MLM Residual Income

Mlm residual income success with network marketing leads is the way most network marketers do business, at least part of the business. There are always product demonstrations, bump-intos, etc.

The question always is, how do I find people to talk to? Where do I get leads?

There are many companies willing to sell you leads anywhere from a few cents a lead to several dollars a lead. We are told the the more expensive leads are "pre-qualified". Well, I've never found them to be any more valuable than the others.

Would you believe it, I've never had one of those leads pan out at all. Most people I talk to haven't had good luck with them, either.

People who are on leads lists generally signed up for something else, fell for a "ground floor" brand new network marketing scheme - designed mostly to build lead lists - and have had their names recycled, re-hashed, and re-sold to unsuspecting network marketers.

When you talk to the leads - if they'll even answer the phone, let alone speak with you - you find they have no recollection of signing up as an interested party in starting a home-based-business. What a waste of their time and yours! Or mine.

And, sadly, there are some network marketing companies that teach you the way to find leads is to buy theirs. You may not know that the money you pay goes to someone upline in the company or even the owner. You may never earn a dime, but they do all right.

Does the term "do your due diligence" strike a cord with anyone? Ask where they came from.

I don't know about you, but I don't want to talk to anyone who doesn't want to talk to me. I want the people who raise their hand.

Mum's the word, but there is a better way. More about that next time.

Wishing you mlm residual income success with network marketing leads,

In my last post on "Being a leader" I talked about "Googling" information and not asking anyone for the answers. Well, sometimes you have to get some team help.

I understood the general principle of using the Windows Movie Maker and the different things it can do. But when it came to actually finding everything and setting a few things up, my eyes glazed over and I got that little voice coming from the pit of my stomach saying - "help!"

I long for the good old days of written instruction booklets.

So I called a friend on my team, sideline to me, who has helped me before with the voice recording program and he, with lots of patience, walked me through.

Now this is the beauty of an extended team where everyone leaves his or her ego at the door.
Another close friend and mentor Michael Dlouhy, author of the e-book Success in 10 Steps and founder of Mentoring for Free says that a successful team has no room for greed and ego. My friend Kim gets no monetary benefit from what I do, but he's a buddy and willing to help.

Not only did I learn how to find different tools and learn, finally, how to set up a file folder on the desktop, but my Kim discovered a few things he hadn't noticed before. He said he could make use of those.

Also, speaking of team help, he knows I'm good for composing a jingle should he need one for his videos. I am, after all, the singing network marketer.

So being a leader does mean you solve problems. But every leader has other mentors and leaders and friends and you have to know when to ask for help, yourself. For some people that's really hard. I'll go over that in another post.

An extended team of persons with a variety of talents and expertise means strength. Strength of the team and, in turn, strength of the company.

The strength of the whole is always greater than the sum of the individual parts.

Wishing you success with MLM residual income and team help,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626 - Anytime
E-mail Wendy
www.wendywebermentor.com

I never desired being a leader, especially. I grew up contented to be a "worker bee", not the queen. That may have had something to do with not having a lot of confidence in myself, although I did well in school and have always had the ability to be creative with words and music. While I had friends, I was rather a loner, and that also had to do with my family situation, another story sometime.

What is it that makes leaders different? How can anyone look into the future to see who will rise from follower status to becoming a recognized leader – someone who is widely accepted as a guru? Probably a lot of people figure that when you look at a leader, you see certainty and passion and enthusiasm. With those elements, a person inspires confidence in others. You probably don't have a bunch of statistics to back it up, but I'll bet you've noticed the same thing in your life. Man or woman, the person who exudes confidence is easy to follow. And what about the one without it? You may not even know they exist. That was pretty much how I felt.

For people to follow you, you must have chosen a path you have very strong belief in. It's important to be 100% sure, because any doubt in your voice or in your actions comes through loud and clear to everyone who is looking at you. When you show the clear mental toughness to lead in one definite direction, then you have a real opportunity to gather followers. On the other hand, if you run around in several different directions, then people will keep on looking for a leader.

It's always surprising how many people look to others to guide them when, if they just Googled their question, they’d have an answer. True leaders don't wait for others to make a move to do it for them. They find a model of what they want, then they figure it out and make it work. When a leader doesn't understand how to do something, they try it anyway. This isn't revolutionary. Every one of us learns to drive by driving. Success as a leader means you have a "think REALLY big" mindset, and then doing the necessary actions. A leader absolutely knows that they are the ONLY one responsible for their future, so they do the logical actions that will bring the results they want.

It took me a long time to really "get" this. I am just starting to do videos and have a friend standing by to walk me through Windows MovieMaker. However today, while I had some time, I "Googled" it and the answers were there. So, I'll try it without him and will call him only if I get really stuck. Why? Because I grew into a leader.

Wishing you mlm residual income success by being a leader,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626 - Anytime
E-mail Wendy
www.wendywebermentor.com

Sometimes we have to color inside the lines for mlm residual income success.

For example, we strive to fill out those little circles on surveys and questionnaires.

We try to stay within the space when completing the arrows on a voting ballot - at least here in Phoenix. Does anyone else use those?

It works if we "stay within the lines" with the Mentoring for Free system. The system works.
My good friend and mentor Michael Dlouhy, author of the free ebook Success in 10 Steps told me once, when I wanted to do this and that, to just get in and "drive the car". The system was set up. Just use it.

Being blue, it has taken me a while to focus on that. I really "got it" on the Success Team Builders cruise. That's how teammates have success. I crossed another line.

So, I'm "coloring within the lines".

Wishing you mlm residual income success by coloring inside the lines,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626 - Anytime
E-mail Wendy
www.wendywebermentor.com

I have been catching up on my taxes and was thinking that I should have been using more of The Slight Edge techniques all along.

I had 2 years to catch up on before I even got to the 2007 return.

Don't know about you, but tax preparation is something I dread so much each year that I'll even put housecleaning and pulling weeds ahead of it. And I even send them off to my accountant to complete. Of course, that's not the basic reason I didn't do the prior-year taxes, but that's another story.

Anyway, I was thinking that what I should have done, and have started to do, is to do something small each day relative to record-keeping. Whether I record the receipts in a ledger or, now into my "Neat Receipts" scanning device, I just do that every day, or whevever I get a receipt, and then compiling the info is easy.

Well, I did do that for 2007, but evidently missed a few and then couldn't remember what a few were for. Perhaps an easy spreadsheet for those expenses that are online and I don't have physical receipts for unless I print them out, probably a waste of paper and ink. But there is progress.

If you're familiar with The Slight Edge process from the book of the same name by Jeff Olson, you know that you can do small, easy things every day, or not do them, and your progress will go up towards success or down towards failure. I'm working on going up towards success - there is a chart to check off which way you went each day.

Formula for Success

Where am I going with this? Well my good friend and mentor Art Jonak teaches that network marketing is as simple as doing a few simple things every day. He says that the formula for success is "getting a large number of people doing a few simple things over and over for a long period of time".

That makes sense. The key is the KISS system - "keep it simple, sweetheart".

I can address that in another post.

In the meantime, I'll finish my 2007 tax info to send off to my accountant to complete properly. And I'll work on keeping notes every day for expenses. And I'll check off the boxes above the median line on the slight edge chart as many time in a month as possible to keep my progress in the success mode and not failure mode.

Wishing you mlm recurring income success through using "The Slight Edge" philosophy,

Wendy Weber, The Singing Network Marketer
602-404-1626 - Anytime
E-mail Wendy
www.wendywebermentor.com
"Be a Mentor with a Servant's Heart"

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

- Betty Bender