If you're involved in MLM or Network Marketing, you already know that leads are the lifeblood of your business. Without them, you have no business. So, the most essential business activity that you can be doing each and every day is network marketing prospecting. Looking for people who might be interested in either making some extra money or generating a full time income with a new house based business. In today's economy, you would think that would be pretty easy!

There are a a number of "old-school" network marketing prospecting approaches that you can implement that will generate some results - flyers, business cards, dvds, elevator speech, home meetings. These strategies are feet to the pavement, belly-to-belly marketing that will work but takes many time and you really have to have the right personality to implement these methods successfully. They certainly can work and should not be avoided 100%.

The Top Network Marketing Prospecting Approach

Marketing your network marketing business ONLINE is the top strategy of all of the top MLM'ers today to produce more leads to their trade on a daily basis and online marketing provides a far greater reach. You can deliver your message to thousands each day rather than 5-10 people. What do you think this will do for your business?

Things you can do Now to start to carve out your own piece of online real estate to start your online network marketing prospecting:

1. Create An Online Identity or Brand: This falls into the category of "attraction marketing" and includes establishing a self-hosted blog and having a Twitter and Facebook account. Doing this will ultimately generate leads for you, but at first what it will do is to offer you with some authority. Your prospects will be able to learn a bit about you and you will appear as someone who takes their business honestly. I don't know about you, but someone who I am considering doing business with, I Google them first. If I can not find them on the web, I most probably won't do business with them. It's 2010 after all!

2. Purchase A Domain For Your Affiliate Link: And, mask forward it (you can do this at your domain host very easily). Each person who joins a network marketing business will get an affiliate link to their replicated website (its better to drive online traffic to a lead capture page but you need to still purchase a domain for your replicated website). When you pick your domain name, mask forwarding will let you to name your page and enter keywords for your website. This simple step will put you ahead of the majority of your competition or either do not know to do this or who do not want to expend the $10 for a domain name!

3. Get an Auto-Responder Account: I tell you from experience to do this as quickly as possible. I "wasted" many months online before I received one and had no leads to show for my labors! You'll wish to capture your prospective buyers name and email address so that you can follow-up with them via email. They say that it takes a person seeing an offer 7 times before they buy.

These are just a few techniques that you can get started today to start your online network marketing prospecting. Definitely, there's much to learn but, just by doing these few simple steps you'll leap ahead of much of your competition!