06/27/2007

Network Marketing Success | Accountability?

I was talking to a friend yesterday who had been searching for Network Marketing Success.

He was telling me how he had been struggling in MLM and recalled a conversation he had had with his Upline, when asking for some assistance.

This friend had been discouraged because the only “assistance” he was able to receive from his Upline was they would provide “accountability” for him.

Meaning, send a list of goals, and they would call him on a daily basis to see how he’d done that day in accomplishing them.

This, of course, wasn’t what he was looking for.

All he could imagine was his Upline calling and harassing him on a daily basis. Asking “why he wasn’t doing more, spoken to more people, etc.”

His Upline obviously didn’t get it.

This wonderful man was not looking for verbal beatings, he was looking for answers. He wanted to know why his business wasn’t growing the way he was told it would.

He had made his list of friends and family, talked to hundred’s of people, sold, sold, sold, until people ran from him.

His business still had nothing to show for it!

He was understandably frustrated.

The best “help” for Network Marketing Success Upline could offer was “I’ll hold you accountable”.

How sad!

What he needed were more skills and a true system for talking to people who were interested in what he had.

Luckily he’s found that now!

If you’re looking for true help, not “accountability”, download my Free eBook for Network Marketing Success.

You’ll find the answers you’ve been searching for!

It's a Good Life!
Suzanne, The MLM Mom
813-948-8188 Anytime!
www.TheMLMmom.com
TheMLMmom@yahoo.com

05/07/2007

MLM Organization | I Didn't Read my MLM Contract!

I found the following post on Brenda Bunney's MLM Blog. It give some good solid info on what to look for, and avoid, in a MLM Organization contract. If you want to be Successful in MLM, this is important information, so read on.


The Policies and Procedures set forth by an MLM organization is your contract. If you sign it, be prepared to agree to all that is addressed within. How do you know your MLM company management has integrity?

Read the free ebook “Success In 10 Steps” for free training and tips on how to recognize integrity in your MLM company.

Yes, all MLM companies must have a way to make required changes that may be required by the state or federal government. Laws vary from state to state.

Does your MLM contract contain the following?

1) Ongoing requirements that will never let you retire i.e. (5 retail receipts per month, regular contact and training responsibilities for your MLM organization)

2) Statements allowing the MLM organization to cancel your contract at any time without cause.

3) Monthly sales requirements that if not met, the contract is void?

The above three items are just examples of policies I have found in various MLM organizations that show a lack of integrity among top management.

There is a combination of items all potential distributors may research to assure themselves as much as possible that their MLM company management will operate with integrity regarding the distributors.

The free ebook “Success In 10 Steps” provides training for those interested in a MLM organization home verses one stop in a string of disappointing ventures.

Brenda Bunney
Cell: 405-612-0473
brendab@brightok.net
http://BrendaBunneyMLM.com

04/21/2007

MLM Network Marketing Success | Leadership Plain and Simple

In order to have any kind of Sucess in MLM Network Marketing you must develop strong Leadership skills. The reason being, if you want mlm network marketing success, you will be leading a team of 10, 20, 100, 1000 or perhaps even 10,000+ people.

Teams need leaders. Some people are born knowing how to lead, but most have to develop those skills over time.

Unfortunately, many people get into a position of leadership in their MLM Network Marketing business and either:

1. Don't know what they're doing and, at a certain point, that becomes crystal clear to the people who are the "followers"

or

2. Greed and Ego get in their way and they alienate all those around them.

In order to become a leader, in any organization, MLM Network Marketing or not, the most effective leaders have the following four character traits.

Vision

Effective leaders have a clear vision of where they are going and how these goals will be accomplished, they have a plan.

A vision can also be known as your "why".

A "Why" is what drives you to keep going in this business, even when the going gets tough.

Some examples of "why's" are:
you want to wake up every morning at the time of your choosing

you want to travel the world

you want to make a difference in this world and start or support your favorite charity

you want to spend more time with your family


Everyone has their own reasons for getting involved in this business. Your part is to sit down in a quiet place and figure out what your reasons are.

People follow leaders who know where they are going because they instictively know those people can help them get where they want to be.

Courage

It has been said, by the late, great Earl Nightingale that the opposite of courage is not cowardice, it's conformity.

Think about that for a minute.....conformity.

Think about the great leaders, the "non-conformists". In order to be a leader you have to have the vision that no one else has, then have the courage to go out there and get it, no matter what anyone else says!

Remember this the next time you hit a road block, be a "non-conformist", be a leader and keep going anyway.

Integrity

Say what you mean and mean what you say....pretty simple.

Even if what you have to say isn't what others may want to hear. The truth is the truth.

When those around you start losing faith in your integrity, especially in MLM Network Marketing, watch out because this business is based on trust and relationships.

If you don't have integrity you can fool people for a little while, but, eventually the truth comes to light. That's when organizations can crumble in the blink of an eye.

Perserverance

All the three previous characteristics can be found in perserverance.

If there is no vision you will never perservere.

No courage, how will you ever perservere?

Lack of integrity, people will never join you in your MLM Network Marketing business.

The combination of these three traits will lead you to perservere and true leaders always perservere, they never quit.

There may be some setbacks along the way, but the true leaders get up, brush themselves off and keep going because they have the vision, they have the courage, they have the integrity and, of course, they have the perserverence.

Think back to the true leaders you have followed in your life. Identify these characteristics in them and start living you life accordingly.

By developing these four leaderships charcteristics, and becoming the leader your organization will want to emulate and follow, you will find yourself on the path to mlm network marketing success.

Download Your Free Resource Guide for more MLM Network Marketing Success Training

It's a Good Life!
Suzanne
813-948-8188...anytime!
www.TheMLMmom.com
TheMLMmom@yahoo.com

01/06/2007

MLM Success | The Terror Barrier

Fear is a common thread holding people back in their MLM Network Marketing Success. The following is a great story by Bob Proctor recalling his first experience in hitting the Terror Barrier. Maybe you can recall the first time you hit yours, it could be your first step in overcoming your MLM fears!

The Terror Barrier

The first ten years of my stay here on Planet Earth were spent in Owen Sound, Ontario. I can vividly remember the hot summer day I was taken by an older member of my family to Harrison Park where there was a fine swimming pool. The older kids were going up the ladder and jumping or diving off the high diving board. They were having a great time. Wanting to be accepted by the older kids, I too went up the ladder, reluctantly, but I climbed it.

I will never forget the terror that gripped my mind and body when I looked down. Their coaxing did absolutely no good. There was no way I was going off that board. I climbed back down the ladder.

That was the first time in my life that I can recall coming up against the Terror Barrier. I not only lost out on the excitement and thrill that would have been gained by jumping. I lost a little self-respect also.

If you think hard enough, you will recall the first time you came face to face with the Terror Barrier. You either stepped through it to freedom or back into bondage, imprisoned by your own fears.

I continued to step back from anything I truly feared until I was twenty-six years of age. Then with the encouragement of a caring person, I said "no more" and I have been free ever since.

The Terror Barrier comes up in front of us every time we attempt to make a major move in life, into an area we have never traveled before.

I have sold businesses in Canada, the U.S.A. and England for years and I could not even guess at the number of times I have sat with men and women who come right up to that barrier wanting to go ahead but not being able to. These were people who could have succeeded and wanted to, but didn't.

Is that Terror Barrier holding you or your business back? Do what I did and crash through. The compensation is incredible.

Bob Proctor

Download this free eBook today! It will help you overcome your MLM Network Marketing Fears!

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

01/03/2007

MLM Training | What's your New Year's Resolution?

It's the New Year again and you want to take your MLM to the Next Level. So, what's your MLM New Year's Resolution?

Is it to hit the phones harder? Talk to more people about your business? Or, are you looking for a $ figure? Do you want to finally start making money in Network Marketing?

Drum Roll Please.....

Would you like to know what mine is? OK. Here it goes.......I don't have one.

Yes, you read that right. I don't have one. Why? I don't believe in them. Not for anything in my life.

I Hate Feeling Bad!

Here's the reason. They don't work. And, the added benefit is, they make you feel terrible about yourself, because now you've just added another thing to the big pile of stuff you've "failed" at.
Yuck! Who needs that? Not me, so I don't do them.

My advice to anyone who wants to be successful at MLM Network Marketing at this time of year is to just refocus on what's been working for you in growing your business.

Was Christmas Crazy?

Let's face it, the past month has been CRAZY with all the holiday stuff going on. You probably already feel a little guilty because you haven't been able to put the attention to your business you would have liked to. Now's not the time to add to those guilty feelings with resolutions that will make you feel worse.

Instead, use this time to refocus. Recommit. Learn some new skills so you can talk to people without feeling so uncomfortable. Take positive action steps that will move you towards a goal and make you feel good.

Resolutions tend to be goals with no plan behind them leaving you feeling terrible.

Learn A New Skill!

Taking positive action steps is something you can, and should, be doing throughout the year, not just at New Years. Which is the reason I don't make New Year's Resolutions.

Changes and improvement should be done throughout the year in your MLM when you see fit, not just at the beginning of the year.

To help you start your Network Marketing Business off on the right foot this year, learn some good MLM skills with my free eBook.

Have Fun Out there!
Suzanne
www.TheMLMmom.com
skype: mlmmom
TheMLMmom@yahoo.com