You’ve read the hype over and over again…

“Enroll Hundreds Of Reps Without Ever Speaking to Anyone”
…and similar phrases of nonsense.

That kind of marketing would lead you to believe that if you just get really good at internet marketing and use it to market your MLM, that you’ll make huge money in your company.

I hate to bust your bubble… actually, no, I’d LOVE to bust your bubble and tell you that is complete nonsense!

Network Marketing is, and always will be an income model that is based on relationship marketing. Those impressive checks from the top earners are earned because they developed leaders in their organizations. They didn’t just mass enroll and see what STUCK. They took the time to invest in those people who would take ownership of their business and work the system in place by the company.

Mass attrition? You will see that if you just enroll people on autopilot and never actually act as their sponsor.  Sponsorship comes with a responsibility to the person who joined your organization. You MUST direct them to the training in place, you must role play with them and make sure they are following the simple, duplicateable system in place by your company.

Enroll hundreds of people and make a ton of cash? What, off of a one time fast start bonus for signing them? What a waste! You will make far more money when you help your recruits to earn a check for themselves. When they continue to work to maintain that check, and to grow it – you finally have leverage.

Have you ever heard this phrase from a Internet MLMer?
“I don’t want to babysit a downline”

If you are properly sponsoring quality people, you will have an organization of incredibly powerful, motivated individuals who you want to spend your time with. They are your TEAM – your greatest asset.

I truly think that those who say they don’t want to babysit are those who don’t want to take the time to develop themselves as a leader. You see, it takes a leader to help develop a leader.

Message to heartless Internet MLMers:

If you are mass- sponsoring into a Network Marketing company with online hype and then just leaving your recruits to some automated training.
If you don’t give your recruits an ounce of your precious time… please just leave MLM alone.

Stop using your internet marketing skills to give our industry a bad name. Every time you enroll someone and let them die on the vine, you just took one more wonderful potential builder from our pool of prospects.

If you have fallen prey to this type of recruiting – but you still have faith in the residual income dream, then find a true MLM leader who will paint a realistic expectation of what it takes to build your business to true walkaway residual income.  This industry is alive and well and producing walkaway residual income for leaders every day. In fact, our MLM company produces a new six figure earner every 36 hours…

Take the First Step to Move from the Lower Ranks in Your Network Marketing Company – Straight to the TOP!

There is a phrase in Network Marketing that you may have heard before : “you can get to (insert rank title) on excitement alone!”  In other words, people often join a MLM company and are pure ignorance on fire and because they are prospecting and presenting at a rapid pace, they can advance quickly.  In fact, people often achieve a position long before they are actually qualified to lead.

Rank alone does not define a leader, nor does the size of their check.  In fact, with the way many companies are structured and volume manipulated to ‘create’ rank positions, it is very common that someone will be of a certain ‘high rank’ but not at all qualified to lead the organization that is their team.  Anyone can be ‘given’ a rank, volume, and even people in their organization. It doesn’t require any special ability, or skill of leadership.

If you have never gotten to any rank in a company you may be thinking – “I don’t care if I’m not qualified to lead – just give me the rank and the check!” .

But my dear, your success will be far longer sustained, and your residual check longer maintained when you get there by true WORK with a team of people who you learn to lead. When you actually have the permission of your team to lead them, your ‘work’ is much more rewarding, spiritually – AND financially!

When you first begin your business, your #1 objective is to earn a check yourself. Your focus and  your effort  is toward meeting one goal : making your own sales. Your prospecting, presenting and follow up has one goal- to enroll customers and distributors – to grow your check and increase rank and pay.

So how do you get beyond ‘excitement’ to growing a residual fortune?
You learn to focus on others, and help them to get their own fat check!

The next level of leadership is where the 97% of people fail. They neglect the personal development that is necessary to move beyond their own desires and instead work to flame the fire of their recruits.

This is the speed bump. The point of difference, where the leader is either born, or dies on the vine.
This is the place where I spend 99% of my time with my people – helping them to move beyond their own agenda, and into the ‘why’s’ of their recruits.

Part of your development here is to believe in others … which of course means you must first believe in yourself, in our industry, in your company, and trust YOUR leaders enough to follow them.  One of the fastest ways to develop that level of belief, until it burns in you and is unshakeable – is to attend company events.

Yes, that’s right – attend the EVENTS! That’s why your upline is so adamant about dragging you to every event they can! Because they know that events will change the way you think – raise your level of believe and fuel your actions to propel you into the next level of leadership.  If you don’t/ won’t attend, the probability that your business will stall and ultimately fail, is certain.

And if you are, right now, a developing leader – whose business is not growing at the pace you’d like, ask yourself how well you promote events?  How many people did you have at your last company event?  Conversely, how many people did you NOT drag so that their level of belief would grow, and they would become leaders in your organization?

My friend, this is not about YOU. This is about your team.  Find out who your people are, what drives them. Make it a priority to help those who WILL move forward to make the biggest check they can earn.

Standing in the front of the room boasting about your rank and your check will likely discourage people rather than encourage them to move forward to achieve their goals. When you actually lead your people, and are instead boasting about THEIR achievements you will find that you will have a team who loves you and are happy to follow – and RUN boldly in the direction of their dreams!

Are you ready to be a 2%er ? You know, the visionary leader type? We have to be good before we are great – and this time, practice, and baby steps.

Take this easy step, now:
You must always stay in phase 1  – recruiting. But now, when you recruit, know that the focus is not on growing your check – but on growing your newly sponsored person’s check!

NEXT, we will learn how to create MOMENTUM in your organization. Stay tuned
 

The inspiration for this article came from John Maxwell’s Leadership Ladder, as published in Success Magazine : http://www.successmagazine.com/article?articleId=1569&taxonomyId=21

Melanie Milletics, ViSalus Ambassador

Melanie Milletics is an Internet Entrepreneur

who has been working to integrate Internet Marketing and Network Marketing since 2001 when she looked for a home based business that would enable her to raise her children without ever putting them into daycare.

She learned how to master phone prospecting and used purchased leads lists to build her business and consistently hit the enrollers bonuses for the company she worked for.  However, she knew there was more success to be had, and more to earn! Her search led her to a fact that would change the course of her families future forever  –  the entrepreneurs who earned the most money in the industry were those who generated their own prospects.

Committed to a better life for her family, she began to study internet marketing and began to use online strategies to generate leads for her Network Marketing Business.  With that one change, she began to build what she calls her ‘Golden List’.  Since 2005 she has been generating lists of opportunity seekers and buyers and has mastered online relationship marketing using email, blogging, video, and of course the phone!

Melanie became an instructor

for Mike Dillard’s Better Networker, and a trainer in Ann Sieg’s Renegade Professional while being the #1 woman affiliate in the MLM niche.  She even released her own information product “MLM List Building Exposed” in 2009 and became a consultant to the industry for those who sought to have a successful online Network Marketing Business.

In July 2009 she joined ViSalus Sciences and got awards for top production every quarter as a Pioneer in the launch of the Body By Vi Challenge, and even became the company’s #2 enroller.  At the end of 2010 she stopped ‘distracting herself’ with affiliate income and discontinued mentoring anyone who was not on her ViSalus Dream Team.  Instead she focused on duplication and developing leaders – and reached the pinnacle position of Ambassador with ViSalus.

In this exclusive interview with Jerry Chen, Melanie explains her journey,

and her relief at finally finding the key to success in Network Marketing – laser focus on her company, ViSalus Sciences!

Part 2 reveals the SECRET to real residual income in Network Marketing

Learn More about how YOU can be a part of the DREAM TEAM when you sign the guest book HERE!

>>>Check out Melanie’s Interview with George Fourie of thatMLMbeat <<<

I’m sorry I steered you wrong! When I went against ‘convention’ and sold out to my excellent Network Marketing Company, our financial future was secured!
I made a public apology on my interview with George Fourie of  ThatMLMBeat

Click here to view the embedded video.

Back in 2009 I was the #1 woman affiliate in the MLM niche. I was made an Instructor for Mike Dillard’s Better Networker and provided content for Ann Sieg’s Renegade Professional.
I will be forever grateful for what I learned during this time, and of course for the money I earned – BUT…

In July 2009 we helped launch the Body By Vi Challenge and I made the major shift to promoting my MLM – ViSalus Sciences first and foremost.

Now, As an Ambassador with ViSalus we make a six figure residual income and drive BMWs paid for by ViSalus.

My affiliate marketing? An unnecessary distraction from the million a year+ I will make in Network Marketing!

What pays better? Developing leaders in our ViSalus Dream Team!

ViSalus Ambassadors earn a $25,000 bonus!

Join the ViSalus Dream Team and Claim your $25,000 Bonus from ViSalus Sciences!

>>>See the video interview I did with Jerry Chen here<<<

What I’m about to tell you may seem like an incredible contradiction.
I don’t work my business for recognition or fame – but simply for fortune.

I unapologetically intend to have an incredibly wealthy family – Indeed, it’s what I know we deserve.

Contradictory to what you ‘see’?
It just so happens that in the industry I have chosen to master – Online Network Marketing -  being in the public eye and being ‘famous’ is how that fortune is made.

I have learned to master what has now been coined as ‘Attraction Marketing’ and at this point you’ll literally find me everywhere.

Its almost silly what happens when you Google my name. Silly cause, well, I’m just Melanie.  I have managed to have not just a successful business online – but to have a significant impact on the lives of those I teach.  Nothing incredible about it really… I just follow simple laws.  Laws I am continuing to learn and apply – that work every time.

What you don’t know, is that I’d just as soon crawl under a rock ~ just make it a GOLDEN rock!

In other words, I’d be thrilled to have the fortune NOW, and to pull back into my golden shell with my beautiful family to live the life I know we are destined to live.  If there wasn’t one single Google result with my name, I’d be thrilled! Just as long as I had my sacks of gold…

Its an incredible thing to be able to increase our income on a monthly basis through effective marketing. But what we do with that income may be quite a bit different than what you might expect…

It goes back to that GOLDEN rock.  Well, its silver and gold actually-

You most certainly NEED to use your increase in income strategically too.

And if you have convinced yourself that ‘when your rich’ you’ll have your sacks of gold, I’m hoping that this information changes that point of view REAL QUICK :

Click here to learn : How to Get Your Own Golden Rock to crawl under or to display ostentatiously if you’d like…  starting IMMEDIATELY!

If this information is new to you – be prepared to be FLOORED, then to take immediate action. The lives of your children and grandchildren depend on it!

Blessings!
Melanie

There is an unseen aspect to Network Marketing Success that you must tap into if you wish to truly reach the next level. In fact, it is the one thing that will help you get to the next level – to enable you to qualify for that next rank in your compensation plan.

Its easier to explain exactly how it has played out in my business over & over again than to try to describe it outright first.

Example #1 When I enrolled in ViSalus last year, I declared that I would be a Director in my first week working the business.  I went to work and immediately enrolled the 2 people who had been waiting to hear back if ViSalus was all it appeared to be.  With 2 enrolled needed just 1 more new business partner to hit Director.  I had no real idea of who my hot prospects were and just days to qualify.  I sent an email to my list and expected a massive response, but did not get it… and on the last day of the week, in the last hours to qualify, someone I had not spoken to in 3 years connected with me on Facebook. As you may have guessed – this gentleman trusted me when I told him this was IT, and he was my 3rd enrollment.

I had declared I’d be Director that week – having no idea how I would accomplish it – and the universe conspired to make it so.

Example #2 Flash forward 4 months and ViSalus threw out a $1000 bonus for those who qualified for Regional Director in the month of October.
Well, throw me a bonus like that and I simply MUST qualify.
Now, I worked all month to get that qualification done… but as the last days of the month came I felt tapped out – I had not another good prospect to call, not another good email blast to send.

It was 11:00pm on October 31st, on Halloween, and I had not yet qualified.

A lead came through – and the area code was from California, so I figured what the heck – I’d call since it was only 9pm his time.  The gentleman on the other line seemed like a lookey-loo, like a tire kicker, but I was patient and asked him a few key questions.   Turned out he had over 100lbs to lose… and I had him signed up for an ESS less than 10 minutes later!

And I was BMW qualified – with minutes to spare.

Example #3 Flash forward to February 2009 -
ViSalus throws out another bonus offer of $1000 on stage for BMW qualifiers – and I decide to run my husband’s position to Regional and BMW qualified.
I texted my intention to my mentor Pete Bunting ~ and went to work.
Now, that second position was no where NEAR qualified, and I had like no one at all even close to Director to help. I was starting virtually from scratch.  But I set the goal, I declared my intention – and I knew it would be DONE.

I honestly don’t even remember the last events that got that position qualified. I worked harder than I ever had in my life. I pushed past my own boundaries and helped people accomplish their goals in order to get it DONE. We had 5 people hit Rising Star Director that month and they were all in Denver to celebrate. It was wonderful!

And yes, you’d better believe that I qualified that second position -
Thats what the 2 in this photo is about – thats not a peace sign

Does it stop there? No way!

I’ve re-qualified for Regional Director status with a random online customer coming through with a $200 order at 11pm on the last day of the month. I’ve qualified for the “pool bonus” more times than most others in the company – simply because I KNOW I WILL and work as if its already done.

Example #4 In June of 2010 one of my primary support upline, Bonzi, was running for Presidential Director.  It was 10pm and he needed like $2000 in volume by midnight to get it done and he was totally tapped out.  The leaders of the team made calls to downline asking them to dig deep and find just one customer to help Bonzi qualify – and $1200 in volume came through in just 1 hour.  And then, when it seemed like there was no more to be found, my phone rang with a call from Missouri.  The woman on the other line was calling to enroll – with the $999 package!  The magic had happened yet again. Bonzi was qualified for PD!

So what exactly is this unseen aspect- what is going on in my business that when I declare a goal as met, and go to work as if it is already done, that it is unquestioningly accomplished?  Is it the Law of Attraction?  Am I just lucky? Only if you know that the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Its true that the wise man’s prayer is one of thanks for that is yet to come. To believe that those things not yet seen will come to be is crucial. You must believe that your goal is already met and the take the necessary action that will result in that goal becoming a reality.

The Law of Attraction requires that you not only expect it to happen – but that you work to make it so.  A vision board becomes a pipe dream if you sit on your buns in front of the TV.

In each of the examples I gave above, what you cannot know is that in my own mind & heart I held on to the belief that I would reach my goal – right up until it was accomplished. There was never a point where I let doubt creep into my mind.  Like a child who knows Santa will bring her gifts, I knew that my gifts would arrive. I knew that my prayer of thanks was already answered.  And in each of the examples given above, I WORKED right up until the last minute, talking with people, enrolling them and doing the tasks that move my business forward.

I didn’t sit and visualize ~ I worked.

Right now you may need to borrow my belief.  If you haven’t yet made the money you want to make in Network Marketing, you may not even have it in your heart to KNOW that enrollments do come – that people do duplicate – and that freedom is at hand.  You may need to borrow my belief.

You need to know in your heart of hearts that you will achieve what you set your mind to.

Faith is a spiritual gifting that is present in the Entrepreneur. It is obedience to a calling, risk taking in response to a vision – a believing wholeheartedly in the unseen. You have been called to greatness ~ it is time to step out in faith ~ Melanie Milletics

Open your heart and mind to the reality that you deserve to have things happen in this manner for you.  You are deserving of all the wonderful things this world has to offer.  In fact, they were created for you, by the same One who created you.  Follow the instructions of your mentors and walk in faith, doing the tasks laid out by those who have gone before you to be successful.

If you have not already listened to the interview about what it really takes to be successful in the Network Marketing Industry – listen NOW.

Set a nice big goal for this month, and work knowing it will be achieved. When it comes to pass, please leave me a comment!

Melanie Milletics, Successful Work at Home Mom,  was interviewed by “The Real WAHMs” Jodi and Kimber in March of 2010.

Have a listen at<<< The Real WAHMs Interviews Melanie Milletics>>>

From Blog Talk Radio:

Join 6 figure earning mommies, Jodi and Kimber as they interview the most successful Wahms (work at home moms) in the industry. This week we interview Melanie Milletics who is an Internet Entrepreneur who has been working in Network Marketing and affiliate marketing since 2001. #1 Woman affiliate in the MLM niche, her specialty is list building and integrating Internet and Network Marketing to create Life Changing Income. Melanie is the creator of web based resources to help the home based business owner succeed wildly.

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Forgive me if I’m not active on the forums-
Or participating in all of your Facebook groups-
Or holding training webinars for the industry-
Or updating my blog every day-
Or making sure my blogs and websites have the newest –coolest design esthetic.

I’m actually building a Network Marketing Business.

That’s right. I’m not just a wanna be guru trainer type who calls herself an expert in teaching ‘attraction marketing’ who spends her day on Twitter and Facebook chattering away… talking up a storm about what Im an expert in.

Whoa – I haven’t even produced a good quirky video in awhile to tell you how super cool I am.

Intead, I’m actually building a Network Marketing business.

And its not a ‘shovels’ business either…  know what Im sayin? Shovels are smart- and I sell those too- but I’m working with a company that has products that have real value in the marketplace beyond the ‘home based business buyers’ market.

I’m (gasp) on the phone with prospects who have contacted me about my business. I’m qualifying them and helping those who I’d like to work with to make the decision to start their business with our rock-solid , yet incredibly progressive company.  I’m then doing Success Training for those folks – making sure they have the Foundation of the ViSalus Academy.  That training has a permanent place on my desktop. I’m thrilled to say that I help a new entrepreneur work their way through that training every day – sometimes more than one new entrepreneur a day.

I’m seeing the results of my work – watching the leaders emerge. Learning to recognize who the 30%ers, 60%ers and 100%ers are – and spending time with them accordingly.  I’m watching duplication happen, and finally leverage.  True residuals building.  Its quite awesome.

Sure, I still have a nice income from my automated affiliate income – the links I’ve weaved into my content over the years serve me well.  But I am very much aware that that is seed money – it isn’t the big picture. I don’t get paid residually on those sales… there are no leaders to develop that can produce millions.  I know where to FOCUS.

My psychological input – my energy – is not on the front end sale. Its shifted. I know the residual income dream is alive and well and I am grabbing ahold of that business model with both hands.

So forgive me if my online presence has a DIY appearance.  You can’t judge a book by its cover- you know what I mean?
If you want to align yourself with a ‘leader ‘who just met Mike Dillard or Ann Sieg a year or two ago and has themselves a nice shiny look – who has learned to say all the right things.  In other words – is a ‘wanna be’. Then go right ahead. I cant stop you.

Or… you can have actual faith that what I tell you is true.
I’ve been at this game since 2001.
I’m no wanna be. Don’t let my DIY appearance fool ya.

I can boil my message down to one line -
Learn internet marketing and communication /phone skills and you will be unusually successful.

You have an MLMer mentality? Then I’m not your guide. Go find an ‘Attraction  Marketing’ expert  with a pretty website… maybe they can help you with that.

Peace

So which are you? An MLMer, or a Professional Network Marketer?

Is there really a difference? Are we just trying to separate ourselves from the negative connotations of the phrase ‘Multi Level Marketing’ and all of the pain it brings to mind of the people who stepped into and out of the business model over the years?  Do we instead call ourselves “Network Marketers” and escape the skeptical eye of the ‘real’ entrepreneurs who would never do one of those ‘deals’?
I say not at all- Network Marketing as a profession has come into its own – and there are hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs who would never work a business if it did not have the leverage that a Network Marketing business offers.  A professional Network Marketer knows that by developing leaders – they can create true walk away income.  You cannot do that with a traditional business – even if you are the ‘boss’.

So what is an MLMer?  What makes them different from a Professional Networker? And how can YOU evolve from the MLMer mentality and become the professional you must be to stop running on the hamster wheel – getting nowhere?

The MLMer has the mentality of an employee.
Wow, thats a tough one – but right on the money. Most individuals are actually employees when they begin a home based business, so of course they have the mentality of an employee! How can that be a bad thing?
The MLMer’s focus is on retirement. Its on how quickly they can sit back and do nothing. Their first question is ‘how quickly can I make $5k a month so I can quit my job’.  Now, wanting to quit your job is a natural thing… indeed, the true entrepreneur is smothered in a job and can see no other way of life than being self employed.  But if your primary goal is retirement – we have some work to do!

The Entrepreneur’s drive is to do exactly what they desire
The entrepreneur is looking for an opportunity to work so that they can do what they are driven to do – they KNOW they are meant to do bigger and better things and are looking for the way, the teacher, the opportunity to present itself as the answer to the problem they have – a job!

The MLMer is also known as a MLM ‘Junkie’.
The MLMer is always looking for the next big thing – the next super duper comp plan that is going to pay them 2000% more for doing diddly squat. They are constantly jumping from one company to the next and have ‘shiny object’ syndrome which constantly distracts them from their goals.  They rely on their emotions when making a decision. They let the over hyped launch calls, websites and and big promises of individuals guide their decision making.  The are typically in multiple deals, and in many over many years. They never learn to laser focus to make the long term residual income… because they are living week to week, or at best month to month.

Be careful – because this affliction has a cousin. It’s the elusive search for the magic ‘system’.  If you are up all night reading every so-called guru’s training on how you can make money in your sleep without ever calling your prospects… If you are spending your days in the technical side of internet Network Marketing instead of talking to humans… you are in the endless spiral of looking for the magic dust.

7-9pm is the Golden Time where you need to be talking to people.  Your online marketing should be done after hours… yah hear???

The Professional Network Marketer aligns themselves with one GREAT company and builds for LIFE
The Entrepreneur relies on discipline – and truly does their due diligence before aligning themselves with a company that they will succeed wildly in.
(There is a reason that ViSalus has more people with multiple degrees and people who earned six & seven figures in other industries before coming to build a business here.  ViSalus holds up to their keen scrutiny!)

An entrepreneur will stick with one company once the right one is identified. They will build one huge network and create as many leaders within that network as humanly possible! They will work to ‘replace themselves’ by training up people who can lead the masses…
So that they can go on to do bigger things, to give philanthropically, to travel, to inspire greatness in others.

The MLMer is always looking for an example of success outside of themselves.
They are waiting for their upline to provide the perfect training – the perfect system, the magic leads that are going to get it all done for them… or worse still- for spillover!  What the heck is spillover? It’s a lottery mentality. It’s the get as much as you can for doing nothing – it’s the employee mentality that wants to get just enough done so that they don’t get fired… but never strives for excellence.

The Entrepreneur Leads by Example.
They make a definite decision and remained committed to the tasks ahead until the goal is met.  They don’t do what they do for the money – but for the sake of creating something bigger than themselves.  They do it in service – for the greater good. They don’t make excuses for themselves, and don’t give excuses when asked why the goal wasn’t accomplished. They state the facts… not lame excuses!

Dont Worry! Your  Evolution can be swift!

I do think that most people begin a home based business with the MLMer mentality ~  But most of us will mature into the mindset of the Professional Network Marketer. Eventually it is no longer about how much money you can make ‘off of’ people, but instead its about how many people you can help to succeed in this incredible profession. Your ability to distinguish between a ‘great’ company, and a fly by night program designed to fleece people out of their hard earned seed money becomes honed.  You will avoid money games like the plague – aware of the carnage they leave behind.  Instead, you will seek to align yourself with greatness – with a rock solid company with all of the pillars in place so that when you bring a new person into the business you know with full certainty that you are doing something GOOD. You are making a change in the world.

You never know who that new entrepreneur might be- or how many lives they will impact. But you’ll know its your job to make sure they have what they need to move forward to be a professional Network Marketer.

As a pro – you will be able to see the MLMer mentality a mile away.  You will hear it in your prospects and in your new business builders.  What are you to do???
Be an example – that’s what leadership is and does.

If they are watching, they will learn. They will emulate. They will win.   And then guess what??? So will you!

So are you an MLMer or an Entrepreneur using the Network Marketing business model? If you see yourself in the MLMer mindset – your evolution can be swift. It can be NOW. You can make the decision to avoid the MLM junkie behavior. Align yourself with a great company – and then get laser focused. Do exactly what you are told without deviation. Develop your own skill set within that company and build a rock solid future for your family.

Otherwise you are always just starting over… just trying to make a buck… just trying to get by… always thinking the reasons for your failure are outside of yourself.

If your company is not the best – then make one final jump HERE.
But if you think jumping from Visalus to another shiny object is the answer… then I KNOW your thinking is faulty! Change your mindset now- or sayonara!

One last thing…

If I tell you I’m laser focused – don’t show me your MLMer qualities by trying to woo me with your super duper next big comp plan thingy… I don’t care what it pays if you are selling crap products with no real value in the marketplace, or if your company is a dinosaur when it comes to marketing.
Really, I dont care.

I’ll respect you if you tell me you are laser focused. Sincerely I will. Respect my focus as well.