Author: John Old
Article:
So,you have a mlm network and now you need to build a
downline.I will inform you about building a downline for your
mlm network marketing. Mlm is a hard program to build a downline
in.It takes a lot of time and work to build a downline for your
mlm network.Once you get a downline built you can make a lot
money.You will be a success.Be prepared to work hard than reap
the rewards of your hard work.
Mlm network marketing is what is called multi level
marketing.Mlm started with Amway years ago and now moved into
the internet era.Network marketing is a business that markets a
line of products or several lines of products through inpendent
salespeople. An independent salesperson is recruited; she, in
turn, recruits other people; these people recruit others, and so
it goes. Each representative builds her own business with her
recruits and their recruits under her, and she makes commission
on the sales volume of her team. The people under the
independent salesperson are called the downline.
The potential for increasing the downline and earning money is
exponential.The mlm network marketing is open to a lot of
scams.MLM is the Last hope in America for the little person to
learn how to make money and actually do it.There is millions of
people today earning a full time income with part time work.The
idea behind multi-level marketing (MLM) is simple. Imagine you
have a product to sell. A common MLM product is some sort of
panacea, such as a vitamin or mineral supplement. You could do
what most businesses do: either sell it directly to consumers or
find others who will buy your product from you and sell it to
other people.This is not to say there is no benefit to MLM
membership. You get certain tax write-offs. You get to buy
products, some of which you will be happy with. You get to go to
inspirational meetings, some of which will make you feel good.
You may meet new friends and you may even make a few bucks.It
may be true that millions of people are online now.
However, it isn't true that all you have to do is send them an
email and they are just sitting their eagerly awaiting to send
you cash and join your downline or buy products from your online
mall. In fact it is harder to get someone to buy on the Internet
than in a normal business environment.Network Marketers all over
the globe have lost thousands of dollars after throwing up a
website, doing a little advertising and expecting huge profits
to start rolling in.This is why you need to build a
downline.This is one of the most fun and rewarding businesses
today.
To Build a downline will take a little time and effort.In your
efforts to recruit others into your MLM business, you've
probably encountered people who were rude to you and you've been
rejected by friends, family and strangers more often than not.
You've probably wondered what you could do differently, what
else could you say, how could you get past that brick wall you
keep running into?You can join a mlm downline club ,pay for a
guaranteed downline,or you can buy mlm leads.A downline is a lot
harder to build for mlm and takes work.Getting a downline for
mlm is different than getting downlines for other programs.One
way to build a downline for your mlm network marketing to cerate
sales letters.Sales letters work the best for mlm.You can find
samples of great sales letters all over the internet.You also
need to make alliances for 4 reasons.They are
1) to generate awareness and develop targeted leads (internet
traffic);
2) to expand your reach faster than you could alone;
3) to take advantage of the clout or customer base of another
company (or another website); and
4) to distribute your products and services through another
company (or website) to increase your sales and/or reduce your
costs.
In conclusion just with any business endeavor, it is the unique
and creative ways that a business uses the tools available that
determines its success. I challenge you to stretch your
imagination. Try some new things.
Refuse to view the internet primarily as a scientific,
technology-driven tool, but instead strive to use the web in
highly creative ways that set your company apart. Innovation and
timing count for everything on the web.Recognize the importance
of tracking, and make sure that you have a plan in place to
track all of your future marketing activities. The simplest way
to track is to ask each new customer where or how they found out
about you. The importance of tracking, and make sure that you
have a plan in place to track all of your future marketing
activities. The simplest way to track is to ask each new
customer where or how they found out about you.Please beware of
the 7 common mistakes in mlm and they are
1.) ** Using "Institutional Advertising" **Institutional
advertising is advertising that does not focus on your
prospects. Rather on you, your company, your pay plan, your
products, your bonus pool, your packaging, or the sales people
at the home office.Anything that does not focus solely on your
prospect is institutional advertising. Think of Coke-A-Cola.
That's institutional advertising. Their sole purpose is brand
their name into your mind. That way when you get thirsty and
want a soda, you buy a Coke.You must focus on your prospects ego
and their desires. What they want takes priority over what you
or the MLM company you're with wants. Tell them what's in it for
them.Solution: Create prospect focused advertising and drop your
ego and appeal to the prospects ego.
2.) ** Fell Into Management Mode **This one is a biggy. In order
to make money in network marketing (or in direct selling) the
life blood is new business. For the first 2-3 years new business
is what drives your income.If you spend all of your time
managing people and none of it actually acquiring new business
you'll fall into a mode where your income levels off or just
drops. This is management mode and it will stop you dead in your
tracks from making long term income from MLM.Solution: Always be
moving forward, building your group. Leading by example. By
building.
3.) ** Making MLM Your Business **One of the most sobering and
completely real facts of MLM is that you do not own your own MLM
business. At any moment in time the network marketing company
you're with could shut it's doors, change it's policies, cut the
popular products (not likely, but happens) or any number of
things that would instantly stop your income or cut it by
50%.Making MLM your business limits you. Stops you from seeing
all of the possibilities outside the MLM industry. Instantly
turning your income into something that is in reality, not
yours. Make MLM a part of your business. Not the sole reason it
exists.Solution: Expand your business into other areas. Not just
MLM.
4.) ** Not Being Personal **MLM takes time, money, more time and
more money to develop. As does any profitable business. However,
in the day of emails, fax machines, web sites, online video, and
super technology, it is easier than ever to forget you are
working with real live people with real live problems and
worries.Adding a personal touch to the process will build your
credibility, and build trust with those you plan on working
with.Solution: Add a personal touch and build trust
5.) ** Not Being Realistic **Technology makes it easier for you
to contact more and more people at an ever growing rate. Which
leads some people to hype up their claims. Hyped up claims are
not always so outrageous they instantly appear full of hype.Some
of them are subtle, like, "No direct selling." Which seems like
a benefit, because people hate to sell. In truth, direct selling
is network marketing. You are not as aggressive about it. But
you will, and always be selling something to someone.Solution:
Be Realistic and understand network marketing is a selling
business.
6.) ** Losing Focus **Losing focus is easy. Thousands of ways to
advertise and reach your market exist. Pick 1 or 2 or 3 of them.
Not all of them. Focus on what works, and drop what doesn't. If
you know it's not working after a few weeks, don't do it
anymore.Solution: Focus only on one, two or three advertising
strategies at time. And focus on them until they prove to be
ineffective.
7.) ** Becoming a Computer Jockey **A Computer Jockey? What's
that? Computer Jockey's are people who sit there in front of
their computer and try to work their MLM business completely
online. 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.I hope by reading this
you have a better idea about how to build a downline for your
mlm network marketing.Good luck and make money.
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