Starting a network marketing business online is very similar to putting a 1000 piece jig-saw puzzle together. We begin with a large pile of unsorted puzzle pieces, some of which, are lying with the image side up, but most of them are upside down, leaving us with no clue as to where to start. Even the "straight-sided" pieces are difficult to identify at this beginning stage.

So, as with the puzzle, we begin the sorting out process of all the online network marketing business “parts” we need to achieve the success we're looking for.

The first critical piece is not what we think.

The traditional approach to setting up our online network marketing business requires that we look for a solid mlm company, with a renewable product in high demand, and we get our business identification from this parent mlm company.

But we need to realize from the start, that our online network marketing business is OUR BUSINESS.

We are not employees of the parent company.

Finding a good stable mlm company with the desirable product features we've mentioned is an important basic to our business, but once we correctly identify the most important factors in OUR BUSINESS, then we should be able to contract with almost any good mlm company and achieve the same results for our business.

So, we need to concern ourselves first, with what is the most important "puzzle" piece that will shape our network marketing business growth.

And that is...

Getting qualified prospects, lots of them. One thing is equally true of online network marketing lead generation, whether using traditional methods or the new attraction method, and that is, it's a "numbers game".

Traditionally, to achieve success with our mlm business, we need to expect to "go through" lots of people in order to gather the core group of qualified prospects for our network marketing business.

So the most important need for our online mlm business is qualified people who really do understand and value our mlm business opportunity, and give it the same high esteem for yielding the true residual income stream we expect.

But how do we assemble this team of qualified people?

Using the former traditional marketing methods, we’ve already experienced making our warm market list of 100, 200 or 300 relatives, close friends, not so close friends… people we only met once a long time ago.

What if we could bypass all that frustration and lost time of team building by the old traditional network marketing methods?

Well, by using the internet, we can.

We can set up a system that searches for and qualifies those select individuals that see this online network marketing business the way we do.

We'll find plenty of individuals who have probably searched and searched for a genuine business opportunity, wondering if there is really an opportunity that works well. They don't want to be hassled by someone with the latest "opportunity" again. They'd rather just quietly do their own research on the internet, rather than having to wade through all the time-wasting meetings and phone conversations to find out the details.

So the internet system we use must help us build relationships, but this system must find them first, and then slowly, methodically build on that relationship and develop it into trust.

Can online network marketing work for you?

You bet it can, and without all the built-in failures of traditional lead generating methods!