I just saw a television commercial for “Kashi’s Go Lean
Crunch!” cereal. The spokesperson was
Kikkan Randall, who is training for her fourth Olympics. So, what does a successful affiliate marketer
have to do with those who participant in the Olympics?
Perseverance! Kikkan
Randall is a 31 year old cross country skier from Alaska with a long list of
impressive wins in her area of competition.
As an 11 year old in 1994, she was named the “Fastest Woman in Alaska on
Skis” and she went on to participate in her first Olympics in 2002 as a 19-year
old. Her hard work got her to the 2006
Olympics, and even though she developed a blood-clot in 2008, she was front and
center for the 2010 Olympics.
Now the 2014 Olympics is right around the corner, and once
again Kikkan is in training for the Olympics, her perseverance shining through. It is her perseverance that has pushed her
through more than 20 years of training and competitions to achieve a deserving
level of success.
Affiliate and network marketing is no different. It requires perseverance. Like Kikkan’s struggle with her blood-clot
disorder, as well as other aches and pains over 2 decades of training,
home-based business owners will hit roadblocks along the way. Those that persevere will achieve success.
When I started my business, my mentor expected me to pay
$4,500 month after month after month just to find people who might be interested in starting their
own home-based business. When I was
unable to sustain this he disappeared into la-la land.
I could have picked up my toys and gone home, but I am not a
quitter. I was determined to learn how
to market a business online, so I looked high and low. It wasn’t long before I found the perfect
place to learn: My Lead System Pro
(MLSP).
In many ways, MLSP is similar to IBO. IBO is a way for marketers from a variety of
companies to come together and help each other market their businesses. Likewise, MLSP is a way for marketers to come
together and train and get training from industry experts on a variety of
methods. This allows people to find the
method(s) that work for them.
I met MLSP through their free Wednesday night online
classes. These classes are taught by
very successful marketers in their area of niche marketing. The classes are about one to 1 ½ hours long
and provide a great deal of valuable and easy to use information that can
immediately be put to use. After three
weeks of exceptional information I decided to join MLSP.
The benefit to this was expanded training material and the
ability to do it on my schedule. If I
missed the Wednesday night class, I was able to watch the recording on Thursday
or Friday or Saturday or …. This has
been very helpful because it seems everybody offers trainings on Wednesday
evenings, including IBO Toolbox.
MLSP does have an affiliate program with a variety of
levels. The higher levels offer affiliates
products they can sell, and some people do use that as their primary
business. Most people, however, mainly
use MLSP to learn how to market whatever their business opportunity or products
may be.
Instead of paying the $4,500 my mentor had wanted me to dish
out each month, I chose to pay MLSP $20 a month, which is the lowest affiliate level. I don’t make much off anyone who comes in
under me and I am not eligible to sell any products offered by MLSP. However, I am interested in the training I
get through MLSP to grow my primary business, not recruiting for MLSP.
MLSP offers a core of 23 topics I can get training on at a schedule
that works for me. In addition, I can
get training on five new sessions every week.
Between building my business, staying fresh in my training
and spending time with my grandkids, I have little time to promote MLSP, which
is sad because it is a great learning environment for anyone with any business. Besides the free Wednesday night trainings, MLSP
does provide me with 27 different funnel / capture pages ready to use with swipe
copy tailored to each type of page and marketing method. Each funnel page also gives a bit of free and
valuable training for the prospect so they see the value they receive from MLSP. There are also a variety of banners for
different marketing areas which makes it easy for me to spread the word
without
having to spend a lot of time on it.
If you are looking for an inexpensive way to learn a variety
of methods from industry experts to market your business, then I invite you to
take a test drive. Check out the free
trainings offered on Wednesday evenings. (Click here.)
Some other tools available at this level to which you can
send prospects are:
Learn to market your primary business(es) and earn a few
extra bucks from this great source of knowledge.
developers can take advantage of this by asking you to
innocently authorize access to your microphone, then listening in even when the
website is closed.
Voice recognition is a popular feature, especially with cell
phones and tablets. People love the
ability to talk to their devices in get directions, find restaurants, movies or
whatever their heart desires. However,
are you willing to allow just anyone to listen in and record what you are
saying without your knowledge, just for a bit of convenience?
