If you’ve been following this series on building a network marketing list, you’ve seen the importance of building one in Part 1 and now you know some of the ways to build your list online from reading Part 2 on Building your network marketing business online Today we’ll talk about building your list offline.
If you’ve struggled in finding people to talk to about your business, whether it’s juice, shakes, vitamins, gold coins or whatever then let’s cut to the chase and talk about specific techniques on building your network marketing list offline. I’m going to start with the one that will probably make you squirm but don’t skip it. It’s vital.
BTW, There is so much great info on getting mlm leads here, you are going to want to bookmark this post right now and come back to it again and again.
18 Techniques to Build Your Network Marketing List aka Create MLM Leads for Your Business
- Technique #1 – Memory Jogger
A memory jogger is a tool to help you think of people that you know in your warm market beyond who comes to your mind naturally. A good memory jogger will help you dig deep and beyond the obvious, and find people you know or have known in your life that might really want what you have and actually be great at it. Perfect way to start building your network marketing list. [I’ve posted one at the bottom of this post for you to download and use if you like.]
- Technique #2 – Meetup.com
If you are not familiar with this site, go check it out immediately. First of all, it’s free. And, yes, it’s an online resource, BUT, it’s an online resource for meeting people OFFLINE. This site has thousands of meetings in your local area on every possible topic, subject and commonality where you can find YOUR perfect prospect and connect LIVE. How cool is that? Here’s some great free training on how to use Meetup.com.
- Technique #3 – Call Realtor Signs
All those signs you pass by that have a house for sale in our neighborhood? Well, they have a name and number on there and sometimes even a face of a person that’s a perfect prospect for any network marketing business – A Realtor. They use the same skills that we do, are amazing networkers, and they’ve been hit hard by the economy…Perfect. You are literally driving by names every day that you can call and add to your network marketing list. If you really want to put this technique on steroids and build a massive business with endless great realtor leads, you can check out this free webinar by top trainer Todd Falcone has that tells you exactly how to do it here.
- Technique #4 –Referrals
I know that seems simple and you hear it all the time, but most people don’t do this and it’s a BIG mistake. In fact, I recently sponsored a great real estate broker onto my team who brought 3 people onto her team in 5 days and guess what, she was a referral from someone in my warm market who said NO (FYI, I got him from using that memory jogger list). How? Because I asked. Now, if you are like me and could never seem to get anyone to give you a name when you had the guts to ask, but are willing to ask again if you knew a better way check out this post I did on “How To Get Referrals Effortlessly After They’ve Said No”.
There are so many other ways to build your network marketing list offline that this post would be 20 pages long if I went into detail on them all here, so here’s a quick list of a few other ways to build your network and create endless amounts people to add to your network marketing list.
14 More Techniques To Build Your Network Marketing List
5. Networking Events – Beyond meetup.com there are tons of networking events in your local area with people who are looking to network with you ON PURPOSE. Check out your local Chamber of Commerce, BNI or other networking groups and go connect.
6. Bandit Signs – My buddy Adam Chandler did a great training on exactly how this gets him 25 leads a day – You can watch it here.
7. Drop Cards – These are cards that look like money; you drop ‘em on the ground in high traffic areas. When people pick them up and open them, it has your ad inside. 
8. Post It Notes – This is a great, practically free, strategy to get leads. Stamp your ad on a post it not and stick ‘em in high traffic areas like gas pumps and ATMs.
9. Flip a telemarketer who calls you – These folks are fearless when making calls and I guarantee they don’t make a fraction of what they could make if they knew about your network marketing business.
10. Bulletin Boards – You see bulletin boards all the time with business cards on them. Grab as many as you can and call them. They actually put them there so people will call. Give them what they want.
11. Grab Biz Cards out of fish bowls – See bulletin boards above
12. Hang Flyers – Do I need to explain this?
13. Junk Mail – When people send you “junk mail”, they are actually business owners who are seeking out people to call them…great prospect!
14. Give your product as a gift – If it’s a great product, people will ask you more about it.
15. Business Card Contest Bowl – Ask local small businesses if you can put a fish bowl in their store to get business cards – give away a cool prize and people will put their business cards in there. Call them!
16. Magazine & Newspapers Ads – Self-explanatory
17. Call Business Owners advertisements – See bulletin boards above
18. Car Magnets – Yup, they do work.
Okay, that should give you a great running start to creating and expanding your warm market to build your network marketing list. I dare you NOT to be successful if you truly employ some of those strategies.
If you found some part of this helpful in building your network marketing list and getting leads offline, please bookmark and share this post on Facebook and Twitter!
You DESERVE Success!
P.S. Building a network marketing list is useless unless you know how to approach them so they end up asking YOU about your business.
P.P.S. Click here to download the Memory Jogger to help you build your network marketing list.
So, you want to build a Network Marketing List Online?
In my last post Should You Make a Network Marketing List?…Or Is That Just Old School B.S.?, we discussed what the whole hoopla around making a network marketing list is and why you MUST have one. Now the question is how. There are two basic categories of list building — Online and Offline. Today we will focus on how to build your network marketing list online, otherwise known as internet marketing or online network marketing.
First a caveat: If you think internet marketing is the be all and end all and it will free you from the old school “make your list” thing, think again. Online network marketing IS nothing more than creating a warm market from scratch online instead of using an existing warm market offline and adding and expanding that list. It’s just one of many ways to connect with people and create a network.
And now, back to our show…
There are so many different strategies to online network marketing to create MLM leads that it’s almost hard to list them all. Here are some of the most popular ones. I’ve grouped them into Free and Paid:
Free Online Network Marketing List Building Strategies:
- Facebook Marketing
- Twitter Marketing
- Linked In
- Forums
- Blogging
- Youtube/Video Marketing
- Article Marketing
- Free Classifieds
Paid Online Network Marketing List Building Strategies:
- Google Pay-Per-Click (PPC)
- Facebook PPC Ads
- Youtube PPC Ads
- Ezines/Solo Ads
- Banner Advertising
- Resume Database Advertising
If you choose to build a network marketing list online just know it takes time.
Learning how to do it RIGHT is like learning a language. You don’t just run out and buy an Italian dictionary, read it and become fluent in Italian, right? Same with online network marketing list building. You learn it in layers. First and foremost you must learn attraction marketing. Understanding how to draw people to you who ask you about your business and ask you to join your team is powerful…and fun!
In order to build your MLM leads list using online network marketing, you must recognize that the second word in Network Marketing is MARKETING. You must learn marketing. Period.
The absolute best way I’ve ever seen to learn marketing online and to learn every single one of the strategies outlined above (and more) is with the #1 attraction marketing system on planet earth, My Lead System Pro. Of course you can go out and learn all of those different strategies one at a time elsewhere, and get all the tools you’ll need here and there on the internet, but you’ll spend thousands of dollars and years of your life attempting it and you still won’t be able to get the value and training you’ll get with MLSP.
Remember though, this takes TIME…Have I said that? So, if you want money in your pocket NOW, you will come back for Part 3 in this series and learn how to create a warm market from scratch with people you haven’t even met yet and also to create a warm market list with people you DO know that you don’t realize you know… did you follow that?
Bottom line — every top earning Network Marketer has built their million dollar businesses with the strategies I’ll share in the next post “How To Build Your Network Marketing List Offline”…Be there!
You DESERVE Success!
P.S. Building a network marketing list is useless unless you know how to approach them so they end up asking YOU about your business.
Yes, you must BUY home based business leads.
Now I know that sounds kind of funny coming from me. If you’ve been following me at all, you know that I’ve built my business from GENERATING my own home based business leads with my attraction marketing system. So then, why would I tell you to do differently?
Well, I’m not. Building your business with purchased home based business leads is not the only reason to buy them. There are 3 other reasons why you should …(And, hey, I do this myself — I would never tell you to do something that I don’t do myself 
So, here they are:
3 Reasons to Buy Home Based Business Leads
Lead Abundance vs. Lead Lack
This could be a whole blog post in and of itself. I can’t tell you how important abundance mindset is in prospecting and recruiting. When you have a list of 100, 500, 1000 leads in your posession, you will have the feeling of abundance. That way, when you’re talking to your “good leads” (whatever that is to you), you will not be so attached to them. Your leads (aka people) can feel that. Your strong desire (desperation?) to sign them up comes across in every word out of your mouth. When you have a bunch of purchased home based business leads in your hand, subconsciously, you eliminate that lack mentality and feel lead abundance. Your posture changes and the way you talk to your prospect changes. Your results change. So simple. So true.
Practice, Practice, Practice Makes Perfect, Perfect, Perfect
There’s no arguing that practice at anything makes you better. Would an athelete ever go to the olympics without practicing? Would an actor ever show up on set without having rehearsed their lines? Why would you ever think that as a professional Network Marketer you shouldn’t practice? Purchased home based business leads are great to practice on. Buy a big ol’ bunch of cheap bulk leads and practice what you’re learning from your mentors. Don’t think about signing these leads up (although you might). Think about practicing a technique that you just learned or a new script. Your prospecting will get so fluid and beautiful, you might just want to do it on stage.
Increase Your Recruiting Results
Really, the first two reasons are all about this one. Increasing your results. You are guaranteed to get better at something when you’ve practiced. You’re guaranteed to attract and sign up more people when you’re feeling abundance. In the end of the day, it’s all about results. If you feel you deserve to have results in your business, then get out there and buy some home based business leads and GET GOOD AT PROSPECTING!
The Importance of Buying Home Based Business Leads
I explain it a little more in this short video:
You DESERVE Success!
P.S. If you’re still having trouble generating your own 20-50 leads a day, why not use the same marketing system that every top marketer has in his back pocket to generate your own home based business leads?
If you are in MLM and you’ve got leads (if you don’t have leads click this), then you really deserve to close those people and turn your MLM leads into MLM SALES. Now, unless you’re a master closer, perhaps you require a tweak in your closing skills. That’s cool. We all require consistent polish and upgrades of our skills, no?
Afterall, what’s the point of having MLM leads if you can’t close ‘em? You DESERVE the knowledge in this video to assist you with closing.
I was able to corner Kenny Gregg at an event recently (get to events!!) and he shared with me these POWERFUL CLOSING TIPS…WOWZA! Watch this…
You DESERVE Massive Success!
P.S. Still spending more than you’re making in your MLM? Come get paid on the 95% who are going to say NO to your MLM business…
Cheap Leads on PPC…is that even possible???!! Yes! Internet Marketing Guru, Jim Chao, told me it IS! When we were at the No Excuses Summit in Las Vegas, I corned Jim (PPC Genius and Internet Marketing Guru To The Max) and grilled him about PPC.
When I first got started marketing on the internet, I avoided PPC like the plague. I was told you needed thousands to even look Google’s way. Not so according to Jim. Here’s what he told me:
You DESERVE Massive Success!
P.S. Still spending more than you’re making in your MLM? Come get paid on the 95% who are going to say NO to your MLM business…
Well, the No Excuses Summit is the gift that keeps on giving… One of the awesome leaders (and a personal friend) that I met up with in Vegas was Casey Eberhart. Casey makes Network Marketing Recruiting look easy (Thanks for the MLM tips on getting leads Case!). Well, actually, it kind of is easy once you know what you’re doing.
Anyway, if you don’t know Casey, he is not only one of THE top earners in his primary company, but he’s also one of THE most creative and inventive networkers I’ve ever met. Casey finds leads in places that most people never look. …
That’s because he has these cool MLM Superhero glasses that see invisible leads that nobody else sees…Okay, not really, but once you meet him and see how he finds people to connect with, it might as well be true.
Casey shared with me 3 great and unexpected strategies for getting leads here in this video. Take notes and, more importantly, TAKE ACTION!
You DESERVE Massive Success!
P.S. Still spending more than you’re making in your MLM? Come get paid on the 95% who are going to say NO to your MLM business…
What do attraction marketing systems have to do with Las Vegas…turns out PLENTY!
The No Excuses Summit in Las Vegas turned out to be one of the best events in Internet Marketing history. In one place I got to soak in training from all the top marketers in the industry and now I get to bring all that to you!
However, the real secret to this whole event is that all the magic really happens between speakers — in the halls, over a drink, in a casual conversation… That’s where all the nuggets are after the show is over.
So, here’s nugget #1 from the co-Founders of MLMLeadSystemPro, Brian Fanale and Norbert Orlewicz.
You DESERVE Massive Success!
P.S. Still spending more than you’re making in your MLM? Come get paid on the 95% who are going to say NO to your MLM business…
Recently I had a chance to hang out with 1/2 of the dynamic marketing duo, Toby & Layla. The beauty of it is, that even though I only had 1/2 of this team present, the value I received was not 1/2 at all! In fact, Toby gave me this great little golden nugget about generating leads online that I wanted to share with you.
It’s simple and to the point and, if you’re new, you DESERVE to know this …Oh heck, even if you’re not new, you DESERVE to know this!
You DESERVE Massive Success!
P.S. MASSIVE SUCCESS comes from MASSIVE ACTION. Take MASSIVE ACTION to achieve success with your network marketing business NOW!
If you want to get leads on the internet, and a Top Internet Marketer and Top Earner like David Wood gives you advice, doesn’t it just make sense to take it?
It does to me!
That’s why I did and that’s why I’m achieving SUCCESS in Network Marketing and it feels GREAT!!!! If you would like success in YOUR Network Marketing business, listen to David Wood. This chillaxed dude may work in his pajamas from his home in Costa Rica, but he knows what he’s talking about!
You DESERVE Massive Success!
P.S. MASSIVE SUCCESS comes from MASSIVE ACTION. Take MASSIVE ACTION to achieve success with your network marketing business NOW!
Well, actually, this isn’t really a Numis Network Success Tip… The truth is that this tip works for ANY Network Marketing business. I just happen to market Gold & Silver with Numis Network, so that’s how I use it. However, if you are a SMART markter, and you must be because you are out there on the internet seeking knowledge from successful people, then you know that this will apply to you too…even if you haven’t decided to join Numis yet and get gold and silver assets delivered to your house on auto-ship.
Either way, watch, learn and most importantly TAKE ACTION!
You DESERVE Massive Success!
P.S. MASSIVE SUCCESS comes from MASSIVE ACTION. Take MASSIVE ACTION to achieve success with Numis Network NOW!
30-Day Video Challenge — Day 13
When I met, multi-millionaire Wealth Expert, Robert Shemin, he shared this success tip with me and it has truly changed my business and my life. I felt a burning desire to share it with you. It’s simple, yet POWERFUL. Enjoy!
You DESERVE Massive Success!
P.S. MASSIVE SUCCESS comes from MASSIVE ACTION. Take MASSIVE ACTION to achieve success with your network marketing business NOW!
30 Day Video Challenge – Day #4
Here’s a great tip on how to develop a massive network in your home market and it doesn’t involve anyone whose DNA you share!
Try it! It works!!
You DESERVE Massive Success!
P.S. MASSIVE SUCCESS comes from MASSIVE ACTION. Take MASSIVE ACTION to achieve success with your network marketing business NOW!
P.P.S. Here’s the link I mention in the video so you can see an example of how I did it:
http://www.meetup.com/Network-Marketing-Success-Its-PROFIT-TIME/
If you are wondering how to generate leads on the internet, you are not alone. It’s not hard if you know how. (However, it’s terribly hard if you do the one thing wrong that 95% of new Internet Marketers do….Don’t do it!!!)
Watch this and learn what TO do to generate tons of leads online …and ALSO learn the BIG NO-NO that will never get you a single lead.
Cheers,
P.S. If you’ve watched this and you’re FINALLY READY TO GENERATE 30-50 LEADS A DAY ONLINE …WOOHOO! Join the rest of us LEADERS at the TOP!
Are you still seeking that eluslive Network Marketing Success you’ve heard about but never tasted …Well, if you’re focusing all your energy in generating MLM leads online and are ignoring your own backyard offline OR if you have no idea how to generate MLM leads offline that DON’T INCLUDE FRIENDS AND FAMILY, here’s a great tip on how to do it.
It’s easy and FUN!
Get the same AWESOME TOOL tool I used in this video to start generating YOUR OWN LEADS NOW!
Cheers,
P.S. If you’re want to generate MLM leads like a pro — offline as well as online, try the best attraction marketing system on the planet and have YOUR leads CALL YOU!
I had a disturbing call recently with a prospect and I simply felt compelled to share it. I was speaking with a relative newbie the other day. I asked her what her struggles were with her Network Marketing business. She responded, as many do, that getting leads was a struggle.
She’d hit that oh-so-familiar position that many of us do when we are starting out and have no marketing training. The one where you’ve hit the NFL Club. NFL = No Friends Left. You’ve tried prospecting all your friends and family and now they avoid you like the plague.
What now? Where do you get fresh leads?
So, I was answering that question for this newbie marketer, giving her strategies on how to generate her own leads for free on the internet, etc., when she told me a disturbing fact.
I asked her what kind of training her upline was giving her. What did they tell her to do to get leads? She took a big sigh of frustration and told me that she was unhappy with her upline. They weren’t doing what they’d promised to do.
What, pray tell, was that?, I wondered.
It seems her upline had promised her that if she signed up at the highest level (read: most expensive level) in this company, that they would populate her downline with tons of reps for her. They would be her own personal downline builder. Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.
This kind of thing makes me crazy! There are some unscrupulous marketers out there that, in the interest of signing up anyone with a pulse, will say whatever the prospect wants to hear in order to get them IN. Cha-ching.
My point here is this: MLM is not a get-rich-quick scheme. There is no magic formula for INSTANT success. No shortcuts. You have to put some time and effort in. This is a business. Can you imagine starting a brick-and-mortar type business and expecting a line of customers lined up around the block the next day. No way. You know that building that kind of a business takes time. Why would a Network Marketing business be any different in that regard?
Yes, there are ways to shorten that time significanly. Learning how to leverage the internet is one of them. And that takes training. And commitment. You can build a HUGE Network Marketing business online (or offline) with proper marketing and recruiting training and a commitment to be serious about it. A commitment to treat it as a business and not a hobby. Remember, a business pays and a hobby costs.
The lesson here is this… If you are being told that someone else is willing to do all the work for you, and you just have to sit back and collect the enormous checks, you’re being taken. If you’re told that all you have to do is sign up 2 or 3 reps and then just sit back and watch that matrix fill up, you’re being fooled.
Wake up and smell the cappuccino. Don’t allow yourself to be seduced into this kind of thinking.
If you’re serious about really building a Network Marketing business, make sure your company provides training beyond “Make a list of 100 people that you know and start calling”. Make sure before you sign up with a Network Marketing company that they give phenomenal training on offline recruiting skills as well as online lead generation skills and most of all, marketing.
But most of all, make sure that your upline is giving you honest information on what it takes to build a successful Network Marketing business. A good upline will recruit you, not because you have a pulse, but because they see a leader in you and they will help you bring that out and give you the skills and tools necessary to be a major producer.
So, trust your instinct. There are many amazing opportunities out there… Many ways to make a 6 and 7-figure income in Network Marketing. Find a proper mentor who can show you the way, and you will have the prosperous business that you deserve!
To Your Abundance and Prosperity,
