1. 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. Keep the momentum going by sticking with your budget for a year. At the end of the year, evaluate how you have done and make adjustments as needed.

2. 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 downline joined since they trust, like and know 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.

3. Be consistent with lead generation. As a network marketing distributor, having a constant influx of interested prospects in your pipeline is necessary. It is also critical to make your entire sales and marketing system perfectly duplicatable. In other words, it should be so simple that a veteran or someone just starting out can use successfully.

4. Build leaders and make them successful. You want to 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 the person, they very well may quit. Leaders also make sure their distributors order products. They never complain to their upline or downline, and have their own aspirations, goals, and drams. True leaders also will run a meeting if you are away. You want to build leaders with strengths such as these on your team.

5. Have a written plan. As an expert network marketer, always write out your goals and how you plan to achieve them. Do this on a weekly basis, work it, and then review it at the end of the week. If you are not satisfied with how things turned out, make adjustments for the following week.

6. 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. Always implement what works for others while experimenting and finding what works for you.

Following these 6 tips will allow you to become a successful network marketer and leader. They have been tested and practiced by the best of us with great success. Study them, implement them consistently, and watch your business experience phenomenal growth.