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Monday, July 18, 2005

I Signed Up My First MLM Recruit.... Now What Do I Do?

I Signed Up My First MLM Recruit.... Now What Do I Do?
by David Ledoux, Founder ILOVEMLM.com

My goodness, you look famished! Are you on one of those crazy diets or something? Come on in, let me microwave you some Pizza Pops...let's get some calories in you. Careful, they're hot!

You sit there and nibble. Let me tell you about the time I signed up my first guy. It was December 1994. I called my buddy Peter and said, "Hey, what's your visa number?".

Pete was silent for a minute. "Who is this?" he said, only half jokingly.

"It's me. You and I are getting involved again in multi-level. We're going to get rich. I'm serious."

That was it. Pretty much. I left out the part of him growling, grinding his teeth, grilling me on the comp plan, and the like. But since I was in, he was in.

I did a little dance. I call it the "I Got One!" dance. It's a little jig-like. You bounce on your left leg twice, then on your right leg twice, then spin around and pretend to spike the football in the end zone, all the while singing loudly, "I got one, I got one!".

So I got my buddy Pete in. Now what?

Here's a little quiz. Pretend you're me. What do you do?

a) Run an ad halfway across the country.

b) buy some dead genealogy lead lists half way across the country.

c) load 5000 emails into your Spaminator 3000.

d) help Peter make a list, help him call the list, and show presentations to his list.

Believe it or not, I picked D. Pete and I showed the plan to his buddy Eric. Eric got in. Eric and Peter showed the plan to his buddy Fabio. Fabio got in. Peter, Eric and I showed the plan to a lady named Christine. Christine got in. Eric and I showed the plan to Mario. Mario threw us out of his house. Then he got in later.

And so it went. Within a year Peter had 1000 people in his downline and a solid, passive residual income. It's now a decade later and Peter has over 25,000 people in his downline. It does over $10,000 a day in production. Not bad, eh?

I just signed a new kid named Josh. Josh is 28, hates his job, his wife hates her job, and they are expecting a baby in about 90 days. Let's take a quiz.

What should I do with Josh?

a) ignore him and hope he figures it out on his own.

b) go join a new mlm deal because mine is 14 years old.

c) load 50,000 emails into a Spaminator Mark II.

d) help Josh make a list, help him call the list, and show presentations to his list.

I picked D again. Josh and I showed the plan to Darnell. He got in. Josh and Darnell showed it to Duane. Duane is 6 foot 7. He got in. Now I have a bodyguard....want to bet the leg has 1000 people in it by this time next year?

Oh yeah...I taught Josh the dance too.

How were those Pizza Pops? Stuffed with yumminess? I thought so.

I appreciate you!

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David Ledoux has been involved in the network marketing industry for 15 years. He is an author, speaker and million dollar earner. To discover more jealously-guarded secrets of making $100,000.00 or more every year through MLM check out his new book, The Ultimate MLM Blueprint for Massive Success. The book and a FREE MLM Training ezine are available online at http://mlmlessons.com/blueprint

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Thursday, July 14, 2005

The Recipe For Retention - How To Keep Your Downline From Quitting

The Recipe For Retention - How To Keep Your Downline From Quitting
by David Ledoux, Founder ILOVEMLM.com

Here, try some carrot and parsley juice. It will detox your blood and keep you alkaline.

I know, I know. You miss the pizza pops. Me too. Chug on that and let me give you a couple of key ideas that can make a huge impact in your bonus check.

People quit. They quit jobs, schools, relationships, and yes, even businesses. Some organizations in network marketing experience more than a 100% per year turnover rate. That is horrendous, with more people quitting than joining every year.

And yet some downline teams keep better than half their members. They grow year after year, get thousands or tens of thousands of participants at their big events, and fortunes are made. What's the secret?

Let me give you 4 Key ideas that can make a measurable impact in how long your people stay.

1. Get them business cards. For some reason, downline with business cards stay an average of 90 days longer than people without business cards. I believe that it creates a stronger mental identity in the business, and will keep them struggling through the obstacles a little longer. If you really want to make an impact, get your downline Sizzle Cards from Growth Pro and get them to put out 1000 of them their first week and watch what happens!

2. Get them training. The biggest fear that a new distributor has is "who do I talk to, what do I say and what do I do if they say 'yes'?" Training helps create new mental images and new mental dialogues in the rookie distributor. This creates new belief systems like "yes, I can do this" which are critically essential to retention.

3. Get them to a big event. This is the magic secret. If I had more carrot juice I might be able to expand on this one. If you really want to know more about this kind of magic, become a member of our secret society at http://www.mlmlessons.com/bigmoneyfreetime

4. Get them a check. It doesn't have to be huge. A check keeps a new person in 6-8 months longer than if they didn't get one. It's proof. Proof changes belief systems. This is huge. How many of your personally sponsored people from last month made a check this month? If you aren't sponsoring new people every month, are you really in business?

If you want a new person to have every chance in the world to make it in network marketing, let them read this article. Then help them get business cards, schedule a training, get them booked for the next big company event, and then run with them for 30 days and get them a check. And then teach them to do this with everyone they enroll. And teach this at every turn to your entire team.

One of my first mentor's once told me, "A networker without business cards is really just a customer."

Profound words. How did you enjoy the carrot and parsley cocktail? Do you feel energized?

Come back next time, and I swear I'll cook something.

I appreciate you, good luck in your business!

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David Ledoux has been involved in the network marketing industry for 15 years. He is an author, speaker and million dollar earner. To discover more jealously-guarded secrets of making $100,000.00 or more every year through MLM check out his new book, The Ultimate MLM Blueprint for Massive Success. The book and a FREE MLM Training ezine are available online at http://mlmlessons.com/blueprint

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Thursday, July 07, 2005

How Can You Build A Huge MLM Downline In The Summer

How Can You Build A Huge MLM Downline In The Summer
by David Ledoux, Founder ILOVEMLM.com

Finally, you're here! I've been promising to cook for you for a while now. The tuna steaks are on the BBQ, the potatoes are roasting and it is fantastic! Here, pop a cold one, sit back, and let's talk about building huge downlines in the summer.

You've heard all the excuses, so I won't even bring them up here. But let me tell you a story.

A few years ago I was in major recruiting mode over the summer. I wanted to win a company cruise. I grabbed my day planner, my lead lists, my cordless phone, and sat out by the pool at the cottage for 4 or 5 hours a day making calls. Just one after the other, bang, bang, bang.

I mean, come on, it's not really work. I sat by the pool, the birds sang, I drank iced tea, and talked to people who wanted to make more money. If they were open to the idea, I'd invite them to listen to a prerecorded conference call and then we talked from there about the business.

I got serious on June 21st. I kept in major production mode for about 100 days, until Canadian Thanksgiving. Then we shut the cottage down for the season.

When I looked down at my logs in mid-October I was shocked. I had enrolled 103 new personals in 100 days. I smashed every record at the company, and won a free cruise. That effort duplicated from those 103 into 8000 people in more than a dozen countries 3 years later.

How did I do it? I sat by the pool; called lead lists 4 or 5 hours a day, drank iced tea, and just flat out worked hard. It was a great summer. I had plenty of time to swim, BBQ, visit with friends and family AND get work done.

Did I get some NO's? About 30 a day. But I had so many YES's, and so many prospects in the pipeline, and so much follow-up going on, that it didn't matter.

Yikes! The tuna steaks are done. Let me run out and put them on a plate. Grab yourself another cold drink and I'll be back in a minute.

Think about what kind of action you'd have to take to enroll 100 people frontline in 100 days and I'll be right back!

I appreciate you.

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David Ledoux has been involved in the network marketing industry for 15 years. He is an author, speaker and million dollar earner. To discover more jealously-guarded secrets of making $100,000.00 or more every year through MLM check out his new book, The Ultimate MLM Blueprint for Massive Success. The book and a FREE MLM Training ezine are available online at http://mlmlessons.com/blueprint

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Monday, July 18, 2005

I Signed Up My First MLM Recruit.... Now What Do I Do?

Thursday, July 14, 2005

The Recipe For Retention - How To Keep Your Downline From Quitting

Thursday, July 07, 2005

How Can You Build A Huge MLM Downline In The Summer

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