Are you considering going into the MLM/Network Marketing business? If so, you’re undoubtedly aware of the income potential and high levels of success that can be obtained. However, what you are probably unaware of are the many potential problems and downsides. Every business has them, of course, but the MLM/Network Marketing industry is one that very effectively conceals many of it’s problems from the public eye.

This MLM Success Tips article is intended for beginners, but veterans may well find it of value too. It is result of years of observation and personal experience, and consists of practical advice and useful concepts you may not have thought of. If you’re serious about your future in the MLM/Network Marketing business, it would be a wise to take heed.

MLM SUCCESS TIP #1: BEWARE THE HYPE

Before starting in any new MLM/Network Marketing opportunity (or starting any other business, for that matter), you  must be very careful about the company you choose to work with. This may seem like an obvious statement, but sadly, it is one very few excited newbies take to heart. If more did so, there would be far less aggravation, anger and resentment in the industry — and much more MLM success!

Despite the high-falutin’ language, hoopla and hype, not all MLM/Network Marketing companies are good. Another obvious statement? Maybe so. But if so, how is it that so many bad companies ensnare so many good people? It’s an MLM success tip worth stating plainly: beware the hype! In fact, it’s smart to ignore the hype entirely, at least to the extent this is possible.

The MLM/Network Marketing business is one in which companies — good, bad or otherwise — come and go with startling frequency. Even the best have been known to crash and burn like the rest. The industry has an unfortunate history of “shooting stars” that are hot one day and gone the next (sadly true of the business world in general, but generally without all the pre-launch hype). Don’t be fooled: even a great product by itself does not guarantee success, either for the company or the rep.

Your MLM success may hinge on this tip: before falling for the hype, try to put it all aside and focus your attention on making a good decision. Before you sign on the line, pay the application fee and find yourself “trapped” in a particular situation, you need to do your due diligence. Get yourself in a “fact finding” mindset today: avoid regret and near-certain failure later.

MLM SUCCESS TIP #2: LOOK LONG BEFORE YOU LEAP

MLM/Network Marketing is a business in which one is told one must simply work hard and “follow the plan” in order to succeed. You’re told it is up to you, and you alone. One of the (in)famous oft-heard quotes in the industry is: “If it is to be, it is up to me.”

While it is true that you must take action and do it consistently in order to achieve mlm success, there is far more to it than just your drive, determination and work ethic. This notion is not just a misconception, it is an outright distortion — if not an actual fib. Hard work alone — if it is not the right work or it is not done the right way — accomplishes little or even nothing.

The truth is that in MLM/Network Marketing, you must rely on others! And we’re not just talking about the downline you hope to build. No, we’re talking about the company you join, it’s management and staff, and your soon-to-be upline. You need help, training and support from them. Thus, they are important components of your business.

So, despite what we are so often told, mlm success does not depend entirely upon what one does alone. You have much to lose — as well as much to gain — based upon what these other people do. Therefore, it is very important to choose your MLM/Network Marketing company, sponsor, upline and team wisely.

This one choice may be the single most important one of any MLM/Network Marketing career. Yet it is, ironically, the one that is most often made hastily and with the least amount of forethought or planning. This can (and often does) led to disaster!

MLM SUCCESS TIP #3: FIND OUT THE FACTS

The starting point is to follow the very same practice you should use in any important business, life or financial decision: do your due diligence. Be as sure as humanly possible that the opportunity you are interested in is a good one. Make sure the leadership as well as the products are good. It’s easy to investigate people and companies with a simple Google search these days, so do it. Appending “review” and “scam” to your search can often turn up interesting results.

Sites like Scams.com, Ripoffreport.com and IMreportcard.com are also useful, though one must keep in mind that such sites frequently serve the disgruntled. The Better Business Bureau can provide an indication of whether an older company is acceptable, but keep in mind that the BBB is a paid membership organization that gives it’s members every possible benefit of the doubt — and none for non-members. Sad to say, this author (and many others) have found it is no more purely objective than the regular Internet rumor mill. Other online rating sites may also be of value, but be advised there might be a hidden quid pro quo to worry about.

Check the “MLM review” sites, but at the same time be wary of them. Many were created by representatives of one company or another trying to steer people into their own opportunities and away from those of the competition. They may not be very objective.

MLM SUCCESS TIP #4: FINAL DUE DILIGENCE

Do your due diligence and carefully consider your options before investing money and irreplaceable time in any opportunity. Don’t be swayed by your own excitement, and that of those trying to get you to join. Every MLM/Network Marketing opportunity looks good on the surface. Make sure you dig down a little — and dig up dirt, if necessary — before committing to anything.

However, even after you have decided that the opportunity is a good one, I recommend you follow the old edict: sleep on it. Even for a week, if necessary. Distance and time lets you think more rationally about the business and whether it is truly for you.

Decisions made in haste frequently end in regret. A week is not going to make or break your business. In fact, it will enhance it, because you will have had time to integrate the information you have learned about the company, products and opportunity. This will hold you in good stead should you get started.

If, after following these MLM success tips, you are still excited and positive about the mlm business opportunity in question, then you may have found a real winner. At this point, you have to “place your bet and take your chance.” Best of luck to you!

THE OLDY, MOLDY WAY OF MLM RECRUITING

By Karl “Big Kahuna” Steinmann

As many of you know from hard personal experience, mlm recruiting the traditional way is usually a slow, painful and even demoralizing process. For even the very best mlm recruiters, it’s always been a combination of skill, art and luck. You must deal with rejection, insult and even attack from people who do not want to be bothered by you or hear about your mlm business. You must constantly be on the look out for new prospects. Every waking moment is spent in either contemplation or action towards finding more mlm recruits. It’s no fun at all.

Achieving mlm success this way is a hard road, and these days, mlm recruiting has become very difficult using these old school methods. Marketers of all stripes know that people today are more resistant than ever to the pitch, and thus mlm recruiting is even harder than before — which is saying something!

However, with the advent of the internet mlm recruiting has become a science — for those in the know. The web provides all the tools and resources (many of which are free) to make mlm recruiting a whole lot easier, faster and — best of all — fun! Wouldn’t you like to have people chasing you to join you in your opportunity, instead of the other way around? As unbelievable as it may sound, you can. Millions of people are looking for guidance and a good mlm business to get into. By being a valuable resource to these people, you can show them how to achieve mlm success without burned shoe leather, lost weekends and and broken hearts.

THE NEW (AND BETTER WAY) OF MLM RECRUITING

Attraction marketing teaches us to become the hunted, to draw others to us because of our knowledge and expertise. It is the opposite approach to the hard-sell and dragging people (often kicking and screaming) to meetings. It is how most of the big online gurus have made their names, and increasingly, this method is being used by people of all backgrounds to carve out successful niches — mlm or otherswise — for themselves online. It works because you don’t do the selling and telling. There’s no song and dance. No convincing nor arm twisting. The prospect sells him or herself; all you have to do is close the deal.

Those who are succeeding in the mlm business today are doing it online using attraction marketing principals. By positioning yourself as an expert, mentor and friend, you can achieve remarkable mlm success without having to do any of the ugly, uncomfortable, unpleasant things you’ve had to do in the past.

So how does one become the hunted? The saying is simple, the doing a bit more complicated. See below. Still, I would argue that it’s a heck of a lot cheaper and easier (not to mention faster) to do mlm recruiting this way than to do it the “tried and true” (and brutal) way.

First, you must have your own website or blog (the latter is better for fast search engine results). Then follow these steps:

1. Post a relevant, original mlm business article to your site
2. Post a video about the article to YouTube (be sure to create your own Channel)
3. Have the video point to (link to) the article. Or, you can do the reverse by starting with the video and backing it up with the article
4. Bookmark your mlm business articles and videos on all the important bookmarking sites (Digg, Delicious, Mixx, etc.)
5. Notify the social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in, etc.) about your new mlm business content
6. Post versions of your mlm business articles to the important, high Page Rank article directories
7. Post your mlm business video to the other important video sites (Yahoo, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, etc.)
8. Make sure all article/video “copies” have links pointing back to your original mlm business article or video
9. Rinse and repeat for 60-120 days, creating at least one new piece of mlm business content per day

Sounds like a lot of work, doesn’t it? It is. But you have just been given the keys to the kingdom.

MLM RECRUITING ON OVERDRIVE

What you have just been shown is nothing less than the “secret” method of that has made many “unknowns” mlm success stories and superstars virtually overnight. It is a proven, solid, results-driven method. But it is is a lot of hard work. After all, if it were easy, everybody would be doing it, right? Is everybody achieving tremendous mlm success today? Does everyone have their mlm recruiting going on overdrive, recruiting 1, 2, 3 or more new associates everyday? No. They don’t. But they could, if they put this method into play and worked it seriously.

This mlm recruiting system has put many individuals at the top of the leader boards in their mlm business opportunities in record time. It has literally spun heads and left people breathless. In this author’s humble opinion, it is the best method for achieving mlm success. Period. It is even better than “buying” your way to the top with pay per click (which is very expensive and has many other drawbacks). It will put your mlm recruiting and mlm business on overdrive.

This simple system has been repeatedly shown to produce a tidal wave of traffic and leads in very short order. It has been proven to transform an mlm businesses in just a matter of weeks. You can have the same kind of results — to become the hunted, in other words — by just following this plan.

Obviously, there is far more to the nuts and bolts of this method than can be covered in this overview, and there are many tools, tricks and techniques for automating significant portions of the above that space prevents us from going into here. However, once you understand the concept, there is nothing stopping you from achieving the kind of mlm recruiting results you’ve always dreamed of, and having the mlm success you deserve.

This is a video companion to the mlsp article of the same name.

MLM Lead System Pro (MLSP) Review and Overview: Part 1 of 3

There’s been a lot of buzz recently about MLM Lead System Pro (also called MLSP, “lead system pro” and “lead pro” by those in the know), and with good reason.

MLM Lead System Pro, i.e. “MLSP,” was put together by three top-notch multi level marketers who were frustrated that there wasn’t a single all-in-one solution that would give individual MLMers and network marketers the capabilities they needed — personal branding, mlm/network marketing lead generation, list building, help with sponsoring, automatic followup and mlm success in general — all at a very reasonable price.

They were also concerned that, despite the many great programs out there, there wasn’t much real-world mlm/network marketing training on how to use the internet for “mlm success.” This is both amazing and ironic, because at a time when e-commerce is burgeoning, more and more people are looking for a way to make money online and the traditional way of building an mlm/network marketing business is dying, most of the mlm/network marketing companies out there seem stuck in the relative “stone age.” Most are offering training that is out of date and largely ineffective — if they offer any “real” training whatsoever!

MLM Lead System Pro (MLSP) is designed specifically to not just enhance any individual’s mlm/network marketing recruiting and success, but to provide a platform thru which one’s home based business can positively explode! Regardless of what mlm or network marketing opportunity you are a part of or are thinking of becoming a part of, MLSP is the preeminent (mlm success) tool available online today. The remarkable results being achieved by so many of it’s users only goes to show that this impulse on the part of the creators was the right one.

In this 3-Part introduction to the (MLM Lead System Pro) mlm success method, we show you the system in detail and explain why “MLSP is the bomb!” If you are interested in the MLSP “lead pro” system, are a frustrated mlmer or network marketer, or simply want to see how a well thought-out, brilliantly implemented lead generation and mlm success system is put together, we think you’ll enjoy this walkthrough. Check it out, and be sure to leave us some feedback.

You may be curious about the background of the Beach Bums, but you’re probably even more curious about what we’re going to do for you. Right? Well, they say a picture is worth a thousand words. What is a video with a thousand words in it worth? Hmmmm…

While we’re pondering the answer to that question, consider watching this video, which will tell you a bit about us. But most importantly of all, it will tell YOU what you need to know and do to be hugely successful in MLM/Network Marketing, and how we can be instrumental in ensuring that you are!