The Keen Marketer

Without leads, you’re dead in the water.

That’s why you are asking for referrals from clients as well as others who have no interest in your product.

But you hate it?  So do I!

That’s why using a proven system that will generate leads that come to me really makes my day.

If you intend to build a business based on residual income, there’s no getting away from it.

A system is not shy. A system doesn’t sleep.  A system pushes beyond human failings. A system has no comfort zone. I like that one.

I grant you some people can do network marketing the old way and make it look easy. And yes you can learn how to do network marketing that way too because it is skill that will help you to succeed.

But there is a time and place where you can apply the skill you need and that’s to connect with your prospects once they are already in the pipeline.

If you really want your business to grow and hate the traditional methods and know that there is a better way, then using a proven system is a must.

However your system must also grow.  If the one you are using or looking to follow does not keep up with the times then consider switching to one that does.

That’s what I like with my system.  It is constantly changing and growing, teaching me new tactics to be more web worthy and to grow my business with integrity and steadiness.

It’s great to have the desire, but the desire fueled by a step by step system to teach you the right way is dynamite.

Just recently I came across a report written back in 07 about how to use MySpace to make money.

The writer professed to say that all you needed was

• A copy of the report

• An internet connection.

• Some time. Not a lot of time, but you will need to commit to a certain amount of time each day or every few days. It all depends how soon you want the cash flow to start!”

This, of course, intrigued me to continue on reading.

The first point used to explain why MySpace was so great to do this, was first of all, the SIZE of MySpace.

“Anytime you can gain access to such a ridiculously large amount of people all you need is the most rudimentary marketing skills and you can make an absolute killing.“

I agreed with that point.

“It’s still relatively unknown to the mass markets“

Maybe back in 2007, but today MySpace is basically number one in  social networks and the tactics laid out in the report may now be overworked.

“It’s free”

Yes, people love free stuff and is why MySpace is so popular.

“It’s “cool,” or perceived as cool”

Which keeps the MySpace members there to continue interacting.

“The friends system”

Friends are great and the more the merrier.

But how can we take advantage of all of these points and make money with it?

What happens when you have thousands of friends?

How do you turn that into dollars?

According to this report, one Grey hat technique is to set up many accounts designed to target a specific niche. That made sense to me.  However, this report takes it a little further by suggesting that you need to use an alias, preferably that of an attractive female between the ages of 18 to 24.

They would not be real people.  The how is then explained in detail as is the what to do and the what not to do.

I must say that I was impressed by this person’s ingenuity and although I particularly didn’t like the method, I could see how this technique could end up being quite a money maker.

I would be interested in hearing your views on this type of marketing.

While scrambling to qualify for  Super guide with Renegade Professional, we were given a spread sheet template by an enterprising guide to help us keep track of what we had to submit in order to qualify.

This template proved to be quite handy as it kept track of the articles, hubs, squidoo pages and blogs and the links to each item, very clearly and easily.

That’s when I realized that we should all have a spreadsheet to keep track of our links once they are bookmarked.

There is no more frustrating time than when I have to go back on what I’ve done because I forgot where and what I’ve bookmarked.

So I created a spreadsheet to solve this problem.  You can download it for free here: At a glance

Now it’s not complicated.  Just keep it open in your desktop and whenever you have new content put it in the proper area.  Now the next time you bookmark it or link it to something else, just go and mark and “X” in the proper row.

Of course, you will need to modify it as I just put a few categories that one may be using.  Just change it to suit your needs.

However, the idea is a sound one and should save you some time when you wish to see At a glance if that item has been linked or bookmarked.

Since my journey into attraction marketing has changed my whole approach to network marketing, I had pretty well given up of ever recruiting locally.

It wasn’t until I read a post by John Holcombe explaining the difference between recruiting locally or long distance.

John made a really good point when he said that it was difficult to recruit locally because it was forcing us to adopt our old school recruiting habits where you bug friends and family. He added that you also needed to join social clubs and such if you wanted to reach a broader section of the population.

Not being a social butterfly, I don’t particularly like clubs.

I really took notice, however, when he mentioned how we can still recruit locally through attraction marketing.

He suggested we use search engine keywords that focus on the city you live in or the surrounding area.  Just as an example, I could write an article targeting network marketers that live in my neck of the woods here in Northern Ontario.

Search engines would eventually spit you out. He also suggested using Google which allows PPC local advertising.

Thanks to John’s tip and putting into practice attraction marketing in the very essence of what it means, I have learned more than one way of marketing myself.

Now my family and friends don’t have to avoid me.

I’ve learned that the best way to work with prospects is to take the consultative approach.

You must provide value way before you can pitch your business opportunity.  The old way of selling your opportunity is the old way of network marketing.  That model comes from a very selfish mindset, even if the belief help by the prospector is one of wanting to help people.

People hate being sold to but they love buying.  ONLY if it’s their idea!

The key is to assist the person in any way you can.  But for you to provide value you must have learned how to do this in the first place.

You must never stop learning so that you can be ahead of the masses.  This will translate into something that you can teach and bring value to your prospect.

You share your experience with your prospect and continue to move forward all the time.

Set your business opportunity up so that your prospect will be the one to mention it first. While connecting with the person and getting to know them, you will be able to continue adding value and the prospect will be more open to hearing about your opportunity.

Look at it this way.  You want to get to the point where they will be calling you and coming to you.

So providing value first is the key that will make your prospects come running and the building of a list of quality leads prepared to come on board will explode.

Learning is not hard but it takes time and yes money.  But if you’re not ready to invest in yourself, your success will be very shortlived.

Getting the necessary training with someone that will teach you simply but effecitvely how to market yourself can be life changing.

It came to me in the middle of the night that all network marketing entrepreneurs should have affiliatitis.

So what is affiliatitis? First of all it is a term which I believe I made up.  At least I have not heard it or read it anywhere else on the web.

If you are marketing online,  you are surely an affiliate for someone else’s product.  That’s one of the most efficient ways of making extra income to subsidize your true up-front network marketing business.

You at least don’t have to spend hours producing a product that people will like because all the work has been done for you and all you do is promote it, sell it, make some money and truly practice leveraging.

However, there are some internet users that, when they see the URL in the search bar as being an affiliate URL, will circumvent the affiliate link and go directly to the site in question.

Once there, if they buy, then the commission is paid to the owner rather than the affiliate.  Well, I must say that I really don’t agree with that practice.

If the owner of the product is allowing for affiliate sales in order to promote his product more widely, then the credit should go to the person who has given you the “headsup” on that product.

When circumventing the affiliate who introduced you to the product, you are in essence saying that all the work they did to even get you to look at the product, was of no value.

So affiliatitis should be a quality that every appreciative and honest network marketing or online marketing entrepreneur should possess.

We all need validation.

How many of you are finding it hard to schedule your time?

I’m sure that one of the main reasons you decided to get iinto network marketing as a business was to achieve more free time to do what you love.

That could be easier to say than to do because we often feel overwhelmed by all that we have to learn on top of trying to make a living in other ways and spending time with family and friends.

So the first thing you do is see how you can structure your time to identify where it goes on a daily basis.

A really good tool I found to do that is here at Studygs.net.  It allows you to plug your hours in broken down by all the categories a normal life would expose you to.

It starts by first identifying how 24 hours of your day is spent. How many hours in classes, working, family outings, personal care, meal prep and cleanup and much more.

But don’t put in there the time you do network marketing.

By first doing this exercise you can identify the true time you have left over to do your network marketing business. You may be surprised to see that you have more time for your business than you thought or you might see that your network marketing business is stealing away time from another important category such as quality family time.

Repeat the daily exercise for every day of the week so that you now have 7 full days done. Now add in the time you will be doing your network marketing business each day.

Next, set out your priorities but don’t forget to leave some time for unexpected things that could happen in your day for exceptions, such as a call that takes too long, or a traffic jam etc.

At this point you are ready to put all of your time activities on a calendar. Some people like to use a calendar on their computer.  A really good resource is Gengook.com.  It’s a free tool that you can use to block out the time you know is for specific events and also to email to prospects so they can book an appointment with you online even if you’re not there to confirm it.

I do use Gengook for online clients but I prefer to use a desk top calendar for the whole month.  The bigger the squares the better. I then mark out, using different colored pens, the time I do followups, have clients, meetings, appointments, events and personal time.

At a glance I can see what is planned for that whole month.  It is a real time saver and keeps me focused and on track.

I also found that when I  started implementing what I learned in Renegade University that my time started to have more stucture and results. You need to check it out and see if it can help you too.

I had to laugh when I read Mike Klingler’s article on this topic.

He was referring to network marketers who knew how to market on the internet versus network marketers who didn’t.  But he qualified this by saying that many network marketers, also don’t know they don’t know.

is that confusing enough for you.  Let me clarify.

He meant that there are many who just don’t know that they can market on the internet.  Don’t forget that the old of network marketing process has always been to approach your warm and cold markets, etc.  So these distributors only focus on offline techniques of marketing rather than online.

But they can learn right? It may even be that the person is more talented in building their MLM business online than off.

If the distributor never discovers they can learn to market online versus offline, they are more likely to quit at an earlier stage.

But learning what you don’t know about network marketing online may just be that secret which unlocks a whole new world for them that will generate all the leads they want without running after them.

Now doesn’t knowing exactly what you need to do to be successful in your MLM business spur you to want to go ahead and do what you need to do?

Wouldn’t you invest the time, energy and yes, money, to learn how to do it?

It’s a foregone conclusion that you would then have success.  But if you don’t know what you need to know about network marketing online, your business is not growing.

The really big key here is to acknowledge that you don’t know that you don’t know. There’s no shame in it.  Until he learned how, neither did Mike Klingler.

So what to do? Learn from the best, from the ones who have been there and done that.

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