1. Build a list of your warm market and plague them to death:When I first started in direct sales I sold the primary shares of a new life insurance company and what do you suppose my sales manager recommended I do first? He gave me a sheet of paper with suggestions on it so I could jot down all of my family, friends, and acquaintances. Why? Because they know and every company knows that out of some of those people you will make a few sales and when the going gets tough you’ll probably quit. But what do they care. They got the prospects as customers and they’ll probably keep them.2. Hold meetings:In my first home based business, which was Amway, we were taught to hold opportunity meetings. I became quite good at doing demonstrations of this product and that and I sold some products and signed up some people — in fact I actually signed up about 20 people before it all fell apart. But the time and effort it took to do it netted me about $1.00 an hour.3. Three way calling:The only thing this establishes is that the guy you called to help you bring your prospect into the business is the expert. Why should they sign up under you? Wouldn’t you rather be signed up under the guy that knows what he is doing? It won’t take long to become the expert. All you have to know is a little more than your prospect and you’re the expert. So jump in and make a few mistakes — you too can be the expert. Then they’ll sign up under you.4. Company literature, business cards, and DVD’s:I can’t count all the business cards that still line my shelves that I use to take notes by the telephone. Or the other literature and DVD’s that I just couldn’t get up the courage to pass out to people. If you’re going to use literature, I would suggest that you should make something that builds your business — not the company whose products you happen to offer. Very few brick and mortar stores have the name on the sign the same as the name on the products they sell. Besides, guess who makes all the profit from all this material — or ask yourself why are these materials all so expensive anyway?5. Get 3 distributors who get 3 who get 3:I’m sure most of you have seen the compensation plans of companies who tell you to do this. Seven levels deep you have over 2,000 distributors who are all buying products and you are obviously going to be wealthy. I hate to burst your bubble, but this only happens to perhaps 3 out of 100 — if that. The average person in network marketing enrolls 2 or 3 people and then either quits or accepts their $10 — 20 per month profit in this great free enterprise system. It certainly doesn’t hurt the company. Fact: Out of thousands of distributors most never make more than $200 per year. And yet the company and its’ owners are rolling in the dough.6. Replicated Company Websites:These are the websites you get that are all exactly the same as everyone else’s. Do you really think that people are going to find your website amongst the other 10,000 websites that are identical? To get people to a website takes a lot of work including understanding keywords, search engine optimization, RSS feeds, article marketing, and other ideas. And the website itself needs to be properly put together and flow properly to make sure that people stay on it for longer than 8 seconds.8. Home parties:I remember doing similar kinds of things when I sold Watkins products. How many people with 6 figure incomes do you think do that? Now don’t get me wrong. It does sell products. And it’s fine if all you want to make is less than $200 per month, but I would like to retire before I’m 80.If you really want to make money, the network marketing or MLM business is possibly the greatest invention the business world has ever developed, but it doesn’t work as a hobby. If you want a home based business that makes you over $50,000 per year or even per month the above ideas are not the way to do it. What you need is a marketing system that works for you – instead of being part of the company’s system. Remember, it’s your home based business, not theirs.