Were you excited about the idea of making money while spending time at home with our family and hopeful about the chance of bringing in money from this plan for the rest of your life? Can you recall your enthusiasm when you first began that new business, a vision of a new business world opening up for you?
You passed out the flyers, you talked to friends and family members at social gatherings, and perhaps you even sponsored parties yourself. And now, a short time later you realize youve spent a lot of money resulting in little profit. Friends and family avoid you. Its no longer a creative game, its expensive.
What happened here? You did everything you were supposed to do, attended seminars and events and you have a great product. You were eager to tell friends what you had and you thought everyone would want it. But you are still spending more than you make.
Before you give up you may want to re-assess the approach you have taken so far. There are many options for lead generation that are both a lot less expensive, and with modern technology, in many cases are even more effective then traditional methods.
Here are three of the ways to look for leads that you may not have tried yet:
Events Networking
Use the internet to search for ongoing networking events in your community. Given the increase in unemployment rates, there are more people looking for an alternative income source then ever. They are also more approachable than ever. In most communities there are events going on almost every week with people looking to sell their products and find a job or opportunity. But be careful at these events not to oversell your product or service to people, get to know the person you are talking to and see how you can help them before you jump into your pitch. If you are helpful and friendly the chances to build a relationship that turns into an opportunity will go up multifold.
Social Networks
This area is one of the fastest growing parts of the internet and the most discussed in the form of tools to grow your business. As with actual in person events, if you make everything about the sale of your products or getting people to sign up as your distributor, you will turn people off faster then a universal remote with a plasma TV. Take your time, use these sites to get to know people. If they like you, trust you and respect you they will come around over time, if they think its a fit. But the last thing they want is another MLMer trying to sell them something. Be a friend, its more fun for you, too.
Other Internet Tools
Webinars and eBooks and similar internet tools used to expand your list of prospects can be profitable without spending much money and in some cases you can make money with these tools as well. Go about using these in the same manner as described in the above two paragraphs ” provide the person with information and support on a friendly basis before you ask him or her to buy. That will augment your possibility of getting the person to join you and improve your reliability. This way of attracting people to your plan is called attraction marketing.
The key to using these plans ” internet or in person – to build your business is to offer more than you expect in return. Build up a connection with a prospect before you just try to sell something. If you have a good product, then your business will expand and you will be successful.
