God help you if you do decide to purchase a car from one of these salespersons because you’ll have to do the negotiation dance. This is when you make an offer and then the salesman takes it to his sales manager who makes a counter offer. This goes on for a short time until you leave or buy. This process sucks.

Now if one of these salespersons started giving out his business car offering a free report on how to purchase a car with insider secrets then this would be a great report with solid insider information. He becomes the expert and gains your trust.

So who do you think you would purchase a car from – one of the scavengers waiting on new prey or the salesman who has your trust? You would definitely purchase from the salesman who gave you the free report.

Here is the reason why – you purchased from this salesman because he didn’t sell you. The only thing that he did was to furnish you the information that you needed to make your decision. He led you through the process without making you feel depressive.

This is a great example of attraction marketing.

Imagine your success if you started using attraction marketing in your work at home business.

How could you do this in your business? Well here are a couple of pretty simple thing that you can do to get started.

Start to focus on how you can serve your prospect, client, or customer.

Start thinking about the needs of your dream prospect. Network marketers have been chasing folks in all sorts of ways and in all sorts of places. The conversation usually starts with, “I want you to look at my new business” or “I want you to check out my new health drink.” This is terrible because it starts with selfish intent that many folks can recognize and are resistant to those methods. The reality is that most folks do not care about what you want.

Now attraction marketers know that the best way to get anybody to work with you or check out what you are offering is to know how your product or opportunity will benefit the prospect. You do this by genuinely being interested in that person and asking good pertinent questions. The you can tell then how your offer/product will solve some of their problems. Talk to them from their point of view and not yours.

Start promoting you as an expert and offering information that folks want.

This sounds a little whacked particularly if you do not feel like an expert. You must recognize that this is a relative term. You can be an expert as long as you know and do more than the next person in your field.

The best way for you to look like an expert is to give out some information pertaining to your chosen business field. This could be a tips report or describing an productive method that you have used to grow your business. This doesn’t have to be out of this world; it just has to be good solid information.

You do not have to worry if you feel like you do not have anything to furnish. Look for someone else’s report and give it out. You can do a review on a product or program which will get the ball rolling. One of the best reports used is the 7 lies of network marketing. Great network marketers have used this free report to promote their business and generate leads.

Once you begin to get the feel for this awesome marketing method you will begin getting all sorts of ideas. You can always check out an attraction marketing blog or site to get more ideas. Also join a network marketing coop to fully take advantage of all your marketing efforts.

Running a successful home business is the dream for many people today. Whether you want to spend more time with the kids, make a few bucks while you’re home anyway, escape your boss, or simply avoid wasting time in the daily commute, a home based network marketing business can be the best work at home plan.

However, it is not as easy as some marketers would like you to think. Pick up a copy of Ann Sieg’s free report 7 Lies Of Network Marketing to see what I mean. The drop out rate in network marketing businesses is huge. Around 90% of new recruits will not make it. This gives MLM a bad reputation. But did you know that the failure rate for any other type of startup home business is just as high?

It’s not MLM that is the problem. The problem is that it is tough running any kind of home business. And the main challenge that most people have can be summed up in one word:

Focus.

Distractions, interruptions, loneliness, spending too much time on unproductive tasks … working from home with no boss hanging over us, we all suffer from some if not all of these issues. They all lead to bad time management and lack of focus, and that means, less money coming in.

The worst thing we can do is constantly switch from one task to another during the day. Every time we change our focus to a new task, we waste time getting into the ‘zone’ of the new task. Recent research has found that it can take as much as 20 minutes to get completely into the zone of whatever we are doing. Only then are we truly focused on the task and able to work most effectively.

Yes, have plenty of breaks. Take 5 or 10 minutes to stretch, relax, fetch a glass of water. But do not watch TV or make a non-business call that is likely to stop you getting back to work. Take a notebook so you can write down ideas that come to you during your break.

Figure out what time you have available and use it, without interruptions or distractions. Focus on your top priority for the day, and do not start any other work until it is finished. Or for longer projects, set aside certain times each day to that task, and catch up with your email, calls etc after it is done. But however you do it, maintain your focus through all of your work hours.

Want to make money in network marketing? It can be hard while the industry is stuck in lies and deceptions. Download a FREE copy of Ann Sieg’s 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing to see where you need to change your techniques to make a fortune network marketing.

Are their friends the main market? Some may be but the truth is that of your friends most are not. When you take a business proposition into a friendship then things change. Lots of people cannot handle that and a lot of friendships have been hurt because of it.

So who is your target market?

Well it is pretty simple: it is someone looking to make extra income. Here is a problem: a lot of networkers make the error of thinking that “make extra income” is the same as “want more money.” Everyone wants more money but few people want to make extra money.

You see to make extra income you have to put in extra effort somewhere. The truth is that a lot of people do not want to make the extra effort because it would get in the way of what they are comfortably doing. Some of the people are wat too lazy to buy a lotto ticket. Would you want to be partners with someone like this? Most likely not!

So how do you get people in your business that want to make extra income and will put the effort into get it? You run an attraction marketing campaign.

Attraction marketing is when you give valuable information that can help people and this is the biggest key in network marketing lead generation. A quick example would be if you have a work at home business you could give an outline of your proven time management system. This would show people how they could manage their day so they can have enough time to take care of their responsibilities plus have enough time to manage their business.

How do you get the information out?

Article marketing offers the best way to share your information on the internet. Sites like EzineArticles and Buzzle will take your article and post them to their site after they have been approved. These sites have fantastic ratings with the search engines. So when someone finds your article or post they will click on the links inside the article taking them to your site and hopefully into your sales pipe.

There are more advanced methods to disseminate your information. These techniques are more advance and need a membership to some very exclusive marketing sites and coops. There is one coop that has a network of about 1000 blogs on all sorts of themes.

This would enable you to post an article to at least 30 blogs. You can have up to 3 links in a 450 word post. So think about the kind of traffic that you could generate to your site. 3 links times 30 blogs equals a total of 90 links pointing to your sites. That is definitely called leveraging. This is just the beginning because these site has some secret weapons.

Most upline and product companies realize very little about lead generation. It’s easy to walk up to someone in a parking lot or in the middle of the grocery store and ask them if they would like to look at a “business opportunity.” That’s a huge numbers game that most people cannot handle.

So – do you want to rely on the old techniques or do you want to take advantage of proven internet marketing methods that the IM pros use today to generate the best quality leads for your home business? Sure you do! Click on network marketing lead generation to check out Occupy The City’s marketing system.

Information overload is creating an enormous gap for the home business owner who is new to multi-level marketing and online internet marketing. They are inundated with offers, ideas, and systems that all promise to provide the highly desired traffic for running a profitable small business. You can reduce this overload by joining a Network Marketing Community.

You hope a Work At Home Business will be the answer for providing financial stability but by the time you sort through the outrageous claims like “How to earn one million dollars in one month by using our secret system,” you are ready to give up. Take heart. There are ways to make money from home. One just has to look beyond the scams. Will it happen overnight? Nope. Can it be done in your sleep? I wish. Will there be work involved? Yup.

Generating leads is the key to internet marketing. The question is “how” with so much competition? Do you buy google ad words? Can you become successful with a replicated website? Should you buy leads? Do you have a great names list that you can show your opportunity or have you worn your friends and family out already? Do you have a large or small budget to get started with? The questions go on and on and the confusion grows.

Because of such an information overload on the internet, rather than focusing on a few methods and becoming an expert in those, many novice home business owners take multiple paths to see which one is the most profitable. This is a huge mistake, however, because it takes away from their ability to learn and stay focused.

As a result this leaves them numb, confused and eventually leads to failure, causing them to give up and leaves them with a negative feeling about the home based business industry.

Community based network marketing offers a better way—

The better way is to not take this all on by yourself; join an online network marketing community and find a mentor that understands the confusion of the newbie internet marketer and has a simple step by step system to show you how to make your vision come true. In a community there is simplified training to help each person find their niche. The mentors have sorted out what works best and they are looking out for your home business success. Everyone is working toward the success of all. You don’t need to compete with everyone within the community. Why? Two reasons, the mentors want to give back by helping others and the more successful you become the better the community does.

Each one works in the area of their expertise and lets others do what they are best at. This helps each one in the community stay focused on their tasks and brings success to the entire group.

As many successful at-home business owners will tell you, part of the industries bad reputation has to do with all the hype and false claims and promises of becoming a millionaire overnight. This is a business and without a successful business attitude you are likely to fail. Get rich quick schemes are just that. If it sounds too good to be true it likely is …buyer beware! In the community everyone works together and helps everyone succeed. It is not a get-rich scheme but a steady growth built by many hands making the work light. The community goal is to help you build a successful at-home business.

Rather than falling victim to the information overload syndrome prevalent in the internet marketing world, plan ahead. It’s OK to know about all those other methods and incorporate them into your marketing plan later if you wish, but keep the blinders on and stay focused on the tasks the community is working on. You will enjoy the structure the community provides and it helps you to feel less scattered and enjoy your profitable small business more.

The community will succeed and you will succeed, too. Eventually you’ll learn what works for your niche and your personal style and when you do you will hit pay dirt.

Out of all the approaches to referral marketing that can keep you in the driver’s seat, lead capture and building a client roster is the most important. A lost visitor to your site is a lost sale. If you fail to capture the email address, you’ll be throwing away all the traffic that comes down the pipeline. Think of it as capturing the “opportunity” for profit in both the short and long term.

affiliate marketing tips

As an affiliate marketer, you have the ability to educate every customer that visits your site. The goal is to turn a hesitant prospect into a buying customer and this allows you to market to your customers repeatedly. Having that customer list in place also allows you to market other products without having to go through the challenges of creating a new advertising promotion. This creates a large measure of control in the ‘conversion” process, otherwise you’re at the mercy of the merchant’s web copy. Your job is to lure the customers in and expose them to your intended message many times over. This way, when they reach the merchant’s site, the “buy now” signal will be on.

When you join a referral marketing program do your research and be on the lookout for scam artists. These companies can track every sale you made, if the company you are joining can’t do this then you will have to track the sales yourself, which is very hard and will lead to lost commissions for you. All you need to do to check this out is to go on the website and make a purchase and watch closely how they track the sale, if you see your “sponsor” or “mentors” name anywhere on the receipt page then they do a good job at tracking the sales to the affiliate.

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You can also use a link such as Commission Junction to evaluate a potential merchant before you jump into a program. Also, joining an affiliate program through an existing network means there are more eyes watching the merchant, which serves to raise the standards of the merchant’s business practices. Smart referral marketing means more profit dollars paid to you in the end.

It happens every day and it’s a little like whales beaching themselves for no apparent reason. We want to bring this up because it’s something this author went through a few short years ago and when it was happening, I wasn’t even aware of it.

Being on track as an entrepreneur means showing steely resolve and if you are in an inter-network marketing business then steely resolve is your best friend. You’ll hit road blocks and some of them will be personal but while you deal with them, you still need to keep your eye on the long term goal you set yourself.

This has plenty to do with getting into the discomfort zone, an area many avoid. If you find your discomfort zone in network marketing then be rest assured, you’re on the right track. Because feeling uncomfortable means you’re learning something new and moving forward most times.

This was a message which eventually sunk through after my previous sabotaging effort… “You’ll never get past the entrepreneurial breakwaters until you conquer that fear inside you and step outside your comfort zone.”

The Discomfort zone

You see, up until then, I’d tried and failed in several network marketing businesses, one I had established a $900 a week income before self-destructing.

What happened?

I got into uncharted territory that is, I was on track to financial freedom but the strange thing was I was afraid. People wanted more of my time and it made me nervous. I went back into my shell and started passing off stuff I should have been doing to my downline.

Eventually, my lack of effort started to resonate down the line and while I had some dedicated people, when I wasn’t being seen in putting in the effort then they saw this as the green light to do the same.

That $900 a week income soon fell to $800 then $700 then $600 until it almost disappeared. It hurt but still I didn’t do anything about it and was comfortable going back to a job where the income was guaranteed every week and people didn’t demand much of my time.

Can you see where I’m going with this?

The message here is that unless you feel uncomfortable in your network marketing business during the growing phase then you’re not on track. In other words, as an entrepreneur, the more on course you are then the more frightened you’ll feel.

Don’t get me wrong, going it alone is still okay but the problem for many is they lack the skills needed to build a network marketing business. Skills such as sales, recruiting, prospecting and training are taken for granted by successful MLMers but the reality is, the majority just don’t know how to put these skills into practice. And more to the point, they don’t want to.

Occupy The City

At Occupy The City, community based network marketing is taking off and not only are people being given the chance to build a business, but they are also learning some vital skill in working online.

Internet network marketing is an area where those savvy enough to recognize it’s potential in attracting leads are reaping the benefits in a big way. Occupy The City founder Jason Acopolis is excited about the future of community based network marketing as he explains.

“Occupy the City is a professional networking community that is focused on a single goal. Success for everyone involved! Now we are not talking marginal success either, our plan will create a 500k annual residual income in 9 months for anyone willing to plug into our easy system and push themselves to achieve the simple monthly business goals that we set forth.”

He says…”Our community is made up of some of the most successful networkers in the industry. Every one of them will be available to you to help move you towards success in what really & truly is a very simple home business to operate.”

Each one of our members has a specific role to fill in the community. This makes life easier for all of us because it means we do not have to wear all the different hats usually associated with owning your own “really easy” (yeah right!) home based business.

Things like Orientation, Training, Motivating, Recruiting, and Interviewing can quickly become too much for a successful or beginning home business owner & entrepreneur to keep up with. This usually leads to burn out. We bypass this problem all together by putting people in positions to build on their strengths only. There are enough of us here, (real people with various skill sets) to make sure this remains a reality for us. Is it a reality for you? It could be, but you have to be willing to take action.”

And more importantly, he stressed…”We only work with self-motivated entrepreneurs at Occupy The City and so will you. That is part of what keeps this at home business really easy to run and enjoy.”

It could be that their “legs” are skewed with one maxed and the other inactive meaning they are not qualifying for commissions. In community based network marketing this is a problem which is overcome to a great extent simply because of the concept. As a community, everyone who does their bit can expect to grow their business.

By growing together, it’s a much happier environment and as Occupy The City founder Jason Acopolis says…”With people assigned to the tasks they are best suited for then plenty of the pressures of being all things to everyone are really not an issue.”

He says…”You may have heard the phrase “your network determines your net-worth.” There is little else truer than that statement. If you already fully grasp that, then you already make a fantastic income.
If it rings true, but you still have financial goals and a dream yet to satisfy, then read on.

“Look at any major corporation. Heck, look at the way a good manager staffs any store, and you will find the best person for each task filling the role they are best suited for. Makes sense, right?”

“Ok, now look at the way manufacturing works. I’m talking about the tracking of the factory assembly line process here. Every factory tracks its products parts through every stage of development.”

Team Oriented Network Marketing

What does this have to do with earning more money with your at home business? Everything.

Networkers rely on each other for success, yet they work on many aspects of their business alone. We shouldn’t. One of the most beneficial things you can do for an at home business is become part
of a tight-knit group that works together and divides the labor based on each individual’s talent or expertise. Your team starts to feel like family, and while you see your cash flow increase, you find your life is richer because of things other than money.

Acopolis said…”That’s what I’ve found. Individuals working together make all the difference. No other industry comes close to network marketing in terms of income potential, time freedom and low overhead. Period.”

Go find yourself a strong group like Occupy The City to help you make each and every one of your dreams true.

But going out and prospecting “willy nilly” will get you a whole lot of frustration and heartache. Frustration will come from the fact you’ll get uninterested response in the majority of cases and heartache will come from the constant rejection.

And it’s the latter which kills the enthusiasm and desire of most network marketers. MLMers in general are a hearty breed but get told no often enough and there is really only one way to go…and that’s out the exit door looking for something else a little safer and friendlier.

We’ve identified three must ask questions you need to be analyzing before you “throw your line in the water:

How To Identify Your Target Market

1. Who is your target market? In other words, who are the people likely to be most interested in your opportunity?

2. What are they actually looking for? Do you know the things that concern them and what they are actually thinking about?

3. Do you know what they need? And do you have the solution they are looking for?

As a network marketer, knowing your target market is vital. Because network marketing can be really challenging in the first few months, you want to eliminate the chances of constant rejection by only targeting people with an interest in what you’re offering.

So in a broad sense, at home business leads for this niche would naturally include those looking for home business opportunities. But that is still a little too broad. You need to drill down even further. People who are looking to get out of the 9-5 grind are a good target market but still a little too broad.

The truth is, your best target are network marketers. Think about this for moment. They have already been involved in the business, they may have failed in the past and are between companies, or they may have been unfortunate to see their company fail despite the fact they had a little success. So their appetite has been whetted.

Once you’ve established this then it’s time to look at the other two questions. This is a great exercise and you simply put yourself in your prospects shoes and imagine what they would be looking for, what they need and want and what solutions you can then provide for them.

This is great information to use in your marketing and promotion because when you connect with your at home business leads on a conscious level and they come across your message, then they become attracted to you simply because you are understanding what they need. and it’s you people will join in business not your company.