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Let’s cut the bull crap. MLM prospecting is the first and an essential step
in the network marketing sales process so if you do bad in prospecting,
you are probably bad in the other stages of the sales process. So, it’s best
to master the simplest step of network marketing prospecting, and
this MLM Jetpack guide will help you do just that using curated and
refined 21st-century MLM prospecting techniques explained in explicit
detail.
Contrary to what your mentors may tell you, not everybody is a prospect.
Yep, you read that right. Come to think of it, why would the word

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“prospecting” even existed if everybody was a prospect? Prospecting, in
my definition, is the process of getting leads and funneling the collected
leads on who are qualified for your business on both the financial power to
purchase or invest and on their entrepreneurial mindset.
You can talk to every person you meet at a coffee shop and ask if he is
interested in your product or business opportunity, but that would be a
waste of time. Instead, you talk to persons who display financial capacity
and an entrepreneurial mindset.
You can do that by observing what they wear, what type of coffee they
buy at a coffee shop, and what they do at a coffee shop: does he read a
book like “The Millionaire Next Door,” does he encode financial
statements on his Apple MacBook Air? But you are not limited on
network marketing prospecting in coffee shops. For example, when riding
public vehicles like buses, you observe your seatmate on what type of
clothes they wear and what are they are doing inside the bus while waiting
to get off: does he blankly stare outside or call someone and talk about
business matters using his brand new Apple iPhone 6? You can develop
your parameters in identifying whether a person is a right fit for your
business.
There are three steps in MLM prospecting: getting the lead,
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called prospect) to set an appointment with you. Let me tell you, at first
glance these steps might look like a piece of cake but the truth is it is not.
Once you are there in front of that step, you will have that what do I do
moment.
There are many ways to get a lead like tapping your warm market,
through blogging, or via clothes marketing. Traveling on a bus and talking
to your seatmate is also one way to get a lead. Most of these mediums are
discussed below in this guide as the 15 network marketing prospecting
strategies.
After you get the lead, it is now time to establish communication with him
to find out if he’s a perfect fit for your product or business opportunity
because sometimes looks can be deceiving. As I’ve stated in the
introduction above, you may see a person typing financial statements into
a MacBook air while drinking coffee at a coffee shop but when you talked
to him and got to know him better, you found out that he has a strict
employee mindset and not an entrepreneurial one. He has the financial
power to buy your product or invest in your business, but he won’t be the
one you’re looking for when it comes to duplication or leverage on your
network.
Of course, you will earn when that person buys your product or invests in
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when selling and training these types of people. But if you persist and
recruit these types of individuals, I will say that you are in it for the quick
buck and not for the long term, which is very much unsustainable if you
are looking to be financially free. Instead of prospecting for the “one”, you
are selling to these impostors. I’ve experienced my fair share of that.
The last step is for the lead, now called prospect after sifting him out, to
set an appointment with you for you to explain the whole business to him.
For you to do this, you must give the prospect a teaser of what’s in store
for him when he agrees to set an appointment with you and when he joins
you in your network marketing business. Just don’t spill the beans too
much, revealing too much about your product or business can lead your
prospect having doubts without you having the chance to counter those
doubts.
This behemoth 10,000+-word guide is dedicated to making your network
marketing life easier by providing you with up-to-date MLM prospecting
techniques that will surely guarantee you results if you apply it. Also, not
to sound sexist or anything but the guide will be using male examples
throughout. Using a single pronoun such as “he” is better and more
streamlined to read compared to using slashes in-between pronouns like
“he/she” or “him/her.”

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But before we jump in on the network marketing prospecting techniques,
we are going to classify the MLM prospecting methods tackled in this
guide into two: Active and Passive.

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Active network marketing prospecting is being active, meaning you are
exerting effort for you to have prospects. If you don’t exert effort, you
won’t have any prospects. Active prospecting is the hard but proven way
of MLM prospecting. It’s best to do active network marketing prospecting
strategies when you just started in network marketing because it lets you
feel the nature of the business you’ve just entered. Among the techniques
included in active MLM prospecting are Warm Marketing, Cold
Marketing, Cold Calls/Calling, Events Prospecting, Fliers, and Forum
Marketing.

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Your warm market is your most key market and it consists of your family
and friends. We are taught that your warm market is the first market that
you should endorse your product or business opportunity on as soon as
you’ve joined your company, which is very much recommended.
Although I said it is the most fundamental, I did not mention that it is the
easiest. In Warm Marketing, you will encounter the most number of
rejections. That’s why you need to arm yourself with some of the
approaches that I’ve listed below taken from the book of Chinkee Tan
called How I made My 1st Million in Direct Selling and How You Can
Too. These approaches have scripts that you can use.
The initial approach is the personal approach. If you know the prospect
good enough, you can just go ahead and set the appointment immediately.
This method works for your family and close friends. Below is a line that
you can use when using the personal approach.

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“Hi Bob! I want to set a meeting with you over a cup of coffee or tea to
show you a business that I’m currently in to right now that will surely
interest you. Are you available right now?”
When you said that the business will surely interest Bob, you are affirming
it to him that he will be interested in it even at the first place he doesn’t
know what it is. The power of attraction.
The next approach is the compliment approach. In this method, you
praise the person by telling him why you have chosen him on hearing
about your product or business. Think about this: if someone says
something nice about you, don’t you feel good and wouldn’t you want to
listen to what is being said? Leading a conversation with a compliment
opens things up for good reception, but beware of giving forced
compliments as people can easily detect them. Below is a line that you can
use when using the compliment approach.
“Hi Bob! I know you are successful, aggressive, and a go-getter
individual. I have found a business opportunity that will surely interest
you! Would you like to hear about it right now?”
The last approach is the third-person approach. In this kind of approach,
you ask your prospect if he knows someone who is interested in becoming
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had you asked someone else when you can ask him. This approach will
trigger your prospect’s curiosity and for surely he will ask what business
you’re in right now.
The worst case scenario in this method is that he will not give any signs of
interest in your business opportunity, but he will refer someone else to
become your prospect instead. But be sure also to follow up your primary
prospect (whom you asked the referral to), because you’ll never know
when he might give a spark of interest in your product of business
opportunity. Below is a line that you can use when using the third-person
approach.
“Hi Bob! Do you know anyone who might be interested in starting their
business of their own? Because I currently running a business right now
that I would like to share to others.”
Aside from the approaches listed above, remember that first impressions
are everything for network marketers. When contacting potential
prospects, you must project yourself as an entrepreneur. You must look
like one, and you must act like one. How do entrepreneurs look and act
like? He uses appropriate business tools like laptops and smartphones,
dresses professionally in business-casual clothing and accessories, is well
groomed, displays proper posture, acts politely, shakes the hand of the
person he just met, and smiles.

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But all of these entrepreneur shenanigans are useless when you don’t have
self-confidence, and you don’t believe in the product and system you are
selling. What’s the use of being well dressed and often smiling when
placed in front of a prospect, you stutter and shake because of
nervousness, or worse, chicken out? Don’t be like one of those network
marketers who didn’t gather up the guts to go and approach a prospect.
Take deep breaths, believe in yourself, the company, and the product then
get that prospect.
As I’ve said, you will encounter a lot of rejections in this
MLM prospecting strategy but remember the reason you’ve joined
network marketing in the first place and that reason will drive you to push
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Here is a network marketing prospecting strategy that has been proven
over time, has been used by generations of network marketers but is now
being considered obsolete since the advancement of the Internet age.
Nonetheless, it still works – Cold Marketing.
Before everything else I would like to give you a specific framework. In
cold marketing and also in other contact MLM prospecting strategies
discussed afterward, we will frequently use the FORM (Family,
Occupation, Recreation, Money) Method.
The FORM Method or Family, Occupation, Recreation, and Money
method are variables that you can ask a person to build rapport (also called
touch base for some). The FORM method is most effective when used to a
complete stranger whom you just met or somebody you know, but you
didn’t see for a very long time.
The F stands for From. Ask the person to tell you where they live or where
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there?” and “do you like the area?” Aside from it, F is also for Family. Try
to find out the person’s civil status or if he has children. As these
individuals’ information are being gathered by you, you can relate on how
your product or business can help his family.
The O stands for Occupation. Ask questions like: “what do you do for a
living?” or “what is your profession?” You can also ask if they like their
job. Find out by saying, “I bet you enjoy your work!” If they don’t enjoy
it, they’ll usually let you know. It is just natural to return the same
question to you. This is now the perfect opportunity to share what you are
doing but keep it short and brief. Your goal is just to get their contact
numbers to set future appointments where you can explain your product or
business better.
The R stands for Recreation. What does the person enjoy doing? They
may not have the time to do these things because of their own business or
job, but find out what excites them. Try to tie-up what they love to do to
with how the opportunity can help them do what they love.
The M stands for Money. Find out if the person is interested in starting a
business of their own. You can also ask: “do you know of anyone who
might be interested in starting a business of their own?” as a third-party
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The opposite of warm marketing is cold marketing; if warm marketing
tackles your warm market, cold marketing tackles your cold market.
Included in your cold market are the persons who you barely know and
don’t know. I know, that’s a lot of individuals, so that means it’s an
enormous market for you when you approach them correctly. There are
three methods in cold marketing: through conversations, cold calls, and
cold e-mail.
You can spark a cold conversation at any possible place you can think of
where your cold market is in, with the exception of course, in private
places such as comfort rooms because that’s just plain creepy.
The trickiest part of a cold conversation is initiating the conversation.
There are a couple of ways to begin a conversation, but the most proven
ones are through positive compliments and discussing neutral public
matters. By praising the person positively, you immediately lessen the
friction between you and the person regarding trust. After the compliment,
you can start exchanging hi’s and names. Discussing neutral public
matters (I mean news), as I observed, is the most frequent conversation
opener practically used by anyone. Start by asking a question to the person
about a widely known news issue but make sure that it’s a qualified
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usually care for the 100 point drop that the Dow Jones had the previous
day.
After opening a conversation, use the FORM method to build rapport. You
do not need to finish the FORM method because once you found out that
the person is encountering problems that can be solved by your product
and business opportunity, you can go on right ahead and offer to pitch
teaser information about your product or business to initiate interest.
Since you interrupted the routine of the person because you talked to him,
it is natural that he rejects your offer. When he rejects your offer, you can
give your business card alongside with a supplementary marketing
material like a flier so that the person can contact you when he is free. You
can also get his contact number and save it in your contact list.
In cold conversations, first impressions are completely everything. Since
the person does not know you, he will rely on your physical appearance to
judge you. You may hear the saying that “don’t judge a book by its
cover”, but, in reality, persons who don’t know you judge you on how you
look and act. Remember to dress and act professionally.
A cold call is a cellular or telephone call to a person and contact number
whom you don’t know. The cold calling practice has been around for ages
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explanation for cold calls is very long this it needs a new segment in this
guide. You’ll find the explanation and process on how to perform cold
calls after this technique.
Subsequently, cold e-mails are e-mails you send to people whom you
don’t know. Cold e-mails are a particularly sensitive topic since cold e-
mails are somewhat relevant to spam. The most important part of a cold e-
mail is getting the addresses whom you are going to e-mail. Finding e-
mail addresses is the hardest part you will do in this technique because
unlike cold calls where you can get telephone numbers at phone books,
there are no public databases that store the e-mail addresses of people.
The go-to option for finding e-mails is by using search engines. You can
also search social media platforms and online forums that display e-mail
addresses. Also, if you want to target website owners, you can use a nifty
tool called Whois to find the e-mail address of the proprietor of the
domain name. Lastly, you can harvest e-mail addresses on classified ads
listing sites like Craigslist, just look at the ads and search a person’s e-mail
address contact option. For a more extensive article regarding collecting e-
mail addresses, Moz has an awesome piece about that.
You can use Microsoft Excel to form a database of your collected e-mail
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find out valuable information that you can use when composing your cold
e-mail like their name, age, and location information.
A cold e-mail is divided into three essential parts that must be carefully
formulated: the e-mail subject, the e-mail body, and the call-to-action at
the end of the e-mail.
When a person opens his e-mail inbox, his eyes immediately look at the
sender of his recent unopened e-mails and then at the subject line. That
means the person will have an unidentified person sending him an e-mail
and will immediately think that the e-mail is spam unless you make them
stop for a moment with a captivating subject line that will ultimately get
him to open it.
Use powerful converting words like amazing, now, and offer to make the
person open a cold e-mail. Take a look at Buffer’s article on the 189
words that convert. Just make sure to take it easy on words like free and its
synonyms because e-mail clients will almost every time consider e-mails
containing “free” on its subject line as spam and will be instantly dumped
at the spam folder.
After the person decides to open the cold e-mail, you will only have a
quick 10 seconds before the person stops scanning the e-mail and decides
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bang and tell the person right away who you are and why are you e-
mailing him. Aside from telling the person your intent, you can also add
links to your blog, squeeze page, and website as supplementary materials
to support your purpose and also to increase your authoritativeness.
There is no perfect cold e-mail template because cold e-mails must be
flexible depending on the information you’ve collected about the person
whom you are e-mailing to, like their name, age, and location. Mentioning
relevant information about the person will add a personal touch to the cold
e-mail.
Lastly, you must have a good and actionable call-to-action to tell the
person what to do next. What you want him to do is to reply to your e-mail
and for him to add you to his address book or contact list so your future e-
mails will not be sent to the spam folder the next time.
If a person replies and is interested, this is now your chance to develop
him to a prospect by getting to know the person even more by using the
FORM method and if possible, set a face-to-face appointment with each
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A Cold Call is a process of contacting someone who you don’t know
personally to offer your product or business opportunity, typically using
either a cell phone or telephone. The word cold call is synonymous with
the world telemarketing.
Ever encountered someone calling you while having dinner just to find out
that the caller is just offering a new insurance product or a credit card
deal? If you don’t have an account with that insurance company or bank,
most probably the agent is performing a cold call. Now recall what you
said to the caller when you found out that they interrupted your dinner just
to offer something that you don’t want as of the moment. Did you curse
the caller, say bad things to him? If so, you’ll likely experience cursing
and other foul words on the other end.
In cold calls, timing is everything. You don’t want to interrupt the person
when he is doing something because his attention will not be completely at
you. So it’s best to time the call on the “dead hours” of the day wherein
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“dead hours” are employees’ lunch breaks and around 10 PM where
people are relaxed and preparing to sleep.
A cold call script can serve as your guide but be sure that you don’t sound
like a programmed robot. A script is recommended for beginners and in
some cases, but not always. Just keep in mind when doing cold calls, be
sure to be relaxed and converse with your prospect in an average and
conversational tone. You only have 10-30 seconds to get the complete
attention of your prospect, so get straight to the point immediately. State
your name, your intention, and what you are offering as fast as possible. A
sample script can be:
“Hello ma’am or sir, my name is John. I’m an entrepreneur on the
franchising line of business and I’m currently expanding and in need of
new business partners. You name came up on my shortlist of potential
business partners and I’m calling to ask if you are interested. Could you
spare a few minutes so I could talk to you briefly about my business
proposal?”
You don’t want to explain the whole business to your prospect through the
phone. Your aim is to get the interest of your prospect so you two could
set an appointment where you can explain the whole business opportunity
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Now where to get the numbers for cold calls? You don’t have to look
far because there’s a huge directory of phone numbers inside your home –
the phone book (the white and yellow pages). Remember to qualify your
prospects in cold calls as the same as cold marketing. In most phone
books, the person’s address is often indicated. If you see that person is
living in a known executive subdivision or a condominium, then he must
have the financial capacity to buy your product or invest in your network
marketing company.
Don’t be shy when doing cold calls. You are shy because you are afraid of
rejection. You are fearful because you don’t know what will happen,
maybe you will get rejected, maybe not. The point is what more if you
progress in your business where you get to meet a lot of negative people
along the way and conduct live business presentations with a bigger
audience? Remember network marketing is a game of who gets the most
rejections. What I’m trying to say is, if you are a shy type of person, erase
that characteristic as soon as possible because it can hinder you from being
successful in network marketing.
If you can’t do it, there is always an alternative, and it’s called cold text
messaging. It’s the same process as cold calls but with a different
medium. But there is a downside in cold text messaging – it has a lower
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appointment compared to cold text messaging plainly because what would
you feel if a person called you rather than just texting you a message? You
would feel important, right? But cold text messaging is a technique
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Our next network marketing prospecting strategy is Events Prospecting.
As the name implies, this MLM prospecting strategy’s aim is to find
potential sign-ups for your business opportunity in events. This technique
is further classified into two: networking events and seminars.
Networking events are the gathering of like-minded persons under
one roof with the sole aim of building the “networks” of the
participants. Think of networking events as mingling events comprising
of persons under the same niche like chefs, airplane pilots, and
businesspersons.
Usually, networking events are conducted by organizations, so the best
way to find these events are in online platforms where there a lot of people
who share the same interest like online forums and social media sites.
Take note that networking events are also called “meet-ups” by some
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Through networking events, one can get prospects, and one can also gain
valuable connections. For example, you attended a networking event for
small business owners and by chance you met an owner of a small printing
shop where you exchanged business cards with him. You did not only
gained a prospect, but you also gained a connection, and when the time
comes you need an affordable print shop for printing your print fliers, you
can use that connection.
A tip on networking inside a networking event is to go alone and find
people at the event who are also alone. Being alone encourages you to find
someone who you can go with until the end of the event and being alone
makes you approachable to people.
To find prospects, you must find a person who is alone and initiate a
conversation with him using the FORM method. In the conversation, be
sure to dwell on the person’s line of work or business so you could also
share the network marketing business that you are in right now.
The conversation must lead to an appointment where you can explain your
product and business opportunity better. Ask him whether he is free the
next day, if not let him set a date preferably within the same week when
you met him. Don’t forget to exchange for his business cards for you to
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A seminar is a room-based learning event conducted by a person or
organization which features a distinguished speaker or a set of
speakers to talk or teach about on a particular theme or subject.
We’re not going to attend every seminar available. We’re going to limit
our choices only to network marketing seminars. These are the type of
seminars that are addressed to network marketers and teach them various
topics on leadership and sales. To find this kind of seminars in you area,
just Google “network marketing seminars + the area where you live” or
you can also find upcoming seminars on your daily newspaper.
When network marketing prospecting during seminars, you will hit two
birds with one stone. First, you will learn something out of the seminars,
and if it proves to be useful, you can apply it and also teach it to your
members or down lines. Second, you can also gain prospects.
But here’s a disclaimer. You can’t directly share your product or business
opportunity to the attendees of seminars because it is forbidden. Inside the
seminar room, everyone is neutral. Everyone is expecting to learn, not to
be sales talked into buying a product or investing in a business
opportunity. What you can do is you can collect the business cards of the
attendees and contact them to endorse your product or business
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How to collect them? Give your prospect value first, as for example,
endorsing to him this MLM prospecting training you’re reading right now.
Say to your prospect that you are interested in improving the sales of her
network by enrolling him in this network marketing prospecting training
but you need his e-mail address and contact number so you could send the
unique link to this training. By following the process above, you’ve built
value. Be sure to follow-up your prospect through phone or e-mail in a
twice a week basis. You may ask her “How’s the training so far, has it
helped you a lot?”
After your prospect has completed reading this guide, he will be most
likely be thinking that you are an expert in MLM prospecting and in the
other aspects of network marketing because you were the one who
recommended her this training.
If your prospect is not happy with the sales of his network in her network
marketing company because most likely his sponsor is not doing a good
job of mentoring him, chances are, he will contact you and will be
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Another network marketing prospecting strategy is Fliers. This
MLM prospecting approach will tap your cold market and will also focus
on giving value to your prospect by investing on and giving them your
business marketing materials which are classified into two – DVD-Rs and
print fliers.
DVD-Rs costs around Php 20-30 ($70) and Php 1 ($0.02) for the sleeves.
You will burn in your invested DVD-Rs an explainer video about your
product and your business and anything that supplements it.
You can give away your DVD-Rs in strategic places where there is a lot of
foot traffic like malls. Compared to print fliers, print fliers can be
distributed in any place that has a lot of foot traffic like train stations
because the investment for print fliers is just minimal. But DVD-Rs, on
the other hand, costs much more for each piece so you need to be tactical
on where you should distribute it such as malls where there are a lot of
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Dress up appropriately too, and business-casual clothes will do. People
will accept your DVD-Rs more if you look professional because you
display authority.
The punch line here is that you will initiate a conversation with a person in
your cold market using the Do I know you? and Where are we?
techniques, build rapport first using the FORM method, then dictate to the
person this actual script:
“I’m looking for aspiring business partners for my new business venture
but the problem is, I don’t have business-minded friends which share the
same mind-set as me. I think you are a business-minded, motivated, and
passionate person so (ACTION: give your CD) here… that’s my last
proposal DVD-R (IMPORTANT: don’t give any clues that you have
more). Contained in that DVD-R is the business plan for my business.
Watch it, I’m sure you won’t regret it. If you liked what you just watched
(ACTION: give your calling card), give me a call and let’s talk about it
with a cup of coffee or tea.”
The two principles that made the script mentioned above effective based
on Cialdini’s six principles of persuasion are the scarcity and liking
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When there is a 1-day 50% off sale today at your favorite clothing store,
don’t you just feel the impulse to go and buy? That’s the principle of
scarcity. If a value proposition is limited, it makes it more attractive to the
target market to act now.
When someone compliments you, you instantly develop a connection with
them. Even when he’s a person who you just talked to seconds ago.
Complimenting alleviates the sense of tension and improves the sense of
trust. According to Robert Cialdini, a person is more likely to be
influenced by the one he likes and complimenting is one way for a person
to like you.
Print fliers’ investment costs around Php 100-150 ($5), depending on the
quality of paper and quantity. You can design your print fliers using your
PC by using Microsoft (MS) Publisher, MS PowerPoint, or the MS Paint
programs.
When creating your print fliers, make sure that it is creative and
professionally designed as possible. Some creative fliers can take the form
of bank checks, gift checks, or paper bills. Using these forms makes
people want to take them because of the human nature of greed and it also
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You want to give away your print fliers where there are a lot of people
passing by such areas are malls, public vehicle terminals, and train
stations.
When giving away print fliers, remember to talk to the person that you are
giving it to for at least a brief 3 seconds. Speaking to the person lessens
the rate of your flier being ignored and thrown away. Also, don’t forget to
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Forum Marketing is endorsing your product or business opportunity in
Internet forums. Internet forums are online and interactive places where
people share ideas and opinions on various topics such as recent events,
sports, arts, recreation, literature, etc.
The first step is to sign-up for your first Internet forum. If you have one
already, you may skip this step. There are various Internet forums that you
can sign-up on for free while others need subscription fees. One of the
most famous forums on the planet is Reddit.
After signing up for your first Internet forum, you must read their
respective forum guidelines first. Reading forum guidelines is done to find
out the required ethics in the forum for you to avoid doing things that will
offend forum moderators and members that can lead to a possible
deactivation of your account.
Now, you don’t sign-up for Internet forums to directly advertise your
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for advertising; forums are about building and cultivating relationships
among its members. You must give value first by answering questions and
voicing out your opinions on threads posted by your co-forum members.
In this way, you are building popularity and authority over the forum
members and also the forum administrators. What would forum members
and admins feel if you’ve contributed a lot to post discussions and
threads?
Another thing that you can get for contributing in forum threads is that
you raise your forum membership rank (it depends on the forum if it
promotes forum hierarchy among its members) and you get to unlock
special features in your account such as the privilege of adding signatures.
Signatures can be a catchy question or statement less than 50 letters
(depending on the forum), or the link to your blog, squeeze page,
or website. A sample signature for an Internet forum can be “Want to talk
business? PM me” plus a link leading to the business’ website.
When contributing in forums, it is most recommended to participate on
threads in the business, entrepreneurship or money matters section of your
forum because the thread topics in those sections are about money. Some
questions asked there, based on my experience, are “What can I do with
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can also contribute to threads in the similar niche of your product or
business opportunity such as health and technology.
People will be curious about you once they notice your contributions in
Internet forums and one of the best ways for them to know you better is to
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Passive network marketing prospecting, on the other hand, is the opposite,
even when you don’t exert any effort, you will still gain prospects. It’s just
like your MLM prospecting runs in auto-pilot mode. The negative side of
passive network marketing prospecting is you are going to spend a lot of
time and resources on building the system that will let your MLM
prospecting run on auto-pilot mode. By a lot of time, I mean a lot of
time. You are going to bear months with little or no income from your
business because you are focusing your attention on your passive network
marketing prospecting strategies. But at the end, it’s still worth it because
prospects will come to you even without you lifting a finger. Blogging,
Squeeze Pages, Website, eBooks, Online Advertising, Social Media,
Clothes Marketing, Inserts, and Print Advertising are the techniques
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A weblog, or blog for short, is a diary-like type of website with a certain
topic or niche depending on the blogger’s interest. Take
DarrenEbona.com, for example, and its niche is the person’s experiences
and thoughts. Yes, experiences and thoughts can qualify as a niche.
You need to start a blog because it will serve as the “central hub” of
your social media accounts, having a blog with a particular niche
(particularly about the product that you are offering) and up-to-date
content can build your authority and expertise image on that niche.
Prospects will trust you more if they look up to you with authority.
The best thing about starting a blog is the infinite number of prospects you
could attract passively, just like in a website. The main difference of a
blog versus a website is the purpose: a blog shows that you are a credible
expert in a certain niche, making people look up to you with authority
while a website is a place where visitors can turn into prospects instantly.
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page to bolster your Internet marketing efforts for your network marketing
business.
Twitter.com is a website, and it has its blog where it shares new
developments on the Twitter platform, shares interesting data that Twitter
collected from its users, and sparks up conversations within the Twitter
community by integrating itself with famous events like the Grammy
Awards and NFL.
We will use the WordPress Content Management System (CMS) as the
“foundation of our blog” because of its ease of use and flexibility. To
create your personal blog, you need three things: a hosting account, a
domain name, and a WordPress theme.
Think of an empty lot inside a subdivision. The hosting plan is like the lot
where the house will be built upon, WordPress is like the foundation
where the house will be constructed, the domain name or domain address
is like the address that points to the house, and lastly, the WordPress
theme is the house itself.
I recommend having JustHost as your hosting and domain name provider
because it’s cheaper to get your hosting there compared to others and they
give out free domain names! For WordPress theme, I recommend
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learn more on how you can setup your blog, visit MLM Jetpack’s
Extensive Guide on Starting Your Own MLM Blog and Website.
But before you create your blog, get a piece of paper and write your target
audience and the topic that you’ll be focusing on for your blog.
Determining the target audience can help you simplify jargon and the tone
of your writing for you blog posts. On the other hand, identifying your
blog’s topic is necessary also because you must have a particular theme in
mind so your blog won’t stray to other unrelated topics.
You must choose your blog name and domain name afterward. A
guideline in selecting your blog name is that it must be relevant to your
product or business opportunity, and it must be searchable, meaning that
people will most likely search your domain name first on search engines
like Google and Yahoo. Using the health supplements example, a possible
blog name could be like Health Improvement Hub with a domain name of
www.healthimprovementhub.blogspot or .wordpress com.
The next thing that you will do is to think how you can offer something of
value to your target market. Offering something of value to the readers of
your blog that is related to what you are offering is an important factor in
building your authority over them, making you credible. Taking the health
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frequently on your blog the latest news, tips, and secrets on achieving
good health that may be of interest to good health fanatics.
To convert your blog readers to prospects, you need to get their personal
details such as their names, e-mail addresses, and contact numbers and to
do that you need an e-mail autoresponder opt-in form. Including an
autoresponder opt-in form in your blog is useful when getting to know
your readers. To get your blog readers to provide their personal details to
you, you need to offer something of great value to them like your blog
posts. You can also offer your created eBook in exchange for their
personal details.
Remember those pesky everyday e-mails that you get from sites offering
unique products? Most likely they sent it to a thousand e-mails (including
yours) using an autoresponder service. You could do that also, but not to
irritate people, but rather to build relationships with your blog readers.
You may send an e-mail blast to all your readers at least once a week
asking them how their week was. Remember to introduce yourself on your
first e-mail or your e-mail may sound creepy.
There are many e-mail autoresponder software out there, and some are
free while some are premium. I recommend ListWire. ListWire is a free e-
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Also, don’t forget to include a “contact me” page inside your blog that has
your personal information like your name, e-mail addresses, and contact
numbers, so your blog readers have a way to communicate with you. You
also need to include links leading to your social-media accounts on the
same page.
Lastly, create a schedule for your blog posts and follow this plan
religiously. For example, you want to post twice a week to your blog,
follow this plan even when you don’t feel like posting. Doing this can
prevent you from losing your frequent blog readers. You can get tons of
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A squeeze page, lead capture page, mini-site, or whatever they call it is
one of the passive MLM prospecting strategies in this guide. For the
record, we will just agree to call it Squeeze Page.
A squeeze page is a particular type of website that is commonly one page
short and is straight to the point. A squeeze page’s primary objective is to
get the contact details of the persons who are visiting the site.
I recommend using Blogger as the platform for your squeeze page because
it’s easier to convert into a one-pager squeeze page compared
to WordPress, plus it has that Google SEO factor.
Squeeze pages are all about Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO). A
conversion is usually a control metric like an e-mail sign up or a purchase
made by a visitor. CRO is the process of tweaking the elements of your
website to find out which converts more than the other. Sample CRO
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button, and the presence of a testimonials portion. Brian Dean of
Backlinko published a massive list of CRO best practices.
There are three major elements of a squeeze page: the headline, the copy
body that also includes the call-to-action (CTA), and the autoresponder
form.
The headline is the first thing that the visitor sees when he visits your
squeeze page. The headline must persuade the visitor to stay on the
squeeze page to read the copy. Some headlines take a form of a question
while others take a form of a statement. If what you are pitching are health
supplements, your headline can be “Did you know that people who drank
ABC Health Supplements experienced increased energy and stamina 98%
of the time?” Support your headline with solid facts to make it more
credible, see what I did with the ABC Health Supplements example?
The meaning of copy in squeeze pages is not the same as what you think.
A copy in advertising means a powerful set of words that entices a person
to do an action. The copy body is the focal point of the squeeze page
because this is where the visitor’s negative beliefs and doubts will be
answered. The copy of your squeeze page must support your CTA, which,
is for the visitor to input their details on your autoresponder form. The
formulation of your headline above can also be attributed to copywriting.
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In most squeeze pages, information is withheld from the visitor unless
they input their e-mail addresses. We will use the same concept in our
squeeze page. That’s why we need an autoresponder form. An
autoresponder form serves as a catch basin for all your visitor’s contact
information so you could build relationships with them and develop them
to a prospect.
Aside from the three elements explained above, there are also minor
details like a testimonials portion or the inclusion of an embedded
explainer video.
The testimonials portion is where the visitors reassure themselves that
what they are seeing is true, and they’re not alone in trying it out because
they know that there are others like them who experienced it firsthand.
You can add the testimonials of product users or success stories of your
company’s top earners here.
The inclusion of a video in squeeze pages is also useful because not
everything can be explained in the copy. You can embed your YouTube
videos describing the product or business here.
To know more about squeeze pages in great detail here is a useful
guide that Wordstream made that will walk you through squeeze pages’
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An essential passive network marketing prospecting strategy in your
arsenal is a Website about your product or business opportunity. A
website is where all your Internet marketing efforts will lead. Your
website will contain the most comprehensive information about your
product or business opportunity in detail.
You can start your MLM website with the same process as with starting
your personal blog. First off, you need a hosting plan (I
recommend JustHost), then a domain name, then a WordPress theme (I
recommend browsing on ThemeForest).
If you want a more detailed course on how to start your website for your
network marketing business, you can visit our free guide on how to start a
blog and website.
After purchasing a hosting account with JustHost, you need to decide on
your site’s title and domain name. A guideline for choosing your domain
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and it must be searchable, meaning that people will most likely search
your domain name first on search engines like Google and Yahoo. Your
domain name can be your product or business opportunity’s name plus
any other relevant word/s in between.
After that, you can start creating different pages in your website like a
page dedicated to explaining your company’s products, a page for
the compensation plan, a page for you company’s various business
packages. Don’t forget to include a contact us page where your name,
contact numbers, e-mail addresses, and social media accounts are posted.
The website can also have a blog. Unlike your personal blog, don’t post in
there topics there like your life because your site’s blog is reserved for
your company and your network. You can publish to your website’s blog
news about your business’ sales rally event or your team building
activities.
Since your site will have a blog, it best to also include an autoresponder
opt-in form on your site’s sidebar. You can send out newsletters to those
who signed up to inform them of company-related information like a
sneak peek to a new class of health supplements that your company is
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Your primary goal in creating a website is ranking. If a person searches
your business’s name, product, or anything related on the Internet, you
want to be the first one on the list of the search engine results page
(SERP). The process of ranking is called search engine optimization or
SEO. The SEO strategies that I would like to share with you in this guide
are keyword optimization and link building.
Keyword optimization is the process of using a set of keywords and
repeating them over and over again to tell search engines that this page is
synonymous with the keywords written. By doing keyword optimization,
the chances of the page being found on search engines is higher. If heath
supplements are your product, your primary keywords can be “health
improvement supplements” and “health medicines”. You can also consider
a few secondary keywords like “health improvement” and “healthy
living.” Wordstream has a blog post tackling the keyword optimization
practice.
Remember to write naturally though because sometimes you might get too
carried away and place keywords in every sentence. That’s called keyword
stuffing, and it might get you penalized by Google and other search
engines.
Link building, on the other hand, is the process of building inbound links
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Search engine’s indexers or spiders pay particular attention to a website
that has the most inbound links. You can start building links by adding
your site’s link to your social media profiles.
A more advanced method is creating quality content (blog posts, videos,
and podcasts to name a few) that makes other websites want to link to as a
reference. But sometimes other websites will have a very hard time
finding your quality content so you must do outreach. Outreach is
connecting to website owners or webmasters and pitching to them your
quality content for them to use on their website. Jason Acidre, a veteran
link builder in the Philippines, has a humongous list of link building
strategies.
Creating your website may take weeks, and it will take months before you
can see steady traffic. But when it booms, together with your other MLM
prospecting strategies, you can be assured that you will get prospects
(even people who want to purchase or invest immediately) beyond what
you’ve expected. Imagine network marketing prospecting actively and at
the same time, prospects come to you as a result of your passive
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eBooks are digital books that you can read and download using a
computer device such as desktop computers and tablets. Many eBooks can
be found on the Internet in which majority of them are free, and some
require a one-time payment before you can download them.
Our first objective here is to create an eBook that will give value to
readers with accordance to your product or business opportunity. If your
product is about health improvement supplements, you can create an
eBook that is related to improving someone’s health. An example is a
huge curated list of health tips that you can advise a person to become
more healthy.
You can create your eBook in Microsoft Word, or you can also download
a dedicated software for eBook publishing on the Internet. The most
common eBook format is in PDF (.pdf).
To convert your eBook readers to prospects, you must devise a call-to-
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you. Using the health supplements example, your call-to-action can be like
“Want to be healthy and at the same time wealthy? Contact John at
(cellular number) or visit (website’s link)”.
Rather than retailing your e-book in Amazon, you will give it away to
people for free. By giving it away for free, you are practicing one of
Cialdini’s six principles of influence – reciprocity. You’ve given
something away for free that has value so that he will feel obliged to
return the good deed back in the form of following the CTA you provided
in the eBook.
Aside from reciprocity, you are also using the authority principle of
influence. You’ve just published a book that provides value, that makes
you authoritative to whoever reads it. Authority is associated with top-of-
mind thought because when they think of health or your business
opportunity, you are the one who first comes into their mind. Pretty much
like how you would associate the United States of America with its current
president.
What’s best about the eBook network marketing prospecting method is
that people who are only interested in, for example, health improvement
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Our second objective is the online mass distribution of your eBook. For
this goal, all you’ve got to do is to go to sites that offer free eBooks and
submit your work to them for free online publishing (some free eBook
sites requires membership sign-up before you can publish your work).
Categorize your eBook on the publishing site depending on your product
or business opportunity’s niche so people can quickly search for your
eBook. If your product or business opportunity is health supplements and
the topic of your eBook is on improving someone’s health, the eBook
could be included in the health and wellness category.
You can also distribute your eBook in your blog or website with a
prerequisite e-mail opt-in form where visitors will input their e-mail
addresses and receive the eBook in exchange. Using the e-mail you’ve
collected, you can conduct e-mail marketing campaigns to develop their
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Online Advertising promotes your product/business on the Internet, and
it’s one of the today’s most effective and efficient advertising medium
regarding ROI and cost. For MLM prospecting, there are two
classifications: web banner advertising and utilizing online classified ad
platforms.
In web banner advertising, you will place graphic advertisements about
your product or business opportunity on individual websites for a fee.
These are the ads that you see on a website’s sidebar. The prices depend
on how large the ad is, how visible the ad is to the site’s visitors (its
placement), how long the ad is placed on the website, and how many
clicks does the ad get.
The pros of web banner advertising are that it brings back visitors who
navigates away from your site (in the case of Google AdWords) and
targets the intended audience’s specific demographics (in the case of
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costly when you want to target competitive keywords that a lot of
businesses are already targeting.
Aside from Facebook and Google AdWords, there are also a lot of
websites that offer advertising opportunities on their site, just be sure to
target the sites in the same niche as yours.
You can create ads with any photo editing software available. You can
also hire someone to do the ad for you (see Fiverr). We need the ad to be
as professional and creative as possible because you are going to invest a
reasonable amount of money for display advertising.
After creating a decent ad, you link that ad to your blog, squeeze page,
or website, so when the target audience sees that ad and clicks on it, he
will be redirected to your blog, squeeze page, or website where he will be
molded into becoming a prospect.
Posting on online classified ad sites are free unless you want the top spot
in the search results, then you have to pay a fee (for some online classified
ad platforms). The most popular online classified ads website in the world
is Craigslist.
What you are going to do is create a classified ad explaining briefly how
your business works. Remember the term “briefly” because you don’t
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objective is for the reader to contact you for him to set an appointment
with you to learn more about your business.
Be sure to include your ad in the proper category such as business, earning
opportunities, or network marketing. You can also include it depending on
your product’s category, such as health and technology.
For some classified ads sites, they allow you to upload pictures of what
you’re selling. Take advantage of this opportunity by uploading relevant
photos of your business. Include here the images of your products and also
an infographic of your business’ compensation plan. You can also add
pictures of you business’ office and business documents (permits,
certificates, etc.) to increase the credibility of what you’re offering.
Remember that humans comprehend graphics more compared to text.
It also works to indicate your business’ principal office address and main
website since it clears the misconception that your legitimate network
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In Social Media Marketing, we are not focusing on endorsing your
product or business opportunity, but rather, social media marketing is
focused on boosting traffic to your blog, squeeze page, and website.
An advantage that you can get when doing this strategy is that search
engines like Google can find and index you on their search results easily.
Social media sites are important because before people will do business
with they will most likely search your name first on the Internet to find out
if you are credible enough. What would a prospect feel when he searches
your name on Google, and the whole first page of the search results
contains your social media accounts?
You can start by creating a social media link wheel. Social media link
wheels are links to your social media accounts linked to each other and
your blog.
A social media link wheel is an important step when doing social media
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media accounts to be indexed by search engines if they are hyperlinked to
each other.
Some social media sites have a particular field for social media link
wheels – the website field. For example, Facebook has a particular website
field in the “about me” section. You can place the links (URLs) to your
other social media accounts like Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram,
and Google+ in that website field. Do that for every social media account
that you have. The center of it all must be your blog where all your social
media accounts are listed.
Note that it may take some time before your social media link wheel
shows you your expected results. It does not happen overnight, and it may
take up to an estimated two weeks before you see yourself on top.
Make it a point to use your real name and real information when creating
your social media accounts. Also, use the same profile picture or avatar in
all your social media accounts. It’s a protective measure telling your
prospects that you are that same person in all of your social media
accounts.
There are hundreds or even more social media sites that you can use to
promote your business, but we’ll focus on only the top six mainly:
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considered Google Plus as one of the top social media platforms, but there
is news circulating that Google will retire Google Plus, so we decided that
it is no longer a viable platform for social media marketing efforts.
Using Facebook and Twitter depends on the demographics of your target
market. In the Philippines, almost the whole populations possess a
Facebook account compared to Twitter, which is mostly used by the upper
social class Cs to As. Also, Facebook is more intimate compared to
Twitter because of its chat functionality.
You can use Facebook for long posts about your product and your
business. Your Facebook profile is also your front when giving our your
business card or any contact information because you can develop
relationships more in Facebook as compared Twitter because, as I said, of
its chat functionality.
Another advantage of Facebook is that it gives you the ability to create
pages. You can create a Facebook page using your team’s name. For
example, your team’s name is Dream Team and your company’s name is
ABC, you can call your Facebook page “ABC – Dream Team.” Doing this
strategy can be an untapped method of gaining prospects because when
people search for your company’s name on Facebook to familiarize
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your business’s official Facebook page, he can click on it, and he can
become a potential prospect.
Use your Twitter profile to tweet quotes on network marketing (from
Robert Kiyosaki and other network marketing advocates) and also short
facts about the industry of your network marketing business. For example,
you can tweet “Did you know that using ABC supplements can increase
your energy by 98%? Click the link for more info:
“http://yourwebsite.com”. You can also attach images to enhance the
persuasiveness of the tweet.
It is also recommended that your tweet on Twitter “at the moment (ATM)”
kind of stuff. For example you are in a team centering program, you can
tweet on Twitter “ATM: Dream Team’s centering”.
You can also use hashtags (#) to increase the discoverability of your tweet.
Just don’t overdo it and include every possible hashtag that you can think.
Hashtags are more efficient on Twitter as compared to Facebook
according to a certain study.
Posting and tweeting are not about the quantity, but rather it’s about the
timing. Don’t just post and tweet every five minutes or so, your friends
and followers will be annoyed at you and may report you as a spam
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most likely looking at their Facebook and Twitter accounts. A sample
schedule maybe around 12 noon to 1 PM because employees take their
lunch breaks in between these hours and are most likely catching up with
their friends and followers on social media. Buffer published a study about
the best times for posting and tweeting.
However in graphical and video dedicated social media sites like YouTube
and Instagram where words are limited, and the persuasion mainly lies in
the picture or video itself:
On YouTube, upload your company’s business presentation video or make
your business presentation video yourself. Put in the description box of the
video statements like “If interested, visit yourwebsite.com” or you can
also add your contact number at the end. You can also share these videos
with your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Business presentation videos on
YouTube are also handy when there is a potential prospect that is located
very far from you because you can just send him the link to the YouTube
video and let the video do the talking.
On Instagram, first, make sure that your Instagram auto-share feature is on
in either Twitter or Facebook (better if both) to share your uploaded
Instagram photos in Facebook and Twitter automatically. The content
of your Instagram account mostly must be photos that tell your life as a
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your company, pictures of you with your business’s top earners, or photos
of your new sign-ups. Remember to caption the photo appropriately and
put the link on your blog, squeeze page or website.
LinkedIn is the most not-very-social-media-like type because you can’t
upload any photos besides your profile picture. LinkedIn is like an online
resume with your skills, experience, and education posted. I only
recommend LinkedIn to serve as your professional online reputation for
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The next type of network marketing prospecting strategy that I will share
with you is also an effective strategy for attracting prospects passively and
it is called Clothes Marketing.
No, I’m not talking about marketing a clothing line business, but rather
clothes marketing is using clothes like t-shirts and caps that has a
marketing statement about your product or business opportunity to strike
curiosity and interest in a person that is looking at it. Ultimately, the
individuals who see your business branded clothes become a potential
prospect.
The advantage of clothes marketing is it’s a cost-effective way of building
brand awareness compared to other forms of print media. When using
clothes that contain a marketing statement for your company or even just
the logo, you become a walking advertisement for your business. When a
person sees your branded clothing, he is now aware that your company
exists, and he might Google it on the Internet to find out more about it.
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results page (SERPs) where the site gave him information on what and
how your company works, he might express the desire to contact you to
know more about your network marketing business. You can now see how
these strategies work hand-in-hand with each other on creating a strong
MLM prospecting machine.
You can design your clothes marketing apparel by downloading a shirt or
cap template on the Internet and using Adobe Photoshop or the Paint
software in Windows to build and tweak your desired design. Remember
to include your contact details because there are persons who are shy to
approach you to ask about what you are offering.
After creating your design, head down to your reputable local t-shirt
printing shop and provide a soft copy of your design and they’ll do the
rest, you can also ask them to improve the overall design. Take note that
some t-shirt printing shops offer discounts on bulk orders so make sure
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Imagine having advertisements at your local leading newspapers where
every reader of that paper can see your advertisement for your product or
business opportunity. Now that’s a lot of people. But now imagine this
next – you won’t even have to spend a tremendous amount of money to
gain this kind of targeted marketing exposure. Wow, right?
That’s Inserts, or more technically – Free-Standing Inserts (FSI). In
layman’s terms, FSI is the direct marketing tactic of inserting promotional
media inside a print media, most commonly newspapers and magazines.
Most brands, especially in the retail and dining category, insert
promotional media like coupons or catalogs.
To do FSI marketing for your business you’ve got to talk to your local
newspaper stands and ask if you can insert your promotional media
(preferably your print fliers) inside their newspapers. Ask nicely because
they can give you this opportunity for free. Otherwise, you may give them
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An advantage of FSI is that it is very targeted. You will only choose
newspaper stands that are in the area where your target market is residing
or working. For example you are targeting those in the economic classes A
to upper Cs, you can tap newspaper stands near or in an executive
subdivision or the middle of a central business district like Wall Street in
the United States or Makati in the Philippines. On the contrary, if you are
targeting those in the economic classes middle Cs to Ds, you can tap
newspaper stands near train stations or public vehicle terminals.
If you want to more legitimate way of marketing using FSI, you contact
the broadsheet and inquire about “inserts”. Most likely they will set a
minimum number of inserts like for example The Manila Bulletin (a
leading newspaper in the Philippines) requires you to have a minimum
5,000 inserts for Php 1.35 each ($0.03), so you’ll roughly invest Php 6,750
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Print Advertising is getting promoted in print media such as broadsheets
and magazines. Unlike the FSI MLM prospecting strategy above which
also deals with print media for promotion, you need to spend a reasonable
amount of money to be promoted.
Investment in this network marketing prospecting strategy ranges from the
space that your advertisement takes up if it’s colored or just plain black
and white, and the frequency you want your ads to be advertised on the
print media. Most of the time you will just resort to advertising in the
classified ads section of broadsheets because having a full-blown ad on the
front page may just cost you your house.
Text is the most common medium of advertisement in the classified ads
section of print media. You will pay them by line. For example, The
Philippine Star’s (another leading newspaper in the Philippines) rate for
line ads is Php 65 ($1.47) + 12% value-added tax (VAT) per line. For The
Philippine Daily Inquirer (yet another leading newspaper in the
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So make your copy as short and as persuasive as possible. Don’t forget to
include your contact numbers.
If you are daring enough, and you have a deep pocket to advertise a full-
blown graphic ad, hire a graphics designer to create your creative print ad,
or you may also use the online ad that you’ve created for your online
advertising.
Either you decide on advertising in the classified ads section or having a
full-blown ad, make sure that you have your squeeze page and
website URLs in your advertisements. This is like a backup plan, just in
case the person that reads your ads feels insecure to call or text you, he can
just visit your squeeze page or website where they can learn more about
your product or business opportunity.

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It’s all about fortes. What’s your forte? Do you like talking to people? Can
you bear getting rejected face-to-face? Do you like getting instant sign-
ups? Then active MLM prospecting is for you. Are you lax and don’t want
to do those active network marketing prospecting stuff? Do you wish to
spend hours typing just to convince people to set-up an appointment with
you? If so, passive MLM prospecting strategies are for you. But still, don’t
be contented if you see either active or passive network marketing
prospecting is right for you, strive to be good at both active and passive
MLM prospecting because mastering both will lead to a killer combo to
ensure your network marketing success.
Just a quick reminder on setting of appointments: set appointments in
appropriate places like non-crowded coffee shops or in your company’s
office. Never in the house of your prospect. Why? What if your prospect
has a baby and the baby cries during the presentation? Then your
momentum will be hindered, and chances are, your prospect won’t fully
understand the presentation.
While possible, you need to be the one to suggest the day, time, and place
of appointment on which the prospect is most convenient in. You can do
this using the “power of choice”.
The power of choice is one of the most effective ways to get a
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suggestions, rather than asking them when they will be available. You can
ask something like “Are you free on a weekday or weekend?” When the
prospect answers, for example, weekend, you can ask “Friday or
Saturday”? When he answers, for example, Friday, you suggest a time
then followed by proposed venue.
Take me to the second step in the MLM Sales Process which is just as
awesome as this guide: A Beginner’s Definitive Guide for a Compelling
MLM Presentation