Jan 31

Hmmm…

How come the concept of MLM is so simple…yet so difficult to make real money with at the same time?

In this article I will go through the basic concepts of MLM, how it works, and hopefully give you a good basic understanding of why MLM is so simple, yet so hard to make any real money with. This will hopefully make you see what you need in order to make it in MLM or Network Marketing.

The concept of MLM goes like this:

Find a great MLM company to promote.

The company must have good products that people want, products that will help people live better lives.

It needs to have a good and fair payplan that pays the beginner well, aswell as gives the seasoned pro who are able to build an organization of thousands of people and give them an outrageous income. It also needs to have a fairly linear income progression as your organization grows. Here’s an example of how this should be:

  • 25 active people anywhere in your organization should pay you $200-$500 a month
  • 50 active people anywhere in your organization should pay you $400-$1000 a month
  • 100 active people anywhere in your organization should pay you $800-$2000 a month
  • 200 active people anywhere in your organization should pay you $1600-$4000 a month
  • 400 active people anywhere in your organization should pay you $3200-$10000 a month

When your organization grows to this size, you should be able to make a good living from you Network Marketing efforts. Somehwhere around this organization size, the lifestyle levels of the payplan should also kick in and secure a higher income progression than what has been the case so far.

The company needs to have a streamlined organization that keeps financial overhead to a minimum, since all the financial overhead has to be taken out of your paycheck which in the end will hurt people at the bottom of the payplan like the beginner.

Also the company should have several different systems in place to help you find people to talk to. Proven systems that has been used to build organizations in the past. The systems must not be too complicated and should give the beginner as well as the seasoned pro a great education on what to do to start getting results right away.

Now, here is perhaps the most important part: The company needs to be a privately held company and NOT be publically traded. The reason for that is once you get greedy investors somewhere near the company, their paycheck will usually be taken out of YOUR paycheck, and the payplan will change usually to the worse rather than the better for the average distributor.Also it should be run by people who has proven themselves as hugely successful Network Marketers in the past. The need to have built huge organizations in the past, so they know what it is like to show up for a hotel meeting where the presenter are the only person to attend. They need to have been there and done that themselves.

What it all boils down to…

After the things above is in place, here is what it all boils down to. Find a few people who would like to try a couple of the company’s products. Some of these people might like to make some money from recommending the products to others and become distributors. They sign up for a monthly autoship that will make them qualified for commissions. As your organization grows, you must take charge and teach them what you have already done to make the organization grow.

I will come back with more on this subject and on how to do the marketing part of this in a later posting. The marketing part, dropping the money aspect, and the taking charge part to become a leader of your organization is usually where most MLM careers come to a screaching halt.

Also more on this later…

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~Olav

May 09

Did you think that all the bad stuff in your MLM company’s Policies & Procedures was there just to make the lawyers happy?

Think again…

Today I got a message from a friend of mine. He talked to a guy recentlywho was having moderate success in a Network Marketing company. This is the story he told:

I have recently been building a relationship with a man who at this point is not interested in downloading the ebook, which is his choice.

He told me of his story about being terminated by his company. He was in [name of company removed], had built his group to 683 people including 55 personals. At this point someone in his company stole his e-mail password and started spamming people about [name of company removed]. This thief then contacted [name of company removed] and informed them that my friend was spamming people. Without even investigating the complaint, [name of company removed] automatically terminated his account.

He received a letter about a week later from [name of company removed] saying they had investigated the complaint and found it to be untrue. They offered him his position back along with the back pay they owed him. His answer was “kiss my butt” and he joined up with another company. This goes to show that some companies will live up to their P&P of “terminate at will”.

For those of you that do not know about [name of company removed], his 683 people was bringing him a whopping 683 dollars per month.

Donnie

Be carefull out there before you choose a MLM company. Many of them will kick you out of the company for much less reason than this guy’s company did. Some of them will kick you out of the company and steal your paycheck as soon as you have built it to a certain size for no reason at all.

There are many of these stories floating around, and many of those stories are actually true. I know many people personally who got their check stolen by bad companies.

If you want to know more about how to avoid this, and actually have a chance to succeed in MLM without constantly living in fear that your check will some day be gone, then download the ebook from the link to the right in the links section. There is no cost involved, and you will also get free one-on-one coaching on how to succeed in MLM big time from my good friend, mentor, and MLM superstar Michael Dlouhy.

You deserve to be successfull, and I can help you out, if you will let me…

Until Next Time…

~Olav, Blogmaster

PS: If you want to, you can call me Oliver if that makes you more comfortable, as that is alot easier to pronounce for english speaking people than Olav…