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Network Marketing From The ‘Inside’ Out-Finding Hope From Prison
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One of the things I’ve always loved about Network Marketing, is that it leaves no stone unturned when it comes to personal growth.
In this post I’m going to share a real life story that started last year and continues to be one of the most inspiring learning curves I’ve encountered so far….
We all keep regular contact with our leaders. Usually daily, if not several times per day. If you are used to this kind of contact and it suddenly drops off, naturally you become concerned. Well thats what happened to me last year when one of my top leaders, seemingly dropped off the face of the planet.
Little did I know at the time, that he had been arrested, extradited interstate and put in prison.
Obviously my first reaction was shock right? I mean like the only experience I’d had with prison, was from one the few TV shows I ever watched, ‘Prison Break’. So having only ever been exposed to prison life through TV, I started to panic about his safety.
This is one of my top leaders who I’ve known for years and I’ve suddenly gone from daily Skype calls to no way of contacting him or finding his whereabouts. Little did I know at the time, that prisoners can be shifted almost on a daily level, (from jail to jail) to the point that their own legal team don’t even know where they are!
Grr where is that (1800-LocateAnInmate) number when you need it!
So my next thoughts were OMG, someone I know and care about has been thrown into an interstate jail and I need to fly up there to show that someone cares.
So not knowing anything, I jumped on a plane to visit. I want to add here, that as a female who has never entered a prison in her life ( and this is one of Australia’s most notorious prisons), my fear levels were starting to escalate. You go though so many security systems to the the point that you think sh**, if I had to get out of here in a hurry, I’m toast. The flashing images from watching Prison Break didn’t help! But then I started thinking if I’m scared, how must my friend on the ‘inside’ be feeling?
I have to say it felt like eternity sitting inside there waiting for the staff to ‘prepare’ my friend for his visitor. They dress them in this really weird outfit that comes up to their neck so that you can’t slip any illegal contraband into their clothes. Damn! Um, I thought they just stripped me of everything but my clothes like 4 security gates ago lol.
If you’ve ever experienced this yourself, you’d know that it’s pretty awkward working out what to talk about with a guard standing within earshot. So once the small talk ended, we started talking about (you guessed it) his Network Marketing business. I’d never really thought about this before but suddenly I saw a new meaning for the word ‘passive income’. No matter where you are, your income continues. Although in this case, it was obviously going to require some ‘out of the box’ kind of help to keep it going.
So as the months went by after my visit, I started learning through his letters, about the hopelessness that some of the ’soon to be released’ inmates felt regarding their future on the outside. I guess ‘just released from Prison’ is not a desirable trait to have on resumes these days!
As my friend has lived and breathed MLM for the last couple of decades, he started to introduce some of the inmates to the concept. Although some of these guys had previously been highly successful entrepreneurs, made significant amounts of money and were highly intelligent, they were still at a loss as to what they would do when they were released.
Enter Network Marketing….
As I listened to feedback from my friend about some of the inmates who were soon to be released and yet hungry for information, I decided to post 3 books to him. You’re First Year in Network Marketing, The New Professionals & How To Win Friends & Influence People.
Considering the circumstances, I figured the latter would be put to good use regardless lol.
From here the story continues as I begin to hear inspiring feedback from some of these men, who are now educating themselves on the possibility of a new future.
Stay tuned for my next post where I’ll cover the feedback I’ve had after speaking directly with some of the entrepreneurial inmates on 3 way calls.
What about you, do you have any inspiring stories to share about how this industry is having a major impact on peoples lives?
How To Create A Raving Tribe Of Cheerleaders Begging To Syndicate YOUR Content
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Have you noticed there’s a ‘tribal’ buzz happening out there on the Social Networking sites lately?
If you haven’t, I’m going to sum up the benefits in one short sentence…
Put simply, having your own Social Media Tribe = A massive amount of free traffic and eyeballs on your content.
Unless you’ve been online for a while or are an SEO expert, you would have noticed it’s not easy to get your content out there. You know the feeling… You’ve created your masterpiece, installed the latest cool Social Media plugin to make it easy for people to syndicate and a week later your little tweetmeme button painfully sits at the grand total of 1. Thanks Mum! Your blog is like ghost town and the few visitors you’re getting are probably being scared away by the lack of ’social proof’.
Last year after dedicating every spare moment into squeezing in just about every course I could on Social Media Marketing, there was still something critical missing…. If you listened really closely, you could just about hear the tumbleweeds rolling down my blog. Not good!
ENTER: SOCIAL MEDIA TRIBES AND BLOGGING ALLIANCE TO THE RESCUE!
Ok so at the end of last year, I hooked up with 5 Ghost Busters (aka Social Media leaders), who banished those tumbleweeds, scared off the ghosts and replaced them with a raving bunch of cheerleaders.
Having your own Social Media Tribe is like a mini mastermind group of like minded people who all syndicate each others content. So instead of promoting your own stuff (which you want to keep to a minimum anyway), your Tribe does all the syndicating!
Here is how it works…
First you want to find 4 or 5 other people who are at a similar stage to you in implimenting Social Media.
You then set up a ‘Tribe Power Hour’ on skype once a week.
From there, you go through all of each others social networking profiles and start a frenzy of activity. You add comments to their latest blog posts, share them on Facebook, Retweet them, rate videos on Youtube and tag each other having loads of fun. I can tell you from experience that when a bunch of people are out there stirring up fun, people come from everywhere wanting to join in :)
So once you’ve teamed up with a mini mastermind group who each have a few thousand followers on Twitter and a few hundred friends/fans on Facebook, your content is suddenly being sent out to tens of thousands of people. Did I mention this is all in the space of an hour? Now thats leverage! Guess what happens after this? EVERYTHING suddenly comes alive and your traffic goes through the roof! It’s like the Law of Reciprocity on steroids!
Of course you still need to be producing content and actively engaging in conversation but no matter what industry you’re in, this is a hugely powerful strategy.
I only learned about the concept 8 weeks ago when I partnered up with 5 guys who had created (in my mind) the ‘perfect’ Social Media Tribe. Why perfect? Because each one of them had a specialized area of knowledge on different aspects of the Social Networking sites. There were some cutting edge strategies and funky plugins that I never even knew existed that really took things to the next level.
More about some of these ’stand out from the crowd’ strategies in my next post.
How about you, do you have a Tribe of cheerleaders on the Social sites yet? Have you thought about using a content syndication ‘power hour’ for maximum leverage?
If you have any questions or stories to share, I’d love to hear from you.
Michaelé
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How Not To Lose Credibility On The Social Media Sites
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Have you ever walked up to a complete stranger, asked for their Twitter and Facebook profiles, waited politely for 5 minutes and then started shouting at them? If you ever feel tempted, please give me a call first so I can save you from being detained by the men in white coats :)
Well I don’t know where these men in white coats are hanging out these days but I reckon they could make a killing scooping up abnormally behaved people on the Social Networking sites!
I made a new Facebook friend today and I thought (as we probably have some similar interests) that you might have met him, or one of his friends too…
“Dear Michaele (okay let us pronounce it Mikayla!) happy!!
First of all thanks for your message.
Other than my regular assignment, I am presently focussing on one internet online business right from my Laptop. And that is XYZ Company. I hope u might have heard about it. If not, then hurry, dont waste even a single minute. Just go and check this link of my website
http://www.facebook.com/xyz
Yeah truly speaking it is an amazing business opportunity available as on date. Never seen and never heard such an opportunity. Oh my GOD! when I first time heard about it, I did not take a second to jump on it and grab. Now it is mine, my own business and forever mine.
Hey by the way why dont u just check, take a tour, watch the video presentation and if you have any question, come back to me.
lo!!!!!!!!!!! I forgot to wish u a very happy new year 2010.
May this new year bring you and your family a lot of wealth and good health.
Sincerely Yours”
I know, I know, it must be because my profile says “desperately seeking new opportunity; complete strangers, anti relationship marketers, all welcome to submit ” lol. Maybe not!
Aside from these types of messages being mildly annoying/amusing *sigh*, if you’re in Network Marketing you feel a deeper sense of wanting to educate.
I used to try politely educating via 140 character DM’s on Twitter but there’s nothing like the power of a video.
Have you ever been hanging out on one of your favorite Social Media sites only to be rudely interrupted by someone shouting at you?
If so, I would love to hear your thoughts on how we can bring people up to speed on the power of building relationships online.
Shout/spam me a comment below :)
Michaelé
A New Year And A New Decade, Are You Ready?
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Well the 1st of Jan and 2010 has arrived. Yay!
I don’t know about you but I’m in two minds as to whether 2009 really flew by or not. Partly because I spent most of it learning new skills and it almost feels like it was a long way back that I delved into Social Media. And it wasn’t a long way back at all, it was less than 12 months ago!!
In retrospect, this would have been a great post to get done by Dec 31st but after reading my friend Kary Rogney’s post, I’m starting today with no regrets.
So what did I learn in 2009 that can be of value to you? Well a ton actually! So let me start with my biggest learning curve…
I launched this blog somewhere around June of 09 after a lot of trepidation and hiding it from my Twitter profile. Why? Well because like most of us, I wanted it to look good before anyone saw it! I was doing tutorial after tutorial on how to set it up, how to lay it out and even learning the fundamentals of SEO can you believe it! I hadn’t even launched it and had absolutely no content and I was trying to learn SEO before it went live lol.
Reflecting back, I read some really great info along the way that I hope will help you through your hurdles. If you’re starting out online with blogging and Social Media and don’t have a technical background, information overload is pretty much a given. I haven’t met a successful person yet who didn’t go through it. Yeah great I hear you saying… How does the obvious help me?
Well here are a couple of things that I hope might help :)
Firstly, one of the biggest mistakes we make (well at least I did) is learning information ahead of time. E.g I was learning SEO before I even launched my blog! This is a huge waste of your time. Why? Because when it comes to technical stuff, the chances of you remembering it when it comes time to use it are very low. Chances are you will have to go back and read or watch that tutorial all over again when you are ready to use that particular piece of information. What a complete and utter waste of time huh! So my advice is, don’t go learning how to upload a video to your blog if you haven’t yet made a video. Make the video first and then learn how to upload it!
Only spend your precious time learning things when you are ready to take action and implement. I can’t emphasize this enough as from personal experience, you can easily fall into a trap. I did. 2009 was a year where I spent thousands upon thousands of dollars learning some of the most cutting edge Social Media strategies and yet guess what? If you were to ask me to share what I learnt right now, I would be lucky to be able to convey 30% of it!
But here is what’s really cool. What I can share with confidence are the things I learnt and actually implimented! Now I have a lot of confidence in the value I have to offer as I can speak not only from experience but from walking the talk. End rant number 1 :)
My second biggest learning curve was about how much value we have to offer the world. One of the things that happened to me was the more I chose to mix in a circle of people that were ahead of where I was at, the more I thought everyone knew what I knew and therefore I didn’t think I had anything of value to share. Are you kidding me!! There is always someone who is just starting out and needs your information…
I had an uh ha moment 3 days ago that has changed the way I’ll be operating in 2010.
I was speaking to a person in a high level management position about a particular system that could be taught more easily world wide by using Webinars. He replied with “a what?” and I said a Webinar. He then said can you spell that word for me! As you can imagine, I almost fell off my seat. I was thinking geez Webinars, isn’t everyone learning from Webinars these days!!
So talk about inspiration. Here was a highly switched on intelligent guy who didn’t know what a Webinar was. Do you think if you made a tutorial today on what a Webinar is or how to conduct one that it wouldn’t be of value to thousands of people…
So where have you been stuck last year that has a whole new light this year?
This is such an awesome journey and I would love to hear your accounts on how you started out. The good, the bad and the ugly lol.
Happy New Decade!
Michaelé
Social Media, Are You Ready For The Future?
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» By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….
» 96% of them have joined a social network
» If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s 4th largest
» The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females
» Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…
» In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
» The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube
» Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth
» 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations…Only 14% trust advertisements
» 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation because we no longer search for the news, the news finds us.
If some of those stats surprised you, its gets better… Social Media has now overtaken porn as the number 1 activity on the web.
This is probably one of the most profound developments in business since email and what’s exciting, is it has completely levelled the communication playing field. Never before is history, have we seen Joe Citizen having the ability to connect directly with Authors, Celebrities, Politicians and Centres of influence in our niche. Social Media gives us the opportunity to create powerful relationships FAST.
These days our potential prospects and customers are not only being met through traditional channels like work, hobbies and business networking events, they’re hanging out at places like Twitter, Facebook and Youtube, in their hundreds of millions! With Facebook surpassing 350 million users, do you think some of these people might be interested in working with you?
I thought so!
The big question is, can any of these millions of people find you right now? People are out there every day having conversations about your company, your products and your industry, Doesn’t it make sense to join in on these conversations? After all, they are happening -with or without you!
“In the near future we will no longer search for products and services they will find us via social media…”
The most powerful way to create relationships and increase your warm market through the Social Networking sites is to remember it’s not about you; it’s about providing value to the world so that people are drawn to connect with you. Although you already know you have the most amazing home business opportunity on the planet, people aren’t interested in your opportunity, they’re interested in how you can solve the current problems they face.
Most people don’t yet understand how powerful it is to add Social Media as a business strategy. This is largely because they fail to understand the time it takes to build relationships. It’s not a Spam fest! Your success on the social sites will be directly related to how much value you bring to the table and how many people you help.
A well-known online marketer gave a great analogy using the “Party Principle”. When you go to a party, do you meet someone for the first time and the moment you’re introduced say “Hey, I have this amazing opportunity and we’re currently looking for people just like you, here’s my card, when can we talk”. If you did, you’d probably be looked at as a raving lunatic and the chances of that person ever wanting to speak to you again just went out the door. Hmm, a free lifetime entry into the NFL (No Friends Left) is a likely outcome of that strategy! Think of dating. If you suggested it was time to meet your parent’s after a first date, you’d likely send the person running a mile!
The same applies to the social networking sites, people are primarily there to socialize, make genuine connections and find useful information. They might be open to hearing about what you do once they “know, like and trust” you. We’re in a relationship marketing business, so if your not skilled at building relationships first offline, then this is going to show up online. In fact, your lack of skill will be magnified due to the larger audience.
You can’t just jump onto Twitter and Facebook and hunt down people to Spam your opportunity link to, yet thousands of Network Marketers are out there every day doing exactly that. If you haven’t spent time building the relationship, you haven’t yet ‘earned’ the right to market to that person.
“Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie, Listening first, selling second”
Your success in Social Media will be directly proportionate to the amount of time you’ve spent on developing your ‘people skills’ offline.
How about you, do you think Social Media will change the way we market and communicate?
Do you think there is really any difference in the way we should market online vs offline?
Join in on the conversation and post your thoughts/comments below.
(Stay tuned for part 2 on getting started with Social Media).
P.S. Many thanks to @equalman for permission to use the stats from his awesome video.
Increase Your Online Trust Factor With A Gravatar!
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A few days ago, I was having a conversation with a friend about Blog comments and I mentioned Gravatars. His reply: “What the heck is a Gravitar!”
Well I’m glad he asked, because it reminded me that a few months ago I didn’t know what one was either. I mean like what a strange word for a start. When you break it down, it actually does make sense though.
Globally Recognized Avatar = G-R-Avatar.
Ok so now we’re done with the jargon, lets talk about how it can benefit your efforts online.
Why Do You Need One?
By having an Avatar (that’s the nice photo of you that shows up next to your name on blog posts) that is globally recognized, you’ll essentially be increasing your visibility every time you post a comment.
As many blogs will allow you to include your website URL when you post, you will vastly increase your chances of someone clicking on your name if you have an Avatar with a real photo.
Many Word Press blogs have native support for Gravatars so that when you post a comment, you are required to enter your email address. The software then checks your email address to see if you have a Gravatar associated with it.
If you do, your comment will automatically include your photo. If you don’t, you’ll need to go through the cumbersome chore of creating one every time you post.
Posting as a guest on someone’s Blog without a Gravatar is equivalent to turning up at a party with a pair of dark sunglasses on!
Whilst this might create curiosity if you’re the coolest looking dude at a party, online it’s a whole different ball game.
As many blogs allow you to include your website URL when you post, you will vastly increase your chances of someone clicking on your name if you have a real photo there. Oh and a genuine, authentic comment goes without saying :)
How Do I Create One?
It’s soo incredibly simple. Watch the video below and then click here to get one for free right now!
As with any Social Networking site, use a great photo and make sure it’s actually YOU!
I love my 4 legged friends too but those pics are best saved for Facebook :)
Anyone else been showing up on the Social Networks with an ‘auto generated’ Disney Avatar like I was?
I would love to hear your comments.
How To Use Twitter “Follow Friday” Effectively
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You’ve might have heard of Follow Friday or even seen the #FollowFriday hashtag flying about the Twittosphere, anywhere from Thursday through to Sunday, but did you know there is such a thing as #FF etiquette?
Follow Friday started with one tweet by @Micah in mid January which read:
“I am starting Follow Fridays”. ”Every Friday, suggest a person to follow, and everyone follow him/her”. ”Today its @fancyjeffrey & @wiredone “.
Micah stated, “I started #followfriday to highlight our friends we are proud of”.
Since #FF developed an almost cult like participation, I’ve noticed a growing trend of people sending a bunch of tweets simply listing bulk names like this: @joeblog @maryjoe @janesmith @friend4 @friend5 @friend6 #FollowFriday.
I don’t know about you but I would be unlikely to want to follow someone just because they were one of a bunch of names. At the very least it shows that you are not recommending anyone in particular for any valuable reason and at worst, this can come across as spam!
So what is the most effective way to use Follow Friday?
Just like paying someone a compliment through using the Retweet, the same goes for Follow Friday. Pay the person a compliment by giving people a reason to follow them.
Instead of (@friend1 follow this great person #FollowFriday) or (@friend1 @Friend2 etc #FF).
Simply recommend one friend at a time with something like (@friend1 provides simple, fun tips for growing your Network Marketing business through Facebook groups #FollowFriday). Or (@friend2 she has been an absolute inspiration with her awesome blogging secrets #FollowFriday). If you’re really wanting to create a relationship with a particular person, try including a URL to one of their recent blog posts.
Being generous with your Tweets will reward you enormously, The Law of Reciprocity guarantees it!
I have to admit that one of the reasons I was late to the #FF party, was come Friday, I found I just didn’t have time to go through all my Twitter pages to check who had recently mentioned me in a Tweet etc that I wanted to return the favor too. Well recently, I found a really cool tool that solves that problem: The Twitter Tag Project
Basically you just enter your Twitter username and it will scan your last 200 Tweets for names of people you’ve had contact with and display the results like this: #FollowFriday @friend1 @friend2 @friend3.
Although I don’t recommend using the ‘tweet this’ feature for Follow Friday, what I love about this site is that with the push of a button, it will show you who you’ve had mentions from or interaction with in a simple, one page format.
If you have any fun, simple Follow Friday tips, feel free to post your comments below.
Catch you on Friday @Michaele_H :-)
Social Media has literally changed the Network Marketing industry for ever and you don’t want to miss out.
So lets talk about Social Media, why it’s important to start using it now and what benefits it has to offer us as Network Marketers.
Social Networking through the Internet, offers one of the most powerful solutions to one of the greatest hurdles we face, running out of our warm market.
If you don’t learn about Social Media now and you still think the Internet is a fad, you probably won’t remain successful.
In the past, we gave all kinds of advice on how to continue to build your warm market that are just plain outdated in today’s world. Nowadays there is a pretty simple system that you can follow to make sure your warm market never runs out.
I remember one of things that really jumped out at me from the book Wave 4, was when the author spoke about how all distributors eventually run out of their warm market. “When your team start coming to you with this dilemma, if you don’t have an answer, you will see the attrition rate in your business start to rise”. Yikes!
That message had such an impact on me that I immediately instigated a plan. I developed a list of all the ways I was going to coach my team on how they could increase their warm market, if and when they came to me with this problem. Phew!
Strategies like:
=>Attend small business and franchising expos and gather cards from stall holders
=>Join business-networking groups in your local area
=>Start attending you local Chamber of Commerce meetings
=>Letterbox drops
=>Hang out in Hotel Foyers in a dark suit and stalk people (Just kidding, I heard that one from a friend and thought I would throw it in for a laugh!)
Do these methods work, well they can but they are too slow if you want to build a large organization..
By teaching people how to use Social Media correctly, you can increase your warm market hundreds of times faster than with any of these traditional methods.
Let me give you a really powerful example of how this works.
Traditionally we set up appointments and talk with potential business partners over the phone or in person. If the person is not a friend or family member, a large portion of this meeting time is spent ‘breaking the ice’ and getting to know them. When the meeting ends, we exchange details and then follow up, follow up, follow up.
Fast forward to today and you can be building a relationship with the person through one of the social media sites before you even meet them.
If the timing is right and one of your social networking buddies is at a time in their life where they express they’re open to a new opportunity, you won’t be spending the first half of the meeting breaking the ice as you will have done that long ago.
Then when the meeting ends, instead of filing their details and diligently following up like crazy, the relationship continues to strengthen through one of the online social networks.
We know that people join people they ‘know, like and trust’, so it makes sense to use every opportunity you can to let people get to know you.
This is where learning how to apply Attraction Marketing strategies to build rapport through these Social Networking sites becomes really exciting.
Face Book (which is just one of hundreds of social networking sites), is now rocketing towards 400,000,000 members, do you think some of these people might want to work with you?
The good news is, if you don’t have a clue where to start with online social networking, you can learn these strategies for free.
I’ve been reviewing a lot of training programs available on the internet that teach you the ‘how to’ and found most of them to be quite overwhelming for a new person. Some of them are free and some are around $100 a month.
So far I’ve found that most of these systems have a back office or members area with no clear direction on where a new person should focus their initial efforts. Even worse, there are often enough training videos to sink a ship resulting in new people being sent into information overload.
Recently I came across an awesome training site that eliminates the above confusion AND it’s free. Rather than aimlessly sending a person into a hit and miss back office, it delivers bite sized step by step videos via email. The emails come once every 48hrs so you don’t become overwhelmed.
It was created by a Network Marketer for Network Marketer’s which means the content is laser focused on building your business.
How about you, have you been implimenting Social Media as part of your marketing strategy?
Drop me a line and let me know your successes and struggles in this area.
Michaelé
How to Adopt the Habits of Highly Effective Network Marketing Leaders
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How to quickly cultivate a leadership mindset to fast-track the success of every new person you sponsor.
While it’s common knowledge that 97% of people who join a Network Marketing company fail, even fewer go on to become leaders.
There is a solution and I don’t think it’s talked about as early in the sponsoring process as it could be.
If someone puts their hand up and says they’re ready to ‘go for it’, they need to know that there are key traits that leaders in this industry have that set them apart from the masses.
Although there are many qualities that leaders have, there is one habit that successful MLM leaders adopt that literally ensures they become an attraction magnet.
Leaders are the ones who are willing to go and specialize in a skill that the huge majority of people are either unwilling, or too lazy to master.
If you are a leader in Network Marketing, no doubt you’ve had your share of followers who say they wish they could master a particular skill that you have.
While it might be great to have admirers, how often do we tell someone new in our team to go and master or specialize in a skill that we don’t have.
Or even worse, how often do we ignore or not take the time to find out a new persons existing skills. E.g they are brand new to MLM but have a background in copy writing or Photo Shop. While this may not sound like much on the surface, how about if you found out that due to Joe Newbie’s copy writing skills, every ad your team published pulled in more leads than the competition…
In the past, I spent a lot of my time coaching people on how to learn the same skills that I had. I’ve since learned, it makes more sense to have been encouraging people to specialize in and develop skills that are unique to their own talents.
If I am teaching people to duplicate my skills, how do they shine and become leaders in their own right.. Well essentially they don’t, they just become a ‘mini me’.
I’m not talking about the fundamentals that everyone needs to learn when starting out, I’m talking about learning valuable skills that the majority won’t take the time to learn.
Specialized skill sets are what seperates leaders from the crowd and the fastest way to increase the number of people that follow you, is to go and increase the value you have to offer others. The more valuable you become the more people will naturally be attracted to you.
Apply your value to your marketing system and you’re 90% ahead of the crowd already.
Three points that should be taught to fast track the leadership mindset with every new person you sponsor:
- Market yourself: Learn skills that the average person won’t. Become the ‘go to’ person for something in your niche.
- Market your system: If you want to stand out from the crowd rather than blend in with the masses, don’t use your companies generic system. Get creative and develop a system that people are chasing you down to be a part of.
- Market your company: Get your belief levels up to a 10 out of 10 asap. Go to live events and get the social proof you need to be genuinely proud of and passionate about the company you’ve chosen.
If you’re ready to get going and not sure of an area to specialize in, click here to find out about a skill that very few people are mastering and most are doing badly. If you’re prepared to take the next step, you can complete the entire training program at zero cost and start standing out from the crowd.
Do you teach people to draw on their strengths or master their weaknesses?
Start a discussion below.
Michaelé
Useful Tips For Network Marketers On How NOT To Become A Total Twitter Twit!
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1. Attraction: What will initially attract followers are your tweets. So go post at least 5 to 10 updates before you go following anyone. We don’t want your new followers turning up to a blank page! Interestingly you will still get followers if your page is blank but they are probably the kinda followers you want to steer clear of.
2. Credibility: Sorry guys a picture of your pet gold fish and a name like MLM2009 just isn’t going to cut the mustard. You’re out there to socialize, so treat it like you would any ‘offline’ social arena. When you go to a party, you don’t put a paper bag over your head and introduce yourself as MLM2009. I think you get my drift..
3. Relationships: As with the party scenario, if someone wanted to get to know you and asked what you do, you wouldn’t say ‘MLM expert’ or you would sound like a moron! You also wouldn’t answer with a blank stare. So the same thing applies to your bio. Fill it in and make it interesting.
3. Your Opportunity: Come on guys, sheesh EVERYONE including you hates spam. So why the heck would you go out onto a social networking site and spam it with your opportunity all day long. Do you really think people are sitting there just hoping that someone finally spams them with a good business opportunity!
4. Contribution: Unless your name is Paris Hilton or Barak Obama, people aren’t really that interested in the fact that you just made a piece of toast. Don’t get me wrong, if you really did just eat something fascinating or want to mention the restaurant you ate at, then that could be valuable content. Otherwise, leave the mundane activities out of your tweets and save those for when you want to direct message your friends. As far as what is considered ‘valuable’ to your followers, useful and interesting links are what’s hot.
5. Power Through Association: I got this tip from Guy Kawasaki. I’m going to call it the @guru tip! Send @ messages to the social media big dogs. These are the folks with a large number of followers and seem to be the opinion leaders (and perhaps even “heros”) of Twitter. They probably won’t answer you but that’s ok. The aim is to ‘appear’ like you have a relationship with them to enhance your credibility. The theory is “if she is tweeting @MrBigDog, she must be worth following”. It’s not who you know, it’s who ‘appears’ to know you. Apparently! (BTW, when I sent a tweet to Guy Kawasaki, he replied! LOL)
6. Protected updates: Unless your pic suddenly showed up on the ‘’Worlds most Wanted” list or you’re hiding from the KGB, don’t activate this function. Come on, you’re not that special are you!
7. Etiquette: The greatest compliment you can pay anyone on Twitter is to RT (re-tweet) their Tweet. Do this when you have genuinely found someone’s Tweet interesting, funny or valuable, not just because everyone else is re-tweeting.
8. Bankruptcy: Until you reach 2000 followers, don’t go following more than about 100 people a day. Twitter changes the rules regularly so you don’t want to trigger a ‘Mosey along now, this account has been suspended’!
9. The Terminator: This is possibly the most important piece of info you might read if you work for a company. Be careful what you Tweet. Tweeting “My boss is so dumb he doesn’t realize I’m building my online empire while he’s paying me to work!” might not be the smartest move. Remember the Cisco fiasco where 1 tweet screwed up a potential high paying job: http://ciscofatty.com/
10. Who’s Who: My personal list of the top 10 ‘must follow’.
GuyKawasaki Well his name speaks for himself plus I gotta recommend him considering I used his tip!
JoelComm Author of Twitter Power and a Social Media Evangelist
DaveEvans Social Media Consultant and author of Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day.
MariSmith Dubbed the Pied Piper of the Online World by Fastcompany. The ‘Queen’ of FaceBook.
PerryBelcher Seriously Bad Ass Marketer (his words) and also known as The ‘King’ of Youtube.
Mashable The hottest Twitter tips news and help around. Plus the best Social Media links online.
AskMrVideo Ask him any question on video production, literally.
RichSchefren Known as the ‘Guru’ to the internet guru’s. Seriously kick butt free documents for online entrepreneur’s.
