MLM Forums: Some Great Advice for your Multi Level Marketing Business!

MLM Forums can be a great source of information for your multi level marketing business. Here is some really outstanding advice from some top InterNetwork Marketers that have built successful websites with SBI!—Site Build It!, created by Dr. Ken Envoy. After each network marketing tip, he makes an excellent remark! It is amazing that with the number of people using his program, that he still takes time to comment in the mlm forums!!!

1) Three Foot Rule

An example of one updated Network Marketing Tip is to change this past advice: "everyone that is within 3 feet of you is your prospect…" to this more current advice: "move within 3 feet of your computer, and now the world is your prospect."

Ann Seig, author of the Renegade Network Marketer

Dr. Ken Envoy, creator of SBI! (who started the mlm forums thread to see how people have changed the way they do MLM businesses), makes the following comment on the above MLM forums tip, There is no need to prospect/bother everyone within three (or thirty) feet of you, wherever you go. With InterNETwork Marketing, the whole world is three (or thirty) feet of you. And the best part is THEY come to you.

2) Be a product of the products

For instance... old advice with a nutrition MLM means use the products you are promoting. Create your own story about how they make you feel or how your health has improved since using certain products.

With the SBI! 5Pillar Affiliate program, the following changes are recommended by the mlm forums:

A) Want to PREsell SBI! or another multi level marketing business effectively?

B) Own it.

C) FEEL the benefits.

D) KNOW the features.

It's the only way to write with persuasive conviction.

EVERY Top 5 Pillar Affiliate owns at least one SBI! site. It's so important to go beyond theory and pretend.

Nony from holistic-wellness-basics.com

Dr. Envoy comments, This MLM Forums Tip will be forever evergreen. If you don't love the product, find one that you do. And don't fool yourself. Take this test...

Picture yourself quitting as a distributor. Then ask yourself... Would I still love and use the product? If the answer is yes, you have a winner. Don't settle for less because in the world of capitalism, product value ultimately rules.

3) The customer is buying YOU first, not the opportunity or products.

(According to the SBI! MLM Forums, -- You must) find your PERSONAL Voice and develop trust with your site visitors. Create content that delivers value to them (VPP - Valuable PRE-selling Proposition). You won't start to build this trust by pitching your products or opportunity from the get-go.

Nony from holistic-wellness-basics.com

Again, Dr. Envoy writes, This is one of the old-school MLM Tips that remains evergreen, too. Now, it's just called PREselling.

4) Some will, some won't, so what!!! NEXT!!!

That is the point about the Law of Averages, you can't really change it...

The fact remains, you will see about the same number... the numbers are the numbers... You can't beat the numbers - but the numbers can't beat you either...

Any successful Network Marketer had to effectively apply the C-P-T-M of SBI!’s online program to an offline world of prospecting many, many, many, people.

Jake from Murphysboro

To this post, Dr. Envoy remarks, This is another one of those old school mlm tips meant to toughen your skin. And it's still a good one because Network Marketing is ultimately a numbers game. BUT, the good news with an InterNetwork Marketing site is that your website takes rejection much better than you do.

5) Approach your warm circle

I first heard about and got into MLM back in the mid 80's!! hahaha! Back then that's what we were taught and I never knew any better… in the wagon train days of tips like: video pass out, buggin all your family and friends until you drove them crazy, meetings across town!!!

Sue from miabella-online-business-coach.com

Dr. Envoy exclaims, There is just no need to do this anymore. Let your family and friends alone -- let them be family and friends. In any event, when they hear how well you're doing online, they'll ask YOU.

He goes on to comment on this old world tip,

6) Go through people to get to people.

This is basically the next level of the warm circle... Can you give me the names of five friends who might be interested? Same conclusion -- leave your friends' friends alone, too. Letting your site do the prospecting is just so much more time efficient. In any event, later, when some of your friends want to find out more about how well you're doing online, some of THEIR friends will ask them, too, when THEY are doing well.

6) Duplication

I've been in 4-5 MLM companies and one common mantra, that from the first bothered me, was the urging to make everything you do duplicatable so your downline can feel it's easy enough that he can just imitate you.

Translated, that means: downplay your talents, become mediocre, don't get too involved in the details of the products, don't stretch to do the best you can because you'll intimidate those under you and they won't feel they can imitate you.

I don't do anything I love half way, so it's annoying to realize that I can't share what I know about nutritional products; I can't let myself go to do the difficult, to reach for the stars. I have to accommodate those who are content with mediocrity. Pull myself down to that level. It's fine if they feel comfortable where they are and don't want to stretch to something new, but, on the other hand, I should be free to be who I want to be. I'd like to attract those who are interested in stretching and growing.

This mantra, I think, keeps much of MLM training on a mediocre level and encourages folks to begin home-based businesses when they really have little desire to try something new and innovative. How many company meetings have I sat through listening to moderators, chair persons do a sloppy job. Why don't they join Toastmasters and learn to do it professionally? They keep themselves common.

Janice and John from cleanse-for-better-health.com

Dr. Envoy’s response to this comment from the MLM Forums: --The concept of duplication is supposed to make each successive level of your downline as strong as you are. A good concept, in principle, but the MLM training can be time-consuming and the rigidity of it does tend to lead to mediocrity, as Janice points out.

The InterNETwork Marketing equivalent? Apply Renegade/InterNETwork Marketing principles. Ann Seig's book, The Renegade Network Marketer and SBI! tool’s provides an immediate template for your downline. Ann's coaching and these mlm forums provide depth and training.

Your time becomes far more productive. When you follow-up with an SBI! associate, you can ask them, Are you having brainstorming problems? Then, simply send them to the article on How To Apply DAY 2 and 3 To Network Marketing for example. Encourage them to ask questions and then to pay it forward. And, of course, be available to provide personal answers for those who you see are DOING something.

The result? More time-efficient, more flexible and everyone is empowered to be as good as they want to be. Creativity and new approaches are definately encouraged!

7) NO-- only means --NOT NOW.

Dr. Envoy writes, Combine this nugget and warm circle and you have lost friendships. Good sales IS about listening, and sometimes the message does mean "NO."

The nice part about InterNETworkMarketing is that you get to monetize your NO's in other ways. And you get to focus your InterNETworkMarketing time on warm leads receptive to your MLM tips and what you have to say.

Ann Seig, author of the 7 Lies of Network Marketing, The Renegade Network Marketer, and CEO- of 80/20 Marketing, Inc. adds,

**In addition, a hearty amen to this mlm forums response, Ken. This one just feels real icky. Who wants to continue the pestering process any further than how bad it already is?

You know in the back of their mind their wondering, "Should I really sic this person on my good friend? Nah, I know. I'll come up with some names of people that I really don't care that much about and I'll sic this person on that group. The damage won't be so bad that way."

And when one of these people are sent my way, I'm thinking, "Jeez Susie, what were you thinking? Now I have to try to find a polite way to say no to this person. I wish Susie hadn't done that. Doesn't she know how busy I am?"

People are amazed when I tell them I really don't do any warm market or even local market prospecting any more. NONE. ZIPPO. NADDA. For me it got so distasteful I just don't go there. Sounds terrible to say that I probably am losing some potential customers as a result. Oh well. I value my sanity more. I just don't enjoy doing that process face to face any more.

Now, if you really like doing that, then do it! For me, I just would rather not drag my business every where with me. It's personal preference and thankfully we now have the option to leave that method far behind in the dust.

Zelda's Proverb