The Cancer of Network Marketing- Attrition!

If you want people to stay you need to get a check in their hands as quick as possible!
How do you do that?
You need to have an “Earning Income Quickly” strategy for your new people. This is where all of the “traditional” ways or, what I call “ill-advised” theories, come into play. Most people will tell you to make a list of a 100 people including family and friends – don’t prejudge - think of the kid who mows your lawn or the lady at the laundry mat – you know there is no way she could possible like her job so she is a prime candidate. The next questions is, candidate for what? Almost every networker will tell you, your opportunity of course.

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If you are a network marketer and have purchased leads then you know by now that it can be very frustrating and challenging. Not only that it can be a real strain on you financially. Out of every 100 leads that you call (hoping you even connect with a living person)you might sponsor a couple of people if you are “lucky”. Many lead companies sell their leads over and over again and those “fresh leads” are quite often not as fresh as you think. They all claim that their screening and the questions they ask are good. In the end they are really not very relevant because the lead is a dud to begin with. I am sorry but honestly most leads are really bad and you’re wasting hundreds of dollars on them. Yes, the truth hurts! If you are having tremendous success with leads then please keep doing what works for you. There are good and bad lead companies out there, so do some homework if you’re going that route.

If you want to connect with willing, open minded people, that have more in common with you then you should consider Anne Sieg’s The Renegade Network Marketer. This is where you will create your own free leads for your networking business and get some of the best practical information within the Renegade System. You then don’t have to rely on family and friends ever again. Besides, who wants to go down that road again. Yuck! Been there done that! The Renegade Network Marketer back office has some incredible features and links so you can add multiple streams of income to your business. This helps with your advertising and lead generation. It basically becomes “seed” money. This is only for those who are really serious about building a network marketing business and want to do it the winning right way.
That would be you right?

You can also pickup a free copy of the controversial report
“The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing” today! This is a great read and eye opener for anyone that is just getting started or for even the seasoned networker, with many years of experience.

Renegade,
Steve Jackson

What Is MLM?

MLM stands for Multi Level Marketing and is also known as Network Marketing or Referral Marketing. A company is considered MLM where the products or services delivered to their customers, are distributed by independent contractors also known as distributors. This is the major point of difference between MLM and conventional systems. Instead of a complex system of wholesalers, warehouses, distribution centers, freight companies and retailers – with all the added costs at each point of handling – MLM companies normally deliver direct to either the distributor or the customer. The savings in infrastructure, multiple handling, storage and transport are huge. These distributors are compensated based on their own sales as well as the sales of other distributors they have recruited and trained. The terms “multi level” and “network” come from this concept of recruiting and training a huge group of distributors (also known as a downline) as your own sales force within this company.

The idea, of course, is to build a huge downline that will amass a large customer base. Obviously, the person who has the most customers in his/her network is compensated the best. Most MLM companies do very little advertising in comparison to more conventional companies, since word of mouth referral is the primary promotional medium. This represents enormous savings, which are normally channeled into network rewards. Compensation plans very from company to company but if you build your downline the right way you can reap a huge financial reward.

Most of us do a little network marketing every day. The difference is that we don’t really know that’s what we’re doing and we’re not actually getting paid for it. Let’s say you saw a great movie and recommended it to all your friends, you are doing network marketing for the theater and the film company that produced the movie.

The same goes for a favorite restaurant; article of clothing, favorite album or a good book you just read. Herein lies the difference between network marketing and multi-level marketing. Network marketing does not have to be multi-level nor does it have to include building a downline.

The problem in network marketing arises when people focus solely on recruiting recruiters and training them to recruit. Neglecting to acquire customers and to train your downline to do the same results in no compensation. Legitimate MLM companies only payout when customers are acquired not when a downline distributor is acquired. A lot of the negativity towards network marketing arises because of lack of understanding of this one issue.

To your success!

Steve

Oh, That’s One of Those MLM Pyramid Things…

I find it interesting the varied responses you get when you mention network marketing, mlm or multi level marketing to others.

Some people just look at you with a blank stare never having heard of these terms before. Others ask, “Is this one of those businesses like Amway?” or “How much do you get paid off of me?”. What about the infamous line “Oh, that’s one of those pyramid things!”. Others will be curious to find out more even if they have already been involved in MLM. They will just say “Tell me more about it…”

My favorite group is the kind of people who immediately tell you its a scam because they have joined one before and failed. Even worse, they just heard about this concept from someone else who failed and so they assume its a scam without any first-hand experience.

Don’t Judge Too Quickly

The funny Ameriquest Mortgage Commercials are kind of like some people’s first impression of network marketing. Get the facts from someone that is successful in the industry and remember, don’t judge too quickly.

Ever since Amway and other pioneering companies, people have been exposed to multilevel marketing either directly or indirectly and have been forming opinions about it. Network Marketing is not for everyone and by no means will everyone succeed just like in any other business. All I can ask of you, is to at least get the facts before you form a concrete opinion about any multilevel marketing company and/or the MLM industry as a whole. Use caution and don’t ever jump in blindly; you still need to make sure it is a legitimate company, but please don’t form opinions before you do the research.

Multilevel marketing is neither good nor bad. Unfortunately, people label it one way or the other depending on whether or not they made money, while understandable, is not very rational.

Enjoy,
Steve

The free ebook The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing is really more than just another ebook. It contains extremely valuable information about the Network Marketing industry. It’s 35 pages full of solid information that will change your business around completely or if you are considering starting an MLM/Network Marketing business it can save you years of frustration and possibly thousands of dollars.

Inside there are links to a system called “The Renegade Network Marketer” which has 6 main parts to it.

1) Landing Pages

2) The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing Free Viral eBook

3) The Follow Up System

4) The Renegade Network Marketer eBook

5) The Back End

6) The Renegade Newsletter

Put your business into overdrive with this entire marketing machine!

If there was one thing I wish I’d learned when I first got started in network marketing, it would have been this: How to have pre-qualified, highly-interested prospects come to ME. Now that I know, I’ve been able to sponsor more people in a week than I used to in a year.

Steve

Blogging Wars - Wordpress Vs Blogger

There’s a war going on in the blogosphere, and it has nothing to do with bloggers dissing each other on their respective websites. The war is about control of the blogosphere by several great, many good, and tons of terrible blogging platforms. The average newbie now has “too many” options to choose from, and the battle for blogging supremacy is hotter than ever.

At my website and blogs, I’m always asked the question “Is Wordpress better than Blogger?”. The answer, of course, is “Yes”. But to really understand why, it’s important to look at both blogging platforms side-by-side and see which one you really need.
Here’s the comparison scale:

1) Ease of Set-up And Use

Yes, it’s much easier to set-up a blog with Blogspot.com and get your own Bloggger account. You can be done in 10 minutes flat. Once you’re set-up you can start posting immediately. If you want to add a designer’s touch to your blog, there are also tons of blogger templates available for free.
Installing Wordpress however can be a major headache if you don’t know what you’re doing. Since you’re going to host it on your own account, you’ll need to download the installation files, upload them to your server, set-up a database, and run the configuration script.

However, if you know which hosting account to get, you can choose one with Cpanel included. With Cpanel, you can do a one-click installation, upgrade and removal of your Wordpress platform.

2) Customization & Advanced Use

Blogger doesn’t allow categories. You can’t sort your articles into different focuses, unless you know how to hack the platform. With Wordpress, not only can you add categories, you can also display each category differently on your main page. In fact with the correct plugins you can even turn your Wordpress into a magazine-like portal.

Publishing with Blogger can be a pain in the ass. It can take forever to post articles, especially if you’re making changes to the entire website. With Wordpress, publishing is much faster, although if you load your system with all kinds of bells and whistles it can be just as frustrating. With a Blogger account, you can get additional features like “Shout Boxes” that improve interaction on your site. You can also get pretty themes and nifty little tools that you can add to the core template files. However, that’s as far as you can go with Blogger.

With Wordpress however, the sky is the limit. As cliche as that may sound, not only can you get themes, additional “plugins” and advanced tools, you can also extend Wordpress to far beyond just a blogging platform.
The talk today is about using Wordpress as a complete, user-friendly Content Management System or CMS.

3) Copyrights and Ownership of Content

I started with Blogger and I won’t say that it’s bad. But after a while I started to get frustrated with Blogger, and here’s why: Google Owns Your Content
Google has the authority to shut down your account without warning if they don’t like what you’re blogging about. You don’t have absolute control over your own blog. With Wordpress, you own the domain name and the blog is hosted on your own account. You have full control over your content.

With the self-hosted version of Wordpress (not Wordpress.com), you’re free to write about anything you want, and use the software in any way you want. Yes, Blogger allows you to publish to your own domain, but they still own the database that holds your content! Don’t forget that!

4) Search Engine Optimization and Traffic

There’s this propaganda that since Google owns Blogger, they tend to favor Blogger accounts. I won’t say that this is illogical, but from my experience, there’s no such favoritism.

I’ve heard as many stories of getting indexed fast and ranking high in search engines from both Wordpress and Blogger users. As long as the content is good, the spiders will come.

When you post in Blogger, you can only “ping” a limited amount of sites, whereas with Wordpress on your own domain you can ping as many blog directories as you want, and start getting more traffic.
As a conclusion, I would say that Wordpress is only slightly ahead in terms of optimization for search engines, and building large amounts of traffic.

5) Money-Making Potential

There’s no doubt that it’s easier to get started with Google Adsense if you have a Blogger account. In fact you can now apply for Adsense from within a Blogger account. Not entirely surprising considering the fact that both are owned by the same company.

With Wordpress, it can get tricky. The default installation is not enough. You’ll need a couple of plugins and even a better theme to really maximize the Adsense potential. However, this seems to be getting easier and there’s even “Adsense revenue sharing” plugins around that allow you to share ad revenue with other contributors and writers for your blog.

When you start using Wordpress to build your Adsense websites, you’ll soon discover what I mean. It’s something you need to experience for yourself. I can tell you one thing though – when you go Wordpress, you don’t go back.

About the Author
Gobala Krishnan is the author of Wordpress Adsense System, the unique beginner’s guide to building content-rich Adsense websites with Wordpress. You can download two free chapters of his book at Click Here.

The Cab Driver

6 minutes can change your life…

Watch this video and learn how a “cabbie” made the grade in Relationship Marketing, an amazing example of great customer service.

True Relationship Marketing is about reaching out and genuinely caring about that customer or client….

To your success!
Steve Jackson

Are You Guilty Of Telling These 7 Lies Of Network Marketing?

If you are one of the 95 plus per cent of network marketers who are still spinning their wheels in this industry and not making any money then there is very good reason.

Let’s remove lack of action for a moment because undoubtedly this will account for many failures within the network marketing business. But the truth is, there are seven prime reasons why today’s network marketers simply cannot get off the starting blocks with their businesses.

Ann Sieg was a struggling MLMer for many years who did everything right in promoting her business. She made a list, attended meetings and poured her heart and soul into trying to grow her business. She was moderately successful but always hit a point in her growth where the large brick wall placed in front of her just couldn’t be scaled.

Her main problem, one which is the core reason why many MLMers quit their business within the first three months, was attracting enough prospects into their funnel. She had plenty of belief but couldn’t understand why she wasn’t seeing the results in proportion to her efforts. Yet, she kept being told that perhaps her belief levels weren’t strong enough or to attend more meetings or that everyone is a prospect.

The fact is, every one is not a prospect in network marketing. Sieg was finally fed up with the industry and decided to find out why it was some people were successful and the majority weren’t. You know what she discovered?

The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing

Bottom line is, just about everything you’ve been taught about network marketing, to quote a passage from her report…”is BS.”

Sieg set about compiling her report, The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing and knew deep down she was going to offend some people. Let’s face it, despite more than 95% of people failing in MLM, there is still a propensity to get defensive when someone starts to belittle the industry.

Fact is, Sieg doesn’t belittle the industry. She recognizes it as one of the truly great vehicles for the average citizen worldwide to create financial security for themselves.

What she does attack are the tired old mis-truths still being taught today in droves on unsuspecting new network marketers about what’s required to build a successful MLM business. How’s this for some familiar stuff:

- anyone can do this business
- every one is a prospect from your family, relatives, friends and strangers
- you don’t need any skills other than being able to make a list or
- you’ll have your business built for you

Do they sound familiar to you? Truth is, anyone can do this business but only with the right skill set. And those skills should be taught even before they join the business. Most people who join a network marketing business don’t have skills such as marketing and promotion and to some extent sales.

And possibly one of the most irritating of The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing is being told one needs more self belief and belief in the business. Well, that’s true but how does that get you the fuel to build your business, namely prospects.

The Renegade Revolution

There is a shift happening with regards to promoting network marketing today and we are on the verge of a new boom within the industry. The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing may have hit a nerve or two but now that the dust is settling, the growing numbers of renegade network marketers who continue to emerge every day is strong testimony to the message conveyed within the report.

The 7 Great Lies is a free report which you can download here. If you are set in your ways and still believe making a list and hassling friends and family is the way to prospect then don’t download the report. It will offend you. However, like the majority of network marketers, if you’re looking for a lifeline to pluck you out of the MLM sea of despair, then the 7 Great Lies is for you.