What do you do when you or someone on your team runs out of prospects to talk to about your business? This challenge plagues many a distributor in the network marketing industry. What if you and your team developed an endless stream of prospects to talk to about your business? Prospecting over the internet makes this possible!



Why would you want to prospect on the internet as oppose to other ways of prospecting for your business? Maybe you or your business partners are very shy and not willing to implement more outgoing methods of prospecting such as the famous "three-foot rule" or attending networking events. Perhaps you or your business partners work a very odd schedule (like nights) that makes other methods of prospecting difficult.

When should you add internet prospecting to your network marketing business? Add internet prospecting after you talk to everyone in your warm market. There's one exception to this rule, when you run out of any warm market prospects that live outside your local market and the referrals generated through your warm market all live locally to you.

Prospecting online offers the benefit of schedule flexibility. What other method of prospecting can you use 24 hours a day 7 days a week from any location in the world with access to a computer and a phone? Prospecting online also offers the ability to prospect to any market in the world. Looking to build a business in sunny Southern California or Hawaii? Generate prospects online that live in these markets and you can build your business there or anywhere you choose!

One method to prospect online involves purchasing co-registration or business opportunity leads. You pay a company a set amount per lead to generate a list of prospects that you can share your business with and the company provides you with information about these prospects. The set amount varies based on many factors, including the information you want to collect, whether you want leads in a specific market or whether you want leads exclusive to you or shared with a few others. With these leads you can email them a web site, call them and get them on a conference call or mail them out additional information. Purchasing leads simplifies the prospecting process. You simply pay money and receive in return a list of prospects to contact. Using this list, you can email them or mail out to them 24 hours a day 7 days a week. You can also call them between 9am and 9pm in their time zone. If you purchase leads in different time zones, you can contact leads practically any time during the day.

Another method to prospecting online involves register for social networking web sites. Web sites like www.myspace.com www.hi5.com and others allow you to network with other internet users all across the world. You can use the power of these web sites to prospect for your network marketing business. This method of prospecting offers the benefit of no cost and you can contact people 24 hours a day 7 days a week. To prospect online using this method, simply register for a free account, then browse the web site and look at different profiles available. When you find someone that interests you for your business, simply send them a message introducing yourself. If they reply back, you can build rapport with them or simply go for the straight-forward approach and gauge their interest in looking at your business. Assuming they reply with interest, you can move them to the next method of your exposure process, whether it's sending them to a web site, a conference call or mailing them out a tool.

In conclusion, prospecting on the internet can revolutionize your business if you know how to do it. So try out some of the concepts learned in this article, continue to educate yourself on the process and as you enjoy success, make sure you teach these concepts to the members of your team. Remember the key to building a long-term successful business in network marketing does not involve you necessarily knowing everything but you teaching your organization to teach their organization how to master the process of building a network marketing organization. Prospecting online allows you to introduce a very powerful

prospecting process to your organization.

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