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Up front I should say that I am not part of Jay Kubassek’s business CarbonCopyPRO. Nothing against Jay or the incredible system he has put together. I use a different system because CarbonCopyPRO just wasn’t the right fit for me.

But I have immense respect for Jay Kubassek and have learned more from his example than from anyone else involved in network marketing. Jay is someone with unbelievable integrity and has a greater vision in life than just making money.

The most commonly found vision of Jay that is found on the internet is his dedication to help create 100 millionaires by 2012. In fact he has stated that he will settle for no less than 100 millionaires. His intention is not to create money hungry millionaires, but ones with integrity, dignity and vision.

1. Be a person of value. Jay asks the question “What do I offer society that is worth a million dollars?” This really sticks with me because if I’m not giving anything to society that is of value then I don’t deserve to receive anything in return. Most people go through life as “consumers” yet they feel entitled. Give value to the world and it will give to you in return.

2. Be passionate about what you are doing. This goes hand in hand with intent and integrity. If your intent is only to make a buttload of money without providing anything of worth to people then just forget about being successful. The people that are truly passionate about what they are doing make the greatest amount of money. I’m sure Donald Trump appreciates having his money, but his first love is Real Estate. Read his book “The Art of The Comeback” and you can see that he was more in love with the buildings of New York and keeping them true to their architectural beauty than he was with making millions off of them. He made millions because he didn’t make deals just for a quick buck, he worked with integrity and passion.

3. Know what you are worth and don’t settle for any less until you get it. Don’t be happy to take whatever you are given. Set an amount that your time and talents are worth and don’t stop til you get there. Jay also taught that once you reach that amount; don’t be happy there either. Raise the bar. You made it that far, so keep going.

4. Put a time limit on it. The greatest plays made in sports are during the last few minutes. People do great work under pressure. Don’t work with the thought of “someday”. Put a date on it. Declare what you are going to accomplish and when. Make it final and expect it to happen.

5. Think like a millionaire. This isn’t as easy as it sounds. It doesn’t mean that you sit around thinking about buying cool stuff and rolling around in piles of money. It means to stop listening to the people around you that aren’t millionaires. Are you seriously going to take advice on how to make money from someone that has none? Didn’t think so. Make a commitment to success and focus on your vision of what success is.

I have tremendous respect for Jay Kubassek and what he is doing. By his example I learned how to be a person of value that has integrity in everything I do. I am someone that is psychologically unemployable because I have put a dollar amount on myself that no employer could ever compete with. This is what I was taught by a guy that used to sell mufflers at Midas.

So, what are you worth?

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There is one common fear that we all possess. It makes your heart race, ties up your tongue and makes your palms sweat. It can happen anywhere there is interaction with another person. It’s sometimes easier to suck it up and move on with a few drinks in us, but still, we all dread rejection.

Well, if you are in the MLM industry and you feel the anxiety every time you pick up the phone, then you have a problem. Some people are so afraid of hearing NO that they never even pick up the phone.

Simply put though, if you want to make it in MLM you need to get over it. And the only way any dreaded task gets easier is by doing more of it.

This is why we get back on a horse when it kicks us off, we get back on our bikes as kids, or to get over our fear of water some of us had parents that threw us right into the deep end.

However, mom and dad aren’t here to dial the phone for you. You have to pick it up yourself, and the longer you wait, the heavier that phone is going to get.

The number one rookie mistake in MLM is underestimating the number of people you are going to be talking to. And there’s no way you are going to be able to talk to enough people if you are sitting there looking at the phone and continually getting ready to make a call.

Not everyone you talk to is going to join your business. For one of 2 reasons, either they say NO, or you turn them down and say NO. Yes, you are allowed to say NO to them. (Read why here.)

If they are going to say no, then you actually want them to hurry up and say it so that you can move on and get on the phone with someone that is going to say YES. Your time is valuable.

To keep focused and moving read this before you start calling your prospects:

Some Will
Some Won’t
So What

Someone else is always waiting to join you. You aren’t going to find that person if you are just staring at your phone.

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Internet Killed the MLM Star

MLM isn’t what it was 20 years ago. Back then when your sponsor told you to go out and tap into your warm market, it was usually the only choice! Using that approach now is almost MLM suicide. Yet so many MLM teams are still using the warm market approach as their primary form of marketing.

There are many who have succeeded with using warm market tactics, but those are few and far between gifted and very charismatic people. In recent years it has become more difficult and the internet has almost made it extinct.

There are two reasons why the internet has killed your warm market approach. The first one is very easy to see just through numbers.

With a warm market you are limited on the number of people you can speak to at a time. You are either giving your sales presentation one on one, or 5-10 people in a home presentation. Hotel presentations usually aren’t that much more promising, I’ve heard dozens of stories about completely zero attendance! People just don’t want to stop and take the time out of their day to remember to show up. You have to chase them down to get their attention.

On the internet you have access to millions of people at once. There are 1.7 billion internet users world wide. 250 million of them are in the US. 80 million of those are searching for ways to make extra money. In December alone over 300,000 of those searched for the exact word phrase “home business opportunity”. Your warm market friends and family list contains about 100 names, but do you know how many of them are looking for a home business opportunity?

Just looking at numbers alone is a good reason to be focusing your attention on internet marketing. But here’s another reason to stay out of your warm market.

You tell your friends and family about your business opportunity, they say they want to talk it over and think about it. What they end up doing is “googling” your opportunity. They find a marketing leader on the internet talking about it. They do more research and not only do they NOT join your business, they join a different one with someone else! Now the holidays just became more awkward.

Marketing to the millions of people online that are already actively searching for ways to make money at home seems much more logical than handing out flyers and business cards to only 100 at the supermarket. All you’re doing at the supermarket is annoying customers and risking getting thrown off the property.

So leave your warm market alone! Once your friends and family see your success they are going to be begging to join you, so you will recruit them anyway.

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Are you serious about making your MLM a success? Are you professional about your MLM? Do you want to maintain professionalism throughout your MLM business?

Then you need a personal domain name for your MLM website.

What does that have to do with professionalism?

Any real MLM aimed at providing duplication and success for its distributors will provide them with a company website to capture their leads. The trouble is the domain name, or link, for that website. It’s too long and/or complicated.

www.themlmcompanyname.com/yourusername

or

www.yourusername.themlmcompanyname.com

Some get even more complicated with /ap/tracking.asp?wlid=7984672 at the end of it.

Completely unprofessional, too long for a business card, and impossible to repeat over the phone.

If you place this link in an online ad, few people are going to click on it because it looks sketchy. Those people that do click on it are going to take your personal ID off and look at the main company page. And if they enter their info into that capture page? They get referred to someone in your upline, not you.

Using a personal domain name makes your link look like this:

www.yourname.com

It’s clean and professional and can’t be shortened down to the main company link.

Once you have registered your domain name with a company such as GoDaddy (this is what I use, but there are others) you will need to forward your company website link to your new domain name. This is also known as redirecting.

Redirecting works just like forwarding your mail at the post office when you move. People will see and click on your personal domain name, and then be redirected to your company page. And they will not have to see that long jumbled link. Don’t worry, the registration site will provide step by step instructions on how to do this.

Trouble coming up with a name? Learn the Golden Rule of choosing a domain name.

Stephanie Deneke
Massive Marketing Mentor

www.StephanieDeneke.com
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I am going to tell you something you will never hear from you MLM upline.

You are allowed to turn down prospects.

Your training from your upline teaches you to call your friends, family and your MLM leads and start telling them how amazing the company and product is. You are taught to pitch the compensation plan. After they see all this information it’s just a “no brainer”. If they turn down joining your MLM, it must be because they didn’t understand part of it, right? Wrong.

No one wants to be sold or told what to do.

I can tell you that if you are hounding your MLM prospects until they join with you, that you are not going to have long-term success. Those you sponsor in this way are not the high quality people you want. You are going to have to hold their hand because 1. They didn’t really understand what they were joining in the first place, and 2. This method of sponsoring is nearly impossible to duplicate.

So, in order to run a successful MLM business you need people that have the drive, skill, determination and motivation to also be successful.

Prospecting is about finding candidates that have potential. It’s not about pitching your company over your neighbor’s kitchen table. Unless you like doing that sort of thing. Chances are, your neighbor has no clue what an MLM is about. If they do, it’s probably an ill conceived notion of a pyramid scheme. So then you have to over come objections, and then you aren’t prospecting anymore.

In order to sign up high quality reps you need to interview them. Qualify them and make sure they are worthy of your time. You ask the questions and lead the interview. Imagine that you are the hiring manager of a company, are you going to hire just anybody? Or are you going to hire people that will produce results and earn you a promotion.

Some people are ready to join an MLM, but they believe that it will not involve work on their part. This is also not a high quality prospect. This is dead weight, when they don’t get results, you are going to be holding their hand.

So, I’ll tell you again. You are allowed to turn down prospects. It’s ok to tell someone that they are not a good fit, or not what you are looking for right now.

If you think I’m crazy, recall the last time you were told you couldn’t have something. It made you want it more, didn’t it?

Prospecting is simply filtering through your leads and finding the candidates that have potential. Some of those people might not be at the point where they are ready to join a company, pushing them into it too soon is a set up for failure. When they are ready, they will come back to you.

Stephanie Deneke
Massive Marketing Mentor

Click Here to see what saved me from pitching my opportunity.

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I keep thinking back to something that happened with the first MLM company I joined. The one thing that turned me off and sealed my decision to leave.

It was during a Sunday night online team meeting in a webinar. We were discussing using domain names in order to personally brand ourselves. Something I knew the importance of and had been encouraging others to do.

I made a recommendation to use GoDaddy.com and was going to further mention their affiliate program when the team founder cut me right off.

She said that using GoDaddy for domain registration was a terrible idea, because after a year the subscription renewal rate went up and was too high. She gave an example of a girl she knew that couldn’t afford the $50 to renew her domain after her first year expired. (Note: GoDaddy’s renewal rates vary depending on which type of domain you get and which upgrades you choose, plus the team leader was most likely exaggerating because the renewal rates were half that at the time)

This absolutely floored me. My jaw dropped and I was left with nothing to say. Which is also surprising because I love to talk.

How is it that after a year with the company she could not afford to renew her domain? I didn’t see the problem being with the increase in the rate. The problem I saw was that after a year of working everyday, all day, for a year to build up a sizeable downline, she still couldn’t afford to renew her domain name.

I thought ahead to the next year I would be having with this company and realized the compensation plan was not all it was cracked up to be. I started doing my homework on companies and found that it takes just as much work to make a big sale as it does to make a little sale. Why shouldn’t I be able to be paid a higher commission up front?

If I took all the effort that I had already put into my few weeks with this company and applied it to a company with greater payout. Then I could make in one sale what took me more than 10 with the company I was already with.

That was a no brainer. The saying “work smarter, not harder” was ringing in my ears.

So, from my notebook full of priceless info (I was a professional college student for years, I take good notes) was the excerpt about what to look for in a company’s compensation plan.

1. High upfront commission. Again, it takes the same amount of effort to create a small sale as it does a big sale. Marketing a higher priced item is just as easy as a smaller priced one. Our own doubts about our capabilities to market them is what holds us back, there is no lack of purchasers. A larger payout on the front end builds momentum for your business. Multiple small sales = small commissions = burn out.

2. Residual income. This is your retirement fund. This is continuing income flowing from work you already did. This isn’t new money from a new sale. This is money that keeps coming to you, even if you don’t make new sales.

These are the two key points to choosing a compensation plan. Join a company that meets these requirements, and there’s no worries about renewing your domain.

Stephanie Deneke
Massive Marketing Mentor

www.StephanieDeneke.com

Stephanie.Deneke@gmail.com

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So you managed to implement the training your upline gave you to generate a lead. You call your prospect with your script in front of you. You are reading through it perfectly,,,,,, and then they ask a question

Questions aren’t in the script!

Now you’re fumbling, stuttering, trying to look up answers, or even making stuff up just to make it through the call. Yeah, that just blew it.

So when you’re new and you don’t know what to say, what do you do?

Most companies don’t offer the support to help you call your prospects. They leave you hangin out there on your own and a lot of marketers learn by trial and error. Unfortunately this takes weeks, months, and for some, years.

So what are you supposed to do? Well, you have an upline right? So you don’t have to call your prospects on your own. In fact, I recommend that you don’t. By now you should have 3 people in your upline that you are comfortable talking with. Your sponsor, and two more above them or on the same level. Get one on a conference call and talk to your prospect together.

These people have made these calls before and faced the same questions you are hearing. They have learned how to lead the conversation and handle questions. If they haven’t then find someone who does.

Still can’t find someone?

Here’s a scenario on how to handle questions and I’ll use the most common one as an example.

Question: How much money do you make?

Now obviously they want to hear the dollar amount that you make per week or month. But you aren’t going to lead the conversation if you just give a quick answer. Plus, if you are new, you haven’t made anything yet. Besides, they only think they want to know what you make, what they are really asking is “How much am I going to make.” So answer that question instead.

Answer: It’s really up to you what you make, if you work at it part time, you are going to make a part time income. If you work full time, you are going to make more. Are you ready to put out effort and make a real business for yourself?

You just did two things. You let them know that the income varies and that their efforts are the real variable. Which is totally true. Second, you just took back the lead of the conversation by asking a question. This answer is just an example. Be creative and come up with your own but lead into an open ended question. One that requires more than a yes or no answer.

Questions from a prospect are a sign of their interest, but also a test on your capabilities. Use them as a chance to show yourself as a leader. If you are throwing out a quick answer and the prospect moves on to another question, then you are not the leader. They are. Remember, the one asking the questions is in charge of the conversation.

People want to join a leader, someone they can learn from, someone that has value and knowledge. You could be with the greatest company ever, but if you lack these qualities, you will lack enrollees as well.

Stephanie Deneke
Massive Marketing Mentor

www.StephanieDeneke.com
www.SayHelloStephanie.com

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It’s exciting to join and MLM. You see an amazing presentation. You think, “I can do that.” So you decide to go for it. You can always quit and cut your losses right?

Let me tell you a story and see if you can relate. I had just finished reading Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad when I came across an ad to work from home. I put in my info and watched a webcast. It looked like a no brainer. So I joined.

The best part of joining was that I would receive full training and support from my team. Then like so many other newbie internet marketers, I waited for the training. Guess what? I never got it.

I take full responsibility, because I never asked for it. What I hadn’t realized yet was that this was not a job that I reported to a boss for. I ran this myself, it was up to me to go out and get what I needed.

So, after I got mad and quit I started looking for a business that really would give me the training I needed. Along the way I learned a secret about being an entrepreneur. It meant that my success was up to me.

This time when I found a company that I clicked with I went into it with all I had. They also offered training and support, but this time instead of waiting for it I asked for it.

This made all the difference. Your sponsor may want to see you succeed, but they aren’t going to chase you down to make sure you do it. You need to approach them and show that you are worthy of their time and attention.

Your sponsor does not know your desires unless you make them known. They also do not know your potential until you show it.

Think of this, which student succeeds? The one sitting in the back of the classroom or the one in front with their hand raised asking questions? Which student gets the most attention? The one asking the questions, of course. They are demanding it just by being and active participant. This doesn’t mean they need the most attention, or that they deserve it either. But they are going to get it because they asked and approached the person with the knowledge.

The amazing thing about this business is that you have more than one person with the knowledge you need to succeed available to you. You do not need to rely solely on the person who sponsored you. You have an entire upline you can go to. In fact, you should know at least 2 people that are above your sponsor and feel comfortable approaching them for help. Asking someone for their advice is flattering. So don’t be afraid to ask.

Remember, your success will also help them succeed, so there is no reason why they wouldn’t want to help you.

Don’t underestimate the power of the internet with websites and blogs available to help with every aspect of MLM and Network Marketing. You can search for the answers to anything. You can start with the search box on this blog

Stephanie Deneke
Massive Marketing Mentor

www.StephanieDeneke.com
www.SayHelloStephanie.com

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Have you seen all the ads pounding status updates on Facebook and flowing through your tweets on Twitter?

It seems like everyone on my friend and following lists are plastering up these ads, what about you?

If you’ve been wondering what it’s about it’s free to check it out and it even pays you to use it.  You receive $.50 for each person you refer to Peoplestring and you receive an instant earning of $1.50 for filling out a survey for Peoplestring.

The pay is minimal, but the idea is that you receive back a portion of the company’s earnings.  If you use Facebook you have seen the ads on the side that relate to your interests or content of the page you are on.  The proceeds of all these ads go to Facebook.  With Peoplestring they pay you a portion of the revenue.  And just like Facebook you only see content related to your interests.

Peoplestring has a few interesting features that are appealing.  Messages are self-destructing, meaning that there is no record of it on any computer or server.  You and the receiver are the only ones that are able to see the messages.  Emails are able to contain video, and you have the ability to see when an email has been read.

Peoplestring is compatible with IM services such as AIM, Yahoo and MSN.  You can log into multiple screen names at one time while logged into the Peoplestring IM.

The compensation from Peoplestring has benefits of an MLM.  When active members that you have referred generate a commission for themselves, you also receive a portion of the revenue they created.  Just like an MLM there are different levels of compensation.

So is Peoplestring worth your time?  Well, it’s free to join so you can take it for a test drive.  If you are looking for an opportunity to make money and don’t need the resources Peoplestring provides, I would suggest against it.  However, if you find a need for the services, then you can earn extra cash for using something you already use and need.

Take note ahead of time, if you earn less than $25 in a month with Peoplestring, your check will not be issued.  It will roll over each month until you reach the minimum $25 before they send you a check.  And you must remain an active member by logging in at least once a month or you lose your account and your money.  But since Peoplestring is something you can use everyday, that shouldn’t be a worry.

Since Peoplestring is free to join it’s my suggestion you read about “free to join” and other MLM advertising lines.

Stephanie Deneke
Massive Marketing Mentor

www.StephanieDeneke.com
www.SayHelloStephanie.com

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