03/26/2007
MLM training|Aggressive Selling
Does aggressive selling work in Network Marketing. Listen to what Sue has to say about MLM training on aggressive selling.
Does aggressive selling really work?
I'm sure we've all been exposed to a pushy salesperson at one time in our life. This type of manipulated selling is exactly what many Internet coaches teach. The problem is it just doesn't work for most people.
To be succeessful with this approach you have to be a certain type of personality. To better understand the 4 personality types please refer to the the article Network Marketing Tips and How To Deal With Different Personalities Many very successful internet marketing coaches teach this aggressive type of selling. But as hard as we try, it just doesn't work for us. Why, doesn't it? Mainly because only 15% of the population have the corresponding personality to pull it off successfully.
After my own encounter with this type of salesperson I found myself wondering do these people really have a lot of success with this approach?
If you believe them, they make thousands of dollars a year. Success or not I don't think the reputation that they impart on salespeople in general is not a very good one.
My own experience with this type of salesperson became my motive for writing this article.
It all began one night as I sat watching TV, suddenly the phone rings and I make the mistake of answering it.
After introducing himself he begins with all the usual sales questions. His first question is not are you busy but "Are you currently trying to build your business?" What gave him that idea? He followed it with the usual drill of questions like
"What problems have you encountered with your business?"
"What do you do for a living?"
"Are you serious about building your business?"
And last but not least, "If I can show you how to add 20 new recruits into your network marketing business would this be something you'd want to take a look at?"
His last statement had me feeling a little like deja vu. I couldn't help myself but had to say, "Wow, I feel like I've heard this conversation before. It's sounds just like what I've been told to say."
His voice expressed obvious annoyance and asked me, "Why, do you counsel people?"
I quickly respond with "No, it's just everything you just said sounds like a script that I've hear many internet marketing people teach. It asks the same questions and ends with "If I could show you how to make $500 extra a month is that something you would be interested in?"
Well, he says,"I don't have a script." I can't believe he actually had me feeling guilty for that comment because I ended up apologizing. "Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you."
Somehow after my apology he convinced me to listen to his 45 minute conference call on building my network marketing business.
He told me the call was starting in 35 minutes and he would call me back right before it starts. I guess just in case I might feel the need to blow him off of something like that. He also tells me to take notes and to call him back right after the call. He gives me his number and has me read it back to him. I really hate when people do that. What if I didn't really write it down and just had great memory recall.
Anyway he calls me back in 35 minutes just as promised and reminds me to take notes because he will be asking me some questions when I call him back.
I call the number keeping an open mind thinking perhaps I will discover some juicy little tidbit that I can use to help me build my online business.
Remembering it now, my only thought is that it's 45 minutes of time that I'll never get back in my life.
Well I certainly don't want to give you the impression that I know everything already. If that was the case I wouldn't of spent 45 plus minutes listening to someone rambling on and on.
Everything he talked about were things I've heard before. Things like having a "Why".
A why is your main reason for having to succeed. It's not just a frivilous statement like "I want to make more money."
Others things he discussed is getting targeted people to your opportunity, creating a web-site having a landing page. There wasn't even one thing that I felt I hadn't already heard and spent hundreds of dollars on already.
At the end of the call it was all about signing up for the training course. They had 3 packages. The lowest was $695 and the highest was $1,995. Ouch, sounded like a lot of money to me.
Feeling tired and disappointed after the call I really didn't have any desire to talk to him. I couldn't help thinking that he would call me if I didn't return his call so I did the unthinkable, I turned my ringer off.
Feeling relieved the next day that I able to avoid him, he ruins it and calls me. Damn I didn't look at my caller ID first. Oh well I think, I will just politely tell him no and it will be over.
The first thing he says is "I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to talk to you yesterday I was really busy." I then replied "I'm sorry I didn't call you but I'm just not interested."
He replied with a amazed tone in his voice and said "Your not interested in growing your business?" I then said "No, I just not interested in signing up for your course."
He then went on to tell me more about himself and how he had many failures in his life until he found this earth shattering course (my words not his).
That's when I told him no thanks again, I said "I'm sure the course is great but I'm not convinced the course had any new information in it that I haven't already heard."
Instead of then dealing with my real objection, "What's in it for me?" he amazingly continued with "Which one of the packages were most appealing to you?"
It was like he didn't hear me. I said none of them I just don't have the money. (not the real reason just thinking of some other response to get rid of him)
He then asks "If I could write you a check for $2,000 dollars would you be interested."
I already know where he's going with this and just say "Your not going to write me any check so I'm not interested, I'm sorry."
That's when he said "Hey that's O.K. my income is fine, you're the one missing the opportunity."
He finally accepted defeat but it amazed me that he never really dealt with my true objection. What's in it for me? How will I benefit from it? All he did was tell me how he found success with it.
Instead of dealing with my only real objection he was only concerned with the sale.
A better salesperson may have responded with something like, "I totally understand your point, I'm not sure if it is a good match for you. Let me ask you a couple of questions?" He would then ask what areas of business do I feel like I need the most help in? He needed to deal with my objection before trying to push me to buy.
A big mistake on his part because normally I'm very impulsive and don't need a push to purchase anything that I feel will benefit me or my business. By not answering my objection he lost what could of been a easy sale.
So if your making a ton of money with an aggressive sales approach, make sure your not skirting the objections focusing only on a sale. If you address these objections your sales will get even better.
Sue Huss
MLM Alchemy Trainer
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01/18/2007
Latest Breaking News | My story; I never know it could be so good!
This is the lastest breaking news of my story and how I never knew it could be so good!
P.S. People love stories. Stories can help you build your business. Have you ever told your story about your opportunity? Would you like an example?
Okay, here it goes:
I’ve got a good story. It might make you a lot of money, it might not. It takes 12 min. Do you want to hear it?
One day I asked my friend Louise who is a nurse like me, how do I earn an extra $500 a month?
She tells me there are three things to do:
1.Don’t change. Be yourself. Continue recommending things like you always have. You recommend your favorite restaurant, your favorite movie all the time. You have been recommending and promoting all your life. You know how to do that. You just are not getting paid for it.
2. Well, XXX has about 40 products that people like.
She mentions a product called XXX that makes you wake up an hour earlier every morning feeling like a million bucks and fall asleep at night within 7 minutes of your head hitting the pillow. Do you know anyone who would like to wake up an hour earlier feeling refreshed?
She mentions a product called XXX that makes your skin look 20 years younger in only 45 sec a day. Do you know anyone who would like to look younger?
She mentions a delicious chocolate chip cookie, a great health snack for diabetics, kids and anyone who wants to eat cookie and lose weight. Do you know anyone who wants to lose weight or gets hungry between meals?
What we ask you to do is describe your favorite products and recommend when appropriate, not at weddings, not at funerals. Fair enough?
Sounds great! What do I have to do to earn this money?
3. Let’s say you loan out 2 cookies a day. What do you think will happen? Over a period of time someone will buy the cookies and someone will join the biz. Between you and everybody you talk to and everybody they talk to and everyone they talk to forever and ever you will have 25 people who use these products regularly. You will make $500.
This is part 1 of the Latest Breaking News| My story: I never knew it could be so good! If you would like to visit part 2 go to Latest Breaking News and scroll all the way to the bottom and click on the link.
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01/08/2007
Network Marketing Motivation
212° The Extra Degree captures the essence of excellence in an unforgettable way. Its concepts can be apllied to your Home Base Biz Opp.
At 211° water is hot. At 212°, it boils. And with boiling water, comes steam. And steam can power a locomotive. The one extra degree makes the difference.
This simple analogy reflects the ultimate definition of excellence. Because it's the one extra degree of effort, in business and life, that can separate the good from the great.
Need a bit of extra inspiration for your biz?
Watch the video 'simple truths' and apply it to your Network Marketing Biz
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12/05/2006
Home Base Biz | 7 Figures in 7 Years
Home Base Biz Opportunity offers hope for a better future. It offers a way for folks to make 7 figures in 7 years. Home Base Biz Opportunity offers freedom from money worries. Freedom to do the things you want to do. It offers freedom to own your life.
Although most folks want this freedom, yet they ask themselves, "Can I do it?”
What you must have in place to begin a home base biz:
1.Burning desire
2.Strong work ethics
3.Be coachable
The second question folks frequently ask is “What do I have to do?”
The answer is in the power of one. Build your biz one person at a time and teach others to do the same.
Simply by sponsoring one person a month and by them sponsoring one person a month by the end of the year, you will have 4096 people in your organization.
Let’s say that in the twelfth month everyone in your organization ordered $100 worth of products that they use everyday without thinking about it. That would be $409,600 of sales.
At the same time, you teach your people to find just one customer every week and they order $50 worth of products every month. That volume would be $819,200 in the twelfth month.
In the twelfth month you would have moved a grand total of $1,228,800 worth of products.
But you say, “That’s in a perfect world.” Okay. What if you failed 90% of the time and only generated 10% of that potential? That would be $122,880 in the twelfth month. Even if the company only pays you a 5% commission, in the twelvth month your check would be $6,144.
That’s the power of leverage. The power of one. It all starts with one.
The third question folks ask is “Can you help me?”
Without a system in place and a team that works with you it is nearly impossible to succeed.
What do I mean? Leverage from others that have been there and done that. Leverage from folks who are experts in marketing, ad writing, and are familiar with the internet. The good news is you do not need to be a super star.
7 figures in 7 years can be your reality and a home base biz opportunity can be your tool. It all starts with you.
Monica
MLM Nurse
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11/27/2006
Network Marketing Training|Something Fun to Do
Sometimes it's good to take a break from Network Marketing Training and do something fun. Are you ready?
AMAZINGLY ACCURATE Whatever you do, don't cheat!
FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS - DO NOT CHEAT OR IT WON'T WORK AND YOU WILL WISH YOU HADN`T.
TAKE 3 MINUTES TRY THIS - IT WILL FREAK YOU OUT.
NO CHEATING !!!!
THIS GAME HAS A FUNNY / CREEPY OUTCOME.
DO NOT READ AHEAD, JUST DO IT.
IT TAKES ABOUT 3 MINUTES - WORTH A TRY
1st. Get PEN and PAPER
2nd. WHEN CHOOSING NAMES, MAKE SURE THEY ARE REAL PEOPLE THAT YOU ACTUALLY KNOW
3rd. GO WITH YOUR FIRST INSTINCTS !!!!! Very important for good results.
4th. SCROLL DOWN
ONE LINE AT THE TIME DON`T READ AHEAD otherwise YOU WILL RUIN THE FUN.
1. On a blank sheet of paper, WRITE NUMBERS 1 through 11 in a COLUMN on the LEFT.
2. BESIDE the NUMBERS 1 & 2, WRITE DOWN ANY 2 NUMBERS YOU WANT.
DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE NUMBER?
3. BESIDE the NUMBERS 3 & 7 ,
WRITE DOWN THE NAMES OF TWO MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX.
CAUTION: DO NOT LOOK AHEAD or IT WILL NOT TURN OUT RIGHT
4. WRITE ANYONES NAME (like FRIENDS or FAMILY...)next to 4, 5, & 6.
DON`T CHEAT OR YOU`LL BE UPSET THAT YOU DID
5. WRITE down FOUR SONG TITLES in 8, 9, 10, & 11
6. Finally, MAKE A WISH
ARE YOU READY? HERE IS THE KEY TO THE GAME
1. THE NUMBER of PEOPLE YOU MUST TELL ABOUT THIS GAME is found in SPACE 2
2. THE PERSON IN SPACE 3 IS THE ONE YOU LOVE
3. THE PERSON YOU LIKE but your relationship CANNOT WORK is in SPACE 7
4. YOU CARE MOST about the PERSON you put in SPACE 4
5. THE PERSON YOU NAME IN NUMBER 5 IS THE ONE WHO KNOWS YOU VERY WELL.
6. THE PERSON YOU NAMED IN 6 IS YOUR LUCKY STAR
7. THE SONG IN 8 IS THE SONG THAT MATCHES WITH THE PERSON IN NUMBER 3
8. THE TITLE IN 9 IS THE SONG FOR THE PERSON IN 7
9. THE 10 TH SPACE IS THE SONG THAT TELLS YOU MOST ABOUT YOUR MIND
10. AND 11 IS THE SONG TELLING HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT LIFE
11.. NUMBER 1 IS YOUR LUCKY NUMBER
How did you do? Care to share? Did you get a laugh? Where any of your Network Marketing partners in there?
Monica
MLM nurse
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11/23/2006
MLM SUCCESS: Do You Believe?
Do you believe you deserve MLM success? I mean really deserve it! If you think you do but are stuck in the mud wondering how to get past point A, read how Jill turned her life around in 30 days!
"The power of the mind and positive thinking is a powerful tool. In anything that you set out to do, when you believe you can, others can sense a radiant energy and see a bounce of confidence in your stride. This is your path to the happiness and success that you want for your life and your future.
Clear The Network Marketing Negativity
People have strong opinions about network marketing, home based businesses and they are not shy in sharing their opinions.
A quick question for you...what happens to your beliefs and confidence when you are surrounded by negative friends and family members constantly telling you your business is a scam, it's one of those crazy pryamid schemes, and you'll never make money?
Most often, you start to believe them.
But it does not have to be that way.
Programming The Mind For Success
It is critical to be honest with yourself. If you want success in any network marketing or home based business, you have to learn to turn off the negativity because it will only bring you down in the dumps for days and leave you questioning yourself.
How To Start To Believing
Reality is that belief take time and persistence. It does not happen over night even though there are people like myself that crave immediate gratification. Great life movements take patience and effort.
To start the journey of believing in your personal happiness and success, set aside time each day to reflect and cleanse the mind from negativity. Pick a place and a time where you can escape the phone ringing, the chores of cooking meals and all the other daily necessities that clutter our mind and keeps 'the distracting noise' clouding our thoughts. This is your time, embrace it.
Journal It. Hear It. Talk It. Live It.
During your time with yourself, take time to reflect and revel about yourself. Realize that you have only control over yourself and your actions. This time is ALL about YOU, grab it and don't let go!
Work through any turmoil you are experiencing, forgive actions of other that have angered you, rejoice in happiness you are personally feeling and celebrate accomplishments of your personal goals.
Create positive self-talk and express it in writing, repeat it to yourself, post signs throughout your entire house reinforcing your journey and progress to believing.
Believing: 30 Day Mental Cleanse
This journey or process of self belief is called the Mental Cleanse. Now when my mentor first starting coaching me through this process, I was pretty skeptical. It all seemed a little to 'deep' for me, however, I was committed to having success with this home based business since I had experienced failure my past mlm companies.
She asked me to commit to just 30 days of mental cleanse and if I didn't see the negativity in my life clearing, she would not have me work through the mental cleanse believing exercises anymore.
What power.
What impact.
The mental cleanse totally changed my life all the way around.
Success Requires
That You Get Rid of the Negativity Forever
When the negativity exited and the positive self-talk entered, I finally began to experience the success and happiness in both my life and my home based business that I had always wanted.
Now It's Your Turn:
Free 30 Day Cleanse Mentoring
Send me a message if your interested in a FREE "30 Day Mental Cleanse", We will give you all the details on how to plug in and begin your 30 Day Mental Cleanse! It doesn't matter what company you are with or if you are looking into joining one. There's no selling, no recruiting. It is coaching and mentoring for your personal development.
As part of the group, you'll get a great book emailed to you, "Think and Grow Rich", by Napoleon Hill (once again, FREE). We read one chapter a week.
Also, there is a conference call once a week where network marketers and home based business owners share and discuss what they've discovered and voice questions and concerns they may have about their own journey. Once again, FREE! (No monetary risks to take or financial obligations to avoid.) Each chapter is its own discussion, therefore, it does not matter when you decide the join this group.
Learn to stop the negative mental chatter and start reprogramming yourself with positive self-talk.
Make It Fun!"
To Your Happiness and Success,
Jill *MLM Biz Mentor*
"Be a mentor with a servant's heart!"
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11/21/2006
MLM SUCCESS | Do NOT Approach Family And Friends
Folks who want MLM success will generally do what their upline tells them to until they figure out it does not work! Read Jill's story: Jill says,
"Yes, you read that correctly. Do NOT approach family and friends when you are starting a new home based business. Unfortunately, this is not what is taught by most of these types of companies.
The Dreaded List Of Family & Friends
Most home based business have you create a list of friends and family to get your business started. Well, I don't know about you, but I would have rather walked across hot burning coals than to turn to my friends and family to start building my customer list.
Now don't get me wrong, I loved my products but I didn't want my company built on sympathy purchases. You know, those purchases one make just because you don't want to hurt someone's feeling.
The Sympathy Purchase
Find the cheapest item possible.
Purchase it.
Do not spend a bunch of money.
How To Build Your Home Based Business Without Approaching Family And Friends
First, understand that most home based businesses will take time to build. Stay away from the instant, get rich, make money in your sleep programs. They don't work.
The best way to never have to approach your family and friends is to focus on investing your valuable time with a home based business that has a duplicatable program.
The Duplicatable Program
Why is duplication important?
Well, I remember with the first home based business (I'm not with them anymore) the tools I had to build my business was a DVD video that was full of hype, a worksheet to list friends and family, and a powerpoint presentation for a notebook presentation.
Wow! These tools did not work for me and they were not working for the majority of the people in the company.
It wasn't until later that I discovered that there are home based businesses out there that have real tools that worked.
For example, online tools (not your business website) that attract customers for you. Interactive training calls where you can learn how to be totally non-threatening and learn how to spot a person's personality type within 1-2 minutes on the phone. Resource guides that give you tested, proven, successful scripts and step-by-step how to instructions.
When there's a duplicatable system, it is easy to plug in and start building without approaching friends and family.
Need help making your system duplicatable?
Send a message at MLM Biz Mentor. I'll help anyone, in any company, ANYTIME.
Make It Fun!"
To Your Happiness and MLM Success,
Jill *MLM Biz Mentor*
"Be a mentor with a servant's heart!"
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11/20/2006
MLM Training | Marketing
What does MLM Training and Marketing have in common?
When it comes to MLM training in general, companies or uplines do not provide appropriate training in marketing. After signing up with an MLM, the typical training given about marketing is, make up your 100 name list, get 100 no's, let's make some 3 way calls or your mouth is your office, open it up and talk to everyone you meet.
What does it all mean?
Let's take a look at what the term marketing means. After all, the word marketing is in the name of the industry, yet sometimes it seems not many have any idea how to actually market! According to Webster's dictionary, marketing is "the act or process of buying and selling in a market."
How many friends you got?
There are many different ways this can be accomplished. Yes, you can talk to family, friends, 100 people you know, etc. The problem with this is:
1. Many people are uncomfortable doing this
2. Many people don't know 100 people. The truth is we live in a circle and, while we may have that many acquaintances, they aren't people we really know.
3. After we run out of the "usual suspects" where is a network marketer to go?
Have you tried my cooking?
Let's face the facts. If I were going to open a restaurant, would I ask the people I know to come and enjoy a meal? Of course I would. Would they come? Some would, some wouldn't….you haven't tried my cooking!
But, after all of the hoopla is gone, and the people I know have visited and had a meal, what would I do? If you listen to many in MLM who train their downlines to market this way, I'd be up the creek without a paddle!
Frozen in the headlights!
This is when networkers are typically told to move to the next step and talk to anyone within 3 feet. Usually one of two things happen. They either freeze in their tracks because that is too uncomfortable for them or they try it, and hate the way it makes them feel. Either way, they are done and never heard from again.
Basic MLM training in marketing
If uplines would support their downlines just a little bit, give them some basic MLM training in marketing these dropouts could be avoided.
With the advent of the internet, there is no reason networkers should have to rely only on people they come in face to face contact with in order to expand and grow their business. There are forums, blogging, and article writing available to market your MLM. There are also many networking groups like Direct Matches and even My Space which can be utilized to grow and market your business.
So, if your upline says make your 100 name list, live by the 3 foot rule or talk to your family and friends, and that makes you uncomfortable, find a way that's comfortable for you to do the business. Talk to your upline, see if they can do some MLM training on different ways to market your products or opportunity.
Proper MLM training on marketing your business could make the difference between you being a MLM dropout or a superstar!
For more Great Tips on helping your MLM grow, download this free eBook and you'll be a superstar in no time!
Suzanne
The MLM Mom
Network Marketing Hotspot
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11/18/2006
MLM Success Tip | Never Argue With An Idiot!
MLM Succes Tip of the day "Never Argue With An Idiot" is brought to you by Suzanne.
"Why? They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience!
Yet, don't we find ourselves doing that every day when we go out and try to get someone into our business? They aren't interested in what we have, but try to convince them that they really need what we have.
Sound familiar? Next time you find yourself doing that, please stop yourself and remember to Never Argue with an Idiot.
I'm not saying they are an idiot, but I am saying not everyone is a prospect. Acutally, most people are not prospects.
I am saying don't try to convince people to join you in your business, it's a no win situation. You end up looking like a salesperson, which everyone hates, and you end up getting battered and rejected which is something you hate!
Get some good, basic MLM Training. You don't know what you don't know and what you don't know could kill you in this business!
Remember expensive doesn't mean good, find something affordable. How about Mentoring For Free?"
Suzanne
The MLM Mom
Network Marketing Hot Spot
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11/15/2006
MLM Success | Do You Feel Like a Failure?
Folks who join a MLM company do so to have MLM Success. Yet many folks feel like a failure and they cannot put their finger on the reason. Listen to what a stay at home Mom has to say:
"I'm sure this MLM failure feeling is one in which most everyone in MLM can identify! Why is it that 95% of those who try MLM experience failure?
Let me tell you some of the the reasons I've seen for MLM Failure.
The first reason, and by far the biggest reason for MLM Failure in my opinion, is people are told if they want success, they need to change.
For example, if you are someone who is not pushy and you don't want to make a 100 name list, or talk to everyone within 3 feet of you about your business, then you "don't want it bad enough".
A person may try to do this in the beginning, but ultimately they will struggle and fail because they are not being true to themselves. No one can deny who they are and have any type of sustained success.
So the biggest reason I have seen for MLM Failure are people who are in the wrong type of MLM System. They are in a Red Personality system. Only 15% of the population are Red's and of that 15% only about half of those can even do what most MLM Systems require you to do.
Be true to yourself because ultimately that is what will bring you success!
Another reason I've seen people struggle is they don't have the proper MLM skills training. Knowing how to build relationships is key. Asking questions to build those relationships takes even more skill. Getting the correct training, not the MLM Hype Training, will lead you out of the MLM Failure forest!
Still another reason is they don't understand their MLM compensation plan and the type of behavior it drives in the field. Many MLM Compensation plans drive the recuit, recruit, recruit mentality.
Don't get me wrong, that is important to growing your business, but do you know how many people it will take in your MLM compensation plan to make the money you want?
I've seen different MLM compensation plans that take as little as less than 400 people to over 15,000 people to make $10K per month.
Who do you think has the easier time making that amount of money? Which plan is easier for part timers, about 95% of your team, to make the money they want to earn? Which plan do you think has less turnover of distributors?
Gives you something to think about, huh?
Have Fun Out There!
Suzanne
813-948-8188...anytime!
STOP the MLM Failure Cycle!"
The MLM Mom
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