Guidelines for starting a network marketing business.

jacobwh — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:56:18 +0000

1. Look for a product that has true market value. Many products have no market relevance outside of their distributors. Working with such companies will be limiting, and disappointing as you realize that the product has no relevance outside of the business opportunity. If you feel 100% comfortable marketing the product and never recruiting, than you have likely found a product that has true market value.
2. Understand that being successful in MLM is difficult. The success rate of any independent career is low. However, MLM recruiters often portray their MLM as being overly simple. Oversimplifying the MLM business is a common practice for recruiting new associates. The new associate then is confused and frustrated when the business does not proceed as they had originally imagined. Following this realization the associate quits and write off MLM as a scam. Realize now that an MLM business is going to take alot of work, especially if you have never owned a business or sold products before. You will be required to find your own customers, and”’ convince them of the value of your product.
3. Be wary of upfront costs. Many business have upfront costs of inventory and new business material, however an MLM business is not a retail store and should not require you to store or stock products to sale. Although there is some value in trying and using the product yourself you should not be required to do so. Do not allow yourself to be pushed into committing ridiculous amounts of time and money into your business and told that not doing so will completely undermine any potential for success. On the same hand realize that investing no time and no money in your business will surely result in failure.
4. Find a like-minded and successful mentor. The less experience you have, the more important this is. People make money with MLM with a variety of different techniques, so it is important that you find the method you are most comfortable with. Finding someone you know and can trust as someone with your best interest at heart is very important. Also knowing that your mentor is truly successful and not just posing as successful to recruit you is very essential.
5. Check with the better business bureau. Check the bbb.org for complaints about the company or potential scams. Realize that large companies will have complaints but you should understand the nature of the complaints.
6. Have a plan. Before committing to the business have a business plan read to execute to start making money soon. Marketing solely to your friends and family is not a good plan for success. A marketing plan should include a plan for acquiring new prospects, and converting them to customers.

I, Jacob Hiller am the author of this article, Guidelines for starting a network marketing business, and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later.

Homebased Call Center

jacobwh — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:54:37 +0000

If you are looking to get serious about doing home based telesales you need a way to call people systematically. Efficiency is about streamlining as much of the process as possible. I run a one man call center out of my home office. I will show you what programs you need to quickly make a “power dialing system out of your home office. Before we get started, watch this video to get an idea of how my system works.

The CRM is probably the most important element to streamlining your system, but I am not going to talk about that here. This part is devoted only to setting up your homebased calling center. For more info on a contact management system made for the home based business industry please see the video below.

Here are the pieces of software that you will need. First of all if you have a CRM that will allow you to power dial or “click to dial” you won’t need this software. Lighthouse CRM is already equipped with built in click-to-dial with Skype. If you don’t have that built in or your internet is too slow for Skype, these tools will help you set that up. It is a little more complicated but I can walk you through it here.

Mobile Tools 3.0

This tool will allow you to use Bluetooth to dial to your phone. If you don’t have bluetooth you will need to get the right type of connection to connect your mobile phone to your laptop.

Macro Express

This program is extremely useful. It will record any movement of your mouse keyboard etc and allow you to put that action to a press of a button. I use it for many other things that I want to automate.

You will also need to have your leads in EXCEL or some like format.

Once you have installed the programs you are pretty much ready to rock. Here is the code I use for the Macro, which is essentially what does all the grunt work for you.

Create a new macro and copy and paste this into the editor. Edit the mouse cursor location by clicking on the “mouse move screen” section. Move your mouse to the “hang up” part of mobile phone tools and press “ctr + space”. This will record the new location. You will want to put your mobile tools box in the same place each time so that you don’t have to keep changing it.

I also use this code for any number I want to click and dial out.

> D:500>

To make this work you have to highlight (I just double click to highlight) then press whatever macro you have associated with it.

Once you have this all up you are ready to start power dialing. This make dialing leads much easier and faster.

It is also possible to automate this through your crm depending on what time of system that you use. If you have questions don’t hesitate to contact me.

Here is a demo of Lighthouse CRM.

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Guidelines for starting a network marketing business.

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