MLM Opportunities: Do Your Research

Before joining any "opportunity," do yourself a huge favor and check it out.  Do Google searches on any company that you are considering.  Find out what you can about it:

• Who is in charge?  Google them as well.
• Do they (company leaders) have experience in MLM? 
• Is the company publicly traded?  This is not a good thing!
• How long have they been in business?  If it's a start-up...RUN! Don't join anything that has not been around for at least 2 years.
• Google the person who is going to sponsor you.
• Has your sponsor-to-be been in a stable company for a period of time or are they opportunity hoppers?  Most are in this category.
• Is there a duplicatable system in place that ANYONE can follow?
• Is the compensation plan realistic?  
• How many people do you have to have in your organization to have to make $500, $1,000, $5,000 or $10,000 per month?  ASK THE QUESTION!
• Are there products involved?  If not, run!
• Is there a residual income opportunity?  If not, run!
• Are the products affordable for the masses?  If not, run!
• Are the products in demand?  If not, run!
• Would people purchase the products if an opportunity did not exist?  If not, run!
• Is there more than one product involved?  If not, run!

Stay clear of gifting programs, pyramid schemes and the like.  To find out more about these and other MLM opportunities, do your research.  A great place to start is at MLM Watchdog.  The link to that site is in the right column of this blog.  There is a TON of illegal scams out there, so beware.

Also, if anyone tells you to buy leads--run!  Buying leads does not and will not work.  I know people who have spent thousands of dollars on leads with nothing to show for it.  Don't let that be you.

For MLM opportunities: Do your research.  It will save you years of frustration and lots of money as well.

The Scam of Buying Leads

If you are buying leads; STOP IT!  Buying leads is one of the biggest scams perpetrated on the internet.  I have purchased leads and they ended up being worthless.  I also think that Solo Ads and such are a waste of money as well.  These ads go out to the same people who, quite frankly, are tired of all the offers dumped in their email inboxes on a daily basis.

I know a lady in Florida that spend over $25,000 buying leads and never received one once of residual income from doing so.  If your upline is instructing you to buy leads; maybe it's time to fire them and find someone who will show you how to advertise for free.

Frankly, network marketing is simple.  Build relationships and they will come.  I am not talking about making lists of family or friends; I am talking about building relationships online for FREE!  Nothing tops a relationship, period!

If you are interested, I will teach you, for free, how to build relationships online through social networking.  It's time consuming, but well worth it.  I have met some awesome people doing this and it just plain works.

But the point of this post is to get you to STOP BUYING LEADS.  Save your money and the frustration of going nowhere fast.  There are some links on this blog to some great social network sites for network marketers.  Also you can use Face Book, You Tube, and My Space to build awesome relationships.  More about this in a future post.