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Three Strategies Used by Every Leader to Keep Downlines Happy and Gain Long Term Residual Income

Kerri — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:59:58 +0000

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Growing your own MLM marketing business can be a frustrating endeavor. This can be especially true when you find yourself at the beck and call of your parent company, doing all that they demand of you. Sooner or later you find out that this method does not work whatsoever. The following tips will be essential for you to help grow your MLM online business the easy way.

It is vitally important to know all about the products and services that are in your MLM business. This is the true way to be able to help your downline grow successfully. By understanding all that is involved with your products and services, you will be able to understand why people would want to purchase what you are selling in your online MLM business. Full and comprehensive understanding of your product will also make it easier for you to find the right people for you MLM online business when they ask questions or show interest in your products or organization.

For example, if you are marketing a weight loss program, your target prospects or audience will be people who are interested in losing weight. Or if you are market auto services, your target audience will be those who wish to purchase services for their automobiles.

An effective system is also a very important aspect in the growth of your MLM downline. Whether or not you will be able to grow your MLM marketing business will be decided by whether or not your have an effective system. Finding the right people and attracting them to you and your MLM business should be easier if your system has been set up effectively.

A person who wants to ensure that his MLM business will grow to the greatest levels must be very familiar with the telephone and the process of calling people, both one on one and conference calling. Being able to speak with prospects and people who are interested in your product or service is the most crucial element in making sure your MLM business is successful. When there are prospects who want to speak with you about your products or services, then a growing business becomes much easier to develop and maintain. For example, if you spoke with twenty people a day with the intent of getting at least five of those people to become interested in your products or services, that is twenty-five new people a week into your business.

Being an excellent writer is a very good way to get people interested in what you are selling. It would be better to enroll people into your business without having to meet them one on one and speak with them individually. You can extrapolate that by being able to reach many people and give them all the information they need to draw their interest. That can be done by using articles or blogs, but excellent writing skills will be a total necessity for this to work. Nobody is going to read your pitch if you can’t spell or use grammar correctly. If you can’t describe what you’re trying to sell, how will anyone be convinced to buy it?

How Deep is Your Valley, How High is Your Sky?

jkhbraveheart — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:50:21 +0000

I woke today with the words a€chow deep is your valley, how high is your skya€ infiltrating my mind, and it made me pause to truly contemplate their meaning and their significance in my life at this time.

I am in one of the valleys of my life, a journey which is giving me cause for reflection, is creating some angst, and is at the same time, giving me the privilege of truly knowing myself, my strengths, my goals, and my aspirations. Yes, indeed, it is a deep valley.

And then, as I looked through my bedroom window at the dawning of the day, I suddenly realized that I can also claim to be as high as the sky. How so?

As humans we have been given everything we need to live this earthly life by a merciful, generous, and very gracious God, but we are often so caught up in our rituals, our beliefs and our goings on that we fail to truly appreciate the gifts given.

Pause for a moment, and consider the beauty of spring, parading its colours in the many shades of the rainbow. Remember the vivid blue of the skies, which can suddenly turn to grey, and just as quickly return to blue-and compare it to our quick-silver emotions-when we are touched by the kindness of a friend, a neighbour, a family member., or when we are feeling a lack of self-confidence, a feeling of aloneness, perhaps a feeling of betrayal from an unexpected source.

If we choose to remember that sunshine always follow the rain, we can bounce back and experience the joy every moment can bring into our lives.

My thoughts then changed to thoughts of summer, and the amazing energy this season seems to bring with it. I remembered the laughter of children, the happiness of lovers totally engrossed with each other, the quiet joy of parents and grand-parents as they watched their off-spring at play, or remembered the days of their own youth, and I knew in my heart that we always have this amazing energy to carry us through any dilemma we may be experiencing. The key to breakthrough is acceptance first, and then focused energy after to bring desired results.

Autumn was the next season that flitted through my mind, and I found myself being caught up in the brilliance of the colours of this season, of the preparation the earth makes for its a�˜resting period, and I realized that we too, must go through a period of rest to re-assess, re-confirm, and re-direct our energies that will bring us to a better and more positive place in our lives, emotionally, physically, spiritually, and consciously.

And so I finally came to the season of winter, the season of rest. I paused for a bit, and wondered what this season meant to me. As I visualized the blankets of white snow as it lay on the ground, and the often grey skies above, I also remembered the starkness of the trees, stripped of their glory, but seemingly offering a prayer to the universe in thankfulness that for a while they could lay their burden down and just a�˜bea€ .

And I thought that this is what we all really need to do to lay our burdens down, trust in the process, act on our beliefs with confidence, and know that we have been given all we need to succeed in this very temporary life.

I realized then that my valley is only as deep as I choose to make it and I understood that I have been given the gifts to enable me to live my life in a manner that is as high as the sky! It is my very good pleasure to tell you that you have also been given these amazing gifts! Will you pause, assess, accept, and fully use the gifts you have been given?

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How To Give MLM Training To Your Downlines

Kerri — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:36:28 +0000

MLM Training is essential for your downlines because it’s important for them to understand what your company is all about and it should be a top priority for MLM companies even if there is a small number of downlines.

The MLM training usually start with an introduction of what the MLM Company is, the products or services that they sell, their marketing strategies or techniques, and how much commission or payment you can expect to receive.

Firstly, you must also give your downlines all the resources they need such as promotional materials, brochures, conference call sessions, follow up tips and ensure that they are aware of the different promos and updates on the company so they can offer the best suggestions to their customers. You should also consider introducing them to the persons above them so that these people can help them get to know more about the company and give them useful tips and hints on how to sell effectively.

Secondly, some tools can assist you greatly in MLM training. For example, telephones and teleseminars could give MLM downlines opportunities to share their knowledge with their members and also MLM members can make use of these networking sessions to offer the company’s products to potential prospects.

The technology today enables your members to connect to their customers effortlessly. Example are social networking sites like Yuwie and Facebook. Blogging is also a good way of keeping in touch with your team. Knowing this, you should utilize the tools or technologies that are available like giving those materials which could show them the advantages by joining your downline, video clips by the company CEO to make your company looks credible and many more. If you need free stuff to give away, check out the freebies here.

Lastly, MLM training doesn’t need to be complex and expensive to the company. Just teach them what you have learnt to become successful in MLM and see how beneficial it can be.

Maximum Downline Retention With MLM Training

Kerri — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:07:31 +0000

If you are in the MLM business, you would have experienced this frustrating problem where you recruit one person and it seems that two others would leave. You probably have wondered why it is so difficult to get your MLM downline to stay active and increase your downline retention rate.

We focus all of our time and effort on the toughest parts of building the MLM business, which is recruiting new downline members. Yet we forget to take action on the easiest and most important part: following-up on our existing downline members.

Your goal for your MLM business should be to improve the downline retention in your team and to be a strong leader for your downline. Let’s take a look at three critical strategies which you can incorporate in your MLM training to make sure your downline stays active for years and not months.

Firstly, follow-up is following-through. Just because someone signs up in your MLM Company does not mean the sale is complete and you can forget about it the next day. You have to follow-up with your new downline member within five days. Make an effort to call them within five days to ensure they are happy, are happy with the product and they will appreciate it. If they want to build the business, make sure that the resources are available to them. Remember that helping them is equivalent to helping yourself. Besides phone calling, you can automate your followup process with weekly newsletter. This can be easily setup with an autoresponder program.

Secondly, you could keep a database on members in your MLM downline because as your business grows, it will become hard to keep all downline data and their individual needs in your head. You have to create customer information such as their goals, accomplishments or even something that is not related to your business. I assure you that they will be really surprised and impressed when you can still “remember” their personal information when you follow up. The Dream Team Formula back office offers you exactly that, you can add downlines to unlimited levels and email them through our hosted solution.

Lastly, you could develop a close relationship with your downline. Try to be genuine in your concern for your members and show them that you are their friend, not just in it to get their money. If you provide great value through concern for them as a friend and deliver high quality customer service, you will find your members working hard and staying active as long as you want.

If you want an active and profitable downline in your MLM business, remember in your heart that how much you can earn will be in direct proportion to your personal follow-up.

7 MLM Downlines Leadership Secrets

Kerri — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:56:06 +0000

Before getting into any business one should do some ground work to understand the market, and the industry. In the case of a Multi Level Marketing (MLM) venture too, such background information must be gathered early. One should also understand that the concept of internet marketing is new and there are companies who have been in the game since before.

While starting out a MLM venture, the people involved need to be educated about how it operates, and money to be made by leveraging on their contacts. It is advisable for the main distributor from the company to let his agents create teams and be in charge of them. The sales consultant can be paid a commission based on how many more people he ropes in instead of just on sales done.

There are seven techniques to lead your MLM downlines whereby not only will the sales increase but the level of participation as well. These are :

Effective communication : It is important for the representative from the company to get in touch with each of the distributors to introduce and hand hold them. The person also needs to share his contact details with the sales representative or consultant to get in touch with for any queries.
Personal touch : Every time a new sales person joins the name, it is the duty of the manager from the company to speak with them, encourage them and build relationships with them.
Support system : Make sure to understand the downlines working with you as this will give you an idea as to how to guide them. Provide tips or inputs every now and then so they can work better.
Consistent monitoring : There should be periodical review of the consultant’s performance and help those who need some extra guidance.
Correct team focus : Over a period of time there will be four to five downlines working with you. It is necessary for you to balance the teams’ focus between sales and building a network.
Realistic goals : A healthy downline doesn’t necessary result in high sales figures. You need to stay in close contact with them and make sure they are getting adequate support from their sponsors.
Let them lead : The downline must be given a chance to showcase their abilities and bring success to the business. Give them the information needed and let them take it from there.

How To Retain Your Downlines? Profit Sharing Marketing Concept Explained

Kerri — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:38:09 +0000

The problem:

The average retention rate of network marketers in any MLM company is 3 months
90% of people are spending more money in their MLM business then they will ever make
Only 3% of network marketers are financially free

What is the cause of the problem?

The drop out rate is higher then sponsoring rate
There is no retention strategy and downline training system in place
There is no viral prospecting system that immediately puts cash in your pocket while you wait for your residual income to build up

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How To Make Money Even If You Have Lazy Downlines

Kerri — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:27:07 +0000

95% of network marketing business owners are lazy. This means that even if you are a serious mlm recruiter, you will probably end up with majority downlines who will do nothing yet expecting you to build their business.
But all is not lost. There is still hope. Just follow the 5 steps below to transform your donwlines to your goldmine.

Step 1 : Find out what your lazy downlines enjoy doing.
It doesn’t have to be anything relevant to the business. As long as they have a hobby, this technique works. One way of finding out is to ask them how much time they spend daily thinking about or doing a particular activity. It can be anything from watching the tv, coin collecting, playing golf or even gossiping!

Step 2 : Reward them for doing more of what they enjoy.
Once you can pin point an interest, ask your downline to surf the internet or head to the library to gather more information about their hobby. The materials can be in any format – text, videos, audios, images, digital or hardcopies. This should be easy for them since they would be diving into their areas of interest, furthermore they may already have an archive of such information. After sufficient materials are gathered, reward your downline for their effort.

Step 3 : Work with them to form a cult-like following with similar interests
Teach your downline leadership skills — remember in any network marketing business, success depends on developing your group to the fullest potential. Using the materials they have compiled, your downline can now be an expert in his/her niche. As long as value-added information is disseminated in a meaningful and systematic fashion, your downline can now be consider as an authority. This is easily attained in the internet age, one powerful technique is blogging.

Step 4 : Use a self-sustainable system that automatically attracts continuous streams of visitors to join the group
It is not enough to just have a loyal group of followers. In order to really explode your business, the group needs to grow exponentially. Here you can use the mlm business system and word of mouth marketing to create buzz. By providing incentives for groupies to spread the news, you will be able to generate ongoing visitors to your website.

Step 5 : Share with them how your network marketing opportunity can potentially give them the financial and time freedom to do what they enjoy
Now that you have helped your downline become an authority in his/her field of interest, it is easy to share your network marketing business with the group members. People are inherently looking for better lifestyle, wealth building and time saving opportunity. Therefore, all you have to do is to position your business proposal as a solution to their problems.

In fact, lazy downlines are probably the best people to work with. By tapping into the right interests, you will be on your way to building a multi-niche cash empire.