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How To Create A Contact List Of Thousands Of Names

by johncini03.01.2010 MLM Articles

I wrote this document to help people in my first company, and then the company included it in their training manual. Use it yourself, then share it with everyone you enroll!
Your contact list is the most vital tool you can use to build your business.
The list is the fuel for your business.
Do you want [...]

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Dog Rescue Attempt Caught on Camera

by louabbott02.12.2010 Inspiration

Some times…

words are not needed to tell a story and renew our faith in mankind.

This dog rescue attempt will inspire you!
Watch the video to the right.

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Review: The MLM Training that Produced over $1 Billion in Sales

by louabbott02.11.2010 MLM Articles

Todd Smith has earned over $22 million in commissions from his network marketing company over the last 20 years. His network marketing organization has also produced more than $1 Billion in product sales.
As 2009 was coming to an end and a new decade was beginning, I had been thinking a lot about how I could [...]

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The Secret to Being an MLM Network Marketing Failure

by David Enders, D.C.02.07.2010 MLM Articles

You may have read that as high as 97% of all MLM Network Marketers fail, and make little or no money.
My question to you is why?
Is it the company’s fault?
Is it your upline or downline’s fault?
Could it possibly be your fault?
Now this is just my opinion, but I think that most MLM Network Marketers fail [...]

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MLM & Coupons, Vouchers, Gift Certificates, and Down Payments

by louabbott01.26.2010 MLM Articles

MLM Legal Article by Gerald P. Nehra, Attorney at Law
The title of this article lists names of pieces of paper and business transactions that are perfectly legal. Even paying commissions to the person arranging the transaction can be structured so as to be perfectly legal.
So why am I writing about it? Because the payment of [...]

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Alan Neil Kippax, an investigative editorial of the Business in Motion / BIM founder

by bobandanna01.22.2010 MLM Articles

The founder, CEO, Master Distributor of Business in Motion (BIM), is Alan Neil Kippax.
He’s also a card carrying megalomaniac.
Mr. Kippax has a long history of questionable companies, as well as a criminal record (drugs, weapons, and assault) described here.
One of Alan’s early ventures was door to door sales of frozen meats and fish from a [...]

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Leading Economist Recommends Social Network Marketing

by Adrian Armstrong01.21.2010 MLM Articles

The economy may stink now, but this could be the perfect time to start your own home business.
CNN’s Josh Levs, went to an economics convention,  and had the opportunity to get advice from the economists.
In this video, which aired on CNN, Charlotte Phelps, an economist from Temple University, told Josh if you do it right, [...]

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Selling? Or Marketing? Is there a difference?

by John Counsel01.21.2010 MLM Articles

90% or more of network marketers don’t know the difference — and it costs them dearly!
There’s an old saying that goes “if you think the cost of education is high, try ignorance!”
There’s a fatal flaw in this insight, however, that’s simple but profound: it’s not what you don’t know (ignorance) that sinks you… it’s what [...]

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Internet Marketing: Fact or Hype for Network Marketers?

by David Enders, D.C.01.18.2010 MLM Articles

Can you really build your network marketing business via Internet Marketing, or is it all hype?
Many new network marketers ask their uplines about marketing on the Internet, and most of them receive a negative response.
Why?
We should remember that most successful network marketing companies have been around for years, even decades, and they feel more comfortable [...]

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The biggest lie in MLM

by yvettefourie01.15.2010 MLM Articles

If you believe that NWM/MLM opportunities do not include sales, then I could probably get away with posing as your uncle!
Network marketing is sometimes portrayed as the act of ‘building a family that you never had’. All you do is find a few friends, who find a few friends and so on. In a ‘jiffy’ [...]

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United We Stand, Divided We Fall: The Future of Network Marketing

by louabbott01.13.2010 MLM Articles

Richard Brooke posted this article on the future of MLM…
on his blog November 11, 2009. It is so important that we have republished it here (with his permission).
Richard’s perspective is valuable not just because he knows what it’s like to build a large distributor business.  But, he also is the founder of a [...]

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How deceptive “spin” harms EVERYONE in Network Marketing

by John Counsel01.10.2010 MLM Articles

I received a media release via the SBWire service just now from a UK-based outfit promoting the .ws domain space.
As is all-too-common for people and groups promoting Global Domains International (GDI), the content was full of misleading and potentially deceptive “spin” and misdirection.
The media release can be boiled down to the following claims or arguments:

The [...]

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DSA Member Companies Donate More than $15.7 Million to TODAY Show Holiday Gift Drive

by johncini01.04.2010 MLM Articles

On November 20, 2009, the Direct Selling Association announced on their website and via a press release:
The Direct Selling Association will help kick off the 16th Annual TODAY Show Holiday Gift Drive on Monday, Nov. 23, by presenting the direct selling industry’s donation live on the show in Rockefeller Plaza.
Twenty-five direct selling companies donated a total of [...]

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Three quick tests for scams — and your own vulnerability

by John Counsel12.21.2009 MLM Articles

This post continues the insights that I introduced you to in my previous post, the “Morlocks of MLM.”  It lists three simple, practical ways for you to reliably and quickly evaluate whether any product, service, business or income opportunity offered to you is likely to be legitimate or a scam.
Note, though, that you have to [...]

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Beware the Morlocks of MLM

by John Counsel12.16.2009 MLM Articles

[This article is so good and appropriate for this site, we decided to re-publish it here. Well worth considering closely. We warmly welcome John Counsel to our growing group of Contributing Editors.--Lou Abbott]
I’ve always been a big science fiction fan. One of my all-time favourites is H.G. Wells’ classic “The Time Machine.” In [...]

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Attraction Marketing Secrets: Total Newbie to 6 websites on-line in 6 short months…

by mitchelldillman12.04.2009 MLM Articles

Letter to the editor: Mr. Lou Abbott
Hello Lou,
You don’t know me yet. My name is Mitchell Dillman and I’ve been meaning to get over here for some time now and tell you an interesting little story… so if you don’t mind, I think I’ll take a few minutes of your time and share.
As you read [...]

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What is MLM?

by louabbott12.01.2009 MLM Articles

You know you have been at it too long when you think that everyone should understand the shop-talk lingo of your particular profession.
For example, I still get surprised when I am asked, “What is MLM?”

So, what is MLM?
MLM is short for multi-level marketing. Variously [...]

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