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Asking for referrals is something that almost all successful home businesses or network marketers know they should do. However, it’s also something that most of them don’t do. Why is that? And the more important question is… in 2009 should network marketers still be asking for referrals?

The answer to my second question is a resounding yes! You should always, always, always ask for a referral anytime you’re talking to someone about your home based business. The reason for this is that leads are worth a lot. You can create your own but that takes time and effort or you can buy them but that takes money.

So if you’ve spend money on a lead that turns out to be someone who’s not interested at all that could feel like money down the drain right? Well if you get a few referrals out of the deal you won’t feel like you’ve wasted anything.

Referrals simply help your list of leads multiply. Imagine that you bought a list of a thousand leads. And not a single one of them came into the business. That would stink right? Now imagine that you bought a thousand leads and they each gave you 5 referrals. So you’ve essentially paid for 1000 but you now have 6000 do those odds sound a little better to you?

Now of course not everyone is going to give you a referral. You might not get a single one from some people. However you might get 10 or 15 from someone else!

If you’re not asking for referrals you are simply missing out on thousands and thousands of people every month and out of those numbers chances are a few of them will be interested in your business.

So how do you ask for referrals? It’s really pretty easy. Let’s say you’re talking to Sally and Sally says “thanks but I’m not looking for a home based business right now.”

All you have to say to Sally is… “That’s fine, do you happen to know anyone who might be interested in working from home?”

Now at this point Sally will either say yes or no if she says no just say goodbye. If she says yet get a pen and paper and write down their names and numbers right then and there, say thanks and goodbye to Sally and hang up.

Now when you call Sally’s friends you have an opener all ready.

“Hey Paul this is *say your name* I was just talking to Sally and she said you might be interested in making money from home… is that true?”

It really is as simple as that! Now imagine if you didn’t ask for that referral. Sally would have said no and that would have been the end of it but now you’re talking to Paul! You probably wouldn’t have ever even found Paul if not for Sally.

Start asking for referrals and start expanding your leads and getting more sign ups. The art of asking for a referral may be old but it defiantly still works in today’s network marketing business!

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If you’ve been involved in a home based business for any significant amount of time chances are you’ve spent money buying leads. With all the tools available to a home business owner today there is absolutely no reason to spend money on lists of leads ever again! It’s just simply a waste of money here is why…

If you could have 1000 prospects who might be interested in your business or 5 prospects who defiantly were interested in your business which would be more valuable to you? If you said the 1000 prospects you’d be dead wrong.

When looking for people to join your home based business the people who are “ready to buy” are always better than the ones who are “just looking”. When you call a long list of leads you can be sure that almost all of them are just looking. Sure maybe some of them are serious about it but most of them are probably just kicking tires. That means you have to go through a lot of people just to find the few they are interested.

So what’s the solution? Well instead of contacting a ton of people who might be interested why not just get the people who are interested to contact you? That means you’re only spending your time talking to people who are already interested in working with you.

Besides the time and money you’ll be saving having people contact you gives you the upper hand in your business. You see, people’s posture is completely different when they call you vs. when you call them.

When you call a prospect they are usually grumpy or annoyed or make you feel like you’re wasting their time however, when they call you it’s a whole different ball game.

So how do you get people to pick up the phone and call you? Easy, with internet marketing.

The internet is a truly amazing tool that is changing the way home businesses are run all over the world. If you have yet to discover the power of the internet it’s time to learn!

When you market properly on the internet you are able to find more people from all over who want what you have without actually having to talk to any of them. They find you, they get the information and then they call you when they are ready (or very close) to getting started!

People who know how to use the power of the internet will never go back to traditional forms of marketing… it’s just not worth it.

Find someone who can teach you how to marketing your business online and you’ve found the key to huge success working from home! So stop wasting time, money and energy on leads and start changing your business in 2009 with the power of internet marketing!

You can learn how to generate your own network marketing leads, and you can learn while you earn.  Get free information on how you can learn multiple lead generating techniques for free by visiting http://www.brentsplan.com or email Brent:  brent@brentsplan.com for more information.

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