Today's Highlight Feature - The Renegade Marketer: Ann Sieg

Hello friends,

Today I wanted to take some time and introduce the person who first introduced me to online marketing and helped change my view of the Network Marketing industry.  Her name is Ann Sieg.  Most in the industry are at least familiar with the name because she is one of the pioneers of using attraction marketing and internet marketing to build her network marketing companies.   She is one of the top MLMers in the industry and has used a very controversial approach to MLM building.  At first, she was frowned up by her up-line and company until she started raking in sales and hitting the top positions in her company.  Here is her story!

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Ann Sieg, Founder of The Renegade Network Marketer

My name's Ann Sieg and I've been in and out of the mlm industry for over 19 years now. I've joined and tried to build more opportunities than I care to remember.

I may be somewhat of a slow learner, but eventually (just like everyone else who builds real wealth in this industry) I too figured out that nearly everything I had been doing all those years was a complete waste of time. I put myself through a lot of unnecessary rejection and embarrassment, but in the end I did accomplish what I had set out to do in the first place... and a whole lot more!

Once things started to click and I finally "got it," I went from about 1-2 sign ups every 5 months (people that I practically bribed to join my business) to having more eager prospects demanding information from me than I knew what to do with. I went from having nothing but debt to earning a six figure income that supported my entire family.

And you can do the exact same thing and probably even a lot faster than I did.

You see, I could have reached all my goals a long, looong time ago had someone just let me in on this shocking (and somewhat disturbing) secret... 

Not only is it useless, it's actually destroying your business and any chance you have of success.

Don't believe me, just look at the stats.

It's plain as day to anyone who's willing to take a look that 97% of mlmers never make any money with their business.

Why?

As I discovered, it has nothing to do with network marketing itself...

And EVERYTHING to do with the way network marketing is done.

I learned this the hard way in 2002 when I threw myself 110% at building a new opportunity that I was sure was going to be "the one."

Like I said, I've been in and out of the industry for awhile, but prior to this company I had sworn off mlm for a few years. What brought me back was a "revolutionary" comp plan that I thought was so miraculous it would literally be impossible to fail this time around (a HUGE mistake, as I'll share with you in a moment).

I also had a very strong reason to succeed at this point - a big "why" as we say in the biz. My husband and I had owned a small windshield replacement business for 12 years and things were starting to fall apart. We were being muscled out of business by a barrage of legislation and insurance nightmares that eventually shut down most mom and pop glass shops in our area.

Our ship was sinking fast, so I couldn't afford to mess around.

I was serious this time so I devoured everything I could get my hands on about network marketing. I...

• Read all the books...
• Listened to audios non-stop in my car...
• Never missed a company training...
• Was on every team call and attended every opportunity meeting...
• Went to ALL the events...
• Milked my upline for every drop of wisdom and advice I could get from them...
• Plastered my house with goal cards and pictures of all the stuff I wanted to do when I was "making it"...
• And... most importantly... I did everything I was told to do, exactly the way I was told to do it.

Made my names list... contacted everyone on it... showed the plan... called some leads... drove all over creation... did three way calls... passed out videos... set coffee appointments at Caribou (hey, at least it's a business expense!)... called some more leads... did home meetings (lots of them)... SHOWED THE PLAN... brought people to hotel meetings (the people you pick up show up, right?)... passed out business cards... showed the plan some more... prospected everyone with a pulse... used the referral approach... practically wore the numbers off my phone calling more leads... the whole deal. (Did I mention I showed the plan?)

Even became the top retailer for my company in my state not once but twice! (One month I sold over $3,000 worth of retail product. And that was A LOT in this particular company... ) I was a real "go getter." You know, the kind of distributor you'd kill to have in your organization.

There was only one minor problem.

After 18 months of busting my tail, I wasn't any closer to producing a "leveraged income" than I was when I started! Imagine that.

Sure, I had a small organization going. But nothing to stand up and cheer about. I'd cashed a few (pathetically small) commission checks but I wasn't even remotely close to breaking even.

I could not, for the life of me, understand why it wasn't working! I was doing everything they told me to do and then some!

At the end of 18 grueling months I was...

• Disgusted by the "fake it 'till you make it" Thursday night hotel meetings where everyone puts on a happy face even though no one's going anywhere.
• Fed up with my upline telling me to just "talk to more people" or "call more leads" when I knew that wasn't the real problem.
• Frustrated that no matter how hard I tried to lead by example my people just wouldn't duplicate me. And...
• Had spent myself into a hole buying opportunity leads that might as well have been numbers straight out of the phone book and then shelling out for expensive corporate "training" that did nothing but "pump me up" and talk about how great the company was.

Any of this sound familiar?
I had hit a massive brick wall and the best advice my upline had to offer me was "run through your names lists again."
Sorry, but 4 times is quite enough thank you.
I knew there had to be a better way to do it. There was no way it could be this hard.
So here's what happened.
My son, also my sponsor at one point, had stopped working the business in pursuit of other things. One day he said to me, "Hey mom, you need to go after your target market." (A term that's completely foreign in network marketing).
Hmmm, interesting concept.
I had hit rock bottom at that point so there was only one thing for me to do.

After all, I tried it "their way"... and guess what?
"Their way" almost cost me my sanity!
What did I have to lose?
The Renegade Network Marketer™ was born...
I wiped the slate clean and began the educational process again from the start. I immersed myself in studying and read everything on marketing I could possibly get my hands on.
Except this time I did something different. And this one simple change ended up being the best thing I've ever done for my business.
Want to know what that change was?

I'll explain why that was so important in a minute... for now, let me tell you what happened.
I learned principles that completely revolutionized my thinking. The proverbial "light bulb" had gone on. Suddenly everything became crystal clear.
I finally understood, after 19 years of struggling and spinning my wheels, why every single opportunity I had ever attempted to build fell flat on its face.
I finally understood why this business seemed so frustrating and so hard to do.
What I discovered was that...
The network marketing industry literally has no clue on how to do marketing.
Dead serious.
Please don't take that personally because I'm not trying to offend anyone. It's just the truth. (Most of the time it's just that people are unaware of what they're doing and what they're teaching others to do)
Why is this?
It's because network marketing is a business that's designed for the "average person."
Well what's wrong with that?
Plenty.
This double-edged sword has severe side effects and I believe it's the true root cause of almost all the problems experienced by distributors in this industry.
Here's the main thing that happens as a results of this:

• 95% of people who get involved in mlm have absolutely no real foundation in effective sales and marketing and therefore the stuff they pass on to their equally unknowing downline members can only be described as pure garbage.

Being educated about marketing by the mlm industry is very, very dangerous. (I've got the scars to prove it: Lost friendships and tons of credit card debt that I was finally able to pay off.)
It wasn't until I began looking outside the industry for training that I found the answers to all my problems and things did a complete 180.
When I say I did the exact opposite of what my upline had taught me, I mean just that.

In fact, I never asked a single person to join my business. Not one.
This time, they all asked ME. (Would you like to build your business that way?)
And because of this, I was routinely able to sponsor more people in a single month than I ever did in my entire previous mlm career.
The whole time I had been completely missing one key principle that, when it finally did hit me, seemed so ridiculously obvious I couldn't believe it had taken me that long to realize it (a principle that marketers in other industries use to make untold millions of dollars in profit). That is...
Getting the customer to come to you first!
And when you do that... EVERYTHING changes. I mean everything.
The whole problem of facing rejection simply becomes a non-issue because you're only talking with people who want to talk to you. You can have a normal social life again - one where you're not constantly trying to "sneak" your opportunity into the conversation. All that silly "motivational stuff" is exposed for what it really is: More of a distraction than anything else
The entire dynamics of your business changes. Your attitude... your results... your approach... everything.
But you know what the best part is? When people come to you, sponsoring a new distributor is no longer a momentous occasion worth going out to eat for. It's simply an everyday, routine part of business. Just like checking your email.
I'll show you just a few examples of real people (just like yourself) who have experienced this month in and month out by utilizing these simple laws of attraction.
But first, let me tell you what happened for me once I mastered this concept.
In less than four months I...

• Retired my husband from the job he took at the airport after our windshield repair business collapsed.
• Starting consistently sponsoring a minimum of 20 new people every month, sometimes hitting 50+ a month (54 personally sponsored being my highest month). The amazing part about this is that sponsoring 2, 3, even 5 times these numbers every month would have been very, very easy with the system I developed. However, I deliberately chose NOT to for a couple very specific reasons (reasons I'll explain later).
• Quickly become the top distributor in a new company I joined.
• Generated so many leads and had so many people coming to me that I literally didn't know what to do with them all. For example, in one month alone my system pulled in over 1,780 prospects... all begging for more information!
• Built a $90,000+ a month business! (Are these earnings all from my mlm commission checks? Of course not. Click here to find out why you don't want to limit yourself to this either... )

You know what else though? People started duplicating me. Big time.
Not because I "motivated" them or because I was such a great sponsor...
But because they had a killer marketing system cramming their funnel full with super high-quality prospects.
This business starts to get real exciting when you have tons of people in your organization sponsoring 5, 10, even 20 or more people a month!
Here's just a few examples (and all of them were done without working names lists or spending money on dead-beat biz opp leads):

• Christian Marquez, after plugging into my system, consistently sponsored 6-8 people a month. During one 11 day period he sponsored 9 people.
• Katherine Nyby had been a sales rep for numerous companies before starting network marketing. She sponsored 5 people in her first week and then went on to sponsor 15 people a month after that!
• Nancy Christenson proved to be one of the most consistent and reliable business builders I ever had, bringing in no less than 5 (usually closer to 8) people every month.
• Kagwiria Makhulo, who worked with foster children, sponsored 8 people or more every single month with a 25% closing ratio (she sponsored 1 out of every 4 people she talked to)! She's brought in well over 100 people in our time together.
• Candace Hogan, who was a dairy farmer and a wrestling coach in a past life, sponsored 9-10 people a month. (I should add that she was only contacting 1 prospect a day - most people were working with 2 a day. So that's roughly a 30% closing ratio). She actually sponsored the first two prospects she ever talked to.
• Scott Rogers, an insurance agent, wasted no time. He sponsored 8 people in his first month and continued to sponsor anywhere from 15 to 18 people every month after that. In a fairly short amount of time he's personally sponsored almost 90 people.
• Brad Aden, a mortgage broker, got immediate results. He was in for no longer than 2 weeks and he had already sponsored 8 people! 15 a month was normal for him.
• Sherry Higdon, routinely brought in over 20 people a month. In her biggest month she sponsored 26 people.

Think about that... 26 people in one month. For crying out loud, most people are hard-pressed to come up with 26 people to talk to in a month... let alone sponsor that many!
Because of all this, here is the most important thing I've learned about mlm which I'd like to share with you:

And that was always my problem. I put all my focus on the "latest and greatest" products and even more so, the comp plans. But as long as you're having to search for prospects yourself and chase them down, the whole thing is doomed to failure from the start.
What I found out though, was that if you have a proven, automated marketing machine that does all the preliminary "sifting and sorting" for you and ensures that you only end up with the best prospects... you can go anywhere, join any company and become successful very quickly. Regardless of what their comp plan or products are like.
Which is why I've spent nearly the past two years testing, tweaking and applying these strategies to mlm and hammering them out into a well-honed process that systematically, predictably churns out pre-qualified prospects for you whether you're actually working or not.
It's something I like to call...

The Renegade Marketing System

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Now if your interest is peaked, I would suggest you click the link below to find out more about Ann's revolutionary approach to MLM and how it is quickly change the industry and creating many success story.  I am one.  I no longer chase prospects down or leave messages on the voice mail trying to figure out why they stood me up at the weekly meeting.  As a matter of fact, I refuse to call and find out why they didn't show up.  It's like this, I truly believe they need me more than I need them, so if its not important enough for them to at least call and give me a reason why they no-showed, that's reason enough to assume that they are not interested and don't need what I have. Plus, I have my hands full with enough prospects leaving me messages begging me to call them back. So if you are tired of the old techniques that don't seem to work, this information is for you. Check it and and drop me a line letting me know if you liked it. 

Oh, and here is the link, almost forgot. 

http://lg.therenegadenetworkmarketer.com