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ACN Inc Direct Selling Work From Home Inspection – A Review of the Network Marketing Company

By cmubag On February 28, 2010 No Comments

ACN Network Marketing

ACN Inc, alleged to be the world’s biggest direct selling telecommunications company conducts business from twenty countries in three continents. So if you are a network marketer in US, Europe or Asia Pacific, you would have definitely come across the opportunity to earn money as a rep for this company’s products.

Shall we first take a look at the history and working policies of ACN Inc and find out how profitable this venture’s likely to be?

· ACN Inc – What’s it about?

Four entrepreneurs, Greg Provenzano, Robert Stevanovski, Mike Cupisz and Tony Cupisz founded this company in Farmington Hills, Michigan in 1993 to offer local and long distance telephones, internet, wireless, satellite TV with DirecTV and Home Security. These products and services are sold through the MLM Opportunity,tha is by hiring representatives to market products and recruit more distributors. This company claims to be different from other MLMs by offering reps a residual income for the work done.

· How do you earn in ACN?

As a distributor for ACN, your payment is a percentage on your client’s service worth according to the level in which you’re placed. You earn a residual income for your service, that is, you earn money for as long as the customer uses the product.. This means, all you have to do is sell a product to earn a lifelong income. Are you tempted? Think again!

· Criticisms

Just think. If this prospect were really as good as claimed, wouldn’t the company be flooded with reps?

1. The payout offered is minimal. This is to enable the company to survive amidst heavy competition.

2. You need to invest $499 to get into this company

3. Though you get a commission based on your customer’s usage, it’s payable only when the minimum usage is $10000.

4. As a previous employee claimed, you earn more in ACN by recruiting people than by selling products.

5. ACN training consists of “warm marketing” which is your friends and family for the core of your business. In a few days, you’ll find that this market is not warm anymore.

· So where does this leave us?

Do not give up. You could still work in ACN and be successful.

Be creative to make the most of this business. Project yourself to a global audience and reach people who are outside your warm market. The best way to do is by using the internet to promote your businessNow, you’ll have customers contacting you instead of you going from person to person. Adopt a new approach to marketing and conduct your business in style using the best tools in the net.


FDi Setup For Home Business Failure?

By cmubag On February 21, 2010 No Comments

FDI Business

What is Financial Destination Inc, and what exactly is missing in building a successful business from the ease of your office?

Before we dive in that crucial question let us go ahead and get a background this unique company.

FDi stands for Financial Destination Inc and is a privately held corporation founded in June 2003 by William Andreoli. Headquarters are located in Windham, New Hampshire which very close to Boston, Massachusetts.

Financial Concierge Services Comes With:

Discount Pharmacy, EquityTrax, CreditTrax, MoneyTrax, First Class Retirement, First Class Family Legal, Dental, Vision, First Class Travel, LifeLock, TeleDoc

Personal Concierge Service:

Ranging from Meal Reservations to helping your kids with homework now Everyone can have a Personal Assistant. First and only VIP financial and personal concierge company and it’s included with membership!

So with so many features and benefits, what about the feature and benefits for promoting a business…. Online?

Like so many other successful network marketing companies, Financial Destination fails to correctly teach the rep on HOW to correctly run your own home business online. Delivering a company generic website is NOT a marketing plan.

A good Internet marketing plan must have of training the home business owner on HOW to correctly build their own business online using techniques like blogging, ppc, Facebook/myspace, twitter, and many others. Of course to No fault of Financial Destination Inc to NOT teach this because when there are so many reps wildly promoting; there is bound to be a lawsuit waiting to happen when those green to the business start breaking rules they are unaware of.

So to protect their business from new reps or those with low business values, Financial Destination has no choice but to NOT teach these types of marketing techniques.

This is where a Financial Destination Inc rep savvy enough to understand the importance of the Internet plays a hand. Those with the business sense to educate themselves on correctly marketing their home business online will have an audience that is essentially thousands more than their own personal friends and family.

There is the best way to building a Financial Destination business without chasing reps.

 


When Your Upline Leaves You

By cmubag On January 15, 2010 No Comments

The Network Marketing industry is very rewarding.It is especially wonderful if you are able to find a superior product line with a financially stable company.  Maximizing your financial rewards through the compensation plan can certainly be achieved if you take time to really understand your income opportunity – and especially the risidual benefits.

With any business endeavor, you should take the time to develop and establish a business plan which includes your marketing strategy.You will no-doubt have some key insight into a few of the specific elements of your opportunity, because there was obviously something there that interested you enough to get involved.The “hook” that brought you in, is most likely a key interest for you – so you will likely utilize that interest in your own recruiting efforts.

Key Point: take the time to develop an effective business plan which includes your marketing strategy and perhaps your financial goals.

Unfortunately, most people who get involved with a Network Marketing opportunity do not really take their business seriously.They may join simply because they were given a slick pitch by their sponsor, or in some cases, really love the product.  Many people get involved because they want (and perhaps need) to believe – this is the opportunity that will bring them financial freedom.

Certainly, there are many great benefits in building a Network Marketing sales organization.But it does take effort, and it must be treated as a serious business – your business.

Too many good people have been hurt because they jumped-into an opportunity without assuming they had a role to play in the success.They have been devastated by an over-hyped sales pitch that gives the illusion that nothing is required in order to build success.One of the huge problems in the industry is the “hype-prone” sponsors who recruit rookie networkers using hype and lies.

I have been a top income-earner in the industry, and have also been a Network Marketing Company Corporate Vice President.In my years of leadership in the industry, I have seen (and been victimized by) some pretty disgusting sponsor tactics.I have also seen many dreams crushed, because people got involved with the wrong expectations.

The advice I would give anyone who is looking to join a Network Marketing opportunity is – do not depend on your sponsor for your success.It is inevitable that your sponsor will let you down, or will abandon you and never contact you again.  If you rely on them for your financial reward – you will be terribly disappointed.  

Bottom Line: Do Not expect your sponsor to build your success

If you want to succeed in your Network Marketing opportunity, decide that you will succeed on your own – regardless of what your upline may do.  You certainly may utilize tools they provide, but do not allow those tools to prohibit your own creative marketing ideas.Utilize as many resources and tools as you can – but never become solely dependent on any one system or tool to succeed.And make the decision not to NEVER give up when your sponsor goes AWOL… Just consider it part of the journey.


Tru Chocolate – Ready To Learn The Most Powerful Prospecting Secret?

By cmubag On December 4, 2009 No Comments

Tru Chocolate is a network marketing company that offers, not only organic and healthy chocolate, but also an opportunity to grow your own Tru Chocolate business. This can certainly be a good opportunity, and you really can succeed if you just learn how to do it right, but unfortunately you will not learn this from the company. They tell you to use techniques that have been proven wrong by 95-97 % of the people that joins Tru Chocolate, and any other network marketing company for that matter.

So what do they tell you? They tell you to make a list of EVERYBODY you know, then you should give out free samples, hand out business cards and flyers, talk to friends and family, go to home meetings and all that stuff. More important they tell you that EVERYONE is your prospects! Now THAT is just NOT true and every other industry knows that. Furthermore there isn’t any other industry that uses the techniques the network marketing industry is using, and why is that? Well, it really makes good sense, because of the VERY high failure rate in the network marketing industry.

In order to ever grow your Tru Chocolate business, you have to know how to properly prospect. Marketing is ALL about knowing your target market. It has not EVER been about convincing people that what you have is SO fantastic. To illustrate what I’m trying to say I’ve made this example:

Picture this: One of your friends walks up to you with a bottle in his hand saying “MAN this juice is the BEST juice ever – not only does it taste FANTASTIC it also gives me SO much energy, you should really buy some bottles!” Your friend is very exited about it, so it must be a great juice, and therefore you answer “Okay, I will certainly think about it.” But this was not the answer your friend wanted, so he says “Really this juice is SO awesome, and you can’t get it anywhere else, you have to buy it RIGHT NOW, just sign here.” I don’t know how you would feel now, but I would certainly not be the least interested, even though I was a minute ago.

Now picture this: another friend of yours comes to you with a similar bottle in his hand, saying “Man, this juice is really great, it really tastes fantastic and it gives me so much more energy.” Most likely, you will start asking buying questions; where he got that juice, how much it cost, and other questions like that. Your friends answers all your questions and before he walks away he says “This juice has really help me, if you want some, let me know, I really recommend it.”

Now take a look at the example above and take a moment and think, who of those two friends would you rather be? The second one, right? Well, I believe that most people would answer this, and that makes sense. What doesn’t make any sense is, that Tru Chocolate, and other network marketing companies, tell you to be the first friend. Can you see why so many are failing?

With that being said – it IS possible to succeed! You just have to know your audience, your target market and then ONLY spend time on people who already have an interest in healthy chocolate. This way you will just fulfil needs that people already have. This way, growing your Tru Chocolate business will be much more fun. Once you recognize that doing what the company tells you is wrong and you take the time to learn how to get targeted leads, you WILL be on your way to success with your Tru Chocolate business.

 


Tips on finding success in network marketing

By cmubag On September 23, 2009 No Comments

Well here we are in a very tough economy.Quite a few families are going through struggles and hard times.  Money is tight.People have been losing their work.  So in this type of economy, people are looking for ways to make some extra money.  One of the most popular ways in a tough economy is network marketing.Today we will take a look at some things regarding network marketing.

First of all when people look for this type of business they usually look at all the network marketing opportunities.They don’t have a clue on where to begin so they look at a bunch of different mlm companies.Now this is the part that gets hard.Because if a person has not been in a business like this before, they really don’t know what it is they are wanting.

One of the things they usually look for is the top network marketing companies.Well the sad truth is, locating who is the top doesn’t mean you will succeed. There is a lot more to becoming successful in network marketing than that.

The main way to succeed in any mlm is knowing how to do some MLM prospecting.Unless you have the skills and knowledge to recruit you will have a dying business.Because in reality, that is the main purpose of building something like this.You want the ability to make residual earnings off of the people you bring in.  This is commonly called leverage.  It works but unless you know how to bring people in, you will never benefit from it.

Once you do know how to prospect and recruit now you need to be able to teach the other people how to do that.  If you are able to do that, then you will achieve success in MLM.Knowing how to bring people into the business is one thing.But if you are unable to locate people who can do the same thing, it will be impossible to have leverage. Because your income at that point will be totally based on all your efforts.


Atlast! Simple, easy and 3rd grade duplicatable – online MLM marketing

By cmubag On July 23, 2009 No Comments

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You’ve got to hand it to the golden age of MLM Marketing or Network Marketing: coercing your immediate family, guidance counselor, and daytime coworkers did yield some constructive outcome:They weeded out the weak and compelled the rest of us to work on aspects of ourselves that required bolstering if we were to thrive at all in a sometimes hostile and changeable environment of the MLM Marketing industry. MLM and Network Marketing very much became a business of managing peoples failures.

What a difference a few years make, what with the attraction based approach to the network and MLM marketing industry, but now, like then, the MLM Marketing industry leaders are those who maintain to work on themselves and in no way break where opportunities portray themselves – both personal and professional.

Build your fortune on the foundations of Attraction Online MLM Marketing. In today’s age you need to break free from the stereo types of network and mlm marketing. Our industry has held 97% failure rate in the past – great, so what the heck is going on here? I want you to consider re-evaluating everything you think you understand in network marketing.

Online marketing and attraction marketing will serve you well.  Much more than a technique, consider it the alpha and omega of life, the universe, and everything.Using an online mlm marketing systems is truely the key to success in network marketing.MOVE ON! Old school is dead and online marketing is in, fun and easy. Only talk and sponsor the willing and the ones who want it bad – the worker bees. Right now I have a flooded inbox of leads requesting a callback as well as voice box packed with people wanting to enroll with me – this is the mind space you need to be in.

The network marketing industry is really changing for the better.Attraction marketing is creating KILLER success stories for network marketers. Things have changed, forget about what you use to know in MLM. By changing the way you market, without question you’ll see a change inyour core network.

A while back you may have only had two successful enrollments out of 10 prospects. However, the online MLM Marketing systems and attraction marketing has changed all that. Now talk to 10 people and you will have 8 who are wanting to work with YOU.

This is what the top earners are focused on, so ask yourself constantly: “what am I going to do about it?” What will it take to reach the top? What will it take to learn the formula and make it work for me? With an attitude like this, hold on to your seat because it’s time to fly. You need to focus and understand that what worked last year doesn’t mean that it works today.

Attraction based online mlm marketing is a unique approach, it sells you, it puts you at the front of the ship and leaves the old school rookies behind.

Think of network marketing as a metaphor for your entire world: if you’re going to win at it, you’re going to have to learn the rules, master yourself, and do whatever it takes to align actions with intentions. Confidence and a winning attitude are born of action – by persistently making decisions where everyone comes out ahead. Consider that you don’t need anything from anyone, and that you get from this world precisely what you give. Give everything you’ve got – it in light of a plan that works – and this world is your oyster.

Your diagnostic tool for calibrating along the way is ultimately a list of operational priorities to which you intelligently adhere.

You owe it to yourself to expect nothing less.

Are you ready to make a change? Our online mlm marketing system is free. No catch … With no holds-barred training and step by step guides to playing – and owning – the game of network marketing.

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Disabled Man's Wife Turns to Ameriplan

By cmubag On June 23, 2009 No Comments

Ameriplan Business Opportunity Presentation

AmeriPlanUSA Business Opportunity

Three years ago my husband was diagnosed with Lyme disease.He was disabled due to neurological damage and we began the long road of trying to get SSA.My family suddenly began living in the Lyme life.

My husband worked for 22 years at his J.O.B. and I stayed at home with my six kids.O.B. in the high tech industry. My family of eight, with two in college, needed financial help and I was the one who needed to provide it.Wam! It hit me like a ton of bricks. What was I going to do next?Working from home over the internet was critical. I needed a home-based business that allowed me to use the internet.

I looked at over 20 work from home businesses and MLM Programs. Then I fell on Ameriplan out of the DallasTexas area.  Why AmeriPlan?First, I couldn't afford to pay my monthly Cobra medical insurance plan premiums.  With Ameriplan’s Total Health® Program  I got help with all of these plus vision, chiropractic, hospital advocacy, and Rx mail order services. AmeriPlan is an all in one package for only $39.95 every month. 

Second, my AmeriPlan Sponsor was completely honest and answered all my questions on how I could make money with an internet home-based business.Ameriplan is not a company that promise riches overnight.Ameriplan and your sponsor IBO will help you down the road to a six figure income if you are willing to work.

The third reason why? Ameriplan is positioned in the health care, medical and dental industry.Ameriplan works for everybody who is either uninsured or under-insured.  For only $39.95 every month gets you an up to 80% on everything from health, to dental, to prescriptions, to vision, to chiropractic and more.At Walgreens I saved over $210.00 on my prescriptions using Ameriplan's discount program.00.

And fourth, you'll find a true loyal partner with Ameriplan USA.Ameriplan's computer system tracks all my customers and manages my accounting. I work the grass roots of the business by signing up members, locating new business partners and collect my monthly residual income checks.

Fifth, Ameriplan’s compensation program is awesome!  I earn immediate income and am building a monthly residual income.The beauty of the pay plan is I get paid with three days.Ameriplan is special in the fact that I don't need any special licenses and I get commisions on all business written.

So what to do next? Come join me in a true lime light business venture that can change your life.

Shannon Marie Davis, RSD
AmeriPlan USA


Attraction Marketing vs Rejection Marketing – Which Are You Using?

By cmubag On June 14, 2009 No Comments

Old School Network Marketing tactics include most of the ones you are probably already familiar with or at least have heard about.  They include techniques such as creating a list of friends and family (known as your warm list), creating a list of everyone you know, working these lists, placing door hangers, sending out flyers, holding meetings at peoples homes or at hotels, leaving drop cards, cold calling, and approaching everyone within 3 feet.

Did they work for you?  They don’t for most people so don’t feel alone.

My company indicated that everyone was a potential prospect.  While not everyone might be directly interested in the products we sold, everyone was interested in earning some extra money, right?  So just make a presentation to everyone you met and some would say yes.  I was told that it was a numbers game, the more you people you told about your opportunity, the more people you would get to sign up.

However, what they either didn’t tell me or at least played down, was the large amount of rejection I would have to face.  Approaching a disinterested, untargeted market not only resulted in a large amount of out right rejection, it also created some amount of hostility.

So my upline responded by recommending that I buy opportunity leads and call them.  If you call enough folks, a certain number will join.  It is just a matter of calling more leads if you want to sponsor more people, the story went.

But by following this guidance led only to more rejection, hung up phones, and some hostile confrontations from these supposedly opportunity seeking prospects.

After running out of money and sinking into debt from purchasing useless leads I had nothing to show for it.

I finally threw in the towel and got out of the industry for a while, defeated and licking my wounds.  That is until I ran across a much easier and better method of sponsoring.  The new method used the Internet and soon had people coming to me as opposed to me having to go hunting for them.

Instead of attempting to offer my program to everyone and anyone, I learned how to provide useful information to a targeted audience, build a relationship with them and have them ask me about how to join my team using attraction marketing techniques.

{So, if the traditional Multi Level Marketing strategies are not working for you, I strongly suggest that you take a look at the new school attraction marketing methods and don’t be held back by obsolete marketing tacktic, or at least marketing methods that aren’t working for you.}

George Dodge is a MLM consultant with hands on experience in several Network Marketing companies. Learn the secrets of Attraction Marketing by downloading a free copy of the Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto.


Advantages of a Home Based Business

By cmubag On June 13, 2009 No Comments

When taking advantage of the Internet, the prospect of working from home is quite the appealing idea for many people. However, it is important to realize that a successful home based business usually doesn’t sprout up overnight. You must have the patience and willpower to take the time and effort needed to see results and possess the flexibility to alter your approach when the time should come. All of the patience, determination, and restraint you put into a home based business is worth it, regardless if you begin a traditional business approach or seek one based on the Internet.

The major advantage there is to starting a home based business is that you are free to start small and build your business at your own pace. You have the flexibility to keep your day job while building your home based business until you are at a place financially where leaving your day job will not put you or your family in jeopardy. This is significant, because the point of having the home based business is to make your life better, not ruin it and it is only with a home based business that you will have this luxury.

Another benefit to pursuing a home Internet based business is the low start up expenses. The minimum equipment needs to start a home based business is a computer and connection to the Internet, which allows one to easily sell one or more services or products at the same time. Even obtaining a presence on the web with a specialized site doesn’t cost much.

Starting a home based business also proves beneficial to family life, as your schedule is able to open up – making room for attending vital school events, milestones, and other family demands. Another home based business advantage includes the savings in travel going to and from a typical job site that can now increase your family time at home.

As you consider the idea of a home based business, you will find that they tend to possess low overheads and when situated on the Internet – are easily transportable. Wherever there is a connection to the Internet, you can gain access to a satisfying international consumer base while working anywhere. Home businesses established offline are not as portable, but tend to stick within a particular region.

While this author can certainly attest to this fact; it is very difficult to develop an online business for free. Yet free traffic is the best traffic for an online business since it is "organic" and highly targeted. Take the time to learn various techniques of online marketing such as article marketing, and you may very well start a stampede of visitors to your site you could not turn off even if you wanted to!

The ability to obtain tax benefits when starting a home based business is another advantage associated with working at home. This also helps to offset some of the home expenses you already incur. Some people have claimed a percentage of their power costs as a tax deduction pertaining to the home when starting a business. Training and other business related expenses (such as taking a class) are also legitimate tax claims.

Starting a home based business is the easy part. Building it and making it profitable is more difficult. However, if you are prepared to do your homework and put in the time and effort required to be successful, there are many advantages to working from home in your own business. There are a lot of very successful people doing just that!


Avoiding Home Based Business Failure

By cmubag On June 7, 2009 No Comments

Any given day, thousands of people look to get out of the rat race and work from home. In addition, many people want to get a home based business started so badly that they do not always make wise choices in choosing a    work from home opportunity. As a result, many fail miserably. This doesn't have to happen to you. It is possible to pick a viable business opportunity. As discussed in a previous article, there are five top reasons many home-based businesses will never work. Let's discover six additional reasons why, if people are not careful, their home based business could fail.

Reason#1: Most new opportunities have no way to help people make large amounts of money. Many opportunities will give great ideas for making money, but then leave people out in the cold by offering very little training. There simply is not a good support system. Nobody should be a part of a business opportunity such as this.

Reason #2: Unfortunately, some home business opportunity promoters will take people’s money and run. There are too many fly-by-night companies out there that will not hesitate to scam people. The problem is their promotions sound just as good as everybody else’s. To avoid this, home-based business opportunity seekers need to be very skeptical about each business opportunity they are presented, examine them carefully, and then make an informed decision.

Reason #3: Some home-based business opportunities have people work long hours for little pay. People end up getting burned out, tired, frustrated, and eventually quit. Why become part of a work at home opportunity that is like a regular job?

Reason #4: Many business opportunities offer products nobody wants. Never, ever try to market anything people could care less about. Everyone who tries to do this is doomed to fail. Always remember that the market for your products or services comes first, and the product or service must offer something exciting that people want. In addition, it is best that the company that offers the product or service has a proven marketing system that automatically sells to people the exciting product or service.

Reason #5: Many home-based business opportunities force people to become salespeople. Because things are not set up right, people are forced to face rejection constantly. Most people hate to sell so avoid this type of business!

Reason #6: Most work at home opportunities pay small sums of money and no residual income. This is a recipe for disaster! If people sell low-priced items that don't sell for very much money, it's going to be almost impossible for them to obtain financial freedom and to become financially independent. Never become part of any home-based business opportunity that forces one to sell tons of items just to make a decent profit.

So, there it is in nutshell-six additional reasons why many home-based businesses will fail. Look out for potential problems with any home-based business opportunity, make sure it does not meet the criteria for any of these six problems outlined, and then make an informed choice