March 4th, 2009 by Jeff Dedrick

Buying leads can be very smart or very foolish – depending upon which way you play your cards (so to speak). Some people say that when you buy leads you waste your money. It’s true; it can be risky and can often result in little return on investment. But that is only when you buy unqualified or untargeted leads. Buying leads can be extremely lucrative when you buy quality leads. They will cost you more, but the return on investment will be impressive.

There are several different types of leads that you can buy. These include email leads and phone leads. Email leads need to be extremely targeted as the person has a choice whether to open the email or not. If the email is not targeted to the lead’s interests, then you are wasting your time. On the other hand, a highly targeted group of leads can respond extremely well to emails.

Cold calling phone leads are the old fashioned method, but still work well in many circumstances. You will have to get used to rejection when buying phone leads, but that is the nature of the game. You should have some success, too, if the leads are quality ones.

Before you buy leads, always ask or find out what sort of information was utilized to target them and how they were generated. This is very important information and if the lead seller or broker cannot or will not tell you, then move on to someone else as they are likely selling unqualified leads. These bring no benefit to you; they only benefit the company selling the leads.

One of the best ways to getting qualified leads is by generating them yourself. This involves using a system that can pre-qualify the leads for you. This means they are exclusive only to you and can be targeted for your business.

Should you buy leads? Only you can truly answer that question, but when you do decide to purchase leads, make sure you find out how the leads were generated and, of course, what sort of information or incentives were used to target the leads. You must know all of this information before proceeding to avoid disappointment.

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March 4th, 2009 by John Wallen

Hello, everyone out there in mlm land. I hope your struggles and all those objections you’ll have to overcome will be at a minimum for you today. One thing I’ve learned is, it helps not to take yourself to seriously, and I’m serious about that. It works great in any home business, trust me.

Lets focus on excellence if you got a minute. You see so many achieving great things, as though their is no ceiling in every opportunity for them. This is a fact and they do make the effort, and it just goes to show you if your willing to figure it out, the sky is the limit. No if’s, and’s, or but’s.

Ok, before I continue, I would like us all to do the mlm signature pose. Just stand and put your one arm resting on the other, then rest your chin on your fist, then look intellegently confused. Alright, that’s the way, you can sit down now and we’ll move on.

The problem I see, is especially with many newcomers in the home business industry, whether mlm or what ever, is they sponsor very little or not at all. They sit in on the training but still have a hard time sponsoring. Well, that probably has to do with old school or internet marketing methods that don’t work anymore.

Do you know where I’m coming from? You try everything your company has provided you with, do all your marketing chores everyday, and no new prospects. Now how much did you pay to be an affiliate, $750, $1750, maybe even $2750? And you struggle not knowing what to do or where to turn anymore.

Getting back to excellence, that’s not even tugging on the last thread of it. You joined a mlm opportunity for a reason, spent time looking at all the compensation plans and products, how the companies are set up, and your hopes of growing a network are not coming close to hatching. What’s it going to take to sponsor a handfull of reps to get of to a good start?

Many will jump from program to program wasting money, thinking it’s the company they joined. They are looking for a magic lamp not a serious opportunity to roll up their sleeve’s to get it done. That’s all it really takes is the right knowledge and a little dedication to build any mlm network. You have to offer excellence, and something that is effecient for you and your future downline. Thats all there is to it!

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