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Re: MLM Recruiting Tips – NMPRO #367

Roosevelt Cooper — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:20:38 -0000

The times that I've had the most recruiting success were the times where I had a specific goal in mind with a specific timeframe that the goal had to be accomplished by. I then followed a simple system that consists of 1) Sharing a presentation tool with a prospect 2) Following up to see if they reviewed the tool. 3) Getting them on a 3 way call. 4) Sharing another tool or inviting them to an event and repeating the process until they sign up or say they aren't interested. What's interesting is that my method for finding these prospects was not always the same during my best recruiting seasons. However, the system has always been the same and the system has always been accompanied by a specific goal in mind made non-negotiable with a specific deadline.

Re: Throw Away Your Blame List – NMPRO #422

Roosevelt Cooper — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:02:27 -0000

James, he's not talking about comparing compensation plans of different companies and products. What he is saying is if you are in Company A, every distributor in that company has access to the same products and the same compensation plan. Therefore, if there are distributors in Company A that are having success in that company and you aren't, you can't blame the products or the compensation plan. The only person or thing you can blame for not having success is yourself because you are the only variable, everything else is the same.

Re: Why I’m Not A Democrat Or Republican

Roosevelt Cooper — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:40:06 -0000

Hi Tanya,

I completely agree with you that something needs to be done with health care and I commend Obama for actually trying to do something while his predecessors simply ignored the problem. The problem is I don’t believe this law he has signed is a solution. Perhaps it might be a lack of knowledge on my part but I don’t see how a health insurance provider can be required to cover people with pre-existing conditions and it not drive costs up. That’s like making it mandatory for an automobile insurance provider to be required to provide me with insurance even though I crashed my car before buying the insurance. If that was law, our insurance costs would definitely be more than they are right now and I believe the same will happen with health care.

Obama is not the cause of the deficits but he certainly hasn’t done much to help the problem. Between his auto industry bailout and his health care bill that’s over a trillion dollars he’s spent since being President. That’s not exactly helping to reduce the deficit.

I’m a firm believer that political affiliations is the biggest contributing factor to these decisions more than whether these are the best decisions to solve the countries problems. This is why I’m not a Democrat or Republican.

Re: NMPRO #221 – Sherman Unkefer Interview 1 of 4

Roosevelt Cooper — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:01:23 -0000

"If they can join with a click, they can quit with a click" LOL hilarious!

Re: 5 Steps To Generate Buzz From Bloggers

Roosevelt Cooper — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:10:09 -0000

"If you want some fluff go pet a bunny"
Hilarious!

Great show David. As a blogger it is amazing how poor of a job of follow up people do. I've had several people approach me with proposals that I would have been more than willing to entertain, yet they drop the ball by a lack of follow up.

Re: NMPRO #181 – Mastering The Negative

Roosevelt Cooper — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:40:52 -0000

No exaggeration, this is one of the best network marketing trainings I have ever seen. Killer stuff right here.

QOTD Yes I am following you on Twitter!

Re: NMPRO #182 – When They Say NOT INTERESTED!

Roosevelt Cooper — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:30:37 -0000

You nailed it today Eric! Definitely adding this to the arsenal!

QOTD - Yes I am!

Re: NMPRO #179 – Millionaire Summit – Part 3 of 3

Roosevelt Cooper — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:45:21 -0000

Think about it Bones. Do you really think most people, if they were making 7 figures in that business do you really think they would have left and started over? I don't think so. They would have stayed and found some type of rational for it (i.e. let's be the change from within). You would have quit without question. Everybody on this board might SAY that they would have left without any question. However, it's a big difference between saying what you would do and actually being in the situation and having to make the call then.

And realistically other than reporting the guy to authorities (if what he was doing was illegal), what more could they do to stop him? It is his company after all.

There's also a gray line too. Some things are not necessarily illegal technically but I certainly couldn't sleep at night if I were doing it (i.e. Like promoting a product that was overpriced to drive a compensation plan). We would have to know more about the particulars of the situation to know whether what he was doing was truly illegal or if it fell into that gray line.

Re: NMPRO #179 – Millionaire Summit – Part 3 of 3

Roosevelt Cooper — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:34:42 -0000

Excellent story, although I'm very disappointed that only one kid out of all of those years that they did that demonstration had the guts to stand up for what he believed in. It shows we still have a LOT of work to do. However, I'm glad that you got the message and the next time you were in that situation you did the right thing.

Re: NMPRO #178 – Millionaire Summit – Part 2 of 3

Roosevelt Cooper — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:32:47 -0000

QOTD - I say somewhere between 1000 and 2000 hours.

Re: NMPRO #176 – The K.I.S.S. Principle

Roosevelt Cooper — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:03:12 -0000

QOTD - My first concert was Diana Ross in Central Park. I think I was like 4 at the time.

Re: NMPRO #173 – Dan McCormick Interview 3 of 4

Roosevelt Cooper — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:01:11 -0000

The ability to make people believe in them that they can do it. That's the #1 thing that I think separates the average earners from the million dollar earners.

QOTD - I think John Addison Co-CEO of Primerica said it best to answer your question. "People that win it's not luck. They weren't just in the right place at the right time...ALTHOUGH it does help to be at the right place at the right time."

Re: NMPRO #172 – Dan McCormick Interview 2 of 4

Roosevelt Cooper — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:23:21 -0000

This is one of the best interviews you've had on here.

QOTD - "People buy from who they trust." To build trust be interested in them. Recruiting is a process is not an event. Dan's #1 new distributor, it took him 5 years to get him to his house.

Re: NMPRO #171 – Dan McCormick Interview 1 of 4

Roosevelt Cooper — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:03:20 -0000

I met Jim Rohn and Bill Bailey at a seminar in Vegas 2 months after I joined the industry. They are both great men!

QOTD - Quality is good enough.

Re: NMPRO #167 – My Number ONE Job

Roosevelt Cooper — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:10:27 -0000

I agree with Eric. I have people on my team who made positive cash flow and they still quit. I also have people that didn't make any money for months and they are still around.

Re: NMPRO #166 – MLM 2.0 – Thoughts for the Future

Roosevelt Cooper — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:54:17 -0000

I agree with you, there are a lot of things the internet can do to allow us to expose a lot more people than without it. However, the internet will never replace relationships, which I believe is the key to retention.

The relationship that I already had with my sponsor's father is what sealed the deal and got me in. Going to a personal development conference and meeting many of the six figure earners on my team made it real for me because I realized by meeting them in person that they were real people. Becoming friends with my upline in California who was making six figures at the time and flying out to California to spend a week with him and other friends on our team began to lock me in. Watching him go from making $100,000 a year to $100,000 a month prove to me that "you don't have to get in early to make big money."

Meeting one of the top income earners and shocked at how nervous he was before going out and rocking the presentation convinced me that I could do this business. Going back out to California with my upline and going with him and one of our friends to the Lexus dealership to buy a Lexus gave me a vision of what was possible. Finally, going down to Maryland and spending a full day with my upline who is the #2 income earner in the company, watching how he works, hearing the story behind the story (like how it took 5 years in the industry prior to joining our current company before he finally put it together) and riding around in his Ferrari and seeing the reactions from people was when I made the decision that network marketing will always be a part of my life, not matter what I decide to do from an entrepreneur prospective.

The internet can NEVER replace those things.

Re: NMPRO #165 – How to let go of your past and celebrate your life

Roosevelt Cooper — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:21:58 -0000

Great video!

QOTD - What I got out of the video was the crazy 8 pattern. He said this pattern occurs when you have the "illusion" that you have no control. When you feel that you don't have any control you usually either get sad first or angry (I usually opt for the angry option) and then eventually you shift to the opposite side of the 8 until you exit the pattern either by a distraction, or by a better way, which is to go up by changing your model of the world. I see people do this all the time in network marketing and I've done it myself. We get angry then sad or sad then angry about our network marketing business and it happens over and over again until we either quit and say "Those MLM things don't work they are all scams" or we break the pattern.

Re: NMPRO #164 – Dedication

Roosevelt Cooper — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:01:22 -0000

Great analogy with the dancing and network marketing.

QOTD - I'm willing to practice my network marketing skills for as long as I am alive. I actually enjoy being a network marketing professional, so I'm not going anywhere.

Re: NMPRO #163 – Exposure to Exposure

Roosevelt Cooper — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:22:10 -0000

LOL! It's so funny that you said that it takes the average person 5 years to understand this process. I'm approaching my 5 year anniversary in the industry next month and I'm just now finally starting to get and implement this process!

QOTD - My favorite cereal of all time is Honey Nut Cheerios!

Re: NMPRO #162 – The Power of Spaced Repetition

Roosevelt Cooper — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:10:33 -0000

I agree totally with this. Every time I read "Think & Grow Rich" its literally like a new book to me.

QOTD: Only 3-4 shows, the prospecting power was one of them, the Randy Gage show when he was talking about how he recruits using social media was another one and I think the New economy show was the other one I watched more than once. I haven't seen all the shows yet, but I definitely plan on watching them all and going back to the most impactful ones and watching them over again.

Re: NMPRO #161 – Prospecting Follow Up

Roosevelt Cooper — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:57:46 -0000

Hi Eric, great information! A couple of questions for you. I can share what I do but I think people in the community will get a lot of value at hearing what you do also.

a) For the person who you leave a voice mail for, how long do you wait before you call them back again?
I usually wait about 3 days before calling them back. I think the next day is too soon. I hate when people call me everyday so I wouldn't want to do that to someone else. I think a week is too much time, so I've settled on 3 days.

I also always try to call them back at a different time (i.e. if I tried them in the morning, I would try in the afternoon or evening or weekend the next time)

b) How long will you continue to call them if you keep getting voice mails?

I personally will call them 4 times, spread them out over 3 days for each call. On the last voice mail, I leave my "break up" message. Basically I let them know that I can only assume that timing is not right for them since they haven't called me back and that if I'm wrong, give me a call back, otherwise I will check back with them 6 months from now to see if timing is better. Then I'll call them every 6 months.

Do I always do this perfectly? No. However, this is my ideal scenario, what I strive to do with each prospect.

QOTD - I am truly committed to being a network marketing professional.

Re: NMPRO #160 – Prospecting Power

Roosevelt Cooper — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:56:06 -0000

This is great! I have a pretty good looked at rate and I do 2 out of these 4 things. I will add the other 2 to my exposure process.

QOTD: I like the relationships the best. I've made more friends in the almost 5 years I've been in network marketing than I did the previous 25 years!

Re: NMPRO #158 – Gary Vaynerchuk Interview – 4 of 4

Roosevelt Cooper — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:34:44 -0000

Great interview! Two things that stood out to me...

a) Branding - Everybody in my company making $500,000 a year or more I can tell you what their brand is so you are so dead on here.

b) Storytelling - Another key takeaway here and definately something I need to work on. I'm actually a great storyteller. The problem is I don't incorporate it into my network marketing business as much as I should or could.

Re: Give Your Testimonials a Reality Check

Roosevelt Cooper — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:30:52 -0000

Michel,

I think you hit the nail right on the head here. Excellent advice and it makes a lot of sense on so many different levels.

Re: NMPRO #157 – Gary Vaynerchuk Interview – 3 of 4

Roosevelt Cooper — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:14:26 -0000

Actually not much to attack, you make some great points.

However, in the words of the great Jim Rohn "For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better you have to get better."

I will buy anything from anyone MLM or not if I feel it provides more value than the price tag. I brought Pre-Paid Legal long before becoming a distributor because I felt the product provided more in value than the price. I brought Primerica life insurance and mutual funds because of the same reason. I brought a membership to Send Out Cards for the same reason. Same goes for Ameriplan, same goes for 5LINX, same goes for KIOSK.WS and anything else that I ever brought that uses a MLM business model.

So it all starts with you first becoming the change that you would like to see in the industry.

Then start a video blog about it LOL!