You Tube Shut Down My Account, and I learned to KISS

  Written by Melanie Milletics on Sep 14, 2011 10:15 am

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It was the end of May, 2011. I got an email notification that one of my YouTube videos had been 'flagged' for inappropriate content. "Inappropriate content"? I thought, what the heck could someone object to on my channel?

A Youtube channel that I had been building up since 2006 with videos. A Youtube channel that had hundreds of thousands of views... one video that had 200k views and counting that was getting me major traffic to my landing page for my Network Marketing company.

SOMEONE found my videos to be offensive.
My guess is that they found the competition to be offensive and took a low blow to a woman's empire - and flagged my vids to effectively not have to deal with my competition on YouTube!

When I clicked to find out what video it was, or how to contest the 'flag' , my channel was already gone.

All of the blog posts over the last few years where I had made videos specifically for those posts, now had big blank YouTube screens in them stating that my channel had been shut down due to SPAM content! Imagine that.

So I create videos to help educate YOU, the home based entrepreneur, and you go to click to see my video... and find out that I'm a 'spam artist'. That's gotta be good for business, right?

This is all ugly enough to freak out an entrepreneur  - but to make matters WORSE, I was running for Ambassador in May, which meant a $25,000 bonus check for my family.

As an internet entrepreneur, one of my main strategies for building my home based business is to run promotions using video to make the call to action. I was at a crucial hour, where I would most certainly get that video promotion out to my list... and my channel was dead.

Think about that - and how YOU might react?

How DO you react in times of adversity?

It took about 7 seconds for me to realize this was a LESSON, a Lesson in Network Marketing Success Principles.

You see, over the last 2 years I have undergone a radical transformation in my understanding of what makes this MLM business model work.

In the past, I worked with sub-par network marketing companies. Of course while I worked with them I thought they were great - but they all had major flaws, and my whole 'funded proposal/ME FIRST' marketing funnel was necessary in order to effectively generate leads and massively recruit.

I've enrolled more than 600 people - with full product packages - into companies using those methods... and made a six figure income... but I NEVER saw the true leveraged residual income from my MLM business. So I kept this blog up, and kept building my list through selling 'How To Be Successful at MLM Online' information, and of course teaching 'List Building for MLM'.

And you know what, I was successful at building a huge list of home based business buyers and seekers, and I certainly DID enroll many of them into companies... and still do. But I can tell you now, after working with an excellent company for 2 years, that those methods are absolutely NOT necessary to have success with ViSalus, or with any other GREAT company (are there others?).
In fact, I would say that those who know the least about such 'attraction marketing' methods will make the MOST here.

Why? Because the 'old school' model works beautifully here, and in this economy everything relies on the speed of trust.

I'd much rather sponsor someone  who has no experience in the MLM industry and let them follow the simplest of systems and help them get all the way to Ambassador and beyond, rather than enroll the 'MLM Junkies' who don't want to share what is NEEDED by their community for fear of what people might think... so they hide behind a computer instead.

So in the hour when my YouTube channel was shut down, did I bug out?

NO, because to hit Ambassador with my company it wasn't going to be based on how many more sales I could make by blasting out a promotion.
Instead, it would be based on the awesome people on our team who would meet their goals, by making their list and promoting using the simple system in place to WIN.

I already had the people sponsored in order to get Ambassador done, I just had to dive to them - to give them the encouragement they needed to KNOW they too would one day soon be running for that $25,000 Ambassador bonus.

It wasn't about how 'attractive' I could be... with my 'attraction marketing model', it was about helping people follow the simplest of simple systems.

OH MY.
Sounds Familiar, doesnt it?
You've heard it before, right?

K.I.S.S.

Keep It Simple Stupid!

Ok, so I'm NOT stupid... just over educated. I've been doing this online Network Marketing thing since 2001. I know too much for my own good.
But when my YouTube Channel got shut down, It was abundantly clear that I really had to just K.I.S.S. my strongholds goodbye.

I had to dig down deep into my organization and work to develop leaders... and guess what?
I got to Ambassador in May.

We didn't make any fancy videos. We didn't do webinars, or email broadcasts... we just followed K.I.S.S - and got it DONE.

This should be encouraging for YOU. If you don't know how to do all the fancy internet 'stuff' I do - consider yourself lucky!
Just TRUST me when I tell you the simple system works - and follow it!

I hope you will also listen to your upline who tells you to follow the system. If you can't trust them, you may as well QUIT now.
If they are making six figures... listen!

I can THANK the jerkface who had my YouTube shut down. It was the final straw that cut me off from my old convoluted ways...
I'll still make videos and blog, cause I love it -
but if you ask me how to build an MLM to residual millions - I'll tell you to Keep It Simple, Stupid!

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