First, you want to get familiar with your business and your back office area. Find out when the training calls are, when the Business Overview Calls are and how to send new prospects to the calls. You'll most likely have links in your back office that say something like " Get Started Here", or "Begin Here" and obviously, that's the best place to begin to go through your business system.
2. You might want to make sure you have an 800# that you can refer prospects to but this certainly is not needed. When I began my business, I just used my cell phone #. That was fine until I got calls from people in China, and places where the time difference is very "different". (No fun being woken up at 2:00 am)
3. You want to look through your back office and find the link where you are given some suggestions for ad copy that you can use. These can be very helpful if this is your first time doing anything like this. Eventually, you will create your own ad copy and figure out what works best, but for now - these will work. A lot of companies will give you ads that they have proven to work. Don't be too concerned that they are overused. Not everybody uses them, and there are tons of places you can place your ad.
4. Some work from home companies even give you a link with all the places you can post your ad. Many of those might even be free sites where you can post free classified ads or they will at least be fairly cost effective ($10/month to post unlimited ads). In the beginning, check these out and get some ads out there. They are great places to get started and you get the practice of posting ads. I also recommend Traffic Exchanges like Traffic Swarm. Here you can place up to 10-12 ads that rotate and you keep them rotating by clicking on ads of others for points. (you can purchase points too if you'd rather not spend the time clicking)
5. You will want to then begin to get some training. Most companies will provide training to you and they have this through live calls (with a schedule posted in the back office), or maybe even live webinar where you can listen and watch the training being given. If you plan to promote your business online, then you will want to be sure and take the time to get some excellent Online Training that shows you the in's and out's of advertising and marketing online. For example, if your budget for advertising is very low since you just forked out some money to join your business, you might want to invest you time and effort into Attraction Marketing and Social Marketing. Both of these are techniques that show you how to make the most of social networks and how to provide value to prospective business partners so you have people calling you, and you don't have to chase people.
Personally, this is my preferred method of marketing because I don't care for rejection and I'd rather talk to people who want to hear what I have to talk about.
6. You may want to consider purchasing some leads if you don't have anyone to talk to and you would rather not hit up your family and friends. This could be a temporary answer to generate a lead to talk to and at least practice your script (script also can be found in most back offices). If you are following steps 4 and 5 however, you should be able to start generating some leads of your own. I found this to be much more cost effective. Check out prices to buy "quality leads" and you will know what I mean.
7. Pick up the phone and start calling people. Remember, it's only a conversation. You are simply calling to find out why this person wants a homebased business of their own, what they hope to accomplish with it, and you want to know if they really want it bad enough. (their why) If they don't have a strong enough reason to be trying to work from home with their own business, they most likely won't stick it out when things get tough. Anyone that has been around Network Marketing for any length of time knows it is not always easy, but it sure is worth it in the long run!
These are just the basics for getting your home based business off the ground and I hope it has assisted you in some small way. Be on the look out for future posts where I'll get into more detail about lead generation and getting more traffic to your webiste.
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Regina Floyd
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