Take Responsibility For Your Network Marketing Business.

In order to be a leader in the network marketing industry, you must take personal responsibility very seriously.

Don't get me wrong, I am a firm believer in training and empowerment within network marketing. But, in the end, it all comes back to YOU.

A word that loves to pop up over and over again when it comes to taking responsibility is the word "they."We all love to blame everyone else when we aren't succeeding. "Well if only THEY would've trained me better." "Well, if only they would've given me more/ better leads to get started with." You know the drill. Well let me tell you something. If you want this bad enough, there is no "they," there is only YOU.

I don't know how many of you have been properly trained out there. I know I wasn't. I had to go out and get myself trained in order to make my business work. Now, because that has happened to me and I didn't quit, I am very adamant about training my organization. But, with all of the horror stories I hear and with all of the people I get coming to me for free network marketing leads, I am assuming that it's the norm to let your newbie network marketers just sink or swim.

So, let's just assume that you're on your own. You are responsible for, in any case:

• Your personal beliefs and the way you see the world around you.
• The attitude that you portray.
• The choices that you make.
• The way that you behave.
• The promises that you make and your commitment to following through with those promises.
• The work that you do.
• Your personal responsibilities.

What is it that gets in your way? Blame and Being the victim.

When we focus on other people's part in a situation, we are releasing responsibility from ourselves. Blame is a complete waste of our time and energy.

As far as being the victem is concerned, instead of looking at the reasons we failed because of what another person did or didn't do, we should instead be looking at the factors that are within our control.

Instead of saying that you can't build your business because your sponsor didn't teach you this or that, go out there on the Internet and learn it! No one is responsible for your business but you.

I truly believe, again, that it is a sponsor's duty to train their organization and help them to get started in building their business. After all, the success of a sponsor is directly linked with the success of his/ her downline. That's how network marketing works, isn't it?

However, if you believe in your company and it's products as I did and your sponsor just isn't willing to put in the time with you either:

1. Go out and get yourself some training.
2. Go out and find a better sponsor and company if it's that bad.

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Video Mail Says It Better

In my research today (yes, I do some research each and every day---the Internet never stops changing) I found an article that suggests why video mail is so much better than text email and I must agree whole heartedly. Not just because I am in video network marketing but because:

• Text email is easily misunderstood because you can't convey emotion.
• No body language can be observed through e mail
• You can't look the person straight in the eye and speak with conviction and sincerity
• It's just too impersonal

When I send video mails to my new subscribers at my Affiliate Marketing Help and Affiliate Marketing For Newbies websites, they are completely blown away. Now, they are not people that I am prospecting for video network marketing either. It's just a personal welcome.

I subscribe to a ton of newsletters and most of them are just sales pitches one after another. I have never seen anyone send vmails with personal welcomes in them.

I feel like a true pioneer.

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Free Surveyed Home Based Business Leads

Just a quick post.

I got an e mail from the guy who developed my waterfall leads capture page, Jeremy Henderson.

Now, understand that I don't really favor leads companies and I would NEVER pay for leads. But, this is a free leads offer. You get 25 surveyed home business leads a week who have been asked questions like:

• How much time do you have to invest in a business?
• How much money do you want to make?
• When can you start?
• How much money do you have to invest in a home based business?
• Have you ever run a home based business before?
• Why do you want this?
• Plus whatever else these survey people ask.

The bottom line is that I would never teach any of you to rely on free leads or bought leads that you have not generated yourself.

Think it's too hard to generate your own leads without using PPC?

Think again. This is just one of the 2 systems that I use and I generate more leads than I can keep up with---MLM network marketing leads

I have NEVER used PPC and I have never wanted for more leads. It's all about attracting leads not chasing leads. But, we'll have to save that for another day.

Meanwhile, here are your free business opportunity leads that you can use if you hit a dry spell or something.

Give Freely And Reap The Rewards

I know that we're all here to make money but do you ever think about the long term being more important than the short term?

A little bit of background information:

I am a network marketer. That is my main business and how I make at least 75% of my current income. But I stated out as an affiliate marketer. Since then, my affiliate marketing sites have turned into 2 things:

1. Information sites with just a few scattered affiliate links to services that may be helpful to other marketers.
2. Awesome leads generation systems.

I first learned as an avid forum poster that by giving away my knowledge with no strings attached, I could actually make more contacts, referrals, and money in the end. By adopting this "non-profit" attitude toward my marketing efforts in some cases, I've actually made more than I would have otherwise.

Let me tell you what it has brought me.

I now have 2 active students that are learning the ropes directly from me. While it does take some extra work to mentor a newbie, the rewards are fantastic.

My 1st student came to me through my subscriber list at Affiliate Marketing Help. After I welcomed him with a video mail (that's a little extra thing I do that doesn't come with Aweber). I don't remember how he first found me or if I ever knew but he seems to think that I'm some kind of marketing genius because of my "breath of fresh air" tactics. He's not a newbie to entrepreneurship, he's actually a retired professor of Entrepreneurial Science. He and I are in the process of forming a business partnership not only with my VM Direct business but he also wants me to be part of his business coaching programs.

Can you imagine a successful professional like this wanting to join forces with a 32 year old retired bartender?

My second student who I just got off the phone with a few minutes ago is a gentleman from the UK. He is a newbie affiliate marketer and wants my help to create and monetize a London travel site. He came to me for help from a work at home forum because he said he enjoyed my honest and thoughtful posts.

He is, as we speak, setting up domain names, hosting accounts, and autoresponder services through my affiliate links. Why? Because I offered my time and advice with no strings attached. I've also been contacting him through video mail and have his interest in video network marketing quite piqued. Sure, I could give him a hard sell but my philosophy is to let him decide on his own. That way, he'll be loyal and work hard to build the organization.

This is how my prospects stick around and really make a go of it. Less attrition.

I'm nothing special. As I said, I'm a retired bartender and I'm only 32 years old. The reason for my success is my non-pushy sales techniques.

You could say I'm the "non-marketer."

Sheree Motiska

MLM Forum

So I found what looks to be a pretty cool MLM forum the other day and I wanted to share it with you all. I've only posted a couple of things but it looks like a lot of good stuff.

Here are some of the points of interest:

• Article marketing
• Blog marketing
• Offline marketing ideas
• SEO
• Law of Attraction
• Personal development and coaching
• General Home Based Business Discussions

Here is a link to the MLM forum. Take a look around but you should definitely get registered and start showing your expertise as well as asking questions and learning as much as you can.

Also, of mention is a thread that names a bunch of really good network marketing blogs. All you network marketers should at least be out there blogging even if you don't yet have your own content site. Here you can find the best MLM blogs according to the MLM forum.


Happy posting!

Sheree

Personal Responsobility. The Scene Of Every Crime.

This is a great video that I found at Crackle. It's a bit long and very passionate.

From Crackle: Network Marketing Training Scene Of Every Crime