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MLM-Personal Best Sponsoring

October 16th, 2010 by Jae Smith

Be The Kind Of Sponsor Your Upline Never Was Or Will Never Be.

“Inside an industry where many individuals are battling with every arsenal they have to make more money in any way attainable, leadership by example is without a doubt uncommon.”

Network marketers are far more prone to tell their downlines anything that is likely to make them stay in comparison to anything else that may guarantee success. This is particularly true, whenever they have come across some new technique that in theory may possibly work, despite the fact that they have yet to test it for themselves.

This leaves you having a massive opportunity to acquire a competitive edge. By merely re-discovering leadership by example, you are able to quickly make a move towards a stratagem
almost none of your competitors—either inside the company or selling for another company—is ever going to ever be innovative enough to do.

One of the most effective ways to lead by example in network marketing will be to set up diverse initiatives. Say for example, one month, you might pick some particular method of advertisement
after which you thoroughly train each individual within your downline on the benefits of deploying it; and the most effective way through which they might apply it. Then you’re able to run a campaign yourself, report your final results and strategies, and distribute it to your entire downline.

Working in close connection with your downline will not only help them to further improve how they do certain things, but it may also encourage  them to stay on board in order to promote you to people they know, who could be on the fence, deciding whether or not your biz opp is genuine.

So strive to make this your focus: lead by example always. Teach your downline how to proceed and what how not to proceed—and most significantly, ensure you have already done it yourself and are assured that it really works. If you lead by example, everyone else has a chance to benefit and to help you in return; if you lead with theoretical ideas, you might help someone, but it will most likely be accidental.

Training Your Downlines While Reducing Dropouts

An important area of network marketing is “downline retention.” You may view this like you would traffic generation: you are able to take two strategies—you may either “recycle traffic, to ensure that it returns; or you could very well frequently send new traffic to the site. Preferably, you’re looking for each of those components to be operating, as that will not only produce increased traffic, but it will likely keep more visitors on your site. This is certainly true with network marketing.

At this point in this writing, you have a general idea of how to acquire new traffic and further, how to convert traffic into members of your network. The next step is to sustain those new associates by coaching them and decreasing the number of dropouts—which are directly related.

Begin by creating some type of course, which begins by reviewing the fundamentals of network marketing—and then progresses to the more complex, sophisticated areas.

Moreover, if your goal is to preserve your network members, any excessive upselling attempts in your course could act as a repellant to your network members and cause dropout rate to increase significantly.

Instead, advocate what you think is absolutely necessary and only that which you believe will have the most effective results for anyone who is possibly a mediocre or less than average network marketer. In addition to forming a digital course, consider creating a PDF manual of some form or making the manual available from a member site. You will be able to send this to every single member of your network instantly upon signing up. This is often a more exhaustive field guide that instructs them through any likely problem they encounter as a brand new network marketer.

Finally, make yourself accessible to every person that may need your help. Provide your email address to your entire new network members in a personalized email you send to every person; or you might even make it possible for them to speak to you by phone. These are all things to consider because the more readily available you are, the more trustworthy you will be considered; and the more inclined members will be to follow your advice and stick with the opportunity.

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Toast to your success,

Jae Smith

Facebook | Best Practices for Wall Posting

October 13th, 2010 by Jae Smith

With Facebook ever-growing user base, more and more people are finding Facebook to be the number one place to hang out. It is sort of like that “third space” hangout at Starbucks. Others use Facebook as a way to network or build a business. Facebook can be used for calendaring, scheduling events, creating groups and business pages. Chances are you are already on Facebook (FB) and you know how to represent yourself with the utmost of decorum. To be sure, however, see if your conduct follows these Facebook best practices:

Wall Graffiti

There is nothing more grating to the nerves than to see a “fish out of water” who posts content of a private nature in an open forum in Facebook. If you are not sure how the target would respond to such a message, send a private message. Don’t gossip about your friends, or their friends on your wall. Do not disclose anything personal that you know about them. Besides making you look like a jacka*s, it brings down the quality of your profile and all who is associated with you. So in a word, refrain from having a Jerry Springer-like presence on your wall.

Applications

Keep applications usage to a minimum. “Defriend” those who have a wall full of applications. These applications are a substitute for putting out real content, comments or posts. If you are tempted to send your friend a “flower” or a “kiss,” think twice before showing such open display of affection. If you truly wish to do well by your friend, translate that affection into a “Like” on his or her page/profile or a wall comment that fits the nature and genre of the profile.

Be professional and contribute to the activity of your friend’s wall, profile or page. This is the best “gift” you can send your friend rather than wasting it on a Facebook application. Besides, these FB apps are designed to collect data from you and your friends for marketing purposes. Unless you are using business apps, sending a “drink” to your friend is just not the kind of gift that should be displayed on someone’s wall. With the ever-growing surveillance of employers snooping in on their employee’s profile, don’t post anything you wouldn’t want out in the open. This is a precaution: You have been forewarned.

Tagging

Yes, tagging a photo or video in Facebook is a cool way to make it go viral. However, get the permission of the person that you wish to tag or attach a media to so as not to be considered a spamster-like tactic. Also, make sure that you do not tag an embarrassing photo or video, especially of a friend or someone else you know. Remember, this will travel down the newsfeed and to the eyes of your entire friend base where permissions are not set or restricted.

Did you tag or post something you wish you hadn’t and then immediately removed it? Too late, although you have removed your posted error, a few people did see it already. Think twice—no thrice! Deliberate carefully! Proof-read thoroughly! I cannot implore you enough to do WHATEVER you have to do to ensure that you post or tag what was intended without sorrow or regret.  Most importantly, if you intend to tag or post a photo/video of someone you know, be sure to get their “thumbs up” beforehand.

If you get a message or a wall post—common sense says respond in a timely fashion. Besides, why not? You are addicted to Facebook anyway. So be the gracious host/hostess that you are and greet everyone who befriends you (or post/comment/like/private message to you) with warmth and do it promptly. This is where the “golden rule” is best implemented.

Clean-up duties

It is your job as the conductor of your Facebook forum/profile to clean up any wall postings that could appear in the newsfeed. Monitor your wall and newsfeed closely. Delete all of the extraneous postings as soon as you see any hint of anything inappropriate. Be sure to click on “Most Recent” adjacent to “Top News” at the upper right-hand corner of the newsfeed page. No one clicks here, but this is where content that is “hot off the press” is initially reported. It is sort of the “breaking news” or “up-to-the-minute” real-time postings.

Recap:

1) Be careful what you post in an open forum. This is a billboard for all to be seen. If in doubt, use private message. This is a clickable feature located under the profile photo of your friend that reads “Send a message.”

2) Facebook apps are annoying. Rather than using them to send a gift to a friend, “like” something they have posted or send a private message instead. This is the best way you can rack up “kudos” points with your friends because you are giving them the gift of “affinity,” that is that wonderful magic which creates activity among your tribe of friends, who are also contributing social proof that gives your profile greater brownie points with Mother Facebook. (Whew!!! Got that out all in one breath! But however, does it make sense?) Give the gift of participation.

3) I still submit that tagging in Facebook is a nasty little “no-no.” It is a principle I disagree with, however, if you insist on using it, get permission from your friends before tagging them and double-check, even triple-check everything before tagging or posting.

4) Be ready to greet your new friends, answer private messages or wall posts courteously and expeditiously.

5) Finally, take out a broom, clean and dust a bit. By that, you should always look for unwanted posts on your wall or in the newstream that do not represent you or your profile/page in the proper light. Don’t forget to check “Most Recent” which is the clickable link by “Top News” at the top of the newstream or home page. Remember the old adage, “You only get ONE time to make a second impression?” Get cracking! Delete, delete, delete.

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Toast to your success!

Yours,

Jae Smith