How exactly are you growing your network marketing business? What strategies are you using that works or do not work?

When I started network marketing, the one problem that I had was getting clients for my business and recruiting team members.

You see, I was the introvert. I was overwhelmed and frankly scared as hell when it came to prospecting both for selling products and building a team.

I remember in my first network marketing business, I asked my best friend to be my first customer, which she did.

Thank goodness for that but she became my only customer. LOL

After her, I had no idea how and where to find other customers until I jumped on social media and started busting my butt looking for my new shining stars.

But it did come with heavy lifting… and a lot of it.

If I could start again, I know I would do a lot more things differently because three years on, I have learnt so much.

As I connect with more network marketers, who are just starting their business, I find that they are repeating the same mistakes I made.

I have realised that there is the old way and the new way to network marketing. How do I know this?

Because when I was doing things the old way, I was recruiting no more than five people in a month. When I was doing it the new way, I was recruiting more than 20 people in a month!

How did I do this? By simply using strategic investments and creating a marketing strategy that works! A marketing strategy that I only learnt through my mentor.

I mean after two and half years of getting it wrong and six months of getting it right, I have turned my business over tremendously where I am now recruiting people into my business effortlessly.

And this is what inspired this blog post.

When you focus on using the right strategies to build any business, whether it is network marketing or online marketing, you generally come out as the winner.

So Here Are My Top 10 Network Marketing Tips For Guaranteed Success That You Can Use

If you follow these tips consistently, it can make a massive impact in your business.

#1 Have The Right Business Mindset

Starting a network marketing business is not a hobby. You are starting a business.

The problem with most people who join network marketing is that they are attracted by the claim that you can make a “full time income with part time effort”, but what they do not realise is that in order to reach that level, it takes hard work.

When I started network marketing, I envisioned quitting my job and working full time on my business (which thankfully I have achieved).

I sacrificed a lot of things to get here.

There were times that I did not want to do the work but had it not been for my work ethic, I would not be where I am now.

You probably have heard this before but as cliched as it is, you must treat your business as a business; not a hobby.

Also self investment is crucially important. There are people who have a fear of investing money into their businesses because they see it as either spending money or wasting money.

But the most successful network marketers are those who invested in coaching, courses, mentoring, tools and resources to run their business.

No one says you have to invest huge chunks of money at one time but it is always best, if you want to see the growth that other successful network marketers are having.

Want to see the tools that I use to run and automate my business? Click here.

#2 Don’t Fake It

True story! I had a long time friend who I had not seen in years. We spoke now and again but I would say we lost touch of each other.

When I joined my network marketing business, you know how they say to contact everyone on your phone contact list, regardless of who it is??

Well that was me. I called my friend to “catch up” with her. Of course she was surprised to hear from me and rightfully so.

So when I told her that I joined a network marketing business and I had some “really amazing products that could help her” – yes I used those exact words – she immediately knew what was up with me.

You do not want to do that! Do not be the fake friend.

If you want to be successful in your business, be genuine. If you think that contacting a long time friend just to try to sell them a product is uncomfortable, then DO NOT do it.

There are many more ways you can actually get a sale without bugging those “friends” who really are not your friends.

#3  Leverage Social Media

If you do not know by now, social media is huge for building your business.

Everyday I connect with so many people who are successful and also not so successful.

But I know that I have one thing that I can offer to them and that is value. This is how I was able to recruit five people in a day from Facebook and Pinterest.

My biggest tip for growing your business with social media, is find one or two platforms and master them.

“Jack of all trades master of none” can actually hurt your business when you are spreading yourself thin and trying to do everything at once.

I agree that any social media platform is great for networking and prospecting but you will never be an expert if you are trying to grow an audience over all platforms.

Some of the best platforms you can try are:

Facebook

Invest in Facebook ads to connect with people who may be interested in what you have to offer.

Facebook ads is a very powerful platform that allows marketers to put their offer in front of the right people which can help generate consistent sales of your product.

When I first started network marketing, I was told by my upline to join Facebook groups where people promote business opportunities or sell products.

Your first thoughts may be that it’s free so why not try it, but I do not think this is the best source of traffic for your business as you may see little to no results from this. 

If you are serious about growing your business and making money from it, then I’d recommend investing in paid advertising to show your product to targeted people who are more likely to take action.

Not only will you save time, but you can see a huge return on your investment when you run your ad campaigns properly.  Just like I did when I made near to 3x return on my investment promoting a credit repair product using Facebook ads.

Before investing in Facebook ads I do recommend that you learn how to use the platform. This will help take away all the frustration that you are likely to encounter, when you do not get the results that you want.

If you’re looking for a great course, I would strongly recommend Jon Penberthy and Jubril Agoro’s Social Traffic Blueprint. It is by taking this course that I am currently generating a 10x return on my investment.

In the end it all paid off.

Pinterest

Have you ever created a Pinterest account and all you ever did was pin your favourite recipes, fashion and design inspirations?

Me too.

In the past I used Pinterest to save outfit ideas for the summer. Now I use Pinterest for business.

How does Pinterest actually work for businesses and how can it work for you? Pinterest is a great platform for businesses who promote their products or services with a blog.

As a network marketer, it is a good idea to have a blog where you can provide useful information to people who want to know more about your products and help raise awareness of your brand.

If you have never considered writing a blog for your business then head on over to my post where I share more about why a network marketing blog is great for business.

You can actually start a blog in under 15 minutes and for as low as $3.95/month with Bluehost and WordPress. 

If you do have a blog but don’t have readers or visitors, here’s how you can use Pinterest to get visitors who are likely to take profitable action. That means, they buy your products!

1. First create a Pinterest business account.
2. Next verify your website.
3. Apply for Rich Pins which will add extra details to your pins from your website.
4. Join group boards on Pinterest that are related to your niche
5. Start pinning to the group boards

Follow the above steps consistently and watch how your traffic levels increase. Make sure that your blog provides valuable content that helps your readers solve their problem so they can take action such as buying your recommended products.

Using Pinterest to grow this blog has been very rewarding. In fact, I would have not known the power of Pinterest had it not been for a Pinterest growth course called the Pinterest Traffic Avalanche by Alex Nerney and Lauren McManus.

If you are thinking of using Pinterest to grow your network marketing blog and connect with new readers, then check out the Pinterest Traffic Avalanche to help you learn how to use his traffic source.

YouTube

Create videos that provide valuable content. You can easily make a search in YouTube for some of the keywords that people are using in respect of network marketing.

Once you have a handful of keywords, create a video around those keywords.

The most successful videos are How To videos.

Do not worry if you do not know what to talk about.

Take a look at other people who have created the same content and put that content in your own words. Be confident when you speak about it.

Once you have created your content include your referral link in the description box of YouTube so you will get credit for any product you recommend that is purchased.

Instagram

Instagram is a picture platform that allows you to create lifestyle posts, motivational and inspirational posts as well as product posts.

When used right, this can help grow your business by showing other people what your network marketing business is doing for you and how your products have helped you and other people.

As usual you want to create value posts. Posts that speak about how your business has changed your life or you can even share other people’s success stories.

#4 Your Business Is Never About You

It took me a while to understand this next point but when I got it, I had an a-ha moment.

When you start a business, you must start your business with the prospect in mind. At the end of the day, your business is there to serve other people.

It is never there to serve you!

As a network marketer, if you want people to consider doing business with you, learn how to provide helpful content that will genuinely help your audience solve a problem.

Here are some ideas:

• Share different ways of how the product has helped you.
• Share tips of how your product can help other people.
• Share how the product made other people feel. For example, do you have testimonials to prove that other people are using the product and like it? Then share that.

When you work on serving more people, they will come to you instead of you chasing them.

#5 Leverage The Internet

A lot of people come to me and ask me how did I grow so fast?

My response: the internet.

A few years ago, belly-to-belly network marketing was a good way to market your business. If you were comfortable prospecting on the streets, at the malls or beauty fairs then you may have gotten a few good sales or leads into your business.

But for someone who was an introvert and having anxiety when it came to approaching a prospect, doing it this way was never ideal.

Instead after a couple years of trying and seeing no major shift in my business, I turned to the internet on the advice of my mentor and boy was I glad I did.

It was the best thing that I could do for my business because it allowed me to reach far more people than I could speak to in a day offline.

Using the internet and other advertising strategies helped me to make hundreds of product sales and build a team of over 110 personally sponsored people in under two months. This was by far the most important change and achievement in my business.

I know that there are still a lot of network marketers who do not want to invest in advertising strategies but there was a reason why the number one tip was to have a business mindset.

There are many platforms that you can use to advertise your business. Simply choose one and master it.

And if you are worried about the huge influx of prospects that will more than likely come into your business, then the next tip goes hand in hand.

#6 Leverage Marketing Systems

I do not know why most network marketers are against this idea but for me it is a no-brainer!

If you want to grow your network marketing business fast and successfully, you need to know how to use marketing tools to automate your business.

You can take all the hard work out of what you would normally do and give it to a “system” to do on your behalf.

This is how I was able to “speak” to over one thousand people in a day about my business and ended up closing thirty sales.

You see, marketing tools allow you to show your prospect, your product or opportunity, without you speaking to them. You simply set up a website or lead capture page and an email autoresponder communicates with them.

Whilst the prospecting part can be automated, you still need to build relationships with them so consider ways that you can build that relationship by offering coaching or mentoring that teaches the lead how to grow their own business.

The must-have marketing tools that I use in my business are LeadPages and Aweber. Click here for my review on LeadPages and here for my review on Aweber.

Technology has literally changed how fast I grew my business and has helped me fulfil my dreams of travelling as often as I can.

To read how this works in practice, check out this free book that teaches you how to use marketing systems to grow your network marketing team. 

Related Articles:

• How To Use Sales Funnels To Grow Your Network Marketing Business
• How To Get Leads For Any Business

#7 Teach Your Team Duplication

When I learnt how to use marketing systems to grow my business, I taught my team the same thing.

This is how you can grow your team to over thousands of members in a short space of time.

Something that works for you and is so easy to replicate can help other struggling team members.

When you introduce these systems into your team it is a win-win.

It helps the team member build their team quicker, make more product sales and puts money in everyone’s pocket.

I still use this strategy every day and encourage anyone looking to build a solid foundation, to find a strategy that works for you and then share it with your teams. They will then share it in their own teams and so on and so on.

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#8 Get A Mentor

So I have mentioned a few times in this blog post about the recommendations made to me by my mentor.

Having a mentor was the first step I took to transforming my business.

Granted I paid him for his services but in return I was given valuable information that helped me and my business catapult into success.

When looking for a mentor, find ideally two people. One within your business, who is where you want to be and another outside of your business who can teach you a skillset that is important to be successful in your business.

Subscribe to their courses or coaching programs and listen to and DO EVERYTHING that they say.

The doing part is what is important.

You want to take massive action on the ideas that they have given to you. At the end of the day, they got to where they are because of the tips they shared.

Don’t you want to be there too?

The one advice I can give to you, do not be afraid to invest in the services of your mentors. I have spent thousands on courses and programs that has helped to improve my skills tremendously.

I am now using those same skills to build my business and  provide value to the marketplace.

#9 Believe In Yourself

Not only having a business mindset but also a positive mindset is key to helping you achieve your goals.

When you have a positive mindset you attract positive things into your life. You must also have a strong belief that you can achieve your goals.

When you doubt yourself you are more than likely to avoid taking action which only leads to procrastination.

People who are unsuccessful have those major stumbling blocks.

Until they get out of that funk they will never have the life that they truly deserve.

If you are stuck in a toxic mindset then I recommend improving your personal development with personal development books.

#10 Never Quit And Be Consistent

Consistency is key and the ones who never give up, come out successful.

Network marketing is not a get rich quick gig. But if you give it time, nurture it, be disciplined, take action and be consistent you can accomplish that goal of being a top income earner or achieve the success that you want, however you define that success.

I will not lie, there will be challenges. There will be times that you will want to quit but embrace your journey with gratitude and keep moving.

There are so many things that I have learnt on my own journey that I can now give back in this blog. This is why I want to help many people become true online entrepreneurs and build their brand successfully because I have learnt so much.

And one day you will too. You will be able to use the highs and lows in a positive way to keep building you.

Cheers,

Resources That Will Help You Even More

Network Marketing Secrets a free book (just pay shipping) that will teach you how to use sales funnel to grow your network marketing business.

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.

LeadPages is a marketing tool that I use to generate leads into my business effortlessly. With LeadPages I create dedicated websites that attract my ideal audience by giving away something of a high perceived value that encourages them to take action.

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No!!! Don’t do it! Stop right there! Here is why you do not want to buy leads for your network marketing business!

If you are reading this, then you have been told that you should buy leads or you are thinking of buying leads for your business.

I realise that there is a little bit of a misunderstanding when it comes to this topic.

So let me be clear! 

There is a right way and a wrong way to “buy leads”.

There is also a difference between paying for advertising and simply buying leads.

The latter is what you DO NOT want to do.

So let us start from the very beginning so you understand exactly what I am speaking about.

What Is A Lead?

A lead is an individual who expresses an interest in what you have to offer. They are otherwise known as a prospect or potential sales contact.

When a lead expresses an interest, it is likely that they can become a customer of yours and so it is your duty, as the marketer to engage and add value to the lead’s lifetime.

So what do you really do when you “buy leads”?

You are either buying the contact details of a person in your niche or you are advertising your business with the intention of getting persons who are interested in what you are promoting.

It can be tempting to buy the contact details of persons who are interested in your niche over paying for advertising as really and truly there is no guarantee that you will get any leads when you advertise.

You see the thing is, whether or not you get leads using advertising, depends on whether you have an offer that is irresistible and attractive. Check out my article, How To Choose Affiliate Products That Sell.

But for any business, I would not advise that you buy leads.

Here Are Three Reasons Why You Should Not Buy Leads For Your Business

Reason #1 

It is unethical to buy leads for your business.

Buying leads is like buying email addresses, phone contacts and names of people. These people do not even know who you are!

Why do you think you have the right to contact these people?

Can we say unsolicited contacts? According to the FCC, this is a top consumer complaint.

Furthermore when you buy leads you have to cold call or cold message them.

No one really wants to go through this daunting task of asking strangers if they may be interested in an offer or product.

Although on a side note, I still do see many network marketers taking this approach on social media.

I mean, just because someone likes a post does not give you the right to reach out to them and offer a product.

Ok rant over!

If you are using an email service like GetResponse or Aweber, then it may be impossible to import these contacts because of their own terms of service.

Reason #2 

Your leads are more than likely to be unresponsive.

After all, they never expressed an interest in your product or offer.

So it seems to be an automatic understanding that they may not respond well to you contacting them.

Especially if you are contacting them merely for a sale.

However this really is not the approach that you want to take when trying to sell your product.

The first thing that you must always do is build a relationship with your leads.

When you buy leads, who have no idea who you are, then it is almost impossible to do so.

Reason #3

Bought leads will be of a lower quality.

Frankly you have wasted your money.

Depending on your lead source, you really do not know how many times the lead has been sold on to other marketers.

It is a hard truth but people will do anything just for a sale.

Unless the vendor who you purchased from is as honest as can be (and these days you really do not know who you can trust), it is difficult to decipher how genuine your lead sale is.

When you buy leads, you may not get targeted leads. You do not know whether they are actually looking for your opportunity or product.

But do not worry my friend.

No your business is not going to suffer just because you do not buy leads.

And no, you are not a failure because you thought that buying leads was the answer but it is not.

The Right Way To “Buy” Leads

What you do want to do is advertise your business.

This allows you to generate your own leads for your business. Do not know how to generate leads as yet? No worries! Check out my article, 6 Ways The Power Lead System Can Grow Your Blog Or Online Business.

By advertising your business under your own brand, it allows you to:

• Pre-frame your prospects
• Get leads who are interested in you and your brand
• Get targeted leads who are interested in your offer or product
• Introduce yourself to your prospects
• Build relationships with your prospects
• Avoid anti-spam laws and legal complications

How To “Buy” Leads

There are many ways that you can “buy leads” legitimately.

On my Traffic Page, I discuss free and paid methods that you can use to surf different platforms for persons who may be interested in your offer.

It is the best thing to actually generate your own leads. When someone has given you permission to contact them, you can then send relevant information to that person about any product that you may promote.

For example, if you are in the photography niche and you are advertising a photography course, whilst you may get persons who are interested in this course, you can also promote other photography related products.

This is how you can monetise your leads and how you can make more money.

However when you buy leads that you have not generated yourself, you run into the difficulty of understanding exactly what they want.

If you ever thought about buying leads, one piece of advice – DO NOT!

First, invest in quality advertising using platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Bing, etc and learn how to generate your own leads for your business.

Buying leads is not really the answer but advertising your business so that you acquire leads with a proper marketing system in place is even better.

If you are looking for more tips on network marketing or online marketing then check out my free ebook, Internet Marketing Success.

It outlines all the steps that I take to build a successful business online.

Click here to get access to my FREE e-book.

Cheers

P.S How do you get leads for your business? Leave me a comment or any questions below.

P.P.S Hey, have you subscribed to my You Tube Channel, where I give more online marketing tips? I am growing so be part of the community.

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