MLM Tips by Roger Moody from home office in Indianapolis, IN

If you’ve been involved in network marketing for any significant period of time chances are you’ve spent money on MLM leads. With all the tools available to a home business owner today there is absolutely no reason to spend money on MLM leads ever again! It’s just simply a waste of money here is why…

If you could have 1000 MLM leads who might be interested in your business or 5 prospects who called you about your MLM opportunity which would be more valuable to you? If you said the 1000 prospects you’d be dead wrong.

If you want true success in your MLM / home based business, you do not want joiners you want partners. The people that are “ready to buy” are always better than the ones who are “just looking”. When you call a long list of leads you can be sure that almost all of them are just looking and many of them are ‘joiners’. Sure maybe some of them are serious about it but most of them are probably just kicking tires. That means you have to go through a lot of people just to find the few they are interested in a real lifestyle change.

So what’s the solution? Well instead of contacting a ton of people who might be interested why not just get the people who are interested to contact you? That means you’re only spending your time talking to people who are already interested in working with you.

Besides the time and money you’ll be saving having people call you gives you the upper hand in your business. In any MLM business posture is key to your success and it’s completely different when prospects call you versus when you call them.

When you call a prospect they are usually grumpy or annoyed or make you feel like you’re wasting their time however, when they call you it’s a whole different ball game.

So how do you get people to pick up the phone and call you? That’s easier than most are lead to believe with internet marketing.

The internet is a truly amazing tool that is changing the way home businesses are run all over the world. If you have yet to discover the power of the internet it’s time to learn!

Beware of the so-called internet Guru’s. There is a saying in the MLM industry and that is: “Those that can do and those that can’t teach”. I love this saying because it’s so true in MLM. Just search online and you’ll find the self proclaimed MLM trainers are spending money hand over fist to get their websites top billing. If they really knew what they were doing, they would not need to buy activity.

When you market properly on the internet you are able to find more people from all over who want what you have without actually having to talk to any of them. They find you, they get the information and then they call you when they are ready (or very close) to getting started!

People who know how to use the power of the internet will never go back to traditional forms of marketing…it’s just not worth it.

I encourage you to find someone who is willing to teach you how to market your MLM business online for free and you’ve found the key to huge success working from home! So stop wasting time, money and energy on MLM leads and start changing your life today with the power of internet marketing!

If you’re building a second income stream with a part time home business, the bigger your opt in list the better chance you have to scoring. Your list is the most valuable thing you have in your home based business. You may have heard that “the fortune is in the list”, it’s absolutely true.

How are you building your list? Early in your networking career your list will consist of family, friends, neighbors, etc…keep that list handy for later. Right now we want to discuss creating a massive opt in list for your business. Here’s some tips that will help you build the biggest list possible in just 30 days.

Have a simple Opt-in page!

We’ve all seen these gigantic sales pages and then have an opt in form at the very bottom. Good grief, seriously who really reads all that crap with the vague testimonies? If you want to build a big list as fast as possible you need a simple opt in page with just enough information to pique the interest of your visitor..

I’ve found the best opt in page is one where you don’t have to scroll to get the gist of it allowing your visitor to make a quick decision and fill in the form. Sure some people will put in bogus info just to get past that page to the next page and more info but that’s okay.

Most of the time a video, catchy audio and an eye catching headline is all you really need to get people to opt into your list. Avoid the temptation to over complicate it and NEVER give too much information. Once your visitor becomes a prospect for your home based business then and only then do you share more info with them.

Resist sending too many emails to your list!

As you are building this opt in lead list you want your prospects to remain in the list for as long as possible or until they join your winning team. The quickest way to destroy a list is sending too many emails. Let’s face it, that’s just annoying. I think one or two emails a week is sufficient.

Have some sort of Freebie!

Everyone loves getting stuff for free. If you want to build a huge opt in list fast, have a freebie to offer. It might be a free ebook, report, sample product and this will do wonders for your opt in list.

Make sure you have quality content!

Don’t think just because you offer something for free that it doesn’t have to be good. Provide quality content to your prospect otherwise they will lose respect for you and once you’ve lost that you’ve also lost any chance of recruiting them into your home based business. Also, bad news travels fast and your prospect might tell others and that can be devastating to any business.

You might have heard this before: ‘If someone finds something they like they MIGHT tell one person, but if they find something they don’t like they’ll tell one hundred people. It’s just bad for business to give away poor quality products!

Now that you got it…Flaunt it!

What I really mean is get it out there…Promote it like crazy! There are literally hundreds of places to promote your webpage for free. If you truly understand and believe that opt ins today equals sign ups tomorrow… You’re list is golden & the bigger the better!

So size really does matter! As long as you’re working a legitimate home based business, build your list now and your success in the future is guaranteed.

Since you are reading this I will assume that you are researching marketing techniques. Quite possibly you are involved in a home based business. If you are in the industry and you haven’t heard of the three foot rule I’m pretty sure you’ve been living under a rock.

One of the oldest marketing techniques, the three foot rule is also one of the most talked about methods of marketing a home based business that there. Incase you do not know it pretty much goes like this: you talk to anyone who comes within three feet of you about your business.

It does not matter if you’re at the grocery store, in a restaurant, on an elevator everyone you come in contact with needs an invitation to hear about your home based business.

The three foot rule is often talked about but I doubt many people actually do. Seriously, would you really join a business if someone approached you at the checkout aisle and started asking you if you wanted to change your life? Probably not. Also, if the three foot rule were widely used then I would assume that someone, somewhere at some time would have approached me and it’s never happened.

The truth behind the idea is if you talk to enough people surely some of them will be interested in what you’re doing and sign up. However, it rarely works out that way when approaching total strangers and while you’re spending all your time talking to strangers and most likely embarrassing yourself you’ll probably just get discouraged and quit.

As you might guess, I am not a big fan of the three foot rule and have never personally used it. So how do I get tons of people to talk to about my home business? I advertise on the internet for free! No I don’t spend money on pay per click (that can really eat away at your budget if you’re not careful!) or buy huge lists of leads to dump into an auto responder (been there done that too).

I get targeted traffic to my website every single day by doing a few simple things like marketing on forums, blogging, and free classified sites like Craigslist or Backpage. I also use social networking and article marketing sites and guess what? People are actually calling me instead of me calling them, business has never been easier!

So get into the 21st century and ditch the 3 foot rule! I know that once you see just how great internet marketing is you’ll never bug another person in the produce section again!

The first thing every network marketer is told to do when they get started is to make a list of their family and friends. This technique of calling everyone that you know is nothing new to the network marketing industry and it still works for a faster start. However, it is totally unnecessary.

Don’t get me wrong, calling friends and family is taught because it does work. If you are new to the industry I highly recommend that you work through your list with your network marketing success coach. If you’ve tried and failed then you need a different technique.

As a full time success coach, I can tell you that 90% of the new reps coming into our business are doing so after miserable failure in other home business opportunities. Most of these new reps think they have already burned all their bridges. I know this not to be the case but most people don’t believe me so I don’t press the issue so we incorporate other successful business building techniques.

Some successful networkers will tell you that if you don’t make your list and call your friends and family that you are doomed and guaranteed to fail. This is untrue but you will need to a little more patient and tenacious.

The online marketing techniques that we teach came from a need to generate activity and do it without spending any money. Sure it can be easier if you have an advertising budget but often times our new reps have no expendable cash. I wanted to explore ways that would allow me to still reach a good amount of people and at the same time not spend any money.

I began getting some information on internet marketing. What I found is that almost all internet marketing is free… or very cheap. What I also found is that unlike calling a list of my family and friends internet marketing allowed me to find people who were actually interested in working from home and get them to call me!

By using techniques like: Craigslist, Wordpress, Ezinearticles, Forums, etc… I could get targeted traffic to my business website and actually have people begging me to sign up… not the other way around!

Now believe me I am not saying that you should be a secret agent and hide your business from the people around you. By all means share it! However, when you already have plenty of prospects picking up the phone and calling you or visiting your website you will be free to share your business without desperately needing them to sign up.

I like the restaurant analogy. Think of it this way, if you were going to open a restaurant you’d tell your friends and family right? But you wouldn’t call them multiple times a day, and beg them to come eat there. It’s the same thing with your home based business.

Your entire posture will change when you realize the power of what you have. You’re not bothering people you’re simply offering them something that most people want or need. You are doing them a favor by letting them know but you have no pressure because your building with or without them.

If you’ve read to this point and are not seeing the success that you want, I encourage you to find a better home based business success coach and start learning how to generate free prospects online using internet marketing. I know that your business will never be the same again. You’re success is guaranteed!

Oh and guess what…those friends and family will eventually join you or be jealous of your lifestyle!

You may have heard the term ‘Social Bookmarking’ but many do not understand it or how to effectively use it in their home based business. Social bookmarking can be a very valuable tool when marketing your home based business online. In this brief article I’ll attempt to clear up any confusion.

Everyone is familiar with placing a bookmark in book or a magazine it’s so you will not lose your place and remember where you were when you go back and want to read again. Bookmarking on your computer is the same thing its simply is a quick link to a site that you will return to sometime in the future. You find a website that you really like and since you don’t want to forget where it is you bookmark it for your personal use later.

It does not matter which internet browser you use you still have the ability to bookmark your favorite websites. If you don’t know how to bookmark a page use the help feature in the menu. It is one of the simplest tools available on your browser. Bookmarking is very easy and it’s an awesome tool to have.

SOCIAL Bookmarking is just really the same as regular bookmarking only it’s not just for your personal use. Social Bookmarking is a way to get more people to take a look at your websites. I recommend using it for every internet presence you currently employ to gain internet traffic.

Digg.com and Technorati.com are a couple of the more popular sites giving you the opportunity to create an account and then bookmark all things that you way to draw more attention to. When people go to those sites they will now have a chance to see the sites you bookmarked.

Having a really cool website for your home based business is meaningless unless you know how to drive traffic to that site. If nobody ever sees it then it’s not going to do you any good. That’s where marketing techniques like Social Bookmarking can have a massive effect on your business. They allow more people to see your websites in a shorter amount of time and that means more prospects for you to talk to and obviously more business and more money.

Social Bookmarking sites are all set up a little differently so it would be impossible to tell you step by step exactly how each of them operate. The first step is always figuring out which things you’d like to bookmark and that can be any site you are using.

Blogs
Articles
Websites
Business Myspace Page
Videos
Anything that gets people looking at your business!

You will want to get a new document open on your computer desktop and start copying and pasting all the URL’s of the things you want to bookmark. Make sure you copy and paste it right out of your browser this helps to make sure you don’t leave anything out by accident.

Once you have compiled your list of sites to bookmark you’ll need to go to the different sites and set up accounts. I recommend going to Digg.com first simply because it is the biggest and the best.

Lastly, start bookmarking! Like I said each of these websites are different however most of them are user friendly and you should be able to figure them out fairly easily. If not, follow the directions provided on the site

I sincerely hope that this article helps you understand Social Bookmarking and why it’s a good idea for your successful home based business.

If you’re seeking a real home based business opportunity, the author would love to mentor you personally. Contact Indianapolis home based business owner, Roger Moody at rogerlmoody@gmail.com or visit ChristianFaithBusiness.com.

This article will touch on some things you can implement today to begin getting inbound traffic and phone calls, all for FREE!

Anyone that has been serious about their home based business has experienced lead vendors. Buying leads for your home business can be a real pain. Not only are they usually very expensive but half the time the people on the list aren’t even interested. This can be brutal and can destroy many new reps in your company.

Nothing drives people out of a home based business quicker than having nobody to talk to.

What if you could have targeted quality prospects calling you every single day? Many are practically BEGGING you to let them be a part of your business.

Here’s how it works… the old days of MLM are long gone and in their place is the wonderful world of web 2.0 and other forms for you to use to gain exposure for your online business. It does not matter that you may have no experience working on the internet. You can still bring in fresh, targeted leads every day with simple online techniques.

There are many things you can implement immediately. Things like, Blog Marketing, Article Marketing, Video Marketing, Social Networking sites like Myspace and Facebook and a whole host of other online marketing methods are easy to learn and can deliver real results!

Let’s look at blog marketing for example. Sites like Wordpress.com and Blogger.com allow you to set up your very own blog in just minutes and best of all it’s FREE! Just set up your blog… write in it every day or every other day and make sure to fill it up with lots of keywords and you’ll already be generating prospects.

If you want to take your blog to the next level you can buy a domain name for it and start promoting your blog on forums and other places online.

Blogging is a really easy way to generate prospects because all you really have to do is talk about yourself and your business… just be who you are it’s really that simple. Blogging is just ONE of the awesome ways to market your business online.

Video marketing is also very simple and fun. By making simple videos talking about your business and posting them on sites like Youtube.com and Revver.com you’ll also be finding ways to get the type of people you’re looking for to go to your website and take a look at your business.

No more expensive leads… and best of all once it’s on the internet it will STAY on the internet. That means you do the job ONCE and it lasts practically forever!
You may have heard the phrase: “what happens on the internet STAYS on the internet”. This is what is driving so many people to drop their flyers, stop cold calling and stop paying for expensive lists of leads and get all of their prospects online!

I hope you’ve found this article to be helpful, there really are so many ways to make money online that I could go on for days!
The best thing to do is just to get out there and DO IT! I know you’ll find what so many others have found… targeted leads from the internet are the way to go and you’ll NEVER have another bad conversation!

If you’re seeking a real home based business opportunity, the author would love to mentor you personally. Contact Indianapolis home based business owner, Roger Moody at rogerlmoody@gmail.com or visit ChristianFaithBusiness.com.