Automating your network marketing business is crucial to your success online. Most people in the network marketing industry are part-time. They either have full-time jobs or a business that requires them to be there. Time is very limited.

There are family concerns and functions that eat away at your free time as well. Building a network marketing business after 8-10 hours at the job and then coming home to more responsibilities leaves little time to accomplish what needs to be done.

Do you really want to spend what little free time you do have cold calling leads or attending meetings all over town? I know I don’t and you probably don’t either.

So what is the alternative?

Automate as much of your business as possible. You need to have systems setup that take care of many of the time eating actions you need to do in order to build a network marketing business.

You will still need to get on the phone and talk to people. But isn’t it less time consuming to only talk with people who have contacted you AFTER seeing or hearing something about your business or coming thru your marketing funnel?

That’s the great thing about an internet network marketing business. You can automate a lot of the heavy lifting. Systems can prospect and send information without you needing to be there giving you much of your valuable time back.

A person I’ve learned a great deal from is Daegan Smith.  Daegan lays it out in easy to understand steps thru his free cd’s like nobody else in the industry. I recommend you getting a set for yourself and listen to them a few times if you want to speed up the learning curve. He’s one of my top two favorites when it comes to sharing valuable content with his subscribers.

Leads are the lifeblood of your network marketing business. Without them you have no long-term business. You must also have a constant flow of new leads and it’s very important to have them coming in from more than one source.

If Google decides to slap network marketers around again and that is the only way you get in front of prospects your business is in trouble. It’s always good to know more than one way to find leads effectively.

Just don’t try and learn them all at once. This will lead to you being overwhelmed by it all and then the next step is you become paralyzed not knowing what to do next.

Follow this simple 3 step method to creating multiple streams of MLM lead generation:

1. Learn a lead generating strategy

Get some training on the ‘how to’ of lead generating strategies. E-books, webinars, courses, or preferably someone in your group or team. Then once you get a basic understanding start doing it.

Article marketing, PPc, reverse marketing, forum marketing, social marketing, whatever you choose. Don’t wait to learn everything there is to know before you take action. Get in there.

2. Become efficient in that strategy

Make more money then you spend using your chosen method. If it’s a free method, do it until you feel confident you can generate some leads every time you use it. Then you are ready for step 3.

3. Put it on auto pilot

Once you have a good handle on it then automate that strategy so you can pick another lead generating method.

Then just rinse and repeat.

Make sure to also track your results so you know what works and what doesn’t. Very soon you will have several methods generating you leads so if something happens to one your business doesn’t miss a beat.

Should be simple enough right? Picking a great network marketing company.

If you search around the internet you will find ‘scam’ sites everywhere. ‘This company ripped me off’ or ‘that company is a scam’. Pages and pages of people proclaiming they were ripped-off by a company or person who sponsored them.

Is it possible these people were actually fleeced out of their money? Yes, it’s possible but very unlikely. I’ve purchased thousands of dollars worth of training courses and products online and can only recall a few where I felt I had really gotten taken or the product was worthless.

The cause of all this unhappiness is simply that we sometimes let our emotions get the best of us. We see the ‘money’ and join up, then wait for it to come rolling in. When it doesn’t, we feel taken advantage of and feel ripped-off. Some people do this over and over again. Every time blaming someone else for their lack of results.

Don’t follow or chase the money when looking for a business. Find a business that fits what you want in a business.

Decide what kind of business you want first, then go out and find it. A few questions you will want to ask yourself on the type of business you are looking for is:

1) How do you want to recruit

Do you want to work primarily online or off? If it’s online find a business or team that focuses on building the business that way. It’s much easier than trying to do everything on your own from scratch. Know how you want to grow your business before you start.

2) How fast do you want to profit from your business

Getting a nice recurring monthly residual check takes some time to build in a network marketing company. If you are seeking faster results you may want to consider a direct sales type of company with a higher priced product.

A funded proposal also works well for creating some up-front cash while building your MLM business. Mike Dillard’s ‘Magnetic sponsoring’ and Daegan Smith’s  free ‘Recruit like crazy’ cd’s are two of my favorites due to the huge value they provide.

The easiest thing to do is lose your focus and get off track in your journey to building a successful network marketing business.

If you aren’t talking to or contacting enough people daily about your business the guilt becomes less and less each day. The excuses become easier to make as to why you didn’t do this or that in your business today.

When this starts to happen we tend to become more susceptible to getting pulled in different directions and even start looking at the greener grass on the other side of the fence.

Time to step back and take a deep breath and regroup.

It’s important in these times to remember why you wanted to start a business in the first place. Why you made a decision to work with the people or group you chose. Your reasons are still the same now as they were when you started.

You’ve just allowed stuff to creep in and divide your focus. That’s all. Now what you need to do is make the decision to not allow it any longer and get yourself back on track. Re-focus and re-dedicate yourself.

Your internet network marketing business depends on it.

Don’t let the absence of your own personal website keep you from generating targeted leads for your network marketing business. You don’t have to have one before you can start building your list of contacts.

Here is what you do.

You use one of the most effective free ways online to drive traffic to your business. Article marketing. All you need to do is write some articles on subjects or keywords your prospects are looking for information on.

You don’t need to be an expert before you write these articles. Just do some research and write about the information you find online in your own words. You can also outsource the writing to people more experienced if you wish.

At the end of every article you have what is called the resource box. Here you can put information about you and your business. Any time that article is read or published, people see your information in the resource box.

Most of the time a link to a website is placed in the resource box and traffic is driven to the site. There is no rule that it has to be a website link. You can add an email link to your auto responder in the resource box instead and capture your prospects information right there before they leave. Very effective strategy not used often.

You offer more information on the subject you just wrote about or offer a free report like ‘Ten Steps to a Better MLM Business’. Once they click on the the link an email is sent to your auto responder and they are added to your list which you continually contact and build a relationship with over time.

The only cost is an auto responder. There are a few good ones out there. My favorite after testing quite a few has been Aweber. It’s just simple to use and a great deliverability rate.

So don’t let the issue of you not having a website yet be an excuse not to start building your network marketing business.

This blog is something I have been planning to do for a long time. internet based network marketing has long been a passion of mine. There is just so much information out there that it’s hard to know which end is up sometimes.

I will be posting my thoughts, internet marketing tips, techniques, and reviews of companies, tools, and systems on this blog as well as a few interviews with other network marketers so check back often.

I will also include a few posts from time to time that will  have very little to do with internet network marketing and more with everyday life. It’s important to have balance in your life and not spend all your time in front of the computer screen. Make sure you enjoy time with family and friends.

Some quick advice. Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there. I used to think I needed to wait until I had everything just right or knew everything about a product or technique before I would make my move. After tweaking this and that time after time, I ended up never making that move. Once I learned to just get moving and not worry about having everything perfect, good things began to happen.

I am looking forward to providing the best information I can along with some interesting viewpoints on internet based network marketing.  I hope you enjoy it and can find something useful here for your online network marketing business.