If you are serious about your network marketing business, then you know that you have to bring in a lot of leads so that you can prospect and sponsor many of them in your program. It's not only you, your downline also needs a lot of people to talk to. It is that crucial. Only after you find and develop a few good leaders, then, you can start seeing exponential growth in your business. Your leaders are now independent.

They are pursuing their dreams and building the business for themselves. Apparently, they are also building your big paychecks. Your leaders won't stop building the business until they too are getting the residual income they desire. Then, only then, you can think about walking out of the business and still collecting your growing network marketing checks for the rest of your life. So, now you know that getting a lot of prospects to talk to is that very important to long term success. Propecting is the lifeblood of this business. The next question would be "where and how to find the prospects?" Get the answers to this question, and you'll be a step ahead of majority of the not-so-well-informed networkers. There are many ways and places to find and sponsor new distributors. Here are briefly 7 of the unusual ones.

1. Network with non-profit organizations (NPOs) and leverage from their contact lists and activities they organize. If possible, sign up these NPOs as distributors. Their members could possibly join your network through these NPOs.

2. Start a breakfast club of business owners, with the intention to exchange referrals for free. You'll get pre-sold prospects who are more than happy to hear about your business.

3. Use press release to get free exposure about your company. You could send out news about new product launch or news about your company's activities. Make sure your contact info is posted as well.

4. Use catchy headlines to turn ordinary people into eager, hot prospects every time they ask what you do for a living. Your answer could be "I show people how to pick up an extra paycheck from the post box every month, and they don't have to get a second job to do that."

5. Use message boards and forums to post interesting messages to attract prospects. Put signature file, which swiftly tells about your opportunity or products, at the end of your messages.

6. Run sponsoring competitions. Reward your downline who get the highest number of people to join the business or the highest number of guests they bring to the opportunity meetings.

7. Use 'two envelops' method. Ask prospects if they are interested to hear about your opportunity. Give an envelop labeled "INTERESTED" to hot prospects. Give an envelop labeled "UNINTERESTED" to the not interested prospects. Both envelops could contain your company or business information.

There you have it - the 7 unusual but effective prospecting ideas.