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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

The Risks and Benefits of Free MLM Leads
By Jimmy Sturo

One of the main goals of a multi-level marketing (MLM) independent distributor (business owner) is to sell the product or service of the parent company. However, an equally important goal is to encourage the customer to also become an independent distributor within that business owner’s network and sell the services or product. Prospects who may be interested in becoming distributors are known as MLM leads.

The MLM business owner can generate his or her own leads through referrals from family members, friends, and acquaintances. These leads can also be generated through a variety of marketing tools, including surveys, event or trade show promotions, and informative websites. One quick and convenient way to acquire MLM leads lists is to simply buy the list from a third party company.

For the new MLM business owner, these methods may be too costly or time consuming. One quick search on the internet will result in a plethora of web sites promoting free MLM leads. While cost savings are beneficial, the term “free” can also indicate a situation that is too good to be true.

If the business owner decides to take advantage of some of the free leads available, he or she must take care to look into the background of the third party company that is supplying these leads. It is also important that the MLM business owner check his or her list of free MLM leads against the Do Not Call (DNC) Registry every 90 days. This will ensure that the list is updated regularly and that the leads remain fresh.

MLM Leads Info provides comprehensive information on MLM lead generation and lists, as well as email, opt-in, free, genealogy, targeted and local leads. MLM Leads Info is the sister site of Lead Generation Web.

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Sean's Notes On This Article by Doug Firebaugh – While everyone is entitled to their opinion, I believe his list of 15 of the best lead companies is WAY off track.  If for no other reason, most of the companies on this list are actually leads coming from one company, Responsive Data.  RD has some good points and bad points.  They used to be a good company, but lately have been getting some very NEGATIVE feedback from distributors in Herbalife and other top MLM companies.

It seems to me that Doug has his hand in on some of this… I may be wrong… but it seems like anything BUT an objective list of companies.  Nevertheless, we wanted to post his article because it is neither here nor there what company you buy leads from, just get good leads and build your business.

Okay… on to the article:

MLM Leads – The Top 15 MLM Lead Companies in Network Marketing
By Doug Firebaugh

That is a sound of music to my ears. Why? I worked MLM Leads for nearly 8 years, and had great success with them. That is why that I have a pretty good understanding of what really makes a good MLM Lead, and what does not.

In the pursuit of finding these top 15 Network Marketing Lead companies, there were some requirements and considerations that went into the mix. An MLM lead is only part of the MLM Lead Success Formula. There were 5 things that we looked at when we were considering MLM Lead Companies.

What are they?

1) Quality of the MLM lead.

Quality of lead is everything. There are some great looking websites out there that look totally rocking, but we found that the quality of leads when we called them, were less than what you should expect in an MLM lead.

Beautiful site, great looking logo, lousy leads.

That is why we actually had people order leads, and we called them. We called more than one bunch of leads as well. This at least would give us a feeling of consistency or lack of it. The MLM Lead companies we chose were highly consistent in quality of lead, and people who truly were looking for a business. It took us 7 months to complete the research on MLM leads.

2) Training of working the MLM Leads.

Many of the beautiful sites offered no type of ongoing training, and that was something that really needs to be be a part of any good MLM leads programs. There were some that had online training, as well as cds and training series you could purchase. That was good, but the ongoing live training was the best idea, and we found many MLM leads Companies that did just that.

Training also includes scripts, handling objections, presentation, following up, closing, and other MLM leads topics. There are some HOT MLM leads sites out there that truly delivered on this quality of MLM leads training.

3) MLM Leads Support.

The support factor was key. Once the MLM leads were purchased, was there somehow support in case of need? Most had email support, some had live phone support, and some had live instant message support. There were sites that offered no support, and if you had a challenge with your MLM leads, then good luck.

The support should be somehow resolving issues that arise, including bad mlm leads, wrong numbers or emails, and general problems. The MLM Leads companies we found that were the best, had a support system. And some type of guarantee also should be part of the network marketing lead program.

4) Targeted MLM leads.

Many companies had different types of targeted mlm leads, including company specific, live tv leads, local leads, gender specific, product specific, area code specific, among others. Targeted mlm leads are the favorite of the Networkers I talked to, as it gives people a more focused lead, and a more targeted impact.

5) Pricing of the MLM leads.

This was a huge factor in determining many people's decision to buy. But to be blunt, you get what you pay for. There are many cheap network marketing home business lead companies with cheap leads, but here is a warning:

Be careful. You get what you pay for.

Ask if you can try maybe 15-20 leads to see if they are worth the money. Many companies give free network marketing leads away to try.

Understand that a great MLM lead may cost you several dollars, and rightfully so.

INFERNO Secret:

An MLM lead purchase is NOT a purchase, but an investment in your business. One good MLM lead can produce tens of thousands of dollars in volume and revenues. If you understand that, then the pricing should not be as important as the quality and training of the Network marketing lead company.

And of course, REPUTATION had a lot to do with the selection as well. Some companies that came across really well, when checked on, did not have a very good reputation for MLM Leads and service.

Soooooo:

What are the Top 15 MLM lead Companies? (They are in no particular order, as all are really good as far as our research would tell us.)

INFERNO Secret:

Do your OWN DUE DILIGENCE before you purchase, but these we found are pretty strong as all scored well in the above areas of requirement.

1) Cutting Edge Media

cuttingedgemedia.com

2) Leads2yoursuccess.com

leads2yoursuccess.com

3) Networkleads.com

networkleads.com

4) ProStep MLM leads

prostepinc.com

5) LeadsLab MLM leads

leadslab.com

6) Leaders Club MLM leads

leadersclub.com

7)Traffic Oasis (Need a referral source for this one)

trafficoasis.com

Fast MLM Leads

fastmlmleads.com

9) Pro MLM Leads

promlmleads.com

10) NPros (Company specific mlm leads)

npros.com

11) Jungle Leads

jungleleads.com

12) Optimized Leads

optimizedleads.com

13) Laser Leads

laserleads.com

14) Leads Lists

leadslists.com

15) MLM leads.com

mlmleads.com

There ARE other good MLM lead companies out there, depending on what you are looking for. But these we found as far as research, were the better ones, and some were beyond exceptional.

MLM leads are a great source of NEW BLOOD for your business. You can find Gold mine after Gold mine, in a good Network marketing lead and great MLM Leads.

Blessings…Doug (c) 2005/ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

PassionFire Intl

http://www.passionfire.com

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Doug Firebaugh is one of the top MLM Network Marketing Trainers in the world. Over a million people a month
read his training ezine. He spent the last 7 years traveling the world speaking and training on Success.
He lives in Birmingham Michigan, and you can receive a
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 The Best Way to Get MLM Leads For Any Home Business Or Opportunity
By Ana Hoffman

It is easy to get excited about starting your first MLM home business. After all, the prospect of setting your own hours, working from your own office, and writing your own paycheck can be very attractive. Unfortunately, when most marketers run into difficulty finding good MLM leads, their enthusiasm begins to wane.

As a result, almost 95% of MLM marketers give up before they ever make a dime.

So how do you get good, qualified MLM leads? The answer, clearly, does not lie in pestering your friends, family members, and coworkers. Unless they have expressed a sincere interest in joining and learning an MLM opportunity, you are just wasting your time – and theirs. Even worse, it is easy to erode relationships by pitching to those whom you already know.

Instead, the answer lies in magnetic sponsoring. Savvy marketing companies like YourNetBiz (new brand for MyInternetBusiness) teach recruits an attraction marketing formula that helps them find prospects who are genuinely interested in the YourNetBiz/MyInternetBusiness opportunity.

To obtain good MLM lead, focus your marketing efforts on solving your prospects' problems and identifying their goals, not on the opportunity you are offering. Your marketing materials should resonate with people who are ideal prospects for your MLM home business.

Think about the problems that your MLM opportunity can solve, and the goals that it can help prospects achieve. Perhaps it can allow recruits to leverage their efforts to double or triple their incomes. Maybe it can allow them to spend more time with their spouses and children. It might even give them the power to further a social goal, such as saving people money, reducing pollution, or helping people manage their time more efficiently.

By thinking of your MLM opportunity in terms of identifying problems and providing solutions, you will be able to create an attraction marketing blueprint that will make the process of finding qualified MLM leads quicker, easier, and much less stressful.

Are you putting countless hours into your network marketing business, only to find that people are leaving faster than you can put recruits in your downline? I can help! Just visit YourNetBiz today to get on the fast track to network marketing success!

Ana Hoffman, Online Marketing Coach & Entrepreneur

http://MeetAnaHoffman.com

MeetAnaHoffman@gmail.com

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