How To Be successful In Your Home Based Business

How do you run a thriving network marketing business?

Have you ever stopped to ponder over what will guarantee the success you want and need in your network marketing business?

Well, let's step back for a second and take a look at two of the most profitable franchise businesses today; McDonald's and Subway.

Now, McDonald's and Subway are not mlm businesses, but the concepts behind their success can find application in mlm.

In addition to the food, what comes to your mind when you think of both McDonald's and Subway?

Every McDonald's outlet is comparable to every other McDonald's outlet in operation and so many other facets. Similarly, every Subway outlet is similar to every other Subway outlet. These organisations are run with one thing in mind; Keep It Simple, Stupid! They call it the KISS Principle.

When you enter any McDonald's or Subway outlet, anywhere in the world, you are guaranteed that the business can be (and most likely is) run by young people; and by young, I mean people just nearing the age of twenty.

Now, for big businesses like these, that's definitely keeping things straightforward.

If such businesses can be as lucrative as they are, and have their franchises that easy and straight-forward to operate, there must be some clues there for a network marketer.

A Home Business Success Example from McDonald's and Subway

McDonald's makes use of systems that are simple, duplicable and known to work. These systems do not require a highly educated individual to figure them out, apply them and find success with them. This is the key to success with McDonald's and Subway.

McDonald's and Subway franchises have in place, systems that are so straightforward that the majority of people can comprehend and execute them.

While you're building your Home Based business, what sort of systems are you putting in place?

Do you and your downline members find the systems easy to use and implement? Are your team members duplicating these systems straightforwardly, and finding success with them in their Network Marketing home businesses?

Duplication is primarily based on simplicity of undertaking and application of your systems. The simpler it is for someone else to comprehend and apply whatever systems you have in place, the more likely they will run a successful Network Marketing business.

A Booming Network Marketing Business Uses Systems.

Whether you run your MLM business online or traditionally, to find success, you will undoubtedly have systems in place.

Without systems, you have no duplicable processes of operation, and so any team members on your team will find it difficult to be successful in their home businesses. Since network marketing is a business based on leverage, this will impact on your success.

At the very least, you must have systems in place, for:
1. Lead generation
2. Building rapport with prospects
3. Presenting your business opportunity to your prospects
4. Training your prospects to do the same

This of course is a simplistic viewpoint of things, but it encompasses the fact that, to thrive in your home business, you need to have systems in place.

Systems give certain standards to operations, and allow for duplication within your team.

Imagine each and every McDonald's outlet running without a single system in place. Over time, it would most likely be difficult to tell which outlets are actual McDonald's businesses, as some would definitely lose their identity in the ensuing chaos.

In network marketing, your brand name is important, but the key to success is duplication, and duplication thrives where you keep it uncomplicated and you have systems in place that your new downline members can operate and have success with.

Are you assured with the systems you have in place as you run your Network Marketing business? Do you run your MLM business with the help of systems?


Systems are an integral element of your network marketing success. Michael Makahamadze is an online home based business owner, who uses SEO, Web Copy and Sales strategies in a systemic way, in building his home based business. These strategies, he shares with other home business owners.