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Last week I read a great post by Fontella Williams where she is fighting back about the spam that she and everyone receives on Facebook when they get a friend request.

Check out Fontella’s blog post “Warning: YOUR Facebook Requests Are Being Denied!!” and please leave a comment and share her post as it is well worth reading and I guarantee that your Facebook friends will love it.

This got me thinking and yes I am going to get on my soap box here because everyday people are posting the same ads for the same business opportunities in the same groups.

Before I get into the spam and what it really says about you as a network marketer if you can be called that is why on earth would you want to do this type of marketing.

Firstly, you post these ads in groups where there are 100s if not 1000s of other network marketers. Those network marketers, for the most part will have their own business already and they will more than likely be happy with that business.

Now what makes you think that they would give up what they are doing, drop everything and sign up with you?

You don’t offer anything that they already have. They will still have the same problems and the same trials to overcome.

Think about what you are offering, it’s like trying to sell ice to the Eskimos!

Check out these ads below and read what they say in their ads. I have blanked out the names to protect the ignorant.

So what do you think this says about the people who post these types of ads in groups on Facebook. Here is what it really says:

“Hi, I am a new network marketer and I have no interest in you or building a lasting working relationship with you. All I am interested in is how much money you are going to make me. I am completely lazy as I can’t even be bothered to learn how to build relationship with people. I have found this great opportunity that you can make me a lot of money and if this one does not work out don’t worry because I will find another scheme next week to join which I know will let you make me a lot of money. So how about whatever your name is, let’s get started”

Check out the bottom ad, 160,000 people in this person’s smart line! That’s 160,000 lazy people that this person has attracted to him. You post stuff like this and you will attract like minded people.

Attraction marketing works like this even if you have no idea what attraction marketing is because you will attract lazy people to your business and people who are desperate, needy and hopeful.

You don’t need to post this kind of stuff, it will never do anything for you and if you want to build a successful business you really want to be attracting successful people to you to work with.

Now I going to get of my soap box and stop ranting!

Keep posting you blog content, motivational quotes and hints and tips that actually help people and their business.

You know who you are that’s posting this great content, let’s all stick together and educate the uneducated.

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Welcome to day 4, the last day of what I have learnt from my son over the past year.

If you have missed any of the others days, go to “Day 3: What My Son Has Taught Me About MLM – Persistence” and you can read the other posts by clicking the links back to day 1.

OK lets get started with todays post and I want to talk to you about determination and what it means to me and you in our network marketing business.

My son is coming up for 1 year old and he never crawled, but he is nearly walking. So much so that thats all he ever wants to do at the moment.

Through his determination he will be walking around unaided within the next couple of weeks. Yes he will fall over a the start and quite alot I will imagine but he will get back up, dust himself down and go again until he gets it right.

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Welcome to day 3 of what I have learnt from my son over the past year. If you missed yesterday “Day 2: What My Son Has Taught Me About MLM – Routine” follow the link to check it out.

On to today and we will be talking about persistence and how learning from our children and their persistence can help you with your business.

As we know children can be extremely persistence when the want something or when they are starting out learning how to do something. Thie thing that stands out for me with my son was when we switched him from drinking from a bottle to a becker.

Even when he was on his bottle he would try and grab the bottle from your hands and feed himself.

Eventually he got it right, why due to his persistence to learn how to hand the bottle and put it in his mouth.

If at first you don’t succeed, try again. That’s what you should be doing in your business. You will get knock back and there are things you will have no idea how to do but through your persistence you will achieve your goals.

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Welcome to day 2 of my MLM training and what I have learnt from my son over the past year.

If you missed yesterday’s post “Day 1: What My Son Has Taught Me About MLM – “My Why” then go check it out so that you can catch up with the videos.

So back to today, I am going to be talking about routine, and as a parent and network marketer why it’s so important that you have it in your daily business activities.

Just like any small child or baby it’s important to get into a routine so that you can spend more time with your family and get more done on your business.

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At the end of June last year I become a Dad for the first time when my wife Vicky gave birth to our beautiful son, Joseph.

Since he was born, I have changed the way I look at my life and my business, inparticular my “why”.

My “why has changed due to my new responsiblities but it has changed for a positive reason.

If you have to change your why then change it for a positive reason not because something is to difficult or you want to lower your own expectations. Keep focusing on your “why” and you will achieve your goals.

Tweek your “why” only to improve your life or something in it not as a cop out as the only person you will be kidding is yourself.

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When you start out on your network marketing journey you will have a “why” as to what you want to achieve from your business.

Now this could be anything from never working again to putting your kids through school. Whatever the reason it’s your personal destination and you have a long journey ahead of you.

For me I found it very difficult to go from where I was to where I wanted to be as it seemed so far away.

However, as with everything if you break it down into manageable steps it is a lot easier to plan out your future by setting smaller goals.

My upline introduced me to this great tool and I think it is a fantastic exercise to do focus on small goals to get to your final goal.

The first thing you have to do is write a list of the 50 things that you want to change in your life through your business. This can be anything, like never setting your alarm clock again, or taking the kids to the play park every day. Maybe you want to own a Ferrari or learn to fly a plane.

You decide it’s the things that you can’t do now, but that through building your business you will be able to do.

Once you have your list give everything a score from 1 to 5.  This is the time scale that you are going to assign to each goal with 1 being 3 month from the time you write the list, 2 being 6 months, 3 being a year, 4 being 3 years and 5 being 5 years from the time you write the list.

From this you can set small goals and work your way to where you want to be. By break things down in this way you can start to build a plan of action and a path for your journey to success.

Also I believe that when you achieve each goal you set yourself you will still focused and motivated to working towards your next goal.

Oh and I found it to be a fun thing to do, which at the end of the day if it’s not fun then don’t do it.

Of course after the 5 years is up and you have ticked off all 50 accomplishments you can start a new list and keep going!

Sit down and do your list, I promise you it will really get you thinking.

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Tristram Lodge

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There are two ways that you can build your Network Marketing business. First chase your family and friend and keep badgering them until you become an NFL (No Friends Left). You can stand in shopping malls pestering complete strangers and leave fliers on cars.

Or second, you can work from the comfort of your own home and all your leads and business come to you.

Which one would you prefer to do?

Well mine, like most  people is the second and it’s called attraction marketing. I want to share with you my 5 reasons why you need attraction marketing in your business. These are just my 5, there are many more but these are the ones that have really made my life so much better.

1. First and foremost, you position yourself as a leader even if you are brand new to this industry. You can start simple by learning a particular skill, say how to generate leads on Facebook. Write some articles and post them on the internet. By helping others first you will help yourself in the long run. Who you would prefer to do business with, somebody who has taken the time to show you how to do something like generate leads on Facebook or somebody who has no interest in you and just pitches their business opportunity to you?
2. Attraction marketing coupled to a great Lead Generation System will sort all the time wasters from the serious people for you. All this can be done on auto pilot so you only talk with the most qualified people. Imagine cold calling 50 people a day who have no interest in what you have to offer. How much time is that going to take? You have no idea that they don’t care about your product or service so all you are on is a fishing trip. You might get a bite but don’t count on it.  With an attraction marketing system and lead generation system you can show your product or service to 10 times that amount 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. Sounds good right!
3. No selling. When I started out I did not want to sell and was informed by my upline that this is not a selling business. Great I thought until you find out you have to sell products to make money. I’m not a sales person and I never wanted to be but with attraction marketing there is no need to learn how to sell. This is because it’s about building relationships and trust with people. I only ever buy from people who I trust, never from people who offer no value.
4. Attraction marketing is about branding you and not your company. There could be millions of people all promoting the same MLM company but there is only one you so you can stand out. If all those people are using the same replicated website and company literature what differentiates them from each other? Nothing, they are all offering the same thing but if you are using attraction marketing you will be marketing yourself and your skills to help others by adding value. This was a breakthrough for me when I found attraction marketing and paired that up with a lead generation system which can be fully customised to brand me as the product. This is very important.
5. The ability to start earning an income from multiple sources so I could learn the skills needed to become successful in this industry. By making small commissions on products but having different commission streams money can be made from day one. I look as my primary business as a pension fund, it’s where I will get my residual income from and the biggest part of my income. However I am not relying on my primary business as an only source of income which can take years to build up. By learning attraction marketing and having a lead generation system in place has kept me in the game for longer as it has never cost me any money.

That’s my 5 reasons why you must learn attraction marketing. Yours might very well be different from mine and they will be the reasons why it has helped you.

I want to thank you for reading this post and I would love to read your comments and thoughts. Also please share this with your Twitter and Facebook friends, I’m sure they would appreciate your for doing that.

Tristram Lodge

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I have just read a great post on Wayne Vassell’s blog entitled “An Angry 2 Cents – There Are No MLM Success Stories It Does Not Work!” and I just wanted to add my 2 pennies worth.

This is a great post in Wayne talks about a little bit of honesty that is needed with the network marketing industry.

How many times have you heard that MLM simply does not work?

I think one of the problems is the mindset of the people who get involved with these businesses and also the MLM companies themselves. They get involved to have a better lifestyle, more money, more freedom, fire the boss, put the kids through college, whatever their reason they want a change.

So along comes this nice glossy brochure or company video showing them the life they could have if they follow this simple plan. One or two join and drift away after a few and become another network marketing statistic.

They make no mention of the work that you have to do or the

If you are thinking of starting a network marketing business understand this and understand it well. You must work harder then you have ever done before. You must learn new things everyday. You must keep going everyday until you are successful.

To be successful in this industry takes the same amount of effort and commitment as if you were a top sports professional, film or music star. You simply cannot expect to start your business on the Monday and retire on the Friday.

If you want to be successful then you better be prepared to take the knocks and put downs. Get in the right mindset and focus on your goals and dreams. Your future is in your hands and your hands alone. You have the power to change everything around if you so wish.

I will leave you with this quote and something to think about.

” Never hesitate to get into a new challenge everyday. Once you have the chance in doing so, take it over and beat it; otherwise, you will never break the ice!!! Remember success is a fight between YOU & YOURSELF & surely you will get through.” Shatha Zahran

Tristram Lodge

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How can you, someone who has been involved with network marketing for a few months add any sort of value to your prospects?

Well as it happens you can offer quite a lot. Stay with me on this one and I will tell you how you can help others with their business while building yours at the same time. You have heard people talking about adding value, leading with a solution not a business opportunity.

You may have been fortunate enough to have read Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring. (If you haven’t yet I would strongly suggest you do!) So how can someone who has only been in network marketing possibly add any sort of value to anyone else in the industry?

To start with you can share your experience in MLM up until now, the things you have done that work and that don’t work. People love a story so tell your story, the ups and down’s, the good and bad. Tell people why you got started and your background, this can be great to build some common ground.

Something you can do is find articles, videos or training’s that have caught your eye and you have found helpful and share them with your contacts. You can do this through social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and  Linkedin. You can find a ton of great content on  Better Networker.

A tool that I have been using for a few weeks now is called AutoTweetX, it pulls content from any website you like with the key words you have picked. You can then check out the content, if it is relevant to your market you can add a bit.ly link and post it to twitter.

If you have used twitter you will have seen the 1000s of ads on there, so by posting this type of non promotional content you will get a good following and build strong relationships. It’s also great for finding great content.

If you do this DO NOT copy and paste the work and present it as your own. This is not ethical and you will get found out as a fraud and someone who is not to be trusted. Simply copy the web address from your web browser and that will take people direct to the article.

What else can you do, well I would suggest that you sign up to as many newsletters as you can. Some will just try and sell you anything and everything so just hit the unsubscribe button. However most will pass on good quality information that you can share with other networkers. They will give you information about useful websites and tools to help you grow your business.

Pass this information onto others and you will soon build a great reputation as a leader and not like most network marketers who are out there selling products and have no interest in actually helping anyone.

At some point you are going to have to start producing your own content. Check out how the leaders write and the subjects they write about. Also get some Copywrite training, this is a skill you will need.

As your list grows, keep sending out quality information at least once a week, twice is better. Have some of your content and some of other peoples. Remember if you are using someone else’s content send your list to that person website or content on the web.

Trust me in the long run it better for your and for them, and they will appreciate you spreading there content around. Its good practice to get into as your content could be passed onto in much the same way. Imagine having your content blasted around the internet, how much would that explode your business and your brand name.

Enjoy sharing the great content that is out there, your prospects will appreciate it and you will grow as a leader and business owner.

Tristram Lodge

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There are lots of people these days looking to start there own home based business due to the state of the economy, lots of redundancy’s, house prices in free fall etc. There are 100s of different opportunities out there for you to do. But which is the one you should choose. I wanted to write this not to get you in to my opportunity, that’s not what this about, but to give you an insight in to what you should be looking for.

Here are some guidelines that you should be sticking to when looking into one of these opportunities. They are in order of importance and you may or may not agree with them but here is what you need to look for.

1)  The first thing and the most important thing you need to look at is YOU. That’s right you are the single most important factor in the whole business. You are the one who has to the work. Far too many people come into these businesses with the attitude that they are doing the person that introduced them to it a favour by signing up. Let me tell you, you need me more than I need you since you’re the one who needs to make more money or what ever your reason. Also are you prepared to learn new things, do things that you’re not combatable doing, take knock backs and disappointment. Are you prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve your goals, if the answer is ‘no’ then stop reading now and find something better to do with your time.

2)  The second thing you need to look at is why you want to do this business is the support that you are going get from your upline (the person who sponsors you). How is your upline going to help and support you, do they have a system in place that will help make your business successful. If they don’t have a system how do you think your business venture will end. Ask them out right how they develop leads and how they pay for those leads. Good tip here you should never pay for leads. Also Google there name and see what they are up to online, see what kind of person they are, you will be surprised.

3)  The third thing is the training that the company provides. Do they have local and national training, website training, who are the leaders who give the training? Will you be trained about the products and how to build a business. Will your upline show you how to use the internet to bring in business. What resources do they use and do they have a system that you can duplicate.

4)  Find out about the marketing plan and how you will make money. Can your upline train you so that you will be able to stand on your own two feet and make an income.

5)  Next we come to the products, you don’t need to try the products to see if you like them unless you plan on being your only customer. You don’t have to be excited about them or like them, do you think that a man who sells women’s shoes tries the product first, or someone who sells nuts and bolts gets excited about it. The products are there to help solve a problem that’s it. The best thing to do is get your family and friend’s opinion of them by letting them use them and you will get a much better overview of the products. All you really need to know about the products is what are they and can you use them.

6)  Find out about the sales kit. Yes this will cost you some money, there is no such thing as a FREE lunch, get over it. This is an investment in your future, most people will pay into a pension that is more than likely not worth the paper it is written on and not bat an eye lid. Ask what is in the pack and can you use the products.

7)  And finally we come to the company. If your potential upline has a great system in place, a complete training    system, a way to generate 1000s of endless leads and customers, a method to put money in your pocket and is someone who can teach you to become a success then it does not matter about the company. You know what the products are and that they are a successful company then that’s all you need to get started.

These are only my guidelines you need to do what you think is best for you. Enjoy working your new business and enjoy meeting the great people you will meet in the industry. Thank you for reading.

Tristram Lodge.