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Best Way to Get MLM Leads

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After being in several different MLM / Network Marketing companies and getting stuck after burning through my warm market, I started looking online for the best way to get MLM leads.

In the old days, way back in 1997, the first MLM company I worked for taught several offline lead generation strategies such as:

  • Wondering around shopping malls and plazas and talking to random strangers
  • Hanging out in the self-help section of a book store and pouncing on anyone there
  • Getting dressed up, going to hotels and riding elevators and handing out business cards
  • Going to different retail stores, striking up conversations with clerks and pitching them your MLM
  • etc.

I have to admit that I was absolutely HORRIBLE at these types of prospecting methods.

I am NOT your typical sales-type personality.

I’m more introverted and shy, and about the LAST thing in the world that I want to do is walk around malls talking to strangers!

This is why the first MLM I joined back in 1997 didn’t work out very well for me.

Once I worked through my warm market, and any referrals that I could get, I was STUCK.

So when I got back into the MLM scene in around 2008 / 2009, I started looking into ways to generate leads online.

Best Way to Generate MLM Leads Online

I have to say that when I first started looking at different ways to generate leads online, it didn’t go very well.

I found a bunch of different companies selling “hot leads” for the MLM industry, but I didn’t see any success with those either.

I tried doing online and offline advertising using banner ads, radio ads, magazine ads, newspaper ads, classified ads, and more!

None of it produced a lot of success…

… in fact, about the only people that I was able to get to join the MLM I was promoting were people who have been readers of my Blog.

As a Blogger since 2006, I have built up a following of regular blog readers who I’ve provided a TONNE of value to through my blog posts, my videos and my coaching/mentoring services.

Interestingly enough, any time I would join an MLM company and I would blog about it, I would usually have a few dozen people join the MLM I was promoting.

Besides my family and friends, ALL of the people that I signed up were people who read my Blog!

The funny thing was that I didn’t even realize this point until in 2014 a mentor of mine shared with me one of his secrets for having ultra success in the MLM industry.

That secret was that he didn’t sponsor people from radio ads, or paid traffic sources, or magazines ads, or by walking around the mall talking to strangers.

He sponsored THOUSANDS of people in his MLM career using his BLOG!

When he shared this with me, I was blown away, as I never even considered a Blog to be a tool that I could use to generate MLM leads.

But once he mentioned this to me, I went back through all the different people that I sponsored in the various MLMs that I’ve been a part of and sure enough, virtually ALL of the people that I signed up came from my BLOG!

Blogging Your Way to MLM Success

After further researching into this and learning about it, I realized that there are several reasons which make Blogging an ultra effective strategy for generating MLM leads.

#1 – Blogging = Attraction Marketing

The beautiful thing about Blogging is that every single blog post that you write and publish, is like a little magnet that ATTRACTS the right types of people to your business.

The people who are attracted to my Blog posts share very similar interests, energy and vibration with me.

Meaning, they’re people just like me!

They might not have achieved the same level of income or success in life yet, but they’re people who I would most likely be great friends with if I met them in person.

That’s how Blogging works.  It attracts the right people to you!

And probably even more importantly, it repels people who are NOT the right people away from me.

For example, people who are very negative or ultra skeptical or who hate the MLM industry or who think that everything is a scam… well, those types of people are NOT going to be attracted to my Blog.

So I don’t even have to waste my time dealing with them.

My Blog only attracts positive, open minded people who have a dream and who are ready to take things to the next level.

#2 – Blogging Builds Value and a Rapport With Your Leads

When people first arrive at my Blog, they don’t know me.

They don’t know who I am, what I’m all about, and how I can help them.

Very quickly though, those questions get answered.

By reading my Blog posts and getting access to the various resources that I share on my Blog, people very quickly learn all about me, who I am, and how I can help them.

This leads to the development of trust and rapport with my prospects long before I even speak to them on the phone or via email or chat.

The beauty of this is that by having a Blog, it automatically “warms up” your leads and prospects because they start to see that you’re a genuine person and when you provide them with so much value, they begin to trust and like you more and more.

#3 – Blogging Attracts Leads 24/7 Regardless What You’re Doing

Once you setup a Blog and start publishing some content, that content will get indexed by the search engines and each blog post acts like a little piece of online real-estate that generates leads for you.

Once I publish a post, it doesn’t matter if I’m awake or asleep or on vacation… my Blog is working for me 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, non-stop.

It’s connecting me with the right people, and it’s helping them out with the value that I share on my Blog.

Also, unlike other methods of generating leads such us buying them, or buying advertising, your Blog doesn’t stop working for me when my advertising budget runs out.

It’s like a machine that never sleeps and never takes a break.

Meaning, I can still combine my Blog with paid advertising methods such as buying leads or doing radio ads or classified ads or Facebook ads or any other paid advertising methods…

… but the difference is that if for example I run a paid ad for 5 days, and then run out of advertising budget for a period of time, my Blog is still up and running 24/7.

This way I can still generate leads even if I don’t have a big advertising budget to invest into generating leads.

Of course if I DO have some money to invest into advertising, I can do that, and generate leads and then use my Blog to “warm them up” to me by providing them with a lot of value.

It’s awesome!

Isn’t Blogging Complicated?

If blogging is so awesome, then why aren’t more people in the MLM industry embracing it as a method for generating leads?

Well, firstly, one of the main reasons is because they don’t know about this strategy.

Until recently, nobody has known how powerful Blogging can be for generating a virtually unlimited stream of MLM leads.

A lot of the people who have figured this out have been keeping this strategy more or less a secret too, as it’s so effective.

That is why those people who decide to get started with Blogging now, will be rewarded.

Of course, the opportunity isn’t going to be around forever.

Once all the top leaders in the industry catch on to how powerful Blogging is as a method for generating MLM leads, everyone will be doing it, and then it might be too late.

Also, chances are that your competitors are catching wind of this as well.

Especially with the new Kalatu Brand Station that has just been released.

The whole MLM industry is about to go through a rapid change in the way people generate MLM leads and sponsor people.

Just like the cell phone revolutionized the way we communicate with people, the Kalatu Brand Station will revolutionize the way we generate leads in the MLM industry.

Another reason why it’s a great idea to get started with Blogging today is because your MLM leads and prospects and team mates will look up to you and see you as a leader that is connected with the latest, up to date, state-of-the art marketing strategies in the MLM industry.

They won’t have to go elsewhere for this type of information, because YOU will be the leader that connects them with this new technology, instead of trying to teach them outdated, offline techniques that are becoming completely obsolete.

This of course can have a very positive effect on your retention rates!

Instead constantly trying to sponsor new people and seeing them quitting on you a few months later because they don’t know how to generate leads outside of their warm market either, NOW your team mates will stick around long term and also start using the Kalatu Brand Station to generate leads for themselves!

But again, you might be asking yourself – isn’t blogging complicated?

Well, it can be!

As someone who has been a blogger since 2006, I have seen THOUSANDS of people try to get started with blogging only to get frustrated, confused and then to inevitably quit!

Why?

Because until now, there has never been a simple, systematized method for learning how to Blog in a way that’s going to position you as a brand, as a leader, and to help you generate MLM leads.

Introducing Kalatu Brand Station

The Kalatu Brand Station completely eliminates the guesswork out of Blogging for the purpose of building your brand and generating MLM leads for your business.

Kalatu is built on the world’s most powerful blogging system – WordPress – but unlike traditional WordPress systems out there, it completely simplifies the entire technology behind becoming a Blogger.

You no longer have to learn anything about hosting WordPress, or installing code, or messing around with FTP servers or any of that stuff that overwhelms most people.

With Kalatu, you can go from zero to having a fully operational Blog in MINUTES!

It’s very simple.

Not only that, but Kalatu also comes with the state-of the art LevelUp Sequence:

Kalatu LevelUp Sequence

So what is the LevelUp Sequence?

Well, it’s a proprietary system that was developed by the Kalatu team, which takes a person from start to finish and shows them exactly what they need to do – step-by-step – in order to become a successful blogger.

All other blogging systems out there give you some of the tools and then leave it up to you to try to figure everything else out.

Most people get confused, frustrated and just don’t know what they’re supposed to do.

That is why in the past virtually 99% of all people who started blogging ended up GIVING UP before they achieved any success.

If you tried starting a Blog in the past, and it didn’t work for you, don’t blame yourself!

It wasn’t you!  It was the technology and the training that just wasn’t available at that time… but it is now.

With the Kalatu LevelUp Sequence that won’t happen.

The system grabs you by the hand and shows you EXACTLY what you need to do in order to succeed.

It’s awesome!

You’ve got to check this thing out.

It’s absolutely amazing.

Trust me, you want to be one of the first people in your MLM to know about this, especially if you are planning on building a team.

Because no matter what, your team WILL hear about this eventually and they WILL ask you about it…

… and the last thing you want is to look stupid in front of your team, right?

Instead, you’re much better off taking a look at Kalatu now, learning what it’s about and how it works, and utilizing it to start generating leads for your MLM.

This way, not only will you look like a genius in front of your team-mates, you’ll also be helping others in the industry as well!

The statistics show that there are over 50,000 people per month in the USA alone who are looking to join an MLM – right now!

And a LOT of those people are looking on the Internet for information about which company to join!

By setting up a Kalatu Brand Station for yourself, you’ll be able to capitalize on that massive market and to help those people find the best MLM for them.

I highly recommend learning more about Kalatu by clicking here.

P.s. If you take the Kalatu platform and the LevelUp Sequence training system for a spin today you will receive a special bonus.  Just click here to learn more.

 

 

Why 2015 is Going to Be Your Best Year Yet

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I believe that 2015 is going to be the best year we’ve ever had in our lives.

I don’t know if it’s because the numbers are lining up from a numerology perspective, or if it’s some kind of planetary alignment or some sort of tipping point in the energy field of consciousness, but the first four weeks of this already feel totally different than any other year.

I can totally feel it, but I know I’m not the only one.

I’m seeing people all around me making decisions to make positive changes in their lives, and those decisions are coming about much more easily than ever before.

I’m seeing people starting to produce incredible results in their lives, in whatever area they are focusing on right now, and those results seem to be manifesting much more quickly, with less effort and with more ease.

It seems like things are speeding up, and at the same time coming into much better alignment.

Situations that come up in our lives that previously used to stress us out and frustrate us, are dealt with and released much more easily this year.

Have you noticed?

A friend of mine decided to focus on losing some weight, and has lost 20 lbs in 49 days and has told me it’s been a MUCH easier process for him than ever before.

My wife and I participated in a 21 Day Blogging Challenge from the beginning of this year, and we found it SO much easier to be able to Blog daily for some reason.

Even when the blogging challenge concluded a week ago I just kept right on Blogging on a daily basis and it’s been pretty easy.

There’s another 21 Day Blogging Challenge starting next week and I’m really looking forward to doing it again.

Other areas of my life, where I’ve faced challenges, are seemingly getting resolved much more easily now.

I’ve also noticed so many other people finally taking the leaps of faith that they need to take to take their lives to the next level.

Achieving certain results seems to be easier since 2015 started.

People have been telling me that for some reason they’re doing the same things that they have been doing for years, but for some reason NOW those things are producing much better results.

The Future Doesn’t Equal The Past

There is one key mental shift that Tony Robbins described in one of his books, that he said changed his entire life.

He was at a point in his life where he was depressed and struggling, and a friend of his came over to visit him because he was concerned for his well being.

Then, shortly after a conversation they had Tony had this seemingly insignificant thought enter his mind.  It was a belief that just popped into his mind.

The belief was “The Future Doesn’t Equal the Past”.

It may seem insignificant, but that one simple thought… a small shift in his thinking changed EVERYTHING for him.

He realized that no matter what has happened to him in the past, and what things he tried over and over and over again, the fact that he was unable to produce certain results in his life in the past didn’t mean that he would not be able to produce those results in the future.

Have you ever tried to produce a certain result in your life, such as for example trying to start your own business, or to make money online, or to lose weight or to get into a great relationship with someone?

Have you found yourself failing over and over and over again?

If so, realize right now, in this moment, that what you’re referring to is THE PAST!

It is NOT the present moment or the future.

YOUR PAST DOES NOT EQUAL YOUR FUTURE!

It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve fallen, how many times you’ve failed, how many times you’ve tried something…

2015 is a fresh start.

It’s a new year.

It’s a better year.

It’s the best year ever in the history of the human race.

EVERYTHING is different now.

You CAN succeed, as long as you make the decision to stop giving your power away to the PAST.

The past doesn’t matter.

The past is an illusion.

It doesn’t even exist.

Only the present moment exists.

You are so much more powerful than you realize.

Only your Ego mind can put shackles on you by tricking you into thinking that you are weak and incapable of greatness by pointing fingers to your past, pleading and trying to convince you to “Look!  You’ve failed in the past, so that must mean you’ll fail in the future!  Don’t even bother trying.  You’ll never succeed.”

Don’t listen to it.

It’s just scared.

It’s afraid of trying.  It’s afraid to take any kind of risk.  It just wants you to play safe because it thinks that is what will make you happy.

But it’s a lie.  Playing it safe is NOT going to make you happy.

Going after your DREAMS is what will make you happy.

The journey towards the progressive realization of worthwhile dreams IS happiness.

NOT hiding in a cave, scared of your own shadow, trying to play small.

Whatever your Dreams are, YOU can do it!

You CAN achieve them.

I believe in you.

And 2015 is the year that everything changes for you!

I’ll end with this great quote from the great Zig Zilgar:

“You were Designed for Accomplishment, Engineered for Success and Endowed with the Seeds of Greatness.” – Zig Ziglar

P.s. If you’d like to participate in the 21 Day Blogging Challeng and to learn how to turn your passion in life into money by blogging, click here to learn more.

Multiple Streams of Income

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Mulitple streams of income…. a concept that many people talk about and desire having in their lives, but very few people fully understand it and even fewer achieve it.

So what exactly is “multiple streams of income“?

For most people, when they think about multiple streams of income, the image that they see in their mind looks a little bit like this.

Multiple Streams of Income Diagram

Basically most people imagine that having multiple-streams of income involves trying to build many different types of income streams all at the same time.

Here’s how most people approach building multiple streams of income.  All at the same time they are:

  • Trying to increase their JOB income
  • Trying to start and build a team in an MLM company
  • Trying to get into REAL ESTATE investing, flipping houses or renting out properties
  • Trying to build up an INVESTMENT INCOME portfolio
  • Trying to MAKE MONEY ONLINE
  • Trying to start a SIDE BUSINESS with a friend or based on some idea they dream up
  • Trying to look for a SECOND JOB to make some extra part-time income
  • Trying to start and build a second team in a second MLM company

When they do this, their energy gets scattered in all these different directions all at the same time.

This DOES NOT work very well!

Your energy gets scattered, you get frustrated, and usually besides your JOB income, the other income streams never really amount to anything.

What I recommend that people do instead is to follow a strategy that I call Multiple Streams of Synergized Income.

What is Multiple Streams of Synergized Income Diagram

Multiple streams of synergized income is a strategy that you can apply in your life, which can give you all of the benefits of having multiple streams of income without all the frustration and overwhelm of trying to do 50 things at the same time in different directions.

Here’s what it looks like:

With the Multiple Streams of Synergized Income strategy, instead of trying to build 5 or 10 or 50 different incomes streams which are all going in different directions and all separately competing for your time, energy and resources, we instead employ a different strategy where we LINE UP all the income streams in ONE direction.

For example, let’s say that the MAIN income stream that you want to focus on developing right now is being a Professional Network Marketer.

Meaning, let’s say that you’ve joined an MLM company that you really like and you want to build up an income stream as a network marketer.

That’s perfect!

Now you have your main income stream that you are going to be focusing your energy on.

What else do you have?

Well, you might also have your current full time JOB that you work Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm, and that job pays you just enough to cover your bills.

Okay, that’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with that.  You WANT to make sure that you’re not under intense financial pressure while trying to build a new business or income stream, so if you currently have a job that pays your bills, then keep it!

Build your second, main income stream as a Professional Network Marketer in your spare time, on weekends and evenings!

So now, you have your JOB and your have your income stream as a network marketer.

What about all those other income streams we mentioned before?

Well, what you wan to do is you want to take a look at your income streams and see if they:

  • (a) create SYNERGY and benefit the current income stream you’re focusing on building, or;
  • (b) create a DISTRACTION and take up resources and time and energy away from the current income stream you’re focusing on building

For example, let’s say that you hear about one of your friends getting into real-estate and renting out houses and making an income stream as a landlord.

Ask yourself “Would trying to buy a rental property right now, and learning how to be a landlord create SYNERGY with my current focus on becoming a Professional Network Marketer, or would it be a DISTRACTION?”

The answer to that question would most likely be that trying to do that right now would be a DISTRACTION.

Because of this, I wouldn’t recommend it!  Let your friend be the landlord and let him focus on that, and YOU focus on the income stream YOU’RE trying to develop.

Next, let’s say that another friend of yours tells you that he just started a part-time lawn-mowing business and he wants to know if you want to be his partner.

Again, you’ve got to ask yourself if that income stream is going to create SYNERGY or DISTRACTION.

Again, the answer will most likely be that it’ll be a DISTRACTION for you from your goal of becoming a Professional Network Marketer.

You can go through all the different income streams that you might be thinking about getting into in your life and honestly ask yourself this question… SYNERGY or DISTRACTION?

Now let’s look at some income streams that could be SYNERGISTIC with your main focus of trying to become a Professional Network Marketer.

Let’s use the Kalatu Brand Builder platform and the Empower Network training system and affiliate program as an example of another income stream.

Would utilizing this system have a SYNERGISTIC effect on becoming a Professional Network Marketer, or would it be a DISTRACTION?

Well, let’s take a look at what this system does and what it teaches you:

  • It sets you up with and teaches you how to create a personal brand on the Internet
  • It teaches you the most up-to-date strategies for generating leads for any MLM using the Internet
  • It teaches you how to become a Top Producer in any MLM
  • It teaches you how to build a successful Team within any MLM
  • It teaches you how to engage Duplication and Synergy within your Team
  • It teaches you how to convert cold market leads into raving fans WITHOUT having to cold-call anyone or hold meetings in your house
  • and much more!

When we look at this list, it becomes VERY obvious that engaging in a system like this can create a LOT of synergy towards achieving your goal of building an income stream as a Professional Network Marketer.

Therefore, if that is your goal, to become a network marketing pro in any MLM, I would recommend checking out this system.

Not only will it help you to become a much more successful network marketer, but you can also develop a synergistic income stream with the Empower Network affiliate program!

But this is not just about the Kalatu system or Empower Network.

Let’s use another simple example to illustrate the idea behind Multiple Streams of Synergized Income.

Let’s use the emailing platform called AWeber.

AWeber allows you to build email lists, auto-responders and communicate with your audience.

AWeber also has an affiliate program which can help you develop another residual income stream.

But before we decide whether we want to participate in the AWeber affiliate program, we have to ask ourselves again…. Will joining the AWeber affiliate program and promoting it help to build SYNERGY for us as Professional Network Marketers – OR – will it just be a DISTRACTION?

Well, since most experts today will agree that if you want to be a successful network marketer, you MUST learn how to use the Internet and how to build email lists and how to communicate with your prospects and clients via email, learning how to use a tool like AWeber would DEFINITELY have a positive SYNERGISTIC effect on your plans to become a Professional Network Marketer.

Also, as a network marketing professional, you’ll have a TEAM that you’ll be leading as well, and guess what?  That team is going to have to learn how to use auto-responders and how to build an email list and all of those things as well, and they’re going to ask you which is the best tool to use for that purpose.

Well, in that situation you can promote the AWeber platform to them as an affiliate, helping them out with their business, while simultaneously building another small SYNERGISTIC income stream in your business.

Is this starting to make sense?

I often find that a lot of people misunderstand the concept of multiple streams of income and their thinking is usually polarized in one of two directions.

(1) I Love Multiple Income Streams and I’m Trying to Build 100 Of them Now!

This is the type of person that starts 100 different businesses, income streams, jumping around all over the place trying to make money in 50 different directions all at the same time and never actually making ANY real money with any of them.

I’m not going to judge these people because I’ve been there myself!

It’s called the “Shiny Object Syndrome” where you jump all over the place trying to make money in 50 different ways at the same time and never succeed with ANY of them.

On the other side of the spectrum we have the other person…their thinking is more like…

(2) Multiple Streams of Income Are Evil – You Must Focus Only on One Thing Forever and Never Give Up

This is the type of person who joins an MLM and falls into the energy and excitement of the meetings and seminars and get-togethers that the company or their sponsor has, and is brainwashed to think that EVERYTHING else except for that one MLM they are in is a SCAM.

This is the type of person where if you ask them what they’re up to, they’ll spend 30 minutes talking about their MLM, but if you try to mention some resource or training or tool or something that could help them, or you mention another MLM that another friend of yours is in, they’ll be like “OMG!  That thing is a total scam!  My company is not a SCAM but all those other companies, are all SCAMS!”

LOL.  These types of people make me laugh because then they wonder why everyone THEY talk to thinks that THEIR MLM is a scam!

These types of people will usually completely ignore ALL other income streams, regardless whether they’re SYNERGISTIC to their business or not, because they’re afraid of losing FOCUS.

They won’t even look at any tools or resources that anyone recommends to them which could be a HUGE benefit to their business, because they they’re afraid that their sponsor will spank them or something for trying to expand their field of knowledge – LOL.

There Is a Better Way

Look, I totally understand that if you’re in an MLM company, staying FOCUSED and not jumping around from one company to the next every 2 weeks is one of the KEYS to success.

Trying to go in 50 different directions at the same time is counterproductive.  I totally agree with that.

Shiny object syndrome is NOT going to help you become successful.

However, embracing Multiple Streams of SYNERGIZED Income can be the difference between struggling and THRIVING in your business.

I’m not just talking about people who are trying to become Professional Network Marketers.  That’s just an example I used.

Maybe your main income stream that you’re trying to focus on building right now is to be a coach or a mentor.

Or maybe it’s to be a healer or a teacher.

Or maybe you ARE trying to start a lawn mowing business.

Whatever it is that you’re looking to build right now, LOOK for other income streams that can be SYNERGISTIC with the income stream you’re currently building.

Most cell phone kiosks and stores make more money from their SECONDARY income stream – selling cell phone accessories – than they do from their primary income stream!

Most electronics stores make a higher profit from their SECONDARY income stream – selling warranties and service – than they do from their primary income stream (selling electronics!)

If you ARE in fact currently involved in an MLM company, and you want an awesome example of a SYNERGISTIC income stream that fits in with your MLM income, I highly recommend checking out this system by clicking here.

If you’re building another type of income stream, just start looking and I’m sure you can find some synergistic income streams that could significantly multiply your income as an entrepreneur.

Is it Time to Make a Change?

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Are you feeling frustrated with your current job situation?

Does it feel like the income from your job can’t even pay for your monthly expenses, let alone your dreams?

You may not be alone.

According to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Survey*, 72% of men and 58% of women between the ages of 18 and 49 years old want to start their own business instead of working for someone else.

This survey is not new.  These kinds of stats have been around for quite some time, and a LOT of people are losing faith in the traditional fantasy of “Get a good education, then get a good job, keep your nose clean, work hard, and retire at age 65.”

This fantasy may have worked back in the 1950’s, but it no longer exists today.

Security today doesn’t come from a job, it comes from having multiple streams of income by starting your own business.

But what kind of options are out there?

Option #1 – Buying a Franchise

One option that people have for starting their own business is to buy a proven, successful franchise such as a McDonald’s or a Burger King or something like that.

The challenge with this approach for most people is that the start-up costs can be incredibly high in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Most people just don’t have that kind of money to put into a franchise.

Also, starting a franchise can be very limiting in terms of the freedoms that you have.

Meaning, most franchisees are forced to run their businesses EXACTLY like every other franchisee, in order to maintain a uniform look and feel to the brand.

This is almost like being an employee because you don’t really have a lot of choice as to how you run your business.

Most entrepreneurs want to start businesses because they want the freedom to express themselves, their uniqueness, their passions and they want to be able to have the freedom to run their business their own way.

Also, to start a franchise almost always requires that you quit your current job right now and jump into working your franchise full time.

This can be very risky.

Option #2 – Starting a Business From Scratch

Another way to start a business is to come up with a genius idea, and then build a business around it from scratch.

A lot of people usually go down this path of thinking when they want to start their own business, and so did I when I first started!

The challenge with this way of starting a business is that your chances of failure are astronomically high because you’re essentially trying to invent every part of the entire business by yourself!

There are 100+ moving parts in any business, and it’s very unlikely that you will have the skill set and the right personality type to be good at all 100+ parts of a business.

Even if you get 50% of the business figured out yourself, you simply won’t be able to compete with the already established businesses out there who have 100% already figured out.

Some people succeed by building businesses from scratch, figuring out every piece of the pie over time, but it can take anywhere from 3-10 years before your business starts to generate profits.

Again this can be a very risky path to take.

Option #3 – Joining an MLM Company

Joining an MLM / Network Marketing company can be a great way to get into business for yourself, without having to try to figure out everything by yourself.

Most MLM companies take care of 95% of everything for you.

They do the product research, they create the products, they test them, they get approvals for them, they create websites for you, they handle the accounting and the legal aspects of running the business, they create training and put on events for you and a 100 other things that you don’t have to worry about.

The only thing that YOU focus your time and energy on is generating leads and developing customers for them.

The other benefit with starting an MLM / Network Marketing business is that your start up costs are MUCH lower than starting a franchise or even starting your own business from scratch.

Also, you can start this type of business in your spare time, without having to quit your job.  This reduces your risk significantly.

You can just build up your business part-time on weekends and evenings, until your business replaces your job income and then you can decide if you want to do it full time.

But are there any challenges with MLM businesses?

Yes.

The biggest challenge with most MLM businesses is that the training that they provide for how to generate leads and get customers is extremely outdated.

The strategies they try to teach you are based on things that may have worked 10-20 years ago, but which don’t work very well today.

The standard training involves getting you to put together a 25-100 name list of all your friends and relatives and then either you or your sponsor or both of you are supposed to get on the phone and try to sell them on your MLM “business opportunity”.

Either that or to invite them to a “meeting”.

This stuff used to work back in 1997 when I first got into network marketing, but it just doesn’t work anymore today!

Even if you do sponsor one or two or five of your friends or relatives in your MLM, you then run out of warm market and you’re stuck hoping that THEY do something with the business, otherwise your business stagnates and falls apart.

This is NOT a good way to build a business.

So what other options are there?

Option #4 – Building an Online Business With a Lead Generation System

The other option is to join a company like Empower Network, which gives you all the benefits of a traditional MLM such as low start-up costs, great people, and being in business for yourself without being in business by yourself, and couples all those benefits with training and a SYSTEM for an unlimited stream of leads for your business.

Unlike most MLMs out there, you don’t have to waste your time trying to pitch your friends and relatives on the latest business opportunity you joined, who are most likely not interested anyways.

What Empower Network teaches you to do is to use the Internet to build an online presence for yourself and your business so that the approximate 35,000 – 50,000 people in the US alone who are currently LOOKING to start a home-based business find YOU instead of you chasing them!

This is a totally different approach to network marketing.

What’s cool about Empower Network’s system and training is that it can be applied to any MLM out there.

Meaning, if you’re already in another MLM opportunity right now, and you love their products and the company and you want to continue to build your business in that MLM, but your business has hit a point of stagnation or just isn’t growing fast enough, you can utilize the system that Empower Network teaches to help you grow that MLM.

You’ll learn the absolute most up-to-date, state-of-the-art techniques and strategies for marketing your business online and generating leads using the Internet.

While most MLM companies out there have been dead-set against the Internet for years, they’re all now finally starting to realize that they can’t grow without the Internet.

Most companies have now finally started to trickle out a little bit of training and tools that are supposed to help you use the Internet to build your business, but the stuff they’re teaching people is already outdated.

To be successful online, to generate leads for your business on the Internet, you have to be using strategies that are working now in 2015, not something that worked back in 2012 or even 2014!

This is what I love about Empower Network.

You’re always plugged into what is working NOW – TODAY – and learning from leaders in the industry who are producing results – TODAY.

You’re not learning from some leader who built their MLM empire in 1993 and hasn’t actually actively had to build their business for over 20 years.

How to Get Started

If you’re reading this and feeling like you need to make a change in your life, like you want to start your own business but don’t know how, here’s why I would recommend joining Empower Network today over any other opportunity.

By joining Empower Network, you will learn how to use the Internet to market yourself, to build your own brand, to generate an unlimited stream of leads for any business.

You don’t have to be a tech-genius to do it either.

Empower Network has a proven track record of helping ordinary people, with or without any technical experience, to get started online.

The cool thing is that once you learn how to effectively use the Internet to properly market and promote any business and to generate leads, that is a skill-set that you can use with ANY BUSINESS!

Meaning, if after getting trained by Empower Network, you want to join another MLM company and use the training from Empower Network to grow that business, then go ahead!  It’s your choice!

If you want, you could take the training and use it to promote a new business you start yourself from scratch.

There’s no limit as to how you can apply the amazing training in Empower Network to help you build ANY business out there.

Of course Empower Network has an amazing affiliate program that is very lucrative as well, and could be the business model that you’ve been looking for, but it’s totally your choice how you apply the training you get from Empower Network.

To learn more about Empower Network click here.

 

( *Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/15832/majority-americans-want-start-own-business.aspx )

Why Desire is Good

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Napoleon Hill said that they key to manifesting your dreams is to “Define your dream and get a burning desire for it’s achievement.”

He didn’t just randomly write this down as a theoretical concept that popped into his head one day.

He spent over 20 years researching some of the richest people on the planet at the turn of the century and after spending thousands of hours interviewing, researching, distilling and testing the success principles he learned from them he realized that one of the most powerful keys to success boils down to two things:

  1. Define Your Dream
  2. Get a Burning Desire for It’s Achievement

The first thing we have to do is get absolutely clear on what our “Dream” is in life.

What’s most important to you?  What is your mission?  What do you want from your life?

I’m not going to go too much into depth on that concept because in this post I want to focus on the second part a bit more.

The second thing Napoleon Hill said we needed was a “burning desire for it’s achievement.”

He didn’t say “Define your dream and have a mild preference for achieving it…” and he didn’t say “Define your dream and get a don’t really care if you achieve it or not.”

He didn’t even say “Define your dream and get a desire for it’s achievement.”

He said “Define your dream and get a BURNING DESIRE for it’s achievement.”

But Isn’t Desire Bad?

One concept that is sometimes taught in certain spiritual circles is the concept that desire is bad.

The roots of this teaching come from Buddhism.  Buddha observed that “life is suffering” and he discovered that the cause of suffering in life comes from “desire” and “ignorance”.

I have absolutely nothing against the teachings of Buddha, he sounds like a cool dude and I’d love to hang out with him and discuss life and spirituality, but then again another one of his teachings is that “if you meet the Buddha, kill him” so I’m not really sure how that would work out. 🙂

Here’s my point though related to desire.

Buddha’s teachings were about enlightenment, which essentially means the process of letting go of this life as a human being and ascending to a spiritual realm.

His statement “life IS suffering” means that being here, as a spiritual being in human form, you are in a state of “suffering”.

Why would he say that?  Well, because compared to the eternal bliss of being a fully enlightened “spirit” with no Ego – ie. God / Universe / etc. – compared to THAT, our life here on earth in these human bodies IS suffering.

We have these human bodies, and these bodies have desires and we are not “All knowing” which means that compared to God/Universe we are “ignorant”, and so we “suffer”.

BUT here’s the thing…

… YOU’RE HERE right now… in a human body, aren’t you?

You’re not “Enlightened” (yet)…

… therefore, compared to God/Universe you ARE ignorant, and you DO have desires.

That is just how we are made – as human beings.

I don’t think that trying to PRETEND like we don’t have desires is going to help us in life.

As a spiritual being inside a human body, you DO have desires.

When you get hungry, you have a desire to EAT.

When you get thirsty, you have a desire to DRINK.

When you’re lonely, you have a desire for companionship.

When you’re bored, you have a desire for excitement.

When you’re stressed out and tired, you have a desire to rest.

There is NOTHING wrong with having these desires!

And there is NOTHING wrong with the desire to want to be RICH or to MAKE MORE MONEY!

Unless of course your Dream in life is to be a Buddhist Monk!

IF that is your Desire…. to become a Buddhist Monk or a Christian Monk for that matter, and to take a vow of poverty, then that’s awesome and I’m very happy for you…

… but I can’t really help you, and neither can Napoleon Hill, because we are NOT here to teach people how to be monks.

Napoleon Hill didn’t write a book called “Stop Having Desires and Become a Monk”.

He wrote a book called “Think and Grow Rich” as well as another book called “The Laws of Success in 16 Lessons”.

What you have to DECIDE right now is this…

Do You Want to Be Rich, or Do You Want to Be a Monk?

Ask yourself… is YOUR dream in life to become a monk?

If so, stop reading, join a Monastery or a Church and pursue that path with all the passion you have for it.

But if that is NOT your dream, then STOP allowing people to fill your head with beliefs that in any way, shape or form say that desire is bad.

Desire is NOT bad (unless you want to be a monk).

IF you want to be successful in life, you have to learn to CREATE BURNING DESIRE.

But you’re not going to do that if in the back of your mind you’ve been programmed to think that desire is bad or “undesirable”. 🙂

If you want to be FINANCIALLY FREE in life or if you want to manifesting something like a new car or a passive income stream, or if you want to lose weight or meet the love of your life, you MUST learn to CREATE and EMBRACE DESIRE.

As Napoleon Hill said…“Define your dream and GET A BURNING DESIRE for it’s achievement.”

In future blog posts I’m going to dive more in depth into the concept of creating desire and how to create BURNING desire and how it differs from regular desire.

In this post though I just wanted to bring to your attention that there are different paths for different people out there.

If you want to achieve things in your life, if you have dreams that you’d like to manifest, then you have to become very aware and careful NOT to allow people to program your mind with this concept of desire somehow being a “bad” thing.

It’s not a bad thing.  It’s a GREAT thing.

All great human achievements have started with DESIRE.

Desire is one of the most powerful things that a human being can learn to create inside themselves.

Napoleon Hill discovered this “secret” and was completely blown away at how powerful a human being can be IF they learn to understand what desire is, how to create it, and how to create what he called BURNING DESIRE.