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[Lynda Cromar Company: Empower Network, LLC Contribution Level: 9]

I have been online marketing for nearly 5 years, its hard to believe but it is true. And when I first started I didn't have a Facebook Profile, or had any idea what Facebook, Twitter or Social Media was about. I did a lot of things wrong, I made so many mistakes, it really makes me shudder.

How does one help someone not have to go through so many mistakes online? Good ideas here not your business, because everyone is looking for real strategies, how to build what they already have!

[willie robertson Contribution Level: 4]

Wow good question. I remember getting started online in 2009, prior to that I was just trying to get traffic to my MLM site.

I found this one guy who seemed to be successful, he had a marketing system with all the bells and whistle, he screwed me out a few grand $$$.

It hurt but I am still here.

That very expensive lesson taught me the value of a great marketing system though.

*Fortunately there are systems in place now days that can educate the person's who are new coming online.

UPDATE: Folks so that I will not come across as a lair, thus this update. I said I recommend MLSP and it truly is a great system however, for someone just starting out and is operating on a very limited budget>>> Hot off the press, (I just this week got wind of this and it just made dollars and cents to me). Get more info available below if interested.

I would still recommend MLSP because it teaches you the how to's of marketing, starting from mindset to running a successful marketing promotion or promotions, from blogging to ppc. But if you are on a very tight budget see my update above.

The systems I recommend have mentors there who have acheived the results a new person is yet to acheive, thus they would have examples to look to and follow. See update also.

And you'd have access to readily available marketing funnels and multiple affiliate products you can promote, thus you'd have multiple income streams too and everything is conviently accessible in one place.

Great thing is, a person can start for less than $10.

I'd do it for the great training if nothing else.

I wish I would had access to these kinda systems when I first came online.

[Christian Fioravanti Contribution Level: 2]

Give them a blueprint to your success. ...like a guide. Something simple they can follow to bring in there first few people and grow from there as there understanding and marketing skills grow.

[Lynda Cromar Company: Empower Network, LLC Contribution Level: 9]

thanks Willie, Christian can you elaborate? That is a great word, blueprint. But unfortunately, unless we have a real set of steps it is meaningless. What would you take me through if I was brand new and in your downline today?

[Robert Banach Company: Amway Contribution Level: 3]

Great post Lynda!

As I am still a newbie, been online less than a year, and not doing the best research on the first two programs I got involved in, I have had to crash course my learning.

And, the best thing I did was to search for successful online marketers, not people online with their guru labels, but looking in forums like right here on BN.com.

Help your people get connected with the successful people in your program so they can get the answers and guidance they need. That includes getting them to webinars, recording of webinars, a weekly newsletter with the great information that you can share with them.

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[Charles Holmes Company: ViSalus Sciences Contribution Level: 3]

I recommend one thing: get good at marketing.

You don't need to buy systems. You need to learn marketing. Preferably, one strategy, stick with it and master it.

If you can't market your MLM business, what makes someone think they can market a system?

A system is never the answer to your online troubles. Instead, marketing is the answer.

So choose one strategy, be it video marketing, article marketing, ppc, social media, or even guerilla marketing and become the best at that one strategy.

That is my best advice.

[Joyce Penner Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 8]

Teach them how to sell. Period. The marketing can come on board slowly but if you don't "open your doors" and make your first sale the learning curve to marketing is long and painful.
Joyce

[Matt Janowski Company: Ambit Energy Corporation Contribution Level: 2]

Great question and some really great responses here.

If only there was one short, sweet answer to this but there really isn't.

In my experience I've found that investing time and effort into quality learning can at least set you up for future successes faster, even if the initial learning curve still stays kind of steep.

Almost every new marketer I come in contact with has one thing in mind: Make money fast.

This mindset will set you up to fail as sure as I'm typing this.

If you look at time as being relative, what exactly does 'shortening it' mean exactly. From one year to one month? From five years to one year?

A newbie needs to honestly ask themselves why they came into network marketing in the first place. If they came in to make 'fast money' then they came in for the wrong reason. In which case, the learning curve really wouldn't matter just due to the fact the person probably never came in to learn in the first place.

However, if a newbie comes in with the correct mindset and is willing to learn, I have a few suggestions to shorten the learning curve.

If a newbie plans on sticking around awhile my suggestion is that they learn how to register a domain (www.yournameforexample.com), acquire hosting space (a place to put their website information) and learn how to build a blog (Wordpress.org).

All of the above are extremely easy to do and begin to do what almost 99% of newbies refuse to do until it hits them a few years later that it was exactly where they should have started.

By establishing a web presence even a newbie can begin to look like an authority in their niche. Remember, every single day someone else is just starting and looking for an authority on what they're doing. It might as well be you!

The sooner you establish your web presence, the sooner you'll reach your goals.

I'm not sure this post showed exactly how to 'shorten' the learning curve but I hope it opened some newbies eyes.

[Lynda Cromar Company: Empower Network, LLC Contribution Level: 9]

Teach them how to sell. Period. The marketing can come on board slowly but if you don't "open your doors" and make your first sale the learning curve to marketing is long and painful.
Joyce

I knew you would have a great answer! Yes Yes and Yes!

[Lynda Cromar Company: Empower Network, LLC Contribution Level: 9]

One thing I have learned is everyone comes in at different levels of skills. Not everyone grasps the whole thing at once. How do you break it down so even a newbie can get it, remember they have none of your skills!