I just listened to a conference call from Todd Falcone. He was talking about some of the things that you should avoid like the plague in Network Marketing. Here are 25 Things that he said you should avoid doing at all costs.

1. Talking Down to People

2. Exaggerating Earnings (AKA Lying)-This could get you in trouble with the FTC

3. Ridiculous Product claims – Claiming that a product will cure a disease when It really doesn’t. This could also get you in trouble with the FTC.

4.Don’t Play Money Games -This Includes Cash Gifting which is illegal.

5. Don’t be a hypster

6. Don’t Jump from company to company-Pick a horse and ride it.

7. Don’t Lie about anything

8. Don’t Cross Recruit

9. Don’t make any guarantees you can’t back up – Don’t say that you will put all the heavy hitters in someone’s downline for example.

10. Don’t flake on appointments

11. Don’t Screw up on Three way calls. Learn how to do a three way before actually doing one.

12.Don’t align yourself with people with bad raps

13. Don’t put out content with massive typos- Make sure that you use spell check before sending out emails, posting blogs, etc.

14.Don’t be the Chaser – View this video to find out what people do when you chase them with your opportunity.

15. Stay Away From Cheesy Advertising

16. Don’t Bash Competition

17. Don’t Be a Pusher

18.Don’t Be a Portfolio Marketer – Very few people do well with multiple deals. Once again, just focus on one company.

19. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel – Follow what successful people are doing and you will end up duplicating. This business is about duplication and following what successful people are already doing.

20. Stay away from Social Media Stupidity.

21. Don’t be a quarter horse in a one mile race. Go all the way and finish what you started.

22.Don’t Be a flaky now show egotistical sponsor

23. Don’t live on Fantasy Island – You want to constantly be recruiting new people to your organization. Your Down line will duplicate what you do. If you are constantly growing the business, your down line will more than likely do the same thing. But if you end up slacking off, your downline will probably do the same thing.

24. Don’t be ill prepared.

25. Don’t be crooked

If you avoid those twenty five things like the plague, then you will more than likely have success in network marketing and stay out of trouble.

In this Video Clip, Network Marketing Coach, Todd Falcone Talks about how to make it big in network marketing.  which includes focusing on one company, taking action and surrounding yourself with the right people.

Online Affiliate Marketing is a great way to fund your primary business and pay for your monthly autoship costs. Most people, when they join a network marketing company, don’t take advantage of online affiliate marketing and end up leaving money on the table every month. Instead, they are told by their upline to make a list of their warm market, which includes friends and family members and convince them to join the business opportunity.

This takes a lot of time and and is not very effective since only a small percentage of those people join their opportunity. Of that small percentage that join, most of them usually quit within 90 days. People will eventually run out of friends and family members to talk to. They are then told to buy and cold call leads which are very expensive and take up a lot of time to call. Most of those leads are not interested in starting a home business and are therefore a waste of money and time.

With online affiliate marketing you are able to fund the cost of your network marketing business, including your auto ship and advertising, by marketing low-cost affiliate marketing tools and products. These products usually are $50 or less and provide value to people. This can be done by driving traffic to a website and providing an offer for people to opt in to an auto responder for more information.

When visitors opt in, their information is captured and they receive follow up emails with valuable free to low cost information, training and products. You can set up the follow up emails in a way that you will build relationships with those prospects so that they will want to buy from you. People will buy those products since they provide a lot of information and value. This will provide income for you which will cover your auto ship and other network marketing business expenses.

Over time, people will start to see you as a leader and will be more likely to buy from you since they want to do business with leaders. Once people start to see you as a leader, they will want to join your network marketing opportunity, which is your back-end product.

Online affiliate marketing is a great way to fund your primary business, build relationships and position you as a leader. By doing this, you will set yourself up for success in your network marketing business since you will only have people who are serious join your primary business opportunity.

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In network marketing, building trust with your prospects is very critical for your success in the industry. As a network marketer, you are in the business of making sales. If your prospects don’t have trust in you, you will not make any sales. You are probably wondering what steps you need to take in order to build trust with your prospects so that they will want to buy from you.

Since you are in the network marketing industry, you need to talk to people to build relationships of trust with them. The conversations that you initiate with someone eventually turns into relationships of trust which then leads to making a sale.

Of course you will need a way to turn complete strangers into friends and friends into customers or distributors. This is called your sales cycle. In your sales cycle, there are 6 components that you should follow.

1. Create Product or Service Awareness

You can create product or service awareness in many ways. You could blog or write an article about it. You can also do a Youtube video if you are comfortable getting in front of a camera. You will want to talk about your experiences and frustrations and how you found a solution to solve those issues.

2. Provide value and solutions by showcasing you knowledge for free.

To provide value, you can make a video or write an article that will send people to your website or blog. On your blog, people could sign up for a free five-day training course for example.

3. Continue to give value but offer something to your prospect that costs money.

Although it is nice to offer information for free, you should offer your prospects a low cost item for them to buy. This should be something that costs $50 or less and that is worth 10 times the value.

4. Over deliver on the low cost purchase by inviting them to something special

One way to over deliver is to provide private team training which you could do through live video or skype. This should be done on a weekly basis. If you are new and your sponsor already has something like that, then you should mention that in your ads and invite your downline to the meetings.

5. Offer your customer a higher priced Item.

This is where you introduce your customer to your primary business. This item requires more time commitment and dedication. Remember that you should only invite those who are serious about growing the business.

6. Rinse and Repeat Daily

You need to evaluate where your network marketing business is heading and make adjustments as necessary. Find out what is working and what is not working. Continue to do the things that are working for you and discontinue doing things that are not working for you.  Find out what areas in your business need improvement and take steps to improve in those areas.

As a network marketer, you will need to constantly be doing this. You need to be prospecting and meeting new people on a daily basis. Remember that most of your prospects will not buy from you or join your primary business right away since they are not ready to buy or just don’t trust you YET. But when they are ready to buy and they do trust you, you will start making sales.