How long before you pitch your MLM?

MLM is a tricky beast for sure, and as you already mentioned its wise to not pitch it too early (good chance of scaring people off that way).
I'd say 5 or 6 contacts at a minimum, but a lot depends on what you make of those 1st few contacts. You want to be emphasizing the benefits of the product itself (nothing about the 'opportunity' at this stage). And especially how its impacted your life with so many positives, etc.

In general just come off like a super happy, easy going, fun loving and successful person. This will attract people to you and make them wonder what it is you DO that makes you that way. Then when you introduce the MLM angle, they're associating it with you, whom they already like.

i send them few good content before i send them the offer. This is how to pro do it, I use PLR email template for the content.

it depends on how you pitch it.

you can start sending helpful content that maybe related with to your mlm, and put your offer at the bottom of the email.

if they enter you list with a different mindset, i recommend you re-adjust their mind set with a specific benefit that would sell you mlm before they hear/read about it.

The big question is how are you generating those leads? If your going and actively finding them yourself, yeah you want to give it a few contacts getting to know them before telling them about your opportunity.

If you've generated them and they know it's for work from home, why make it a few contacts? They've opted in to learn more so get them the info they need.

Most of the time I used to keep away form MLM service. But if you want to do,
Then
Try to send review, promotion, privilege and informative brief about your product or service.

Most of the time, people need more clarification seems something i know. Then you have be more strategical do not disturbing the attention of people.

I would suggest you learn from the best - check out the big idea mastermind and learn from their strategies. They nearly convinced me to join their thousand dollar MLM programme and there's easily tens of thousands of people in that programme.

When it comes to MLM and BizOps, the most important factor when it comes to pitching is your brand.

People join people, not companies. If you can prove that you are a worthy and likable leader from the get-go then it won't take much contact before pitching.

And... We can't forget the bonuses!

Paul Myers is correct. Unfortunately theres a lot of people getting into mlm and spamming others. They're not being trained or their upline is giving them shitty training. They have no idea how to build a proper network and create a bad name for all of mlm.

You can pitch it right away if you want. It's really about who you're pitching and how you pitch it.
Never go find random on facebook people and try to force them in. It will scare them away for sure...

What a lot of people are doing is buying traffic in a coop like setting. Then they use whatever proof they have to convince another prospect who may not have come from a paid advertisement. This helps close their sales....as well sell the traffic at the same time.

Double wammy!

Depends on whether your leads like the idea of MLM or not.

Define "leads you attract online".

If I opted into your email list to get information, I expect you to tell me about your offer today.

If we met in passing on Facebook, as Paul mentions, I would expect you to engage me as a person first and at least wait until we start talking about what each of us does to make money. Then if you just mention you work with a company offering XYZ services/products and I express interest, then its ok to hit me with your best shot.

Here's a thought for anyone who desires to become a true professional
at network marketing. Stop pitching. You sound like a carnival barker
or a siding salesman.

There's nothing wrong with being a carnival barker or siding salesman
but that's not how you build long term residual income in network marketing.

Paul's experience is replicated all too often and on a daily basis. Don't be one
of those fools.

I don't know if the Warrior Forum is the place for it... maybe Paul will advise...
but I've been thinking for a while about starting a thread to educate people
on how legitimate network marketing is actually done professionally.

(Moderated)

People start trusting you after you send them the 6th or 7th e-mail provided that you are e-mailing value related posts and sending e-mails that help you build a relationship with your list

I pitch after the 7th e-mail - so the 8th e-mail would be when I pitch and I would even create a video for that e-mail so they see you as a credible source in their eyes

The right time to pitch your MLM? A soon as you are ready to piss people off and blow up your unsubscribe rate, start mailing them about your MLM or biz-opp;-)

It varies on each individuals. Building relationships and trust with your readers are the most important part. Once they trust you as a mentor and as a guru, all you need to do is just to help them and showing your results using your method. People will see the results for themselves, and because they trust you, they'll start looking into products you use. My mentor uses this method and I can tell you that he's doing incredibly well.

I am a network marketer and it really depends on how the person found your information. The first thing I always do when someone gives me their email address or engages me on a facebook page, youtube, forum, twitter, etc is start building a relationship by looking at what they are doing. If they opt in to an email I sent or from my blog, I know that they were searching for something specific and can engage them on that topic. People are nosy and will usually do the same thing by checking out what groups I am in and what other information I may have posted.

They will let you know when it's time to bring your mlm into the conversation. The easiest way to bring it up is by sharing content that helps them in some way. Sending them to a blog post about how to prospect or a video on an easy lead generation technique that is branded with a link to a presentation about your mlm. If they want to click they can. If they just went for the content and keep coming back to your site, you may just have a customer for your own products or affiliate offers. If they click on your mlm link then you know they're looking.

I'm down to one MLM and i'm very very careful when I pitch it. I have tried all kinds of tactics and the one that has given me the most sales is a webinar. I'm sure there are better way but this is what works for me but it has to be after at least a dozen conversations first then the webinar invite. Good luck to you!

Hi Jbbrown..

I would wait, till they have been presented all the benefits of your opportunity, support, training, coaching, products and services.

You see, your approach here is all wrong !

You are looking only for those that see the opportunity and not those you have to CONVINCE ! Either they see it or they don't !

If you understand that MLM, it is purely a numbers game, and apply the sifting and sorting method of recruiting, you will not fear to tell them when they ask you, because you know you are applying the SIFTING & SORTING SYSTEM of recruiting people and looking for those only that see the opportunity....period, they have disqualified themselves and did you a favor !

NOTE:
If I can teach you one thing, it is this. You see, they did you a favor, because you should be welcome all the NO's ( rejections ) you can get, because with every NO, you are getting closer to that........YES, so you should be thinking like this, with every no i get, i am getting closer to that yes, so just keep presenting the opportunity, and you will find those diamonds and diamonds in the rough that you are looking for.


Present the benefits of the opportunity, products or services, training, coaching, support especially from you.

If your company has tools, to help you do the heavy lifting, the sorting and sifting, then use those tools and put those people you pick up through that funnel and let it the funnel sort and sift for you, at the end of the funnel either they are interested or not, then move on.

If you support your people 300 percent and not 100 percent, and try to get them into profit within the 1st 90 days, they will stay with you because of the strong level of support you personally provide to them.

So, my advice is not to worry, you are worried about losing someone, when in fact is them that may have lost out an opportunity because of their lack of understanding what truly is a reputable network marketing and the opportunity for those that want to work hard and build a residual income.

Do you know ...Citibank... they have a multi-level marketing component to their model, and it is called PRIMERICA...

Be proud of your mlm business model, and the opportunity it affords those that pick up the torch and run with it to the finish line and can build truly passive residual income, it their loss if your opportunity is truly a good opportunity ....

I would go and buy some books on how to build a networking marketing business, invest in your education and positive thinking books.

QUESTION:
Do you have a sorting and sifting system in place...?

What sorting and sifting system do you have in place, if you do not have one, that means you are working too hard and efficiently, I suggest you set one up immediately !

Hope you have a good upline sponsor, if you do not, then find out who are upper level uplines, move up the ladder till you find one that will support you well, and teach you well too...

Any confusion, no problem just ask and will try to help you clear up your concerns so you can become a professional network marketer and a master at sorting and sifting ... who welcomes no's because the more no's you get the closer you are getting to that YES sign me up jbrown ..;>)

GOOD LUCK...remember ( SORT AND SIFT ) AND WHO'S NEXT !
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3rd conversation

What is your top 1 objective and concern in your mlm business at this moment, and what have you done to work towards your objective and concerns ?

Does the subscriber come onto your list knowing that you are in MLM?

I think that's the first and most critical step.

If they hop onto your list thinking it's all about internet marketing and then you throw them MLM they may get really burnt and decide to unsubscribe.

It all depends on the type of list you're building.

Look at people like: Ray Higdon, Todd Falcone, and Eric Worre.

They are all about MLM. But they don't pitch their opportunity. Yet, they still get people into their opportunity.

But the people they are targeting know that they are all about MLM.

If your actively prospecting (the right way) on Facebook, then I would wait till 3 messages back and forth as long as your building a relationship and approached the person from a place of value first.

If they become subscribers on your list, then I wouldn't worry about pitching your opportunity at all.

Instead Get a blog or professional website created with one if you don't have one already, and start sharing value that helps solve other peoples problems. Anytime you make a value filled blog post, take snippets of it and share it with your list of subs and link em back to your blog post. Make sure on your blog you have sales funnels in place that convert.

Doing that is called Attraction Marketing..

So instead of being pitchy, you give first and they come to you

In all the posts so far barely a mention of the product itself. Is that not important? My wife wants to promote Forever Living online. The product and brand seem strong, good quality so why not sell like any other drop shipped range.

What people fail to realize about MLMs is that:

1. Nobody gets paid a penny until a product has been sold. Most MLMs focus on the "referral" part and not the sales part.
2. Your downline IS your competition. If you have a customer who buys widgets from you for $40 a pop, and you bring him into the business, you've lost him as a customer for life. As a member he can now buy the widgets for $10. Why would he buy them from you?

I use the rabbit/carrot analogy when talking about MLMs. Let's say the carrot represents the product and the rabbit represents the "independent associate" selling the product. Now, if every time a rabbit ate one carrot, another rabbit was born, eventually you'd have a city full of fluffy little bunnies fighting over food. That is essentially what happens when you follow most MLM's "sell-them-a-product-then-sign-them-up" business model.

The newly born rabbits are the ones getting screwed, while the rabbits at the top of the pyramid, who got there early are sipping mai-tai's and getting their toes curled by the lady rabbits.

I pitch in the very first email. Let them know what i'm all about and that i wont waste their time.

Look, they already "what the deal is". Just give it to them straight up, but make the sales copy/email copy persuasive - and informative.

The best way is to meet people, then people become convinced to join a MLM. This method is highest conversion rate.

I know that people quickly give their opinions on the marketing model
of MLM, but I doubt that's what you're asking. MLM is one of those
controversial subjects on the WF for over 10 years now.

Anyway, a basic question you have to answer is are these leads interested
in the product or the business opportunity? You really have to segment
your list in this regards. Those who are interested in making money are
seldom motivated by things as the user/customer.

And your best target are those who have already shown an interest
in the MLM industry. Here you can pitch your opportunity right upfront.

-Ray Edwards

It's not about how long you need to warm people up or make them wait. It's about being a real and genuine person throughout the whole process.

There's really no number. Network Marketing is all about building relationships period. Every person you build a relationship with is going to be a different person with different circumstances...

That being said first worry about making the connection first, see if there is a need, if there isn't then move on but at least make sure you build up a little rapport and follow up later on down the road.

Keep things simple.

If your having a great convo and you've found out there's a need, then I usually just lead into a business type convo and ask closing questions that are actually open ended.

Mind you the above advice is for straight up prospecting laser targeted people for example on social media platform..

The other way is what I mainly do now with much success and that is paid advertising that leads through a funnel and prequalifies people on auto pilot for me...

So when I do talk to them, usually after they've joined they're already interested in my opp and have some questions :-)

Hope that helps!

You won't ever encounter resistance to an MLM if you are marketing to the business opportunity/MLM seeker crowd. You would just need to be on the right forum or Facebook group to find those people. You will get very good results there as many are looking for yet another MLM to earn money with especially if there last one was not so good.

The Best Way, you always look all people “who are best and can they join as my downline” downline should always be active, positive, motivated can easily convince people to join a MLM.

Now I connected on MLM Diary there are many MLM Leaders and all MLM company, I was successful in convincing many people.

If you know what's their hot button, the thing that keeps them up at night. You can pitch right away. If my head on fire and you are selling me a glass of water. I don't care how much it costs, I will find you where ever you are and beg you to give me the water.

You definitely have to ask the right questions. Then know when to pitch them. It takes practice.I like more online mlm systems that do more of the selling for your via sales videos, webinars, sales letter, etc.

It is better to attract people that are already convinced of the business model. All they need is the little push. That can be done through email marketing. Never convince anyone, just show your results and add value