As I was doing a little research the other night, I came across a website by Daren Falter whom wrote a book called How to Select a Network Marketing Company.  No hype, just facts.  He wrote the book so you could do your due diligence and choose a winning company based on his seven criteria.  There are many companies out there, but by using his criteria you are sure to pick a winner.  By the end of 1995, Daren had compiled a list of over 200 top home-based business programs. Using his list of seven key criteria, he started scrutinizing and eliminating companies from his consideration.

When I started my search 10 years ago to get out of the rat race I had no idea what exactly I was looking for.  I just new there was a better way to live.  To make a long story short, I did a little research and found that network marketing was the way to go.  After deciding to move into this industry, I now had to choose which company or mini-franchise I wanted to work with.  I came across many different companies that wouldn’t have come close to meeting Daren’s criteria.  The fact is, I didn’t do my due diligence as Daren explains in his book.  I believe I contacted about seven different associates in different companies through newspaper ads, but there was one that stood out above the others.  Maybe it was just luck, but I’ve been in network marketing for 10 years now and have been with the same company the whole time.  That’s right, all 10 years.  This may be a little shocking to you if you have been in the industry for some time because it doesn’t happen too often.  I’ll have to share my story with you sometime because I think you will get a kick out of it.  Something happened in my search and I almost quit before I even got started, but my intuition kicked in and I knew I made the right decision.  As I was listening to Daren’s seven criteria, my choice in company has met ALL seven.

After reading this, you may be a little curious to see how your business compares to other business vehicles out there and see how many of the criteria yours fits into?  You are on the right track and I think that’s a great idea.  You may be a bit surprised. If you learn how to objectively evaluate each company, you’ll be much more effective in recruiting intelligent leaders into the company you ultimately choose. You can add How to Select a Network Marketing Company as a tool to understand how your company compares to the rest of the marketplace.  Keep in mind that his book was prepared to help you select the BEST network marketing companies, not to help you rationalize your way into a company and product that you think is great. To make the correct choices in business, you must push away your emotions and your impressions and focus on the facts. You must learn how to find and verify truth on your own so you don’t have to rely on someone else’s propaganda.

Learn to choose well, so you can help others to choose well.

And guess what?  How do you think Daren learned how to get his network marketing business started on the internet?  Well, one of his top resources and also my number one resource is none other than Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring along with his other great programs.  Here’s what Daren had to say about Mike Dillard and his programs.

“Mike Dillard is such an innovative and powerful internet-based network marketer, that I had to feature an entire page on my BLOG for people to discover all of his programs. We don’t work the same MLM programs, but we use all the same online strategies. Mike is a master of teaching Online MLM.”

Not only has Daren tapped into Mike’s marketing system, but thousands of other network marketers are learning these new methods of marketing and are realizing that this is how the big dogs in the industry are doing it.  So here’s your chance to be trained by Mike Dillard himself.  He is giving you instant access to his 7 Free Videos to learn how to attract new prospects to YOU and be the hunted and not the hunter. 

Below is Daren’s website where you can pick up a copy of How to Select a Network Marketing Company.  Plus, he is giving away three *FREE* gifts worth over $200 to the first 300 visitors, so I would get there fast.

Click here for Daren’s website

Click here for Mike Dillard’s 7 Free Videos

To your success,

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I was looking through my emails the other day and came across this one.  Maybe it will give you a little inspiration as it did me.  Whenever you get a third party to validate the business your in, although your friends and family tell you it won’t work, it can light a fire inside you.  That fire of desire you had when you first realized that this could work and you were going to make it work no matter what it took.  Robert Kiyosaki is just one of many best selling authors that agree that network marketing is here to stay and will only get bigger.

Why The Network Marketing Business Will Continue To Grow

By Robert T. Kiyosaki

For network marketers, the future looks very bright indeed, because there are economic trends already in process that will drive more and more people to participate in this business in the years ahead.

People Want More Freedom

Gone are the days when a person takes a job at age 25 and stays there for life, doing as he’s told to keep that job secure. Today, people want to be more mobile and have more choices. They want the freedom to live their lives on their own terms.

A part-time network marketing business offers people more control over their lives; ultimately, it provides more freedom. It provides a low-cost-of-entry, ready-made system for those anxious to make a change.

People Want to Be Rich

During my parents’ generation, the rules said, “If you work hard, the older you get, the more you’ll be paid, earning ever more money (within tightly proscribed limits) through incremental pay raises.” As you approached the end of your life, however, those rules reversed: when you retired you expected your income to go down. In other words, the assumption for my parents and their contemporaries was that one would work hard all one’s life–and retire poor.

No more. Today we have 25-year-olds who’ve never held down a job in their lives, yet have become billionaires by building a software company. At the same time, we have 50-year-olds looking for jobs, hoping to get back to a place where they can earn $50,000 a year. What’s worse, these same 50-year-olds have little or nothing to set aside for retirement; indeed, they may never be able to retire. These 50-year-olds don’t need jobs; they need the opportunity to get rich enough to provide a sustainable level of income for the rest of their lives.

That opportunity is exactly what network marketing provides. Network marketing companies offer this possibility by providing the necessary education, mentoring and business systems to assist these 50-year-olds build their own B quadrant [business-owner] businesses.

By the year 2010 (not that far away!) the first of 75 million Baby Boomers in America will reach the age of 65. Many will come to network marketing as a means of building that lifetime of security which their jobs did not provide.

Indeed, beyond meeting the basic needs of minimum-level financial security, a person who successfully builds a network marketing business may potentially join the ranks of the world’s ultra-rich, becoming far more wealthy than highly-educated and hard-working professional people, such as doctors, lawyers and engineers. They may even become wealthier than many sports stars, movie stars and rock stars.

If you are already an established network marketer, what does this mean for you? This is the best news of all: as the year 2010 approaches, many people who are already network marketers will do exceptionally well as millions of Baby Boomers come their way.

Individual Retirement Portfolios Will Be Wiped Out

Never in the history of the world have so many people bet their retirement years on the stock market. This is a recipe for financial disaster.

During my parents’ generation, retirees counted on the companies they worked for and the federal government to provide the income stream to support their retirement years. They didn’t have to worry about managing their retirement portfolio: the companies they worked for did that for them.

Today, more often than not, when you retire you’re on your own. Millions of Americans have 401k’s or similar retirement accounts–and that’s all they have. If your 401k runs out of money when you reach, say, age 78, you won’t be able to go back to your former employee and ask for help. There’ll be nowhere to turn.

There’s also a strong possibility that the US stock market will collapse by the year 2010–if not sooner. If this happens, many 401k retirement plans will collapse along with it, which will mean that millions of people will never be able to retire–or at best, they won’t have the pleasant retirements of which they had so fondly dreamed. Suddenly a person with $2 million in mutual funds in his retirement account may find that portfolio cut in half. On top of that, he may be stuck with a capital gains tax that could bankrupt the remaining value of the retirement portfolio. That’s the risk of betting your retirement years on paper.

The number of people who have bet their lives on the stock market is at an all-time high: if there is a crash, millions of people will be seeking other sources for financial security–such as building the kind of B quadrant business that network marketing can provide.

The Rules Have Changed

In 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down and the World Wide Web went up, the rules of the world changed forever. According to many economic historians, that’s when the Industrial Age ended, and the Information Age began.

In the Industrial Age, the rules were that if you worked hard, your company and the government would take care of you. In the Information Age, the rules are different: the new rules say, you had better be planning to take care of yourself. How? Starting now, by investing in your own network marketing business.

This passage is excerpted with permission from

The Business School for People Who Like Helping People, by Robert T. Kiyosaki, with Sharon Lechter, authors of Rich Dad Poor Dad.

To your success,

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Mike Dillard, along with Mark Wieser, has just come out with his first public release of Black Belt Recruiting where he will show you how to recruit like the professionals do.  So, now I ask, how would your business look today if over the last 5 months you personally recruited 15 to 20 new associates?  Well, Mike will show you exactly how to sponsor 20 reps a month with ANY company and he is giving you a sneak peak with a 60 minute top secret recruiting video for FREE.

I do want to say one thing though and please understand, the purpose of my blog is not to just promote a bunch of products to you, but to provide you with valuable information and resources  in the network marketing industry that will help you move your business forward because I want to see you succeed.  I feel that ALL of Mike’s courses and books contain a massive amount of value for a small price and Black Belt Recruiting is just another course to add to your arsenal of resources that will help you take the next step and increase your skill level.  So, instead of you going out there and trying to research what works and what doesn’t and wondering if you’re getting your money’s worth, you can come here to find out what the top dogs are using in the industry.  I have done a lot of research and taken the time to find out exactly how these guys are successful and become six-figure income earners.

Below are just some highlights that Mike will teach you in his Black Belt Recruiting course:

- How six and seven figure network marketers close prospects on the phone

without doing any “selling.” (In fact, with Mark’s methods, the LESS you

sell, the MORE people you sponsor!)

- A sneaky way to get your competition to help you sponsor people into your

business…without them even knowing it.

- How to sponsor people who have already decided NOT to join your business!

- My “wrong number” secret that lets you sponsor FAR more prospects than

you are now… and with a LOT less effort.

- Four words that will destroy your chances of sponsoring new reps — even

the ones who already want to sign up!  (When I stopped saying these four

words —that 99% of networkers say during calls — my

sponsoring rate shot through the roof.)

- How to instantly “de-fang” loud and obnoxious prospects— and actually

have them apologizing and pleading with you to show them the plan.  (This

secret works even if they were dead set against networking before!)

- Startling facts you MUST know about sales people before you talk to them

about your business.  (Sales pros can be your best reps — but there’s a

“trick” to talking to them if you want to sponsor them into your business.)

- How to “position” yourself as a network marketing expert before you even

sponsor your first distributor!

- Why the best time to talk to a lead is AFTER they’ve talked to other

network marketers!  (If you do things “Mark’s way”, you will never again

worry if other networkers talk to your leads — in fact, you’ll

actually prefer they do.)

- A brand new breakthrough (recently discovered by social scientists) that

makes even total “newbies” irresistibly attractive to almost any prospect.

(This incredible little secret is how some new distributors are able

to sponsor dozens of people right off the bat.  Here’s how they do it.)

- How to get your prospects to ask YOU to make their decision to join your

team FOR them.  (This advanced recruiting technique makes sponsoring as easy

as taking candy from a baby.  And you will probably never hear about this

anywhere else.)

- In Black Belt Recruiting we’ll show you how to give yourself this

“success aura” that instantly attracts new prospects to you and your

business — even if you’re shy, introverted, or have the personality of a

toad now.

- Why you should almost never sponsor people who say they are “interested”

in your opportunity.  (I admit it — this was W-E-I-R-D when I first heard

it, too.  But believe it or not, when you stop sponsoring interested people,

you will automatically see your sponsoring rates skyrocket.)

- How hanging up on a prospect can dramatically increase your chances of

sponsoring him!  (This technique works so well it’s almost spooky.  Just be

careful:  You need to know how and when to hang up, and you can only do this

with certain prospects.)

- How to talk to people you are sitting next to on a plane about your

business without scaring them away.  (And one simple “counter

intuitive” thing you can do to get them almost begging you to show them the

plan!)

- A secret way to almost guarantee your prospects don’t blow off your

meetings and appointments.  (This will virtually eliminate no-shows and late

comers forever.)

- How to mentally “turn the tables” on your prospects so they

sell themselves on YOU… instead of you selling to them!  (This

amazing secret is used by every 7-figure networker on the planet.  Here’s how

to use it in YOUR business — no matter how experienced you are now.)

- How to get the best and brightest prospects seeking YOU out — without

spending any money on advertising.  (Just use this technique Mark teaches

and you’ll have people coming out of the woodwork asking about your

business.)

Amazing isn’t it?  And remember, these are just some highlights that Black Belt Recruiting has to offer.  There’s a ton more inside.

Below is your link to your FREE 60 minute top secret recruiting video.  I hope you enjoy it and after watching it, please leave comments on what you think of it.

To your success,

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Are you tired and frustrated of buying dead end leads?  Well, I was too and being in the network marketing industry for ten years, I have bought my share of leads ranging in price.  It seems that after you have made your names list, as we all did, with little or no results, buying leads and cold calling seems to be the place people go to keep their business going.  In your spare time in the evening you start making the calls and the phone seems to weigh a ton.  It gets harder and harder to pick it up because the fear of rejection.  This may sound familiar.  Numbers that have been disconnected, a teenager just playing around on their family computer responded to the survey, people who have no idea what your talking about, people who hang up on you before you can even talk with them, they don’t remember filling out the survey and the infamous answering machine in which you leave a message time after time with no return calls.  You get frustrated and either quit or buy more leads thinking you got a bad batch and the process starts over.

So, I finally had enough just like you may have and said to myself, why can’t I create my own leads that WANT to listen to me.  When you buy leads, each lead is sold to three to four other individuals in different companies.  So, not only are you calling them, they are calling them.  I have had my share of people telling me to take their name off my list because they keep getting phone calls and they are not interested.  Now, for a heavy price tag, you can buy leads that are sold just to you, but again you are going to pay big money for these and you may get the same results.  The lead company has a generic home-based business capture page where an individual can fill out a survey about how to get started.  As you may already know, most of the people you contact have no interest in starting a home-based business.  I actually had a lady tell me that the survey she filled out said if she filled it out she would get a free box of pampers, so she filled it out.  She had no interest what’s-so-ever on starting a business, but I paid money for that lead.  I thanked her for her time, got off the phone and just had to laugh.  Talk about frustrating.  So I thought why can’t I create a lead capture page like these companies do or start a blog with an autoresponder and start building a list of my own people who are interested in listening to me.  So I started researching internet and attraction marketing and came across a ton of websites talking about how to get started.  After a lot of reading and research, I came across some individuals that made perfect sense to me.  So I studied them and got started.  You can check out what I got started with by looking at my Marketing Resources page above or just by clicking here.

My recommendation for beginners is starting a blog with an autoresponder.  The beauty of using the autoresponder is that you can communicate with thousands of people with one email or newsletter and it works 24-7 once you set it up.  There are several blogs and autoresponders to choose from, but I use Blog i360 for my blog host and Aweber for my autoresponder.  I use them because you don’t have to have all the techie skills required to set these up.  It will take some time to get it all up and running, but will not require you to take all the time and money to learn how to set a website up.  Now you ask, but I’m not a writer.  I thought that myself, but if you are writing about your passion and interests, it will just start flowing from your fingertips.  Who knows, you might surprise yourselfJ.   I do suggest reading about copywriting and how to write effectively.  The key here again is TAKE ACTION and get started.  You will learn from your own mistakes and will only make you better.  Learn as you go and take small steps.

P.S.  If you have questions at any time, feel free to email me at tlargent@myresidualbiz.net.

To your success,

Largent

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