Is MLM or Network Marketing Just a “Recruiting Business”?

Ok, sabihin nating hindi mo linya ang magrecruit. Pero bigyan kita ng isang example na pwede mong imarket ang products, business, service mo sa mga friends mo o mga kakilala mo..

EXAMPLE #1:
Raffy Calicdan

Nanood ka ng sine, sobrang ganda nung palabas! As in maganda talaga. Sa umpisa hanggang huli talagang napanganga ka. Ikkwento mo ba sya sa mga friends mo?

EXAMPLE #2:
Facial Wash

May nabili ka at nagamit kang sobrang gandang facial wash, nawala ang mga pimples mo. Sasabihin mo ba sa mga friends mo kung saan mo binili at kung ano effect sayo?

EXAMPLE #3:
Restaurant
Kumain ka sa isang hindi kilalang restaurant. Sakto lang yung presyo pero sobrang sarap ng pagkain! Ikkwento mo ba sa mga kakilala mo?

Siguro sa ngayon nagets mo na yung point ko. Network Marketing is not all about “recruiting people to join the business.” It’s about SHARING THE BENEFIT of your product, service or business that will help them solve their problems. Example, if you are in the health and wellness industry, share to them how the products can help them with their health, if it’s service, tell them how they can save money by using your service, etc..
Kaya pag sinabing “networking” ang inooffer sayo, wag mong hindian agad. Dahil baka magbenefit ka or yung family mo sa product. Pwede naman kasing maging USER ka lang e, sino ba pumipilit sayong magrecruit? Check mo muna yung products at kung magbebenefit ka ba dun, then look deeper into the business if you are already a believer of the product, and start earning from sharing. As in MALAKI ang potential income. Kaya wag mong maliitin ang Network Marketing. Ganun lang sya actually kasimple, marami lang talagang gahaman at mapagsamantala.
If you are a networker reading this post, I hope you have learned something from this. If you are not yet a networker and trying to look for the right opportunity for you, tumingin ka muna sa product or service na makukuha mo. Dun palang, worth it na yung pera mo.
Know more about this industry and start changing your life! Magdecide ka lang at magtake ng action.

5 Reasons WHY You Should NOT Start a Facebook Page for Your MLM Company

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Should You Start a Facebook Page for your MLM Business?

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Many people will join a new opportunity and get extremely pumped about the product, the compensation plan, bonuses and etc.

They blast out links constantly on their profile until they annoy everyone and then someone tells them they should start a Facebook business page to showcase their products and reach more people.
Fair enough — better to do business on a page anyway right?
So you start your page and ask all of your friends to LIKE it — whom you may have already annoyed posting about the product on your profile — and you start posting about the product, how great it is and etc.

No big deal right? I’d say WRONG! Here’s why…

5 Reasons You Should NOT Start a Facebook Page for Your MLM Business


1) You’ll Leave the Business

shiny-objectNo matter how much you love the product you are pushing the likelihood of you still selling that product 3, 6, 9, 12 months from now is pretty limited.

Most people in MLM companies fizzle out in 2-3 months.
They get bored or discouraged and move on to other things.
If you have created a page around a particular product and get out of that business your page is basically dead now and any work you’ve done on it is pointless.

2) Parent Company Goes Out of Business

What if you built a page around say the product Scentsy (as shown below) and at some point that company goes out of business?
scentsy facebook page
Now you’re left with a Scentsy related page with a few hundred followers that you can’t use.They won’t be interested in hearing about another product you are peddling.And typically Facebook won’t let you change the name after getting a certain amount of fans.
So now the page you’ve worked so hard on to get more Facebook Likes is useless.

3) MLM Company Does Not Allow You to Run a Facebook Page

not-approvedMany MLM companies do not technically allow you to create websites or Facebook pages using the company name.
You could find yourself getting removed as a distributor or worse yet get a cease and desist letter in the mail!
You should dive into your distributor agreement to see if you can even use the company’s name or logo online.
You’ll be shocked to see that most say you cannot do this.
Scentsy technically owns this page now and could probably make a submission to Facebook about a duplicate page and take it over.
If you dive into Facebook’s terms of service you’ll find that if you aren’t an official representative of a company you can’t run a page in the name of the company:
A Page for a brand, entity (place or organization), or public figure may be administered only by an authorized representative of that brand, entity (place or organization) or public figure (an “official Page”).
Unless you are Scentsy you shouldn’t have a page named Scentsy — or any other MLM product.

4) Causes Confusion

mass confusionI bet within 30 seconds I could name at least 30 of my personal friends and family that are selling some other MLM product.
Imagine if they — along with the millions of others selling products — all had a Facebook page about their MLM business!
There would be brand confusion.
Who is officially a rep from Scentsy? Can’t I just buy from any of them since it’s all the same product?
Too many pages about a product diminishes the product to me and causes confusion among consumers.

5) You’re Branding the Company Not YOU!

branding on facebookThis reason is the biggest reason to not start a Facebook page for your MLM business in my opinion.
Cortney Scott submitted her Scentsy page for me to review on a recent post on thePost Planner page and while I think the cover photo looks great I think Cortney is wasting her time with this page.
Minus her name being on the name of the page do you see Cortney branding herself in anyway in the Cover Photo or Profile Picture?
Nope..
She’s branding the Scentsy company.
Great for Scentsy, bad for Cortney.
If another Scentsy rep pops up on Facebook those that have Liked Cortney’s page are likely to go and give that page a LIKE as well.
Now who do they buy from???
And again what happens when Cortney leaves Scentsy or they go out of business?

2 WAYS HOW TO MOTIVATE YOUR DOWNLINES

2 Ways To Motivate Your Downlines

Paano ba i-mo-motivate ang ating mga downlines? There are 2 ways.
First, ikwento mo sa kanila ang analogy na ‘to:
“Alam mo partner, maraming sumasali sa ganitong klaseng negosyo na ang akala pagkasali nila ay kikita kaagad sila ng malaki o magiging milyonaryo na sila kahit wala silang ginagawa.
Dun sila nagkamali. It takes time, effort and consistency to become successful in network marketing.
Akala kasi ng marami ay parang Monggo ang business nila, na kapag itinanim nila kinabukasan o sa makalawa ay tutubo na at pwede na kagad kainin.
Mali yun!
Itong business natin ay parang puno ng Mangga!
Bakit?
Kasi magsisimula ang lahat sa itatanim mong buto. Tapos kaylangan araw-araw mong didiligan yung tinanim mong buto. Paaarawan mo din at kung minsan ay kakausapin mo pa. Medyo maghihintay ka ng matagal.
Minsan babagyuhin pa yung tinanim mo, pero kaylangang wag mong hahayaang tumumba yun. Kaylangan mo yung protektahan.
Pero eto yung maganda, Kapag tumubo na at kapag namunga na yung tinanim mong mangga, ang gagawin mo na lang ay mamitas ng bunga at kumain hanggang sa gusto mo.
At ang pinaka malupit, kahit busog ka na sa kakakain, mamumunga parin ng mamumunga yung puno mo.
Ganun din dito sa business natin partner.
Kung iilan-ilan pa lang ang downlines mo, Kung di mo pa nakikita yung results na gusto mo, Ibig sabihin kakatanim mo pa lang ng buto. At kaylangan mo din na araw-araw gumawa ng effort para diligan yung tinanim mo, para tuloy tuloy ang paglaki ng negosyo mo.
Minsan babagyuhin din yung negosyo mo dahil may mga challenges na dadating sa’yo pero dapat ‘di ka hihinto at hindi ka susuko. Dahil pag ginawa mo yun tutumba talaga yung tinanim mo at hindi na yun magiging isang malaking puno.
Pero pag dumating yung panahon na lumago na at namunga na ang negosyo mo, alam mo na siguro yung mangyayari. Maghanda ka na ng madaming bagoong kasi mabubusog ka sa kakakain ng mangga.
2nd way to motivate your downlines, turuan mo sila ng mga gagawin nila kung paano sila magkakaron ng resulta. Hindi kaylangang biglaang resulta, kahit paunti unti lang na resulta. Ang importante ay may makikita silang PROGRESS sa business na pinasukan nila. Kasi kapag wala silang nakikitang progress sa business nila, mataas talaga yung chance na huminto sila at mag-quit.

10 Things You Must Give Up To Move Forward


MENTALITY: Rich People VS Average People


THE rich think differently to the rest of us.

You need look no further than mining magnate Gina Rinehart with her “get out of the pub” comments or billionaire Clive Palmer’s plans to build Titanic II to see that.

The author of How Rich People Think, Steve Siebold, recently told the Business Insider the differences between how rich and average people think are numerous and extreme.

Here are 15 of his top insights:

1. Rich people think selfishness is a virtue
Average people feel they need to save the world and put others before themselves which is keeping them poor. Rich people take the attitude that if they don’t help themselves first they can’t help anyone else.

2. Rich people have an action mentality
You wouldn’t see a rich person lining up to play the lottery (even before they were rich). Average people are always waiting on someone else to help them get rich – the Lotto, Government, friend or spouse – but it only keeps them poor. Rich people take action and spend time solving problems.

3. Rich people favour specific knowledge over formal education
Average people believe the road to riches is through doing masters and doctorates. Rich people are generally rich because they have made money selling a specific knowledge they have acquired.

4. Rich people dream of the future
Rich people spend a lot of time looking into the future, setting goals and looking forward to what lies ahead. Average people dwell on the past which often holds them back by making them unhappy or depressed.

5. Rich people think about money logically
Average and well-educated people can fall into the trap of thinking about money emotionally and just wanting to retire comfortably. Rich people maintain a logical relationship with money viewing it as a tool that represents options and opportunities.

6. Rich people follow their passion
Oprah Winfrey said it – you’ve got to follow your passion and do what you love. Rich people find a way of getting paid for doing something they love. Average people earn money doing things they don’t love.

7. Rich people aim high
Average people set low expectations to avoid disappointment whereas rich people set huge expectations and follow their dreams.

8. Rich people believe you have to “be” someone
Average people on the other hand believe you have to “do” something to be rich and focus on immediate results. Rich people continuously focus on bettering themselves and learn from success and failures.

9. Rich people use other people’s money
Average people believe they need their own money to make money whereas rich people have no problem using other people’s.

10. Rich people live below their means
It seems contradictory to the above statement but rich people adopt the attitude of getting rich so you can afford to live below your means. Average people live beyond their means.

11. Rich people teach their children how to be rich
Average people teach their children how to survive whereas rich people teach their children from an early age about the world of haves and have nots.

12. Rich people don’t let money stress them out
Average people do. Rich people find peace of mind in wealth and are not afraid to admit that money can solve most problems – allowing them to make more money. Average people see money as a continuous battle and necessary evil they have to endure.

13. Rich people would rather be educated than entertained
Average people are the opposite. They read novels, tabloids and entertainment rather than continuously educating themselves after school.

14. Rich people surround themselves with like-minded people
Average people think rich people are snobs and have a negative attitude towards the super rich. Rich people steer clear of the doom and gloom attitudes and people – adding fuel to the fire of the “snob” label.

15. Rich people focus on earning
Average people focus on saving and miss big opportunities by trying to live frugally. Rich people constantly focus on the big picture – and how to earn the big bucks.

50 Tips to be a successful Network Marketing

Network Marketing is a nice way to earn. Opportunities abound here and there and if you work hard enough, you can be richly rewarded. However, in order to learn how to be a winning network marketer, you should work as smart as you work hard. 
 
Here are 50 Tips to be Successful in Network Marketing.

1. Use your products regularly.
2. Make a total commitment to your program for at least one year.
3. Sell yourself first, then the products and the marketing plan.
4. Spend 90% of your business time with distributors, customers and prospects.
5. Present your products and marketing plan personally to at least one person daily.
6. Let everyone know what business you are in. Advertise.
7. Make “understanding people” more important that product knowledge.
8. Duplicate yourself by making distributors independent of you.
9. Motivate your group monthly by offering money, travel, recognition and other rewards for specific achievements.
10. Praise your distributor’s accomplishments.
11. Mingle with top distributors and ask how they made it.
12. Be persistent – only one out of every 20 people you approach may get serious about the business or be interested in your products.
13. Lead by example. Never stop recruiting, training and retailing.
14. Keep it simple: do things others can easily duplicate and copy.
15. Keep in touch – communicate by newsletter, meetings, weekly calls, postcards, voice mail – pass on pertinent information immediately.
16. Conduct simple, brief, dramatic presentations.
17. Listen 80% of the time, talk 20%.
18. Satisfy all complaints immediately.
19. Concentrate on what you can do for your distributors and customers, not on your own profits.
20. Ask for referrals from your best customers.
21. Give customers more than they expect. Everyone loves a free gift.
22. Develop at least 30 retail and/or wholesale customers.
23. Provide one-day delivery service.
24. Believe in your products so much that you know every person you talk to is going to buy from you.
25. Tell your customers how much you appreciate their business.
26. Don’t accept “no” as a final answer – approach each prospect at least 12 times a year with new information.
27. Send customers monthly promotional information. Don’t your forget your customers and don’t let your customers forget you!
28. Speak enthusiastically about your business and products.
29. Work on top priority projects that produce the highest returns.
30. Build your list of contacts daily while you build your reputation.
31. Approach former top producers. They are always open.
32. Fit the needs of a prospect with the benefits of your products and/or business opportunity.
33. Organize your files so you can locate any piece of information in 30 seconds.
34. Use an answering machine or service, and return all calls within
24 hours. Use a cellular phone for best service.
35. Set daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals – and do whatever is necessary to achieve them.
36. Do not pass negative rumors downline! Check the facts yourself.
37. Listen to cassette rapes on multi-level tips from top earners.
38. Subscribe to multi-level magazines. Read self-help books.
39. Expand your distributorship world-wide. Think big!
40. Tell others what they are interested in knowing, not what you think they should hear.
41. Spend money on things that will make you more money.
42. Schedule important tasks at the time of day when you are your best.
43. Delegate – do those things only you can do.
44. Read biographies of successful people to be inspired by their lives.
45. Present business opportunities and training regularly.
46. Plow your profits back into building your business.
47. Know that if others can do it, so can you. Challenge yourself.
48. Give yourself a reward for reaching your goal and a penalty for falling short.
49. Have so much fun in your business that others want to join you.
50. Do it now!

10 MLM Success Tips

1. Be Ethical: The world of direct selling and multi-level marketing is littered with unscrupulous people and selling tactics. Despite what pressures may be upon you driving you towards MLM success, be careful to run your business above bar in all respects.

2. Sponsor, Don’t Recruit: Many MLMs incentivize representatives to recruit other sales representatives. Obviously, it will improve your profitability and recruitment numbers if your new recruits stick around for awhile. By setting aside time and resources to properly train your recruits on business practices and products, your retention rates will be better.

3. Find a Company With A Product You Love: You can’t sell something or share your business if you don’t genuinely have pride in what you are representing. Do your MLM research and determine to partner with a company you can take pride in. Don’t forget to look into the company’s compensation plan before you join and make sure it is favorable to you.

4. Make an Effort to Share Your Product Everyday: Do something for your business everyday. Whether that is sharing a product sample, inviting a neighbor to host a product party or starting a website or social media account.

5. Book At Least Three Parties: For an MLM with a product-party focus, make sure and walk away from each event with at least three more parties on the schedule. Doing so will ensure you grow your business rather than just sustain it.

6. Educate Yourself on Different Ways to Market: If you excel at direct selling, but aren’t very computer savvy, take some time to learn how a website, email and social media can excel your business and product sales. If talking to customers is where you fall apart, brush up on your communication strategies.

7. Don’t Barrage Your Friends and Family: You are going to be excited about your new business, and MLMs do a great job trying to generate an immediate frenzy with new recruits. My advice is to take a deep breath before you blast into your personal relationships. It is important to draw customers from your inner circle, but there is a fine line between inundating and informing.

8. Be Genuine: & Listen: Listening goes hand in hand with being genuine. If you are having a “conversation” with someone but thinking only about the next thing you plan to say or share, you aren’t listening and you are going to miss something important. Telling isn’t selling. Understanding and meeting your customer’s needs will sell product.

9. Creatively Share Your Business: It is truly possible to share your business with everyone without sounding like a ranting lunatic. By being creative in how you introduce your business or use products publicly, you can draw in interested individuals naturally.

10. Brush Up on the Realities of Most MLMs: Success and income generation aren’t as fruitful as most MLM companies would have you believe. Statistics show that less than one out of 100 MLM representatives actually see MLM success or make any money. Additionally, MLM scams and unsavory business practices are prevalent in the world of MLM. Watch out for warning signs of MLM scams.