MLM Success Doesn’t Have to Be Hard!

Joining an MLM business is a very exciting and confusing time!  You need to learn new skills and abilities to become a true success so that you can quit your job, work from home, enjoy your family, and live your dream life.

There are four stages everyone moves through on their way to success in this business.  By understanding them you can ensure you move to stage 4 as quickly as possible!

Reach MLM success Fast by identifying what stage you are currently at, and how to move on quickly!

1. What the Heck Am I Doing?

You’ve just joined your business with big dreams of MLM success and you’re raring to go.  You know you don’t want to just pitch your business to your friends and family, you want to actually make it big! You want to be the next big MLM success story, so you decide to market your business online.  Great choice!  But now what?

You realize you need to set up a website, create a lead capture system, drive traffic to your website, etc.  There are a bunch of techie set-up activities that are frankly confusing!

Ok, a bunch of people fall off at this stage because they become overwhelmed and confused, they run out of money and they quit!

Get through this stage as FAST as possible.  Make it as simple as you can by finding someone who can give you direct instructions on what you need, and more importantly what you DON’T need.  Too many people waste time in set-up and never get off the ground.  Get your system set up so you can move on to stage 2.

2. Work, work, work!

Most people really underestimate how much work it will take to become an MLM success.  For some reason people think it will be easy money!  The truth is, it is easy money, but only later on.  You first need to build a big organization that earns money for you.  No one expects a brick and mortar business to be easy and make a fortune straight off the bat, so why would you expect your MLM business to be?

The truth is every MLM success story starts with a lot of passion that drives people to work hard until they achieve success.  This doesn’t mean you have to be a slave, but the harder you work, the FASTER you will achieve MLM success!

Expect to spend at least 1-2 hours per day on your business for 3-6 months before you reach the next stage.  If you can spend more time you will get there faster.

Again, you will make this stage go more quickly by following a proven MLM success and marketing strategy.  You don’t want to waste time figuring out what to do, but spend the time doing it!

Most people quit before they ever reach stage 3 of MLM success!

3. Creating Leaders

Most new MLMers don’t even realize this stage exists!  They think they will go from nothing to sitting back watching other people make them money in no time.

Here’s the deal, unless you are showing people how to become an MLM success themselves, you aren’t ever going to have a downline that makes you money.  Expect everyone who joins your business to fail, UNLESS you train them.  This doesn’t mean hand-holding them.  But provide them with all the knowledge you can, make sure they know the 4 stages of MLM success themselves so they can push through stages one and two.  Don’t sugar coat things and make people think they won’t need to work, because when the reality sets in you will lose them!

Don’t be afraid to push people towards their own success, but let them choose their own path.  There is no blueprint one way to become an MLM success.  They will need to find their own voice and their own strategies so that they become leaders. You can help them do this by ensuring they have access to up-to-date industry training (the best tool for this is My Lead System Pro)

Expect to spend at least the second 6 months to a year in this stage.  You will be earning big money, but you will still need to work to keep that income coming in.  Your focus will shift from marketing to developing your team and finding ways to make it easier and easier for them to move from stage 1 towards stage 3.

It’s when your team members become LEADERS that you really start to earn huge amounts of residual income!

4. Sipping Margaritas on the Beach

Once you have established strong leaders (possibly about two years into your business) you finally do get to wind down.  Obviously 1-2 hours a day isn’t exactly tough, but you can comfortably take a back seat from here and only work a day or two a week.  Allow your leaders to step forward and help others on your team.  Create an environment where your team members can mastermind and help each other toward MLM success.

You can spend less time on the phone and hand off your leads to your team-members.  You can comfortably step back knowing that your team will keep moving as you have taken the time to build momentum.

Don’t forget, when you stop completely (i.e. no work at all) your team may in fact eventually dry up!  I’ve seen people take a year out here and there no problem.  All it takes is an hour or two a week to maybe do a webinar training with the team.  They simply need to know you are still there supporting them and they stay motivated.

MLM success is not hard,  frankly it’s the best way to live the dream lifestyle, but you NEED to make sure you keep working until you get there and don’t quit too soon.

STAGE 2 is the most important to your business!  He who works the hardest (using an actual marketing strategy, not trying to do everything at once!) wins!

It really is that simple.

Ready to become an MLM Success?

If you’re at stage one of MLM success you need to learn how to get through the technical part quickly, if you’re at stage two you need to finetune your marketing strategy so your work is always bringing in results, if you’re in stage three you need an easy way to train your team without having to direct them step by step, if you’re in stage four…why are you even reading this?

You can cover all of these stages by signing up for the lead generation bootcamp (it’s completely free) at the side of this page.

It will show you how to set all your systems up in less than a week, what to do in stage 2 to build an ever green marketing system that will become a business asset, it will show you the marketing system and training tools that will allow your team to learn this (without you having to make your own training videos), and it will help you take shortcuts, remove stumbling blocks, and move to true MLM success FAST!

 

 

To Your Absolute (and Easy) Success!

P.S. Want to know the simplest and easiest way to be successful?? Join a team of thousands that are all working on the same simple plan to leverage the power of a community to ALL become a success: Learn more here.

Beat Laziness: Become an MLM success by being more consistent than everyone else!

Why is Consistency so Important to MLM Success Anyway?

1. Being Consistent is Easier than Being Inconsistent

This may surprise you, but the more consistently you do something the easier it becomes.  Once you’ve figured out what you need to do and you start to do it consistently everyday you will become better and better at it.  This means when you sit down to do work you will waste less time trying to “get back into it” and will simply take the next action from where you left off.

It is also mentally easier.  Have you noticed when you are inconsistent you suffer more from business guilt and uncertainty.  Consistent action will help you be certain that you are going to become an MLM success, as long as you keep going. (Remember 90 days is that magic number for your efforts to really take hold!)

2. You will beat the competition

There is a lot of competition out there in the network marketing industry.  You may not have the resources that some of your competition has, but you can be more consistent than just about everyone by simply following your daily plan for 90 days.  Most people give up around 30 days, or at least start to slack off a bit.  Most people are lazy! This is where you can take advantage of your momentum and beat the competition.

Remember, you will not only become better at what you are doing, but you will also have the benefit of the work you have already done.  For example, if you are trying to rank your blog in Google it will become easier to rank for more competitive keywords as you go.  Google will see you as more of an authority site as you build and will choose your website to rank more easily.

How to Be Consistent and Become an MLM Success

The reason most people are inconsistent is twofold.  Most strategies take about 2 to 3 mths before you really start to see good results and many people are not able to work without seeing instant results.  People don’t usually value their business.  They got into network marketing to have more time or money, so they rarely want to invest the time or money it will take for them to become an MLM success!

Here are a few tricks to help you become consistent and reach MLM success:

1. Create Inspiration Triggers

The more obsessed you are with your business the more likely it is you will work.  What inspires you to work?  What makes you want to work on your business?  It’s different for different people.  For me, it’s typically books.  When I don’t feel like working I tell myself that’s ok, I’ll read something like Think and Grow Rich instead.  After about ten minutes of reading I realize that I really do care about my current goal and instantly want to dive into work!

Your inspiration triggers could be:reading this blog , reading success stories, reading personal development books, getting on company calls, working through trainings, re-reading your goals, making a journal about your progress, etc.  Whatever makes you feel inspired to get going!

Have plenty of ammo to fight laziness!

2. Create Rewards

If you’d REALLY rather watch that tv show, or go to bed early, etc.  Give yourself what you want as a reward.  If you are doing article marketing you could tell yourself that you get to watch the show as a treat when you’ve finished one article.  This can also help you work more quickly as you have something to look forward to at the end.

This way you can enjoy the things you love without guilt as you know they are a reward for your hard work!

3. Create Schedules

The easiest way to be consistent is to treat your network marketing business like a job.  Schedule in your work time and actually follow that schedule.  Go to your desk, lock the door, and get working.  This can really help if you are struggling to find time in your day to work.  You could set 8 to 9 every evening as work time and then tell your family they need to work around it!  This really helped me as my family knows what times I am available to them and we can schedule our plans around my work times!

4. Celebrate Your Wins

It can be hard to motivate yourself to be consistent.  Nothing makes people more consistent than seeing results! So see results EVERYWHERE.  Your results might start out as the time you are putting in, then the next week you can start measuring traffic you are driving, eventually you will be measuring results in leads, then finally in money!  It will take time with any strategy to get to making money!  So don’t start out using that as your measure of success….at first your consistent action is a measure.  As you get more results you know what you’re doing is working…and the money will eventually come if you KEEP working.

The Real Key to Consistency and MLM Success

1. Make sure you are consistent at the right things! A lot of people are great at being consistent at checking their emails, checking if leads came in, watching trainings, etc.  But this wont get you leads or MLM success!  You need to be consistent at money making activities.  If you’re not sure what to do, you can start by taking the MLM lead generation bootcamp (just fill in your details at the right for access) and it will take you step by step through creating high-quality leads.

2. Have a goal!  I know you’ve heard this a million times, but if you’re actually working TOWARDS something it is easier to do the work! Don’t just decide to be an MLM success, decide what that means to you.  Exactly how much do you want to be earning in 90 days.

3. Remember the 90 days rule.  Any MLM strategy will work for you, but nearly ALL of them take about 90 days to see consistent results! Don’t crap out at 30 days like everyone else.  Push through and commit yourself to 90 days of consistent work.  If you want you can go back to being a coach potato after 90 days, but give your dreams and future 90 days of consistency and you will become an MLM success!

To Your Absolute (and Easy) Success!

P.S. Want to know the simplest and easiest way to be successful?? Join a team of thousands that are all working on the same simple plan to leverage the power of a community to ALL become a success: Learn more here.

There are 3 reasons to use Article Marketing to promote any business, and these particularly apply to Network Marketing.

SEO

Articles are one of the best ways to develop your search engine optimization. Instead of trying to rank for really competitive keywords like “Make Money from home”, you can write a more specific article targeting a long-tail keyword such as, “make money from home using article marketing” (I haven’t done any research on that one, so I have no idea if it’s a good one to target, just an example). When someone types in a long-tailed keyword they are looking for something in particular, they want specific tips, not a general page and your article can deliver this. Give people what they want and they come back for more, sign up for your RSS or newsletter, etc.

SEO works based on onsite and offsite factors. So onsite you want your articles to be categorized by the more competitive keywords you would like to have, our example would be categorized in “Make money from home”. Your title should include the long-tail keyword, but be fun. So it could be “Create Massive Results and Make Money from home using article marketing.” Use tags, metatags, etc with your keyword in it. For offsite, generate links back to your article. This boosts your popularity.

Create Traffic from High-Quality Sources

You will want to distribute your article to a few high traffic directories. Make sure you follow their rules as some don’t accept duplicated content (but I do have a work-around for that). I tend to shorten my article a little bit because people reading on directories don’t read long wordy posts, but like you to get to the point quickly. If they like what they read they will go back to your site to read more. Link back to your original article on your site (this helps the “offsite popularity” links for your SEO). You can usually include two links in a resource box, so I tend to also have one to my capture page or main blog page, so I’m not sending them to reread the same article. Use your text and hyperlinks to encourage them to click on your main link, not your article link.

This second part helps your SEO for organic traffic as you are generating links from highly ranked pages, but also can give you traffic straight from high-traffic sources. A lot of people read articles on directories, and again, if you are giving them what they are looking for they will want to learn more from you. You can get great traffic directly from these sites, and you will have “borrowed” credibility from being an expert author on the article directory site.

Brand Yourself as a Leader

This is WHY you should be article marketing for your MLM business. A lot of MLMers don’t understand why you would want to give people information, they think they just need to capture leads. A lead that already has received good value and education in an area they are interested in is much more qualified for your time. They will take you seriously, know that you can actually help them (because you already have), and will see you as a leader. Anytime you have knowledge someone else is looking for, they will look up to you as a leader. Don’t make the mistake of thinking people are looking for an opportunity. They are looking for a person who is a true leader and can assist them in achieving success. The opportunity is simply the tool they can apply to get to the success.

Bringing it together, the step by step plan:
1. Research a relevant long-tail keyword that people are actually searching for. (There’s a training on keyword research in the free training center you can sign up for at the right). Make sure it’s something you can create a great title around.

2. Educate yourself about the topic and write a 500-700 word article about it. Put the article on your blog with the SEO components we discussed.

3. Distribute a shortened version or a different version to a few quality article directories. The best one’s I’ve found are EzineArticles, Go Articles, and Articlesbase. Link back to the original ARTICLE directly (so Google knows you’re the source of the info).

4. Connect the article to your social networks. There are several WordPress plugins you can use to automatically syndicate your article to Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. This builds more high-popularity links back to the article, and increases your status as a leader to your friends and followers in your networks.

5. Lather-Rinse-Repeat!
Do it consistently. Make a pact with yourself that you will do one article daily and start building massive quality traffic to your blog. Make sure you have a marketing system in place to capture your traffic, and start creating your MLM empire.

You can learn more about these strategies (in my Free Training Center) and see the marketing system that I use by entering your details in the form at the right.

Also if you want to put this strategy on STEROIDS and get ranked on the first page of Google quickly and easily, check out the Automatic Article Submitter which is reviewed on my Resources page.