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Friday, March 4, 2011

GREED & EGO: The Curse of Network Marketing.

Every time we have ever seen a company or down line implode and disappear, it does so because of the same 2 reasons: GREED and EGO.
True leaders are the Mentors who dedicate themselves to their teams success. It's never about the money. No Money Focus = No Greed. 

Build people and people will build the business.



People are people. They are not a number. They have goals, dreams & desires. Network marketing is not a sales business in itself. Network marketing is a teaching & mentoring business. So the track record & attitude of leadership is critical.

When you've joined a business and someone calls you, telling you to make a list of your friends & family, I can promise you that they do not have a system.

 "Friends & family" is what has been forced upon us for the last 50 years, and that is the reason for such high failure rates in MLM.
It's Really All About Target Marketing
You've got to find people who will raise their hand, looking for you and/or your product, your service, your opportunity.
Too often, somebody calls you up, pitching you. They don't even know who you are. They don't care who you are. They don't care anything about you.
I've heard certain network marketing leaders say, "It's a relationship business." And many of these people have never built a relationship with anybody. Nobody on their team would want to go on a one-month cruise with them.

Some "Leaders" Don't Even Want To Be Around Their People At  a Convention!

Why? It's all about the greed & the ego. The fancy watch, fancy jewelry, fancy suit, exotic cars, being the superstar, all that stuff.
Do they ever help the person who's been squashed by life?
Do they ever pay for the next guy going through the toll gate?
Do they ever just freely give their time to mentor others, expecting nothing in return?
Do they ever use their income to buy good tools for those in their group who are obviously trying to build?
Do they make themselves available at any time when you need help?
Do they reply promptly to your emails or phone messages?
No, they don't.
Instead, it's always about greed & ego, me, me, me. It's never about the other person.
You truly have to care about people. And then you won't have the greed and the ego. And that is the kind of person who can build huge in network marketing, because you will attract people just like you!

To Your Success,
Graeme

Saturday, February 26, 2011

How to Build your MLM Business on a Limited Budget

Are you tired of breaking the bank trying to build your business?  Placing expensive pay per click ads, and not getting the traffic to your sites that you really want?
One of the biggest obstacles for MLMers trying to promote their opportunities online with limited funds is knowing how to use those funds to the greatest effect. What strategies to focus on and how to divide your promotional budget for the maximum return on investment.

Well I have some good news for you today.  Mike Dillard recently released a series of free videos for you, that will help you to build your business even if you are on a tight budget.
I suggest that you check them out.  It really helped my business. I no longer have to spend a ton of money on my ads and I am getting more traffic than ever.
You can get free instant access to these videos by going to...
HOW TO BUILD YOUR BUSINESS ON A BUDGET OF $500 OR LESS

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Buying Leads is a Scam!

Buying leads is the biggest scam ever inflicted on the network marketing industry.

Why do I say that you ask?

Well you think about it for a moment. If you had a traditional brick and mortar business, would you pay people to come in to your showroom to browse, not knowing if they're even interested in buying anything you have to offer?

Of course not! It's the quickest way there is to go broke in an MLM business.

Lead vendors are just clever opportunists that have found a niche market, preying on desperate home biz entrepreneurs who've run out of friends and family to present their "opportunity" to.

Worse still! Some of the leads your upline encourages you to buy are actually generated through your own company website.
These leads are simply put through a third party. You could even call it "lead laundering".
Imagine that. You pay a joining fee to sell your company's product and then they sell you leads. They're getting at you from all angles.

Another scenario that I was a victim of in a previous company, was an up-line hotshot who was pushing his team to use traditional offline marketing methods while behind the scenes, through an independent website, he was generating large numbers of leads online and then selling them to his down line team.
Nobody in our team thought to ask where the leads were originating from because none of them knew anything about online lead generation. They were just blindly following their sponsor's instructions.

Here's what my mentor has to say about buying leads.


Most people would rather walk barefoot over hot coals than talk to strangers on the phone.

Just as there is a small proportion of people who have the ability to use offline cold marketing, there is the same small group who have the gift of being able to talk purchased leads into sales.
But as network marketing is a business of duplication, cold calling is not a strategy that will be successful to most new MLMers.

Retention rates in your organization will be much greater if your team is taught how to build relationships, using social media, BEFORE introducing the business opportunity. Attracting interested people first, makes it much easier to get on the telephone and start building some rapport....and it's certainly more effective than SPAMMING business links all over facebook!

Mentoring for Free will teach anyone in any MLM company, "not what to think but how to think"