MLM Income Disclosure Statements: What They Really Show
Most MLM income disclosure statements hide more than they reveal. Here is what the FTC found when it analyzed 70 of them, and how to read one honestly.
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Motivation – The Key to Productivity
Let’s face it. To some degree, we all do what we do because we want to. Those that endure hardships do so because they value someone or something (the end goal perhaps) more than they dislike the pain or discomfort they are going through. The same is true for those who do not accomplish much in...
Read MoreThinking Like A “Real” Business – Part 2 Market Research
Last time we talked about how network marketing is just like traditional businesses in many ways. The difference is that we are creating passive income whereas many self-employed type businesses do not end up creating passive income. In this edition of “Thinking Like a “Real” Business, we will take
Read MoreThinking Like A “Real” Business – Part I
Many company and upline leaders talk about the woes of “traditional” businesses where men and women are self-employed, work long hours, and shoulder hefty responsibilities that tie them down. They compare this to the network marketing industry which allows us independent business owners to create pa
Read MoreThe Power of a Team
Our industry has a lot of really great teachers. There have been dozens of individuals who have made big money, built big downlines, and created successful info products to help others coming after them. And this is all good stuff… ish. I’ve noticed that something is missing though. Very few leaders
Read MoreCreating and Abundance Mindset
What is an “abundance mindset”? Consider these two examples: Jim Bob has been in his business for 7 months and has gone through all of his contact list of 70 people… twice. Out of everyone he talked to, he only sposnored 2 people. Just yesterday, he met a great prospect at the bookstore and was...
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The #1 Way to Boost Confidence So Prospects Will Join Your Team
In this post, I’m going to share with the #1 biggest thing that I’m doing to gain confidence that I can feel and that my prospects can feel too. When you aren’t successful in your networking marketing business yet, it’s hard to not come across as needy or desperate. When we don’t have a big team...
Read MoreTaking “You” Too Far
In our industry, we are often sold on the idea of being able to have all of our goals and dreams as we become empowered to live incredible lifestyles because of the passive income streams of network marketing. While this is true, it needs to be put in it’s proper context. Ultimately, we need to...
Read MoreThe #1 Biggest Way to Boost Confidence So Prospects Will Sign Up
When you aren’t successful in your networking marketing business yet, it’s hard to not come across as needy or desperate. When we don’t have a big team yet, we often times feel that we need the person we’re sharing our opportunity with to join our business. After all, if they don’t, who will? The mo
Read MoreKeep on Keeping On
Sometimes in life and in business, you won’t want to keep doing what it takes to win. You’ll hit a wall. You’ll get sick. Half your team will quit. You’ll get cussed out by a prospect. You’ll get bad news. It happens to all of us, and it’s normal The important thing is what you...
Read MoreHead, Heart, and Hunger – A Winning Recipe
Head, heart, and hunger represent the three key components to being successful in network marketing. These are important concepts to understand both of ourselves as networkers and for our prospects as we talk to them about our business. Head Network marketing just makes sense. Unlike brick and morta
Read MoreAsking the Right Questions Means Getting The Right Answers
The questions we ask in life and in business determine the answers that we can receive. Let me say that again. The QUESTIONS we ask in life and in business DETERMINE THE ANSWERS that we can receive. For an example, consider these two questions: How do I make more money? VS How can I become...
Read MoreBuilding a Sustainable Business
These days, it is foolish to rely on one stream of income whether it be a job, your networking business, or your investment portfolio. Diversification is much, much better if done well. The same is true of your networking business. As Mike Dillard pointed out years ago, you don’t own your networking
Read MoreCheaper Than Dirt Clicks on Twitter
I recently started advertising on Twitter through their new paid ads system and I’m getting some pretty low rates. Here are the quick stats from my longest running campaign. It’s not moving very fast, but the clicks are cheap. (Note: This is not in the internet marketing /network marketing niche, it
Read MoreCrap My Upline Told Me – Episode 3 – “Just Follow the System”
How many of us have heard this one before? It usually goes something like, “Just follow this simple 5 step pattern for success and you’ll be a top earner in no time” or maybe, “the system works if you work it.” While it was a hard lesson for me to learn, I eventually figured out...
Read MoreCrap My Upline Told Me – Episode 2 – “Getting in on the Ground Level”
Today I have another whack phrase that I want to myth-bust the crap out of – yes you heard me right – I said “myth bust the crap out of” (my own phrase if you must know). This phrase goes a little like. Company XYZ is just starting to take off… if you get in...
Read MoreThe Power Of a System for Building Your Home Business
One of the biggest problems in network marketing is scale. It’s easy enough to teach the first few people you sponsor how to contact people, demonstrate and showcase products, and do three-way calls. But what about when you sponsor 20 people? What about 100? How do you teach 100 people to do what yo
Read More6 Ways to Get the Most out of Freemium
Lauren Hockenson wrote up a great post on Mashable about making the most of companies that offer a free version of their product to users with the option to upgrade to a premium account. She covers some great tips in the hopes of helping small business owners who are trying to get things going on...
Read MoreDealing With Information Overload!
By now it’s common knowledge that the biggest issue that we network marketers deal with online is overwhelm. This is the single, biggest reason that most don’t make it in our industry online. I mean… where are we supposed to start!? Here are just a few of the many different pieces of the internet ne
Read MoreCrap My Upline Told Me – Episode 4 – We Have an “Internet Based” Business
A few months ago I walked into the restaurant that I used to work at and started chatting it up with one of the young guys I used to work with. He told me that he had just started his own business, so I asked him what he was doing. He said that he had...
Read MoreMLM Clue – The #1 Most Important MLM Tip
If there was only one tip that I could give you about network marketing it would be this: Generating leads online is faster and more effective then old school techniques of traditional network marketing. Using the internet, it is possible to get in front of not 10s, not 100s, not 1000s, but tens of
Read MoreCrap My Upline Told Me – New Series – Episode 1 – “This is the Best Company”
If you’ve been in network marketing for any length of time, you’ve probably heard some things that… well… honestly, they just aren’t true. Or if they are true, they are actually very unhelpful. In this series, I am going to explode several of the lies, half-truths, and other crap various upline lead
Read MoreCommon Mistakes of Home Based Businesses
The WP Theme company ThemesPeak.com had a great article about common mistakes that home business owners make when they are getting started. One of the biggest things I’m trying to get you to do here at The Sponsoring System is to treat your network marketing business as a real business so that you c
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5 Reason To Love Amway as a Network Marketing Company
Amway Global usually gets a bad rep since it is one of the biggest and oldest network marketing companies. I’ve even heard many network marketers bash Amway and even laughingly tell people they shouldn’t be involved. Well, I think that’s crap so consider this my response of why I think Amway is a gr
Read MoreStarting a Home Based Business – Questions to Ask Yourself
It has never been easier to start your own business from home in your spare time than it is right now. Period. The opportunity for the individual is nearly limitless thanks to the many trail blazers who have already gone before us and thanks to a myriad of great tools, the chief of which is...
Read MoreThe Friends and Family Myth
Today I want to expose what I call “the friends and family myth”. Network marketing is a great industry. There are several HUGE advantages to being a network marketer. However, if you think you are going to be successful just because you talk to a few friends and relatives you are probably very mist
Read MoreThe Only 3 Things You Need to Succeed in Network Marketing
After thinking about it for awhile, I realized that there are really only three things that any network marketer needs to be successful in pretty much any network marketing business. These three things are: Confidence Abundance Skills That network marketers need confidence is obvious. Imagine how mu
Read MoreThe YouInc. Business Model
As good as any network marketing company is, there are a few things that all distributors should keep in mind You don’t own the company You don’t own your down-line You are reliant on your company to pay you Now obviously there are tons of pros to being a distributor as well so before you...
Read MoreWelcome to The Market Blend
Nearly everyone wants to learn how to make more money. We all know that money doesn’t buy happiness but it can make things go a bit smoother in life. Most of us have dreamed about what it would be like to have the free time to work at what we love, the resources to go...
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you free report about the ins and outs of a duplicatable system
Read MoreSEO for Network Marketers – Pros and Cons
Search Engine Optimization is a great method for getting traffic to a website in order to capture more leads for a network marketing company. Many networkers gravitate towards SEO because, depending on how you do it, it is usually low cost or even free. Of course, there are other pros to SEO and the
Read MoreThe Truth About Money…
Money is Worthless. Let me explain. Money is just a convenient way of expressing the value of an item. It is quite possible to express the value of items in other terms instead. For example, we generally say things like, “That house is worth $500,000 dollars.” Instead we could express this by saying
Read MoreWhy Your Company Won’t Let You Market Online and How to Handle It
Some network marketing companies let you market online and some do not. Some force you to use their standard (and often crappy) “personalized” websites and nothing else. Honestly, we shouldn’t blame these companies for doing this. They have several good reasons such as: They could become liable for
Read MoreAsking Possibility Questions
One of the most valuable lessons that anyone can learn is to ask possibility questions rather than making negative statements. This is a wealth practice that everyone who wants to build wealth should learn to do. For example, I’m sure that at sometime in your life you have heard someone say, “That’s
Read MoreDo You Have an “Online” Networking Business?
Tell me if any of these sound familiar… “I have an internet based business.” “Our business takes advantage of the internet and e-commerce.” “We are positioned to take advantage of the biggest trend to hit in our life time – the internet.” I’d be willing to bet that if you’ve been in networking marke
Read MoreRetire Early to Do What You Love
Aisle 19 will pay you cash back on all of your purchases made through any of their 800 stores. This is great, but it gets better! Aisle 19 is in partnership with Escape International which is a business that allows people like you and me to make money off of Aisle 19’s shopping portal. This...
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