Network Marketing Mlm Leads
Leads for a network marketing business?
I have looked through hundreds of sites on mlm leads, i have bought some leads with no outcomes. Are there really any lead generating sites out there that work? If there are what are they?
Hi,
Wow! I'm glad you asked about MLM, aka Network Marketing.
Freakanomics is right - network marketing is a hoax. Get the book:. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover) by Steven D. Levitt
Check out this book at your local library.How to Take Advantage of the People Who Are Trying to Take Advantage of You: 50 Ways to Capitalize on the System (Paperback)
by Joseph SB Morse
Be informed. Practice due diligence. Demand proof. Proof that can be verified. Bank statements, tax returns, etc.
Get this book at your local libary or Amazon: (False Profits: Seeking Financial and Spiritual Deliverance in Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes (Paperback)
by Robert L. Fitzpatrick .
Only the most virulent, ruthless, aggressive, sweet-talking con artists are successful at Network Marketing. You have to be willing to fool a lot of people into thinking you have a plan for financial Nirvana and they will talk a lot about altruism and spirituality and how working an ordinary job is a dead end They call it Just Over Broke (JOB). In reality, you will go broke buying worthless MLM products at sky-high prices.
It's like a chain letter, a pyramid, a Ponzi scheme. Don't believe people when they say it isn't. They lie through their teeth. MLM is a snake-pit of liars and those that aren't lying are hopelessly misinformed.
Read this before you waste any money on Network Marketing: (http://skepdic.com/mlm.html).
You will hear a lot of arguments that make network marketing sound like the Holy Grail of home based "businesses". Like comparing apples to computer chips. You will always hear some very convincing arguments that it is legitimate - every one is a con and illustrates how creative con artists are.
The are very CON-vincing - that's convincing with a capital C for calamnity, a big O for obnoxious, and N for nauseous. There are no nuggets in this scam. See: (http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mlm.html).
Here are the 10 biggest lies of network marketing (http://www.mlmwatch.org/01General/10lies.html); read the truth and steer clear of this world-wide hoax.
MLM is the biggest scam in the world and it is going global with companies like Tiens.
They will tell you that all you need is fresh leads from a good mailing list and people will sign up faster than a NASCAR race car.
Are you kidding me? Fresh MLM leads! Don't fall for that.
Get real.
Remember, There's a sucker born every minute...and two to take 'em. Burn that into your brain.
If their leads are so good, where is their money-back guarantee? Leadbakery is just one example of a list seller and they are even worse than the MLM companies.
Listen! There has never been a successful course or book on MLM success - all boil down to this:
talk to lots of people with questions like "If I could show you a way to make lots of money quick, would you be interested?" or "If I could show you a sure-fire way to build a financial fortress that would protect you forever, would you be iinterested?" or "Social Security is not secure. Build a MLM company and retire rich".
That's the first warning sign that something is rotten in Denmark.
Yes, some will sign up, but unless you are a "heavy hitter" and use illegal methods to trap people into becoming distributors, honest people cannot succeed at this.
Do you know why these courses never work? None of them work because the concept is a con - it's the confidence man's dream, jam packed with hype and hypocrisy.
The only people that will be making money are the list brokers selling the mailing list - and the course writers and seminar creators. If it was such a good deal, why wouldn't they join a MLM company? The mailing list would be free to them. You don't see them giving up a lucrative mailing list business to get into something that doesn't work. They are smart. They get it. And expensive training courses - what a joke. They offer courses that will never work for the gullible and naive - the GRQ crowd.
And I always wondered why none of the people who worked the administrative side of the "business" were not distributors if it was such a great deal. They knew a job was better than the smoke and mirrors, pie in the sky hype used to sell MLM. They knew that only the heavy hitters made any real money.
MLM is the world's biggest scam. I have tried it a couple of times, the last being Herbalife. It has now moved into the Internet to trap people into believing that they can Get Rich Quick. It is going global.
The only way to make big money is to sell distributorships for thousands of dollars or sell seminar tapes and books.
I once went to a seminar given by Herbalife. The president came to speak. We thought we would learn the secret from the horses mouth on how to get the fiasco to work. We couldn't believe how shallow his advice was. It boiled down to "talk to a lot of people". That was his "secret"..
If you do the math, and you are able to sign up lots of people, which is doubtful, you soon run out of people. You get 2, then those 2 get 2, etc. It the old binary progression. Do it 10 times and you are in the thousands. With every progression, the number doubles. 2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024, 2024,4048,9096. The problem is those people in the beginning of the progression opt-out and gobble up the progression faster than Pac-Man. This is known as the "Drop Out Rate".
So what happens when thousands of people are doing this and with the internet it could be millions. You soon run out of people to talk to. And most people are smart enough to know it's a scam so right away you lose a huge segment of potential prospects.
Think about it.
In fact, finally, the numbers will exceed the entire world's population. It is a total dream world, a fantasy, completely out of touch with reality. It always looks good on paper, but none of the "heavy hitters" want to talk about drop-out rates.
Hey! What looks good in a spreadsheet, doesn't translate to reality.
The fact is that only the people who set up the program make money. The next level is all those scam artists that sell and give seminars on how to succeed in MLM. None of the schemes work because the concept is fatally flawed.
Why would anyone with a brain pay $30 for an herbal shampoo that they can buy at the local supermarket for $1, maybe $2 or $3 at the most. The same with pomegranate juice and Noni juice and all the other miracle juices, algae, and other strange things, even flower pollen.
Are you kidding me?
Get real.
Next, you will read all the anecdotal claims that the product will cure cancer and all sorts of other maladies. This is just another form of fraud. Where are the scientific double and triple blind studies? There ain't any. Sorry.
Listen! Don't forget this. Ask about the drop-out rate. Yes, the drop out rate.
Over 99% of the people who sign up will drop out after a few months or less. So even if you sign up a few people, they will be gone in months, if not weeks, when they find out how many people they have to talk to for just one distributor.
And your friends, co-workers, and relatives will not like you badgering them to join and will avoid you at all costs.
And most of the people who sign up are down-and-out desperate, who can ill afford to waste their money and who may be liable to criminal prosecution for promoting unregistered securities. And that's just in the USA. Foreign companies like Tiens leave you no recourse to any real legal remedies or enforcement.
And do you really know what's in this stuff? Of course not, it's jjust some con artist's word. For all you know, it could be like the tainted dog and cat food from China. It's not regulated. There is never any USP seal on it (United States Pharmacpeia).
Most of these programs die eventually leaving the suckers who signed up holding the bag. I had them die on me and not knowing any better, signed up for the latest MLM scam. After several attempts, I finally came to realize that it was all just a scam - some people became almost like religious zealots when they talked about their program that was going to make everyone rich and quick too. I lost a good friend when he believed my wild claims, put down $3,000 and lost it all.
The "industry" is full of disingenuous people whose mantra is "Fake it 'til you make it". Doesn't work. More fraud. They will give you testimonials of people who have made money, but they are liars and what they say cannot be proven. If it's so great why is there so much hype?
Here is a trick your upline will employ to get reluctant prospects to sign up. They will tell Ms. Reluctant that they will put some people under her and they take Mr. Hopeful who has already become a distributor and paid the fee and stick him under Ms. Reluctant which forces Ms. Reluctant to either buy in or lose the distributor. This is what happened to me in Herbalife. I was Mr. Hopeful. I thought I was signing up under a successful guy at the top known as a "heavy hitter", but I soon found out I had been scammed. Without telling me, he put me under Ms. Reluctant to force Ms. Reluctant to become a distributor. I did not like my new sponsor and after spending thousands on mailings, I finally dropped out. This is known as "stacking" and is supposedly illegal but it happens all the time.
Listen! My upline in Herbalife made more money selling a sales pamphlet than they did working their MLM business. We mailed out thousands of these pamphlets that we bought from our sponsor for a dime and he probably had them printed for a penny or less. He sold so many of them he had to set up a warehouse to hold and ship them.
Now, it's all done on the Internet via e-mail. But instead of mailing booklets, you get a Web site and collect e-mail addresses. But a fraud is still a fraud no matter what the media is that promotes it.
This was right before the Internet became popular and I was buying mailing lists through mailing list brokers and mailing thousands of booklets with not much success. I was lucky if 1% of 1% signed up as distributors. And they dropped out faster than I could add new ones.. Pretty soon, you run out of quality people to mail to. The internet makes this even worse, but they have to be more careful, but the spam continues to explode.
Check out this Web site: http://www.vandruff.com/mlm_faq.html... - for more facts, not hype about MLM and what a world-wide fraud it is.
I will probably get lots of MLMers who will villify me for trashing MLM, but I've been there and done it and I know first hand what a fraudulent scam it is that can destroy your life, drain you wallet and ruin your friendships.
Kindest Personal Regards,
Walt Brown
Site Build It Certified Webmaster
http://results.sitesell.com/waltera1.html
walter@capecod-beaches.com/
wab@theworld.com
P.S. Remember, there are no get rich quick schemes that work. If there were, the entire world would be rich in an instant, or as they say, a New York minute. I used to be gullible and naive and fell for some of them - no more. Be a sceptic. Be a doubting Thomas. Why are there thousands of GRQ schemes, because they work! Thousands of Gullible people believe that there is such a thing as GRQ and con artists take advantage of that. Demand proof, bank statements, tax returns, not hype.
P.P.S. Jeekers! You gotta remember - if it sounds too good to be true, it is.
P.P.P.S. Find some other way to make money. Have you tried e-bay? Get this book - How to Buy, Sell & Profit on eBay by Adam Ginsberg. Get this one too - Don't Get Burned on eBay by Shauna Wright. Another good one is: Three Weeks to eBay Profits by Skp McGrath. It cost nothing to sign up and find out about it. There are lots of tutorials where you can learn from the experts and most of it is free. Try getting free tutorials and expert advice from the so-called MLM gurus - free stuff would ruin their con.
Getting Started In Network Marketing & MLM
My first year in the MLM & Network Marketing Industry was basically spent running in circles trying to figure out what systems worked and what it was about these systems that made them work. What I discovered after spending over $20K on my marketing education was: Nearly every strategy I was being educated in would be effective with the odd exemption of course and all I had to do was remember to remind myself of the 2 primary elements that you get paid to do in any business where your success is based around sales, which would be just about any business... "Right"
Retail: (Synonyms: advertise, barter, display, exchange, merchandise, offer for sale, retail, vend, wholesale)
Recruit: (augment, better, build up, call to arms, call up, deliver, draft, engage, enlist, enroll, fill up, find human resources, gain, impress, improve, induct, levy, mobilize, muster, obtain, procure, proselytize, raise, reanimate, recoup, recover, recuperate, refresh, regain, reinforce, renew, repair, replenish, repossess, restore, retrieve, revive, round up, select, sign on, sign up, store up, strengthen, supply, take in, take on, win over)
Of course it goes deeper than just this, but if you place these 2 goals at the top of your list before you get to work every day then your on your way. Sounds easy right… Now just take a few minutes and think, what is it you will have to do to achieve this
There has been a lot and still is a lot of weight being focused on the 3 foot rule where people are saying that making a list of friends and family, placing flyers on windscreens in parking lots, attempting to pitch anyone that comes within 3ft or less of you; spending hrs on the phone cold calling people and holding meetings at home and in hotels all over the country is simply not the way to do business these days.
That's NOT to say that these methods don't still work (because there are still a lot of people using this method and having success) the question is, how much spare time would you really have? This method takes real commitment and those that are succeeding using it are truly working long and hard for their success. do. Personally I hated every second of it so I went looking for better ways.
Network Marketing & MLM Speed Bumps.
Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing
Don't mis-interperate me here guy's PPC is an extremely mighty tool to use but… As you learn, you'll hear about the guy's that love using Pay Per Click (PPC) to push traffic (Recruit & Retail) Guys; trust me on this one Don't try using adwords or PPC without first getting educated in all the pitfalls and traps that will drain your PPC budget quicker than your lawn grows in the tropical Queensland summer, if you dont fully understand adwords. My first few months in PPC equaled thousands of dollars of crazy wasted money with my leads costing way more than I was making, because I didnt grasp adwords and the penalities that were costing me heaps driving my bid prices up. I finally came to my senses and invested in training from the experts. I kept thinking that tomorrow would be different but tomorrow would come and go and the results would linger the same.
My Advice: You Absolutely Positively Have To Understand Adwords Before You Dive In And Throw A Single Penny At It.
As you continue to dig around the internet searching for ways to (Retail & Recruit) It's likely that you will come across some people that recommend buying lists. When you come across these people there are certain steps that you will need to take (BIG FAST ONES) Been there done that… TURN & RUN OK. I'll be honest with you here, I had been warned about these lists but I still had a go at them against my better judgment. The warnings I had received were absolutely true.
You will no doubt find sites that offer free advertising where you build credits by viewing other people's offers and Business Opportunities. Can you guess… Yep! Been there done that too.
when I did manage to get some leads this way the quality wasn't very high and I quickly came to realize that you would spend a lot of valuable time on these sites either going through and having the page open for the required amount of time then moving as quickly as possible to the next to build your credits up so that you could continue to advertise your opportunity. Then if something did catch your eye it wouldn't be long before something else turned up that distracted your attention. Do you see how this goes… Way too much stuff going through your head and the clock continues ticking away as your (Recruit & Retail) time vanishes for another day.
Do you think all the other people using this method are any different? Of course you could pay to advertise on these sites and then you save time because you don't have to go and open other ads to build your credits, but … do you honestly think the majority of people doing this are really looking for a business opportunity or just trying to advertise their own? There are so many better ways.
I was looking for the magic bullett and trying all sorts of tactics to get people to see what I had to offer and I was missing one of the most crucial pieces of the puzzle while I ran in circles. It's a really big piece of the puzzle I call the Fundamental Centerpiece and it belongs right near the heart of everything. Visualize a puzzle where YOU have to make each piece as you go, you can't start at a corner and build from here because the only portion YOU have is YOU, so what is the next piece.
I'm not trying to take credit for coming up with this on my own, remember I did spend over $20K on training but amidst all that education I had been overlooking the one critical dynamic that would make all the difference in my Network Marketing & MLM success. (It was Fundamentals) You could say; I was revving the engine but going nowhere because I hadn't selected a gear yet.
In order to get sales you need traffic; in order to get traffic you need exposure; to get exposure you need to spend money on advertising right? … (Wrong!)
So how do you get exposure without spending.
The answer is simple, (Search Engines) Not PPC, at least not yet ok. Here is where the Fundamentals come in. How are you going to go and search for information to learn marketing strategies for Network Marketing & MLM, your going to head over to google or yahoo search engines… right.
Now you type you're your keyword in the search engine and hit enter; what do you find more often than not? Over and over againyou will find an article that someone has written that is specific to that particular keyword… right!
Article Marketing is an Extremely Powerful Tool that has the potential to drive massive amounts of traffic to you and your opportunity. What does google and yahoo search engines love?
Just like us humans google loves to read new content, so how do you let google know that you have just made some interesting new content for the spiders to come and read.
One Word - WordPress Blog, ok that's two words, but did you know that wordpress comes with a ping function that instantly sends google and other search engines and sites whats known as a ping that will instantly tell them that you have just updated your content and over time provided you are committed and make daily and regular updates your articles and subject matter are going to get elevated rankings in the engines giving you better exposure. WordPress also comes with a bunch of other really cool marketing plugins that allow you to update Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Youtube and countless other Social Media, Bookmarking sites with the click of a mouse allowing you to (Retail & Recruit) effectively and fit 24hrs of marketing work into just a couple of hrs per day.
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