America’s Number One Home-Based Business Opportunity

Joseph Ray Watkins founded Watkins Incorporated in 1868

Work at Home Pro recently completed a study of 26 home-based business opportunities that are considered legitimate and proven. They concluded that one company stood head and tails over the rest as “America’s best home-based business opportunity” and based their conclusion on 15 different factors. That company is Watkins Incorporated of Wanona, Minnesota. Their study determined that Watkins, a 140-year old manufacturer of seasonings, extracts, flavorings, personal care, beauty, health, first aid, cleaning and miscellaneous home products offers a home-based business opportunity that is far and away superior to any work at home business opportunity they studied or have come across.

This in depth study of the 26 home-based business opportunities generally considered sound and legitimate analyzed 15 different factors their analysts considered essential. For example, they reviewed the length of time each company had been in business, the strength of their management teams, the quality and reputation of their products and services, their training systems and methods, their compensation plan for associates, dealers or distributors, etc.

Watkins was founded in 1868, and thus has been in business longer than any company I studied. The company is owned by Irwin Jacobs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Jacobs is a world-renowned businessman and entrepreneur that understands people, the needs of consumers, the importance of quality and believes in taking care of all aspects of his business (i.e., manufacturing, marketing, sales, product quality, associate compensation, etc.).

Watkins has one of the most lucrative compensation models in the network marketing business. Starting in 1868 with one product, red liniment, the company now manufacturers 350 outstanding products for the home and consumer. The list of product categories is extensive, from personal care products to home cleaning products, vitamins and supplements, beauty products, cooking spices, flavorings and extracts, first aid products and more.

Testimonials from consumers that have used Watkins products for decades can be found on countless websites. If you meet a Watkins customer, you’ll usually find that they intend to be a Watkins user for life. Mr. J.R. Watkins, the company’s original founder, invented the trial-mark bottle (the use of product on a trial basis) and the first-ever money back guarantee. Now, 140 years later, the Watkins company still offers a money back guarantee on all its products, including its sales kit for new associates. No company in the network marketing business offers so many money back guarantees.

If you’re looking for a home-based business opportunity, one you can start part-time and build into a full-time business in 3 to 5 years, a home-based Watkins products business can be started on a budget that cost no more than dinner for two at a nice restaurant.. Thousands of Watkins associates have started their Watkins businesses as a part-time, spare income job, working no more than 10 hours per week or so. A significant number have used this same part-time formula to build six-figure incomes for themselves in 3 to 5 years. There are very few business opportunities available in America today that can take you from no income to six-figures in this time frame, working part-time.

Watkins impeccable reputation, along with its outstanding line of 350 different products that people can and do use every day in their homes make succeeding in Watkins easy and fun. Whether you’re a corporate executive, a school teacher or a stay-at-home mom, the Watkins business model has proven itself to be adaptable to people from all walks of life, regardless their level of experience or education.

Watkins stays in touch with the times, offering all associates an online website for taking orders and marketing Watkins online. No longer is the company “your parents Watkins” that sales products door-to-door. Instead, Watkins associates today use many successful business models and methods for selling Watkins, including e-commerce, GoodTastings party events, festival and trade show sales, mail order and catalog sales, fundraisers, etc. If you’re willing to commit yourself to working 7 to 10 hours per week in a home-based enterprise, you can build a full-time income with Watkins never working more than part-time hours.

Watkins Business Opportunity FAQ’s

How much money can I make with Watkins?
Watkins Independent Associates earn commissions on every sale. You earn a 25% profit on your retail sales volume, and you earn bonus income (up to 15% more) that increases as you grow your business and progress through each level of achievement. You also make bonus income on the sales of your Associates, if you decide to sponsor anyone. Your income potential is only limited by your drive and creativity to sell the products.

Is training required to become a Associate?
You can learn about Watkins products and marketing strategies in the comfort of your own home. Watkins does offer training meetings and conventions around the country, which are, of course, optional.

Do I have to meet monthly sales quotas to continue being a
Associate?
Absolutely not, Watkins places no sales requirements on your business.

How expensive is it to start a Watkins Business?
The Membership Package is only $39.95 . Not much, when you consider the costs involved in starting up most businesses. After one year, you will need to pay an annual fee of $30.00 to maintain your membership.

What are the requirements to become a Watkins Independent
Associate?
In addition to buying the Membership Package, you need to be at least 18 years of age, a citizen of the U.S. or Canada, and have a valid Social Security, Federal ID, or Social Insurance number.

What if I have questions?
Watkins is committed to team work. The business manual will usually answer many of your questions, however you are always free to contact your Sponsor or Manager to discuss questions or ideas you may have concerning your Watkins business. In addition, Watkins provides a “Support Hotline” that can offer you business assistance and up-to-date company information.

So take that next step, and be one step closer to a brighter future with Watkins!!!
————

Douglas Adams – Independent Watkins Distributor

Watkins, one of the oldest companies in the world, originated the concept of network marketing in 1868. Start your own Watkins business for as little as $39.95! | Simply the Best Business Opportunity – Audio

Share
Posted in MLM Opportunities | Tagged , | Leave a comment

MLM Training – The #1 Mistake Network Marketers Make

By Tim Sales

MLM Business Professionals are always looking for a new system or a better script that will yield better results in their network marketing business. More times than not, better results can be achieved by simply avoiding this very common mistake.

Just seconds before you open your mouth and begin talking with your prospect about your MLM business opportunity you first want to silently say to yourself, “I’m interested in you.” And then, throughout the rest of the entire conversation the next thing you do is DON’T BE DISTRACTED BY ANYTHING.

I know it sounds simple but boy does it show when you don’t do this. And I wouldn’t be discussing it if I didn’t see that it is severely limiting many people from being good communicators and achieving success in their MLM home business.

When you are distracted by something, immediately your silent statement of “I’m interested in you” is gone because you’re not interested in them if you’re distracted by something else. Instead, you’re interested in the email that just came in or the waiter that just stepped up to the table.

In toasting a glass of wine, champagne or grape juice, customary etiquette claims that you should keep the glass to your lips until the toaster has taken it away from his/her lips.

In talking with your prospect, don’t take your attention off the prospect until the prospect’s attention goes off you. If the prospect looks at a TV, a waiter, a child, etc., don’t keep staring at them – shift your focus to what they’re looking at.

When you’re on the phone, keep focused on the conversation – no multitasking! Here’s a valuable MLM training tip to make note of: Extremely important things get skipped while you’re doing other things when you multitask.

Your replies to their statements and questions are very often incorrect or inappropriate or not timed correctly. And don’t think for a second they don’t notice…it may be “okay” with them, but they know they are second (at least) in your order of importance. This is never okay.

For those of you who’ve listened to “Professional Inviter,” (an MLM training CD set I authored) you probably recall my conversation with the lady Ruth and how she was multitasking. So I asked her to repeat what I had just said to her. Did you hear her trying to respond? It’s actually very funny when you listen to it. But that’s an example of her not being able to correctly respond because she was multitasking.

When you’re at an MLM business meeting with your guest, don’t be distracted by the environment. When someone arrives late to the meeting – don’t look at the late person. I don’t care if EVERYONE looks; don’t you. Keep your eyes on the presenter; this reveals the importance you place on the content of the speaker. Your guest will notice your actions. This also goes for someone leaving the room. Often MLM training meetings are more relaxed, but the same rule applies – don’t be distracted by anything in the environment.

Some common things I see MLM Business Professionals distracted by are:

* Men distracted by a cute girl walking by

* Women noticing the wardrobe of another woman walking by

* Television that’s in the room

* Children or pets at an in-home meeting

* Cell phones ringing

* Someone more interesting than the prospect – which should NEVER be the case

* The rattling of a health/candy bar or a piece of candy

Forget everything else and just pay attention to your prospect!

There are several things a person must do to fully master to get really good at network marketing. The first skill to learn is to BE INTERESTED IN THE PROSPECT. The second quality is DON’T BE DISTRACTED BY ANYTHING IN THE ENVIRONMENT.

If you think about it, if you’re really doing the first quality, the second quality is a given. Do both of these qualities and you will see a noticeable difference in your ability to easily communicate with MLM business prospects and product customers.

Tim Sales helps network marketers gain the confidence and skills to be an M.L.M success. Learn how to become a true network marketing professional and sign up for his free M.L.M training newsletter and listen to free training at http://www.brilliantexchange.com

Share
Posted in Network Marketing | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

MLM Training – Five Success Factors That Make Warm-Market Prospecting Easier

By Tim Sales

With these five success factors, you’ll never feel like a pushy sales person and lose the friendship and respect of your family and friends. Talking about your MLM business with these rules will always guide you to say the right thing.

Forget for a second that you’re in network marketing. What if you were starting any other kind of business like a retail store, a salon, or a construction company. Where would you get your customers? Your employees? How about business partners? Where would you find them?

In one or more of those categories a friend, acquaintance or family member might be the right fit, maybe not. Maybe they know the right fit. Somehow it always works itself back to an acquaintance, a recommendation or a referral. In MLM, this is called your “warm market.”

Life seems to be a series of experiences brought on by connections to other people. Your job as a Networker is to connect the bridges together and move past the disinterested in a professional and honest way, without “pushing.” Most all businesses begin this way.

Your warm market can be one of the greatest resources to your MLM business. Dealing with family and friends can be a blessing or a curse, but if you want your family and friends to continue to respect you, give you referrals, be your customer, and possibly say “yes” to your presentation, I recommend you follow these five rules when working with your warm market.

Rule #1 – Hold your tongue. Don’t ever insult someone for his or her decision not to participate with you in your business. Don’t tell someone they’re stupid for not doing business with you, even if it is the way you “talk to your brother.” It’s unprofessional and out of place.

Rule #2 – Be wise. “No” rarely means no. That same brother in three weeks or three years could lose his job. If you’ve made a fool out of yourself, not only will he not do the business, he will beat you to all of your friends and tell them about the “scam” you’re in. All of this because “you told him” how stupid he was. That’s not wise.

Rule #3 – Deal with it. For 10 years I’ve dealt with objections, concerns, past failures, bad experiences, etc., which have all taught me how to successfully handle these issues.

Just as an experienced dentist knows that treating teeth is the easy part and the hard part is dealing with the patient’s “baggage”… like the time the other dentist stuck a six-foot needle in their gum when they were 14 years old.

“Dealing” with these issues is what “wins” the patient. Once the trust is established you’ve got them for life or until you decide to stop servicing their needs.

Rule #4 – Yes or No. Some prospects just take one conversation to be won and some prospects take 10 conversations. (Nine of those conversations resulted in a “No” answer even though “No” was never stated.) If you take the thought process as being that either the prospect says “Yes” or “No,” then you’ll miss the art of communication and networking.

Suppose your company has 20 products. If your prospect says “No,” find out what they are saying “No” to.

Are they saying “No” to all 20 products? Are they saying “No” to “I don’t want to diversify my income?” No to “I don’t know anyone who needs or wants any of your 20 products?”

That’s a lot to say “No” to! I recommend that you find out exactly what your prospects are truly saying “No” to.

Rule #5 – Don’t be a bug. Do not ever “bug” family and friends about your MLM business. Sometimes Networkers get extremely focused, which is good, and it should never be suppressed. Focus is what creates “eliteness.” Just be disciplined as to what and who deserves that focus. If it’s a friend or family member who clearly isn’t interested, quit wasting time there and go get in front of people who do want to be a part of your MLM business or a product consumer.

Tim Sales helps network marketers gain the confidence and skills to be an M.L.M success. Learn how to become a true network marketing professional and sign up for his free M.L.M training newsletter and listen to free training at http://www.brilliantexchange.com

Share
Posted in MLM Training | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

MLM Training – When to Develop Multiple Streams of Income

By Tim Sales

I’ve made millions in network marketing, I’ve made millions through investments, and I’ve also lost a lot of money too. Profit from my mistakes and learn how to best invest the money you make in your MLM business.

Network Marketing professionals often ask me how to manage the profits earned from their MLM income.

Can you make more money by diversifying into investments such as stocks, bonds, real estate, etc., and have your money working for you in other areas besides an MLM business? Or would you make more money by really focusing and investing your money back into your MLM business?

There are three items to think about when answering this question for yourself.

A. What else would you do with your time?

B. What else would you do with your money?

C. What else would you do with your attention (definition: the ability or power to concentrate mentally)?

Every investment (stocks, bonds, real estate, your sister’s business) requires that you learn about it. And just the learning costs time and attention. And it is the using up of your attention that rarely gets factored into the “diversify your money” advice.

Probably what’s most important here is, the greatest amount of money you will ever lose, is that amount you will never make because of misuse of A, B, and C from above.

I was listening to a radio talk show about 10 years ago and the advice given was to “Select the top three stock market sectors based on trends. Put one-third of your investment capital in each. Wait 10 years and you should be wealthy off your passive investments.” I was making about 50 thousand dollars a month above my expenses – so I thought, “Why not?”

I chose the following sectors: Health Care, Technology, and Telecommunications. After losing about half of my money I changed to three different sectors. I looked at my portfolio today and I have lost another $11,848.78.

Don’t get me wrong; there have been times I’ve made over $50,000 dollars in the stock market in a day. Fun! And there have been times I’ve lost $150,000 dollars in a day. Not fun.

In addition to that, I’ve spent an enormous amount of time on my “passive” investments. Many hours (per week) have gone into “pondering” (wasting item C from above) what the stock market is going to do next. Reading newsletters, magazines, newspapers, watching the stock market news and commentaries on TV. And still my return has been negative.

The only thing that has remained very stable and predictable is my network marketing income. Had I taken the same amount of money, roughly $500,000 and invested it into promoting my MLM home-based business would I have had a greater return? Yes.

So what about the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” philosophy of “Buy assets that produce more income?” Or the more common way it’s stated, “Create multiple streams of income?”

As you may know, I created a prospecting tool based on that philosophy where I explain to prospects how wealth is created by investing in assets. (www.mlmbrilliance.com) So I’m very close to this subject.

However, if you listen closely to the way I stated it in the online movie, I say, “So what are assets? Well the most obvious ones are: stocks, bonds, real estate…” Then I say, “…education and businesses.” And to that I’m referring to educating yourself about businesses. Whether that be your MLM home-based business or your pinball machine business.

Two common mistakes in making decisions on A, B,and C from above are:

1. Making decisions based on now vs. decisions based on future. Of course you need to pay your bills now. They’re screaming at you! But keep in mind what I talk about in Brilliant Compensation – it’s not faster (in the long run) to tie your young son’s shoes than teaching him how to do it himself. If you tie his shoes for him you silence the screaming urgency, but you’re still stuck with the job UNTIL you teach him to tie his own shoes. When you make financial decisions make sure you’re looking at the long-term. Residual income that can be generated from an MLM business is sweet.

2. Making decisions based on “could you” instead of what you “will you” do with your time, money or attention. Example: A guy determines that it’s a poor use of his time and attention to mow his own yard, so he hires the boy down the street to cut his grass. Now, what does he do with that extra time (A), and the extra attention (B)? He watches TV. Bad choice. When he was making the decision to hire the lawn boy he thought, “It’s a waste of my time to mow the grass when I could be doing more important things like building my MLM business.” Make sure when you free up any of the three resources you use them wisely.

Summary: My personal opinion is invest your time, money and attention into KNOWING your MLM home-based business and getting really good and profitable at it. Find and study MLM training that is proven and effective, and master it.

Continually reinvest your profits back into your network marketing business by promoting it more, that’s where the high return is. When you have a surplus of income, buy a secure investment like Treasury Bills http://www.treasurydirect.gov until you’re ready to learn another business FULLY. By business I’m including all investment activities as well. Then focus your time, money and attention (from the surplus only) on knowing THAT business.

From my experience, diversifying my money has done nothing more than dissipated my focus, which has in turn lost a lot of money, time, and attention.

Tim Sales helps network marketers gain the confidence and skills to be an M.L.M success. Learn how to become a true network marketing professional and sign up for his free M.L.M training newsletter and listen to free training at http://www.brilliantexchange.com

Share
Posted in MLM Training | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

MLM Training – How to Get Your Downline To Successfully Duplicate

By Tim Sales

Several months ago I conducted a survey to find out what network marketers really wanted to learn, and what topics would be helpful to them. I discovered an overwhelming number wanted to learn more about successful duplication within their organization. Some specific questions were asked and I am answering them here.

Q. What is the most important thing that a network marketer’s organization should duplicate

A: A successful action. I know that sounds funny but that really is what it comes down to. You’ve got to duplicate something that is doable and simple so that it doesn’t require an enormous amount of training at each level. That’s not to undermine training, but if what you’re trying to duplicate is so complicated that you can’t get very ordinary, average people to do it – if it requires you to have just completely brilliant people, then you’re going to be limited.

What ever it is that you’re duplicating . . . let’s just say that it’s a script for making outbound phone calls but this script has got a lot of words in it that the person delivering the script has a hard time with. Not only that, but the person receiving it has a hard time with those words. That’s not going to duplicate. So that’s the first thing – make sure that you’re duplicating something that is simple to learn and grasp.

Q: In your own organization that you built how did you figure out what to do and what to duplicate?

A: I learned that the first thing to do is to build a prototype that actually works. When I define the word “work” I mean that you as an individual are able to make a customer happy. And once you make that customer happy you’ve got to write it out – write out exactly what you did. Then follow your own written procedures and see if you can recreate that same happy customer in another person.

How this worked for me is that I just looked over my product line and what suited me best (my company sold personal care products). I noticed that I was around a whole bunch (being in the Navy) of guys that had bad skin — acne, problem skin. So I first got successful with myself. I had a similar situation with my skin so I used the products and found the best combinations and so forth that got me results.

From that I was able to get four other guys that were in my unit to do the same process. I wrote up what it was that I did and then I showed them how simple it was and that they too could help people that they knew and saw that had problem skin. I ended up with this whole group of rough, tough, macho guys out there selling this mud that pulled impurities out of the skin. That was the way that my organization began to duplicate.

Q: Did you find it was easy to teach your downline to do exactly what you had done?

A: NO! That’s where you have to perfect your system. You have to continually work on your systems to ensure that those systems are in place and are workable. And then this is the part that can get you – once a person figures out how to get success, the greatest seduction, I believe, in all of life is to always want to continue to DO that, instead of TEACHING that. Because it seems easier to do than having the patience to sit back and allow that other person to make the same errors and mistakes that you made.

I think that is perhaps the greatest difficulty in leadership. I think that every one of the books that’s out there on leadership – that’s the part that I’ve always seen that’s missing. Having the patience to just sit there and watch and observe, and see people in your group make mistakes but not correct them at that particular moment but….to sit back and say, “Alright is this a systematic thing that I need to change? Or is this something specific to this individual that I need to change?”

I’ll give you an example for this. There’s a lady in my organization now, and she has absolutely resisted being a public speaker, and speaking in front of more than one or two people at a time. I started off encouraging her to just stand up and do nothing but introduce me. And of course she fought it, and she needed to prepare for it for a week, and things like that. But in the process, I taught her how to teach herself, if you will. In other words, I told her, “Okay, what you need to do is set up a teddy bear or some kind of stuffed animal that you’re communicating to and then talk to it.”

So, the next time I’m speaking at one of her events, I’m listening to her introduce me, and I walk into the back of the room, and no one can hear her back there. Of course, I’m not going to correct her in that moment, so I wait and then I praise her. The rule is that you praise twice and correct once. If you ever get those ratios out of order then you’re going to have basically a “tucked tail”. That’s what they call it in the dog training world. When you’re training a dog, if the tail goes below parallel to the back, you stop training that dog (because he’s starting to feel “whipped”) and you praise the dog. So, in a similar way, you praise twice and correct once with people.

With this lady, I waited until it came back around again that she was going to be presenting. What I said to her was “Okay, it does you no good to prepare and plan and train yourself if the people can’t hear you. And so what I want you to do is to read aloud to your children.” She’s got two kids and she had already told me that she reads to them every night. I told her, “What I’d like you to do is put them on the other side of the room; don’t cuddle up in the bed with them. Be on the other side of the room and you read to them.”

She tried that and of course she emailed me back and she said, “That was unbelievable! The kids kept saying, “We can’t hear you Mom!” She began to figure out, “Oh, okay. I have to project my voice. That sound has to get to the back of the room. Just because the front of the room hears it, it doesn’t mean that the whole room hears it.”

So this is what I’m talking about. That was something that was specific to that person that I had to assess – “Okay, there is something that she needs help with. What specific thing does she need training in?” Then I figured out a way to teach her to do that.

Now, she was just on a radio talk show and she’s been requested to come back and be a speaker in this community of events that happens every week. She is becoming that public speaker that she resisted being for so long. And of course, now she ABSOLUTELY LOVES IT. I’ve seen her speak; she’s good.

Being a leader means developing a simple, workable system and then having the patience to teach others – in spite of the discomfort of sitting through their mistakes. It’s not always easy but it can be really profitable for you.

Much Admiration and Respect,

Tim Sales helps network marketers gain the confidence and skills to be an M.L.M success. Learn how to become a true network marketing professional and sign up for his free M.L.M training newsletter and listen to free training at http://www.brilliantexchange.com

Share
Posted in MLM Training | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

MLM Training: How to Always Say The Right Thing, Easily and Naturally

By Tim Sales

If you could learn just one skill in your MLM business, this would be it. Having this one dominant thought in your mind before talking with any prospect will guide you through any conversation, and your prospect will respect and admire you.

If you always say the right thing that also means you NEVER say the wrong thing. Boy that would be nice, huh? In this article I’m going to tell you about one simple thing you can do to make saying the right thing almost automatic.

Having the intention to make the person’s life better is the tenth and final Communication Quality.

These Qualities I developed are very important to you to possess if you want to be successful in MLM. Once you’re fully knowledgeable about these qualities and have the proper and correct MLM training to learn them, you will be amazed at how many prospects and customers will be interested in your MLM business and/or products.

When inviting your prospect…and communicating (selling) with your prospect…and in any situation really…

Your intention needs to be focused on the correct thing if you want success in network marketing.

The definition of the word intention is: An aim that guides action. You could flip that around and also say that all past actions were preceded by an intention. Example: Your intention was to go to the store; your action was to get in your car. Your action of getting in the car was based upon desiring to go to the store. Intention comes first, and then action follows.

If your intention with your prospect is correct, then your actions will be correct. When it comes to inviting someone to look at your MLM business, your intention prior to the call, during the call…and as long as you know this person should be to make the prospect’s life better.

If your intention with your prospect is the wrong one, then your actions will reveal what your true intentions are. People often think they can “fake” it – I disagree.

If it is truly your aim to make your prospect’s life better, then everything you do will be towards that. And it will be obvious to the prospect.

If your aim is to make money, make your monthly volume requirements, or get off the phone within three minutes – then everything you do will be towards that. And that will be obvious to the prospect also.

Recently I was talking with a lady named Jennifer who had been working with a prospect (a company) to turn them into a client. A gentleman named Mr. Allen was the decision maker at the company. Everything was going well, and then Mr. Allen revealed that someone else (a competitor to Jennifer) was also trying to get their account.

Oh, this freaked Jennifer out! She suddenly went from having the aim to make Mr. Allen’s life better – to having the aim of beating out this competitor. That became her dominant aim. Jennifer’s conversations with Mr. Allen started to be about how much better she was than the competitor instead of how she could make Mr. Allen’s life better.

She hastily called me pleading, “Help me, I’m losing this huge account!” I told her to go write down every thought she was having about the situation. Then from the intention of making Mr. Allen’s life better, work out how she would do [only] that.

I went over her list with her and to every statement she had written down I asked things like, “How does that benefit Mr. Allen or the company?” Or “How is that related to helping Mr. Allen?” Many things she had written down had to do with her (Jennifer’s) fear of what would happen if he chose the competitor; which had nothing to do with Mr. Allen.

Ultimately, Jennifer succeeded at getting Mr. Allen to see that she was a better person to work with than the competitor and got the large account – not because Jennifer focused on beating the competition or saying anything AT ALL about the competition – she stayed on the subjects of what she would be doing for the client and how she had this idea and that idea and how she had researched this and that…all of which were in alignment with what Mr. Allen had said he wanted from the very beginning.

My point in Communication Quality #10 is to make sure your intention is pure and focused on making the prospect’s life better. If you do this you will always say the right thing…to that prospect.

The true advantage network marketing has over all other industries is our ability to really have a conversation with the prospect and find out what will make their life better.

Telemarketers don’t do this, advertisements on radio and television don’t do this and you won’t find it in direct mail. But it’s quite obvious to anyone who wants to look that we in the MLM business can truly care about and demonstrate that care by keeping the intention to make the prospect’s life better throughout our conversation with them.

If you listen to my live calls on “Professional Inviter” you’re going to perhaps wonder why I don’t get the objections that you may get. Sometimes you can say the same words that I say, but you get very different responses.

If before your call you put in your mind that you really want to help this person, and that you really can help this person, and you really will help this person – your calls will go much better than if you are thinking about making money.

Show me someone whose aim (intention) is to make money and I’ll show you a tired, worn-out, broke person because they’re trying to receive before they give – and I’m not suggesting this person isn’t working their fool head off trying to make money – I’m clearly stating that they won’t be able to make money because they’re focused on the receiving side of the equation instead of the giving side. People think that by working hard they’re giving – nope. Not until someone’s life is actually made better by you, do you get paid.

Tim Sales helps network marketers gain the confidence and skills to be an M.L.M success. Learn how to become a true network marketing professional and sign up for his free M.L.M training newsletter and listen to free training at http://www.brilliantexchange.com

Share
Posted in MLM Training | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

MLM Training – The #1 Thing That Drives Prospects Away

By Tim Sales

This one action can and will certainly stop prospects from joining your MLM business. You may have the greatest product, or the best compensation plan, or top-notch MLM training techniques; but none of that matters if you do this one thing to alienate your prospects.

Making your prospect feel dumb is probably the most counter-productive thing you could do when trying to get them into your MLM business, yet so many people do it without knowing they do it.

Of my list of Ten Communication Qualities (which is a list of qualities every network marketer must know and possess in order to truly have success in speaking with MLM prospects), “Communicate at the Prospect’s Level” is number nine.

When you communicate at the prospect’s level they “get” you. They feel the two of you are on the same ‘wave length.”

Don’t communicate at the prospect’s level and they feel dumb and that they can’t do it. (meaning, they won’t be able to successfully build an MLM business.) They also feel very “different” than you. Have you ever sat around people speaking a different language? You felt alienated…and you were.

If you use esoteric terms (the word esoteric means – Intended for or understood by only a particular group) that your prospect doesn’t know, then you’re going to have partial or no communication. What does that mean?

Partial communication is when parts of what you say are understood by the prospect and parts are NOT understood. So they only understood a part of what you said. An example could be that you say breakaway compensation plan. They only understand compensation plan so they know it has something to do with making money but it’s not clear to them exactly what you mean. That’s partial communication.

No communication is when you say something and the prospect has no idea what you’re talking about. You say phytochemical (means: nutrients in plants that have health promoting properties) and they think “dog chemicals.”

You might think I’m exaggerating, but I’m not! I’ve surveyed people about what they think the word Network Marketing means. Six out of 10 (60%) think it’s something to do with selling networking equipment, as in computer networking! That’s NO communication.

When you’re talking about your MLM business and/or your product, you must communicate only with words that are in your prospect’s vocabulary. If you really think about it, a dictionary merely describes an unknown word with words already in a person’s vocabulary. That’s the reason there are different levels of dictionaries – children’s dictionary, collegiate dictionary, medical dictionary and so forth.

Vocabulary – what does that word even mean? One definition is – All the words of a language. That would be good if everyone knew all words – and all their definitions, but they don’t. The second definition of the word vocabulary is the sum of words used by, understood by, or at the command of a particular person. That’s a much better definition for what we’re discussing here.

So where did you get your current vocabulary? You got it from things you’ve heard or things you’ve read. It does you no good to create your own words because no one knows what they mean except you. That’s like if you had the only fax machine in the world – who could you send a fax to?

Contrary to what your English professor told you, you do NOT become a great communicator because you have a large vocabulary alone. It’s part of it, but not the whole package. A larger vocabulary allows you to communicate to a larger audience – meaning you have more in common with a greater number of people. It gives you diversity.

Let’s suppose you knew the entire English vocabulary – you could then carry on a conversation with anyone on any subject. Until you ran into someone who spoke Spanish – then you have no communication again. You learn all the words of the Spanish language and then you could communicate to anyone in Spanish on any subject also.

What point am I trying to make here? Two points actually. One is I’m driving home your understanding that good communication is not something one is born with. Every person had to learn the definition of all the words in their vocabulary.

And the other point I’m making here is that you can communicate with people only to the degree that you know and USE THE SAME vocabulary they do. If you knew all the words of a language, its value would only be known by the one other fellow who knew all the words.

Most of the time you will never use more than about 10% of the vocabulary because that’s what most people know – and for you to be a good communicator you must, I repeat, you must only use words that the person you’re communicating with knows – otherwise that prospect will walk away from you, or hang up the phone on you, or fail to return your phone calls, or quit network marketing!

And don’t think for a second that people will say they don’t know something – even if you ask them if they understand. This is something wrong our society has taught us to do. It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever observed.

A person not knowing something will pretend to know something so they don’t seem dumb – but they are dumb on that word or subject and will forever stay that way because they would rather appear smart and be dumb, than be smart by asking, “What does that mean?”

So don’t use words to describe your MLM business or products that prospects don’t know. If you need to use a new word, only use words to define that new word that your prospect already knows.

And…please, please, please when you hear something you don’t understand – ask what it means. :)

Tim Sales helps network marketers gain the confidence and skills to be an M.L.M. success. Learn how to become a true network marketing professional and sign up for his free M.L.M. training newsletter and listen to free training at http://www.brilliantexchange.com

Share
Posted in MLM Training | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

MLM Training – Why Your Prospects or Downline Won’t Do What You Ask Them To

By Tim Sales

Whether you lead just a few or a few thousand people in your MLM business, there’s one very specific quality you must have. Develop this one quality and achieving MLM success will be A LOT easier.

If you do not tell the truth, your downline may be friendly to you…but they probably won’t follow you.

Truth means: that which is factual based on observable data.

There has been much written about truth, a lot having to do with philosophy and religion. I don’t wish to go there in this conversation. My only interest in the subject (as it pertains to the MLM industry) is that we, as a group, stop destroying our income and our reputation by not telling the truth.

I know telling the truth should go without saying, but I have to discuss it because it is one of the Ten Communication Qualities that make up a great communicator; yet also a major problem in the network marketing community that needs to be corrected for the MLM industry to grow to its fullest potential.

In 1991 my income dropped – like a brick falling from the top of a building – from a monthly gross of $68,000 to $16,000 – just because people were not telling the truth.

A member of the media sneaked into my colleague’s business meeting and recorded the dialogue that occurred. Although it was a painful experience for me, the biggest loss stems from the CONSTANT number of people we repel because of not telling the truth.

Not only that, but every time we (I’m talking about me and you) don’t tell the truth, we feel icky inside. Observe a dog that has done something wrong – do they come strutting into the room? Not at all! They actually hide under the couch. Their ears and tail hang low. They don’t feel worthy. The same is true for us. That icky-ness actually causes us to not feel worthy that others follow our advice…and so they don’t.

Five broad categories of not telling the truth have gotten individuals and/or companies in trouble and have stopped them from growing to their fullest potential. They are listed below.

1. False income representation or suggesting others can earn a stated level of income.

2. Stating that a product or service can do something that has not been substantiated.

3. Promising someone (or yourself) something and not doing it.

4. Gossiping about others. Passing information to another that does not add value.

5. Building the business in a way that is not truthful…such as suggesting distributors create fictitious accounts or positions.

As per category one above (false income representation), if you don’t know what your upline earns don’t say what you think it is. If through the grapevine you’ve heard it’s “X” amount, and you feel you must state it, say: “The rumor is that she earns ___ amount; although I’ve not verified it.”

Say nothing you don’t know is absolutely true. This gives you tremendous credibility!

When you discuss income, discuss what the prospect wants – NOT what someone else is earning. If prospects state an income they want, tell them it’s doable here (provided it is). Then state, “Some people go to school and become the President. Some become billionaires, some sell illegal drugs and some draw a welfare check. It would be impossible to know what you’re going to do with what I teach you, but there is the potential to earn a substantial income if you choose to fully apply what you’re taught.”

Category two from above is unsubstantiated product claims; which have also gotten the network marketing industry into trouble in the past. If you market a nutrition product, the current law (in the USA) is the DSHEA Act (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act), which states you can discuss what a product does, provided THAT PRODUCT is what has been proven to get results.

Most often an INGREDIENT has had some studies done on it (such as vitamin C) but your company’s product (that contains that ingredient) has NOT. Therefore, it is against the law to claim your product does ANYTHING!

Now, that doesn’t mean you can’t promote your product truthfully. You simply say something like, “The active ingredient (vitamin C) in Potent-C (an example of your company’s product) has demonstrated to increase/decrease ________ by X amount.” That way you’re not claiming your product does anything.

Telling stories of your success or others’ success with the product or the MLM business is also common. I’m not saying don’t do it. Nor am I saying to do it. Just keep in mind that the common way people get in trouble is from questionable claims reported by the media after coming in with hidden recording devices and capturing what you say. So, make sure you are not claiming anything that isn’t the truth.

If a friend went on your company’s product and stopped having migraine headaches, you honestly wouldn’t know if the reason was the product or the fact that she increased her water intake to take your product! You can’t determine what really helped her – so be very careful what you represent.

Category three is to keep your word once given. If you say you will be at a meeting at 6:45 – be there at 6:45. No excuses, just be there. If you say you’re going to help someone – help them. Keep your word. If for some reason you’re unable to keep your word, make it up to the person. Do something that shows you want to help.

But the most important person you must keep your word with is yourself. If you say you are going to bed at 11pm – go to bed at 11pm. If you say you will call five prospects a day, call five prospects a day!

When you’re honest with yourself and with others, people will trust you. This trust is what helps your MLM business to grow and be successful. My experience is that people will not follow someone they can not trust.

Tell the truth always and you will be on your way to experiencing passive income and time freedom in your MLM business.

Tim Sales helps network marketers gain the confidence and skills to be an M.L.M success. Learn how to become a true network marketing professional and sign up for his free M.L.M training newsletter and listen to free training at http://www.brilliantexchange.com

Share
Posted in MLM Training | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

MLM Training – The Secret to Being an MLM “Natural”

By Tim Sales

Saying the right thing at the right time with prospects can either make you a lot of money or cause you to lose money in your network marketing business. Continue reading to learn the MLM training techniques I teach my downline of 56,000 people so they know how to become a “natural” when talking with prospects.

In this article I am going to take your MLM training to the next level when it comes to effectively communicating with your prospects. That next level is for it to become “natural” to you as you speak with people about your MLM business opportunity.

There are several definitions for the word natural and it is very important that you know which natural I’m referring to.

1. Not acquired; inherent; born with. THIS IS NOT THE NATURAL I’M TALKING ABOUT.

2. Free from artificiality, or inhibitions. THIS IS THE CORRECT ONE.

Definition one is referring to something that one is born with such as blue eyes, seven feet tall, etc.

Definition two is that you can rattle off your address without thinking about it. Natural, as in the way you know a favorite song. Or something you’ve said or sung many times.

Okay – so how is it you know your address? My guess is, you moved in, you got your address and you had to do an address change with the post office. You pulled out the piece of paper your new address was written on and you reference it several times to make sure you wrote your new address correctly. Then you wrote it on a FedEx envelope and remembered it all accept the zip code – hmm, is it 92105 or 92150? You find out and now you have it.

If you never wrote it again you’d perhaps forget it again, but if you use it frequently you “just know it” – and you are certain you know it.

By the way…how is it that you know that the name goes on the first line, street address on the second and city, state, zip on the third line? That’s the formula it goes in…right?

For inviting, to be natural and sound natural you must smoothly and correctly transition from one part of the “Inviting Formula” to the next. By the way, the “Inviting Formula” is taught in great detail in a CD set I authored called “Professional Inviter,” but for reference in this article the Inviting Formula is:

Greet

Qualify

Invite

Handle any Questions/Objections

Close to Action

Follow-up or Follow through

So when you’re talking about your MLM business or a product you offer, the trick to being a “natural” is to know exactly when to transition to the next step in the “Inviting Formula.” Like from Greeting to Qualify.

When you don’t greet long enough, you don’t get a prospect who will give you their need/want. Greet too long and your prospect feels you’re wasting his time and will hastily get off the phone with you.

You have to recognize the exact moment when the prospect qualifies for your MLM business opportunity. Example: When the prospect says, “I’m sort of sick working for someone else.” When I hear this I know they qualify to be in my business.

Or, if you’re listening to see if the prospect qualifies for your MLM business and the prospect says, “I don’t remember signing up for anything; why are you calling me !$&*$!” – then I know they just disqualified themselves from being in my network marketing business.

To truly be an MLM natural, you have to know the rest of the Inviting Formula and know when to make the transitions, but the good news is that the others are much easier to recognize compared to “Greet” and “Qualify.”

If you can master learning when to transition for “Greet” and “Qualify” you will really be able to tell a difference in your ability to have meaningful conversations with prospects about both your network marketing business or your products or services.

So just how do you get good at these transitions?

Two ways I know of:

1) Invite over and over until you can “sense” it. Like letting the clutch out on your car – the first few times are rough. I recommend you drill the “Invite” for MLM business prospects and then drill the “Invite” separately for product or service sales. I don’t recommend you invite your prospect to look at your business and your product/service in the same conversation.

2) Another way is to listen to someone else do it and then model what they do because very often prospect’s responses are similar.

To help you learn how to make the transitions and what to listen for I have provided some sample transitions below, along with each step of the Inviting Formula. These are transitions I especially listen for when I’m trying to determine if the person qualifies as an MLM business prospect.

1) Greet – Get someone who will talk freely and openly to you.

Example transition: “Yeah, I requested more information because I’m looking to open my own business and I’m just looking around to see what’s out there.”

2) Qualify – Find out their needs/wants/don’t-wants (as it relates to you business).

Example transition: “Well, I just know there’s more out there. I’m sort of sick of working for someone else. I just want to be able to enjoy my life without always having to punch the clock.”

3) Invite – Based on relevant information gathered in Qualify.

Your prospect doesn’t have to give you any information here. But, depending on how they respond to your invite will decide if you move straight to “Close to Action” or if you do Step 4.

4) Handle any Questions/Objections – Handle the things that are stopping them from getting what they’ve stated they need/want/don’t-want. Remember, your business or product/service MUST be a solution to the person’s need/want/don’t-want.

Example transitions: After you’ve handled an objection and they use words like, “Yeah, I can see that.” “Yeah, that makes sense.” “Hmm, I’ve never thought of it that way.” “Well, it’s really not a big deal to me…I’ve just heard that.”

5) Close to Action – Create agreeable steps to move them towards getting them what they’ve stated they need/want/don’t-want.

Example transitions: Anything that indicates they need to get off the phone. “I need to be hitting the sack.” A child trying to talk to them. “It’s been good talking to you.”

6) Follow-up – Re-contact them to determine their interest level as it pertains to your MLM business or product/service.

Example transitions: Anytime they suggest that they can’t talk right now. Or if you’ve closed to action. “Now’s not a good time.” “You’ve caught me at a bad time.”

Tim Sales helps network marketers gain the confidence and skills to be an M.L.M success. Learn how to become a true network marketing professional and sign up for his free M.L.M training newsletter and listen to free training at http://www.brilliantexchange.com

Share
Posted in MLM Training | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

MLM Training – How to Keep Your Downline Interested, Focused and Productive

By Tim Sales

This MLM training bulletin is about how you as a leader can add incentives so your network marketing downline will produce more.

What I’m going to share with you here DOES NOT REPLACE what you can read in “Nine Proven Actions to Get Your Downline Producing More,” an article that discusses the importance of a well trained MLM distributor. Proven MLM training is the backbone of motivation. Nothing motivates a person more than fully knowing what to say on the phone, how to say it, and having confidence that they can do that.

So in conjunction with a well-trained MLM downline, here’s how I recommend you use incentives to grow your network marketing business. Adding incentives can be thought of as games you can play to keep your MLM business fun and in the spirit of play. I’m talking about dynamic, exciting incentives to increase your MLM downline’s enthusiasm, and make them excited and looking forward to doing the business. And in turn, have that enthusiasm translate into products sold and new distributors signed up. This also creates a fun culture around your network marketing organization.

As hard as it may be to believe on the surface, it is widely acknowledged that distributor recognition is as effective a motivator as an increase of income.

Recognition raises self-esteem. It shows your distributors that you care about them, and you value and appreciate the effort that they put forth. You can’t put a price tag on that. And once they know that you care about them BY YOUR ACTIONS, they will show you something you may not have thought possible. They will give you their best performance ever.

What you’re trying to achieve with incentive programs is an increase of performance. The two important factors are:

a) What performance to reward

b) What to reward achievers

What performances to reward:

* Any of the 13 activities in Pocket Tracker. (A little booklet I developed to keep track of daily performance) Such as the number of appointments set, number of presentations, the number of retail sales, etc.

* Total number of guests at MLM opportunity meetings or on conference calls

* New distributors per week/month/quarter

* Retail products sold

* Training steps completed

* Highest volume, highest increase in volume, and highest increase in volume percentage and pin level achievement

What to reward achievers:

* Two things you should always do for small achievements within your network marketing organization are handwritten thank-you cards and delivered balloons or flowers. Those two things should be a staple in your MLM business.

* At every MLM training meeting you do, you should give at least two awards to high achievers. If you do a newsletter be sure to recognize your achievers in the newsletter. Get their picture with their guest(s).

* Weekly, whoever had the most guests at the meeting or everyone who had over three guests gets a free dinner.

* Professionally done certificates – in a frame ready for hanging on their wall.

* Recognition pins are good.

* Prospecting leads for high activity. Like whoever has the most number of prospects on the MLM opportunity conference calls gets 20 free leads.

* Apparel – such as company shirts or hats.

* Convention tickets are a great one. Everyone who sponsors five new distributors in the next two months get a free national convention ticket.

* Travel is always a good one – ski trip, beach trip, cruise, family trip.

Points that can hurt your program…and your MLM income:

* Lack of MLM training – I’ve mentioned this already but it tops the list as being most important.

* Reward the achievers immediately at the end of the program period. Don’t wait.

* Keep the program simple. If there’s a ton of twists and turns – no one knows what they have to do.

* Frequent winners – if the same people in your MLM organization win every time, others get discouraged. Change the program so that it rewards the super achievers as well as others.

* Lack of follow up after the program – at the end of the program right after the awards ceremony, pass out a 3×5 card and ask for comments.

* Lack of communication – someone has to be driving the incentive program. This means constant communication. Send pictures of the destination if it’s a trip. If it’s a car, send pictures of the car. Keep the incentive in front of them a couple of times per week.

* Lack of a good rollout. The means plan the program. Plan the promotion. Plan the award.

Let’s say we’re going to do a “School’s Out” Game that ends on June 1st. The winner gets a trip for four people to Disneyland for four days. March, April and May are the performance months. The winner is leaving as soon as school’s out! This gets kids involved as well. We start promoting the program February 15th. Awards ceremony will be at a BBQ outing on June 1st where all family members are invited. At this event we will also announce the next program…”Back to School” Game.

As you can see this creates a wonderful unity between everyone within your MLM organization as well as a fun culture.

Enjoy your MLM business!

Tim Sales helps network marketers gain the confidence and skills to be an M.L.M success. Learn how to become a true network marketing professional and sign up for his free M.L.M training newsletter and listen to free training at http://www.brilliantexchange.com

Share
Posted in MLM Training | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

MLM Training – How One Person Sold One Billion Dollars Worth of Products

By Tim Sales

If you want to increase the profits in your MLM Business, a good starting place is to sell more product. There are hundreds of different “selling tactics” being taught, but I have always found this one specific approach to work like magic.

How in the world could ONE person sell a billion dollars worth of products? He knew his product…and he knew it well. The one thing that snagged my attention was how well he knew his product.

Which comes first? Knowledge of your product…or selling a billion dollars worth of it? Obviously knowledge of your product comes first.

This MLM training article is about the very important Communication Quality called, “Know what you’re talking about.”

The reason I mention this is because there is a group of characteristics an MLM business professional must possess in order to truly have success in speaking with customers and selling products.

I call these characteristics the 10 Communication Qualities. Once you’re fully knowledgeable about these qualities and have the proper and correct MLM training to learn them, you will be amazed at how many prospects and customers will be interested in your MLM business and/or products.

I was watching a TV infomercial not long ago of a guy who was selling cutting knives. I became greatly impressed with the knowledge of the sales person. By the way he presented his knives I could tell he really knew everything one could know about knives.

I’ll admit, in the beginning I was listening, trying to find a hole in what he was talking about.

The more I listened the more I could see and hear, “This man knows about knives!” There wasn’t one part of a knife he didn’t know about – and he demonstrated to me why he was right…and he discussed it so clearly that anyone could have understood it.

He did several demonstrations with his knives – everything from cutting a can in half to cutting other knives in half with his knife. He did everything without making me feel stupid for my lack of knowledge about knives. He did this without being too assertive (Communication Quality #4). In fact, the more I watched this man the more I realized he was using all 10 of the Communication Qualities.

Very rarely have I seen all the qualities in one person. Now, I didn’t personally talk to him to see if he was “truly interested in me.” But in the way he delivered his knowledge to me I could tell that he had researched everything about his knives. He explained what a good knife was, and then told where the largest cost is in a knife and why you (the listener) didn’t need to have that in your kitchen knives. He gave a “no questions asked, money back guarantee.” That certainly sounded like he was “interested” in me.

I bought the knives. The whole set.

Intrigued with his charisma, I started researching him. Ha! Guess what I found? He has sold over one billion dollars worth of goods! NOT through a downline of thousands of people…or a company with hundreds or thousands of stores…but he personally has sold a billion dollars worth of goods!

His name is Ron Popeil. His mother and father split up when he was three. Neither parent wanted him or his brother. So he grew up on the streets in the Bronx (a neighborhood in New York City). At 16, he visited his dad in Chicago and got a job working in a small kitchen appliance factory. One day walking home he walked past a place in Chicago called Maxwell Street. It was the equivalent of a dirty flea market today.

The main things sold on Maxwell Street were stolen goods – hub caps, steering wheels and car radios. As he watched the people selling their stolen goods and people buying them, he got an idea. The next day he bought some of the items from the appliance factory where he worked at wholesale (same price as a store would pay). He then went to Maxwell Street and sold them. As he describes it, “I had never been loved as a kid – I finally found love. It was with my customers. I made a connection with them.”

He then found out about state and county fairs…and mastered those. He then volunteered to do live demonstrations inside of stores that carried the manufacturer’s products. He mastered selling products live in stores. Then he went in front of cameras on television networks that sold products. You’ve probably heard his company name before; Ronco. He’s the man who came up with, “It slices and dices…, but wait, that’s not all…you’ll also get…,” and “If you order now you get absolutely FREE…”

To date, he has personally sold over one billion dollars worth of products.

You see, because he was the one working in the factory making those knives he KNEW HIS PRODUCT!

My whole interest in this was stimulated by his knowledge of knives. It was THIS quality of “know what you’re talking about” that jumped out and grabbed my attention. When you know what you’re talking about, prospects really admire it because your knowledge can help them get what they want.

Your downline will also greatly admire you if you know what you’re talking about…and they will follow you. If you invent answers to their questions (instead of knowing what you’re talking about) – they quickly learn you will say anything (truth or not) to get them to buy the product or sign up in your downline…and they won’t.

This doesn’t mean you have to work at a manufacturer to know all about the products you sell in your MLM business. It also doesn’t mean you have to have a master’s degree in nutrition to sell a nutrition product. The thing that impressed me the most was that Ron Popeil talked in such simple language that everyone could understand it.

He never tried to impress his audience with big words. He would say things like, “The steel this knife is made out of is tough – look how tough it is”…and then he would demonstrate it. He didn’t try to explain the difference between anodizing (pronounced an’a-diz’) and case hardening (two processes used to make steel hard and durable).

He instead would demonstrate for you what he wanted to communicate. It’s the sign of a true communicator – to know everything about something, but to communicate it simply to make it very easy for the prospect to make a decision.

Be knowledgeable about your MLM business. Know everything there is to know about the products you sell. Then, when you find people who can benefit from your business and/or your products, you can confidently help them get what they want. It’s this kind of knowledge that really pays you in network marketing.

Tim Sales helps network marketers gain the confidence and skills to be an M.L.M success. Learn how to become a true network marketing professional and sign up for his free M.L.M training newsletter and listen to free training at http://www.brilliantexchange.com

Share
Posted in MLM Training | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment