Mlm - Understanding Your Market By: John Gaydon | - When building a MLM business, there are some fundamentals that need to be understood. These separate the long term income earners from the fly by nighters who make a few dollars or even lose money and quit. While excitement and passion about your opportunity or products is essential for success, it doesn't make it happen on its own. What is necessary is a continual stream of prospects for your product or business.
If you read my earlier article, you would know that I have develope ... Tags:passive income, Kim Klaver
LULU: Oh! We have unique, patent pending, proprietary and unique nutraceuticals, the best out there, backed up by medical experts and scientists. And..
What do you want to do now? Go towards this person or away from them?
The CEO of one of the largest advertising agencies in the world said that to create messages that win over consumers,
You often hear of recruiters defecting - leaving in a group and going to another company, like a group who left BodyWise to go to Pharmanex a couple of years ago. It happens all the time in our business.
When a company crashes, like Excel did, different top recruiter groups stick together to go to different places. In Excel's case, one group went to Shaklee, another to ACN, and a few others elsewhere.
The Great Players Of The World. By: Kim Klaver | - Doug Rushkoff ("Get Back in the Box") is not the only one who insists that the work one does can and should indeed be something YOU so enjoy that it feels like play - not something to be "compensated for" because it's so dreadful, and so non-motivating that you only live for the weekends.
More Women Giving Up Work Outside The Home By: Kim Klaver | - The New York Times reported that women are "stretched to the limit" raising a family and working outside the home, and that they are choosing to stay home more these days, after four decades of marching to work.
"Most of us thought we would work and have kids, at least that was what we were brought up thinking we could do -- no problem," Ms Stason-Short said. "But really we were kind of duped. None of us realized how hard it is." (New York Times 3.2.06 P.1)
What Else Could Come Stuck To A Pop Bottle? By: Kim Klaver | - So, you're looking for innovative ways to introduce your product and not be just another one of the hundreds out there?
How can you stand out?
Here's a unique idea cooked up by a college student in Australia. She wanted to introduce a new little magazine, and wanted to bypass the usual distribution channels, which are already packed full and hard to penetrate without a big name.
For Love Or Money? By: Kim Klaver | - On a call the other night, one gal said she was changing companies because the one she was with wasn't paying enough for amassing customers, which is what she wants to do in her networking business.
She's one of those who likes to find a product she loves, and then get customers.
Did We Fall Out Of The Box? By: Kim Klaver | - In his delightful and thought provoking book, Get Back in the Box, Doug Rushkoff explains how so many American companies have become the faceless, soulless things we love to hate.
When there's no one running the show that loves doing the thing the company is supposed to do best, e.g. make telephones, or cars, and the focus those at the top is on betting bigger, more profitable, being #1, being more efficient, spending more on marketing than on making their product better, somethin ... Tags:Kim Klaver, Klaver, marketing, direct marketing, network marketing, sales training, motivation
How Would You Improve It? By: Kim Klaver | - You have ideas. Ideas about what can be done to improve Network Marketing.
For example, what do you think can be done to:
1. Improve its image.
2. Improve the results you are (not) getting.
3. Improve how they pay you.
4. Make it so it's more fun to do it.
5. Attract better people.
On Language Women Hate... By: Kim Klaver | - Even though the business of direct sales and network marketing is made up of 80% women, the language used in front of the room and on websites, in autoresponder emails and everything else from corporate and upline is basically male.
What Makes Nm Good? Pt. 2 By: Kim Klaver | - "I felt that I could make a difference. That's the best reason to go into business -- because you feel strongly that you can change things."
-Richard Branson, chairman of the Virgin Group, a privately owned conglomerate that has spawned such companies as Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Interactive, Virgin Megastores, and Virgin Records.
Your friend has lost 35 pounds since you last saw her a few years ago, and she tells you how she did it with this wonderful product that finally worked for her. And you are delighted for her of course, and so on and on.
At the end of the lunch, your friend tells you that she is selling the weight loss product she was chattering about.
How He Got His People To Stick For 2500 Years By: Kim Klaver | - In our business, we hold up others who have been successful and announce to the audience, "See her? She used to clean houses! And now look at her. She has people cleaning HER big house. You can do it too! So sign up and get your initial big banana package and get started."
It's the "If they can, you can," or "If I can, you can," syndrome.
However, the drop out rate of 102% tells us this is not quite how things turn out.
One Technique To Prevent Premature Drop-outs By: Kim Klaver | - Have you signed up a recruit with great anticipation, then the person talks to one or two people they know, and next thing you know, they quit the business?
To help prevent this, try the following in the first week after the person buys in (after they've been on the product and love it, preferably):
Do You Love It Madly Or Is It The Money? By: Kim Klaver | - Those who have made fortunes suggest that first, you must love it madly. The thing you are doing, that is. For you may be doing it much longer than you first anticipated...
According to the wildly successful Bill Joy, co-creator of Sun Microsystems in 1982, if you want to start a company, "You should do it because it's an idea that you're very passionate about, without any financial expectations. You're not anticipating failure, but you have to accept that if it's worth doing, and ... Tags:Kim Klaver, Klaver, marketing, direct marketing, network marketing, sales training, motivation
"When a wild elephant is to be tamed and trained, the best way to begin is by yoking it to one that has already been through the process. By contact, the wild one comes to see that the condition it is being led toward is not wholly incompatible with being an elephant -- that what is expected of it does not contradict its nature categorically, but heralds a condition that, though startlingly different, is viable. The constant, immediate ... Tags:Kim Klaver, Klaver, marketing, direct marketing, network marketing, sales training, motivation
Those seem to be everyone's favorite questions. I even have a 3-Day course and a book to help people answer it. And there are many more marketing professionals trying to help out.
Still they keep coming from all over with the same urgent question, "Why do they say 'no' when it's such a good product?"
Sales Pitch Relief Bill, Anyone? By: Kim Klaver | - Sales pitch: Ranting and raving about the wonders of your product, and predicting what it will do for the other person, plus a little techno babble, like cellular level enzymatic functioning. Rattled off by the person selling it, non-stop, in a hyperventilated state.
Woman: Do You Make These Mistakes In Your Network Marketing Business? By: Kim Klaver | - Here's from John Milton Fogg, one of network marketing's best known supporters and thinkers, about what we're doing here with this blog. He wrote this to his followers and subscribers around the world, today.
"Women: Do you make these mistakes in your network marketing business...?
- You've been trying to do the business LIKE A MAN.
- You're running around offering the business opportunity to your prospects LIKE A MAN.
Can You See The False Promise In This Pitch? By: Kim Klaver | - One of the guys on the "Call for Scripts" live phone call today offered up the business script below. He said was getting people to go look at his information. He prefaced it with "Kim, you'll probably hate it..."
Just before he spoke, I had read the opening paragraphs from the new book Your Call Is Important To Us by Laura Penny:
Do You Make This Mistake Recruiting Women? By: Kim Klaver | - Women tell me that the biggest reason they contemplate quitting is because they don't think they can say and do what they're being taught to - even when their upline is a woman. Here's a stark example of something like that.
It's been a tradition in our industry to lead with recruiting, and then to emphasize the "big money, free time," the "big check" or the flashy cars, and "mansion on the hill."
Some people insist you lead with the business (and they tell you to offer the product as a last resort only if the prospect says No to the business); others say they'd rather lead with the product.
However, there is NO best way for all. Just like there's no product for everyone.
Here are five questions to help you decide what YOU should do.
Remember, you're the one leading, so choose what suits YOU. And no, it ... Tags:Kim Klaver, Klaver, Marketing, MLM
