http://www.MLMhelp.com/Jan2010

Those of you that have been following our MLM training concepts
and methods over the years, have heard me make this
statement several times.

Of course there is always someone who is usually a lead
broaker, involved in a lead affiliate program, etc who wants
to argue with me.

Most recently I had a post on Facebook which said:
(http://www.FaceBook.com/DaleCalvert)

Dale Calvert: Just spent 30 minutes on phone with coaching
client who spent $400 for 100 “A1 MLM Leads” with zero
to show for it! Don’t BUY MLM Leads! I wish he had read
the article below first.

http://tinyurl.com/ygjvfue

I had some “guru wanna be” try to argue with me on my
page about this subject….raving about how she had
access to the hottest, freshest, leads on the planet
(don’t they all) and how if new people can’t afford a few
hundreds bucks a month for leads, then they shouldn’t
be in business.

I erased her post from my page, obiviously that was
before I decided to write about it.

So, I did some checking and found out she had
recently been terminated from her MLM company because
she was calling every sideline she could to pitch them on
her lead program which has a six level pay plan.

So as I have said several times, be careful who you listen
to and always ask, what is their real intention here? Most
transparent people lack so much awareness that they
don’t even understand that the majority people can see right
through them.

As far as leads, there is a time and place for buying leads,
but not until you are full-time and generating a full time
income as we talk about in “The Six Dimensions of MLM
Training” available free here: http://www.6DMLMTraining.com.

I also believe the best way to not waste your precious time
pounding the phones is to use some type of voice broadcast
system as described at http://www.cmgvoicebroadcasting.com

I believe that it is a good idea for all network marketers to
be in the picks and shovels business as we talk about at
http://www.cmgwebinars.com.

The goal is not to become a Triple Diamond in XYZ company
or whatever the top position in your opportunity is, the goal is
to become an expert marketer with systems in place that the
masses (27%ers) can duplicate!

• You refer to your kids as your Downline.

• You refer to your spouse as your Upline.

• You have a garage full of juice bottles.

• You have a wallet full of pre-paid phone cards.

• Your trunk is full of Robert Kiyosaki PERFECT BUSINESS CD’s.

• You think it’s ok to ask a perfect stranger if they’ve reached “momentum” yet.

• Your bank account is constantly going up and down.

* You serve jungle juice at all your parties.

• You’re not really concerned when the FTC starts asking your company’s founder a few questions.

• You don’t see anything wrong with eating capsules of stuff we usually scrape out of our aquariums.

• You refer to friends and relatives as your warm market.

• You no longer have a warm market.

• You store all of your vitamins, herbs, minerals, algae, pyruvate, melatonin and DHEA tablets in Tupperware.

• Your Visa card bill reflects monthly charges to some company called “Calvert Marketing Group”

• You believe it’s *possible* that the testimonial about the lady’s arm growing back is true.

• You don’t see anything odd about driving a pink car.

• You are on a first name basis with the Postman and the UPS driver.

• You think a summer vacation in a “tropical rain forest” is a great way to write off the trip as a business expense.

• You consider the guy you just hit with your car a potential recruit.

• Your company has just been featured on “20/20 or Dateline”

• The phrases “right place, right time” and “ground floor” are a regular part of your vocabulary.

• You’ll argue to the death the merits of 3000-year-old Oriental healing remedies.

• You can never make “outside” commitments on a Tuesday or a Thursday night.

• You refer to your genealogy report as your accounts receivable.

• You don’t see anything funny about all those Amway jokes.

Feature Article

The article below was originally published in the
July 2003 Issue of our MLM Help Ezine.

(PT’S POTION)

ARE YOUR PROSPECTS HEARING THE
WHOLE STORY, ARE YOU SURE?
Dale Calvert

I was sitting in church last Wednesday night, and
during the announcements one of our associate
pastors, PT Kemper was brought up to address
the congregation.

PT explained how the church was trying to raise
money to re-do the nursery. He then went on
to explain how that afternoon a young man from
Tennessee had stopped by the church with a
product that was the next best thing since
“Snake Oil”.

Those of you with a background or knowledge
of the Shaklee Corporation have probably heard
of Basic H. It is a phenomenal product with
1001 uses, everything from brushing your teeth,
to putting a few drops in your cake batter to
moisten your cake.

Farmers even swear that if you mixed it in
your irrigation system your crops would grow
better! The product the young man was selling
was called “Upper Hand” All Purpose Cleaner
and is similar to Basic H.

Over the years most of you have probably had
a door-to-door sales person stop by selling a
similar type product.

Evidently, PT and our pastor took this young
man around to every spot in the church that
had been deemed “Uncleanable” and no test
was too hard and no spot too tough for this
“magic potion” to remove.

To make a long story short, PT decided to
invest his own money in the entire inventory
the young man had, with the idea to resale it
to church members to raise money for the
nursery.

Knowing our pastor, what probably happened
was he made a statement to the young man,
something like “If you can get out “granddaddy
spot” I will buy all you have, because I have
been looking at “granddaddy spot” for 10 years!

Can you imagine how the kid felt as he left
the church with no product and a pocket
full of money?

So here PT was in front of the church, a few
hours later with several cases of potion
purchased, to “talk about” in 2 minutes what
he had personally “seen, witness and
experienced” that afternoon.

PLEASE REREAD THAT SENTENCE, I will refer
to that again in a minute.

As PT was trying to explain the unexplainable,
I got tickled as I realized this is exactly what
so many new distributors do. They experience
the entire recruiting PROCESS.

They see a video; they attend a local meeting
or listen in on a conference call. They are then
placed on a 3-way with a competent upline
associate, and perhaps they even attend a
live training seminar or company event.

After the process, after they have had the
opportunity to see, hear and experience the
potential and value of the opportunity,
they make a decision.

However, when they are ready to start
prospecting, recruiting and building their
organization, do they give their prospects
the same opportunity to EXPERIENCE the
same recruiting process?

Do they go through a specific, systematic
series of events?

Such as:

Play 1 Video
Play 2 Conference Call
Play 3 3-Way with Upline
Play 4 Live event

Unfortunately, more often than
not, the answer is NO.

They immediately go out and run
off their best prospects trying to
explain the entire program in two
minutes.

They never give their prospects
the opportunity to hear the
whole story & experience the
process.

They then come back and inform
us that they “talked to” 9 people
and nobody was interested. How
predictable is that? My response
is always the same.

“I tried to warn you not to talk
or try to explain, just to hand
out the video! Now with the next
9 people, shut up and just hand
them the videotape.

As PT was going through his
2-minute sales, pitch I was
laughing. Not at him, but at
the predictability of people.

He noticed me, and made some
comment such as Mr. Calvert is
back there laughing, maybe this
is a hoax.

Now think about this, this is very
important. What happened to PT
was the exact same thing that
happens to new people when they
enter the market place….doubt creeps
in their mind.

PT Witnessed truth! He saw the
“granddaddy spot” removed. He saw the
Snake Oil work with his own two eyes, yet
he mistakenly read my reaction, which
immediately created doubt.

The exact thing happens to your new
distributors when they enter the
market place.

Many of you have heard me talk about
the 4 beliefs that must be developed in
new distributors.

(Company, products, industry and themselves)

You have also heard me talk about how we
are all made up of Opinions, Attitudes and Beliefs.

Pt had a positive opinion about the product, but
that opinion had not had time to develop into an
attitude, much less a belief. So any “perceived”
resistance or negativity immediately started to
sway his opinion and create doubt.

The exact same thing happens to our new
associates! As leaders we must develop our
belief strong enough that our new members
can rely on our belief system until they have
time to develop their own.

I hope you also understand that 90% of your
distributors, who quit your organization, quit
in the first 72 hours. Maybe they don’t announce
to you that they have quit. However mentally and
psychologically they go out into the market place,
DO EVERYTHING WRONG, and then doubt creeps
in and mentally they are DONE!

If you want to be a better leader for your people
than 95% of the network marketers in the world,
here is my advice. We teach a concept we call
Monitor New Distributors.

The first 10 business prospects they contact, and
the first 20 retail sales, you need to be there to
direct them play-by-play, step-by-step.

Too bad the kid from Tennessee didn’t have a
long term, repeat customer mentality. If he knew
of PT’s plans to raise money for the church nursery
he should have hung around and volunteered to
do the pitch for PT in front of the congregation.

Then if he were smart, he would have labels on
each bottle saying:

—TO RE-ORDER THIS PRODUCT CONTACT-
Mr. Tennessee
Mr. Tennessee’s Phone#

You must be there for your new distributors
immediately; before doubt sinks too deep in
their mind. It is your responsibility to make
certain that they are giving their prospects
the opportunity to go through a specific,
systematic series of events and not
a 2-minute spill!

I really felt bad that PT misread the meaning
of my amusement. I must say he did recover
nicely. As he walked back up the isle from
the front of the church he tossed the bottle
in my lap and said, “there, I have just sold
the first bottle”.

Now that I think about it, I still haven’t paid
him his 30 bucks yet. I need to do that!

END OF ARTICLE

I did pay PT and helped him sell a couple of
bottles. I feel this story is a classic in the
predictability of people.

Facts & Myths of Multilevel Marketing
THE LAND OF 10,000 UNRECRUITED HEAVY HITTERS
copyright 1995 by Len Clements
http://www.MarketWaveInc.com

THIS IS ANOTHER ONE OF THE BEST ARTICLES ON MLM
EVER WRITTEN. EVERY NETWORK MARKETER REALLY
NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND HOW LARGE ORGANIZATIONS
ARE CREATED.

Now more than ever, we are mostly just recruiting
each other. Eventually we have to stop and learn
how to create leads and bring those that have never
been in the industry in.

Several months ago I received a call from one of my downline
distributors inquiring about a good MLM list. Bob then asked
specifically if a list of heavy hitters existed and how I might
approach them. My response was something to the effect of,
“Bob, why would you want a list of people who are the least
likely to want to join your opportunity?” After all, heavy hitters
are people who are making huge monthly incomes (that’s why
hey call them heavy hitters, right?).

I’d assume they like making huge monthly incomes
and probably would not be too interested in walking away
from it and starting over from scratch.

“But Len, think about it,” Bob persisted, “Just imagine
if I could have recruited . . .” Bob then reeled off
the names of three major heavy hitters, all well
known throughout the industry (for privacy sake, we’ll
just call them Mark, Jim and Ken).

Bob began to fantasize about the great wealth to
be had by recruiting the likes of even one of the
three mega-earners he listed.

Well, I happen to know Mark, Jim and Ken personally,
to varying degrees, and I know their stories. Ironically,
all three men claim to have once had a strong skepticism
towards network marketing and at one time felt it was
something they would never consider being involved in.

Yet today, they are three of the richest, most
successful network marketers in the country -
as are their uplines!

“Exactly!” Bob exclaimed. “So how do we sign
up people like that?” Mark, Jim and Ken were not,
at one time, network marketers. Obviously. The
lucky folks who personally sponsored these three
did not do so by scrolling though an existing heavy
hitter lists. They worked hard on opening the minds
of people who they thought had a lot of potential,
got them to consider network marketing, and today
they are set for life.

You see, there are about five million people
involved in MLM in this country today. There
are about 285 million who are not.

This means there are literally thousands, perhaps
tens of thousands, of Marks, Jims and Kens roaming
around this country who, right now, are very skeptical
of network marketing and who are thinking they’ll never
be involved in it - who’ll someday make somebody a million
dollar income!

Thousands of them!

Personally, I think the very best network marketers
are not involved in network marketing yet. Mark Jim
and Ken are only the best out of the five million who
are involved. The odds are there are many people
among the 285 million who are not involved, who may
be far better network marketers then even Mark,
Jim and Ken!

Today, there is a constant ebb and flow of distributors
from company to company. Those who migrate like
gypsies from program to program always looking for the
better deal. And this segment of the MLM population
is huge.

The result is that many companies increase in sales
volume and distributor count each month. But it’s
usually to the detriment of another MLM program.

There are a number of examples of companies that
experienced growth in 1995 that came primarily from
the fallout of another MLM company.

The People’s Network grows … Quorum shrinks.
VitaTonics and Nu visions grow . . . Matol shrinks.
USANA grows … VÄXA shrinks. Natural World is growing
much at the expense of Melaleuca. Likewise with Life
Plus’s growth in 1994, which came at the expense of
Kaire. Gold Unlimited goes away, a dozen other gold
and silver programs get a jump start.

The examples are endless.
(NOTE FROM DALE: Remember this article was
written nearly 15 years ago, but this has gone on
and since the time it was written. Basically all network
marketing companies that make it have an influx of a lot
of distributors who are leaving another company as we
explain in detail at www.MLMBombShells.com)

Really, no company has experienced legitimate
momentum in the last two years. Not like Herbalife
in 1983, or NSA in 1987-88, or Nu Skin in 1991. Or,
to a lesser extent, Quorum and Melaleuca in ‘92 or ‘93.

The point here is that these companies created this
momentum by bringing in massive amounts of new
distributors from outside the industry. And as a result,
the industry grew as well.

But not today, at least not like in the eighties and
very early nineties. Today, everybody seems to be
into retreading existing distributors over and over and
dreaming about landing the big heavy hitter. The industry
has become sluggish, lazy, and one filled with a lot of
spoiled opportunists looking for something for as close
to nothing as possible.

And the opportunities available to them have exploited
and perpetuated this to no end.

Where there was once an industry made up of
merit-based opportunities that rewarded those who
worked hard, retailed, and actually trained and
supported their downlines, there is now an industry
full of fluff programs with token products that will
basically sell you the farm for a small monthly personally
purchase.

Again, the point being that recruiting outer circle
people (those not involved in MLM) is hard work,
and so few MLMers today are into working hard. Why
is it so hard? Because outer circle recruitment involves
a two, and usually three phase process.

Step one is to open the mind of your prospect as to
the possibility of just starting a home-based business.

(Note from Dale — this is the entire concept
behind the www.FreeRKCD.com program details
at www.cmgwebinars.com)

Based on surveys performed by MarketWave in
1989-91, 85% of all Americans who do not own
their own business do have the desire to be entrepreneurs.
When polled as to the reason why they do not pursue this
desire, the four most common reasons were:

1. Takes too much money,
2. Takes too much time.
3. Too much risk.
4. I don’t know how.

Understand, this means that over 200 million
people in this country want to be self employed
who are not– and for reasons that do not apply
to network marketing! Nonetheless, these are
powerful objections and ones that must be overcome
before an outer circle prospect would even consider
your opportunity.

Once the prospect has accepted at least the possibility
that there might be a type of business which overcomes
all of their concerns, you must the confess, if you will,
that it is called, network, or multilevel, marketing.

At this point, you will very likely have to address the
stigma that surrounds this industry and/or at the very
least, educate the prospect on what MLM is in general.
So step two is to legitimize the industry as a whole.

(Gratuitous plug: These first two steps are the basis
for my “Case Closed!” cassette tape. See the end of
this article for more information on ordering this tape.)

So to recruit outer-circle prospects, the first step is
to open their mind to starting their own business, the
second step is to remove all the garbage about MLM
that may be in there, and the third step is to then
pour new information in - by finally presenting your
specific opportunity.

And as I said, steps one and two may be the most
difficult to complete. So, wouldn’t it be so much easier
to just find folks who are already involved in MLM,
who’ve gotten past steps one and two, and just
convince them that your products are better and
your compensation plan will pay them more? I mean,
why go through all the trouble of taking them through
steps one and two when someone else has already
done the tough part for you?

Because - if you don’t, this industry will not grow,
our downline will be forever turning over as these
transient MLMers move on to the next better deal,
and - you will never recruit a heavy hitter!

There are thousands of them out there. Get out
there and recruit one!

Or, recruit three!!!

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Note from Dale. It is hard to believe that this article was
written 15 years ago. Won’t we ever learn?

Create a Lead! We have multiple courses at www.DaleCalvert.com

Open their minds .. (www.FreeRKCD.com program is best way to do that)

Let them here the entire story

Get them Started Correctly! (http://www.StartRightMLM.com)

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