How Can You Build A Huge MLM Downline In The Summer by David Ledoux

Finally, you're here! I've been promising to cook for you for a while now. The tuna steaks are on the bbq, the potatoes are roasting and it is fantastic! Here, pop a cold one, sit back, and let's talk about building huge downlines in the summer.

You've heard all the excuses, so I won't even bring them up here. But let me tell you a story.

A few years ago I was in major recruiting mode over the summer. I wanted to win a company cruise. I grabbed my dayplanner, my lead lists, my cordless phone, and sat out by the pool at the cottage for 4 or 5 hours a day making calls. Just one after the other, bang, bang, bang.

I mean, come on, it's not really work. I sat by the pool, the birds sang, I drank iced tea, and talked to people who wanted to make more money. If they were open to the idea, I'd invite them to listen to a prerecorded conference call and then we talked from there about the business.

I got serious on June 21st. I kept in major production mode for about 100 days, until Canadian Thanksgiving. Then we shut the cottage down for the season.

When I looked down at my logs in mid-October I was shocked. I had enrolled 103 new personals in 100 days. I smashed every record at the company, and won a free cruise. That effort duplicated from those 103 into 8000 people in more than a dozen countries 3 years later.

How did I do it? I sat by the pool, called lead lists 4 or 5 hours a day, drank iced tea, and just flat out worked hard. It was a great summer. I had plenty of time to swim, bbq, visit with friends and family AND get work done.

Did I get some NO's? About 30 a day. But I had so many YES's, and so many prospects in the pipeline, and so much follow-up going on, that it didn't matter.

Yikes! The tuna steaks are done. Let me run out and put them on a plate. Grab yourself another cold drink and I'll be back in a minute.

Think about what kind of action you'd have to take to enroll 100 people frontline in 100 days and I'll be right back!

I appreciate you.

David Ledoux
Author - The Ultimate MLM Blueprint For Massive Success

Hey, welcome back! Have something to eat. How about a nice salad with cucumber and tomato wedges? Drizzle on some olive oil and lemon.

I know, I know, it's healthy. Where is the microwave pizza pops you ask?

We're making some changes around here. Important changes. The pizza pops are out. Alkaline producing veggies are in. It's one of the secrets to success in network marketing. Let me explain.

When you really start getting serious about building a big downline, it's going to take extra energy. Probably a lot of extra energy. Most of your serious builders will be part-time. They will have jobs, and do most of their recruiting at night. If you have some legs out of town, you'll be on the phone later, on the road later, and getting by with less sleep. Often you'll be grabbing late night food mostly out of convenience.

We call it "The Freshman 15". Most top MLM pins weigh about 15 pounds more than they did when they got into the business. Except maybe in the diet companies. Then they are generally a lot lighter!

It's than insidious crap that restaurants serve. Your body becomes a sugar-craving, sugar-burning, sugar-storing machine. Highly inefficient. But there is a better way.

Tony Robbins turned me onto a book called "Slow Burn" by Stu Mittleman. He has a killer website called www.worldultrafit.com and it has changed my life. Stu routinely runs 20 miles a day. That's right, a day. He's run over 500 miles in a week before. Guy is a fat-burning maniac.

His book is brilliant, and I recommend it to all my private coaching clients and leaders. It is what I call a "life changer". I bought a heart rate monitor for my training. I was shocked to find that I can't run yet. My heart rate when I jog is outside my ideal fat burning rate zone. I am a walker to burn fat. All that suffering and hurting I was doing when I was jogging was just burning sugar. And then making me crave chicken mcnuggies even more.

A network marketer needs energy. Stu's book reveals the path.

Okay, how was your salad? Have a handful of almonds and some green juice to finish it off...no, I don't have any spare pizza pops lying around!

I appreciate you, enjoy your fat burning adventure!

David Ledoux
author: The Ultimate MLM Blueprint For Massive Success.

My goodness, you look famished! Are you on one of those crazy diets or something? Come on in, let me microwave you some Pizza Pops...let's get some calories in you. Careful, they're hot!

You sit there and nibble. Let me tell you about the time I signed up my first guy. It was December 1994. I called my buddy Peter and said, "Hey, what's your visa number?".

Pete was silent for a minute. "Who is this?" he said, only half jokingly.

"It's me. You and I are getting involved again in multi-level. We're gonna get rich. I'm serious."

That was it. Pretty much. I left out the part of him growling, grinding his teeth, grilling me on the comp plan, and the like. But since I was in, he was in.

I did a little dance. I call it the "I Got One!" dance. It's a little jig-like. You bounce on your left leg twice, then on your right leg twice, then spin around and pretend to spike the football in the end zone, all the while singing loudly, "I got one, I got one!".

So I got my buddy Pete in. Now what?

Here's a little quiz. Pretend you're me. What do you do?

a) Run an ad halfway across the country.

b) buy some dead genealogy lead lists half way across the country.

c) load 5000 emails into your Spaminator 3000.

d) help Peter make a list, help him call the list, and show presentations to his list.

Believe it or not, I picked D. Pete and I showed the plan to his buddy Eric. Eric got in. Eric and Peter showed the plan to his buddy Fabio. Fabio got in. Peter, Eric and I showed the plan to a lady named Christine. Christine got in. Eric and I showed the plan to Mario. Mario threw us out of his house. Then he got in later.

And so it went. Within a year Peter had 1000 people in his downline and a solid, passive residual income. It's now a decade later and Peter has over 25,000 people in his downline. It does over $10,000 a day in production. Not bad, eh?

I just signed a new kid named Josh. Josh is 28, hates his job, his wife hates her job, and they are expecting a baby in about 90 days. Let's take a quiz.

What should I do with Josh?

a) ignore him and hope he figures it out on his own.

b) go join a new mlm deal because mine is 14 years old.

c) load 50,000 emails into a Spaminator Mark II.

d) help Josh make a list, help him call the list, and show presentations to his list.

I picked D again. Josh and I showed the plan to Darnell. He got in. Josh and Darnell showed it to Duane. Duane is 6 foot 7. He got in. Now I have a bodyguard....wanna bet the leg has 1000 people in it by this time next year?

Oh yea...I taught Josh the dance too.

How were those Pizza Pops? Stuffed with yumminess? I thought so.

I appreciate you!

David Ledoux

MLM Chef
http://www.ilovemlm.com

I remember when he called me up about 8 years ago when Assoctrac was nearly ready. I bought the 11th working version, along with nearly everything his company has ever produced. I never "knew" him like a friend or co-worker, but had the privelage of sharing the stage with him at a few seminars, and talked in the green room a few times. He and I were both Platinum Members under Dan Kennedy. He had the gift of vision. Man, he saw the future like few I have met.

The guy lived his life first class all the way. My condolences to his wife, family and staff. He'll be missed by all that admired his willingness to help others to move ahead in this world.

I never realized how dependent the internet business world is on broadband. With dialup I find myself doing email once a day, and then getting off the web. Surfing is excruciating, and my online time is slashed by 90%.

Of course, more positive is that it frees up my time to sit by the pool, read, write, and smell the roses. Kind of the whole point of having a cottage in the country, right?

Now if only broadband cell phones would get launched around here....

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I have one corporate account that gets over 800 spams a day. And less than 50 of them are in English. It's maddening.

On the other hand, I find myself using text messaging on my cellphone more and more. I work with a lot of twenty-somethings, and its their preferred method of communicating.

I am testing Skype-out as well now instead of my home office phone. The thought of being tied to a desk is nuts in this day and age. I can grab my laptop, head to Starbucks, and phone all over the world for free or nearly free. Check out Skype.com if you haven't yet.

I would never join an VOIP MLM, or any telephone MLM that's for sure. Eventually Microsoft or some big cable provider will bundle it for free with some package.

Tons of changes. The scary part is how many people are getting left behind. Most of the prospects that I have been meeting with have cell phones, but spend almost zero time online...cell phones seem to be winning the war of the pda/laptop/desktop/tv box wars.

I figured out a way to compress my Usana True Wealth video onto my cellphone. It's surprising clear, the audio is crystal, and at 9 minutes long, gets a cool wow factor with a prospect....except...no one else I have met has a smart phone so its kinda unduplicatable.

I met a prospect of one of my downline...he's about 25...I asked him if he had a dvd player...he looked at me like I was retarded. "Yo, dude I gots one in my SUV...."

At least half my prospects in the last week didn't own dvd players...I tell them that they're $39 at Best Buy now and they're shocked... I've been working in a strange sub-dimension of people with no computers, no dvd players, who live their lives on the bus, subway and at their jobs...they walk the earth like zombies...I think I used to be one of them, years ago....

There is a strange break in the current space-time continuum between those under the age of 30, and those over...I see desperation and fear on those older...I see apathy, skepticism and a burning desire for something, anything other than the path their parents are on in the younger.

The older ones come home, exhausted and slump into an easy chair to eat microwaved dinner and watch some mindless reality TV...the younger are out, headphones in, talking on the cell, drinking coffee.

I've been so glued to the web the last 5 years, the world has completely changed and I'm only noticing now....it's like a Twilight Zone episode...I come out of my bomb shelter and weird zombies are walking the earth.

Dig this and dig it good.... AMBITION IS IN SHORT SUPPLY...when you find it, nurture it.

Or, I am asked, "David, what is the secret to mlm lead generation?"

Let me cut right to point. When it comes to mlm leads, I always believe that learning to generate your own mlm prospects is always more important than plunking down your visa card and buying mlm leads.

Why?

Teach a man to fish....

What happens if your mlm lead vendor goes out of business? What if the guy who has mlm genealogies for sale vanishes? What if the multi-level markeing lead broker runs out of hot fresh radio and tv leads?

You get the idea.

But...and it's a huge but...what if every member of your downline knew how to create their own mlm leads, locally and long distance, in real time, for under $1.00 per lead?

Would that be any good? Yes or yes?

Here's been my April 2005 MLM Lead Generating Experiment:

total hours worked: 25 (april 6 - may 12)

Total phone calls in: 124

total prospects spoken with: 42

total 1on1's: 14

apps signed in hand : 4

My pipeline is completely full. I have calls coming in daily, several dozen to call back, meetings lined up all of next week, etc. etc. A network marketing dream come true if you've been looking to break through to the next level.

How did I do this? Secrets to MLM Lead Generation

I am a big believer in outsourcing, paying for talent, time leverage and all that good stuff. But sometimes you just need the exhileration of mental frustration. Learning the difference between ASCII and binary uploads, chmoding permissions, cgi-bin files and the like really stretches ones brain!

Here's the mlm ninja trick from that day. I discussed the concept of sizzle cards with each prospect. I got them to initial one in the bottom right with their initials in the code box. I showed them how they could put out 100 cards, and possible generate some leads. I average about 15 calls per 1000 give or take a few.

Out of the 5 plans, 3 of them each took 100 cards. They promised to initial them and to get them out in 24 hours. So while they are watching the DVD, they are also getting me more leads. So far today I have 3 calls from those cards. That's 3 mlm prospects that I didn't have to work for or pay for. Do you see the big picture with this?

Every meeting can turn into more mlm leads....oh oh!

You're missing the boat if you don't have a few thousand cards a month moving through your hands. MLM Lead Generation Secrets

I think short term cash positions aren't that important. A far more important asset when building a big downline is ambition and enthusiasm. Out of the Top 20 income earners in a huge MLM company that I recently studied, I know at least 10 were completely flat broke when they started. Funny how a maxed out visa card and a mountain of bills can motivate someone on the path to greatness.

Do you not work with broke people? Depends on your definition of "work with them". I did a presentation for a prospect on Friday for one of my downline. The prospect left with a DVD to take home and watch, plus 100 sizzle cards. He put his initials on every card and went out to place them. I turned a prospect into a prospector in 45 seconds....how do you like that?

The old tagline that is unflattering but true..."every dud knows a stud" is very very meaninful in network marketing. I never vote anyone off the island...I let them swim for it and am constantly surprised who has the will to win.

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On a tangental note - if you search google for "mlm prospects" or "usana vitamins" or "bus shelter experiment" or "Tom Vu, you'll see my blog on the front page. Interesting....
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Then we did leg press...worked up to 530 lbs. to failure....I was whimpering like a kitten after I crawled out of the sled on the final set...tried to do a set of lunges with 35lb dumbells but was too crippled.

Today I am walking like a cowboy after a long day in the saddle. Am going to go do sizzle cards after dark tonight to seed my May activity. Should be fun!