If you are
committed and you devote enough time to develop your
"business" to make it successful, MLM CAN and probably WILL
make you a millionaire. MLM is probably the easiest and fastest
way to make a lot of money when you are successful (unless you win the
lottery or you are a professional athlete of course!). But don't
fool yourself, it won't happen tomorrow. Like any other
business, MLM takes time before becoming fruitful. You just need
to find the one that is right for you, one that will teach you how to
get there and support you along the way. And once you have found
it, don’t quit. The only way to fail is if you give up.
Be patient. Big incomes never happen overnight. Think BIG!
Small desire produces small results just as small fires produce little
heat.
In MLM
programs, you have to sell something. Your commissions come from
retail sales, not exclusively from recruiting! Well, I'm sorry,
but I'm not a salesperson. That's why I've never been seriously
involved with multi-level marketing before. I was one of those
people who looked at the others who were successful and envied them
but no way I was going to try it as my main source of income myself.
I knew I couldn't sell anything even if my life depended on it.
With a background in marketing and public relations, I have been
approached several times with different ideas. Some sold
financial services. Another was to sell Amway products on the
internet. I have attended business meetings and met successful
people from MLM companies, but... it just wasn't right for me.
Sorry, not interested. I don't care how much money I can make.
Do you
recognize yourself here? Read on...
We're all
different, with different interests and aptitudes. If you're a
great salesperson, you'd probably do very well in multi-level
marketing with the right program and support behind you. When
you think of Amway, Mary Kay, Avon, Herbalife, these are all MLM
businesses that are extremely successful and have been around for a
long time. How many people have these companies turn into
millionaires? Lots! But none of them were for me.
And I do admit, it is scary to make money and be successful...
especially when your friends and family are just normal, every day
people, and try to discourage you from the start. They have
nothing but negative comments about the whole thing, tell you that
you're going to losing money even before you start or give it a fair
chance and that you'll never make it. They laugh at you for
trying to make something of your life. You're doomed to fail
right from the beginning!
To better
describe MLM, I found the following article when I was doing research.
An excerpt
from Big Al's Super Prospecting: Special Offers & Quick-Start
Systems
Why do some
MLM distributors consistently make terrible choices, lose money, watch
their MLM companies crumble, and lead a life of frustration with no
results for their efforts?
Why do some
MLM distributors make the right choices and build successful MLM
businesses?
It’s
simple. Consider this situation.
You are
standing in a room with three doors. Behind each door is an
opportunity, a path that will lead you to either success or failure.
You don’t know what kind of opportunity or success lies behind each
door, so you have three options.
1. You can
stay standing. Don’t make a choice or a commitment. Just don’t do
anything. Stay where you are in life.
A lot of
people make this choice. It’s easier to watch TV, complain about
your job, and hope that the government will raise wages, lower prices,
and eliminate taxes. Yeah, that’s a great business plan for success.
Just cross your fingers and hope that something good will happen.
After all, why take chances? Your neighbors and co-workers will only
criticize your efforts to be different. They want you to stay behind
with them. Misery really does love company.
2. Blindly
pick a door. Maybe you feel lucky, hope that hype will work in your
favor, or feel good about the vibes from picking your lucky number.
Does trial
and error work? Yes. But it works very, very slowly. If it takes a
lifetime of mistakes to find the right path to MLM success, you
won’t have much time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Should you
re-invent the wheel? Should you repeat someone else’s mistakes?
"Practice makes perfect" really isn’t true. Practice only
perfects your ability to make the same mistake over and over again.
3. Ask
someone what is behind those doors.
That’s the
power a mentor can add to your "desire for success."
Doesn’t it make sense to simply ask someone what is behind the three
doors? Why take chances with your life? Why leave your MLM success
subject to guessing, finger crossing, and a lottery mentality?
Finding a
mentor can take years off your path to MLM success. A mentor can help
you avoid disasters and can make sure your work accumulates to attain
your personal success. There is nothing more frustrating than seeing
lots of your effort wasted. Too many people work hard in MLM only to
find that they have to start over again and again. Ouch!!!
Your mentor
can share with you the experiences of others. While other people have
paid the price of trial and error, your mentor can give these results
for free. That sure beats getting a flat forehead from beating your
head against a brick wall from frustration.
Your mentor
can ask about your goals, time commitment, experience, and
preferences. He will ask about your present and desired lifestyle, if
you like to retail, or how comfortable you are with different styles
of sponsoring and business building.
Your mentor
can guide you through the minefields of "hype." He can tell
you if one person made a big check at the expense of 100 people
receiving no check. He will show you the pitfalls of short-term
strategies. And, you will find out what really works — and what
doesn’t.
The
successful big earners in MLM built their businesses from using two
successful strategies:
Strategy #1
for MLM success: If you want to learn how to be successful in
MLM, learn from someone who is already successful. Become a Siamese
twin to a successful MLM leader who you can relate to. Make her or him
your best friend and companion.
Sounds
simple, but new distributors almost always violate this strategy. If
you want to earn $100,000 a year, would you ask a neighbor who earns
$40,000 a year how to do it? Would you value his opinion and advice in
this matter? Would you take your $100,000 opportunity to him for his
review and decision?
No. Of course
not.
If your
neighbor knew how to earn $100,000 a year, he certainly wouldn’t be
earning only $40,000 a year. You wouldn’t take your plumbing
problems to your lawyer. You wouldn’t expect your dentist to have
the teaching skills to educate your children. And you certainly
wouldn’t go to your government for business advice — they only
know how to produce deficits!
So, whom does
the new distributor ask for advice on his new MLM opportunity? His
neighbor who says the secret to success is to watch plenty of TV and
to choose lucky numbers in the lottery? A friend who tried to build an
MLM business but failed? Or, should the new distributor ask his
attorney because he received a degree for memorizing law books and
legal codes?
Your strategy
for MLM success is to get advice and guidance from someone who knows
how to be successful in MLM. So, find your mentor first, and
then follow your mentor’s advice. Don’t take bad advice from
unqualified friends and enemies.
Strategy #2
for MLM success: Learn from someone who has a system for success that
you can follow.
There are
many great athletes who are naturals. With very little training and
instruction they reach high levels of success. While they may be
excellent performers, they may not have the ability to transfer their
knowledge to you. When you ask one of these gifted, natural athletes
how they do it, they’ll say, "Gosh, I just go out and do
it."
That’s not
the kind of instruction you want.
You want
specific instructions, a step-by-step approach, a proven path to your
MLM success. Make sure your mentor has a "guaranteed"
success plan that works.
How do you
know your mentor’s plan works? Simply ask for the names of people
who have used the plan and observe their progress. If the mentor is
successful, but his personally-sponsored distributors are struggling,
what do you think will happen to you?
If the mentor
is successful, and his personally-sponsored distributors are
successful, that’s the place you want to be.
It would be
nice if you could learn MLM success from high school, a university, or
from watching a Saturday morning TV. But you can’t. If you really
want MLM success, use these two-mentor strategies to turbocharge your
MLM career.