Team Training

Dream Team Training -

Opportunity Or Scam?

The Dream Team is a training organization for people in

network marketing and MLM businesses. They claim to be

able to train distributors to add 20 - 30 new people per

week into their downlines.

I have personally interviewed a number of students in the

Dream Team, as well as Terry Duff and Gino Niccoli, the

founders. There are some very real concerns about being

a Dream Team student, and in this article, we will go

through and look at the pros and cons of becoming a

Dream Team student.

• Dream Team - The Bad

The Dream Team provides marketing education and training

to network marketers. They teach how to use the phone,

the internet, and the written word to attract people that

are already looking for your product and service.

Can a distributor add 20 - 30 people per week into a

business? Absolutely. I found that some students were

adding more than that, but the most important thing to

understand is that it is not a walk in the park. It takes

many students 3, 4, some even 5 months to understand

exactly how to apply the techniques to their businesses.

Unfortunately, many network marketers are sold on the

fantasy of just joining a business, and having a couple of

friends or family members grow their downline for them.

The Dream Team does not support this at all, focus on

developing people into entrepreneurs who are willing to

work to get success. They stress that growing a hugely

successful business is not easy, and for network marketers

looking for a "silver bullet", they will not find it with the

Dream Team. It is not a get rich quick type of program,

and it seemed that the students who had the most trouble

were those that expected immediate results with minimal

or no effort.

Also, the education and training is not cheap. Their low-end

package is $699, and their top package rings in at $1,999.

For someone looking for an el-cheapo fix, they will not

find it with the Dream Team program.

• Dream Team - The Good

The best part about the Dream Team is that their education

actually works. That might seem to be expected, but in

this day and age of hype, there is much to be said for

a program that can deliver on its promises.

Their training is based on effective marketing techniques

and methods used by professional marketers, but

customized for network marketing. They pedigree is

impressive, as they appear have learned from very

experienced marketers such as Yanik Silver, Joe Sugarman,

Dan Kennedy, the late Gary Halbert, etc. These

professional marketers routinely charge upwards of $3,000

just for a 4 day seminar, making the Dream Team

education look like a bargain.

In attending an actual class, we found it was a surprisingly

refreshing and honest look at what works in network

marketing. The class was clear, to the point, and full of

actual "meat", good content that someone could use

and apply. So many times, network marketing training

is a bunch of fluff and hype - All sizzle, no steak. They

seem to pride themselves on giving out "steak" - good

information that can used, applied, and repeated.

One of the students I interviewed explained that they

had applied the techniques he had learned to his MLM,

and over the course of 10 months, had grown his

downline to over 23,000 customers and reps, and had

won a number of awards from his company. We also

found some students that had signed up, and though

they enjoyed the training, never really applied it, and

thus, never really got any significant results.

To sum up, the education and training is a good match

for networkers that are sick of chasing their warm

markets, that are willing to work, that have some money

to invest into their business, and that are serious

about becoming successful. For those with the lottery

ticket mentality, this education would undoubtedly be

a complete waste of time and money.