Why Continue to Do BOMs that Don't Work?

I'm not saying BOMs never work. I'm saying that a lot of BOMs out there don't work, and they're stupid. But lots of networkers still do them, anyway, because it's the traditional thing to do. They feel that success is not possible without BOMs happening. BOMs to them are an indication that vital signs of life are showing. Holding BOMs to them means something positive is happening. Well, yeah, often it means that something's happening to make you lose more money.

Office BOMs are a bit okay, but what I can't understand are BOMs in fast food stores which very rarely work at all. You just feed people often for nothing. They attend your BOM waiting for the burger and drinks to be served. Would they make a payin? Most times, never.

Why won't a lot of people do payins in BOMs, even those held at the office? First, there's the inner feeling of annoyance or even hatred being invited to a networking business. Lots of people, especially in Manila, hate the idea, especially when they hear the usual stupid networking hypes and slogans being recited there: "Payaman na tayo! Tatlong bagsak! Sino ang ayaw yumaman!" These are all stupid, and BOMs are so full of them. If you get any signup in such BOMs, they are often unproductive or unqualified signups. They won't help you in the long run. Unqualified signups only help your topmost uplines get richer.

Second, there are many distractions in BOMs. And why not? Imagine gathering 20 to 50 people in one place. The more people, the more distractions. Add to that the noise and added distractions from other people if the BOM is held in fast food stores. I have conducted a lot of BOMs already in my life, and have also seen others do it, and saw how easily you can lose your audience in 5 seconds, especially if you're not a skilled presentor--and many presentors are thus. They are nothing but second rate copy cats of the network leaders they admire. They sound like broken tape recorders, and who'd want to listen to guys like that?

Third, clean and systematic follow-ups after BOMs seldom happen because BOMs are usually disorderly after they happen. People just want to go home immediately and other insensitive networkers make a lot of noise so that you more easily lose your prospect's attention.

What's more effective than BOMs [and cheaper, too], or how to make your BOMs really effective, are topics I discuss in my FREE CNM Newsletters. If you want them, simply fill up the Contact Form on the sidebar of this blog and say, "Please send me the newsletter."

Easy Ways to Make Prospects Show Up for Your Appointments

Most prospects have a knack for escaping set appointments, especially when they sense that it's all about network marketing. How often have they agreed to meeting with you, and then later text you about not making it due to this or that reason? You lose precious time, effort, and money especially when the prospect cancels the appointment at the last minute.

Admit it. Many people are allergic to network marketing also because of unscrupulous networkers and companies who made the business look bad. And now we suffer for it. If you're one of them, it's time for you to repent of your wickedness. Fooling people of their money and trust is big-time wickedness in God's eyes. If you don't want to end up in hell, repent and be a righteous networker doing clean network marketing.

Now, one of the tactics they teach you in networking or MLM seminars is to never tell the prospect where you're taking him to--what they call kidnap. Don't reveal what the business is all about, they add. This is dead WRONG! This is not clean network marketing. A clean network marketer is always transparent so that people always see you as worthy of their trust. If you cannot be trusted with small things, you cannot be trusted with big things, especially big money.

So, if you want people to like you, always be honest. Make a name for yourself on honesty.

So, how do you make prospects show up in your appointments without fooling them? Easy--simply visit them in their homes or offices. Do not meet with them somewhere where escape would be easy for them. Do not set meetings at the BOM venue or the company office. They're apt not to come. Meet them right in their hideouts. I and my wife do that and we never miss our appointments. What do you say is your reason for visiting them? Here are some of my suggestions:

1. Long time no see! Can I visit you at your place? [For old times' sake]
2. I heard you have a new office or living room interior. Can I check it out?
3. You have a new dog? Can I go there and see it?
4. Can we play a game of basketball?
5. I learned a new recipe. Let me cook it for you at your place!

For targeting new prospects you're not acquainted with yet, you can ask the help of the person who referred the prospect to you. Arrange for a casual visit and take your friend along with you. For more on this, get my FREE newsletter by filling up the Contact Form on the sidebar of this blog!

With the visit purposes outlined above, you'll never miss catching your prospects. They may even prepare snacks for you, so it's cost-effective, too--instead of you having to treat your prospects or guests after taking them to a BOM. Then, during the visits and talks, inject the business presentation in a most casual manner. Like, "And speaking of arthritis, have you heard about this new, power liquid juice product that really gets rid of arthritis and many other diseases?"

More on How to Make Prospects Show Up in Your Appointments in another article. In the meantime, these FREE Video and recommendations really helped me a lot in getting really practical tips on how to make people say yes to your networking business!

Why You Need a Reliable UPline

You should choose your upline well. Don't just sign up with anybody. Look for someone who can lift you up from his vantage position. An upline is positioned up there precisely to pull up those immediately down him or her. Being a downline, you need all the help you can get from above.

However, this doesn't mean you can just be a heavy load down there waiting for everyone to pull you up. You should do your own pulling up. It should be a teamwork--with everyone doing what should be done. But again, the upline should spearhead all this. He or she should know how to lead his or her team in adversity and victory.

All of us are bound to become uplines in network marketing. So, this is what an upline should be:

1. He should know the product, company, and system more than his downlines do. He should be able to present or explain them well enough.
2. He should inspire his direct downlines to positive action.
3. He should train his direct downlines and duplicate himself on them.
4. He should should be updated on advanced knowledge and techniques.
5. He should rely on the UPline.

Do You Know Who the UPline is?

This is crucial in CLEAN Network Marketing. You cannot do without this. I know that rarely do networking or MLM training programs include the UPline connection as a topic. A lot of networkers know their human uplines and 001s but do not know who the UPline is, especially how to connect with him. Connecting with him gets everything in business in proper order. 

God, the UPline, is concerned about everything that goes on the earth. After all, he is God. I know this may sound strange or even foolish to some of you, but it's a fact--God is concerned even about what goes on in network marketing businesses--and especially in your network, no matter how small it is. And he is the only one you can truly rely on in a world of uncertainties.

To tell you plainly, every business out there is uncertain, big or small. You may be a business empire now but you can suddenly fall and disappear the next few seconds. In the Old Testament, Tyre, a world trade center in the later part of the prophets, couldn't believe how it suddenly sunk to nearly nothing when all its trades and businesses suddenly collapsed. Even Egypt, once a world power, was reduced to a minority.

Kingdoms Against Kingdoms

What more of businesses today, and what more of network marketing companies? No matter how big a corporation you are, God can suddenly sink you down. Nobody thought the Titanic was going to be sank by mere ice. Anyway, the point is that, you should know how to acknowledge and rely on God the UPline. He is the reliable UPline.

Failing to know and rely on God the UPline starts your fall. Yes, you may achieve a certain height and prosperity, but you will surely fall sooner or later, more so when you learn to rely on your big network, experience, knowledge, popularity, income and material possessions--your trophies. I've seen it happen all the time. Look at how God the UPline assess it all:

Because you have depended on your own strength 

and your own warriors [or downlines]

...your fortressess will be devastated.." [Hosea 10.13-14]

Nothing lasts forever, even a well established networker enjoying a big network. The bible says kingdoms will rise against kingdoms. That includes kingdoms in network marketing. In times when the network you have built, and which you thought would never end, is about to collapse [it happens], you need a reliable UPline who would stay with you and lift you up. You and your networking team should know him. This is why you need a reliable UPline.

Why Your Network Doesn't Grow Fast [See FREE Video!]

It's been the problem of most network marketers--their networks doesn't grow fast enough. It's probably your problem, too. You've been doing the right things and yet your network remains small--or worse, you haven't recruited anyone in months! Or perhaps, you already have a good number of downlines and yet your business remains unprofitable and you don't know where the problem is.

A young and brilliant Pinoy network marketer I came across with recently helped me a lot in this respect. He has been helping lots of network marketers identify their weaknesses so they can turn them into strengths. He's been giving simple yet effective practical steps on how to share your business to others and get as little or even zero rejection in the process. Can you imagine that?

Watch the FREE Video here!

I've been a networker since 1996 and have heard almost all the tricks in the bag [or so I thought], and yet I got a lot of tips from this guy--and they sure aren't just tricks. They are systematic and scientific steps of analyzing your networking business and skills, where you've been going wrong, what mistakes you keep repeating [but never realizing it], and what wrong "tips" your upline has been telling you. That's right. Your upline may have good intentions, but he or she might be destroying your true potentials in network marketing without realizing it.

Lots of times, networkers just accept what has been traditionally going on in network marketing, or simply following what is according to trends. Most times, they rely on BOMs. hyping, and recruiting. They may get lots of signups, but mere signups don't always equate to residual income--which is what successful and clean network marketing is all about, aside from helping people solve their problems related to your products. Lots of times, signups only fill your business with liabilities.

How do you recruit the right people into your team? How do you get team players instead of bystanding recruits--people who just stand by and wait for help to come so you'd produce checks for them? How do you turn newbies and amateurs in your team into career professionals?

To effectively scout and recruit the right people who will work with you and devote their time and resources to build their own teams with you, you need to ask the right questions. Do you have the right product? The right company? And last, do you have the right skills?

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