Article written back in late 2007 on how to use the Magnetic Sponsoring Community (now Better Networker) to grow your business and brand yourself for FREE:

Mike and Ferny having margaritas with an awesome view of Lake Austin...

Recently, I’ve had incredible blessings literally fall on my lap as a result of being an active participant on the Magnetic Sponsoring Community.  It is the dream of many of you who will read this article to have an opportunity to speak to any one of the incredible MLM trainers in the MS community over the phone and discuss how you can help each other grow your respective businesses and form powerful partnerships, which will free you from your daily struggles as a lone Home Business Owner and move up to play with the “big boys”.

Since becoming a rabid student of attraction marketing beginning Magnetic Sponsoring and dozens of other Internet Marketing courses, it’s been my hope that someday I could run into Mike Dillard at a seminar, buy him dinner and thank him for everything he’s done for me and the people I mentor.

And out of that dinner, I would have asked if there was anything I could do for him to add value to his business …

Now I know what you are thinking. “Huh? Mike is a master.  What could YOU do for him? He’s got the money, the reputation, the connections… he has plenty.”

Most people in this industry would go into that type of opportunity and be looking for a way to get Mike to give them a helping hand.  Figure out a way to convince him to give you an opportunity to show your stuff and that you are worthy of “playing with the big boys”.

And for this reason, Mike Dillard screens his calls, rarely gives out his personal email addresses and protects his privacy against the thousands of “takers” in this industry.

You see, 95% of MLM’ers  who go out night after night into other people’s living rooms and dens to show the plan, attempt to convince strangers to join their business – in other words, they are looking for a way to have other people make them rich.

And the sad truth is that 95% of you, even after reading Magnetic Sponsoring, will take an opportunity to have a word with anyone of the instructors on the Magnetic Sponsoring community, as an opportunity for you to convince them to do something special for you – to make you rich, because your logic is that they have already made it, and since you’ve been their paying customer, they owe you something.

Well, I’m here to tell you they’ve already given you everything you need.  They’ve given you an opportunity to invest in their courses, tele-clinics and now an opportunity to participate in this community — which in my opinion, is the greatest opportunity for networking you could ever dream of.

What you should now be looking to do is to search deep within yourself and see what is the greatest contribution you can make to Mike Dillard and the various “virtual mentors” you’ve had to thank them for everything they’ve already done for you.  What special gift do you have? What special talent do you have which you can use to enhance this community and make everybody else better.

THAT SHOULD BE YOUR GOAL!

Growing your MLM business & growing your income should be a secondary focus every time you log onto any social networking site.

Why? Because…

“You can have everything in life you want, if you only work to help everybody else get what they want” –Zig Ziglar

Here’s how…

The Opportunity of Social Media Sites and Forums

Some of you in internet marketing are already aware that there is a forum out there called the Warrior Forum. It’s a community of internet marketers, which got started back in the late 90’s as a way to help internet entrepreneurs network & exchange ideas.  This forum has been responsible for many of the internet marketing industry’s powerful partnerships and massive successes of big names you see today – Mike Filsaime, Gary Ambrose, Russell Brunson, Stu McLaren, Ewen Chia among many others.

The key to their success in Internet Marketing, was that when they participated in the forum they approached it as an opportunity to add value to others and form meaningful relationships.  The exchange of teachings, ideas, and the infamous ‘warrior special offer’ was the forums real value.

[Note: A ‘warrior special offer’ is an opportunity for someone to offer a new info product they haven’t released yet at a ridiculous discount to other warriors in exchange for feedback and people’s honest opinion.

If all goes well, a marketer can get feedback and powerful testimonials and the reviewers of the content got a powerful education on yet another aspect of internet marketing for pennies. ]

The vision I recently formed for the Magnetic Sponsoring Community and all social networks is for them to become like the Warrior Forum for the MLM Industry.  Places which are unique and different from all the hype and sales pitches.  A place where true leaders come and exchange valuable tips and ideas, where the sole objective is to make the community and its members better.

I’m sure you noticed already some of the crap that people have been putting up as articles, videos and forum postings on social network all over the web.  If it’s not a sales pitch, it’s a weak attempt at putting something out there to hopefully create a backlink and some traffic to their hype-laden website.

I spoke to one of the leaders on the Magnetic Sponsoring community recently and he agreed the worst thing about sifting through the content on that great site, was running into the posers who clearly only wanted to “hype” people into their business.

How To Set Your Self Apart on the Social Networks

But among all the smoke, mirrors and cheesy sales pitches, thinly guised as content, I saw an opportunity to do something powerful.

I dug into my bag of most prized marketing strategies, pulled out something really juicy, created a video explaining the concept and posted the video on a fresh new thread on the MS community.  I was initially very concerned, because I knew how valuable the information was and according to Mike Dillard, I “should be charging for content like that”.

I wanted to make a statement, set myself apart and hopefully attract a few of the strong leaders on this community into a great exchange of ideas and provide them some great value as well.

What I did not expect was have Mike, and Tim Erway start a flurry of discussion on SEO and internet marketing on that very same forum, as only true leaders can.

What I did not expect was to have my name mentioned on Mike’s copywriting tele-clinic as someone he would like to help.

What I did not expect is to be speaking to Mike Dillard and Tim Erway on the phone a few weeks later about ways for Raymond and I to be able to provide more teaching and value on a more official basis to the Magnetic Sponsoring community.

What I did not expect was to be invited to lead the first ever MLM Traffic Formula LIVE event in Austin, TX. on May 30th, 31st and June 1st on behalf of a multi-million dollar company

And I write this with tears coming from my eyes, because I’m so fired up about it!

At long last, I was speaking and working with 2 of the people responsible for changing the course of my business and life – it was one of the most humbling experiences of my life.  To think that I could actually do something  to help these two marketing giants and actually make a real impact and contribution to help THEM reach their goals.

My hope for the Magnetic Sponsoring community and all social networks is that they become places different from the rest of the industry –  places where people come to provide value as their first objective, and grow their business as only a secondary one.

If you’ve posted a video on any community, where your only objective was to create traffic for your website — remove it!

If you’ve posted an article, which you wrote for the sake of getting exposure, but provided no real value – delete it!

If you posted something about your opportunity, without any real plan to lead new recruits towards success and only looking to get a few commissions from them joining – retract it!

Let’s strip the web anything what wouldn’t be worthy of the vision I described above..

If you do that, you will find the secret to my success with becoming one of the strongest authority’s and leaders on a site of 100,000 networkers …

“To give without want, before you can have”.