I was thinking today about all the people who are so anti-network marketing. They have an attitude against the whole industry. But I doubt seriously if they even know one small clue about what the MLM industry is all about.

Network marketing offers anybody a chance. It doesn’t matter what your background was like – whether you were born on the “other side” of the tracks, or were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Everybody has the same opportunity – the same chance to succeed or fail.

One of the big reasons that people quit or fail, is they don’t remember or keep in focus WHY they joined their Network Marketing business in the first place. Usually they have reasons like these:

• Freedom from a job they hate
• Wanting financial security, because their job isn’t providing this
• Desiring to live life to the fullest – and have the funds to do so
• Spend more time with my kids, spouse, parents, etc.
• Get me out of the financial straights and debt that is drowning me
• Satisfaction of calling my own shots, and being a winner
• I want to be a millionaire by the time I’m 30./
• I want to look myself in the mirror and smile, knowing I proved them all wrong.

Why did you join the ranks of the wanna-be-wealthy people – using MLM as your ticket? What was going through your brain and emotions when you realized you didn’t have to follow the loser path of all your loser friends and negative family?

One of the reasons people quit their MLM business is because there is a disconnect between what they really want from the business (why they joined in the first place) and the daily work involved that is required to build a successful business. You will be very inspired and be more motivated to excel in your business if you remind yourself every day why you initially made the decision to become involved.

What is your motivation? What kind of dreams will your business make possible? Whose lives will you be impacting and contributing to with your success? What is the vision you carry with you? How will your network marketing business impact your very life? What big plans are you seeking to accomplish?

To keep reminding yourself of these dreams, and staying connected with them takes commitment. Doing the daily activities to see your dreams become a reality takes commitment also. You will build habits that will make the difference between being just a dreamer or wishful thinker – and someone whose dreams come true because you take consistent and deliberate action.

How long do you keep on “keeping on”?  There is a sad truth that has shown consistently how many people quit right before they would have won. In other words, they do all this work, and success is right around the corner. But discouragement steps in and they quit. I suggest that you give your network marketing business at least a year. And make sure you have a good system you are tapped into, like My Lead System Pro.  Without a good system to show you how you can generate leads every day that WANT your kind of business – you probably won’t last more than 2 months in network marketing.

You can be a winner. It is no accident that you are reading this blog post. Get connected with my Tribe – on the right of this page. Get going with My Lead System Pro. Get connected with all the training inside My Lead System Pro, and you won’t know yourself in 3 months.  And don’t forget to remind yourself daily of your big WHY.

I absolutely love sports, and especially baseball. I owe this to my grandmother who was a huge Chicago Cubs fan. Every summer when we would come visit her, she would take all of us to a Cubs game.

My son is almost 12 years old, and he is in his 2nd year of what is known in Little League circles as the “Majors” – which is 11 and 12 year old boys. This is a huge step up from the 9 and 10 year olds. The pitching is much faster, the balls are thrown faster, the hitting is harder – everything is definitely more like “real” baseball.

We just started practice a week ago, and yesterday we had a cold windy practice at 11:00 am. The fathers help out hitting grounders, throwing pitches, and doing anything else that is needed. Yesterday, one of the fathers, John, started pitching, to give each player a good number of practice hits.

He pitched for a while, then asked Chad to help out. So Chad pitched for a while and both John and Chad were getting real frustrated because their pitching wasn’t very good. You need to try to get the ball over the plate. So Chad said – “come on Stephen, it’s your turn!”

I don’t usually get asked to pitch. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I’m 20 years older than the other fathers. Anyway, I went out to the mound, and you wouldn’t believe the negative stuff that was going through my head. “What part of me is going to hurt for the next week? What if I throw my _____ out? What if I make a fool of myself?

So I started to throw a few balls, and I was feeling great! Then I realized what my mind and subconscious was doing to cause my limiting beliefs to try and de-rail me. It is really awesome what happened next.

I actually took the stance of a major league pitcher. I started going through the same motions, pull my arm back, lift my left leg and point that leg and arm right at the strike zone as I “hurled” the ball. HA! I ended up having a great time and I quit all my worrying. I’m actually in real good shape for being 61 years old.

I started thinking about how our limiting beliefs stop us from being who we want to be and what we need to do in our businesses. These usually stem from our past failures. I encourage you to be aware when your thoughts go into “I can’t” mode. Recognizing this is a huge part of the battle to overcome our limiting beliefs.

The next important step is to take immediate action – marching right against the fear that is holding you back. Afraid to make that call? Pick up the phone right now. Don’t think you can make that video? Grab your Flip video camera and hit the red record button.

What is incredible – the more you kick fear or negative believing right in the face – the easier it becomes. And you start feeling so much more confident. This confidence spills over into every area of your life.

Let me know what ghosts of your past you are battling. Let me know what you are doing about it. Share your victories. Share your defeats. We all can learn from each other.

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Related articles about Major League Baseball:

• A’s right-hander Sheets hit hard by minor leaguers (cbssports.com)
• MLB — Buster Olney: Fausto Carmona may have re-discovered his groove, which is Cleveland’s best chance (insider.espn.go.com)
• Padilla named Opening Day starter (ballhype.com)
• Breaking Down the Tampa Bay Rays’ 2010 Pitching Staff (bleacherreport.com)
• Jerry Crasnick: St. Louis Cardinals’ Ryan Franklin late-blossoming closer (sports.espn.go.com)

How many people earning 6.5 to 7 figures annually are the result of multilevel network marketing? It may surprise you to find out that multilevel network marketing sports more 6 and 7-figure earners than ANY other profession or field, including franchises.

What is so interesting about this is anyone has the chance to make a million dollars. In fact just “plain Bob” who only has $300 to invest in a network marketing business has the same chance of winning as franchise Mary who invests $150,000.

By having a 95% failure rate in network marketing, the millionaires are few and far between. With these kinds of failure rates, how does our “normal Sue or plain Bob” buck the odds, and become a millionaire using multilevel network marketing?

Listed below are three “Critical Necessary Do’s” to be successful.  It’s just a brief outline, however it includes the necessary requirements for winning in this business.

1. An outstanding System. McDonald’s has perfected the “system” methodology. Be smart and duplicate the idea, at the very least. You’ll want to have a system that will accommodate just about anybody that comes into your business. A system that they can easily master that will insure their success.

For example, a system for creating leads. Another system for converting these leads into “sign-ups.” And possibly an additional system for maximizing your retention rate – people lasting beyond 63 days.

2. Action,  MASSIVE CONSISTENT ACTION! This should be implemented over a six month to 2 year interval. The activity I’m discussing is mainly prospecting. Calling the leads you’ve produced, phoning your warm market. Dialing your cold market.

There are other kinds of marketing also, such as postcards.  But no matter what it is it has to be massive and consistent. You will not be successful with this if you don’t have a really clearly defined “WHY” which propells you through the naysayers and rejection.

3. Rinse and Repeat. What I mean by this is review, analyze and get better. When you are signing up 30 people per month, don’t sit back and say “great.” Understand why you aren’t recruiting 40 people. Then 50. Continue pushing yourself to get much better.

These three success strategies will work. Chances are most people won’t have the guts to do this. That’s Okay. The Diamond’s circle is granted to those who constantly perform just what most people won’t ever do.

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The best MLM business for me may not be the best one for you. Why is this so? To truly be successfull in network marketing you have to be passionate about the products or services your company provides. I may be passionate about a healthy juice product. Your passion is with a travel MLM, for example. So to find the best MLM business we need to look at more than products or services – or even passion.

To make it easier to rate different network marketing companies and be able to select a great one, here are four keys to help you pick out the best MLM business. These are not in any particular order.

1. How long has the company been in business? Many MLM companies have a great fan-fare start, but you can’t find them at all in 18 months. A good guideline is about 5 years, but this is just a guideline. But one thing never changes. If you feel totally passionate about  your new MLM start-up, then give it all you have! This is the first key you have to be able to judge whether you should join a company or not.

2. What is their “Retention Rate?” What percentage of new sign-ups actually STAY on the monthly auto ship program for at least 6 months? The MLM industry “standard” rate is a dismal 15%. Find a company that has a higher – a lot higher rate, and you will know that people actually love and are selling the product.

3. How much competition is there? This is a BIG deal. Why do so many people join network marketing companies without giving this a thought? There are a few “niches” that I personally would stay clear of. And this includes”Juice” MLM companies, travel businesses and cell phone companies. I have nothing against these companies. But why put yourself at a disadvantage from day one? So be looking out for a company with NO competition that has a hot product – and you’ll be looking at the best MLM business!

4. How popular are the products or services? Are the products part of a growing trend or one that is slowly dying? You will want to do your own research into all of this and ask yourself some hard questions. You want to steer clear of a company that has passed it’s upward growth stage and is now in decline. This may have nothing to to with product popularity, but sometimes it does.

These four keys should help you and enable you to pick out the best MLM business for you. I personally have found the best one for me. It has NO competition, has an outrageous retention rate of 90%, and has an ever growing prospect population of at least 130 million people – just in the USA. My only downside is the company is about a year old.

When you find the best MLM business, you will need a great marketing system to attract the right kind of customers. Look in the box below, put in your name and email for some great  ideas and training that can help you with this. To find out the only company that I will promote for the next 10 years, you will have to look at my blog. But since you are already here, just click on this: MY COMPANY

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I was recently on a webinar with Daegan Smith and Robert Fulton and the whole subject was how to market your network marketing business (or ANY business) by using Postcards.

This sounds crazy and most people will never use postcards because it seems to difficult, time consuming and expensive. Well, more power then to you, if you decide to look into post card advertising your business.

There are so many different things to learn and to keep in mind with post card advertising. But once you learn the system, and send out a few hundred or a few thousand cards, you will become an expert.

I will be sharing more about the great opportunity of Post Card marketing in a follow-up post.  Be looking for it and be expecting an answer to your lack of sales.

Article writing success takes dedication and quite a bit of hard work – at least to start. Do you keep telling yourself that you simply can’t write?

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I have talked to a number of people who say they aren’t a writer. I think it is a shame, because I really think you can write if you decide to and take the steps to learn how. I believe you are missing out on a feeling of accomplishment, especially when you finally get your 10th article accepted at EzineArticles.com

I was one of those people who thought I couldn’t write. Actually I knew I could write, once I decided to, but I took a real long time to decide.

One thing that helped me a lot is I found some awesome article writing podcasts on I-Tunes. I found about 10 different podcasts that had a lot of excellent teachings about the structure of an article, how to do a signature box, and creating good titles. If you have I-Tunes, do a podcast search for “article writing” and see what you can find.

Another great resource for you is EzineArticles.com. They have a very extensive and wonderful training section, with a number of neat videos too. They also have some article writing templates that are critical for learning how to construct a powerful and interesting article. Definitely check them out.

One of the templates is called Pain Avoidance. It is a classic way to write an article. Here is the basic strategy:

• Introduce the pain

• Agitate the pain – Why is your reader in pain? Show in as much detail as possible how this pain is REAL and how it is becoming a huge problem. Show a few examples of the pain to drive the point home.

• Introduce a solution to the pain

• Reinforce why your reader is in pain, and how they now have a solution to solve their pain

Templates can save you a lot of time and keep your article organized. Another thing a template does is it gives you new ideas to write about. As in the example above, just think about all the pain  and different problems people have. If you think about this very long, you will never run out of a variety of article ideas.

One of my mentors, Jeff Herring, says “An article a day keeps recession away.” I love this because it is true. It doesn’t matter if your business is online or offline.

Here’s what you do. Build a Word Press blog and start writing articles that are enlightening, educational and relevant to your business, and put them as posts on your blog. You can also submit them to EzineArticles.com and you will be surprised at the number of people that you start attracting to your business.

If you are into network marketing, I want to challenge you to write one article a day for the next 100 days. If you can learn to do this, you will be getting more leads than you ever dreamed possible.

I was on a life-changing webinar about 3 months ago. Why life changing? It taught me HOW to take article writing to a whole new level of making money online.

I invite you to view this same video. It will give you the exact way to write and disseminate your articles for the greatest impact on your business.

I encourage you to take a lot of detailed notes, because this information just might change your life too. You won’t find this article writing “how-to” anywhere else.

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3000 new leads every day? That sounds outrageous! But with the right system that YOU can develop over time, this is not just a pipe dream. In fact it is being done by Daegan Smith, who we were privileged to have on one of our weekly webinars recently.

Daegan actually shows us HOW he generates leads in this incredible video. He was surprised that we wanted him on the webinar for a whole hour. But Daegan Smith delivered BIG TIME. (Sit down and take a lot of notes.)

Now Daegan has honed his SYSTEM into an idiot-proof step-by-step can’t fail, never-cold-call-again recruiting machine on steroids! He’ll even PAY YOU to check it out. ==> MLM Lead Generation

Network marketing is Simple, but doing the old way (i.e. cold calling people) is NOT easy.

Don’t kid yourself!

Let me explain my view of why network marketing is notorious for having a 95% or higher failure rate..

Have you ever heard of Occam’s razor?

It states that the simplest reason for a phenomenon is almost always the best. We’ll use this theory to show why more than 95% of network marketers fail.

Ready?

Most network marketers don’t succeed because what they are taught to build their business doesn’t work 95% of the time.

So we must ask the logical question, what are most new network marketers taught?

Well, it’s only fair to speak from my experience, and what I was taught was to buy and cold call leads.

Now, I’m not going to say this doesn’t work, but what I will say is that after seven months of cold calling leads for 2.5 hours a day with almost no success, this strategy doesn’t work for me.

To be honest, unless you’re a natural-born, super confident sales leader going into your network marketing business, you’ll more than likely have these same results.

Don’t get me wrong. Some people are very good at cold calling leads, but most people aren’t.

What happens to most people after they’ve spend thousands of dollars on leads with very little success after months of effort?

They run out of money. They get burned out and then . . .

They give up and quit.

Another important point contributing to why most network marketers fail is the type of leads they purchase.

Why does the type of leads network marketers buy make a difference?

Well . . .

Business opportunity leads, the leads most new network marketers are told to use, are generic. These leads answer an ad that just asks them if they want to be financially free or make money from home or something like that.

Well . . . of course they do!

But that doesn’t mean they want anything to do with YOUR network marketing program.

When the average network marketer calls these generic business opportunity leads the leads don’t know anything about the network marketer’s business and for the most part honestly don’t care.

What happens is the new network marketer hears a lot of “NOs” and “why are you calling me?”

Hearing NO all the time leads to self doubt, both about the network marketer’s own ability and the validity of their association with their network marketing company.

Negative feelings begin to fester and as I said before eventually the network marketer gives up and throws in the towel, usually within 3-6 months.

The fledgling network marketer’s perception of their business goes from one of  excited opportunity to one of complete doubt and constant negativity.

Reality follows perception, so because the new network marketer believes that there is little hope for their company or themselves,  this becomes TRUE.

That’s basically why 95% of network marketers fail if you asked me.

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Do you have a Plan B? What? Let me ask this another way.  If you lost your job (your Plan A) tomorrow, would you and your family be OK?

If you had put a Plan B into effect at least a few months ago, you’re job loss may not be so devastating.

What do I mean by a Plan B? Basically it is starting your own business so you never again have to depend on a boss, company or employer again. Your Plan B could be a franchise, a home-based business or a restaurant. But the very least expensive way to “buy into” the absolute MOST leverage is by joining a network marketing or MLM company.

You may have a bad taste in your mouth about MLM businesses. I can understand that. Too many excited and passionate people have bothered family and friends not just once but over and over.
But the network marketing industry has changed a lot in the last 10 years. The internet has given people a new and exciting way to grow their MLM business, without bothering their family and friends.

So if you are thinking about starting a Plan B, good for you! If you are considering joining a network marketing business, there are a few things that I know will help you pick the right company and start your prospecting and marketing on the right foot.

There are 2 major reasons why people fail, who have started a new MLM business. These 2 reasons are:

1) A lack of qualified leads
2) A lack of money to keep prospecting

The way that is usually taught a brand new IBO – is to write down a list of 100 or more friends, family and business people you know. This is one way to fail quickly, unless you already have a wide and huge circle of influential friends. But since most people don’t, you are batting against the odds of winning.

The problem with calling friends and family is 85% of people don’t want a business, period. They don’t have a single bit of entrepreneurial spirit in them. So we bang our heads against a brick wall by trying to make these people into something they won’t ever be. So you figure out pretty
quick that you have run out of people to talk to. This is the first problem.

The second problem is money. Most network marketing companies have an autoship system that costs you around $100 per month. You need to get up to speed quickly and have some money coming in, or your chance of lasting more than a few months is pretty slim. In fact, the industry “average” for a new person is 67 days. 67 days with no money coming in and you are gone.

I’m not going to leave you with no hope in developing a great Plan B. In fact, what you’re going to learn next is really the ONLY way to build a network marketing business. Remember I said the internet changed a lot of things for marketing our MLM business?

Listen to this new way of prospecting. You are learning a differnt method of attracting the right kind of people to you. Who is your perfect prospect? That is a great question most people in business never ask. Your perfect prospect is someone who has tried MLM and failed. Or someone who is brand new but wants to find a good network marketing business. Your perfect prospect is a lady who has alienated all her family and friends and is about to quit, but decides to look online one last time for an online solution to her struggling.

You have a system in place now that is attracting the right kind of people. But how do you solve the 2nd problem – a lack of money? This is ingenious! The people you are attracting are being drawn to you because you have a solution to their 1) no prospects and 2)no money problem. And you market to them a solution that works really well for their business. You make money by helping them succeed.

The last thing you do, is you start branding yourself as the leader your are. Our system teaches you how to do this. Why is this important? People don’t care about your company. They don’t really care about your products. But they DO care about you being the right person to lead them out of the job or living situation that they despise.

By the time you learn all this stuff, you will be well on your way to having a successful Plan B. It’s not difficult.  I encourage you to work on your Plan B with commitment, focus and persistence.

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You have probably heard the MLM success figures.  Over 95% of people fail at network marketing. There are many reasons for this failure, the biggest one being unreal expectations of quick money with little to no work required. These unreal expectations are passed on to the new person’s prospects, and the cycle keeps repeating itself.

The 3 stages of belief are 3 clearly defined stages that a normal person goes through on their MLM journey to success. The first 2 stages weed out most of the people – they become the 95% statistic we all have heard about. What can be done in these first 2 stages to better your odds of winning?

The first stage is Emotional Hysteria, which spells the end of the road, rather quickly for most new network marketers. This emotional stage starts when a new IBO or associate has their first assignment, which is to write a list of 100 or more prospects, friends and family that will be your “bread and butter.” You are told that you will never get through the whole list. This implies that you will strike gold before you talk to even half of your list. It is crazy instructions like this that promote the “get rich quick” mentality that plagues the MLM industry.

Since your excitement is red-hot right now, you have no problem barging in on your friends and family and telling them that your new super-duper energy drink not only cures lupus but also grows the hair back in bald men. You are absolutely convinced that what you have is what they should have too, and your ego is bruised when they politely, but firmly say “No.” Undaunted you move on to the next friend, because this is exactly how your upline built her business and it must work.

After 10 or 12 “No thank-you” rejections, your emotional energy is drained and you figure it must be the company or the product that doesn’t work. You never stop to think that the problem might just be between your ears. So you decide to quit and you avoid the calls from your upline. Silently you trudge back to your boring mediocrity.

What can you do in this first emotional stage to have more MLM success? Here’s a BIG one. Ask your sponsor for a true and tried SYSTEM that works for anybody. If they don’t know, ask to talk to their upline. Find someone who can show and teach you a system that works and that can be easily duplicated. If you can’t lock into a system, how can you possibly duplicate yourself into a huge downline?

The second stage happens when you have a few signups but you are spending more money on monthly auto ship than you are making. This is the Boring Logical stage, where you start settling in to the realization that this could really mean your freedom, but you’re not quite sure. You go to every single meeting, you buy all the tapes and books, and you have a group of friends that you hang with that are also struggling to make this work.

In this second stage you are rather boring when it comes to prospecting, because you are playing it safe. On the surface you have your scripts down perfect, you can say all the right words, but you don’t fool your prospect. Why? Because your sub-conscious is screaming to them “I’m a sometime player, and you don’t really want to follow me.” You will remain in this stage for a long time, as long as your monthly MLM expense isn’t a burden. But one day you’ll come to your senses, and you’ll go down one of two very different paths. You will quit and probably never again join another MLM. Or you will decide you are sick & tired of messing around and you graduate to Stage 3, Owning Your Business.

This is the exciting stage, because you finally “get it.” You no longer waffle between part-time, full-time or sometime. Your approach to your business is one that says “You should follow me. I’m the leader that will change your life.”

No longer is the business about your company, your compensation plan, or your product. Your business is about touching people’s lives and inviting them to change. That’s what people desperately want – a way to change from their mediocrity, and a system to show them how. They are also looking for YOU, not a company or a product.

Many times this last stage comes in a moment, in a flash. You all of a sudden “see the bigger picture” and it brings such an extraordinary feeling. But you can’t just jump from Stage 1 to this last “I OWN IT” stage. There is a process to go through, and most of the process takes place in the 90% mental arena. You are learning to believe in YOU.

Once you learn to really believe in yourself, that you are the answer to what your prospects are looking for, there is no stopping you. And the other 10% is having a great system that you can teach to your whole downline.  That’s one thing that will insure your MLM success, an extraordinary MLM system, which works for anybody, in any company.