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Just Get Three People Into Your MLM Business And All Your Wildest Dreams Will Come True...Or Not

Guest post by: Greg Tucker

Article Overview: A story about the real struggles of direct marketing reps. in growing their business without a solid MLM marketing strategy.

Just Get Three People Into Your MLM Business And All Your Wildest Dreams Will Come True...Or Not

"Several months ago, I was so excited about my MLM business. My business mentor suggested that if I got just three people into my business and then helped them get three people, then I would be on my way to financial success. Guess what? I got my three distributors into the business and I remember being very happy the day I signed up number three. Who are the members of my dream team? Let me introduce you to Mark, Sarah and Pat. Mark is a successful businessman who knows a lot about marketing and advertising. Sarah has lived in the same town for fifty something years and knows everybody, and Pat is a real estate agent with over one thousand people on her Facebook page!

I was very excited about the products and now I had my first three people in place and we were ready to roll. If I could get them moving, the sky was the limit. Sarah immediately enrolled her daughter who had no money, so Sarah paid for her to join. So now Sarah was very excited! Then her daughter, who did not really want to be in the company in the first place, got online and found nine different entries talking negatively about our company and our product line. Sarah cares for her daughter and thinks highly of her opinion. She believes strongly that if you see something in print, it has to be true. As I said, Sarah knows everyone in town, but Sarah has yet to get anyone else involved other than her daughter. So now I had four people in my downline. Two of them were stuck in idle, so I had to focus my attention on the other two.

As I mentioned to you, Mark is a genius and a successful businessman. For weeks, he worked to create his own marketing materials and paid a lot of money to have them printed, even though the company has fantastic marketing tools available for free. This was not a good sign. He has created graphs, projections and charts outlining his future success in the business. He went so far as to create his own MLM marketing strategy and stated that he was willing to share it with anybody on my team. Two months went by and Mark was still getting ready to get ready. Thank goodness for Pat. She is a mover and a shaker! She is involved in real estate and I see her on Facebook almost daily. The night she went to her first meeting with me, she said that it would be like opening the flood gates once she got started. I still see her interacting daily on Facebook several times a day. I am dumbfounded that none of this mindless chatter has anything to do with our business. Not even once has she mentioned it on Facebook. I noticed it was more and more difficult to reach her until finally, she stopped returning my calls. What was I supposed to do now? My sponsor is not doing much better. He has only nine distributors on his team. I am out of good leads. What in the world am I going to do now?"

This is more typical than most would like to admit. It is not 1978, but most people involved in direct marketing go about growing their business as if 1979 is just around the corner. It is 2009, and there is a better way to do this business. It is time to stop chasing leads. Have them come to you. Stop bugging your friends and family. Tear up your list, or what is left of it and stop working harder; start working smarter. There is a way for you to generate quality leads for your business on the internet. There are effective online marketing strategies out there. You just have to do your due diligence. It's like night and day the difference between building locally and building globally. An effective MLM marketing strategy is absolutely crucial today if you want to be successful. Find one that is right for you in order to ensure your success.

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