A Steady Stream of Fresh Leads
Guarantees Your Success in
Multi-Level
Marketing
The single most common reason
people are not successful in multi-level marketing, or MLM, is that once they
exhaust their supply of friends, relatives, and business associates, they no
longer know where to turn for new leads.
To make things worse, most MLM
companies rarely offer reliable ways to help you to find new leads once you
have made your presentation to all the people you know. The key to your success
in any MLM company is to be able to find new leads on a regular basis without
having to spend a fortune to do it.
For the people that know how to
constantly get new leads and know how to make their presentations well, success
is only a short time away. For the rest, the sad truth is that they will be out
of their MLM opportunity before they even get their first check!
There are really only two kinds
of leads: qualified, and unqualified. You never want to spend your time and
money following up on an unqualified lead. Instead, your goal is to find ways
to generate, not only a lead, but a qualified lead. In other words, you want to
work with only those people who have taken some form of direct action to prove
to you that they are indeed interested in what it is you have to offer.
You can fill up a room with
people who are simply "looking to earn more money" and talk to them
all day long about your MLM opportunity but if they have no sincere interest in
your products, their chances of success are nil. Remember, your goal is to get
people to work for you who are both passionate about your products and your
business opportunity.
But the question is how do you
really find these people? First, find out everything you can about your ideal
prospect. What publications would your prospect be reading? Would they
subscribe to certain publications over others?
Would they be of a certain age
group or ethnic origin? Would they be married or single? Would they be fit,
average, or even over-weight? The more you know about the ideal candidate for
your opportunity, the easier it becomes for you to figure out how to reach
them.
Your next step is to buy every
single publication you think your ideal prospect may be reading and read them
all cover to cover. What you are looking to discover by reading them is whether
or not your opportunity would be of interest to the people who are reading a
particular magazine or other publication.
Once you've decided on the best
publications, narrow it down to the best of the best. You really only want to
advertise in a single publication at this point.
Write your ad beginning with a
powerful headline. Focus on the main benefit your prospect will gain by picking
up the telephone to call you now. If you can offer something for free, do it!
Do whatever your MLM company allows you to do in order to get a person to pick
up the telephone and call you.
Remember that the goal of your
ads is not to sell anything, but only to get a qualified lead. Don't reveal too much about your opportunity.
You're just trying to find a few people who are interested in your products and
your opportunity. Use a headline that is focused, and most of all, powerful.
This qualification process makes
all the difference in the world to your chances of success in MLM. Your time is
your most valuable commodity and you need to be making the most of your time by
only working with those people who have a sincere interest in what you are
doing.
The idea is that you will get far
better results if you work with fewer qualified leads than if you work with a
greater number of unqualified leads.
The more qualified a prospect is,
the less work it will be for you to get them on board. And, more importantly,
the higher your chances become that they will be big producers for you. After
all, it's not how big your down-line is, but how productive they are that
determines your income and success.