Striking gold in MLM is not easy unless you work very hard to build networks. Execute a ‘small’ plan and you will get small results. But if you play it big, the risk will pay off when you find the right kind of people to network with.

This goes without saying that when you try and network with other MLM list builders, you will make more money with the same amount of work.

However, MLM list builders are very protective with their lists. They will not do an ad swap or a promotional email blast just because you ask them to. So what is the best way to tap into their inner circle?

Firstly, don’t act like an wannabe. Most network marketing leaders are so busy with their marketing activities and taking care of their downlines that they barely have any time left to deal with every single wannabe that grovels for their time. It is a big turn off so make sure you try and carry yourself in a very professional way.

Next, if you can’t become their friends directly, always try and get to them through their various networks and contacts. For example, if your target leader is a very good friend of a particular marketer, you can try and network with him first, become his friend, work on projects with him and when the time is right, bridge the connections. It is sort of like a teenage guy going after a girl way out of his league, but he can succeed if he becomes close friends with HER friends and try and wedge his way into her ‘inner circle’.

Another way to ensure that you will have successful joint ventures is to observe the following tips.

Never ask for a joint venture opportunity at the last minute. People are busy and they are most probably not going to re-arrange their schedules or do special favors for complete strangers.

When you pitch your joint venture offer, make sure you offer good and valuable products related to their niches. If they teach their downlines about list building, you will have better chances if you ask them to promote good list building tools. Most important of all, you have to make sure your products provide good value to their subscribers.

You can also subscribe to their mailing lists, and REPLY directly to their newsletters using the RE subject line of the newsletter issue. This will definitely grab the attention of the list builder.

Remember, at the end of the day, JUST ASK. The worst that can happen is that they will say no or ignore you… but it is worth it because you will always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

They say that driving traffic to your MLM websites is the biggest key towards dominating the market. This statement holds a lot of weight as lead generation and building your names list are the lifeline of your network marketing business.

But what happens if you do not have enough existing traffic? What if your blog is virtually dead or your mailing list is smaller than other people’s downlines? How do you get a jump start and get ahead of all the other traffic buyers especially if you do not have money to pay for expensive banner advertising or Google AdWords?

The answer is in the following.

Submitting quality content to websites!

Submission is one of the single, most important ways to leverage on high traffic user generated websites and targeted enough to draw in large crowds of network marketing prospects. It’s sort of like a mouse, riding on the shoulders of an elephant moving at fast speed!

The theory works well because…

Google considers these sites as high authority sites and getting good quality back links from sites like Ezine articles will give you a huge boost in search engine rankings and hence, more traffic.

You can leverage on the traffic on those sites and by sorting through the right categories, you will get the right kind of traffic.

You also get viral traffic when people like your content and they republish it or they share it with their friends through emails.

So what are the different types of content you can submit to and get traffic?

There are Articles (written content about 250 – 600 words).

Audio recordings (you can read out an article or a transcript and submit them to podcast sites)
Video sites (YouTube, Viddler, Metacafe and many other sites accept video recordings… you can record yourself or use Power Point to make one).

You can compile all your articles into an E-book or a special report and submit them to E-book sites (you can also give the book Master Resell Rights or Private Label Rights and watch the book go viral).

RSS submission (you can submit your blogs to lots of RSS sites and pick up traffic)
Blog directory submission (submit your blogs to sites like Blog Catalog and Blogflux)
You can also submit your sites to Social Bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumble Upon, Mixx, Mister Wong, Reddit and many more).

Finally, you can also submit your content to Facebook and other Social Networking sites and build a community.

Make sure you submit to as many sites as possible and do it as consistently as possible.

MLM blogs are one of the most important marketing tools you can use to promote your network marketing business or your opportunity.

Some of the advantages of blogging include picking up traffic from the search engines, blog traffic exchanges, people keying in your name with a dot com at the end and even from RSS subscriptions.

But one of the biggest keys towards picking up and maximizing your traffic is to optimize your blog titles and post titles for your MLM blogs. The title serves many different functions
It gets your blog post appearing on Google, Yahoo! and MSN for the right kind of keywords … keywords that prospects are looking for.

It also gets picked up by blog syndications and networks giving you another source of traffic and blog readers.

It attracts readers to look at your blog post. With millions of new blog posts coming up each day and a new blog being created every few seconds, you have to be savvy when it comes to creating a post title that will not only attract the attention of your readers, but will also give them a compelling reason to read the post all the way to the end.

So how should you optimize your blog titles? Here are a few pointers:

How to… Everybody wants to know how to get more money, get something done, court the right girl, find the right solutions, etc. If you can provide solutions, the ‘how to’ line will always strike a chord.

Swing Golf Like Tiger Woods… actually, not just Tiger Woods, it could be bend it like Beckham, or get rich like Warren Buffet, Donald Trump, Bill Gates or even the Sultan of Brunei! Either way, if you can do something like the superstar, it will be a very good blog title because everyone wants to do something word class.

If you start your blog post with “what you ought to know” about something, you are leveraging on someone’s curiosity and it is really effective because nobody likes the feeling of not knowing something important or feeling left out.

Use this… here is a quick way to get something done. This is a very good line too because people like to get things done really fast.

Another useful strategy… using part 1, part 2, part etc… when you break your blog posts into separate parts, it gives people a compelling reason to come back more and more. As long as you ‘exercise’ your readers, you are making them more responsive to your offers and your opportunities.

What are the traits of a successful network marketing leader?

A leader someone who have followers following them, of course! After all, if you claim to be a leader and there is no one behind you, then you are merely going for a walk!

Here are 6 traits of a successful leader:

A leader is someone that will ensure that their downlines succeed. No matter how well you inflate yourself, only a truly successful leader is someone that helps their downlines to MAKE MONEY. You must teach your downlines how to generate their own leads and find their own prospects.

You must also learn to empower others. A good leader is not someone who does everything by themselves. If you ever dream of leveraging on your downlines, you must make sure they are strong enough to run the business on their own and be independent. If they have to rely on you for everything then you are just creating a network marketing job for yourself.

Your leadership quality will also show in your benevolence. Unlike a corporate structure, you are not their BOSS. People do not join network marketing in order to be bossed around by their uplines. Learn where your limits are but also be firm when you want your downlines to get something done for their own good.

A good leader is also one that does 80% of the work. In real life, the 80/20 rule applies where 20% of the people do 80% of the important stuff. Yes, it is important to delegate and train new people, but most of the initial ground work must have a strong foundation laid down by the network marketing leader.

Another very important aspect about MLM leadership is the ability to memorize all the important facts about the company and the network marketing opportunity. Imagine how embarrassed you will feel if your downline brings a prospect to you and you are not able to answer all the hard questions. They look to you as dictionaries and encyclopedias so make sure you are not lacking in terms of knowledge.

Lastly, a good leader is someone who is willing to serve all the way and make sacrifices. There is no victory without sacrifice and although it is difficult to sacrifice your time, money and your personal comfort, it will all pay off if you work very hard and build a solid network so that your downlines will be ready to go forward!

Many people fail to understand that network marketing is a business that is about sharing and training. If you want to make big money in it, the key is in this line the greatest leader is the greatest server.

No one climbs to the top without the support of their downlines. Therefore, if you want to climb up, it is through people lifting you up, not by stepping on top of them like in the corporate ladder. That’s why it is very important for you to start by sharing your opportunity with the right heart.

Many people ‘run away’ from network marketers who are prospecting them because they are afraid of the recruiting process. The part about sitting people down, showing them to plan and the unending follow up calls designed to hunt down the prospect relentlessly… those old school sales and recruiting tactics are inefficient because of one thing – the prospect perceives you to be a sleazy sales person only out to get your hands into their pocket or their wallets.

This has to stop because if you do not share with the right intention to help your prospect, they will run away faster than you can say the word ‘sign up’.

So how do you connect with your prospect? How can you find the right ‘hot button’?

Firstly, you must learn to be a good listener. Being a good listener is not just about saying a lot of “yes” and “Um hmm…” to all the things they are saying about their lives. It is all about empathy. In essence, you really got to be a friend rather than a sales person. Business opportunities are just business transactions but the core of the business is about the heart. Do not place your business deals before your prospects’ or downlines’ welfare.

Next, if you want to share properly, do not try and go for the quick kill in order to make the sale. Network marketing is not about a hit and run, it is about building a long term business and it is not uncommon to find people getting their best downlines one or two years after prospecting them and following up with them.

Lastly, if you want to help people, you must not build your network marketing business as though it is your only source of income. The root of greed begins with desperation so take your time with your business. If you rely on it as your sole source of income, all your prospects will look like dollar signs to you.

Network marketing is a brutal, unforgiving business if you do not do your due diligence. In essence, choosing the right network marketing company is like choosing the right boyfriend or girlfriend – inevitably, bad choices will affect your finances and career in ways that you will never anticipate when you ‘fall in love’ for the first time (yes, it applies to companies you fall in love with as well!)

How does one differentiate between a legitimate network marketing company compared to a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’? Most of the time, there are many gray areas and certain companies stand on that thin line where it sounds legal but is actually unethical!

Here are a few ways to differentiate between a good opportunity and one that you must avoid like a plague:

Always do a thorough background check on the opportunity.
Do they have a solid management team?
Do the people in the company jump from one business to another?

You must be very careful with this because if they uproot and move to another company or project, you will lose thousands of downlines overnight!

Are the products legitimate?
A litmus test of a solid product is one that sells very, very well even at its retail price. Most companies will try and force an unrealistic mark up on their products in order to pay out down to many levels in the organization, but in actual fact, the product is only consumed by the people who are doing the business and are useless competitively speaking when sold outside the network.

Would you get more of the product when the company shuts down or would you try and auction them off on eBay at a very, very low price? Never fall for the trap thinking that the product is very good just because you are doing the business.

Do they require you to purchase a lot of inventory?
Do they require your downlines to get lots of stock before anyone can earn money? Beware of those hit-and-run companies because they will disappear when the market hits saturation.

Is your upline a network marketing junkie who treats the company as a fad rather than a long term business?
It is better to join a team that is here to stay compared to one that moves from fad to fad. You will never know when your current upline might leave and will even ‘pinch’ your downlines to his or her new opportunity so beware who you ally yourself with.

These are all important areas to consider because you will be spending a lot of time and money with the company. So make sure you do your due diligence!

Are you a confident person? If you are not confident, it will be very hard for you to succeed in network marketing because this business is all about leadership and motivation. How can you lead and motivate your downlines if your confidence is shaky and your posture is weak?

Sometimes, it is very sad to find many network marketers struggling to sponsor their very first downline. This is normal, but you must not dwell in this stage for too long because it is detrimental to your confidence. You see, fear causes inaction, and inaction causes a lack of results and the longer your lack of results show itself, the more fear it creates because people in network marketing are getting ahead of you and you are still in the first stage!

Therefore, the first step towards becoming more confident is to TAKE ACTION. By taking action you will automatically gain confidence. They say that a skydiver’s greatest fear is not the jump itself but rather the wait before the jump. As they stare at the raging sky, their fear intensifies until the moment they step off the plane! Network marketing is just like that. You have to make that first phone call or show your first plan (or run your first opportunity talk). Whatever it is, just get the job done.

The next part about building your confidence is NOT to spend too much time reading network marketing books. A lot of your success depends on your knowledge in network marketing… yes it is undoubtedly very important. But too much analysis will lead to paralysis. Having too much knowledge without applying it is a surefire way to network marketing failure. The ‘graves’ of many unsuccessful distributors are filled with people with all the knowledge about network marketing… except how to take action and make money with that knowledge.

Another way to build your confidence is to focus on building your network personally.

Sometimes, a distributor can spend so much time with their ONE golden downline, that they become too dependent on that one line. Very soon, you will see your downline moving up even to the point of surpassing you. When your downline starts making more money than you, your own upline might wind up spending more time with him or her and that would greatly shake your confidence! So don’t rest, always go out there and sponsor more people personally.

Lastly, when it comes to sponsoring, you can consider generating leads on the Internet. You face less rejection, if any, and you can still share your opportunity. The key to using the internet is learning and having a system that works. In network marketing, there is no way around meeting people, but the internet helps to make that process so much easier and way more fun!

Honesty is the best policy when it comes to network marketing.

There are a lot of MLM companies in the world today that teaches their people to operate in a manner that does not seem straight forward. They believe that they would be able to close more sales and sign up more downlines if they do not use the ‘M’ or ‘N’ word (The MLM or network marketing word…)

The problem lies in the fact that people are completely embarrassed about their network marketing opportunity!

They are afraid that their friends will reject them even before they start to share about their wonderful opportunity!

Some of the sleazy tactics that people employ include:

A distributor calling their friend out for a drink without telling them that a ‘friend’ will be coming but that friend turns out to be the upline or sponsor of the distributor and they spring their network marketing opportunity on their unsuspecting friend.

Doing the same thing as the one above except this time, they are bringing their upline(s) to the home of the person without informing about the presence of these strangers (to the host).

Tricking their friends into attending a business opportunity meeting without revealing what the business opportunity is all about. This is widely used by a particularly large network marketing company and they teach their reps never to mention the ‘A’ word.

Inviting friends and family to a home party which also turns out to be a business opportunity talk.
It is time to stop the insanity.

The more you hide your opportunity, the more your prospect will disrespect you because you are acting in a shady and suspicious manner about your business. It is as though you are ashamed of what you are doing and you will only tell them about it when you want to get them to join you.

If you want to achieve success in network marketing – don’t hide it… go public about your career. After all, your career is no different from any other businessman or doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc… Here are a few ways to make sure you can avoid the ‘business opportunity’ pitfall.

When someone asks you what you are doing, tell them that you are in network marketing. Be up front, be honest and be PROUD of your business.

You don’t need to be too desperate about approaching somebody to join you. In fact, when you take your time to educate and share about your opportunity, it will ensure that others will not run away from you.

Lastly, respect people’s opinion about the network marketing industry. Don’t get into an argument about it because a person convinced against his/her will is of the same opinion still. So take your time and focus on education.

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If you reflect upon the history that was made in the 2008 U.S. election by President Barack Obama, you will have to agree that there was a clear and present brand…”Change”. As a network marketer, you must also brand yourself as one who can bring change, change from failing in network marketing to being extremely successful in your mlm business.

There are many tools and tips that are available to network marketers offering training on how to brand yourself, however I firmly believe that the best way to brand yourself is to very simply, be yourself. As you look to grow your mlm business, you must keep in mind that people will only join you for 3 reasons. Either you present yourself as one who can help them reach their personal goals or they feel that there are many commonalities between you and themselves or both.

Positioning yourself as a leader in your mlm business is critical to your success. If you have no method to your madness and no approach to achieve financial freedom, you and your team will suffer the consequences. You can begin to brand yourself effectively by helping others and not try to sell them exclusively on your mlm business. Why? Because no one likes to be sold although everyone likes to buy. So, be concerned, be patient, be helpful and be the professional. One thing that stands out like a sore thumb to successful networkers are the amateurs who have yet learned HOW to promote and prospect effectively. If you desire to network with top earners and pick their brains, you must wrap your mind around first operating in the manner that they do. Afterall, it works!

Once you have conquered the offering vs. selling concepts, the next best way to brand yourself effectively is to provide specific steps and/or systems to people who need it. See, you cannot lead people to success without providing them with a path to get there. So what should the system look like? Well, it should consist of training, customization, duplication and personalization. It should contain self-help components as well as group learning components. It should be easy to use and implement as well as being effective in copywriting and conversions. These are the categories that are of extreme importance to top earners…and now you too in your mlm business.

The final way in which you can brand yourself effectively is to provide ongoing assistance and maintaining an open door policy. People enjoy working with those who present themselves not only as knowledgeable, but also accessible. Don’t hide from your followers…give them your email, your phone number and your instant messaging ID. Give them the times you are available and hold true to that. You will develop in their minds as one who is serious, committed and as the leader that is right for them. Once you brand yourself by opening up your heart and your time to those seeking your help, growing your mlm business will almost explode passively. What a great position to be in!

So, as you proceed with marketing and promoting your mlm business, remember what was discussed here and you will find your job as a networker to actually be rewarding, fun and profitable!

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