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

05/23/2007

MLM Network Marketing Training | How to Talk to a “Yellow” Personality

In previous MLM Network Marketing training topics I’ve written about identifying different color personalities.

It’s important to know how to identify the different personality colors so you know how to talk to them in a way which makes the other person feels comfortable.

If the person you are talking to feels comfortable, you will quickly be able to build the know, like and trust foundation.

This is so important to building relationships in our business and life!

MLM Network Marketing Training, Step 1 - Identifying a Yellow Personality

The yellow is a nurturer, open and indirect.

If you ask this person a question they will answer you in a warm, friendly manner, but they will only answer the question you’ve asked then stop, they will not expound.

They are the best listeners, and easy to get along with, everyone has kind words to say about them.

They are team players, supportive and nurturing. They are wonderful to have as part of your team or organization.

Yellows have built large organizations when they finally get the belief that they can do it.

MLM Network Marketing Training, Step 2 – How to bring a Yellow into your Business

When you’re talking business with a Yellow, don’t talk about the money.

Yup you read me right!

If you talk about money, money, money you’ll turn a yellow completely off.

The most critical thing to do with a Yellow is build a relationship. Don’t even mention a company name, product or how much they can make!

Focus on building the relationship, don’t brag about how many cars, houses or boats your upline has. Don’t talk about all the money they are making.

This is the kiss of death when talking to a Yellow.

Talk about your family, your pets, the charitable works you do or the charitable donations you make.

The Yellow needs to know you’re a caring person, not money hungry!

That’s how you make points with a Yellow!

Maybe after reading this you’ll be able to think back to the way you’ve approached some of the yellows you know and, now, you can understand why they were polite, but then avoided you.

This MLM Network Marketing Training is very different than the information/techniques we usually receive from our uplines.

But considering that 35% of the population is Yellow and hates pushy aggressive salespeople, I think you’ll find this MLM Training much more useful!

Click here for my free MLM Training eBook!

It's a Good Life!
Suzanne, The MLM Mom
www.TheMLMmom.com
813-948-8188...anytime!
Questions? Email me at 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

12/08/2006

Network Marketing Success Tip | Branding 101

In today's Network Marketing Success Tip we will be discussing Branding. According to AllAboutBranding.com branding is the direct and indirect activities undertaken by a company (person) to imprint and influence a 'desired reputation' upon its audience.

You may be thinking, what does this have to do with me? Most people in Network Marketing really go off track here. They think their job is to sell thier product/services or to recruit business builders. But let's look at big picture.

Madonna as a Network Marketer?

We'll take Madonna as an example. Whether you love her or hate her she is a marvelous case study in branding. Those of us interested in Network Marketing Success could learn lots from her in the way she's branded herself.

Madonna has a great voice, so do lots of other people.

We have a great product/network Marketing Opportunity, so do lots of other people.

Madonna looks great, so do lots of others.

Our opportunity/products really can help lots of people, so can many other opportunities and products.

By making a name for herself, Madonna has been able to consistently stay in the forefront of her field. How many people have done that in Network Marketing? Not Many, I can think of one, maybe two.

But we can do this by branding ourselves and by doing so we:

1. Establish ourselves as an expert
2. Build a solid reputation within our industy (which is, unfortunately, lacking)
3. Increase your notoriaty and image


By branding ourselves, we now have people who seek us out for our advice and expertise. So often in Network Marketing we are taught to recruit, recruit, recruit, or sell, sell, sell. This puts us at a disadvantage where we have to continually fill the funnel and "get" people to join us.

When we take the time to brand ourselves, people start seeking us out because they know we have soemthing of value. We can teach them how to do this business and be successful.

So next time you are wondering how you can make network Marketing a little easier, think of Madonna. Maybe this Network Marketing Success Tip will help you remember branding yourself is the way to go!

11/21/2006

Network Marketing Training | Are Relatives Good Business Partners?

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