So your company is expanding and launching a network marketing business in a new country.

Oh, the excitement of knowing that you have just been given a huge opportunity to recruit from a completely different country and now you’re setting out the task of finding business partners in that country so you can create the much desired global network marketing business.

Given the digital age we are in, where almost everyone is part of this internet eco-system, it makes the process of recruiting team members from different countries a breeze.

But how you market to these countries, is where you need to give some thought.

Whilst your current marketing methods can be applied to a different geographical location, some things you will need to consider are:

• The culture of the people – are they impulse buyers or do they need time to properly think about investing in your product or business opportunity.
• The buying power may be weaker or stronger – do your target prospects believe in online transactions or are they traditionally inclined to shop offline.
• The business mindset of the people – do your target prospects have an entrepreneurial spirit or do they believe that it is best to get a job and work for an employer.

Before investing in marketing to target the new network marketing destinations, you should understand which of those countries to pay attention to, so you can effortlessly get customers and recruit team members from these countries.

Trust me, if you are already using the internet for your network marketing recruiting and prospecting, then it’s an easy task to accomplish.

This post will simply polish and provide more ideas on what you can do to successfully grow a global network marketing team.

Here’s What You Will Learn:

• How to close the gap between your country and the destination country
• The content strategy you can use to start recruiting members for your global network marketing business
• The benefits of building a global network marketing business
• The online tools and resources to build a global network marketing business
• The type of people to target when building your global network marketing business
• Create your global network marketing business sales funnel for easy recruitment

Closing The Gap Between Your Country And The Destination Country

With the advancement in technology, thank goodness, you can now close the gap between your country and the destination country where the network marketing opportunity will exist.

Just as you are probably growing your network marketing business locally, you can use those same efforts to expand your reach worldwide.

I always say that now is the best time to grow your network business because of all the available tools and resources we have at our fingertips.

Twenty years ago, building a global network marketing business was unthinkable especially since we did not have the proper technological infrastructure in place that helps us now to connect with someone in Australia whilst we’re in the UK, for example.

It’s an exciting time to get started and the opportunity to generate leads from another country and convert them to team members or customers is made simple through the use of online tools that you can easily access. Bear in mind that about 55% of the world’s population has Internet access, making it simple to gain access to them.

There is a wide range of resources that you can use to connect with prospects in foreign countries.

It’s important to know which social platforms are the most popular ones in a certain country.  This is why research is essential.

For example, targeting Caribbean islands to grow your network marketing business may not be ideal since some countries do not have proper online payment gateways to transact.

Also, some people from these countries have a reluctance to join network marketing opportunities because of their scepticism and common association of the term “network marketing” to a scam.

Another thing to research is whether the destination country has network marketing competitors. Are those network marketing companies doing well?

This will help you determine whether the destination country is familiar with network marketing and they already have the mindset for the right team member to join your team.

What if a competitor is not doing well? You can target persons who are already network marketers and find out if they would be interested in a new opportunity.

Before you start to invest your money and time into countries that you are not familiar with, research whether people are accepting of network marketing business opportunities.

Learn what their transaction methods are like. Do they trust online transactions or are they traditional and prefer brick and mortar stores.

Learn about the culture of the country. Do they see business opportunities as formal or informal?; do they prefer more intimate connections such as phone calls or is a simple chat message the best for them?

It’s important that you spend some time really understanding the country you want to target and not rushing this process. To conduct that research consider using tools such as Google, Quora, Facebook Groups, or even family members who live in the destination country.

The Content Strategy You Can Use To Start Recruiting Members For Your Global Network Marketing Business

As a global network marketer, you’ll want to know what content to use in order to connect with prospects in a foreign country.

Remember that this is still a relationship business and there must be that focus on creating that know, like, trust factor through getting your foreign prospects to not only see you as an authority but also as someone who can help them build their own team in their respective countries.

How can you do this?

Options like blog articles, email newsletters, webinars, video tutorials, etc will allow you to educate your global prospects to give them more information about how they can start and the benefits they can reap when they start.

Connecting to global prospects may take many more touch points when following up and putting your message in front of them, since they may have tons of reservations especially if the concept is new to them.

It is expected.

Bear in mind that if the opportunity is new in their country, they may be anxious about getting started. Maybe their culture is averse to opportunities like network marketing and it’s a tough market to break into. This is why you should shape your content so that it is targeted and helps to answer any questions they may have.

A good way to do this is to create specific content for specific countries.

Instead of creating one generic blog post about “How To Start A Health And Wellness Business”, make sure the blog post is relevant to the country you are targeting. So that blog post would look something like “How To Start A Health And Wellness Business in the Netherlands”, for example.

If your objective is to build a global network marketing business, then you must be prepared to do the work that comes with it.

Spend some time doing research to see what complications there may be for Netherlanders, is there already a team in the Netherlands to help new recruits?; is there a forum or Facebook group where Netherlanders can go to for support?  

Demonstrate to your global prospects that you are thoughtful and that you are willing to invest time to not only educate them but also yourself so you can be the authority for a particular country that you want to serve.

This is how you will attract the right people from those destination countries and is the solution to becoming a new-age network marketer with available tools for connecting to potential leads around the world.

The Benefits Of Growing a Global Network Marketing Business

What if I told you, that the key to building a seven-figure network marketing business is to expand your reach internationally and create a world-wide team?

Would you take the opportunity that your network marketing company has offered to you and do what it takes to expand your reach globally?

Of course, any sensible person will.

That is why so many network marketers get excited about the idea of reaching a global team but what direction they take becomes muddled when they’re not sure what to do.

Let’s now look at why having a global network marketing business is good for you. Later on, I will give you a road map to putting the steps in place to recruiting globally.

You can boost your income

A global network marketing business can help you earn more income since your business will be worldwide.

Think about if you were to recruit a solid leader who then goes on to become the number one business in the destination country. What do you think that can do for your business?

You will certainly have more chances to scale up if you’ve hit a plateau in your business in your home country.

So instead of putting all your eggs into one basket, you will continue to generate income if you have leaders who have large businesses in other destination countries.

You can diversify your network marketing business

When you find potential foreign customers or team members, you can refer them to a network marketer in their specific country. This is practical since the network marketer will be more relatable to the prospective customer or new recruit.

They may have increased comfort levels since they are connecting with someone in their own country instead of abroad making it easier to close the sale.

Due to globalisation, today’s network marketing companies have more international customers. However, logistical issues can still exist so it can be practical for a local network marketer to build that relationship with local prospects. 

You can grow your network marketing business faster

That’s because launching a network marketing business in a new country is an innovative idea. Depending on what country you are targeting, there may be people who are earnestly looking for ground-floor opportunities and are excited about what you can help them achieve.

This is especially true when their home country/region provides few opportunities for network marketing and they finally have access to something with a US-stamp of approval on it.

You can travel internationally to meet new recruits

There’s something special about international travel and especially when it’s to other regions or continents. This gives you the chance to find recruits to grow your business and also finally introduce yourself to the “online friends” you have made. Whilst it may not be the most effective way to recruit if you have to invest your own money into traveling, it can certainly be the stepping stone, that seals the deal.

Tools And Resources to Grow a Global Network Marketing Business

If you’re serious about building a global network marketing business here are some tools and resources you can use to get started.

Read further down for the actual system that I would recommend you use, to recruit and finally create the successful global network marketing business you have always wanted.

Advertising Campaigns

This is an easy way to target a particular global demographic since you can choose a target country in your targeting so that your online ads can appear in that country.

There are many online advertising platforms you can use, but I have listed a few of my favourites below:

• Facebook
• Google/Bing
• Instagram
• Snapchat
• YouTube

Webinars

Once you have targeted your destination country of choice, attract your prospects using educational platforms such as webinars.

By using webinars you can educate your audience about your network marketing business, answer questions and handle any objections that may be raised.

It’s the perfect way to meet your audience and show them you’re a real person and that you want to help and serve them.

Webinar tools that you can use include Clickfunnels or LeadPages for building the webinar funnel.

To host the webinar you can use tools like WebinarJam, GoToWebinar or Zoom. YouTube Live and Google Hangout also allow you to provide live video tutorials.

Skype/Zoom

Worried about your telephone bill skyrocketing?

Well, Voice Over IP (VOIP) applications like Skype or Zoom allow you to connect and talk to potential partners in destination countries. Maybe you want to host a three-way conference call with your upline and prospect.

These applications give you a free opportunity to do so. It’s such a breeze.

Social Media Groups

This is another way you can target potential partners in other countries. Free options include Facebook groups or Pinterest marketing/boards.

Facebook groups are one of the best features since they are part of the world’s largest social network. There are over one billion users worldwide connecting you with any and everyone who is on this platform.

You can take several steps like strengthening your team, building your community, promoting watch parties, and even having team training from Facebook groups.

If you’re using Pinterest to target potential partners, consider sharing network marketing blog articles to help people see your content, visit your website and interact with you.  

Click here to learn how I use Pinterest Marketing to grow my blog and if you have a network marketing blog how you can use it too.

Google Translator

If there’s a language barrier, using translation apps can be a fast and easy way to communicate with potential global network marketing partners in foreign countries.

In fact, the Google Translate app already supports 100+ languages, so there’s a good chance it supports the language of a target country.

Other translation apps that you can look into are:

• iTranslate
• TripLingo 
• SayHi 
• Voice Translator Free 

The Type of People To Target When Building Your Global Network Marketing Business

When building your global network marketing business make sure you don’t target “everyone.” Not everyone is going to a good fit for your business.

Targeting “everyone” is a waste of resources because they may not meet the prerequisite that you have outlined for who is a good network marketer.

That’s why when you are creating your client avatar and you are setting up your targeting systems, it is important that you focus on those people who already have a business mindset and are interested in business concepts such as leadership and marketing.

The type of people you want on your team are those who are action takers and do not need direction from you.

They already know that it will take hard work to be successful and they have that energy and drive without waiting for you to tell them what to do.

How exactly do you find these people?

The good thing about using online ad platforms like Google Adwords or Facebook is that you can be really specific about the type of person you want to target.

For example, when doing interest targeting with Facebook ad campaigns, you can select people who already know about and have an interest in network marketing, online marketing, business, leadership etc.

Another thing that you can consider is selecting the right market to target.

Make sure to research the country where you want to expand your global network marketing business.

Here are some issues to pay attention to:

• Infrastructure – do they have a good economic infrastructure that will make it easy for your network marketing team to grow their business.
• Existing market – do they have an existing target market and is there a demand for the product, that will make it easy for your network marketing team to find business.
• Available products – will your global network marketing team have access to all the products or do they need to wait for overseas shipping. This then causes a delay in the product reaching the prospect.
• Company websites – will your network marketing team have access to the company website so that orders can be easily processed. Is the website in the local currency? This can be troublesome for locals who are worried about transaction fees and currency conversion fees.
• Price points – Are price points in the local currency. Again this can be troublesome for locals who may be concerned about transacting in a different currency.

This might seem like a lot of research, but it’s definitely worthwhile in terms of understanding the existing market for your particular product/business opportunity.

This will help to maximise the results from your efforts. After learning about the current market in the destination country, it will be easier to create ad campaigns that are served to the people who are most likely to purchase your product or join your team.

After conducting this research, this will give you the final decision whether you can pursue global network marketing in that particular country.

Create Your Global Network Marketing Sales Funnel For Easy Recruitment

You are ready to build a global network marketing business and you are excited at the possibility of expanding your reach and creating a worldwide network.

How and where do you start?

If you already recruit on the internet you can actually use the same system to build your existing network marketing business into a global one. But in case you have forgotten, here is a strategy for recruiting and building a global downline.

Identify your target market

This includes demographics and geographics. It’s important to note this process doesn’t mean you’re ignoring potential customers who aren’t in the target market.

However, it means you’ll focus your marketing message on a market that’s most likely to buy your product or join your team. This is more effective than marketing to “everyone” in a country.

Research your target market

Before you create a strategy and training material around your target market, make sure that you do proper research taking into account the points I mentioned above such as ease of doing business, culture, time zone, language barriers, competitors, etc.

The key to doing research, in the beginning, is to save your time, in the event the target market is not a potentially lucrative market.  

Make an irresistible offer via content creation

It’s important to focus on what constitutes an offer. The goal here is once you have decided on the market you want to target, it is time to put your offer in front of them with the aim of generating prospects who you can speak to.

In this regard, consider using a sales funnel. Is this the first time you’re reading about sales funnels? Click here to get a better understanding of how you can use sales funnels to grow your network marketing business faster.

Some tools you can use to attract prospects to your sales funnel include:

• eBooks
• Free Trials
• Guides
• Industry Research reports
• Presentations
• Webinars

Make sure you’re offering quality content to your target market. You should also market to your target audience at the right time; so take into account their time zones and any public holidays that are in observance.

The content that you offer should ultimately connect your business to the product/opportunity offered.

Close the sale through communication

As you begin to generate leads, begin to build the relationship through nurturing through various content marketing strategies.

A great way is to build a community of prospects is through Facebook groups where you can connect to your audience and deliver valuable content to help educate them, inspire them and encourage them to take action.

Don’t forget that even though your focus should be on providing value, you should be confident enough to ask for the sale – whether that is as a customer or as a new team member.

Here are some effective closing techniques to help you improve your closing rates. They include:

• Summary – after elaborating on the benefits and features that your business can offer, make sure to close by summarising and recapping to remind the prospect about what you spoke to them about.
• Now or Never – using urgency tactics is a great way to add a sense of urgency and make a prospect want to move forward with the next step.
• Questions – give your prospect the chance to ask any questions so you can address any reservations or objections they may have. When questions are answered it makes the prospect more likely to take the leap.

These are oldie-but-goodie closing techniques that use psychology to help land the deal.

Onboarding training

The nurturing does not stop after you have secured the customer or team member. It’s actually just starting if you want to be successful in growing a sustainable global network marketing business.

Actually getting a team member to join you is half of the battle. You now need to train them so they can duplicate your process and build their own team.

If you neglect them and don’t give them the training they need, then they are likely to quit which is not helpful to you and your objective.

So provide onboarding training through written content or video material like webinars.

Wrapping Up

You are in a perfect era to build a global network marketing business and it is super easy to jump into the opportunity with all the resources that you have on hand.

The only real thing holding you back, if you have not already, is you.

Like anything, you have to be willing to visualise the end goal, put steps in place to achieve it and then take action.

To help you take action, I would like to share with you, an ebook that I recently finished, that literally blew my mind. I thought I’d introduce it to you, because my mind is buzzing with new (easier) ways to build a network marketing team and this is what I teach network marketers. 

As a network marketer, this is what you should be implementing into your business today.

I got a copy of it for free (I just paid shipping).

This ebook is likely to shine a light on everything that perhaps you are doing wrong in your network marketing business.

If you ever thought to yourself:

“I thought I’d be further along in my business by now”

Cheers

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So I decided to create this blog post answering the number one question that I had.

That is, where do you find people to join your network marketing company?

I want to start by painting a picture of what happened several years ago.

Have you ever picked up the phone and called a total stranger and tried to sell them something?

Did you ever get sweaty palms in the process? A feeling like “what if…??” or “… maybe I should hang up before they answer??”.

Remember when you would go knocking on other people’s doors hoping for a sale?

Or if not that, what about going to shops or other business owners in your niche and local to you, to put on a presentation to introduce your product.

I remember I called a company to ask if I could present to their employees about having their own business and I did this several times to expand my lead database.

Remember having home parties or business op meetings?

These methods all worked at one point but they took time and effort to implement.

In current times, we now have the internet as a marketing tool and still, even with this marketing tool, there is “cold calling,” but it is all done through automated systems!

Automation enables you to be more efficient with your efforts. How could that help you save time?

What You Will Learn

• How to generate MLM leads or network marketing leads online
• How to get free MLM leads or network marketing leads
• Where to buy MLM leads or network marketing leads
• Converting your MLM leads or network marketing leads into sales

How to Generate MLM Leads Or Network Marketing Leads Online?

The best method that I have used to date and which is the current working method to network marketing, is the use of a lead generation funnel.

This funnel helps to automate prospecting for your network as well as creating customers in your pipeline through an inbound strategy – where your target audience approaches you for information.

This funnel must have your target audience passing through it – so to get to that point let’s back up to exactly how you will find those people.

So, before you put your time and effort into generating leads, be sure you are aware of who your audience is and how to search for your prospects.

First, you’ll need to spend time identifying what your products and services offer.

Let’s say you are offering a wellness product that can help with weight loss.

Next, you need to identify your target consumers.

For example, with a wellness product you will need to target people who want to stay healthy, as well as those who want to maintain their youthful appearance.

This could be athletes or the elderly, as examples.

Finally define, the demographics of your target customer – where can they be seen often, what are their main activities, interests, and preferences?

With every technique you utilise to find your targeted audience, make sure that you have a sound strategy in place and that you have a brand message that resonates with your audience.

Every serious network marketer should have a brand message. A message that tells your audience who you are, what you can do to help them and how you are different from your competitors, informs your audience that they are in the right place and you are the person to solve their problems and answer to their needs. 

For example, in my digital marketing business my brand message is: 

“I help entrepreneurs attract leads and sales online using digital marketing strategies” 

Here is It Works’ network marketer, Denise Walsh’s brand message: 

You must also have a value proposition – what helps you stand out from your competitors; what makes you different.

Your value proposition should keep in mind your target audience’s needs and desires.

It should also show them how your solution can help fulfil those needs and desires.

Three Stages Of The Lead Generation Funnel

1. Awareness

During this stage, your target audience are made aware of their pain points and desires.

It is where your brand will put forward a value proposition that will solve those pain points and meet those desired outcomes.

2. Consideration

It is best to segment your audience into categories that will help you meet the specific goals of every group of consumer.

When you do this, you will push the visitors further through the funnel where you can provide informative and useful content that they need, to help them further realise your usefulness to meet their goals.

It is only when your audience, realises through your branding, that you can help them solve their problems, then you are more than likely to generate that lead. 

The process from targeting to nurturing leads can be automated to maximise your sale-ability.

3. Sale

This is the stage where your lead has decided that you are the best fit for them.

It is also at this stage that you should aim to fulfil their desired outcome within their time range.

The better you can satisfy your consumer after a sale, the more they are likely to give you high ratings and reviews and recommend others to your business.

This is most important for the scalability of your business. 

Don’t Want To Use A Sales Funnel For MLM Leads? Try This Instead

For whatever reason, should you not decide to use the lead generation funnel mentioned above, you can make this completely manual.

This manual process will involve an outbound strategy – that means that you will reach out to your target audience.

1. Make an offer they can’t refuse

The internet is inundated with so much “noise”  of advertisers and promoters that try to capture your attention.

This is where you will need to separate your product from the “noise” of the internet.

You need to create an offer that your prospect can’t refuse! But you don’t need to be sneaky about it or have “but wait there’s more…”.

Some offers that work really well for network marketers are challenges or requests for product testers.

2. Call to action

This is the most important aspect of educating and selling a product to your audience.

Be sure the call to action is clear!

As in the above example, the call to action here is “Comment “I’m In” to Join Us”.

The attention span of the average person is compared to a toddler; you have to make it easy for your audience to take action and for it to be fast and convenient.

3) Be quick to respond

If you are using social media sites to capture or engage with your audience, one of the most important aspects of the three steps is to RESPOND.

Prospects don’t want to have a one-way conversation.

Think of it like going to the store and needing something, but there is no one around to ask.

This deters potential buyers from purchasing from you. Do not give them a reason to abandon the conversation.

The more you can engage with your prospects, the more successful your lead generation end game will be.

How to Get Network Marketing Leads? (FREE)

The internet has endless sources on where to find people to fill your pipeline.

Depending on the niche or market you want to work in, you can find your target audience from most social media platforms.

How you capture the lead and the message you use to generate those leads is of course important. 

There are tons of resources out there for building your audience, but here are a few channels I would recommend:

1. Your own Facebook personal profile

Attract people to your profile by creating engaging content that is educational, motivational and inspirational.

Remember that you need to keep growing your Facebook friends’ list to make this work.

So do not expect to deliver your content to the same 1000 friends. Keep making “friends”.

2. Facebook Groups

Did you know there is a group on Facebook for ANYTHING?!

Anything!

It is time to start asking for admittance to those groups so you can start posting and sharing information about your service and/or product in those groups.

These groups can help warm up your audience from cold to hot leads very quickly!

Create inviting posts that encourage people to join your team or buy your product through challenges as in the above example.

3. Instagram

Instagram is one of the most powerful tools in social media marketing to date.

There are so many opportunities on this platform that you should not overlook it.

To build a successful Instagram account, means that you should have a lot of growth through an always-increasing Instagram following, comments, mentions and likes.

You can create hashtags on Instagram posts, so new people can find your content.

You can share visually appealing and thought-provoking content to your followers through images and long-form captions.

When creating content, make sure that it does not appear spammy. The first thing you should aim to do is create content that is inviting rather than content that will cause prospects to abandon your account. 

Here is an example of what your feed should look like. (Maybe you can tell by now, that I was an It Works network marketer in the past hence references to It Works content.) 

Don’t create an Instagram feed with only product images. Instead create one that has a variety of images that helps to tell your story and allow your audience to connect and resonate with you. 

When creating your content, do include: 

1. Lifestyle stories which helps your audience create a desire in their mind
2. Product results which acts as your testimony of the product
3. Product images and how you use them to achieve your results

4. Google

This might seem like a “no brainer,” but with the rise of social media, sometimes Google is put on the back burner.

However, Google is still THE most used search engine in the world!

Use that tool!

Create a blog dedicated to your brand first, which strategically is focused around your network marketing product.

Be sure to implement SEO strategies to attract your target audience who is searching for your product.

5. Pinterest

Pinterest works really well in certain niches and if you are in one of those niches, you can tap into this untapped traffic source.

Because Pinterest is predominantly female-centric, the niches that do particularly well based on my observations are:

• Weight loss
• Fashion
• Food
• Craft
• Home and Decor

You will of course want to test this traffic source and see if it works for your network marketing business and specific niche.

Pinterest is driven by blogs so if you do not yet have a blog for your network marketing business (and I strongly recommend one), click this link and read this post which you will find particularly helpful for starting a blog.

If you do have a network marketing blog and you want to use this traffic source then my post on how to get your first 1000 pageviews with Pinterest is a good starting point. 

6. YouTube

Another great and free platform to find leads for your network marketing business is YouTube.

Like Google and Pinterest, this is a search engine but the results are in video format.

The best use of YouTube, in my view, is creating “how-to” videos and educational content that teaches something.

Make sure that whatever content you create, is tied to your network marketing product or opportunity.

7. LinkedIn

This is the last channel that I would recommend in social media outlets for network marketing prospecting.

This is where you can create a professional portfolio and network within your niche to find MLM leads and network marketing leads.

First define your target audience.

Are they corporate moms, corporate dads, salon owners?

Once you have identified your target audience, connect with them by starting conversations.

These are all the options that you can use if you are on a tight budget, but if you have a little money to spend to help generate your leads and speed up the process, here are some paid options for you.

Where To Buy Networking Marketing Leads?

Let’s start this with what NOT to do first.

Though you CAN buy email lists for your niche market through email brokers, I don’t recommend doing this.

Why?

Because it is unethical especially since you do not have permission to email these users.

With regulators becoming so firm on anti-spam, I recommend avoiding this and instead implement one of the following strategies.

1. Work with bloggers or influencers

Did you know you can search for bloggers or influencers in your niche and ask them to promote your offer to their email list?

This is called networking at its most basic ability.

Bloggers or influencers have a targeted audience which you can leverage simply by creating an outreach campaign to contact bloggers/influencers and ask if they will send your email to their list of subscribers. 

Bloggers/influencers have what you want; that is, a targeted audience who is likely to respond to their recommendations.

When searching for bloggers/influencers, to find relevant ones you can use Google and the keyphrase – “niche” inurl:blog.

This makes it super easy to find tons of relevant blogs related to your niche.

Once you have identified a blog, who’s author you want to reach out to, check first to see if there is any information on how to advertise with them.

If not, a cold email requesting permission to email their subscribers is also a good idea. 

2. Social Medial Marketing

Most likely your ideal target audience hangs out on some social media platforms like Facebook or Instagram, Pinterest or YouTube.

By creating an ad campaign, you can use ad targeting criteria, to put your offer in front of a large number of users.

Some ad platforms like Facebook have extremely precise targeting ability when creating ads.

For example, you can target a mother who has children between the ages 1-6 and who is interested in working from home, if you have a product applicable to stay-at-home moms.

On YouTube you can target people who are interested in Crossfit or essential oils by defining their interests based on the videos they watch.

There is a real possibility that you can reach a large number of targeted people quickly, within your niche and you can dominate your market if you know how to use social media ad platforms properly.

Like anything else, before you start using paid ad campaigns, be sure to understand each ad platform before you invest money into it. I always rely on courses to help me do so. 

If you are looking for the best paid Facebook ads marketing course, I recommend the Social Traffic Blueprint by Jon Penberthey and Jubril Agoro.  

Interested in using Pinterest to generate MLM leads and network marketing leads, I recommend the Pinterest Traffic Avalanche course by Alex McNerney and Lauren McManus. You can gain access to the course by clicking here. 

3. Search Engine Marketing

Like social media marketing, you can use paid platforms like Google Adwords and Bing to generate leads for your business.

Search engine marketing is preferred to social media marketing, because you can target people who are searching for your product or opportunity, through the use of keywords.

When using search engine marketing pay attention to buyer intent keywords like the following, which means that the searcher is using the search engines with a strong intention of buying.

• [brand] weight loss supplements
• [brand] hair growth supplements
• [brand] essential oils
• how to join [brand]

4. Solo Ads

Solo ads are email blasts that you can buy from email list owners in specific niches.

They are very similar to targeting blogger’s/influencer’s email lists. The only difference is, these lists are mostly built by marketers who build their email lists for the sole purpose of renting them to advertisers.

There are companies like Udimi and MLM Leads that created platforms for solo ad vendors so instead of doing cold email outreach as you would for bloggers/influencers, you can visit these dedicated websites to purchase a solo ad by clicking this link.

Solo ads are ideal for business opportunity leads and weight loss leads. Any other niche outside these two main niches are unlikely to be served.

To learn how to use this traffic source for your business, you can read more about it here.

Why use paid advertising to generate leads

So why would you use paid advertising?

Because it is a faster method of traditional marketing and reaching a specific target audience.

If you are trying to get your business off the ground quickly, I strongly recommend that you invest in solutions that work.

This is a “Kickstarter” to your networking, awareness campaign and customer base.

It is worth spending some money to put your message in front of your ideal prospects instead of sifting through countless bad leads before you find the good one.

Have you ever heard the phrase “time is money” – this is where you implement that phrase into your business marketing plan.

Time is money and the faster you can generate good leads for your business the more successful it will be for you.

Converting Your Network Marketing and MLM Leads Into Sales

Now that we’ve talked about your methods of free and paid network marketing lead generation, we are going to move onto our final topic – converting your leads to sales!

Sales come from having a good product, creating an eye-catching and engaging ad and call to action and finally engaging with your prospects.

Engagement is the number one reason customers buy and become returning customers.

There are several ways that you can create this “open-ended” dialog with your prospects.

Here are a few that we recommend.

1. Email marketing

Tried and true email marketing thus far has stood the test of time against the number of changes with the internet, social media sites, bots and countless more!

Email marketing is what people are comfortable with.

However, statistics show that email marketing will be dead by 2020…that’s one year from now!

I suggest starting to implement some of these other methods while you can still pair two or more resources together.

2. Messenger bot marketing

This is the transition into the future.

Messenger bots are similar to email marketing in that they act as auto responders and help you communicate your message to your leads automatically, to facilitate lead nurturing activities.

The performance of messenger bots however, far out performs email marketing and is currently seen by marketers to be the preferred way of keeping in touch and following up with your leads.

These messenger bot platforms integrate with the Facebook platform and since Facebook has over one billion active users, it is no surprise that this type of marketing works well.

There are several messenger bot platforms but the leading ones are ManyChat and MobileMonkey.

3. Retargeting leads through remarketing ads

When you generate leads from your paid campaigns, you should not stop there.

You can mimic the nurture sequence that you will implement in your email and messenger bot marketing campaigns, in your remarketing ads.

Remarketing ads are simply ads that you serve to an audience who has already engaged with your content.

Ad platforms make it easy to remarket to your warm audience, by the use of pixel code that should be placed on your website before you begin an ad campaign.

Before starting an ad campaign, check the ad platform’s instructions on how to set up your pixel code.

4. Providing value through webinars and blog posts

This is all part of the nurturing process and should be part of your content strategy.

Provide your leads with content that adds value to their business and lives.

Make them realise that you know something in the industry that they don’t.

Offer free webinars, downloadable, and free content on your website.

Make sure you prove yourself a thought leader to your target audience, which demonstrates your authority and increases the trust you build with your leads.

5. Making calls to connect with leads

Not always do email marketing or messenger bot marketing aid in taking a lead from off the fence.

Building a connection on the phone is the most personable way to demonstrate to the lead that you are not only human but you can also address any questions or concerns immediately.

Some leads just need a steer in the right direction.

Some may not want to communicate with you by email but are waiting for a call.

I urge you to step away from behind the computer.

Once you have generated a lead and built a relationship with them, whether through an email sequence or webinar, invite your leads to get on a Skype call where they can speak to you one-on-one and help the lead to become a bit more comfortable in their decision to take the next step.

Wrapping Up

Lead generation for network marketing and MLM leads should be an integral part of your network marketing business.

If you are not generating leads consistently, you do not have a business.

I have touched on many ways that you can use free and paid methods to start generating MLM leads.

Remember that it all begins with using modern and up to date methods like network marketing funnels which helps to narrow your target audience so you only speak to the right people for your business.

Funnels are used across many different business models.

As a network marketer these are online marketing strategies that are current and which you can take steps to immediately include in your business.

To help you take action, I would like to share with you, an ebook that I recently finished, that literally blew my mind. I thought I’d introduce it to you, because my mind is buzzing with new (easier) ways to build a network marketing team and this is what I teach network marketers. 

As a network marketer, this is what you should be implementing into your business today.

I got a copy of it for free (I just paid shipping).

This ebook is likely to shine a light on everything that perhaps you are doing wrong in your network marketing business.

If you ever thought to yourself:

• “I thought I’d be further along in my business by now”
• “Why can’t I get more people to join my team?”
• “How do I find the crowd that actually WANTS to hear about my opportunity?”

…then THIS is the book that you need to read. (and then read it again.)

Get your FREE copy of the Network Marketing Secrets Book by clicking here or click on the image below.

Cheers

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To succeed in network marketing, is really based on who you know and how big your network is.

To translate this into simple terms, you need a large enough audience to speak to and present your offer.

Even if you do not have a large network you can become a success with network marketing but it takes a few smart choices to make that work.

What I want to show you in this blog post, is how you can ultimately succeed in network marketing by following a few simple steps.

The problem with most network marketers, especially those who are beginning in network marketing, is that they do not follow a proven system.

They are told to talk to any and everyone about their product or opportunity and hope that someone says yes.

In fact, in my view, this is a recipe for disaster and frankly a waste of time because there are some people who will never buy what you are selling because they are simply not interested in what you are selling.

They are NOT part of your target audience.

Let’s put this into perspective.

You could have the best tasting chocolate chip cookies. It’s moist, gooey with the biggest pieces of chocolate chunks you have ever seen.

But try and sell them to vanilla lovers. No one’s going to buy because they simply don’t like chocolate.

And the model that today’s network marketing leaders teach about every person being a prospect, is the worst advice that you can give because you simply cannot sell a product to people who do not want it.

So here is where this guide comes in, to show you how to prospect and recruit easily so you can grow your network marketing business faster.

The Ultimate Guide To Network Marketing – How To Prospect And Recruit 10x Faster

What You Will Learn

• The tools you will need for prospecting and recruiting
• How to identify your target market
• How to talk to your target market to stimulate a response
• How to filter and speak to only those people who are interested in your offer
• How to pre-frame people who are interested in your offer
• How to close the deal
• How to get more sales by duplication

If you follow these steps correctly you will position yourself as the go-to network marketer. Others will see you as an authority and you can even become the consultant that answers to your prospects specific problems.

So without further ado, let’s get started.

The Tools You Will Need For Prospecting And Recruiting

This is the part that cannot be missed.

But sadly it is the part that is either ignored or forgotten and sometimes not intentionally only because most network marketers are uninformed.

So I am here to inform you.

Lead Capture Page

This is what you will need to attract prospects to your business. Traditionally network marketers attend beauty events, launch parties or go to the malls and talk to any and everyone whose eye they meet.

Typically their prospecting goes something like this – they introduce the business, hand out a flyer and ask the question “is this something that you might be interested in”.

That question can receive an answer that goes one of two ways. Either yes and the prospect hangs on for more information or no and the prospect dismisses them and walks away.

And from my experience nine times out of ten, it is a no.

The lead capture page makes this entire scenario easier by introducing people to your product or service and capturing only those people who are interested in your offer (I will speak more about this later).

You can use many different lead capture page builders like Clickfunnels, GetResponse or LeadPages.

Watch the following video for a tutorial on how to build a lead capture page using Clickfunnels.

Clickfunnels is a paid software that helps you build lead capture pages. They offer a 14-day free trial and then their price starts from $97/month.

If Clickfunnels is too pricey, then you may wish to consider LeadPages as an alternative.

Not sure which one is best? You may be interested in my comparison review which you can read by clicking this link.

I actually use LeadPages for all my marketing and have been doing so for approximately one year (at the time of writing).

LeadPages offers a 14-day trial, then starts from $37/month. Read my detailed of review of LeadPages here.

Email Autoresponder

Once you have started filtering out the ones who are not interested from the ones who are interested it is time to start following up with your prospects.

As a marketer it is ingrained in us, that the fortune is in the follow up.

Statistics say that it takes someone at least seven to eight times to see an offer before they commit to buy.

Traditionally network marketers receive a prospect’s contact number or may have added them on Facebook.

Usually they would follow up with their prospects by giving them a call that goes something like this,

Hey Susan, I am just checking whether you are still interested in my [product or offer] and can I help you get started today?

If they’re not up for calling the prospect, they may send them a text message or a private message on social media.

Either way it is likely that you will be ignored or you may not receive a commitment to purchase your product or buy from you.

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This is typically what happens to most network marketers.

So what do you do? You schedule a further followup with Susan about two weeks later and repeat the same process.

I don’t know about you but when I was a network marketer, I suffered from rejection syndrome. I absolutely hated it and this made me dread following up with my prospects.

With a marketing tool known as an email autoresponder you can eliminate this fear of rejection as the autoresponder will do all the following up for you on your behalf.

So there’s no more rejection, no more chasing or speaking to prospects. That is covered by your autoresponder.

This is how it works:

As you can see from the above image, I have scheduled five days’ worth of emails to be sent to my prospects. In each of those emails I am educating them, nurturing them and preparing them for my offer or product.

So essentially the autoresponder talks for me and provides more information about my product so that the prospect is pre-framed about whether the offer solves their problem.

And well if they are no longer interested, they can simply unsubscribe at any time.

So I never have to see that they have ignored me and I never have to see that they have blocked me. That’s all well and good in my eyes and I can continue finding more people to talk to by email and not get discouraged.  

Aweber is my email autoresponder of choice. You can read my detailed review of Aweber by clicking this link.

Other options for you are GetResponse or MailChimp.

Those are the two basic tools that you need. There are other tools that you can fit into your business to streamline everything but they are not absolutely essential.

Have a look at my resources page for the tools that I use everyday to run my business.

Related Articles:

• How To Automate Any Business With Sales Funnels
• How To Build A Profitable Email List Step-By-Step
• LeadPages Review

How To Identify Your Target Market

Now that you have your tools set up it is important that you know who your audience is.

Who will your product serve and who is your ideal client.

Let’s say you are a part of a weight loss network marketing business and you are promoting a product that will help you lose weight in two weeks.

Start by writing a list of every type of person who you think this will appeal to. What comes to mind are:

• Women who are soon-to-be brides
• Men who are soon-to-be grooms
• Women who have just had a baby and wants to lose their baby weight
• Women who need to lose weight for health reasons
• Men who need to lose weight for health reasons
• Women who are embarking on a vacation
• Men who are embarking on a vacation
• Women who like to keep fit
• Men who like to keep fit

Why do you want to target these people?

Well they have a problem (weight) and they need a solution (to lose it) which you can help solve with your product or service.

The same can be done for your business opportunity. If you want to recruit consultants into your business repeat the process.

Who is your target market? Who will be a good fit for this type of opportunity?

• Low paid employees
• High paid but overworked employees
• Stay at home moms and dads
• Unemployed persons
• Job seekers
• College/university students
• Business opportunity seekers

Why do you want to target these people?

They may want to supplement their income to help pay the bills at home. For the overworked employees they may hate their job and want more freedom of time.

Stay at home moms and dads may want to take on a challenge and occupy their time with something that can make them money in their spare time.

Unemployed persons may be looking for a way to earn money from home. Same for the job seekers.

College/University students have massive debt and would love a way to earn extra whilst they study so they can pay off their debt.

Business opportunity seekers are the ideal people because they are looking for what you have to offer.

Later on, I will speak about where you can find these people.

How To Talk To Your Target Market To Stimulate A Response   

Once you have identified who you are going to speak to, you now need to engage and interact with them.

So far you have learnt how to filter people who are not the right fit for your business by using a lead capture page to only speak to interested people.

You have also learnt how to identify those people who may be interested in your product or service.

Now I am going to show you, how to connect with these people.

The lead capture page will not do the talking by itself, unless you tell it what to say.

So you must give your lead capture page an appropriate headline for your specific product.

The headline is what will catch your audience’s attention. If they believe that your offer can help them solve a problem, then they will ask for more information by providing their contact details to learn more. Let’s see how this can be done automatically.

Here is how to construct a headline   

By using the weight loss example ask yourself what does your ideal customer want to achieve? What is their desired outcome?

Your list might look something like this:

• A more beautiful appearance
• Improved Self confidence/self love/self esteem
• Healthier body
• To have the energy to play with their kids
• To feel more attractive to their spouse
• To be able to look in the mirror without feeling embarrassed
• To have a better mood

Now considering their desired outcome can you think of some words that your audience use in their daily lives when it comes to weight loss? To answer this question, think of your ideal customer having a conversation with their best friend.

What words are they using?

• Sexy
• Heavy
• Unattractive
• Diet
• Hate
• Love
• Secure
• Eat Less

Now let’s put this all together to construct the perfect headline to “talk” to our target customer. The formula that is mostly used by marketers would be the How To headline and goes like this

|How to [desired result] and [other desired result using familiar language] without [pain point]

That can translate into something like this:

|How to lose weight and improve your self confidence without eating less of what you love.

Other headline formulas include the Question Formula:

|Are you tired of giving up what you love to eat to achieve a sexier body? Well you no longer have to.

If you are enticing your ideal customer with a free report on how to lose weight, you might offer them something in exchange for their contact details.

Related Article: How To Win By Giving Away Freebies In Your Business

In that case you can use the Shocking Headline Formula

|Learn how [prospect match] lost [desired outcome] without [pain].

An example would be

|Learn how this 300lb woman lost 182lbs within 3 months without giving up junk food.

Do you see how it is done?

Using these formulas you can now speak to your target audience which in turn prompts them to respond to your lead capture page by giving you their contact details. 

And if you are not good at formulating headlines, don’t worry. The internet is the bomb for these kind of things. You can use this free Headline Generator by clicking this link.  

How To Filter And Speak To Only Those People Who Are Interested In Your Offer

The lesson that I learnt when I started network marketing was that not everyone is going to be interested in my product or offer.

Sometimes, they may be interested but it may not be the right time. They may not have the money to make a purchase immediately or it is not a product or service that they need or feel it would benefit them.

Using our lead capture page, you will now be able to isolate those people who do not need your product or service from those people who believe that your product or service can help them.

This is what a typical lead capture page looks like.

The lead capture page comprises three elements:

• Image of the product or service that is being offered
• Ethical bribe to entice the prospect to hand over their contact details
• Call to action which is a command to the prospect to take the desired action

In the above example when the prospect clicks on the call to action button, that big orange button that screams “GET THE COUPON” they will be prompted with a second page to enter their contact details.

So using the headline formulas mentioned above which goes on your lead capture page, only those people who are remotely interested in your product or service will enter their contact details and proceed to the next round which is your pre-frame.

How To Pre-Frame People Who Are Interested In Your Offer

When your prospect identifies themselves as an ideal prospect, the marketing does not stop there.

Traditionally when the network marketer gets a yes to the question whether the prospect is interested, they will go on to talk about the features and benefits to the prospect.

This concept can be imitated by using what is known as a bridge page in your marketing.

Bridge Page

A bridge page is simply the second page of your marketing sequence and seeks to close the gap between those people who may be interested in your product or service and those who ARE interested in your product or service.

Think of your bridge page as a connector between your introduction to your customer and closing the sale.

The bridge page’s purpose is to warm up your potential customer to the idea of the product or service. Essentially on your bridge page you are going to introduce the product or service, talk about the features, the benefits and how it can help them. Just like you would do in person, but now you will have a marketing tool that does the talking for you.  

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Other elements of a bridge page include:

A direct call to action to buy

Sometimes if you never ask for the sale, you will never get the sale. So on a bridge page you can talk to those people who will immediately want your product or service.

Remember that the first time they have entered their contact details on your lead page, already pre-qualifies them for the product or service as they have already said yes.

They have expressed an interest so now you need to lead them in the right direction by asking for the sale.

The guarantee

Can you offer your prospect a guarantee that they will achieve a desired result so there is no risk in purchasing the product? This guarantee could be a company guarantee or a personal guarantee such as 24/7 support within the first 7 days, on-boarding or some additional value.

Proof

Testimonials and reviews of products or results achieved by other users act as social proof that your product or service does what it says. You should be able to show here that other people have achieved the benefit that is outlined on your product or service.

Bonus

Do you have any extra bonuses that you can offer to the prospect? This is where you can mention it as an incentive to buy your product or service now.    

Your bridge page is built by the same software that you use to build your lead capture page.

Remember that you can use one marketing tool – Clickfunnels or LeadPages – to create this automated system.

Here is what a bridge page looks like.

You can also watch this mini tutorial which teaches you more about bridge pages.

How To Close The Deal

After the bridge page comes the sales page. Provided you have implemented the steps outlined above your efforts could result in two outcomes.

The prospect goes on to complete the sale or they have been educated about your product or service but are not yet ready to buy.

If your prospect goes on to complete the sale using the buy button on your bridge page, then great. You have closed your first sale using this process.

If not, this is where your email autoresponder comes in.

It will then be up to the messages you write in your email autoresponder to warm up the prospect even more to the point where they do decide to buy your product or service

Here are a few examples of what your follow up messages should look like:

Your day 1 message 

Introduce yourself, who you are and remind them about why they are receiving your message.

Your day 2 message

Introduce the product again and divert the prospect back to your bridge page using a URL link in your email message. Your message can look like this:

Hey [prospect’s name]

Remember I spoke about [your product or service].

I just wanted to remind you about it’s benefits which you can see here [URL to bridge page].

If you have any questions feel free to reply to this email.

Cheers

[Your name]

Your day 4 message

Soft pitch. We have intentionally skipped day 3 as we want to give the prospect room to breathe.

In this email outline the benefits of the product or service and direct the prospect to try the product or service. Your message may sound like this:

Hey [prospect’s name]

One of my customers provided an awesome testimonial of [product or service] and here’s what she had to say:

[Testimonial]

Check out the [product or service] here [URL to sales page] if you might be interested in getting started now.

Cheers

[Your name]

Your day 5 message

Offer additional value to your prospect. Something unrelated to the product or service but relevant to the prospect.

For example, if you are selling a weight loss item you may offer a free report on yoga poses.

If you are promoting a business opportunity, you may offer some tips on how to recruit. Make it valuable to them preparing them for the type of support you can offer.

Related Article: How To Win By Giving Away Freebies In Your Business

Your day 6 message 

Hard sale. This is where you ask for the sale outright. Propose the product or service in a way that it is irresistible and has an element of scarcity. For example

Hey [prospect]

Today I decided to do something that I never did before.

I am now offering a free [report, PDF, Ebook] to any person who buys the [product/service] today.

Click this link to buy the [product/service]

I have offered these great examples to you, so you can model after them and try them in your own email autoresponder.

Let me know how it works out.

Pro tip: Use videos in your emails to help build stronger connections so the prospect can see you are a real person. Include images of yourself. BE PERSONABLE.

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How To Get More Sales By Duplication

Getting more sales is simply a matter of repeating the above steps over and over to scale your business. The more people that you show your lead capture page to, leveraging advertising platforms like Facebook, Google, YouTube or Bing, the more sales you can get in your business.

I am glad that you have gotten this far which tells me that you are absolutely serious about making changes in your network marketing business. 

There is so much more for you to learn to start making consistent sales in your business using the above guidelines but guess what?! You are merely scratching the surface. 

So I want to invite you to fast track your way to success by using the points in this article and putting everything into practise so it makes more sense.

After all, there is nothing like reading material provided to help you, but you do absolutely nothing with it. 

If you want to learn exactly how to put this all into action and find your target audience by tapping into the right sources then this free Network Marketing Secrets ebook course is for you. All you do is pay shipping.

In this ebook you will discover the strategies that top income earners are using to generate hundreds of leads per day, enrolling 20-50 customers per day and recruiting more than 10 consultants into their business every month.  

You will also learn different methods to get more people to opt in to your lead capture page. Different places to find your target audience and how to scale your network marketing business faster.

Click this link to get access to this free training or click on the image below.

Cheers,

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I was fortunate enough to crack the code on how to get multiple leads and sales into my business on demand. Whilst my fellow network marketers were still trying to figure out how to get even two or three people to say those magical words “YES”.

But hold up… wait a minute!

Things were not always like this. Three years ago when I first started my network marketing business, I was struggling to get any one to look at the products or the opportunity. In fact for six months I was trying to figure out this whole network marketing game.

And that’s what I want to tell you about.

It took me a while to decide on the topic of this article because I was trying to figure out what content would make a good read and offer a great user experience for my network marketing friends.

I am part of a mastermind group of bloggers and one of the comments made by the members was that most of the blog posts were regurgitated content but had no personal experience attached to it.

So I decided to write a case study of my personal experience and particularly my first year in network marketing.

Essentially I am giving you a synopsis of all my fails (the things that went wrong) and all my triumphs (the things that went right) so maybe you can learn from my experience and perhaps implement some of the things that I used to finally succeed.

So here is my journey.

My First Year In Network Marketing And What I Would Do Differently

The first time I heard about network marketing was in the year 2014 when I joined the company It Works Global.

A little disclaimer before I continue. I no longer promote It Works Global so there is no affiliation between me and the company whatsoever.

When you join a business opportunity you join under a representative who is referred to as your sponsor. They take you under their wing so to speak and train you so that you understand how to get sales into your business.

I had never done network marketing before so knew nothing about how to speak to people, what to expect, how to get customers and most importantly how to sell.

My sponsor told me that the key way of getting leads and sales was to join as many Facebook groups as possible and to post about the product regularly.

Before and after pictures worked the best.

So I did my first post and I got about thirty responses. Happy dance! Woohoo!

But the minute I entered into conversation with the prospect to discuss the sale, I got crickets. Booooooooo!

Some were nice enough to tell me “never mind” or “not interested” but it made me wonder out of all thirty leads, not one person bought the product! Scratches head!

Dayyyyum!!

What did I do wrong?

So I went back to my sponsor and spoke to her about my sudden downward spiral. She was not surprised at all. All she said was “keep going”.

Hmmmmm. Here I am, poor little confused girl.

Does that mean that this is normal??

Apparently it was and as I spoke to other network marketers, from that day on, I began to understand that this was my struggle and what I was about to face.

So I put on my thinking cap and I got to work.

I began doing research to find out how other people were building their network marketing business. Some were using Instagram and others Facebook so I decided to focus on those two platforms to promote my business.

I was able to grow my Instagram account to over 25.5k followers in less than a year and had over 800 fans on my Facebook fan page.

Then I promoted the heck out of my business.

What I did was post as often as I could. From January 2015 until about August 2015 I focused on heavy promotion and incorporated some lifestyle posts, success stories and product posts.

I did that consistently and was able to build a team of 120 reps with about 20 of them personally sponsored.  This meant I was recruiting about 3 distributors into my business within a month.

Product sales were not bad during the time either. With my strategy, I was able to get about 10 customers every month and this was my number consistently.

But with all the work I was doing I crashed and burned.

Let me tell you something!

Although I counted my journey as a success because I was recruiting and adding customers to my payline, it was the hardest success to achieve.

Yet still I was not making near enough my income goal.

When I calculated everything I was actually only making about $2.14 an hour!!

And when I saw the numbers that prompted me to take some time away from network marketing, refocus and come from a different angle.

So that essentially was my journey in my network marketing business in my first year.

Why I Persevered?

To be honest, after all that effort and to realise that I was only making $2.14 an hour, I could have given up.

In fact I think that this is the number one reason why many people who start a business, do not succeed.

It is because of their mindset.

The only thing that kept me going were my dreams and the goals I had for my family. That was my why.

But many other people want results right now and they are not prepared to invest in themselves to find the solutions to their problems.

My first year was definitely a learning curve. I came from a legal background so had no experience with selling or marketing a product.

But I did enjoy connecting with other marketers and learning different strategies that were working.

If I had to do it all over again using the techniques that I know now, here is what I would do.

After two and a half years of being a network marketer and six months of taking my business online I have learnt so much.

I now know that to get massive results there is a right way to approach network marketing and VERY wrong ways to approach network marketing.

What I Would Do Differently

Make Smart Investments

By making smart investments in myself and my business, I was able to transform my struggling network marketing business, where I went from recruiting 2 to 3 reps per month to recruiting over 20 reps in a month. Jaw drop right?!

What did I invest in? I invested in my first marketing course which taught me how to “sell a product” without actually selling it.

This was the best investment that I could make for myself as it opened my eyes to the possibility of recruiting and generating sales into my business using the internet.

Use Email Marketing For Follow Ups

When I finished the internet marketing course I was introduced to the concept of email marketing.

This allowed me to work on building an email list and follow up with my prospects via email. So rather than messaging my prospects one by one via Instagram direct message or Facebook messenger, I was able to connect with my prospects all at once with an email autoresponder.

The email autoresponder sent emails to my prospects on my behalf and cut out a huge amount of time that I would usually spend following up with prospects to see if they were still interested in purchasing a product or joining as a distributor.

The biggest thing that I loved about email marketing is that I did not have to worry about facing rejection.

My one grudge when I messaged my prospects in my first year was they not responding to my messages.

HELLOOOOOOO!! It’s not hard to respond to a message merely saying you are no longer interested!

Why leave me hanging when you can simply type those five simple words and let me go my way??!!

Rant over!

This was my pet peeve but gladly with the help of email marketing I no longer had to experience that.

For email marketing I used the Aweber marketing software which gave me the ability to store 500 contacts’ email addresses for $19.00/month.

Aweber actually has a whopping 30 day free trial so if you want to try it out before you commit to those monthly payments then grab it here.

GetResponse is another good email marketing software. They however start at $15.00/month for 1000 contacts and they too offer an amazing 30 day trial offer which you can grab here.

Related Article: 

• How To Start Your First Email List From Scratch

Use Lead Capture Pages to Capture Prospects Information

If you told me in my first year that I could actually make sales in my business without chasing anyone, without cold messaging or begging anyone to buy my product I would have asked you where do I sign up?

Sadly it took me just about two years to figure that out.

But it’s all good.

Because the exposure that I got in my first year of network marketing, helped me to educate other network marketers and shield them from the gruelling months even years of frustration.

This was the biggest problem for me and I am sure it was for other network marketers.

No one really wants to be hustling for a sale.

Sure there are some good ways of hustling and there are bad ways of hustling.

However literally begging and chasing after someone just to get paid was not my cup of tea.

Thankfully I was introduced to these little things called lead capture pages. You may have also heard of them as landing pages, squeeze pages or opt in forms.

Whatever you know them as, they were a HUGE LIFESAVER for me in my business.

Actually it was a combination of the lead capture pages and the email marketing software that gave me massive amounts of freedom and I was able to pretty much run the sales process on autopilot.

No longer did I have to awkwardly start a conversation by asking someone to consider buying my product.

Nor did I have to follow up with my prospects only to be told that they had postponed the sale or they were no longer interested or simply blocked me (Ugh, how rude!!).

I had a lead capture page working for me and I was able to target the right people who wanted my products and the opportunity.

For my lead capture pages I used Clickfunnels. This an awesome piece of software and you can read all about it in my review here.

Clickfunnels does come with a hefty price tag of $97/month but this was so worth it with the number of leads and sales that I got into my business. They do have a 14 day free trial so you can try it out here and see if it is something worth investing in.

For me it certainly was as it allowed me to take control of my business, make it more streamlined and gave me a good bit of piece of mind.

I also found another piece of software, not as good as Clickfunnels but more budget friendly.

That is the Builderall marketing tool and it is an all in one piece of software with an email autoresponder attached to it. The Builderall System has a 7 day trial so you can try it out here for free.

Related Articles: 

• 4 Awesomest Lead Capture Page Builders You Must Use
• 5 Ways To Boost Your Network Marketing Business With A Sales Funnel

Recruited and Produced Sales With Advertisements

Game changer!

That is the only real way that I could describe what happened within the three months that I restructured my network marketing business.

Oh my goodness!

The reason that this worked for me was because I was the introvert.

Sure I built up tough skin after all those Nos and rejections but looking for people to join my business by advertising the opportunity and the products created a massive shift in my business.

Damn! For the first year on looking back I knew I left a lot and I mean A LOT of money on the table.  

That was money for the smarter network marketers who had figured out this deal a long time ago.

What advertising did for me and my business blew everything else out of the water.

I was now finding the ideal prospect who would convert to a customer without much hassle.

You see when you learn how to do advertising properly you can target the right people for your business.

Not chase after every Tom, Dick and Harry hoping that they would say yes. I wasted a huge amount of time doing that.

Thankfully I had a coach who taught me the skills on how to advertise with platforms such as Bing Ads, Google Ads or Facebook Ads.

Now I only get to offer my product or opportunity to people who actually want it rather than people who would “think about it”.

If ever you decide to change strategies and implement this super amazing thing called advertising in your network marketing business, I cannot give enough praise to the creators of the Social Traffic Blueprint course, Jon Penberthy and Jubril Agoro who were so patient with me and taught me how to use Facebook Ads step by step.

It has been a little over a year since I started using Facebook ads for my network marketing business and the response has been absolutely insane.

Check out the engagement on this one ad that I got which earned me thousands of dollars in product sales.

By using all these marketing tools in my business I went from crickets to this…

An abundance of people asking me for more information rather than me chasing them.

I was able to build my business with passion and enjoy it because I no longer felt stressed out by knocking my head against concrete blocks trying to sell a product and getting no where.

Network marketing is a great way to change your life but only if you go about it the right way. I have had a lot of stepping stones and grown a lot in the process.

Whilst I am no longer doing network marketing I am grateful for it because it would not have made me the person who I am today. A well educated, passionate business woman who is simply sharing her entrepreneurial journey with other ambitious like-minded beautiful spirits.

I quit network marketing in December 2016 and decided to focus on blogging and affiliate marketing. Only because there was less regulation of the way I worked and I was able to double my income considerably in the process.

Before You Go…

If you are just starting out with network marketing, make it a long term goal.

Never be afraid to make those investments in your business and yourself. From my experience it was so worthwhile to implement marketing tools and resources to help grow my business.

I would like to share with you, an ebook that I recently finished, that literally blew my mind. I thought I’d introduce it to you, because my mind is buzzing with new (easier) ways to build a network marketing team and this is what I teach network marketers. 

As a network marketer, this is what you should be implementing into your business today.

I got a copy of it for free (I just paid shipping).

This ebook is likely to shine a light on everything that perhaps you are doing wrong in your network marketing business.

If you ever thought to yourself:

• “I thought I’d be further along in my business by now”
• “Why can’t I get more people to join my team?”
• “How do I find the crowd that actually WANTS to hear about my opportunity?”

…then THIS is the book that you need to read. (and then read it again.)

Get your FREE copy of the Network Marketing Secrets Book by clicking here or click on the image below.

Are you in network marketing or direct sales? Tell me in the comments what your experience is like.

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Helpful Resources:

Mastering Your Home Based Business my free e-book that will teach you all you need to know about internet marketing and how you can apply this to your network marketing business.

Cheers

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In fact it was the first thing that I was told to do when I started my direct sales business.

Dawn you have to have a launch party!

A launch party I said? I did not have a place to have a party let alone the friends to come to my party!

I was the one who had very few friends and living in a studio apartment at the time.

So having a launch party was simply out of the question.

But despite the fact that I did not have parties, I was still successful in recruiting tons of people AND making tons of product sales in my business.

The thing is, when most people were doing parties, I took the time to learn different strategies that made me stand out. 

In an industry where competition is HUGE it is important to make the difference.

Sometimes going in the opposite direction is OK.

I would admit that a few Facebook parties did get me sales here and there, but what actually skyrocketed my business was using new, modern-day approaches to direct sales.

So what did I do differently?

5 Simple Ways To Grow Your Direct Sales Business Without Having Parties

1. Online Marketing

There is so much power in the internet and there is a reason why most successful businesses leverage this platform.

But many direct sales consultants seem to forget that it is there or if they know it is there, they do not know how to use it.

The internet provides a playground of opportunity, to find people who are searching for AND interested in your products when you have exhausted your warm market.

When I started direct selling, I went through my warm market in a matter of days.

Although I was trained to use social media outlets like Instagram and Facebook to find new prospects, many other people were also doing that!

It is no wonder why I sucked big time at trying to build a brand for myself. I mean, every time someone reached out to me in my DMs about my product, they usually followed up with something like “Oh yea! XYZ told me about this so I would buy from her”.

I had to come up with an alternative and it was to use the internet.

Using the internet to build a brand for yourself opens so many doors because you are in touch with a lot more people, both locally and internationally.

If you really understand how to use the internet to build a global direct sales company, then you can build a huge business. Check out my latest article where I explain how to build a global direct sales business.

It also meant that I could target people who were actually looking for my product rather than rely on people who only supported me, because I was a friend or family member.

So here’s what this looks like when I do a search, using my keyword research tool, to find people who are looking for a specific direct sales product.

Let’s say that product is the infamous skinny wrap that helps you tighten loose skin.

When I search for a keyword that could be searched by people on Google or other search engines, this is the type of results I get:

The above screenshot shows you the keyword that I have entered on the left which is “tighten loose skin” and on the right, it shows you the potential volume of searches on the search engines for variations of the keyword.

So for example, “loose stomach skin” gets approximately 1300 searches on the search engines. “Tummy skin tightening” get approximately 590 searches on the search engines.

This means that you have the opportunity to show your product to these people who are actually searching for a solution to “loose stomach skin” and “tummy skin tightening”.

And if you market your product properly to those people, then they are more likely to buy that product.

That is what is so amazing about search engine marketing.

Meanwhile on Instagram or Facebook, I was taught that every person I spoke to was a potential prospect. Knowing what I know now, I have to say … not really!

I would waste hours searching for that ONE person to say yes, when I had thousands of targeted people on Google who wants a solution to loose skin.

The most important thing that you can learn here, is to go after targeted people, as opposed to everyone.

It will make your life so much easier and running your business so much fun!

If you are looking for targeted prospects for your direct sales or network marketing business, check out this blog post or read my review of MLM Leads and Udimi Solo Ads.

How To Convert Searchers Into Leads and Buyers?

This was a secret that no company to my mind ever mentioned, although I strongly believe that every direct sales consultant should use.

(Before you use these methods, make sure that your company policy supports it.)

I used a marketing sales funnel. 

What Is a Marketing Sales Funnel?

A marketing sales funnel automatically introduces a prospect to my product via a lead capture page. 

A lead capture page, is a website page where I tell my audience what I have to offer, then entice them with something free in exchange for their name and email address.

By having a lead capture page, I was building an email list for my direct sales business so that I could find new prospects for my business.

Click this link to see what my lead capture page for direct selling consultants looked like.

My lead capture page will then take my prospect to a bridge page where I speak about the product and tell them more about why they should buy it and how it can solve their problems.

The bridge page also includes a link that directs the prospect to the website where they can purchase the product if they want to.

By using Google and other search engines, I could easily target my ideal customer and ask Google to show that potential customer my lead capture page via an internet link.

A marketing sales funnel, literally catapulted my business to success and gave me the freedom of time that I desperately needed.

Marketing sales funnel builders like Clickfunnels and LeadPages allow you to create a targeted website, then use that website to capture people’s information who are really interested in your offer.

This meant that I no longer had to speak to over 100 people, just to find that one person who would say yes.

It also meant that I could automatically get sales into my business, without me speaking directly to my prospect. The sales funnel did all the talking for me.

Click the video below to see how this process is completed with Clickfunnels.

>>Free Book Teaches You How To Use Sales Funnels For Your Direct Selling and Network Marketing Business <<

2. Email Marketing

You have probably heard somewhere before that “the money is in the list”.

Yet you are probably not building your email list at all.

An email list, is simply a list of subscribers who provide their email to you, so you can send them promotional content like newsletters, product offers or posts directly to their email address.

Do you know that social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook or Snapchat do not belong to us?

When we build an audience using these channels, there is a risk that it can easily be taken away from us when we least expect it.

Imagine growing your audience to over 20,000 people. Now imagine the time and effort put in and then one day it is wiped out! Gone!

This is why you should be working on building your email list as any audience we create here belongs to us.

Yes! We have complete ownership of our email lists.

When I started building my email list I did not quite understand the phrase “the money is in the list”.

Now that I have an email list of over 1000 targeted subscribers, I can send one email with valuable content and generate a sale from that email blast.

Optinmonster also confirms the effectiveness of email marketing over social media with their blog post Email Marketing v Social Media Performance.

So how do you start building an email list?

Well you must have the following tools to start:

• A website or lead capture page – I use LeadPages for my lead capture page builder but you can also use Clickfunnels or any of these awesome builders to start.
• Email autoresponder – I use and recommend Aweber because it makes sure that all my emails are sent directly to my prospects’ inbox. There is also GetResponse which is another great autoresponder and they have some pretty neat lead capture pages as well.

I then strategically place my website link, on the internet or my social media accounts and capture prospects’ details if they want more information about my product.

Building an email list allowed me to easily follow up with my prospects and continue to remind them about my products.

This was a key way that helped me to get so many sales into my business.

Related Article: 

• How To Start Your First Email List From Scratch  
• How To Build A Profitable Email List Step by Step
• How To Get Email Subscribers As A Newbie

3. Blogging

If it is one thing that you can do for your direct sales business, it is blogging.

That is because blogging allows you to provide a hub where prospects can go to, to get more in-depth information about you and your product.

I DO NOT recommend your company’s website blog, but your own personal blog that is hosted by you.

The reason why I would recommend your own personal blog, is because it belongs completely to you.

What is a blog?

A blog is like your home on the internet. It is a place that you fill with content on just about anything.

So if you are in direct sales and you are selling hair care products, you can personalise your blog with posts about hair care that will help viewers solve their problems.

A blog will help grow your business

If you optimise your blog so that it can be found in search engines, you are accessible by many more people than you can meet at home parties or Facebook parties.

With parties, most times you operate in ways that are sales-oriented. You really only have about an hour to impress upon your prospect why they should buy your product.

Let us not forget that people do not like being sold to.

However with a blog, your prospects have the time to read your helpful posts.

If the right amount of value is provided, you bet they will be ready to buy immediately.

A blog helps establish trust and credibility

When you write a blog, you establish yourself as an expert. Do not worry if you are new to blogging or your direct sales company.

You can easily do research on your company’s products and write posts in your own words. The internet is also full of resources that help you to recreate posts that provide solutions to your prospects.

By blogging, you stand out and this can be your unique selling point.

After all, you are using a forum that other direct sales consultants hardly or do not ever use!

Furthermore when you present yourself as an expert, more people will trust your recommendation and are thus more likely to buy from you.

Ready to start your own blog? Read my article The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Starting A Successful Blog  which provides a step-by-step walk through on how I created this blog. You can actually start your blog for as little as $3.95 a month with Bluehost and WordPress. 

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• Network Marketing Blog 5 Reasons Why You Need Them  
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4. Facebook Marketing

Yes you can use Facebook groups to promote your products to your circle via Facebook parties but Facebook is bigger than that.

Just like online marketing, Facebook has a huge database of information on its users.

This allows you to specifically target people who may be interested in your products.

So if you are a direct sales consultant in a weight loss company, you can create an ad and ask Facebook to show it to people who are interested in Diets and Weight Loss or Easy Weight Loss.

Do you think these people will be interested in your product that helps them to lose weight?

Of course they will be.

So not only are you connecting with people who are not in your inner circle but you are connecting with the right kind of people who are ten times more likely to buy your product because they are interested in it.

When you use Facebook’s platform in this way you can collect your prospects’ information exactly as you would by using lead capture pages if you want to use email marketing to follow up with them later on.

If Facebook Ads is your choice of growing your direct sales business without having parties, then I would strongly recommend the Social Traffic Blueprint Facebook Ads Course by Jon Penberthy and Jubril Agoro.

They teach you everything you need to know about how to place a Facebook ad the right way. I would not try Facebook ads without doing a course or understanding the ad platform thoroughly as you can waste a lot of money. Be sure to also check out Facebook Blueprint which is a user guidance for Facebook Ads.

Check out the response that I got from one Facebook ad for my company’s product which generated hundreds of product sales. 

If you would like to use Facebook as a traffic source feel free to check out the course here.

5. Pinterest

If you are in direct sales then Pinterest is one of THE best platforms that you can use to grow your business.

Best of all, it is a FREE platform.

Not many people go to Pinterest because it is one of those social media outlets that is rarely heard of for business, but did you know that Pinterest has more than 150 million monthly active users and is actually a search engine? So people are actually searching for solutions to their problems on there.

I have said over and over that I absolutely LOVE Pinterest. It is the one place where I can showcase my business through my blog and get targeted leads and sales.

With Pinterest you can surf visually stimulating images and get ideas for hair styles, wardrobes or gift ideas.

I however use it strategically to drive traffic to my blog or website.

Check out the amount of traffic that I am getting from Pinterest to my blog below.

Do you think that if you can get this amount of traffic to your website that you can make a few good product sales?

To learn how to use Pinterest I first invested in a course called the Pinterest Traffic Avalanche course by Alex Nerney and Lauren McManus. This course taught me some really cool things on how to increase traffic to my website with Pinterest.

In the course they also teach you pinning strategies, how to create viral pins that get the most traffic amongst other valuable lessons to grow your business. If you wish to use Pinterest as a traffic source feel free to check out the course here.

How to create pins

How I do this, is I create beautiful pins using an easy to use graphic tool like PicMonkey and stock photos from Shutterstock, then connect that pin to my blog.

I then share my pins in targeted group boards where I can connect with people who may be interested in one of my topics.

So for example, I am a part of many network marketing, direct sales and affiliate marketing group boards because I know that people on these boards have followed it because they are interested in it.

Before now, I would have never thought about using Pinterest as a business tool but once I discovered that I could actually grow my business using it, I became absolutely hooked on the idea.

Final Thoughts

Online marketing is huge. It is a known fact that the top direct sales consultants grow their business using the internet and with the help of various marketing tools.

However even today, consultants are still encouraged to use the “belly-to-belly” strategy which in my view only helps you achieve mediocre results.

Cheers,

P.S Are you using any other ways to grow your business without home parties? Show me some love in the comments and let me know. I would love to hear more from you.

Resources That Will Help You Even More

How To Use Sales Funnels To Grow Your Network Marketing Team a free e-book that will teach you all you need to know about using sales funnels to build your direct selling and network marketing team.

Start A Blog ECourse 5 Days To Blogging Success my free blog course will teach you how to start a blog and build it around your direct sales business.

Power Coaching if you have a product, service or business, personally work with me and I will help you automate and leverage the internet so you can live the life that you truly want. I will help you take your business to the next level with personalised coaching sessions. My coaching sessions are $247/hour. Please only complete the application form if you are serious about utilising my coaching. Click here to complete the application form. 

Aweber the internet’s most powerful tool to help automate your email communication. This is what I use to build my email list and send my newsletter to my subscribers to form the relationship. It is one of the biggest tools you will need in your business.

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I am a Younique consultant and would like to know if it is a good idea to use a blog to promote Younique products?

Immediately I thought, “Heck yea!”

When I thought more about the topic and looked further into it, I realised that whilst blogging has been around for a good few years, not many network marketers are using this platform to promote their business.

And this is the reason why – people are simply following other unsuccessful people and the masses are not blogging! 

So if every Jane, Julie and Anna are not blogging, then why should anyone else consider doing it?

If many people are not doing it, does that not mean that it is not profitable? Why would anyone want to stray from the norm?

And herein lies the reason for this blog post and WHY you should really be blogging as a network marketer.

Before I go anymore into the reasons why, let us look at some top network marketers who are crushing it with their network marketing blog.

• Julie and Pauli Kalungi are home based business trainers and mentors who have grown in network marketing through their blog. They really took off educating themselves on the ins and outs of network marketing and built info products around their brand with the goal that their blog will be a “one stop shop”.
• Jelena Otrovska is a Russian network marketer who used her blog to become a top earner in her company. She is now a certified coach helping other network marketers master network marketing.
• Michelle and Bill Pescosolido are network marketing enthusiasts who now enjoy six figure incomes from building their brand on the internet. Their joy is helping other network marketers build their business online. They started network marketing after Michelle wanted a way to make money from home as a stay at home parent. The internet and social media helped her create massive wealth by helping other people successfully live out their dreams.
• Tanya Aliza joined network marketing in 2009 and in 2010 took her business online. By taking her business on the internet and making a home for herself, she became the number three recruiter in her company and promotes different tools and resources on her blog to help other network marketers do just as she did.

The one thing that these marketers have in common is that the moment they took their business online and started using websites to recruit other network marketers into their businesses, they found success.

If you look at their websites you will see that it is a place where they host all their products and different programs that they use to build their business.

Their blogs also tell their story and deliver messages which are used by many as training platforms and best of all for the top earners, their business is all automated.

This is exactly how top earners become top earners in this industry and it is still amazing that not many marketers are using this.

So let us talk about…

The Top 5 Reasons You Should Have A Network Marketing Blog

1. Helps You Stand Out

Not every network marketer has a blog and when you do, it helps you to stand out from the rest.

It shows prospects that you are not “just another network marketer”.

There are many network marketers that a prospect can choose to buy from or join, so you need to give them a reason to choose you over your competitors.

What will make you unique is your selling point. What else can you offer?

You will see later on, that a blog can help you gain authority and credibility. Especially when you are providing tons of value on a subject and can give your prospect a place to go to for resources that probably was not already there.

For example, most network marketers would give a prospect a website link to their company’s landing page. The prospect may be has seen it many times but when you come from a different direction and show them something that they have not seen, it keeps you in their mind.

Having a blog shows that you are providing an extended service to the prospect.

So you may have weight loss recipes or tips and advice for losing weight faster which other network marketers do not have.

You may provide product reviews to help the prospect decide whether to buy your product.

Be a distributor in a new way and stand out from the all too familiar crowd.

2. Creates A Home For You And Your Brand

With a network marketing blog you can add anything to it that you want to help a prospect get to know you.

It is your central hub to showcase all there is to know about you. You will then be able to leverage that hub and channel your prospect to other marketing platforms that promote your brand.

For example, you may have social media sites that you can direct your prospect to. You can connect better with them in a Facebook community group or on a YouTube channel.

Your blog can act as a training ground where you host content that will help your team learn more about your business building strategies.

Without this, you may have to take a more hands-on approach to training your team. In my article How To Automate Your Business And Take Control Of Your Life, I spoke about how a blog can be used to automate your business so you can get more freedom of time to focus on other things that matter.

You can also use a blog to “talk” about your products and do the selling for you.

3. Become An Expert Or An Authority

People use blogs to create content that establishes them as an authority or expert.

Now you may be thinking that you cannot be an expert when you are just getting started with network marketing.

This was one of the issues that Tanya Aliza had when she first started blogging and she said

… this was a concern of mine in the past before I drew a line in the sand and got started. The reality is that when you have your Brand, Blog and Sales Funnel built, people will automatically think you’re successful. That’s what happened to me.

Ray Higdon also said that he started teaching other people what he was learning even though he had no results.

So the point is, you can be an expert even if you have very little proof of your progress.

You can also do this with a blog by writing about the things that you have learnt. Then simply build a platform where people come to you, for information to help them solve their problems.

Soon enough you will have a library of knowledge which then helps to promote your credibility and authority in your niche.

When you have that credibility and authority, people are more likely to buy anything from you. This is when you will use your sales funnels to sell your products and make sales in your business.

4. Create A Duplicatable System

A blog is your marketing tool. It is your artillery that fires up your business and guess what?!

Once you have a system, that is spinning the wheels for you automatically and creating leads and sales, you can teach your team the same thing.

A blog is not a difficult thing to create. You can provide online tutorials that show your team how to set up their own blog and use it in their businesses.

The same thing goes for sales funnels. These systems are what will help you and your team create huge downlines which only means more money in your pocket.

Most network marketers struggle with distributor retention because they teach their teams to use prospecting and recruitment methods which no longer work today.

With a blog you can create a blueprint that is an easy to follow guide.

What better way to help any network marketer get the results that they want.

Only of course, if they are willing to follow the steps and put the work into it.

5. Have Long Term Success

Some people are put off from creating a blog because they see it as the slower path to success. This is a myth in the blogger’s world.

Blogging is a lot of work as you need to put the time in to create the content but once you have a fully established blog, it does the work for you without you having to be present.

This is why so many bloggers make hundreds of thousands of dollars from content that is produced a year ago. This is the power of having a blog that can generate residual income.

With any business you need to consider the merits of having long term goals. A business that only has a short term vision is more than likely to fail over one that has a long term vision.

By starting your blog now you can set your business to thrive.

You are also more likely to be successful, over those who have no clear plan of how they are going to create a sustainable business.

This is what is most important. If you are continuing to prospect through social media or face to face, you are more than likely to get exhausted.

You are also less likely to have the freedom of time to do whatever you want because you constantly have to be in front of the computer or on the road.

This is not a proper business strategy.

Having a blog is the best way to create longevity in your business.

Do you have a blog yet? Read my article The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Starting A Successful Blog In 2017 to set up your own network marketing blog.

Then follow the Ultimate Blogging Strategy for Beginners 90 Days To Success for a step by step guide to growing a successful blog.

Or take my free 5-Day course that will teach you how to start a blog in 5 days, how to get visitors to your blog, how to monetise your blog and how to grow your blog.

Cheers,

P.S Too much overwhelm and don’t know where to start? Then check out this free ebook (just pay shipping), Network Marketing Secrets, which condenses everything on how to start your network marketing business online.

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That time I almost, ALMOST quit my network marketing business…

Can I get absolutely real with you?

About two years into my network marketing business, I was not happy at all. I was tired and on the verge of crashing because it was so darn hard to get people to sign up as distributors and customers.

Then when I did get someone to join me as a distributor, there was little expectation that they would be around a good few months.

Most of the time, the distributors would join and then do absolutely nothing. They would not respond to my texts, no calls, never attend meetings or take part in support groups.

What was I doing wrong?

I thought to myself that if I had to win at network marketing, I had to go the distance myself.

So I buckled down and tried to get as many customers as I could to fill my matrix chart.

I was literally burning the midnight oil and messaging as many people as I can. You know, hoping that the next person would be a yes.

“It was a numbers game” they said.

So I thought, “Ok, Just one more!”

I mean I made some good money in my network marketing business, I made some awesome friends too but

I was also going nuts!

Instead of enjoying my network marketing business, I was constantly pushing every ounce of me to get that next sale.

It was an emotional roller coaster. Some days I was up; other days I was down when I did not get enough customers to hit the bonus.

And truthfully I was not at a level where I was making a massive income yet. I was at a place where after enduring a tiresome 9 to 5, I came home to pretty much hustle in my network marketing business.

That was not what I dreamed of!

Additionally the methods I was using, was not at all sustainable. Certainly, if I wanted to quit my job and work from home full time, what I was doing was NOT working!

Maybe you can relate?

If you feel like marketing your business is slowly draining all the energy out of you, then this post is for you.

I want to take you on a little journey. I want you to sit back and think about this for a minute:

• Imagine that you could automate your business, so that it works for you; rather than you having to work it. Kind of like a set-it-and-forget-it type of model.
• You can delegate some of your most important tasks to a system so that you can focus on doing other things that mean the most to you.
• Imagine your business making sales whilst you sleep!
• You could put down your phone or step away from your computer for an entire day and not worry about missing prospects coming to your business.
• Imagine not having to go out to the mall or on the streets to look for your next business partner or customer.
• Imagine putting in effort once and having your business run smoothly without you doing a lot of work. At most an hour a day.

Does any of that sound like heaven?

If it does then allow me to introduce you to what literally changed my business:

SALES FUNNELS

What in the world is a sales funnel you may ask?

I get you, because when I first heard of it; I did not understand it myself.

The only thing that came to mind were those funnels that you use to pour water into the neck of a bottle.

But if you have had very little results with your network marketing business or any business for that matter, then I have five words for you:

You’ve been doing it all wrong.

And I really mean this sincerely and is no way intended to sound like I am dragging you down as I was in exactly the same position as you about two years ago.

So I know and I was so glad that someone spoke some sense into my head and taught me a different way.

So stay with me here for a minute and you will see by the end of this post how there is some crazy amazing potential for your network marketing business. I will even show you exactly how to make that happen.

A Case Study For My Network Marketing Business

When I started my network marketing business I knew nothing and I mean nothing about these little things called sales funnels.

I knew nothing about email auto-responders.

I thought traffic was what you saw on the road.

I was a clueless little bunny.

All I knew was what my upline taught me.

That was, to speak to as many people as I can, regardless of who it was and tell them about my business.

I was never told to brand myself. Instead I was told to push the product.

If you want sales, then you have to do whatever you can to get the sales… so do not be afraid to talk about your business.

I took heed and I got to work.

I started posting about my business all over Facebook and Instagram.

I went to beauty events and talked to any and everyone who my eyes would meet.

I cold messaged over a hundred people in a day and got like only two responses.

I messaged all my friends and got ZERO responses.

I went to my nearby salons and asked if anyone was interested.

I handed out cards. Some would wryly laugh as I handed my card and the minute I walked out the door my card was in the bin!

I got doors slammed in my face. I got scornful looks and felt tons of rejection.

In the midst of all of that I got some results (yay!)

But I wanted to quit (boo!)

It was just too much and I literally crashed and burned.

The effort that I was putting into it and the results I was getting was just not worth the effort.

So I did just that. I quit.

Well not my network marketing business. Instead I quit what felt like hustling my business and invested in this marketing training which changed the nature of everything.

I had no idea that everything I was doing, could be done easier and without me putting in so much work.

If someone told you, you could build a business without speaking to anyone, would you believe them?

Well I did not but I was intrigued.

I learnt that with a few good sales funnels and the internet, I could actually reach far more people and never have to speak to a single soul, all on autopilot.

I was like WUH??? Sign me up please!

See all those emails above?

That was all the leads I got into my business, the moment I started implementing what I learnt in the training.

Pay attention to the time as well. Leads like clockwork, all asking me for more information about my business instead of me chasing them. 

Where was this 411 a year ago I thought? Why were they keeping this a secret?

It was a huge relief for me that I did not have to go through literally blood, sweat and tears to promote my business anymore.

So I started building out these sales funnels which were pretty simple to do and used the internet to build my downline and get customers for my products.

If you have ever seen a network marketer’s business explode, chances are they have cracked the code and figured out how to use sales funnels and the internet and are letting it do most of the work for them.

It is a genius idea!

And there’s a snowball effect too. All it takes is for me to keep getting as many people as I can to see my offer on the internet and opt into my sales funnel.

Then the entire sales closing is done for me on the back end by an email autoresponder.

And sales flow in, in what seems to be a magical way.

Those are the number of leads I got into my business within 3 months, whereas before I would probably get about 20 solid leads a month.

All I can say, is the sales on autopilot was enough to convince me that using sales funnels and the internet in my business was a new way of network marketing.

But there is a catch to all this fabulousity.

You cannot  expect to just throw together a sales funnel, put it on the internet and call that George.

You have to be like the strategic marketer.

You have to test your sales funnel, test the content, know what content speaks to your audience, what gets them to click on a button. How do they interact with your website?

Learning all these things are necessary but once you get the hang of it, it is so simple.

“Ok! So I’m sold. But how do I figure out this sales funnel business?”

Today I want to share with you my top five non-negotiable internet marketing tips that are absolutely essential for your growth in your network marketing business.

This is going to start shaking up your business and getting the sales (because well you deserve it).

There are tons of strategies out there but these five hit the nail on the head!

They are a MUST if you want to get going on the right foot.

1. Get a mentor

Get a mentor who knows what they are doing, then model after them.

Remember that this was actually what turned my business around. I took this training given to me by my current mentor then did everything that he said to do.

Show me a successful individual and I’ll show you someone who had real positive influences in his or her life. I don’t care what you do for a living—if you do it well I’m sure there was someone cheering you on or showing the way. A mentor. — Denzel Washington

2. Create your own internet hub

Create your own internet hub where you can tell the world about you and begin to brand you.

My best take away from all of this is never ever EVER brand the company that you are with. Because one day that company will disappear and no one will really know who you are. You always want to brand yourself first.

3. Build sales funnels

Create a sales funnel using sales funnel builders such as Clickfunnels or LeadPages so that you can capture your leads.

This is how you get leads automatically to your business. When you have a piece of equipment that does the “talking” for you, you barely need to lift a finger to convince anyone. The lead page does all the heavy lifting.

4. Connect your lead page to your offer

This is how you are building your sales funnel. Ideally your lead page should be connected to a bridge page then to the sales page for better conversions. Either way just make sure that when the lead opts in, they have a destination to go to which ultimately is your offer.

5. Focus on sending as many people as you can to your lead page

Here I would use advertisements such as Google, Bing or Facebook ads. You can also use something called solo ads.

This is where people outside of your close circle will see your ad. It is where you have access to the whole world instead of friends on your Facebook profile or neighbours on your street.

And trust me these strategies are not even scratching the surface.

There is so much more you can learn to optimise your results and get more sales in your network marketing business and see the type of growth that top earners have.

If you like what you have read and are hungry for more because you can just see how awesome this will be in your business, I have some super duper news for you.

There are actually people teaching this for free.

If you go to YouTube and type in “internet marketing” or even “using the internet to grow your network marketing business”, you can find hundreds of people already doing this stuff and teaching it for free.

I also have a few posts on the blog that will help you, if you are really hungry for that success.

But I have an itsy bitsy disclaimer and that is, it really will take you months to piece everything together.

Yes, free is great but not so great all the time.

How free works, is that you will get loads of information. That can cause overwhelm and usually there is no structure when you do not know exactly what you are looking for.

How To Grow Fast In Network Marketing

The smartest thing that you can do, is actually learn from the people who have done it before and who has a structured plan so you get all the roads that you need to take to lead to your final destination.

Do not make the mistake of becoming lost and trying to figure stuff out yourself.

I mean I can figure things out on my own but I prefer to figure things out quickly and more efficiently.

So if you are serious about your network marketing business and want to get everything in tip top shape, then I would like to share with you, an ebook that I recently finished, that literally blew my mind. I thought I’d introduce it to you, because my mind is buzzing with new (easier) ways to build a network marketing team and this is what I teach network marketers.

In this ebook you will learn how to properly set up your network marketing business for success online.

The ebook reveals things that top earners just do not want you to know. What I have learnt has been shared with over one hundred thousand other students and helps even the most newbies of the internet to get everything set up and see your business explode into amazingness.

My business went from getting two to three sign ups a month to more than twenty sign ups. I was also able to make hundreds of product sales within in a month when before I only had about ten.

There is just so much gold in the training.

Now I am able to apply all these marketing strategies to any online business that I start and let me not get started on how I was able to go from having one income stream to more than seven income streams.

It is just ridiculous!

Do not leave money on the table with your network marketing business. Heck do not leave the money to your competition.

Because a lot of people have already started using sales funnels and the internet to grow their brand and you should too.

So here is a quick recap of why I absolutely love sales funnels and the internet to grow my network marketing business:

• You can automate your entire business so that you can do more of the things you love and keep your business running on track bringing in sales for you automatically.
• You can scale your business quickly and make sales exponentially all from as little as an hour a day.
• You will put in the effort once to get your business set up and then let it run like clockwork.
• You do not have to chase after people and constantly get rejected and frustrated by them “standing you up”
• You can start enjoying and loving your business all over again

So if you want to stop the hustle and bustle in your network marketing business, stop having to constantly post on social media hoping that at least one person comments on your post for more info you can grab the Network Marketing Secrets ebook here.

I absolutely recommend it and you will see how life changing it will be when you finally get it and you can take your business to a whole other level.

Cheers,

P.S How are you succeeding in your network marketing business? Comment below and let’s start talking. 

P.P.S Have you subscribed to my YouTube Channel where I give more free training on growing your network marketing business? Subscribe here!

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If it was one thing that I could go back and do over again in my network marketing days, it would be to take a marketing course or invest in a mentor that will teach me exactly what I should be doing to build my network marketing business quickly.

You see, when I started network marketing I did not take it seriously.

I did not understand its potential and I came from a legal background.

So knowing how to promote and sell products, was not my forte.

For two and half years, I learnt only from the top income earners and yea they had a few good tricks up their sleeves.

But now I realise, that tricks was not what I wanted.

I needed a better strategy and that strategy should have been a marketing strategy.

Maybe I was blinded by the success that top income earners had. After all they knew what they were talking about right? So it was right to listen to them.

But I always struggled with this one question

Why were they getting results, (and so fast) and I was not?!

I mean of course if someone is getting results, and they are where you want to be, you would follow what they say.

Why would you zag when everyone else was zigging?

But over time (and I mean two and a half years later) I realised that there was a better way to promote my network marketing business.

A way that leaders are just not talking about and for the life of me I do not know why.

In fact the first time that I heard about this way, was from a sideline sister. She mentioned that people approached her about using “marketing tools” and my upline responded “… do not listen to them! They’re only after your money”.

Yes! That is exactly why I was repelled from the idea.

But only if I listened to my instincts back then, I would have been a lot further in my business than I am today.

But I am not mad. We all have a journey and that was my journey.

So let us get right to it shall we.

Here Are 5 Ways That You Can Build Your Network Marketing Business Quickly With Sales Funnels

1. Build Your Sales Funnel

Who would have thought that this would be your first step?!

In order to grow your business and grow it fast, begin by building a sales funnel.

There are many companies that offer sales funnels like Clickfunnels, LeadPages, GetResponse.

My favourites are Clickfunnels and LeadPages. Check out my detailed comparison review here to see if they are right for you..

What Is A Sales Funnel? 

A sales funnel is the path that you take a prospect through to sell a product or service.

Most network marketers fail at this point because they do not know how to properly approach this process to close a sale.

When I started network marketing, I was told to speak to everyone on my phone contact list.

Then when I exhausted that, go to my social media accounts and start following people like crazy and promoting my product to them.

Talk about face palm! 

Then there was attraction marketing. What exactly was attraction marketing in the first place?

Some uplines were very vague because they did not want to disclose their “secret” to people in their downline or who were not on their team.

Then we were told to make it a goal to speak to at least 100 people a day about your business. “It was a numbers game” they said.

But all I was thinking was

How in the world am I going to speak to 100 people every day?!

The answer? A sales funnel and an automated one at that.

How Does An Automated Sales Funnel Work? 

Well you are most likely familiar with the whole network marketing approach I just mentioned above.

So instead of you doing the talking, you will start with a website that does the “talking and selling” for you.

And I am not talking about the traditional website, like this one that you’re reading.

That actually comes after and whilst I am dismissing it for the purpose of this topic, it is still an important element of your network marketing business.

Read this post where I provide my view on why your own network marketing website and blog is important in your business.

What you do want however is an opt in page, or capture page where you can send your prospects to, so they can get more information about your product or offer.

Have you ever opted into a website to receive a discount on your favourite pair of shoes? Well that is what I am talking about.

Click this link to see an example of what I am speaking about.

What this does, is it helps to capture your leads’ information so you can follow up with them by email using autoresponder tools like Aweber or GetResponse.

Never heard about autoresponders? Read my review of Aweber here.

Then once you have captured their email, you can send them onto your product page or even better your bridge page, where that page will “talk” to your leads.

Meanwhile in your email marketing sequence you can start to build a relationship with your leads by providing value and showing your leadership.

You can also format your emails to find out exactly what your leads’ problems are and provide a solution – which will be your product.

So essentially what I am saying, is that instead of you doing all the work, you can use marketing tools to do the work for you.

Click here to read my recommended marketing tools for your network marketing business.

That is how you work smarter, not harder!

So once you have your sales funnel, how do you actually find people for your product or offer?

2. Advertising

More than likely you have pitched your offer or product on your Facebook timeline inviting people to “buy your product now” or “join your team today”.

So you probably have gotten a few customers and distributors this way but would you not like to 10x your efforts?

This is where paid advertising comes in.

There are billions of people on the internet. So why would you want to limit yourself with just the 1000 people on your friends’ list?

A great way of finding targeted prospects for your network marketing business is through paid advertising.

Think of Facebook Ads, Google AdWords, Yahoo Ads.

The beautiful thing about these platforms is that you can specifically target people who are likely to be interested in your product or opportunity by using keywords or key interests.

I mean this is so much better than walking up to every single person that you meet, hoping that they might bite!

By using advertising you can focus ONLY on those people who are likely to be interested in what you have to say.

3. Bribe Offer

Ok so you know where your ideal customers are hanging out.

You have some great engagement in your advertising.

How on earth are you to convert those ideal customers into leads?

Let us go back to the sales funnel.

Once you have built your sales funnel you actually need your prospect to become interested in what you have to offer.

Now, this does not mean calling them and finding out their likes or dislikes.

You basically want to use a strategy and that strategy is called a bribe offer.

A bribe offer is simply a free offer that you entice your visitors with to get their contact details in exchange for your offer.

Your offer can be any of the following customised to your niche:

• A free ebook
• A free PDF checklist
• A free video series
• A free plan
• A free download
• A free report

Basically anything that you can create that you can give to your prospect that will help them. For example, if you are in the weight loss niche, you may want to offer a free 6 Day Course To Healthy Living.

With this course you can easily research a few topics and prepare a PDF document setting out a plan that the customer will do over a 6 day period.

If you have used your product to achieve a desired result, then you can offer them a free report showing how you did it. Then within that report provide a link to your product page so they can check it out.

It really does not have to be extravagant!

The idea is to offer them something for free, to get their email address.

4. Call To Action

Once you have your offer, create your capture page within your sales funnel, with a headline, an image of the offer and a strong call-to-action.

Then use that capture page in your advertising campaigns.

For example, in my capture page above, I am offering a free e-book to entice my prospects to enter their email address.

I have a strong call to action “Grab Your Free Ebook Now”.

Once I have received their email address, I send them on to the next webpage which contains my product offer.

Remember to send the free offer to your lead by setting up your email campaign in your email autoresponder.

4. Email Marketing

Email marketing is often overlooked by network marketers.

I get that. No one ever told me how to use emails to “speak” to my prospects.

But I have found that it is the best way to convert my prospects from a lead to a sale.

The best part about it, is that it is automatic.

With tools like Aweber or GetResponse, email marketing is like a breath of fresh air.

Before, I would spend hours upon hours inboxing leads on Facebook and Instagram, to follow up with them.

Sooner or later I was bound to get tired and frustrated. And tired I became.

With Aweber or GetResponse, I pre-write my content with FAQs, success stories and starter packs and it is sent out for me on my behalf.

So whilst I am sipping a Pina Colada on the beach side (OH! the dream life), my business is still working for me.

That is what you call living a life of freedom.

5. Converting Your Prospects

Now that you have started getting some leads into your sales funnel and your email list is growing nicely, it is time to start getting sales.

This is where you begin to nurture and reassure your leads.

This is the last stage of the sales funnel and is the most important.

It is where you can gain a lot of new customers or lose a lot of leads.

If you have built your sales funnel right, then your prospect will already have an idea as to what you are offering.

If your email marketing is full of value and you are feeding your leads with information about how your product or opportunity will benefit them and why they need it, then you can easily convert your prospects into paying customers.

You can also offer to answer any questions that they may have.

Ditch the old school and get with the new school!

The ways that I have outlined above, have one thing in common – automated marketing.

If you want to get more sales into your network marketing business quickly, then an automated sales funnel is paramount.

What Do You Want?

• Do you want to shake up your network marketing business?
• Would you prefer to speak to 100 people a day? Or 1000 people a day?
• Is it ideal for you to stop harassing friends and family to join you in your business or buy your product?
• Do you prefer to connect with the right people who actually want to work with you because they are PRE-QUALIFIED?!
• Would you not like to stop wandering around malls, beauty fairs, the streets looking for your next prospect? (which in my view is a complete waste of time if you know how to use the internet)
• Do you dream of building your business with an endless stream of people to talk to who actually want to hear from you instead of giving you BS excuses and asking ridiculous questions? 

If you want those things, then using an automated sales funnel is the EXACT way that top network marketers get more customers, recruit more reps and make more money in their business. It is all because they have a system in place to make their sales process easier.

Leverage this exact system that I use personally to go from recruiting 5 people a month to over 20 people a month. 

It has also helped me make hundreds of product sales in my business every month.

Make sure to watch the video at the start of this blog post to see how I set up my system using Clickfunnels. You can also use LeadPages if you want.

Confused about how both work and whether it is the right fit for your business? Read my comparison review here. 

If you are ready to make the change in your network marketing business and make the income that you truly deserve, maybe you want some hand holding and accountability, I am accepting coaching students by application only.

I am always looking for Dream Clients to work with. I am looking for go-getters, ACTION-takers and high-spirited, overall positive people.

As your mentor I will teach you how to: 

• How to build online marketing sales funnels that convert
• How to build a follow and email marketing list
• How to blog for results
• How to do paid Facebook marketing
• How to build stable teams using social media
• How to build leadership online brands that convert

Start your application today.

Cheers,

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There is so much that you want to do that sometimes it can be hard to fit everything into your daily tasks without burning out.

Especially when you are the CEO, the personal assistant, customer service, etc. Sometimes there is too much to handle.

Let us not talk about those work from home mommas or pappas.

I mean it can be really overwhelming when housework needs to be done or you have to tend to the kids AND run a business??

That is why automating your business is paramount and is key to helping you save your sanity.

What Exactly Is Automation?  

Automation in an online business is Superman – it saves your day!!

If there was a definition that is exactly what I would call it in a nutshell.

But all jokes aside, automation is using tools to perform tasks that you would otherwise do yourself.

Kind of like freeing up your time and delegating the task to a robot.

Men in Black comes to mind. LOL

Why Would You Want To Automate Your Business?   

There are some really great reasons why automating your business will be a good thing for you.

• Better time management. If on a given day you have 10 tasks that you must absolutely do, but find it hard to manage your time so that the important tasks get done first, well you automate your business to take some of those tasks off your plate and focus on the ones that require more time.This will help you to free up your time and manage it better.
• Time to be present. Do you feel like more time should be spent with the family instead of head down in your computer? It is great for the mind to have a break now and then, when you can just unwind.Family time is precious and should never be lost for business sake. Automating your business will help you to balance your life and even tip the scale in favour of spending more hours with the family, knowing that your business is still working for you.
• Faster growth. When you automate your business you have more time to focus on the important things like creating content or driving traffic to your website, blog or sales funnel. Prioritising these tasks will eventually help you to grow faster because you can then reach more people with more content.
• Channel your energy to be more creative. When you are not thinking of the mundane tasks which can be automated, you have more time to actually sit and think of more creative ideas that can help your business. Because your mind is not so busy, your energy can go towards improving your business or client relations.

So let us get to the good stuff!!

How To Automate Your Business And Take Control Of Your Life

#1 Acquire Customers/Clients Automation

The model for any online business is one where you display your product or offer to an audience, capture interested persons’ information and follow up with them so as to close the sale.

Every business needs customers to make money right?

If you have a website offering a service or product for sale, that is one piece of the puzzle.

You will never really get to capture every prospect who visits your website and follow up with them if you do not have the right tools in place.

So this is where lead magnets play a part.

You may hear other terms like, capture page, squeeze page, landing page. THEY ARE ALL THE SAME!

I use LeadPages to easily build a lead magnet for my websites.

A lead magnet is simply a stand alone website that helps you to capture your visitors’ contact details.

So when your prospect visits your webpage you can offer them something for free in exchange for their contact details and then add them to your newsletter email sequence to follow up with them.

What I love about this tool is that I can build as many capture pages as I want for various offers.

I can also build my email list easily with their built-in autoresponder.

I did a full review of this tool here.

There is also Clickfunnels.

Clickfunnels is a very snazzy piece of equipment but the good thing is, it gets the job done!

With these two systems, you can set it up to automatically capture prospects’ information, lead them through a sales funnel and close the sale with email follow ups.

Everything is customisable just the way you want it and there are tons of templates that you can use to add that personal touch.

#2 Follow-Up Automation

Do you want to contact every single prospect that lands on your website or would you rather someone or SOMETHING do it for you?

I mean we are talking about hundreds even hundreds of thousands of people landing on your website every single day!

That would absolutely be brain fry and even total waste of time if you were to take on this mountain task.

That is why I have to say thank goodness for Aweber or GetResponse.

These two tools allow you to deliver pre-written emails to your prospects on your behalf.

So whatever content you want your prospects to receive to build that relationship with them, then let Aweber or GetResponse do the work for you.

I like that I can actually see how many of my prospects are engaging with me and how many of them have clicked on a link within the email.

It gives me really helpful stats that I can use to improve the interaction that I have with my prospects.

Think about how this beauty can free up some of your time so you can focus on other things to help your business grow.

#3 Social Media Schedule Automation

We are all on social media and it is HUGE for our business.

But I know the feeling when sometimes you just do not care to “show up”.

All you want to do is lay in bed, watch some TV and just Netflix and chill!

Well with social media automation tools you can still “show up” and make it seem like you are there. Cool huh?!

An excellent tool for most social media outlets is Hootsuite.

This lets you schedule and post effective content automatically in very little time.

There is a free plan for Hootsuite which gives permission to one user and connects to three different social media networks. If you want to manage more networks than that, then their professional plan allows you to connect to ten social media networks at $19 a month.

You can use Hootsuite to schedule Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tumblr posts.

Other social media management tools include:

• Buffer
• IFTTT
• Social Oomph
• TweetDeck
• Social Flow
• CrowdBooster

I have not used any of these tools myself but you can head on over to Dashburst who breaks it down for you. (UPDATE: This link no longer works so I have removed it.)

Are there any other tools that you have used that have made your social media planning just AWESOME? I would LOVE to hear from you. Leave me a comment in the comment section below.

#4 Complete Business Automation

A home where you can sell yourself and your business.

And no I am not speaking about your company’s landing or sales page, you network marketers!

You want a place where you can brand yourself and give more information about the services or products that you offer, BUT most importantly YOU!

After all we build relationships with each other right?

Since I started blogging, I have been able to share a wealth of information about my brand and myself to people who are looking for a source of help with their online business.

Now think about this, would you not prefer to provide a library of information to your prospects, without you really having to lift a finger?

Front load the work in the beginning then let your blog work for you. Genius right?!

If you have not started a blog yet and you should really get right to it, you will see how this tool helps to make your life easier.

It is one of the things that has enabled me to take vacations when I want to, without worrying whether my business will be at a stand-still.

#5 Presentation Webinars

If you are in network marketing or a business where you need to tell more people about your business, then webinars are the real deal.

People are also using Facebook lives to showcase their content but if you strategically set up these webinars, you can share it with a lot more people than just your friends list.

No more are the days when you have to do home parties. Especially if you have a busy day and you just want to curl up at night, why throw parties when you can easily do it online?

For webinars I love Clickfunnels.

They allow you to integrate Google Live Hangouts and have chat box facilities so you can easily address your attendees’ questions and interact with them.

#6 Traffic Automation

So can we agree that no business can survive without an audience?

In other words, you need visitors to your business to have the best chance at obtaining leads for your offer or product.

The best way to get these visitors is through an advertising platform.

When it comes to advertising, there are many many sources available on the internet that you can utilise.

However my best places to go for quality leads for my niche are Udimi Solo Ads and MLM Leads. I have also mentioned a few others here.

If you want to get more customers to your own business then try Facebook Ads, Google Ads or Bing Ads.

I mean who would like a steady stream of visitors to your website, without you talking to them?

These advertising platforms will send the right people to your business, then your capture page will help to filter out only those who are interested thereby getting you more targeted prospects to your business.

Right so there is a nice round up of tools that you can start using in your own business to automate it. These tools can work for ANY business to help you take control of your life.

Cheers,

P.S Will you give any of these a try? Is there any tool that you use to automate that you think I’ll love? Share it with me in the comments! I wanna here the deets.

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The most common complaint that I have heard from my network marketer friends during my network marketing days, was that they were tired of asking friends and family to support them in their business, but having very little success with it.

It’s an unfortunate lesson that even I had to learn, but I began to understand that friends and family did not have to support me at all in my business. If I wanted to succeed, it was up to me, to make it happen with or without them.

Sadly, this remains the misconception that most network marketers have today. Whilst there are many ways that you can support someone, it does not necessarily include buying your product.

So if this is the mindset you have, when you join your first network marketing business, I hope that my blog post can encourage you to change it and you will see how you can move in a different direction, so your business can move forward. 

If you are new to any online business or network marketing, you are probably making one of these five mistakes.

Fortunately, it’s not too late to change.

Now is the time for you to identify the mistake and correct it.

Five Network Marketing Mistakes You’re Probably Guilt Of Making In Your Network Marketing Business…

Network Marketing Mistake #1

Always Pitching

As I think back on the things I used to do as a network marketer, now that I know better, I cannot believe some of the things I did.

For example, cold messaging as many people as I could on Instagram and pitching to them the sale of my product, without even an introduction.

Sometimes I have to wonder “what was I thinking?”

Whilst cold messaging people is an excellent way to meet new people and form new connections, there is a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it.

If cold messaging people, is one of your strategies, to producing sales in your business, here is a polite reminder – very few people tolerate sales pitches that provide no valuable information to help them understand the offer and why they need it. 

If they have never engaged with you or your business, then it is unlikely that you will get a favourable response to a cold message pitching the sale of your product.

There are a few things that you have to do, to be qualified and have the authority to pitch to someone.

If you expect an audience to pay attention to you, you must be prepared to take the time to help your audience build trust with you.

One of the ways you can do this, is demonstrate your expertise by educating your prospects about your products in a way that is interesting. When you give away valuable content and people absorb it because they are interested in it, it is ok to ask your audience for the sale.

Most people think like this:

They get massive value for free, they see that you can potentially help them with their problem, they buy into you because of the potential to work with you.

That really is it.

When you understand that, then you will get why pitching a sale and ONLY pitching, will get you very little results.

How can you provide value?

• Share information that you have learnt
• If something solved your problem, share it
• Do not expect anything in return
• Always show up and show a willingness to offer help

See if that makes a difference in the number of sales you can get.

Network Marketing Mistake #2

Not asking for the sale

You cannot be afraid to ask for the sale directly.

It goes without saying that if you have provided a lot of value that has helped someone, then you have the authority to ask for the sale.

So many network marketers leave a lot of money on the table, when they expect their prospects to buy a product on their inclination.

Whilst there are some prospects who will buy your product without a request to do so, others  need a bit of direction and sometimes a push to make a move.

I always say that the right time to ask for the sale, is when you have provided value at least 3 or 4 times before.

Here is the sequence that I use:

Day 1 Value

Day 2 Value

Day 3 Value

Day 4 Pitch

But when you are asking for the sale do not make the mistake of just saying

Buy XYZ now.

It may be more attractive and professional if you ask for the sale by giving an indication of what your prospect can expect from you when they buy your product.

For example,

• Free coaching
• Direct contact to you by personal means (phone number, Skype address, messenger)
• Free access to a weight loss support group
• Free training video

You want to stand out from the rest by giving rewards or bonuses to your prospects for joining you.

Network Marketing Mistake #3

No Proper System In Place

I will forgive you if you have no system in place to market your product because for a long time, especially being new, I wasted a lot of time by not having a system for my business.

When I started in my network marketing business, there was a saying that stood out to me and actually made me realise how important having systems were.

That phrase was “systems work, people fail”?

Systems are designed to make our lives easier. Technology was created to make the things that we do in our lives and jobs easier to manage.

Just because you are a network marketer does not mean that you cannot take your business online.

For too long, network marketing has been run by old school methods. New school methods mean that you can take your business online and use a system to automate your business.

When I first started network marketing, if someone told me that I could

• Make sales without speaking to anyone
• Get prospects without speaking to anyone
• Run my business straight from my laptop without the need to attend fairs or beauty events

I would have jumped straight in line.

But for two years I was uneducated and uninformed. I felt like it was a waste of two years but regardless, I am grateful for my journey.

Since I have added a system to my business, I have had many more prospects and sales.

Let us admit that the follow up process can be time consuming, exhausting and not for the faint of heart. But with a good system in place, the follow up process can be done for you.

Network Marketing Mistake #4

Wrong Targeting

You start a network marketing business and you instantly post on your Facebook timeline about the opportunity and product. 

You wait. An hour goes by and there is no engagement with your post.

Do you know what you have done wrong there?

Most likely, you have targeted the wrong audience.

Let us go back to the opening paragraph.

Your friends and family do not have to fall into the equation of your business. They may not even be interested in what you have to offer.

So before you post, ask yourself this question:

Are the persons who I am posting to, on my social media, remotely interested in what I have to offer?

What does your target market look like? What do they want?

When you can answer these questions, you can really hone in on those persons who are really interested in what you have to offer.

Another good thing is that you can actually eliminate quickly those who are not.

This helps you avoid wasting time and immediately get you to the right people for your product or service. Do not go fishing in a pond full of turtles when what you are really after is a pond full of sharks.

Network Marketing Mistake #5

Not properly promoting your product

The biggest mistake that you can make is to never bring your content in front of new people.

I see so many people who focus on promoting their business solely on Facebook to the same 100 friends. You want to always be sharing your offer with new people.

How can you make sure that new people are seeing your offer?

Well advertise as much as possible and post your offer in as many places as possible.

You always want fresh eyeballs on your offer every single day. Make it a goal to spend the best part of your time working on getting your content out in as many places as you can whether through free advertising or paid advertising.

By the way. Facebook is not the only way to get people to see your offer. Try

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Pinterest
• LinkedIn
• Blogging
• Google SEO
• Instagram
• Etc.

Everyone turns to Facebook because it is the go-to social media platform, but would you not like to dominate a space that not many other people are using? 

Those are the five network marketing mistakes you are probably making, that is holding you back. 

If you are making those mistakes, then check out my other network marketing tips and resources below:

Related Topics:

• 5 Ways To Boost Your Network Marketing Business With Sales Funnels
• Should I Buy Leads For My Network Marketing Business
• How To Get Referrals To Your Business With Attraction Marketing 

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I discuss why marketing tools matter, how to get tons and tons of people to see your offer and so much more.

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Cheers,

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