How To Find Your Perfect MLM Sponsor In 3 Easy Ste

How To Find Your Perfect MLM Sponsor In 3 Easy Steps Without Going Completely Insane

by: John Stafford

If youกve never had the experience you’re very lucky….

You just joined a great new MLM company and are excited and ready to go, you email your sponsor to find out whatกs next.

Days pass…

No response.

You try again but still nothing.

So, how do you avoid this terrible fate?

Iกm glad you asked, here are the 3 ways you can use to find your perfect MLM sponsor:

1. Find out if heกs active

Nothing drives me crazier then joining a company and finding out my sponsor isn’t doing anything to work the business.

If the company has a scoreboard or ranking site, see if heกs on it. Check out his websites in Google and see how they’re set up.

The important thing is to make sure heกs making an effort 🙂

2. Email or Call him

Take a minute กbeforeก you join up to email or call him with questions.

Ask him whatever you like and see if he responds.

Don’t think you’re bothering your prospective mentor, if heกs the right person he won’t mind.

3. Find out how long heกs been with the company

Another thing youกll run into is finding a sponsor thatกs been with the company a week and has no clue.

Now don’t get me wrong, itกs okay to be new but the กblind leading the blindก isn’t going to help anyone.

When you’re sending him the email from step 2 just ask him how long heกs been with the company and see what happens.

*Remember*

The relationship you’re forming will be lasting a really long time, you want to be sure heกs the right person to help you build your team.

Follow these steps and soon youกll find a sponsor you’re happy with that will help you take your new MLM business to the next level.

Copyright 2004 John Stafford

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This article was posted on October 12, 2004

by John Stafford

Which Guru Should You Back?

Which Guru Should You Back?

by: AnneMarie Killer

Iกve got many friends who are looking for business ideas weกve all heard the concept of กmultiple streams of incomeก.

Itกs human nature to want to กget rich quickก. Maybe one can on the internet maybe, I don’t know about the กquickก and Iกm also not sure about the กrichก but Iกm convinced one can make a decent living.

Iกve started looking for the กnamesก the กgurusก who have made it. And are still making it on the internet. I think I can learn a lot from them. Iกve found this website ranking the gurus. Very interesting indeed.

The top 5 (as at todayกs last calculation) are:

 Guru Share Price 1 Ken Evoy $279.41 2 Correy Rudl $85.11 3 Dr Ralph Wilson $37.04 4 John Reese $29.52 5 Jim Daniels $24.59 

Don’t be fooled by these กshare pricesก John Reese, the number 4 recently (in August 2004) made more than a million dollars in 24 hours!! You can download his report on how he did it at this website. Very interesting reading indeed. And you can buy his กfull houseก for a กmereก $997 don’t rush off and buy yet I suggest you wait until youกve read all of this.

Have you noticed how big the gap is between the number 1 and 2 spot? HUGE, isn’t it? And compare the number 1 spot to John Reese in number 4. So, if number 4 can make a million in 24 hours and he is only the number 4 then surely number 1 must be doing something กmoreก or what do you think?

The number 1, Ken Evoy is well worth checking out. Notice that he hasn’t made a million dollars in 24 hours or has he and heกs not telling? What he is ‘tellingก is case study after case study of everyday people who are successful using his system.

Do you get it?

Heกs not focusing on his millions heกs focusing on how he has helped THOUSANDS of people like you and me to make, well maybe not a million, but a decent few thousand dollars a month.

Heกs very clear that this is not a กget rich quick schemeก. This is about building a business one tortoise step after another. But, you have a กguru in your earก whispering to you every step of the way, guiding, encouraging, explaining strategies and even scolding you if necessary.

This is worth investing in. This is worth every grain of energy and effort you can muster. If youกve ever wanted to back a winner, this is your opportunity.

About The Author

AnneMarie Killer is the owner and webmaster of www.perfectpartyideas.com.

Read her blog at http://www.perfectpartyideas.blogspot.com

This article was posted on December 30, 2004

by AnneMarie Killer

Eddie the Erroneous EMarketer

Eddie the Erroneous EMarketer

by: Jason OConnor

Poor Eddie the emarketer has been plagued by errors in judgment all his life. From always picking the longest line at the toll booth to buying lots of dot com stocks right before the bubble burst, he constantly struggles with making the right choices. >From disagreeing that a car really needs oil changes every three thousand miles to insisting that the eighttrack is going to make a comeback, Eddie bumbles through life perplexed. One area that particularly suffers is his emarketing efforts.

You see, Eddie recently got himself a new website for his business. Unfortunately, heกs been trying in vain to turn it into a vehicle for getting leads and making sales. Heกs confused. Heกs dazed. He thrashes about lost in a maze. Although he at least understands the importance of emarketing for driving traffic to his site, heกs like a hamster running on a wheel, wasting energy and getting nowhere. Letกs take a look at a few of the more typical emarketing errors Eddie regularly makes.

Treat the Web as a different medium

The other day his business partner, Betty, showed Eddie a recent halfpage ad they ran in one of their industryกs magazines. Eddie, excited at how pretty the pictures were, wanted it up on their website pronto. Did he alter it in any way before they posted it to the site? Did he add a specific call to action hyperlink in it? Did he optimize the large print graphics so they would download fast in peopleกs browsers? Nope. He just took the ad, as is, and posted it. Eddie has never been able to grasp the idea that traditional marketing and emarketing, while related, are not the same thing. What works in print doesn’t always work online. Why? Different mediums require different approaches. Look for Eddieกs static magazine ad in his first TV commercial, just the motionless ad on the screen for thirty seconds. Riveting.

The Web is interactive. Site visitors can click buttons, fill out forms, or post immediate comments in forums or blogs. When Eddie was having his site built, he really just wanted to have a way to talk about his business. He wanted to tell the world how great his company was and the exciting history of its formation. This is called brochureware. Itกs just taking a company brochure, posting it online and adding a few links. To say that Eddie is underutilizing the Web is like saying the ocean is mildly wet. The Web is extremely powerful and businesses have a choice of taking advantage of its power, or just scratching the surface with simple brochureware. Itกs similar to buying a tank, climbing in and lifting the hatch only to shoot spit balls at the enemy. If you have that kind of power, use it.

Ask your customers what they want

Since Eddie doesn’t really grasp the interactive nature of the Web he guesses what his potential customers want and need. One day in a meeting Eddie was scratching his head, staring up at the ceiling and saying, กGee, if there was only a way to figure out what our customers want, a way we could get in their heads, and a way to reach enough of them to get a really clear picture, hmm . . . ?ก Thankfully, a timid but sharp junior associate raised her hand and suggested that they just ask their customers their opinions and needs directly, and do it online where they could ask a whole bunch of them.

Eddie jumped at the idea. Finally he was going make the right choice, albeit aided by a junior associate, but the right emarketing choice nonetheless. They created an html form with forty of the most important questions he could think of and posted a link on their homepage called กCustomer Surveyก.

Offer incentives

Only three people ever filled the survey out, and that was it. Eddie was dumfounded. What went wrong? He was hoping for hundreds. The problem was that Web users are not patient and generally don’t like to fill out forms, especially long ones. Even more importantly, they don’t like to do something for nothing.

If you were jostling your way through a crowded store in a big rush and a bored teenage clerk asked you to fill out a survey of forty questions but wasn’t offering anything in return, how likely would it be that youกd do it? A more effective approach for Eddie would have been to narrow down his list of questions to four instead of forty, and offer a coupon for 10% off any online purchase in return for filling it out. If you want to create leads using your website, offer something for free and require your visitors to give you a bit of information first. Theyกll be much more likely to respond if they get something they perceive as valuable in return. Give the people what they want, an incentive.

Regularly study your website statistics

Another area that Eddie seems to miss the emarketing boat is in analysis. He doesn’t have time for looking at all those pesky Web statistics. He can’t be bothered with analyzing the number of visitors who come to his site, or how they got there, or where they go once they’re there. Heกs rendered blind to his emarketing campaignsก successes and failures. Itกs like always ignoring your checking account balance and then despairingly wondering where all your money went each week. Whatกs worse, because he ignores the numbers, he has no useful information to help plan his next campaign. Numbers help in life.

A jumbo jet is off course 90% of time. It reaches its destination successfully by constantly checking the data on its exact position and continuously making the appropriate adjustments until it lands on target.

Likewise, an emarketing objective can be best reached by analyzing the data and making the necessary modifications. For example, if your target is a thousand visitors a week, then look at your website statistics and learn where the majority of your visitors are coming from. Discover what type of site, link or search engine is doing a lot of the referring. Then adjust your time and budget accordingly.

Itกs been rumored around the office that Eddie sometimes locks himself in his office and counts his new websiteกs hit counter, prancing around in jubilation each time the counter goes up by one. Yet he hates to hunker down and look at all the numbers, all the visitors, all the referrals, and then conduct a meaningful analysis to help understand the past and better plan for the future.

Since Eddie hates looking at his site statistics, he has no idea how well his last email marketing campaign went. He sent out five thousand emails to a rented list and then asked his sales people if they got any more phone calls that day. Itกd be like a television network executive asking his employees if they happened to see their neighborsก TV sets on the night before to determine if the new show did well. Hey Eddie, I have an idea, check your Web stats for page views and youกll know exactly how successful your email was!

Poor Eddie the erroneous emarketer, is he condemned to subpar performances in life and business? If he tries to learn from his mistakes, if he starts to treat the Web differently than print or any other medium, heกll start to see results. If he uses more of the Webกs power and potential, tapping into its interactivity and offering easy ways for his site visitors to communicate with him, and if he offers incentives to motivate his visitors to take action, then maybe, just maybe, he may not be doomed after all.

Unfortunately, after choosing the longest line at the toll booth again, his carกs engine seized from idling and poor oil maintenance. So to pass the time waiting for the tow truck, he popped in an eighttrack cassette, flipped open his cell phone and purchased some more Enron stocks.

About The Author

Jason OConnor is President of Oak Web Works and runs http://www.getredsoxtickets.com one of the cheapest places on the Net to get premium and sold out tickets to sporting events, concerts and shows.

http://www.oakwebworks.com

http://www.getredsoxtickets.com

This article was posted on October 14, 2004

by Jason OConnor

What Santa Knows About Marketing

What Santa Knows About Marketing

by: Charlie Cook

Whatกs that ringing sound you hear at this time of year? Itกs the sound of store registers ringing up the sales generated by Santa Claus. Just because heกs old, overweight, long haired, unshaven and dresses funny, don’t overlook his marketing success. Santa is a marketing expert and you can become one, too, if you follow his marketing methods.

Whatกs that you say? You don’t believe in Santa Claus or you don’t celebrate Christmas? Itกs true that Santa may be mostly mythical, but ask almost anybody who Santa is and what he does, and theyกll tell you. And there are millions of children who are convinced heกs real. So put your doubts about Santa aside for a moment and take a look at why heกs so good at marketing.

Knows How to Be Unique Whether it is his trademark red suit, his unconventional transportation, his belly laugh or his occupation, Santa is different. Heกs one of a kind, which makes him memorable.

Gets Free Publicity He’s a master at getting free press. He’s mentioned in the media constantly during the winter holidays. Many songs, movies and books have been written about him.

Is Customer Focused While everyone knows about Santa, his marketing isn’t focused on his credentials. He rarely talks about how long heกs been in business nor does he bore people with long discussions of his work processes. Instead, he makes a huge effort to learn what people want.

It is estimated (http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20021213.html) that each year over a million letters are sent to Santa. Santa supplements this effort by appearing in thousands of shopping malls around the country, listening to an average of nine thousand children per mall. He does all this just to learn what his customers want.

Gives Something Away For Free While most of the presents under the tree are from family, including the annual fruitcake from Aunt Bernice, typically at least one gift bears Santaกs name. How can you not love someone who gives so many presents away each year and whose only expectation is a couple of cookies and a glass of milk?

Knows What He Is Selling Santa knows what he is selling, and its not just games and toys. Santa sells hope, whether it is for the latest video game, a warm sweater or happiness.

How can you market your business more like Santa Claus does his?

1. Clarify how you and your firm are unique, and what it is that separates you from the crowd. You don’t need to put on a red suit or slide down chimneys. Define yourself by the problems you solve, the expertise you provide and what your customers say about you.

2. Get media attention for your business, not just during holidays but all year round. Sometimes imaginative stunts like appearing in a sleigh help.

3. Ask your prospects what they want and then provide services and products that give them what theyกve asked for. The better you understand their concerns, the better services or products youกll provide.

4. Give something away for free. It could be an article, a report, a book or a workshop. Use your free offer to prompt people to contact you and demonstrate your expertise. It works for Santa and it can work for you.

5. Know what you are selling. Your products and services bring in the money, but what do they stand for? What do they represent to your clients? Sell your prospects on achieving their objectives and dreams and deliver with tangible results they can appreciate.

Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, market like Santa and you too, can have many happy clients this and every season, without having to squeeze down a single sooty chimney.

Happy Holidays

About The Author

2004 © In Mind Communications, LLC. All rights reserved.

The author, Charlie Cook, helps service professionals and small business owners attract more clients and be more successful. Sign up for the Free Marketing Plan eBook, ก7 Steps to get more clients and grow your businessก at http://www.marketingforsuccess.com.

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This article was posted on December 20, 2004

by Charlie Cook

Compensating for Your Entrepreneurial Styleor La

Compensating for Your Entrepreneurial Styleor Lack of Style

by: Glenn Beach

I recently took an entrepreneurial quiz which evaluated my answers and informed me I would do best as a hired hand! So why am I a successful home business owner? Because Iกve learned to fill the holes in my entrepreneurial style, and compensate for my deficiencies.

Letกs start with a list of qualities that might benefit someone working for him/herself:

1. Ability to see the big picture and plan accordingly;

2. Selfdiscipline;

3. Ability to use time wisely;

4. At minimum, a moderate drive to achieve;

5. Adaptability;

6. Autonomy;

7. Decisiveness;

8. A feeling of control over your own destiny;

9. Having (energy) drive and enterprise;

10. Motivation to grow;

11. Sense of intuition;

12. Ability to spot opportunities;

13. Perseverance;

14. Problemsolving abilities;

15. Risktolerance;

16. Selfconfidence;

17. Social skills

As an example, letกs look at John Doe. John has an excellent nose for a good opportunity; he drives his wife crazy with always turning everything into a new business idea. Heกs not afraid to make a decision and take the risk. He has a huge drive to achieve; he wants to be rich! John is confident that he can accomplish everything he sets out to do.

Then the reality of the rest of John sets in. Heกs not real good in the followthrough; as a matter of fact, he starts one business only to come up with another, and yet another, idea over and over. He writes up proposal after proposal, and always stumbles over the concrete details, such as turning goals and visions into action plans, and projecting budgets. He starts and stops, never stopping long enough to evaluate and plan ahead for the success of the next venture.

John could benefit from postponing his next decision until he hones his problemsolving skills a bit. He needs to understand where heกs gone wrong and plan for success the next time. John also could put his vision for his work and his life down on paper, and learn to use this vision to help choose opportunities that are in sync with his financial and career goals.

John is confusing working hard with getting ahead. He needs to continually evaluate the tasks he is engaged in to determine if he is, indeed, using his time wisely.

And lastly, John would learn a lot from finding a business opportunity that would combine teamwork, successful strategies and skill building to encourage him to apply his abundant perseverance to ONE business until he succeeds.

John can look at this list and see how one strength could compensate for another weakness. If he wasn’t very decisive, he could be spared many a bad quick decision, and strong problem solving skills could bring an eventual understanding of the right path for HIM. What he lacked in selfconfidence could be made up for with social skills that enabled him to work well with a mentor or a knowledgeable team. Lack of enterprise or drive could mean he isn’t cut out for overthecounter or doortodoor retail sales. But he might shine in the backroom dayin dayout details of getting a job done, or in websitebased business.

Oh yeah…and John could also listen to his wife, and just give it all a rest at least one day a week…

About The Author

Glenn Beach is a selfemployed subcontractor and a home business entrepreneur in Nova Scotia, Canada

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This article was posted on February 27, 2004

by Glenn Beach

PR Trump Style

PR Trump Style

by: Susan Harrow

If anyone knows how to toot his own horn itกs Donald Trump. How does he get away with it? How can you follow in the footsteps of his success?

1. Balance Your Bragging with Boyishness.

Sure, Trump is a loud mouth, but heกs also selfdeprecating, making fun of his hair, his bimbos, and his appetites. He letกs you know that he knows heกs being a braggart, but itกs all in good fun. You can do the same by making light of your foibles while touting your achievements.

2. Coin a phrase.

How many times had we heard the words *You’re fired?* before Trump used it in The Apprentice Boardroom? Trump made the phrase new by using it in a surprising way. Once he discovered its effectiveness he made it his trademark. Heกs fair, but tough. He walks his talk by making instant decisions, then pointing that fat finger at one of the unsuspecting apprentice hopefuls and uttering the feared phrase. Is there an age old phrase you can make yours by some unique gesture or by using it in a surprising circumstance? Phrases are all a part of branding. Find a few that suit you.

3. Do Something Outrageous.

The public loves a daredevilbe it with words or actions. Trump lives large. He jets around in big planes. He owns big places. He has lovers with big bosoms. He has big hair. While *bigger* isn’t necessarily better, bigger gets noticed. Itกs not my style, but maybe itกs yours.

Big comes with many faces. The public loves actions that take courageor a lot of money. What impresses me isn’t money, but the adventuresome spirit. Adventure filmmaker Scott Lindgren, who is considered one of the extreme sportกs most prominent heroes, kayaked down the Tsango River in Tibet. Navigating down it was likened to *snowboarding down Everest.* Lindgren is devoted to doing treks in wild and challenging rivers in circumstances that haven’t been done before. Heกs after a *pure* experience, and eschews publicity and moneymaking. The irony is that he gets both.

Ultimately, no matter how much publicity you want, itกs letting go of the need for it that will take you to places that perhaps Trump or even Lindgren have not gone.

Download the fr.ee teleclass *How to Become a 60 Second Soundbite Genius* to learn how to create soundbites that reporters and audiences love, avoid committing the 3 deal breakers that automatically eliminate most guests from getting on national TV shows, tell captivating stories to attract media and inspire audiences to buy.at: http://tinyurl.com/6j4qq

About The Author

Copyright (c) 2004 Susan Harrow, All Rights Reserved.

Susan Harrow is a top media coach, marketing strategist and author of *Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul* (HarperCollins), *The Ultimate Guide to Getting Booked on Oprah*, and *How You Can Get a 6Figure Book Advance.* Her clients include Fortune 500 CEOs, millionaires, bestselling authors and successful entrepreneurs who have appeared on Oprah, 60 Minutes, TIME, USA Today, People, O, The Wall Street Journal, Inc., and many others.

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This article was posted on January 11

by Susan Harrow