*Always have a advertising budget whether you are marketing online, offline, or doing a combination of both. Advertising is essential to your business life and growth. Stick to your budget for a year so that you will have on-going momentum. At the end of the year, evaluate how you have done and make adjustments as needed.

*Keep in contact with your team. You can touch base with them on a regular basis by phone or by email. This is an important best practice strategy to implement, especially for those on your team who are serious team builders. Your team members joined, hopefully, because they know, like, and trust you. This doesn't stop after they join you, so keep in close contact. Once your team grows, you likely will not be able to talk and work with everyone 1:1. However, you can still work closely with your top leaders and teach them how to work with their people. This ensures strong support throughout the team.

*Have consistent lead generation. As a team leader you still need a constant influx of interested prospects into your business. The system you use to attract prospects must be duplicatable. It must be so simple that someone just starting out can use it successfully.

*Train leaders and make them successful. You should hear from your business builders, "I'll do whatever it takes", and not "Well, I'll just try and give it a shot." The second response usually means if things don't work out for that person, they may very well may quit. Leaders never complain to their upline or downline, and have their own aspirations, goals, and drams. You want to build leaders with strengths so they can lead their own team.

*Have a plan. Professional business people always write out a plan and action items to achieve their goals. Do this on a weekly basis and then review it at the end of the week. If you are not satisfied with the results, make adjustments for the following week.

*Discover the marketing practice that works best for you and become really good at it. This may be article writing, blogging, creating on-line videos, e-zine advertising, etc. If you are not sure what you want to do, implement what is working for others until you find what works best for you.

Becoming a successful network marketing distributor and leader does involve following the best practices others are using with great success. Study them, implement them consistently, and watch your business experience on-going growth.