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Are you building an MLM home business? If so, are you using social media sites for your business? Facebook, Twitter, MySpace? Over 350 million people are on Facebook alone!! And almost half of them go on everyday. That’s an incredible number of people. And that’s just one social media site. It is like a new community. Instead of us all spending time with our neighbours, we spend time online talking to our counterparts all over the world.
Social media has opened the doors to connecting with people you could not have connected with in the past. This has had massive repercussions on the MLM industry, as it is now possible to enrol people into your Network Marketing business on the internet, without ever having met the person before! MLM is now in the information age, with business owners showcasing their opportunities in videos and webinars which can be seen all over the world. Instead of having a home meeting with around a dozen people, you could be showing your presentation to thousands at a time.
But we all also move around in our home community as well, so it is important to still be able to recruit people locally too. We still go to the local shops, to the local garage, the hairdressers etc. And social media has given us a brilliant way of reaching out to people we meet locally! If your business is mainly online nowadays, it can be difficult to mesh the two together. So if you meet someone in the local shops, and want to talk to them about our business, but don’t want to launch into presentation mode (as we would have done in the past!!) we now have the answer!
Quite simply, the answer is to have our social media contact details on our business cards! So if you have had a chat with someone, and in your mind you are thinking, ‘they would be great at this business’, it is quite simple to say “I’ve really enjoyed talking to you, are you on Facebook or Twitter? Lets keep in touch!” And then give them your business card. Its a friendly way to stay in touch with them, and once they become friends on Facebook (or other social media site) you can connect with them and slowly introduce the idea of your business to them!
I have already used this idea with someone who showed an interest in what I was doing online, and it works! Because it’s laid back and not pushy.
More and more Network Marketing companies are using the internet to grow their business. Those that are slow to implement the internet are already lagging behind. Because if you have someone from the other side of the world who really wants to join your business and it can’t be done online, that’s pretty much it. Posting application forms half way across the world is really not an option. But for those MLM companies who have it all ready on the internet, this is not a problem.
You can sign up online, take trainings online or over the telephone or use skype. And with the help of social media, you can now comfortably talk to anyone who lives locally. The best of both worlds!
