It's an interesting fact that when you do a search for "recruit a friend" in Google, the results that come back on page 1 focus mainly on the video game World of Warcraft. Yet, those of us in internet marketing know that the satisfaction and success we get with the recruit a friend concept is very similar. When you refer a friend in a game you get something from it. When you recruit a friend for an MLM program, you get more... money.

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Let's give credit where credit is due. If gamers know the importance surrounding the recruit a friend scenario, shouldn't internet marketers know it and use it, too? The simple yes is the correct answer, but it's the doing that is difficult.

In the context of internet marketing, one of the first steps many of us take is to reach out and attempt to recruit a friend into our program. This can become tiresome for most since how many time can you ask the same person or persons to join a program? How many times does the "just recruit a friend" really work for you?

That's when you need a professional. Of course, you could pay a large company to supposedly handle your recruit a friend scenario for you. What you receive, most likely, is a list of absolutely useless leads - even if the company claims they collected only targeted individuals. It's still a mess and here's why:

o  Unless the signee actually visits the page, sees what is in it for him or her, and fills in the boxes themselves, the "leads" you pay for are going to be time wasters and money drainers.

Your best bet of course is finding a person willing to work with you to make a program grow. Signing up under the right leadership takes the recruit a friend to a whole new level.

So we have established that you can only recruit a friend so many times before it becomes tedious to your "friend" and they just stop listening to you altogether. So why not think outside the box and allow a professional to find you a field day of new ways to recruit new friends for you?

The key, of course, is choosing the right person willing to help you. Too often you will discover, once it's too late, that the person in your upline is concentrating only on increasing their bottom line. Signing up under a selfish individual is not going to provide you with the assistance you need.

Joining a program with a professional is the only way to go. I'm constantly getting the word out, using the recruit a friend strategy, for those who follow my lead when it comes to useful, usable, necessary, affordable programs. Specializing in strategic methods, your affiliate link becomes part of a personalized process.  The idea is for everyone to succeed, not just a few.

Joseph Cotroneo is a professional paid signups closer specializing in helping those in his downline. Discover which program Joseph recommends (it's under $10) and rest assured, under the right individual, the recruit a friend method will be used to help you gain paid signups of your own.