Wouldn’t a simple yes or no answer be great, but there isn’t once.

Especially since I have made six figures doing meetings, doing direct mail and doing the Internet.

In all cases I have had trouble finding anyone to duplicate me.

As Tom Schreiter says if you think you have 2 or 3 leaders in your organization, you’ve miscounted!

It’s the nature of people.

Regardless of the METHOD of marketing MLM people have a tough time of it, until they get to know, like and trust you.

They have to have four beliefs REGARDLESS of the marketing method.

They need a belief in:

– The product
– The company
– The Industry
– Themselves

If you don’t have all 4 core beliefs you could be doing meetings every day of the week and your growth won’t be there.

If you are in meetings and you have all 4 core beliefs you’ll have success.

If you are doing direct mail and you have all 4 core beliefs you’ll have success.

If you are doing the Internet and have all 4 core beliefs you’ll have success.

I prefer meetings, as it grows slower but had a higher retention rate.

But, back in the early 2000′s I was sick and tired of meetings and wanted to stay home to raise my two newborns and spend more times in my shorts and t-shirts.

Guess what, I didn’t miss any meals and neither did my downline.

Each specific marketing method is a niche’, yes.

And, you can “attract” different’ niche’s to your “meeting funnel” and go from there.

As far as the internet goes, it needs to be a single product focus.

In fact, I am putting up a new website which does nothing but offer a $7.95 free trial of our product that converts to a $35.25 customer.

I have created a 7/14/28 day follow up call by the distributor to the customer to see if they got the product, open it up, take the product, watch the DVD and put the product in refrigerator where they have 42 chances a day to see it and consume it.

Day 7 is the quick 2 minute call.
Day 14 is to get referrals.
Day 28 is to convert to distributor or stay a customer.

Randy, after PUSHING the opportunity online for 7 years now and watching the fallout on the back end this is the only way I believe the Internet can be used.

I will come back and post every 90 days my results so I can “show you and not snow you” about this reality.

Remember, single focus websites outpull corporate sites that have 99 links on them.

That single focus is the webs only way to survive in MLM, in my opinion.

Of course, I can outsell the pants off the internet in person at meetings because of the buzz of the crowd and the face to face contact.

But, what about Mary in Des Moines who has no downline?

Sure, make the list of 50 people, call and mail them and do one-on-ones and hold home meetings until you get enough for a hotel meeting.

Yes, you follow leadership wherever it goes.

UNLESS, you flood a particular market with advertsing, but no single distributor has that kind of money unless corporate or the upline funds it to kick-start an area like I live in, here in Dallas where we have 8 million people.

I’ve also purhcased 40,000 names of folks here in Dallas to email and voice broadcast to do a two-step method with folks.

I’ve met one gal at Starbucks, she had no money to join.

She went out and retailed 7 bottles and put those checks in her account and signed up 3 days later.

She came from a cold list.

She is now my new friend and I am teaching her the business.

She doesn’t have a website yet.
I want her to exhaust her warm list first, see the difference?

I stage this to my group.

I never throw them to the cold market first as it will turn them cold to you and your opportunity unless they have previous business and sales experience and have a thick skin.

I’m now meeting with her group of 10 suspects next week at starbucks and will take that where it goes…either customers or distributors.

So, there is no one SILVER BULLET it today’s age, in my opinion.

I just moved to Dallas and I know NOBODY here.

So, I forked over some money and am turning cold leads into warm leads.

Warm leads work best.
Meetings work best.

But, I’m savvy enough to know that there are many other ways to lead suspects to my duplicatable and unified system.

It’s just common sense.

I’m keeping good stats and will let you know of my “Retail to Recruit” online system and how it goes for the Internet portion of my business.

Sincerely,
Robert Blackman

Then I say once you’ve done a bit of your warm market look at choosing 1 additional way, whether it be SEO, PPC or lead lists and focus on doing that well.

Dan

My mom used to say that. I agree – but do think the principals of duplication must be honored no matter where you network.

Randy has been teaching “system” and I have been a student. I met Randy in Boston, and think he is 100% sincere but not 100% right.

I know that I would not be involved in network marketing if the “internet 2.0″ did not exist. I am using Facebook, Youtube and Twitter, and also My Telephone! You still have to build relationships, the internet only makes it better – not necessarily easier.

Be bold, be creative, listen to everything Randy says. Read everything he writes.

Be yourself. Take bold action.

John