If you have ever thumbed through Home Business magazine, Small Business Opportunities magazine, or a local newspaper in your area, how many times have you gone to the classified ads section and looked up your competitors in the network marketing industry? There is a lot, right? How can a beginning online network marketer develop a unique selling position (USP) so that he can stand up above his competition?

The following is some pointers on developing a good USP:

Okay. They have taught you how to go out and prospect at the last network marketing seminar. But there is something that you may find hard to swallow. You have already been trained to prospect your entire life! You do it every day without knowing it.

The word “prospecting” is congruent with “mining, searching, seeking, and hunting.” If you ever went job hunting, bought a house, gone shopping at the local supermarket, or searched for your significant other at an online dating website, then you have in fact engaged in prospecting. For instance, if you were to break down the process of prospecting when shopping for a car, it may resemble something like the following scenario:

You are now a distributor of a big multi-level marketing company. One of the techniques they teach you at the company seminar is prospecting. Those of you who become distributors of a network marketing company may find that prospecting as another fish line to throw into the water as a supplement to your online network marketing recruiting activities.

If you find that you are an extroverted type person, then prospecting for that next person in your downline is for you. So what exactly is prospecting? Doctors and lawyers use this technique all the time. So do successful online network marketers.

If you are into network marketing and plan to do online recruiting, you need to keep your website fresh and dynamic even though your MLM website looks static.

One way to keep your site dynamic is by blogging. By blogging about your network marketing website, you can put in your own information about your business, your neighborhood, or your favorite candidate for the next president.

If you plan to blog, have your bloglinks pointing to your personal MLM homepage so that your readers can bookmark it by saving your URL. The more visitors or hits you get to your online network marketing website, the higher your position will be in the search engines. Some of the most popular blogging software to use are Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, or Movable Type.

You are a new distributor for a network marketing company, and you are using My Lead System Pro to help you build your business. One of the many powerful techniques they teach in MLSP is cold calling. It is not the only technique as there are countless others. However, if you think you are good at cold calling, and you want to call prospects for your online MLM business, then try out the tips we provide here for you.

I remember many years ago an episode of the 80’s sitcom, “Three’s Company,” in which Chrissy Snow, a character on the show, quit her day job to pursue network marketing full time. She had the euphoric high that she was going to get rich over night by signing up all her friends and family into her new business. Jack and Janet, her roommates, did not like that idea at all.

Suppose you have a marketing program such as My Lead System Pro to get you free leads for your network marketing business on the internet but have no clue which multi-level marketing company is the best for you to join.

The following is some advice you need to consider before choosing a network marketing company.

• Know your skills and interests–If you hate going to Saturday morning MLM meetings but feel that online recruiting is for you, find a sponsor, in a particular MLM company, who can show you how to market yourself on the internet. Find somebody who is practicing the techniques taught in MLSP, and not somebody who is just all talk and B.S.

Starting an online business can be a daunting task especially if you feel you do not know anything about computers, HTML, website design, or search engine optimization. One kind of business that people start on the internet is called affiliate marketing.

What is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is where you sell another company’s products or services for a percentage of the pie. There are many companies on the internet that provide you the tools to become an affiliate marketer. The best part of this equation is that those same companies do not want any part of your money. They just want YOU to make room on your website for their advertising. They do not require you to stock any product or inventory whatsoever.

For a newbie online network marketer, marketing is important to attracting customers and making sales and attracting potential distributors and making them part of your downline. Every waking minute you spend working on marketing is tantamount to a larger bottom-line return than the time you spend on other aspects of your online business.

The following is a list that marketing can do for you and your multi-level marketing (MLM) business. Marketing can benefit you by:

• Increasing distributor/customer loyalty and commitment. This in turn boosts your profit, reduces your distributor/customer turnover, and also generates free word-of-mouth advertising.