Internet network marketing is truly a dream business. Network marketing provides the leverage from other people’s efforts. The internet provides the leverage from technology. Therefore, embarking on internet network marketing will provide the twin leverage from both technology and the marketing efforts of other people.

With internet network marketing, it is now possible to get one’s marketing message out to potentially thousands or even millions of people. Marketing using email, forums and even articles help turn a cold market to a warm market by building relationships first before prospects say yes to an internet network marketing business opportunity. The biggest advantage is there is no need to do any more cold calling.

However, if you delve deeper, what it takes to really succeed at internet network marketing is not that different from the success factors of the traditional network marketing business. The seven major ingredients to success include the following:

1) Ability to Duplicate One’s Results

While the internet helps to remove the pain of face-to-face rejection to any internet network marketing opportunity, an internet network marketer still has to have a sales and marketing system in place which is easy for his or her internet MLM downlines to duplicate. Whether one’s internet network marketing business is able to experience explosive growth will hinge on the duplicability of the marketing system.

2) Focus And Persistence

With a slew of information about new, promising internet marketing and internet multi-level marketing opportunities coming onto the internet every hour, it is extremely to easy to lose focus and there is a strong tendency for any new internet network marketer to jump from one opportunity to another.

Just like in a traditional MLM business, it does take time and persistence for any internet MLM business to bear fruit. The only advantage of using the internet to do any network marketing is the speed and reach the internet provides. In addition, one needs to persist when embarking on a particular traffic and lead generation strategy and give it some time to be tested before hopping to the next traffic and lead generation strategy.

3) Relationship Building

The adage, “People don’t care how much you know till they know how much you care” still applies to internet network marketing! Even with the proliferation of internet broadband technology and pervasive computing, most internet MLM prospects still require constant contacts via email or other means before they say yes.

4) You Being The Product

When a prospect say yes, it is because he or she trusts you. Therefore, despite the hype that is being offered elsewhere on the internet, whether one succeeds in internet network marketing depends on whether one is able deliver value and help his or her internet MLM downlines to succeed. Leadership and integrity are values one cannot do without. Personal branding also becomes a requirement.

5) The True Benefit Offered By Internet Network Marketing

The true benefit of joining any internet network marketing business does not have any thing to do with how good your company’s products are. Internet network marketing, just like any traditional network marketing business, is actually built on financial hopes and dreams.

The more one is able to help his or her internet MLM downlines fulfill their hopes and dreams, the more successful one becomes in internet network marketing.

6) Constant Personal Development

According to Stephen Covey, to be truly effective in anything we do, we have to constantly be prepared and “sharpen our saw”. T Harv Eker also mentioned in his book, “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind”, our income can only grow only to the extent we do. We have to strive to be the right person in the right place at the right time.

Therefore, to ensure that our internet network marketing income grows, we have to ensure that we grow personally as well.

7) The Core Desire And Decision To Succeed

Lastly but MOST importantly, one has to apply this basic, inner natural law of wealth attraction and success which has been reiterated by countless gurus. Napolean Hill’s “Think And Grow Rich” talks about the need to have the desire to be rich and successful before any turning point can occur.

Bob Proctor says that being rich and successful requires first and foremost a decision to be rich and successful. Basically doing nothing is also a decision.

According to Jack M Zufelt, goal setting and daily affirmations will come to nought without the core desire to succeed. When our core desire is absent, we can write ten goals and most likely we will only achieve one or two goals. The remaining eight goals, we will either miss or not even get started on them! This happens because we did not single out our core desire, and determine what we really want. When we have correctly isolated that core desire, we simply become juggernauts who cannot be stopped!

What are network-marketing goals?

Network marketing goals are the road map for your future network marketing success, your destination. There is not one network-marketing distributor who wants or expects to wake up and realize he/she has spent $20,000 this year in advertising and product to build his network-marketing business with nothing to show for it.

Every year people spend thousands on advertising and product without realizing an acceptable profit. Ninety-five percent of MLM distributors fail in their new business within the first year.. Does this have to happen? No. Do you get into the car without a route in mind when you are headed to the grocery store? Are you just going to drive aimlessly, or do you make sure you know where the store you need is located? Does your road map have directions or are you riding with your husband /boyfriend? Men don’t generally want to stop and ask directions (all women know this).

Setting Network Marketing Opportunity Goals:

Set short-term network marketing opportunity goals, which can be 3 months to 1 year. Long-term network marketing opportunity goals are normally 2 to 10 years. These time frames can be adjusted and you want to keep flexibility in your plan.

Examples of a network marketing opportunity short-term and long-term goal:

Short-term Goal: I would like to add one new person every month to my business each month.

Long-Term Goal: I would like to achieve ‘master distributor’ level and have built an organization of 2000 people within two years

Break network marketing opportunity goals down into steps:

Research network-marketing opportunities for the “right” one. Take the time to step back and look at your opportunity from an unemotional, purely business perspective.

Research the network marketing industry

Research various network marketing companies

Sign up for your network-marketing opportunity

Set up a schedule to properly train for success in your network-marketing opportunity

Set up network-marketing goals for yourself beginning with the smallest to largest

Implement a plan to move towards your ultimate goal

Aim Your Network Marketing Goals High

What good are setting network-marketing goals if they aren’t stretching your ability? Along with that comes the task of setting realistic goals. What if you are a high school student who has struggled to pull a B or C in Science? Do you think it’s the most achievable goal to become a nuclear scientist? Set a realistic network-marketing goal for you to experience success.

Don’t expect 10K per month in June if you began your network-marketing opportunity in April. Plan to talk to five prospects and make one sale within your first week. You need some network-marketing success quickly and more successes at various points along the way so that you remain motivated.

Now that you are experiencing success, set larger, achievable goals for your 3 to 6 month period in your network-marketing business. For example, your goal may be to have 5 retail clients and 3 business associates signed up within 4 months of beginning your network-marketing business.

Once this goal is achieved, look at your company and set your next goals accordingly. Use a time line in your network-marketing goal setting exercise, but realize there will be obstacles you must over come. The three people you were sure needed your product didn’t buy anything, and the two people who were searching for a network-marketing opportunity didn’t think your business was for them. The new network-marketing distributor you recruited will not implement a plan for themselves. You will have obstacles to overcome. This is the time you turn to your team and their experience to help you keep your spirits up and let you know this happens to everyone if they are in business long enough.

This is a minor setback unless all your eggs were in one basket. If so, you’ll have to start all over. In the case of the high school student, his obstacle is his grades in one of the main disciplines involved as a nuclear scientist…science.

Staying Motivated!

This is hard when there is negative feedback from friends, family and co-workers. You were excited about your network-marketing business. Whether it was intentional or not, you have just had your bubble burst. Family members are normally trying to protect you from getting hurt,and in the process, they step on your dream.

How To Remain Motivated In Your Network-Marketing Opportunity

Talk to your supporters; avoid the rest with news of your network-marketing business opportunity for now.Keep the goal in sight, always thinking of the final outcome.Break it down into smaller pieces so that you have little victories along the way.

Celebrate the little victories.