Tired of Not Making Any Money in MLM or Direct Selling? Learn MLM from Everything Entrepreneur founder and network marketing mastermind Erik Christian Johnson. An industry veteran, Erik Christian Johnson has been successful with several MLM, Direct Selling, and Affiliate Marketing companies for a decade.
Most people fail in MLM because they can’t generate leads and they don’t want to bug their friends and family about it. But here at Everything Entrepreneur, we want to ensure you succeed in MLM for 2023.
Aspiring MLM entrepreneurs post their opportunity on Facebook a couple times and quit. Don’t be that guy or that gal, read on as we show you how to succeed in MLM for 2022.
I was a burnt-out line cook approaching my 40’s and wanted a way out. I was sick of working 6 days a week and 10-12 hour days just to eek out a living.
I realized early on in my search for the perfect internet marketing opportunity that network marketing had “no income cap” and leaders in the industry were making $100k a month or more. Some MLMers were earning even more money.
I wanted what the Leaders had, and it took 4 Long Years, but I finally Cracked the Code.
Most people talk to 2 people, then quit their MLM or direct selling business. Not anymore!
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In the last 8 years, I have generated over 75k leads and recruited 3000 reps in 6 different MLM companies.
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The Beginning of My Entrepreneurial Journey
I was born in Newport Beach, California in 1972. Both my parents worked for the telephone company. My dad actually repaired John Wayne’s phone with the actor standing over my dad’s shoulder as my dad repaired his phone.
My dad was bored with just working 8 to 5 and had greater aspirations. He built a 32 foot sailboat in the backyard after work. This was one of two sailboats he would build from the bottom up, then he moved onto restoring vintage cars, like an MG TC series, a 356 Porsche, a Jaguar, and a couple motorcycles.
We moved to Washington State when I was 5. My parents opened up their first business, an equipment rental store. They rented lawnmowers, tractors, air compressors, forklifts, etc. It was my parents first business and they made good money because they were the only rental place from 100 miles around and it was before the building boom.
When I was 12 I started my entrepreneurial journey by trying to sell my rich neighbor some semi-crystalized rocks I found in the driveway at my parent’s business. Then, I devised a way to become the middleman between a buyer and a seller of a Lamborghini.
I also discovered Rock and Roll around this time and learned that I loved drumming. I would use every utensil from the kitchen to bang on pots and pans. My mom finally gave in and bought me a drum set. I played it after school every day until 5 when my dad got home.
I had big dreams. I was going to be a rock and roll drummer when I grew up. My school work suffered as I listened to music every night after dinner with headphones. I was perfectly content staring out the window with Judas Priest blaring in my ears.
When I was 17, I discovered alcohol, which had almost more of a profound effect on me than music. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll (no sex really) became my focus, and I couldn’t keep my grades up and eventually dropped out of school before my senior year. My graduation present from my parents would have been paid tuition to a music school in Hollywood.
Eventually alcohol was more important than drumming, as I just couch surfed for a couple years and lived with older women. I wrote poetry and drank wine under the stars. I thought I was a beat poet like Allen Ginsberg and my friends and I would hitchhike and hop trains like hobos.
My role models were not hair bands anymore but alcoholic writers.
I eventually worked my way up from dishwasher to a line cook. Fast forward 17 years and I was an alcoholic line cook flipping burgers for a living making $11 an hour.
Eventually, I had enough. After having a heart attack at 32, 7 broken relationships, and a ton of other wreckage, I got sober.
So, around 38 I decided to create that music album I always wanted. I made 7 or 8 songs and uploaded it to Tunecore, a digital music platform that sold music for independent artists.
I sold maybe 3 MP3s in Japan and was hooked on selling stuff online. The next year, I decided to write a memoir about my drinking, called The Drunk, and uploaded it to Amazon. This was when everyone and their mother were uploading their ebooks to Amazon. This was the ebook bubble.
I learned how to “tweet” my ebook links on Twitter along with my music album and that was the beginning of my affiliate marketing in 2011.
In 2013, I promoted other people’s digital products on my Twitter account.
I made $2,000 one Summer promoting Clickbank products just using Twitter. (see my complete internet marketing story here)
Then, in 2014, I discovered Network Marketing. It was like affiliate marketing on steroids. Affiliate marketing was usually just “one time sales” whereas MLM involved re-orders which created passive, residual income. It was the lean startup model I needed with my frugal finance situation. Plus, I could earn from everyone on my MLM team, all the way down 10 levels. I also discovered that network marketing leaders made over $150,000 a month, legally!
So, I took to work and learned everything I could about the multi-level marketing and direct selling profession. It was completely new to me and the only place I could find free training on MLM was on YouTube.
I took copious notes on the MLM industry and watched two hours of videos per night. Eventually, I gathered that what I needed to learn about MLM was how to generate leads consistently. I created this blog around that time and my YouTube channel. I was all about Attraction Marketing. I wanted people to come to me rather than me bugging people.
I turned my Twitter account into an automated lead machine and recruited over 100 people to my MLM business just by using an automated direct message on Twitter using my opportunity link.
Today, it’s still the same. I generate massive leads in network marketing and let the company’s autoresponder close them. It’s a brilliant system and I won’t touch any MLM that doesn’t have awesome capture pages connected to a killer autoresponder already set up for the distributors.
After 5 years in MLM, I have recruited over 800 people with 98% automation. I literally work one hour a day. If you want to do MLM the non-traditional way (without bugging friends and family, doing 3 way calls, meetings, etc) then I’m the guy to work with.
Thanks for reading my MLM entrepreneur story. I hope I can help you build your MLM Business!
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Erik Christian Johnson
Founder & MLM Expert
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Getting your Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Business started right is crucial. In this video I show you exactly how to Brand you and your network marketing business online so you can grow it 24/7 around the world, without bugging friends and family. Here are some top MLM tips to follow:
MILLION DOLLAR MLM DOWNLINE STORY:
I really wanted to share this MLM success story of mine with you. It is called the million dollar downline, and I am in the early to middle stages of it right now with my 5th successful network marketing business opportunity now.
The point is that you don’t know who you have on your team. When I started MLM network marketing in 2014, I used to watch YouTube videos on network marketing every night, about two hours worth, I would take notes. I would get inspired by rags to riches stories and network marketing. And I love those stories and one person in particular, she became a leader in network marketing, making like $100,000 a month.
But when she was budding, a budding leader, no one could really tell that she was going to take off, it took three, five years, whatever. And what happened was her sponsor quit and she said that she went on to make millions of dollars.
And that MLM sponsor since they quit too soon, they didn’t realize that they could have made millions as well, but they quit too soon. So the bottom line is that even if you only have like three to five people on your team, you don’t know what they’re gonna do. You don’t know what they’re capable of, and with the residual income in network marketing, you could literally make thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars every single month just from a few people.
Usually in network marketing, the top 20% of your team makes 80% of the income. So, not everyone is going to be doing a lot of stuff. It’s going to be thousands of people doing very little. Maybe, you know, the average person recruits only 2.5 people in their whole time in network marketing, but you’ll have a couple people that can recruit hundreds if not thousands of people.
Like, when I joined my daily choice, I came over in a merger, I didn’t even have a sponsor, I didn’t have someone telling me what to do. I didn’t know how to generate leads, I had to learn all that on my own. And for almost four years later, in my daily choice, I’ve recruited over 1400 people. So if there was someone above me, you know, they could have capitalized on that.
But like I said, there wasn’t and I learned how to do it. You don’t need a sponsor motivating you and telling you, you know, rah, rah, you are doing great. It does help to have a friend in the trenches with you. But the point is that all you have to do is learn how to keep recruiting and acquiring customers and your business will eventually grow.
I have had a couple people on my team that quit. And when I look at the rank tab, they are still growing, their team is growing, even though they quit. There are still people, several levels down on their downline team that are growing. And those people quit way too soon even though they are with a top network marketing business with growth in India, Europe, and the United States.
I mean, if you look at this, this is a very long term vision. This is a 5 to 10 year plan. I know I have said two to three years in earlier videos and that is still true, it could happen two to three years. But even if it takes 5 years or 10 years, wouldn’t you love to have that passive income check every single month, like a pension?
If I didn’t have network marketing, I would be working until I was 80, for sure. I don’t have a college education. I mean, I went to college for like a year but I don’t have any specialized training. There is nothing else I want to do. If I didn’t have network marketing, I would be working in the restaurants breaking my back. MLM, direct selling, and affiliate marketing are the keys to explosive wealth and passive income for those without specialized training but a will to work.
And I probably couldn’t even physically work, I would have to somehow do something else when I hit 60 because restaurant work is so grueling and physically hard. I knew a lady who was 73 when I was cooking. She was bent over, you know, she had back problems and knee problems.
And she loved her job. I mean, there was a lot of pride for her. I am not dissing jobs or traditional careers. I am just saying that it took all her energy just to put in eight hours a day. You could tell that she was just wiped out at the end of the day. And I don’t want to live my life that way.
I am addicted to network marketing companies. I don’t want to ever the MLM ride to stop. And it might look like your team is dying. But there could be someone in there that goes on to make a million dollars in network marketing, you don’t know who they are. So the only thing you could do is stay in and let the future play out and might take five to 10 years. But, you don’t ever have to say I quit if you stay in MLM and that’s the bottom line.
More MLM and Direct Selling Training Videos
Our MLM videos contain everything you need to have ultimate success in Network Marketing and Direct Selling. But make sure to read these top MLM industry tips below first:
3 Top MLM Tips To Succeed
One – Get 2, Help 2:
98% of the income that comes from network marketing comes from the organization that you build. The quickest way to build your MLM organization is called “duplication” where you teach your team how to recruit their own people and acquire customers. The best systems are the easiest to implement. Some of the top MLM leaders focus on simple Facebook scripts and images because almost everyone is on Facebook and can post an image or shoot a message over to somebody. This can help you to effectively promote your CBD company or crypto MLM business.
Two: Why You Need a YouTube Channel for Network Marketing
Videos are a great way to generate MLM Leads around the clock and the top leaders understand this. Please check out our multi-level marketing video on how to do a powerful YouTube channel to generate you leads 24/7. YouTube is essential for network marketers, but also don’t forget about Instagram videos, IGTV, Instagram Reels, Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook Live, LinkedIn, Vimeo, and other video marketing platforms for your MLM business in 2023.
Three – Generate Massive Leads:
If you want to grow your new MLM home business without bugging friends and family, you need to generate a lot of leads using the “cold market” which are people who don’t know you. Here’s the truth of how many leads you might need to generate to get network marketing signups: Out of 1,000 leads you might get 10 signups. But the more leads you generate and better you get at raking in MLM leads, the higher your conversion rates will get over time.
These are the most basic steps for network marketing business success. All that is needed from now on is tenacity and consistency in your MLM in 2023.
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