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Whether to use the internet or not in your prospecting or business building activities… ..
Marketing, Network marketing, Online marketing, Prospecting, Warm market
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It’s been over a year since Ann Sieg first decided to share The Renegade Network Marketer techniques with anyone outside of her own personal downline …..
provided by Tom “BigAl” Schreiter
Have two sealed envelopes at opportunity meetings. Label one envelope “No” and the other envelope “Yes.”
At the end of the meeting, show your guest the two envelopes. Tell your guest that he will receive one of the envelopes depending on his decision.
If the guest chooses “No” – give the guest the “No” envelope that contains discount coupons for your products or services.
If the guest chooses “Yes” – give the guest the “Yes” envelope that contains discounts and offers for training, extra fast-start packs, prospecting
tools, etc.
Now even the shyest person can ask for a decision from the guest.
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Coach Mark Davis from Melbourne, Australia will be visiting the U.S. and Canada again and conducting his 3-hour accelerated public speaking course.
Why waste hours and months learning to overcome fear?
Learn how to give great presentations.
He can stop at just a few cities as his time here is limited,
but if you are near one of these cities, here’s my advice.
Make sure to go.
Everyone loves the fun course, no one goes out of their comfort zone,
and everyone leaves with a skill that can really accelerate his business.
Here is his schedule:
Washington, DC – May 6
Chicago – May 7
Toronto – May 9 afternoon (special Internet prospecting training)
Toronto – May 9 evening
Boston – May 11
Saddle Brook – May 12
Los Angeles – May 13
For more details go to:
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Every year — about this time — there’s always a prospecting language that says things like:
“If you join our business, you can write off all your expenses. Even your lunch with coworkers or your cellphone bill!”
“If you get started in our business, you can write off every mile that you drive your car. Even if it’s just to the bank or the post office!
“When you start your business, be sure to keep your receipts for anything you buy. If you buy a DVD player and use it in your meetings or invite a prospect to your house to watch a presentation….you can write off the whole thing.”
“Are you going on a cruise this year? Be sure to talk to some people about your business on the cruise. You can write off the whole trip as a business expense!”
And, all of these statements — by themselves as they’re written — are simply not true.
There’s a lot of quick-and-dirty tax advice that’s given in our industry and most of it is well-intentioned. But the main thing is that you get your ultimate tax advice from a professional.
Basically you can boil everything down to these 4 simple items the IRS will look for …..
1. Demonstrate that you intend to make a profit
2. Work your business on a regular basis and consistent basis.
3. Run your small business like any other “real” business.
4. Record all your business expenses, incomes and activity.
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There is many opinions out there on the best way to do mlm. Some people say the old school ways of prospecting in your warm market and buying leads are dead. But often the people that say that are just promoting their own online mlm system and products.
All the different ways you can build your business still work if you do them properly. If you don’t learn the various ways you can prospect then you are missing out on potential reps and business builders.
A big part of the new school mlm approach is called attraction marketing. This is about positioning yourself as a leader and someone that can help a prospect. This principle can be used with the more traditional prospecting techniques, and is actually how successful mlm’ers do the business.
Rather than just hitting someone up about the business, you need to first qualify them and see what it is they want. Then you need to teach them about the industry, and what it takes to succeed. Only then will a prospect start to trust you enough that they will join you to achieve the dream they have.
When you’re ending a conversation with the lead, you’re often be needing to schedule a follow up call. One lesson I learnt in the early days of following up leads is to apply the Hollywood principle.
“Don’t call me, I’ll call you ”
Sometimes your prospect will offer to call you back at a certain time and day. However they’re probably busy people and they don’t know enough about the business yet to be excited. That time and day will usually pass and you’ll wait a bit of time to give them a chance, then you wont know a good time to get them and a few days can pass easily. And when you do get in contact, it can make them feel awkward because they missed the agreed time.
It’s best that you are the one calling, after all it’s your business not theirs, so you need to take the initiative.
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.
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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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