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There’s going to come times where you’ll have so much information about a prospect or client that you need to find a way to keep track of them. You can use a address book, but it can only hold so much information about a person’s lifestyle. A notepad could work, but sometimes you have a hard time managing the notes you’ve written about someone.

If you’re not familiar with Customer Relationship Management software you definitely should.  It’s software that companies use to customer information regarding anything from the last time they called, what the call was about, the last order they made, what hobbies they have, etc. Most companies use it to track customer info. But if you want to think outside the box, you should also use it to track industry information and articles you find.

Though you want to know about your MLM company, it’s compensation plan, its products and the support, you also want to be able to know what’s going on in the MLM industry.  If you can, research once every two weeks on what’s going on in the MLM industry. You maybe able to find important articles regarding other’s prospect’s MLM companies they are a part that they aren’t aware about. Or you can find a good article on how MLM is a great industry to be a part of to make money for funding towards businesses or schooling. You can show those items to prospects you meet locally or online. Think of the value you can bring.

CRM software can be used as a research hub to gather your information you have. Besides researching industry information, you can also research important people you like to connect to sell your products to or bring into your company in the future. The data you should gather of people include the person’s name, address, phone number, e-mail, website information (if they have one), work experience (including information based on the companies and industries they’ve worked in), hobbies, political and religious affiliations, birthdays, anniversaries, donations, favorite sports teams, and more.

The more information you have on prospects, the more comfortable you’ll be in talking to them, and the more they’ll be comfortable in talking to you and hearing more of what you have to offer. To find out information on prospects, just ask. Or if you’re online prospecting, read their profile information. If there are particular things about them you see of interest, ask that in a message to them. You want to keep track at all times of people you meet and connect to. You’ll remember who they are, what they do, and how much closer they are in being sold on your primary opportunity.

I just came upon this site recently when researching some good MLM articles. This site is called the Distributor Rights Association, an organization that’s devoted to help distributors and independent contractors succeed in MLM and when doing business with other companies.

In October of last year the organization held a Distributor Rights Convention in Las Vegas that offered training on various topics, including the domination of social media and how to best exploit that method of marketing to optimize financial results. By checking out their webpage, you’ll find out the positive testimonials from the people who attended that convention. DRA knows the powerful methods of marketing that network marketers should use today, and is willing to teach those that are a part of their organization to best implement them for maximum results.

In general, the DRA wants to teach network marketers and contractors their rights and how to stay protected in business. Although there is a lot of income potential in network marketing, it doesn’t come without its downsides. Depending on what network marketing company you’re a part of, you can fall victim to a lot of different things, including the company’s option to terminate you at anytime or the company’s option to take your pay at anytime. To find out more on any network marketing company beyond just its line of products and compensation plan, ask for the company’s policies and procedures from any MLM recruiter or your upline and read it thoroughly.

From looking at the DRA benefits, you will know the laws in MLM, which they update regularly.  Learning the legal aspect of business is very important and often overlooked. You’ll also get updates on training and the chance to form true relationships with other distributors. What you will also get, most importantly, is a chance for you to be hear. DRA encourages people to be the voice of the future of MLM, and to be a leader of the MLM industry.

For more information on the Distributor Rights Association, visit www.mlm-dra.org.

There’s marketing messages everything in the form of ads, emails, brochures, and television commercials. In the MLM industry, there are a lot of people posting marketing messages of their primary opportunities and links to click on their company sites. Being that there are several people doing that strategy to get prospects interested in their opportunity, it’s no wonder why one person is exposed to between 1,500 to 3,000 marketing messages daily.

If you listen to any expert in marketing, they will tell that there is a lot of clutter. And I mean a lot. But how some people are trying to get through the clutter are through blogs and articles. A blog is the central hub that contains one person’s library of information, while articles are topics containing valuable information for the proper audience. These are two methods people are using to also increase their search engine optimization (SEO) rankings, with some achieving success. While many are familiar with what SEO is and how it can benefit them by implementing it into their marketing strategy, many may still not know about Digital Asset Optimization (DAO).

Digital asset optimization is a very fast growing trend right now in online communications. DAO is about having your content spread across several sites, or “channels,” which then contain back links and keywords linking the content back to the place it came from. It’s like how a spider finds a place to set up shop at, and spreads it’s web everywhere so that it sticks to plants or walls while making sure everything stays connected. The same goes for your content. You can have a blog that you use to post content, then post that same content to several article submission directories with a link in the bottom of your blog, allowing search engines and prospects to find where the content originated from.

Articles are one form of DAO. Beyond that, news, images and videos are also what make this method of marketing valuable. You need your content everywhere in order to break through the clutter. People can better find out about what you do if you have images and videos of what you do and how you help others.

Websites, including blogs, are digital assets. Websites containing videos, images, RSS feeds, bookmark sharing features, and podcasts can all be applied into a good digital asset optimization strategy. A company or individual can be able to use all these formats to quickly spread the valuable content out to several sites like YouTube or Delicious, and also allow prospects to spread that content as well, while also allowing them to easily access it. RSS feeds, for example, is an excellent way for one person to easily subscribe to several websites that contain valuable marketing information to their liking, while having all of that content in one place for them to access it.

So how does all this help you to gain the awareness that you need? Easy. First you need a central hub, like a website or a blog. Second, you provide the valuable content for your audience. Third, you make your website user-friendly so people can easily find your information, subscribe to your information, and share it with other people. Lastly, you blast your valuable content all across the Internet that contain keyword rich descriptions of what the content is about, how it’ll help them, and links back to your site.

Follow these steps, do them consistently, and you should get traffic in no time. Beyond that, you will get people ready to opt into your newsletter, your RSS feeds, calling you wanting to learn more about you, or ready to buy. There’s nothing like having a prospect you don’t even know call you out of the blue saying, “Hi. You don’t know me, but I know you. I enjoy your valuable content, and I believe you can help solve my problem. I’m ready to work with you now. Here’s my credit card. When can we start?”

If you are looking to get prospects ready to take action, you have to make sure your message is a real grabber. You can do that best with a video. People can look at your posture, your enthusiastic voice, and your self-confidence. Make a video asking prospects three to five questions of their current situation they can say yes to, then tell them what they need to do next to get their problem resolved. This can be opting into your newsletter, giving you a call immediately, or purchasing a specific product you sell.

Lastly, if you’re looking for an easy and cost effective way to get your content out there quickly, here’s two products I recommend. I recommend Automatic Article Submitter and I recommend Traffic Geyser. Automatic Article Submitter allows you to create different variations of one article so that it looks like you’re sending three or more different articles to three hundred directories. That way, that means more content is blasted through the Internet, which means more traffic to your website through SEO.

Traffic Geyser distributes your videos to ninety different social media sites like Flickr, Vidder and Podcast sites. You’re also able to allow prospects to download your media by making it iTunes MP4 compatible.  Again this allows your target market to easily access and share your content with other people that they know, which is what you want.

If you’re in the MLM industry, and are looking to dive into Internet marketing, you definitely need to take advantage of this method of marketing. Search engine optimization is constantly evolving, and more people are starting to use it. And with digital asset optimization also entering the fray as a fast growing trend, it’s time to take SEO to the next level. Prospects love various forms of content, so give them what they want. They’ll thank you now and buy from you later.

There are a lot of people in the network marketing business. Many of them are struggling in the industry because they don’t know about marketing. Even if some people in the industry do know about marketing, what are they marketing exactly?

If you’re reading messages from people on their MLM home based business, how their company is brand new and growing fast, how they have the best product that dominates the competition, and how their compensation plan is the greatest to hit the face of the earth, then they’re pitching their business opportunity, and that’s the wrong way to do it.

People who have their own MLM companies don’t care about your opportunity. They care about learning how to succeed and what value you can provide to them. Most people don’t know how to provide value. They don’t want to help others. They rather settle for a quick sale. By separating yourself from the several network marketers that struggle in the industry, you can come out on top. The only way to do so is learning to help others succeed and providing valuable information they enjoy.

If you like to learn more on how important it is to become a leader and provide value to every prospect you come in contact with, then you must read this book I read on Magnetic Sponsoring by Mike Dillard, who is a mogul in the MLM industry. I read it thoroughly and can say it’s a great book. You’ll want to read it again after you read it the first time. It’s that good. To get this book and also Seven Free Boot Camp videos: Click Here.

You won’t be disappointed after reading it. I hope it’ll motivate you to take action.