My name is Craig Recker. I will train and coach you no matter what network marketing (MLM) company you are working.
My Students learn how to brand themselves online using tools and social media. I am responsible for teaching these home based business entrepreneurs how to set themselves apart from thousands of other amateur marketers.
Instead of building a list of friends and family to peddle their mlm�s to, students learn how to market themselves so that people see them as experienced leaders. They gain a competitive edge by learning how to implement attraction marketing so that prospects call THEM to inquire about THEIR business opportunity.
But enough about what I do; allow me to share with you my story.
I was first introduced to network marketing during the fall of 2008. I was a Jourymen bricklayer at the time and the older man I had met with told me about a business he was involved in. He impressed me and ask if I would speak with his up-line sponsor. Needless to say, I agreed and the rest was history.
I talked with his sponsor and was blown away by the content of the presentation, the dreams his sponsor painted for me, the network marketing diagram (a board full of circles) and the compensation plan. I was totally awe struck. I had never seen anything like this before and I immediately got it. I really thought this was my ticket to freedom.
Imagine my luck�all I had to do was find half a dozen friends or family who saw what I saw, and I would have it made for the rest of my life. You can imagine what happened next.
I literally ran back to my friends and family to tell them the good news� however they didn�t get as excited as I had hoped. In fact, they made jokes about the fact that an old man had scammed me. They warned me to stay away from the entire network marketing industry.
Even though I was only 10 years younger than that man I never thought I was going to get scammed. I really believed that what he had introduced me to was the best opportunity I had ever seen. None of my masonry buddies ever talked about financial independence. They visioned dreams of retiring after 30 years of service� but that wasn�t impressive. I knew plenty of people who had retired from the masonry field and they all are unable to move about
without a pain of some sort or limbs that don't work any more.
That was not the life style I wanted for myself or my family at retirement.I simply could not take their advice; I had already been bitten by the opportunity bug. So I became an undercover network marketer. You know what I am talking about. I would rush off to webinar meetings after work and wouldn�t tell anyone about what I was doing. I would search for the next biggest opportunity on the internet and would get extremely irritated if I had to work overtime.
For the first several months I went to every site I could go to. I bought everything I could get my hands on and purchased the products that began to stack up with no success. You see, I could not build my business the way they told me to. Because they told me to build a list of my friends and family. Unfortunately, that did not seem like an option for me since I had already been ridiculed by my warm market.
So I failed in that business. But I didn�t give up hope. I still believed there was a way for someone like me to make money in the network marketing industry. I just needed to find the right vehicle. So I began searching for the next hottest business opportunity. I must have gotten involved in almost every business opportunity under the sun. When I say that I tried a lot of them� I really tried them all.
In fact, I bet most of you can relate to my story. I learned the hard way that no one really makes thousands of dollars from stuffing envelopes. I also learned that (for the incredibly low price of only $39.95) no one makes $15,000 a week working part-time from home without there very own system and a very large list.I have bought into more �home based business opportunities scams� over the years than I can count.
By now you would think that I would have given up on the whole network marketing; work-from-home industry by now right? Well in fact I actually did.
One day I woke up and decided that my friends were right all along. Network marketing was a scam and not for me. I was tired of the all the work and the rah-rah sessions. I needed to stop dreaming and get into reality.
With that, I quit network marketing, And settled back in my union masonry JOB, I started working for really good money again and seemed for awhile to really enjoy it but guess what?
The passion for network marketing was still hiding somewhere deep inside of me. I kept thinking about how much sense the marketing plan made. If I could just only get it to work like I had seen a few other network marketers do.
I won�t bore you with all the details but a few months ago I started looking again. Even though I had a good union job as an a journeymen bricklayer, I still wanted to build a network marketing business. I knew it was possible to reach my goals and dreams if I simply had a vehicle that could help me get there. Network marketing was that vehicle.
This time when I looked at network marketing I had resources available to me that I did not have those many years ago. I was exposed to how business was conducted in corporate America and after working for both fields, I had some experience using technology. That�s when I decided to start getting involved with network marketing again.
So, like a mad scientist, I started experimenting. Social media sites like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn were on my radar screen. I began combining these new technology tools with some fresh marketing ideas I had.
Then it happened!
One day I received a message she was interested in joining my business. I was flabbergasted and caught off guard. Over the last several months I had tried so many things online that I had no clue as to how she had found me. I asked her a few questions and she told me exactly what caused her to message me.
Do you want to know what she said?
She told me that she had been watching me over the last couple of weeks. She had read my blog and postings to Facebook and watched every video I had on my YouTube channel. Based on what She knew about me, I was the leader that she had decided to follow.
This call was the turning point of my entire online network marketing business. You see for the first time, I had interested a stranger who was messaging me asking� no begging� to join my business opportunity. This had NEVER happened before.
There was no rejection and no selling needed. She simply had a few questions about the opportunity. I gave her all the information she needed.
Do you know what it feels like to go from begging friends and family to view your business presentation to having a complete stranger messaging you, asking how she can join you in your business? I had gone from hunting people to being hunted.
I started implementing these �attraction marketing� techniques and my business started to grow. I seemed to be able to generate leads at will now.
So the time I took off was heaven sent. It gave me the opportunity to step back and look at why I was failing.
I studied the some heavy hitters in the industry. I even got some REAL mentoring from other successful marketers. It was then that I realized what had kept me from growing to having an income online. It was right there in my face the whole time and I totally ignored it. It was so simple that I allowed it to allude me.
Would you like to know what it was that I discovered?
I bet you would. Within the pages of this Blog, you will find the blueprint of exactly what it takes to become successful. You will learn how to build your network marketing organization and recruit dozens of people into your organization each and every month.
I look forward to providing you with quality content, tools, and training on how to use technology to automate your marketing efforts. You�re also going to learn some very important leadership lessons that will make you so attractive to people that they will beg you to become their sponsor!
See you at the top and remember�
�Success Does Not Happen Over Night But One Night Success Happens!!�