Melanie Milletics

Hello this is Melanie Milletics with the Home Business Radio Network. I’m coming to you from beautiful sunny Florida and over the course of our show I’m going to talk to you about how you can integrate your online marketing skills with your offline network marketing model to create truly life-changing income in your home-based business.

The topic of today’s business is faking it till you make it. And you may be very surprised that I do want you to fake it till you make it. But I’m gonna twist it, I’m gonna change it. I’m gonna give you my own definition of what it means to fake it til you make it. Cause the type of fakin’ it til you make it that I’m going to give you is gonna help you to grow your business because it’s going to show you how to be a rock star out the gate versus acting like a total fakery hype-ster liar, which is not at all what I’m talking about.
So I guess to set this up we should talk about what it means in the old style method, the practice of faking it til you make it. It used to mean something like buying suits you couldn’t afford and wearing watches that were way too expensive for your budget and driving a car that was way beyond your reach because you had to fake like you were rolling the big bucks in order to kind of trick your prospects into signing up and think that they could make the big bucks too. I am not talking about that at all.
Please note, I am not suggesting that you go out and you get yourself into an incredible amount of debt so that you can put on a facade of being a professional or a very successful network marketer and trick people into joining your company. That’s not what I mean, that’s not what I said, and please don’t ever say I did. In fact, I’m going to take it online now.

Please don’t say that I ever told you to pretend to be something you aren’t online. To call yourself an expert in anything before you are. I don’t know where people got the idea that they were supposed to make a blog that says that they are an expert attraction marketer or an expert at social media marketing when they literally just got online yesterday. I don’t know where the idea came from, but please don’t ever say I told you to do that. Because, well, for one thing, it makes no sense to call yourself an expert at something you just learned to do or are learning to do. And on the other hand, oh my goodness, just like you can see through the characters who would get dressed up and stand up and peacock and act like they’re something they’re not, you can see through it online as well. People absolutely can see through it, and there is nothing like arrogance to turn people off. Nothing worse than somebody who acts like someone they aren’t to impress those around them. In fact, it more likely will repel them than attract them. And as for attraction marketing, doesn’t that go a long way in the same sense? If you’re trying to attract people, you don’t want to act like an arrogant peacock. And guys, let’s just be real, 80% of your organization is going to be women. And women are an incredibly intuitive bunch, and they can see through fakery from a mile away.

So no I didn’t say go out there and pretend to be something you’re not. Instead I’m going to ask you to fake it til you make it by stepping into who you will be from the get-go versus slowly becoming. See, successful people in network marketing or in anything will walk in the steps of those who were successful before them. Essentially we’re really good parrots, we’re really good mimics. We learn scripts, we learn how to do the thing s that successful people do, and say the things that successful people say.

When you’re just getting started you don’t have anything -  Zero downline, zero story, and zero testimonials in our group. That is simply the facts, but that is not a reason to hold back from inviting prospects to see what you have in a massive scale. So what I wanna give you is exactly what you can do to begin that inviting that’s gonna grow your business without your own story or downline.
If you worked for corporate America, you would have no problem saying things like “WE grew by 500% last year.” If you were to sit down with a prospective client and you were working for corporate, you would use words like WE. “WE helped 36 people earn a 6-figure income last month.” We. See, YOU are WE. You are part of that company. You are part of that story. You are the we. So use the word ‘we’ in your conversations. It takes a lot of pressure off of you and the prospect, when you use the word ‘we’. And our, “OUR mission.” Their mind opens to the possibilities to what they can do. They see themselves as part of the ‘we’ and the ‘our’. That is such a powerful thing. Just SHIFT. If you shift the words that you use and use the words ‘we’ and ‘our’ in your conversations and in your written conversations you’ll find that people are far more receptive to listening and open to looking because you’re talking about WE and OUR and not MY and ME. I and ME.

Now the beautiful thing is, you have a resource available to you to grow your business exponentially right now. And that is your company events. Why? Because when you attend your company events you’re going to be able to go and collect stories. You’re going to be able to go and see who “we” are. You’re going to collect stories, you’re going to collect testimonials, and you’re going to begin to use words like “OUR team has done xyz” It’s true! Because you’re part of the team. It doesn’t matter if it’s your team, if it’s sideline, if it’s the company. Your company is a team. So as long as you aren’t puffing up your chest and saying that you specifically did these things, you’re in the right. So absolutely go to events and collect these stories because they’re going to help serve well both offline and online.

Now offline you want to make sure that you learn a 30-second commercial that’s going to turn heads. That 30-second commercial is going to identify the strengths of what you’re doing as a company and the fact that you are proud. In the words you don’t necessarily say “I’m proud to represent,” but your demeanor, your confidence that you project when you’re saying this will let people know that you’re somebody that they should listen to. That they should pay attention to your messaging. If your 30-second elevator speech doesn’t excite you when you say it, it’s not going to turn anybody else’s head either. So please, come up with a 30-sescond elevator speech, ask your leaders what they say when someone says, “Hey, what do you do?” Ask them, rewrite it so it suits your voice, and practice it. Practice, practice, practice.
Who are we before we start network marketing? Who are we? We are accountants, we’re UPS drivers, we’re stay-at-home-moms, we’re teachers, we’re constructions workers. Who are we? We are insurance agents. Essentially we’ve probably never had to leave a 30 second elevator speech and so therefore it’s imperative that we practice before we actually say it to anybody. It only makes sense, but sometimes the things we think are going to be less important, perhaps, are the most important. I’m going to tell you now, stand in front of that mirror, smile big, be you, be you bigger than you are, be you – the you that’s going to stand on stage collecting that giant check, and practice that 30-second elevator speech and I promise you that if you speak it to enough people and it turns heads, your business is gonna grow. And you’re going to collect your own stories and testimonials and team stories, team successes. So act like a pro. What you need to know is you are a rock star. You’re a rock star and you have the opportunity of a lifetime. Stand tall, be it. And give that 30-second commercial like it’s the one thing in their life that they need to stop, take a look at right now.

And my friend, when you are online, it’s very much the same thing. You’re going to align yourself with the company, with the company line. And at first, again, you don’t have your own stories to tell or to type, so why wouldn’t you plug into what corporate has to say and do, and share that in an interesting, authentic way. See, people on Facebook or on your blog posts or when you’re creating a video or anything like that, people love stores and testimonials. And at first, your videos, your blog posts, your Facebook posts, those types of things, very well may need to be borrowed. Borrowed sound bytes from corporate, borrowed testimonials, borrowed news. But you want that to be real. And you never want to hype and you never want to lie. Clearly, right? So when you are posting on Facebook and you are sharing the company line, it makes your posts a little more exciting or interesting than posting every five minutes, “Come take a look at my home-based business opportunity, it’s going to make you a million dollars in five minutes. Here’s my opt-in page, here’s my opt-in page, here’s my opt-in page.” I hope you get the point. Instead post a testimonials story, a video that you created, tell something that’s exciting that corporate is doing. Just make it you, your face, and tell the story, and include your opt-in link there. People are far more likely to look at you if your commercial isn’t the same one over and over and over again, if you make it interesting.

So at first your content is definitely going to need to be more company oriented, company growth, company stories, but eventually we’re gonna be able to shift it over to about you, your team successes, your team testimonials for our product or service. Eventually we’re going to get the point where it really is about you.

Now I’m going to recommend that you read How To Win Friends and Influence People. It’s probably one of the best guides that I can give you on how to literally attract people, both offline and online through fakin’ It til you make it, but in my definition not the old school one. Because it will really help you to learn how to stand with a good attitude and with confidence and above all, to take massive action to connect. See, if you don’t have the confidence and you’re not presenting yourself as a professional and you’re feeling little about your business. If you’re feeling small, chances are you’re not massively connecting. So let’s get really big really fast. Massively connect with people, we’re gonna connect with them on a level that’s gonna help them to realize that you are aligned with something great. Be authentic, be real, and stand tall cause that’s who you are.

You’ve been listening to Melanie Milletics on the Home Business Radio Network. Stick with me and I’m gonna show you the exact methods that you need to have success in today’s market by combining online and offline network marketing skills to create truly life-changing income. Come visit me on the web at melaniemilletics.com. Click on the Home Business Radio Network tab, and ask me your questions, give me your feedback, give me a topic that you’d love to hear me discuss on our next show. And until next time, you’ve gotta dream big.

Hello and welcome to the Home Business Radio Network. I’m Melanie Milletics and I’m coming to you from beautiful sunny Florida. I’m going to share with you how you can integrate online marketing skills with your offline network marketing model to create truly life-changing income in your home-based business in today’s market.

In today’s market it really is crucial for you to integrate online marketing methods so that you can keep in front of your prospects. If you don’t have what I think of as automated tools, keeping in touch with your prospects, you don’t really have a sales funnel, you have more of a leaky bucket. Meaning if you are just prospecting, and for the people that you prospect who say “not right now”  to you, essentially they are in a notebook or a list or named in your phone, but you don’t have a way to keep the information in front of them, essentially they grow very very cold very quickly.

I have a very unique experience, I believe, to many marketers who are building a home-based business, because I have been building a golden list of people since 2005. These people are interested in home-based businesses, home-based business seekers, people who are actively involved in a home-based business. I have been building that list over time and I have seen something, a phenomenon, something that thrills me every single time. Which is I will get an e-mail or a phone call from somebody who has been on my list for years.

Imagine this scenario:  You have your automation in place, and every single prospect that comes into your funnel stays in your list for you to communicate with. And a year down the road, two years down the road, three, sometimes as much as four or five years down the road, that individual comes back to you and says, “You know, I’ve been watching you. You always kept it real. You’ve been building your business, consistently, persistently; I can tell that you’re genuine. I love that you don’t hype your business and I wanna join your team.”

Imagine that scenario because it could very well be yours right now. I really think that the automatic tools that I have in place help to fill in all sorts of shortcomings. Shortcomings in terms of follow up and keeping in connection with people. The really beautiful thing is even if you do 1/3 of what the big marketers do to build their business, you will have results. Because most people aren’t doing any of these things.

So what am I actually talking about? I’ve used all these words, I’ve used automated tools, I’ve talked about auto responders, I’ve talked about my golden list. First I want you to understand that every single prospect you communicate with, whether it’s online, offline, if it’s in your community, or a lead that came in on the internet, every single one of those people needs to be in a centralized single auto responder. That is essentially an online file of everyone who’s ever taken a look at your business. Hopefully you’ve got it set up so they can actually fill in their details and they will become a part of your list. They opt-in. They decided – Yes -  they wanted information, and they become part of your list. They have given you permission to market to them over and over and over again or until they unsubscribe, until they say leave me alone. And honestly, the auto responder is not much different from your old ‘file’. You had a box or a rolodex or many people used a shoe box with all of their prospects on an index card. And those people were prospects until they said no. Until they said, “Do not call me anymore about this.” So in other words, if they don’t tell you no, then they were still in your box for follow up. The cool thing about the auto responder is they go in there and very politely tell you no, they just hit a little unsubscribe button. They’re not going to hear from you anymore. You’re not going to communicate with them anymore. Is that cool? I really think it is. I think it’s really really easy. It’s a great way to tell me no and I had no idea. It didn’t hurt me one bit. Think of it when people are unsubscribing from your list as a good thing.

So what do I mean by auto responders or automation, kind of filling in the blanks or the weaknesses?  What I mean is over time, if you’re building your business properly you should have a steady stream of people that you are talking to. Your list should be so big that you don’t care who says yes or no. You really should have no attachment to whether the person is going to say yes to your business opportunity or not because you have so many other people in your sights that essentially you are just looking for ‘Are you open’ ‘No you’re not open?’ Okay let’s go to the next. And it doesn’t bother you one way or another. The nice thing about automation is that when someone tells you they’re not open right now they’re saying now. They tell you no right now, they’re saying that the timing is not right for them. They weren’t looking necessarily for the opportunity that you’re putting in front of them. The cool thing about automation is that when the time is right for them, you have been ‘dripping’ on them, you have been sending them an e-mail or you’ve been depending on the other medium I’m going to give you in a minute, you’ve been communicating to them kind of indirectly, they’ve allowed you to market to them, and when the timing is right they can call you and say, “I’m ready now. I’ve gone through every piece of information you’ve sent me, I am the most qualified prospect you could imagine, and I want to joint your team.”  So automation will allow you to keep those people in the loop even though you’ve long forgotten them. But when they call you, you can love them. It’s the best thing, because they’re calling you to join your business.

We talked about auto responders, that essentially is your email marketing way of communicating with people, they will opt into your landing page or your opt-in page. But there are some other ways we can use automation to keep in front of our prospects. Things like using your Facebook fan page. I recommend if you do have a list of people in an auto responder that one of the messages that you send them in that series is to “like” you on Facebook. This gives you another way of staying in front of them. Send them a message, in that automated serious, “like” me on Facebook, “like” us on Facebook, to keep up with specials or special offers or exciting news or to watch our progress, your language that you come up with will make more sense depending on your opportunity, but do include a link to your Facebook fan page so that they will have you in their face when they’re on Facebook too.

Another thing, absolutely send them links to videos that you create. Yep I just said videos. On YouTube, you should have your own YouTube channel where you create videos. They can be videos of you, of other people…people love videos. People love to hear you voice and to see who you are. Being genuine and real, no hype-y videos please. People love to look; they feel like they’re looking into your life. And when you do that your prospects will come to your business more often. In your auto responder messages why not include a link to your videos? And then they can subscribe to your YouTube channel too. So now every time you upload a YouTube video your subscribers get notified that now there is something new that they can go and see and learn more about you.

So with all of these things going on at once, you essentially are just doing the job of a good marketer. You are using all of the tools that are available to you to help you with follow up. This is follow up in a totally different sense of the word. Because really, it would be absolutely mind-boggling to call everybody you’ve ever called, over and over again. Do people do it? I’m sure that there are people that do that, but with a life of balancing, family and business and life, that it is mind-boggling. So why not let your automated tools that are available to you keep the information in front of them, in a way that they have given you permission to do?

In order to make this work for you, in order to make your auto responder email blast that you send out work for you, in order to make your Facebook likes work for you, your YouTube channel, it is incredibly important to follow some golden rules.

#1 You really do have to keep it real. I know that people can see through hype, so don’t hype, don’t exaggerate, keep it real. As I’ve said on other shows, fake it til you make it. Sell the company before you’re able to sell yourself. Stick with one company, and build your business, become the leader that you know you are to be. And those people who have been watching you along the way will come to you in droves.

#2 A perfect way to absolutely ruin all the work you’ve done to build a list, likes on a fan page, videos, any of those things, is to be a consistent opportunity jumper. Jumper from one opportunity to another. So please, take the time to invest in yourself, to develop yourself as a leader so that you learn how to help other people to be successful in your current company until you are highly successful. And I promise you, people will have more respect for that and will come to your business to join you in business than if you were to jump from company to company and hype one after another.

So what do you need? You need auto responder in place to build your golden list. You’re going to ask that golden list to “like” your fan  age and subscribe to your YouTube videos, you’re going to create compelling messages to send them that are form your heart, a balance of selling and telling stores. On your Facebook page you’re going to be very very consistent and post not only testimonials and pictures and videos that are related to your company, but your company specials. And your videos, keep it alive. Show your face. Be the smiling happy person that they want to join in business.

I’m Melanie Milletics, with the Home Business Radio Network. Stick with me and I’m going to share with you the exact skills you need to have to make money in today’s market by combining online marketing with your offline network marketing model. You can find me on the web at melaniemilletics.com. Click on Home Business Radio Network tab, send me a message, give me your feedback, give me a topic that you’d like to hear covered on the next show. And until then, you’ve gotta dream big.

Tampabay, FL (PRWEB) April 05, 2012

Allen and Melanie Milletics, ViSalus Ambassadors

Allen and Melanie Milletics are “Body by Vi Challenge Pioneers”. They started their Home based business with ViSalus Sciences in June 2009, just as ViSalus was about to make a pivotal marketing shift that would make ViSalus Sciences the fastest growing home based business in North America. In July 2009, ViSalus launched the Body By Vi Challenge – and Allen and Melanie never looked back!

In two and a half years ViSalus has rocked the home-based business industry with unsurpassed growth. Their growth has not gone unnoticed by the likes of the DSA, Success from Home Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. Co-Founders Ryan Blair, Blake Mallen and Nick Sarnicola knew that combining passion for people with the principles of health and entrepreneurship was a formula for success. It is how they have helped everyday people become recession proof in an unprecedented time. Documentation beats conversation every day – and the growth numbers published by ViSalus show that it is undeniably the fastest growing home based business in North America.

What is ViSalus? They say it best on their corporate site, “ViSalus™ is a community dedicated to making a positive impact on the life, health and prosperity of everyone we can reach.” It’s not just a business but a community of people working together to get the best out of life, health and prosperity. It’s this community approach teamed with effective products and industry leading marketing tools that has created an infectious buzz on and offline with the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge.

So where is the proof that this formula works? What exactly has ViSalus Sciences and the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge accomplished in the past two and a half years? What success have Allen and Melanie Milletics found here that they could not find elsewhere?

Allen and Melanie founded the Dream Team – promoters of the Body By Vi Challenge committed to the Mission of ViSalus to Promote Life, Health And Prosperity. Their leadership of the Dream Team has helped many earn a six-figure residual income while helping people to live healthier, more vital lives by undertaking the Body By Vi Challenge.

Here are just some of their noteworthy accomplishments over the past two and a half years:

• July 2009, ViSalus launches their 90 Day Challenge with the help of Allen and Melanie Milletics.
• The company’s success story has been cataloged in Success from Home magazine numerous times as well as the Wall Street Journal.
• Melanie founded the ViSalus Dream Team in 2009.
• The ViSalus Dream Team has had two Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge winners, 5 runner ups, and 7 semi finalists in the Body By Vi Challenge – contenders for a share in $25,000,000 in prizes!
  -Skip & Cindy Taylor were the Body by Vi Champions in 2010. They did not work out their first 45 days and still lost a combined 71 pounds.
  -Tom and Jan Hibbard are in their 60’s and lost a combined 112 pounds in 90 days.
  -Dream Team members Sherry Prince, Alecia Barnes, Richard Flowers, Lynda Kosiur and Damion Millis have been Body by Vi Challenge runner ups.
• The company received the Turn Around award at the DSN Global 100 in Dallas, Texas April 2011.
• The Vi-Net and Mobile applications keep them the industry leader for marketing and management tools.
• The Body by Vi 90 Challenge has become the #1 health challenge in North America with 5000+ joining the Body by Vi 90 Challenge a day.
• ViSalus Sciences has been voted the #1 home-based business in North America with 30+ BMW qualified promoters of the Challenge a day.
• They have endorsements from Hulk Hogan, Percy Miller, Roy Jones Jr, Jenny Lynn, Mike Ruiz and more.
• Melanie Milletics hit Ambassador in June 2011, which landed her a $25,000 bonus paid out over the year and has been driving a BMW paid for by ViSalus since October 2009.
• Allen and Melanie helped Body by Vi Challenge couples winner Skip and Cindy Taylor get to Ambassador which has successfully impacted thousands of lives in the process. Skip and Cindy now have 3 more Ambassadors on their team!
• ViSalus now offers over $25 million in free products, prizes and vacations.
• ViSalus released The Challenge Magazine in January 2012, with members of the Dream Team featured throughout!
• ViSalus had 579% growth in 2012 and ranks in the top 10 Direct Sales companies in the world!
• Allen Milletics hit Ambassador in March 2012, which landed him a $25,000 bonus – the second Ambassador bonus in their family in less than a year!

ViSalus, Allen and Melanie Milletics and The Dream Team are clearly on the move and have figured out how to have success in a recession. They have figured out how to create a booming community centered around the Body By vi 90 Day Challenge to help individuals and families thrive.

“The Body By Vi Challenge is a proven business model, its just waiting for entrepreneurs to step up and launch their marketplace.” – Allen Milletics, ViSalus Ambassador

To learn more about ViSalus, Allen and Melanie Milletics, The Dream Team & the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge; you can pick up the August 2012 issue of Success from Home Magazine at Barnes & Noble, Staples, B. Dalton, Hastings or Books-A-Million or visit www.My-Body-By-Vi.com online today.

Hello and welcome to the Home Business Radio Network.  I’m Melanie Milletics from beautiful, sunny Florida.  Today I’m going to share with you how you can integrate online marketing skills with your offline network marketing model to create truly life-changing income in your home based business.

I’ve been working a home-based business since about 2001, and there is one thing that is certain, that is change.  There are changes in circumstances, the economy changes, the way that companies market changes, the way that people get their information and respond to marketing changes. But there is one constant through all of this change, and that constant is you and your skill set.

Now, since you’re listening to this I already know something about you, okay? – I know that you are determined, and you’re coachable, right?  And you’re willing to do whatever it takes, to do every kind of change to succeed.

So what I want you to understand is no matter what is going on externally, in terms of the changes that are in your environment, in marketing, and in the world, for that matter, there really is just one skill set that you need to master, whether you’re working online or off.  And I’m going to share with you some excellent ways to integrate your off-line marketing with your online network marketing model, so that you can get really, really good at that process, as well.

But what I need you to understand is there’s really just one thing that you need to do and that is to get great at following the system. The system that your company have in place for prospecting, presenting, and closing. Because it really doesn’t matter where your leads come from.  It doesn’t matter if your leads come from online marketing, from using social media, or search engine optimization, or pay-per-click, or any method of online marketing, or they come from your warm market, friends and family, from life styling .  It doesn’t matter if your prospect came from a newspaper ad, or from networking with your local movers and shakers in your community.  It doesn’t matter where the people that are going to be taking a look at your information come from, the process is still the same.  And the skill set that you need to make your home-based business a success is still the same.

So what do we need to get really good at – to make our business hum, to go forward and just really crush it today?  What do you need to do?  Well, you need to get excellent at some conversations. What I recommend is a course on how to have the conversations that you need to have, on how to be confident in a conversation that’s going to lead people through the qualifying interviews – through directing them to the information that your company has online, and how to increase your closing ratio.

Now lucky for us, there are people who have gone before us that have been extremely successful in doing this.  And these great folks have managed to put together some fabulous courses, script books with CDs, different ways that we can learn how to have these conversations and get excellent at these conversations.

There are incredible trainers right here in the Home Business Radio Network, and I say invest in yourself, get your hands on some script books with CDs.  Listen and learn.  Get these courses, incorporate what they say into your repertoire, into what you’re saying.  I promise you, to be successful it just takes being an amazing parrot. To say exactly what those who have gone before us say in order to be successful.  And the thing is, this is one investment that you can’t lose with.  See, when you get great with your skill set of prospecting and closing, right?  The conversation that we have to invite people to take a look at the information and follow up, right?  When you get excellent at that that, that skill set is going to serve you, it going to serve you through every change.  It will serve you through a change in the economy, in your circumstances, in your life, and in your company.  Heck, it’s even going to serve you when the information that you get your prospects to changes.  It doesn’t matter, because still the same conversation.

To break it down a little bit further, because it is a process, there is an initial front end and process and there’s a back end.  Right?  So the initial prospecting, the inviting, and the directing to the information – that is the front of the conversation.  And you really do get good at this process in two parts.

You get great at the front, the inviting, and the directing, and then over time you get great at the follow-up/close, and direct them the training.  Initially, people who are working their home-based business, need to do it get great at the initial invite and directing.  And I promise you, that if you got your prospects already through the front end of that process, and you’re calling your up-line to do the close- they are going to love you!

I know that if you get really great on the front end, that the system that your company has in place is going to work for you.  That’s a fact.  How do I know?  Because there are people walking across the stage at your conventions with huge checks.  Why?  Because the system in place works.  So if you get really great at the front end first, and then listen to your up-line do the follow-up call and the close, and then the training, and ultimately the leadership development of your team.  You listen and you learn through example.  But again, those same script books and CDs have training on how to increase your skill set there too.  So while you’re listening and learning, you can begin to apply.  And over time, the fact is as we grow our businesses there will be people calling us for that three-way call.

So you’ll have people who are calling you and your team, who have gotten them through the initial inviting to the information stage.  Right?  They have already watched the overview.  And it really is a matter you trusting the system and knowing that if you put people through those hoops, and if you put those people in the top of your funnel, that you will get results.  And we know that you’re going to get results.

We know we’re going to get some “no’s” along the way too.  But those – just let those strengthen you – let them go.  Call them learning opportunities.  Right?  The more “no’s” we get the closer we get to a yes.  What we do know is that the process works, or it wouldn’t exist.  And it wouldn’t be taught over and over and over again by every network marketing company.  Yes it’s going to vary slightly from company to company. Some companies will have a different process that you get the information to them. Some will have online overview systems, some will have off-line, maybe they have a DVD that you share, some will use a conference call for the information overview, but the initial invite is the same, and the overview process still exists.

So now I’m going to talk to you a little bit about how you can integrate your off-line work, okay, off-line prospecting with your online system.  Perhaps it’s something that you haven’t really considered before.  Before, it used to be the top of your funnel – your sales funnel, right? – was for the initial exposure for people for your business, would really be inviting them to take a look at your website.  So you invite them to look at your website, so that they can fill in the form and perhaps go to the next page for an overview, or at least you get notifications, so you can follow-up and invite them to take a look at the overview.

Well now, I going to give you a way that you can blow up the top of your funnel – you can widen it exponentially, and you do this on a daily basis.  And that is by integrating your off-line prospecting into Facebook.  Go out and you can connect with people whether you’re at the gym, you’re at a charity event, wherever you are.  Virtually everybody now is on Facebook. So Facebook now becomes the top of your funnel. As you’re out and about and you’re doing things, you’re connecting with people that you have never met before and you jive…  Ask them, “Are you on Facebook?”  And the majority of people will say, “Yeah, of course I am.”  Especially if they’re business people, they’re on Facebook.  Almost everybody has a phone now, so add them on Facebook.  Add them on Facebook and add them to a local group list.  You can create a list in your Facebook, that is a local prospect list..  Add them to your Facebook – they’re now your friend.  Or if you go to a networking event, the purpose of the networking event is to connect with people, so that you can exchange referrals.  So you’re getting business cards.  You’re by default getting lots of emails and lots of people’s names that you can call and connect with.

Now the question there is the same, as you’re connecting with people, “Are you on Facebook?”  Because you couldn’t take those business cards and just put them into your company auto-responder and start spamming them.  You can’t do that.  It’s not legal and it’s not – I don’t want to say ethical, but it’s not the way business is done, and you’ll be annoying them versus inviting them into your world.  I think we all agree that we’d rather be invited into their world instead of shunned because they’re annoyed because you’re a spammer.  Right?  Good.

So if you will invite them to instead be your Facebook friend you can invite them then through Facebook event and perhaps a phone call to a local event that you’re having for your company.  You absolutely can send them a Facebook invite that includes your website link in it. And you can you can connect with them consistently that way.  And you can “touch” him and say, “Hey we’re still in business, we’re right over here doing this thing over here, if you’re open to looking.  Hey, are you open?”  It is a way of getting their information, getting your information in front of them consistently, and you never once added them to an auto-responder, which they would be really annoyed that you did.

Now the key thing here is it doesn’t matter whether they come through on your webpage from a link on Facebook, or if they came through the information from a direct lead that you ran an ad for, or if you called and connected with them and asked them if they were open.  However they got to the information they raised their hand and said, “Yes, that’s me I’m open.”  All activities, everything you do online or off-line, all lead to the same conversation and that same script.  Right?  So that same conversation does not change – you learned it – the same script that you got from the script book.  It’s the same process that you got really good at.  And when you learn those script systems and follow up and are consistently productive you are going to shine.  You’re going to shine through all changes, your business is going to explode.  My goodness, get great at these conversations, and you’ll be able to work through any adversity, any change, anything that can go on.  The reality is that you are unstoppable.  And there is no end to things that you can accomplish.

Now stick with me.  I’m going to share with you the exact skills that you need to be more successful in today’s market by combining off-line and online network marketing to create truly life-changing income.

You’ve been listening to Melanie Milletics on the Home Business Radio Network.  You can connect with me at www.MelanieMilletics.com.  Click on the Home Business Radio Network tab and send me your questions or comments, I’ll be glad to cover a topic that you love to hear more on.  Until next time, you got a dream big!

This episode of the Melanie Milletics show on the Home Business Radio Network gives the exact strategy you can use TODAY to begin to fill your lead funnel with incredibly high quality prospects from your local community.

You will learn:

• The easy set up to create a professional online presence that brings you instant credibility to your prospects
• Where to find the movers & shakers in your community so you can go for a major “Transfer of Talent” into your organization.
• How to make sure that people are magnetically attracted to you and want to keep in touch.
• How to ‘wrap your social media arms around’ your local contacts and continually expose them to your business, without ever spamming them.
• How to build a steady customer base that will reliably upgrade to distributors.

Have you sat down and made a list of what you are looking for in a sponsor in your Network Marketing company?
Why not? I’m sure you’d agree that if you were looking for your dream job, you’d have a vision of what you’d expect from a boss – right?
Why would it be any different in making a sound decision on who to join in a Network Marketing company?  Ideally, your sponsor is going to be the person who will help you to soar in your business.  As such, you’d expect certain qualities.

There are a few criteria I’d expect in my perfect sponsor. The first quality, loyalty, is gone into in depth below. You may have more to add, and I welcome your input in the comments.

Your Perfect Sponsor in Your Network Marketing Company ~
Quality #1 – Loyalty

Downline raiding is a despicable act that wrecks dreams and friendships built on TRUST.

If I’m going to invest my blood, sweat and tears into building a downline that will pay us residual millions, I want to be CERTAIN that my sponsor and upline are loyal to the company. The worst thing I can imagine is my upline jumping ship to go to another company, and taking MY team with them!

How would you determine if your upline is loyal to their company and there for the foreseeable future, barring any major company upset that would cause them (and everyone else) to leave? Do you just ASK them? Asking if they are loyal is not nearly enough. People can, will and do say ANYTHING to get you to come to their team. Not all people are honest…
But things you could ask them are -
How long have you been with the company?
Do you attend company events?
Do you work any other MLMs/Actively promote and sell affiliate products to your downline/sideline?
When you came to this company, did you bring team from your last company to this one?

And you can research some of this yourself. I encourage you to find someone who has been with the company for at least a year or more and who attends all company training events. You want someone who is knowledgeable about the system in place to build, and who has implemented it with skill to help others in their organization have success.  After all, you want them to lead you to be successful, right?

Of course, if they work more than one company, run. That’s a major red flag.  And if they sell affiliate products to their downline and market them to the other reps in the company… flee. That’s a pirate looking to skim more off the organization, rather than focused on building the checks of the downline with the actual opportunity.  I could clarify here and say certain really valuable training materials, like script books, are sold through affiliate links. I certainly wouldn’t say that is a red flag – because all Network Marketers need script books – thats necessary education! But if you have to buy a bunch of add on products and ‘online systems’ with a ton of affiliate links to work with them, on top of your start up costs to join their primary company … run!

Did they come to their current company with a team? There is a huge difference between team moving and team building. Team moving means they took someone else’s downline with them… and if they didn’t come over to the new company – they LOST their work. They were raided.
There was a bloodbath where dreams were crushed, and trust ruined forever.
If they have done it once, they may do it again. Run from the MLM jumpers!

I’d love to hear your feedback on how you would determine if your sponsor is loyal to the company in the comments!

Next, I will Describe Your Perfect Sponsor in Your Network Marketing Company ~ Quality #2 – ???

I really had no inkling of how much of my heart would be pulled into this business when I got started.

I didn’t know that that my heart would grow in its capacity to love and care for TEAM -
That with each new team that is added, my capacity to LOVE would strengthen.
I do believe it is the Supernatural strength that I have prayed for.
I’m thankful for the joys, and even for the bleeding heart. For it is the experience of human kind that I am blessed to know.

All, for promoting The Challenge. Imagine that! And we are just beginning.

Yes, this is a fulfilling existence!!!!

The gaps in your armor that would be filled in with worry or self doubt must be covered in prayer.

Short prayers, stemming from the immediate situation, keep you in touch with your SOURCE of strength and moving forward.

Ask, and you shall receive.
KNOCK and the door will be open.

You must take action to move through fear and into your successful future.

When you pray, move your feet! – African proverb

ViSalus Sciences Has Found a Recession Proof Formula for Success - Aug 03, 2011

It was not long ago that Melanie Milletics was fed up with the antics in the home-based business world. While she had seen major success before, she became sick of the deception that so many companies led with. It was 2009, and the recession had done major damage to the direct sales industry, with sales down by 60% in the USA. Like many who were sick of the industry, she almost quit her dream of working from home. She was in need of a company that could offer real opportunity in a recession. A company with stability that was run with integrity; a company she could proudly promote.
In the summer of 2009, Melanie was introduced to a company called ViSalus Sciences. She did her due diligence and expected to find the same flaws she had seen before… However, this time Melanie found something different. She found a solid company with integrity that had products that people were seeing real results with and were priced for the recession. It was then that Melanie knew she had found a home with ViSalus. July 2009, the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge was launched and Melanie’s trust in the industry was reborn.

In two short years ViSalus has rocked the home-based business industry with unsurpassed growth. Their growth has not gone unnoticed by the likes of the DSA, Success from Home Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. Co-Founders Ryan Blair, Blake Mallen and Nick Sarnicola knew that combining passion for people with the principles of health and entrepreneurship was a formula for success. It is how they have helped everyday people become recession proof in an unprecedented time. Documentation beats conversation every day – and the growth numbers published by ViSalus show that it is undeniably the fastest growing home based business in North America.

What is ViSalus? They say it best on their corporate site, “ViSalus™ is a community dedicated to making a positive impact on the life, health and prosperity of everyone we can reach.” It’s not just a business but a community of people working together to get the best out of life, health and prosperity. It’s this community approach teamed with effective products and industry leading marketing tools that has created an infectious buzz on and offline with the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge.

So where is the proof that this formula works? What exactly has ViSalus Sciences and the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge accomplished in the past two years? What success has Melanie found here that she could not find elsewhere?

Here are just some of their noteworthy accomplishments over the past two years:

• July 2009, ViSalus launches their 90 Day Challenge with the help of Melanie Milletics.

• The company’s success story has been cataloged in Success from Home magazine numerous times as well as the Wall Street Journal.

• Melanie founded the ViSalus Dream Team in 2009.

• The ViSalus Dream Team has had two Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge winners.

- Skip & Cindy Taylor were the Body by Vi Champions in 2010. They did not work out their first 45 days and still lost a combined 71 pounds.

- Tom and Jan Hibbard are in their 60’s and lost a combined 112 pounds in 90 days.

- Dream Team members Sherry Prince, Alecia Barnes and Richard Flowers have been Body by Vi Challenge runner ups.

• The Vi-Net and Mobile applications keep them the industry leader for marketing and management tools.

• The Body by Vi 90 Challenge has become the #1 health challenge in North America with 1200+ joining the Body by Vi 90 Challenge a day.

• ViSalus Sciences has been voted the #1 home-based business in North America with 12+ BMW qualified promoters of the Challenge a day.

• The company received the Turn Around award at the DSN Global 100 in Dallas, Texas April 2011.

• They have endorsements from Hulk Hogan, Percy Miller, Jenny Lynn, Dennis Rodman, Traci Redding, Elaine Goodlad, Matt Duvall and many more.

• Melanie Milletics hit Ambassador in June 2011, which landed her a $25,000 bonus check and has been driving a BMW paid for by ViSalus since October 2009.

• Melanie has helped Body by Vi Challenge couples winner Skip and Cindy Taylor get to Ambassador which has successfully impacted thousands of lives in the process.

• ViSalus now offers over $10 million in free products, prizes and vacations.

• Community and Partners provided aid and meals to Alabama and Missouri residents to help victims of the tornadoes.

ViSalus, Melanie Milletics and The Dream Team are clearly on the move and have figured out how to have success in a recession. They have figured out how to create a booming community centered around the Body By vi 90 Day Challenge to help individuals and families thrive.

To learn more about ViSalus, Melanie Milletics, The Dream Team & the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge; you can pick up the September issue of Success from Home Magazine at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Staples, B. Dalton, Hastings or Books-A-Million or visit www.USABodybyvi.com online today.

What is ViSalus?

JOIN THE DREAM TEAM TODAY!

Melanie Milletics is in Success From Home Magazine’s September 2011 Issue as a Top Ambassador for Her Top Production in Promoting the Body By Vi Challenge from ViSalus Sciences.

The September 2011 issue of Success From Home Magazine spotlights ViSalus Sciences and the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge ~ the fastest growing health challenge in the USA and Canada and the #1 Home Based Business in North America.  It exposes readers to its rich history, exciting future and those responsible for its success.

Melanie Milletics can be found on page 53 of the September issue of Success From Home Magazine, as a Top Ambassador with ViSalus Sciences.

Melanie helped launch the Body By Vi Challenge in 2009, and founded the ViSalus Dream Team. The Dream Team has had 2 rounds of Body By Challenge winners, and 3 runners up!

“Our ViSalus Dream Team is all over the new magazine!”

With the new $10 Million Dollar Challenge and all the ways to win, Melanie is excited for the future of the ViSalus Dream Team!

“I have learned that my own expectations of what the Dream Team will accomplish are blown away month after month! Its a proven business model that is ready to be implemented in marketplaces across North America, and ultimately the world!”

The Body By Vi Challenge from ViSalus is the fastest growing health challenge in North America, with ViSalus official Canadian Launch happening in September 2011.  A major reason for its success is because it is shared using the Network Marketing model ~ a health challenge that is spread from one person experiencing a health Transformation, to another who needs to make a change to improve their health.

The Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge is growing by more than 1200 new Challengers per day and has created a solid and growing community of people both online and offline who are committed to living fully vital lives.  Whether its losing weight, gaining muscle, or getting the best in human nutrition so the body can heal itself of disease – the Body By Vi Challenge is for anyBODY and everyBody!

The list of celebrities that have aligned themselves with ViSalus is growing, not the least of which is Hulk Hogan who has his own story in the magazine.

This is not the first time that Melanie Milletics was featured as a Top ViSalus Producer in Success from Home Magazine.
In September 2010 Melanie was featured in the Magazine as a top Regional Director.

One year later, Melanie is a 1 Star Ambassador, having helped Body By Vi Champion Skip Taylor get to Ambassador  and earn his $25,000 bonus check as well!

“My goal is to help HUNDREDS of people earn those $25,000 bonus checks for their families! This is the most amazing opportunity I have been given: to share the gift of Life, Health, and Prosperity with the world!” ~ Melanie Milletics

Join the Dream Team in Promoting the Body By Vi Challenge! Click here for more information on ViSalus NOW!

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