Is Your Face Marketable?

CNM will be doing a series on How to Market Yourself these coming days, and this is one very important lesson in successful Clean Network Marketing. It's not just about selling yourself; it's about marketing your face! And we will especially tackle the subject indepth in our Newsletters which we exclusively give for FREE to those who fill out the Contact Form on the sidebar of this blog.

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Your face should be easy to market in network marketing. And this does not mean having a handsome or pretty face. It means having a marketable face. With products, something is said to be marketable if it has the potential of making repeat sales easily. A face is marketable if it makes repeat acceptability among your contacts or prospects. No matter what you offer, people just keep buying. Do you have that face?

The key to this is a face of confidence. Confidence in what you are doing makes you relax, open, and transparent so that talking to people--any people--makes you relax and actually enjoy it. People who put up a hard or false front lack confidence. Why? Probably because they do not know what they're talking about or doing. So, their faces are not marketable.

It's Not Just about Always Smiling or Being Nice

It's good to have a smiling face or being Mr Nice Guy. But that's not what we mean here. We want a look of confidence because we've mastered our trade. Ever seen a martial arts master and an amateur? Masters are calm and confident. They don't need to prove themselves to anyone. Amateurs always need to hype and please people.

A marketable face is an inspiration. You face a guy, talk to him, and transfer your confidence, idealism, and daring to him. In short, you easily inspire people to take up challenges. You do not hard-sell people or appear too eager to make a sale. People see sincerity, expertise, and determination on your face. And this face cannot just happen. It takes serious study and experience in the field to gain clean network marketing wisdom. One look and people know you can be trusted and you know what you are talking about. More on this in our Newsletter.

"Wisdom brightens a man's face and changes its hard appearance."

[Ecclesiastes 8.1]

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.

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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?

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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?

Fill up the Contact Form and request for exclusive updates and tips on "Honing Your Deadly Network Marketing Skills" now. And make sure to also watch this FREE video on how to Sponsor More Downlines by visiting this link!

Product Binary: One Product Purchase Pair Pays Out!

It used to be a binary on your recruits or downlines. You got a bonus for each of your pairs left and right. So, you tried hard to fill up your left and right sides with people. But that's all obsolete. With this old binary style, you have to keep getting new recruits just to cash in on the binary bonus. That's a lot of exhausting work. But you can forget about too much recruitment and concentrate on product expertise with product binary. Just up your group sales and get big binary bonuses!

By promoting the health benefits of your health supplement product, you can make lots of money from the product binary bonus. The more your downlines use or sell the products, the more you earn money from your product binary bonus. This is a new breakthrough in clean network marketing! "Clean" because you don't have to look like a scammer anymore, always out to make recruits of people [that looks like a scam to people].

With product binary, you pair product purchases left and right. Each time someone on your left buys a box of product which matches another purchase of a box of product on your right, you get the bonus! Make sure you get a 1:1 product binary that immediately gives you your money reward for each pair you make. Some product binary systems wait til you get 7 or 8 product pairs before you are paid out. What if you just reach 6 pairs and stop? You never get your bonus, except that you reach the minimum number of pairs.

With a 1:1 product pairing or binary bonus,  you don't have to accumulate pairs in great numbers before you are rewarded. Each time you have one pair, you get paid!

This is an amazing development in the binary system. Even if you just recruit one on your right and one on your left, as long as they use the product regularly, you keep earning from your one-level binary, weekly or monthly, the rest of your life! It gets rid of the vicious cycle of having to get new recruits each week or month just to earn from the binary.

Moreover, traditional binary never lets you earn from your previews binary pairs. Once you earn bonus from a pair, that's it. You never earn from it again. But with product binary, you keep earning from the same pair, week after week or month after month, as long as the pair keeps using the product and you remain consistent with your maintenance.

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Do You Have a Righteous Networking Company?

The first thing you must have in network marketing is the right company, and the right company is a righteous networking company, first and foremost. I don't think you have heard of this in the BOMs you have attended, have you? And few networkers would look for a company with this quality. They either look for a company with a lucrative comp plan or one which is financially stable. Well, do you have a righteous networking company?

The righteous will never be uprooted, 
but the wicked will not remain in the land. [Proverbs 10.30]

A righteous company will never be uprooted because God supports it. Before looking for a stable company [which is a legitimate concern], first look for a righteous networking company whose business partner is God. Without God you can do nothing. You may make lots of money with a godless company but the end result of it really is death. Seriously speaking. It will destroy your soul and your family. 

Part of a righteous networking company is its legalities. It should have the proper government licenses and permits and the product should be FDA approved if it's a health or food supplement. A company should also have stability and an intelligent culture. We all know this and I need not elaborate.

Righteousness is Hinged on the Owner

Company righteousness is hinged on the owner. His standing with God determines the spiritual character of the company. Thus, it's best if he is a committed believer of God and believes His Word. A righteous company, then, should have a righteous and Godly owner-networker who, at least, has a good fear of God reigning in his heart and mind, and has the following traits:

1.     He should have integrity with his networking policies and never lie.

2.     He should have a firm word of honor and never be double-minded.

3.     He should never change marketing systems that would nullify the present one.

4.     He should not adulterate the product content in any way.

5.     He should not tamper with the product expiration date.

6.     He should be true to his employees and networkers.

7.     He should never deal with networkers who have doubtful characters.

These are just some of the things we should take careful note of today. Lots of networking companies fail miserably on these points and you would do well to avoid them at all cost. Woe to you if you have a company founded on lies, deception, and rottenness! Remember the second part of God's Word above? Wicked people, among them unscrupulous networkers, will not remain in the land. They won't last long. If they do last long, their souls are already burning in hell.

Beware of Company Owners with Vices

Keep away from company owners who are drowning in vices like smoking and drinking, especially if his company is into health supplements. If he is not a health enthusiast, how can you trust him with his products? Shun all owners and networkers who are womanizers and gamblers. Folks like them are sure big liars and are inclined to cheat and deceive. If you know people who are like that and still join them, you'd come out a bigger fool in the end.

Avoid Hyping Companies

Hyping is often times a way of hiding something and lure people into doing something they shouldn't do. Inspiring people is worlds apart from hyping them. Hyping is tricky and deceptive. Inspiring is intellectual persuasion with a healthy element of electrified emotion. Hence, I believe a righteous networking company is product based and focuses on training people specifically in how to present the product intellectually with a strong element of PR. 

Companies with unrighteous owners cannot end up being righteous networking companies in the end--unless their owners repent, have a change of heart, and practice clean network marketing. You are sure to fall together with unrighteous companies because God is going to uproot them. You will get what the wicked deserve if you side with them and help them in their endeavors.

Company is not that Righteous but the Product is Good

I know. There will be times when you find a good product because of it's benefits but the company selling it is not that righteous. Pray about it, and if you get a go, just make sure you remain righteous with it. The prophet Daniel and his friends were officials of Babylon but they made it good there, because of God's favor on them. And that favor on them made that empire prosper as well. 

However, there are companies that are full of wickedness so that joining them contaminates you somewhat and gets you affected by God's ire in the end. In the bible, Lot joined the city of Sodom and later lost his wife [who turned into a pillar of salt] because of her contamination with wickedness. Oh, and by the way, wicked companies often have the penchant for looking innocent and good initially--like wolves in sheep's clothing. In the end, they reveal their true colors.

Yes, some wicked companies may look successful for a time [Sodom and Gomorrah did], but they will suddenly be eliminated, nowhere to be seen again. 

The senseless man does not know, fools do not understand, 

that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evil doers flourish, 

they will be forever destroyed. [Psalm 92.6-7].