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Many new distributors complain that they are unable to sponsor anyone into their mlm business.  Reasons range from, no time to talk to people, everyone is negative, no one likes my company, my dog has rabies, my cat has insomnia etc.

Whether these reasons are real, or not, does not matter.  What would happen if you were to say?: ” There is a $50,000 cash reward for anyone sponsoring 6 people within a week.”  Would that change things a bit?  Most people would have no problem at all finding 6 people to sponsor.

Why is that? Well, $50,000 is a lot of money, so these people now have a strong motivation to find people to sponsor.  They will talk to as many people as they need to, to find their 6.

What these people don’t realize though is that sponsoring 6 good distributors is worth considerably more in the long run, than $50,000 cash right now.  Finding just one, could be worth millions in residual income over the course of several years.

So make sure that your new distributor understand potentially how much a new distributor in his downline could be worth to him.  Once they truly understand this, they will have the motivation to find the people that want to do it.

If your pay plan is set up correctly you will only need a few key people to be making the gangster money.  Find the oysters with the pearls in them.  Not all oysters are going to have pearls.  No amount of hand holding or convincing is going to create a pearl.

Leave the empty ones alone, find the pearls, they are well worth the search.

A caller recently told me he’s joining an MLM company because they promised him spillover. I said, “They are lying to you!”

The guy called me back later and said, “I point-blank asked them if I’d get people put underneath me, and the guy said, “Well, we can’t guarantee that.”

Spillover – Creating a Welfare Mentality

Good people don’t want welfare. They want to build it themselves. They just want to learn the skills they need to build this business and create residual income, money that’s coming in week after week, year after year, and they can will it to their children’s children.

When you look at a lot of network marketing websites, you often see that word “spillover.” The proposition, more or less, is, “get in now, today, and you’ll get all this spillover.”
I have never, ever, ever seen anybody get spillover, having somebody build it for them.

And if you look closely at the compensation plans of the companies that promote spillover, you’ll find out that those who get spillover usually don’t get paid on it. There are other hoops to jump through to get paid on that spillover, and these people rarely ever qualify. So it’s the person who actually does the work who gets the pay what a novel idea!

Companies & reps use “spillover” as a tool to drag in people who think they can build a business without doing any work. In other words, no sponsoring, no recruiting. It targets that type of person.

When You Say “Spillover”, You Are Targeting Quitters!
When you see a network marketing company that promotes spillover on their website, they’re looking for welfare-minded people. The problem for you is, you can’t build with these people, unless YOU do all the work! That’s what they expect. And when you don’t build their business, they’ll be off somewhere else, looking for a better welfare plan.

Conclusion? Run like heck from any company focused on “spillover” – and ALWAYS generate your own leads.

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It seems there is nothing short of free money that can get people as exited as the idea of joining a startup.  Being on the groundfloor. Get in while its in Prelaunch. First in a territory.  First to the market with a new product.  The idea of being first is programmed into us.  First means being the winner.  First means before everyone else. So being first is a great thing, right?

Well, not exactly. Especially when it comes to network marketing. The following may be a slightly sobering fact: 95% of start-ups fail within 2 years.  So unless you are one of the heavy hitters that join a new company with a previously established group, you may just be getting your feet underneath you in the new start-up when it goes out of business, and you will have to start all over again.

The guru will take his flock at this point and move to the next start up, maximise the payplan immediately, create a lot of hype to the effect of Mr X joined the Super XYZ company and was earning a six figure income within 3 months. Mr and Mrs Newbie gets the impression that Mr X is just a regular guy that joined the Super XYZ company and within 3 months is making crazy money.  They think to themselves, if Mr X can do it, so can we.  They work really hard and just about the time they get a decent downline going, the Super XYZ company goes out of business.  Mr X has seen the writing on the wall 6 months ago and has already moved on to the next “Prelaunch” or”Groundfloor Opportunity”.  Mr and Mrs Newbie is left with all their friends and family telling them, “We told you it was a pyramid”.

Companies will have many troubles during the first two years, infrastructure, management, order fulfillment etc.  The first 2 years are typically spent working out the bugs and going through some growing pains, regardless of all the hype that is going to be going around.  After they have reached the 2 year mark, their chance for survival increases dramatically.

Some people like the risk of joining a start-up, most just don’t have all the facts and have no idea of the risk involved.

Pick your company carefully, ask critical questions, do some research on the owner and management.  Figure out how many people you would need in the payplan to make say $5000/month.  Is it thousands of people?  How realistic do you think it is for you to build an organization of that size? If you would only need a couple of hundred in another company to make the same amount, would it not be more realistic to think that a couple of hundred is more achievable than thousands?  Don’t get sucked in by the juice or potion that was discovered by the monk that was raised by crocodiles on the banks of the river Nile hype.

Run, when they tell you that they will built your downline.

So, bottom line, be careful of start ups or so called ground floor opportunities.  They are usually overly hyped up and statistically very few deliver in the long run.

Build it once, Build it big.

I have been getting several e-mails and calls lately from people representing a specific start up company.  It seems to be the hottest thing right now so there are a lot of buzz going on about it.

I had a fairly interesting conversation with one of the company’s reps the other night.  Fairly entertaining and fairly drawn out.  I had an almost identical e-mail conversation with another rep that approached me through Facebook.

Without going into too much detail about the conversations, I may do another post on it.  This is what I found out about the startup costs.  $499 to start.  For that you get a product which she claims retails for $120.

I did a quick search on e-bay and found similar items starting at $25 to about $97. But, lets say its worth $100.  What do I get for the other $400?

From her explanation it sounded like a manual and a collectors container.  ”Fairly spendy manual and container”, I told her.  ”But you get to do the business”,  she exclaimed.

“You get to be in the payplan and make money.”  ”Since I’m under the super guru, you will get all the spillover and we are all going to be rich.”

Well… forgive me for being skeptical,  spillover…?  I have yet to see anyone get rich on spillover.  ”This payplan is different”, she says. “It’s sexy!”

I could not help but vizualize at the time, a curvacious, front end loaded, well endowed, streamlined, tanned payplan with legs going into infinity spitting money at me to my hearts content.  I was about to yell, “I’m in!”

“But what about the $400 binder and container, does the binder have gold leaf pages, platinum rings?” I asked.  ”Is the container made out of solid mahogany?” “Maybe we can melt the binder down and make a killing selling the gold?

We can then take the company manual and stick it in a $5 binder.  Profit right up front, haven’t even signed anyone up yet.” As a bonus we can auction the container off on e-bay.  I could already see the money rolling in.

“Nope” she says, just a regular binder, my sexy payplan dissolved along with my visions of spilt milk and a yellow Rolls Royce.

When I pressed her on the issue of the over priced binder, she pointed out to me that I can’t be expecting to make a lot of money if I’m not willing to spend a lot of money…(on the binder I guess).

Cheap programs don’t work, she stated. (I think that may be code for  ”In order to be successful, you have to buy an expensive binder”)

So, $400 Binder anyone?

The following is based on a free training that Michael Dlouhy did and was summarized by Bob and Anna Bassett

Here are several questions to ask before you choose a

company to work with for the next five or ten or twenty years.
Your future and your reputation are at stake. Getting the
answers to these questions will save you years of failure
and frustration.

And remember … IT’S NOT ABOUT THE PRODUCTS.
You can have the greatest products on the planet,
but if your company does not have all five pillars,
you can have everything taken away from you overnight.

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1. Company Management Experience with Integrity
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Read your Policies and Procedures. Look for the words
“termination” and “ongoing”. Find out how safe you are,
how your downline is protected, and whether you can
ever retire.

Rule of Thumb: The longer the contract, the more
overhead the company has, and the less you earn.

Do a Google search on the company and the owners
of the company you are researching. Add the word
’scam’ to your search. Check reliable websites like
www.mlmwatchdog.com, etc. for warnings.

Beware of companies where you can buy your way
to the top. Check ebay to see if the company’s
products are being sold there.

Beware of sponsors offering you a “good position”.
There can be no “deals” in an ethical company.
There must be a level playing field.

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2. Timing in the Company / Timing in the Industry
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Beware of “ground floor opportunities” and start-up
companies. 99% of companies don’t last two years.

Most people don’t make money in the first two years
while the company is dealing with problems.

Profit comes AFTER two years. Join then.

Do not join a company with a product with no profit
margin, e.g. long distance or vinyl records!

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3. Remarkable Product
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Be sure your product is unique – not invisible among others.
Read Seth Godin’s “The Purple Cow”.

Warning: If the product would not sell without a business
opportunity attached, it is ILLEGAL.

If you can’t pay online with a credit card, and if you can only
pay by cash or money order, it is ILLEGAL.

If distributors collect the money while the company stays
at arm’s length, it is ILLEGAL.

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4. Compensation Plan That Pays Part-Timers
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95% of networkers are part-time. Make sure that people can
make a decent income working a few hours per week.

Beware of companies that advertise how many millionaires
they have created. Make sure it’s not at the expense of
those “at the bottom”. Everyone should be able to benefit.

Ask the question “How many people must I have in my
business to earn $10,000 per month?” There are companies
out there that require as many as 10,000 and as few as 400.
It’s not unusual to see well-established companies that
require 3000 to 7000 people, and still attract new distributors.

If your upline won’t or can’t answer this basic question,
you should run.

If a company stresses “Recruit, Recruit, Recruit!”, you should
“Run, Run, Run!”

The key to success is moving product from the company to
the end consumer.

If you are making only 5% to 8% commissions, you are
being extremely underpaid.

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5. System for Success
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The company must have a duplicatable system for success.
People are not duplicatable – systems are. e.g. If you have
to rely on upline doing presentations, this is NOT duplicatable.

DO NOT MAKE A LIST OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

STOP BUYING LEADS.

These methods do not work anymore.

I hope this short summary has been informative and useful.

If you’d like to read more, please download the free ebook at
http://freesuccessbook.info

I look forward to helping you in any way I can.

Email me at mlmroadkill@gmail.com
or call me at 425-753-2275

All the Best

Quinton Des Fountain