Do you have a “proven” duplicable system?
Posted by: Debi on: January 6, 2009
Does your company or sponsor offer a System for Success that will work for You? The team you join must have a system in place that will work for everyone who uses it. There must be complete resources available; books, videos and audios explaining the system. The system should be designed to Teach The System!
Remember, you want to build your business, Not baby-sit it.
You must take full responsibility for learning the Skill Set. Your company or sponsor can’t do that for you. An ‘open’ system will allow you to go upline for clarification and advice. If you don’t see the system working for you right away, don’t try to reinvent the wheel. As in everything we do in life there is a learning curve. Plug in and be patient.
Personal development should have a big emphasis in the system. This is a relationship business, the more you know about yourself, the better you’ll relate to your clients and customers.
Thirty-year MLMer Michael Dlouhy talks about these ideas and a lot more in his ebook, “Success In 10 Steps.” You’ll find ideas in this book that really make you sit up and take notice. Some time back, Dlouhy joined 100 MLM companies and did a comparison of them in a lot of different ways. He found some common problems that cause most new reps to really have no chance to ever be successful in the business. But he also found that if you can avoid those certain problems, you have a real chance to make a long-term living from network marketing, maybe even achieve the “retirement” dream. It’s definitely a book worth reading.
Debi Talbert
Can you make money building your company part-time?
Posted by: Debi on: January 6, 2009
Does the Compensation Plan Pay Part-Timers?
The fact is 95% of network marketers are building their businesses on part-time basis. Even if you are building your business full-time, you need to make sure that your companies compensation plan allows people can make a decent income working a few hours per week.
Take the Comp Plan Test – Ask yourself this question:
“How many people do I need on my Team to earn a recurring income check of $500 per month?”
There are companies out there that require as many as 500 and as few as 20.It’s not unusual to see well-established companies that require 150 to 350 people and they are still able attract new distributors – Amazing! They must be sold on the product!
If you are making only 5% to 8% commissions on product, You are being extremely underpaid. The purpose of any business is moving product from the company to the end-consumer. The majority of your commissions MUST come from product sales; otherwise, it is a SCAM. And if you work a plan that Does Not pay on product volume, somewhere in the process You will lose money! More important: You will lose Credibility Too!
The ideas above are a sample of what you get in the ebook “Success In 10 Steps.” The book tells the author’s story of failure & frustration and then success in network marketing.
Debi Talbert
Products – How to evaluate
Posted by: Debi on: January 5, 2009
Does the company have a Remarkable product at a reasonable price?
All MLM companies have a good product. But, there are others available that are just as good!
- It should be competitively priced.
- If the product has both a Retail and a Wholesale price
- Your company has a Recruiting business model, STAY AWAY unless You are Red!
Warnings:
- If the product would not sell without the business opportunity attached, it is ILLEGAL.
- If you can’t pay with a credit card and Must pay by cash or money order, it is ILLEGAL.
- If distributors collect the money while the company stays at arm’s length, it is ILLEGAL.
- If you MUST have a Retail Merchant’s account, the company is SCAMMING YOU.
When you begin to justify your product to someone, You become a salesperson.
CAUTION: Networking is a relationship business NOT a sales business.
Biggest reason for the popularity of network marketing is the idea that if you can get a lot of people to do a few simple things, it can be very profitable for you. You get the details of this idea and many others in Michael Dlouhy’s classic MLM ebook, “Success in 10 Steps.” You get useful information, explaining to most people why they’ve been frustrated in network marketing. Plus, there’s a detailed plan to build the key relationships you need to make you successful in MLM.
Debi Talbert – My MLM Tip Pros
Timing is Everything
Posted by: Debi on: January 4, 2009
Has the company passed the “early failure” Time Line?
Are the company’s Products timed with the beginning of a massive trend of consumer demand?
- Beware of “ground floor opportunities” and start-up companies.
- There should be no rush to get in on the “ground floor”.
- 99% of companies don’t last two years.
If the company is good today, it will be great tomorrow.
Most people don’t make money in the first two years while the company is dealing with start-up issues. Profit comes AFTER two years. Join then.
The time-tested ebook “Success In 10 Steps” by Michael Dlouhy goes into detail on these thoughts and more. The book has become a network marketing classic over the last few years, having passed 100,000 downloads. The book was written for frustrated network marketers who haven’t had the success they’d like in the business. The frustrated MLMer learns many key points of network marketing success, and gets a step-by-step plan for changing their results from bad to good. The book doesn’t promote any companies or products, so it has been a very popular and effective lead generation tool for a lot of people in MLM.
Debi Talbert – My MLM Tips Pro
MLM Tip – How to evaluate a network marketing company
Posted by: Debi on: January 3, 2009
Does the company management have personal experience building their own networking organization? Have they done it with Integrity?
- Search Google for the owners of the company.
- Do the owners have Integrity? Add the word ‘Scam’ to your search.
- Do the owners have a Corporate background or an in-the-field Network Marketing background
Read your “Policies & Procedures” and “Terms & Conditions”; both are part of your Legal Contract.
- Look for the word “Ongoing”
- Look for policies that strike you as “Unreasonable”. Like “Termination, with or without cause”.
- Ask yourself “Does this contract protect me or the company?” “Is it clear which way it leans?”
Other questions to ask yourself:
- Does the company charge you for training or a company web site?
- Does the company charge you for each paycheck they send you?
Rules of Thumb:
- The longer the contract, the greater the possibility that the policies important to you are being hidden in “Legalese”!
- If it’s a “Cash Only” business…It’s a Scam!
- If you can buy a position at the top…It’s a Scam!
- If you are offered a “Special Deal”…the playing field isn’t level for all.
- If the products are sold on eBay at a greatly reduced price…Buy there instead.
- If a company is publicly traded, Financial Decisions Will be made in Favor of the Stockholders at the expense of the Distributors.
Check these two websites: www.MLMwatchdog.com and www.MarketWaveInc.com.
You’ll learn a lot about these aspects of network marketing and much more in the ebook “Success In 10 Steps” by MLM veteran Michael Dlouhy.
Debi Talbert
I am
Posted by: Debi on: January 1, 2009
I am at your command.
I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest asset or heaviest burden.
I will push you up to success or down to disappointment.
Half the things you do might just as well be turned over to me, For I can do them quickly, correctly, and profitably.
I am easily managed, just be firm with me. Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures. I am not a machine, though I work with the precision of a machine and the intelligence of a person.
You can run me for profit, or you can run me for ruin.
Show me how you want it done. Educate me. Train me.
Lead me. Reward me. And I will then…do it automatically.
I am your servant. Who am I?
I am a habit.
I am do not know the author of the above but if you do please let me know.
Debi Talbert – My MLM Tips Pros
What’s in your Contract?
Posted by: Debi on: December 22, 2008
Most people who join a network marketing company don’t take the time to read their policies and procedures. My MLM Tips for you is to read your policies and procedures with your full attention. Both are part of your Legal Contract.
• Look for the word “Ongoing”.
• Look for policies that strike you as “Unreasonable”. Like “Termination, with or without cause”.
• Ask yourself “Does this contract protect me or the company?” “Is it clear which way it leans?”
• Does the company charge you for training or a company web site?
• Does the company charge you for each paycheck they send you?
Rules of Thumb:
- The longer the contract, the greater the possibility that the policies important to you are being hidden in “Legalese”!
- If it’s a “Cash Only” business…It’s a Scam.
- If you can buy a position at the top…It’s a Scam.
- If you are offered a “Special Deal”…the playing field isn’t level for all.
- If the products are sold on eBay at a greatly reduced price…Buy there instead.
- If a company is publicly traded, financial decisions will be made in favor of the stockholders at the expense of the distributors.
Check these two websites: www.MLMwatchdog.com and www.MarketWaveInc.com.
People who have struggled and not yet been successful these ideas very useful. One of the best solutions to network marketing frustration is the ebook “Success In 10 Steps” by Michael Dlouhy. The author covers some of the biggest problems people have in trying to start their own successful business, and how to solve those problems. Back in the early 1990s, Dlouhy joined over 100 MLMs and studied & cataloged all their rep packs and recruiting tactics and compensation plans and training, along with his own results. He also talked to reps of many companies. This ebook gives you details on all the accepted network marketing knowledge that is completely unworkable. And you’ll also learn what does work. It’s a pretty good read for anybody in the business.
Debi Talbert – My MLM Tips Pro
No More MLM Madness
Posted by: Debi on: December 19, 2008
You know, sometimes we’re so busy doing something; we forget to ask why we are doing it. For example, a couple of year ago, every time I was getting ready to call leads. When I looked at the list and start to pick up the phone, I asked myself:
* Do I really want to be calling people who do not really want to hear from me?
* Do I really want to keep spending money I do not have on a list of people that do now want to hear from me?
* Do I really want to be spending all these nights away from my family?
* What happen to the free time?
* Where is the money?
Then I asked myself:
* Do I have the right attitude?
* Do I believe in the company?
* Do I have a dream?
* Do I have a strong desire?
* Did I make my list of 100 friends?
My answer to all of these questions was YES!!!
However what I was doing was not creating the income or the time freedom I wanted from my network marketing business.
Every day when I would head to the phone, look at the list of people to call or drive to a meeting, I would ask myself those same questions. Finally I decided to do something about it.
I learned that the hard-driving, closing salesperson is about 8% of the population and those 8% have convinced the other 92% that the 8% are right and the 92% are wrong. How did they do that? Because that is what they DO. It works for them, so they have total confidence you that they are right, and when you feel their confidence, you KNOW they must be right, so you do what they tell you.
Ninety-two percent of the world’s population is sales-resistant, me included. They do not like to be sold, and they do not want to become that pushy, aggressive salesperson that nobody likes. Yet when they join MLM, some upline leader tells them, “Make a list of your friends and family. Call them up. Get ‘em into the business. You need to hear 100 ‘No’s for every ‘Yes’.
Guess what? It still only works for the 8%. If you let them mesmerize you, you can wander aimlessly in the “failure” desert for years … maybe forever.
Every person on the planet has to be educated in the skills of what they’re doing. Whether you’re a doctor, carpenter, plumber, ditchdigger … whatever you are … you’ve got to be taught the skills of that business.
That is when I found the e-book Success in 10 Steps. With this book, not only did I find out why I was not having success.
I got:
* access to a team of people that wanted to me
* access to 10 free training call every week
* access to a website where I can find recordings of the trainings call in case I could not be on them live
* my belief in myself back
* people calling me
* a system to help for my team
* an extended family
and much, much more.
Debi Talbert – My MLM Tips Pro
Are you paddling upstream?
Posted by: Debi on: December 18, 2008
Imagine you are on a white water rafting trip. You put your boat into the river and you point it upstream. You immediately start paddling upstream as fast as you can…….
How far do you think you are going to get?
The concept of a System applies to your networking business in the same way as pointing your boat in the right direction. Without a system you have no chance of survival.
Just follow these tips for finding a training system that can be duplicated in network marketing.
- teach specific “how-to” skills
- built on integrity and personal service
- a program where the new or the unsuccessful network marketer can be coached by a team of volunteer professionals on the special skills every network marketer needs for Success
- system needs to be considered on-the-job training
- as you are learning skills you are building a business as well
With the right system you can pick up your ors, let your boat flow with the steam. 
By Debi Talbert
Where did all the money go?
Posted by: Debi on: December 17, 2008
An important consideration when researching a network marketing company is the compensation plan. It is critical that you are paid a high enough percentage to cover your marketing and advertising expenses. If you make sure that you are paid a high enough percentage to cover your marketing and advertising expenses as the independent contractor you will be able to generate a true profit. Remember, your percentage of payment in your plan is actually your income before you take out for marketing and advertising. Take for example a 7% compensation plan, if that is your top line revenue and then you have to subtract marketing and advertising expenses, you are never going to generate a true profit. You may generate income, but are you generating a profit?
People who have struggled and not yet been successful these ideas very useful. One of the best solutions to network marketing frustration is the e-book “Success In 10 Steps” by Michael Dlouhy. The author covers some of the biggest problems people have in trying to start their own successful business, and how to solve those problems. Back in the early 1990s, Dlouhy joined over 100 MLMs and studied & cataloged all their rep packs and recruiting tactics and compensation plans and training, along with his own results. He also talked to reps of many companies. This e-book gives you details on all the accepted network marketing knowledge that is completely unworkable. And you’ll also learn what does work. It’s a pretty good read for anybody in the business.
By Debi Talbert
