Traditional Network Marketing is about trying to create interest where it does not currently exist. Starting with making out a warm list of friends, family, anybody you know; then systematically working your way through that list to invite them to look at your business. Once the warm list has run out, it becomes about approaching your cold market with flyers, cards, referrals or buying lists of leads and phoning them.
Although these methods seem logical, the sad fact is that over 95% of people using them fail.
For several years now, enlightened Network Marketing entrepreneurs have moved the boundaries of prospecting with new ways of attracting pre-interested prospects, rather than chasing after prospect trying to create an interest. It is often said that “information is power”. As most people primarily search the internet for information, then information is most powerful when given away for free, thereby attracting people seeking that specific knowledge.
Let me give you an example.
Why are you reading this article? Is it because you are interested in my Network Marketing opportunity? No! It is because you want information. If I was writing about how brilliant my Network Marketing opportunity was, you probably wouldn't have got past the first paragraph.
Provide information that is useful and people will come to you. You position yourself as an expert. If you are making a lot more sense than their current upline, they may want to swap over and join you instead. Most people do not join a business based on how good the products or the company are. They primarily join based on whether or not they think they can be successful. If you inspire more confidence than their current upline, many will want to join you.
Modern Network Marketing masters have hosted affiliate websites where any other Network Marketers can take out an affiliate position and send their prospects to receive free automated generic information on how to build their own Network Marketing business.
They have helped hundreds of thousands of Network Marketer to build their own businesses and have built huge empires themselves.
The only drawback to becoming an affiliate of such a site is that you are positioning the owner/host of the affiliate website as more of an expert than yourself, as they are the one providing the tuition, not you.
Furthermore, your new prospect is not just on your contact list, but he is also on the list of the affiliate site host. So if your prospect, that you have spent your money acquiring decides that they like what they read; do they join you or the host. It is likely that if you put a lot of prospects to an affiliate site and stay in touch, then you will get some and the host will get some. In the long term everybody gains and it is still better than trying to create interest where it does not exist.
However, setting up your own independent tuition website is the ultimate prospect attracting tool. It takes a little bit of work to set up, but has 2 enormous benefits:
• It positions you, as the expert, rather than having to refer your prospects to somebody else.
• You keep your prospect list private.
A new system has been created to teach people how they can set up there own completely independent tuition website. It is called The A.R.T. of Prospecting: Attract by Replicating Tuition. It has been created to be completely generic so that it can be used to promote any Network Marketing business and is completely free.
Take It The Next Level
Choose a reputable vendor.
There are many fly-by-night software companies that make many claims of experience, know how and MLM software gadgetry. Unless you are willing to put your business at risk, choose a vendor that has a proven track record.
Track records are built over many years of working with Direct Selling companies, not just selling a software package a few times.
Check out at least six references. Remember that vendors will be eager to provide only their best references. You might be surprised to find a different story when you call companies not included in the reference list.
Visit the MLM software company's office.
You not only choose the MLM software but also choose the vendor's support services. If the vendor is not able to provide support services acceptably, what will you do when you need to change your compensation plan or add a new input field to the order entry screen?
Remember that there is only one constant among all MLM companies; they constantly change things. And your MLM software will need to be changed as well.
At the vendor's office, meet the vendor's people that will service you. See what kind of people they are and how long they have worked for the vendor. Be willing to pay for experience and competence. You are paying far less in the long run.
Avoid small MLM software companies.
Small software companies, to compete with larger established firms, must offer software at bargain prices. This often puts them on shaky financial ground during their most critical years.
Companies that are trying to save money by purchasing an MLM software from these small software houses find themselves virtually abandoned later on when they need assistance. The problem is that servicing one highly successful client can consume virtually all of the human resources of a small software company leaving the other clients out in the cold.
The more deadly problem is that smaller companies tend to go out of business without warning. If you value your business, stay away from the small vendors and stick to those with staying power and track records.
Buy an MLM software package that allows you to create your own reports.
Many packages force you to live only with those reports they put on the menus. Managers must resort to running large reports to answer small questions or concerns instead of small exception reports on demand. Small exception reports can be reviewed quickly and accurately.
Compare features.
MLM software is designed to handle specific business issues and often has a great deal of difficulty dealing with matters outside the original design. It's difficult to force a software to do things it was never intended to do.
Wise computer buyers compare features and capabilities, side by side, of one package to another. Ask the vendor which features they consider are unique to their package compared to others.
Remember that you are not just buying a computer; you are buying software, expertise, emergency support services, programming services, and starting a long-term relationship.
Choose your MLM software vendor wisely. Do not be tempted to penny pinch in the computer area. If you do, you may cripple your chances for success.
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