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"An Eye-Opening Message for Frustrated Network Marketers...

"How To Succeed At Network Marketing By Burning Your Names List, Ditching The Thursday Night Hotel Meetings And NEVER Paying For Another Opportunity Lead Again!"

Find Out What Your Upline Isn't Telling You: Why You Don't Need To Harass Anyone To Join Your Business... How To Have Prospects Lining Up For Your Opportunity Instead...

... And Why The Traditional Out-Dated Methods Are Literally Self-Sabotaging Your Success.

Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008

To: All Frustrated Network Marketers

From: Ann Sieg

Re: The Renegade Network Marketer

Dear Friend,

Let me ask you a couple questions... and be honest when you answer them.

#1: Do you despise bugging your family, your friends and people who are just praying that you won't bring up your "business" opportunity?

#2: Are you tired of hounding prospects who you know couldn't care less about your business?

#3: Are you sick of being told to "Just do more of it!" when it's obvious that what you're supposed to be doing more of never worked in the first place!?

#4: Have you been hard at it for months (even years) without seeing any real, significant results? (Some in our industry would call this "delayed gratification," but I've got a different word for it and it's a lot shorter... )

If you went through this list of questions and answered "yes" to one or more of them... you need to pay very careful attention to every word in this letter because...

This May Be The Most Important Message You'll Ever Read.

You see, the odds are very good that you're banging your head against a wall right now trying to build your network marketing business. The odds are also very good that you're needlessly doing so.

Just imagine what things would be like for you if...

Rather than spending half your time with people who can't wait to hang up on you, you had pre-qualified prospects coming to you asking you for more information.

What if instead of being viewed as some nut pushing their "pyramid scheme," people actually respected your opinion and valued your advice?

What would you give to wake up every morning, check your inbox, and find a fresh new batch of emails and voicemails waiting for your response?

What would you give to have people call you and say: "Hey, can I do what you're doing?"

What would that be worth to your business? Wouldn't that dramatically accelerate your results?

You bet it would. And all it takes is a simple shift in the way you think about what you do.

Let me share with you what happened to me after I experienced this exact change in my business.

My name's Ann Sieg and I've been in and out of the mlm industry for over 19 years now. I've joined and tried to build more opportunities than I care to remember.

I may be somewhat of a slow learner, but eventually (just like everyone else who builds real wealth in this industry) I too figured out that nearly everything I had been doing all those years was a complete waste of time. I put myself through a lot of unnecessary rejection and embarrassment, but in the end I did accomplish what I had set out to do in the first place... and a whole lot more!

Once things started to click and I finally "got it," I went from about 1-2 sign ups every 5 months (people that I practically bribed to join my business) to having more eager prospects demanding information from me than I knew what to do with. I went from having nothing but debt to earning a six figure income that supported my entire family.

And you can do the exact same thing and probably even a lot faster than I did.

You see, I could have reached all my goals a long, looong time ago had someone just let me in on this shocking (and somewhat disturbing) secret...

Almost Everything The Network Marketing

Industry Teaches You About Prospecting, Recruiting,

And Sponsoring People Is Completely Useless.

Not only is it useless, it's actually destroying your business and any chance you have of success.

Don't believe me, just look at the stats.

It's plain as day to anyone who's willing to take a look that 97% of mlmers never make any money with their business.

Why?

As I discovered, it has nothing to do with network marketing itself...

And EVERYTHING to do with the way network marketing is done.

I learned this the hard way in 2002 when I threw myself 110% at building a new opportunity that I was sure was going to be "the one."

Like I said, I've been in and out of the industry for awhile, but prior to this company I had sworn off mlm for a few years. What brought me back was a "revolutionary" comp plan that I thought was so miraculous it would literally be impossible to fail this time around (a HUGE mistake, as I'll share with you in a moment).

I also had a very strong reason to succeed at this point - a big "why" as we say in the biz. My husband and I had owned a small windshield replacement business for 12 years and things were starting to fall apart. We were being muscled out of business by a barrage of legislation and insurance nightmares that eventually shut down most mom and pop glass shops in our area.

Our ship was sinking fast, so I couldn't afford to mess around.

I Needed To Succeed And I Needed To Do It Quickly...

I was serious this time so I devoured everything I could get my hands on about network marketing. I...

Read all the books...

Listened to audios non-stop in my car...

Never missed a company training...

Was on every team call and attended every opportunity meeting...

Went to ALL the events...

Milked my upline for every drop of wisdom and advice I could get from them...

Plastered my house with goal cards and pictures of all the stuff I wanted to do when I was "making it"...

And... most importantly... I did everything I was told to do, exactly the way I was told to do it.

Made my names list... contacted everyone on it... showed the plan... called some leads... drove all over creation... did three way calls... passed out videos... set coffee appointments at Caribou (hey, at least it's a business expense!)... called some more leads... did home meetings (lots of them)... SHOWED THE PLAN... brought people to hotel meetings (the people you pick up show up, right?)... passed out business cards... showed the plan some more... prospected everyone with a pulse... used the referral approach... practically wore the numbers off my phone calling more leads... the whole deal. (Did I mention I showed the plan?)

Even became the top retailer for my company in my state not once but twice! (One month I sold over $3,000 worth of retail product. And that was A LOT in this particular company... ) I was a real "go getter." You know, the kind of distributor you'd kill to have in your organization.

There was only one minor problem.

After 18 months of busting my tail, I wasn't any closer to producing a "leveraged income" than I was when I started! Imagine that.

Sure, I had a small organization going. But nothing to stand up and cheer about. I'd cashed a few (pathetically small) commission checks but I wasn't even remotely close to breaking even.

I could not, for the life of me, understand why it wasn't working! I was doing everything they told me to do and then some!

At the end of 18 grueling months I was...

Disgusted by the "fake it 'till you make it" Thursday night hotel meetings where everyone puts on a happy face even though no one's going anywhere.

Fed up with my upline telling me to just "talk to more people" or "call more leads" when I knew that wasn't the real problem.

Frustrated that no matter how hard I tried to lead by example my people just wouldn't duplicate me. And...

Had spent myself into a hole buying opportunity leads that might as well have been numbers straight out of the phone book and then shelling out for expensive corporate "training" that did nothing but "pump me up" and talk about how great the company was.

Any of this sound familiar?

I had hit a massive brick wall and the best advice my upline had to offer me was "run through your names lists again."

Sorry, but 4 times is quite enough thank you.

I knew there had to be a better way to do it. There was no way it could be this hard.

So here's what happened.

My son, also my sponsor at one point, had stopped working the business in pursuit of other things. One day he said to me, "Hey mom, you need to go after your target market." (A term that's completely foreign in network marketing).

Hmmm, interesting concept.

I had hit rock bottom at that point so there was only one thing for me to do.

I Started Doing The Exact Opposite Of

What My Upline Had Taught Me.

After all, I tried it "their way"... and guess what?

"Their way" almost cost me my sanity!

What did I have to lose?

The Renegade Network Marketer^TM was born...

I wiped the slate clean and began the educational process again from the start. I immersed myself in studying and read everything on marketing I could possibly get my hands on.

Except this time I did something different. And this one simple change ended up being the best thing I've ever done for my business.

Want to know what that change was?

I Learned How To Build A Network Marketing Business

From Sources OUTSIDE The Network Marketing Industry.

I'll explain why that was so important in a minute... for now, let me tell you what happened.

I learned principles that completely revolutionized my thinking. The proverbial "light bulb" had gone on. Suddenly everything became crystal clear.

I finally understood, after 19 years of struggling and spinning my wheels, why every single opportunity I had ever attempted to build fell flat on its face.

I finally understood why this business seemed so frustrating and so hard to do.

What I discovered was that...

The network marketing industry literally has no clue on how to do marketing.

Dead serious.

Please don't take that personally because I'm not trying to offend anyone. It's just the truth. (Most of the time it's just that people are unaware of what they're doing and what they're teaching others to do)

Why is this?

It's because network marketing is a business that's designed for the "average person."

Well what's wrong with that?

Plenty.

This double-edged sword has severe side effects and I believe it's the true root cause of almost all the problems experienced by distributors in this industry.

Here's the main thing that happens as a results of this:

95% of people who get involved in mlm have absolutely no real foundation in effective sales and marketing and therefore the stuff they pass on to their equally unknowing downline members can only be described as pure garbage. ..."

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