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Is Your MLM Upline Guiding You To Success?

You’ve taken the plunge and signed up to be part of someone’s MLM downline. You sit back and wait for the riches to roll in and…nothing. Perhaps you get a couple of emails welcoming you to the downline and encouraging you to start selling right away. “Sure,” you think, “I’ll start selling when I know how you want me to sell the product.”

Is your MLM upline guiding you to success or are they simply sitting back and waiting to profit off of your hard work?

If an MLM business is to be successful, the business owner has to be an active participant in his or her downline. This goes for every tier of that downline. It shouldn’t matter if you are in the first tier or the fourth tier of an MLM. Your upline should be supporting you and helping you to reach your sales goals. After all, their profits depend on you!

Think of it this way: MLMs are like a miniscule version of a chain store. The owner of the business might be sitting in an office in Ann Arbor but even the stock people in Newark understand the goals of the business and what is expected of them to keep the business running smoothly. If your upline isn’t communicating with you, you might be better served by opting out of the downline altogether.

The best way to tell whether or not your upline will guide you to MLM success is to pay attention to the training process. If your sponsor (and his or her sponsor) work with you to develop your sales strategy and help you put your business together, you are probably part of a successful MLM. If, however, after you opt in, your sponsor simply sends you a “Thanks for joining” email and then never contacts you again (except, of course, to ask when you are going to start making a profit), you might think about opting back out.

Another sign of whether or not your MLM upline is guiding you to success is to pay attention to how they respond to questions. A good upline member will be receptive to your questions and do his or her best to answer them in a timely manner. A bad upline member will either take forever to answer questions or not answer your questions at all!

A good way to tell whether or not the upline of your MLM is worth working with is to contact other members of the downline. Ask your “coworkers” what their experiences with the MLM have been. You’ll be able to tell right away if the upline will guide you toward success.

It is important that when you opt in to an MLM that your upline works just as hard as you to do ensure the business’s success. If your upline isn’t guiding you to success, you have two options:

1. Join another company on a team that is geared to helping its’ members succeed.

2. Get trained in effective lead generation techniques and start your own great team. At least you know what your downline expects from you!

Download my FREE ebook “Ultimate Marketing Kit” and learn how to generate an endless supply of free leads for your business.

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I purchased SureFire Success System a few weeks ago and I have to tell you, I have never seen a system that is as interactive and dedicated to your success as SureFire Success System. Luke W. Parker has hit a home run with this.

Personally, I am amazed that Luke W. Parker doesn’t get a lot more recognition for the cutting-edge techniques and proven blueprint to a passive residual income that he has developed so well.

One thing I really appreciate is that this is version 2 of SureFire Success System. That means the back office is very robust with phenomenal training videos and nearly endless resources. Included in the back office is a forum that is very active and in which you can count on getting informed answers and tips. Many of the answers are provided by Luke Parker himself. Now I ask you, how many courses have you purchased in which you got feedback from the creator or guru on an ongoing basis?

Best of all, the forum and up-to-date back office are included in the purchase. That means no recurring membership fees. Hallelujah!

So, What Exactly Does SureFire Success Give You?

The course itself is pretty extensive and I’m not going to give everything away here.

Luke gives you 3 proven business models and the tools to build and market them. They are:

1. The Fast Money Path
2. The Zero Content Path
3. Total Niche Domination Path

I have never before seen the methods Luke uses to generate immediate cash. This is cutting-edge Web 2.0 stuff and it works!

He teaches you how to establish “Alpha Moneytrees” that pay you up front and then build on those using “Beta Moneytrees” to build a long-term residual income. He also gives you a long list of Web 2.0 websites that you can use to build a solid business.

I have used just a few of the very simple techniques to drive traffic to my website Ultimate Marketing Kit and have increased my traffic and Google page ranking with very little effort. Luke’s techniques put my methods on steroids.

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This seems to be the one question on most distributors of Limu or any other home business opportunity. In fact, this was my most pressing question just a couple of months ago.

The answer is a lot simpler than I would have thought. In fact, part of the reason I wrote my ebook “Ultimate Marketing Kit” was to give myself and others a comprehensive step-by-step guide to getting their home business started.

Since I started implementing my own advice, I have gotten a constant flow of great leads for my Limu business.

If you are still at the starting gate, I have one piece of advice….read the book and just do it! Stop looking for that one magical marketing method that will propel you to success. Do It!

Happy Marketing
Darrell Taylor

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I get this question a lot, from distributors involved with many Network Marketing companies.

To a good many Internet Marketers, this question seems superfluous. To them, calling leads is akin to admitting defeat in their marketing efforts. After all, in the Internet Marketing world, if you want more sales you just generate more traffic which equates to more leads opting-in which results in more sales. Simple. Got it?

For those of us in Network Marketing (MLM), the answer is not quite so simple or clear cut.

Generating leads in MLM is a lot of work. Besides which, MLM is predominantly a relationship business. I know, there are a lot of “gurus” on the net touting MLM sponsoring without ever talking to the prospect. My experience varies somewhat from that particular business model. Maybe I am old school, but in my opinion MLM is still akin to building a sales/marketing team or a company. Teams are built on relationships. How can you have a relationship with a website and an autoresponder?

Don’t get me wrong, I love technology. I use the web and autoresponders very heavily, but cannot imagine giving up actually speaking with prospective members of my team.

If a person has sufficient marketing ability to generate many more leads than they can possibly call, she can probably generate enough clients out of that number to build a good downline. I just can’t help thinking, though, that the results could have been MUCH GREATER if she had just called a few of them per day to introduce herself. After all, some people will join a business opportunity from the internet alone while a lot more will join the team of someone they have learned to like and trust.

We all want our phone ringing off the hook with prospects begging to be a part of our team so they can take advantage of our brilliant leadership, right?

So, what did I just say? Should you call your leads or not?

Let’s look at a hypothetical example. What if Melanie began her Network Marketing career last week. She has a domain name and a blog set up. She has written a few articles and posted them on the Web, as well as a Press Release. She has joined four work-from-home forums and has been participating in them two hours per day. She has set up a splash page and joined two traffic exchanges as a paid member which guarantees her visitors to her website. She has also joined four Social Networking websites and is participating in them two or more hours per day.

Whew! Melanie is a busy lady. She should be getting a few hundred visitors to her site as well as quite a few good leads. Let’s say she starts getting five leads per day and it increases to twenty per day by the end of the month.

Should she call those four to twenty leads? If you had up to twenty good leads per day, would you call them? I know my answer. Of course, only about half or less will leave a valid phone number so the number of calls she has to make is even less.

In my opinion, once she has gone to all of the trouble of getting leads to request information from her, why would she then stop just short of the finish line? Why not give these people a call and introduce herself and ask if they have any questions or invite them to an interactive conference call? My guess is that Melanie would multiply the number of distributors joining her team along with the added benefit of having team members that actually know and trust her.

Your mileage may vary. Happy Marketing.

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Welcome to my Blog!

If you have not done so, feel free to go to my website and download my latest ebook, Ultimate Marketing Kit which describes in detail the process by which a Network Marketer can get started generating leads on the Internet.

Since marketing, especially on the Internet, is an ever-evolving endeavor I will highlight marketing strategies on this blog. Feel free to let me know what is working for you or what type of marketing you would like to see discussed.

My website is Ultimate Marketing Kit

Darrell Taylor

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