Most people who are running an online business will often frequent social networking sites and related forums. The one problem that occurs from visiting many of these places is that the bottom dwelling online marketers are also at these places collecting your email so they can Spam you. I affectionately call these marketers the carp of the online world. These people get your email address and ruthlessly spam you.

IMPORTANT POINT: Never ever market online this way. If you do, you will without a doubt fall on your face and never be successful in MLM or selling anything on the internet. The worst part about these carp marketers is that do not have a clue about how to market and wouldn't know if they were doing something right or wrong because they haven't been trained.

I am probably safe passing this message around through an article as most of these carp wouldn't be caught dead actually learning something. Training is the best foundation for an MLM marketing education. The courses that helped me to get a good start in online marketing are Magnetic Sponsoring and Traffic Formula 2 that were created by the top online trainer in the industry Mike Dillard. If you want to get started off on the right foot in online marketing these courses are the best place to start. Whether you have some experience or none these training aids ar e great for all skill levels.

Another option to making yourself a game fish and not a carp is to get a coach or mentor. There is a whole slew of people claiming to be the greatest coaches in history, but you can weed through the good ones and the phonys fairly quickly with some research. One of the first things that I did when I began my journey was to get a mentor. I happened across a training course with some of the best search engine optimization (SEO) guys in MLM marketing. Their course was interactive and presented in a way that even this construction worker could figure out. No matter who you use to mentor you, be sure they are the real deal and not out to just take your money.

Now is the time to make a choice of whether you want to be and online marketing carp or gamefish. It has been proven time and time again that the top leaders and most successful people in MLM marketing are those who put a high value on training and education. Do yourself a favor and learn how to lead, how to provide great value, and invest in yourself and you will be in the 3% that are successful in this business.