Who Owns Your Network Marketing Business?
Who “owns” your team of independent contractors, your army of volunteers?Your downline belongs TO YOU first, not the company you rep for. Some would consider these comments heresy. It’s a complicated idea fraught with all sorts of potential landmines. I'm bound to get emails from nervous uplines. What if my downline decides it doesn’t “belong” to me ? Does this kind of thinking lead to chaos in Read Full Story
MLM Downline Retention -The Holy Grail?
Copyright 2008, by Karen Hurd Enterprises, Inc.Retention. It's the magic word in network marketing, maybe a more important issue than prospecting. It's the Holy Grail of network marketing. For the majority of MLM distributors, retention is elusive. High drop rates are discouraging. It's the easiest business in the world to start, and the easiest to quit. Retaining your downline in network Read Full Story
MLM Downline Retention -The Holy Grail?
Copyright 2008, by Karen Hurd Enterprises, Inc. Retention. It's the magic word in network marketing, maybe a more important issue than prospecting. It's the Holy Grail of network marketing. For the majority of MLM distributors, retention is elusive. High drop rates are discouraging. It's the easiest business in the world to start, and the easiest to quit. Retaining your downline in network Read Full Story
Who Owns Your Network Marketing Business?
Who “owns” your team of independent contractors, your army of volunteers? Your downline belongs TO YOU first, not the company you rep for. Some would consider these comments heresy. It’s a complicated idea fraught with all sorts of potential landmines. I'm bound to get emails from nervous uplines. What if my downline decides it doesn’t “belong” to me ? Does this kind of thinking lead to chaos Read Full Story
Network Marketing is Not for Normal People
Copyright 2008, Karen Hurd Enterprises, Inc.Network Marketing has been called "The People's Franchise". A home business model that has been designed for the person with little or no training in business. People are promised that they will earn millions and the average distributor earns maybe $300-500 per month. Is the multi-level marketing promise a lie?I don't think so. MLM or Network Marketing Read Full Story
Network Marketing is Not for Normal People
Copyright 2008, Karen Hurd Enterprises, Inc. Network Marketing has been called "The People's Franchise". A home business model that has been designed for the person with little or no training in business. People are promised that they will earn millions and the average distributor earns maybe $300-500 per month. Is the multi-level marketing promise a lie? I don't think so. MLM or Network Read Full Story
Swimming With Squidoo
Web 2.0 - Swimming with Squidoo(Pronounced: Skwi -doo)What is Web 2.0?At first glance, Squidoo seeems like one of those silly web 2.0 things. It was created by Seth Godin author if Permission Marketing, and The Purple Cow. When I first took a serious look at it, I couldn't quite figure out what to do with it. My "quick way cool way to generate traffic" took an entire weekend, to build instead of Read Full Story
Swimming With Squidoo
Web 2.0 - Swimming with Squidoo(Pronounced: Skwi -doo)What is Web 2.0?At first glance, Squidoo seeems like one of those silly web 2.0 things. It was created by Seth Godin author if Permission Marketing, and The Purple Cow. When I first took a serious look at it, I couldn't quite figure out what to do with it. My "quick way cool way to generate traffic" took an entire weekend, to build instead of just a couple of hours. Once my first Squidoo page was completed (www.squidoo.com/... Read Full Story
Avoidant Marketing: Network Marketing's Answer?
Copyright 2007 Karen Hurd Enterprises, Inc.No ClosingNo SellingNo Chasing peopleNo RecruitingNo rejection, ever!Everywhere you look in the network marketing/home business arena, systems are advertising themselves as "Don't do anything, and you'll get rich". It's a very compelling message. These systems seem to address the very core issue of why many people don't succeed in network marketing. New Read Full Story
Lie, Cheat, Steal and Spam: The Amateurs Guide to MLM
Copyright 2007 Karen Hurd Enterprises, Inc.You can spot a new MLMer a mile away. They are practicing the "3 Foot Rule", and clubbing everyonewithin reach who can fog a mirror because "everyonewants what we have". The really serious ones usethe 7 foot rule. These brave souls are hailed bythe network marketing uplines as "proof you can do it"! I'll admit it's very brave.You can spot a new MLMer Read Full Story