” when they share their voice and loves with the Fanista.com community at large. It’s our way of rewarding the people who help us build the community.
Fanista.com is a way for you to amplify your voice, to let others hear what you have to say, to influence the people around you and to get something tangible in exchange for all of it. So, check it out. Sign up. Bring your friends. Earn some cash. Get other perks. Change the world — or at least help us try to pioneer a new model!
When the music industry continues to report double-digit loses, why would anyone venture into a shrinking market? If this site we a source hub for downloads, then it may make more sense. Otherwise, it’s like trying to market concentrated laundry soap at twice the price. Doh!
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I hate to admit it but I have been reading with some degree of amusement at the dozen or so websites taking issue with the removal of one of Quixtar’s most over-hyped “leaders”.
These sites are just so Orrin. For anyone who has read any of his “work”, there is a defined tendency to compare his “mission” to key people or events in recorded history. Take a look at any one of these “independent” pages and they act as if there is moral equivalency with the American Independence or the American Civil War. Give me a break.
Look. You don’t like the rules of the game at Quixtar?
It’s not jail. You can always leave.
Now, Orrin on the other hand may not have the same option someday soon.
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