Leads Center Blog

We are looking for more feedback on customers who have used MLMLeadsSpecialists.com

Our initial review is as follows:

Positive:

Great prices.  They have some of the best prices for their leads

Negative:

The leads are horrible as a whole. So, despite the good prices, the bottom line is that the money you save is not worth the cost.  Here are some comments about these leads:

"I sold their leads a long time ago when they were MLMLeadGenie.  I thought I would try them again as MLMLeadSpecialist.  What a mistake.  It has been nothing but a mistake.  I have not had this much damage control to do from the customers that have bought these leads from me." ~ Anonymous Reseller

"The leads were shocked that I called them. Everyone is surprised I am calling them! I was calling these with a group of people and I was embarrassed. There were duplicate leads and many angry people.  I did not speak with one person who knew what I was talking about.  Horrible."  ~ P.K., Monavie

"What a mess. I hate to bash a company, but these leads are some of the worst I have ever called. " ~ A.N., Iowa

"I don't think I have ever requested a refund from a leads company before, but I did with them.  Not very impressed." ~ R.C., Mannatech

While I don' t really want to put down a leads company, it is amazing the number of negative feedback emails we have received. I would like to post something positive, but we never received any.

The purpose of this blog post is not to bash MLMLeadSpecialists, but to make our readers aware of what other customers are saying.

Affiliate programs are nothing new, but not too many lead companies have them anymore.  I miss the days of ProStep… for those of you who remember when ProStep was an MLM company.  I actually made quite a bit of money with them.

Today, most lead companies have some kind of a referral bonus… hey we'll send you some free leads if you refer someone.  That's nice, but I'd still rather have cash over leads… or both for that matter.

There are a couple of them out there, and I do understand that it's not about getting wealthy off of a leads affiliate program, but I do intend to make at least $300-$500 per month with the Pro Email Leads affiliate program.  Here's their banner. Just sign up for free and start promoting their leads.  It is a 2-tier affiliate program.  If you get 5 – 10 people a month who buy leads through your link, or if they are on your first or second tier, it won't be hard to make a nice bit of money with their 30% payout.

While it is certainly no ProStep (RIP), it is a decent way to make a few extra bucks.  This may be one of the better kept secrets out there. Check it out while it's still not flooded with affiliates.

For the last few years I have been putting together a list of the top MLM Lead Companies.  You can see that list by clicking on this link:

Top 10 MLM Lead Companies

We try and keep that list up to date based upon some of the following criteria:

1. User Feedback – you write us and let us know anything that has been good, bad, horrible, or outstanding.  Just click on the Contact Form above to send us any feedback on a leads company you would like us to know about.
2. Company Websites – Some companies have websites that look like they were designed in the 70's, long before the internet was around.  Basically we're looking for up to date information, lead details, and a sense that someone is running the business who has a moderate level of responsibility
3. Customer Service – I like to call up lead companies to see what kind of customer service they have.  Some have zero.  Some are pretty good.
4. Sales People – Am I buying a used car or am I speaking to someone who would actually be a partner in business.  Some people you speak to you would think you are speaking to a snake.
5. Length of Business – Some companies are just too new to make the cut… because we don't know much about them.  They could have been another leads company, but just changed names to hide their identity.

Other stuff too… but we mainly rely upon user feedback.  Drop us a not on our Contact Form and let us know what's going on with your MLM Leads experience.

Last week I mentioned my recommendation for buying Dani Johnson's script book.  In that recommendation, I made mention of Dani's seminar, First Steps to Success.  I'm going to give you my best advice… and I don't think I could offer anything greater than this advice right here:

Within the next 30 days, sign up and schedule yourself to attend the next Dani Johnson seminary.  If you can't afford to go, you're fooling yourself in thinking that you can really make it in this business.  Don't buy one more lead without first investing in yourself.

Below is a video of one of Dani's seminars.  It will blow you away.  Take my advice and plan to attend.  You can click on the link below the video to go to Dani's site for more information about the next FSTS seminary.

First Steps To Success seminar by Dani Johnson

As a brief background, Dani got started working a home business at the age of 19. After months and months of failing and being in debt, she was able to go from living from her car with only a few bucks to her name, to becoming the #1 recruiter and income earner in her company in only about a year's time.  And then, from a few bucks to earning a million dollars in about 2 years.

The cornerstone of Dani's training is her First Steps to Success Seminars.  She works with networkers to teach and train them how to attain that same type of success that she has experienced. She has a strong faith in God and a no-nonsense strategy in her training. She is 100% generic, so she is not promoting any company either. Her exciting, bubbly, and charasmatic personality have made her extremely popular.  Over the last decade, she's helped thousands of networkers gain financial freedom.

One of her most popular tools is the Dani Johnson Script Book. It has been recognized as getting one of the best tools for prospecting and closing in the network marketing industry. In her book, Dani gives quite a few helpful hints about prospecting and attaining a positive mindset you'll need to reach success. The majority of the book has scripts that can be made use of for a wide variety of recruiting scenarios, including calls, follow ups, objections, and in recruiting in person.

Her main focus is on calling leads and how you can treat it like an interview so your prospect will want to investigate your business!  In the script book she includes, direct approaches, practices, item retailing and closing scenarios. She also contains two cds to provide you with quite a few examples of how her scripts would be used in real life.

As one person I spoke with about a week ago told me, they had just attended her First Steps to Success seminar.  Afterwards, to see what the script book could do for their home-based business, they bought the book and began to apply techniques and implementing the scripts. Having a clear focus and mindset for  addressing their leads, they immediately saw a bump in their income… well more than a bump… it was a 10-fold increase.

The largest change for them was the new confidence they gained from the seminar, as well as now approaching prospects with better techniques and posture. No morebegging them, but now interviewing them and building raport and relationships. The tables were absolutely turned and my leads were now trying to prove to me what they had to offer!

So as far as I'm concerned, the Dani Johnson Script Book is absolutely worth the money! Network Marketing requires you to become good at prospecting and contacting leads.  You really can't expect to do this on your own. Her seminar and script book are what has made a significant distinction in thousands of home business professionals and I would absolutely suggest it to anyone.

Just a quick post.  Some people have asked if MLMLeadSpecialists is the same as MLMLeadGenie.

While I don't have an answer for all of the details, in so many words the answer is yes.  Lead companies that were resellers for MLMLeadGenie.com received an email in mid-2009 that they should now begin buying their leads to resell from MLMLeadSpecialists.  Nothing really seemed to look or smell different… just seems to be the same leads with a different company name.

MLMLeadGenie has been around for many years and they have good relationships with a lot of MLM companies and top distributors within those companies to supply leads for their teams.  You don't last as long as they have by delivering a bunch of crappy leads.

With that said… Lead Genie is probably one of the companies that receives more complaints about the poor quality of their leads than any other company that we get reports on.  So, I'm not exactly sure what does keep them in business.  For every one good comment, I get nine bad ones.

Some people complain just to complain. In many cases, I could take a list of leads that one person complained about, give it to a more experienced, seasoned networker, and he/she could get some results out of it.  But, when the complaints keep coming, there might be a pattern forming.

MLMLeadSpecialists/MLMLeadGenie have some of the best prices of any leads company out there.  I really believe they are worth testing.  Go buy 100 of their leads and test the numbers out for yourself.  It's the only way you'll ever know.  If you get results, then you may have just found a cheaper MLM lead than what you had been buying.  Or, you may have just realized it's time to move on.

That's true for any leads company.  Just don't expect miracles with any lead. Get the training you need and what used to be a poor list, may begin to convert for you.

About 4 years ago, Telephone Interviewed Leads were pretty rare.  There were a couple of companies that were carrying them, like Quality Interviews and Network Leads.

Today there are so many companies selling interviewed leads it makes me suspicious of what's going on.  The way I see it, there are only 3 possibilities when you have dozens and dozens of companies selling them now:

1. They are legit
2. They are legit but WAY over sold
3. They are not legit

My feeling is, about 5-10% are from the first category, about 30-35% are from the second category, and at least 50% are crappy, fake, or some how manipulated and non legit.

The way I see it, if you are going to get a genuine telephone interviewed lead, you better be prepared to pay some big bucks… at least $10 per lead.  I know Network Leads (which calls them Profiled Leads – probably more accurate), sells them for $15 per lead.  Furthermore, I learned last year that some Melaleuca reps are paying more than $100 per lead!! I spoke with one rep who had already gone through over 350 of these leads.

Most people don't think – and lead companies are counting on you not to think.  If you really stopped to think, no mass produciton line could ever produce a telephone interviewed lead that would cost $3.50.  They could outsource the interview room to India and they couldn't produce a $3.50 interviewed lead.

If a lead company tells you their "real time" interviewed leads are $3.50, there are ONLY two possibilities:

1. They are interviewd
2. They are selling them 20 times.

Stop funding the rip-off lead companies.  Get smart about your lead purchases. If you want interviews, expect to pay at least $10-$15.  If you can' t afford that, then use another type of lead until you can.

Now, I'm not saying all lead companies are rip-off companies, but do a Google Search and find the companies that are selling their interviewed leads for less than $10 per lead.  Those are the companies you need to put on your black list.

One of the things I do is monitor lead companies.  I have about 40 or 50 people now who send me notes on a regular basis regarding the quality of leads they receive from different companies. 

Let me qualify this.  I actually receive many more people reporting to me, but some of their comments are such a joke, they have no business buying leads to begin with.  For example, I got an email from a guy last week slandering a leads company.  He had bought email leads and was upset because they weren't quality phone leads.  Save your breath.

I'm talking about real network marketers buying real MLM leads to build their business.  I'm not talking about people buying 10 leads for a penny and expecting gold to come pouring forth.

So, to the topic at hand – LeadPower.com

Lead Power has been around a while, and the quality of their leads has fluctuated.  I had received about 4 or 5 emails over the first half of the year that they were "okay."  That was about it.  Nothing great, nothing bad.  Some good results, some zero results.

However, since the first of November, I have received over 20 emails about how horrible the quality of leads has been.  So called "interviewed" leads were a complete joke, way oversold, never verified, angry people (notice I didn't say prospects), and probably worse than the email leads the guy I just mentioned was calling. 

The funny thing was, it wasn't just a couple people.  4 0r 5 emails through the first 10 months this year.  20+ emails in the last month.  And, the people who are emailing me are a bit "passionate" about how upset they are with Lead Power.  These leads are "Putrid!!"  That is a direct quote from one of my readers.

So, buy with caution for now.  Things change.  Like I said, their lead quality has been inconsistent… it's just this has been much worse than normal.  Another thing to beware of.  Lead Power has a reseller program and they aren't afraid to use it.  They are reselling their leads to other lead companies to resell the same bad leads through other companies.

(**Disclaimer** – The quality of the leads is not reflected upon the employees of the company.  Do not call up LP and yell at their staff or whomever else.  It's a waste of your breath, and nothing short of unprofessional.  They are just workers, so treat them with decency and respect.)

I just got off the phone with Rich Niccolls, the owner of National-Leads.com.  They are beginning to move the content of their site over to their new design.  So, be ready for a new look, new navigation, and according to Rich, a simplification of the whole site structure.

I asked what that meant, and he basically said that he has been working on making it easier to navigate, find the leads that are right for you, and then purchasing your leads.  One of the issues in the past, according to Rich, has been that there were too many links to click and it could be somewhat confusing for a first-time visitor.

Anyway, I just wanted to pass that along.  Be looking for the new design coming soon.  Below is a sneak peek at what it's gonna look like.  The top will look slightly different from what Rich says, but you get a good idea.

Have a great week.

Sean