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mlmers and network marketers do think calling leads is out dated?

I hear from some trainers that say calling leads is best way to build your business others say its its outdated and there are more effective ways to market. what do you think . If you are successful how do you promote your business. . I believe that success is based on how well you present your product or service and market it not on the product or service itself and also if the person you are promoting to can see an effective way to market and present what you have to offer.

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1. To be honest this would very much depend upon what business you are running. There are no rules of business at all. You've got a job to do, and it's important to figure out how to do it on a task-by-task basis. The basic goal of businesses is to help customers. How do you help people? Is a phone helpful intrinsically, or is it counterproductive. It all depends upon what you're doing, and how you do it. Yahoo for example don't ever call people. Nor do google. The telephone in today's world is but one of the communications media available to you. I have personally banned phones for my work, I work via email, and set up a face-to-face meeting if we really need to thrash things out. The phone is a massive interruption, and a waste of time, and breaks my concentration. Sometimes face to face isn't practical. Email is seriously useful. I also use IM or videoconference a lot where it's international, say if I need to conference with New York, London and Hong Kong. The problem with the phone is that it requires people to devote their attention to you *right now* in real time, but yet the phone is a pretty useless visual communications medium. Maps won't go down phones, nor will pictures. That is not ideal, really. Phones are often a counterproductive waste of time in the 21st century, we've got a multimedia data network. Some people really like phones though, everybody has one, and knows how to use it. People will tell you whether they want you to call them if you ask them. It's really important to find out how people want to communicate with you, but I definitely try to get them away from the phone and onto something with more features. What's important about the quality of the telephone is the interactive human contact, things like bulk mail-outs and advertising really fall into the category of spam, it's just not helpful to people to be pushed something which they have to work to find what applies to their needs. They need to feel attended to on a personal level, to be understood. What sucks about the phone is that it's demanding, real-time. This is inconvenient. It also sucks that the phone only does poor quality audio into one ear, and the ringing alert is obnoxious. What is also utterly sucking about the phone is that it has no memory, you can't go back over the discussion and learn or recall anything unless you record it or make notes. The internet is basically a better telephone, the first electronic computer built by the UK government in 1942 to crack Nazi codes was in actual fact a modified telephone exchange. It was called colossus. They added important features: mathematical logic, and memory. A computer in itself is a form of enhanced telephone network, and it uses a system of binary blips like the precursor to the telephone, the telegraph, morse code. Encoding makes it much less subject to quality degradation, and you can in theory encode whatever you want into a binary signal, it doesn't have to be sound. It can remember things for later, it can transcode things (from binary into a picture, or a movie, 3D model, or a whatever), and it can even perform logical decision making. All of this makes it better than a telephone. Even SMS is cooler than a voice call if you ask me. On the rare occasions where I do use a voice call, I put it through the computer so I have my hands free to get on with my stuff, and keep notes. I can also record the conversation, which is handy. The interesting thing about memory and logic is that this facilitates searching, people can go through various data pools and find what they need, so the whole thing is driven by the needs of the customer. It's much better that way, more like a street of shops. Wander into a domain, and interact, but only if you want to. Look around and browse, window shop. Saves everybody a lot of hassle.
2. Hello. The reason the a small few are really successful at network marketing is because prospects are more attracted to THEM and the togetherness of a successful group, not necessarily the product itself. There is a way to attract leads and have them contacting YOU, ready to sign up, instead you calling and chasing them. - Success2gether.com
3. depends on what kind of leads you call. If you are calling through a list of cold leads, it was NEVER effective to begin with. Network marketing will always be a industry of relationship building. Which means picking up the phone and connecting with your prospects is very important. Once you learn how to self generate your own leads by promoting yourself and the value that you can offer, picking up the phone and following up will only increase your sale conversion 3 folds. If you haven't heard of attraction marketing yet, you should definitely do some studies on it. It has helped me gone from failure in the industry to a 6 figure earner. On the team building side of MLM, product promotion should not be on the front end. Instead, promote yourself as a leader and how you can help others solve their current problem. (financial, time, you name it...) prospects are always looking for a right leader before they look for a right product to sell. Jim