Working Forums: Forum Marketing Dos and Don’ts
Forums are a great way to market your business, and if you’ve already been debating it, then by all means do it; it’s a good idea. Personally, I love using forums, and I know of people who have built huge businesses solely off of good forum marketing.
However, while forums are a great source of quality traffic, there is a trick to doing them. If you don’t do it right you could ruin your reputation, and damage your business before it even starts. So, allow me to send you on your way to success in your campaign with words of wisdom to keep easily made mistakes from happening:
Do join a related forum. If your targeted audience is people looking for SEO tips, you probably wouldn’t get many results from a video game forum…in fact, you’d probably be flamed…endlessly. Any internet marketing forum should be a good starting place. In the case of SEO, an SEO-centered forum would probably yield maximum results. In the case of MLM, an MLM-centered form, and so on…
Do join multiple forums. The more, the better. Of course, being a well-to-do member of a forum costs variable amounts of time. 5-10 forums is reasonable and should be within a reasonable timeframe. As stated before, they should all be as related as possible to suit your target audience.
Do make a captivating signature (sig for short). Your sig should be an eyecatcher, but not ridiculous. It also should reroute to something free that you offer (and mention just this). The word “free” is quite powerful, because it means that it will only cost a bit of time (of course this is an already known that doesn’t need mentioning in your sig). This also helps gain trust; it doesn’t seem like you’re just trying to get their money.
Don’t spam your sig as soon as you get it. I know you want to get your name out there, but spamming is absolutely the WRONG way to do it. Spamming is frowned upon and is repulsive in virtually all online communities. And no matter how professional a forum is, you’ll probably still be flamed for it, if not booted altogether. At the very least, you’ll suffer a rather painful blow to your reputation.
Do contribute to the community. Give help where you can. Spark a conversation that has the potential to grow out of control with replies. Just make sure it’s not a topic already discussed, which leads me to my next point…
Don’t go into a forum without researching its contents to at least a decent degree. This is mostly important for starting a forum discussion, so that you avoid repeating anyone. A question can be repeated, but you should research those as well just to make sure you’re not asking a question that was asked by about 25 different people.
Do be a relatively active member. This is the most important aspect to forum marketing. This is where you build your reputation and credibility. By actively giving advice to subscribers in a forum, you can virtually become a celebrity in that forum. You become a trusted source, and people will listen to you, and buy from you at will.
Can it be time consuming? Yes, but it’ll return your time to you in traffic. Posting about 5 times per week per forum will get you started. Make sure all your post are high quality, and very informative. If you can keep this going well, this should be the final step in securing an excellent start to excellent progress in the forums.
Also, make sure you only talk about things you know. If you’re not knowledgeable on it, then I would avoid giving advice until you are sure, as bad advice can get you flamed.
My Weekly Rant: The Real Road to 100k per year online…
My Weekly Rant: The
And there’s a ton of ways to get there—you could go to law school and become a lawyer. You could go to medical school and become a doctor. You could get an education in a high paying financial position such as Actuarial Science. Heck, here in
Which leads me to my next tip.
After you have completely followed one system. Try to find what is missing, and look for another system that will help you strengthen those weak areas.
Take Baby Steps: So many people want to get to 10 K per month. But before you get ahead of yourself, ask yourself this… Have you made 5K per month online yet? How about 1K per moth? How about $100 per month?
Ever heard the term “You’ve got to crawl before you walk’? Well the same is true online. You have to take baby steps. You have to first get to $100 per month before you can get $1000. And you have to get to 1k per month before you get to 5K or 10K. That’s the name of the game. You cannot grow exponentially unless you first know how to get your first customer. Once you can consistently get people to come buy what you’ve got every month, then you will start to have the blueprint to making more money. But first, take baby steps.
Be Realistic: So what’s the best way to do that? Once you get out there and start building your business, be honest with yourself.
Let’s face it… Are you really going to write 30- 100 articles per month and distribute them to the article directories? Are you really willing to write multiple posts in your blog each and every week to your subscribers?
But realize this… you either have to spend time, money or both to be successful online. That’s the general rule of thumb. You won’t be successful without doing one or both of these things.
MLM Success Secrets: The Special 4th Component that will Maximize Your Success in MLM
If you have been reading my blog for any amount of time, you would know that I am always talking about three major components that are necessary if you want to build a successful MLM business online. If you need a quick refresher on those components, they are…
1. The Right System: Your MLM opportunity should have an easy duplicatable system that your downline can use to build their business on autopilot. For me, that would be a replicated site with a lead capture page, back office, and follow-up system for your prospects already. This will allow you and your team to build on autopilot fairly easily. A system that I use with much success is The Berry Tree.
2. The Right Team: You need to be a part of a team with a proven success rate of building leaders, as well as an accessible upline who knows what he or she is doing when it comes to building a business. Also, your upline should be building the business in a way that you would not mind building your business. For example, if you would like to build your business online, you should look for an upline who is currently building his or her business online successfully, and can show you how to do the same.
3. The Right Advertising: You need to find places online, either free or paid, where you can get a ton of targeted visitors who are looking for what you have to offer.
If your opportunity has these three things, it will bring you in paid people. But there is a special 4th component that will set you out above the rest and help turn your lazy distributors into loyal customers and more of your customers into successful distributors.
Now, what is this special 4th component you ask? Well, the special 4th component I’m referring to is a good product.
Now, at this time, you guys might be sitting in your homes with pride thinking that you really got the best product out there, because your company told you so- and who knows- maybe you do. But I want you to think about this for a quick second. How do you know? Are you actually using your company’s product and getting results? Or is your monthly autoship sitting in your garage gathering dust month after month? Can you truly say you believe in your product? Would you buy it if you saw it on a commercial? Would you use it if there was no money making opportunity attached to it?
I mean let’s face it. You probably didn’t get into your opportunity because of how amazing the product is. In fact, I would say that 99% of network marketing distributors don’t get into the program because of their love for the product. It’s because of the opportunity. That’s how most people market it. They market opportunity first then product second because- let’s face it- it’s far easy to promote a way of making money than it is to promote another vitamin, service, or cosmetic product.
But you have to remember, at the heart of what you do as a networker, you are distributing what is supposed to be a quality product, and if your product is no good, and you know it’s no good, then you’re no better than a con man. And, trust me, you don’t want to ruin your reputation before you even get started good.
So how do you solve this problem?
Well in my experience, there are two solutions to this problem.
Use your product: You’re getting it on autoship anyway, so why not use it? Use your product on a daily basis and chart your results. Are you losing weight? Is your skin looking younger and smoother? Are you using the bathroom more? Do you have more energy? In other words, is your product doing what is says it will do?
If so, and you can prove it. Chart your results on a blog. Make sure you provide pictures and proof. Vlogs (Video Blogs) are also great for these because people can easily follow your progress through video.
Give your product away: While it’s a good idea to use your product, depending on the amount of product you have, you may want to give some of it away. This is a great way to begin to develop a customer base for your product, as well as a way to generate interest in your business opportunity as well. You can follow up with people who used your product and ask them if they liked it or not. If they say they did like it, ask them for personal testimonials. These testimonial can be used later on if you ever decide to build a website (If you are building online, I highly recommend making your own website in the future.)
But what if my product doesn’t live up to the hype?
You are going to find that most MLM products really don’t live up to their hype. In fact, very few do. In this case you have a choice. You can either
a. Toss it: If you have a really bad product. Meaning it doesn’t do at all what it says it will, or it has negative or bad side effects, or causes you to lose a large amount of money. You need to drop it. Take it as a loss, and don’t promote it to people. This will only ruin your reputation.
b. Push the system instead of the product: If you have an awesome system with a not-so good product. Be honest, and tell people the truth. Let them know that you haven’t really seen any special changes when using the product, but the opportunity and marketing system works really well. Again, if the product is really bad, I would just flat out toss it, and would not waste my time with this step.
In the end, it’s your choice to make. In my personal opinion, if the product is at least decent, with a good to excellent promotion system, I would not scrap the opportunity. I would work it. However, it is very important to be honest about your product. Don’t lie about it. If the product is pretty good-say that. If the product is not so good but the recruiting system is excellent– say that. In the end, people appreciate honesty over deception, and will be much more open to what you have to offer in the future.
What do you guys have to say about this? Leave your comments and let me know what you think.
How to become an MLM celebrity
Everywhere you turn you see them—Celebrities
They’re all over the internet, TV, radio, Billboards, magazines—You pretty much name it, and they’re there. And let’s not forget the perks these guys get. Celebrities get free merchandise, tons of fans, and tons of money.
But celebrities aren’t just to your favorite TV show or CD. There are celebrities in your industry as well. You think Real Estate, and chances are Donald Trump comes to mind. You think Affiliate marketing then guys like Harris Fellman or the Wealthy Affiliates may come to mind.
MLM has celebrities too. People like Rachel Long, Daegan Smith, Mike G, Mike Dillard and Dave Dubbs are just a few of the top celebrities in MLM today.
And, just like the celebrities on TV, MLM celebrities have huge followings, get paid big bucks to speak at conventions, get paid hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars to build ground floor MLM companies from nothing to thousands of members. In fact, a ton of people often join downlines simply on the premise that one of these MLM big dogs are building above them, and they might get some of their sweet spillover.
Now I didn’t right this post simply to tell you what you already know. I wrote this to tell you how you too can become one of these MLM celebrities that you see everywhere.
Some of you might be telling yourself, “I can’t do what these guys are doing. I’ve been doing this for 6 months and don’t even have a quarter of what these guys bring in on a regular basis.”
But what if I were to tell you that you could?
What if I were to tell you that there was only one real thing separating you from what those guys were pulling in?
Are you ready to hear what it is? ….. Here’s the one thing separating you from being a MLM superstar.
The one single thing that you are missing that these guys have is…. A LIST.
But not just any list mind you. These MLM celebrities have built a list of people through various advertising methods over time, that have built them a humungous reputation with the people on it.
So how does a person go about building such a list?
Stay tuned, over the next several weeks, I will be unleashing several list MLM list building posts that will show you how to do just that.
A Dirty Little Secret- What Really Happens when MLMs Launch a Business
When most MLMs start, they do not launch the way that most people think. Everyone does not come in at the same time. What happens is that most successful companies get the top gurus in the industry, and offer them a place at the top of the company’s compensation levels.
Many times they will pay a top guru, or a group of top gurus to promote this company. I have known of leaders being paid as much as $1 million dollars to build a company’s downline to mass proportions. This is on top of their regular pay from the compensation plan.
So these gurus set about finding the absolute best producers in the industry, and place them within their downline. This all happens before the company opens its doors, and you ever have a chance to join, mind you.
Now, these gurus go all over the net and promote these companies before they even launch, creating a buzz so that average guys like me and you will jump aboard like ravenous wolves once the doors of the company open.
So, when launch (or pre launch) day comes-BAM we all hit the door, and begin signing up. Many of us start promoting to friends and families at the promise of the spillover that we have been told is sure to come. And so thousands of people join, and the Gurus who promoted are now at the top of the leader boards
BUT—here’s the problem.
Remember all the gurus that were brought in BEFORE the door was ever open to you and me?
Well, while you would think that every guru would promote the business, it doesn’t always happen that way. In fact, it rarely happens that way.
What usually happens is that a small percentage of these gurus promote the business at the beginning, while the others benefit off the spillover that was promised to you.
And you never had a chance because the doors were never open to you like they were opened to them. It’s unfair, right?
Well, put yourself in their position.
As a top marketer—who do you want at the top of your business?
1. Your leaders and the top leaders in the industry who have a previous reputation of adding thousand of people to their downlines
OR
2. New guys who may or may not build the business?
If you have any business since, it’s going to be your leaders of course.
Why?
Well, look at the facts. If you have 100 proven leaders in your business, and you get only 10 to promote it hard what does that make you?
Rich—That’s what it makes you.
And what happens when the other guys begin to see the promise for money and start building themselves—what does that make you then?
Filthy rich!
So will you ever see spillover underneath all those leaders? Eventually, you probably will. But if you do, it won’t be for a while. In some cases it could take months or even years in before anything happens. And I can tell you this right now—9.9 times out of 10 you aren’t going to make real money from that spillover.
So now you know the filthy horrible truth about how many successful MLM businesses build their downlines. If you think about it, it’s pretty dog gone genius—but it sucks for the little guy who is looking for spillover.
So what do you do to avoid this from happening to you?
Well, there are actually three things you can do.
1. Stop joining downlines based solely on spillover
2. Build your business as if you knew you would never see any spillover.
3. Become a top producer yourself.
Sounds simple enough, but it’s easier said than done. So in our next post, I will explain just how to become a top online guru in MLM.
Spillover Syndrome: The Great MLM Business Destroyer.
Picture this…
You’re sitting in front of your computer when you receive an email from Joe Marketing Guru. Joe Guru has built a downline of thousands of people in many different MLM companies, and now he’s about to do it again.
He says that the company he’s joining will be the next Pre-paid legal, and those who get in now will get spillover like you would never believe.
So you join as soon as you get the launch email. And you’re excited because you know you’re going to get some spillover, and then you’ll be set– because Joe Marketing Guru is promoting it to his entire list, and you know he’s been in the top 10 for any business he promotes.
So you wait, and sure enough, Joe Marketing guru is at the top of the recruiting board, but to your surprise, there is no spillover for you.
So you wait—and days go by, then weeks, then a couple of months
No spillover.
Finally, you say-screw it. And go on to the next “big thing” and the terrible cycle continues.
Do you see a problem with this picture?
We’ve all been there—and we’ve all fallen for it.
We join a business, with the promise of a ton a spillover from the people at the top. But when it never comes we’re left with a stupid look on our face.
So why does it happen?
Why is there never spillover when you join these businesses?
Well, the truth is it’s not your fault. You were set up from the beginning.
You see, there is a little known secret that many of the top gurus and companies use to lure you into their hot new opportunity. And there’s only one solution to it, building your business!
So what is this dirty little secret that has been kept from you that is preventing you from getting the spillover you were promised. In our next post, I’m going to reveal this little known secret to the little guy.
It is the reason why 9 times out of 10, you are not seeing the spillover you thought you would.
See you then!!
My Angry Rants: How To Truly Succeed in MLM Online
Let me ask you a question.
Would you give me $1 if you knew that you would get $4 back in return?
If you have any type of common since, your answer would be yes. But yet most network marketers, when faced with this dilemma in real life almost always do the opposite—Let me tell you what I mean.
It amazes me how every day people join MLM companies for anywhere from $10 a month, to as much as $10,000 for some, but when you ask them to put aside some money to actually advertise their businesses, they run for the hills. And what’s even crazier, are that these same people are the ones who want to scream that MLM doesn’t work or drag good leaders names through the mud because they failed to do what was necessary to build their business.
And what’s even crazier are that a few months later, these guys join another company and do the same thing they did before… And the cycle continues.
They say, try as they might, they just can’t find the key of success online.
You wanna what the key to success in online MLM truly is? Do you really truly want to know how to succeed?
Well here it is– find a good automated system, and advertise it to the right marketing sources. You track your results, keep what works, and toss what doesn’t. It’s that simple.
But you can’t succeed without following the entire blueprint. Without all the components, you will fail. So, once, again, to succeed in online MLM you need an automated system that captures leads and allows you to follow up with your downline on autopilot and you need to ADVERTISE, ADVERTISE, ADVERTISE!!
Now why do I stress advertising so much?
You have probably heard time and time again, that the people are the lifeblood of your MLM business. The more people you talk to, the better your chances of success. This is true for any business. MLM is no different.
Now the great thing about the internet is that it can put you in front of as many people as you can handle, and it can do much more. It can put you in front of people who actually want to join your company. How about that for an advantage?
So where do you start?
Well, for any business you are going to have to spend some time and/or money. If you don’t have a lot of money, then you will have to spend more time getting the results you desire. If you have money, you can get the results in less time because you can leverage your time by paying someone to do your work for you. Online MLM is no different.
So, in order for you to succeed in online MLM marketing you have to either…
- Use the free method: Spend 20-60 hours per week with SEO, blogging, Web 2.0, forum marketing, and article marketing to get people to your website.
- Use the paid method: Pay for advertising and spend 1-4 hours per week tracking your results and twiquing your campaign.
- Spend about 10-15 hours per week doing some of both.
Now, I’m more in the C category and if you want to be a leader you should be to, but if I had one to pick for the best results in the quickest amount of time, I would definitely choose B. I love paid advertising because it’s basically automatic. I don’t really have to do much to get it, and it gives me a chance to really test my Ad copy before I spend a ton of time on SEO out it won’t work.
Now, I’m not talking to those of you who are actually trying hard with no effort, and you do not know hwere to turn because there is no one who can help you. For those guys, I hope this blog will be able to give you what you need. I am talking to those who just join because they are looking for the next best thing—even though they may have everything they need to succeed.
So if you’re in a good company with a good automated system, but you’re not doing anything to promote your business, here’s my advice. Stop running and start advertising. If you have successful uplines who are accessible, ask them what they did to get where they are and do it. You will be shocked at the results you can achieve.
3 Tips For MLM Marketing Success
Ever wanted to personally sponsor 10, 20, 60 or 100 people in your downline in a single month? Well, unless you know a ton of people there’s only one way you’re gonna do it, and that’s through advertising.
But most people think that all they have to do is to advertise at a few places, and from day 1, they are going to make a profit in their MLM, when that’s not the case. So I have written 3 tips that explain how marketing MLMs on the net work, what to expect, and how to succeed.
Follow these three tips and you are sure to succeed in online MLM.
Tip #1: Don’t’ expect to make much in the beginning: Unless you are promoting some sort of big ticket item, you will not make a lot building your team in the beginning. However by consistently investing in advertising for your business your business will most definitely grow from the beginning.
How long before I can make the big bucks?
This is a question that I get from a lot of people who get in, and I don’t blame them for asking. So, in short the answer is like this. You’re big money in MLM does not really happen until you get some people in who are willing to duplicate your efforts. Now, this can take anywhere between a few days to a few months depending upon how many people you are personally sponsoring on a regular basis. Obviously, the more people you bring in, the bigger your chances of landing a leader.
An awesome network marketer once told me that he would rather have 10 people who will actually build the business than 1,000 people who won’t. Now why would he say that?
Well, the truth is, most people who join your network marketing company will do very little to nothing to build their downline. Sure, they’ll buy into your company all day, but very little will actually follow a complete system for success, no matter how easy it is. However, once you have a few people who are actually willing to work your opportunity and build their business then your business will begin to skyrocket.
Tip# 2: You need to have a consistent marketing budget: You need to have a marketing budget that you can use every month to build your business. Remember, you should not spend any more than what you can afford, but also remember that the more money you can spend each month, the faster your success will be. If you don’t have much money to work with, understand that you will have to put a lot more time into free alternative marketing methods such as SEO, blogging, and forums to get those same results.
Tip #3: You need to take your profits and re-invest them back into your business: Do you have a thousand or more to invest in advertising every single month? Don’t worry, most people don’t.
So how do you go from a budget of around $100-$200 per month into a thousand per month budget that will allow you to recruit 10, 20, or even 100 people per month? The answer is that you take your profits and reinvest them into your advertising.
This does not mean that you stop investing your initial budget into your MLM. You have to add to your profits to your initial budget each month. By doing this your profits and your budget will grow simultaneously.
You repeat this process until your advertising budget is at a level where you are recruiting the desired amount of paid members per month that you are looking for. Once you get to a level where you a comfortable with your own personal growth and the growth of your team, you can then maintain that budget and raise or drop it when necessary.
So, there you have it, by following these three tips you can make money just like the big dogs. So, how effective is the method? Here is an example of how a collegue of mine’s business looked after 11 months of growing their business starting with a monthly budget of $300 in advertising using the tips from above.
Month 1: $63 Advertising Budget: $300
Month 2: $150 Advertising Budget: $363
Month 3: $249 Advertising Budget: $450
Month 4: $485 Advertising Budget: $549
Month 5: $786 Advertising Budget: $785
Month 6: $1089 Advertising Budget: $1086
Month 7: $2011 Advertising Budget: $1389
Month 8: $3574 Advertising Budget: $2311
Month 9: $6453 Advertising Budget: $3311
Month 10: $10,156 Advertising Budget: $3311
Month 11: $15,124 Advertising Budget: $3311
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Total Earnings: $40140 Total Advertising Budget: $17166 Total Profits $22974
As you can see, my colleague ended with a monthly advertising budget of $3,311 and had an 11 month profit of $22974 starting with an advertising budget of only $300 per month! What’s even better is that he now has a profit of over $10,000 per month that grows each and every month like clockwork.
Now, please don’t think that I am painting a rosy picture for you here. My colleague didn’t get to that point by just placing a few advertisements. He tested his advertisements, and used a variety of different advertising techniques such as building his email list to get to that point. But once he found his winning ads, and methods, he was off and running, plus a few leaders emerged in his business who started really promoting it as well. And this will happen for you too. So go out there and try it and let me know how it worked for you.
The Truth About MLM Leads Part 2
The other day I did a post about how to use MLM leads to make a buttload of money online with no calling, and no selling whatsoever. If you did not have a chance to read this post, please click here.
Today, I am going to show you a little known method of marketing that a lot of the big time network marketers use to get tons of people into their downline. This method can very easily bring in a person a day if you use it correctly. And it also involves using leads. And, once again, it involves no cold calling, and no selling whatsoever.
WARNING: This is an extremely controversial method of marketing. However, controversial or not, know that most of the top marketers in MLM are using this method right now, to sign people up by the droves.
Are you ready? Okay here it is.
How to generate super targeted Leads with Autoresponder and Co-Reg leads:
This is perhaps one of the most misunderstood methods of marketing around. No wonder the people who know how to do it well, continue to make a killing from it. And the truth is, there is no competition in using it. So here is the method that the Big Dogs use to build huge lists and downlines with MLM autoresponder leads and co-regs.
- Get an automated system: If you have read any of my posts so far, you are probably noticing a theme. The fact is you are losing out on a ton of money if you do not have some sort of automated system in place to capture your highly interested prospects.
So, what is an automated system like this composed of?
- A squeeze page or lead capture page: You need to have a page that captures your prospects name, email, and phone number (phone number is not a big deal but you really need the Name and email.)
- An autoresponder: This is a software that allows you to send follow-up messages to your prospects over time on autopilot. One of my favorite autoresponders to use is getresponse.
- A Back Office: This is a space that allows you to see all the people who have enrolled to receive information about your business. You can usually call or email these people at will.
Now, you can create this automated system on your own, but if you want to save some money and get traffic to your business quicker, I would recommend using the one offered through your MLM company. If your company doesn’t have one, then you should use either a third party automated system or create your own. One of my favorite automated systems is The Berry Tree
- Get an autoresponder or a server: The next thing you need is an autoresponder for emailing your coreg and MLM autoresponder leads. This autoresponder is not the same as the one you use for your automated system. You need a special autoresponder that will allow you import an enormous amount of leads per day (10,000+ daily). You can only get this through a special autoresponder or a server. A couple I would recommend are MLM power marketing and Mailoop.
- Set up an autoresponder campaign: You need to set up some autoresponder messages that will be viewed by your leads once they are uploaded into your autoresponder. Creating your own is the best, but you can also use pre-created campaigns. MLM Power Marketing has pre-written campaigns designed specifically toward MLM.
- Buy some leads: Buy some MLM autoresponder leads or some co-reg leads to upload into your autoresponder. One MLM autoresponder
- Upload your leads: Using the instructions offered through your autoresponder. I would upload no less than 10,000 co-reg or MLM autoresponder leads int my system each day.
- Test, test, test: This is crucial guys. You need to test the effectiveness of your leads. I would get sets of co-reg and MLM autoresponder leads from various sources and trash the companies with bad leads and keep the ones with good ones. The only way to really do this is through testing.
A word of Advice: Using Co-Registration and MLM autoresponder leads to build your business is not cheap. It can cost at least $400-$500 per month minimum to get your system up and running (probably around $1000-$5000 per month to really get things moving). But once you really get things moving, you can really build your email list fast as well as your downline. However, if you don’t have that sort of money to spend each month, less expensive alternatives such as ezines, banner advertisements, and classified ads can work just as well. In fact, I would recommend using these before even touching co-regs because there can be more risk with these than with ezines.
So there you have it. Follow these methods with co-regs for your business, and please post or tell us about your experience in the comments section.
The Real Truth About MLM Leads
There are a lot of ways to build up your MLM business. One of the most popular methods used by the masses in the MLM industry is leads. Yet, it is no mystery that most MLMer’s who have used leads in the traditional since (meaning to call them and sell your MLM business) have had either a very large learning curve or no success whatsoever.
So what’s the real truth about MLM leads? Do they work? Can you make money using them? Are they a viable way to build your business? The answer is yes and no.
You see, the fact is, most people will not tell you the entire truth about leads. Instead, they hope to profit off of you by telling you half truths. They hope that by doing so you will buy more of their products and coaching programs, until, in the end, you end up spending thousands before you get the true results you are looking for.
Please don’t be mistaken, coaching programs and ebooks are awesome ways to learn how to do build your business. There are some excellent books that really do an excellent job and some that even over-deliver on their results. But what I have a problem with is when ebooks and coaching programs lead people on without giving them the complete system that they have advertised. That, unfortunately, happens far too often.
Okay-enough of my ranting. Back to business.
So are leads a good way to build your business? Yes, but only if you know which ones to look for, and how to use them correctly. So how do you do that?
First, let me start by saying that, unless you enjoy calling leads every single day, or unless you’re good at that sort of thing, I would not call leads to build my business. There are far better ways and cheaper ways to build your MLM business with leads. I personally use two methods to build my business. Here is my first method to using leads effectively to build your business.
Method #1: The Pre-Enrollee Method
- You have to have an automated system in place: I know I preach this a lot, but, honestly, you cannot build a business on autopilot without some sort of automated system in place. Plus, since I only use automated systems for my business, you’re going to hear this from me time and time again. To find out what an automated system is click here
- You have to buy exclusive leads: These are leads that only you use and that are not resold. Simply call your lead company and ask if they offer exclusive leads that have not been resold. I recommend using pre-enrollees, or your companies advertising. These should be non-incentivized exclusive leads. My favorite lead company for these types of leads is called preenrollees4sale.com
- Follow up with your pre-enrollees with a set of emails: Create a set of follow-up emails (5 or 6) to build a relationship and explain why your opportunity is so good.
Now, if you are not able to buy exclusive leads or pre-enrollees for your business there is still another extremely effective method I use to build traffic for my website. In tomorrow’s post, I will show you a second way you can build your business with no calling and no selling whatsoever.
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