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In the first part of this series about how to succeed in Network Marketing I looked at some statistics and a few reasons why people leave the business so quickly.Perhaps the biggest reason for people quitting so soon after joining an MLM business is what I call “Network Marketing Madness”.  Let’s first remind ourselves of one popular definition of madness “Madness is doing the same thing over and over expecting the outcome to be different”.

For years the drop out rate has been as high as 90% within the first 12 months of joining and yet the same old same old advice is handed out “Follow the system”.

I guarantee that the system was developed before the Internet took over the world just a few short years ago. The system, now referred to as ‘old school’ consisted of the 3-foot rule, business cards, distribution of flyers and leaflets, advertising in local or even national newspapers; purchasing leads from a variety of sources; placing posters and pestering family and friends.

Such a system has a massive built-in ‘rejection’ element which can quickly destroy the confidence of the new networker. Often the worst rejection can come from your friends and family!

If corporate world continued to follow a system with a built-in failure rate of 90% the world economy would be in chaos!  So it must surely be madness for networkers to continue to pursue such a system?

Now don’t get me wrong this ‘old school system’ still works for the few established networkers but obviously not for the 90% that quit!

What surprises and disappoints me is that those top earning distributors in many networks who continue to push the old system don’t seem to want to extend their sponsoring advice to include using the internet to generate leads. 

Chances are they probably recommend that you purchase leads from Internet lead companies and in the same breath tell you that leads you might generate online yourself are rubbish!

Because they don’t seem to be open minded to new ideas they miss the most important piece of advice that people like Mike Dillard and Ann Sieg give which is to focus your efforts to attracting and helping those 90% of unhappy networkers!

Both Ann and Mike teach you how to do this whilst at the same time generating a source of income which you could plough back into your own primary network.

I’d advise everyone to invest some time and a little money to study their systems and then check in with the Renegade University  and follow their excellent webinars which enable you to follow click-by-click exactly how to put Mike and Anne’s programs into effect to build your business using the power of the internet.

Go take a look now.

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I have to admit I stole this post from Dawne’s blog - Dawne and I have lived together for 20 years this coming June, so I don’t think she will mind if I borrow her excellent Post.  You can see more by going directly to her blog at www.dawnekovan.com

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This is a question that everyone first asks when they look at affirmations. They say - how can they work - they’re only words? They say - it’s all just positive thinking for the chattering classes - rubbish! To be honest, I’ve heard them all and more - some too rude to write down here for your tender eyes.

So, let’s start by ascertaining what an Affirmation really is. The Concise Oxford Dictionary says: a statement of fact; a strong assertion. (Note the word “strong”, there). It is also a legal statement for those who do not wish to make a religious declaration in court, but that’s not what I’m talking about here. It seems that ANY statement we make strongly about ourselves as if it were true is an affirmation - and nowhere does the definition mention positive thinking!

How then do you use affirmations in your everyday life - and why would you? What will you gain from so doing? And more to the point - do they really work? I have to say that they very clearly DO work. All those negative, self-defeating statements that arise from your unconscious on an almost minute by minute basis are in reality Affirmations! Think about that - EVERYONE tells themselves things that prevent them from being as wonderful as they can be. And it’s all because of the little devil sitting on your shoulder drip feeding poison into your ears.

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Sponsoring and Retention 

Conquer these two tasks and you are on your way……..

So you’ve just joined a Network Marketing company and are excited about the prospect of being your own boss and making a good living, or perhaps a fortune even!

Some statistics

It is said that up to 80% of newbies quit the business in there first 90 days and this climbs to 90% by the end of the first year!  It is also said by no less an organisation than the DSA that a distributor only ever sponsors on average two people into their network!

Another statistics suggests that less then 5% of any population are true sales people - so most people can’t sell and most of us don’t like being sold to! Yet most networkers are expected to go out and sell their company products - which can often be products most folk don’t want to buy in the first place - like nutritional supplements.

With statistic like these it would appear that the odds are stacked against most people making a success of Network Marketing!

Why the high drop out rate? 

1. Most people joining an MLM company do so to make an extra income yet with most networks they soon discover that there are ongoing costs they didn’t bargain for.
2. One such cost is the Auto-ship program - so many MLM companies insist upon their distributors buying the company products to ‘qualify’ for commissions - when the real reason is that the MLM company probably couldn’t exist with true customer orders alone!  Take away the distributor auto-ship orders and what would the company sales look like then?
3. Desire for instant gratification or unreasonable expectations are another cause for drop outs - newbies fail to realise and the sponsoring distributor fails to advise that network marketing is a business that needs to be understood.
4. Experienced networkers know better than to ‘sell’ their opportunity on the promise of big easy earnings - they know full well that big earnings require massive action.  Sadly, not all distributors make this clear.
5. Too few newbies are prepared to educate themselves - they need to go to meetings, buy books, DVD’s and CD’s to educate themselves about the business of network marketing. Just as in the corporate world where CPD (Continuous Professional Development) is the norm, so it is with Network Marketing.  Some suggested reading is listed below.

Look out for the next Post when I shall look at ways to generate leads for your MLM business. Here are a few books you might read:-

Get you FREE copy of “The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing

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Mike Klingler reviews The Renegade Network Marketer in this 5 minute video on YouTube.

He explains how he came across ‘Attraction Marketing’ and how he is now putting it into operation within his own business.

He also recently - I think it was December 2007 - that he set up the Renegade University where he teaches exactly how to use the Internet to generate leads for your own MLM business, using a click-by-click system.

It is certainly the best tuition I have found and removes the stress of trying to work things out for yourself!  Bye bye brain ache!!

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I’m not sure if you buy anything on the internet other than perhaps books and CDs at Amazon but if you do , read on…..

A friend mentioned this online shopping to me and showed me that I could earn money, much like loyalty points at Tesco but instead its real money they send you.

The whole purpose of the online shop is that you use it for self consumption. You don’t have to get anyone else to buy stuff from your shop you just join for free and then whenever you want to buy anything you simply do it through your own Ei42 shop and you earn yourself a commission.

How EASY is that?

The REALLY good news is that we are all able to refer other friends and family to join us. There really is nothing to lose, we all help each other. Click the banner below to see my shop and to find out more click the “Find out more” link at the top right of the page.

Everybody seems to be talking about this and it’s growing really quickly. If you consider how many people joined ‘facebook’ for social networking last year, (in the UK alone it was about 20,000 per day!) imagine how many will join this where we can all earn money?

Click the link above and join now then pass it on to your friends. This is NEW and we are some of the first to know about it so we have an unfair advantage at the moment.

See you at the shops!

On the 12^th March Kim Klaver also known as ‘Miss Stud’* raised a question on her email loop about recruiting/sponsoring.  And I quote from her email:

When the recruiting isn’t working………..

I was once a rabid (and wildly successful) recruiter.

That was 10 years ago.

Recruiting is way harder today than before.  Ask anyone who’s been around even five years and they’ll tell you it’s way harder to recruit today.Have you discovered that?But say you’re like me and you want to stay with it.  And you want the big income.   And the repeat income.Now Kim then went on to talk about customer gathering - I want to address the question of whether sponsoring is getting harder than it was 10 or even 5 years ago.

I believe the answer is an emphatic ‘yes’ and we can place the reason fairly and squarely in the court of the Internet.

Think back 10 years ago - most people didn’t have a computer at home let alone email and the Internet.

Google didn’t exist 10 years ago!

Google didn’t exist!! It wasn’t incorporated as a private company until September 1998 MySpace the most popular site on the Internet started life in February 1999, Facebook in February 2004 and YouTube in February 2005! (What’s so special about February I wonder??).

10 years ago the only way people got to hear about ‘opportunities’ were the traditional ways still taught by some as the only ways, namely warm market, 3-foot rule, newspaper and magazine advertising, leaflet drops and so forth.

Most people never even came across an ‘opportunity’ to work from home. There was very little if any competition when we advertised - today all that has changed.  .

Most households now have a fast internet connection and if they do they go looking on Google or Yahoo search engines - and when they do they are often overwhelmed with the choices available.

Why then would they choose your business opportunity when they may have literally hundreds to look at?  This is the question to which we have to find an answer!

At the same time, we really have to embrace the current rapidly changing technology and the opportunities it presents. We need to learn how to have a presence on the internet in such a way that people searching for opportunities find us first.

It may not be as difficult as you think though it may give some of us older people severe brain ache in the process!!

Could this be your biggest mistakes?

Of course, continue using the older sponsoring methods that work for you but failure to embrace the new technologies could prove to be one of the biggest mistakes you could make in your network marketing business.

Elsewhere in my blog you will find connections to learn how to build a web within the Worldwide web!

Expect Success!

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Kim Klaver’s website can be found at http://www.bananamarketing.com/

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Mike Dillard recently launched his much awaited book (not an e-book) “Building on a Budget”  and his followers will not be disappointed!  Mike maintains his usual high standards - in fact Mike Dillard set the high-water mark for all leaders in ‘Attraction Marketing’ tuition a few years ago when he launched his much acclaimed “Magnetic Sponsoring” book.

In his latest publication “Building on a Budget” Mike sets a budget of $500 to use to build a lead generation system that will explode your Network Marketing business.

Interestingly much of the budget is spent on hardware such as a simple video camera for about $150 to produce videos to place on YouTube and Camtasia software at $299 from http://www.techsmith.com/ to edit your videos

Spending your budget on one-shot ways such as cards, leaflets or leads offers no leverage ……..once spent the money has gone forever - with Mike’s advice you can invest in strategies that create leverage over a long period of time and in such a way that your budget should actually grow!

You will need to buy the book “Building on a Budget”  to read of the five key methods Mike discusses and you will need a certain level of computer literacy to implement them.

Folk who have been following Mike these last few years know that he assumes a certain level of knowledge of the Internet so some readers of the book may find the implementation of the ideas a challenge!

What if someone showed you how? 

In my humble opinion perhaps the best place on the web to learn how to get the systems set up and generating leads for you is with the Renegade University. Even computer newbies will be able follow the excellent tutorials that Mike Klingler (Yes, another ‘Mike’!) has on his webinars.

And the Renegade University does not limit itself to just the five methods that Mike Dillard talks about. However, you don’t need to know all of the methods… just find your favorites and focus on those! 

One of these methods alone can produce large numbers of prospects.  Simply dabble with the many methods to find the one(s) you enjoy the most… or that bring results the most easily for you - become an expert in your chosen method then move on and learn another.

At the Renegade University you will be shown how to have two windows open on your computer at the same time so you could set up your own marketing at the exact same locations while you just follow along one-mouse-click-at-a-time?

It’s like having a friend sitting beside you with their computer and simply following what he/she is doing but on your computer.

This makes a huge difference in people’s ability to get started with their own marketing and attracting their own prospects.  It’s one thing to read about it, but it’s another thing altogether to be shown step-by-step, click-by-click.

Recommended Strategy

The recommended strategy at the Renegade University is to followAnn Sieg’s system “The Renegade Network Marketer” which describes attraction marketing in a bit more detail than Mike Dillard’s book and almost takes you by the hand step-by-step through all the activities.

Readers will probably discover that many who started with Mike Dillard also follow Ann Sieg as both are considered leaders in the subject of ‘Attraction Marketing’.

A dollar will get you started!

Yes, that’s right - the Renegade University will let you use their Professional System for just $1 for your first 7 days so you can start going through the first tutorials, and setting up your own marketing before deciding. 

If you don’t agree that this is the very best decision for you and your business, they will even give you your dollar back at the end of the week! 

Enjoy!

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After Dawne and I got back from the International Conference in Sydney where we spent quite a lot of time talking about ways to grow our business, our business actually started to head south!  That just was not part of the plan!I had been used to running businesses which headed north most of the time!  When in corporate UK I would have a 5 year plan which would expect an upwards trend in income and this just wasn’t happening in my Kleeneze business - I was disappointed because I expected to be enjoying an ever increasing income - quite the reverse was happening!

I was being told I had to generate 50 leads a week to build the business - what I wasn’t told, but what everyone knew - was that you just can’t do that without spending a lot of money either buying leads or advertising in the newspapers which can be a bit ‘hit and miss’ at the best of times.

I was advised to read books about the business, which I did - I have shelves full and they are all excellent but they didn’t help me in my quest to generate leads. So I decided to buy some ebooks as well as real book on the subject of lead generation.

And as I didn’t enjoy putting flyers through doors or cards on cars I decided to spend as much time as it took researching the Internet in an endeavour to find ways of generating my own leads - after all the Lead Brokers were using the Internet to do just that.

After about 18 months reviewing and discarding many so called experts I at last found the two most experienced leaders who have made millions in just a few short years.

The leaders in what is now known as ‘Attraction Marketing’ are Mike Dillard author of the book ‘Magnetic Sponsoring’ and Ann Seig of ‘The Renegade Network Marketer’

They realised that leading with your ‘opportunity’ no longer worked - you had to become an ‘Information Provider’. They have both developed brilliant systems and many savvy Networkers are following both of them - their systems being very similar.

They both emphasise that the old ways still work but the Internet is faster and can be more effective and a lot cheaper - indeed there are many ways to advertise on the Internet free of charge which will bring prospects to you.

I am now following their system and at the precise moment working with The Renegade University to develop a presence on the Internet to generate FREE leads and create an additional income in the process - how good is that?!

I would encourage you to explore what they have to offer. Just take a look at their sites, watch the free videos and webinars at The Renegade University and discover the new ways to finance your business building activities and have prospects knocking on your door!

I have just this weekend learned how to gain a presence on Squidoo.com - some of you may have already had an email from squidoo to take a look - ignore that one because I had made a few beginners mistakes - take a look here http://www.squidoo.com/onlinemlmsecrets instead.

I’ve already got the blog up at running at www.BoostYourIncomeFireYourBoss.com/blog. Why a blog you might ask?  Just read this quote from BusinessWeek Magazine:-

“Go ahead and bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they’re simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the Internet itself. And they’re going to shake up just about every business-including yours. It doesn’t matter whether you’re shipping paper clips, pork bellies, or videos of Britney in a bikini, blogs are a phenomenon that you cannot ignore, postpone, or delegate. Given the changes barreling down upon us, blogs are not a business elective. They’re a prerequisite. (And yes, that goes for us, too.)”

You will find the full article at BusinessWeek.

Next on the agenda will be the Social Networks such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube etc.

Why? Because statistics show that two thirds of all search results on Google or Yahoo are to be found in those very places - so to have a presence there is important and FREE.

Is this working for me - Yes!

As I get more experience I shall be able to help you to do the same but in the meantime go check out this stuff for yourselves and go build yourself a solid MLM business!

Enjoy!

Robert

aka Bob Webb MkII

Use the ‘Law of Attraction’ rather than the ‘Law of Rejection’ to build your MLM business

The ‘Law of Rejection?’
In 20th Century Networking you had to find your prospect then chase him/her until they either joined your ‘opportunity’ or told you in no uncertain terms what you could do with it!

So much rejection occurred that most new networkers – some say as many as 95% - left their ‘opportunity’ within a year of joining. Many failed both to bring anyone into their business and most likely lost money in the process!

The Law of Attraction’
In 21st Century Networking, the rules are changing for those networkers who are learning to use the power of the Internet.

Answer these questions:-

How would you feel and what difference would it make to your business if prospects called you first?

How would it be if those who didn’t join your business actually paid you?

This is exactly what is happening to those networkers who know how!

After some 18 months researching the Internet in an endeavour to find ways of achieving these goals I have at last found the two most experienced leaders who have made millions in just a few short years.

The leaders in what is now known as ‘Attraction Marketing’ are Mike Dillard
author of the book ‘Magnetic Sponsoring’ and Ann Seig of ‘The Renegade Network Marketer.’

They realised that leading with your ‘opportunity’ no longer worked – you had to become an ‘Information Provider’. They have both developed brilliant systems and many savvy Networkers are following both of them as their systems are very similar.

They both emphasise that the old ways still work but the Internet is faster and can be more effective and a lot cheaper – indeed there are many ways to advertise on the Internet free of charge which will bring prospects to you.

I would encourage you to explore what they have to offer. Just take a look at their sites, watch the free videos and discover the new ways to finance your business building activities and have prospects knocking on your door!

Then go build yourself a solid MLM business which will provide you with a lifetime residual income.

If you are based in the UK, Ireland, Holland or Germany and do not have a current MLM that is working for you, try ours: www.thebestbiz.co.uk

Expect success!

Bob Webb

The sites to visit are:-

Mike Dillard’s Free video bootcampThe Renegade Network Marketer website

A great place to begin is to download Yaro Starak’s ‘Blog Profits Blueprint’ and at the same time enjoy the free video tuition that comes with it.

This is the link  http://www.becomeablogger.com/video-10.html

These videos are very helpful and are a ‘must’ particularly if you are using WordPress, as your platform. You get screen shots all the way - really holds your hand and saves a lot of time for newcomers.

Give it a shot, download ‘Blog Profits Blueprint’ and sign up for his regular blog.

Enjoy!

Bob Webb