74 MLM Team-Building Tips

by Richard Dennis
http://GoSuccessTeam.com/ rtdennisfl@gmail.com

74 MLM Team-Building Tips

by Richard Dennis http://GoSuccessTeam.com/ rtdennisfl@gmail.com Monticello, FL About 80 of us were on the Team Mastermind Call one Wednesday night in 2006 when I asked, What do you like best about Success Team Builders? The first answers came slowly and then the dam broke and the flood began! Weve used the Team Mastermind many times to brainstorm marketing ideas and come up with great results. It never occurred to me before that evening to use the Team to brainstorm why the Team works so well but looking back, it sure makes sense. Following is what the Success Team Builders came up with: a list of ways you can provide a safe place for your people to create substantial income from home. We have used all these techniques on our team. Some must be executed first, before others will be appropriate this should be obvious as you read each tip. These 74 points focus on the benefit to prospects of joining your Team & Company, and using your teams System. I encourage you to use these ideas and to model this report to promote your own MLM team.

1. Build your business inside your comfort zone. No selling to friends & family. In fact, no selling at all. Ninety per-cent of the population hates selling or being sold to. If you train people to sell to friends & family, you will never get the duplication you need to build huge. 2. Build your business through relationships. You can get complete training in relationship marketing on the Colors To Success CD at http://online.ColorToSuccess.com/ . This technology is way more effective and much easier to duplicate than selling. 3. Create family. Team members work together to help each other, upline, downline, and crossline. Its very unusual in network marketing to have this kind of participation. It works when

you recruit people who take joy in helping others. You want people who are a mentor with a servants heart, and you should expect that of EVERYONE on your team. 4. The Anti-Predator! You may have heard of a recruiting system called The Predator. What could possibly be more obnoxious? Do you really think someone who treats their prospects as prey can possibly be successful long-term? Who the heck wants to be prey? Instead, focus on non-threatening, non-sales, ways to do business. 5. Team Mastermind Once or twice a week, get your entire team together by phone for business-building & marketing on a team conference call. Give everybody the chance to share their ideas or share their problems, and ask for help. 6. Meet the Team Once a week, give your people the opportunity to introduce their new people to the entire team as they join the family and your new reps get a chance to tell the team about themselves. 7. Build a Group of Leaders over time who will be available to help new people do 3way calls to answer prospect questions. 8. The Cruise Ship Rule Some people recruit anything that crawls, walks or slithers. A good rule of thumb is, Is this someone youd like to go on a 30-day cruise with? If not, let them go. 9. Action Plan Write out a step-by-step action plan, taking your new recruit from just starting to successfully building.

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Resources.

Offer your people a wide variety of training & businessbuilding materials online and offline. 11. Team Call audio files for team members.

Record every phone training you do and post them in a file online. A new team member can get up-to-speed in a hurry in your audio file archives. 12. Team Call audio files for prospects.

Each company has a set of presentations they know to be effective. Have someone who is really good record each of these. Post them on separate webpages. Direct your prospect to the right audio file at the appropriate time in the recruiting process. 13. Instant marketing/advertising help.

As soon as you have a few people, start an online discussion group. We recommend http://yahoogroups.com/. Everybody can participate by email and ask the Team any question about marketing, advertising, product, etc. Its a huge benefit for people to be able to get questions answered 24/7. And as your team grows, youll build Yahoo group archives with incredibly valuable information. 14. How To Write Your WHY.

Have everyone on your team write out their personal, stepby-step plan to motivate yourself to success. Theres a great guide to writing your WHY in Section 2 of the ebook Success In 10 Steps, available at http://online.SuccessIn10Steps.com/ . (Free download.) 15. Put up your own password-protected Team website.

Here is a good place to post your Action Plan and Resources and Audio Files, etc. 16. Know Your Competitors.

Over time, gather compensation plans, Policies & Procedures, & member evaluations of as many different network marketing companies as you can. These can be made available on your team website. 17. Personal coaching & mentoring.

Make it available for all team members, no matter where they are in the genaeology (upline, downline, crossline). For this to work, #18 must be in place. 18. You MUST be a mentor with a servants heart.

Those with a greed or ego focus are NOT the type of people who can build long-term relationships. You cant afford to have them on your team. You must put together a group of people who take joy from helping others, regardless of the financial reward. 19. FREE training for all your people.

Have team leaders do training by conference calls & email. Meanwhile, newer members focus solely on promoting the calls & discussion group, to bring new people into their business and to learn the skills necessary to take over the training, giving themselves more credibility with the public. 20. Give complete training in how to interview prospects.

The key word here is, LISTEN! We have a list of questions we use in the interview process. (Call me at 1-850-997-1241 if youd like the list.) When you interview prospects, youll get the information you need to decide who you want in your business with you.

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Family atmosphere.

You want people who are comfortable around people like yourself people who get turned on by helping others. They will fit right into your family. Again, your target market is those who truly want to help others. 22. Constant encouragement & support.

From all, for all. When you are building relationships, you dont want devils advocates. Cynicism & negativism are not tolerated. Smart, dedicated, skilled people can accomplish anything by brainstorming, testing, and then focusing on what is proven to work to build their businesses. 23. Group Conference calls.

On your calls, offer lots of tools and relationship training to help your new recruits become successful. Encourage leaders to grow & prosper & build relationships, using whatever methods & skills they choose. Eventually, many of your leaders will have their own team within a team calls. 24. Effective Marketing Tools.

Get team members to share tools they have used that worked flyers, emails, ads, etc. 25. Recruit a copywriting professional to your team.

Offer to build them a business. A pro can create effective marketing pieces like this one for every group member to use. The right person can make a huge difference in your marketing effectiveness. 26. What To Say To Prospects!

Record someone in your company who gets really good results in talking to prospects. Make this audio available in your Team website back office.

27. How to Develop a Strong Customer Acquisition Program In 60-90 Days. This is a generic report we make available to our team. If youd like a copy, call me at 1-850-997-1241. 28. Non-profits & (your company).

Write out a step-by-step plan detailing how a rep can build income & also help non-profit organizations raise funds, using your company products. We have a sample that you can model. Call me. 29. A listing of the best long-distance phone plans

for US, Canada, & internationally. Find these online and write up your own comparison. 30. Every member of your team can get Tom Big Al Schreiters weekly Fortune Now newsletter emailed to them at no charge. This newsletter contains the best business-building tips that Big Al has picked up from successful reps around the world. Just go to http://fortunenow.com/ 31. How to talk to leads

You get 3 live training calls a week, calling actual leads. 32. How to be a network marketing leader

Learn all the skills you need in 3 more live training calls a week Most of these are archived and posted online. 33. Colors Personality conference call training

Learn to spot the personality type within seconds and talk to that person the way they want you to.

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The Compensation Plan conference call

explaining how the different MLM comp plans work. 35. The Marketing Call

giving ideas & resources to help you build your business. 36. The 5 Pillars training

giving you all the data you need to accurately evaluate any company. 37. It's not my fault!

Thats the conclusion most people reach when they realize the cards have been stacked against them in MLM. The floodgates open, and you hear a huge sign of relief. 38. Two Mental Cleanse calls a week

to help you get rid of lifes negative processing and adopt a winning attitude instead. 39. One Coaches Corner Mastermind call a week.

You will hear the personal growth in people from one week to the next. To have 100 people on a 10:30 pm Saturday night conference call is amazing - and it's free! 40. Weekly Health Mastermind call

for those interested in the latest in do-it-yourself health The following are specific features of our company. You may use these as models or memory joggers to write up appropriate features of your company. 41. Our flagship product QQQ is in the media.

Its been scientifically tested hundreds of times at www.pubmed.gov . You can send your prospects to this

website to see the results of all the studies done on the key ingredient, qqqqqqq. 42. No huge home office building paid for by reps

... instead, the money goes back into your compensation plan. 43. 44. CEO: XXX, the most trusted name in network marketing. Our CEO helps you sponsor!

Send your prospects to meetings around the US. (CEO) recruits them for you and theyll love the meeting, because he is funny as heck! 45. Upline Leader YYY

does a weekly training call & is available to answer team questions. 46. Entire company management is experienced, ethical & legal. Its critical to have a corporate structure of experienced MLM people. Your long-term success depends on having a corporate structure of experienced MLM people. (Do a writeup on your company leadership & why they are perfect for your teams success. It should be easy to get this information from your company.) 47. A Culture of Truth.

Every company you align with has a culture. Ours believes in truth. 48. A compensation plan that pays REALLY well!

You can earn a substantial 5-figure monthly in-come with only 400 people on autoship in your entire group. In most companies, that takes 2000+ people! ASTONISHING: you

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can actually do this in a year by personally sponsoring just ONE person a month - & train them to do the same. 49. You average $20-$25/month profit . . .

for everyone in your group on autoship, so you can earn $500 a month from only 25 customers. 50. Exotic company-paid trips

for Diamond level producers (past trips went to Italy, England, Austria, etc.). 51. Six free websites, including 3 websites focused on selling our most popular products 1 website presenting the opportunity 1 (European customer) website, targeting product sales 1 (European prospect) website, for the opportunity

52. This is a very rare company that pays you infinitely wide and infinitely deep based on product movement. There are no stops on your growth. 53. Ease of product ordering.

You can go online & change autoship quickly & easily. No phone calls. No waiting. No getting put on hold. No approvals. No catches. 54. Online back office with up-to-the-minute statistics.

You see exactly who you have on every level, what they ordered this week, their next scheduled order, & much more. And it's free. What other company offers this for free? 55. Company is a No Hype zone.

You dont need to twist arms to get people to join your business.

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Company is a clean operation.

No cure cancer claims, like some companies. 57. Company answers your questions within 24-48 hours

by email You get both technical & product support very fast, so you can quickly answer any prospect question. 58. Company Builders Circle

recognizes the top builders in the company each week. 59. Company management know it is the reps YOU responsible for company success & profits. Your production is both recognized and financially rewarded. You are treated with great respect. 60. Company is streamlined.

97% of all product orders are done online. The Home Office in (City) is a sensible space designed for productivity no glitz. Its the first network marketing company to cut costs and pass the savings on to reps through the compensation plan. (Company) takes full advantage of modern technology to do the work it does best. 61. You can actually retire

after building your business. There is no ongoing sales requirement, as most MLM companies have these days. 62. You can will your business to whomever you want.

Many companies don't allow you to pass it on to your family. 63. Company offers several dozen popular consumable products

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with many testimonials, so its easy to get people on autoship. 64. You can create a good income even if you NEVER sponsor anybody - just retail product. 65. Company owns their software.

You never need worry about a vendor selling your database (its happened in many companies!) 66. Company protects the product ingredients.

There are many ways to contaminate ingredients, from planting to processing. Our system avoids contamination. 67. The Policies & Procedures is your contract with the company. Many companies have P&Ps that run 25, 50, even 100 pages, full of lawyerese. Our company P&P is a simple 3 pages. No hidden gotchas. 68. Companys priority is where it should be - lots of support for the distributor. 69. 70. Value-priced products, competitive with store prices. You get a weekly paycheck.

In other companies, it's often 6 weeks after you've sold something that you get paid. 71. You get 1 free product a month

for every 100BV of autoship. 72. Car bonus of $250 to $2000 a month, depending on volume. 73. Our system attracts network marketing Warriors,

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They finally see a way to achieve their dreams & goals. These peo-ple already know the business and the industry. No babysitting. They see the value of our system. They understand the training. They are amazed at the compensation plan. They see what they have ahold of, and theyre ready to rock and roll. 74. We attract people who really want to be professional in doing this business. No dilletantes, no get-rich-quickers. If you join us, we expect you to make the time & the effort to get really good at the details of this business.

For more information, call me: Richard Dennis Call 1-850-997-1241 anytime! rtdennisfl@gmail.com
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