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What’s the best way to grow your network marketing business? Is it acquiring the best prospecting tools money can buy? Or becoming adept at interpersonal skills and business management?
If you want to grow your network marketing business, your primary goal is to build a network of people who are excellent at buying and selling your offers. The internet provides the best opportunity to accomplish this lofty goal and more. However, there are right and wrong ways to build a network marketing business.
You don’t want to be the person who tried to recruit his family and friends and longtime college dorm mates all in the name of growing his network. No, it doesn’t work that way; that only makes you awkward and fake. Here are some of the most effective and honest ways of growing your network marketing business.
Know The Needs Of Your Market
The most important strategy to grow your network marketing business, and any other business for that matter, is knowing your target audience. The knowledge of your market lets you identify the type of content they read, their problems and the types of products that interest them.
This way, you can craft personal relationships with your market, understand their needs, predict trends and provide a feeling of satisfaction as a reliable and trustworthy source of quality goods and services that impact their lives positively.
But how do you know your market? Through the following:
1. Customer Surveys
If you don’t know what your customers want, ask them! The simplest way to see how you can improve your service delivery is to ask your audience what they want and then provide it to the best of your abilities. Short customer surveys asking their opinions about your products and services can go a long way in entrenching their trust in you and also give them a sense of belonging within your business.
2. Demographics
Look at the demographics of people buying your products or visiting your website. Check out their age, gender, interests, income, educational status and other details. How does this correlate with their needs and what can solve their problems? One way of getting to know your customers is by allowing them to build a profile on your website. The information they provide in their profiles can be a goldmine of information about their preferences.
Have A Business Mindset
Network marketing business is a lucrative enterprise, but it’s not a get rich quick scheme. If you handle your networking business as a hobby, then you may never make any reasonable amount out of it.
Before putting resources into the business, have a clear goal in mind. It’s a business that requires your full commitment to work, and half measures will not be good enough.
Dedicate yourself fully to the success of your networking business and make sure you have a roadmap to measure your progress. Eventually, your business may grow to become your main source of income. It all depends on the effort you invest in the business from the start.
Take It Slow
While it’s important to grow your business, you need to give yourself time to mature and expand because some things take time no matter how much of a hurry you are in. Take things one step at a time. You run the risk of overwhelming yourself, the business and the customers if you move too fast.
There are too many marketing strategies out there, and you won’t have enough time to master them all, even if you want to. Pick a marketing technique, learn it, practice it and use it before moving to the next. Rushing through things will only lead to chaos and confusion that can force your customers to take their business to other places. You don’t want that to happen.
Continue To Learn
Self-improvement is an important success factor in the highly dynamic world of network marketing. A few lags behind the trend, and you are toast. It’s important to continuously renew and refine yourself as you try to grow your business.
It may require spending money on courses, coaching, mentoring or buying resources and tools needed to run the business better, reading self-help and motivational books or listening to audio tapes of industry leaders; whatever you do as a network marketer, never stop learning if you want to be successful.
The good thing about self-improvement is that you can do it at your pace. A book here and some mentoring there can make a lot of difference for your business.
Harness The Power Of Social Media
Social media offers the largest platform to increase your visibility and drive traffic to your business quickly. It doesn’t matter whether your networking business is geared towards offline or online customers, social media provides the biggest concentration of ready markets waiting to be tapped. With social media, you can engage your audience across different platforms using a wide range of media including posts, pictures, videos, and others. If your social media strategy is good enough, you can quickly gain tremendous popularity, and with this comes increased traffic and revenue.
Facebook is by far the most fertile ground for businesses to win new prospects through its Facebook Page, Pixel, Posts, and the sophisticated Facebook Ads system. While it comes at a cost, Facebook Ads is one of the highest converting paid traffic source. It allows you to narrow down your target audience with pinpoint accuracy so that your messages reach the people who already need your products and services.
YouTube is also a great marketing tool that can deliver excellent results when done right. Your business can have an instant and long-lasting exposure with a well-produced video. All you need is to provide the right content and target the right keywords.
Instagram can also be a powerful tool to grow your network marketing business. A lot of resources are available online about how to leverage social media to grow your business. Check out our archives for some of these resources.
Provide Quality Content
Content, as they say, is king. It’s not enough to have a website and multiple social media accounts. You need to deliver premium content to your audience at all times. The best you can do is to create educational content that adds value and helps your audience solve problems in their lives. Don’t be too salesy or they will run away. Cultivate a following by becoming their go-to source of credible information about your niche.
Use SEO and other optimization tools to get your content to the right audience. Not only will this boost your visibility, but it can also increase your traffic, position you as an authority, and ultimately help to grow your business. But you shouldn’t handle this with levity either. Never leave your audience hanging without telling them what’s happening. Consistency must be your watchword if you want to grow your business with content marketing.
Don’t Stop Recruiting New Team Members
If all the above strategies are working, your business will eventually need more hands to deliver quality service to your loyal customers. There are many sources of recruiting new members, but the easiest way to get passionate people is to look online. Network through social media, your website, forums, and other online platforms where you can find like-minded people.
You can also do old school networking by meeting people in person at networking events, giving talks, giving out your business cards to people among others.
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With consistency, hard work and dedication, your network marketing business is sure to outgrow your expectations.
I hope you enjoyed this post and if you have any questions about network marketing or you just want to leave your own personal experience, leave a comment below. I would love to hear from you!
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Great post! I agree that one of the most important things is knowing the needs of your market. If you don’t produce content that is useful to your target market, then your success will surely be stymied!
Hi Kaleb, thank you for stopping by and taking the time to leave a comment. I appreciate your kind words.
The MOST important thing, in my opinion, is to have a customer Avatar. Meaning exactly knowing your customer and their needs. Once you understand this you are in a position to help them solve their problems.
Once people understand you are first and foremost thinking of them and trying to solve their problems then they will gladly hand over the money for your solution to their problems.
Hey Moni, thanks for all your tips on growing a network business.
My business is slowly improving, I’m finding the free source of progressing via Social Media marketing presently beneficial; occasionally sharing other peoples posts many times accomplishes a return of favour. When others share your posts it introduces another audience.
I take time to interact daily on Facebook, Twitter & Google+ due to the free-way this provides in presenting your business across the web.
Like you mention, a network marketing business needs to operate full time rather than a hobby meanwhile I agree, it’s essential to perfect one marketing technique before moving on to the next; if not, you appear disorganised.
Thanks again for passing on your knowledge,
Simon.
Hi Simon, thank you for stopping by and taking the time to comment.
I am happy to hear you are finding success with Social Media. Unless you are paying for ads on Social Media you have to understand it is a slow but sure process.
I love the fact you share other people’s posts and they feel obliged to return the favour (the law of reciprocity kicks in!)
The key to Social Media is daily consistency, taking small actions on a daily basis, and as you are already doing this I am sure you will have amazing results.
Wish you much success my friend… Moni