Through the many years of being a massage therapist (18 currently) I have been approached by almost every network marketing company through a friend, client or even people I don’t even know. At first I thought the idea of network marketing seemed like it would really work and be a great way to get extra income or even make a living. Through the years I joined a few at various times always thinking that this would be the one. The products were great, the compensation plans confusing but lucrative and the opportunity to further share my interest in health. Well I gave up on network marketing a long time ago but seem to come back to it every once in awhile – the last being a few years ago when I was thinking of reselling an alkaline water filter system. I was fairly excited about the prospect and had tons of ideas – mainly a website that would take the lead over others in selling this product. I later found out that there was some discrepancy over whether or not I could even have a website of my own for that business. There was no system in place to help people build the business and the woman who was the best in world happened to be part of my upline and all she wanted to do was have people go to a demonstration and deal with her staff who could hardly speak english. I had heard enough and got out before I even got started.
Now with the theories of Site Build It! constantly being spun around in my head – I set up a few pages on my site www.thebodyworker.com and got a domain name through SBI! that allows me to set up a system to redirect that domain to another website – www.about-water.com. For about the last year and a half I have been making about $70 a month on just about 10 pages of content on the concepts and ideas around this product. I actually had a bad taste in my mouth from the whole MLM experience and started telling people it was really too expensive a product and that there were other products out there. I started a comparison chart that I never finished and had other ideas. I almost forgot about it until the other day I realized it making me about $70-100 a month in Google Adsense income! All this for doing nothing and not even selling the product. I was also reading the SBI! forums which are a great network of people who are using the SBI! system of building websites and came across a thread on Network marketing and the theory that you can get clients coming to you and interested in your product all without ever even mentioning the product name. What you do give them is all of the information about the product – what it does, how it enhances health, scientific info, testimonials…everything and anything. You create an interest. You share your passion for the product and it becomes contagious. Before long people are contacting you and wanting the product. This takes care of the biggest challenge of network marketing – the problem of trying to sell to people who are really not interested. This way you are finding people who are interested and you don’t have to sell ( just like most MLM companies try to tell you that network marketing is not selling- it’s sharing – but then you’ve lost all your friends and family members because of your so called sharing.)
Site Build It! is so convinced that you can be successful ‘selling’ your MLM product using their system that they are actually offering a contest where the winner can win $10,000 first prize for the most income and by also being the most helpful (to be chosen by Ken the owner of SBI! through his carefully outlined process that he is creating.) I am so interested in the whole concept that I am considering going into some MLM business just to see if it could work, but I actually don’t want to sell anything! So if you are still reading this and have a MLM business that you just haven’t been successful at or you are already successful at but would like even more and are ready to take your business to the next level – I am offering my services for FREE to help coach you in making a website and all I ask is that if you win the contest – you give me a 10% of the winnings!! (Does that sound reasonable??)
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Julie,
You and I could be looking for one another. It’s now more than a month since you posted this blog entry, so I don’t know if you’re still looking.
I just came to realization this past week (while doing some homework on identifying my ideal client and target market), that I’d love to work with entrepreneurial complimentary/alt medicine practitioners who “get” that network marketing (the right products, company, and comp plan) is a viable option. AND, I am working on a way to deliver wellness seminars to clients where it simply makes sense to become a customer (or an associate if they want–but not required to get the best price).
If YOU are still reading, maybe we should throw some ideas around.
Sally in Northern Virginia
(massage therapist, Reiki master, and other stuff too)