The Things You can Learn From Chinese Peddlers and What That Has to Do With Your Online MLM Leads

“Fake it till you make it.”
- Your Upline

From the Hotel Room of:
Raymond Fong; Shanghai, China.
June 3, 2008 -

Oh wow, if you haven’t ever visited Shanghai, you should definitely do yourself a favor and check it out some day.

The history and culture is extensive, the food amazing and a bit “different” at times (I just had a duck and a snapping turtle in the same sitting and washed both of them down with some local beer), and the way of the people quite intriguing.

Being in the land of shopping and bargaining and being the marketer that I am, you bet I am paying close attention to the sales tactics being demonstrated here at Yu Bazaar.

What I’ve discovered is that what works for Chinese peddlers selling Gucci knock-offs will not work for you as a network marketer.

Let’s examine.

The streets of Yu Bazaar are flanked by little stalls and holes-in-the-wall stores selling everything from purses, suits, children toys, to antiques. As my girlfriend and I were walking around, taking in the bustling streets, we were approached countless number of times by peddlers selling knock-offs.

The first time it happened my girlfriend yelped and almost punched the poor guy in the face. I can’t blame her. Heck, I was about to punch the guy in the face myself. You see, the guy crept up on us out of nowhere from behind.

As we were walking from one stall to another, he somehow managed to sneak up RIGHT behind us and said “watches, sunglasses, bags***” in his broken and heavily accented English (never mind that we were not in the market for watches, sunglasses, nor bags).

We were like, “Holy gazooks where’d this guy come from?“ He could’ve just as easily have said, “Give me your money – I am robbing you.“

The Mistakes That Almost Got Him a Bloody Nose

Now you see why he almost got socked in the face? These are just a few of the mistakes he made:

Eerily Similar Isn’t It?

You might laugh but sadly, that’s very close to the same approach some network marketers take when it comes to prospecting. They are sweating bullets when it comes time to prospect. They think that if they come unnoticed on their unsuspecting prospect, it’s a good thing.

WRONG.

If you sneak up on your prospect, right away you trip your prospect’s defense mechanism and all he/she can think about are to either punch you in the face and/or start running.

Either way it’s bad business

Of course, then we come to the question of whom they tend to prospect. Whom do they target? Everyone and anyone that breathes and moves. They think that they should prospect and sponsor everyone from their mother to their neighbor’s godson’s pet parrot.

As you may know from studying Attraction Marketing Formula, that’s a huge no-no. Why waste your time on the looky-loos? Why bother with the tire-kickers? Wouldn’t it be great if there’s a way to filter them all out before you waste one breath talking to them?

Gawd, imagine if some tourists at Yu Bazaar actually wore huge tags around their necks that said “looking for watches, sunglasses, and bags“. How much easier it would’ve been for our lil’ “ninja” friend eh? Unfortunately that’s not the case for him.

But There’s Hope…

However, for you as a network marketer, that’s totally possible and realistic with the approaches we share with you in Attraction Marketing Formula.

And what about the whole concept of posture?

Obviously our ninja friend had none as not only was he muttering but he also looked obviously nervous and out of place (duh, he was selling illegal knock-offs). Again, think about how some network marketers approach their prospects. Do they talk to them with complete confidence and total composure? Do they speak as if they are the ones with something of value to offer and are the ones doing their prospects a favor?

Odds are, no.

What tends to happen more often than not is that network marketers speak with hesitation and are just shy of begging their prospects to join them. Heck, the network marketers themselves have no idea what they got into – let alone trying to explain to their prospects what they would be getting into…

And people wonder why there is a stigma surround MLMs and how they are nothing but pyramid schemes.

Wouldn’t you also wonder the same thing if some dude pulled a ninja teleporting act right to the back of your head and start muttering something about “home business opportunity” and “getting rich“?

This is What You Need to Do

See, what you need to do is not only filter out your prospects but when you do find a real prospect you also need to show some posture. You need to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the opportunity to join you, your team, and the business opportunity you have to offer is of tremendous value; and you need to communicate this clearly.

(Better yet, let a MLM capture page do this for you online.)

I do have to admit, after we finally got use to the idea of having random people pop up behind us when we aren’t looking and muttering “watches, sunglasses, bags“, curiosity got the better of us and we went for a little walk…

But that’s a whole different story with entirely different lessons for another time.

For now, all I can say is that while these Chinese peddlers may not be able to benefit from Attraction Marketing Formula and learn how to harness the internet to enhance their businesses, there is absolutely nothing that stands between you and that knowledge.

It’s time you stop risking getting a bloody nose and two black eyes, it’s time you give your prospecting strategy and business an upgrade. Take it online and let Attraction Marketing Formula help you save time and make more money!

*** China is famous (or notorious depending on how you look at it) for selling famous brand knock-offs such as Chanel sunglasses, Rolex watches (we call them “Folexes”), Gucci purses, etc. ***

To Affinity and Beyond,

Raymond Fong

(Thanks to Barry Dunlop and Dean Hunt for help with this list.)

I wanted to lift the veil and tell you exactly who’s at the top of the internet marketing world. Ray and I recently returned from the Underground Online Seminar IV held this year in Downtown Los Angeles.

The who’s who of internet marketing was there and along with knowing how to make money, they also know how to party! (Click for Footage from Mini-Kiss Concert)

And as a result of meeting all these “gurus”, I decided to take their names down and create a list based on my experience, the value they’ve added to my marketing career and the $$$ they bring in for their respective businesses:

Here it is:

1. Carlos and Lupe Garcia
2. Tom Bell
3. Jim Lillig
4. Eben Pagan
5. John Reese
6. Yanik Silver
7. Joe Polish
8. Brock Felt
9. Buck Rizvi
10. Frank Kern
11. Mike Dillard
12. Mike Filsaime
13. Jim Edwards
14. Jonathan Mizel
15. Dan Kennedy (honorary)

Please feel free to give feedback on this list, if you think there is someone out there who is deserving.

Otherwise, it’s my blog and I’ll name who I want to.

-Ferny

The Complete Story of How We Created A.M.F. and How It Can Help Grow Your Business…

“People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
- I Forgot Where I Heard This

About a year and a half ago, I was sitting in front of the computer screen much like you are now, intensely reading a newsletter about some guy telling me how I could easily grow my MLM business from home, in my pajamas while drinking my favorite beverage…

I was a little skeptical, but I was feeling a pain in my @$$ after having sponsored 17 people my first year in network marketing and having most of them sit on their hands, while they whined and complained because their broke cousin (who was still living at his mom’s house) had made fun of them for joining one of those “pyramid things”.

There I was: an MIT grad; in grad school at USC; hating my job in aerospace and thinking about getting a PhD in Engineering just to escape my J-O-B. My fraternity brothers were laughing behind my back for having started an MLM business… “You joined one of those pyramid things?”. ::Deja-Vu::

After a long night of “showing the plan”, I was sitting in front of my computer reading an email on how I could prove everybody wrong and really explode this MLM thing, online.

Too Stubborn to Quit

At that point, the only reason I hadn’t quit the business was because:

1) I had already told too many people about it

2) I was making enough money to keep hope alive &

3) I’m too stubborn to quit.

So I chose to trust the guy on the other end of the email and pulled out my credit card and forked over $37 to get “the secret mlm cash system”.

What the heck, right!?!

At least if this guy scammed me for 37 bucks, no one would know about it. Besides, money wasn’t an issue. I was making good money at the J-O-B and I would spend 6 times more money on a good night out in Hollywood.

So 3 days later, I got a package in the mail of a short 50-page book called “Magnetic Sponsoring” by Mike Dillard. And so began my journey down a crazy, deep and psychedelic rabbit-hole with Mr. Dillard as the ‘Mad Hatter’, slapping me around with his periodic “Alpha Networker” rants via email.

Enter the ‘Batman’

I told my upline sponsor, Raymond about the book and recommended he get it. At the time ‘Batman’, admittedly, was a bit too cheap and skeptical to buy it, but I told him I wasn’t going to loan him my copy and that he had to buy it for himself, if he really wanted to know what was causing me to jump off the walls.

So a week later, he forked over the $37.

Eventually, my two uplines above him bought the course as well. (Thanks for the commissions guys!)

So we got to work after that, and gradually we started implementing these tactics and low and behold, I started making money while I slept! Hmmm… interesting.

In fact, I had managed to create my own ‘magic slot machine’ — I remember in November of 2006 during my first 2 weeks of using ‘attraction marketing’, I inserted into Google $32 and generated $720 in sales. That amounted to about $330 in profits. Cha-ching!!

To make a long story short, a year later the products of all our study, work and on-going battle with procrastination were 2 awesome marketing systems:

1) CompleteMartialArt.com - For our Martial Arts Master and the World Hwa Rang Do Association

2) AttractionMarketingFormula.com - For you to learn what we learned, faster and with less frustration.

With quite a few more on the way…

MLM System Formula

So recently, our business started scratching the glass ceiling and we needed to figure out how to easily pass our techniques and secrets on to our downline and marketing clients.

It’s one thing to be able to do something ourselves and make it work. It’s a whole other thing to empower others to duplicate what we had just done. (Remember, most people are lazy, apathetic and scared, but we somehow have to make that work in an MLM business.)

Then along came the ‘Mad Hatter’ again, with the “solution”.

‘Mr. Hatter’ (Mike Dillard) was just coming off the heals of a very private summit at his home in Austin where he taught attendees everything he knew about creating replicated marketing systems for MLM. I couldn’t go at the time, but a couple of months later he started accepting applications for 15 people who would get the opportunity to review the DVD recordings of the event.

I submitted my application and I was accepted… “Holy Crap!“

He did ask to do one thing, though. Uh oh…. here’s the catch!

He sent us a Flip Video camera (nice!) to record a testimonial on what we thought about the DVDs. We got to keep the camera. (Score!)

So last night, after getting our butts kicked by Master Lee at the West Coast Hwa Rang Do Headquarters, Raymond and I sent ‘Mr. Hatter’ our thoughts on MLM System Formula and his entire system via YouTube.

I wanted to share this with you, to give you a glimpse into the journey we experienced over the past year and a half or so. It’s been a wild ride and both Raymond and I are dedicated to making it 100 times easier for you than it was for us.

So without further adieu, here’s our masterpiece:

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To Your Success,

Ferny

What do you get when you cross a squid with some sort of action? You get Squid+Do or rather… Squidoo! (Get it? C’mon that was a knee-slapper!)

Seriously though, while Squidoo has nothing to do with “squids” per se (save for the fact that its icon is a squid with a gigantic eyeball…) it does have plenty to do with action in the marketing field.

In case you haven’t been keeping up with the latest trend in Web 2.0 and all the hype surrounding Del.icio.us, Digg, StumbleUpon, and Squidoo, here’s a quick low down on what Squidoo is and why you should implement it into your marketing campaign.

Squidoo is like an organized (this is important) resource site meets social networking. On the “resource site” end, (more…)

Fernando and I have a saying between the two of us when it comes to business, in particular MLMs - “Posture B*atch!”

Excuse the foul language but you get the idea =]

There’s a lot of power behind that little saying and it’s something you must keep in mind at all times.

I don’t care if you are prospecting someone the “traditional” way or you are following along the guidelines laid out for you in Attraction Marketing Formula; you must always know that YOU are the (more…)

Can you spot the difference?

“Our company has been around for 27 years.”

- Vs -

“Our company has been around for 27 years which means you will be joining a company with great stability and past record and you will not ever have to worry about your business security.”

Yes. Of course the second sentence is longer in length. However, there is a subtlety that makes all the difference in the world.

Spot it?

Notice how the first sentence is a statement, a rather detached one at that. It’s merely saying “this is what it is…” There are absolutely no emotions to it. This is what we marketers call a “feature”.

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(Read the second part of this article up top, titled Your MLM Money? It’s in Your MLM List! (And the Relationships You Create.) )

5. Your are in Sales. No. Really. You are.

What intrigues me the most is how MLMs claim they are “just like franchises” - you build a successful one and you “cookie-cut” the rest. Here’s the thing your uplines are missing out on though, traditional franchise are profitable!

Do you think Ray Kroc, the late franchisor of McDonald’s, would’ve tried duplicating a system that was making $0???

What happens when you duplicate $0? You get another big fat $0! I don’t care how many times you duplicate - when you have nothing of value to duplicate, you still end up with nothing of value.

(more…)

Your MLM Money? It’s in Your MLM List! (And the Relationships You Create.)

(Read the second part of this article up top, titled Your Value in MLM “Dollars” | How to Get Free MLM Marketing. And don’t forget to rate this article! Thanks.)

3. Show Me the Money!

The third thing you have to also grasp (this is huge so pay attention) is that your money is in your list! (Read the last sentence again, it’s THAT important.)

You see… not everyone will be ready to buy into you, your products, nor your opportunity right away. It’s a matter of timing and also trust. They may not be financially ready to commit to an opportunity yet; they might be short on time; they might have other priorities they want to straighten out first; or they simply don’t trust you just yet.

Here’s where most MLMers make the biggest mistake (heck, businesses in general are making this silly mistake)… they let these hot potential prospect go! They say what their uplines teach them to say, they say “NEXT!”

(more…)

(Read the first part of this article, titled The Killer Secret to MLM Prospecting…)

You see, while the traditional form of building a network marketing business may work for some, odds are, it’s not working for you. Much like yourself, I’ve gone down that traditional network marketing route - sponsor two who each sponsors two more etc.

While I give many thanks and much credit to who I am today to all that training and that MLM school of hard knocks, I think there are other ways of building a multi level marketing business. Ways that capitalize on the technology available today to both you and me.

So then how do you still get to be the measly 5% who actually make it in the multi level marketing industry?

It’s about taming the “wild wild web“. Let me break this down into 5 major marketing concepts your upline have no clue about.

(more…)

Back in June, Mike Dillard held a closed door private seminar for just 20 people at his home in Austin, TX.

During this 3 day seminar, Mike revealed absolutely everything he knows about internet marketing and creating a replicated MLM marketing system, which can work for any MLM leader or company.

At that seminar were MLM company owners and leaders such as Jay Kubassek, Brady Paulson, and Justin Christianson.

Unfortunately, I was not able to attend that seminar because it was the weekend of my birthday and family came first that weekend.

Fast forward 4 months and now Mike Dillard has launched his Magnetic Sponsoring Online Community and will soon be launching the NEW Magnetic Sponsoring 3.0 affiliate system, which will be personalized for the affiliate.

Shortly after his launch, Mike announced that he was accepting applications to get advanced copies of the recordings of MLM System Formula and he would only pick 15 people.

I have the privilege to announce that my application was accepted and I will be receiving advanced copies of these recordings.

I look forward to sharing insights and teachings from this knowledge to ALL Attraction Marketing Formula subscribers. To get on my list and benefit from this teaching, register for your FREE Attraction Marketing Bootcamp Newsletter.

My Marketing Story

I started looking at Mike’s work back on June of 2006. I stumbled upon his newsletter and purchased his life transforming Magnetic Sponsoring book.

Shortly there after I purchased MLM Traffic Formula, which opened my eyes to a whole new world of prospecting, marketing and wealth creation.

We’ve since applied the teachings of MLM Traffic Formula and dozens of other courses, seminars and our own creativity to create the Attraction Marketing Formula. This system is designed to serve all business opportunity seekers and business professionals. It has been tested in the Martial Arts Industry in partnership with the West Coast Hwa Rang Do Headquarters and the World Hwa Rang Do Association.

The success with Hwa Rang Do essentially proved that these marketings strategies were not just for MLM — they worked for all businesses, regardless of product or service.

My partner Raymond and I are now private marketing instructors for Hwa Rang Do Blacksashes, whom are owners of their respective Hwa Rang Do branches across the country and the globe.

However, our roots have always been with the network marketing industry, so we’ve come back with avengence! But we aren’t limiting ourselves to network marketing. Anyone wishing to apply online direct response marketing principles to their existing small or home based business is encouraged to register.

What You Will Learn

Thus far, the Attraction Marketing Formula instructs in over 10 Traffic Methods, including AdWords, SEO, eBay, Craiglist, Ezines, Articles, Blogs, Press Releases, Video, Viral Marketing & Direct Mail. We also instruct in copywriting for capture pages, sales pages and email newsletters.

The course officially launched on Nov. 1st 2007 to a private list owned by the author and is now open to the public.

If you’d like to be an affiliate, please contact fceballos@sollabec.com.

Accepted affiliates will be awarded front-end commissions as well as ALL back-end commissions for their leads, so it’s a very lucrative opportunity for the right affiliate with residual income potential.

To Our Collective Success,

Ferny Ceballos