Network Marketing: What to Do if Your Company Won’t Let you Promote Online
09. Jun, 2010 
9 Comments
So one of my mentors, Mr. Daegan Smith AKA “The King of Never Calling a Single Lead” had this awesome post the other day and he’s allowed me to share it with everyone.
He answers a major question that many of us in Network Marketing may have. What do I do if my company does not allow me to promote online. Another words you’re not able to use the company name in a website or even in a PPC ad. What do you do at that point? Isn’t it the whole point of learning all of the new skills that we’ve learnt to market on the Internet? To go out and promote your company, get leads etc etc? That may not be the direction to go in as you’ll soon find out and YOU are the key to it all.
Well here’s Daegan’s response and it shows the need for attraction marketing and providing value to everyone that you come in contact with.
Enjoy some quick feedback from one of the Kings of our Industry.
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Subject:
What To Do If Your Company Won’t Let You
Promote Online
Body:
RE: What To Do If Your Company Won’t Let
You Promote Online (By Daegan Smith)
I just got a great question in from
Shannon Hanaway, that I think you may be
interested in the answer to:
“I’ve just been advised that my MLM
company won’t allow any website- outside
their provided template-that customers
can link back to for product information
and enrollment.
These are my products.
Am I dead in the water or do I just get
really creative?”
My Response:
Shannon,
Fantastic questions and by no means are
you dead in the water. You just have to
think a little bit differently about how
you introduce people to your
opportunity.
In all honesty, just sending people to
your companies website to learn about
your product line isn’t going to win you
many sales anyway, so it’s really more
of an non issue than you may think.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it
again. People don’t join opportunities,
they join people.
Therefore nothing that you do on the
front end of your business even needs to
ever mention your company. Let me
explain . . .
Your best prospects will always be the
doers like you. The people striving for
success.
What do doers look for?
Information and guidance.
This is all your business on the front
end should provide. People will join you
because they “know” and you’ve proven
you can help them, not because your moon
juice is cooler than the next companies.
So on the front end, do what I do.
Create your own newsletter. Your own
lead capture page. Communicate daily.
If you get adventurous create a front
end product that solves one of your
prospects major concerns.
1. Getting more leads 2. Making more
money 3. Recruiting without rejection
Allow them to purchase it from you and
then . . .
Once all your marketing costs are paid
for by your profits, on the back-end
give you your customers a call.
Ask how you can be of further service,
naturally they’ll be inquisitive as to
what else you’re up to.
There, right there, is the time you
bring up your back end company.
You may say, but “Daegan I can’t create
a product.”
I have two answers for you.
Yes you can and you don’t even need a
product to recruit online. It just makes
it easier.
Even if you were just to create your own
list online. Share stories and marketing
strategies daily, and as a call to
action at the end of your message you
said something like:
“If you’d like some personal help give
me a call between 4pm and 8pm tonight at
XXX-XXXX I’ll be in the office to help”
You’ll have people ringing your phone
off the hook all day and night. Trust me
on that one.
See how we never even bring up our
company online following this
methodology? Well, that’s exactly why
you’re in no way shape or form dead in
the water.
If you’d like to learn how to either
generate a boat load of leads, create
your first front end product, or create
a daily flow of profits, there is no
better place to learn these skills than
as a part of our family.
Watch this short presentation to learn
how to make that happen:
==> http://www.onlinewealthleverage.com
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So to reiterate, here are the two things that you should really take from this.
1. There is no need to lead with your primary opportunity. People will be attracted to YOU not your company.
2. Creating your own products will be the best thing you ever do. This puts the power in your hands and not in the hands of your company.
Combine the creation of that product with a major launch just like what Mark Hoverson and Jonathan Budd are going to show you how to do with the MLM Launch Formula and you could well be on your way to freedom.
As usual, let me know what you thought by leaving your comments below and if you’ve found this post to be motivational please share with your friends on Facebook and Twitter (and other social media sites).
Think about it…this just may change someone’s life.
Brian,
Thanks for sharing that.
Every single word of that is so true. This is a people business. People will join other ppl they like and trust. If you can show them how to be successful in their business, they will follow you to the ends of the earth.
Aaron
.-= Aaron´s last blog ..How To Get Your Business In The “Green”! =-.
Brian Tomlinson Reply:
June 11th, 2010 at 1:50 AM
Aaron, you got it buddy. Relationships are the most important things we have. This is where we can build those lasting connections that can last a lifetime.
~BT
Hi Brian!
Great post, this is such an enduring question as so many MLM companies are restrictive this way.
But as people come online to do any marketing it’s the biggest paradigm shift NOT to lead with the product or opportunity. I’ve written several posts on that topic alone!
Thanks again for your added value!
Vicki
.-= Vicki Berry´s last blog ..Using Google Friend Connect to Serve Your Followers =-.
Brian Tomlinson Reply:
June 11th, 2010 at 1:36 AM
Hi Vicki, you are so correct. It is definitely a huge shift from the traditional ways of MLM. We have to realize that we live in an ever changing world.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing our great views as usual.
~BT
Brian,
This is such a timely article! My previous company took a similar stance. My up-line was very negative about online marketing. He told me he never met anyone who ever made any money from the internet. He comes from traditional network marketing perspective. As you can imagine, that’s not my primary company any longer.
Thanks for great value!
Bridgette
Brian Tomlinson Reply:
June 11th, 2010 at 1:34 AM
Hey Bridgette, kudos to you for taking the steps and following your vision. We should all appreciate the positive aspects of both sides of the coin.
Thanks for sharing.
~BT
Great post. I am Russia.
Hey Brian,
I think you summed this up perfectly at the end of your post where you mention creating a product and doing a major launch in the way that Mark and JB teach. This is definitely a way through for those faced with strict policies and procedures.
I have to say that whilst I totally agree with Daegan on the fact that people join people and not opportunities, personally I would also be questioning whether you really want to remain with a company that won’t let you promote online unless you’re using their company replicated template.
Whilst it’s not the be all and end all, there is no question that owning a piece of real estate for your companies keywords is hugely powerful. And if you’re restricted from ranking for them, other marketers from other companies (who aren’t restricted by your companies policies) are actually ranking for your companies keywords anyway!
Depending on whether you like to push the envelope (like I do), it’s amazing how much you can get away with online before you get the tap on the shoulder from corporate.
Of course you never heard me say that and I’m not recommending that anyone reading this post should temporarily break the rules