Are you wondering how you can make the top 2 percent earners in network marketing? If you are involved with any kind of network marketing opportunity chances are high that you have asked this question.

1. Focus on selling you before you sell your product or company. People need to know you, like you and trust you or they will not join you period. You must build a relationship with people whether you are using the internet or offline tactics.
2. Work on yourself and your training and self development every day. Whether it be by listening to an audio, reading a book, or attending a seminar or webinar. 
3. Re-invest a certain percentage of your profits into advertising and marketing your business. Be smart about this and do your homework so you know what is worth your money and what is not.
4. Stay connected with your sponsor, upline and company. Do this by listening to company calls, attending company events and taking advantage of one on one coaching offered by your sponsor.
5. Focus on 2-3 activities which work well for you and your personality type. Learn how to do the other options so that you can train others to do them but focus yourself only on 2-3 main activities. 
6. Work on your business every day for at least half an hour and more if you can. It is crucial to work your network marketing business with consistency.
7. Always be learning and set goals to help guide you to your network marketing success.

Network marketing is one of the best opportunities out there for entrepreneurs. It can help create multiple income streams and side-step some financial pressures of changing economic times and questionable futures of jobs and careers.
Here are 21 common ways that most people go wrong. Read them to see what you can do differently to bring out your own success. No matter what stage you are in, and no matter what your experience, you can earn money in this business if you don't fall prey to the common mistakes listed here.

HOW FAILURE HAPPENS

1. Think that residual income comes without work. Think that passive income means you can be inactive yourself. Think there is a silver bullet. Think this is a Plan B, get-rich-quick plan. Think you will succeed without business and marketing knowledge and leadership
2. "Try it" while you have a real job. Treat it like a hobby. Commit when it starts working on its own.
3. Ask your friends and family to buy your stuff. Phone up your high school best friend from 10 years ago and ask them to join your business.
4. Think this isn't sales, but "sharing". If product doesn't move, no one gets paid. The mistake comes in when people assume this means pushing products to people who don't need them. The other mistake comes when people don't realize the biggest thing people are buying is THEM not just the products. You sell yourself more than you sell products.
5. Prejudge - screen everyone out. Decide that your friend has no money, your associate isn't interested, and your neighbor would never do network marketing.
6. Recruit just about anyone. Think everyone is your prospect and that anyone can do this.
7. Make excuses. Blame. Blame your upline, blame the company, blame the costs. See problems. Doubt….doubt yourself, doubt the company, doubt your team. Accept life's bumps as excuses. Think short-term and stop when there is a small problem.
8. Don't share until you know all the product ingredients and details. Think you won't be able to talk about this until you intimately know every detail. Think product sells itself.
9. Tell everyone about your products and not the business opportunity. Tell them how great the products are, without finding out what their needs are. Talk without asking questions. Think that pitching and selling out of context or relevancy of the conversation will work.
10. Spend money on product and hold inventory. You can't keep yourself in business if you are buying your way to management. The product has to move.
11. Don't follow the system. When the company has an outline for productive, income-generating activity, just do it your way.
12. Put time into flyers and emails. Spend hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours going to trainings. Listen to audio or webcasts without contacting any prospects. Countbusy-work as "activity".
13. Hand out samples without getting firm followup plans and contact info. Sample to people before making strong contact.
14. Don't set up your separate business office space and business accounts. Don't have a system for calling and contacting. Don't work from a goal and action plan.
15. Stop when you hear NO. Refuse to ask for a commitment because they probably don't want it if they didn't say yes right away. Stop when then say the first "no" without finding out why, and answering their questions. Send an email with a link and don't follow-up. If they were interested they would reach me back.
16. Forget to follow-up. Figure if they wanted the products, they would contact you. Say you will reach them next week, and call them when you get a chance.
17. Put your interests first to meet your numbers. Watch your production numbers and push people to meet your timing. Wait on your friend or associate to come through with the order in order to build your business.
18. Don't make phone calls. Don't ask prospects about themselves. Don't get to know their hot buttons. Don't do cold prospecting.
19. Don't attend company meetings, calls and events. Don't work on personal growth and training. View skill development as a waste of time. Think you know it all, and be too entrepreneurial. Don't be coachable. You have a long success path behind you so trust your talents.
20. Don't appreciate crossline and upline. Fail to identify and work with leaders. Fail to duplicate the process.
21. Switch companies when you see the first sign of something not working for you. If the company delivers late or makes a mistake, it's time to jump ship. If they don't develop new products to your liking, find somewhere else.

HOW TO AVOID FAILURE AND SUCCEED?

Don't follow the pack. Follow the leaders only. Follow basic marketing and business rules and work your company's system and plan.
This business is very simple but you have to do it. Don't wait for a better solution, just get active.
Discipline your work ethic, and keep your activity consistent. A little effort consistently every day works a lot faster and stronger than bursts and lulls. Focus your activity on qualifying prospects, sorting them by priority and interests, and presenting your products and opportunity.
Work your self-growth and self-talk. Learn and improve on whatever talents you need to improve. Everyone can learn them, and get better over time.
The process is also simple. Build a list of prospects, qualify them by sorting, grow relationships, and present and market to your list with a close to action. You will need to fuel constant leads by meeting new people or getting introduced.
Lead with yourself, not the business or the product line. Use company tools and 3-way calls to edify your team and show that the process is duplicatable.
Fund your prospecting with income not savings. Keep investing until you have a bank of prospects.
Now go out and create yourself multiple streams of income!

10 Steps For A Successful Speech

Speaking gives you visibility, but does it give you credibility?
So you’re not a professional speaker. That’s no excuse for NOT giving a professional presentation.
 - You have a great product or service!

 - You’ve put together an awesome presentation with great content!

 - You really know your stuff!

 But if you do not present it like a professional, all this doesn’t matter and you won’t make the sales you could have.

Let’s face it. We live in a society that makes quick judgments based on how we are perceived. If we are not a good presenter, we are giving a false perception of our expertise. I recently saw a woman talk about her profession. She was extremely nervous, used notes, lost her place, and had to start over. The perception was that she didn’t know her subject, her business, what the heck she was doing. But, in reality, she was an expert. She was just nervous speaking in front of others and didn’t have the knowledge and skills on how to give a powerful presentation. Don’t make the same mistake. Read the following 10 steps, put them to use, and you will be perceived as an expert in your field, even if you’re not.
1. Audience: Speak in front of the right audience. Your time is valuable and everyone wants you to speak for free. Great, they want you! If you are going to be speaking for free, don’t you want to speak to those people in a position to hire you? Go after the right audience, not just any audience.
2. Introduction: Bring with you a typed up introduction, give it to the host, and ask them to read it verbatim. A proper introduction is necessary for the success of your presentation. It’s already engaging the audience before you even start speaking, it gives you credibility and a reason for the audience to listen to you, and it shows the audience who you are. They want to know. Don’t you want to know who the speaker is and their background when you are in the audience?
3. Opening: Before jumping into your subject, have an attention grabber. This is critical. You have less than 30 seconds to get or keep their attention or you will lose them forever. Your opening should be relative to the audience and/or to your subject. For example, if
you were presenting the morning of a snow storm you may say something like: “Did anyone have trouble getting out of their driveway today?” Then let the audience answer and briefly share their stories. This shows the audience you care and it helps them clear their mind and get ready to focus on what you have to say. If there is not bad weather or crisis, open with a question or short story that relates to your topic. DO NOT TELL A JOKE, unless it is relative to your topic.
4. Content: One of the most common mistakes we make when we speak is to give way too much information. For some reason we feel we can  present all of our years of experience in just 45 minutes. Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! If you do, no one will remember anything you tell them. Give them 3 points and they will remember 3 points. Give them just enough info that it will be valuable and they will want more. Always leave them wanting more. Isn’t that why you are speaking in the first place? Also, use stories when making your points. People remember stories, they’re fun to tell, and they keep the audience engaged. If you notice, I gave a short story in the beginning of this article.
5. Authenticity: Be yourself. Think of the best presenters you have ever seen or heard. Most likely you liked them because they let their guard down. They showed you who they really are. If you want to be engaging, if you want to be believable, if you want to make more money, then be  authentic, be yourself.
6. Humor: Have fun. Most people want to have fun. They remember more when they are having fun. Use humor. This doesn’t mean you need to make your audience laugh their pants off, it just means you want them to smile and chuckle. If someone in the audience makes a joke, in regards to what you are saying, allow the audience to laugh and you laugh too.
7. Attention: You find your audience is beginning to get bored. Oh no, what do you do? 3 things that will help. 1. Pause, and I mean paaauuussssse. Say something that you want them to remember, then shut up. Let there be silence. Give it time to sink in. If you have been talking non-stop, you will lose your audience. Another good time to use the pause is when you have the urge to say “um, ah, and”. It’s o.k. to pause to think about or
remember what you are going to say next. 2. Change the tone of your voice. Add vocal variety. Make it match what you are saying. If you are talking about something that is exciting, let your voice portray enthusiasm. If you are talking about something sad, have your voice reflect that sadness. Get the idea? 3. Body gestures. Have your body language match what you are saying. If you say, “she was squatting down.” Then squat
while you are presenting this line. If you say, “I was so surprised.” Have your face look surprised. Be careful of nervous fidgeting like pacing back and forth, hands in pockets, and swaying. The more pauses, vocal variety, and relative body language you use, the more engaging you will be and you will never lose your audience’s attention.
8. Confidence: Feeling confident has nothing to do with appearing confident. It’s o.k. to feel nervous, it’s not o.k. to act nervous or to tell the audience you are nervous. When you are on the “platform” you are in control. You are the Queen, the King, the Master. Your audience wants you to succeed, they want to learn from you an they want a confident presenter. Practice acting confident even when you don’t feel it. Imagine how you would like to be perceived and act that way. No one has to know what you are really feeling. The more you act it, the more you will feel it and the more you will become it.
Try this all day long during your every day interactions with people and watch your confidence sky rocket.
9. Preparation: If you really want your confidence to sky rocket, be totally and thoroughly prepared. The more prepared we are to give a talk, the more confident we have automatically. Prepare by writing out your presentation, at the every least have an outline and rehearse it more than once. At the very least, practice your stories and be sure to have stories every time you present. Try to memorize your opening, your stories, and your closing. It’s o.k. to use notes, flipcharts, power point, etc. for the rest of the presentation.
10. Close: Have you ever seen a movie you really enjoyed, but was disappointed with the ending. Didn’t it ruin the whole movie for you? The same goes with a presentation. If you don’t have a powerful close, it will diminish the impact you could have had on your audience. Be sure to have your question and answer session before your close. Do not let anyone kick you off the stage before you end with a powerful close. It’s not about you its about your audience. If you send them away without impact, without a close, you will be doing them a disservice. So, be sure to leave time for your close.
Two suggestions for a powerful close:
1 - Summarize your talk and let them know the outcomes and results they can get if they apply what you talked about.
2 - Tell a story that brings it home. It sums up your message. Oh and be sure you do have a message. Before writing your presentation, try writing the close first. What is it you want your audience to go away with?
As you can see there is a lot more to giving a presentation than just being an expert in your field. It’s how we communicate our message that will determine our success. Use these steps and create more success for your business, your family, yourself!

How to Motivate Unmotivated People

If you walk around a Walt Disney World resort or theme park, you are likely to witness something that in most other settings would seem bizarre. Not the presence of a large animated character, although you may witness that also. Rather, at any given moment, a person in dress clothes will be walking from one destination to another and will stop, pick up a piece of paper, a cup, or other piece of trash someone dropped, and throw it in a trash can. Executives do it, front line managers do it, hourly employees do it, everybody does it.
There is no special monetary compensation for this behavior. No point system exists where $5 bonuses are given out for every fifteen pieces of trash that someone picks up. There is also no special monitoring system in place which watches for people who don’t do it and then issues penalty points or demerits. Yet, people are motivated to do it anyway.
Now picking up trash may not be your top concern, but are there other things in your department, division, or company that you would like your employees to do? Are you looking for ways to motivate your people?
The answer is not pixie dust or magic. The key is being very good at employing five essential motivation steps.
To some leaders these steps can seem intimidating. First time managers in particular, who were promoted because of their individual skills are often uncomfortable with these ideas. Many times they feel people should just do what needs to be done “Because that is what they get paid for.” Or they believe the only way to motivate people is to give them more money.
Successful motivators don’t think that way. They know that by following the five steps, people can be motivated far beyond what Women & Family Expo in Denver they get paid for, and far more effectively than when money is the only incentive.
Step #1 Clearly Articulate What Needs to be Accomplished and Why
Often the problem with getting people to accomplish things is not that they are unmotivated, it is that they are uninformed. Leaders discuss goals with their peers and superiors on a regular basis and are therefore intimately familiar with them. Because of this familiarity, they mistakenly assume all of their employees also know them. Usually this is not the case.
Take time to explain to all of your employees exactly what needs to be accomplished and the reasons why. Don’t forget the “Why?” Knowing that enables people to make educated choices in their day to day decisions. For example, the output from a team at a market research company whose goal is to launch three new products, will vary greatly depending on if they know that the “Why?” is because the company is losing market share to competitors with products that can be downloaded from the Internet.
Goals should always include specific numeric objectives and timelines. A goal of “Improve Customer Service” is nebulous and people won’t know how they are doing in their efforts to achieve it. However, “Decrease customer wait times to 10 seconds by June 1st” is something people can visualize and work toward.
Step #2 Involve People in Finding the Solutions
People are more motivated to succeed at something if they personally choose to attempt it. Therefore, managers should involve their people in choosing the goals the group needs to accomplish. If this is not possible, then involving people in the creation of how to achieve the goals is the next best thing. Their involvement will generate buy in and also opens up the opportunity for an optimal solution.
Successful coaches use this technique on a regular basis. While it is true they watch hours and hours of game films looking for weaknesses in their own team as well as their competitors, they also involve their players in finding the best way to win. They do it because no matter how much film they watch, or how close they are to the game, they aren’t in the game. The perspectives of players or employees who are in the midst of the action can be drastically different from a coach or a manager who is near the action.
If those perspectives aren’t incorporated into the solution, two things will happen. First, those in the midst of the action will feel that no-one is listening to them, and they will become unmotivated. Second, decisions will be made without incorporating all the relevant data. Both of these will negatively impact progress toward the goals.
Step #3 Explain the Rules of the Game
Have you ever played a new sport or game against people who are experienced players? In the early stages of learning how to play, every few minutes you do something which you think is correct only to be told that it is illegal, or against the rules. It can be exceptionally frustrating. This scenario often plays out in the workplace. Employees are given a task, but are not told all the parameters or rules. Weeks into a project they present their work to someone only to be informed that they need to change direction because of something they were never told about. This is particularly demoralizing and should be avoided at all costs. People can find solutions to almost any problem, but they need to know the rules of the game.
Step #4 Link People’s Personal Goals with the Organizations Goals
There is a reason that each employee goes to work. Successful motivators know what that reason is for every person who works for them. Each day they help their employees fulfill those reasons. Really successful motivators understand not only the reason, but how the reason ties into the person’s bigger life goals. When necessary, they help their people think about and articulate those bigger life goals. When a person no longer thinks “I work so that I can make money,” and instead thinks “I work so that I can enable my daughter to attend a school that will give her a chance to go do what she wants in life,” there is a significant mental and motivational shift that occurs.
Understanding that someone comes to work because they thrive on personal interaction, are trying to gain experience so they can run their own corner deli, or whatever is their personal goal, enables a manager to talk in that person’s language. It also enables the manager to assign responsibilities in that person’s area of interest, and remind them of how what they are doing is tied to their bigger goals.
Managers who enable people to fulfill their life goals through work never have to worry about how to motivate their people. The act of fulfilling their life goals is enough to keep them motivated. All the manager has to do is find the links between those goals, and the organization’s needs, and match the two up.
Step #5  Move Negative People off the Team
Nothing can halt progress like someone who is discontent simply for the sake of being discontent. It is demoralizing to others and it draws energy and time from the tasks being attempted. That doesn’t mean you don’t want good “counter-point” people on your team. Someone who says “Look, I know what we are all trying to do, and I think there is a better way,” can be a valuable resource to help make sure the team is on the right track. However, someone who just regularly says “We’ll never get there,” will just hold everyone back. Move them off the team, and bring in someone who will assist and support the group’s efforts.
Whether you are trying to motivate people to help create a clean environment for guests, or something more pertinent to your organization, remember that anyone can be a great motivator. All it takes is an understanding of the appropriate steps to take and a willingness to do them. This article contains the steps. The willingness is up to you.

"Use Social Media in Network Marketing"

You need to be willing to GIVE without WANT before you can HAVE.
Make sure you really stop and think about that until you get it.
Now if we want to translate that formula into practical terms for our industry, this is what it would mean:

First, understand why other networkers would join you and your business. It's not the product, it's not the comp plan, and it's not the management team.
It's because you are offering a solution to their problem and that solution will only come in two forms:

1: You. Your knowledge, your leadership, and your expertise. They will join YOU because YOU can teach them and show them how to build a successful business.

2: You are offering a business building/marketing system which provides a solution to their current problems, and they can see themselves having success using it.
These are the only two reasons a network marketer will ever join you, and these are the two things you must GIVE.

What do you think the Magnetic Sponsoring Newsletter is all about?
We've never met before, yet I share my knowledge with you, with the expectation and understanding that you may take, take, take, and I may never get anything back.
Not even a simple 'Thank You' email...
Because I know it’s not about the opportunity. I have knowledge that can help you become the leader you want to be, and Magnetic Sponsoring is a system that can help you build a bigger, more profitable business fast.
So... Stop spending yourself broke trying to play the "mine is better than yours game", comparing ORAC values, comp plan stats, and sales numbers.
Sell yourself.
Sell your solution.
Take the focus off the company because IT will never be the reason for your success, or anyone else's.
Market "help."
This is WHY I get 3-5 phone calls everyday from other networkers around the world wanting my help or advice.
This is why complete strangers call me, and ask to join my team, even before they know what company I am with.
They do it because they know I can help them get what they want through knowledge and a system that will allow them to do the same thing.
It's not hard.
You can learn how to do this as well faster and easier than you think, even if you've never sponsored a soul.
Why?
Because no matter who you are or what you've done, you can GIVE... And you will be given back to.
Now with all of that said and done, we finally come to what may be the most important lesson of all…
The piece of the puzzle that ties everything we’ve discussed together and that’s at the heart of the network marketing business model.
If you’ve ever been to one of your company’s larger events, you’ve probably been a little envious of the people who seemingly showed up one day, and then 3 months later, they’re at the top of the comp plan with a massive organization that seemed to appear out of no where.
Would you like to know how that was done?
Well listen closely and take some notes because I’m going to tell you right now…
On the surface, the answer may appear simple… It’s the execution that requires some effort.
Over the course of years, they have established relationships with other network marketing leaders around the industry who know more leaders, and in turn, they know even more leaders.
All of whom carry assets, expertise, and influence that allow them to walk into any company, pick up the phone, and start an massive domino effect of activity that builds and builds exponentially.
Who would you rather sponsor?
3 leaders who have built organizations of 10,000 distributors each, or 3000 leads who have never had success?
Hopefully, you’d rather have those 3 leaders on your team. So that’s how they walk into a company and build a massive organization quickly. But what you have never been taught, is how they formed those ties. You might have an idea or two in your head, but they have never dared to tell you because they know 99.9% of the people in their downline would never be willing to do what they did. But I’ll tell you…

First: You need to starting thinking long term. We're talking 3 to 10 years down the road. What you do today will have a direct impact on the rest of your career IF, you have the foresight to plan that far ahead. This business is 10% about you, and 90% about who you know.

Second: You need to professionalize your contact data base. This means you have to start keeping complete and thorough details on each new contact you make.
Now I’m not talking about ALL of your contacts. I’m talking about the Eagles. The other leaders you meet. The truly sharp people who already have a track record of success in life and in this industry.
Find out who they are, what they are about, hobbies, families, birthdays, etc. If you haven't read "Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty", by Harvey McKay, got to Amazon right now and pick up a copy.

And third: You need to find a way to get in front of these people. Now I'm not talking about buying genealogy lists and cold-calling to pitch your biz to people.
You need to get in front of them so you can shake hands and have a conversation.
The best place to start is at your company's conventions. Yes, I said YOUR company. What better place to meet and build relationships without an agenda than with networkers who are already in your company?

Now you might be wondering what the point of that would be if you can’t recruit them…
Well you need to remember your 5-10 year plan.  You’re not thinking about today, you’re thinking a year or two down the road. Next, go to the national MLM Training seminars that take place around the country. When you do, you’ll notice many of the industry’s top income earners in attendance, and guess what… They’re not there for the training.

And finally, you can meet other leaders by marketing yourself online using the concepts and strategies taught in the Magnetic Sponsoring course. Your mission is to build a rolodex of hundreds of other MLM leaders. I'm talking about true networking, and relationship building. Your goal is not to sponsor these people today or even next year even though that will happen every once in a while as your meet these people. It's to create long-term relationships and friendships, because all it takes is ONE single leader to change your life forever, and trust me, that is worth waiting for and working for. You see, professional networkers only work with people they have come to know, like, and trust. It's an inner circle and you have to take the initiative to introduce yourself. Understand that you (as a stranger), have little to no chance of sponsoring a professional networker. 
You hold no value to them. Why should the join you, instead of another leader in the company that has something to offer?
You have to EARN that right. You have to earn that value, and you have to demonstrate it through the relationship that you build over time.
As I mentioned earlier, in the last 60 days alone, 15,326 network marketers from around the world contacted me through my advertising. 
So yes. It works. Those contacts have led to at least a dozen new friendships with successful networkers and even some new key business partners/distributors in foreign countries where I had no previous contacts. What do you think that will total in 5 years? What do you think that will be worth?
Unless you are building a professional 5-10 year rolodex, this industry is just a hobby to you. You're taking your upline's advice at face-value and doing the recommended minimums.
You're not thinking like an independent million-dollar leader does.