What Network Marketing is NOT

• It is NOT an INVESTMENT PROGRAM! Just because you bought a business opportunity, it will forever be a business ‘opportunity’ and not a business if you sit and do nothing. This is not Unit Trust or Mutual funds or a Fixed Deposit Savings Account. The money doesn’t grow by you becoming a distributor. The more you invest doesn’t mean you will necessarily earn more.

• It is NOT a GET RICH QUICK SCHEME! Those who make it big in MLM within a short time are the EXCEPTION to the NORM. Do you have what they have? (The experience, built trusts, contacts, paid the price) Everyone who has made it had all paid the price.

• It is NOT totally a SALES RECRUITMENT PROGRAM. Some like to sell. Some are salespersons, being good in sales will not make you succeed in MLM.

• It is not MUSICAL CHAIRS. It is never about whom gets there first, sponsor a few people then sit down and watch the group build itself while the latecomers miss out on the opportunity forever. Remember that if the downline works harder, they will eventually earn more than their uplines.

• It is not a 9-5 JOB. In a 9-5 job, some people get away without doing any work sometimes (they still get their salary). But it is very obvious in Network Marketing that what you GIVE is what you GET.

• It is not a CLONING MACHINE. I am not down playing the need for uniformity and like-mind direction but remember that EVERYONE is DIFFERENT. Different people have a different personal touch when it comes to recruiting. Their relationships with their prospects vary from groups to groups.

• It is NOT a 100 METER DASH. It is a marathon. Business builders must pace themselves over a period of time. Going ‘all out’ to the point of exhaustion is just bad because it is the quality of the work that counts, not the quantity. Don’t ‘close the back door’ or jump into the deep end without a float.

• It is DEFINITELY not a RELIGION. Please never ever treat your business like it is the ONLY business worth getting into (friend, if you don’t get into MY MLM and if you join others, you are not my friend). They are NOT losers if they don’t join you! Please don’t ever, EVER do this. You will lose a lot of true friends.

If You’re New to Blogs…

It surprised me that I’m getting the 1st page positions in MSN’s results for some of these posts… which of course brings traffic!

Anyway… the post actually turned into an about Blogging post. Someone (minicoopers) asked:

I frequently read people who state “my blog this” or “my blog that” but I have absolutley no idea what blog is.

So here are the basics:

MSN Must Love Blogs…

Some excerpts from that thread (there’s more comments from others if you go to the actual thread):

A Blog is essentially an online journal. BUT the content is on a website…

You post about whatever you want. Kind of like posting here…

There are literally millions of Blogs on the internet. They take many different shapes and forms… The software I use is WordPress.org. I host it on my own website…

BUT their are also free ones out there like Blogger.com (owned by Google)…

I Blog possesses many benefits.

First they are easy to set up… You could literally be blogging in minutes from now.

Second it acts as a CMS (content management system). You don’t have to upload anything or use FTP. You simply post like we do here… The information is automatically organized for you.

Some are highly customizable like WordPress… where you actually could use it simply as a CMS if you wanted and modify it to do many, many things…

The possiblities are limitless…

The other perk is that you can ping…. You hook it up with a service like PingOMatic.com and it will let dozens of services know you’ve updated your site and increases traffic to your blog. Essentially it helps draw the SEs to you…

That’s why mine gets indexed so fast. I ping and the search engine crawls another site and follows my link back to me!

Also you can allow RSS feeds….

So that’s basically it… there is a lot more to it, but that’s the jist.

They are the rage because of the quick indexing and also the can be monetized with Adsense or affiliate marketing or ? The skies the limit.

More about Pinging:

Each time your blog pings, your post is picked up by these services that will list a link to your site… A search engine will then come along and follow that to your Blog and index you.

This doesn’t guarantee traffic… you do have to Blog about something that someone might query about. Still need the right keywords.

If You use Blogger.com, it actually pings WebLogs.

Goto: Settings/Publishing/Choose Yes to Notify Weblogs.com/Save Settings…

That’s it! Now it will ping each time you post.

Blogging is powerful. Is it here to stay? Maybe, maybe not… although, it really does provide what the internet is all about. Content… fresh content.

Knocking The Mythology Out of Affiliate Network Marketing

I just found this article I thought might help some of you. Just click on the link below:

Knocking the Mythology Out of Affiliate Network Marketing

One thing I continously do is look for good information, ideas and opportunities. I'm in a continuous state of research. Anyone that is in any technology field needs to understand the education will be ongoing for as long as you are in that field. It's that way with computers and it's no different with the internet.

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Making Money

(a) Looking for fast money

(b) Building a long term business with money coming in long after you have ‘retired’

(c) Investing in the product itself

For people looking for fast money, there are pros and cons to this kind of thinking.

Some people are WELL TRAINED salesmen. They have built the relationship with their clients, customers and all sorts of people. People trust what they say and will trust whatever they are selling. They may sell the product itself (sometimes, in large quantities), or they may sell the opportunity (the money making part of it) or both. Are YOU this kind of person?

Fast money is not impossible, but it COULD be for the short term only. Consider the facts that 80-90% of people in the world are NOT built for sales. If a salesman sponsors a non-salesman, would the non-salesman be able to do the same thing as his upline? Does that mean that I would spend most of my time looking for the 10-20% of sales types?

The next type of money is the long term type.

When I define long term, it does not have to mean that you might not see money right away. It differs from company to company. But as a general rule of thumb, it involves BUILDING A NETWORK OR AN ORGANISATION.

The key to building a large organization as quoted by Zig Ziglar, “You will get whatever you want in life if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” In other words, if you will help enough downlines get enough downlines, you are on the road to network marketing financial freedom. The key is to help others.

There is one more category of people who ‘invests’ in network marketing companies, not to make money through retaining or networking, but rather investing in the product, position, or depending on the company, appreciation of their ‘assets’. A few examples would be investing in a product, so that in the future, its value will appreciate, so you can sell it to other people at a very high margin (sort of like old comic books.) Others might purchase the account or distributorship from you (depending on the compensation plan of the company) while some Internet companies actually pay you to ‘invest’ in their company, sort of like buying a share of the company.

Why Would You Be Choosing an MLM in The First Place

MLM survival. Let’s face it, the world out there is like a jungle. More particularly so in the MLM world. It would be easy to say, since it is that difficult, let’s just forget about the whole MLM or network marketing deal in the first place (then this book would not be necessary at all). That action would be self-defeating.

There is good news for all of us. So let us instead start from a positive note.

The purpose of this book is not just about teaching you to choose the right MLM Company but also how, by being properly educated about the industry, you will be able to receive benefits from every opportunity you invest your time and money in. The information here will be completely generic and neutral. I am not endorsing any company over the other as there is no such thing as the perfect MLM but rather choosing an MLM that is SUITABLE for YOU!

Whatever your reasons may be, let us make a few assumptions about it before we proceed (or else you wouldn’t pay for this E-book in the first place)

(1) Making money

(2) Saving money on products

(3) Meeting new people

(4) Growth and development

THE SHOCKING TRUTH!

If you are reading this blog, let me first congratulate you if you are a newcomer to the world of MLM and allowing me to impart my experiences on the industry to help you in taking the first step into this fantastic industry.

My intentions of writing this book is to help and provide people generic information that would apply to any company regardless on their marketing/compensation plan, product, team, country or even offline or online!

It is indeed a shocking truth to find out that over 95% of network marketers or home based business owners are operating their business at a LOSS!

How scary if you are reading this for the first time.

Well thankfully if we all worshiped statistics fanatically, most people today will be afraid to drive cars or even go to school (e.g. the percentage of road accidents and how many students in a class ‘make it’ in getting distinctions)

We all want to be smart people and rather be in the top 5% being the ones making the money now, don’t we? Of course we do.

It is sad that countless of poor victims join the industry, uninformed, and when they run into problems, they usually put the blame on the company, the team or even the industry itself!

That is why we hope to avoid such unfortunate circumstances.

Even if you have been involved, this information is invaluable because it might teach you things you have missed out or information to help your downline.