05/18/2008
Buying MLM Leads
Buying MLM leads can lead you to the poor house.
A friend of mine has spent hundreds of $$$ on leads that lead to no where. She shares her experience through a song. It's cleverly done. See if you think so too.
Buying MLM leads song.
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12/06/2007
Network Marketing and Your own Website
Many people have asked, 'How do I build my own website?' Here is a great resource for you:
How To Build Your Very Own First Website.
The Newbie Club Website Builder is a 4 volume library written by 3 successful Internet Marketers and a NEWBIE!. The result is a stunning Newbie-Speak publication that details everything you need to know to create, write, design, automate, backup, promote and publish your own first Website. All in 2 days using FREE programs and graphics! This blockbuster blows away the myths once and for all. Click here My First Website for FREE TRIAL.
All the best,
Monica
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10/31/2006
NetworkMarketing Tips| Interaction Rocks
Network Marketing Tip of the day:
What do... Radio ads, Billboards, Wall Posters, Pamphlets, Leaflets, Brochures., Newspapers ads, Magazine ads, Pop ups, Fax Outs, Blinking web ads, Direct Email, Cold calls, Direct Mail... have in common?
• They annoy people
• They cost money
• They waste money
• They waste trees
With so many things going on in our lives, our natural responds is to ignore advertisments.
Instead concentrate your marketing efforts on creating a sense of attraction, a sense of gravity; that magnetizes customers, prospects and fans toward you.
I’m talking about direct contact with your customers and prospects. Building community. Making friends. Creating and keeping fans. Hanging out. Delivering value. Developing relationships.
Find out how a savy 20 year old beautiful lady is using myspace to attract people to her ...and she is having the time of her life! ... building her Network Marketing business one relationship at a time.
Click on The MLM Mentor for an interview with Kenni and receive your Network Marketing Tip for the day.
Here are some suggestions:
Posting on your blog. Commenting on somebody else’s blog. Publishing articles in your community’s newspaper. Giving speeches at Chamber meetings. Lunches with friends. Lunches with customers. Lunches with potential customers. Publishing an ezine. Doing an audio podcast. Chat rooms. Bulletin boards. Speaking at trade shows. Attending networking functions. Doing a video podcast. Instant messaging. Widgets. RSS feeds. MySpace. MyYearbook. Tagworld. Digg. Delicious. Squidoo. LinkdIn. Flickr. Wikipedia. Friendster. Facebook. LiveJournal. Match.com. Online discussion boards. Facilitating word of mouth. Throwing an open house or party at your office. Doing an interview on the radio. Going on a talk show. Talking to strangers!
What did those things have in commmon?
• They’re fun
• They connect with people
• They cost little or no money
• They save money
• They save time
• They are fresh, cool and effective marketing created around interaction
Find out how a savy 20 year old beautiful lady is using myspace to attract people to her ...and she is having the time of her life! ... building her Network Marketing business one relationship at a time.
Click on The MLM Mentor for an interview with Kenni and receive your Network Marketing Tip for the day.
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06/24/2006
Network Marketing Strategy|Finding and retaining prospects
It is important for Network Marketing companies to have strategies for finding and retaining propects. Some basic steps are essential and can be utilized by any Network Marketing company.
The following advice is written by Dr. N Khoury:
"Many Network Marketing companies have no strategy. They have no system for lead generation for their products or business opportunities, which makes distributors' lives difficult and leaves them perplexed about what they need to do.
The current network marketing strategy I am presenting should work for any network marketing company or products.
Besides the typical lead generation techniques used offline, the Internet is the best tool for lead generation. Most network marketing companies' Web sites are not designed for marketing or for capturing prospects' contact information.
The first strategic step is having your own professionally designed lead capture page. A lead capture page is a simple, one-page Web site that presents opportunity, creates curiosity, and stimulates the visitor to submit their contact information if they are interested in learning more about your product or opportunity--visitor information is sent automatically to your e-mail address. A professionally designed lead capture page costs less than $100 per year.
Then, you need to learn how to get visitors to your lead capture page using free or low-cost Internet marketing techniques. The fastest way to bring targeted traffic to your lead capture page is using pay-per-click advertising, where you pay only when you get a visitor.
The second step is contacting your prospects by phone as soon as possible in order to introduce yourself, to start building a relationship with them, and to attempt to find their level of interest and motivation. This is what you call the sorting part. Using well-targeted Internet marketing principles should bring you highly targeted prospects specific to your particular business.
Your next step is inviting your prospect to join you in a live or prerecorded conference call presentation.
Then, afterward, you need to follow up with your prospects, answer their questions, and address their concerns. It would be ideal to find your sponsor and get your prospect connected with other team members.
Meanwhile, you should regularly send automatic e-mails to your prospects, showing them the benefits of having a home-based business or the benefits of your product. These automatic messages can be set up via what are called "autoresponders."
It is recommended that you allow your prospect the time to analyze your opportunity or products; contact them later on, and, possibly, invite them to another conference call.
Most importantly, continue relationship building, depending on your prospects' personality types. In network marketing, people join people they know, like, and trust.
These strategies can be implemented effectively for any Network Marketing company."
Nabil
The MLM Doctor
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06/18/2006
MLM Marketing Program | Best Affiliate Marketing Program
Here is a tip on MLM Marketing Program and the best affiliate marketing program by Nabil Khoury.
Best affiliate marketing program: You may be wondering which one is the best affiliate program that you want to give your time and energy for?
I am going to answer you and explain also the difference between affiliate marketing and network marketing.
I recommend you to market only one affiliate program initially. When you get yourself in positive balance and you start making money, your business is sort on auto-pilot, then you join another affiliate program.
Warning: Joining multiple affiliate programs at the same time and marketing them at the same time will lead you to multiple failures instead of multiple streams of incomes.
This website contains plenty of information on how to advertise network marketing, the same information apply to affiliate marketing.
I believe the best affiliate marketing program is the one that represents a residual income business opportunity.
I believe the best affiliate marketing program is SBI hosting service and this is why:
*It offers a residual income business opportunity
*SBI is not just a hosting company. There are hundreds of hosting companies and most of them have affiliate programs related to them. Most websites hosted by the other companies fail miserably due to lack of education and appropriate tools.
*SBI is completely different, SBI guarantees success:
*SBI package includes website builder so there is no need for technical skills.
*SBI includes step by step information on research and building a profitable website.
*SBI provides you with plenty of ebooks and information that cost hundreds of dollars otherwise to buy.
*SBI contains tools for search engine optimization that costs otherwise hundreds.
*Two tiers affiliate program. That means you get paid also on the affiliate that signs up from your links
As an affiliate for SBI, when you make a sale, you get paid actually for lifetime because customer satisfaction is almost 100%. You get paid every time your customer renew his yearly membership.
As an affiliate for SBI, just for signing up for free, you get an ebook that guide you on what you need to do to succeed. This ebook would have been sold for 60$ outside SBI.
Go and sign up for free and get your free ebook now!
No one educates you and guides you to success besides SBI.
I am personally an affiliate of SBI, I would invite you to sign up for free to their affiliate program from this particular page. I actually recommend you to buy an SBI website because you are guaranteed success.
Why am I more interested in network marketing rather than affiliate marketing?
I have already introduced you to SBI, I did the job, you can simply go directly and sign up for their program and buy from them directly instead of from my links. I would not get any commission and that will happen to you as well as an affiliate for SBI or any other affiliate program.
In network marketing, if you introduce someone to the product, they can not go directly and buy from the company, they are obligated to contact you back and ask for your referral ID.
In good network marketing companies, you get paid for infinite levels deep.
Even the best affiliate marketing program will not pay you beyond the second level.
I highly recommend you if you are interested in affiliate marketing to buy an SBI and build a real internet business, your success is guaranteed.
Dr Khoury
The MLM Doctor
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05/21/2006
MLM Business | Advertising
Can you advertise in your MLM business? I can’t tell you how many people I have spoken to recently that are not allowed to advertise their MLM business! Not advertise products, not advertise opportunity, nothing!
How Are You Going to Get Business?
To read more follow the link MLM Business | Advertising
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05/18/2006
Network Marketing Tip – it is not a numbers game.
Have you heard some say Network Marketing is a numbers game? They tell you not to worry. Just go through the numbers, buy more leads. Just keep recruiting. It’s all about the numbers. Talk to everyone about your business opportunity. Get them in on your deal.
Let me ask you to look at your family. What number is your husband or wife? What number are your children? What number is your Mother? Are they not people? How would you like to treat them, like a person of or as a number? People are persons. A prospect is a human being and has dreams just like you. They have feelings and have experienced life you cannot imagine!
Some Network Marketers will say just go out there and get 100 ‘no’s’. The more ‘no’s’ you get the closer you are to a yes. Why they say for every 99 ‘no’s’ you are bound to get one yes. Let me ask you if one no hurts, why do you want to experience 99 more? And by the way, what kind of energy do you think you produce when you receive ‘no’, positive or negative? Rejection hurts.
The scheme behind the numbers game is as follows. The Network Marketer gets a prospect on the sizzle call and starts putting pressure on them. The Network Marketer will say ‘which credit card do you want to put it on?’ or ‘you have to make a decision today’ or ‘this deal is only good for today.’ That’s when the prospect speaks in code. They will say something like ‘I have to think it over’ or ‘I have to talk with my spouse.’ What the prospect is really saying ‘I don’t want your deal. Get out of my face.’ Then the prospect hides from the Network Marketer and refuse to return their calls. All the while they are thinking, “They never wanted to know me before, and now all of a sudden they want to be my best friend."
Network Marketing is a relationship business
Network Marketing is not a sales business. Statistics show 92% of the population hate pushy aggressive salespeople! People join people. They do not join companies. People do not care if the president of your company drives a Mercedes or how many children they have. Instead Network Marketing is a teaching and mentoring business. Our product is people. So study people. Build people. People will build the business. When you build people, your retention rate goes through the roof.
A Network Marketer who sponsors a person will know their WHY, their dreams, their goals, spouse’s name or children’s names. A keen network marketer will take the time to see what is important to their sponsor and what they want to change and improve in their life. Making their dream a priority in your initial conversation will surprise you at their response to your interest in helping them achieve their Dreams.
Therefore help people, build a relationship with them, care about them, protect their best interests and desire a conversation of quality with them. And remember the Network Marketing tip of the week .... Network Marketing is not a numbers game.
Be a servant with a mentor’s heart.
Monica
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05/14/2006
Network Marketing Business - Fear of Public Speaking
Image what your life would look like when you have broken the bondage of fear! Would your Network Maketing business expand?
Fear is one of our basic emotions. It is an unpleasant feeling of perceived risk or danger, real or imagined. Fear also can be described as a feeling of extreme dislike. Fear of public speaking is common. Let us now talk about how you would feel giving a Network Marketing presentation in front of potential business partners or product users.
Do you fear something awfully embarrassing or publicly humiliating will happen? They almost never occur and even when they do, you can often use it to your advantage. Using humor can be very useful and it is well appreciated by many.
Does your audience expect perfection?
No. They want you to succeed. If you get nervous when you stand up to speak in front of a group ask your audience forgiveness. Be real and honest. Be yourself. Connect with your audience by sharing your own human mistakes and stories.
What if someone disapproves of you or disagrees with what you are saying. It’s Okay. Everyone has a right to their own opinions, judgments and values. You do not have control of their beliefs. You can not please everyone.
What is the audience looking for?
All they want is two or three key points that will make a difference to them. They want to know how this information will benefit them. Prepare your thoughts and material, arrange for audio-visual aids as necessary and be responsible for the layout of the room.
So remember, give your audience something of value. When you are talking to people, imagine handing out $100 bills worth of information to them. A few individuals in the group may reject the gift and many will be forever grateful. Speak with the purpose to give or contribute rather than to get. Tell them what you are going to tell them and then tell them. Lastly summarize by telling them what you told them. Always remember synopsis, substance and summary. You cannot control the behavior of your audience but you change your own attitude.
All the best in Network Marketing Business
Monica
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05/12/2006
Network Marketing Tips - Communication Skills
Good communication skills will build relationships which are essential to Network Marketing.
How well do you communicate?
Communications experts tell us that only 10% of our communications are represented by what we say, 30% by our sounds and 60% by our body language.
Communication is about our body language and facial expressions, how well we listen, respecting the opinion of others and knowing when to stop talking to let others speak.
What does it mean to really listen?
Real listening is an active process that involves hearing, understanding and judging.
A good listener is not just a silent receptacle but is also one who is passively receiving the thoughts and feelings of others.
Did you know that thoughts move about four times as fast as your speech? To listen effectively requires that you maintain a considerable amount of self-control and concentration. This is especially important for our Blue friends who want to tell us all their thoughts at once and in no particular order. Bless their hearts.
How often do you have to ask someone to repeat himself because you could not remember a point they had made earlier in the conversation?
Was there noise and verbal clutter in your mind?
Good listening requires the temporary suspension of all unrelated thoughts. In order to become an effective listener, you have to learn to manage what goes on in your own mind. Give your full attention to the person who is speaking. Make sure your mind is focused. Let the person finish before you begin to talk. Listen not only to the words but to the speakers tone and feelings.
Let’s say you are talking to a prospect and your prospect tells you "I'm just not interested." What do you say? I have heard some Network Marketers respond to people’s objection with what they call a ‘million dollar comeback’. It sounds something like this, “If I could show you a way to …….. would you be interested?” Are they really listening to what the prospect is saying? When someone says NO they mean NO. Everyone has a right to their own opinion and decision.
Instead communicate with no agenda. Do not try to get them into your deal. Listen to understand their needs. Real listening will help you identify if they want help. They may not want help!
Would you like to know what a “No” sounds like?
Let’s say you are promoting health products. You are in conversation with a person who is complaining about health issues. Ask them, “have you ever considered doing something about it?” A “No” might sound like this:
“Well, I’m under Doctor’s care …”
or
“Maybe.”
or
“If I take this product and get better, I won’t have anything to complain about. My husband won’t love me and my kids won’t talk to me anymore.”
Your prospect has just told you they are not interested. Your prospect may need your product but they do not want it. Let them be. Do you want to become the pushy-aggressive sale person everyone runs from? Save yourself from rejection. Be polite and courteous.
It has been said, people do not care how much you know until they see how much you care. Real listening involves caring for people. Listening is a precious gift. It builds friendships and ensures understanding. Having real listening skills is extremely valuable and often determines your level of success in Network Marketing.
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Monica
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03/02/2006
Network Marketing Training - Business and Taxes
Network Marketing is a business and that includes paying taxes. Do you know what you are allowed to deduct? This article explains.
Enjoy,
Monica
Taxes in the New Millennium
By Jeffrey A. Babener
© 2002
April is Around the Corner
Was it your plan that taxes would go down on your network marketing business in the new millennium? Was it your thought that President Bush’s $1 trillion proposed tax cut would help you out in April, 2001? Well, some things don’t change from century to century, and one of those is taxes on the network marketer.
Lessons From the Tax People
One thing is clear ... If you plan to take deductions for your home-based business, the IRS expects that the business will be a real one.
One thing is clear from recent litigation brought by the IRS and the state of Kansas against a company called The Tax People, in Topeka, Kansas. If you plan to take deductions for your home-based business, the IRS expects that the business will be a real one. In The Tax People case, the IRS not only filed a lawsuit, but it also seized assets of The Tax People claiming that The Tax People falsely claimed that its new participants were automatically entitled to $5,000 in new tax deductions and unable to reduce their current tax withholding, giving them an immediate pay raise of $500 per month. The Tax People case also demonstrated that the IRS will chase after and audit networkers who it believes are taking suspicious tax deductions.
Remember, to be able to take advantage of tax deductions for your network marketing business, it has to be a real business. The IRS says that you can’t deduct business expenses unless you engage in the business on a “for profit” basis — not just as a “hobby business.”
How do you tell the difference? The IRS will look at one of two tests. The first objective test is whether you have made a profit in three out of five years. The second subjective test is whether or not you are prepared to demonstrate that you engage in your business in order to make a profit. Here, the IRS is looking at whether or not you carry on the business in a businesslike manner; the time and effort you put into the activity; whether you depend on income from it; your expertise in the business; how much profit the activity makes in the years it does profit; and other pertinent considerations.
A Social Business
Network marketing is a social business. You have to eat and you may as well have some fun and do it while you are recruiting or selling. This is one of those expenses the IRS keeps whittling away at, however. Your deductions are now limited to 50 percent of your meal and entertainment costs.
Beyond that, you must have records to substantiate your meal and entertainment deduction claims. In addition to the usual receipts you should keep for expense deductions, you will need to be able to document the substance of the business discussion, the business relationship, and who you had a meal with, or went with to be entertained. The business discussion has to be during the activity or immediately preceding or following it.
Your Home – The Business
You can deduct the cost associated with your home office, but be prepared to show how you use it. Assuming you qualify, you can deduct a proportion of expenses related to your entire home, such as mortgage payments, insurance, utility bills and home repair. The space must be used regularly and exclusively for business. Second, you must use it for administrative or management activities of the business and you cannot have another fixed location for your business where you conduct substantial administrative or management activities.
Everyday Expenses
You can deduct ordinary business expenses such as accounting fees, advertising fees, license fees, and so on. The tax advantage here is that many of your expenses may cross over between your home lifestyle and your business lifestyle, including telephone, cleaning supplies, office supplies, answering machines, audio and video equipment, fax machines, office furniture, and office decorations that improve both your home office and your house.
Like to Travel?
Do you like to travel? Does your spouse like to travel? Do both you and your spouse promote your network marketing business? The business travel deduction is a real advantage for networkers.
Of course, you are going to have to make a clear allocation between the business-related purpose of the travel and the vacation portion. Obviously, there is a gray line, and it will be in your interest to substantiate as much of the travel as relating to your network marketing business. Inside the U.S., all travel expenses are deductible when the trip is “primarily” for business. When traveling abroad, you must divide the travel expenses between business and vacation time.
Gifts – to Business Friends
Do you have friends and family who are also customers and business associates in network marketing? The probability on this point is high. A network marketer can convert gift-making, which might normally take place, into business gift-making, which is eligible for a tax deduction. Under IRS rules, you may deduct up to $25 for the cost of business gifts given directly or indirectly to these people. That should make you popular!
Forms, Forms, Forms
Almost every network marketing distributor agreement recognizes your independent contractor status, and so does the IRS. Because the IRS considers you to be self-employed, you are going to have to pay both income tax and self-employment tax.
If you have income greater than $500 a year, you will be making estimated quarterly tax payments as a self-employed individual. You will receive a Form 1099 from the network marketing company if you receive more than $600 in income or buy more than $5,000 of product or inventory. Your Form 1099 will be attached to your Schedule C, which in turn will be attached to your tax return. Your Schedule C will summarize your income and expenses from your network marketing business.
All About Hardware
When it comes to these issues, you’re definitely going to need to talk to your tax advisor. You have some choices to make about how to deduct the acquisition costs of computer equipment and automobiles that are used for your network marketing business.
The IRS provides some very liberal limits on the amount that you can actually expense as a business deduction in any one year. (Of course, you are limited in expenses to the income from your business.) The other option is taking a depreciation write-off over a number of years for business equipment. Only your tax advisor knows for sure which is most advantageous.
The costs of running your automobile for your network marketing business are deductible. You have a choice of using the IRS’s standard cents-per-mile, or itemizing the automobile expenses, such as gasoline, repairs, maintenance, insurance, and depreciation. Obviously, you need to calculate what percentage of your overall car use is devoted to your network marketing business, and adjust the expenses to that percentage.
Record Keeping — It’s a Must
If you talk to our friends at the IRS, they will tell you time and time again that the most important aspect of claiming your expenses and deductions is keeping adequate records. The IRS will suggest that you keep a separate bank account, make a record of all business transactions, and retain all your records. Record keeping and substantiation are particularly important for deductions for travel expenses, entertainment expenses, and gift expenses. And the IRS will always tell you that a receipt is ordinarily the best evidence to prove the amount of expense.
Be Creative, But be Realistic
If your network marketing business is making money, there is no reason why you should not be able to write off legitimate business deductions. Fair and honest deductions will save you a lot of money, but remember pie-in-the-sky or fantasy deductions may trigger audits and cost you money.
For an in-depth analysis, please visit www.mlmlegal.com, and also check out the Tax Guide for MLM/Direct Selling Distributors (Jeffrey A. Babener, Legaline Publications, 1-800-231-2162).
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Jeffrey A. Babener
Babener & Associates
121 SW Morrison, Suite 1020
Portland, OR 97204 Jeffrey A. Babener, the principal attorney in the Portland, Oregon law firm of Babener & Associates, represents many of the leading direct selling companies in the United States and abroad.
www.mlmlegal.com
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Network Marketing Training – Marketing Tips with Knock out Headlines
Most people join network marketing because they heard they do not need skills but they can get rich quickly. Obviously, that is not how it works. One of the skills you will need in Network Marketing is marketing.
Headlines Are Everything
One of the basic marketing skills is writing a simple add either offline (newspapers, post cards, sales letter) or online (google adwords, your website, your blog and your articles…)
The easiest way to write an ad is to imitate what we call “swipe files”. Basically, imitate prior great headlines that worked long time ago and still work today.
I will give you some examples from a book written by Dan Kennedy.
Fill-in-the-blank headline:
They didn’t think I could_____, but I did.
Examples: They laughed when I sat down at the piano___but not when I started to play!
They grinned when the waiter spoke to me in French-But their laughter changed to amazement at my reply!
Who Else Wants______?
Examples:
Who else wants a screen-star figure?
Who else needs an extra hour every day?
How______ Made Me_____.
How a simple idea made me “plant manager of the year”
How by accident found a simple formula to explode my business
Are you _____?
Examples:
Are you ashamed of the smells in your house?
Are you smarter than your boss?
Are you prepared for the Japanese invasion of your industry?
How I _______?
Examples:
How I raised myself from failure to success in selling.
How I retired at age 40-with a guaranteed income for life.
How I turned a troubled company into a personal fortune.
How To______?
Examples:
How to collect from social security at any age.
How to win friends and influence people.
How to improve telemarketer’s productivity-for$19.95
If you are____, You Can _____
If you are a football expert, you could win $50,000 next weekend
If you are a nondrinker, you can save 20% on life insurance.
Secrets of _______?
Secrets of Four Champion Golfers
Thousands Now even though they ____
Examples:
Two million people owe their health to this idea even though they laughed at it
Warning _______
Examples:
Warning: Two-thirds of the middle managers in your industry will lose their jobs in the next 36 months
Give Me ______ and I’ll_______
Examples:
Give me just 1 hour a day and I’ll have you speaking French like “Pierre” in one month
____Way to____
Examples:
101 ways to increase new patient flow
Writing headlines for Network Marketing can be easy and fun once you have the right tools and develop skills.
Would you like to get FREE Network Marketing training every week so that you can improve your skill and have the success you want?
For more information go to Free Network Marketing Training
All the best,
Monica
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