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Network marketing has many aspects, but promotion, persistence,
and patience are three key elements which are critical to
achieving successful results.

PROMOTION is the lifeblood of network marketing. Whether you
are using online methods or offline methods, or a combination of
both, you must constantly strive to get your offering in front of
a targeted audience.

There are thousands of published sources that deal with specific
methods of network marketing (both online and offline), but the
key point to be made here is that you must have an active
promotion campaign designed to bring in a steady stream of new
prospective downline members.

PERSISTENCE is a key element in network marketing success.
You’ve gotta “just keep on keepin’ on”, even though frustation
levels can be quite high at times.

After you have been at it a while, and have a downline large
enough to provide reasonably accurate statistics, you will
probably find that about 95% of your downline members are dormant
and do nothing at all. Its easy to get down in the dumps or take
it personally when you encounter so many “do nothing” people.

Therefore, it is really important work with and actively support
the 5% or so that are serious about participating. And clearly,
an active and effective promotion campaign will continue to
bring in increasing numbers of potential participants so that
while 5% is small on a percentage basis, it can still be a
sizeable amount from a pure numbers standpoint.

PATIENCE is vital. You can expect that it will take about a year
before the awsome power of geometric growth kicks in.

A classic illustration of geometric growth is the frequently used
penny-a-day example.

If you save one penny on the first day, and double it every
successive day, (day two you have 2 pennies and day three you have
4 pennies, and so on) how much will you have at the end of
30 days? The answer, to the astonishment of many, is $5,368,708!
Amazing, but true.

Its a sad statistic that most network marketers fail and it is
often traceable to the fact that they did not exhibit enough
persistence and patience to continue constantly promoting their
business for the year or so that is required for success.

Network marketers that stick with it for a year or more often end
up becoming the proverbial “heavy hitters”.

In closing, I would like to encourage you to increase your chances
of becoming a successful network marketer by always keeping a
clear focus on “the three P’s” of Promotion, Persistence, and
Patience.

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Kirk Bannerman operates a successful home based business and
coaches others seeking to start their own home based business.

Visit his website at Legitimate Home Based Business for more details.

This article is primarily directed toward people who work at home
in a business that happens to involve teamwork in a network
marketing environment.

I am often contacted by members of my business team with
complaints regarding a lack of response or lack of action on the
part of their affiliates. Their complaints typically go
something like… “I send out lots of emails to all of them and I
very rarely get any response and it seems like very few of them
are taking any action. What am I doing wrong?”

There are many types of internet-based home businesses where
feedback and interaction are quite important and getting an
affiliate or business team member to communicate with you is a
definite objective. It’s not at all surprising that this can be
a challenge when you stop to think that what you are trying to do
is initiate a dialog between two complete strangers who have
never even seen each other.

In the case of network marketing, it is of critical importance to
build a sense of trust with your team members. Network marketing
is very definitely a relationship business and each relationship
typically starts out with two complete strangers sitting at their
respective keyboards.

The team building aspect of network marketing is of vital
importance to the success of each individual member and to the
team as a whole. Two key elements of team building are trust and
confidence and these factors play a very large role, particularly
for new team members.

With all that being said, many people love the IDEA of making good
money working at home in their own business and expect it to just
“happen”, but have no willingness to take any action or put forth
any effort to make it happen.

Having been involved with team building and network marketing for
some time, I have come to adopt the following as my operating
credo…” if you have the desire and are willing to put in the
effort, I’ll pull you along so you can go faster down the road to
success, but if you don’t want move on your own, I’m not
going to waste my time trying to push you forward.”

Its like working with a length of chain… pulling it along works
fine, but trying it push it forward only results in a pile of
frustration.

You need to be able to distinguish between people that have a
legitimate interest in developing a home based business and
those lost souls that feel that they have just joined another
chat group and only want to engage in an endless “debate” about
the virtues of whatever business you are promoting, but never
actually had any intention of establishing a business…you will
have to develop your own method of reading people like this (its
mainly a sense of feel… sort of a belly button thing).

You can help someone reach for success… but you can’t
reasonably expect to make them want to be successful. Its just
another variation of that very old and tired cliche… that “you
can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make

The MLM REALITY Check.

It’s all what’s inside you that counts.

No marketing plan will ever determine your MLM success.

No product line will ever determine your Network Marketing success.

No company will ever determine your MLM success.

No upline will ever determine your Network Marketing success.

INFERNO Secret:

YOU and ONLY YOU will ever determine your success in MLM.

Many people operate under the illusion that something else other than themselves will determine their success, and that is simply not true. The ONLY determining factor in MLM Success is who you look at in the mirror in the morning.

Ok…

WHY?

Why wouldn’t a sponsor or an upline determine your success? Why wouldn’t an MLM company or marketing plan determine your success?

Simple.

The only thing they could ever do, is help facilitate and influence your success.

INFERNO Secret:

It is not your upline’s, sponsor’s, or company’s responsibility for your success. Their only responsibility is to help create and facilitate the opportunity for your success and to increase your odds of success with training and support.

Your Success is YOUR responsibility.

Brutal?

Yep.

But the truth.

You see, there are 2 types of people who come into Network Marketing:

1) People who are looking for it TO WORK.

2) People who are looking for it NOT TO WORK.

The most amazing thing happens with everyone entering MLM.

INFERNO SECRET:

You ALWAYS find what you are looking for. No exceptions.

What are you looking for your business to do? Work or Not work? Whatever you are looking for is the picture you will find eventually in your business.

Your FOCUS on what to EXPECT is a HUGE part of your success in network marketing, and your focus always seems to be what you end up with in this industry. Focus on this business massively succeeding and so it shall be eventually.

Focus on this business failing and so it shall eventually.

Here is a MILLION DOLLAR MLM Question:

What are you honestly looking to happen in your business the next 90 days?

Massive Action that produces the beginnings of success, or Massive Excuses that produces the beginnings of Massive mediocrity?

It’s up to you.

There are 5 things that you need to succeed massively in MLM, and there are no options and no exceptions. They MUST be there and engaged to the maximum!

1) “A Great Work Ethic.”

Most amazing thing — a lot of people that get into MLM think they have won the lottery and don’t have to work.

INFERNO Secret:

Many MLM distributors are looking for people who are willing to do, what they themselves aren’t willing to do.

Are you?

OUCH!

Yeah, that hurts, but it’s the truth, and most people know it. You must have a CONSISTENT work ethic, and one that is willing to do whatever it takes to succeed. Do you have that?

2) “A SCORCHING Belief System.”

Belief is what will keep you going in MLM during the tough times, and it will keep you focused as well. Do you believe you will succeed or just “hope” you will?

You MUST believe no matter what, you WILL Succeed! Because if you do BELIEVE, I mean REALLY believe, you will succeed.

3) “A HUNGER to Help People.”

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