| Everybody knows that using outdated marketing | | | | assistants "weight loss surveys". We were asked to |
| methods to build your home base business will not | | | | hand these out to the shop assistant and that we |
| work. Are you tired of using these methods. Sadly so | | | | would come back in an hour to collect them. On a |
| many people in M.L.M. are failing because up line and | | | | number of occasions there were staff who were |
| sponsors are giving failure business training. There is | | | | overweight. With us being sensitive people we would |
| an old saying and it is pretty well known. "you can't put | | | | try to hand the survey over a staff member who did |
| new wine into old wine skins". | | | | not appear to be overweight. In some instances the |
| The first home base business that I joined suggested | | | | slimmer staff would joke "well hand it over to.... and |
| that to attract weight loss customers the quickest and | | | | point to a larger staff member. On other occasions |
| cheapest way would be to post 10,000 flyers per | | | | staff were annoyed that we were even expecting |
| month into people's letter boxes. Most people hate | | | | them to complete a survey on a Monday morning |
| "junk mail" , and under this category comes flyers. I | | | | when they had so many important duties to perform. |
| remember posting a flyer in a letter box and the | | | | After a week we abandoned this idea. |
| occupant came out, throw the flyer at me. He shouted | | | | Finally, we were told to create a warm list and ask our |
| , how would I like it if he placed his litter through my | | | | family and friends to "product parties" or to recruit |
| letter box. | | | | them. It is amazing how soon family and friends |
| In my last job which was a mental health support | | | | started to avoid us. Would it be o.k. if I shared how I |
| worker, I can remember time and time again taking | | | | found the way to build up my home base business by |
| clients to their homes only to find a mountain of mail, | | | | increasing retail and finding more prospects to become |
| including a large proportion of flyers. Most people throw | | | | team members. |
| junk mail in the waste bin. Finally it is not a cheap way | | | | So you might ask what marketing methods do work? |
| to advertise. Good quality flyers can cost around | | | | What is going to be easier for you to market your |
| £120 (British Sterling), for 5,000 flyers made of card. | | | | product and build up your team. We found an |
| Furthermore one can add petrol and shoe leather to | | | | organisation that mentors and supports distributors in |
| this cost. | | | | network marketing for free. It is made up of M.L.M. |
| Another suggestion that we were advised to do to | | | | from a variety of home base businesses. |
| promote our weight loss products was to wear a | | | | They run 5 nights of free training. Topics covered are |
| weight loss badge or button. To tap this button when | | | | how to generate leads without costing you any money |
| out in the street, the shops or the shopping mall. It is | | | | whatsoever. They will also show you how to write |
| true most people want to loose weight but most | | | | articles, and ways to do social networking on the |
| people hate weight loss pushed to their attention. The | | | | internet. Finally, there is mindset training and we found |
| idea behind wearing the badge was to draw to the | | | | that this was key for us. We found that as we grew in |
| attention of others and if they were overweight, help | | | | skills and confidence we attracted more prospects |
| could be available to them. Most people would say, | | | | and customers. |
| that weight loss is a personal condition to them. And | | | | So, what is going to be easier for you, to to down load |
| there is an old saying "you do not over push sensitive | | | | a Free E.Book under no obligation to join and at no |
| issues onto others. | | | | cost to you. Most people like to try out new things and |
| Finally, we were suggested that on Monday mornings | | | | as it will be providing mentoring for free what have |
| we visited our local shops and gave out to the shop | | | | you got to loose. |