It sounds truly great, but not many people actually believe it can be done. There is a way that you can generate tons of leads and actually make money doing it without sponsoring any of them.
The fact is that most people go about network marketing all backwards. They try to just sponsor a person out of the blue and this is all wrong. Most people won't buy from someone until they trust that person.
In addition, sometimes the timing is just not right for certain people. That is why monetizing your efforts is so important. What I'm about to reveal to you will do that.
This valuable piece of information is called a funded proposal. The idea is very simple but vastly overlooked by many network marketers.
How it works is simply offering a bribe to the potential prospect then backending a product like an e-book or an interview you can sell.
Before I go into that, the first thing you must know is how to set up a capture page. A capture page is basically a single page website with some info and a place where your prospect can "opt-in." Opting in is just signing in their name and email so you can contact them later (lead).
The capture page is what you advertise out to people so if they land on it they have to either give out their information or leave.
So what do you advertise on the capture page? Well you must offer them the bribe, which is something free for giving you their information.
This must be a generic training offer or a free five day course. Maybe on something like "The 5 Biggest Mistakes a Network Marketer Can Make." You would give this five day course out for free on a span of five days.
Now on the backend is where you make you profit as you have already received a lead from the opt-in page. The beauty of this is that you have generated a trust with the prospect through your five day free mini-course.
So what is the backend product? The backend product is something for lets say $19.95. This e-book or interview could just be a bigger version of your five day course. Maybe titled "How I Finally Found Success in Network Marketing."
It needs to be generic with no company names mentioned, however resources are alright. So what happens is the prospect is enjoying the five day course and just craves more information. Naturally at the end of each email you may say a little blurb about your book. However don't just advertise it, make it very subtle.
So that is how you set up a funded proposal. First you make a product and then put together a free course which basically sells the product. This is something called "sellacation." You educate your prospect as you are actually selling them something. If someone learns something they didn't know then you ultimately are of high value to them.
Then after they buy a little product (your $19.99 e-book), they will be much more open to looking at your opportunity. You will get people asking you, "So what program are you in?" When that happens it's true gold because humans are much more open to buy things from someone they have already bought from.
Also, even if the person doesn't buy your e-book you can keep sending them useful information in the form of a newsletter. Keep building their trust and I guarantee they will eventually sign up with you. This especially holds true today because people are just running around saying, "Pick Me" instead of actually building a relationship.
Mike Smith is an Expert Internet Network Marketer. Learn How To EXPLODE Your Business Without EVER Buying a Single Lead! To See How Mike Can Help You Visit: http://www.mikesmithmarketing.com/contact.htm To Subscribe To Mikes Newsletter Send a Blank Email to - smitty248-219045@autocontactor.com
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Internet Marketing Success – 1 Easy Overlooked Technique That Works
The single most overlooked technique in Internet marketing today, in my opinion, is contacting others, communication. If you are like me you probably received some of your strongest back-links just by sending an email and requesting it. If you create and market electronic products you may have gotten mass exposure by contacting Webmasters of sites in your products niche. If you have, please use this article as a ‘refresher’ and get going once again. If you have not then I would suggest that you get started.
A simple, personalized email can really mean a lot when it comes to Internet marketing success. But many people do it all wrong by sending out basic requests etc. It is very important to take a look at the website that you will be requesting a proposition from. Let them know that you have taken an interest in their site and you honestly believe that they could benefit from your link or product. If you have something to offer then go ahead and make the offer. Your Internet marketing business could get a nice boost from just a few positive contacts.
Many people react very positively to personalized messages especially those that come with compliments. If they realize that you really did look through their site and you are honestly impressed; then they may very well accept your offer.
This technique will also build a strong network for you in the Internet marketing community, which is vital to success in this business.
It really does not matter how successful you have become thus far. Any Internet marketer can achieve greater success with a strong network of like-minded people. Please do not chalk this article up as common sense that should be ignored because it really is that important. You will not always get a response but one good response could mean a great deal. When it comes down to it, you will not achieve the greatest amount of success that is possible if you are not sending out emails on a daily basis.
Joshua Spaulding is an Author and Webmaster providing Proven ways to Make Money Online. Joshua also runs a Quality Article Directory where you can Submit your article or Publish other Quality Articles.
A simple, personalized email can really mean a lot when it comes to Internet marketing success. But many people do it all wrong by sending out basic requests etc. It is very important to take a look at the website that you will be requesting a proposition from. Let them know that you have taken an interest in their site and you honestly believe that they could benefit from your link or product. If you have something to offer then go ahead and make the offer. Your Internet marketing business could get a nice boost from just a few positive contacts.
Many people react very positively to personalized messages especially those that come with compliments. If they realize that you really did look through their site and you are honestly impressed; then they may very well accept your offer.
This technique will also build a strong network for you in the Internet marketing community, which is vital to success in this business.
It really does not matter how successful you have become thus far. Any Internet marketer can achieve greater success with a strong network of like-minded people. Please do not chalk this article up as common sense that should be ignored because it really is that important. You will not always get a response but one good response could mean a great deal. When it comes down to it, you will not achieve the greatest amount of success that is possible if you are not sending out emails on a daily basis.
Joshua Spaulding is an Author and Webmaster providing Proven ways to Make Money Online. Joshua also runs a Quality Article Directory where you can Submit your article or Publish other Quality Articles.
Have You Got The Viral Virus?
To make viral marketing effective, you must produce a free information product that is of such good quality, it is passed around from person to person without you having to personally give it to these people, or even know who they are. This is how ‘viral’ marketing got its name - simply because good information, just like a virus, is easily passed on from person to person.
Viral marketing can take many forms, such as e-books, articles, video-clips and white papers, just to name a few. Basically, the number one rule is that you are offering something of value free of charge to your audience. This concept seems to work very well with the Internet, since the main reason people all over the world use the Internet is to seek information on topics they are interested in.
We know that viral marketing is only successful when the information being passed on is useful or valuable, but why would anyone want to give away free information? The question is what is in it for you, as a marketer, to give away free stuff? While you are giving away free information, you are also adding some links in the information for people to follow.
By adding these links, you are promoting your business and people who click on your links are targeted traffic or interested in the products or services that you are promoting. So even though you are giving away free information, you are promoting your business and driving targeted traffic to your website or affiliate links.
Additionally, you are also making a name for yourself as a marketer who is knowledgeable on the products and services that you are promoting. Not many people will buy directly from a stranger. But by getting your name out over the internet, people will begin to accept you as a reliable person who genuinely wants to be helpful, as well as make an income.
Other reasons why you may want to use viral marketing is to create valuable back links that will help to boost your page rank and page link popularity, making you easier to find in the search engines. You are also able to build an opt-in list from a successful viral marketing campaign. By creating a mailing list, you are able to promote your products to targeted people who want to receive information on your products and learn more from your vast experiences.
There are a few tips that you may want to consider before going ahead with your viral marketing campaign to make it really successful, apart from creating something that is valuable and likely to be passed around from person to person.
Make sure that you create the free information used for your viral marketing campaign easy for others to distribute. If you make files that are too large, difficult to download or don’t have links that allow people to duplicate or pass the information on to their friends, your efforts will more than likely be wasted. So take the time to make your free information easy to pass around by others.
Even though you are making your viral campaign with the sole purpose of promoting your business or products, make sure that you don’t go overboard with the things that you are promoting. You don’t want to make it seem as though you are thinly disguising a sales pitch. By all means, promote your products, but just don’t go overboard. One or two links is sufficient.
Viral marketing can also be used to promote your affiliate links through e-books or free content, with your affiliate links included in the body of the text. The same sort of rules apply with creating a free information product aimed at affiliate marketing, such as making sure that your links are not too overpowering, making you seem pushy. Your affiliate links also need to be relevant to the information that you are providing.
Any online marketer who wants to promote their business, products or affiliate links should consider the benefits of viral marketing. If you find that you are already busy or don’t have the time to invest in writing quality content to promote your business, delegate your writing and research to others. Start off small to test the waters, even one good article designed to attract a large audience can spread like a virus over the internet and benefit you greatly.
Author Alan Richardson is the owner of Home Business Software where you can find a great collection of software designed with the internet marketer in mind,from web page design to multimedia toolkits,through to list building software.Find out more at http://www.homebusinesssoftware4you.com/
Viral marketing can take many forms, such as e-books, articles, video-clips and white papers, just to name a few. Basically, the number one rule is that you are offering something of value free of charge to your audience. This concept seems to work very well with the Internet, since the main reason people all over the world use the Internet is to seek information on topics they are interested in.
We know that viral marketing is only successful when the information being passed on is useful or valuable, but why would anyone want to give away free information? The question is what is in it for you, as a marketer, to give away free stuff? While you are giving away free information, you are also adding some links in the information for people to follow.
By adding these links, you are promoting your business and people who click on your links are targeted traffic or interested in the products or services that you are promoting. So even though you are giving away free information, you are promoting your business and driving targeted traffic to your website or affiliate links.
Additionally, you are also making a name for yourself as a marketer who is knowledgeable on the products and services that you are promoting. Not many people will buy directly from a stranger. But by getting your name out over the internet, people will begin to accept you as a reliable person who genuinely wants to be helpful, as well as make an income.
Other reasons why you may want to use viral marketing is to create valuable back links that will help to boost your page rank and page link popularity, making you easier to find in the search engines. You are also able to build an opt-in list from a successful viral marketing campaign. By creating a mailing list, you are able to promote your products to targeted people who want to receive information on your products and learn more from your vast experiences.
There are a few tips that you may want to consider before going ahead with your viral marketing campaign to make it really successful, apart from creating something that is valuable and likely to be passed around from person to person.
Make sure that you create the free information used for your viral marketing campaign easy for others to distribute. If you make files that are too large, difficult to download or don’t have links that allow people to duplicate or pass the information on to their friends, your efforts will more than likely be wasted. So take the time to make your free information easy to pass around by others.
Even though you are making your viral campaign with the sole purpose of promoting your business or products, make sure that you don’t go overboard with the things that you are promoting. You don’t want to make it seem as though you are thinly disguising a sales pitch. By all means, promote your products, but just don’t go overboard. One or two links is sufficient.
Viral marketing can also be used to promote your affiliate links through e-books or free content, with your affiliate links included in the body of the text. The same sort of rules apply with creating a free information product aimed at affiliate marketing, such as making sure that your links are not too overpowering, making you seem pushy. Your affiliate links also need to be relevant to the information that you are providing.
Any online marketer who wants to promote their business, products or affiliate links should consider the benefits of viral marketing. If you find that you are already busy or don’t have the time to invest in writing quality content to promote your business, delegate your writing and research to others. Start off small to test the waters, even one good article designed to attract a large audience can spread like a virus over the internet and benefit you greatly.
Author Alan Richardson is the owner of Home Business Software where you can find a great collection of software designed with the internet marketer in mind,from web page design to multimedia toolkits,through to list building software.Find out more at http://www.homebusinesssoftware4you.com/
How To Make MORE Money From Your Online Business?
The key to selling more online is to treat your online business like the old corner store. Offer products that people want. Gurus call this "niche marketing." Search the keywords that people use in the major search engines. Join forums and see what questions people are asking. Offer programs - or develop your own information products - that help people solve these problems. This works. I've done it.
Get customers to visit your store repeatedly. Gurus call this "list building." When a customer visits your site, get his or her name and email address. Change the content of your site, and keep sending emails to your list, so they have an incentive to return. Offer them free stuff to come back. This works, too. I've done this, too.
I was looking through the "eWork" folder on my Desktop, and I looked at the sub-folders in there, containing the various free eBooks I have downloaded. I have sub-folders called "Traffic Building," "List Building," "Copywriting," "Web Design," "Direct Email," "Viral Marketing," and on and on and on.
And I have ONE sub-folder called "Customer Relationships." And it contains ONE eBook. Because I wrote it. Because gurus DON'T.
Oh, they tell you - in EVERY eBook called "30 Days To MILLIONS!" or some other such title - that you need to establish a relationship with your clients by sending them 5, or 7or 9 emails, written BY you, with YOUR personality. And you need to do SURVEYS and POLLS, to see what your customers want. And you need to send out a NEWSLETTER or an eZine, to keep your customers interested and reminded that you still exist.
Wouldn't it be EASIER just to TALK with your customers? Back and forth? Like a conversation? Think about it. Have you ever become friends - or trusted - someone who only talked TO you, and never WITH you?
Don't JUST build a list. A list is bunch of email addresses. Build a COMMUNITY of people - REAL people - who talk TO you and WITH you, AND with each other. Once you get to KNOW your customers - and they get to know you - you will know EXACTLY what they want, and they will know where to go to get help with their problems.
ERIK CARTER maintains "Start Your Life NOW!" (http://StartYourLifeNOW.bravehost.com), dedicated to helping you IMPROVE all areas of your life, including turning your list into a COMMUNITY to improve your marketing efforts, as well as the FITNESS Portal (http://fitnessportal.bravehost.com), focused on making fitness seamless with your life, and "Aggressive Pleadings For The Non-Custodial Father" (http://dadpleadings.bravehost.com), for fathers who want to RAISE their kids, not just visit them.
Get customers to visit your store repeatedly. Gurus call this "list building." When a customer visits your site, get his or her name and email address. Change the content of your site, and keep sending emails to your list, so they have an incentive to return. Offer them free stuff to come back. This works, too. I've done this, too.
I was looking through the "eWork" folder on my Desktop, and I looked at the sub-folders in there, containing the various free eBooks I have downloaded. I have sub-folders called "Traffic Building," "List Building," "Copywriting," "Web Design," "Direct Email," "Viral Marketing," and on and on and on.
And I have ONE sub-folder called "Customer Relationships." And it contains ONE eBook. Because I wrote it. Because gurus DON'T.
Oh, they tell you - in EVERY eBook called "30 Days To MILLIONS!" or some other such title - that you need to establish a relationship with your clients by sending them 5, or 7or 9 emails, written BY you, with YOUR personality. And you need to do SURVEYS and POLLS, to see what your customers want. And you need to send out a NEWSLETTER or an eZine, to keep your customers interested and reminded that you still exist.
Wouldn't it be EASIER just to TALK with your customers? Back and forth? Like a conversation? Think about it. Have you ever become friends - or trusted - someone who only talked TO you, and never WITH you?
Don't JUST build a list. A list is bunch of email addresses. Build a COMMUNITY of people - REAL people - who talk TO you and WITH you, AND with each other. Once you get to KNOW your customers - and they get to know you - you will know EXACTLY what they want, and they will know where to go to get help with their problems.
ERIK CARTER maintains "Start Your Life NOW!" (http://StartYourLifeNOW.bravehost.com), dedicated to helping you IMPROVE all areas of your life, including turning your list into a COMMUNITY to improve your marketing efforts, as well as the FITNESS Portal (http://fitnessportal.bravehost.com), focused on making fitness seamless with your life, and "Aggressive Pleadings For The Non-Custodial Father" (http://dadpleadings.bravehost.com), for fathers who want to RAISE their kids, not just visit them.
How To Avoid Internet Marketing Misery?
Every day you can read stories about people who have made a fortune online. Being an Internet entrepreneur is clearly attractive. You can work at home, you can choose your own hours and, so it seems, you can take truckloads of cash to the bank.
Yet in spite of the successes we hear about, most people who try their hand at being an Internet entrepreneur fail. They buy all the ebooks and audio CDs that contain the instructions from the "gurus". They attend teleseminars, Internet marketing conferences and even sign up for one-to-one coaching programs. Yet, in spite of the thousands they spend on their own education, they still don't make the millions their mentors achieve.
So why is that? Why is it that only a tiny proportion of would-be Internet entrepreneurs actually make the grade? It's been estimated that only 2% of people who try their hand at Internet marketing succeed. The rest keep trying, without any real success.
The factor that marks out the top entrepreneurs from the rest is one of attitude; that's all. What the millionaire online entrepreneurs do is treat the entire activity as a proper business. They have meticulous plans, they engage in detailed market research and they monitor every aspect of their online work so they can improve on their results each day. In other words, the top Internet marketers don't just "play at it"; they take it very seriously.
Yes, some of them don't work full time. But when they do work, they work hard. They don't just tinker at things, trying an email campaign here, an advert there and the occasional request to add a link to their web site. Instead, they have specific targets they wish to achieve and then they write detailed plans about how they will go about achieving that.
Furthermore, the successful Internet entrepreneurs are focused on what they do. They don't try and sell one ebook today, an audio on a different subject tomorrow and a report on something else next week. While they may have several different products, they will focus their efforts, one at a time.
If you are trying to make money online and don't have the same success as your Internet marketing heroes you could try the following:
1. Focus on what you really want to achieve
2. Choose just one product or service
3. Set targets for your sales on an annual, monthly and weekly basis
4. Work out the ways you will reach those targets
5. Do one thing at a time in your list of activities designed to achieve your targets
6. Monitor your results and adapt your work accordingly
7 Learn from what you achieve and use that knowledge in future projects
Working on just one product at a time may seem time consuming, but it will pay dividends in the long run.
Graham Jones is a psychologist who has investigated the way people use the Internet. His research can help you make the most of the Internet, particularly if you are hoping to make money online.
Yet in spite of the successes we hear about, most people who try their hand at being an Internet entrepreneur fail. They buy all the ebooks and audio CDs that contain the instructions from the "gurus". They attend teleseminars, Internet marketing conferences and even sign up for one-to-one coaching programs. Yet, in spite of the thousands they spend on their own education, they still don't make the millions their mentors achieve.
So why is that? Why is it that only a tiny proportion of would-be Internet entrepreneurs actually make the grade? It's been estimated that only 2% of people who try their hand at Internet marketing succeed. The rest keep trying, without any real success.
The factor that marks out the top entrepreneurs from the rest is one of attitude; that's all. What the millionaire online entrepreneurs do is treat the entire activity as a proper business. They have meticulous plans, they engage in detailed market research and they monitor every aspect of their online work so they can improve on their results each day. In other words, the top Internet marketers don't just "play at it"; they take it very seriously.
Yes, some of them don't work full time. But when they do work, they work hard. They don't just tinker at things, trying an email campaign here, an advert there and the occasional request to add a link to their web site. Instead, they have specific targets they wish to achieve and then they write detailed plans about how they will go about achieving that.
Furthermore, the successful Internet entrepreneurs are focused on what they do. They don't try and sell one ebook today, an audio on a different subject tomorrow and a report on something else next week. While they may have several different products, they will focus their efforts, one at a time.
If you are trying to make money online and don't have the same success as your Internet marketing heroes you could try the following:
1. Focus on what you really want to achieve
2. Choose just one product or service
3. Set targets for your sales on an annual, monthly and weekly basis
4. Work out the ways you will reach those targets
5. Do one thing at a time in your list of activities designed to achieve your targets
6. Monitor your results and adapt your work accordingly
7 Learn from what you achieve and use that knowledge in future projects
Working on just one product at a time may seem time consuming, but it will pay dividends in the long run.
Graham Jones is a psychologist who has investigated the way people use the Internet. His research can help you make the most of the Internet, particularly if you are hoping to make money online.
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