In network marketing too many people have the wrong approach to doing this business.

For most distributors the goal is to get before you give.

What do I mean by this?

Here's the typical recruiting process...

You share a marketing tool with your prospect that talks about your network marketing company products and compensation plan.

You promise to help them make money with this business so they can get what they want out of life.

Of course the person must sign up first as a distributor for your network marketing company and buy the products.

You get paid first before you have provided any value to that customer.

Then, hopefully you will provide value to that person after you have already gotten paid.

And we wonder why no one wants to sign up with us!

When you are generating leads using free network marketing leads generation strategies, you must change this mindset and approach.

Instead of looking at what you can get from the prospect, you need to look at how you can add value to the prospect.

For example, let's say you are looking to use one of the social content sharing web sites like Squidoo or Hubpages to attract an audience.

This scenario also works if you are writing content for a blog or submitting an article to an article directory.

When you write the article or content for this source, the entire focus on the article should be on how you can give to this prospect (any prospect that's your target market).

Your focus should not be on what you can get from the prospect.

Write the article with the mindset of "what if I got paid whether the prospect signed up with me or not based on the value I give here?"

If you write your articles with that mindset, you will have more effective content that will help you make money long term.

This same philosophy of give first before you receive must also be adapted on your lead capture page.

Instead of just asking for your prospects contact info, you must offer something of value first.

Perhaps you can give them a free report or a free e-course.

You must adapt this "give first" philosophy in your email marketing follow up campaign as well.

Otherwise, you will simply have a bunch of prospects that unsubscribe from your list.

Most distributors in MLM miss this completely and look like selfish spammers.

I'm sure you constantly get "pitch" emails from MLM distributors that offer absolutely no value.

Here's an example of the type of email I'm talking about...

Can I pay you *$39 by Paypal? Turn Your *$39 into *$39,000 in just 7 Days. Spend 13 minutes 43 seconds on this program and you'll be earning real money online.

Can you say "spammer?"

Here's an example of a profile from a distributor.

The display name is nameofcompany.com IBO#xxxxxxx with a profile page promoting company products.

Where's the value?

My favorite one is some of the comments people leave on the blogs. Here's an example of one...

"Do you like chocolate? If so you can make money with my company.

Click on www.mywebsite.com to learn more."

or

"Great post!" - www.mywebsite.com

This is NOT the message you want to send.

Most MLM distributors have been taught the old school methods of prospecting.

These methods are basically SPAMMING in an offline sense.

The only difference is that it is legal to do it offline but illegal to do it online.

These techniques may have worked in years past but they are no longer effective today.

We live in a new world where people want to see your willingness to give before you can ask to get something.

One marketing expert coined the term "moving the free line" to describe this trend.

This is exactly how television and radio work and why it has worked well for years.

You tune into a television or radio show to see or listen to content that you have an interest in. Spread throughout the content are commercials that you can watch or listen to.

You don't mind the commercials as long as you get to see or hear what you came to that channel or station to see or hear.

Duplicate this process with prospecting in your MLM business.

It works.

For more information on how you can set this up in your business, check out Marketing Merge where you can join our step by step tutorials and get the free course "7 lessons to attract your prospects to you." - Network Marketing Lessons

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