You have researched your prospective company. You completed your due diligence and everything met your standards. All you have to do is to sign on the line and you are in business. Yet something still doesn’t seem right to you. You keep receiving vague answers when you talk to others members of your leader’s downline.

So how do you determine if your leader is the leader you want to work with?

Some sponsors do what leaders need to do.  They motivate you when you need it.  They try to understand what makes you tick. They want and need to understand your goals and what gets your blood racing.  Ultimately, they become both a friend and mentor.

Sometimes, the sponsor doesn’t fulfill the role of a leader. After they get you signed up, they disappear. This happens way too often. Then the marketer struggles to make any money and, most likely, drop out of the business after six to nine months.

So, how do you know which type of sponsor is recruiting you?

Unfortunately, there is not a clear cut answer to this question.  Probably the best course of action is to have a set of questions that you need answered.  Then you need to interview your prospective sponsor to see how they answer your questions. You also need to understand that some sponsors will not take kindly to being interviewed.  They will state that they are the leader and you need to follow what they say. This may or may not be good for you.

If you are new to the MLM world, there are many things that your sponsor may not tell you. They may not tell you what to do after you tap out your warm market. They may give you vague instructions, like make a list of 100 people that you know and go talk to them. Handing out flyers, holding in home meetings, explain your business to any one that will listen, etc. etc. are other things that they may have you do.

This may work for some people. However, this marketing strategy has done more damage to the network / MLM market that anything else. If a person is not a salesman, they will fail miserably if they try to market their product this way. They need a different marketing strategy.

A good sponsor will have a plan to get the new person going. They will try to understand the comfort level for a given marketing plan and explain how to implement this plan. Most good sponsors have a range of marketing strategies that can be adapted to fit most any situation or person. They understand that there is not a single solution for getting everyone successful, so they change their plan to fit the person.

There are also a percentage of marketers that don’t want their sponsors help. They have been there, done that. Sometimes they know more than their sponsor but, because of their situation, join an opportunity under a less experienced sponsor. As a sponsor, you should then try to learn everything you can from this team member.

In conclusion, when you are considering joining a new opportunity, make sure you know what your sponsor will do for you and what you will be doing for them. Just remember that the goal is for everyone to be successful. To learn how my team and I can help you to be successful in my business, go to http://tr.im/emmfor to see how our marketing system changes the rules.

Are you actively marketing a product for an MLM company?  Are you making more than several hundred dollars per month with this MLM?  Are you doing EVERYTHING your sponsor is telling you to do but still losing money?

Unfortunately, this situation may have nothing to do with you.  Your sponsor doesn’t understand this or even how to explain this issue to you.  Fortunately, this issue is easily explained … if you understand basic mathematics.

Mathematics?

Yes, this is a quite simple math problem.  You see, in any sales business, you get paid based on the quantity of products that you sell.  The more of your product that you sell, the more money that you make.  Quite simple. Unfortunately, there is a huge second factor that enters into this equation that will impact your total income, especially if you are running your own business.

This factor is the amount of money you earn per transaction.  You are probably saying that this won’t make THAT much difference, will it?  Yes, the difference in the amount that you earn per transaction will make a tremendous difference in your income. The example below will show the graphic difference. This will be a simple example but has real world implications.

First, some base information.  Typically, one percent (1%) of your prospects will purchase your product or service. In addition to this, only about one percent (1%) of the people that read you ad will respond to it.  Then you get to the real kicker, only one percent (1%) of the people that see your ad will even bother to read it.

So, here are the numbers.  You need one hundred (100) prospects to get a customer. To get the one hundred prospects, you will need to have ten thousand (100 X 100) people to read the ad.  Now for the scary number.  You need one million (1,000,000) views to get your single customer.

So, by now, you are probably asking what this has to do with anything.  PLENTY.

For instance, say you earn ten dollars ($10.00) per sale.  For your one million views you just made ten dollars.  Do this ten times per month and you just made one hundred ($100) dollars.  CONGRATULATIONS.  In five months you are broke and your business is probably on life support or worse.

OK, say you bought into a better system and you are making one hundred ($100.00) per sale. You are doing better because you have now made one thousand ($1,000.00).  This means that you will struggle for a YEAR and then probably still bail out because your effort is not being rewarded the way that you think it SHOULD be.

Now, what if you were to join a large dollar program?  Say you could earn one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per sale.  This would put ten thousand ($10,000.00) in your pocket for ten sales.  NOW YOU ARE TALKING.  Now you have a business with enough income to allow you to grow your business to a level that is sustainable.

Unfortunately, too many people join the small dollar programs and then complain that they can’t make any money…AND…they are correct.  The odds are greatly stacked against them.  Now if you are looking for pocket money, yes, a small dollar program will fulfill your needs.  If, however, you are looking to put some decent money in you pocket, a small dollar program will drive you out of the business.

So, what do you do?

My suggestion is quite simple.  Visit:  http://www.Millionaire-Marketing-Plan.com/?t=wp to see the strategies and techniques that I learned to make my business profitable.

This XOWii Scam Review is an article based on this new company which is trying to establish itself as a contender in energy drink market.  Based on the Kona Red coffee fruit, or coffee cherry, as the company literature lists the main ingredient, this company is listing a variety of drinks to be marketed.

The first of their product line is a drink that is being marketed as an energy drink called XOWii Energy. They are also listing a XOWii Thin and a XOWii Ultra as upcoming products.

The company executive management consists of three gentlemen with extensive experience in the investment and banking industry and a business development specialist with 15 years of health and wellness industry experience. This group is the driving force behind bringing XOWii to the market. The company is striving to enter the exploding functional beverage market and capitalize on the growing excitement.

In reviewing the company literature, there is a serious lack of information concerning XOWii’s training and marketing programs. The compensation plan appears to be similar to the other main contenders in the market. The remaining information appears similar to the other main contenders on the market.

As the basis of this XOWii Scam Review, this author has reached the conclusion that this company is trying to shirttail itself into a market position based on the success of the other contenders.  Based on the information presented by the company, XOWii is providing a very limited profile as compared to the other companies. Much of the data appears to be formatted to mirror the information being presented by others.

The most interesting point appears to be the use of the term “coffee cherry”.  Having some knowledge of the marketing of the coffee fruit, this is quite interesting. Since another company is also marketing the coffee fruit as a functional beverage, XOWii appears to be trying to capture this momentum. Much of the literature provided by the company seems to be a play on the other company’s data.

Is XOWii a scam?  That question is very hard to qualify. XOWii appears to be a company that is trying to be something that it is not.

XOWii appears to be a company constructed by people who understand the new buzz about the functional beverages.  They are trying to capture the hype while it is still fresh on the market.  Because the company executive management has very little functional beverage experience or network marketing experience, it appears to that they are trying to bring in people who have that knowledge and experience. It also appears that the company is just trying to do the minimum that is required just to obtain a market presence.

So, to conclude this XOWii Scam Review, what do you do if you are contacted about joining XOWii?

In my opinion, that is a personal choice. XOWii may be a great company, in time. They are trying to step into an extremely competitive market, network marketing, that has a very competitive product. The coffeeberry® fruit is very tightly controlled by several companies thru several international patents. This fact will make this market very difficult and competitive. Trying to bypass the legal issues will require a significant effort.

If you are looking for a functional beverage company that has an established marketing plan, you need to go to:  http://CBD.MLMIntegrityMarketing.com If you decide to step into XOWii as a beverage company and want to benefit from an established marketing system, go to:  http://MLMIntegrityMarketing.com

This article is credited to the Harvard Business School.

Network Marketing is being taught at more than 200 colleges, including Harvard Business School.  After Extensive research into the network marketing industry, Harvard Business School developed three criteria that a network marketing company must have in order to make it a most desirable opportunity. They are as follows:

1) The company must be at least 18 months old.

2) The company must have a product that is highly consumable. Having a product that is highly consumable means repeated sales, thereby guaranteeing customer loyalty versus a one-time sale and having to source new customers.

3) It needs to be a “ground floor opportunity”. Harvard Business School suggests that in order for the opportunity to qualify as ground floor the number of existing reps must be less than 1% of the total population of the country where the company is operating. In the United States, this figure is equal to 1.5 million people. If the company has less than 100,000 distributors, Harvard Business School considers it to be ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME opportunity.

In addition, Harvard Business School states there are four distinct stages of growth in a network marketing company.   They are as follows:

1) Foundation- This usually last approximately six months and is when a company develops its products and marketing plan.

2) Concentration-This period lasts approximately 2 to 4 years from when the distributor network is started.

3) Momentum- This period lasts 2-4 years also. This is when the company experiences phenomenal growth and distributorships’ businesses explode. It is during this period that the company virtually sweeps the nation. When a company’s sales reach 50 million, it reaches what is called critical mass(Sales go vertically right off the graph)

For example, when Herbalife reached $50 million, sales jumped to $151 million in only 12 months and they added over 800,000 new distributors to their organization. Say an organization is producing a bonus check in the amount of $1,000.00 per month. When the company reaches critical mass, distributors automatically experience a 10 fold increase in their earnings. In other words a $1,000.00 check per month becomes $10,000.00 per month. This is the reason for getting involved on the ground floor, so you will experience the benefits of explosive growth

4) Stability- This is the period that lasts for the life of the company. A network marketing company that is dedicated to the success of its distributors will experience longevity, thereby insuring that an active distributorship will realize continued earnings growth

So, based on this data, the people that are preaching about waiting until a company is 4 years old lose out on the true, high dollar positions.  If you are NOT in by year 4, you will make money BUT the upline makes SUBSTANTIALLY more money…because of their position.

NOW… do you need another reason to get in??

GET IN NOW:  http://CB.MLMIntegrityMarketing.com

A new MLM company is gathering steam for a pre-launch campaign to begin in early July 2009. This MLM is featuring a new product to the market… a coffee based product that may take the market by storm.

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