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    Hi my name is sandy Metcalf and I started this blog to help other people succeed in online business and Internet marketing.

    I want to help dispel the myth that Network Marketing is a scam or that it is a get rich quick scheme or that you can get rich quick period!

    I want to help lay the foundation to building your company that will better serve your customers and teach you the tools that help you develop the staying power that will grow you a truly successful business.

    Please enjoy and check back often as I will post every Monday, my thoughts, my ideas and what I see working and not as well as am open to suggestions on what you would like to know more about or direction you would like to go in on a certain subject.

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300 a month can change your life!

By Sandy Metcalf | Published: May 14, 2012

 300 a month can change your life!  

 

 

 

 

I sat down on Saturday to write my blog for today and it was just so nice out I decided to instead to go outside and just make a short video….

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A short synopsis of what you just watched:

  •  Remember realistic expectations
  • Set monetary goals for your team that are attainable not outrageous figures from fairytale land..

Just like FedEx’s add says if you take away the faces on the trees, take away the pixie dust, take away the singing animals and the storybook narrator … “Which still makes for a pretty enchanted tale. Same holds true for Network Marketing. We do not need any false rainbows, pink unicorns or overblown expectations- we need the facts we need honesty to ourselves and to our teammates and potential partners and in Network Marking as a whole!

We need to both TAKE ACTION and PUT IN THE WORK! And you will see results! Those results will start out slow and grow but only by your ACTIONS alone, your team your down line if they add to your monthly income GREAT! But the 3 by 3 by 3 rule is no guarantee, as you only can control what you do, not what anyone else does. So setting your own goal of 300 a month is doable and can change your life.

  • Realistic goals make WINNERS not failures!
  • How can making 300 a month can change your life?I will go more into this next Monday

But if are looking for ways to implement these goals into your own team and reach the 300 a month figure- we are talking about it now in Call To Action. So come join our newsletter family. My new book The Principles of Natural Relationship Marketing, where the 300 Solution is just one of the tools I speak about, is being pre-released to my subscribers only at this time

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Top 5 Network Marketing Companies, is yours gonna be one of them? ViSalus

By Sandy Metcalf | Published: May 7, 2012

Top 5 Network Marketing Companies, is yours gonna be one of them? ViSalus 

Comparing 5 top home businesses

 

Continuing with our 5 part series of The top 5 Network Marketing Companies. and in comparing 5 top home businesses. I started with # 1 being Avon , then #2 being Amway , followed by # 3 Mary Kay,  Niken  at #4. And now ending where I hoped to start as I was sure we were # ONE!!!!

I am REALLY basis’ here as this is this is our company – so of course I would pick it as #1 if I could, but then the numbers are not mine to chose. So we end in 5th of  5, ViSalus

Though Visalus is the new kid on the block it still blows all the others math wise for time in the game alone, outta the water! As we are growing faster then the top 4, now and where they were when they were this new. The 90 Day Challenge.

The Challenge is changing how people get back into shape so much so, that long standing nutritional and weight loss companies are adding shakes to their meals. And some companies their own shake challenges. But what they do not have is our taste or research. We are also changing how everyone Markets. And Visalus is influencing other Network Marketing companies who are copying with their own version of the 90 Day concept on a wide variety of products and services- pretty impressive to be so new yet, a trial blazer at the same time :) . ViSalus will continue to rise and to help people get healthy while growing business for those that come aboard. As it uses the best of old school with the tools of new to really create an awesome company for our customers and Vi family. Pardon the brag. I just love this company and its philanthropic mission.

5. ViSalus Sciences

Markets:  Vitamins, Nutritional & Health Products
The 90 Day Challenge

Sales: $100 million in 2011 alone with 30% growth very month.

Distributors: 80,000 added alone in just Sept 2011 with 30% growth very month.

Multi-level

Co-Founded in 2005 by Ryan Blair: Having overcome poverty and trying circumstances as a youth, Blair earned his first million by the age of 20, and by the age of 26 had sold a company for $25 million. He next brought his vision and leadership to ViSalus, guiding the company to its 2008 union with global direct selling leader Blyth Inc.

Blake Mallen: Aside from being a co-founder of Visalus, his role in the company is that of Chief Marketing Officer. He is responsible for developing new tools and techniques for sales and distribution for the company sales reps.

Nick Sarnicola, who recently stepped down, served as the company’s Chief Sales Officer until January 2010. When ViSalus launched the Body by Vi Challenge, the opportunity to Promote the Challenge was too good for Sarnicola to pass up. Seeing the opportunity to prove the potential of what he saw as the perfect network marketing opportunity, Nick resigned as Chief Sales Officer and enrolled as a Body by Vi Challenge Promoter, moving up the ranks like anybody else new to the Challenge. He resigned this month to become a ViSalus Distributor.

 Visalus Sciences, LLC provides health and wellness products. It offers weight management, nutrition, and performance products, as well as retail packages. The company markets its products through distributors. Visalus Sciences, LLC was formerly known as The Free Network LLC and changed its name to Visalus Sciences, LLC in April 2004. The company was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Troy, Michigan. Visalus Sciences, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Blyth, Inc.

Vinet was added in 2008- my  ViSalus page

That concludes the 5 favorite Network Marketing companies in my research study. I think like in all home business choices, we should do our homework and know the company and when you decide and why then take ACTION! As we will get what we put into it, and the best lesson we can take from long standing and the new kids popping up, some that will be tomorrow’s superstars and others that will quickly fizzle and die. Is that Network Marketing works for those of us that know what it is, and how to use the tools to make it work and are willing to invest in the dream of why you chose this type of business in the first place.

It comes down to if you provide a good product or service, are open and honest, if you stand behind your guarantees and deliver quality that benefits lives and brings value to people, if you have been implementing what you read here, as well what you are gathering in your research and reading about how to make you a better business owner. Though there are different pay structures, different business models and ways in which companies fills down lines builds teams, promote etc. IF you see a personal fit. and put in the work needed- there is NO reason you cannot make a success out of a company you believe in and are willing to do what is needed to reach your goals

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Top 5 Network Marketing Companies, is yours gonna be one of them? Nikken

By Sandy Metcalf | Published: April 30, 2012

      Top 5 Network Marketing Companies, is yours gonna be one of them? Nikken     

 

 

Continuing with our 5 part series of The top 5 Network Marketing Companies. I started with # 1 being Avon , then #2 being Amway , followed by # 3 Mary Kay . This next one I am a bit bias here as this is Jack’s company

So I know it well and love how it helps people.  Myself, the first time I tried the magnetic insoles my long time knee pain vanished. I added one of the magnetic necklaces and bracelet’s and aches and pains also magically disappeared for me. And my son who has suffered from chronic back pain and neck damage since a car accident 8 years ago, that the medical professionals wanted him to control with habitual pain meds, not something a young man in his 20’s wants to live with, tried the Insoles and necklace, and he was amazed with the relief he received, so much so that the results have allowed him to stop all pain medication.

We have an entire wellness home here and use the sleep system every night so from the products to the supplements to the environment- yes’ I AM bias! But I am not alone in my love for the company’s products.

The business model is good and we know many people who have skyrocketed with this company So no surprise though only being around for 37 years and in the US since 1989 (still not widely known here) Is Nikken coming in at # 4.

Top 5 Network Marketing Companies

Nikken

Sales: $200 million plus

Products: Magnetics, Far Infrared, Sleep Systems, Water, Air, Organic, Whole-Food Nutrition, Organic Skin Care, Body Balance, Energy

Distributors: 247,000 and growing

Founder Isamu Masuda started Nikken in 1975. Because in 1972, Isamu Masuda was concerned about the health of his family when his son was born without ears. Working as a clerk in the public transportation industry, he had to stretch a meager income, so could not afford corrective surgery. All this prompted him to look for a solution. He found it in a public bathhouse that had pebbles on the floor to create a natural massage effect on the feet. An idea was born.

In cooperation with Japanese scientists who had been studying magnetism, Mr. Masuda developed the prototype for a shoe insert, incorporating the pebble effect with magnets. For both his own use and as an idea that could offer better health and circulation.

As a pioneer in the evolution of this new system and with one unique product, NIKKEN came into being in Fukuoka Japan- to fill two needs. One to pay for Isamu Masuda son’s surgery and also benefit humanity by helping relax and energize millions of people who suffered from one of mankind’s most common complaints: sore feet, and the fatigue that this extends to the entire body.

Magsteps® are an example of a pioneering idea- wellness solutions based on the natural world. But the company and its founder were motivated by more than health products or profits. But with a sense of caring, and helping others, that is still central to the corporate vision.

Multi-level

But the main drawback to Nikken besides it being out of many people’s price range is that we know and hear that it is hard to find that Nikken niche as the need of the products is not always that noticeable and there are too may unnecessary levels for those that are distributors, they would do better with a less complicated format.

Nikken also took a long time to use the online social media sites, though that is changing, and still discourages changing the long held practices of how they Market. I think if Nikken Corporate would come into the 21 century a little quicker they would find those tools available and in allowing more flexibility for their consultants, they would rank higher in the over all success and favorability ratings.

Because when you see the results of using their products on pain and health, though they cannot tout such claims- your own eyes and experiences create a powerful story that needs to be shared and could serve those looking for answers as well as extra dollars, with a company that brings a hug and a family like feeling to the party.

Nikken is more toned down than our Company ViSalus (Nikken will never do a Flash Mob) but it has a quiet elegance of grace and caring that is warm and welcome and though I have heard stories of law suites by some that could not make it work, or the prices are too high that Nikken sets. Nikken’s longevity and visible evidence of how it’s products improve lives outweighs the naysayers and those that blame the company for them failing to succeed so they place fault on other than themselves, instead it is the company, the business model, etc.

And we all know in Network Marketing, if you want it enough if your’ WHY is strong enough it does not matter the company, you will make it work. And when talking about the top 5, out of all the thousands out there- if you are not making it work then llok in the mirror as it is for one (or maybe both) of two reasons.

One: You are NOT taking ACTION

Two: You are in the wrong company

If it is the former you may not be taking action because you have no plan no idea, that is what this blog is for as well as so many research tools online read them, use what works.

Or you may not take action because you are in the wrong company, in that case you may wish to do some soul searching about what it is that you are looking for.

If it is the latter see above-

Even the greatest Company can be the wrong one for you.

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Top 5 Network Marketing Companies, is yours gonna be one of them? Mary Kay

By Sandy Metcalf | Published: April 23, 2012

 

Top 5 Network Marketing Companies, is yours gonna be one of them? Mary Kay   

After having someone write me about our company ViSalus that even though it is a young company, we are moving fast, so could I rank it for them. I went and looked for the top 5 top Network Marketing Companies and after my research and taking to a lot of people in different companies, I found who the top 5 were, and why they are. And I am have been posting them over the past three weeks. I started with # 1 Avon then #2 Amway

And # 3 is Mary Kay

All of us have seen the pink Cadillacs driving around town and the bumper sticker that reminds us of the ancient fraternal order of the Masons bumper sticker that was designed to pique curiosity- which is, “To Be One, Ask One”. Well it is the same with Mary Kay, you see on all Mary Kay cars “Ask  ME about Mary Kay”? And women did in droves.

Mary Kay

Sales:  $2.5 billion

Markets: Skin care products and color cosmetics

Consultants: 2 million plus Mary Kay claims to add 40,000 new each month

Marketing Style: party plan face to face internet

Com plan: Retail sales/internet face to face and recruiting

Founded by: Mary Kay Ash of Texas in 1963 Mary Kay after 25 years in the direct selling business, Mary Kay resigned her position as a national training director when yet another man she had trained was promoted above her – at twice her salary. Her response was visionary. At first, she started writing a book that would help women gain the opportunities she had been denied. But soon she realized she was creating a plan that would do much more than give advice. It formed the foundation for a new opportunity where women could develop their talents and achieve unlimited success.

Celebrating more than 40 years in business, Mary Kay is one of the top direct sellers of beauty products in the US and still privately held.

I like how this blogger site Pink Truth lays out Mary Kay in easy to understand steps and in Mary Kay people’s own words.

And for finding the unusual and facts and info I could not find located anywhere else Mary Kay Fact Check  and The Truth about Mary Kay

Mary like all Network Marketing companies is a great success for some and a dismal failure for others. But she is an enduring ol gal and was a way out of the 9-5 man’s world for many women in the 60’s up, and has continued to grow.

But if you are not happy with the growth of your Network Marketing Company looking for ideas better ways to improve your company, traffic and how you can serve your clientele, or just because you want to keep on top of what is working, sign up for our free Newsletter Call To Action and get your free Marketing Report- Do it now

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Top 5 Network Marketing Companies, is yours gonna be one of them? Amway

By Sandy Metcalf | Published: April 16, 2012

After being asked where ViSalus ranked in the top Network Marketing Companies I went out and found who the top 5 were, and why they are.

And I am going to blog about them over the next few week’s So the top 5 network marketing companies

I started with Avon being # 1

But #2 is Amway which I just saw an Amway commercial on TV the other day,  Amway on TV imagine that!

My dad tried this company in the 70’s and was told it was a cult by so many people, when he got involved. Amway encouraged stockpiling products and listening to car tapes every time you drove anywhere. And required a mass amount of just Amway members together, no one else allowed time until my mom said ENOUGH! And she made him quit, but they kept calling kept stopping by trying to get him back in the fold. They did not know my mom and how tough she was, and she stood her ground and he was out! So I was surprised to find

# 2. is Amway, Amway people are loyal, and my dad was as well, but it was disastrous for him. However the feedback I got when I was conducting my surveys was if you love it, you love it! And if you don’t…. we11. And I discovered many people have been quite successful. I believe old school companies that started with catalogs and door to door face to face have benefited greatly with the use of the internet. Amway is no exception.

Amway

Sales:  $8.4 billion

Markets: personal beauty products personal care and home care products

Distributors:  3 million +

Marketing Style: Direct MLM, internet

Comp plan:  Multi-level

Founded In 1959 as The American Way Association, in West Michigan by Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel. The first product was a concentrated organic cleaner called Frisk. The direct selling company now operates in more than 80 countries and territories around the world, and enables more than 3 million people to own independent businesses. In 2000, Amway became a subsidiary of Alticor with sister companies Quixtar, Inc. and Access Business Group LLC in 2007.

Though Amway has had it’s share of controversy:

From Wikipedia Amway has several times been accused of being a pyramid scheme. A 1979 FTC investigation in the United a 1997 Belgian court and a 2008 court judgment in the United Kingdom all dismissed these claims

In a 1979 ruling, the Federal Trade Commission found that Amway does not qualify as a pyramid scheme because distributors were not paid to recruit people and had to sell products to get bonus checks, and the company was committed to buying back its distributors’ excess inventory.

The FTC did, however, find Amway “guilty of price-fixing and making exaggerated income claims”. The company was ordered to stop retail price fixing and allocating customers among distributors and was prohibited from misrepresenting the amount of profit, earnings or sales its distributors are likely to achieve with the business. Amway was ordered to accompany any such statements with the actual averages per distributor, pointing out that more than half of the distributors do not make any money, with the average distributor making less than $100 per month. The order was violated with a 1986 ad campaign, resulting in a $100,000 fine> end Wikipedia article.

Scheme? Cult? Road to riches?????

As I said many people have questioned Amway and the practices some have had every good experience and others like my dad not so much. However it continues to thrive and grow and be the right business choice for those that are informed in and accept Amway’s business style,  like the company, and are able to make it work.

But if you are unhappy with how things are going with your Network Marketing business or are looking for ideas better ways to improve your company, or just because you want to discuss the latest ways that work, with others and get our free Marketing Report, sign up for Call To Action and join our newsletter family

 

Next Monday: Part three our third highest ranked Network Marketing Company- gotta come back to see who it is

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Top 5 Network Marketing Companies, is yours gonna be one of them? Avon

By Sandy Metcalf | Published: April 9, 2012

Top 5 network marketing companies, is yours gonna be one of them? avon 

I am going to blog about the 5 top 5 network marketing  companies over the next five weeks. 

I know many of you have your own favorites and are involved in different home businesses. Even some of you will find yours on this list. But since I got asked where ViSalus is ranked it being so new to the field, I wanted to check that out and do a little comparison of the current movers and shakers, in our industry. So, here are the Top 5 Network Marketing Companies, is yours gonna be one of them?

I was surprised to find is that

# 1. is Avon, though all the years in the game alone should grant this old girl a place on this list, but she came up on top.

Avon is the most recognizable and the most loved by my research, as we all know someone who has sold it, or even tried it ourselves.

Avon

Sales: $10.3 billion

Markets: beauty and personal care products, jewelry and apparel

Distributors:  6.2 million

Comp plan:  Single and multi-level

Founder David McConnell didn’t originally intend to create a beauty company. In 1886 at 28 when he was still a door to door book salesman in New York, he founded The California Perfume Company after realizing his female customers were far more interested in the free perfume samples he gave to get them to look at the books, than in the books.

David McConnell said when he was considering founding his company, he had also noticed that many of his female customers were alone at home all day while their husbands went to work. So he purposely recruited women. David McConnell believed they had a natural ability to network with and market to other women.

Women have sold Avon for 34 years before they had the right to vote.

In 1939 the company was renamed after the river, Avon, in honor of David McConnell’s favorite playwright William Shakespeare who’s hometown was Strafford in the English Midlands. And the Avon river that ran through that town.

Like we do with our ViSalus company, Avon supports Breast Cancer. Avon does so with the yearly Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Philanthropic causes do a lot for company PR and also giving back to the community is just a good way for any business to be, no wonder Avon is still going strong some 125 years after it started.

I was going to list pros and cons of my research in my own words, but decided that two other Avons reps shared the best information on the subject.

First the Minuses of an ex Avon rep of nearly 10 years Ali Canary

And then the pluses.

By Dayna a mom who wanted extra income and fell in love with Avon

I also found in my research something that really surprised me especially when Avon for 20 years claimed to be free of animal testing, is that some products are still tested on animals-  Avon’s corporate website states it sells approximately 9,000 different products in over 100 countries and in 2011, under 0.3 per cent of these were tested on animals. But, only when required by law.

I was both saddened and disappointed to find that some products I myself have used may still first be tested on animals. This alone would preclude my making future purchases as I believed Avon was completely cruelty free not that it is trying to be.

I applaud their stepping up when others did not, I recognize Avon’s goal and honesty in stating they are not there yet. But they claimed to be cruelty free and that was jumping the gun a bit for 1000’s of animals, still being mistreated to tortured to killed for our vanity. I will purchase Avon again when they are no longer testing any product on living animals. You of course must make your purchasing and business decision choices that are right for you. I am just here to share my findings.

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Beware Of Trackback Spam If You Are A Blogger

By Sandy Metcalf | Published: April 2, 2012

I was going to today, do a post on the top 5 Network Marketing companies. But instead as I just dumped dozens of old and new trackbacks (a link back for other bloggers/sites that use your blog post, a trackback gives you credit for your work, especially important for us that write original content- and links you to other websites. Trackbacks can be very valuable in rising you up in the search engines as well as build traffic, but they can also link you to fakes and spammers). And like many bloggers I was guilty of saying thank you, in reply and posting relying on my spyware to catch spammers and unethical people. After all they were pending approval NOT in my spam folder right? So I often did NOT check that I had been given credit by the fact my blog post was actually there OR that the site was legit :)

But after reading Kathy Blogger’s Blog I want to share her post instead of what I had planned this week.

I could write about this topic after reading her, I could do more intensive homework, additional research and write my own post on the subject. But hers is so easy to read so straight forward I can’t improve on her words, so I am just going to give her this week’s blog post and copy link back to her blog-  and advise you to go check your own trackbacks as well :)

Beware Of Trackback Spam If You Are A Blogger

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Red Alert! Red Alert! You bloggers had better be careful about approving trackbacks.  There has been a recent rise in the amount of trackback spam that is being spread all over the internet. Be very careful and check your trackbacks … Continue reading →


Thanks Kathy for the heads up :)   and to my, readers Our ebook is coming soon, and because you want more information sign up for our newsletter Call To Action, we are talking about it there already.

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HELP I Called all the people on my warm list. Now I DON”T KNOW ANYONE to talk to

By Sandy Metcalf | Published: March 26, 2012

HELP I Called all the people on my warm list. Now I DON”T KNOW ANYONE to talk to. 

I have been writing throughout this blog about how to drive traffic and find people in which to talk to online, most notability in post like Forums or Group Email List? BOTH!!!! , Networking and the Buddy System- Facebook,  Networking and the Buddy System- Twitter and more on this site are great for connecting with people online. So we will not go into the online methods in deeper detail at this time, instead I am going to share with you a few extra tools off line you can use to both drive traffic to your blogs, web sites and capture pages (more on capture pages in  later post).

         3  OFF LINE WAYS to collect data to call or email from interested parties Free!!!!

1.Post cards on bulletin boards.
Make up cards with your Facebook fan page on them offer a free benefit/product for people to go and LIKE you on Facebook. Leave them around town.

2. Add an important cause or charitable organization to your business Mission.
Because when you add a cause attached to your business like we do, you can also make flyers and ask merchants to post your flayer in their windows too. When people like your fan page on Facebook you will be moved up in the ranking and found easier, which will increase traffic, and also you can if you chose start developing a relationship with the people who LIKED your page.

3. Ask the local organization charity, cause you support to add your company information to their flyers newsletter and pamphlets as it is to their benefit to let others know about your business and products.

3 OFF LINE WAYS to collect data to call or email from interested parties Paid.

1. Advertise your business on the short pop ups at your local movie theater.
Placing a small ad is relatively cheap and you have a captive audience.

2. Place word ads on your cable spotlight/local area adds again you can get these at a very reasonable price.

3. Target Market your business or products on your local cable channel, running a video ad in just your local area is more cost effective than you would think.

And all these three traffic generators though not without cost are going to be from people who know what you are selling/promoting and there by making them a warm contact in which to speak.

There are many ways also in which to build relationships with direct people contact but a lot of Network Marketers wish to get away from the 3 foot rule- which this type of contact is not that at all but if you fail to understand how to interact with people what to say and how to build your value and right to offer advice to bring up solutions only AFTER you see a need, then you will not see a difference between the 3 foot rule and by having just friendly conversations which bring value to all parties that will help you business build with NO pain.

But you will be able to find out more about that in my new ebook coming soon, email me for more information or sign up for our newsletter  Call To Action, because we will be talking about it there.

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NEVER Face Rejection Again- In Network Marketing

By Sandy Metcalf | Published: March 19, 2012

NEVER Face Rejection Again- In Network Marketing

How can you do that, you ask. How can you Never Face Rejection Again?

Simple we are going to look at talking to people, be it online, offline or by phone differently. It does not matter if they are warm or cold contacts- people you know or friends you have yet to meet. You can eliminate the feeling of dread that hits so many and stops a lot of Network Marketers in their tracks before they start (remember setting up our office in blog post It’s not about the Office in Network Marketing ) We can find a million ways NOT to take action!

So yes we can stop ourselves from DOING and get sidetracked with things like busy work, fancy office setups and snazzy new business cards and EXCUSES.

WHY?

Because of the fear of talking to people.

I think it comes down to two major reasons people fail to ACT in Network Marketing!

1. I do not know anyone

And

2.     I do not want to be REJECTED!

How to talk to people in Network marketing?

Well I am here to tell you, you do not need to know anyone in which to pitch your opportunity to because we are NEVER going to pitch to anyone.

If you have done so before, and it is the reason for your failure to move forward- STOP IT! If you have never gotten started in your business, pitching yourself and your company is NOT a smart way to get people on board, so don’t do it!

And we are not inviting, anyone into any “opportunity” either NOT one person ever whom we do finally share our business with will be pitched or invited.

If you decide to share the details of your business, you will do so by accessing peoples needs that you may have a win, win solution for. After, you share details if they show an interest in joining you, you will then proceed to interview as to the fit for both them and yourself as potential business partners.

We are not out to push shakes, vitamins, healthily life styles, weight loss products- what have you, nor the business end of our company on people just to make those sales, or get sign up bonus. You are building a business that will be there for you and your family. That need takes quality people as I have discussed in past post OK I built it how do I train it? Team Training- Human Nature use the brick and motor approach when deciding how you do business and in how you bring people into your business, to grow a successful and profitable business where everyone does their part to see true financial freedom and life changing results

And the second excuse for setting up your self to fail is the awful feeling in the pit of your stomach that occurs of how and when to get your “opportunity” into the conversation when you talk to someone. And then when you get that awkward silence and the talking comes to an abrupt halt, and you have to have that uncomfortable parting with NO, hanging in the air! And you feel BAD!

You need to shift your business building mindset.

As far as finding enough people. There are so many ways in which to bring your self into contact with people from free and purchased lead list, to opt in pages, to joining social groups online and off. From volunteering, helping at church, to you your weekend walk at the lake, and more. But we are not addressing how to find people in this post (we will in my next post) but, instead how to avoid rejection from those you do make contact with. As that is such a large stumbling block for so many.

It is really so easy if you shift your thinking from offering or selling or anything about you and change it to solving problems bringing solutions and providing help to those that need it. How do you do that? You ask questions, you talk to people and you listen to what they say. You have a real, yet casual and no agenda conversation.

People will, in an unguarded relaxed conversation unfold to you (and themselves) what they need, if anything. Whether they are looking for something, want something, would be open to a new business, or if they are fine where they are.

The conversation could be brief and a one time visit or go over several days, weeks, every other month, matters not the conversation will dictate the course. But each one will be welcome.

They will begin to think highly of you and tell others how great you are because you listened to them, even if you tell them nothing about you, they like you because of how you made them feel. as I mentioned in past post  Ya Gotta Have Heat, the importance of making someone feel special and listened to. Because really listening to someone else is a rare gift. Most of us are not active listening we are passive listening. When you are keying in to words in which to reply, so as to just look like you are following a conversation you are NOT. If you are forming your own response as they talk and only looking for a place to interject you are NOT listening either.

If you listen Then YOU will not face rejection because you will not bring up your business if it would not be what they are looking for, or the right time, or the right conversation. And remember when you do feel it is the right time and right person to talk about what you do, we ARE in a business NOT an opportunity we are a legitimate business and not just an industry we are business professionals and not just Network Marketers. We are problem solvers NOT salesmen.

And by not bringing up the business just to bring up the business you take a pleasant conversation to the next person, be it that day or not, picking up the phone, answering email you will be set to go and in a positively charged mindset because you are not coming off something dreaded and just gotten through that made you feel bad. You instead feel great ready to move on! And who knows maybe you will speak with that person further as they will certainly be favorable to you when you talk again. And as you build that relationship and grow your worth to them doors can open up that would have been slammed in your face had you blindsided them with unwanted opportunities and unwelcome pitches in your first (and most likely last) conversation. And you take that smile and feeling of wellbeing to the next person you talk to, which will be another warm visit to access who they are what they need (if anything) and if they let you know and you might hold the key they are looking for. Then you can open up and see if there is a match.

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Next Monday: I Called all the people on my warm list, Now I DON”T KNOW ANYONE to talk to.

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Network Marketing verses Affiliate Marketing. Let the games begin!

By Sandy Metcalf | Published: March 12, 2012

 

Hi everyone hope you had a good week, I enjoyed the break but also happy to be back with you this Monday which we are dealing with poring rain whipping winds and power outages in the
Vancouver WA area today.  And the power just came back on here. Allowing me to write.

So on this blistery March day I want to get back into the subject we left off on last week, which was Network Marketing.

So Network Marketing verses Affiliate Marketing Let the games begin!

First lets show the two big differences in them.

1. Network Marketing involves moving a product
something tangible that is consumable is ideal for repeat sales that both benefits your customer and brings value to them.

2. Affiliate Marketing involves the selling of information.
You often read “we are in the information business” online, and the ebooks courses, DVDs and webinairs are the platform for selling of information. Do not get me wrong there is nothing wrong with Affiliate Marketing it is a very valuable tool to being better Network Marketers as the best information will bring value and benefit, but it is NOT Network Marketing.

 

Network Marketing companies, sell products and services directly to it’s customers, instead of using a supply chain of wholesaler to marketer to retailer.

They do not use flashy TV ads or have a big advertising budget to get their brand out to the public they are mainly moved by would of mouth customer marketing.

The company splits profits with their representatives, and gives customers product and or other incentives to both use and tell others about their experiences.

This is done face to face, phone,  and by internet.

 

Affiliate Marketing is the moving of yours or someone else’s products or services and is information based. You can get real products like DVDs and books, but mostly what is sold is virtual and is information. Not consumable and so they cannot resell you the same products because once you have How to Sponsor 10 People in a Week, or Ways to Avoid The DREADED Phone, ebook or hard bound DVD or opt in video. You will not be buying it again. So they have to keep offering you new shinnies and holding that carrot out just a little bit further as they dip dab you to success- if you are lucky, or keep you chasing after Don Quixote’s windmills for those with less scruples.

But you can add additional income streams to your bottom line by adding one or more Affiliate programs to what you recommend to your customers on your blogs and web pages, or in your newsletter if you have started one. But be sure of what you offer as I have for research purchases went through many courses and programs  found outdated information, broken and old dead links, impossible directions and more, in supposedly the latest product release (i.e. updated courses, newest ebook etc.)

Now I am very stubborn in giving up I will muddle though and attempt to make even the impossible work, so if I cannot or I have a great deal of trouble I KNOW, no one will go to more effort than I in trying to follow a course or directions to make a program work for them.

Some Affiliate programs I have liked the message enough once I did work though the headaches and bugs to gain all that was being offered- that I will take from them what I liked and later write my own in easy to understand and follow instructions that are checked and rechecked to lower the frustration level of my reader And create a course and ebooks to get that important information out. If you have a bit of a talent for the written word, and the soul of a teacher and can use Adobe, you could write your own ebooks and courses documenting what works for you as well and start your own Affiliate Marketing program going.

That brings us back to the difference in the two Marketing styles. And to me the big one is though you may buy into a Network Marketing company, you may feel it is your own business. Your parent company could still fold tomorrow as really you are a contractor there, and true it is your little part of the business you bought into, but only as long as there is one. You do not control the company in the big picture; Only how you run your business that is connected to it. You do not determine products or services only how you market them.

Affiliate Marketing can teach you to follow, yes it can. And it can also make you a tidy sum just passing on who you follow. But if you followed well, if you listen, if you read, if you embrace what you like about who you like, and filter away that knowledge, you can then write your own. Not everyone can do this, but you know who you are that is reading my blog. So you that can take those tools and use them to build your own Affiliate Marketing Company that belongs to YOU, that is yours to control. To damn or to succeed to take as high as you like or lay in the rumble of the idle laziness of those who talk a good game but do not know how to play. But for those that bring the ball and do play the game right it is something that no one can determine how high you rise or your success, but you. The Affiliate Marketing business is in your hands. And you control every aspect of it.

So in a sense Network Marketing is safer, because though we obtain freedom from the boss we still get a pay check we still have a company and board that dictates products and services we are to offer our customer base. Our security is attached to something larger   they are the decision maker over the entire operation, and the company can disappear as fast as it came.

With your own Affiliate Marketing Company you are the board, you are the company and you control your destiny. No one will pack up shop and head for Timbuktu with your last check EVER! You are the decision maker. I think that is why so many Network Marketers get into Affiliate Marketing as it is truly what Network Marketers want complete control over our lives and for some of us, we are willing to take that path.

BUT it takes a lot of work and dedication to grow any Marketing business Affiliate or Network. So I am not recommending one over the other just showing the two different thought processes that go into both how they operate, and in how they effect you and your business.

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