As an internet network marketer, I’m sure you can understand what I’m getting at here. In the last post, we talked about how to stop sabotaging yourself. I even dug up one particular moment in my life which wasn’t pleasant but in a sadistic way it gave me an excuse to not finish a project I had started. A project that could have meant six figures a year for me and here’s the crazy part; I was only about two months away from reaching my goal.

Seth Godin is someone who has been termed a marketing genius. Thousands of people hang onto every word he says. In relation to today’s post, he asks why do human beings sabotage their work? His answer is because we have what he calls a “lizard brain.”

No, I’m not calling you a lizard but this is a phenomenon that is real. Seth explains it in the following video at the99percent.com. Basically, the “lizard brain” is the “primal desires of man and animals”. He says that the “lizard brain” will feed on a thing called resistance and it will grow stronger and stronger the nearer you are to your goal. Does that make sense?

And it seems to affect those of us with the ability to think “out of the box”. In other words, those of us who are happy to just go along with the status quo and not wake the “lizard brain” within us are fine. The resistance is no problem. But for creative people, this primeval instinct comes alive when we break the status quo. Now, can you understand why becoming successful comes with paying a price?

This is fascinating stuff. In fact, this will have a profound effect on you if you are stuck in this vicious cycle of getting something started and want to find some way to sabotage it.

Bestselling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin outlines a common creative affliction: sabotaging our projects just before we show them to the world. Godin targets our “lizard brain” as the source of these primal doubts, and implores us to “thrash at the beginning” of projects so that we can ship on time and on budget…..

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So what do you think? Are you finally starting to figure out how to finish every project you start? Is the “lizard brain” issue something that affects your productivity and creativeness?

I know it’s something that affects me. And I’m some what successful. Make no mistake, this is real, it’s serious and it’s something that will affect your success. Time to put the lizard back in its cage and “quieten it down”. Don’t you think? Love to get your feedback and experience with this issue so don’t be shy and leave a comment.

Meanwhile, have you got your free copy of Ann Sieg’s Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto yet? You can download it right away by clicking here.

Brand building was something foreign to network marketers only a few short years ago but with people like Ann Sieg and Ty Tribble providing some of the best attraction marketing and blog training available, the tools and know-how in getting your name in front of potential prospects has never been easier.

Getting great search engine rankings and getting favor with Google is paramount to succeeding online and attracting prospects. Google is often changing the landscape and staying on top of this can be daunting especially for inexperienced online marketers.
Where are we going with this?

Well, Google has been busy this year and their goal to provide the best possible end user experience has gone to the next level. If you haven’t heard of Google +1 yet then you might need to educate yourself on what it is and how it can really help you to build your brand. It’s all about increasing your authority as an author which means increasing your brand and credibility with prospects.

Make sense?

Well, George Fourie recently spoke with Derreck Arrequin on this very subject during an episode at tv.thatmlmbeat.com. The video presentation is just 15 minutes long and will be the best 15 minutes you’ve spent online today.

Remember, for the best training and tips on attraction marketing, download Ann Sieg’s free book The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto.

Combine what Ann teaches and Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets and you are well on your way to “nailing” attraction marketing and jumping your brand to the head of the queue as far as attracting prospects is concerned. Click here to download MLM Blog Secrets.

The reason I’ve found is simple; people reach a certain level and become comfortable. While they may have reached their goal that barrier to go the extra step is just too great and sometimes it doesn’t take that much to break through it.

I was a classic example where I wanted to reach a certain level in a network marketing business several years ago and reached it in nine months. It’s amazing, I didn’t set any goals after that and just got comfortable with what I had done. But the truth was, I really wanted to go further but my mind had be conditioned to reach that specific target and when I did, with no other challenges set, I went into comfort mode.

Joshua Foer is someone well qualified to teach what separates the average from the experts in any field. He gives a 17 minute video presentation and highlights four specific things you need to overcome and master to reach greatness. I loved this presentation when I saw and I’m sure you will really appreciate it too. Here’s a little of what you’ll learn:

When most of us learn a new skill, we work to get just “good enough” and then we go on autopilot. We hit what journalist and bestselling author Joshua Foer calls the “OK Plateau,” where we have gained sufficient skills for our needs and we stop pushing ourselves.

But experts do it differently. Looking at the research on everyone from incredible athletes to memory champions, Foer has extracted four principles that describe how to push through the OK Plateau to achieve true greatness. Watch this fantastic talk to learn strategies for developing expertise in any field…..

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Please leave your thoughts and if you have a similar story to mine please share. Did you eventually reach the level of great? How did you do it and what tips can you give others reading this right now?

Speaking of great, Ty Tribble has been that in his career especially in teaching others how to create leads through blogging. Interested to learn? Click here to learn more about MLM Blog Secrets.

And if you haven’t downloaded The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto yet remember, it’s free and can change your network marketing fortunes. Click here to download The Attraction Marketers Manifesto from Ann Sieg.

I like to keep social media simple…in network marketing online, it’s very effective and perfect. But I still see people abusing it and making the big mistake of marketing on social media sites rather than interacting and teaching. Post after post about how to make money or join their business or how to get targeted leads for little outlay. I switch off.

Teach me something…

Earn my trust first…

In sex you have sexual foreplay…when you are looking at building a network marketing business through social media you need a good degree of social media foreplay.

Here’s a few points I wanted to give you about using social media to build a network marketing list. These are in no particular order but will give you a good start.

#1.  Go where the fish are. In other words, if it’s a network marketing, put yourself among those people with the same interests as you. Sites such as LinkedIn are a perfect platform for network marketers or people with a business interest. Like minds attract.

#2. You need to decide exactly what role social media should play in your networking business. It’s should be just one part of the prospecting equation and a great platform to be able to teach others and share valuable information with them.

#3.  Get to know people before you even start to talk business opportunities. They will check your profile out so most times they will know who you are and what you represent. Show an interest in them rather than promote yourself.

#4.  What type of social media strategies will you pursue? Have you decided? Firstly, don’t spam. Secondly, in network marketing you want to use your own name, not a pseudonym. But this is important; keep your personal profile separate from your business profile. Make sense.

#5.  Don’t waste too much time on social meda sites. Remember your ROI. People can spend hours on Facebook for example thinking they are building their business when in fact, all they are doing is wasting and using up valuable time. Devote a certain amount of time each day to social media but watch how much time you are spending on these sites.

#6.  Don’t waste your time posting stuff that has a low ROI. Stuff like what you had for dinner or funny jokes. Instead, post stuff that’s interesting and highly targeted to your ideal prospects.

That’s just a short list and we’ll re-visit it again in the next few weeks with some tips and methods of social media integration. Meanwhile, make sure you download Ann Sieg’s free report The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto which is about using teaching as opposed to selling in network marketing. It’s perfect for making an impact with social media. Click here to get your copy.

“Dean, how do I get my online network marketing business started?”

What’s my response.

“Well, before you do anything download Ann Sieg’s Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto. Understand it and know how important teaching is as a selling tool. Then, you need to create your own piece of real estate.”

“How?”

“Build yourself a blog.”

“But I don’t know how to build a blog or what to put on it. Where do I start?”

Now listen carefully; you need to get yourself a copy of Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets. Yes, it costs money but what are you going to do, spend the next year wondering how to get started online with network marketing. I was on a webinar Ty Tribble held recently looking at the simple ways to get started online. Ty’s information was worth paying for yet he made it available for free.

His first step was ultra important. Here is some of the information he gave:

“Decide what you want. Don’t be indecisive. Write down what you want to accomplish. Is it 1000 dollars a month, 10,000 a month, 100,000 a month. Stop jumping from one program to another. What do you want to do with your business and your life?…”

Not that earth shattering is it? I guess you wanted to hear the real secret. Well, that’s it. There is no secret. And again, if I got another dollar for every time I recommended to people who want to get started network marketing online to buy a copy of Ty’s MLM Blog Secrets and didn’t, that’s another million. It amazes me that people will waste months and even years trying to figure something out, thinking there’s a secret to it all when all it really takes is shelling out a few bucks for the answer.

Creating your own piece of real estate online is paramount to succeeding online. It’s what you create that brands you and attracts people into your funnel. Yes you can use third party web 2 and social media sites but trust me, unless you are creating something you own outright and is not at the mercy of being cut when somebody doesn’t like what you say, you will be continually “behind the eight ball.”

Folks, you’re in good hands with Ty Tribble. His MLM Blog Secrets course has enabled people just like those of you without the experience to build a blog and get started network marketing online and pushed them to the next level.

Click here to download MLM Blog Secrets today.

Don’t look so shocked. It’s true. If you quit how can you win. This applies to anything that requires reaching goals and achievement and it’s particularly so in network marketing. So I thought as far as network marketing tips are concerned, then the “don’t quit message” can never get old. That’s why I wanted to share this video put together by a network marketer named Rhandell Mitchell who talks about quitting in your business and what you need to do to stay on track with your goals.

There’s another reason I wanted you to see this video. Many people say to me they could never put a video together. I say rubbish, anyone with a message can. With so much emphasis on social media interaction playing a part in network marketing today which includes sharing information and interests on platforms like Facebook and Twitter, Rhandell has really nailed this in the last minute. It’s only a 2-3 minute video but watch how once he’s finished with his message, he gives views a super quick tour of his surroundings. For mine, that’s great stuff and yes, you can do this too.

Enjoy!

Have you downloaded Ann Sieg’s free report The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto yet? This report will take your business to the next level once you understand the difference between selling and teaching in attracting leads. Get it while it’s still free. Click here to download the Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto.

I’m not kidding!

That word “no” hurts more than any other word in the dictionary because it spells “failure”, “loser”, “go away”, “get lost” and “take your scam elsewhere”. Sound familiar. So how do you attract network marketing prospects that say yes? How to you get prospects coming to you and asking you what your business is all about or is it something that they can do?

For those of you who have downloaded Ann Sieg’s free book The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto and graduated onto the Renegade Network Marketer know only too well how to get prospects coming to you. It’s not that difficult. The key in getting people to stay in your business is to cut down their chances of hearing no, which then cuts down the chances they will drop out and increases their confidence.

Pretty simple formula isn’t it. And it starts by sifting out those people who are not interested. Sam Rivera is one network marketer who didn’t have success until he learned how to get people to come to him. Check out his video and there is also a free ebook on offer at the end of the video. It’s up to you whether you want a copy or not. Just wanted you to hear the main point of the message.

How many network marketing businesses have you quit because you couldn’t handle rejection anymore? Did you ever think you could get people to ask you about your network marketing opportunity? Please share your comments and thoughts as we always appreciate them. And don’t forget to download Ann Sieg’s free ebook the Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto. Just click here.

However, after the happenings of the past few months with Google hammering several major article directory style sites and withdrawing any love for them in the search engines as well as the thousands of article marketers who suffered during the Google Farmer update. After the search engine carnage we saw take place then you would have to assume that article marketing and network marketing no longer work.

So, does article marketing still work? Truth is, article marketing still works but by simply submitting articles to article directories and hoping to get any major link love from them is folly. Spinning copies of an original article and then submitting them to a bunch of article directories is no longer effective. So what’s the point of writing articles anymore?

Well, I am going to show you how to best use articles, not just yours, but those written by others and still gain Google love. But that’s for another lesson. Right now though, I want you to spend a couple of minutes and watch and listen to Google’s Matt Cutts and why he is not a fan of article marketing.

This is the guy that oversees the people who write the algorithms that determine the rankings. This is a guy you want to be listening to because just as important as it is to listen to what Google wants, it’s just as important to listen to what Google doesn’t want.

This information will probably shock you if you have been taught to write articles and submit them to article directories. Yes, it used to be a great way to get legitimate backlinks and traffic but now you have to adapt.

Before you watch the video, have you downloaded Ann Sieg’s The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto yet? It’s free and for any network marketer wanting to know the secrets to getting leads that respond to your offer, this is the book you need to read. Remember it’s free. Click here to download the Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto.

Social media and network marketing is a match made in Heaven. But why do so many struggle with it and implement it correctly into their business. I remember a couple of years a go a student of mine was in a flap about this social media thing and how to make it work with network marketing.

After analyzing what she was doing and had done so far I immediately came to the conclusion that she was trying to “put the cart before the horse.” My advice, go into the main social media networks and just observe the major players in the network marketing industry and watch what they are doing. Get to know their quirks before you do anything else with it. Just listen to the conversation. It was advice given to me and it’s priceless and when I came across it again on a site called DuctTapeMarketing.com I thought I need to share this with you guys and gals.

Bookmark this page and send it to your downline. Here’s an excerpt from the article:

I get asked all of the time for tips on simple ways to use social media in a small business that don’t require vast amounts of time.

I mean, small business owners know they need to get more involved online, they hear about and see it on TV daily, they are using more and more in their everyday lives, but when it comes to their own small business, it’s still taking a bit of a back seat because they fear they don’t have the time to do what looks and feels like a bunch of work for little immediate gain.

So, before I ever send an apprehensive business owner off to chase Twitter and Facebook followings I always start them with one simple tactic aimed at three very important groups.

So, here’s my advice: If you’re looking for the single most powerful use of social media in your business follow this simple plan.

The single tactic

My tactic of choice is one of the easiest to employ, automate and orchestrate and it has noting to do with tweeting. It’s simply the act of plugging in and listening to what people that are important or potentially important to your business are doing and saying in all of the social networks they participate in. Understand though that I’m talking about very focused listening here, that’s why this is a high payoff activity.

That’s right, you can derive immense benefit through social media tools without actually doing much more than listening. The first tool of choice is Google Alerts because you can set up countless alerts and receive daily email digests for all. Of course you’ll want to add another free tool such as Social Mention because it will help you pick up things that Google Alerts misses. I simply put my Google Alerts into Google Reader so I read them when I want and I bookmark all my searches in Social Mention and add a Listening Folder to my Bookmark toolbar so I can refresh the results anytime I like. (You can also step up to some paid versions like Trackur and Social Report)…..

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What do you think? Does it make sense? Instead of trying to go in and make an impression learn from the best in your niche and get the feel of why they are succeeding with social media in network marketing. When I started doing this it made a huge difference and instead of going in with hope I gradually started using social media with purpose and that attitude reflected over to others. Hope you enjoy the article.

Meanwhile, download Ann Sieg’s Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto for free. A lot of what it takes to use social media correctly is reflected in Ann Sieg’s teaching sells philosophy which she gets right into in this report. It’s free so don’t think about it. Download it now by clicking here.

Dwayne has refined it down to a three step process which he calls:

Inviting
Exposing
Closing

Now we are talking about the old style approach but it always seems when you hear it from someone doing it successfully that it sounds simple. The truth is, it is. What Dwayne is also demonstrating is that unless you ask you’ll never know.

This approach is great for people you meet once and are never likely to meet again. It’s great for using with people you deal with in a business sense as Dwayne explains in the video such as someone in a job who might be a little down or not having a good day.

Now you’re saying “hang on a minute, what about internet network marketing and teaching prospects before you ask the question. Good question and as I’ve always said and explained before, unless you are combining both the internet and offline methods in your network marketing business then you will be leaving money on the table.

The trouble with just going online and building a business that way is that too many people lose sight of what network marketing is…it’s a people business, always has been and always will be. In a sense, many saw internet network marketing as a way to escape having to talk and deal with people. I’m here to tell you you can’t and there needs to be some sort of interaction either by phone, face-to-face and email. Preferably all three but if you are going down the email route then at least interact with your prospects by phone as well.

Hope that makes some sense.

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If you haven’t checked out Ann Sieg’s Attraction Marketers Manifesto then get it for free by clicking here. This is a must read.

Here’s Dwayne’s tips on sponsoring more people in your network marketing business.