If you have ever been frustrated with how slow your home based business is growing, you will want to pay attention to how your MLM Company is growing their business using your hard work and money.

First, I would like to say that this is not meant to bash any MLM Company.  I have been in network marketing for quite a while now and even though my first networking venture was a complete failure, I love this industry and the potential for regular everyday people to make a 6 figure income from home using the multi-level marketing platform is huge. 

One of the things that attracted me to network marketing was that I could own my own business without having to have a lot of start up capital and I also loved the idea that my MLM Company was going to provide me with all of the training that I would need to succeed.  There is only one problem.  The methods and strategies that your MLM Company trains you to use will absolutely grow their business but they may not grow yours.

Why Your Network Marketing Business Will Fail But Your MLM Company’s Business Will Grow

Your MLM Company is supposedly giving you all of the training that you need to grow your business to a level where you are making money on a part-time basis from home but their methods only work for about 2% of the people that get involved in network marketing and here’s why…

MLM Company Training Secrets Exposed

Here is a list of  some common tools, methods, and/or strategies taught by every MLM Company that I have seen and why they work for your MLM Company but don’t work for you.

• Make a list of friends and family – In order to grow your business you will have to talk to people and who better to prospect than your friends and family.  Most people can sit down and make a list of about 100 people that they know and when they contact all 100 people and share their home based business opportunity, on average the network marketer will get 2 people to sign up.
• Pass out free samples of your MLM Product – This method is often used to get people to at least try your MLM product.  The idea is that if you can get a prospect to try the product, they will love it and want to buy more.  The problem comes in where, one little sample of a MLM product that will need to be taken continuously for 2 or more weeks before the prospect will see any results can’t be done from one little sample.  So, the prospect takes the free sample and tries it and when they don’t see any results from taking it just one time, they decide that it just doesn’t work.  Here is where it works for the MLM Company – the sample is free to the prospect but the network marketer has to pay for them.
• Pass out CD’s or DVD’s – This method is often used to get people to look at your business opportunity without having to apply pressure.  The marketer simply buys a bunch of CD’s or DVD’s from their MLM Company (who makes money selling them) and they just hand them out to everyone they know or come into contact with.  All the prospect has to do is plug in the video or audio to see how great the MLM Company is and how much money they can make from home.  If even 1% of the people actually look at the information, you would be lucky.
• A replicated website from your MLM Company – Everyone wants to be able to market on the Internet these days so MLM Companies are providing their distributors with replicated websites.  The marketer has to pay for the website and it’s supposed to make your home based business explode.  I guess by magic or something because the MLM Company won’t show you how to effectively drive traffic to that website.  The reason they don’t train you on how to use the Internet to grow your MLM business is because these replicated websites are NOT a good tool to use to sell your MLM Product or the business opportunity.

Have you ever used any of the above tools in an attempt to grow your network marketing business?  Let me save you some time and money, STOP USING THEM.  With the exception of making a list of your friends and family, these methods don’t work for 95% of distributors anyway.  Even then, making a list of your friends and family only works if you haven’t pitched them on all of the other network marketing ventures that you may have joined.

The reason these methods work so well for the MLM Company is because they know for every free sample they sell to you to pass out, a certain percentage will buy the product.   They know that for every CD or DVD that they sell to you to pass out, a certain percentage will sign up as a distributor and get on auto ship.  The percentages may be small but since it’s the MLM distributor paying for the stuff that gets passed out to prospects, they have nothing to lose and their business continues to grow while your bank account gets smaller.

So, if you are part of the 2% that has used these marketing methods and you are growing a home based business, I say good for you.  Keep up the good work.  If you are like I was and spent more money on the tools than I could ever hope to make on bringing in a distributor, just know that you are not alone and please, QUIT DOING THOSE METHODS.