Article Marketing is a legitimate method of Lead Generation. Unfortunately lots of people are jumping on the bandwagon and beginning to write articles.  Why unfortunately?  Well because too many people think they can blast out ten articles and somehow throw a switch to massive traffic arriving at their page.  Sorry, but this will not happen.  If you are going to use Article Marketing as a method of lead generation for your MLM business, be prepared to put in some hard work.

Because using Article Marketing is not a quick route to riches!  Article Marketing is one of the main methods of lead generation used by people who start out with little or no cash with which to advertise their home business.  Anyone who want quick methods of marketing their business online, needs plenty of cash so they can invest in pay-per-click lead generation.  You either need time or money to market your mlm home business online, and if you have no money then you had better be prepared to work your butt off! And be consistent.

You also need to do more than just write an article.  That really is just the basic part of article marketing.  After that you need to do lots with it to promote it and get it seen.  For your article to get seen by the search engines, it needs to be all over the internet.  First of all it need to be published on your blog, or other main website.  Then you could do a video to promote it even more, linking back to your blog.

From there you should bookmark it, using social bookmarking.  The best way I know of doing this is to use the Onlywire service, which is free and takes only a minute to post.  The first time you set it up, this will take an hour or two, as you have to open accounts with the 30 or more sites that you will be bookmarking your article with.  In future, every time you write an article, you simply click on the icon on your browser, or if you have added the Wordpress plug-in to your blog, simply click on that and your content will go out to 30 or more social bookmarking  sites, including Facebook and Twitter!

After that you need to post your article in as many directories as you can.  Some people use an article submitter for this, and they certainly save you alot of time.  I use Automatic Article Submitter, which means I can ‘spin’ my article.  This involves writing an alternative sentence for each sentence I write.  The submitter then spins these sentences, making new and different articles for each directory.  In this way you are really be making the most out of every article you write.

Lastly, I must warn you that if you are not prepared to CONTINUE writing articles and sending them out all over, you will not get results.  Because it will take much more than a dozen articles before you start getting traffic to your websites.  But this is just like anything else in Network Marketing;  you need to build momentum.  You need to keep on and on churning out your articles and doing everything else that I have said, and slowly the trickle of leads you were getting will build up to a wonderful solid flow!!

There are lots more pointers I could give you, but they will have to wait for another article………….

If you are ready to dive into Article Marketing then you should check out the Automatic Article Submitter that Sue uses.

Things may come to those who wait but only things left by those who hustle.

(This saying was borrowed from Robert Kiyosaki’s Facebook page!!)

This morning I went on Facebook and had a few new friend requests as usual.  I decided to deal them straight away.  I accepted the first two, then looked at the third one, who had written quite alot by Facebook standards.  Wow, it was from Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad amongst other things.  Doesn’t it make you realise the power of Social Media!  Robert Kiyosaki requested me as a friend!! Amazing. Yes, I’m am sure I am not the only one, but doesn’t it just amaze you that you can connect with just about anyone on Social Media sites.

It would have been hard to imagine being able to chat on the internet with anyone famous a few years ago.  My daughter spoke to Dawn French a few months ago on Twitter! Incredible.  So are you using Social Media in your business? And if not why not?  Robert Kiyosaki is in his 60’s but he is embracing the internet and modern ways of doing business.  He actually asked me to join his fan page, and offered me an ebook he has written for $5 instead of $65.  Well of course I grabbed it; who wouldnt?

Because readers are leaders, and leaders are readers!!

And anything written by Robert Kiyosaki  is outstanding so I cannot wait to read it!

So what, I hear you say.  Well what made Robert choose Facebook to spread the word about his new ebook??  Because Facebook is totally FREE!  He knows that because his name is well known he can get extraordinary exposure for this ebook, just by creating a presence on Facebook.  And it WILL go viral.  Because Facebook is the second most visited site on the internet now; everyone reads each others pages and it will spread like wildfire!!

So if you have a business and you are not promoting that business on Facebook, you are missing out on some spectacular, instant free advertising.  More and more internet marketers are jumping onto the bandwagon and advertising their business for free on Facebook.  Start your own group, give away free information, advice or tips on your area of business.  Invite people to join.  Add other people as friends like Robert did.  And just see the results you get back.

But in doing that, don’t force other people to look.  Just a friendly word to them about what you are offering, nothing heavy. That is definitely the way to get people interested.  Don’t force your business down people’s throats, you will just be avoided as a spammer.  If you give value, you will get people’s interest.

Be like Robert Kiyosaki, embrace change in your life.

So if you want Robert Kiyosaki to add you as a friend on Facebook then get started NOW with this FREE Facebook Training!!

Are you fed up with being rejected by prospects in your Network Marketing business?  Have you had enough of people laughing in your face when you try to tell them about your business, or avoiding you in the supermarket?  If so, you need to learn to sponsor people without rejection.  And this is simpler than it sounds!

Just like you I spent almost six years chasing prospects.  Doing deep breathing exercises before I picked up the phone! Going to any event I could to try to get chatting with someone, then hardly listening to what they were saying because I was so focused on  planning what I would say to them when the time came.  Then blustering on and making a hash of it!!  Frustrating times!

So how did I learn to sponsor people without rejection?  Well thats easy; I came online and after several weeks of fumbling around trying to find information, someone gave me the simple answer:

You only target a certain market!! And that market is other Network Marketers, or people who are already looking for information on Network Marketing!!

Its hard to believe now that so many people offline are still wandering around looking for just ANYONE to join their business.  Because the majority of people you approach are not going to be in the least business minded. Most of them are going to be happy in a J-O-B.  They would not dare to work for themselves or get out of their comfort zone, so you asking them to join your business is like asking them to jump out of a plane without a parachute!  No wonder they avoid us!

If you are thinking that there are not enough people out there on the internet who are interested in joining a Network Marketing company, think again.  Thousands and thousands of  new people come online everyday trying to find a way out of the mess that their life is.  Because of the recession, more and more people are short of money and looking for something that can help them.  Network Marketing is the answer. More and more famous people are getting onboard in MLM – just look at Donald Trump!!  This gives the average man on the street belief in Network Marketing that they would never have had before.

So if this news fills you with excitement, let me tell you the very first thing you need to learn to start attracting these Network Marketers to join YOU in your business.  That is Mike Dillard’s book ‘Magnetic Sponsoring’. Because this will teach you the basics of marketing online and how to position yourself on the internet, along with lots of other things you definitely need to know.  Marketing your MLM on the internet is VERY different from what you do offline.

This book is THE industry standard for marketing online, and I, like the majority of Internet Marketers insist that anyone interested in my business NEEDS this book.  On the internet we do not have time to teach everyone step by step, because there are just too many people getting involved everyday.  And because Mike teaches the principles so well and gives you so much more than just information, we leave it to him.

So if you want to learn to sponsor people without rejection and your’e ready to dive into the learning curve, you need to grab Mike Dillard’s book and get started NOW!

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This is the fourth in the series of MLM Basics For Marketing Online, and today we are looking into Autoresponders.  If, like me a few months ago, you have not got the foggiest idea what an Autoresponder is, then it is pretty much what it says!  It responds automatically to any requests you get for more information on your business. When you first start out online, and do not know the basics for marketing online, you may not think you need an autoresponder.  But once you start to generate leads on a regular basis, you will not have enough time to send out regular emails to all your prospects.

You would expect to pay about £20 a month for a decent autoresponder.  Much less than that and you would need to check them out fully to find out what you are being offered.  You can also get some free autoresponders, but you will find your emails are more likely advertising them than your business.

An autoresponder is where you begin building your list.  When someone enters their contact details into the form on your capture page or other website page, they are then on your ‘list’.  You can then send them regular newsletters or information on your product or business.  This will be fully automatic and will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  So if someone from the other side of the world fills in their contact details whilst you are asleep, your autoresponder will immediately respond to them, making sure your business online never closes!

If you have good copywriting skills, you can write your own emails.  Otherwise your autoresponder will probably give you some templates or help with constructing some.  If you have signed up with a system such as LeadSystemPro, as I have, you will have ready made emails which you will install into your autoresponder when you set up your system.  This will save your alot of time and effort.  You can, of course, personalise these emails yourself if you want to.

You can also send out extra ‘broadcasts’ whenever you want from your autoresponder.  If you have some new information  that comes to light which you want your list to know about, or you want to give them details of a webinar that is coming up, these broadcasts can be very useful.  It is very simple to do, once you have done a broadcast once or twice.  Some autoresponders also offer you the actual opt-in forms for you to put on your webpages.

An autoresponder is great for building  your credibility to your list.  A prospect generally enters their contact details because you are offering them something they want, such as a free training or more information.  Once they have that, then continue to get mail from you, they begin to trust you and recognise your name.  This may only happen after they have received several emails from you, and especially if you are offering them valuable information on something that interests them.

In effect, as well as saving your bucketloads of time and effort, your autoresponder is also converting your prospects into customers.  A definite neccesity for online marketing, in my opinion!

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If you are asking yourself ‘what are the mlm basics for marketing online’? then you have come to the right place, because this is the first article in a series I am writing to explain the mlm basics for someone starting online marketing.  When I came online to market my mlm business, I had no idea what I should be doing and wasted absolutely loads of time trying to understand the mlm basics for marketing online.

The very first, and most important thing that you need online is a system.  Without a system you will spend loads of time, money and effort trying to figure out lots of different things.  Apart from the training which a system will give you, you need to know the tools necessary to market online, you need to learn copywriting skills and you will need someone to troubleshoot for you regularly for the first few months.  Learning to market you mlm business online has a huge learning curve and you can waste a considerable amount of time if you are not willing to invest in a system.

I began by following someone who seemed to know what they were doing, and whom I liked.  I soon realised that this person used a system, and I quickly plugged into that system.  I was amazed; this system blew me away.  For starters there was a ‘getting started’ section, which walked me through setting up my system, with instructional videos.  Not being much of a techie, and being, well, shall we say an ‘older’ lady, this probably took me longer than some people who perhaps grew up with computers or were more tech savvy.  But it didnt matter if I had to watch some of the videos more than once.

After I had everything set up, I made a plan of which marketing training I would start with, then began watching the amazing training videos.  After each section you have learnt so much about marketing that you can go out and begin working on generating those all important leads.  And now, months down the road I am generating leads everyday, and more importantly I am still learning everyday from this system.  Every week we have a training call webinar, usually with a guest speaker, and also a live coaching call where the leaders are calling leads in their system to show us how to prospect.

I have still not used everything in my arsenal in the back office with regards to training.  I believe when my first year is up, I will still not have used every resource they have available, and more and more trainings are being added regularly.  We have our own online community where you can meet other members in the system and where lots of newbies ask questions about the system.  We also have live skype chat with many of the leaders in the system.

So there you have it, the first and most important thing you need to market online is a system. I use the #1 Attraction Marketing System, LeadSystemPro.  This is a generic system which you can use to generate leads for ANY type of business, MLM or otherwise.  They have recently added another facet to the system, ‘Conquer The Internet’, which will bring a new dimension to the system.  Using a system will save you from a great deal of struggling online!

If you have enjoyed learning the MLM Basics For Marketing Online and being a go-getter you want to jump straight in, check out the #1 Attraction Marketing System that Sue uses!

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Do you need help choosing an MLM opportunity?  So many people get recruited directly into one company by one of their friends that they don’t get the chance to choose.  Often these people did not know of the existence of MLM or Network Marketing as it is sometimes called.  However, if you do need help choosing an MLM opportunity, you need to do some ‘due diligence’ on the companies you are interested in, as well as some soul searching before you can find the right opportunity for you.

Many people say that the company does not matter, but it really does on so many levels.

1.  Do you love the products?  Would you happily sell them to your Granny?  Because if you would not, will you be able to happily sell them?  You need to have complete confidence in them, otherwise people will be able to see right through you.  Ask yourself this; would you want to use these products even if you were not in the company?

2.  What is the market like with regards to these products?  If, for instance, it is the latest super juice, have you considered market saturation?  There are just so many companies out there right now, selling the latest antioxidant super juice that I for one, even though I have sold a juice in the past and loved it, would not want to be involved in one nowadays. (And yes, I still drink it!)  Nowadays I would rather go for a product with a wide open, untapped market, something which is a powerful, current, and on trend.

3.  Low start up costs are very important.  So many people just cannot afford to invest a very large sum of money in something about which they know very little, especially in a recession.  Apart from anything else, low start-up costs are one of the best things about an MLM opportunity.  It makes it affordable to start your own business.  Many people could not afford to get involved in their own business, so MLM is accessible to many more people.

4.  Retention rate is very important in choosing an MLM opportunity.  If the retention rate is low it will affect your residual income.  The problem is that retention rates in MLM are very rarely high.  How much better would it be to know that the majority of people you put into your business would stay there, year in, year out?  If a company has a low retention rate, you can expect to have to find lots more distributors in order to get paid the same amount as you would in another company with a better retention rate!

5.  Your compensation plan is very important.  There are so many different compensation plans out there today, it is difficult to know what it best; unilevel, binary, matrix?  All you can do is find out what the company that you are interested in has and then do some research on it.  Unless you know alot about many different compensationn plans, you will mainly need to use your common sense.  If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

6.  Check out the management of the company.  Are they well-known and liked?  Do they have a proven track record in business, either in MLM or direct sales?  Make sure you also do some research on the company.  Find out how long it has been operating; many MLM companies go under in their first year.  Check out the growth it has had, what assets it owns and if it is well thought of.

7.  Lastly check out MLM Watchdog.com for lots of information on MLM’s to help you in choosing an MLM.

I hope this will help you if you need help choosing an MLM opportunity.  There are some great companies out there, one of them will be right for you.  And if you have not been in an MLM before, welcome to this wonderful industry!

If you have enjoyed this article ‘choosing an MLM opportunity’ you would probably like to find out about the #1Attraction Marketing System that Sue uses with her MLM.

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This may be the most important post i’ve made to date.

This Wednesday there will be a movement…

A movement that will revolutionize this industry for years to come…

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This Wednesday you will learn 3 things…

1)  How 3 regular guys built a $2,290,848 in 12 months.

2)  Who taught industry legend Mike Dillard how to prospect (HE’S GOING TO BE DOING A F*R*E*E LIVE  1 HR TRAINING THIS WEDNESDAY WITH MY TEAM ON THIS CALL!)

3)  How to take this guy’s training and leverage a never-before-released power prospecting tool that will be unleashed THIS WEDNESDAY!

Add all 3 of these things up and by far you have the most powerful network marketing equation you will ever see on paper.

And I’m letting you in on this historic, industry changing evening This Wednesday Feb. 10th @ 9 PM EST…

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Prepaid Legal Leads can be difficult to find in your warm market.  Although your family and friends may be interested in getting legal cover, they are unlikely to want to join the business unless they are very business minded or entrepreneurial.  Once the warm market is exhausted, the options for generating Prepaid Legal Leads have always been buying leads or approaching your cold market.

Prepaid Legal is one of the oldest, most well established and successful Network Marketing companies around, but it has one downfall.  By not using the internet to help their associates generate Prepaid Legal leads, they will always lose associates who are discouraged by not enrolling people into their business.   Once the associates have approached their warm market about the business, they will need to go out and find other people to talk to.

Prepaid Legal actually became a Network Marketing company in 1983, but the company really started in 1969 when the founder of the company, Harland C Stonecipher was involved in a car accident, which left him with legal bills.  Prepaid Legal has over 1.5 million associates.  In the last quarter of 2009, the number of associates joining this company rose by 89.4% on the previous year!  Of course, more people do join Network Marketing companies in a recession, but even allowing for that, that percentage is incredible.

For around $20 a month, you get access to their lawyers for your legal problems.  Some companies purchase this protection and give it to their employees as an additional benefit.

Prepaid Legal encourages associates to use ‘Old School’ methods of prospecting such as approaching your family and friends and the three foot rule.  Sadly few Network Marketing companies have an online system to teach their associates how to find qualified leads.  Some people try buying ‘Legal leads’ but the majority of these leads are old, or have been used several times already.  They rarely work and are usually not targeted.

The modern way to generate Prepaid Legal leads is to use a system online which shows you step by step how to market and how to set up your own attraction marketing system to magnetically draw leads to you without using the out-dated methods usually associated with Network Marketing.  This means you will have access to far more people using the internet, because you are connecting with people all over the world, rather than just in your local area.

Very few Network Marketing companies teach their associates how to market their businesses, despite it being called Network “Marketing”!  Without marketing skills, people get easily discouraged and then leave the business.  However this does not happen if you have a system, because as long as you are prepared to work hard and study hard, you will have the principles by which to build a massive business.

I myself have only been marketing online for a few months, but can generate leads everyday, because I am learning the principles of attraction marketing from the system I belong to.  Many of the methods I use are free or cost very little money although there are some paid methods which we learn as well.  I have generated more leads online in a few months than I ever did in 6 years of marketing offline!!

Interested in getting Prepaid Legal leads?. Grab your first month in Sue’s Marketing System here at a very special price!

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Do you want to know an MLM Secret??  Want to know why no-one is  visiting your company website?? 

When my network marketing company finally got on the internet and gave us all a website, we were so excited.  We knew everyone made money on the internet, and we thought, wow, this will transform our MLM business!  We expected lots of customers to ‘come across’ our website on the internet, and prepared ourselves for an upsurge in business!  We even paid for a recruiting website ourselves, which we thought may get us a trickle of interested leads.

Traffic to go to our website never really entered our head.  I suppose we thought that people would accidentally find our site and be so interested they could not help themselves but to sign up or buy products!  Obviously we were giving our several hundred cards a week too, with the details of our sites on, so we were sure we would have results.  And we did.  Yes, at least 5 leads filled in their details on our site.  Unfortunately three of them were spam, as we now call it; idiots we called them at the time.  And the other two were unqualified people who thought we were in the ‘get rich quick’ brigade!

Now we know the secret MLM tip! Several years on, and with so much more experience of working on the internet, I regard these early attempts at internet marketing with a smile.  We knew so little.  Nowadays I find it amusing that Network Marketing companies still give out these lovely little replicated websites to their distributors.  I understand completely that it is their way of holding on to the content of these websites.  Obviously they do not want to be taken to court for their distributors over-zealous descriptions of their products benefits!

So my question to all you who are in MLM now is this:

 Do you realise that your company website is a waste of time? 

And do you know that you need to have your own website or at least a capture page, if you want to sponsor reps online?  The problem is that search engines, such as Google, hate company websites because there are so many of them all over the internet and they all have the same information.  Therefore it will not rank them, so they never show up on the first page, where people might click on the link and visit your site.  Google likes webpages to have original content, and it likes it to change regularly. Company websites are stagnant.  They have no new content, so will not rank highly.

Therefore if you are fishing around on the internet now, wondering how some people manage to sponsor other people online; your company website is not the answer.  You need to learn how to set up a capture page to get peoples details, how to attract them to you in the first place, what to do with them once you have them, and how to get them to join your business.  All in all, you need a system to follow, unless you have a mentor who will show you it all, step by step.  Because believe me, there is a pretty steep learning curve.  But it is well worth the effort, because it knocks offline prospecting into touch!

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Do you have the right qualities for MLM Leadership?  So many people who start a home business in Network Marketing do not feel ready to be a leader in the industry.  They do not feel they have the right qualities for Leadership.  They may have never been in a management or senior role before and do not feel that they could achieve this goal.  However, leaders are made, not born.  If you want to become a leader you need to DECIDE to decide that you are going to be a leader.

What Can I Do To Become A Leader?

1.  In order to develop these leadership qualities, you need to be taking time out of every day to work on your Personal Development.  You should be reading books each day which will improve your skills, open your mind and help you to develop into the leader which you aspire to become.  Listen to a training webinar or audio recording everyday about some aspect of the industry;  there is not shortage of training material on the internet.

A amazing statistic which illustrates this point is that the average CEO of a company, with an income of over $1 million a year reads about one book a week, all through the year, at a pace of about 15-20 minutes a day.  The average American reads one book a YEAR, at an average salary of $30,000 a year!!

2.  Put into practise what you have learned each day.  Whether this is a new method of marketing to try, or a better way to relate to others, go out and at least start the ball rolling.  Don’t leave it for a month, otherwise you are wasting the training you have done, and you will probably have forgotten what you learned.

3.  Pass on what you have learned.  However you do it, by email, video, article or other method, teach people what you have learned.  The best way for you to digest what you have learned is to teach it to someone else.  In this way people will see you as valuable, because you are always teaching what you know.

4.  Believe in the people who are in your team.  You may have to have more belief in them than they do themselves, to start with.  If you show them that you believe they can do what is necessary, they may start to trust themselves.

5.  Motivate your team.  Encourage them to work towards success.  Share good news with them and your excitement for their successes.

6.  Put them on the tracks to success by showing them a system they can follow in order to achieve success.  Then stand back and allow them to work on that success.

7.  Spend the majority of your time with the ones who are working hardest.  Understand that you will always get people who, although they seem to have the right levels of enthusiasm, will do little or nothing.

8.  Study, and Teach!

9.  Study more, and Teach more!

Remember, no-one can decide when you have become a leader, but YOU!

If you want to become a Leader in your MLM business, you need to dive into the #1 Attraction Marketing System that Sue uses to build her business into a recruiting machine!!