03/22/2006
MLM secrets - Have you heard about the internet
In today mlm training I would like to teach you about one of the mlm secrets called the internet!
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The internet is the best lead generation ever created. It will allow you to target your market and open the whole world for you. If you are not using the internet for your lead generation effort then you are still fighting with a sword in 2006!
Anyway, one of the major questions I get is: How to drive traffic to a website?
I have plenty of tips in the post archives
I will remind you about the basics: (Look for the details in the post archives)
1) Make sure you send your visitors to a Webpage where they have the option to get something for free so you will have to chance to contact them by phone and follow-up with them automatically through auto responders. For example, when you visit my blog here I offer you a free e-book MLM Success in 10 Steps for this reason ;)
2) There are two major ways of getting visitors to your website: Paid and Free. It is going to cost you either money or time! You have to judge which one do you have more?
What are the Free ways of getting visitors to your website or lead capture pages
-Forums: by visiting forums and getting involved in discussions, you are allowed to have your signature file. If you help other people and provide information then they want to know about you and they will visit your website.
-Visiting blogs and commenting on them: For example, if you comment on my blog you are allowed to have a link to your website and you can get some of my website visitors to check your website. You can visit multiple blogs easily and comment on the posts. Go to blogsearch.google.com or to any other blog search engine and you will find plenty of blogs about your particular interest. If you are commenting on my blog, you better have a nice comment ;)
-Article writing: You can write articles about your product or your opportunity and post it in the article directories and send it to ezine publishers. -
Get a blog like this one and start writing your ideas about the products of your network marketing company or your opportunity. You can have one for free if you are short on money; there are plenty of places to make your free blog. Check www.blogger.com and www.wordpress.com
-Traffic exchanges such as traffic swarm and instant buzz: this will allow you to click on other people's advertisements and you get credits and other people will see your advertisements. Beware of all the spy wares though. Time wasting :(
All these methods will cost you time.
What are the paid ways of getting traffic and visitors to your mlm company or better to your lead capture page
Whenever you want to pay for advertisement, you have to do some math (sorry).
You have to put a budget, for example you are going to pay $30, if you get 10 leads and no one signs up then you never repeat this process again. If you pay $30 and you get 3 leads but highly motivated people, one signs up and you make more than $30. Then you repeat again and again.
That's what you call Return on Investment. Repeat what makes money for you and stop what waste your money.
(Make sense but most people waste their money on repeating advertisements that do not work!)
That's called testing in marketing: sometimes you have to waste money till you find the best formula for you. Expect it to happen and if you can not live with this idea then use the free ways till you make some money that you can use for testing.
-Paid per click programs such as Google adwords, overture and other minor ones. Paid per click advertisements are those advertisements on your right side that you see in search engines under the 'sponsored links’. Paid per click will allow you to bid on 'keywords' and the one who bid higher he gets his website higher on the search engines ads. This method will get you immediate traffic but may waste your money! Check Perry Marshall 5 free email lessons before you get into pay per click deals.
- Newsletters advertisements: You find ezine or newsletters about your topic of interest and you place an ad. You can use top sponsor ad or a solo ad. Before you pay any ad for any ezine, subscribe to it so you appreciate the quality and what type of people is reading it. Again you test and evaluate!
-Press releases: You can make a press release about your products or your opportunity. There are free press releases but I found them ineffective personally. When you pay like $80 then you get significant exposure.
One of the major press releases websites is www.prweb.com
What do I use personally right now?
I use a blog and article writing and this is how you arrived here :)
I used forums, blog commenting and traffic exchanges but it wasted too much of my time.
I hope these would help you generate your leads.
Get a lead capture page if your mlm company website sucks, most of them do, including my own network marketing company, lol.
Feel free to comment and give me your opinion.
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MLM Secrets - Are you swimming against the flow?
In today's MLM training, I would like to share with you one of the MLM secrets that you must understand in your network marketing business.
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You should follow your personality type doing the business and not change your personality.
Let me explain. I did talk to two people this evening. Both ladies are 'blues': that means they like to have fun, they are open and direct.
One of them is very successful in her business and sponsoring people everyday.
The other is struggling big time and getting depressed!
The successful lady is in a travel business and she is having fun doing the business! No wonder she is able to sponsor people. She will never stop working in her MLM and she will never quit!
The other lady is struggling big time and why?
Because her idiot upline and her stupid network marketing company 'leaders' told her to chase her friends, family and cold call her neighbors.
What is she getting? Rejection and Pain!!
If you are following my posts I have discussed with you that #1 lesson you must teach your distributors is: Rejection Free Prospecting! If your distributors are having fun and they are not stressed out, they will stay with you for hundred years even if they don't make money!
Forget this piece of the puzzle; your distributors will get plenty of pains and rejection. No wonder they quit. Your distributors will never want to talk to anyone anymore, they are going to hide in the closet; their self esteem is in the mud. Then they will tell you that MLM is just a scam!
Do you understand where this objection is coming from?
Did you remember also in prior post how crucial is the self esteem in this business?
How do you expect to be magnetic with poor self esteem?
What is the purpose of sponsoring people if they keep quitting on you?
Where is the duplication? Are you duplicating the pain! :(
Dr. Nabil
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03/18/2006
mlm tips - signature files
One of the mlm tips I would like to share with you is the misuse of signature file.
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What is a signature file?
Signature file is those couple of words below your name usually in an email or other document.
For example I use two different signature files:
Dr. Nabil
Mentor with a servants' heart
http://www.dailymlmtips.com
and
Dr. Nabil
The MLM doctor
http://www.dailymlmtips.com
My purpose is to inform people that I am here to help them.
My url informs already what is my website is about
What is your signature file?
It should be sort of a small add or a small pitch.
Signature file is useful to pitch anyone on your network marketing company rejection free.
Mistake #1: They have only a url of a website that doesn't mean anything!
Mistake #2: The url takes them to a company website without any way to capture their information!
Most people visit your website, if you can not capture their attention so they give you their name and at least email, you can not get in touch with them again and they are never coming back to your website.
Your website should never be your company website but a capture page or a website with popup similar to my blog here.
Dr. Nabil
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03/15/2006
Network marketing business the right way
How to market your network marketing business the right way so you make money instead of losing money.
1) Remember it is network marketing
That means it starts with networking.
If you have some friends and family left, then you prospect through them and you get referrals and some sales. If you do have a great product that people want, it should not be difficult to get referrals.
Prospecting through is simply asking your friends if they know someone who is interested in your product and give them a killer brochure. It is rejection free and effective.
This is the doorway theory: every person is the door for hundreds of people.
Which one is better?
Ask them to buy and get rejected or
Prospect through and get access to their friends and family. Your friends like you and want to help you.
Another trick that Dave Cones shared with us last Saturday in the mentoring for free calls: Ask for their opinion. Get the killer brochure for your product and ask your warm market: What do they think about it? You are doing market research rejection free ;) – Every one likes giving his opinion.
Then after you get some happy customers with your great products then you ask them for referrals. Hopefully with your great products, those referrals become customers and source of referrals for you...
If no one would buy your products then find a real mlm business.
If you have been in many network marketing companies before and people are scared from you as soon as they see you. You just have to change your approach by asking their help for referrals for the products and do not mention the opportunity or the business aspect.
There are lots of low cost lead generation techniques offline and online. Please refer to the category of lead generation in the post archives http://networkmarketingsuccesstips.com/archives/
2) After you start making some money. You use this money (not your own money) to start advertising your products or your service. Then you can test post card marketing, internet marketing through ezine advertisements, Google adwords, having your own website...
Initially, the money that you make is not your money yet, it is the food for your baby (your business)!
Then you must be able to teach your team what you have just done.
3) When you start earning significant amount of money, you keep some in your savings account; you invest in real estate, in bonds...
Some network marketers are making lots of money and next day their company disappears from the face of the earth or their company decides to terminate them or their company decides to cancel the compensation plan!
If these guys are buying fancy cars and big houses, next day they get no checks then they are suddenly in depth.
If these guys are using their money wisely, they will survive and may not even get affected.
I hope you liked today wisedom.
I appreciate comments, and what would you like to read about next?
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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.
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03/03/2006
MLM secrets - Motivation in network marketing
MLM secrets - Motivation in network marketing
I got this question in a way or another frequently. How do I motivate my downline?
I am going to discuss motivation in network marketing.
1) This is where "their" Why is so critical.
If you have read Success in 10 Steps e-book, this is the first lesson.
You remind yourself as well as your team about their emotional reasons to get them fired up again to put the time and effort to build a business.
2) If you sponsor people based on manipulation and they do not have dreams and desires then good luck in getting them off the TV.
This is why targeting your marketing is essential, sponsor people who have dreams and desires. Leave your uncle in peace, let him watch TV and drink his beer.
3) Most downline do not need motivation!
They need training. If prospecting is painful they are not going to work.
Therefore, teach your downline the principles of marketing and rejection free prospecting. They should be talking only to people who are waiting to hear from them.
This is what we teach in Mentoring for free: our free generic mlm training
Feel free to comment and give your opinion and thoughts about this post.
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I appreciate you,
Dr. Nabil
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Network marketing junk to be aware of
Today I feel that I must inform you from the obvious m.l.m network marketing junk around.
This junk is what give this great industry the bad reputation.
I received an email from a person supposedly who is asking me my opinion.
Now this person is either pitching me on this new deal that he has found or he is simply naive (or may be even dumb)!
I usually do not discuss on how to evaluate a company in this blog.
I do have another website where I discuss these in details. I do feel obligated to inform you about this email though.
This guy is asking me my opinion about a junky pre-launch company called beontop!
1) I would never join a pre-launch company as a principle: pre-launch and new companies disappear most of the time. Would I want to get my team dreams in such companies? No no no.
I have published an article you may want to read: New network marketing companies: you can predict the future Ok, this junky pre-launch 'company' is called Beontop.
2) I decided to give this naive guy my opinion, so the first thing I evaluate in a business (surprisingly for most naive network marketers) is not the products nor compensation plans! Yes, you read it right.
What I do evaluate first is the policies and procedures! Then comes the comp plans and the products.
Yes, policies and procedures reflects how low or how high is the integrity of those 'leaders'
Very simply, I want to know if this company is planning to pay their distributors or steal their checks after getting the job done.
Look what I found in these junky pre-launch company policies: "BeOnTop has the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend or cancel, at any time and for any or no reason, a Member's membership in and access to the BeOnTop Website and the BeOnTop program. All Earnings may be cancelled in BeOnTop sole discretion, and the Member may be referred to appropriate law enforcement agencies if such action is deemed warranted by BeOnTop."
Very boldly, they tell you to check the box that you read this sentence. They tell you we have the right just to take your check and not pay you for NO REASON!!!! That was outrageous for me. I am sure in the next few months many 'idiots' are going to join this pre-launch company and their dreams will disappear when this company go bankrupt or get transformed to direct sales or simply terminate them when they stop working!
The worst is they are going to drag with them many poor souls !
I am going to add a new category in the future on how to evaluate a company because obviously many people are still unable to differentiate between most rip off mlm companies and companies with real residual income potential.
Some people can not even differentiate between scams and pyramid schemes and legal mlm companies! Till next tip
Dr. Nabil
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MLM secrets - Motivation in network marketing
MLM secrets - Motivation in network marketing
I got this question in a way or another frequently.
How do I motivate my downline?
I am going to discuss motivation in network marketing.
1) This is where "their" Why is so critical. If you have read Success in 10 Steps e-book, this is the first lesson.
You remind yourself as well as your team about their emotional reasons to get them fired up again to put the time and effort to build a business.
2) If you sponsor people based on manipulation and they do not have dreams and desires then good luck in getting them off the TV. This is why targeting your marketing is essential, sponsor people who have dreams and desires. Leave your uncle in peace, let him watch TV and drink his beer.
3) Most downline do not need motivation! They need training.
If prospecting is painful they are not going to work. Therefore, teach your downline the principles of marketing and rejection free prospecting.
They should be talking only to people who are waiting to hear from them.
This is what we teach in Mentoring for free: our free generic mlm training
Feel free to comment and give your opinion and thoughts about this post.
What would you like me to write about next?
I appreciate you,
Dr. Nabil The MLM doctor Is your MLM sick? Contact the MLM doctor
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