Six Tips for Calling Your MLM Leads with Confidence and No Fear

Your MLM leads are the life of your network marketing business. Your leads are the fuel that takes Read more

Using Social Networks to Promote Your Network Marketing Business

Online social networking is becoming more and more popular, and a growing trend. Network marketing home business builders Read more

Your Home Business – Are You All Stressed Out by the Last Minute Rush to Meet Deadlines?

As a home business builder, do you sometime find yourself all stressed out because you reached certain deadlines on time, but did so at the LAST MINUTE? This is actually Read more

Network Marketing Training – What’s Up?

You’re evaluating a potential network marketing opportunity, and you’ve checked out the products and the compensation plan. They look Read more

Is a Paper Planner Right for You?

Every time I visit an office supply store, I still see quite a selection of paper based planners – the Franklin Planner, Day Timer, and Day Runner seem to be the most common.

I’ve used these in the past, but have always lost patience with them. In network marketing, I need to keep up with lots of contacts – both downline associates as well as prospects and customers. Trying to manage all this strictly in a paper planner would be a nightmare. I prefer to use software and electronic organizers for contact management.

That said, I believe (for many people) that basic day-to-day organization can still be handled efficiently by paper based planners.  Paper planners still have advantages over all this high-tech stuff.

Here are a few interesting takes on using paper planners in the age of technology. After reading some of these, I am tempted to give them another try.

Organizers: Keeping Your World Close At Hand

I have upgraded my electronic organizers every couple of years but I always fell back to my paper planner. The paper planner allows me to have history at my fingertips. Last week my husband and I were talking about our next vacation and …

Resource of the Week: Franklin Covey Planning System

Two years ago, I started using the FranklinCovey Planning System to figure out which parts of my vision were most urgent and important. Before I started using the planning system, I used to write my ideas and schedule my day using …

6 Strategies to Make the Most of Your Paper Planner

if you are left handed, place your management section pages (eg. goals, key information, note paper, addresses, etc.) at the beginning of your planner. place your monthly tabs and planner pages after the management section type pages. …

Paper Planners are Not Over!

the beauty of a paper planner is that paper doesn’t crash. better yet, it’s much easier to jot down a note on a daily to-do list than pull out your handheld, turn it on, click around, and type a note on that tiny keypad with all those …

Network Marketing and MLM – Frequently Asked Questions

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Can You Really Motivate Your MLM Downline?

Starting your new MLM business is really exciting. Even if you’re a veteran in the MLM industry, I’m sure you remember how it was.

You go through your group’s MLM training program. You get fired up and sponsor a few people. Then, at some point, you do a reality check. You ask the burning question. Is anyone I sponsored doing anything yet?

Unfortunately, sometime in the early stages of your business, the answer is no. This can really be discouraging, especially when you’re first starting out.

What is motivation? Dictionary.com defines it like this:

the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; “we did not understand his motivation”; “he acted with the best of motives”

True motivation actually comes from within a person. You can try to “motivate” someone, but perhaps it is better thought of as “encouraging” them. When we encourage our downline, it helps their own internal motivation to come alive and get stronger.

Starting and building an MLM business is a voluntary activity (nobody HAS to get up in the morning and do it, unlike they do with a job). Thus, a person’s motivation must be intensely personal. Inspiration to action must come from deep within. There must be a “why” in place that really means something.

So, what can you do to help raise a downline associate’s level of self-motivation to work their business? Assuming they have a desire, but have just been unable to get moving, here is how you can help.

Help them recall why they signed up in the first place. Maybe they had a vague idea – they wanted to “make some extra money”. Once the initial excitement of doing something new has faded, maybe they can’t get fired up enough to move forward with a goal that hazy. Help them discover how much money they’d really like to earn, and what they would do with it that really means something. Help them come up with specific goals for their MLM business that they feel excited about.

What is important to your downline associate? Is it money to pay off some bills, get a new car, or maybe build a dream home someday? Is it a desire to quit a job? Give money to help their church or favorite charity? People often start MLM businesses and other money-making ventures with really good intentions. Help them drill down and find out what is really important, and how building their MLM business can help.

The idea is to help your valuable downline member get past the inertia and light a fire inside that will motivate them to action. Think about your own business, and what your own internal motivations are. Let your downline friend and associate know you care, and are sincerely interested in their success.

How to Write Killer Headlines for Your Network Marketing Opportunity Articles

Are you writing and submitting articles to help promote your network marketing opportunity? If not, writing articles is a very effective way to promote yourself and your business. We’ll talk more about that later. If you’re writing articles now, you know a really great headline will encourage people to read it.

I’ve put together some resources that will help you write better headlines for your articles. Be careful to note the distinction between a great, catchy headline and hype. You want to get attention, but not at the expense of coming across as a “bizop peddler”. Aim for something professional, but eye-catching.

Five Common Headline Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Are You Writing Headlines That Sell? Stop!

Focus all your headline-writing efforts on getting the readers attention and holding it. The remainder of your copy should do the rest and get the reader to take the desired action, but only if they actually read! …

5 Tips For Writing Headlines That Work

If your headline is communicating clearly, it’s pretty likely you’re using basic keywords that summarize your article. For more on writing headlines that work check out usability guru Jakob Nielsen and the copy writing expert Copyblogger.

15 Remarkable Resources to Create Killer Headlines

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MLM Leads – Using Squidoo to Build Your MLM Business and Make Money

Squidoo has become a very popular, easy way to make a simple but full-featured web page that can be customized in lots of cool ways. Read more

Getting MLM Leads – How to Use Free Traffic Exchanges Effectively

If you are looking for inexpensive ways to find leads for your MLM business, traffic exchanges are one way to go. You can get MLM leads this way, if you understand how the exchanges work.

Free traffic exchanges work like this. You sign up and spend time surfing and viewing web pages belonging to other members. You typically have to wait 20-30 seconds on each page, then you can click through to visit another member’s page. By doing this over and over, you build up credits. These credits will be used to display your own web page to other surfers.

One example of a good traffic exchange is Trafficswarm. While there are other good exchanges, I have had the best luck getting good MLM leads on this one.

The thing to remember is why people are using free traffic exchanges in the first place. They are clicking and viewing all those pages so that other people will see theirs. The average surfer isn’t looking for a new MLM or income opportunity, they are trying to promote the one they are in.

The good news is that people doing this are interested in making money. However, if you send them to the typical opportunity site with lots of text and details, they probably won’t pay much attention to it. Their main interest is passing time and clicking again as soon as possible.

However, it is quite possible to get their attention and interest, but you have to do it fast. Lots of people are trying to get MLM leads using the traffic exchanges.

The secret to getting MLM leads using traffic exchanges:

• create a small page with a short and powerful message, along with a form to submit their email address so they can join your mailing list. You will need to offer something of value, like a free report about making money online. Something that looks really interesting.
• understand that your whole objective is to get their name and contact information, so you can get in touch with them later about your opportunity. You are NOT trying to sell them on anything at this point, all you want is permission to contact them later.

Keep this attitude in mind, and create something compelling enough for them to take a few seconds to sign up. After that, you can send out information about your opportunity or whatever you want.

I use Aweber to manage my mailing list. You can set up a series of messages to go out at regular intervals, or send something to all your MLM leads at any time.

Sign up for Trafficswarm and give it a try. It’s free, and once inside there are excellent tips on how to write compelling headlines and ads.

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