Does this scene feel familiar?

You’re sitting at your computer, working on advertising for your business. There is that phone call you need to make to a new prospect, or that video email you promised yourself you would create.

Instead, you find yourself glued to your chair, preferring to keep on doing the activity you already know how to do, rather than tackling the new one.  There is a subtle or not so subtle fear that creeps in every time you think about doing it.  You convince yourself that this preferred activity is important, that you are conscientiously working on your business.  But you’re not fooling anyone, least of all yourself.

This is a trap we all face – one we need to recognize and deal with if we want to actually move our business forward. We have to learn how to help ourselves move out of our comfort zone.

The first thing to remember is that the act of creating a business by its very nature means that you will be constantly moving out of your comfort zone.  You will step into new territory, become comfortable, then step out again.  Over and over.  And this is not just you – everyone who has made the journey to success in a home business has done the same, and faces the same fears that you do.

So, during your working hours, stop every once in a while and ask yourself, “Is there something important I need to be doing, that I am putting off?”  If the answer is yes, then notice how you are feeling, and look for the cause for the delay.  If there is no real reason for not doing it, maybe this is a step into new territory, and you are nervous or afraid to step out.

It’s important to actually notice when you are are feeling fear of something new, because it is only when you notice that you can take steps to deal with it.

Okay, so you’ve discovered that the next important task in your business is not getting done because your are not comfortable doing it, you are afraid to try it, you’re afraid you’ll blow it.  Great – now at least this fear is not flying under the radar, and you have the opportunity to make a different decision about it.

Talk to yourself about your fear.  Be kind, be firm.  Give yourself permission to blow it.  Give yourself a reward for trying.  Remind yourself that that unaddressed fear is sapping your energy, and it is far better to give the task a good try, no matter the result, than to be drained by fear of doing it.

And, most important, remind yourself that you do not need to do this task perfectly – you are learning!

To Your Success!

Susan

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The entire MLM industry has changed drastically in the last few years and it is becoming easier to become an MLM leader.  It is growing and changing as people come to understand that success is not about getting as many people as they can to just sign up, but rather uplifting others and helping them to actually achieve success!  The focus is no longer on how to be the best salesperson, and moved to how to be the best MLM leader.  So if you’re brand new to the industry, how does that affect you?  How can you become an MLM leader that people actually want to work with?

How to Become An MLM Leader

1. Learning

Every true MLM leader started out exactly where you are, knowing very little about how to achieve success.  To really become a leader you will need to start by learning whatever you can about the MLM industry.  This doesn’t have to mean buying courses and training (although that is the fast-track way to do it!)  Instead you can simply read MLM blogs, watch free MLM training videos, go through MLM bootcamps.  Do your best to learn one new specific skill every single day.  It could be on how to handle objections, how to market, how to setup a blog, etc.

You will quickly have something that other people don’t have, knowledge.  You then simply have to share this knowledge and new people in the industry will see that you are a true leader.  You don’t need to know everything to be a success, you just need to always continue on in the pursuit of knowledge.

2. Honesty

Anyone who has built a large organisation through lying about what it takes to succeed will have their business crumble underneath them.  Why?  Because if people have misconceptions about what it takes to succeed they won’t be prepared to put in the work necessary.  This is why I have made an MLM bootcamp.  I show people EXACTLY what they would need to do to be successful in MLM.  If they don’t think they can do it, they don’t join with me, if they know they can put in even just an hour a day, they know before they join exactly what they will need to do.  This means they hit the ground running when they start and will stand a much better chance at success!!

3. Consistency

Consistent and daily work is VITAL to becoming an MLM leader.  It doesn’t mean spending every spare moment on your business, but you need to be doing something daily to reach your goals.  If you choose to start an MLM blog the easiest thing to do is write and syndicate a blog post every day.  This will both allow your leads to see you are a leader, and they will see you are actually active!  It also means that over time you will rank more easily on Google and your marketing efforts will reach a tipping point where marketing becomes easy.  BUT you have to start with daily consistent work to get anywhere.

4. Assistance

When you work to actually assist others in their success without looking for anything in return, you will be a true MLM leader.  There is nothing more attractive then someone who genuinely wants to help and isn’t always trying to sell you something.  That’s why offering free training is one of the best things you can do to establish yourself as a leader.  For example, my bootcamp will teach ANYONE how to get leads and create a high traffic blog for their MLM.  Every person who goes through it will have the chance to see what MLM company I have chosen and some will want to partner with me because of my leadership, other people will take the information and become a success in their own business.

When you get to a place where you are prepared to help others without them being in your team (by offering a free training, etc.)  you will have truly become an MLM leader and your success is virtually guaranteed.

Solo Ads are a fantastic way to build your list, sell affiliate products, and establish yourself as an online leader. (Now I know I normally only advocate free advertising, but this is a great way to build a list really fast when you just want that extra boost!)

What are Solo Ads?

Solo ads are when you pay a marketer to email their list about you.  It works best if you think of it as a way to build your list, and if you make sales on the back end, all the better for you!  You set up some kind of offer, free report, etc that would interest the marketers list, make a simple opt-in page where the people have to opt-in to get your report, and then get the marketer to email their list telling them about this great new report!

When the marketer’s list gets to your opt-in page they put in their details so you can email them their free report, and voile you have that person on your email list!

What You Need For Solo-Ads?

1. Some kind of hosting for your Opt-in Page

2. A Freebie to Offer as the incentive to opt-in

3. An Email autoresponder to collect your leads

4. A one time offer or sales page to divert them to, to make money on the back end

Solo Ads Top Tips

Don’t waste time trying to get your freebie offer perfect, or let that put you off doing Solo Ads.  Go to Google and search for PLR dog training (or whatever your niche may be!)  You can buy a PLR ebook or report with rights to give it away for free and with your name on it!

Make sure you get rights to edit it so you can ad in some links to other offers, products, or your own webpage to continue establishing yourself as a leader in your niche.

Make sure to take the time to get something useful!  If your free offer isn’t very inticing, or isn’t very good you will have built a list of people who think you give away crappy ebooks!

Try to find a PLR product that also gives you a website to promote it!  This way you just add your opt-in box and away you go!

A Solo Ads Case-Study

Cost of PLR product: $6

Cost of Solo Ad: $100

Guaranteed number of Clicks: 250

My Freebie Offer: 10 Ways to 10K (it’s actually a fun little report, feel free to opt-in to get it emailed to you immediately)

I whipped together a solo ads case study to test if you really could do this well without putting in much effort!  I bought a PLR ebook, and the only tweaks I made was to add my name and a few links throughout the book.  I used their webpage and added my opt-in box that Aweber gave me.  Finally, I sent an email to the Solo Ads marketer I had chosen and asked that he include a P.S. line in the email telling people to watch the full video after signing up for the report.  The video was my secret “Commission Loophole” video that shows people how to get 100% commissions.

My Results:

Clicks: 310 unique (60 more than promised!)

Subscribers: 146

This is really not a bad result considering I didn’t change anything on the provided opt-in page.  I’ve already signed up new team members from this group, but the point is I now have 146 new subscribers to my list for $106 dollars and about 2 hours work!  This is a fabulous return!

If you want to try this yourself, visit this site to find Solo Ads in the Internet Marketing niche.  Read through the reviews and find the right solo ads provider for you!  I got my PLR report from thePLRstore.

Good luck with your Solo Ads!

Ok, so you may be a total “Newbie” to internet marketing, or you may have a little experience marketing online. One way or another, I want YOU to be a success! Here’s the three reason I want you to be the next newbie success story:

1. You’ll love me forever! LOL
If you’ve struggled to make money for years, and I provide you with the tool that FINALLY helps you break free and have your first big week marketing online, you will forever stick by my side. What does that mean for me? Well, having a loyal following helps to uplift what I do. When I have the backing of a strong team of people I will be able to do joint ventures with the leaders on my team, I will get loads of testimonials helping me to achieve more success myself, and I will feel fantastic! Trust me, the only better feeling than making your first big paycheck is having one of your team members make their first big paycheck.

2. Your story will help break others free.
People only get started in internet marketing as they have heard success stories. They know someone or have heard of someone who went from rags to riches. In this business the more success stories we have the better for the entire industry. Why? Because different people relate to different stories. You’ve all heard of the guys who went from homeless to rich, or woman who built her business from her hospital bed, or the average Joe who worked 60 hours a week in his job to finally break free and live the dream life at home!
One of the things that makes anyone successful is consistent and persistent work. If you never give up, you will eventually succeed. What stops people from giving up? Faith in the possibility of their success. What gives them this faith? The success stories of others!

3. It’s time for the “newbie revolution”
I’ve watched the home business industry change a lot over the years, but there was always one thing holding people back. If they didn’t have the technical skills, or the know how, to launch a high-traffic blog, to create converting capture pages, to write good copy, they were stuck. It takes most people a good 2 years to become in any way proficient at these internet marketing skills. What does this mean? A high failure rate. And a high failure rate is bad for business.

So where does Empower Network come in? It’s cutting out the technical set-up and marketing skills allowing total newbies to skip straight to success! It’s completely leveled the playing field finally giving everyone an equal chance to make money.

Let’s all lock arms and move together towards total internet domination! Newbies and all!

To OUR Success!

Niamh Arthur
Internet Marketer Extraordinaire

P.S. Watch the viral video that’s sweeping the internet: Here. Warning: Everyone who watches the video is never satisfied with less than 100% commissions again!

If you’ve just joined or are looking into an MLM home business you need to be sure that you know the pitfalls most people fall into so that you can become a success quickly.

The Three Traps to Avoid When Starting Your MLM Home Business

1. The “Overnight” Success Story Trap

You need to be sure you don’t have your “lifestyle” goggles on when you start your MLM home business.  The biggest trap is having the wrong expectations for how long it will take and the amount of work it will take to become a success.

You will need to pay for your success with either time or money.  If you have a bunch of money you can buy loads of paid advertising and become successful quickly.  If you don’t you will need to commit a solid amount of time to free advertising, calling your leads, and building your business.

If you follow a good strategy (I recommend the Easy MLM strategy), it will probably realistically take you 1-2 hours a day every single day for about 3-6 months to build a decent income.

2. The Trying a Little Bit of Everything Trap

Slap-dash marketing is a trap nearly all MLM home business owners fall into!  If you try a little bit of everything you tend to lose your money FAST as you don’t know how to properly market.  For example, you might try some Facebook marketing, combined with PPC, combined with article marketing, etc.  A bit of focused effort on ONE type of marketing will practically guarantee your success as you will become better and better at it as you learn.

When I started in this industry I spent months trying a little bit of everything and getting NO results from anything!  It was only after I dedicated myself to learning how to get leads from article marketing that I started to see decent results!  Now I also have a strategy to train my team on!

Be a specialist! Not a “jack of all trades”.

3. The Cashflow Trap

If you run out of money to advertise or promote your MLM home business you are dead in the water!  No cashflow basically means No business!

The easy solution to this trap is to create multiple streams of income as you work to build your MLM.  Be realistic and understand that it will take time to grow your business (especially as MLM’s grow slowly at the start until you reach the tipping point where your results become exponential!)

You can create multiple streams of income by providing tools and resources to your leads that can actually help them to learn how to make money from home even if they don’t join your business!  This way your leads will view you as someone who is actually helpful and would make a great leader for them if they do decide to join your MLM home business, and you will earn some money to keep marketing.

Try to find a tool that will solve some specific problem your leads are having.  For example, my leads are often interested in how to start their own blogs.  I use the how to blog tutorial to not only teach them, but to earn commissions if they decide to buy hosting to get started!  I also show them an option that involves no set-up, no hosting, and is easier to rank in Google (decide if it’s an option you want to promote to your leads by discovering it here).

Note: ONLY market a product if you’ve tried it and like it yourself.  If you don’t use it, don’t market it! You’ll only alienate your leads and lose their trust if you sell them crappy products.

How to Avoid the MLM Home Business Pitfalls?

You will need to leverage your efforts and get making money as fast as you can in your MLM home business.  You can do that by finding a decent strategy that an MLM leader is using.  Then you simply “follow the leader”.  Learn the strategy and implement it over and over until you get good at it.  Get some cashflow into your business so that you can STAY in business for the 3-6 months it will take for you to start seeing real success in your MLM home business.

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