Are you like me?

I became familiar with the principles of Network Marketing and MLM back in 1994.

I was introduced to a large MLM company by my friend Robin one evening around at somebody’s house.

I was blown away by the content of Robin’s presentation, the dreams he built, the network building diagram and compensation plan. I mean I was totally awe struck, I had never seen anything like this before and I really thought that was it, my ticket to freedom… all I had to do was find half a dozen buddies who saw what I saw, and that was it, I’d be made for life.

Well, if you are like me you can imagine what happens next.

My friends don’t get as excited as me, I come back to Earth with a bump and I end up wondering if there is something wrong with me or something wrong with the business I was so excited about. Fortunately, my upline, Robin, is a smart fellow, he’s got me using ‘the system’. It’s a system of books, tapes, meetings and functions. This system keeps me in the business, builds my confidence and belief and provides tools to help me build and train my downline. It empowers me to put on a suit and drive around the country late at night showing the business plan to people, looking for the one’s that see what I see.

I soon realize that this is no ‘get rich quick’ scheme and actually, there’s some hard work involved.

Five years later, I discovered the Internet, and I let my Network Marketing business go. I don’t know if it was the loss of belief in my self, the business or the system, or, if it was the constant rejection and pain I felt every time a distributer quit, but I let it go.

If you’ve been involved in ‘Old School’ MLM or Network Marketing as I’ve described above, you’ll know exactly what I mean when I say that MLM burns itself into your heart. It never leaves you, you know that it is right, wholesome, ethically and morally correct and probably one of the most powerful business models out there.

Enter the Internet. Combine the Power of the Internet, MLM companies and Downline Building Systems and you are looking at a completely different animal.

Take away the pain, the rejection, the prospecting telephone calls, the driving, the suits, in fact everything that was expensive and painful, take it all away, that’s old school!

Bring in automatic downline building systems, viral traffic systems, auto responders, social networking, interactive websites, online training and conferencing, blogging, article writing and search engine optimization and you have an extremely powerful system which attracts people to your mlm or network marketing business.

Turn the Old School on it’s head, the systems out there today bring your leads and prospects to you magnetically, people chase you and ask for the information, your business grows around the planet and those friends you thought would be so excited about that business don’t even know what you’re doing.

If you are anything like me, (if you’ve read this far you probably are!) I encourage you to check out the New Age of MLM and Network Marketing. Understand that the Internet and technology has revolutionized the MLM business model and that potentially it will change your future for the better. Put aside those old reservations and worries, they don’t exist here on the net. Embrace the terms MLM and Network Marketing, here on the turbo charged Internet those words are as acceptable as ‘A Cup of Tea’

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There are many downline building systems to choose from out there. I have used several, and, I’ll be perfectly frank and honest with you, they are NOT all the same thing.

You see, when building any MLM business, the most important asset you have, apart from an upline who believes in you, is your list. In today’s ‘new age’ of MLM that list is actually your optin list, that’s your list of subscribers who optin to get information from you about opportunities and systems to help them build their MLM business. These optin’s, leads, people, individuals, however you like to refer to them have joined your list and probably your MLM downline system through using that MLM downline system.

So how do you choose which MLM Downline System to use?

Here are some very important questions you should ask yourself before you make that decision:

1. Do your optins actually join YOUR list?

OK, so you found an amazing, 100% Free MLM downline building system that produces leads and downlines for you. Did those leads actually join your list? I’ve seen this, you spend hours of hardwork in the Traffic Exchanges and List-Builders promoting this system that supposedly has evrything… It’s free, it provides lead capture pages, video, personalised to you, follow-up messages to send, everything, and great, you have leads appearing in your back office. Now all you want to do is broadcast a message to them. Can you do it? Actually in some scenario’s, No, you can’t, but guess what, the system owners can and, they do!

2. Who controls the messages sent out to your leads?

You really ought to be using one of the auto responders like aweber or get response to manage your list optins and control what messages are sent out to them. I have seen, and worked with, some MLM downline systems which purport to have those leads available to you, which they are, but they are not in your auto responder, they’re in someone elses and you have no control over what opportunities, offers and, importantly, links that are sent out to those individuals.

Successful New Age MLM downline builders all agree, have your own auto responder, have your own optin list, write your own series of follow up emails that you can control.

3. Can you obtain support and training from your upline?

In order to be successful in MLM, you are going to need training and support, period! It’s just the way it is. With some of the mlm downline systems out there, which I have worked with, I contacted my sponsor by email, the email that he joined with. It took me three weeks to get even a reply and for him to say, actually I don’t know what I’m doing, I’m new and No, I don’t know anything about all those emails I’ve been sending you about ‘our fantastic team’. Now this one is the straw tht broke the camels back for me, I’m a bit old school, I KNOW that you need to have the help and support of an upline team to be successful in MLM. If that downline building system does not encourage communication and training for it’s team members, it has a hole in it.

4. Are you put under undue pressure to part with your money?

Some free mlm downline systems suggest they can deliver 10’s and even 20’s of streams of ‘passive income’, great! Some of those streams of income are expensive to get started and, in fact, they maybe prohibitively expensive, particularly for the newcomer. The newcomer has put in lots of work and is seeing some success with his downline growing, a new stream of income is announced and unless the newcomer signs up within a very short timescale it’s going to be hard luck, your downline will join around you.

5. You want to stop using that system, what happens to your leads?

I built a list in a system I shouldn’t have done, other people were contacting my leads with their own offers and programs, this is just plain wrong! There is only one thing to do when this happens, quit that system and start to build your own list with an mlm downline system that builds YOUR list, not someone elses.

So, to conclude, I know how exciting it can be to discover a 100% Free MLM downline building system, I really do! But, before you go ahead and take out your wallet and credit card, consider your options very carefully. If the answer to some of the questions I have raised above is less than positive or they ring a bell, be very careful.

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