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<p>Mike Dillard&rsquo;s message in <a href="http://www.marketingmerge.com/black-belt-recruiting-mike-dillard-training/" target="_blank">Black Belt Recruiting</a> is build your business on a solid foundation, not as a get rich quick&nbsp; <span class="full-image-float-right"><span><img style="width: 150px;" src="http://www.marketingmergenetwork.com/storage/black_belt_recruiting_mike_dillard.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1220929860765" alt="" /></span></span>scheme. It&rsquo;s a message that a lot of network marketers hear, but don&rsquo;t necessarily put into practice.</p>
<p>Part of the proof is that many network marketers feel the need to hard sell their opportunity to prospects. But Dillard&rsquo;s <em>Black Belt Recruiting</em> says pumping up your business opportunity is bad business.</p>
<p>The hard sell, hitting the emotional hot buttons of a prospect with dreams of instant riches, is a technique that has been part of the <a href="http://www.marketingmerge.com/network-marketing/what-is-network-marketing.asp" target="_blank">network marketing</a> image. It&rsquo;s a holdover from the old MLM days. It&rsquo;s Cousin Jim going to Uncle John and trying to get him on board with his business opportunity. You know the one, fast riches, easy money and no hard work.</p>
<p>That&rsquo;s not what&rsquo;s taught in <em>Black Belt Recruiting</em>.</p>
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<h2>Recruit a Lot of People and Make Sales but&hellip;</h2>
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<p>Pumping up the hype of an opportunity and the whole get rich quick idea is not the stuff that builds businesses on solid foundations says <a href="http://www.marketingmerge.com/mike-dillard-network-marketing-mlm/" target="_blank">Mike Dillard</a>.</p>
<p>In fact, he says &ldquo;If you &lsquo;sell&rsquo; someone on getting started and buying into your opportunity through persuasive conversational and closing sales techniques that pump them up emotionally, and target their &lsquo;hot buttons&rsquo;, then yes, you will recruit a lot of people and make sales. But&hellip;.&rdquo;</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s really amateurish. Hard sell pumping is what newbies do in network marketing because they were hard sold themselves.</p>
<p>Their eagerness and zeal out strip their experience in the business. Pumping is what people do before they understand <a href="http://www.marketingmergenetwork.com/internet-network-marketing/2008/7/17/leveraging-the-launch-of-black-belt-recruiting.html">Black Belt Recruiting</a> .</p>
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<h2>Going Ten Rounds in Network Marketing</h2>
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<p><em>Black Belt Recruiting</em> makes the disadvantages of this type of get rich quick recruiting obvious. You get a lot of first round&nbsp; <span class="full-image-float-left"><span><img style="width: 150px;" src="http://www.marketingmergenetwork.com/storage/j0409308.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1220930620504" alt="" /></span></span>excitement, but when the round two bell rings people who have been recruited this way stay outside the ring.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Their initial excitement fades and they return to their previous lives. Yet, unfortunately, this type of recruiting is what most network marketers use.</p>
<p>The lesson in <em>Black Belt Recruiting</em> is to avoid prospecting this way. It&rsquo;s bad for the industry, and it&rsquo;s bad for your <a href="http://www.marketingmerge.com/network-marketing/#1" target="_blank">network marketing business</a>.</p>
<p>Even though you may get some short term success, in the long run you&rsquo;ll lose ground. In Mike Dillard&rsquo;s words &ldquo;(the) emotional state wears off, whether it&rsquo;s a day or week later &ldquo;buyer&rsquo;s remorse&rdquo; sets in. That remorse translates to bad feelings.</p>
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<h2>Recruiting is about Educating Your Prospects</h2>
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<p><em>Black Belt Recruiting</em> provides an alternative to playing on your prospects&rsquo; emotions. Instead, educate prospects about your opportunity and how it provides solutions to their current challenges. What you have to offer is something that can improve their life.</p>
<p>Avoid the sugar coating, leave that for breakfast cereal. Let the prospect know <em>both</em> the upside of the business and the work involved.</p>
<p>When you use <em>Black Belt Recruiting</em> as a model in your sponsoring methods, you leave the hype behind. Selling takes on new dimensions when you lead prospects through a process that shows them benefit. You don&rsquo;t have to hammer them on their heads.</p>
<p>If you lose the hype, you&rsquo;ll be building your business on a solid foundation. A <a href="http://agloco-blog.squarespace.com/black-belt-recruiting/" target="_blank">Black Belt Recruiting</a> foundation.</p>
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