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MLM- What’s wrong with friends and Family?

May 26th, 2010

Like any other business, over 90% of everybody fails. You and your friends & family are no different. And when your friends & family fail, WHO are they going to blame?

(You should now have your hand raised.)

Once you have your business working and cranking out leads and paychecks, THEN I am 100% in favor of talking to friends & family. In fact, you won’t have to call them – they will hear the good news, and they will call you. They will want you to tell them how you did it. And then you can teach them exactly how you used “Success In 10 Steps” by Michael Dlouhy to find the strongest leads in the business to build your network marketing income.

So don’t join the NFL (No Friends Left) club. You can use “Success In 10 Steps” and get good training and get good at building your business. Make your mistakes with the people you don’t know. THEN turn around and pick up your friends & family.

That will result in a much happier Thanksgiving dinner family gathering, I can assure you.

To build your own big income in M-L-M, the people you sponsor will need a constant stream of hot prospects. I can help you do that for them, and for yourself. For details, call me at 908-337-3160 or email me with your name, phone number, and the best time to call.

To Your Success,

Cristiana Martinez
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Are You with the Right MLM Company?

March 9th, 2010

My good friend and Mentor Michael Dlouhy, author of Success in 10 Steps, talks about the 5 questions to ask before you choose a

company to work with for the next five, ten or twenty years.
Getting the answers to these questions will save you years of failure
and frustration.

And remember … IT’S NOT ABOUT THE PRODUCTS.
You can have the greatest products on the planet,
but if your company does not have all 5 pillars,
you can have everything taken away from you overnight.

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1. Company Management Experience with Integrity
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Read your Policies and Procedures. Look for the words
“termination” and “ongoing”. Find out how safe you are,
how your downline is protected, and whether you can
ever retire.

Rule of Thumb: The longer the contract, the more
overhead the company has, and the less you earn.

Do a Google search on the company and the owners
of the company you are researching. Add the word
’scam’ to your search. Check reliable websites like
www.mlmwatchdog.com, etc. for warnings.

Beware of companies where you can buy your way
to the top. Check ebay to see if the company’s
products are being sold there.

Beware of sponsors offering you a “good position”.
There can be no “deals” in an ethical company.
There must be a level playing field.

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2. Timing in the Company / Timing in the Industry
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Beware of “ground floor opportunities” and start-up
companies. 99% of companies don’t last two years.

Most people don’t make money in the first two years
while the company is dealing with problems.

Profit comes AFTER two years. Join then.

Do not join a company with a product with no profit
margin, e.g. long distance or vinyl records!

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3. Remarkable Product
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Be sure your product is unique – not invisible among others.
Read Seth Godin’s “The Purple Cow”.

Warning: If the product would not sell without a business
opportunity attached, it is ILLEGAL.

If you can’t pay online with a credit card, and if you can only
pay by cash or money order, it is ILLEGAL.

If distributors collect the money while the company stays
at arm’s length, it is ILLEGAL.

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4. Compensation Plan That Pays Part-Timers
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95% of networkers are part-time. Make sure that people can
make a decent income working a few hours per week.

Beware of companies that advertise how many millionaires
they have created. Make sure it’s not at the expense of
those “at the bottom”. Everyone should be able to benefit.

Ask the question “How many people must I have in my
business to earn $10,000 per month?” There are companies
out there that require as many as 10,000 and as few as 400.
It’s not unusual to see well-established companies that
require 3000 to 7000 people, and still attract new distributors.

If your upline won’t or can’t answer this basic question,
you should run.

If a company stresses “Recruit, Recruit, Recruit!”, you should
“Run, Run, Run!”

The key to success is moving product from the company to
the end consumer.

If you are making only 5% to 8% commissions, you are
being extremely underpaid.

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5. System for Success
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The company must have a duplicatable system for success.
People are not duplicatable – systems are. e.g. If you have
to rely on upline doing presentations, this is NOT duplicatable.

DO NOT MAKE A LIST OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

STOP BUYING LEADS.

These methods do not work anymore.

I hope this short summary has been informative and useful.

If you’d like to read more, please download the free ebook 
Success in 10 Steps

To Your Success,

Cristiana Martinez

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Questions your Prospects Ask

February 3rd, 2010

It is key to make your network marketing business as duplicatable as possible. And the less you have to talk, the more duplicatable it gets. The ability to use the Success In 10 Steps ebook and just point to sections that answer certain questions or to sections that would be valuable to people makes your life a lot simpler.

The format of the ebook has been very successful. It’s had over 107,000 downloads in the past 4 years. A lot of people have used STS to generate leads and build an MLM business. It is set up to make it easy for people to do network marketing. You don’t have to be an expert at anything. You hardly even need to be able to answer any questions.

We know the 3 questions people most ask when they’re looking for a business:

1. Is this something I can do?
2. Can I make money at it?
3. Can you help me?

For them to answer question #1 positively, the business has to be really simple. And it’s important to show them that it’s going to be simple for them to give this system to the people they bring into the business.

They may not be thinking that far ahead. But as soon as you point out to them that they have to be able to give THEIR prospects a simple system or their business will not duplicate, they know that is true.

On page 10 of STS, Michael Dlouhy talks about the 100 MLM companies that he joined. It’s a good story that can answer several different questions.

Most of the people who download the STS ebook are people who have already been in network marketing, but who have struggled with the business. They’re looking for answers. They don’t know why they haven’t been successful. They know it’s not because somebody else is smarter than they are. They are frustrated.

So Michael joining 100 different MLM businesses to kind of get an idea of how the whole thing works resonates with them. It makes sense to do that. And it helps give your prospect some background that helps them see all the value they can possibly get from reading this ebook.

Page 10 is definitely one of the sections I would point out to prospects. Again, when you only need to point someone to a page in the book to answer their questions and gain credibility, it becomes obvious that this is a very easy business to do.

Get your Free copy here

The ebook, the training, the Mentoring and all the Coaching you can handle for NADA! This is an incredible system that teaches you HOW to build online.

What do you have to lose? Your time. Is your Success not Worth the time to read the eBook?

To your Success,

~Cristiana Martinez
908-337-3160
“Dare to Dream and be Empowered to Prosper”

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A Great Article on MLM by Michael Dlouhy

December 9th, 2009

By Michael Dlouhy, author of the Free e-Book on MLM “Success in 10 Steps”

One thing network marketers do is … we wonder why other people do the things they do. Some of that stuff really seems irrational, doesn’t it? Selfish, mean, nuts? It’s frustrating just to think about someone doing those crazy things. Why can’t they be normal? Like … like … like US for instance!

And do you know what the height of this lunacy is? They … look at us … and think exactly the same thing!

Since they are so set in their crazy ways, maybe the smartest thing for us to do is to be a bit less bothered by their nuttiness.

One way to do this is to look beyond their behavior and into their soul. The vast majority of associates and prospects and family members aren’t being devious. They are just doing what they believe in. If you can look at the other person and see the innocence behind their behavior, then you can have compassion for them.

One area where others seem to often “go too far” is in their idea of how quickly we should be doing some pretty weird (probably unproductive) action, to help them in their MLM business. To them, it’s urgent. You, on the other hand, have 27 things on your list more urgent and more likely to produce good results. So just think of the frustration you feel when a project is urgent to you and you have to depend on someone else for the next step. That may make it easier to “feel their pain” and not be so bothered by their behavior.

We appreciate you!

Michael & Linda Dlouhy

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Have you Asked Yourself the 10K Question about your MLM?

November 4th, 2009
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When we start a job or a salaried position, we know what our hourly wage or our annual salary will be before we start.

When we start a home business, however, we rarely ask that question, and we should! We should know how haed we’ll need to work to achieve our goals.

Michael Dlouhy has taught us to ask The 10K Question:

“How many active distributors do I need in my business to generate a walk away residual income of $10,000 per month?”

There’s a good friend of mine that was in a business and discovered too late that it was going to be almost impossible to reach his goals. Bob wished he had asked the 10K question before he started.

If you don’t know the answer to that question in your present business, find out before you waste five years as he did.

If you are considering starting a business, ask the question. If your sponsor or upline or company rep support can’t answer you, RUN! As Michael Dlouhy says, “Run far and run fast!”

If you’d like some help to calculate the 10K answer for your company, we will be glad to work with you. We can also help you analyze your company’s policies and procedures to see if your business is protected for you and your family.

Start by downloading the free ebook Success in Ten Steps at http://tinyurl.com/SuccessMLMe-Book

As soon as you download the book, we’ll contact you to show you the rest of the free training system, the audio version of Success in Ten Steps, and many archived training calls – all free and all generic.

To Your Success,

~Cristiana Martinez
908-337-3160
“Dare to Dream and be Empowered to Prosper”

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Why People Fail in MLM?

July 13th, 2009

Michael Dlouhy has been in Network Marketing for more than 30 years. He is a good friend and personal mentor.

He is a Successful Network Marketer. He has talked to thousands of people in the Network Marketing Industry. They ask themselves certain questions about failing in MLM. Maybe some are familiar to you:

* Why I am not smart enough to do this business?

* Why am I successful in Corporate America and fail in MLM?

* Why does the phone weight so much?

* Why do the “No”’s hurt so bad?

* Am I too tall? I am too short?

* I worked so hard and still can’t do it. What’s wrong with me? What’s wrong with the company? What’s wrong with the product?

* Other people do this. Why can’t I?

* Why did the Federal Government shut my company down?

* I maxed out my credit card on advertising. Why did it not work?

* I went to the meetings. I did three-way phone calls. Why doesn’t everyone see this?

* Where is the teamwork?

* Why isn’t this fun?

* Where are the facts and figures?

* Where is the money?

As Michael Dlouhy says:

“It’s not your fault. Let that sink in. How does that make you feel?

I don’t care what any heavy hitter has ever told you. Fact is that they have lied to you. Doesn’t that make you angry?

I can prove that the cards are stacked against you.That’s WHY it’s NOT your fault.

* Why should you never wrestle a Pig?

Why? Because you’ll both get dirty, and the pig likes it. That’s the best advice you’ll get about hitching your wagon to an MLM Heavy Hitter.”

Would it be OK if you knew the answers to these and all the questions you have about Network Marketing?

Click <a href=”http://cristiana.bigmlmlies.com/?mad=38389.”> HERE </a> to download my F*ree E-book.

To your Success,

Cristiana Martinez

908.337.3160 ~anytime~

A Mentor with a Servant’s Heart

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A Think and Grow Rich Mindset

June 24th, 2009

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Most people have heard of, or read the book “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill. Personally, I am a huge fan of the book and have read and studied it many times.

Napoleon Hill spent many years interviewing the most successful people of the time and then compiled the information into the book.

Think and Grow Rich is just exactly as the title suggests. Think and Grow Rich. Not only moneywise, but also rich in thoughts, ideas, how to take action to reach your goals and dreams.

To get good at what you do you have to Take Action. Don’t try to figure out the HOW to do it before you start. Just take the first step. It’s ok to fail. Practice makes perfect. The HOW will come to you along the way.

A quote from Napoleon Hill the author of Think and Grow Rich.

“Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do”. ~Napoleon Hill~

I belong to a group of like minded individuals called Mentoring for free. Every Wednesday at 3pm and 8pm Eastern we host a coaching call to study Think and Grow Rich.

30-Day Mental Cleanse – This is a great coaching call where we learn to master our thoughts by Masterminding on the book “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill.  Each week we discuss one chapter – the nature of this call allows you to join in on any week; Michael Dlouhy(host) chooses the lessons in a way that highlights a specific mentoring principle.  He then broadcasts them via email to the participants. The call is every Wednesday at 3pm and 8pm Eastern.

You can become a participant and download your free copy of the eBook Think and Grow Rich at: www.30DayCleanse.com.  This call is highly recommended for everyone. Michael has been hosting this call continuously for over ten years.

To your Success,

Cristiana Martinez

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