As a network marketing distributor, it is always important to keep abreast of the current best practices to ensure on-going business and growth. Here are the 6 best practices that many top mlm leaders are using to successfully build their businesses.

1) Always have a advertising budget whether you are marketing online, offline, or doing a combination of both. Advertising is essential to your business life and growth. Stick to your budget for a year so that you will have on-going momentum. At the end of the year, evaluate how you have done and make adjustments as needed. Continue Reading »
6 Tips to Develop Top MLM Best Practices

As a leader in your MLM organization, you know that your work is only beginning when a prospect joins and becomes a new distributor on your team. One of your tasks is to assist him or her in getting set up right.

Now, since we all know it is impossible to sell anything from a cart that is empty, we want to make sure our new team member doesn’t start off handicapped! Here are four tips to help your new Network Marketing distributors launch and build their teams, based on the four different areas of the business.

1. Personal Use: The quickest way to learn the business as well as be sold on it is for new distributors to actually use the company’s products. If the person doesn’t make an effort to use any products and does not believe in them,  you shouldn’t have sponsored him or her in the first place? So, make sure your new folks are not only sold on at least 2-3 products, but also actually use them.

2. Retail Sales: It will be hard for a new distributor to make any sales if he or she has zero products to retail. Don’t you think it will look bad when your new recruit approaches a customer to make a sale, and doesn’t even have any product on hand? Therefore, it is important to remind your new MLM distributors to be supplied with some products when he or she starts their new home business.

3. Samples: Most companies have products that can be given as samples to potential customers. As a true leader, it is important that you lead your new team members by example. So, show them how to give away the free product samples to customers.

4. New Distributor Start-Up: This is similar to number three. When you start a new distributor in their new Home Business , if he or she is a local person, the individual will need products as soon as he or she joins. If you plan on starting more than one person at a time, you need to have enough supply on hand to give to each of them at wholesale pricing. This is necessary because your new team members needs something to carry them until their first product shipment comes in. This approach also helps motivate your new distributor to keep their new home business in the forefront, to focus on getting the word out, and to start building their own teams. This step is crucial to getting your new team members started off right.

In summary, as a team leader, you want to do all you can to assist new distributors in starting their MLM home business right. They need to earn money by moving products, and, in return, to become even more motivated to be successful when sales are made. So, follow these tips and your new team members will be so thankful to you and your help!

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Throughout the years Network Marketing or Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) has turned into a bad word by many people even a curse word to some.  Whatever your thoughts I want to explore the reason why so many people refuse to get involved in MLM and explain why I feel it’s a valid marketing system.

The strongest objection to Network Marketing I hear is that it’s a pyramid scheme.  If that’s true then so is every corporation and business structures out there.  Let me explain. 

Every corporation has a President, Secretary, Treasurer, and a Director.  The larger ones have Vice-Presidents in charge of divisions to make the organization more efficient.  There’s only one President who’s responsible for running the business.  Everyone else is in a support role to him or her.

In a traditional business’ there’s a sales force to generate revenue.  That sales force has managers, regional managers, and most likely a Vice-President.  Okay, I know business 101 but it’s to support my position.  Doesn’t the structure appear as a pyramid too?  The only difference is that we have all been taught that that’s the only — traditional - way of doing business.

I contend that the only difference between standard corporations and Multi-Level Marketing is the sales force.  A traditional corporation has employees and MLM uses distributors as independent businesspersons.  Each has rules and regulations to follow and the earnings power varies on the aggressiveness ones efforts.

Another reason many think it’s a pyramid scheme is how monies are paid out.  Most corporations have incentive pay where managers from the top down share in the profits from the levels below them.  Even the basic sales person often gets a larger share of sales depending on their volume of sales. 

Now contrast that to MLM where instead of Vice-Presidents and other levels of the sales force there are independent businesspersons responsible for their own marketing and everything else for that matter.  Okay they use terms like “level” making it sound like a pyramid but isn’t the hierarchy of President, Vice-President, Regional Managers… est. too?

So as I see it, there’s no difference between the traditional model of doing business in a corporate structure or through the use of a Multi-Level structure.

In conclusion, the difference between the corporate structure and Network Marketing is the structure of the sales force.  The corporations use Vice-Presidents, Regional and local Managers, and salaried employees.  The Network Marketing system uses independent businesspersons to make the sales.

About the Author:  Kris Chrisman is a seasoned Network Marketing veteran whose philosophy is team building.  Join his team by visiting http://www.zrelaunch.com/krischrisman