You’ve probably heard the term duplication thrown around a ton of times if you’re involved with, or have looked into network marketing.  It’s a term that’s used very loosely, but has such importance that’s it’s almost scary that it’s not solidified even more-so within the industry.

Duplication in network marketing is basically the foundation of any hope for success, and definitely any hope of the passive residual income that we’re all so intent on earning.  In case you didn’t know by the way, that’s why you’re in network marketing, for the passive residual income.

But, the fact is that the main obstacle that stands in your way of passive income versus simply exchanging time for money is duplication.  Or more definitively, helping your downline duplicate your efforts and success, in order to build their organization, which therefore increases your income.

You see, without your downline growing their business, your business doesn’t grow like it’s supposed to, no matter what compensation plan your opportunity operates under.

This is the magic of the system, but can also be the doom of the system as well.  The reason, because most of the time in network marketing, it’s like the blind is leading the blind.  Upline sponsors who have no clue what they’re doing, usually because either their upline has no clue, or because they don’t listen to their upline and proceed in the duplication process. In other words, they’re trying to re-invent the wheel.

Now sometimes re-inventing the wheel is a good thing and new ways of recruiting are discovered, but if you’re new to the business, then to build quickly and hugely, you need to duplicate the efforts of your upline.  And as touched on, you need to look upline from them and be sure that they’re actually doing the same.  It’s a process that once broken, often means the end of an organization.

The best way to ensure duplication is by having or tapping into a system that makes it a total streamline process.  This means that everything is done the same way, over and over again, and can easily be followed by your downline immediately.

These days, most systems include some sort of online marketing tool since most people have access to the internet, or else a multi-media tool like a DVD or a CD for people to listen to.  Then there are group conference calls to plug into, and the three way calls with your upline.  These are standard in most good duplicable systems.  The best ones have a system to drive prospects smoothly along the process, which is as hands off for the network marketer as possible.

This is because you want to get yourself out of the system as much as possible and let the tools do the work for you.  This does two things.  It gives you more time to prospect and take care of your downline, and lets your prospect see that it’s just as easy for them as well to run their business.

Network marketing takes a lot of effort and time to begin, but the better the system that you get involved with, the better off you’ll be, and the higher your passive residual income will begin to skyrocket.

If your direct sponsoring upline doesn’t seem to be plugged into a system, then do your best to go upline from them as high as it takes to get hooked up with someone who does have a duplicable system.  If you’re not involved in network marketing yet then find a team that has a system in place and can help you set it up most effective and efficiently.

Your income potential depends directly on your duplication system.