MLM Network Marketing Secrets – How to choose a Company?

Top MLM Network Marketing Company: What is the best MLM Network Marketing Company for you? The secret is out!

Everybody tells you that they are the best. They may even get you all jacked up with hype and lies. Have you heard them say 'you can make one million dollar in one week?'

You won’t hear this from me today. To have MLM Network Marketing success, you have to evaluate the opportunity, the sponsor and the team that you want to join.

I believe you should get the appropriate training before you even consider MLM Network Marketing as a business. Get an education before investing your hard earned money in a self proclaimed "best opportunity." It will save you years of frustration and failure.

You do not want to waste your hard earned money and pull your hair out afterwards.

My purpose is to teach you how to find the best company and sponsor for you. It is all about you.

A great company with a bad team or a bad sponsor = failure and frustration.

I am sure you have read the basics on how to evaluate network marketing companies:

1-Company duration in business
2-Products quality and exclusiveness
3-Compensation plan
4-Tools

I will skip this common knowledge; you can find it anywhere online.

Briefly, I will share with you secret tips on how to evaluate a MLM Network Marketing company:

1-Company integrity
2-Company management experience
3-Your sponsor personality color! (I am not talking about skin color)
4-Your team marketing knowledge
5-Compensation plans and your personality
6-Marketing plans


1-Company integrity

If you are looking for a top MLM Network Marketing company, don't you want to know who is in charge?

Why is this critical?

Let me tell you what happens every day in the Network Marketing industry.

Major distributors are terminated from their companies because they retired!

The company "leaders" do not like the idea that you continue to make money when you stop working.

If you have not heard these horror stories, I can tell you many.

Hint: typically those “leaders” and “founders” will remind you of their integrity!

I will teach you how to read their minds.

Obviously, you can do a Google search and find a third party review.

I will give you a more precise way to disclose their intentions.

It's easy, read the policies and procedures! They will tell you!

The “leaders” and “founders” may have the intention to get rid of you and steal your check. In order for them to make it legal, they add poisons to their policies and procedures and then they make you sign it!

Unfortunately, many network marketers are honest nice guys; they join because they heard a presentation full of hype or because the company has a cool website!

How do they intoxicate their policies and procedures?

Rod Cook, the MLM watch dog guy, tells you never to sign any policies and procedures with more than 30 pages long. Is that simple or what? If you see 40 pages then you don’t need to read them. I promise you they have tons of poisons for you. I challenge you to go and check each self proclaimed "top network marketing company" policies and procedures. Some of those companies won't even give them to you until after you joined! Go figure.

They may disclose their intentions very obviously or in a subtle way. They will tell you that they have the right to cancel the compensation plan anytime and transform the company to direct sales company. A.k.a. your check and your distributor’s checks will disappear over night. Your dreams and your team’s dreams are flushed down the toilet. Most people are naive; they sign these policies and procedures without reading them. Do you believe that?

Those "leaders" may add tiny toxic words, such as continuous. The distributor has to continuously keep in touch with his team, be involved with continuous training and continuous sponsoring…The key word is continuous. In other words, they can terminate you as soon as you stop working, which means they won’t allow you to have a residual income. Hey, you signed it, didn't you?

Ask Jim Rohm about this tiny word. It cost him a quarter million of dollars! He will tell you not to sign blindly, take your team, read the contract and analyze it.

Actually, they may use an even better trick! They may replace the word continuous with the word ongoing...As far as I understand that means continuous.

What is your purpose of joining a top network marketing company?

Isn’t a proclaimed top network marketing company supposed to be a residual income business opportunity?

There are many other scenarios with different toxins. Do not sign anything you do not understand, get suspicious and ask for expert opinion.

I highly recommend you to join Mentoring For Free and get educated.

2-Company management experience:

What do I mean?

If the leaders in a Network Marketing company have never been a distributor and never build a down line, how do you expect them to teach you!

Would you go to a marriage counselor who has never been married?

3-Your sponsor personality color:

Let me ask you a question:

Why would you want to join a top network marketing company if you have a bad sponsor?

Very briefly, if your sponsor is “red”, manipulator, ruthless, careless, he may get you terminated on purpose because of greed and ego!

Understanding personality types is very crucial in MLM Network Marketing; you should know your personality type and your prospect. You will learn all about personalities completely free of charge. It is actually fun to learn.

4-Your team marketing knowledge and experience

That’s another biggie.

If your sponsor or your team doesn’t understand the basics of direct response marketing and internet marketing. If they do not know how to market, how do you expect them to teach you! You will be left wading in the mud by yourself. Not pretty.

I recommend checking out the quality of the training available from the company. Find out the tools they use.

Beware of proclaimed top MLM Network Marketing Company!

5-Compensation plans and your personality

This takes time to explain, I will explain it briefly. Most importantly, if the company compensation plan is based on “front loading” and “stair-step-breakaway” compensation plan, the only people who succeed are the hard selling, aggressive and ruthless people. This was the reason of leaving my prior company.

It doesn't matter if the company is considered a "Top MLM Network Marketing Company". There are many good network marketing companies but it may not be for you.

There are other tricks; I would rather refer you to the mentoring for free. They have one Saturday each month where we discuss this particular topic for one whole hour.

6-Marketing plan:

If this company marketing plan is based mostly on recruiting friends and family, or offline marketing, your are going to have hard time my Friend!

Your company or your team should teach you Internet Marketing. Otherwise, you will be going in circles.

I am sorry if I made it look difficult, but what would you rather do, investigate or join a self proclaimed top MLM Network Marketing company and waste your money?

You may ask me if the company you are checking into is considered a top MLM Network Marketing company.

Aren't you looking for a MLM Network Marketing company that will lead you to success and give you a real residual income? The secret is out! The decision is yours.


Don't be fooled by the self proclaimed top MLM Network Marketing Company.

Educate yourself.


Monica
A mentor with a servant’s heart.

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Network Marketing Success – Are You Training Your Downline?

For network marketing success training can make or break a distributor.

An inexperienced distributor can talk to 20 prospects and no one will join. an experienced distributor can talk to the same 20 prospects and some will join. What's the difference?

The inexperienced distributor asks the wrong questions - such as, "do you like your job?" That is a yes-or-no question. It usually doesn't leave much follow-up opportunity. A better question is, "What do you do for a living?" This open-ended question question requires more of an expansive reply.

Five of these prospects say they hate their job; they want time for their hobbies, friends, and family. They want more money and an exciting career and they don't know how to find something to fill this need in them. They just open up.

Why did they say this? Because the better-trained distributor uses different questions and statements. It's just that simple.

And the trained distributor can get a feel for the personality type of the prospects (see the colors trainings) and knows how to talk with them.

If your distributor continues doing the wrong things, he quits. Distributors aren't lazy, they just don't know what to do. Or they just do the wrong things.

Your downline are looking to you for answers, for the words to say and how to say them. They don't want to re-invent the wheel or face rejection. Where's the network marketing success there?

Do you know how to train your downline? cyou can get help through skills training with Mentoring for Free. Feel free to give me a call.

Wishing you network marketing success through being trained and training your downline,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626
E-mail Wendy
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"Be a Mentor with a Servant's Heart"

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MLM Secrets - Integrity

In network marketing there is one attribute above all others that will lend its self to making your organization grow, and that is integrity.

~You can’t touch it, you can’t see it, it does not have a price on it, but without integrity in our lives, in our work and in our hearts we have missed the mark personally as well as within our organization~.

So what does integrity mean? Webster says it is the quality or state of being complete; unbroken condition; wholeness; entirety. It is being unimpaired; perfect condition; soundness; being of sound moral principle, upright, honest and sincere.
How can you "with integrity" within the MLM industry, honestly and sincerely promise a prospective person that they will be rich within a month? You may tell them they will make $5000 per month when you have not done so yourself. But because you belong to a front-loading company you need the money, so you sell your prospect a dream that in reality will never happen. It cannot be duplicated and you know it.

The person "buys" into your story, they pay the money and one month later they are gone. Everyone wants to be able to have their dreams come true, but with this sales technique you have not shown integrity. The person goes away from your company broken in spirit, resentful and has nothing to say but bad things about your company.

Then we send people to web sites. What do they see, more hype. Promises of making thousands of dollars a month. Maybe this company has a small joining fee. So you think its O.K and buy into it. Two weeks later your sponsor calls you and wants to know how many people you have signed up under you. None. They get pushed out of shape. When you ask for help, they can’t help you. They have no skills either.

Wouldn’t it feel great to be greeted on the phone by a sponsor who knows that marketing is hard work? You need to learn skills. These skills should actually be learned before you step out and commit to a company. You should know what kind of company you want to join like a 5 Pillar company. You want a sponsor who is willing to reach down and help you know about the organization and what is required of you.

If you have the skills to begin with you will not have to stop and learn before you start to work. You can join a company with a proven compensation plan, honest policy’s and procedures and hit the ground running. A company of integrity whose leaders know what it is like to be a "beginner" are willing to give you all the breaks they can.

Wouldn’t you rather be able to tell you new person about making $200 per month honestly then telling a hyped up lie about making $5000? To be a success in your organization you want to lead by example.

By being honest and sincere and forming relationships with your new recruit you have established the priceless commodity of integrity. This will give you a team who is motivated and dedicated to you and to the company. These are the people that will make your organization grow on a solid foundation. Oh yes, it is slower, but why does a person want to build only to have to rebuild again and again? Why not build it once, build it big so that it will last your children’s children?

By being a leader with integrity you will have inspired you team and will empower them to build their team to keep the success going. If you have integrity you will remember that you downline is the bloodline of your organization. It is the power of your company.
Bottom line: Why waste you time with all the hype? Develop integrity and honesty and willing to be a mentor to your people and you will achieve success. Most of all it will make your network marketing journey a success and will reward you richly in the future.

Put integrity into your MLM organization and watch it grow! See you on top!

May Success be yours,

Deana Miller

The MLM Lady

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Network Marketing Tips - Business and Taxes

Network Marketing is a business and that includes paying taxes. Do you know what you are allowed to deduct? This article provides useful Network Marketing tips on the business.
Enjoy,
Monica
MLM Nurse


Taxes in the New Millennium
By Jeffrey A. Babener
© 2002
April is Around the Corner
Was it your plan that taxes would go down on your network marketing business in the new millennium? Was it your thought that President Bush’s $1 trillion proposed tax cut would help you out in April, 2001? Well, some things don’t change from century to century, and one of those is taxes on the network marketer.

Lessons From the Tax People
One thing is clear ... If you plan to take deductions for your home-based business, the IRS expects that the business will be a real one.
One thing is clear from recent litigation brought by the IRS and the state of Kansas against a company called The Tax People, in Topeka, Kansas. If you plan to take deductions for your home-based business, the IRS expects that the business will be a real one. In The Tax People case, the IRS not only filed a lawsuit, but it also seized assets of The Tax People claiming that The Tax People falsely claimed that its new participants were automatically entitled to $5,000 in new tax deductions and unable to reduce their current tax withholding, giving them an immediate pay raise of $500 per month. The Tax People case also demonstrated that the IRS will chase after and audit networkers who it believes are taking suspicious tax deductions.

Remember, to be able to take advantage of tax deductions for your network marketing business, it has to be a real business. The IRS says that you can’t deduct business expenses unless you engage in the business on a “for profit” basis — not just as a “hobby business.”

How do you tell the difference? The IRS will look at one of two tests. The first objective test is whether you have made a profit in three out of five years. The second subjective test is whether or not you are prepared to demonstrate that you engage in your business in order to make a profit. Here, the IRS is looking at whether or not you carry on the business in a businesslike manner; the time and effort you put into the activity; whether you depend on income from it; your expertise in the business; how much profit the activity makes in the years it does profit; and other pertinent considerations.

A Social Business
Network marketing is a social business. You have to eat and you may as well have some fun and do it while you are recruiting or selling. This is one of those expenses the IRS keeps whittling away at, however. Your deductions are now limited to 50 percent of your meal and entertainment costs.

Beyond that, you must have records to substantiate your meal and entertainment deduction claims. In addition to the usual receipts you should keep for expense deductions, you will need to be able to document the substance of the business discussion, the business relationship, and who you had a meal with, or went with to be entertained. The business discussion has to be during the activity or immediately preceding or following it.

Your Home – The Business
You can deduct the cost associated with your home office, but be prepared to show how you use it. Assuming you qualify, you can deduct a proportion of expenses related to your entire home, such as mortgage payments, insurance, utility bills and home repair. The space must be used regularly and exclusively for business. Second, you must use it for administrative or management activities of the business and you cannot have another fixed location for your business where you conduct substantial administrative or management activities.

Everyday Expenses
You can deduct ordinary business expenses such as accounting fees, advertising fees, license fees, and so on. The tax advantage here is that many of your expenses may cross over between your home lifestyle and your business lifestyle, including telephone, cleaning supplies, office supplies, answering machines, audio and video equipment, fax machines, office furniture, and office decorations that improve both your home office and your house.

Like to Travel?
Do you like to travel? Does your spouse like to travel? Do both you and your spouse promote your network marketing business? The business travel deduction is a real advantage for networkers.

Of course, you are going to have to make a clear allocation between the business-related purpose of the travel and the vacation portion. Obviously, there is a gray line, and it will be in your interest to substantiate as much of the travel as relating to your network marketing business. Inside the U.S., all travel expenses are deductible when the trip is “primarily” for business. When traveling abroad, you must divide the travel expenses between business and vacation time.

Gifts – to Business Friends
Do you have friends and family who are also customers and business associates in network marketing? The probability on this point is high. A network marketer can convert gift-making, which might normally take place, into business gift-making, which is eligible for a tax deduction. Under IRS rules, you may deduct up to $25 for the cost of business gifts given directly or indirectly to these people. That should make you popular!

Forms, Forms, Forms
Almost every network marketing distributor agreement recognizes your independent contractor status, and so does the IRS. Because the IRS considers you to be self-employed, you are going to have to pay both income tax and self-employment tax.

If you have income greater than $500 a year, you will be making estimated quarterly tax payments as a self-employed individual. You will receive a Form 1099 from the network marketing company if you receive more than $600 in income or buy more than $5,000 of product or inventory. Your Form 1099 will be attached to your Schedule C, which in turn will be attached to your tax return. Your Schedule C will summarize your income and expenses from your network marketing business.

All About Hardware
When it comes to these issues, you’re definitely going to need to talk to your tax advisor. You have some choices to make about how to deduct the acquisition costs of computer equipment and automobiles that are used for your network marketing business.

The IRS provides some very liberal limits on the amount that you can actually expense as a business deduction in any one year. (Of course, you are limited in expenses to the income from your business.) The other option is taking a depreciation write-off over a number of years for business equipment. Only your tax advisor knows for sure which is most advantageous.

The costs of running your automobile for your network marketing business are deductible. You have a choice of using the IRS’s standard cents-per-mile, or itemizing the automobile expenses, such as gasoline, repairs, maintenance, insurance, and depreciation. Obviously, you need to calculate what percentage of your overall car use is devoted to your network marketing business, and adjust the expenses to that percentage.

Record Keeping — It’s a Must
If you talk to our friends at the IRS, they will tell you time and time again that the most important aspect of claiming your expenses and deductions is keeping adequate records. The IRS will suggest that you keep a separate bank account, make a record of all business transactions, and retain all your records. Record keeping and substantiation are particularly important for deductions for travel expenses, entertainment expenses, and gift expenses. And the IRS will always tell you that a receipt is ordinarily the best evidence to prove the amount of expense.

Be Creative, But be Realistic
If your network marketing business is making money, there is no reason why you should not be able to write off legitimate business deductions. Fair and honest deductions will save you a lot of money, but remember pie-in-the-sky or fantasy deductions may trigger audits and cost you money.

For an in-depth analysis, please visit www.mlmlegal.com, and also check out the Tax Guide for MLM/Direct Selling Distributors (Jeffrey A. Babener, Legaline Publications, 1-800-231-2162).

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Jeffrey A. Babener
Babener & Associates
121 SW Morrison, Suite 1020
Portland, OR 97204 Jeffrey A. Babener, the principal attorney in the Portland, Oregon law firm of Babener & Associates, represents many of the leading direct selling companies in the United States and abroad.
www.mlmlegal.com

Network Marketing Success - Ground Yourself For Take-off

In an earlier message we discussed the different levels of listening (see Network Marketing Success - Listen, Do You Hear Me?) for network marketing success. Listening to your prospect is the most powerful thing you can do. After all, how often are we really listened to? And when we are, how does that make us feel? Cared about? That we matter? We want our prospects to feel the same. Then we can discover their pain and their dream. With the power of their dream they can move forward.

But what happens if you, I, the listener is not grounded? What is grounded? That is a situation where we are secure in our listening, a place where our own thoughts, memories, feelings do not get in the way. There are techniques that help us be and stay grounded so that the conversation is all about the prospect, not about ourselves.

When we cannot to that, perhaps that would not be a good time to try to listen. People usually feel when you are not present, even on the phone. If, by chance, something that the prospect says really resonates with you to the tune of strong memories, feelings come flooding back to you, and you are back on level 1 listening (about yourself), try to check, stop that and regain your focus.

It is appropriate to apologize to the prospect and say either that your mind went to the Bahamas for a moment, or even that what they said evoked a strong memory in you. It is usually counterproductive to launch into that memory. After all, the conversation is about them, not about you. This is a skill that can be cultivated and mastered with practice.

Do you need coaching about this? Please contact me.

Wishing you network marketing success and taking off with your business through grounding yourself,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626
E-mail Wendy
www.wendywebermentor.com
"Be a Mentor with a Servant's Heart"

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Network Marketing Success - How to Choose a Company, Episode 2
Network Marketing Success - How to Choose a Company, Episode 3
Network Marketing Success - How to Choose a Company, Episode 4
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Network Marketing Success - Take It Away!
Network Marketing Success – Say it With Feeling!
Network Marketing Success - Stay Close to the Fire (or Baby It's Cold Outside)
Network Marketing Success – Are You a “Product of the Product”?
Network Marketing Success - Listen, Do You Hear Me?
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Network marketing mistakes that you should avoid

I would like to talk about network marketing mistakes today.

I received a question recently: How to stop losing money in network marketing?

I will talk about the wrong ways of marketing that waste money then I will discuss afterwards how to make your marketing works so it makes you money.

Most people join network marketing companies to make money and to get rich.

The facts are: Many people lose money!

How do they lose money?

• They may have listened to their upline!
  

Let me explain, initially when I started in network marketing two years ago, I was working with a company where no one has any clue about marketing. All what they teach you is to make a list of your friends and family!
Then I asked those uplines what to do next: they told me to start mailing packages about the company! I did not like their idea because I did not like the letter and the target of mailings, but I was supposed to be teachable and I decided to listen...

I mailed about $800 worth of these packages and I never heard from anyone!
That does not mean direct mailing is a bad idea but mailings with a horrible letter for non-targeted list is just dumb stupid. Never listen to your upline if you see no results!

Direct mail requires a letter with great copywriting skills to a targeted mailing list. It costs money for testing the list and you have to be prepared for some money loss.

Lesson #1: Do not use direct mail initially in your campaign.

I will discuss in the future how to undergo successful mailing campaign without losing your money.

• They may have not listened to their uplines
  

Placing advertisements in the newspapers is just not smart to say the least.
No one ever reads those classifieds advertisements of business opportunities. The advertisements are very expensive and it is lost between the hundreds of other ads.
I placed one time an advertisement for $275 and got me absolutely no response: 0 leads.
In this case, my uplines told me no one reads those and I decided not to listen: my mistake.

If your upline tells you to start placing advertisement in the newspaper, then you have to study his personality and his intentions (He is just gambling with your money)

Lesson #2: Never use expensive advertisement in the newspapers.

• Some companies obligate their distributors to keep buying products more than the needed personal consumption to stay active in the company which leads to accumulating lots of unused inventory

Lesson#3: Quit this company. Luckily, most companies do not follow this model anymore.

• The biggest mistake is repeating the same marketing technique and expect different results.

I will discuss in the future the right way of doing network marketing to make money.
Stay tuned

Dr. Nabil
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MLM Success Marketing - Start with the Basic, Basics

If you do not come to the marketing world with some basic skills your MLM journey will not be a success. Today it is amazing how many potential recruit know nothing about the networking industry. The most uneducated idea is you join a company and sell a product or service and try to recruit others into the industry and you get paid. Wrong! There are some things you need to know before you sign on the dotted line or pick up the phone and talk to someone about the business. Ninety percent of people who begin marketing do not realize it is a business is work.

Basis tools and skills needed for a success in MLM marketing:

· Computer with email, and one that has the capacity to hold lots of data and with internet access. Ask questions about the best ISP.
· An organized filing system. You need printed materials for reference.
· Be able to navigate the internet.
· Before coming to a company know how to write and article and learn the skill of advertising through ezines, pay-per-clicks, magazine articles, newspaper ads,
press releases, clicking for points and so on.
· You must be able to talk on the phone with possible recruits. Is the phone a
dead weight for you?
· Do you have discipline? Are you dedicated to spend a certain amount of time in business?
· A good printer is mandatory.
· Fax machine and answering machine or voice mail. Phone with the ability to do three way calling.
· Make a plan. Do not just grab the first company that comes along with the best sales pitch. You must think what you want to do, what kind of business you want.
· Be able to construct a web page, splash pages, know about key words and how to access them when writing an article, web or splash page.
· Know the difference between links, hyperlinks, URL’s and how to change these different internet junctions efficiently.
· Know how to set up a PDF file.

When you come to a business opportunity you want to be prepared. You want to be able to come to the business ready to work, ready to build relationships and start your organization without having to stop and learn the basis skills of MLM marketing. Start with knowledge and the basic skills and your business will be off and running and you will be on your way to the top!

Deana Miller
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MLM business – How to evalute the right opportunity for you?

As an entrepreneur in MLM you must understand a MLM business model. It is essential to know how to evaluate the business opportunity and its product or service.

Be leery of the following:

Urgency, sign up now: A business model that creates urgency will disperse critical thinking. Think about that. There is so much hype, before you have a chance to evaluate the opportunity you have signed on the dotted line.

Pre launch: Many network marketers join pre launch or new start up companies to get in early. They believe first ones in equal bigger paychecks. Statistically, about 90% of network marketing companies end up filing bankruptcy in the first few years. Ouch, there goes your paycheck.

Forced Matrix: Some companies elude they will build your down line for you.

In love with the product: “I love this product and therefore everyone should love my product.” Some folks are married to their MLM companies. They are emotional involved and can not see past the obvious alarms of bad company management.

Selling a product or service that has no emotional attachment: Will your prospect buy from you next month or will you need to close them every time?

Emotional attachment is a big one.

I my opinion, people will continue to consume products that have to do with health, wealth and love or beauty.

For instance, during a financial crisis what products would you cut from your budget? A health product that helps maintains sugar level or a music CD for entertainment?

9/11 is a classic example. Money was tight for many folks. The travel industry suffered. Folks will stop traveling before they stop using a product that makes them look better or feel like a million bucks.

That’s what you call an emotional attachment.

Men will want health supplements to increase their stamina because they want to remain healthly. Women will want skin care products that makes wrinkles disappear because they want men to love them. We all want to look good and feel great.

So what is your intention of building your MLM business?

Is it to build it right and build it once so it can pay you and your children’s children for years to come?

My advice is to investigate the leaders in MLM Company. Read the Policies and Procedures. Ask yourself; is this the right timing in the company and the right time for the product? Is the product valued priced? Is your product consumable? Does your product have an emotional attachment? Does your up line have a system where they teach folks skills?...I mean real skills that include communication skills, internet skills and marketing skills. Is the compensation plan profitable and suited for your personality?

Do your research before jumping in MLM. It will save you years of failure and frustration. Build your MLM business on a solid foundation.

Monica
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Do you think you have to be perfect to have network marketing success? Do you think you have to learn first, be able to perform as if you were a professional on Broadway in order to network, prospect, sell product? Well, they don't give out Tony Awards for networking.

Networkers who feel they have to study and know everything before they begin - never begin. Those who feel that they have to be perfect are either in love with learning for learning's sake or afraid to get out and do the business. It is also likely that they do not have a supportive upline and do not work as a team.

To perform poorly at first is much better than not to perform at all. Practice makes perfect, or at least better. Action is the key. The more you take action, the better your action will be. No action at all guarantees failure.

Of course, you still have to learn skills. You can start out with simplicity and can become more sophistocated. And, of course, you want to be duplicatable. But you have to start.

If you need the skills to be able to start and to become duplicatable, for network marketing success, feel free to visit us at Mentoring for Free.

Wishing you network marketing success through just starting and not waiting to be perfect,

Wendy Weber
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MLM training for new distributors

It is very important in your mlm training for new distributors to teach them the basics of wants and needs.

What people wants are different from what people need.

If you forget this step and you told your distributor to chase their friends and family, you are exposing your team members to rejection and failure before they even start.

Your distributor will say to himself: ' I am getting rich retailing products to my friend and family'.

He goes enthusiastic and he asks his aunt who has diabetes, and pains all over her body: I got great nutritional products that may help your diabetes and pains, would you want to try my products?

The poor distributor gets a big fat No; and she tells him: I am under the care of my doctor.
She may say: I am under the care of my doctor, he takes good care of me: That means no, get off my back. He needs to back off immediately.

The new mlm distributor is going to lose his mind, how come his dear aunt rejected him like this.

Now, his aunt needs the supplements but she doesn't want them.

Next day, our new mlm distributor goes full of energy and he hears his co-workers complaining of their low salary, not being appreciated, etc. Then he asks them: ' would you like to join my company and make money?' And his co-workers answer: Go away; this is a pyramid scheme, this is a scam, someone in china lost his money in these deals.

Your poor mlm distributor rejected, humiliated goes and burry himself under the couch.

You have already lost a new fresh distributor. He quit. He can not sustain the pain of prospecting!

How to prevent mlm prospecting pains and rejection?

This is one of those biggies of Big Al mlm secrets:

You teach him Wants and Needs.

We need to wake up and exercise in the morning but do we want to? Nooo
We need to eat healthy but do we want to? Nooo
We need to go to the dentist but do we want to? Nooo

So, his aunt need the products but she doesn’t want them. May be if she is sick, people feel pity for her and they visit and now she has company! His aunt is normal.

His co-workers need the mlm opportunity but they do not want it and it is normal as well.

How can your mlm distributor prospect his friends and family without being rejected and without joining the no friends left club?

Prospecting through:

If this mlm distributor went to his aunt and asked her: Do you know anyone who has diabetes or aches and pains, my company has great products that may help those people?

Here his aunt will obviously forget about herself, and either she knows someone and she refers him to or she simply says: no, I don't know anyone who has diabetes

Result: rejection free - and this may allow him to get referrals and he still gets the chance to eat turkey on thanks giving.

If he did go to his friends and asked them: Who do you know who has entrepreneurial spirit, passionate with dreams, who may has been in mlm but quit and may be looking to get back?

The answer would have been: No - but not to him, they just do not know anyone who need to make extra income. Or they do know someone then now your distributor has a hot fresh referral from a friend.

Do you see how that works?

The most important you do not want your fresh distributor to get pain!

Your distributor will stick with you to teach him all the details of marketing as long as he is not in pain.

You work hard to find a person with dream and hopes; he is very valuable to lose.

Please comment on this post and give me your opinion.
What would you like me to write about next?

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MLM Secrets - Leadership skill - Energy to Build

In MLM it is no secret most people join a company because they think they are going to get rich quick. There are however, some factors that play into a mind set that will possibly destroy a person unless they are prepared. Each of us has been given the ability to be wealthy. Our basic nature is to grow, to move forward, to increase and create more. There is a phrase that goes “The rich get richer, while the poor get poorer.” Why?

How we think controls what we become. Think on that statement. Where do you place your energy? Are you always thinking about what you don’t have versus what you already have? Did you know your sub-conscious mind can only react to the information that you program it with? If you program your mind constantly with how poor you are and you will never have enough money to get by, it will happen. What ever you program into your sub-conscious mind is where your energy flows. People who want to expand and choose to make their lives better financially will do so, because they know they can.

Want to get rid of the poverty mind set? Start by cleaning from your mind all negativity, all pre-conceived ideas which do not serve you, then fill the empty void with everything positive.

How do we fill our minds with positive thoughts?

• We need to clean out the old ideas, beliefs and concepts that are holding us
from experiencing wealth.
• Second, we need affirmation. We need to tell ourselves “I deserve wealth.” I
want to know how to get rich. I want my income to be more then my outflow. I want to be rich in consciousness as well as money. We need to choose to know how to be rich. We need to choose to accept the money which is flowing into our lives right now.
• Third, create in our imagination a picture of the way we want our lives to be.

What we need to remember is that the law of the mind is totally trustworthy and will never let us down. This MLM secret is one many people never notice or do not perceive. They are to busy thinking about what they can get.

We are like children we want to “get”. Only those who know they already have will receive more. Getting comes from fear. It is important for us to change the “get” complex to the “I have” and the “I am “consciousness. Develop the attitude of gratitude. This is one of the most powerful secrets of adding riches to our lives. Be thankful for what you have now, and watch it grow.

When you are cleaning up the sub-conscious mind and filling the void with things that work for you, energy will begin to form. You will discover the more you give, the more you will receive. So, start giving. Give away the very thing you want to gain and watch it come back to you again and again..

You must expand, if you don’t do the choosing for expansion, life will choose for you and it may not be the choice you want. People who know they are the master of their lives including their finances do not live in fear. They create their lives; they grow and keep moving forward.

There is a fact you might be interested in, take all the money away from a person who is a millionaire – one who has the consciousness of a millionaire – and within a short time he or she will be a millionaire again. Riches start with the mind, not you pocketbook, band account or investments. They have money because they are already rich in consciousness.

How much money do you want? Remember, your subconscious only understands specific commands. You deserve to be rich. Program you mind with an amount far exceeding what you actually want. Then make a nice little sign with big enough letter that you will notice it. Hang it on the refrigerator, or the wall of your office and look at it everyday. Say to yourself, “I deserve to be wealthy.” Say it with conviction; believe it.
Picture it in your mind, plant the seed firmly in your sub-conscious mind.

Poverty is a sickness, the cure is abundance. Keep this MLM secret with you always. Replace the negative with positive and you will be taking your organization to the top!

May success be yours.

Deana Miller
The MLM Lady

Don’t let this MLM secret stay a secret. Share it. The more you share it the more good will return to you. Life supports expansion, no limitations. Challenge the concept

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MLM Network Marketing Secret - The power of your mind

Whose is programming your mind for MLM Network Marketing success? Use your mind as a powerful resource to achieve success. The secret is out!

Either you are programming your mind or someone else is. If you are not in charge of programming your mind than it's going to be a struggle for you to achieve success in Network Marketing.

Success requires you to get rid of negativity.

There is so much negativity around us. We hear it on the radio, the television, the newspaper, the Internet and from our friends and family. We are constantly being programmed with waves of negativity. Listening to this kind of programming will take a toll on you. You will develop a negative outlook in life that will affect your Network Marketing business.

How to reprogram yourself

*Be honest with yourself

*Go on a 30 day mental cleanse. Eliminate as much as possible the negative influence around you. Turn off the television, instead read a quality book. Give up the radio. Stop reading the newspaper.

*Next reprogram your mind with positive self-talk.

~ Everyday write down 10 things you are thankful for. It can be for the smallest things such as a sunset, the color blue, being able to get up in the morning to having a car, kisses from a loved one, your dream, etc.

~ Then write down 10 things you acknowledge that you did, like you got up in the morning, you brushed you teeth, you ate a healthy meal, you exercised, you hugged your kids, you made a phone call for network marketing. Anything positive you did counts, even positive thoughts! It only takes 21 days to create a habit. Each day you will be closer to a new you. You can do this.

Amazing things will happen to you.

You will find that the constant mental chatter inside your head will stop. As a side benefit, you will notice that you are listening, truly listening to people. When this happens, you will connect with others in a way that is beyond your wildest imagination!

Is having success worth giving up television, radio, newspaper for 30days?

Interested in joining us on a 30 day mental cleanse? Contact me at Network Marketing Success and leave a message.

All the best,

Monica

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Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life for Network Marketing Success

Yesterday I didn't get everything done that I had planned for my network marketing success. I can do one of two things about that. I can beat myself up and tell myself that I'm no good, I'm lazy, I'll never succeed, I'll never get it all done.

Who does that sound like? Remember the Gremlin? Remember Shirley? Shirley is my negative voice. She doesn't like change. She doesn't support me.

Do you remember the old Disney Donald Duck cartoons when Donald is trying to decide between doing right and wrong? He had a small angel version of himself on one shoulder and a small devil version of himself on the other shoulder. Each was telling him to do their respective bad or good behavior.

Well, I envision my gremlin as the devil version. That's not to say that my gremlin is evil, just negative. Just counter productive. Just the version that struggles to hold me back. Because I visualize this gremlin I can sweep her off my shoulder and continue with the positive view of myself, the empowering view.

I do not have to be perfect. I just have to "be" and then to "do", and then I will "have". Action is better than perfect action. Imperfect action is better than no action at all. As long as I keep striving to do the tasks that get me closer to network marketing success, as long as I envision myself already as a success, then I am.

So I'm leaving yesterday behind and today is the first day of my life for success in network marketing.

Wishing you network marketing success by being the person who pushes aside your gremlin so that you get into action,

Wendy Weber, the Singing Network Marketer
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MLM Success Secrets - 30 day Mental Cleanse

I woke up this morning and hit the floor running! Wow! Another day! Another day to learn more fun secrets about network marketing and how to make it a success. Every day I learn a little more about the fun world of MLM and am amazed when I talk to people on the phone that are not making it. As I listen to them talk I understand why it is a struggle for them to reach out. Want some answers? Good.

For years we have had a saying “Put on a happy face”. Remember? Oh, this is so infectious, even when you are talking on the phone. Happiness is catching and when you are talking to a prospect you need to spill over this attitude. They will feel it in your voice. It vibrates across the lines as if it were a living thing. And it is!

Why is happiness so important? Because it starts with your attitude, it is this inner peace a person has that comes from the depth of your soul. We usually feel happy when we are free of worry and fears. There is a bad word. Fear. When we consciously are aware of fears in our lives and we let them possess us, we are letting go of our control over fear. When we face our fears and realize much of it comes of what we don’t know we can get a handle on them. Take the worse case scenario. Then take control and alter any part of that fear as best you can. We as humans want to win, we have desires and dreams and when we focus on these positive attitudes, sometimes the fear situation fades away. It takes care of itself. When you have inner peace with yourself through meditation, your mind becomes a peaceful place. Make it a habit to think positive.

Some of the ways we can start making happiness a daily attribute is;

· Change you outlook. When fear comes, quickly replace it with your perfect
day. This is a place in your mind that only you can go to. Even if it is imaginary, for you it is pleasant, it is serene, it is peaceful. Block out the negative. If you cultivate a habit of not focusing on fear, you will soon learn to instantly be able to react in a positive way. Those around you will feel your confidence, your enthusiasm and want to be around you.

· Instead of thinking about the problem, think of solving those problems.

· The T.V. and radio play a huge part of our lives. How about going on a 30 day Mental Cleanse. Shut off the T.V, forget the newspaper, and turn off the radio. What do you hear? Wow! Silence! How long has it been since you have been in the world of Silence? Kind of cool! You will discover you can think, you can actually become focused, honed in, zeroed in. The solutions that have been evading you will surface easily.

· Every day devote some special time just for you. Thirty minutes, and hour is even better because you can go into you mind and think. How long has it been since you have been in a quite place, just you, yourself and listened to the ocean, or a breeze whispering through the trees, or stopped to smell the flowers, or picked up a kitten and looked into its eyes. Guys, this is heavy stuff. You need it too.


Everyday do something that makes you feel good. It does not have to be something big, something small, but significant to you. Buy a new book, a motivational book or tape, have an ice cream cone (only one). Each day do something for someone else. It can be a kind word, a smile, a hearty handshake. Let people know “I care”. With happiness bubbling over, you have just become a leader. A leader? Yes! People will want to be with you. They don’t care about the company you are with as long as they can be with positive, happy people, who are going places. They want to go where you are going, because you have given them a dream, a little light at the end of the tunnel that says “I can do this too!”

Always expect the best. Expect happiness. Smile. Walk down the street and smile at someone you do not know. Oh boy, the look on their face; it’s priceless!

I know what you are thinking, what does this have to do with network marketing. Everything, my friend! Everything. Take a look at some of the top leaders of companies. Oh sure, you will find the obnoxious reds, the bullies, the money hungry people out there. But take another look and you will see a “team” who together is working toward a goal and they are gaining, they are winning because happiness is a permanent attitude with them. They have nasty days. They have the down side of network marketing, but you would never know it. With persistence they move forward. Always, they move forward. Always they emanate happiness.

So, try the 30 Mental Cleanse. Try it for 2 days. Try it for 5 days. Then go 10 and before you know it you will have gone 30 days. Once you have done this for 30 days you will know a peace that passes understanding. Everything in your life begins to focus. You see the big picture. Now you will have created not only an attitude but a burning desire. It will overwhelm you. Let happiness, inner peace and yes, love, take your network marketing to the next level of success.

See you on top!

Here is to your success.


Deana Miller
The MLM Lady

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Network marketing success and failure

I like talking about network marketing success and I don't see failure myself BUT I keep getting the same question again and again:

Why most network marketers fail?
It seems that many souls are afraid of failing and that makes them paralyzed from taking any action. (There are no failures in life just mistakes that you should learn from) .

Let's discuss some reasons for lack of network marketing success and I will prove to you that not as many people fail in mlm.

1) Most distributors quit before 60-90 days!
Did these people fail?
The answer is: NO- These distributors have never expected any success. They probably did not understand that network marketing is a business that requires learning new skills and hard work. What is the reason? most mlm presentations lead with hype!


Let me give you examples: "Join now the matrix we will fill the matrix for you" - "Rush it is a binary plan: position yourself now, etc..."

So you are recruiting lazy people with welfare mentality.
Then after they join, you ask them to call people, listen to conference calls, set goals, and expect rejection and work! Good luck, lol.

2) You closed them!
If the prospect doesn't have a big dream and big reasons to join you and they joined you because you kept chasing them and manipulated them.
After they join they will not follow up any recommendations and they will not work.
Did these people fail? No - You got them into the deal; they are not interested in success.
MLM is an army of volunteers, prospects should close themselves.

3) Lack of training:
Most companies training sucks and this is a fact. If the sponsor teaches them to make a list of their friends and family and that's the only lead generation they teach. How do you expect them to succeed? If they are lucky, they will find Mentoring for free.

MLM training must include marketing lessons offline and online, writing ads, targeting the market to generate plenty of leads.
Prospecting should be painless. Teaching rejection free prospecting is essential. People will try to avoid pain more than they try to gain pleasure.
Did these people fail? Yes and No. Real leaders will search for answers, they will learn marketing and they will teach it to their team members.

4) Compensation plans that work against personality types:
That's a long discussion and I do not have time for it here.
If you have one hour to listen, you can listen to one the mentoring for free call where Michael is interviewed about this topic.

5) Poor self esteem/lack of vision/lack of belief/lack of support:
This is may be one of the real reasons for failure.
Any training program should include self development program. Self growth is critical to any business.
If you do not have good self esteem and you do not see yourself as a success before you even talk, you do not have a persona; you have no power of persuasion. You can not attract prospects to you. You are not magnetic.

That's why we have in the mentoring for free our Saturday calls where we read motivational books that changes the poor beliefs in some people.

Randy Gage one of the famous mlm trainers during the master mind IV put this as the #1 reason for failure. The only way he succeeded is when he destroyed his belief systems.
He used to belive that rich people are evil, he never reached success until he realized this poor belief and destroyed it.

Some are encircled with poor belief systems induced by TV, newspapers and even religion.

Some Christian for example uses the Christ and the bible to induce a belief system against the rich. For example: The idea that Jesus is born poor and you can not go to heaven if you are rich.

The same bible is interpreted completely differently!

Jim Rhon and Doug Firebaugh for example use the bible to empower themselves. They extract the empowering quotes in the bible.

Doug for example sees Jesus as the original networker. Jesus was able to recruit people by the millions!

I do believe that most network marketers who look for answers will find them soon or later.
Now, it may take some people couple of months or years till they find the formula.

The ONLY failure is the one that makes you stop!!

I hope this will answer this question. If you can see most people who join mlm companies fail but leaders with great desire soon or later will find the right company and the right team.
I do believe most network marketers succeed :)

Dr. Nabil
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