Let’s us learn in detail.

First of all, doing network marketing is just like farming. A farmer will plant the seed, water it everyday and watch it grow till it bear fruits. It could take a month, six months or even a year to watch his seeds grow. Likewise in your network marketing career or business, you need to plant seeds and let it grow.

Many times, I’ve seen new networkers come in with so much excitement and want to fast track their business or career. This is however not wrong, but in the long run, it will tired most of them out because their expectation is wrong. Of course, you could build your team super fast and there are ways to do it but for most networker out there, you will be building what other networkers are doing.

Therefore, start planting your seeds daily. It can be exposing your business to 2 person a day, it can be telling your warm market that you are in network marketing or showing the plan to prospect.

All these are activities that will help bring your business forward daily. So the more seeds that you plant each day, it will eventually grow and when the time is ripe, these seeds will join your team.

Depending on the situation, you may want to follow up your prospect because they have either attend your business presentation or after you send them your marketing video. Either way, following up in network marketing is where the money lies. If you don’t, you will not be earning that type of money you want to earn.

With that said, below are some tips that will help you in your follow up process if you are struggling with it.

Tip 1 -Call them up

I’ve seen newbie who came into this industry with good intention of doing themselves good. However, they ask the wrong question. They will start asking those type of questions that allows the prospect to answer Yes or No. More often than not, the prospect will answer No – and that game over for you. So word the question in a way that will allow the prospect to talk freely.

Tip 2 – Sending them text message/sms

This is the technique that I seldom see people use. Mostly they either use phone or email. Sms or text messaging is the fastest way to get into your prospect heart without intruding their privacy. Using this method allows you to save time because you need to just type and send. However, this need to be carefully crafted as you want some response and added urgency.

Tip 3 – Email them

I place this the last not because they are not good is that it may lost its beauty. Why is that so? Everyday, we are bombarded by tons of email, our email may have get lose in the sea of our prospect inbox. If our email is being flagged as spam by our prospect, it will go into their spam box and lost forever.

So, now you know the 3 methods of following up that produce results. Just do it and stop thinking if this work or not.

“I have no money.”

“I have no time to do it.”

“I’m not cut out to do all these.”

“My spouse does not allow me to do these network stuff.”

There a saying in our industry – If one want it hard enough, they will find money or time to do it. But why does these objection keep coming up?

Answer: The problem/need/wants that you uncover are not their real intention.

There are many ways to get to their inner intentions like asking the RIGHT question. The way that you phrase that question is important too. Make it in such a way that you are not interrogating a criminal. Ask a question that makes them think real hard, like when they want to retire and how much do they plan to retire on (monthly). Help them to get there.

If they can’t, there is a big problem here.

The problem created by prospect themselves is much better than we create or let them see what we see. Thus, now they have a problem and they can see in their future that current situation can’t them there. This is the time you propose what ever solution you have and the prospect will willing to see.

After all, this is their problem and they want to solve it.

Well, seriously it is not – at least for them.

See, the reason why they want to take time to meet you up personally, they are interested in what you can offer or help them in one way or another. They are eager to join and time is right for them. But when you present the package or plan to them, most of them will say “It’s expensive. I don’t have the money.” But is it really expensive?

If you reside in Singapore, there a IT show called Sitex. It is the largest annual IT event held in Singapore. In this event, a wide range of IT products are on sale and more than 850,000 visitors are expected to turn up at the event.

And in year 2010, the event has a record of 900,000 visitors and they splurged $52 million on gadgets and gizmos. (source: http://sitf.org.sg/wordpress/?p=1780)

In other words, its not how much or how expensive your network marketing company package or plan cost.

It is their (your prospect) priority.

It all boils down to whether they want it hard enough or not.

If they really want it hard enough to change their life and better their current situation, they will find the money to do it – no matter what. So, if you are out field doing prospecting and meet with such situations, ask your prospect “Is better your current situation a priority to you right now?”

You will know the answer and decide for yourself whether to spend more time with them or not.

How can we leverage on social media effectively for our network marketing (MLM) business online?

Here I will share 3 simple tips for integrating social media into your network marketing business.

1) Set up you blog into mobile version

Most of us have smart phone. So it would be a no brainer to convert your site into mobile version for those who are on the move reading your blog. There is a plugin which will convert your blog into mobile version without you knowing any coding. This plugin is call WPTouch. It’s free so go ahead and download it.

2) Generating interest for your reader

You need interesting, valuable and thought provoking content that will reel in your reader to read more and follow you. If your content is just a “me too” content, you probably won’t get any further. However, if you write content that appeal to your reader, your reader may share, tweet or facebook your content to other user. Think viral marketing and leadership here.

3) Creating videos

Videos are perceive as a much higher content value than written words. So you might want to convert your articles that you have written to video with you speaking . This not only raises your profile online and you will utilize attraction marketing. It is that powerful.

So you have now know how to integrate social media to your network marketing business, go forth and try to implement all 3 and see the results coming in.

Well well well, network marketing is really a big scam drama show. You see, almost everywhere you go and you ask a stranger, your friend or your relative, “Do you know what is network marketing?” You will get various answers. The most common answer that I get are:

- “O is it that Amway thing?”

- “O that is a scam!”

- “O yes I know, but it can’t earn you money. It is a scam, those on top earn.”

- “Ahh, yes I know, some friend of mine who went i get scam.”

In actual fact, network marketing is really a scam. Why is it so?

People do really get con and scam with some network marketing company. People do not really earn that kind of income they suppose to before they sign up. People hopping like a frog from one company to the next thinking that the next one will be better than their current one.

Now let’s dissect the above comments.

People do really get con and scam with some network marketing company.

Yes they do and years back, I do get con and scam with some network marketing company that I associated with. It happens because I do not have enough knowledge about this industry to make an informed decision. It usually take

See, there is no right or wrong here, it is simply a mindset shift that will make conversation more fun and rich.

Turn your focus to the prospect that you are talking with. Focus here means, understand and know them for who they are. And by doing so, you will get a lot of information out from them as to whether you can lead in with your product or opportunity.

Without proper understanding, you will never know what they want. As the saying goes, “do not sell what others people don’t want or need.” This is particularly true. Now let’s shift the focus back to yourself. Imagine that one salesman or whoever you know, sell or push you things that you don’t actually need or want, would you reject it?

See got the idea here right?

Once you get the hang of conversation of focusing or be interested in other human being as to what they do what they do, you will not only make more friends, learn more things and even have some referral along the way to build your network marketing business.

So what comes after “Hi, How Are You?”

I can’t believe my eyes when I saw my Facebook Insights stats – a staggering of 12600% increase of my fan likes.

Now, that figure is from my Jeffrey Chew Facebook page and I’m going to share with you how I get from 141 likes to 644 within a month using free method.

The Methods

If you want to run a campaign to increase your fan based, you need to do some planning. For example, research on what type of fan you attracting. This is very important because if you do not know what your fans want or need, no matter how much you do will be useless.

After you know what your fans are, prepare content that talk to them. As the saying goes, “content is king”. Perhaps, you need to prepare some content that benefit your fans. Some of the content I put out during last months are content that have actionable items in it.

When you have done preparing your content, is time to plant the seeds. Go share your content (without selling – remember this is social) with others. The more powerful your content is, the more it goes viral and the more likes you will get.

Next, re-share other people content or picture to your own wall. Here, you may want to share relevant information with your fans.

After re-sharing the content, simply drop by other friends wall to say hi or jump into other people conversation to make voice out your opinion. You have to do it intelligently or else people may seen you as hijacking their thread.

Last, this is very important, if you want to get the most out of it, monitor when is the best day and time of the week to post your content. It is because you want as much eyeballs to see your content and share the content with their friends within the social network.

As you can see from the above steps, I did not say anything about pitching, promoting or selling your product or services. There are some unwritten rules in social networking and one of them is DO NOT SELL in social network. The more you sell, the lesser influence you have.

And during last month, I’ve use the above methods to earn bonus commission from my network marketing business. Check out the earning here and Like my Jeffrey Chew Facebook page.

Some landing page may convert only at 2% while some convert at 40% for every 1000 people visit the landing page. Why is that so? There are many variables into it. However, today, I’m going to touch on the 3 most important factors to improve your landing page.

Keep in mind that this is for people who had their landing page already.

Killer Design Landing Page

Although, I like simple landing page with not much graphic design, however, some niches do need it. Go invest some money into designing a professional landing page. If you do not know html or designing, go find a guy who can do that for you. However, if you want those landing page that is turn key, you may consider OptimizePress. It has proven landing page design and double it up as a blog, membership and sales letter.

Tight Header

Your header should be as tight as possible. It should talk to that group of person that you are target for. And at the same time build curiosity in them. The best headline that I used is benefit headline. It just like talking to your audience that “this is the one I want. I want more information on this topic.” If you can do that, you will have more people opting to your landing page.

Call to Action

Your call to action must be loud and clear. It can be a form of graphic that point to your optin page. Or wording that say the benefit of why you need to optin. Basically, give them a reason why should they give you their email, contact and name.

With that being said, you need to test frequently for your landing page. It may be as simple as changing background color or header word to as complex as changing the layout of your optin form or inserting additional images.

As landing page is part of your sales process, you cannot afford not to use landing page to generate leads for your business and follow up with them.

What action?

Well, if you are in the home based business industry or network marketing industry, you probably be thinking, why you had not produce any results despite buying courses after courses, ebooks after ebooks and systems after systems. Well, all of these works. (if you buy from authority sites or leaders for network marketing industry).

But what it sadden me is that, most of the people who bought these courses, ebooks or systems are finding new information in which they could market their business. Apart from total newbies, most of them have basic knowledge to operate their business.

Just add action.

There is really no “magic bullet”. If there are, then all the fortune 500 or brick and mortar business owners would pay big buck for internet marketers or online agency that knows the “magic bullet”. No, it won’t work that way. How I wish there is a keyword tool that spits out profitable network marketing keyword that I could dominate.

But there isn’t one. So, go through the “new ebook” that you bought, read it and read it again.

You will bound to have new ideas and new perspective of the information contain inside. Use the information. Apply it. Simply just add action.

If you add action, fine tune it and don’t seem to get result from it, move on. Try other marketing methods that works for you. Some like paid advertising while some like free advertising. But all these are actions. Actions breed results. Results gives you your freedom.

So, friends, JUST ADD ACTION. Or better, action on it now!