Catch up on Key 1 here

Find Key 2 here

Find Key 3 here

Key 4 Be a solution provider a.k.a sign them up!

This is the key that opens the vault! Being a solution provider is just that. If you gain a new subscriber to your list who makes it clear they are interested in generic business building materials help them find the best funded proposal for them and you will make one or several affiliate sales.

If they are open to looking at your MLM or contact you to request more info then direct them straight to your business info. Don’t complicate it all with the affiliates and try and explain it all at the same time. They will DROWN in information.

With affiliates, especially when you’re new to building a list, the best way I found to build relationships is to offer a free consultation.

You can offer a completely free initial consultation to find out more about them and/or you can offer a more detailed consultation when they buy an affiliate product.

This way you are monetizing your time and not wasting it with the wrong people.

You are signing them up either as an affiliate or as a new team member

In the 7 Pieces MLM Online System you can download a complete script for your step by step consultation process that can be used with any MLM.

In the next series we’ll be looking at how to build direct to your MLM with online methods WITHOUT using affiliate marketing.

If you enjoyed this series please leave a comment or retweet it.

So you’ve started your new business, or you have new team members starting their new business..

It’s all trumpets and horns, bells and whistles. You’ve enrolled someone and you are EXCITED!

All your wonderful dreams of exotic trips, time freedom and your personal chef whiz come rushing back and you can FEEL it! This is it. You got a GOOD ONE this time!

This could be the one. He is excited, motivated and says he is gonna do what it takes.

A couple of days later you start to come back down to reality right? Doubts sometimes creep in. What if I should show him this way, or that way?

What about that email that Mike Dillard sent out? That’s it, maybe I should leap right in and show my new team member how to make whiz bang videos.

Then we can cut right through all that making a list nonsense, and warm contact marketing. Why bother when we could be the masters of video marketing by next week?

You’re halfway through the video session when you realize that your new team member is completely lost. He has

a) never made a video other than on a stag night in Paris (say no more)
b) doesn’t want to make videos cause he’s a bit shy and thinks he has a face for radio
c) doesn’t know what to say because he doesn’t understand the business yet AT ALL!

Ok so this may be an extreme example but you get the point right?

There is no point learning and teaching all the fancy stuff if you and your guys don’t know (or teach) the fundamentals.

The CRITICAL time with your new team member is in the first couple of days that they are getting into action.

This is make or break time. It doesn’t matter how great your videos are. If you can’t show this new guy how to get into productive activity with a step by step daily method of operation, the chances are he will be dead in the water before you can say ‘Go Diamond!’

Next time you call him he might say something like, ‘No one is interested in this deal. I have spoken to EVERYONE.’

Your face drops, your exotic trips and visions of your sleek black mercedes fly out the window and you think to yourself ‘why can’t I recruit more people like me?’

Why doesn’t he get it? Has this guy not seen the compensation plan?

I know there are thousands of ‘orphan’ distributors roaming around the internet looking for love. There are many wounded MLM soldiers who just ‘don’t have a good upline.’

There are also thousands of distributors who have a perfectly mega business plan to follow but whom don’t follow it because they think they know better.

Whichever category you might fit into this is for you. If I’ve missed your category out then I APOLOGISE and this is for you too.

By the way I’m British so please don’t send me any more emails about my weird spelling. My spelling has been approved by the Queen but not by the President of USA so don’t let that put you off!

Sometimes I use a z instead of an s so that my American readers feel more at home with me, and sometimes I don’t.

Let’s just say I am a global speller. It suits me anyway cause I’m not much of a conformist.

Ok here goes. Are you ready for the 1st Secret of Launching Your MLM Business Fast but Right?

Secret 1) Help your new team member make a 100-200 names list of their contacts. (Don’t cry and be a baby here please) Everyone who is anyone on the internet is working their ‘warm list.’

Whether you are working mostly on or offline your warm list might not be so great when you start but it gets better as you develop your skills and your network.

You can bet that Donald Trump is working his ‘warm list,’ right now. It’s called Networking.

That’s life so get over it! Successful business involves networking with other people…and you have to start somewhere to get these skills even if your warm list looks like a who’s who of X-Factor rejects.

Don’t cheat your new team member out of exposing your fabulous business to people he knows (ok he can leave great old auntie Ethel off the list seeing as she has gout and just turned 100)

If your business isn’t fabulous what the heck are you doing in it anyway?

Your computer won’t save you from a bad business model.

Stay tuned for Secret 2. It’s coming to an inbox near you very soon!

If you leave a comment it would be cool. Have you tried out Disqus yet?

Holy Moly what do I need to do round here to get a comment? (Just kidding!) You guys are great but a comment builds your online network and gets you a back link… It’s a bit like that Kevin Bacon 6 degree thing in the blogging world.

I’m just back from a leadership convention in Rome and have some brilliant business builder training for you today.

I captured Randy Gage with my FLIP video, live on stage at his very best.

Some of you may have been fortunate enough to attend some of Randy’s live events or listen to his generic MLM training CDs etc.

If you have then you’ll know how amazing he is, and if you haven’t then let me have the pleasure of introducing you to Mr Randy Gage!

Watch the first video here: Amateurs versus Professionals

In summary there are 4 basic skills you need to develop to become a Network Marketing Professional:

1) How to make and maintain a candidate list
2) How to work your candidate list
3) How to invite prospects to take a look – (probably the most difficult but remember that you can’t look good & get better at the same time!)
4) Following up

Randy explains that these four skill-sets (and practicing them!) can take you to a $100k per year in Network Marketing.

There are 2 Advanced Skills

5) Doing presentations
6) Leadership Development

How are you doing on that? As I keep saying no matter how great you become with attracting prospects to you, you still need to learn the core skills to enrol people and to build a huge group. (And Randy will be the first to tell you that as he becomes very irritated by claims that you can build a group purely online)

So amateurs do things for free and professionals get paid.

Moving on to the final video for today check this out:

Randy Gage asks the Magic Question

It’s a very short video and a very short question! Leave us your comments and let us know your answer at the blog.

p.s There are a few references to my company here but I think you’ll agree that the value of the training far outweighs that, and the fundamentals are the same whichever company you are working with.

Here I am enjoying the top leadership lifestyle champagne & 6 course recognition dinner in Rome. The diamond lifestyle really does take some beating!

Part 1 – New School & Old School MLM Exposed…

It seems pretty clear that everything has changed in MLM with the new economy.

Online MLM or Attraction Marketing has swept through the industry over the last couple of years. Today we’ll take a look at how things have changed due to the recession or ‘new economy.’

There is a continuous (and fairly irritating) debate about what we should do in MLM to build our business these days. It’s known as the ‘old school, new school’ debate.

Many Network Marketing professionals say we should stick to tried and tested methods such as making a list of candidates and calling them about our new business.

Some of the new school online Network Marketers wrinkle their noses up in disdain and almost spit at you if you as much as dare suggest that strategy.

So what’s the best way to build your MLM business in this new economy?

I think we have come a long way and it is now possible to generate free leads every day for your business with purely online methods – If you have an effective MLM ATTRACTION MARKETING FUNNEL in place!

If not then all you are doing online when you zoom around Facebook bumping into people, is the same as you do offline! That’s ok if it works for you.

I prefer to know that I have a system in place that my team can plug into and use to generate leads online, and that prospects can check out our MLM even if we’re not glued to our computers all day long networking.

Make sense?

If you happen to be out in the real world having a coffee with someone you know and like why would you not mention that you have a great home business?

The only reason I can think of is if you don’t think it’s all that great! (If that’s the case then find a new one that you can be proud of)

People are desperate for a financial solution so in this new economy it is not the time to be an undercover MLM agent!

A common desire of people joining Network Marketing is to help others succeed. Keep that in mind and remember that your MLM opportunity could indeed change someone’s life.

Anyhow the point being online and offline work equally well if you want them to, but its all about the way you operate. Are you a Network Marketing professional both on and offline?
I am as bored as you probably are of hearing all the hype about how to generate 1 zillion leads a day ‘effortlessly’ blah blah blah.

On the other hand I’m also bored of hearing that we can’t duplicate online with social media and online methods. You just watch me, I think!

It is madness. Social Media is here to stay and it is our online neighbourhood, so we had better learn to play nicely and instead of lobbing vampires at each other why not build our financial security instead?

In this new economy I feel it is our obligation to notify people we care about of what we are doing. You don’t have to ‘pitch’ them and they don’t have to join for goodness sake! Just let them know in a professional way.

I’ve never bought into all that hype about ‘losing friends and family,’ etc. If you don’t have good training on invitation and prospecting skills then get some!

If you don’t have good friends then ummmm… look for some who will support you in your quest for an abundant life.

There is so much great MLM training available. Visit Randy Gage or Eric Worre and learn how to invite people to review your MLM without begging or crying.

These MLM professionals are giving mega generic MLM training freely and more importantly both of them are huge producers in an MLM business right now!

There really is no need for all that drama.. honestly.

3rd party tools (CDs, DVDs, Websites, 3 Way Calls, Live Business Presentations) can all deliver the message for you.

You don’t have to be the message – just the messenger.

I highly recommend setting up your own online MLM funnel but please don’t buy into all this hype about not talking to anyone you know.

As with everything there is a correct way to do things so make sure you’re getting the training you need to be an attractive marketer both on and offline in this new economy.

If you need a solution for your MLM online funnel go here to set yours up easily, without having to study internet marketing until your hair turns grey: Attraction Marketing MLM System

So are you old school, new school or just ‘in school?’ Leave a comment on the blog to let us know what you think!

The next part of this Attraction Marketing training series will be about how to drive your offline prospects online to your Attraction Marketing website (I don’t mean by doing flyers either so don’t worry about that!)

Have a great day and if you like this blog please share the love on the buttons below.

p.s Next part coming soon!

Sounds like an odd thing to say I know! When you are in the midst of ‘failure’ or are just recovering and regrouping it may be difficult to think this way.

The thing is I got to thinking the other day about how life has a funny way of working out. Many times we fail miserably at things only to find something much better suited to our talents further into our life’s journey.

In ‘the Science of Getting Rich,’ by Wallace Wattles this is covered in detail. If you are in need of inspiration I highly recommend this amazing free little ebook.

The truth is that when we fail we are forced to look within. My first MLM experience was a harsh one. In many ways I loved it and I did have some success – just not the long term residual type that I was after.

I did however learn some skills that I probably would not be able to develop under easier circumstances. When your back is up against the wall you may find that you become more daring and creative.

Failure therefore is a mixed blessing. I know some guys who have joined MLMs and made it to the top very quickly. There are a few of those inspiring success stories in our industry and I love to hear them.

On the other hand I bet it must be very difficult for those lucky few to relate to the pain and frustration of the MLM masses who take soooooooooo long to reach the top, if indeed they ever do.

Relate-ability is a huge thing in a people business such as this. We often say, ‘well if he can do it, I can do it.’ If you have really been through it and you have a story, even if it isn’t a diamond one just yet, you may find you have more to give those getting started, than the guys at the very top.

If you’ve been round the block a few times, have been in several MLMs and not made it to the degree that you aspire then this just may be the best thing that ever happened to you.

How so? Well you have something to measure your success, your MLM company, your team, your activity against don’t you?

You’re not an MLM virgin who thinks that because the company website says so your products are the only good ones in the world! You have come of age and you have developed respect for other companies and leaders in the Network Marketing industry.

When I was in my first company I thought there was no other company that could match it! I was so starry eyed and naïve it is quite amazing when I look back.

Knowing what is out there will help you to become a significant force in the industry, not just in your company.

For instance, if I had been making $20k per month in my first MLM in my first couple of years it would have been unlikely that I would have felt compelled to search for what in my opinion, is a much better opportunity for me and my team members today.

Okay so who wouldn’t want to earn that kind of money quickly and become an MLM Rockstar?

Most would want to but if the business wasn’t meeting your expectations in other ways and you felt perhaps that your success was at the expense of others in your team, instead of as a result of their success, you might feel different.

But it would be harder to make the break wouldn’t it?

It is also unlikely that I would have pushed myself to research the industry and to learn other ways of doing things such as working with online attraction marketing and the different skill set that entails, if I hadn’t have experienced dissatisfaction using other methods.

If I hadn’t done thousands of flyers in the rain, stood in shopping precincts surveying people, driven around the county doing one on one presentations and product demonstrations, and fallen flat on my face so many times, I don’t think I would have the compassion that I have now for those in the business who work so hard to make their dreams come true.

It is a challenging and tough journey for most in MLM. The drama and the excitement are difficult to match in other business arenas though and I wouldn’t change it for the world.

So when you’re feeling a little down that you didn’t make diamond yet just remember these things:

• Your story is unique and will inspire people to keep on going towards their dreams.
• When you leave something behind no matter how painful, you create a vacuum that will be filled by something better if you let it.
• Randy Gage, MLM Legend, didn’t make any money in his first 5 years in MLM.
• Mike Dillard, of Magnetic Sponsoring, didn’t either (and was fearful of making phone calls to his prospects!)
• Failure whilst not to be dwelt on is a trigger for looking within and deciding that you will improve your skill set and find the right vehicle and business building methods for you.

Do you have an inspiring MLM story to share? Please share with our blog readers – we’d love to hear it.

Read more of my story by downloading your free copy of my new attraction marketing ebook.

Wishing you exciting and inspiring MLM success in 2009!

Today it suddenly occurred to me that there are very few elements of my MLM business that are not easy to do. If that is the case, I pondered, why does it take some people so long to get their heads in the right place to become successful in this industry?

I wondered about this for some time and it has indeed been in the back of my mind for an extremely long time. And then it came to me like a flash of light….what the industry gurus and icons have said over and over again is absolutely true.  It is not the destination - It is the journey. Of course that is it. That is the reason that so many people with amazing promise join this industry only to underfulfill their potential.

The business is simple. Or at least it should be. My previous business with another company was anything but simple and in fact was a full time job so I had little time to occupy myself with soul searching. I was too busy dealing with customers calling me up to tell me about their bowel movements and the weekly measurements of their thighs!  Well I am eternally grateful for no longer having to deal with that but now that I have time on my hands with an effective business model that doesn’t require every hour of my day just to keep it running, dare I say it? I have become an MLM philosopher!

Anyway getting back to the point. As long as we have a business model that is simple to duplicate and is repetitive by its very nature all we need to do is invite people to check out our opportunity by reviewing a DVD or whatever, follow up with them, and help them to get started and to repeat the process if it is right for them. Easy hey? Especially with all the 3rd party tools we can utilise these days, and the incredible technology at our fingertips. No more driving round town just to get a new team member started. In fact there isn’t really all that much to do at all so why do people make it so difficult?

It’s all about what’s going on in our personal lives and our heads. It’s all about feeling motivated and being able to continue with revenue producing activities even though we may be feeling really bad about what’s going on with a member of our family, or about our partners. There are so many things to do with the children and so many minutiae to take care of on a daily basis that it is the easiest thing in the world to just allow ourselves to get distracted.

I fall prey to these distractions also and have to work very hard on myself to stay productive in my network marketing business. The way to keep MLM easy is to spend time every day working on ourselves so that we can keep that million dollar attitude which fuels us to operate the business in a super productive way. One hour a day spent working on our business with a million dollar attitude is worth more than 5 hours just going through the motions so I highly recommend setting aside at least 30 minutes each morning to read or listen to some kind of personal development, whether industry related or not.

To learn more about the personal development and business programme recommended by industry MLM legend, Randy Gage, visit Escape The Rat Race Free Tour Complete the callback section if you’d like a consultation with Rachel Henke.

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