The WF is really much more geared to Internet Marketing or IM rather than Multi-Level Marketing or MLM. But a young marketer had posted an interesting question looking for advice. His question was how could he get his opportunity in front of fifty people daily.

That was all the opening the naysayers needed to jump on MLM in general, tearing it and every MLMer from pillar to post. There were, however, a small handful of MLMers who certainly “got it” and shared some great advice. And below is a snippet of some regarding using an Internet mass market appeal to potential prospects and customers:

“Scrap this idea immediately. Exposing your business to mass numbers of people via the Internet is not how a successful mlm business is built.

“It’s built by connecting… REALLY CONNECTING… with people on a one to one basis who are, or will become, leaders who will duplicate a few simple actions and perform them on a consistent daily basis.

“There is no path to long term mlm success in marketing to the masses via the Internet.”

MLM is a very personal business done best face-to-face. For those who don’t like talking to people, marketing in mass seems to be a way to crack the nut. But it doesn’t work without eventually talking and listening to people.

You might generate your own leads with a give-away and a website and an opt-in page BUT EVENTUALLY YOU HAVE TO TALK  – AND LISTEN — TO THOSE WHO RESPONDED & EXPRESSED AN INTEREST IN YOUR OFFER. Or why bother? They will not simply enroll in large numbers without the MLMer taking a huge part in the business

Speaking commercially and Listening are the two most crucial skills for any MLMer in any MLM company.

All the other skills pale in comparison.

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and with Action,

It Is Received.

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There is a disconnect between what is believed and what is done.

By most professional estimates up to 98% of those who call themselves Network Marketers are not achieving their goals. Oh, and by the way, so many economies are in serious, serious trouble. Do you think there may be some correlation?

Witness the following screenshot and a bit of text from an email I received this morning:

 The writer of those words was a member of a Valencia University economics class. The professor, Jack Chandliss, asked the class to write an essay on what the American dream means to them, and what they want the federal government to do to help them achieve that dream. Out of 180 students participating, only about 10% wanted the government to leave them alone and not tax them too much, but a whopping 80% wanted the government to provide pretty much the whole dream thing wrapped in a tidy bow – including free college tuition and health care, jobs, even the down payment on their future homes, money for retirement and hard cash, taken in the form of taxes from rich people.

Take a moment to watch a worthwhile interview with the professor by clicking here now

The point here is not complex, but it is important.

With the apparatus of state education over many years serving to bamboozle the populace into the hardened belief that government has a positive role to play in virtually all aspects of modern life, it should come as no surprise to anyone that, when push comes to shove, people are now trained to look to government to solve the problems – even when it was the government that created the problems in the first place.

So, just as too many are expecting the government to solve problems, in Network Marketing too many are expecting companies and uplines to succeed for them.

Learn the skills and save yourself by, paradoxically, helping others save themselves.

You can read the entire email here:

http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/apr-s-moi-le-d-luge

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Instead of backing out of the muck they created by criticizing Ann Romney, they waded deeper into it.

If you missed it here’s a quick recap. Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strategist, said that Mrs. Romney “Never worked a day in her life” in spite of the fact the woman has raised five sons, survived cancer and now suffers from Multiple Sclerosis.

How have her critics gone deeper into the goo you may ask.

By saying that she and her husband haven’t had the life experiences most Americans have faced.

And what is the rationale these critics suffer under and use to get away with this attack?

Why, the Romneys have MONEY!

So, using this quite convoluted logic, when one  has MONEY! one has nothing that could ever pass for real life experience. Or struggles. Or heartbreak..

Because where there is MONEY!, there are never,  ever any real problems, are there?

Cancer? MS? So what? She has MONEY!

How utterly revealing. These numbskulls believe that MONEY! solves all problems; that with MONEY! nothing else really matters; that having lots of MONEY! makes one immune to the troubles, struggles and heartbreaks of life. And one could never have any worthwhile life experience on the way to actually creating all that wealth.

Is there a better example of money being misunderstood than what these fools are exhibiting?

Someone’s being swallowed up by their own vile mess.

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If you haven’t heard this one yet, here it is: Democrat strategist Hillary Rosen said on CNN last night that Ann Romney, wife of sure-to-be Republican candidate for president Mitt Romney, “never worked a day in her life”.

In light of the fact that Mrs. Romney raised FIVE boys, in light of the fact that the emerging Democratic strategy for the upcoming presidential election is to assert that Republicans don’t honor women, Ms. Rosen’s comments are beyond stupid.

They are well beyond the border of ridiculousness and remind me of some of the insanity I’ve heard from different upline personages in my MLM career over the years. Here’s a short list:

– make a list of family and friends who secretly envy you and DON”T want you to succeed,

– spend good money on the purchase of a list of people who aren’t even remotely interested in owning their own business,

– talk to every single person you ever encounter during your entire day (aka the 3′ foot rule) without ever qualifying them for interest in what you do,

and my all-time favorite,

– this is for everyone and anyone can do it! As if someone’s disposition, desire and skills have nothing to do with success of any kind.

It makes you wonder how anyone – I’ll be kind — so misinformed, can rise so high. In politics or Network Marketing.

Then again, on second thought, it’s not so unimaginable after all. The world is full of deceit, injustice and cronyism.

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Full Disclosure: In 1992 I was accepted by Fordham University into its Masters program in Clinical Psychotherapy but chose not to take that fork in the road.

Now I am engaged in a pursuit of a different sort in which human behavior and personal triumph is front and center, namely Network Marketing. When I took this particular fork in the road to enter this arena I thought I was turning away from pyschology.

Ah, the Force of Destiny or La Forza del Destino! as the Italians would say.

Back to Dr. Blanton’s book Radical Honesty.  As explained by the author the root of the word radical is the Latin radix, which means root. So the honesty he calls for is ‘root honesty’, the deepest honesty to be found in a person’s being. Only by facing that deepest truth can any one of us be truly free.

Yet so much of humanity is terrified by and of freedom, so terrified that they have surrendered themselves to authorities of every stripe. In particular, so many who say they are attracted to the appeal of freedom and have claimed that they are pursuing freedom using Network Marketing as their vehicle toward that end, undermine themselves by being mired in the bullshit of their minds.

To Be or Not To Be.

In 2008 at the first Networking convention I had ever attended I heard a very accomplished presidential level young woman tell the audience that “this business will challenge every weakness you have.”

And so it has. And so it will.

On Saturday May 14, 2011 this was the very topic of a training call offered by Richard Dennis.

Here is the link. I am sure you will enjoy his call, entitled  Leaders Take ACTION.

http://tinyurl.com/5rghmtz

To Be or Not To Be indeed.

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“Give me a break . . .

“So I was giving the “Skills Test” to a potential leader. He couldn’t answer a single one of the 10 skills needed to get a new distributor started. Ouch. “When I asked him if he was going to learn how to do this business, he said,

“Why do I have to learn that? I have a good attitude and I have goals. That’s all I should need. I don’t want to bother learning how to do this business.”

“Well, it is hard to learn to spell if you refuse to learn the alphabet.

** If you can’t share with your new distributor four or five great opening sentences that get prospects to beg you for a presentation, what chance does your new distributor have to get presentations?

** If you can’t write down word-for-word exactly what to say to get an instant appointment, should you let your distributor just make something up and hope for the best?

** If you don’t tell your new distributor the three real reasons people join, will he leave those reasons out of his presentation?

** If you don’t show your new distributor the two ways of creating “instant vision” – how will your new distributor keep his team motivated?

** If you don’t give your new distributor three or four great, rejection-free closing sentences, won’t your new distributor be afraid of closing?

** If you don’t teach your new distributor the “needs vs. wants” principle, won’t your new distributor get discouraged quickly?

** If you don’t teach your new distributor the exact words to say to take control of the prospect’s mind to get his total attention, won’t the message go unheard?

“So if you are a new distributor reading this newsletter, go to your upline’s training and learn these skills. Don’t make excuses. Don’t blame the weather, say you are too tired, that you are busy petting the stray cat you just bought … just go to your upline’s training sessions and learn. “And if you are a leader reading this newsletter, give your new distributors the skills they need right away. Don’t let them struggle. Write down exactly word-for-word what your new distributors should say and do. “Anyone can do this business easily if they just say the right words and do the right things.”

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If you are in the New York tri-state area and you have finally arrived at the point where you realize

“I DO have to learn that . . .”

Come join us as we present Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter on Monday, April 9^th from 7:15 – 10:00 pm: How To Get Your Prospects to Say YES Immediately!

We’ll be at the Ripley-Grier Studios, located at 520 8^th Avenue & 36^th Street, in Studio 16F, on the 16^th Floor.

The cost is just $20 at the door but you can get a 50% discount by RSVPing at the Meetup site.

There is NO COST to join at http://MLMskillsforsuccess.com

And please take note that NO recruiting, promoting or selling is permitted at our Meetups. We have created a space where network marketers can come together without the onrush of the typical feeding frenzy and where you can SAFELY bring your downline and prospects.

Any questions? Contact me: tony@ajlauria.com

The discount applies only to ALL who respond and get on our RSVP list.

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So I am enlisting the help of Randy Gage in making the case for MLM, or Network Marketing. Here’s his latest blog post.

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Why Network Marketing?

By Randy Gage  March 31st, 2012

Some have skepticism about Network Marketing.  Others see it as the last bastion left in the free enterprise system an average person can create wealth.  Just how real is the promise, and why does it work?

True economic freedom requires that you employ two basic prosperity principles:

1)   You must employ the concept of leverage, to escape the trading-time-for-money dilemma; and

2)   You must be able to look in the mirror every morning and know you’re talking to the boss.

When you put these two factors in play, manifesting prosperity is no longer a wild pipe dream, but something you can really accomplish.

When you take the entrepreneurial excitement of working for yourself and combine that with leveraging yourself through a network of other excited entrepreneurs—the results are exponentially spectacular. The synergistic process creates a whole that is much more powerful than its individual parts. Done properly, the end result of building your network is a self-perpetuating, residual income machine.

There are probably as many reasons to work the biz as there are distributors. Usually, though, it comes down to the kind of lifestyle networking can give you. Some of the unique benefits of this business include:

• Choosing the people you work with;
• Going into business with a small investment;
• Starting part-time;
• Working from home;
• Low Risk;
• Picking the hours you work;
• Discovering unique products not available elsewhere;
• Getting lucrative tax advantages;
• Enjoying the opportunity for an unlimited income;
• Having the chance to build your success while empowering others to succeed.

This complete benefit package simply is not available in any other business I know of.  It is unique to MLM.   So who can you tell about it today!

- RG

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You can watch this 10 second YouTube video and get a huge hint.

You see, just like the former Speaker was exhorting her peers to FIRST pass the bill BEFORE reading it, the worst MLM companies tell prospective distributors to FIRST join the company BEFORE reading its Policy & Procedures contract.

Consider yourself forewarned.

Whatever your politics are, we know SHE was hiding something (or why say such a thing) but do you know what that MLM might be hiding? If you need some help with determining what a P&P (Policy & Proceudre) or a pay plan is hiding, download this at no cost.

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Your economy begins in YOUR home, regardless of what they are doing in Washington. Regardless of the outcome of the election this November.

I mean historically, does the government instill confidence in you to fix the economy? Or to fix ANYTHING?

Let the Dimwits and the Repulsives squabble over THE economy. We, you and I, should be concerned with OUR OWN economies respectively. Because we know what we can do.

The simplest and least costly way to get a handle on this is to get paid for something you are already doing. In fact, it is something you’ve been doing since you were 5 or 6 years old.

What’s that?

Recommending.

Referring people to products or services that you use and enjoy and feel good about.

As I said you did it when you loved a new breakfast cereal and a new TV serial. You do it when you find a great restaurant and when you come across a magical, awesome, fabulous book or movie.

You just never got paid for doing it before.

Want to change that?

Check out this brief video.

Have a question? Email me. tony@ajlauria.com

You can also get a copy of a blueprint that lays out what this is all about, what to look for and what to avoid. There’s no cost for the download.

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