KISS - How To Do well In Your MLM Business

How do you run a booming MLM business?

Have you ever stopped to ponder over what will guarantee the achievement you want and need in your home business?

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

Now, McDonald’s and Subway are not network marketing companies, but the principles behind their success can find relevance in the home business arena.

Apart from the food, what comes to your mind when you think of both McDonald’s and Subway?

Every McDonald’s outlet is similar to every other McDonald’s outlet in operation and so many other facets. In the same way, every Subway outlet is comparable to every other Subway outlet. These businesses are run with one thing in mind; Keep It Simple, Stupid! The KISS Principle.

When you walk into any McDonald’s or Subway outlet, anywhere in the world, you are assured that the business can be (and most likely is) run by young people; and by young, I am referring to people just nearing the age of twenty.

Now, for major companies like these, that’s definitely keeping things simple.

If these businesses can be as successful as they are, and have their franchises that easy and straight-forward to run, there must be some clues there for you.

A Network Marketing Success Example from McDonald’s and Subway

McDonald’s utilizes systems that are simple, duplicable and proven. These systems do not require a rocket scientist to figure them out, apply them and find success with them. This is the secret to success with McDonald’s and Subway.

McDonald’s and Subway franchises have in place, systems that are so simple that the majority of people can comprehend and implement them.

While you’re building your MLM business, what kind 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 without difficulty, and finding success with them in their Network Marketing home businesses?

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

A Successful MLM Business Makes Use Of Systems.

Whether you run your Home business leveraging the internet or offline, to have 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 succeed in their home businesses. Since multilevel marketing is a business based on leverage, this will impact on your success.

You must have systems in place, for:
1. Generating leads
2. Building rapport with your leads
3. Exposing your business opportunity to your prospects
4. Teaching your prospects to do the same

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

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

If 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 franchises, as some would undoubtedly lose their personality in the ensuing chaos.

With network marketing, your brand is important, but the recipe to success is duplication, and duplication thrives where you keep it simple 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 Home Based business? Do you run your Home business with the help of systems?


Systems are an essential element in your network marketing success. Michael Makahamadze is an online home business owner, who utilizes SEO, Copywriting and Sales strategies in a systemic way, in building his mlm business. These strategies, he shares with other home business owners.