By John Pawlett

I thought I would clear up some misconceptions about marketing. What Marketing Can Do For You and What Marketing Can’t Do For You. We’ll start with the positive.

Over the years, I’ve had dealings with some business owners who have a rather skewed perception of marketing. They think you throw a few ads out there, get a couple of press releases printed and voila! You’re a big success.

Oh, if it only were that easy. (Although if it were, I probably wouldn’t have a job.)

But there’s no getting around that to have a successful business, you need a solid marketing plan.

So what CAN marketing do for you? Increase your business - no question about it. You need to be marketing if you want to grow your business.

However (and this is a really big however) marketing is NOT going to result in overnight success. Marketing is about slow growth, building on last week’s success and forgetting about last month’s failures. (Or what you THINK are failures. It’s not uncommon that a campaign you think is a dismal disappointment may be what caused the next campaign to take off.)

Marketing is about frequency — about your target market seeing your offer over and over again until they’re finally ready to buy. Without that very important frequency, your business will start to stagnate and eventually die.

Now that doesn’t mean you won’t have a major success with a campaign. Even a massive, amazing, unbelievable success. You’ll run one ad or be featured in an article and wham! You end up with more orders than you know what to do with. While that’s a great shot in the arm, it probably won’t last unless you keep building upon it. Eventually the orders will dry up and you’ll be back to where you were before.

Marketing is also about being consistent. This goes back to building on successes. Your customers need to see your message over and over again. This builds trust and credibility. Plus, your current customers will also respond to that frequency. Not only will they not ‘forget’ about you and go to your competitor, but it will help build their trust in you as well.

Lastly, marketing is about working hard. There’s no getting around it. To be successful means putting in the time and energy to continually market yourself. (You can also pay someone to help you with it, but basically it comes down to someone somewhere has to put in the time to continually market you.)

If you remember nothing else, remember this: If you don’t implement your marketing strategies, nothing is going to happen.

That last sentence seems obvious, but again, I’m amazed at how many people I run into who aren’t willing to do the work. They talk about it, but when it actually comes down to doing something, they somehow never seem to get around to it.

One way to overcome that is to plan on doing one task or a little marketing every day. Then it doesn’t seem quite so overwhelming. Me, I make a commitment to do X number of marketing tasks a week, regardless of how much time that takes.

Marketing is a commitment. There’s no getting around it. If you have a business, then you have no choice but to make a commitment to marketing on a consistent basis until the day comes when you decide you don’t want a business anymore.

Creativity Exercise — Make a Commitment
Since I’m interested in having all of you succeed, I want YOU to make a commitment right now to market your business on a regular basis.

Write this statement on a piece of paper, filling in your name in the proper place.

I, YOUR NAME, am making a commitment to market my business on a regular basis from now until I decide I don’t want to be in business any more.

Sign and date it.
I suggest posting it in a place where you can see it while you’re working. Or, if you really want to add some accountability to your commitment, tell someone about it. There’s nothing like announcing your intention to keeping you honest.

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By Craig Rad

MLM also focuses on recruiting people to earn you more money. When a MLM agent contacts a person, he views that person as a potential customer and as a potential future agent. An agent will try, at the same time, to sell you his merchandise and recruit you into a MLM company.

Considering that MLM can be applied to selling every good, and that every person is a potential future agent, one can say that everything has the potential to become a MLM opportunity. MLM is based on the concept of distributing the process of selling onto independent businesspersons.

Their main income comes from selling goods. They also have the right to recruit other persons to become MLM agents. The recruiter will benefit from this, as he receives revenue from the recruited person’s sales. Contact a MLM company, and join it. After gaining field experience, you can offer the MLM opportunity to others too.

Recruit, motivate, train and supply the persons you recruited and get your share of their sales profit. This way, your friends, your neighbors, everybody represents a MLM opportunity.

MLM opportunities are all around us, but only a few of them are turned into profitable businesses. Be sure to make the most out of every MLM opportunity. If you do not know how, there are many MLM guides online. Tips, tricks and the knowledge you need to start and grow a MLM company are available.

Many people associate the MLM technique with pyramidal schemes, in which the focus was on selling the right to recruit others. MLM was not intended to do that. Its main objective was to enlarge the area of distribution for different goods by involving many people into it. Each would earn their money through honest work, and receive an additional bonus for recruiting others.

After gaining experience in the field of door to door selling, everyone could easily recruit other people, and start a MLM home based business. He would then become the boss of a miniature MLM company , and instead of worry about selling goods, focus on supplying his recruits. The more recruits, the larger the network, and although managing large networks can be lucrative, it sure is a hard job.

Statistics say that most such companies fail because of elementary concept mistakes. Avoid them by consulting a MLM guide. Take advantage of every MLM opportunity, and recruit an army of independent businesspersons to work for you.

Expand your business over the Internet. It is easier and cheaper. Save time and avoid stress by doing all your managerial tasks from your computer. Recruiting can also be performed online. As can selling.

People are much more comfortable buying things from perfect strangers over the Internet, rather than buying them from total stranger at their doorstep. MLM is not meant to be a get-rich-quick scheme, and it is not meant as a cover for pyramidal schemes.

A MLM company needs work and dedication, but once you have it rolling, you will enjoy the benefits. Grab now a MLM opportunity and make your first step towards your MLM empire.

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