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Why do we treat all MLM prospects the same? Are you in the market for a new house? How about a new car? Or, say, a new spouse or partner?

No, No and NO

If you answered No, No and NO, imagine you were approched by someone offering any of these things. Is it safe to say you wouldn't be interested? Probably.

I find many people wasting their valuable time and precious energy prospecting others who are not interested in either their MLM products or MLM business opportunity. They end up getting frustrated and dejected because they weren't given this one little tip:

Quailfy Your MLM Prospects!

So often we are told, talk to everyone you meet, share your MLM products and MLM biz opp with all your friends and family, your mouth is your office keep open and keep talking.

In your heart of hearts, does this really make sense to you? Do you really think that everyone is a MLM prospect? Will you take anyone that will fog a mirror into your business?

If you answered yes, then we need to talk, because not everyone is qualified to be in your MLM business.

Need vs. Want

One thing I learned early on is this, people might need what your MLM opportunity or product has to offer but they may not want it.
There is a clear difference here. Just because people need what you have, that does not make them a MLM prospect......they have to want it too!

Good MLM Question!

Here's a great question you can use while doing your MLM prospecting.

When you hear someone complaining about something you can help them with by either your MLM business or products, listen to what they are saying then ask, "Would you like to do something about that?"

How simple is that? Just ask a question. Don't barrage them with all of you incredible MLM features and benefits, keep the focus on them, ask that simple question and listen, I mean really listen!

You may be surprised to find out that the person you're talking to actually likes to be unhealthy or poor. Don't laugh....it's true! That's the way some people get their identity.

The MLM Secret

Here's the secret, don't talk to them about your business or products. They won't buy anyway and you'll have wasted a TON of energy trying to convince them that they want what you have.

Save that energy and put it towards something that will actually benefit you, like finding and talking to qualified MLM prospects!

Read my free eBook and find out how to talk to qualified MLM prospects.

Have Fun Out There!
Suzanne
www.TheMLMmom.com

Got a question? Email me! TheMLMmom@yahoo.com

I was talking to a lady the other day who told me she was looking into starting her own Network Marketing company.
Nothing new here, happens everyday. Someone has a product and the best way to get it to market is through Network Marketing.

I asked her what her product was. She proceeded to tell me it was a device that you attach to your car's engine that converts tap water into a hydrogen fuel. "It saves gas and lowers emissions, it's the most incredible thing ever invented."

A Metoo Product

"Not another gas thing", I thought, but we continued.

I asked her, "Is this a one time MLM product sale? If it is, how are people going to create a residual income? The first item to look for in a Network Marketing Company are products that are consumable, where's the consumable part of that?"

She answered, "Yeah, I'm still trying to figure that out. But it's really not about the money, we are saving Mother Earth. It's all about the Planet."

Red Flag #1

"OK", I thought, "Just what people want to do in MLM, not make money." MLM Red Flag #1.

"I'm curious", I asked, "Don't you need a special convertor for the tap water? I mean you can't just put tap water into a hydrogen cell." (The only reason I knew this by the way, is it just so happened my husband, son and I were talking about Honda and the other big car companies coming out with hydrogen type engines in the near future.)

Red Flag #2

"Oh, no", she replied, "This inventor has made it so you can use actual tap water, nothing special is needed. It's the most incredible thing since the combustible engine!" OK, MLM Red Flag #2.

The REALLY, REALLY BIG Red Flag!

The conversation goes on and I ask her about the EPA. "Surely you've gotten all the testing you need to do to get the claims you making past the EPA." I ask.

There is dead silence on the other end. Uh oh, I'm thinking. So I continue, "You do know that you can't just put a product out there and make a whole bunch of claims before you pass all of the EPA testing.....right? I mean, the government will come and shut you down in a NY minute if you do that. It has happened to a few companies within the past 6 months."

I could hear her catching her breath, "No," she said, "I didn't know that. You mean we can't just set up the company and start offering the product?"

"Well, I guess you could, but you won't last very long."

"Wow, I guess I'd better start looking into that."

I agreed and answered some more questions.

The Most Important Item in Network Marketing

When we got off the phone I kept thinking about everyone in Network Marketing who has joined a company that doesn't have Pillar #1 in place.....Company Management with MLM Experience and Integrity.

If you don't have that, you are already dead before you start.

You are putting your future into the hands of people who either don't know how to run a Network Marketing company so it gets run into the ground. Or, people who know how to take all of your money and leave you high and dry. Either way it has a bad ending.

More tips to be successful in a Network Marketing Business

Have Fun Out There!
Suzanne
www.TheMLMmom.com
813-948-8188....anytime!
TheMLMmom@yahoo.com

MLM Joke of the Day:

A Yankee lawyer went duck hunting in eastern North Carolina. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer's field on the other side of a fence. As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly gentleman asked him what he was doing. The lawyer responded, "I shot a duck and it fell in this field, I'm going into retrieve it."

The old farmer replied. "This is my property, and you are not coming over here."

The indignant lawyer said, "I am one of the best trial attorneys in the U.S. and, if you don't let me get that duck, I'll sue you and take everything!

The old farmer smiled and said, "Apparently, you don't know how we do things here in North Carolina. We settle small disagreements like this with the NC Three-Kick Rule."

The lawyer asked, "What is the NC three-Kick Rule?"

The Farmer replied. "Well, first I kick you three times and then you kick me three times, and so on, back and forth, until someone gives up."

The Yankee attorney quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that he could easily take the old southerner. He agreed to abide by the local custom.

The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the city feller. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy work boot into the Yankee lawyer's groin and dropped him to his knees. His second kick nearly wiped the man's nose off his face. The barrister was flat on his belly when the farmer's third kick to a kidney nearly caused him to give up.

The Yankee lawyer summoned every bit of his will and managed to get to his feet and said, "Okay, you old redneck southerner, now it's my turn."

The old North Carolina farmer smiled and said, "Naw, I give up. You can have the duck."

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Guess the moral to this story is know the rules before you start playing the game!!!

That means if you're in any MLM, or even thinking about getting into a MLM, read your Policy and Procedures!

I could really help alleviate your pain in the long run!!!

Make it a Great Day!
Suzane

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
- Greek Proverb

Wow! Is that what you typically hear from your upline and company? Not many people do when they enter into the Network Marketing arena.

Usually newbies and others are told, friends and family are their best source for obtaining new business partners. I have not found that to be the case.

Most people I coach tell me that their friends and family either:

1. Don't have the desire to change what they are doing in life
2. Don't believe they, meaning the person in Network Marketing, can do it and want to see them successful first
3. Or, they don't know enough people to approach about the business

I'm also asked why some people in MLM can be so successful while they are struggling.

Have you learned your Colors?

The majority of those who are "successful" in Network Marketing are the Red Personality types. They are the centers of influence in the community. They typically have a following of people who look up to them and will follow their every move.

The Reds, have no problem telling people what to do or how to do it and how much money they should spend while doing it. If you are around a red, you'll hear them say things and think to yourself, "I could never do that!"

A Network Marketing Red Test

For example, I have a friend, very red, not in Network Marketing, who actually told another friend who couldn't afford to have extra photo prints made, to charge her family for extra picture prints of photos of her kids!

Both myself and my friend were astonished, we aren't reds, but my Red friend saw nothing wrong with it! Could you do that?

My point is, red personalities can do the things we are taught to do in Network Maketing, i.e., talk to friends and family, make 100 names list, get 100 no's, talk to everyone within 3 feet. Most of all, they can be successful at it.

But those of us who are not red....85%......can't do it for very long. It doesn't feel right, and there's nothing wrong with that. We are meant to be who we are, not someone else.

The first rule of success is Don't Change Who You Are. Anyone who is successful will tell you that.

Find or develop a system that will work for you as you, not as someone tells you you have to become in order for success! Make sense?

Download this free eBook and start to get some good Network Marketing Training

Now go have some fun!
Suzanne
www.TheMLMmom.com

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Jill goes totally against the tide in this article explaining why approaching friends and family does't work and isn't duplicatable in MLM.

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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. I'll help anyone, in any company, ANYTIME.

Find out more about MLM Duplication.

Make It Fun!

To Your Happiness and Success,
Jill *MLM Biz Mentor*
"Be a mentor with a servant's heart!"

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Lots of people I talk to want to know how to drive people to their website. Here's a fantastic article from Terry Montague's (aka Monte) blog on exactly how to do that!

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So you have your website published and because of your well-thought out verbage, meta tags and html coding you're confident and secure in your knowledge that soon the search engine spiders will be swarming to your site like they were hunting flies in a virtual web. But despite your best efforts, are you not getting the results you'd hoped for?

Why not throw out some bait?

Nothing changes if nothing changes

The more often your site content changes, the more often the search engine spiders will drop in for a visit. Depending on your product or service, your business site may not require revisions on a regular basis. This means that it may be three months or more between visits to your site to index it. This is a good reason to change you page content with some frequency. If you have daily content revisions, it shouldn't take more than a month or two for that particular page to be analyzed daily. This is an excellent reason to consider using a blog as a cornerstone of your internet business. Make sure to include links to your primary product or services site. Then be sure to list it with blog searches and registries.

Incoming linkage

Did you know that inbound links are a major factor in your search engine relavence results? Basically the more activity your site generates, the more attractive it becomes to all manner of virtual insects. So in addition to adding links from your blog, make comments on other people's blogs and leave your link. Get on MySpace or other community sites and do the same. Write articles and use links to your sites in the resource box. They may very well get republished and added to RSS Feeds. Don't forget to issue press releases for your articles as well as your blog.

Be a team player

Get with team members in your upline and have them add links to your sites. Ask them to republish your articles or blog entries. Link to the websites of members on your team. Team co-operation and website interaction help build a strong and successful organization. Rule of thumb is to always link downline to encourage team growth. However, depending on your relationship with team members and how your business is organized this guideline is flexible.

Track your traffic

Find out what works and what doesn't so you can better concentrate your time and effort where it has the most impact on your site traffic. Set up a free Google Analytics account. Not only will you see where your visitors found you link, you will also discover their physical location, computer platform, browser version, screen resolution and other factors affecting successful website design.

Forge a trail to your site

Collect incoming links to your site with a vengeance. Make it a hobby. Leave breadcrumbs all along the internet highway. Someone will take the bait and end up at your site.

It goes without saying that you should make their trip well worth the effort.
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For more information, check out:
Search Engine Optimization Made Easy (downloadable PDF File).
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Let me share with you what I came across today in an MLM Training article that put a pit in my stomach:

When asked about failure NaPier said; "There's a myth going around that 95% of people who start a home business fail. Truth is, 95% of the people who don't commit to success in home business fail. It's easy to blame people, systems, marketing methods and time for failue, but the key element lies within you. Home Business success is not found taking an easy way out, it's found when you commit, challenge yourself and follow through."

So, what color do you think this guy is? This is exactly the kind of stuff you'll hear from a MLM Red personality. It's all your fault. You didn't do it right, you don't want it bad enough, you want the easy way out, blah, blah, blah.

This belief is exactly what's wrong with MLM nowadays. If this is the type of talk you are hearing in your MLM today ask yourself, "What type of MLM Training am I really getting?"

If all I'm told to do is get out there and talk to all my family and friends, make my 100 names list, get 100 no's, talk to everyone within 3 feet, guess what......I'm not going to do that!

Is it becasue I'm lazy? Is it because I don't want it bad enough? Is it becasue my dreams aren't big enough? No, No, and No.

I'ts because I'm not a Red personality! And guess what, most people aren't! Only 15% of the population are Reds and of that 15% only half can do what they "train" you to do.

Everyone else doesn't want to become that pushy, agressive salesperson! There's nothing wrong with that!

Get the real skills you need and learn to do this business in a way that's right for you.

Learn how to actually market yourself and your products. Learn about the Network Marketing industry, talk to others who have been successful doing MLM because they found a way that was comfortable for them.

There's nothing wrong with "getting out of your comfort zone", but getting out there has to be in a way that's true to your value system.

Otherwise you'll do it for a little while, but won't be able to continue becasue it's not who you inherently are. The MLM training you receive should feel right to you not give you a pit in your stomach!

No go out there and have some fun!
Guess what color I am!

Suzanne
813-948-8188...anytime!
www.TheMLMmom.com

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!

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?

Have Fun Out There!
Suzanne
813-948-8188 anytime!