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July 9, 2002

"6 Key Steps For Making Money in ANY Online MLM Program" by Linda J Bruton

We here at MLM Millionaire Training Systems earn a full-time income from several online MLM programs. SmartWay is one of our favorite programs.

Most of these programs are network marketing programs because we know that it is MUCH easier to build a full-time income from programs that pay you RESIDUAL income, than programs that pay one-time sales commissions.

I know from the emails I receive that many of you are having trouble just making any money from ONE program. How do we do it?

There are 6 simple keys that we apply to EVERY program:


KEY #1 ONLY JOIN PROGRAMS THAT PAY YOU A GOOD INCOME FOR THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE TO DO TO MAKE MONEY, AND HAVE PRODUCTS THAT PEOPLE WANT!


In most cases, that means that you should join NETWORK MARKETING (MLM) programs, NOT affiliate programs that require you to find new customers every month to sell to.

Network Marketing programs pay you a MONTHLY or RECURRING income for the people you sponsor who upgrade and buy products. You ALSO generally earn money on the work that your upline does, AND the work that your downline does. That means that in the long run, a lot of the commissions you earn are on OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK!

You will note that SmartWay is in that category. Every time you cycle, you earn $200. Your downline follows you every time they cycle, helping you cycle over and over again. In other words, you continue to make income from the same people you originally sponsored.

On top of that, you also earn a recurring income when your people sponsor of $60 per cycle.

An MLM program allows you to leverage your time and your promotional budget. What does that mean? It means that once you start building a downline, that the time and money those people spend to build THEIR business ALSO builds YOUR business! You get paid for it all.

Simple affiliate programs ONLY pay you when you make a sale. And they just pay you ONE TIME. Let's say an affiliate program pays you a $20 commission every time you sell a product. If you sell 100 this month, then you make $2,000.

But next month, you'll have to find 100 NEW people to sell the product to just to again make $2,000.

Not so with MLM programs. As I mentioned above, you continue to earn income in SmartWay on people you sponsor over and over and OVER again!

How would you earn $2,000 in SmartWay? Simply by cycling 10 times. You know that it takes 6 people to cycle. As those people cycle, they go into your new matrix. Every time your matrix fills, you cycle and earn $200. The SAME PEOPLE help you cycle over and over again.

Any additional people you sponsor helps you cycle even faster. That's why you can quickly build a full-time income with an MLM program like SmartWay, and why it is SO MUCH HARDER to earn a full-time income with regular affiliate programs.


KEY #2 FIGURE OUT HOW YOU MAKE THE TOP COMMISSIONS IN YOUR CHOSEN PROGRAM, THEN MAKE SURE YOU QUALIFY FOR THEM!


SmartWay and ALL MLM programs have requirements to qualify you for commissions. You must JOIN the program by buying the product to qualify for commissions.

Yes, YOU have to buy product, NOT just sell it! When you make your original $100 payment to SmartWay, you get your choice of products. Every time you cycle, part of your payment is that another $100 is spent to buy you a new matrix - and AGAIN you get your choice of product.

Why do MLM programs have this requirement? Quite simply, they can't pay out commissions if no one is buying product. The commissions they pay out are based on product sales. You are paid a commission based on the product sales in your downline (in other words, everyone in your downline buying product).

Another very good reason to buy product is that you can't possibly sell something that you don't use!

You will notice that some online programs do pay something to people who don't upgrade. But you will also notice that they pay free affiliates only one-time commissions, and these are very small. That makes them like the simple affiliate programs I mentioned above. You will NEVER make much money as a free affiliate in ANY program.

To earn the top commissions, you must QUALIFY for them. So make sure you know HOW to qualify for the top commissions in your chosen program. In SmartWay, it's very simple - you pay your original $100 for a position in the matrix.


KEY #3 WORK JUST ONE PROGRAM UNTIL YOU ARE EARNING A FULL- TIME INCOME FROM IT!


To work ANY online program effectively, you must devote time and spend promotional money on it.

If you are not doing this full-time, as we are, then you don't have a lot of free time to start with. You can't POSSIBLY adequately work 2 or more programs at the same time! You don't even have enough time to learn the program well!

On top of that, if you split your promotional budget between several programs, you aren't going to progress very fast in any of them. You are just diluting your resources.

The fastest way to make a lot of money online is to choose one program and concentrate on it fully until you are earning a full-time income.

Learn your program backwards and forwards. Learn how to effectively promote it online. Spend adequate time working with the people you sponsor. As a part-timer, that will take up all the time you have to devote to your business.

Then, once you are making enough money to do this full time, THEN think about adding a second program that relates well to your first program.


KEY #4 SPONSOR AS MANY MEMBERS AS YOU CAN EVERY SINGLE MONTH, AND KEEP DOING IT FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS.


Making a lot of money in ANY MLM program depends on your building a large downline. The faster you do that, the faster you'll be earning a full-time income.

That means sponsoring as many members or affiliates as you can afford every single month without fail. You ALWAYS need new prospects in your downline to start working with. In some ways this is a numbers game. The more people you work with, the more your chances of getting enough members to build yourself a full-time income.

As a part-timer, you can spend months learning how to market your program effectively online. There are hundreds of ways to do that. We have lots of resources and information to help you on our member support site:

http://www.mlmmillionaire.com/SmartWay/smartway.htm


KEY #5 DO LOTS OF FOLLOWUP WITH EVERY PERSON YOU SPONSOR.


Sponsoring people is really just the first step. And you have to do more.

When you have a new person, you want them to start building THEIR business. If they don't, you don't cycle as often as you would, or earn those $60 commission checks every time they cycle!

You cannot expect people to join a new program, have the initiative to go get themselves trained, learn new marketing skills, and start working the program ALL BY THEMSELVES!

When you sponsor someone, it is YOUR responsibility to help them, to show them where to go to get training, and to stay in contact with them.

If you want to be successful, you should at minimum: 1-send out a welcome letter to every new person you sponsor; 2- contact your affiliates and members frequently about how to effectively work the program, and encourage them to email you.

If you really want to build a working, profitable downline, then send your downline a regular newsletter filled with training articles and tips. Then build a support web site that they can refer THEIR OWN members to as well.

And with SmartWay, that will be very easy for you. You see, we already publish a training newsletter for you and your downline, and we have a very extensive member support site. You and your downline both can use all the tools and training on our site.

Working with your new people is just as important as sponsoring them. Don't neglect this key if you want to build yourself a full-time income online.


KEY #6 NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER QUIT!


Working these key steps won't build you a large income in 2 or 3 months. That's why you have to use them CONSISTENTLY over a period of time.

One of the most common traits of people who fail to ever make money online is that they quit. They try something for a month and then drop out when the money isn't pouring in.

They contact 10 people then quit when none of them join (even though they didn't do a thing to encourage or help those people to start with!)

Or they join, then sit around waiting for their upline to do something that will make them money. Lotsa luck. If you don't work, your program won't work. It's as simple as that.

Don't just try these keys once and then quit.

Do them EVERY month! Do them for a year!

I think you are going to be shocked at the income you'll have built for yourself if you do.


Linda J Bruton
MLM Millionaire Training Systems, Inc.
Your SmartWay Upline

P.S. Be sure to bookmark our Member Support Site. There are many training articles and resources on this site to help you build your SmartWay business. And we add new resources all the time:

http://www.mlmmillionaire.com/SmartWay/smartway.htm

P.P.S. To contact either of us with your questions or comments, please email us at:

Darlene
darlene@mlmmillionaire.com

Linda
linda@mlmmillionaire.com