The Renegade Network Marketer

Squeeze Page: Do You Need One?

2010-07-12T18:20:00.000-07:00

A squeeze page or lead capture is just a single page with sales copy and an opt-in email sign-up form. The idea is to “capture” the web surfer’s contact info and eventually to generate a list of targeted leads that are interested in solving a niche problem.

There are three main reasons you need a capture page. They are:

1. It is the only way to build your list.
2. It establishes your online identity.
3. It pre-sorts the people that come by, allowing the tire kickers to keep moving.

Now you can contact people who have expressed interest in home-based business, MLM, money-making, extra-income opportunities.

Your List Is Your Most Important Asset In Business

Whether you’re new to making money online or not, I am sure you have heard that building a list of email addresses is key to your success.

Your list is your most important business asset whether you are in network marketing, Internet marketing or retail marketing. Your list is made up of the people who - at one time or another - raised their hand and said “I am interested in what you have to say”.

Your list will become your personal warm market, even if you never meet them in person. In order for people to “raise their hand” and let you know they want more info, you have to have a place for them to enter their info. A capture page will have a “form” that the surfer will complete, providing you with both the means to contact them, and permission to do so.

Since a squeeze page is also the very first “impression” of you and your services/products, it n needs to look good, work right and intrigue them. Although it’s important to make a good impression on your capture page, don’t overly obsess about what it looks like in the beginning. You will refine it over time. Your prospects/customers will tell you what is working and what isn’t. No, they won’t dial the phone and tell you outright, but they will tell you just the same. It will be in the number of “opt-in’s” you get with a new headline verses the old one or when you add bullet points.

A good squeeze page or lead capture page can generate a responsive list of prospects that can be turn into customers with a good email follow up strategy.

Let’s say you are offering a free eBook in exchange for someone’s contact info. The capture page will explain the offer, and ask for their info. If they aren’t willing to provide it, there is nothing else they can see or do on your site, so they move on. Don’t add any other links to your capture page, other than the “Get More Info” or “Send My Report” link or button. That should be all they can do. Opt-In or move on. Period.

Listen, it takes time to build up trust. Your best friend didn’t become your best friend overnight, and your prospects will need time to warm up as well. Your list gives you the time to build a relationship with them. Show them you are someone they can trust. Someone worth listening to. If you want to build, you capture page this is a great resource to do it easily and without complications. Squeeze page, you will be able to build your list fast.

The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing Free Download Here

2010-03-07T16:44:00.000-08:00

In order to get the most out of your business and avoid failure, I highly recommend you go and check out this FREE ebook called The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing . In it you'll discover some of the biggest myths that cause the vast majority of mlmers to lose money and waste years of effort. It is definitely a must read.

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Renegade Network Marketer Download Here

2010-03-07T16:29:00.000-08:00

If you've already read Ann's free report, then I would suggest you get a copy of her ebook. You can get the Renegade Network Marketer Download Here. It will shed a whole new light on how to grow a network marketing business and help you begin to experience success rather than failure.

MLM Lead Generating System- How To Attract And Sponsor People into Your MLM Business.

2010-01-29T00:21:00.000-08:00

Want to know how to attract dozens of new representatives into your MLM business? Tired, frustrated, and failing networkers are sick of wasting time online cold calling opportunity seeking leads, buying stale leads, making lists of friends and family, and wasting time on sharing their business with people who won’t join their home based business.

Now, thanks to the Internet, failing networkers can learn how to attract dozens of success-driven people directly into their downline. From the comfort of their home, network marketers can start using highly effective, proven marketing techniques, instead of hosting home parties and pitching their business opportunity to family and friends.

There are more than 90,000 searches each month by people actively looking to earn extra income or replace their day job so they can work from home.

Watch this free video now to find out why the most successful Network Marketers don’t use a names list or make cold calls. Learn how to attract and sponsor people into your MLM business today!

Network Marketing Distributors Won't Survive a Bad Economy?

2009-04-12T14:51:00.001-07:00

Have you joined a network marketing business? Are you thinking that Network Marketing distributors won't survive a bad economy? If you are at rock bottom, ready to quit...Don't! You can make money online, let me help you! I'll share with you how you can succeed in the network marketing industry.

I wanted to share some pearls of wisdom I learned from reading Robert Kiyosaki's #1 Bestseller Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! Think about this...

So many people are fixated on working their way up the corporate ladder. Why in the world is this so appealing? Why not own the ladder? Robert's "Rich Dad" encouraged him to always remember who you are working for...who are you making rich?

As a mortgage planner, even with this bad economy I am still making a living, if I stick with it and keep working hard I can continue to make money and a decent living. Doesn't sound that exciting does it? Sure, I can make a good living...but I know for a fact that I won't become wealthy. I want to make money even when I'm not working on my business. But, if I continue on my course, I will seal my fate as being stuck in the rat race.

Robert talks a lot about the rat race in his book, and basically that is working for a pay check, giving a hefty portion of your money to the government in taxes (sales tax, property tax, fuel tax, income tax, capital gains tax...), then what you have left you spend most and save a little (and of course you'll be taxed on what you save). Even when you start making a little more money, you find yourself spending more money, giving more money to the government, perhaps racking up some credit card debt to pay for the high price of tuition, gas, living expenses...It's a never ending cycle. As a mortgage planner, I see what happens to the average person who works their whole life, and saves a little money. They leave a bunch of bills, funeral expenses, etc. and they have little to no money to give to their family.

I was fortunate to have realized over a year and a half ago that I could have easily ended up in the same situation if I didn't make a change in my life. I am willing to bet that this may be the situation many of you could be facing as well.

The good news is there is another option. You CAN get out of the rat race. Robert says "every day, with every dollar, you decide to be rich, poor, or middle class". I think this is true with every decision you make regarding how you spend your time as well. Time away from building your business moves you closer to a future in the rat race.

You can re-commit yourself to building your MLM business. If you pushed the business to the side because you thought that network marketing distributors won't survive a bad economy, put that behind you. Now with this bad economy is when people are really looking for a change. The credit card bills will be arriving shortly showing us how much we have really spent over this tough economic times. The nation’s recession is leaving millions of Americans working fewer hours than they would like — and taking home less money than they need — as their employers try desperately to trim costs. Now more than ever most people are looking to make money in network marketing and direct sales, and that's where you come in!

Don't let this high-season of Network Marketing pass you by. Attraction Marketing can help you get there! If you want to get out of the rat race, and start building your business like I have, without cold-calling leads and chasing around family members and friends-you can if learn how to market your business effectively.

Social Bookmarking as a Network Marketing Promotional Tool

2009-02-17T18:17:00.000-08:00

Social bookmarking provides the ideal way of promoting your network marketing business: in fact a means of promoting just about any online business once you understand the concept. Before discussing that, though, let's look at what is needed to effectively promote your network marketing enterprise.

The success of the type of business broadly described as network marketing depends by definition upon recruiting as many members into the program as possible. To achieve that you have to use as many means as possible of putting your message in front of as many eyes as you can. You can use every regular means at your disposal:

• A regular website
• Blogs
• A Squidoo lens
• Forums
• Pay per click (PPC) advertising
• Traffic swarms
• Rotators
• Article marketing

Plus a few more. However, that is no longer enough, and this is where social bookmarking comes into its own if used properly. Note these last three words: 'If used properly'. Most people are aware of social sites, some being social networking and others bookmarking sites, and each is different. OK, some are clones of each other, but most people use them as if they were all clones, or all intended to be used in the same way.

That is not the case, and each site has its own strengths and weaknesses which you can exploit to your advantage. Digg is a great way to promote your content whether that is an article, blog, video or anything else. StumbleUpon is ideal for bookmarking on the fly when you come across an interesting page when surfing. Others have their own uses and benefits.

Competitors or Employees?

Most online entrepreneurs regard everybody else as competitors; people from whom your activities should be hidden, and so they might regard social bookmarking as being too revealing of their business.

Well here's news for you - that's not the way it works with network marketing. In general, although social bookmarking can be used to put you that important step ahead of your competitors, in network marketing it is not beating competition that is important, but getting your message across to as many people as possible. Others doing the same as you might not be competitors, but unknown to you be members of your downline, and hence your virtual employees.

How it Works

Let's look at what social bookmarking can do for you in general, and in what way these benefits multiply through search engine exposure. The term social media marketing is often used for this way of using such sites.

Basically, social media sites are used to store links to web pages that you want to revisit, and also that you want to bring to the attention of others. 'Web pages' here refers to any entity on the World Wide Web, not only website pages, and including blogs, lenses, landing pages and so on.

These links can be organized and searched, generally by the use of 'tags' or keywords related to the link. The bookmarks can be shared with others interested in the same subjects as you are. Users interested in a specific topic, or niche, will search using these tags, and when they come across your link, click on it, and if they like what they see they too can bookmark your page giving you another link.

In that way your bookmark can also be bookmarked by others in much the same way as other websites can carry a link back to a page on your website and so improve your Google Page Rank. The more people sharing your link, the more relevant to the tag, or keyword, a search engine will regard the page it leads to.

This is a very significant way of bringing your web pages to the attention of search engines. It is infinitely preferable to have your web page discovered by search engines in this way than by you submitting it. For starters, it can take months for your page to be listed through submission, but hours by means of social bookmarking links. The term 'page' here means a normal web page, a blog, Squidoo lens or any other web presence.

Quite frankly, anybody involved in network marketing that is not using social bookmarking is missing out on a massive amount of traffic, and if there is one thing that such programs thrive on, it is traffic.

Ways in Which Social Bookmarking Can Help to Promote Your Network Marketing Business

• You have a link back to your site from another website. Such back links are valuable in raising the relevance of your page in the eyes of search engines, and can lead to a higher listing and so more exposure for your business.

• Other users of Digg, Blinklist, Technorati, Facebook, etc. will click on your link and find your web page. That is good, targeted, traffic.

• Other users will bookmark your links so multiplying the effects of the above benefits.

• Social sites of any type consist of web pages that can also be listed on Google and the other search engines such as Yahoo, Ask and MSN: that increases the ranking value of your links, and also brings them to the attention of search engine users.

These are very important benefits to your network marketing business that is nothing without good targeted traffic to your sales or registration page. Social bookmarking offers you a source of free traffic that will not only complement that from you regular advertising campaigns, but also tie them together into a unified business that can only be to your significant advantage.

As previously mentioned, not all social bookmarking sites work the same way and there is an effective way to use each of them in network marketing.

If it is too obvious to the search engines (or people monitoring this) that you are using social bookmarking solely to promote your own Internet marketing links, you can be penalized on the search engines and lose the benefits of social bookmarking as a means to increase visibility to your content.

If done too obviously, it is considered spam and can have adverse effects on the search ranking of your content.

In order to avoid social bookmarking pitfalls in your Internet Marketing you need to create a natural bookmarking behavior; have interests other than just your business 'money making' sites, show a broader range of interests by bookmarking sites of other topics. Also, bookmark sites that are not yours. And, bookmark only your best stuff when you are posting your marketing content. The search engines, as well as the people at the bookmarking sites, will reward you for it with 'traffic' -- lots of it!

Learn how to effectively use social bookmarks and how to generate more prospects today!

The Renegade System - Getting Started

2009-01-28T02:04:00.001-08:00

Getting started with The Renegade system?

After reading The Renegade Network Marketer ebook, you'll want to set up your Renegade System a soon as possible and get ready to start generating lead and cash-flow as you build your business using the new network marketing model.

The Renegade System is a great tool for beginners who are getting started in the new network marketing 'attraction' model.

Get your Renegade system here

Internet Marketing Does it Work Without SEO?

2009-01-15T00:10:00.001-08:00

Search engine optimization (SEO) should be considered a critical element of any Internet marketing campaign. Failure to optimize your website or blog for search engines can result in a substantial loss of free advertising which is gained from ranking well with search engines.

SEO optimization is a strategy in which a website is designed to obtain favorable search engine rankings from popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo. The main elements to take in consideration when attempting to optimize your website or blog include: keyword density, prominence, META tags, titles and inbound links. Keyword density is one of the most commonly known SEO strategies and essentially involves using relevant keywords often in the content of a website to demonstrate the relevance of these keywords to the website. This is important since search engines are likely to reward websites with optimal keyword densities with favorable search engine rankings in an effort to provide Internet users with the most relevant websites for particular search terms.

The prominence of keywords should also be taken in consideration. This includes how close the keywords are placed to the beginning of the website. The common mistake with this strategy is to believe the first opportunity to incorporate keywords is in the first line of visible text on the web page. This is not true because search engines crawl the code of a website as opposed to the visible content on the website. This means there are multiple opportunities to incorporate relevant keywords long before the actual visible content on the website. This may include the code for the title as well as the META tags. Network Marketers who realize the potential for incorporating keyword into the code gain an advantage over competitors who only incorporate keywords into the content on their website.

Another very important area of concern for an optimal SEO campaign is inbound links. Inbound links are actually links which reside on other websites and direct traffic to your website. The major search engines place great value on inbound links because they are for the most part an example of one website recommending another one. However, when obtaining inbound links it is crucial to do so from websites which rank well with search engines because the major search engines take in consideration the rank of the original website when determining the value of the inbound link.

Internet users highly value the results of search engines and are likely to only visit ranking websites when they search for a particular keyword. Internet users trust search engines to serve the most relevant content first and are therefore not likely to visit websites which do not fall on the first or second page of search results. This means websites which rank well are receiving a great deal of free advertising from search engines such as Google and Yahoo which place their website in a key position. Network Marketers who do not invest time into optimizing their websites miss out on a great deal of free web traffic.

If you are not satisfied with your search engine rankings you need to know that in order to have good results in terms of Internet marketing and advertising it is required at least some degree of SEO knowledge. Your website will perform better and receive more traffic shortly after you begin to implement standard optimization tactics.

If you feel like you are not comfortable using complicated SEO programs then you want to pick up a copy of the Search Engine Optimization course created by the makers of SEO Elite.You will learn the fundamentals that will allow you to spend less time banging your head against your keyboard and more time building your business. Another option is taking an “Introduction to SEO” course online.

Either way, you need to acquire these basic Search Engine Optimization skills.

The Renegade Network Marketer - Attraction Marketing

2009-01-04T00:27:00.001-08:00

The Renegade Network Marketer and Attraction Marketing. Anyone who has ever been shunned from activities with their family members and friends has obviously used Distraction Marketing techniques. Thanks to Attraction Marketing, the days of chasing disinterested prospects and cold calling are over...at least for me. I now have prospects regularly contacting me asking me about my business. I now have people who join my team, without ever speaking with me on the phone!

An old school ,"Distraction Marketing", sales process typically goes something like this: You introduce your family members or friends to your latest business with a great deal of enthusiasm, which is likely to be greeted with a great deal of resistance about nine out of ten times. That is the ratio that you can expect when using old school network marketing techniques. One out of ten people you talk to will be interested in joining your business, maybe two out of ten, if you're really good. This ratio leaves you with eight or nine family members and friends who may want to avoid you like the plague for the next month because they don't want to feel pressured into joining your business, in other words they don't want to be "distracted" from their activities by your sales pitch.

"Attraction Marketing" as described in the Renegade Network Marketer book, offers a much different process and outcome. This type of marketing uses on and off-line strategies to build a constant stream of interested prospects. To implement this type of marketing plan, a network marketer begins by offering valuable information to their prospects, which lays a foundation to establish an identity as a leader. By making yourself an indispensable source of information, you will literally have people calling you with credit card in hand, ready to join your business. With attraction marketing, you don't waste your time bothering disinterested prospects.

By implementing a system that allows your prospects to get to know and trust you, review your information, then contact you when they are ready, you are no longer wasting your valuable time dealing with people who have no desire to join your business. Instead, the people you talk to are well informed and ready to move forward with your opportunity.

Proponents of old school network marketing techniques often cite the fact that network marketing is a numbers game. Using the Internet to market yourself, enables you to sort through far more people than you could ever talk to personally, and with the right lead generation system, you can develop relationships with these people and build a duplicable business that will allow you to live the lifestyle of your dreams.

If you are ready to stop chasing family members and friends, and put away the cold-call lists you need to download the Renegade Network Marketer . This highly acclaimed book will introduce you to this new smart way of marketing a business online.

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How I Build My Network Marketing Business Without Cold Calls or Hotel Meetings

2008-12-23T01:52:00.000-08:00

Many readers of this blog are already in a network marketing company , so I wanted to write on a topic that addresses the timeless question: "How do I build my business after I've exhausted my warm market?" When I joined my company more than a year ago, I started just like most people, excitedly telling my family and friends about my new business venture. It was such an easy concept- the product practically sold itself, right? Wrong.

Turns out my friends and family wanted to see results before they leaped in head first, so I started looking for other answers.This lead me to printing out "sizzle cards" that said "Tired of Living Paycheck to Paycheck?" and "Are You Making More Money Than You Can Spend" with my website address on it. Then I proceeded to blanket the city with my yellow "sizzle card". Gas pumps, bathroom stalls, inside books at the bookstore, on grocery store shelves, I left them for waitresses, bank tellers, you name it.

Then I tried to print up pretty flyers, advertising a home-based business. I put these flyers on what felt like every apartment complex bulletin board in the city and on cars in strip mall parking lots. Never mind that I was crazily blanketing the city with bright flyers in freezing temperatures- I was on a mission...one which once again led to people who were interested at first, but ultimately didn't want to spend the money. I was tired of rejection, and spending my weekends strategically putting flyers and cards all over town. It occurred to me that maybe "selling" wasn't my thing...maybe I wasn't presenting the business right.

Determined to make the business work, I started looking for answers. I needed a way to build my Network Marketing business without cold-calling, sizzle cards, flyers and hotel meetings. I found a solution, one that surprisingly many people do not know about. It's called "Attraction Marketing". Basically, I've experienced two types of marketing: "Attraction Marketing" and "Distraction Marketing"... Read More

Network Marketing - What Are The Top 7 Factors to Your Business Success?

2008-11-29T21:54:00.000-08:00

What will it take to succeed in your network marketing business? It will take determination, commitment, time, some money and consistent action from you to build your business. If you're serious about earning money online, then you must learn and apply these 7 steps.

1. Education/Training. Network Marketing education and training is the most important factor to achieve success. Build your network marketing business through education and training.

2. Lead Generation. Learn how to generate your own leads. Without it you have no MLM business. Build your business smart. Learn how to put your business in front of the people who are looking for what you have to offer.

3. Leverage Your Time. You'll never get rich trading dollars for hours. The wealthy let their money` and other people work for them. You may only be able to work 10 hours a week, but you can leverage the work of 1,000 other people to create a 10,000 hour work week. That's the way to become wealthy.

4. Use a System. Guess what? The number one reason people can't make it in business is because they can't or don't like to sell. The solution is to simply set up an automatic selling system where lead generation, sifting, and selling, is all done for you. Find a system that's already working. Then just jump in and follow it. Just do what already works.

5. Find a Personal Coach. Every top athlete has a coach. In fact, many of the best have two or three coaches. They're there for one reason... to help them be the best they can possibly be. A coach will help you set your course. They'll help keep you on track. They'll take you from where you are today to where you want to be.

6. Build a Residual Income. Don't just sell a product one time. Find a way to earn a residual income from anything you sell. Sell something today. Earn an income on it every month for the rest of your life. This is how you build real wealth. It isn't by selling a one-time item and finding a new customer for it every day. Work hard today and earn an income forever.

7. Set goals. Most people live paycheck to paycheck all their lives. They hope Social Security will take care of them when they get older. That's a mistake. Social security isn't enough for people to live on today. It definitely won't be when you have to rely on it. You have to make a plan today...or you'll end up in desperation tomorrow.

It's your choice. You can stay where you are right now in a never-ending spiral...or you can turn the corner and experience the money and dreams you've always wanted.

Are you interested in getting your Network Marketing education? If the answer is yes, start by reading this eBook.

Are You Still Wondering How You Could Ever Achieve Success In Network Marketing?

2008-11-27T10:56:00.000-08:00

Success in Network Marketing comes from taking the time to learn how to market your business effectively, it’s all about marketing. If you don't know how to properly market your business, nothing will ever change.

I have read multiple network marketing eBooks, but my favorite one is The Renegade Network Marketer by Ann Sieg. After reading this highly acclaimed book, I learned all about the powerful psychology behind the "attraction marketing" strategies that would later help me to attract a steady flow of prospects to me.

What is attraction marketing? Briefly, is the concept that by providing value and solutions to other people’s needs, prospects will be attracted to you and they will contact you to join your business.

Are you fed up with having the frustration of calling leads and bothering family and friends? Are you tired of watching others succeed while you don't? If you want to learn how to build your business effectively there is system that can teach you and guide you how do it. You can build your business with quality prospects who come to you who already know network marketing and are searching for a business opportunity...Read More

How NOT To Prospect...Hopefully You Aren’t Doing It This Way...

2008-08-31T21:08:00.000-07:00

If you are a network marketer, it is my hope that this ugly experience will save you from making these fatal flaws in your business.

A week ago, I got phone call from someone pretending to be interested in joining my business. When I returned her phone call, she promptly told me that she too had looked into joining my company eight months ago.

I gulped- knowing that not only did this lady have no intention of joining my business, she wanted to sell me on joining a competing business. Worse than that, for the next 7 minutes and 49 seconds she proceeded to give me testimonial after testimonial about how great her company was, how quickly she "retired", and how her son was making $25,000 in residual income in just three months. And she went on, and on and on and on and on! I actually started worry that she might pass out from never taking a single breath!

Fortunately, 7 minutes and 49 seconds was the limit for this woman...had to take a breath. Sheer curiosity about the depths this woman would go to try to sell her business kept me on the phone up to that point....but when she paused, I told her thank you and that I wished her the best of luck with her business.

What went wrong? Let me count the ways...

She found my website which also had my phone number. She then took it upon herself to contact me during dinnertime about joining her competing company. Not once did I indicate any desire to leave my company. Not once did I show the slightest interest in her company. Despite these facts, she chose to call me- that was Fatal Error 1.

Fatal Error 2 was not even bothering to ask me if I was even happy in my current business (which obviously I am). She made no effort to get to know me, my goals, my concerns, no attempt to build rapport with me whatsoever! How in the WORLD does she expect me to trust her, when she has shown so little concern for me? It was clear within the first 32 seconds of the phone call that she was out for one thing- HERSELF! That is no way to build a team of business owners. In fact, it is contrary to every business building principle I hold dear!

Fatal Error 3 was the fact that not only did she launch into an unsolicited sales pitch, she did so for nearly 8 minutes. She spent 8 minutes of her valuable time reciting a canned sales pitch to someone who couldn't have cared less about what she was selling.

Fatal Error 4 was her incessant use of "hype". I seriously doubt that someone who is making so much money that she was able to "retire" would A) have the time to waste talking to someone who didn't even request any information on her company; and B) is so desperate for a sale that she would try to recruit people in a competing company. If the company was so great and she was so successful, she would have people joining her business like I have- 5 people, 3 days, 2 countries- 3 of which I had never spoken with prior to their joining my team.

If you are a Network Marketer you should be very careful with what you do while trying to create business for yourself and your mlm. There is a whole new science called Attraction Network Marketing that uses the internet as a tool. You can significantly improve your overall MLM business results by knowing about it. You can even create multiple streams of income while building your Network Marketing, but you've got to know how and what is right and what's wrong to do.

Learn how to build your business smart by visiting: www.networkmarketingbuildsmart.com.

Network Marketing Lie #2: Anyone Can Do This!

2008-08-18T23:40:00.000-07:00

At best, this statement is only half-true. In my opinion, the value of the truth contained in the statement is far outweighed by the sheer number of people it misleads.

Well, whether we want to admit it or not, not all network marketers start their business on equal footing. Some come into the business with substantial advantages, while others come into the business with substantial disadvantages. Don’t believe me?

Let’s say 2 people want to start their business with Company Z. Person A has been in network marketing for the past 10 years, was a top money earner with Company Y; and he’s been a network marketer full-time for the past 6 years, and has a faithful downline 1,000 strong. Person B works 60 hours a week at a dead-end job, has bills up to his eyeballs, and has never been involved in Network Marketing, but he’s heard that “anyone can do it” so he’s ready to get going and get himself out of the financial rut he’s been in for the past 5 years. Who will be the first person to reach let’s just say $100,000 in 6 months? I’d be willing to be the farm that it’ll be Person A. Why?

Person A has significant advantages: he’s been in network marketing for 10 years (read: he has substantial experience); He was a top money earned (read; he has money to spend to grow his business; he is a full-time network marketer (read: he has time to build the business); and he has a faithful downline (read: customers);

Person B represents a large percentage of people who find their way to network marketing. Person B is at a significant disadvantage in starting with Company Y. Person B works 60 hours a week (read: he won’t have much time to devote to the business); he has bills up to his eyeballs (read: he has very little money to build the business); and he has never been involved in network marketing (read: he has no experience).

Am I trying to discourage people who resemble Person B from getting into network marketing?

Absolutely not! There are plenty of people out there that were just like Person B and who are now millionaires. That’s what makes network marketing the incredible business model that it is. However, Person B is going to have to do a lot of face-to-face presentations to get his business really going, and $100K will likely take 1-2 years, not 6 months.

The point is, that everyone is on a different time line. There are so many factors that determine how quickly and easily people start making money in network marketing. One of the most important factors is skill level. That is why it is very important to educate yourself.

Another important factor is money. Although companies’ start-up costs vary widely, one thing that remains true for all companies is that you will need a monthly marketing budget. You don’t need a big budget, there are many good tools that make Internet marketing easier for everyone. But, the reality is you will still need some money to market your business to its full potential. Big money earners won't tell you that.

Why do you need a marketing budget? Well, without money, you won’t have a constant stream of fresh prospects that you need to build your business. There are two ways to get leads: buy them or generate them yourself. The ones you generate yourself will be far more qualified, but it costs money even to generate leads yourself.

The other main factor is time. Yes, you can start building your business with little time, but the more time you spend the quicker your business will grow.

When Person B approaches me about joining my business, I have an honest heart-to-heart with them about the reality of this business. I take them down off of the “Anyone can do it” cloud, and let them see the reality that they will be facing.

Other people sadly are out for the “Quick Sell”, they wouldn’t mind if a guy spent his last dime on becoming part of their network marketing team, only to have 0 money to market his business. I don’t think that the Quick Sell is the way to build a business. In the short term, it’s great- more sales. In the long term, it’s a long list of discouraged, broke, and angry people.

The moral of this story: please be honest with your prospects. Tell them what it really takes to succeed in this business, and you will be rewarded with happy, successful business builders, which will in turn take you to the top of your network marketing company!

Tired of the Traditional MLM Recipe? Learn How To Market Your Business Effectively

2008-08-10T11:55:00.000-07:00

How can you learn how to market your Network Marketing business effectively? You may have learned the hard way that chasing friends and family or inviting strangers to meetings is far from following a practical business plan.

Many old school network marketers view the Internet with skepticism. But like it or not, the Internet is the future of network marketing. The Internet allows prospects the opportunity to research every detail of virtually any company in the world, with just the click of a button. This paradigm shift has created an opportunity and a necessity for us to differentiate ourselves from the masses, while allowing us to expose our businesses to a much larger audience than ever before. The Internet has also created an avenue for us to build our own "brand” as a network marketing leader, and in the process shift ourselves from the hunter to the hunted.

I just read something today that really made me mad. Apparently, a highly respected veteran in the network marketing industry, sent out an e-mail that was bashing what he called “Network Marketing” gurus for teaching people the skills of self-branding and independent lead generation.

This guy said that 99% of network marketers don’t want to know about how to brand themselves in their business or learn the skill of lead generation and, he said, that people didn't have the mental capacity to do it. I was appalled. How cynical. How insulting to the 99% of network marketers in the industry.

The ironic part of it, that this was coming from a guy sending out an email to a list of subscribers he had created through personal lead generation and self branding.

This veteran’s view was eerily similar to a guy I studied in college- Karl Marx. You may have heard of him, the Father of Communism. Karl Marx believed that people are too stupid to make their own decisions on how to spend their money. Thus, it was the job of the almighty government to tell them how to spend their money. This guy’s idea that 99% of network marketers don’t have the ability to learn how to brand themselves is not much different that Mr. Marx’s.

It doesn’t surprise me all that much though, when you think about it. This guy made his money the old-fashioned way. Talking to everyone within a 3-foot radius. He knows how tough it is to build a business that way. That’s exactly why only approximately 3% really make money in network marketing…that is…until now.

With the Internet came the ability to talk with a person across the country with the click of a mouse. With the Internet came our ability to grow a business much faster than the Veterans did. And the people who figured out how to use the Internet to achieve this feat became instant MLM leaders, and this doesn’t make the “old school” guys very happy. They are miffed that someone could build an organization equal in size to theirs in less than half the time- without cold calls, hotel meetings, and coffee appointments. So they will naysay it until the very end. They don’t want the competition for the leadership roles! Shame on them!

Considering that these folks preach from their stages in hotel meeting rooms, on conference calls, and at conventions about how their company offers the “average” person the ability to make millions. Yet, when others try to teach their distributors how to make millions, but in a different way (and a faster and much more efficient way I might add) they criticize their efforts.

If it is true that 99% of network marketers aren’t interested in self-branding (branding themselves as a leader) and generating their own leads instead of paying $5 per lead, then we’re all in trouble because the high attrition rate in network marketing will stay the same. I don’t believe that is the case at all.

Actually I believe that our industry is filled with highly motivated and innovative individuals that don't want to be given a job to do without personal thought or insight. The “old-school” way of network marketing tells people to: Take people to a hotel meeting. Meet them at a coffee shop. Answer their objections with these canned responses. “Edify” your upline. Close them using one of 5 methods.

It’s a job. It’s not a business. If it was a business, you would be able to infuse creativity and your own thoughts into the system. If it was a business, you would be a true leader and offer truly valuable information to your downline, not the tired old recipe handed down from generation to generation.

Yes. You can get people into the business using the traditional recipe. But you have to go through the time-consuming, emotionally draining recipe thousands of times to even build a small organization. If they say 1 out of 10 will join your business…Then after talking with 100 you’ve only got 10 people. That sounds like a pretty darn inefficient way to run a business.

With Internet marketing you can become a leader just by educating yourself and helping to educate other people on how to build a business. With internet marketing, you build a group of people who trust you, and want to do business with you.

With Internet marketing you aren’t limited to talking with people in your hometown or in cities within driving distance.

With Internet marketing people come to you to learn information. Now what’s so wrong with that? Why should we be resigned to being the hunter instead of the hunted? You shouldn’t.

I believe that Internet marketing offers the ability for people to learn how to become leaders, for them to become leaders, and for them to get rewarded for their efforts in helping others.

Network marketing offers people like you and me, who don’t have hundreds of thousands or millions to invest in a brick and mortar business, the opportunity to earn a great income working from home within just a few years.

I believe that you have that future waiting for you.

How do I know?

Because I started from nothing, and if I can attract people into my Network Marketing business without using the tired old recipe, so can you. If I can have multiple people join my business in just a few weeks without ever having spoken to them about my business, so can you. I believe you can even if you don’t.

There will come a day when you'll have a thriving organization that grows without effort, and a lack of money is no longer an issue. I believe that the day will come, just a few years down the road, when you look at yourself in the mirror and say . . . "How did I get so lucky? Do I really deserve all this?"

The answer is . . . Yes you do!

And if you want to do it online I'm waiting for you so that I can teach you the REAL way to become an independent business owner and network marketing leader, not the traditional old recipe of pestering everyone in your path, but instead one where you rise up as a leader, help others attain their dreams, while at the same time attaining your own.

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To Your Success!

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Roxana is an Internet & network marketing business coach. She is teaching Network Marketers from many different companies how to apply attraction marketing online to attract free qualified leads and to create a cash flow while building their MLM business.

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The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing - Have You Been Telling This Network Marketing Myth?

2008-07-25T15:08:00.001-07:00

Ever since I discovered the concept of "attraction marketing," I've become a student again, constantly studying e-book after e-book to gain valuable information to pass on to others. One of my favorite ones is Ann Seig's 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing, I just couldn't wait to share what I 've learned form this great free resource. And those are some of the biggest myths of network marketing.

I'll be sharing these myths with you over the next week or two, in the hopes that you will pass them on to your downline, so that together, we can stop the attrition and start creating millionaires!

Myth #1: Everyone Is Your Prospect

This belief is what fuled the "3-foot rule" that I just couldn't bear to follow.

This myth causes folks to talk to every waitress, gas station attendant, Kinko's clerk, stranger in the mall, you name it. This is the belief that everyone is a prospect.

Why is this a myth? Think about it...

Not everyone is looking to start their own business. Not everyone is your prospect. Not everyone has the time it takes to build a business. Some people don't have the patience. Others don't have the money. The fact is there are people in the world who want to own a business, and those that are happy with their 9 to 5 job. Other people just don't have what it takes to be an entrepreneur...and that's okay. As a society we need doctors, we need chefs, we need farmers, we need teachers. The point is, civilization works because of our diversity.

Now, this doesn't mean that you shouldn't talk to your warm market about your business, and it doesn't mean that you shouldn't talk with leads. It also doesn't mean that people haven't succeeded using the 3-Foot Rule, but, for me, those traditional methods never really worked. So, I turned to internet marketing.

Whether you are marketing face-to-face or on the internet, remember this: you don't need to convince ANYONE to get into your business. It's a waste of your time and energy. In fact, I am now building my business using this motto:

No one is worth my time until they've shown an interest in what I am offering.

It doesn't matter how qualified you think a person is, or how great you think they would be at the business. Surprisingly, it isn't even enough if a person wants to start their own business. Until they take action to get more information on how to do it, they're nothing more than a bystander. They aren't a player in the game, so they aren't worth your valuable time and energy.

As a business owner, it isn't your job to convert people into business owners. As business owners we need to get the maximum return for our time and effort. That means talking with people who are, for the most part, already on your same wave length. They believe in network marketing, and understand that the business is just that, a business, and not a job, which requires effort.

By following the "everyone is a prospect" mentality, you may be making things harder on yourself than need be. Why spend your valuable time trying to force a business down someone's throat? Why do that when there are millions of people out there who want to start their own business, and who are willing to come to you for advice on how to build the business. They are the ones who deserve your time and attention. They are they are the true prospects.

And THAT is why the primary focus of an attraction marketing campaign is providing valuable information to others. If you are just quoting pre-printed material issued by your company, you aren't offering value. Your prospects can read that for themselves. How can you get a person to join your team or company over another one? Well, the answer is two-fold:

First, by being visible on the Internet, because that is where people go for information. This is why you use the marketing tools in the Renegade. If you are on page 56 of a Google search for your business, people can't find you. If they can't find you, they can't ask you for your help.

Second, by offering your prospects valuable information that others aren't. I've had prospects tell me that they would prefer to be on my team because I didn't just try to make the quick close.

Through my articles people learn more about my business than through the glossy sales material everyone else is giving them. They want to be with the person that sets themselves apart from the rest of the pack.

So, how do you learn how to start an attraction marketing campaign? How do you get valuable information to give others? The Renegade University will take you step-by-step through the precess.

Renegade Network Marketer is a system that is set up for beginners who are getting started with Internet Attraction Marketing who are looking for a simple, easy to follow path to start seeing results as quickly as possible. If you are a beginner and you really want to get full understanding of this new model of building your Network Marketing business, this system will give you the best overview.

After you read the Renegade Network Marketer you need to make sure that you truly become a student of success.

You can download the free e-book here.

Stay tuned for Myth #2...

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