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Are You A Part Of an Internet MLM Mastermind Group?

Kerri — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:49:28 +0000

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There are some techniques for network marketing that are truly successful. Though there are many people who brag about knowing the ‘best secrets’ for MLM system success, it is not so in real life. The method you choose has to be feasible and work well for everyone who uses it. A Mastermind Group is one such reliable tactic of succeeding in network marketing for MLM.

By Mastermind Group, we mean a team of people who think alike and also share the same aims and wishes. You can form such a group to share information, ideas and resources etc. This is very important from the view point of an internet MLM business as the network marketer.

Besides this, there are several advantages of creating a Mastermind Group such as:

Responsibility- You will adhere to your network marketing plans better when you know that you are answerable about your development to others. It creates a sense of accountability in you.

Collective expertise- Nobody can be a pro in all fields of MLM training or anything, for that matter. When you participate in such a group, you can learn from others and their knowledge and can gain a lot from others experiences. This way you become knowledgeable faster due to group support.

Synergy Effect- Anytime, the energy that you get from a peer group is unbeaten. When you interact and share your thoughts and doubts with others who are supportive of you and wish your success, you are in high spirits. This brushes on to everybody in the group naturally.

How do I participate in a Mastermind Group?

The best way is to create a group yourself! Simply find out people who think like you and are dedicated to achieve success in network marketing like you do. Tell them that you plan to form a Mastermind Group and inquire whether they would take part in the same. You will be surprised that unexpected people will love to be a member- your upline, downline or even crossline!

Ensure that the basic rules for communication, responsibility and other issues are set well before you start with this winning formula!

The One Line MLM Spillover Advantage

Kerri — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:37:33 +0000

Building an MLM business takes much effort, not only in terms of prospecting but also retention. Most marketing system focuses on lead generation and quick prospecting, however it is worthwhile to take a look at how we can increase the longevity of our residual income. One of the ways to achieve that is through keeping happy downlines and product users in the business. Dream Team Formula is designed exactly just for that.

In addition to the viral prospecting tools and quick lead capture techniques, DTF gives serious MLM leaders a configurable system to auto-allocate his/her team members in 1 straight line spill-over structure. The advantage of one line spillover is three-fold :

Extremely fast duplication

Newbies to MLM ride on the experience of uplines to quickly get started in advertising their business. Hardly any face to face coaching is necessary since the viral tools in the member’s back office provide step by step blue print for a duplicatable headstart. More importantly, the techniques incur very minimal cost and are based on 100% free traffic. Since the script automatically generate friendly referral URLs and attractive landing pages, very little knowledge and time are required to follow up with prospects too.

Maximum leveraging

One line spillover means everyone of your upline is helping you put the next prospect in your team. No longer is there concerns about competition, in its place is team work and pure marketing leverage. Every member in my team can be using the same landing page or email campaigns, but we are all building towards mutual profits. On top of that, all can reap the fruits of the synergistic effect, knowing that a small contribution of marketing effort from each person in the team can potential y yield significant income level. In today’s infinite web, one person can no longer be the single heavy hitter to achieve long term domination in any MLM opportunity

Instantaneous branding and credibility

One of the key traits of MLM leaders is their power to attract prospects and build trust quickly. What better ways for any leader to show commitment to the team then giving away their personal referrals to their newest downlines? In the one line spillover system, every upline can demonstrate their leadership quality by always placing new recruits in their deepest line. This encourages new members in assurance of income continuity, as well as an opportunity for each leader to showforth their unselfish act of putting the downline’s interests above self. It is no wonder that many Dream Team Formula leaders have a loyal following of downlines because each team member is convinced by their leader’s commitment.

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MLM Training: 29 Characteristics Of An MLM Leader

upstat — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:35:46 +0000

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Having trouble with getting your downline to be motivated, productive and to follow your MLM training guidance and suggestions? Here’s 29 proven actions that successful MLM leaders do; written by a leader with a downline of 56,000 people.

1. A network marketing leader doesn’t wait until he/she gets a large group before becoming a leader. It can’t work that way, because you would never get the large group if you’re waiting to be a leader first! Nor does the leader wait until they feel they possess the knowledge to lead; rarely they do. My observation is that leaders select themselves by taking on responsibility (the total reason something happens or doesn’t happen), rather than just the desire to lead. Want to be a leader? Go grab enough responsibility that it makes you feel like quitting every day; then don’t quit. Congratulations, that’s LEADERSHIP. From that basis there are many other attributes you can develop.

2. At events, the leader arrives early and reserves chairs for their entire group in the front row. Yes, there are normally only two front rows (left and right). If you’re in the 2nd or 3rd row, you’re still considered a leader. I spent five years getting up earlier than anyone else to make sure that my group had the front row. What I’ve found is that there are very rarely more than two leaders in any room; please understand what I mean by this. Once a person gets to a certain level of success, they will stop doing these simple leadership things because of ego. They suddenly become “too knowledgeable” to sit and listen to a speaker that has less time in the MLM business than them. If you remain humble and hungry the world is yours. So is the front row,by the way.

3. A true leader realizes that there is a difference between being a leader and being a leader of people. More on this later.

4. Network marketing “works” under many conditions, but when those relationships between you and your organization become tight and an “esprit de corps” is created, there’s nothing like it. I do mean nothing.

5. Appearance is impeccable. Even in jeans.

6. A leader “appears” organized: much like ducks cruising smoothly across the water, however, no one sees or knows how radical and out of control their feet are pedaling.

7. Leaders of people treat their people with respect. Respect means you have a good opinion of their character or ideas. Simply put, you are interested in your people, their ideas, their complaints, their fears, their successes; THEM!

8. As a leader, you develop or find five “Top Producers.” Devote yourself to them. Find three qualities that you like about each person. Write those in your day planner. Review them frequently, thinking of how you can help bolster one of those attributes. Bolstering an attribute can be many things: from a good verbal acknowledgement; to giving a telephone headset to someone as a gift who is working hard at making calls; to being their friend when they have a personal crisis.

9. New leaders are let down often by those they devote themselves to. Why? Because you selected the wrong person to devote yourself to. You only get good at character choosing with experience. Track record is really the only place to look first. What has the person been doing with their time; and what does the person do with his or her time? People are what they spend their time doing. Most great leaders begin in a hole and are mad about being there. Of highest concern is whether or not the person has been advancing. If they’re not, it might take a lot of work on your part; perhaps more work than you’ve already been doing. Every person who’s ever had the tough decision of choosing between lose two or lose one knows that this is one of the toughest decisions in life. Albeit controversial, do not sink yourself if doing so won’t save your mate. Cut away when you feel you’re being pulled under. If you help “able” people, they will help more people. If you try to help an unable person, they may sink you on their way down.

10. The network marketing leader organizes MLM training sessions and gets the product or service “specialist” in front of their group; whether it’s in person, on a conference call or on an audio or video. Example: your company carries a nutrition line created by Dr. Whoever. He specializes in human nutrition, and created an ingredient that is in your products that is truly unique. The leader will somehow get that doctor on a conference call with his or her group to raise their belief in the products.

11. A network marketing leader always gives “back” more. Example: let’s say that there’s a foul-up in processing distributor agreements in your downline. You get the distributors on the phone with a customer service rep that handles the situation. You know that that customer service rep really worked hard to help the situation. Yes, it’s their job, BUT, the leader will send that customer service rep a bag of M&M’s or flowers or something to say “thank you for going above the call of duty.” What do you think that customer service rep will do for your group now? Just about anything.

12. The leader climbs the ladder and finds out who the decision makers are at the company, and gets to know them but never bugs them. This is positioning yourself so that opportunity can see you. This is different than you seeing opportunity. Suddenly you find yourself speaking at the convention…hmm, I guess it was just luck. Yeah, right!

13. At the company conventions, the leader will introduce the corporate staff to their organization and vise versa. Even the order takers! Take the time to do this because it creates a sense of belonging for both the corporate staff as well as the distributors. Imagine the difference when a biochemist for a company has met 100 real people with dreams and passions about selling his/her product. Do you think that creates a stronger passion for the biochemist to create better products? Absolutely. All of this “belonging” and “passion” was created because of your leadership.

14. A leader in network marketing is the switchboard of information and communication. They’re not “in the loop.” They ARE the loop.

15. A leader can always be reached by fax, email and/or phone. Returned communication will occur in less than 24 hours. If that’s not a possibility, the message will indicate that it might be longer.

16. A leader never exposes weakness and fear to their organization. Some view me as being “inhuman” or robotic on this. What I mean by this is that the leader must always maintain their certainty about both the business opportunity and the MLM training system. I’ve never met a person in my life that doesn’t have fears and weaknesses. If you’ve got fears or doubts about your company, get over them or get out. Fly to the company today and get your concerns handled. Come back and be a rock for your group. I guarantee they’ll follow you. Conversely, share with them your little uncertainties and they’ll be so relieved that you’re “human”…and they’ll also find another leader to follow.

17. Recognizing that everyone is growing, a leader never invalidates the efforts of anyone in his or her organization. One person brings six guests to a meeting, another brings two, and the third brings none. The leader is able to notice that person number three is there, which might have been a major growth step for them. So instead of criticizing them for not bringing a guest, they praise them for being there.

18. The leader is always searching for and praising something about his or her people. “Little babies love praise, but grown men will die for it.” Men in battle will risk their lives for a 1″x1″ ribbon they pin onto their shirt above their left chest pocket. They wear this ribbon for the world to see. Forgo praise and you’ve missed out on the most powerful tool in your leadership arsenal. Praise for things they’ve yet to do, and you’ll create a person who withdraws from the group because you made them a fake.

19. If you share this list with your group, share whose content it is. If you don’t, you will also be guilty of the last sentence of item #18: seeking praise, respect, fame, etc. for what you didn’t do; makes you feel like a fake.

20. A leader uses and teaches new technologies in their organization; but only if it truly works. Don’t drive your organization down dead ends.

21. Leaders are ethical examples. If you “sneak” your people past the registration table, you’ve just ruined their perception of you. They can never trust you and they shouldn’t. You’ve got one shot at doing this right.

22. A leader creates alliances with needed national and international (if applicable) groups to ensure their group has support and representation. If no group exists, build it.

23. Leaders are more concerned about the growth of their people than the growth of their bonus check. Focus on the growth of your people; your bonus check will take care of itself.

24. A leader never says what they can get others to say. Example: my company calls and says, “We’d like you to speak at the company convention.” I accept graciously and then ask “Would it be possible for me to include a new leader named _________? They’re a good speaker and I would love to share the stage with them.” See, a leader wants his or her people to be leaders.

25. A leader never, ever speaks ill of anyone; even if they deserve it.

26. A leader acknowledges other leaders in the room. “We are honored to have in the room with us Mrs. 77. She conducts business meetings in the 44 area.”

27. A leader doesn’t get bent out of shape because they don’t get a return phone call from the corporate office; or the upline! More than once I’ve sent pizza to a department with special instructions to the delivery person telling them to say, “This pizza has already been paid for by Tim Sales. He asks only that after enjoying the pizza that you call him at 555-3797.” Everyone laughs and guess what? You get a phone call with the right tone in their voice for getting something done. Anyone can complain; they’re used to that. A leader finds amusement in creating more effective forms of communication.

28. A leader has a crystal clear vision about their network marketing company and where they’re taking it. If the company doesn’t have something, they don’t complain, they figure out how to convince the company to get it.

29. A leader, after reviewing this list, will print it out and do at least one item everyday.

I sincerely hope this MLM training article has inspired you and given you some things to think about as you lead and build your organization.

There are more, but this should get you started.

Much respect and admiration,

Tim Sales

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