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Generating New Leads for Your MLM Business

A constant source of new leads and prospects are the life blood of any business. If you are a relatively new business owner, hopefully your sponsor has helped you put a plan in place that will fill this need. For those of you that are hearing this for the first time please pay close attention as your chances of success are directly tied to you understanding this concept.

There are a number of decisions that you will need to make as it pertains to the generation of new leads and just as important the process by which you will manage those newly acquired leads. Below are just a few

Using Effective Sales Copy to Explode Your Business

Let me set the record straight right from the beginning: Learning to write effective sales and advertising copy could take you years upon years. Like any other profession, the people that specialize in writing effective sales copy continually learn new effective techniques to compel people to take action.

With that understanding I am not recommending that you drop everything you have on your plate to become a pro at writing effective sales copy. However, I am recommending

What’s in a Name

This is probably one of my biggest soap boxes and primarily because the problem can be fixed so easily and with very little cost. The question, “What’s in a name”, can be applied to so many different aspects of our business and yet there are still countless numbers of people running around that have given little to no thought to this VERY important question.

If you are in the business of

Are You Really Working Your MLM Business

So, you’ve found a MLM business opportunity that you are expecting to be your backup plan in the event you lose your job, need extra income, or simply for money to save.

What are your plans to make that happen?

Yes, that’s right, you really have to plan for success in your MLM business or by default you are planning to fail. Success does not happen by accident and in fact

Recession-proof Jobs: Fact or Fiction

There is no secret that there are literally thousands of people losing their jobs on a weekly if not daily basis with the current state of the economy. If you happen to be one of those people let me say that I am sorry. Having been in your shoes a number of years ago, I [...]

Are You Selling or Promoting?

It seems that daily I encounter a new sales person who has just started with the best company in the world. Their company has a compensation plan that is the best in the industry, their products/service are second to none and they are EXCITED!

Because I invest a considerable amount of time in various networking events this often happens when I am meeting these people in person for the first time. However, the same holds true for the Internet. Being separated by several thousand miles of Internet is not going to discourage this new and excited business owner.

While I stress the importance of

The Investment to Explode Your Business

In working with a new business associate today we went through many of the questions that I always seemed to get when trying to help someone new to network marketing get off to a great start. For any of you that have been in network marketing for any amount of time you know exactly what I am talking about. You have someone new to your business that you want to get started on the right foot, they are excited about the possibilities that their future holds and they know next to nothing about their new business.

To complicate matters, many of these newbie’s have

Legitimate Business or Just a Pyramid Scheme

For any of you that follow my ranting you obviously will know that in the past few days I was addressing the myths surrounding MLM and the Network Marketing industry. As a result of that writing and some discussions I have had with business partners since that writing, I felt compelled to address one of my all time favorites: The claims that I am involved in a Pyramid Scheme.

For any of you that

Network Marketing and the Internet

With the advances in technology growing your network marketing business via the internet has become much more practical, even easier. While I would hesitate to say all of the most successful network marketers are tapping into the power of technology and the internet, there may be a handful that don’t. By virtue of the fact that you are

MLM Myths Holding You Back?

In light of the topic yesterday regarding, “The Importance of a Positive Mental Attitude”, I felt that it was important to address the fact that many people entertaining the idea of a Network Marketing business struggle with the myths. First and foremost much of the hype and negative information regarding