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Posted By: whitfield20* on 10/12/2004 1:30 AM (CST) 250 Points
I know all of you have problebly heard this before but I will ask it anyway. Ive been invovled with network marketing for a long time and have made great money doing it . In the past I have had problems getting people to get invovled with me. So here is what I would like to know. What is the best way to get a large almount to people join my mlm company the company is vitacorp international. It is not a fly by night company. I have been ideal for about a year and a half and want to really lauch this really big any ideas or point would help a bunch if you would like to see what this company is about goto www.vitacorp.com/156748
Thank you
Tim Whitfield

Posted by: AndrewS Accepted Answer
10/12/2004 5:00 AM (CST)
Oooo, the darker side of sales and marketing.

INTERNET: If you are serious about this, then you need to start online, get yourself a global audience.

PRESS: Then promote thought all the free/cost effective sources you can find (FreeAds, fastening flyers to car windscreens, lampposts etc).

PR: Unlikely to get any PR from what your selling.

EMAIL: Buy yourself a good opt-in email list, and really work it.

Hope this starts to help, sorry but as in any business it takes hard work, there is no easy answer.

Note: Becareful of any mlm, you need to work hard to make it pay.
 
Posted by: ASVP/ChrisB Member Response
10/12/2004 7:09 AM (CST)
By a 30 second ad in the Superbowl, Olympics opening ceremony, World Cup Final or premiere of the final show of Friends.

Show a tvc which explains how much money people will make with your system, give them your 1-800 number and just watch 'em come tumbling in!
 
Posted by: Inbox_Interactive Member Response
10/12/2004 8:26 AM (CST)
Just to clarify, this is not *your* company, but rather you are one of its affiliates, correct?
 
Posted by: telemoxie Accepted Answer
10/12/2004 10:00 PM (CST)
I have been repeatedly approached by MLM types - all I want to know is two simple facts: 1) exactly how many hours have you put in, and 2) exactly how much money have you made (verified, i.e. copies of your Schedule C from your tax return for the past two years).

In my opinion, if you are open and honest about the time and money, you will differentiate yourself from most of the MLM folks I have met.

Here's an earlier post with more comments on MLM:
http://www.marketingprofs.com/ea/qst_question.asp?qstID=2109#13827
 
Posted by: eugene Accepted Answer
10/13/2004 4:06 AM (CST)
Hi Tim,

Work with a credit card issuer to launch a co-brand credit card and build the MLM profit plan into the card.

What this means is if you have 1,000 downlines, whatever they spend on i.e. gas, grocery, travel, etc will earn them a certain profit. You, as an upline will also earn a profit from their spending.

Of course, the profit from purchasing your company's products will be much more from those that are not.

What this is meant to achieve is to allow your members to make money while spending money and getting their downlines to spend money.

Hope this helps.


Cheers.
 
Posted by: et3dotcom* Accepted Answer
10/13/2004 1:41 PM (CST)
I too have been involved with MLM, building a down line of a few hundred. The reason for our initial success was product value – the MLM Company offered a product that was difficult to get anywhere else.

After a couple years of success, our market was eroded by other companies offering equivalent products at the same price, and then in about another year, we faced equivalent products in traditional retail markets – removing the USP. The MLM company then started changing the rules, and this further eroded our downline. Most MLM companies change the rules as the company reaches a saturation level, or encounters direct competition, and you will loose your best producers.

MLM appeals to freeloaders who believe others will do their work for them, this is the target market – it is huge as PT Barnum said. Most of the people who are willing to do the work have already experienced the realities of MLM, and will avoid repeating what is for most a big disappointment when hyped expectations of product value, and money making potential are eroded, or fail to materialize.

The only long term winners in MLM are the company owners, and the few core marketers that helped build the company, and are hyped by the company literature as the success stories.

I will never again consider MLM as a viable marketing strategy; however MLM has several elements that we have adopted in our business model. The networking and viral approaches are the main power of MLM, and the main reasons of long term and short term success. The multi-level-marketing commission structure is the downfall – as compensation is not applied toward direct value, and this overhead is subject to undercutting.

daryl
 
Posted by: W.M.M.A. Member Response
10/21/2004 9:22 AM (CST)
I shall never believe any MLM, and have not for 20 years or more. It's the "shame on you" - "shame on me" principle.

It had its decade (80's). MLM has probably taken more revenue from those who could least afford it than any lottery in the country.

I have seen it turn friends against one-another. The basis, as stated above quite well by daryl is to not drive product other than by selling a distributorship and inventory to your friends (soon to be former), and those at your workplace...and, their friends...etc.

I have never seen any other marketing strategy. This is strictly tactical w/o benefits of any kind.

Randall
WMMA
 
Posted by: 5linxgolf* Accepted Answer
10/24/2004 9:11 AM (CST)
Hi Tim,

Here is kind of a step-by-step approach to reaching people, online, who are looking for what you have...developing trust....building a relationship...leading to new customers and partners.

You can see how it is currently working for others.

http://1and1and1.com

Best wishes,
 
Posted by: Val (Moderator)* Moderator Response
10/26/2004 1:15 AM (CST)
Hello all. I am closing this question, since its more than 10 days old. We do this to make sure members' contributions are rewarded in a timely manner and to improve the visibility of newer questions. Thanks, so much, for participating!

Val (Moderator)
 
Posted by: www.ambassador1727* Member Response
6/8/2007 4:26 PM (CST)
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