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My suggestion is,

First to consider which market do you want to enter.

There are some good companies which offer opportunities
online and offline.

Do you want to go offline or online?

To get a reasonable picture whats out there, go to Entrepreneur.com.

Good luck.

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Well, just use simple logic (a word most MLMers hate).

If you are not going to sell to the cold market, then you are limited to the warm market, everyone you already know. If you see a product that you think you can make a living by selling to only people you know then you can do it without cold sales of some form. Do the math. Find the commission percentage you will earn, divide that into the income you want, and voilà, you have the total volume of net sales volume you need to accomplish that income. Now just add anticipated expenses and you know exactly what you need to sell. Avoid doing this and you are kidding yourself.

Example – you are selling widgets for $50 each, want to make $10,000/month income, and anticipate $3000/month expenses and earn 40% commission.

Net Sales Volume = $10,000 / 40% = $25,000
Gross Sales Volume = $25,000 + $3,000 = $28,000

Thus, if you want that income, you need to sell $28k worth of widgets, or ($28,000 / $50 ) 560 widgets per month.

If you can do that in your warm market, then go for it.

That is how you assess simple sales targets. Now, you should also know that MLM being set up to be direct selling is a thing of the past. No MLMer EVER likes to talk about personal sales targets that amount to anything but mere minimums.

The very definition of MLM has multiple levels in it. Thus, the focus is far greater on finding layers of sales people in the dream of making it rich by having lots of people under you selling as oppose to actually selling yourself.

You can bet no one who would spam yahoo answers looking for recruits into their business has enough sales ability to sell enough personal volume to make a living. No respectable salesperson would ever need to resort to this cheap style of sales. The bulk of them come off as spin doctors and snake charmers trying to fish out everyone and anyone who just might join up after visiting some ridiculous website.

If you are serious about sales would you want to align yourselves with people who need to spam yahoo answers? Of course not. There are countless respectable sales positions out there and near infinite type of products to sell. You can write your own ticket if you are any good, and you can always learn to become good.

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I think one of the best would be in the telecommunications industry. It’s a bit different then MLM. It’s primarily network marketing. There is an MLM side to it, if you choose that route. There is many different results depending on the person and how much “real” effort they put into their business. I know a lot of people in this industry that do very well. I also know some who didn’t, primarily because they didn’t follow through with what they were supposed to, so they didn’t succeed in something so simple to do. This industry us also a major funding resource for SOFTIN, MADD, systic fubroses as well as many other non profit organizations. You can have it on line as well as off line. What you make, would depend on what you put into it, as with any business MLM, networking or not. You really need to hook up with someone who’s been in the industry for several years and knows all the ins and outs to have it be a success. Follow someone’s guide who knows what they’re doing.
I know someone who can give you the information on this particular industry, if you chose to do it, she can help you out.
Her name is Tiffany, she’s a mother of four and a co founder for a non profit organization. Her and her husband are very successful business people in this industry. She’d be happy to help you out. I suggest you look into something where there is both sides of it. Not just one. Broaden the opportunity.
She also created a blog on her yahoo page on Home based Business opportunities for on line and offline businesses. There are several different ones in different industries to take a look at and see which ones you think you’d be interested in. Also a lot of information that you should read about on home based businesses, blogs, reports, scams and the BBB, network marketing as well as MLM’s. It’s not too long, just some issues that people need to know in regards to businesses. Some things are eye openers. I think people should educate themselves on this. So many people are misinformed.

Http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-eqfAfFMlc…

If you have any questions regarding this question your asking, you should contact her at kaiden4@aol.com . She has a background from Corporate America as well as has had her own business for several years. She can give you a lot of insight on various different things.

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Talking to everyone you know. Let them know that you started your own business. Also, it should be consumable products you are selling. Your up-line should have all the answer for you. If you don’t have one or they are not helping you then you are with the wrong company. Best of luck!

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Among many companies offering affiliate programs and credit card payment facilities, http://www.ClickBank.com is still a strong choice among merchants and internet marketers.

When you decide to become an affiliate to earn commission dollars on http://www.ClickBank.com, browse to see what products are hot with this official ClickBank tool http://cbengine.com/. Choose product similar to your business or field of your interests so it will be easier for you to market. To get started you just have to complete a simple online registration form. Then you are on your way. For affiliate products you will get a code and link.

So my suggestion is http://www.ClickBank.com

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Basically, network marketing is a kind of multi level marketing whereas network marketing, is done through commission based sales, there are not a lot of levels involved (unlike the MLM of network marketing). Both have their own pros and cons. You could check out the sources i used to find out more information.

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Here is the definition of Affiliate marketing and network marketing per wikipedia:

Affiliate Marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliates marketing efforts. Examples include rewards sites, where users are rewarded with cash or gifts, for the completion of an offer, and the referral of others to the site. The industry has four core players: the merchant (also known as ‘retailer’ or ‘brand’), the network, the publisher (also known as ‘the affiliate’), and the customer. The market has grown in complexity to warrant a secondary tier of players, including affiliate management agencies, super-affiliates and specialized third parties vendors.

Network Marketing, (also called Multi-level marketing (MLM) , direct selling, and referral marketing,) is a term that describes a marketing structure used by some companies as part of their overall marketing strategy. The structure is designed to create a marketing and sales force by compensating promoters of company products not only for sales they personally generate, but also for the sales of other promoters they introduce to the company, creating a down line of distributors and a hierarchy of multiple levels of compensation.

The products and company are usually marketed directly to consumers and potential business partners by means of relationship referrals and word of mouth marketing.

MLM companies have been a frequent subject of controversy as well as the target of lawsuits. Criticism has focused on their similarity to illegal pyramid schemes, price-fixing of products, high initial start-up costs, emphasis on recruitment of lower-tiered salespeople over actual sales, encouraging if not requiring salespeople to purchase and use the company’s products, potential exploitation of personal relationships which are used as new sales and recruiting targets, complex and sometimes exaggerated compensation schemes, and cult-like techniques which some groups use to enhance their members’ enthusiasm and devotion. Not all MLM companies operate the same way, and MLM groups have persistently denied that their techniques are anything but legitimate business practices.

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There are many people in the world, whether they frequent the internet or not, that make the mistake of saying that affiliate marketing and MLM or multi level marketing, are one and the same. They are, in actual fact, totally different, and here is a brief reason why.

Firstly, MLM marketing has been around for a lot longer than most people think. This type of marketing can be done offline, and many people still do today when selling baby products for someone else. This is what a multilevel marketer does. They become associated with a certain product that they like or believe in, which they then buy from their supplier and resell to the public at a profit. As you can see, MLM is simply having a small franchise of a large business.

The reason that it is called MULTI level marketing is because if you are a marketer, you can then start your own chain of marketers. This is called a down line. What would happen is that you buy your products from your supplier at a discounted price and sell them at market value, but if you have a friend that also wants to start this business he or she can buy their batch of products directly from you, instead of going to your supplier. In this way you can make more money, because you will sell them to him or her at a slightly higher rate in order to make a profit.

This can continue, but what most people do not realize is that the further down the line you go, the less money you make. This type of marketing technique can be difficult to sustain for a long period of time.

Affiliate marketing is totally different. You are not selling any products directly. You are simply the mouthpiece, or the advertising board that tells people where to go and buy products. You will not have to purchase anything, but you will still make money just for telling people where to go to get a product. Affiliates get a commission when the person that they refer to a website buys something, so in this way the company is paying for a good lead and they will pay generously.

Another difference between affiliates and MLM’s is that all affiliates get paid the same amount of commission. Instead of people joining on the bottom of a line, they join into an adjacent line. You can find that affiliates will get paid an extra amount if they refer more affiliates, but this will be a once off commission and they will not have any further dealings with the affiliate. Sometimes companies will reward affiliates who get other affiliates by paying a small commission when their affiliate generates a sale. This amount however, is totally separate to the new affiliate’s amount. They will still get paid as much as older affiliates.

If you think about it this way; the MLM style of marketing is direct sales for a product, whereas affiliate marketing is an advertisement telling people where to buy a product.

admin answers:

These people already have huge mailing lists so whatever program they jumped into, people will follow right away. If I were you I would work on establishing yourself as an expert and building your own list. Then you can build a huge downline in no time.

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The one thing you’re not taking into account is the marketing system. I know if I had to do things the old way like many MLM’s do, doing door to door sales, in home demo parties, cold calls, carrying inventory,etc etc I would not thrive. Gas prices are too high, packaging changes and then my inventory is not worth as much, people hate door to door salesmen and telephone solicitors….no thanks. If you have a great marketing system, you have a great chance at success.

The second thing, equally important, is the training and “on going support”. Most provide training but not many provide ongoing support! There’s nothing worse than being trained and then thrown to the wolves.

Lastly, if you don’t have a great “team” that helps each other instead of trying to cut each others throat, you’re doomed for the 3rd time over.

All of these thing are only some of the major reasons why people fail at MLM’s. There’s lots more but I know more about what makes a goo MLM work and that’s in my profile if you’re interested.

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I am sorry that you were lead wrong. It surely is not effective. I commend you for not wanting to hassle friends and family. Should they CHOOSE to support you, it will come naturally. There are many more ways to target more effectively then running around your town or out of town for that matter. You have to know who your target market is (this is likely different then what your upline tells you). Then you have to learn how to position yourself and your efforts in front of those seeking what you have to offer. Should your future take you and your business traveling, great! It should be done in a way that people seek you visiting them at their request. I would be delighted to share non-traditional business building techniques.

Best Regards!

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Hi,

Freakanomics is right – network marketing is a hoax. Get the book:. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover) by Steven D. Levitt

Check out this book at your local library.How to Take Advantage of the People Who Are Trying to Take Advantage of You: 50 Ways to Capitalize on the System (Paperback)
by Joseph SB Morse

Be informed. Practice due diligence.

You will hear a lot of arguments that make network marketing sound like the Holy Grail of home based “businesses”. Like comparing apples to computer chips. You will always hear some pretty convincing arguments that it is legitimate – every one is a con and illustrates how creative con artists are. The are very CON-vincing.

Here are the 10 biggest lies of network marketing (http://www.mlmwatch.org/01General/10lies.html); read the truth and steer clear of this world-wide hoax.

MLM is the biggest scam in the world and it is going global with companies like Tiens.

They will tell you that all you need is fresh leads from a good mailing list and people will sign up faster than a NASCAR race car.

Are you kidding me? Fresh MLM leads! Don’t fall for that.

Get real.

Remember, There’s a sucker born every minute…and two to take ‘em. Burn that into your brain.

If their leads are so good, where is their money-back guarantee? Leadbakery is just one example of a list seller and they are even worse than the MLM companies.

Listen! There has never been a successful course or book on MLM success – all boil down to this:

talk to lots of people with questions like “If I could show you a way to make lots of money quick, would you be interested?”.

That’s the first warning sign that something is rotten in Denmark.

Yes, some will sign up, but unless you are a “heavy hitter” and use illegal methods to trap people into becoming distributors, honest people cannot succeed at this.

Do you know why these courses never work? None of them work because the concept is a con – it’s the confidence man’s dream, jam packed with hype and hyposcrisy.

The only people that will be making money are the list brokers selling the mailing list – and the course writers and seminar creators. If it was such a good deal, why wouldn’t they join a MLM company? The mailing list would be free to them. You don’t see them giving up a lucrative mailing list business to get into something that doesn’t work. They are smart. They get it. And expensive training courses – what a joke. They offer courses that will never work for the gullible and naive – the GRQ crowd.

And I always wondered why none of the people who worked the administrative side of the “business” were not distributors if it was such a great deal. They knew a job was better than the smoke and mirrors, pie in the sky hype used to sell MLM.

MLM is the world’s biggest scam. I have tried it a couple of times, the last being Herbalife. It has now moved into the Internet to trap people into believing that they can Get Rich Quick. It is going global.

The only way to make big money is to sell distributorships for thousands of dollars.

If you do the math, and you are able to sign up lots of people, which is doubtful, you soon run out of people. You get 2, then those 2 get 2, etc. It the old binary progression. Do it 10 times and you are in the thousands. With every progression, the number doubles. 2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024, 2024,4048,9096. The problem is those people in the beginning of the progression opt-out and gobble up the progression faster than Pac-Man. This is known as the “Drop Out Rate”.

So what happens when thousands of people are doing this and with the internet it could be millions. You soon run out of people to talk to.

Think about it.

In fact, finally, the numbers will exceed the entire world’s population. It is a total dream world, completely out of touch with reality. It always looks good on paper, but none of the “heavy hitters” want to talk about drop-out rates.

Hey! What looks good in a spreadsheet, doesn’t translate to reality.

The fact is that only the people who set up the program make money. The next level is all those scam artists that sell and give seminars on how to succeed in MLM. None of the schemes work because the concept is fatally flawed.

Why would anyone with a brain pay $30 for an herbal shampoo that they can buy at the local supermarket for $1. The same with pomegranate juice and Noni joice and all the other miracle juices, algae, and other strange things, even flower pollen.

Are you kidding me?

Get real.

Next, you will read all the anecdotal claims that the product will cure cancer and all sorts of other maladies. This is just another form of fraud. Where are the scientific double and triple blind studies? There ain’t any.

Listen! Ask about the drop-out rate. Yes, the drop out rate.

Over 98% of the people who sign up will drop out after a few months or less. So even if you sign up a few people, they will be gone in months, if not weeks, when they find out how many people they have to talk to for just one distributor.

And your friends will not like you badgering them to join and will avoid you at all costs.

And most of the people who sign up are down-and-out desperate, who can ill afford to waste their money and who may be liable to criminal prosecution for promoting unregistered securities. And that’s just in the USA. Foreign companies like Tiens leave you no recourse to any real legal remedies or enforcement.

Most of these programs die eventually leaving the suckers who signed up holding the bag. I had them die on me and not knowing any better, signed up for the latest MLM scam. After several attempts, I finally came to realize that it was all just a scam – some people became almost like religious zealots when they talked about their program that was going to make everyone rich and quick too. I lost a good friend when he believed my wild claims, put down $3,000 and lost it all.

The “industry” is full of disingenuous people whose mantra is “Fake it ’til you make it”. Doesn’t work. More fraud.

Here is a trick your upline will employ to get reluctant prospects to sign up. They will tell Ms. Reluctant that they will put some people under her and they take Mr. Hopeful who has already become a distributor and paid the fee and stick him under Ms. Reluctant which forces Ms. Reluctant to either buy in or lose the distributor. This is what happened to me in Herbalife. I was Mr. Hopeful. I thought I was signing up under a successful guy at the top known as a “heavy hitter”, but I soon found out I had been scammed. Without telling me, he put me under Ms. Reluctant to force Ms. Reluctant to become a distributor. I did not like my new sponsor and after spending thousands on mailings, I finally dropped out. This is known as “stacking” and is supposedly illegal but it happens all the time.

Listen! My upline in Herbalife made more money selling a sales pamphlet than they did working their MLM business. We mailed out thousands of these pamphlets that we bought from our sponsor for a dime and he probably had them printed for a penny or less.

Now, it’s all done on the Internet via e-mail. But instead of mailing booklets, you get a Web site and collect e-mail addresses. But a fraud is still a fraud no matter what the media is that promotes it.

This was right before the Internet became popular and I was buying mailing lists through mailing list brokers and mailing thousands of booklets with not much success. I was lucky if 1% of 1% signed up as distributors. And they dropped out faster than I could add new ones.. Pretty soon, you run out of quality people to mail to. The internet makes this even worse, but they have to be more careful, but the spam continues to explode.

Check out this Web site: http://www.vandruff.com/mlm_faq.html… – for more facts, not hype about MLM and what a world-wide fraud it is.

I will probably get lots of MLMers who will villify me for trashing MLM, but I’ve been there and done it and I know first hand what a fraudulent scam it is that can destroy your life, drain you wallet and ruin your friendships.

Kindest Personal Regards,

Walt Brown
Site Build It Certified Webmaster
capecod!@capecod-beaches.com/
wab@theworld.com

P.S. Remember, there are no get rich quick schemes that work. If there were, the entire world would be rich in an instant, or as they say, a New York minute. I used to be gullible and naive and fell for some of them – no more. Be a sceptic. Be a doubting Thomas. Why are there thousands of GRQ schemes, because they work! Thousands of Gullible people believe that there is such a thing as GRQ and con artists take advantage of that. Demand proof, not hype.

admin answers:

Well, there is a BIG catch. Most of them are scams.
I have, over the last six months, found a list of completely free sites, and im giving out this list FREE!
I have personally made money from these sites, so i know they arnt scams.

Http://get-free-cash.bravehost.com/

admin answers:

It’s mostly scams or a waste of time and effort.

No bussinness gives money for FREE, online survey websites don’t even make money to support themselves.

(“‘(o.o)/”‘)

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What you’ve heard is mostly junk. I would look for a real job where you work

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Yes you can make money with online surveys, however you will not make allot and this will take time.

I have been doing online surveys in my spare time for over 3 years and yes I have been paid.
The best part of doing the online surveys is you get to voice your opinion and test new products.

Understand a few things first that surveys take time and your compensation is not a huge amount.
You will get between 1 -3 $ for a survey that takes between 5 to 45 minutes to complete.

If you are serious and want to start out with online surveys then I say give it a try and sign up with as many companies as you can this will give you a better chance to qualify for more surveys. The more you qualify for the more money you will make.

I do not recommend you pay for a survey list many sites offer these list for free. The reason they offer them for free is they get an affiliate commission. Bottom line is they pay people to refer others to take the surveys. So us survey takers get paid both way by taking the survey and by referring other people to take online surveys.

Well I hope this helps in some way.

admin answers:

For a Network Marketing opportunity to work you need Affordable Products That Sell Well And Marketing Systems That Work !!

1. You need products that sell like Chocolates at Easter-Time, Toys at Christmas, Turkeys on Thanksgiving or Cold Drinks during a summer heat-wave.

2. The products must be AFFORDABLE to most people, EVERYBODY must be able to afford to buy them and the products MUST be consumable, so they generate REPEAT BUSINESS (this is SO important!)

3. You can’t be asking your prospects to pay anything up-front, like an associate joining or registration fee, or be made to buy some kind of “Business starter kit”. (That’s a No -No!)

4. The business system, support system and marketing plan must be SO SIMPLE and is MUST BE very EASY TO FOLLOW, so that even a complete novice should be able to generate healthy, on-going, weekly earnings within just a few short months

Here’s a great example: http://www.simplyseen.com

Try researching it in the Business Opportunity Search Engine

Your results from the community powered Business Opportunity Search Engine are much more focused than a general search engine and they will continue to learn and adapt, anonymously and automatically, based on the search behavior of every search you request.

Http://www.businessopportunitysearchengine.com

admin answers:

Depending on what company you are with, it may be a good idea to try and sell your product on eBay and capture the emails of all your customers. These will be highly targeted prospects that would make good distributors.

Another thing you need to do is get some kind of lead generation system or funded proposal system. This way you can make money even if no one joins your primary business by selling them information on the backend and building a list at the same time.

I recommend you check out this system: http://www.spider-web-system.com

This is a new and very effective business opportunity lead generation system that will help you find prospects for your primary business and build you income at the same time.

admin answers:

Forget everything you’ve ever been told about marketing your network marketing business. I personally wasted lots of time and money doing what my upline told me to do. I felt the same way you do and had some of the same questions until I discovered a system that works for me. Check out http://holcombe.the7greatliesofnetworkmarketing.com/. It really helped by business.

admin answers:

Hi,

What many network marketers are doing to find people for their team is online lead generation. You can’t rely on your company’s replicated website because everyone else in your company has one. What you need is a simple blog or website that talks about your company and what your doing to make money at your opportunity. Then you set up a “squeeze page” that will get people to put in their contact information and then you can call or email them about your opportunity.

Be sure to check your company’s policies and procedures to make sure you can build a website or blog using their name. If not, that’s okay because you can still create a website that makes people curious about your opportunity so that you can call them and let them know what it is.

I hope this isn’t too confusing. Here’s an article that explains in more detail what I am talking about: http://simple-internet-strategies.com/network-marketing-internet-business.html

Good luck with your new business!

Healthy Mom

admin answers:

Yes they are very real and their are some really good companies out their I am a mom of 4 and have been working from home for a while. Its possible to find companies without fees or upfront charges.

I looked for a very long time before I found the company I’m with today I will tell you that it is a lot of work and it takes committment.

This website contains a list of some companies that may be hiring, also also some general information on working at home and data entry etc.

Http://data-entry-howto.blogspot.com/

Take the time to find something you enjoy doing from home and something you believe in because you do not want your home to become a prison that you just do not want to work in.

Http://usa-work-from-home.blogspot.com/

http://my-data-entry.blogspot.com/

admin answers:

You can try freelance writing, bookkeeping, software, transcription or customer service work at home jobs. These companies do not require any fee and pay well . List of companies(with websites) offering genuine work at home jobs is available at http://www.pcworkathome.net . Many of these companies have been in business for several years

admin answers:

It just proves that half of the population is below average.

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Umm if u click a link on myspace and it leads to a site wanting you to sign up….DONN’t

admin answers:

Network marketing takes time. If you have no time, you won’t make much money. You need to dedicate two or three hours a day to your business.

Or pay someone else to do it.
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We offer
this products and are open for expancion

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You will need to fill out a schedule c. That is where you report the cost of goods sold, the income you made and how much product you have left. I would claim the income on my 1099 and anymore that you might have from this business. All a 1099 is what they(the co.) has pd you. They do not know what you spent or made elsewhere. You can look up instructions for a schedule c on IRS.gov. Type schedule c in the key words box.

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Hi there,

It’s very important to choose a company that is going to be there for you as a distributor. Is this your first network marketing company? I would like to help you and teach you how to find a reliable company that will be there for you for the long term. Give me a call at 281-738-3717 or e-mail me at mentorkristie@gmail.com