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Successful Network Marketers

Jul 15

Posted by Wayne Woodworth in Network Marketing | 2 Comments

Have you experienced the desperate network marketer? I’m sure you have. He’s the guy who runs up to you and just dumps his spiel on you, usually before he’s even introduced himself. On Twitter she’s the one who has the automated tweet about her opportunity that posts every 15 minutes or so. When you look at her posts, all you see is an endless list of the same message over and over. If you happen to friend one of them on Facebook then they will fill you inbox.

About the only thing you can be thankful for with these people is knowing that they will never succeed the way they are going and will eventually disappear. Or maybe they will change opportunities and vomit their new business on you. Their desperation is almost overpowering.

Fortunately not all network marketers are that way, although the desperate ones may make you think they must be. From my experience, the successful network marketers are not overbearing at all. I met two of the top earners in my company last year and you couldn’t meet nicer, more easy-going people.

The important thing to remember about network marketing is that it is a real business. The problem comes from the fact that most people in network marketing have never been trained on how to run a business. They then spend their time marketing their business opportunity to more people who also have never been trained. People are brought in with promises of getting rich quick while working from home. The stories they hear are about the people who are making $100,000 a month or became overnight successes.

One of the top earners that I mentioned a moment ago shared something with me when we met. Yes, he did start making a nice amount of money right away when he joined this company. He was able to do that because he had been in several other network marketing companies before and new a lot of people who were also experienced in network marketing. While he was success immediately with this company, he wasn’t immediately successful in network marketing. It takes time to learn how build a business and build a team of people who understand what they are doing.

Like I said, network marketing is a real business and it takes time to build one. You have to get the word out that your business exists. You have to cultivate prospects, leads, customers, and new distributors. You have to learn how to talk to people. When a new distributor joins the team, they have to be properly trained and you need to make sure that they have realistic expectations. They need to know that they probably aren’t going to become an Ultra Supreme Royal Diamond Whatever on their first day, their first month, or likely during their first year.

So, to be successful in network marketing you need to understand that you are building a business, that it will take time, and be comfortable with yourself and what you are doing. Desperation shows and will drive people away. It doesn’t present success.

If you found this helpful I would appreciate a comment below. I would also thank you for sharing this with your followers out on the social networks.

Wayne Woodworth

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Nikken, Why I Got Started

May 24

Posted by Wayne Woodworth in Network Marketing | No Comments

There are literally a ton of network marketing companies out there, at least one that is perfect for anyone who wants to get involved in building their own business. So, why did I choose Nikken?

When I was introduced to Nikken I wasn’t looking for a network marketing business. I didn’t really know what network marketing was although I had of course heard Tupperware, Amway, Avon, and a few others. I had just finished massage school, which I started because I was in an IT job that I absolutely could not stand. Before I finished massage school I quit that job and started a new one that was a lot better, which is good because it takes a while to start up a business.

My wife and I were going to start a massage business because we wanted to do something that really helped people. I also wanted control of my own life. I wanted to set my own hours and work when I wanted to because I had two small kids that I wanted to help raise.

Anyway, I had just finished massage school and read in a book that people should sleep on a magnetic mattress pad. I asked a massage therapist, Greg, that my wife worked with ( he specialized in energy healing ) what he knew about magnets.  He responded by inviting us to a meeting at someone else’s house that weekend. Having no idea what we were in for, we went. It was a Wellness Home Preview, which is what Nikken people call their in-home opportunity meetings.

Nikken is all about magnets, sleep, water filtration, air filtration, nutritional supplements, and the like. It immediately made sense to have a product line that complemented the service we were going to offer our clients. Also, it turns out that massage is very time and labor intensive. To make a reasonable income I still wasn’t going to have the time freedom that I wanted. I saw that network marketing could offer what I wanted if I could figure out how to make it work for me.

After that meeting we borrowed a magnetic mattress pad and a magnetic necklace and used them for a week. Neither my wife nor I had any big sleep problems but we thought we should try it out and see what happened. I found the pad very firm but I fell asleep immediately and had the best night’s sleep I’d had in a long time. I liked it.

We returned the mattress pad and necklace, then joined the ranks of Nikken distributors. For the first two years we were effectively wholesale customers as we used the product but didn’t do much with the business. I guess that made us typical network marketers. Then we were ready to do the business.

We have decided to stick with Nikken for a number of reasons. Most important to me is to have the time to spend with my family and the freedom to move that time anywhere in the day when something comes up for us to do together. Any network marketing business will provide that freedom, especially when you learn to do it online.

If you remember, we wanted to start a massage business because we wanted to help people. There are many MLM companies in the wellness field, but most of them only offer some form of nutritional supplement or energy drink. We have learned through our on-going studying that wellness is a whole lot more than the amount of nutrition that enters the mouth. All of the systems in the body have to work properly. In addition to good nutrition it requires hydration, pH balance, relaxation, muscle movement, good sleep, and the ability to effectively handle invaders. Nikken talks about the Wellness Home because our environment is a big influence on our wellness. What it really comes down to is the environment that each individual cell lives in that determines our overall wellness. Unlike most of the other companies I’ve seen, Nikken understands that and has products that address most of those areas.

So, there you have it. I’m in network marketing because it allows me the time to be with my family. I’m with Nikken because they understand wellness and provide the technologies to address much more than just one aspect of it. It allows me to take good care of myself and my family, and I can help other people.

Wayne Woodworth
Wellness Network Marketing

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Can’t Become Wealthy in MLM

Apr 19

Posted by Wayne Woodworth in Network Marketing | No Comments

One of my current prospects sent me a link today to this story about two people who quit Nikken. They feel that it is a myth that people can become financially independent as a Nikken distributor, and it’s Nikken’s fault. I want to address some of their key points.

First, it is very possible to become financially independent with Nikken. I have met a few and know of many more. My local Royal Diamond upline, Jack and Sheri Clarke, then way up at the top of Nikken income earners: Dave Johnson and Reid Nelson. I missed an opportunity to meet Dennis Estes when he was in town last year. The cool thing about these people is that they are just regular people. You would never know that they are wealthy.

They came to 3 conclusions as to why Nikken’s marketing plan doomed them to failure:

  • Nikken does not concern itself with sales but is predominantly interested in the recruitment of people
  • The customers are primarily the Distributors themselves
  • The Nikken products are not officially approved and also expensive. This combination means that the products are very difficult so sell to ordinary consumers.

It is true that Nikken, and all other network marketing companies, are more concerned with recruiting people than with sales. They aren’t in the business of selling their product. That’s what the distributors are in business for. McDonald’s doesn’t sell hamburgers either. They recruit businesspeople who open franchises to sell hamburgers.

It is probably also true that the distributors make up the largest percentage of customers, which is unfortunate. But that isn’t Nikken’s fault. It is the distributor’s job to find customers and sell the product. That’s what a distributor is. Another interesting point here. The same prospect told me that she was talking to other Nikken distributors today about internet marketing. They told her it wasn’t possible to sell Nikken’s products online because they have to be demonstrated first. I haven’t done a product demonstration in years and I am finding more and more customers online all the time.

As for the third conclusion, I think I just partially answered that one. I am selling these products online to regular people every day. $60 for a pair of magnetic insoles that last 10 years looks very inexpensive compared to the $60 shoes that people buy and wear out within 3 years. A $1500 magnetic mattress pad to resolve sleep problems doesn’t sound like much compared to what people are spending on hi-def flat-screen TVs. I’m not sure what they mean by “officially approved” other than by something like the FDA. Vioxx was approved by the FDA. Do I really need to say anything more?

The rest of their gripes apply to all MLM companies, not just Nikken. The problem really comes down to the sponsoring distributors. They are targeting regular people who don’t know what it means to run a business, and then don’t teach them once they are in. If they did, it might be harder to recruit new people but they would get better results from the ones who did join. As a distributor with a network marketing company you are a self-employed business owner. You are also your number one salesperson and your job is two sell two categories of product. One is the actual product or service that the company offers, and the other is the business opportunity. Old-school uplines recruit new people through hype and then teach the new people how to recruit others through hype. Once the hype wears off, chances are that the new distributor will disappear. That’s why most people fail in network marketing and there is such a high turnover.

So, if you are interested in “joining the club”, getting excited, and hyping up rookies, then please find another sponsor. On the other hand, if you are interested in owning your own business, building a team of responsible business owners who want to run a real business selling remarkable products, then I would like to talk to you.

Wayne Woodworth
Self-employed independent Nikken wellness consultant

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Is There a Best Home Based Business?

Jan 7

Posted by Wayne Woodworth in Network Marketing | 1 Comment

Is there such a thing as a best home based business? Of course not! There probably is a best home based business for you though, and it isn’t necessarily the same one as for me or the next person. If the best company for me is also the best one for you, it will probably be for a different reason.

So how to do you figure out the best home based business for you?

Start with your passions. What do you enjoy? If you enjoy sending cards then a card company may be better for you than a wellness company. If you like collecting coins and gold, there are gold coin companies. If you have a passion for wellness, there are more network marketing wellness companies than you could possibly imagine: nutrition supplements, energy drinks, food products, energy-based products. So, decide what your passions are and do a search for companies in that market.

Once you have a list of companies, you need to look at other criteria to narrow your choices. One thing I’ve noticed lately is that there are a lot of brand new companies, so one way to weed out the ones that aren’t right is to decide if you can handle the risks of a brand new company or if you prefer the relative security of an established one. For me, I went with a company that has been around for 35 years.

An obvious thing to look at is the compensation plan. Is it set up in a way that you can make money. If you are going to be slower in building a team then you want a company that will let you make money from retail profits. When looking at selling product, do you have to focus on selling autoship programs or can you make one-time sales to customers. If you know that you can quickly build a team then you might look for a compensation plan that rewards that. Another aspect of the compensation plan is how often you get paid. Some are monthly, weekly, or even daily for different activities. The company I chose pays monthly and offers good retail profits for one-time sales. Great for someone who builds a team slowly.

What kind of support are you going to get either from your upline or from the company? The high ranking people in some companies have nothing to do with new people where other companies they offer any help you need.  If you are someone who would like the support of an upline then make sure that you will have that available when you join. The team that I am with in my company offers all of the support and training that a person could want.

A little about what makes Nikken the best home based business for me.

I am a massage therapist and wellness is a passion of mine, so I chose to go with a wellness company. As I said earlier, there are a lot of wellness companies out there, but most of them seem to focus on one area, like supplements, energy drinks, or whatever. I wanted something with a more general approach to wellness so that I can have a wider customer pool. While the company I chose, Nikken, does offer nutritional supplements, supplements aren’t the only product or even the primary product. Nikken offers products that help with sleep, nutrition, air and water filtration, and offer aid to help relaxation and relieve discomfort. There’s something there for everyone.

As I already said, Nikken has been around a long time. They are celebrating 35 years in 2010 and celebrated 20 years in the US last year. They are very well established with no debt and plenty of operating capital. In other words, a very healthy company.

The compensation plan offers an excellent retail profit as well as additional commission based on rank. You increase in rank at first by selling product then later by bringing more people onto your team. This lets you make money and increase in rank immediately while slowly building your team, which makes this a great option for someone new to network marketing. Nikken pays out every month on the 15th.

Finally, what kind of support does Nikken offer? A lot actually. They have a personal growth seminar and a business training seminar that everyone is required to attend before they reach Silver, so it isn’t an immediate requirement. They also offer monthly corporate calls, quarterly events, and an annual convention to keep everyone up to date with what is going on. The team that I am on goes all the way up to 2 of the highest paid consultants in Nikken and I have had the opportunity to meet them and had an hour of one-on-one time with one of them (not bad considering that we live in opposite corners of the country). My local Royal Diamond has weekly meetings at their home open to anyone, in their downline or not. It is a very open culture.

Feel free to check out Nikken, ask me questions, and join my team if this looks like the best home based business for you.

Wayne Woodworth
Network Marketing by Passion

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Tired of the Pre-Launch Nonsense

Sep 1

Posted by Wayne Woodworth in Network Marketing | No Comments

Have you seen all this stuff in your email and on Twitter about all of the new MLM companies in pre-launch? The Trump Network, Evolv, and YOUnique Wealth are three of them that I know a little bit about. Pre-launch means that these companies haven’t officially launched yet, so they are untried business opportunities with untried products.

This all makes me so glad that I’m with a time-tested company like Nikken that has been around for 35 years. When I started my business 3 years ago I knew that I was promoting a product with an established track record of helping people get real benefits.

Most of the new business opportunities that I have heard about in the past 6 months or so are selling new nutritional products, and they all say that they are going to revolutionize wellness. The reality is that some of them will stick and others won’t. The biggest challenge that these companies will face is that there are so many other nutrition-based network marketing companies already here, and more entering the game all the time. Nikken has an organic, wholefood-based nutritional line that I think is excellent. I don’t put a lot of effort in marketing it though because the nutrition market is so flooded with other products, and it isn’t what makes Nikken stand out anyway.

If you are looking to start a new business, you will have more success with a company with something unique, something that stands out from the crowd. Don’t get me wrong, I like nutritional supplements and I think they are absolutely critical, especially with all of the noise going on about the various flu strains running about. No matter what they say about it being new and revolutionary, a new nutritional drink is still a nutritional drink.

If you want a business that has withstood the test of time and does stand out from the crowd, take a look at Nikken. There isn’t another company like them.

Wayne Woodworth

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Is Network Marketing a Viable Business?

Aug 27

Posted by Wayne Woodworth in Network Marketing | No Comments

Is network marketing a viable business to build and live off of?  Of course it is and many people do.

I have made it very clear to my friends and family that I will quit my full-time corporate job at the end of October to go full-time with my network marketing business with Nikken. It turns out that they didn’t believe me and now that it gets closer they are starting to question me on it.

My father attacked my plans pretty aggressively calling network marketing a pyramid. I was surprised by this coming from him since I have been talking about my plans for a few months already. So, I had to answer the pyramid question again. First of all, Nikken doesn’t qualify legally as a pyramid because I don’t make a penny to recruit people. I only make money when product is sold. As far as the actual structure is concerned, a corporation like he works for and I currently work for is more of a pyramid than network marketing.  In the corporate world I cannot advance up the ladder unless there is an opening available.  In network marketing my rank advances solely on my efforts and doesn’t depend on openings above me. In another perspective, I am a business owner and therefore already at the very top of my company and Nikken is just my supplier.

A friend also called my plans into question. Again, I have been talking about this for a few months and for some reason he responded like this was brand new news. This friend started talking about the security of having a job and having good benefits.  As everyone knows, a job no longer equals security. Companies have been cutting benefits regularly over the past few years to deal with rising health care costs and recently cutting people to deal with the economy. This has been a boon for network marketing recruiters because some of these people who have lost their job are now joining network marketing companies in the hopes of never having to go through unemployment again. There is much more security in having your own business and taking control of your own financial future. He did get one thing right though. A job is very low risk and with low risk you can expect low returns.

I have learned that if you have plans to outgrow your current position then you either need to keep them to yourself or only share them with people who you know will support and encourage you. Another good idea is to increase the amount of time you spend with people who are already where you want to go. With that in mind, I bought plane tickets and made hotel reservations to spend another three days with Loral Langemeier and her team in Chicago for the next Cash Machine Workshop. If you have aspirations to take control of your own future then I would love to see you there. I will be one of the guys wearing a black “staff” shirt. I paid for the first Cash Machine Workshop I went to and it was worth every penny.

Wayne Woodworth
Don’t let other people’s expectations for you hold you back.

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