I can’t tell you how many times I have heard this from people, looking for something to blame. The easiest thing to blame is the leads. Here’s how it works:

Jim and Mary attend their annual convention and get all fired up about building their business. They get home and go to Google and type in, “MLM Leads.” The find a company with some good prices, spend about $50-$75 on some leads, and begin calling them. Full of hope and excitement, they are quickly defeated with few people answer the phone, won’t return messages, and no one wants to listen to their stories of how scientifically validated their nutritional products are. They conclude:

These MLM Leads Suck!!

If that were true, which it’s not, then why are so many people building huge businesses, making money like they never have before, all using the same leads that Jim and Mary just bombed with? Maybe it isn’t the leads that suck… maybe it’s Jim and Mary (although that’s not very nice of me to say).

If you don’t believe me, just browse on over to Dani Johnson’s website and review the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of testimonies on her site of people from every network marketing company under the sun who are absolutely killing it with leads. Go check it out. I’m sure they’re happy the Jim and Mary didn’t do so well because it’s less competition for them.

Maybe the missing ingredient has nothing to do with the leads (although the quality of leads is a separate issue for another day), but it has everything, and I mean everything to do with the person who is buying the leads and calling the leads.

While I’m not promoting any particular person out there, go get some training from a real trainer. Your upline does not count as a trainer. You need to take your upline with you. Go find someone like Dani Johnson and get some training. I’m not saying that leads are the answer for everyone, but I am saying that training is for everyone who ever desires to make more than $50-$500 with their home business. No excuses. Get some training in 2011 before it becomes 2012.

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.

Despite all the bad things leveled against it, believe it or not, the World Wide Web is not an entirely dangerous place. True, there may be scammers and thieves hiding in the corners of the Internet, but thanks to the web savvy of computer technicians, the Internet can actually be a good place to be if you want to meet people, learn new things, and even make money. Yes, the Internet can be your cash cow if you know how to manage it. But the question is why? Why should you even try to earn cash by start a home business,?

There are many different reasons why you should try to earn cash but one thing that you should not do (at least not yet) is to leave your day job. Internet-based businesses may earn a lot in the long run, but now that a lot of people are making money online, it might be difficult for you to break into the market and earn your gazillions immediately. In any case, here are a few reasons why you should start thinking about making that mouse work and getting yourself some bucks online.

There are many ways that you can make money online, and not all of them require you to be chained to a desk, writing down everything on a sheet of paper, or marking out graphs and curves with a highlighter. Take, for instance, affiliate marketing. In affiliate marketing, people online who have blogs or websites ally themselves with marketers. These blogs and websites need money to survive and these blogs and websites have an audience that can buy things online. So what do affiliate marketers do? They post advertisements on their client’s blogs and websites. Every time a visitor clicks on an advertisement, money goes to the blog or website owner. In fact, if this same visitor buys something on the new website, the blog or website owner gets commissions.

There are many options for starting a home business, online. There are actually money-earning programs available where you can consult with experts on how to set up your business. There are even profit sharing schemes where you can advertise popular blogs or websites on your site in return for commissions. There are even residual income sources that you can use for more income, such as answering surveys online, participating in forum discussions for a fee, and even writing reviews!

These are only a few good ideas on why you should start a starting a home business, online. But the main reason might simply be this: you need money for a better tomorrow, a good education for your children, a good retirement fund, a source of investment, and a way to enjoy your weekends. Your reasons will be different, but we all need money, and if the World Wide Web can give you a chance to earn money honestly, then why not take the chance?

Can you automate your MLM business? With the internet now becoming a vital aspect of MLM automation has surfaced as a real possibility. In fact, with the old school methods of prospecting for network marketing leads one of the big distractions for potential business builders the thought of automation is like a message sent from Heaven.

But let’s not get too carried away. Yes, automation would be great but it has a strong chance of leading to failure. Network marketing is also known as relationship marketing and the truth is, there really needs to be some form of personal interaction with prospects.

Have you ever signed up for more information about an opportunity on the internet and then get frustrated when you cannot even email anyone? It happens all the time and those who incorporate relationship marketing into their business will generally prosper.

The areas of MLM leads generation and training are areas which can be semi automated but with some personal touch, you could really put your business into overdrive. Adding some personal touch to your business is good for building a solid foundation. Teach your prospects the same and it will resonate throughout your entire business.

It all starts with the initial prospecting phase when you’re out to give people plenty of added value and trying to win their trust. And it continues right up to the sign up stage because there is a strong chance the person signing up in your business is doing so because of you.

Take Control Of Your MLM Business

Leads are so crucial to any network marketing opportunity. Let’s face it, without them then you may as well forget about growing your downline. Even more important is avoiding the temptation to let someone else do your lead generation for you.

Understand this and you’ll be ahead of most other network marketers trying to build their business. Unless you know where your inter-network marketing leads are coming from and how they were sourced you will never have control. By implementing your own lead marketing system you have the control of where they are sourced from and the knowledge that they are targeted prospects. This is crucial.

Automated Training

Again, how do you automate training? Letting others train your distributors takes away any control you may have had.

- It’s you your prospects will join rather than your network marketing opportunity.

- It’s you they need to trust and like before they commit themselves to a business.

- It’s you they will turn to for advice and guidance if they encounter any obstacles.

Without your relationship input then your network marketing opportunity really has no foundation. It’s you who will be responsible for holding it together and not an automated system.

Michael Rasmussen’s “Get More Buyers” Video Course:
Stuff Your List Full Of Buyers And Start Seeing Five and Six Figures

Ever wondered how online marketers can send an email and see $2,500 or $5,000 or even $25,000 or more flow right into their bank account?

It probably seems like magic…or a scam. But let me tell you, it’s neither one. In fact, it’s pretty easy once you have the business tool these big-profit marketers have. And Michael Rasmussen’s new “Get More Buyers” video course shows you how to get it.

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The secret weapon these marketers have is a mailing list absolutely stuffed with buyers. What’s great about Michael’s course is that he hands you 10 practical strategies for attracting eager buyers. Actually, he’s showing you the way he built his own list, which is pretty much legendary as a JV profit powerhouse.

I’ve reviewed the course myself, and I can say a few things with confidence…

First, the quality of the course is excellent. This was obviously professionally done. The audio is near studio quality, and the presentation he walks through makes the concepts completely clear. Michael’s previous products were clearly made by somebody who KNOWS how to make a great product, and this one continues the tradition.

He starts with a brief introduction to the common list-building mistakes people make when they’re just starting out online. This certainly explained some of my own struggles—it’s not just “fluff” material.

For example, he tells you how to create your own profit-pulling marketing “funnel”, even if you’re starting from scratch. He also tells you the root cause of the two major challenges most people face…but then he goes one better. He tells you specifically how to crush those challenges.

He walks through 10 strategies for stuffing your list full of buyers. This is amazing material. Here’s just a sample of what he covers:

1. The “magic” price that can get you buyers almost immediately if you’re selling your own product
2. How to increase the profit you make on each sale by 50% of more, almost immediately, and with hardly any effort (it’s all about buyer psychology)
3. How to “steal” buyers from other marketers, and actually have them thank you for it!

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List-building books and courses are a dime a dozen, but Michael’s course is one of the best I’ve ever seen. There’s no tired old advice that doesn’t work today. He’s giving you real strategies that he uses himself, and that helped him create a list that routinely brings in five and six figures when he sends an email.

If you want results like that for yourself (and who DOESN’T, right?) then you check out Michael’s “Get More Buyers” course. Your business profits will be very happy you did!

Here’s the URL where you can check out the course for yourself:

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