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Developing mastery in MLM Network Marketing takes discipline and a lot of hard work. There are 5 categories in Network Marketing that you will need to develop mastery in to be successful. They are , Customer Acquisition, Recruiting, Leadership, Team Building and Personal Growth.
The traditional training style of classroom learning, books, CD’s, and seminars offered by the leadership of these companies provides valuable information, but does not equate to success for most people. The “how” is also very important, and interactivity in training helps you learn quicker and retain the information.
It is tough to make an article interactive, however we will do our best here…
In this article we will focus on Personal Growth.
As you grow and develop as a person you become more influential and can therefore attract more high quality business builders to you. Above and beyond any skill you develop, your personal growth and commitment to ongoing education will enhance and solidify every new skill you develop and every habit you refine Personal growth does not always have to be a lot of hard work like many people might think. Every time you openly engage with different books and tools in the market place you will learn about yourself and others. The more you learn about yourself and other people, the more successful you will become.
Question based learning will engage more senses, and increase your retention of the information. We encourage you to use question and game based learning for everything you do.
Here are some interactive questions we have created for you.
Question #1
Why is it good to have a mentor?
A) you can use them as leverage to build your business
B) they are already successful, and can show you how to be successful
C) a mentor can inspire you and help motivate you to succeed
D) all of the above
This question was taken from the Home Business Training tool MLM The Game, think of the answer, re-read the question if you need to, and answer the question mentally. If you like the question, share it with anyone you know in the mlm, network marketing or direct sales business.
The answer to the question is: D) all of the above
Having a mentor will accelerate your success. The reasons mentioned above are some of the reasons why having a mentor will do so. Mentors have learned from being there because they have often been in your position. That knowledge took them multiple years to obtain, and it will transfer to you without the headaches they likely has to experience.
Question #2
Courage is acting…
A) in spite of fear
B) when there is no other option
C) foolishly under pressure
D) to avoid looking bad
This question was created by Clinton Swaine and placed into the MLM training tool MLM The Game, think of the answer, re-read the question if you need to, and answer the question mentally. If you like the question, share it with anyone you know in the mlm, network marketing or direct sales business.
The answer to the question is: A) in spite of fear
Keep going, and keep growing, because it takes a lot of courage to succeed in network marketing. Fear is not something that goes away easily, often times, it never goes away in its entirety. This is normal, feel the fear, and take action anyway, that is true courage. Courage is one of the most honorable character traits.
Question #1
Which of the following is the most powerful way to accelerate your business?
A) get ready
B) take action
C) read motivational books
D) purchase new training tools
This question was taken from the MLM Training tool MLM The Game, think of the answer, re-read the question if you need to, and answer the question mentally. If you like the question, share it with anyone you know in the mlm, network marketing or direct sales business.
The answer to the question is: B) take action
Getting ready, preparing or organizing will not get you anything in regards to acceleration. Reading books is good as well as purchasing new training tools, however the best thing you can do is take action. Concentrate on revenue producing activities to speed up your business.
Whenever you read a book, magazine, or article, get creative and create your own questions.
This is also a fun way to engage your team. This is fun, and it will permanently transfer the information to your brain.For extra fun, you can give away prizes for correct answers when you send out e-mail blasts with your questions, and continue to learn together!
August 27th, 2008
The Health and Wellness Industry is expected to exceed one Trillion dollars by the year 2010. Every network marketer should be considering this growing field.
Do you know the name of the company expected by many industry experts to lead the way for Health and Prosperity in this phenomenal industry?
Here are some clues:
The growth of this company, in its first 3 months of operation, has exceeded the rate of growth experienced by E-Bay and Google in their first year. This company is projected to exceed one BILLION dollars in revenue within 3 to 5 years.
Their product is the only product to ever be endorsed by the Chopra Center for Well-Being. The product was endorsed by the Chopra Center even before the company opened its doors, that is how impressive the product is.
This is the only company which Success magazine has dedicated an entire issue of “Success at Home Magazine” to, before the company was even launched. That shows how impressed they are with the company management and compensation plan.
This company has eight ways for you to be compensated, either part-time or full-time:
1. Fast Start Training Bonus. You are rewarded for training new team members in their first 90 days: Month 1: 40% of PV = $480. Month 2: 30% of PV = $76.50. Month 3: 20% of PV = $51.
Total Reward for 90 days of training: $607.50
2. Fast Start Bonus Pool. Enroll 5 people in 1 calendar month = 1 share in the Fast Start Bonus Pool (5% of the fast start bonus put aside)
3. Unilevel Royalty Bonus. Earn a long-term residual override on all product sales within your entire team. You will be paid monthly on up to 9 levels of dynamically compressed product sales. At 81 people, this would product $1,622 a month. At 729 people you would product $14,015 a month. At its maximum pay out level of 29,523 people this would equal $225,932 MONTHLY residual income!
4. Matching Bonus. You are paid a bonus based on the unilevel checks of the people YOU personally enrolled! You earn up to a 20% match of what they earn. This promotes continued support! For example: They get paid $100,000 and You are rewarded with up to 20% - That is $20,000 a month!
5. Infinity Bonus. Earn up to a 3% override on all product sales outside of your qualified earning levels, infinitely deep within your sales team.
6. All Star Bonus. As a top level executive, celebrate in the success of the entire company with the 3% global All-Star Bonus Pool.
7. Founders Bonus. Once you reach and maintain “7 Star” status - Share in 2% of the commissionable sales for each new market that they open. Continue to share in 1% of commissionable sales for the life of the company.
8. Brand NEW BMW Lease. See below.
OK, so do you know the name of this Awesome company? Is it your company? Don’t you deserve this kind of prosperity?
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August 26th, 2008
It has taken over 5,000 years of waiting… But now, The Perfect health and wellness network marketing company is here.
They have the first product EVER, to be endorsed by the world famous Chopra Center.
They are the first company of any kind to be featured by Success magazine in its own magazine issue before the company was even launched.
In the last 3 months, we have witnessed impressive growth that is exceeding the growth of E-Bay and Google during their first year.
And Now: You get rewarded for your efforts with a lease on a brand new BMW! Get in now, and ride the wave to the next TRILLION dollar industry!
Go to www.ProsperAt.ZFreedom.com/freeBMW to find out more!
August 26th, 2008
Finding A Internet Business For You
A home based business can be a great opportunity. It can provide you with financial freedom, or that extra money you are looking for so that you can enjoy some of life’s little luxuries. A home based business can be your dream come true.
Internet Marketing Uncut can help you achieve your goals. The thing about home based businesses is that there are a lot of them out there in cyberspace. Some of them are good ones, and some are not so great. You will have to do your homework on the various home based businesses available. The good news is that with the huge array of home based business choices out there, it is more than likely that you will find one that is perfect for your needs and suits the skills you have.
A home based business will require work. They do not run themselves. You must put in the effort to make them work and be successful. Every successful home based business owner will tell you that they had to work at their business. It also did not happen overnight. A home based business requires time to grow and become successful. Everyone starts small, and everyone has to start somewhere. So give yourself time to go from a beginner to a success at your home based business.
Another way to find a good home based business for you is to learn from others. Often, people are willing to share their stories about what worked and what did not work for them as they began their home based business. Ask questions, and investigate possible shortcuts. You never know when you will find something that will help make your home based business very successful.
Using a Niche Market
When you begin marketing on the site, where do you start? You know you can’t compete with some of the large companies on the net. Niche marketing is much more effective. Here is some information on choosing a niche.
Analyze what you are selling or what you want to sell. It should be in an area that you know a lot about. It may have wide appeal, but think of those it appeals to most. For example, does your product appeal to musicians? That’s a pretty wide market. Now narrow it down. Who is most likely to be interested, singers or instrumentalists? From there you might want or need to narrow it even further. For example, your product might appeal to musicians of a certain age, or musicians who favor a certain kind of music or even a particular singer.
After narrowing it down as far as you can, think of appropriate keywords. Check with Google to see how many sites come up using these keywords. Next use a site that tracks keyword usage (such as Word Tracker or Overature) to see if there are plenty of users looking for that information. If there are enough potential customers and the competition is low, you may have found your niche.
After you have chosen your niche, try to use it in your website title. This can help your website ranking. Another tool for choosing a niche is to study the competition and find out how to make your site unique.
Look at this Internet Marketing Uncut Review, it will help you. Choosing a niche will help your website stand out. Find one with plenty of potential customers and little competition and you have a very good chance of watching your business grow.
August 26th, 2008
boost search engine ranking - What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
Search engine optimization (SEO) are various methods which are used in order to improve the search engine ranking of a website. So what is search engine ranking? This is the position on the list of results which a search engine return for a given keyword.
Why is search engine ranking important?
The higher your site is on the list of search engine result pages (or SERPs), the higher the likelihood that it will be seen; meaning more traffic for you. The most popular search engine, Google features 10 results per page. Most people don’t look past the first page of results - this is why SEO is so important. If your page is in the top ten results you will get far more traffic than if you were on later pages.
SEO techniques fall under two broad categories, on-page and off-page.
On Page SEO
These are the things which you can do on your actual site to increase your search engine ranking. This generally involves keywords and their use to let search engines know what the content of your site is about. These techniques include the placement of keywords in metatags, alt tags for images, keywords in your HTML header tags and the actual content of your site.
Off Page SEO
These are also related to keywords usage, as well as the creation of back links. A back link is a link on another website which points to your site and are also called inbound links.
Steps You Can Take To Improve Your SEO
1. Always use keyword and description meta tags.
Every page which is part of your website should have its own unique meta tags. These tags are pieces of HTML code which are found near the top of the page when you are looking at the HTML code of a webpage.
For a keyword meta tag, use a comma separated list of keywords which are relevant to the content of your website. These can be phrases as well as single words; just make sure that they are relevant to your site’s content.
The description meta tag is where you should write a description of your site which is compelling enough to make someone want to visit it. This description is used by search engines (including Google) to describe your site. It is not for the search engine alone, it can also be seen by web users and can get them interested enough to visit.
2. Where there are images on your site, there should always be an alt tag.
An alt(short for alternative text) tag is a piece of HTML code which tells people who have images turned off, are using text only browsers or a screen reader what the image which they cannot view is about. Search engines also use these tags to help them determine the content of your site.
The alt tag should also contain relevant keywords and a description of the image they are replacing. Rather than just placing “header” in your alt tag for a heading image, take this chance to help search engines know the content of your site - for instance “birdbaths” if your website is about birdbaths. Don’t overstuff this tag with keywords though.
3. Use header tags wisely.
The header tags (known as H1, H2, etc.) are looked at search engines to find the important keywords are for your website. You can use style sheets to change the appearance of these tags. Instead, use standard HTML for these headers and not style sheets. Then all you need to do is make sure that these header tags contain relevant keywords - H1 the primary keywords, H2 the secondary and so on.
4. Get backlinks with relevant keywords.
You will want back links. All of the back links you can get. This should be an ongoing process as part of your SEO strategy. If you can get a few back links a week, this looks much better than getting 5,000 all at once - since these links will have been bought from a link farm, more than likely. Search engines watch for this kind of activity and penalize pages who use these tactics.
However, there are plenty of other ways to get back links. You can go the traditional route and exchange links with other sites. You can also become active in forums and use your link in your signature. Articles which you write can be submitted to directories, with a link to your site in the resource box. HubPages and Squidoo lenses can be built which include links to your site. You can also start a blog and submit the RSS feed to an aggregator, encouraging readers of your blog to follow suit. Twitter can be used to inform the public whenever you have new content up. These are just a few of the possibilities.
You will also want to come up with some good anchor text for your back links to use when possible. The anchor text is the text which is actually clicked as the link (usually visible by being blue and underlined on a website). Search engines also examine this text to determine the content of your site. Us your main keywords or variations on them - whatever looks more natural on the page while still being relevant to your site. Remember to use appropriate keywords for the specific page on your site which the link points to.
Sometimes you will not be able to specify the anchor text to be used. But when you can, you shouldn’t pass up the opportunity. Reciprocal links between your site and another are a place where you can usually specify the text you’d like used. The other site owner probably won’t mind, since they won’t have to think about what text to use. You also are able to specify anchor text on HubPages and Squidoo lenses, as well as your signature in forum postings.
These are some of the basics of SEO. There is much more to learn of course, but these tips are a good place to start in a SEO campaign. Use these methods until they become ingrained. You’ll see an increase in your page ranking as well as your traffic. Discover Kevin Sinclair’s system for making profits regardless of whether anyone joins your network marketing business.
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August 25th, 2008
Earning With Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Payload
Having A Successful Home Business
Many people think operating a home business is good idea to make some extra money or to provide them with a way to work entirely from home. A home business can be a very lucrative way to make money. A home business can provide you with more income and more freedom with your time.
The key to having a successful home business is to find one that you believe in and that suits your style. For instance, if you don’t like selling things or contacting people face to face or by phone, then you probably need to choose a home business that does not require these things. If the home business is selling a product that you, yourself would not use, or don’t believe in, then it makes it very difficult to make a believable presentation to others.
A home business is not going to run by itself, either. Most successful home business entrepreneurs would tell you that their home business got to be successful by working at it, putting in the time and the energy to make it a success. There is no home business that does not require some work. There are, however, some that do not require a large financial investment by you.
The best way to find the perfect home business for you is to do some research about the many different home businesses out there. This way, you can feel confident that you have chosen a home business that you will be good at and will generate the income you are hoping for.
You’ve probably heard of affiliate programs. Companies use affiliate pograms to sell their products. The most common way for making money online with affiliate programs is through posting a link on your website. When a customer clicks on that link and buys the product, you earn a commission.
There are many advantages to making money online with affiliate programs. Startup costs are minimal. The only money you spend is to promote the product, whether through a website or other means. You don’t actually sell the product, so you don’t spend time shipping the products or money to buy them at wholesale prices, hoping to sell them later. Another advantage is that you don’t have to worry about unsatisfied customers returning the product to you. You can learn how to profit from affiliate marketing from Alex Goad’s latest course: Affiliate Payload.
A good way to start making money online with affiliate programs is to find a subject you are interested in and start a website. After the website is up, find companies that sell this product and register to be an affiliate. They will give you some code to paste in your website. You can use text codes or pictures, but text code seems to be the most effective for converting to sales.
Look at websites in your area of interest. For example, if you are interested in music, look at sites devoted to your favorite musicians. Study them to see how they place ads. Notice your responses to those ads. Some are annoying, but others will make you want to click through. Learn from this and place ads similar to those that interested you.
Starting a website devoted to something you love is rewarding. If you need some extra money, making money online with affiliate programs can be a useful addition to something you already enjoy. If you don’t have any particular interest Alex Goad’s course is a good solution. Read the review on euserreviews.com at Affiliate Payload Review
August 23rd, 2008
Mike Dillard once gave me this advice, check it out:
Free your mind of any limiting thoughts you have about yourself, your abilities, or your financial status.
Start thinking of the number $10,000.
Think about it constantly. Dozens of times per day. Post it on your mirror and use it as the background on your computer desktop.
$10,000 stands for the $10,000 per month in advertising that you are going to spend each month on your business at some point soon in the future. (Not from credit cards, but in cash that is produced from your business revenues!)
The more you think about that number, the more comfortable it will become to you. This is going to program your sub-conscious mind to make $10,000/mo the ‘norm’, in your life.
Pretty soon, you will start feeling extremely uncomfortable that you are not spending $10,000 per month on your business and it is at that moment, that your life will begin to change.
This new discomfort will drive you to achieve that goal and you will not stop until you have the ability to spend $10,000 per month on your business because that is where your comfort zone has been moved to.
NEWS FLASH: It is 100% true… You do not have to spend big bucks to get big traffic any more.
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August 23rd, 2008
Commission Blueprint And Niche Marketing Secrets - A Peek into The Guru Mind and Niche Websites
Niche marketers are constantly searching for answers, and hunger for the Holy Grail to niche marketing. Perhaps what we frequently may ask is what the real big time gurus are doing to their niche websites that make them so much cash everyday that make all of us drool over. What are their niche marketing secrets?
I guess that there are no real niche marketing secrets. Oops…before you jump at me, let me explain. Basically, there are no secrets, but it is just that niche marketing gurus know and do something which we do not know. What do they do really? Here are some elements that explain their niche marketing success behind all niche websites they build.
1. A Good Grasp of Knowledge
Do not be an information garbage bin. The whole internet is flooded with tons upon tons of free reports, articles, blog posts, forum posts and information is everywhere. But marketers just simply cannot pinpoint what works and which niche can be a good one to create profitable niche websites out of it. Too much unprocessed information is digital trash. You really need to brush aside distractions, sit down, think through and get into some action testing out different niches. Some may work, some may fail miserably. But at the end of the day, you would figure out a system that works well.
2. Huge Resources
Niche Marketing Gurus do not do all the work themselves. In fact, some do not work at all. They have whole teams of writers, graphic designers and so on to toil for them. These guys have mastered the concept of niche marketing and are able to work out a system that keeps repeating the proven steps to create tons of profitable niche websites. And they can do so with huge resources to exponentially shoot up their earnings.
Of course, you may whine that you do not have the money or resources to build an empire of niche websites that pump in cash everyday. Well, at the beginning, you may have to get your hands dirty on every task from learning basic HTML to create a blog, learning how to modify a template, how to submit an RSS feed for more traffic and so on.
But as a learning point here, you must always set aside time to think how you can automate each task so that you can have more time to grow your mini empire of niche websites. This can mean hiring people to help you with the content creation, or even investing in automated blogging software that can do the menial and boring tasks for you. With automated tools, you can automate tasks, and achieve much more within the 24 hours you have everyday. You can use that to build more niche websites, or think of more ways to monetize these niche websites. Think about the possibilities!
Let us paint a picture here. Mr Newbie Niche Marketer finally sorts out his thoughts and starts to build 1 niche website a week. And he is diligent in the creation and updating and does that consistently. At the very best, he can only build 4 niche websites every month. And his income sees a small improvement each month. Maybe each website earns him $50 every month. So his income climbs $200 every month. Not bad!
But compare to the Niche Marketing Guru who contracts a software developer to build him automated blogging software that create niche websites on autopilot. With that, he can build 10 to 20 niche websites within a day. So he adds $15,000 to $30,000 every month to his bottom line.
See the difference in the way niche marketing is done?
This is how these Niche Marketing Gurus are making great income while you still struggle with petty income. What if this kind of powerful software is in your hands? Can you imagine how you could get the cutting edge like the guru? Perhaps, you can even become a Niche Marketing Guru yourself one day. Find out how through my niche marketing blog.
Davion is your near-Guru Niche Marketer who uses automated software heavily to grow his empire of niche blogs. Everyone should work smarter, not harder. Steal a peak at his secret niche marketing weapon Niche Empire Generator today! To make a killing with Affiliate Marketing, look at this Commission Blueprint. It will help you make money using clickbank and adwords.
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August 22nd, 2008
Affiliate Payload Review or How to Work From Home With A Home based Business Online
Working 40 hours per week in an outside job, especially in a job that is boring, unchallenging and low pay, can be excruciating and unfulfilling. Especially for parents with small children, it can also be expensive when considering child care; for everyone, traveling fuel costs are also a factor. For individuals such as these, it would be ideal to work from home with a home based business online.
Any parent with small children knows the pain of leaving their impressionable and dependent young ones at day care centers. There is the continual fear of their child being a victim of child abuse or neglect. And there is the fact that no one will raise your child as you would yourself; instilling in them the values with which you were raised. Unfortunately, however, when working outside the home, child care is necessary. Unless, that is, the parent were able to work from home with a home based business online.
Many people trudge to their 9-5 jobs reluctantly each day, hating the very idea of doing their jobs. This is generally because they are unmotivated, unhappy, unchallenged and underpaid for their efforts. These same people are not without talent or skill; they are simply not in the positions they should be to utilize their own abilities, and are therefore discontented with their jobs. For these people, the perfect solution would be to work from home with a home based business online, where they could showcase their own skills in a job of their own choosing.
There are numerous individuals who work very hard to bring in enough money to cover their daily cost of living, but seem to always be living from paycheck to paycheck. While they strive to put some money aside for the proverbial “rainy day”, something continually arises that saps their savings. While they are happy in their daily jobs, the opportunity to work from home with a home based business online could bring in that much needed extra income to help elevate their financial status.
There are some choices to be made when the decision to work from home with a home based business online is made. First to be considered should be what type of income is desired to be made, whether just extra income to help out, or an amount to replace a salary from a full time job. From that decision the second consideration will be derived: how much time will need to be devoted to the online business to earn the money desired.
The advantages of being able to work from home with a home based business online are many. Besides supplementing a regular income, it can also provide a means of keeping a parent at home to raise their children, or it can also rescue an unhappy individual from drudgery and doldrums at a disliked job. Beginning a home based business, tailored to the lifestyle of the individual, can bring a more satisfying and lucrative quality of life to a number of people.
Anireju Atie is a prolific writer and the author of a various topics.
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August 20th, 2008
Have you ever wondered if there was a way to build your Network Marketing business almost effortlessly? Actually attract leads and prospects to you, credit card in hand, ready to join?
Well I just found a great free video series that will help you do just that. It is by my friend Mike Dillard. In this video series Mike explains how you can actually become the hunted instead of the hunter. Attracting leads and prospects to you ready to join.
You will also learn how to actually get paid to prospect and build your business just like all the big dogs do. Getting rid of rejection, leaving you sponsoring only qualified and quality prospects.
You can get this free video series by going to http://homebasedbusiness.magneticsponsoringonline.com
Check it out. It truly is some great information.
August 19th, 2008
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