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Feeds for Online Marketing Strategy [Online Marketing Strategies for Your Business ] 1. The Veretekk Marketer Seminar Looking for a powerful way to market your business online? Join us this Friday, May 11 at 12 noon PST for a free webinar during which we will spend a considerable amount of time exploring the Veretekk Market Manager and why we built it and what it means to you. A Marketing Manager position in a top rated Ad Agency runs around $300k to $500k per year to hire. Marketing Manager positions usually require a total knowledge and understanding of the job of managing the magnitude of contacts, developing strategic relationships, handling the ongoing job of running ad campaigns, accessing the data of every campaign and being able to determine the effectiveness of each campaign. Not to mention a 6-year Masters degree in Marketing. So we built one. We built the equivalent of a Marketing Manager into the V2 Market Manager. It does just about everything a live human Marketing Manager does except it doesn't require sick leave or two weeks of vacation pay. This "Market Manager" aka "The Platinum Control Panel" has significantly evolved since we first developed it. Originally developed to manage multiple Veretekk systems it has come a long way and if you have one or have considered getting one come to this webinar. Being a Platinum Control Panel owner myself, I can testify that there is no other online marketing system today that comes close to what you can do with this system. If you want to market like the big corporations, you owe it to yourself to attend this webinar and find out more. To join the webinar; simply go to http://brincom.veretekk.com just before noon PST on Friday May 11. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see the place where you can enter your name and join the conference. Hope to see you there! Bill Brine 2. Online Marketing Strategy As you develop and implement your online promotional strategy, one of your areas of focus will be to create quality backlinks for your website. Backlinks are like votes for your website - the more links to your site that Google discovers, the more valuable it looks in the eyes of the search engine spiders. There are many ways to create backlinks. Following are the ones that I concentrate on:
It is important to have a good backlink strategy in place. And it is also important to build backlinks slowly over time. But it is actually quite easy - just produce some good quality content on a regular basis, and always be sure to include a link to the site you are promoting.
Bill Brine Videos | Conference Room | RSS | Contact Me 3. Online Marketing Strategy When designing your online marketing strategy, there are many items to consider. The first, and in my mind, the most important consideration, is to change your mindset. Marketing is not all about blasting ads and writing articles and blog posts to get your information out there. Marketing is all about the entire process of researching and promotion. Before you can effectively market anything, whether it be online or offline, you first need to understand who your target market is, why they would need your product or service, and where they would go to find out more about that product or service when they need it. You also need to understand your competition, What value can you add to make people buy from you rather than from them? How good are they at reaching the target market? How well have they branded their name? What avenues are they using to promote themselves? Sounds like a daunting task, and it is. This is why large businesses spend many millions of dollars and years of research before they launch a new product or redo their promotional strategies for existing products. Its also a big factor in why 95% of online businesses see no success. Its a lot of work! Until now, the bringing together of all this data to design an effective marketing strategy and to carry it out was problematic for us online business owners. There are many many ways to gather the data, many different services to which you have to subscribe, and no integrated system for bringing the data in one place to analyze it. Besides which, you need a degree in marketing to make it work! That is about to change, and very soon. Recent innovations in the Veretekk Automated Marketing System make it clear that within a few months, Veretekk will become a full-blown Internet Marketing Agency. Veretekk Gold subscribers who upgrade to the Platinum Control Panel will have at their disposal the online equivalent of all the resources of a traditional ad agency, including the training and tools necessary to research, design and launch very powerful online promotions for any business. It's an exciting time to be a Veretekk Gold subscriber. Even with the system not fully implemented yet, members are already seeing very significant improvements in their Alexa rankings and their search engine placements as they start using the new tools. Of course, being a Veretekk Gold subscriber, I am biased. But I've been through trying to use all the other so-called promotional techniques that are out there. Yes, it was a lot of work! Yes, it did work to an extent. But believe me, you will not find anywhere a fully-integrated promotional powerhouse like Veretekk! Contact me today, and I will be glad to give you a tour and work with you to design a promotional strategy for your business. Bill Brine Videos | Conference Room | RSS | Contact Me 4. Online Marketing Strategy One of the basic things you need to do when marketing on the Internet is to produce good quality content on a regular basis. This serves 2 purposes: you brand yourself as an knowledgeable person in your niche, and you generate backlinks as you distribute and syndicate the articles that you write. Of course, once you produce the content, you need to place it somewhere on the Internet. For most struggling online entrepreneurs, Wordpress is the system of choice. It is relatively easy to set up, and it is easy to configure and to create posts. But is it the best choice? Perhaps not, Let's look at some of the cons: Security Problems Did you know that there are over 14 Million entries on Google about how to hack a Wordpress blog? The Wordpress system is constantly being updated to keep ahead of all the hackers out there. So, if you're operating one or more Wordpress blogs, you have to constantly keep applying the updates, or you run the risk of having your blog hacked. A Wordpress update will usually trigger an update to one or more of the plugins you use, so now you have to update those as well. Sometimes plugin updates will conflict and your blog will stop working until you can figure out the problem. Now this may not seem to be a problem when running one or two blogs, but as your business grows you will be running multiple blogs. The more blogs you own, the more time it will take you to apply any new Wordpress or plugin updates. That is time that could be better spent doing keyword or market research, or producing content. Plugins and Themes Did you know that every time you add a plugin to your Wordpress blog or a theme that you have downloaded, you are providing free advertising for the person or company that produced that plugin or theme? Even Wordpress itself has many built-in ways that it advertises and links to Worpress.org. That's probably the main reason it has become so popular. I don't know about you, but I prefer to be paid when I advertise for someone else. This can be resolved by inspecting the PHP files of the plugin or theme and removing or replacing all the links. Of course, this is time consuming, and the next time you update the theme or plugin, you'll have to do it again. Performance Wordpress blogs use lots of resources on a hosting server, and as you add more plugins the speed at which your pages load will decrease. This is because the pages in the blog are rebuilt from multiple database queries each time the page is accessed, unless you add more plugins to cache the database queries or the most requested pages. Google looks at page loading speed as one of the factors by which it ranks pages, so it is important to pay attention to this. So what is a serious business owner to do? You need a system to store and syndicate content that is secure, fast, and has none of the problems associated with Wordpress. Using the vast assets available to me in my Veretekk Gold system, I am starting to do just that. I have started to move away from Worpdress, and I am seeing much better website rankings, increased security, and much less maintenance. I think its great! Contact me for for details about the Veretekk system. Bill Brine Videos | Conference Room | RSS | Contact Me 5. Online Marketing Strategy Online Marketing StrategyWhen you think of marketing, what do you think about? Most online business owners think they can mount an effective online marketing campaign by doing some cursory keyword research to see if there is a possibility they can conquer some keyword phrases in their chosen niche, and then start writing content and designing web pages to tackle those keywords. This is their marketing strategy. But there is much more to marketing than that. An online business is a real business, and just like a brick and mortar business, you need to do indepth market research before you can even think of designing an effective marketing strategy. Just look at the large well-known companies out there. They spend millions of dollars doing market research. Ask any market research firm and you will find out that designing any effective marketing campaign can take months, if not years, to complete. And so it is online. Fortunately for us online business owners, we can do very indepth research without having to spend lots of money. There are many avenues you need to explore when doing market research online:
Sounds like a daunting task, doesn't it? It can be, but if done correctly, you will easily conquer your competition, because most online business entrepreneurs don't take the time or put in the effort to really create an effective marketing strategy. And even more important, this sort of research should be done even before you join a business opportunity. Do this correctly, and you will be very successful online. Do it incorrectly, or not at all, you will join the 95 percent of online businesses that struggle to make ends meet.
Bill Brine 6. Promotion And Marketing Using LinkedIn The Power of LinkedIn Yesterday at our regular Tuesday Platinum Control training session, our marketing manager Burch Hamilton digressed a bit and gave us some incredible training on the SEO power you have at your disposal when you create a LinkedIn account, and especially when you set up keyword-specific groups. Did you know that the LinkedIn domain has an Alexa ranking of 14? Wow! Talk about promotional power. With a low ranking like that, any links you place out to your websites are going to be highly regarded by the search engines. There was a small group in attendance, and together we explored the details of setting up a LinkedIn account, how to set up and manage groups, and how to use those groups very strategically to get high search engine rankings on your chosen keyword phrases. To me this training was invaluable. The recording is now available in the back office for those of you who are Gold Veretekk members. Another example of the hard-hitting, informative and educational trainings we have come to take for granted in Veretekk. To those of you who are Silver Veretekk members, what are you waiting for? For the small price of $1.65 a day, you have at your disposal the most powerful and integrated promotional system on the Internet, as well as a dedicated team of serious marketing professionals who are willing to share their knowledge with you. Upgrade today and we'll help you every step of the way! Not a Veretekk member yet? I'll bet you're working a lot harder than you need to, and are not seeing the results you want to see. Come join me at Veretekk and start building a real business. Overview of Veretekk: http://billbrinevideos.com/veretekk-overview.php Bill Brine 7. Time Efficient Promotion How Much Time Do You Spend Promoting Your Business? Do you want to work harder, or smarter? There have been times in my Internet career where I have put in 16 hour days, week after week, month after month for years. Yes, it produced results, but it was sure a far cry from the freedom that we all crave when we start our online businesses. Sometimes it felt like I had just found myself another job. That was until I found Veretekk. Then the whole picture changed. I learned how to work smarter, not harder. Last Saturday, I attended an incredible presentation by our Marketing Director, Butch Hamilton, where he showed us how, with the Veretekk system properly set up, you can do everything you need to do to promote your business online in about an hour a day. It was an eye-opener, even for me. Write an article, submit it using the Veretekk assets, and you immediately launch a whole series of backlinks from some very powerful aged domains, as well as promote it on various social sites. That's it, you're done for the day and can go on to other things. Amazing! I was very surprised to see that only 30 or so other Veretekk owners were there. You have to wonder about all the other Veretekk Gold subscribers. Perhaps they're so busy blasting out the same thing over and over again that they're not interested in learning how to properly and efficiently build a real business on the Internet. Me, I'm all about saving time and doing powerful promotions that actually produce some results for the long term. I never miss any of these sessions. The training is now available in the Veretekk back office, for Gold members only. This is just another example of the hard-hitting, no-nonsense and informative trainings that are available 24/7 as part of the Veretekk system. Even just this one training would be worth the $54.95 a month upgrade fee. Why is it that so many online business owners spend upwards of 16 hours a day desperately trying to promote their businesses? I think its a combination of things. No-one has told them there is a better way. So-called gurus are always trying to sell push-button solutions, when it is true that you can't buy the solution. People who are trying to make money online are short of cash, and unable (they think) to afford the powerful tools they think they need to do effective promotion. And they don't really understand how marketing works in the first place, The list goes on and on, and the poor online business owner is left struggling, working many hours a day doing things that probably will not produce long term results. If you're on that list, perhaps its time to re-evaluate your approach to business. You need to take a step back and rethink your approach to marketing. For an overview of what the Veretekk system can do for you, come watch my video: http://billbrinevideos.com/veretekk-overview.php And you can contact me if you'd just like to discuss your marketing strategy. Bill Brine Home Business Coach and Mentor 8. Time Efficient Promoting Using The Veretekk Automated Marketing System 9. NCD Wellnesceuticals Review NCD Wellnesceuticals is a new company in the Network Marketing scene. It entered its pre-launch phase on January 18, 2012. The company was formed out of the vision of a team of scientists and a very progressive laboratory who have built a very reputable worldwide brand by selling exclusively to doctors, naturopaths, and customers who continue to buy from them on a monthly basis. They are now bringing over all of these resources to combine them in a single distribution channel, using a Network Marketing business model. 10. An Easy Way To Build Backlinks 11. Home Small Business Marketing Strategies There are many useful strategies, all free, which you can use to increase sales and traffic for your home small business website. Click Here for 10 tips which will get you thinking. 12. Cost Reduction For Home Small Business As a home small business owner, you are no doubt on a very limited budget. All those great internet ideas for doing free things have turned out not to be so free after all, right? Well there are ways you can reduce your costs. Click here for some great tips on how to do just that! 13. Online Marketing Tip - Wordpress Author Feeds Wordpress TipI just came across an interesting tidbit of information that you may find useful. If you are using Wordpress blogs to publish websites, you most likely know that each Wordpress blog has a built-in RSS feed. The URL of your blog RSS feed will always look like this: http://blogname.com/feed/ One of the uses of this RSS feed is to submit it to any online RSS Feed aggregator site you may find. There are lots of them around. You only have to do this once for each feed. This is another way to get the search engine spiders to index your sites again and again. But did you know that if you are posting to a Wordpress blog where you are not the only author, that Wordpress also provides a feed for just the posts authored by you? Here is what the URL for your author feed would look like: http://blogname.com/author/yourauthorname/feed So using this you can pick out just your posts and get them added to any RSS feed aggregator sites. For example, I am a contributing author to this blog: http://creativewritingfortheinternet.seoexperttechniques.com My username there is businesscoach, so here is the RSS Feed for my posts: http://creativewritingfortheinternet.seoexperttechniques.com/author/businesscoach/feed/ And, of course, by hyperlinking my feed here, the spiders will revisit all my content on that blog when they see this article posted somewhere else... My short online marketing tip for today! Bill Brine 14. Onlline Marketing Strategies Driving More Traffic To Your Web Site Using Internet ForumsUsing forums to boost visitors to your web site is a tried and tested online marketing method used by numerous webmasters. It doesn't matter what niche your site is in, because there will commonly be at least one relevant forum you can use. The best sources of traffic will be the larger more popular Internet forums and you should use various forums to get more visitors. This article will explore the best ways to use forums that will help drive traffic to your websites. What you are doing when you use forums to market your site is to attract visitors from two different areas. The first source of traffic to your site originates from within the online forum itself. People will come across your link and if it is intriguing there is a good chance they will click the link to look at your site. This is a traffic source that will be interested in what you are marketing since they belong to a forum that focuses on your niche area. The next way to build more traffic is that whenever you make a comment on a forum or ask a question, you will be building links to your site which will help you get better search engine rankings. Now you only need to find forums related to your niche and join as many as you can. Still, you will want to be active on these forums so just join as many as you can be active on. Once you join the forums you will want to create your forum profile and leave a link in your profile pointing back to your website. A good means of bringing your profile backlinks to the attention of the search engines and into their indexes is to ping all the urls of your forum profiles. The next thing you will want to do is to set up your signature on the forum and include keyword targeted links pointing back to your site. This way when you leave a comment your link will automatically be added to the comment in the signature. However, you will have to realize that some forums will not allow you to add a signature until you have made a certain amount of comments, usually 10, but all forums will require different amounts. See to it that you become an active member in each of the forum discussions that you're a member of and continue logging in every day. This way you will not run the danger of being seen as a spammer but you will create an increasing number of backlinks for the search engines to find and more link exposure to other members of the forum. Forums can have good search engine rankings for internal website pages which means your links may be viewed by a lot of other individuals searching the web who are not forum members. By becoming a regular contributor to forum discussions you boost your credibility as some sort of expert on the subject which will encourage people to follow your links and learn more. Even better, start your own discussion on a relevant topic and provide good, useful information. Other forum members who have in interest in the topic will be glad to jump on board and join the discussion. The real key here is to promote yourself as an expert, rather than promoting your product as the greatest thing since sliced bread. Even your links should point to an informational website and the anchor text should not be promotional in nature. Some forums will ban you if they think you are promoting a product, but I have not come across a forum yet that will ban you if you are promoting yourself! So consider adding this strategy to your online marketing strategy. It can bring highly targeted visitors to your business. Until next time, Bill Brine 15. Online Marketing - Think Local Online Marketing - Think Local Over the last couple of years, there has been a significant increase in the number of products devoted to becoming successful in local marketing. Sometimes we as online marketers forget that there are many businesses right in our own town who will pay us to use our expertise to help them build their businesses. Take a look around the town or city where you live. What can you offer to your local businesses? You'd be surprised. Up until a couple of years ago, I never even considered my local businesses. I was busy wrting articles and generating traffic to my websites, and interacting with clients and prospects all over the world. At the same time, I was building up a repertoire of knowledge and expertise that is invaluable to small business owners ('brick and mortar' businesses), who are always looking for ways to expand their business. They've heard of the internet, but they are too busy running their business to learn much about it. They have some vague notion of setting up a website, but they really don't understand the value of having a good website well-positioned in the search engines to target those keywords that will bring in customers. Just think of all the things we have all learned while building our online businesses:
And the list goes on. Now think about this for a moment: each and every one of these skills is of tremendous value to small business owners in your community. Presented properly, you can drum up tons of local business who will pay you to do things that are second nature to you, but for which they are mystified. In any business, its always a good idea to have more than one stream of income. Yes you do have a global business, but think about promoting yourself locally as an internet consultant. Sit down and think about how you would like to offer your services to a local business. Get involved with your local Chamber of Commerce. Join any local business networking groups. Offer advice at every opportunity. And make sure you have a great answer to the inevitable question "So what do you do?" Food for thought? I think so! Until next time, Bill Brine 16. Online Marketing - Patience Is A Virtue Online Marketing - Patience Is A Virtue When you start marketing your website online, do not expect instant results. So many of my clients and the people I am mentoring expect to see their website at the top of Google after just a few days of starting a campaign. Not going to happen! I remember a new Gold member in my Veretekk system just a few months ago: I trained him on how to use one of our services to generate quality backlinks to his website. So he did that, and called me the next day wondering why he could not see any of these backlinks in Google! Now that is simply an unrealistic approach. SEO is an art as well as a science, and, like anything of value, takes time to mature. How quickly your website ranks for the keyword phrases you are targeting depends on any number of factors, such as:
You get the idea! There are so many factors involved that no-one can predict with any accuracy how soon your site will start to get ranked highly in the search engines. You may see results in a week, You may not see results for many months. The point is to continue promoting. Produce good relevant content and distribute it constantly to the right places and you will see results. I've been an online marketer for many years, and I rarely check the rankings of my sites. I don't need to, because I know that the techniques I use and teach, work and work well. How do I know when a site is doing well? That's when I start getting calls and emails from people interested in what I have to say, or, in the case of sites employing Adsense, Ebay, Amazon or some other affiliate product, when I start to see some sales. I see so many marketers who worry and fret about how well their sites are ranking. No need to panic, I say! On the Internet, slow, easy and persistent will win the race. Simply do something to promote yourself and your business every day and you will be rewarded. It make take a few weeks or even a few months. Be patient! Until next time, Bill Brine 17. Online Marketing: Are You A Complainer Or A Profiteer? Online Marketing: Are You A Complainer Or A Profiteer? It seems that almost every week someone in a forum somewhere is lamenting the 'end of online marketing' due to some change in the online business environment. Google made an algorithm change? "Oh no, that is the end of all affiliate marketing!". Twitter suddenly banned thousands of users? "Oh no, that's the end of using Twitter for online marketing!" Amazon no longer allows affiliates from this state? "Oh no, how is the little guy supposed to make any money?" Granted, many of these are most likely so-called 'gurus' who are preparing to sell you their next latest and greatest 'secret' to making money. Some are new business entrepreneurs who are looking for some direction. And of course there are those who just like to complain. Personally I never pay much attention to such things. What do I do? I keep promoting myself and my sites... Online business is in a constant state of flux, and you have to learn to roll with the punches. It is so easy to get caught up in self-pity or panic about the latest change, and to throw up your hands in defeat. But you know, if you take a step back, you'll see that someone, somewhere always has something to complain about. For sure, it is not as easy these days to build an online business. I can remember the days when you could get Adwords clicks for one cent, and send those to any website you chose. Or you could create crappy sites and stick Adsense on them and make some income that way. Those days are gone forever. But there is some good news as well: there are many more tools and strategies available now that make the process of marketing your business online much easier. Its still a lot of work, but if you do it right, as I can teach you, you can see predictable results. Online marketing is a great opportunity, and it will always be in a state of change. That's the nature of the beast. But that should not stop you from working on your business and promoting it properly. Realize this: the complainers are busy complaining and doing nothing to build their business, while the doers are getting their sites ranked for relevant keywords. So don't ever buy into the latest panic. Do what I do: keep building and promoting. If you provide good, keyword-specific and relevant content, you are giving the search engine spiders what they want, and they will never penalize you for that. I have a large network of sites in many different niches, and I have never been affected by any Google algorithm change for more than a few weeks. Give the spiders what they want and they will love you for it! Bill Brine 18. Creative Writing For The Internet Creative Writing For The Internet Today, August 27 2011, is the completion of our first week in attacking the keyword term creative writing for the Internet on Google. Its amazing to see how our team already owns this term on Google, out of over 100,000 competing pages and in such a short time. It just shows what results concentrated effort can produce. All we've done is write keyword-specific articles titled properly, and there we are on the first page. Is this going to make us any money? Probably not, but the important part is that we each have started to brand ourselves as an expert on this keyword term. Someone somewhere may see one of our articles, will like what they read, and will contact us for more information. That's how you build a real business. Provide information that make the customers want to find you. This week has been a journey of discovery for me personally. I must admit I had fallen out of the habit of writing every day - there are so many things that take your attention when running a business that its easy to lose sight of what's really important. Now I'm back on track, and am committed to creating something of value every day. Along the way I've learned some very valuable tips from our mentor, Butch Hamilton. Like how to make any blog very keyword-specific. Like how to edit your blog template so that you are promoting only yourself and no-one else. Things I had not thought of before. Writing articles about yourself and your business is the most important task you can accomplish to build your business. This begins the process of branding yourself. If you want people to do business with you, they first have to trust you. The more good content you have out there, the more chance that someone who is looking for what you offer is going to read the article and contact you for more information. There's no way around it - you have to do the work or you will not be successful in today's Internet business world. If you want to learn how to do this correctly and with the least pain, come join us on our little team. There's always room for more, and you'll be in a supportive environment where you can learn from your mistakes and get free training from the top SEO guru on the Internet today. Contact me and I'll set you up! Bill Brine 19. Creative Writing - Your Point Of View Creative Writing - Your Point Of View Again this morning, I was not sure what to write on the topic of creative writing for the Internet, so I did a Google search again and came across some interesting information about how the point of view from which a story is written can have a big impact on the success of a story or novel. While this was aimed primarily at fiction writers, it got me thinking about how we can apply this to our online endeavors as Internet business authors. One important element of your creative writing business projects is the A disclaimer: this is purely based on my own experience. There are no doubt many authors of Internet articles who will disagree with me. You need to find out what works for you. Point of view is the perspective from which the article is to be considered. When you are writing an article about yourself, you should be using the First Person - use pronouns such as "I", "We", "me" and "mine" quite a lot. You will notice that I do that a lot in my writing. I find that it makes my writing more personable if I refer to myself as "I" or "me" rather than by my name when writing articles such as this. Now on the other hand, if I were writing a Press Release, I would write it as if I were being interviewed by someone, so I would refer to myself as "Bill Brine" or "Mr. Brine". The Second Person, in the context of my creative writing, is the use of 'You" to refer to the person reading the article. If I am looking for information on a topic, I have found that articles that refers to me, the reader, as "you" or "yours" have more of an impact than when the article is written more generically in the Third Person to refer to the reader as "He", "She", "One", "the reader" or "dear reader". I try to craft all my articles as if I were talking to someone face to face. If you were talking to someone, you would use 'you' a lot (unless you knew their name). So why not do the same with your writing? Now of course there are situations where you would want to use Third Person to refer to the reader. Again, I go back to Press Releases, which I write as if I were being interviewed or as if I were an objective reporter simply reporting on this world-shaking event. In this case I would use Third Person. The key here is to make your articles as personable as possible. You will often hear it said these days that "people do not join businesses, they join people". The more personable you make your articles, the more people will begin to trust you. If you have some interesting quirks, let those come through occasionally. Your readers will like that sort of thing. I hope you have found today's article useful. As usual, if you have any questions, contact me. Bill Brine 20. Learn Creative Writing For The Internet Learn Creative Writing For The Internet Today in this ongoing series about creative writing for the internet, let's talk about how to learn to write creatively. If you do a Google search for creative writing, you will find lots of online courses, some free, that will teach you to be a creative writer. All of these are deisigned for authors who wish to produce novels, short stories, poems and the like. While these may be of some use to us as internet authors, we need a little more direction. Our job as business creative writers is to produce quality, keyword-relevant content that informs, teaches and mentors. This requires a different mindset from those authors who wish to produce novels and short stories. In exploring the results of my Google search, I was unable to find any existing programs to teach this sort of writing. Of course, my search was not exhaustive - there may be such programs available. But you get the point. So what's a person to do? Well, it is precisely for this reason that Butch Hamilton, Director of Marketing for Veretekk, and an acknowledged SEO expert, has launched his multi-week program to teach us exactly that - how to write creatively for the internet. The first session last week was very eye-opening and defnitely worth your time. You can see a recording of that session here: http://butchhamiltonvideos.com/creative-writing-for-the-internet. If you're struggling with how to write creatively for your business, I highly recommend you make plans to attend these sessions. The sessions run for an hour on Saturday afternoons at 2 PM PST, and you can register by going here: http://butchhamiltonsconferenceroom.com/webinar-invitation/ I hope to see you there! Bill Brine Home Business Coach and Mentor Generate Premium Leads For Your Business Learn How To Build An Online Business Ph: 902-667-0511 Email: brine.bill [@] gmail.com Skype: billbrine Office Hours: 9AM-6PM EST 21. How To Get Started With Creative Writing How To Get Started In Creative Writing In my last article about creative Internet writing, I showed you one way to get started on this important process. Getting started is important. Keeping going is even more important. If you don't do something every day, the process of creative writing will certainly not become easier over time. You have to keep yourself motivated, especially if you dislike writing like I do. If you're keen, its easy to jump straight in and start writing: just don't be too disappointed if your first efforts aren't as good as you'd hoped. The important thing is to get in the habit; your quality will improve over time. And even your worst efforts are still of some value to your readers and to the search engine spiders. I recommend starting small. Don't aim for a 500 or 1,000 word article. Produce some 300 word articles, or write some classified ads as I suggested my last article. There are days when you will end up chewing your pen and staring at a sheet of paper, or gazing at a blank screen for hours. If that happens, you can try kickstarting your writing with a short exercise of some sort, just as I did when I started this article today. I was not sure what I wanted to write about, so just out of curiosity I did a Google search for creative writing and found a great blog which had lots of articles that gave me ideas. This article was the direct result of that search. Don't stop to think too much about it ... just get going, without worrying about the quality of the work you produce. Creative Writing Tips And Tricks For Newbies Here are some more ideas for improving your writing ability:
So get out there and get those creative juices flowing! Bill Brine 22. How To Get Started With Creative Writing How To Get Started In Creative Writing In my last article about creative Internet writing, I showed you one way to get started on this important process. Getting started is important. Keeping going is even more important. If you don't do something every day, the process of creative writing will certainly not become easier over time. You have to keep yourself motivated, especially if you dislike writing like I do. If you're keen, its easy to jump straight in and start writing: just don't be too disappointed if your first efforts aren't as good as you'd hoped. The important thing is to get in the habit; your quality will improve over time. And even your worst efforts are still of some value to your readers and to the search engine spiders. I recommend starting small. Don't aim for a 500 or 1,000 word article. Produce some 300 word articles, or write some classified ads as I suggested my last article. There are days when you will end up chewing your pen and staring at a sheet of paper, or gazing at a blank screen for hours. If that happens, you can try kickstarting your writing with a short exercise of some sort, just as I did when I started this article today. I was not sure what I wanted to write about, so just out of curiosity I did a Google search for creative writing and found a great blog which had lots of articles that gave me ideas. This article was the direct result of that search. Don't stop to think too much about it ... just get going, without worrying about the quality of the work you produce. Creative Writing Tips And Tricks For Newbies Here are some more ideas for improving your writing ability:
So get out there and get those creative juices flowing! Bill Brine 23. How To Get Started With Creative Writing How To Get Started In Creative Writing In my last article about creative Internet writing, I showed you one way to get started on this important process. Getting started is important. Keeping going is even more important. If you don't do something every day, the process of creative writing will certainly not become easier over time. You have to keep yourself motivated, especially if you dislike writing like I do. If you're keen, its easy to jump straight in and start writing: just don't be too disappointed if your first efforts aren't as good as you'd hoped. The important thing is to get in the habit; your quality will improve over time. And even your worst efforts are still of some value to your readers and to the search engine spiders. I recommend starting small. Don't aim for a 500 or 1,000 word article. Produce some 300 word articles, or write some classified ads as I suggested my last article. There are days when you will end up chewing your pen and staring at a sheet of paper, or gazing at a blank screen for hours. If that happens, you can try kickstarting your writing with a short exercise of some sort, just as I did when I started this article today. I was not sure what I wanted to write about, so just out of curiosity I did a Google search for creative writing and found a great blog which had lots of articles that gave me ideas. This article was the direct result of that search. Don't stop to think too much about it ... just get going, without worrying about the quality of the work you produce. Creative Writing Tips And Tricks For Newbies Here are some more ideas for improving your writing ability:
So get out there and get those creative juices flowing! Bill Brine 24. Creative Writing For The Internet Creative Writing For The Internet In yesterday's article about creative writing, we looked at some of the reasons why people shy away from creating good quality content for the Internet, even though this process is the key to effective promotion of their websites on Google or any other search engine. There are many reasons why you need to get into writing content on a regular basis:
So how do you get started? Well, here's a challenge I have for you that will get you on the right track. As you will see, this is easier than you may think.
If you want to build a successful, profitable and sustainable business on the Internet, you need to learn to be focused, to write good content, and to work hard at it. You will not see overnight success, despite what the 'gurus' would have you believe. Over time, with concentrated effort and focused direction, you can generate whatever level of income you are willing to work to achieve. One word of wisdom: don't try to do it alone. Find yourself a good mentor or coach (like me...) or join a great team of like-minded people who can give you direction. Online business these days is all about relationships and contacts. Stay tuned for more articles about Internet marketing, and creative writing. Bill Brine 25. Creative Writing For The Internet Creative Writing For The Internet In yesterday's article about creative writing, we looked at some of the reasons why people shy away from creating good quality content for the Internet, even though this process is the key to effective promotion of their websites on Google or any other search engine. There are many reasons why you need to get into writing content on a regular basis:
So how do you get started? Well, here's a challenge I have for you that will get you on the right track. As you will see, this is easier than you may think.
If you want to build a successful, profitable and sustainable business on the Internet, you need to learn to be focused, to write good content, and to work hard at it. You will not see overnight success, despite what the 'gurus' would have you believe. Over time, with concentrated effort and focused direction, you can generate whatever level of income you are willing to work to achieve. One word of wisdom: don't try to do it alone. Find yourself a good mentor or coach (like me...) or join a great team of like-minded people who can give you direction. Online business these days is all about relationships and contacts. Stay tuned for more articles about Internet marketing, and creative writing. Bill Brine 26. Creative Writing For The Internet Creative Writing For The Internet Creative writing for the Internet! What goes through your mind when you read this phrase? Do you cringe in fear thinking about how you are ever going to come up with good quality content day in and day out? Or do you like writing and are ready to tackle your latest project? If you're like most people I know, you shudder at the thought of coming up with new relevant content on a regular basis. Look, we all know that creating unique good quality content is the key to building an online business these days. But it does not have to be an onerous task. If you really know your business, you will always have something to share with your customers and prospective clients. Share your thoughts, your ideas, even what's happening in your life. If you're stuck for ideas, there are plenty of places online where you can do some quick research. Here's one idea I use: I subscribe to news feeds for many of the areas in which I am interested. Then when I see something that peaks my interest, I will put together a quick article about my perspective or opinion of what is being talked about and share that. Here's another idea: I use Private Label Rights services to deliver regular articles in areas for which I want to produce content. I DO NOT post the articles that are delivered; rather I use them as idea generators and heavily modify them to add my own touch. This can often done very quickly, and sometimes I even learn something in the process! There are also many simple to use techniques to help you create good quality articles quickly. Contact me and I'll show them to you! The key here is to get out of the 'promote my affiliate program mindset'. That simply does not work anymore on today's Internet. Online Business now is about relationships. People join people, not businesses. Promote yourself and your expertise and you will have success. Bill Brine Office Hours: 9AM-6PM EST 27. Web Conferencing Just a reminder about our free webinar about web conferencing today.... Web Conferencing Web Conferencing can become the center of your online business. Without a doubt, using our state of the art web conference room system by Vereconference can make the difference between your business succeeding, or failing. Consider the following:
Want to learn more? If you are not sure what web conferencing is all about or how it could help you, then come to Butch Hamilton's Veretekk training room today, Saturday, 8.06.2011 at 3 PM PST. Login to your Veretekk backoffice, click on Veretraining, bring up the calendar and join us! Don't have a Veretekk system? Grab a Silver system for free (click here) and join us. No worries, as soon as you sign up I will be in touch to help you get oriented. We never leave anyone on their own in Veretekk! We will be covering all aspects of the Vereconference room, plus ideas and suggestions on how to promote your web room to others. For complete details on The Veretekk Corporate Blog, click here. Come to our live webinar today, and learn how you can begin to approach your business from an entirely new level! Regards, Bill Brine 28. Web Conferencing Web Conferencing Web Conferencing can become the center of your online business. Without a doubt, using our state of the art web conference room system by Vereconference can make the difference between your business succeeding, or failing. Consider the following:
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conferencing is all about or how it could help you, then come to Butch
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8.06.2011 at 3 PM PST. Login to your Veretekk backoffice,
click on Veretraining, bring up the calendar and join us! Don't have a Veretekk system? Grab a Silver system for free (click here) and join us. No worries, as soon as you sign up I will be in touch to help you get oriented. We never leave anyone on their own in Veretekk! We will be covering all aspects of the Vereconference room, plus ideas and suggestions on how to promote your web room to others. For complete details on The Veretekk Corporate Blog, click
here. Come to our live webinar on Saturday, and learn how you can begin to approach your business from an entirely new level! Regards, Bill Brine 29. Home Business Customer Service Today in my blog I've published an article about the lessons we all can learn from a very poor customer service experience I had this morning. Do take the time to read this and see if you can relate. You can read this article by clicking on the link below: Best Regards,
Bill Brine 30. Affiliate Marketing Secrets One of the easiest and fastest ways to make money online is through affiliate marketing. This is when you send visitors to a product sales page that is owned and managed by someone else. They make the sale and deliver the product, and you get a percentage of the sale price as your commission (usually 50% or more for digital products). What Are The Benefits?
What Is The Downside?After all your hard work of generating traffic to the sales page, you will never see any of those visitors again. Most of them will not buy on their first visit, which means you're losing over 90% of the traffic right off the top. And of the 10% or less that do buy, the product owner will be able to sell to them again, but you will not.What Is The Solution?Simply put, you need to capture the name and email of your visitors before sending them to the product sales page. This way you can follow up with them and keep sending them back to the sales page to increase your chances of making the sale. And if you are really on top of your game, you'll then send to a pre-sales page in between.Here's what these affiliate marketing strategies will do for you:
All of this together increases your chances of making the sale by up to 500% so it's well worth the effort of setting it up. And once it's set up, it runs automatically - you just keep sending visitors to the squeeze page. If you do not have the time or expertise to set it all up yourself, you can use something like Affiliate Silver Bullet. Services like this design the entire system (the video, the video squeeze page, the email series, the content pages, etc). The benefit is that it's much less expensive then you could do it yourself, and it's instantly set up. The downside is that other people will be using the same affiliate tools as you. But the internet is pretty big, so this isn't much of a concern. The other route you can take is to hire people on Elance to create and implement the various aspects for you. Either way, it's an important step that you need to take if you're going to be serious about your affiliate marketing business. Affiliate Marketing can be a lucrative and exciting business, if you know what you're doing and are willing to put in the work. 31. Supplemental Income Tips: How Good Is Your Website Content? The Importance Of Content To Your Business If you are currently marketing your business online and have not put a great deal of thought into the content on your website, you may be making an incredibly costly mistake. The content on your website is invaluable for a number of reasons: First Impressions Your content gives visitors to your website their first impression of your business and the products and services you offer. If the copy is poorly written, does not hold the visitors attention and does not promote your products and services very well, visitors are likely to exit your website without making a purchase and will probably never back. Conversely, if the copy on your website is well written, engages the reader and promotes the products and services you offer, the visitor is more likely to investigate the website further to learn more about the products and services and may make a purchase. If they like what they see, they may return in the future for more purchases. Well written content can be instrumental in selling your products and services to your potential customers. The sales copy should accurately describe the products or services offered, stress the importance of these products and services and compel the visitor to make a purchase. All of this should be done without appearing to be blatantly advertising the products and services. Writing this type of copy can be quite complicated and typically requires hiring a sales copywriter who is experienced and skilled at writing this type of informative and persuasive content. Sales copy written by an amateur or an inexperienced writer will not likely be as effective as copy written by a professional with a great deal of experience in Internet marketing. Increasing Your Market Share The content on your website can influence the size of the target audience you are able to reach by helping to improve your search engine rankings. Internet users are typically looking for information quickly and want immediate results to their inquiries. Search engines understand this profile and write complicated algorithms which help them to supply the most relevant websites when a user searches for a particular word or phrase. This is important to you as business owner because Internet users realize the value of search engines and are likely to only visit websites which rank well in the search engines. Most visits are made to the sites which rank in the top 10 results. Your business might sell football jerseys and you may have a well designed website, a superior inventory and excellent prices, but if your website does not rank well in search engines you are missing out on a great deal of free advertising. If your website lands on the third page or lower most visitors who search for relevant terms will not likely visit your website because they will have found what they were looking for on earlier pages. This is where the content on your website becomes important. Websites containing content which has been optimized for particular keywords will likely rank well with search engines. Hiring a writer skilled in writing optimized content can help to improve your search engine rankings so you can reach more potential customers. With your content capable of doing so much, it is clear that you should be putting a great deal of effort into creating that content. Get some ideas by studying other sites in your market that appeal to you. If you have the budget, hiring a professional content writer to assist you writing the copy for your website could be one of the best investments you have ever made. Whatever you decide, do not underestimate the importance of well-written, engaging and informative content to your home business success. Lear how to write effectively, and make sure you keep the content updated as things change in your market. To your online success,
32. Supplemental Income Tips: Why Articles Are The Best SEO Tools If you are marketing anything online, you will need a website. And if you want people to find your website, you will need to use many different tools and strategies to improve your ranking on search engines and drive traffic to your website. One of the best search engine optimization (SEO) strategies is writing and submitting articles. Let's examine why: 1. Article writing is a powerful SEO strategy. It allows you to use many keywords and phrases that apply to your niche. If you know all your essential keywords, you can use them in your articles. Your keyword-rich articles will get picked up by the search engines. Eventually, if you do a good enough job of creating and distributing lots of great articles, when people surfing the internet search for these keywords, your website will appear in the results pages. 2. All the articles that you write are stored and archived on the directories in which they are published. Your articles can be read by anyone and can still drive traffic to your website, even years after the articles were created. Articles bring long term results. 3. Articles create back links to your website, which improves your website popularity rank and ultimately drives large volumes of traffic to your website. If you write high quality articles, your articles will get published by many websites and e-zines, which will add high-quality backlinks to your website. 4. Articles are affordable. Writing and submitting articles is not expensive. You can write your own articles, you can hire a ghostwriter, or you can use one of the many online article writing services. You can manually submit your articles or you can use some software to automatically submit your article to many directories and blogs. Generally, use of articles to improve your position on search engines is not expensive and anyone can afford it. Writing and submitting articles is arguably the best strategy for improving the ranking of your website on search engines. If you want to succeed in SEO, it is important that you write and submit articles on a regular basis. The articles do not have to be overly long or complex. Just present good, useful information that is of relevance to your target market, and do so consistently. I personally write at least one article every day, and use the Veretekk Marketing System to distribute the content to huge numbers of blogs, portals, forums and other content distribution points to build up a large volume of good content and backlinks. Go get out there and start writing! To your online success,
33. Supplemental Income Tips: 7 Ways to Manage Your Business Contacts Your clients are the number one reason why your business exists. So once a customer uses your business, how can you keep them coming back for more? The secret is simple: keep in contact with them, and give them reasons to come back to your business. Each business is different, so you will want to look at what will work best for you. Here are a few ideas you can use to keep in contact with your clients: 1) Make sure you always collect some sort of contact information from your clients. Otherwise, you will have no way of contacting them. You can do this in a number of ways: - get customers to sign a guestbook Once you have a list of clients, you will be able to contact as often as you wish. 2) If you add a new product or service, or expand your business in any way, inform your clients first. You can achieve this a few ways: - If you have a newsletter, include it in your newsletter. 3) Start a website if you don't have one. Provide information about your business, and other information such as tips and articles that are useful to your clients. Your customers will appreciate this service. Don't forget to have some sort of opt-in form on the site so you can collect their email addresses! 4) This one is simple: write thank you notes to your clients. A handwritten thank you note shows the client that you truly appreciate their business. If a client feels that they are appreciated and welcomed, then chances are they will come back to your business before doing business with one of your competitors. 5) The use of marketing materials can keep you in contact with your clients. You would be surprised how much impact a simple pen with your logo and phone number can do. Other marketing materials include: magnetic business cards, key rings, and notepads. These marketing materials are typically fairly inexpensive, and can be ordered in mass quantities. 6) Discount coupons are a great way to bring your customers back. Will 10% off hurt your business, especially if it means that client will come back? You may want to mail these coupons out, or supply a code for use upon checkout if you have an online business. 7) Consider starting a referral system. A referral program will not only get your previous clients to come back, but it will also help you obtain new clients as well. For example: for each referral, you could give the client a 10 dollar gift card to use in your store. Be careful not to give out cash, as this may or may not be used for products or services for your business. I hope these 7 ideas will spark more creative ways to help you glean contact information from your clients. To your business success, 34. Supplemental Income From A Home Small Business Learning about Internet Marketing If you are building an online business then you will need to learn about internet marketing. Internet marketing is not overly complicated and is a very important component of your overall marketing strategy. If you wish to implement Internet marketing into your overall marketing strategy, you need to carefully study the basic principles of Internet marketing before launching any online marketing campaigns. Researching Internet marketing online is one method which can be used for learning more about this topic. This type of research can be very informative and can provide you with a great deal of advice and other information. However, it can also provide you with a great deal of misinformation. When researching any subject online it is very important to note that not all of the information available online is accurate. This is due to a variety of factors. Some content is written by those who do not have a great deal of knowledge about the subject matter. Some content which was written years ago and is outdated. You need to be cautious about accepting information as gospel. Always verify your info if you can. Published books are another valuable resource for learning more about Internet marketing. There are a variety of books available which focus on this subject and provide a wealth of useful information. When selecting a book for use as research material it is important to seek out a book which received independent reviews which were positive. It is also important to seek out books which were published recently. This is important because the Internet marketing industry is evolving continuously and a book that was published only a few years ago may be outdated and may lack information on some of the new developments in the industry. The appeal of using published books to learn about Internet marketing is you can keep the books on hand for easy reference when you launch your Internet marketing campaign. Here are a list of my current favorites: You can learn a great deal about Internet marketing simply by studying successful Internet marketing campaigns. Try my Internet marketing blog at BillBrineMarketing.com for some great starter tips and some free ebooks on all aspects of internet marketing. If your business offers products and services in a particular niche, consider entering relevant terms in popular search engines and studying the websites of some of the highest ranking businesses. This can provide you with a great deal of insight into what these business owners are doing which may be contributing to their success. Examining everything from their website design to their search engine optimization strategies and even the content on their website can help you to determine why they are more successful than you. You should also consider how they are marketing their website which may include banner ads, affiliate marketing programs or other types of advertising. Armed with this information you can take the opportunity to implement changes to your own website and marketing strategy which may help you to gain a greater degree of success. Do not plagiarize, however: care should be taken to not copy anything directly from your competitors. Try to emulate their degree of success in your own way. To your online success, 35. Supplemental Income From A Home Small Business - Advice and Suggestions 4 Critical Ways To Generate Traffic To A Newly Created Website So you've just set up your business website and you're ready to start making some sales! In order to make those sales, though, you will need to drive high volumes of traffic to that website. There are many ways to get traffic to your website. In this article we will explore four important steps you must follow to start generating some traffic to your website. 1. You will need unique content on your website. Search engine robots look at all websites on a regular basis looking for sites with fresh and new content. You need to have fresh and high quality content which will get your website quickly indexed by search engines. There are many ways do generate this content. You can write it yourself, you can research PLR for your niche, you can hire someone to do it for you, or you can utilize one of the many online article writing services. Whatever you need to do, get it done! Fresh unique and informative content will be a central component of driving good targeted traffic to your site. 2. Research your niche and pick a few of the best keyword phrases that people are using to find products or services like yours. Don't guess at what you think people might be searching for. Once you have chosen your keyword phrases, make sure that you have all the relevant keywords and phrases that relate to your topic on your web pages and any articles you post on your website. This will increase your website ranking on search engines, which will drive more traffic to your site. When people visit your website, the high quality content you have will make people spend more time on your site and ultimately buy some of the products or services you offer on your site. 3. Because your website is new, you must submit it to search engines. The search engine robots will find your site eventually, but they will find it much more quickly if you tell them it exists. Here are 3 simple way I get the robots to notice my sites: - Submit your URL to Google at http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl 4. Exchange some website links with websites that have a high page rank (PR). Exchanging links with popular and related websites is an effective way to drive traffic to your website, and improve the raking of your site. You will get some traffic coming to your website through other websites that you have linked to. This is something you will need to do on an ongoing basis, perhaps a few times a month. By following the tips outlined in this article, you will start to see an increase in traffic to your website. Don't expect this increase to be immediate, though. The search engine robots will tend to visit your site many times before they deem it worthy to appear in the search engine results pages. Eventually, you will start to see a trickle of traffic, after which you can really start ramping up your efforts to get your site noticed, through the many techniques which are available such as article marketing, blogging, paid advertising such as Google Adwords, building backlinks, etc. But those are techniques for other articles. For some great tips on promotional techniques, check out this blog: Supplemental Income Tips. Stay tuned for more advice soon, and good luck with your efforts to generate supplemental income. To your online success, 36. Supplemental Income From A Home Small Business - Advice and Suggestions Supplemental Income From A Home Small Business 5 Tips To Make Blogging Easy When marketing your home business on the internet, one of the tasks you will no doubt be doing on a regular basis will be writing articles about your business and your products. For most marketers, this will mean creating and maintaining a blog to help drive traffic to your website. Many bloggers, including myself, find it difficult to blog regularly. There are some people who just love to write; I will admit I am not one of them. In order for your blogging to be effective, you will need to add fresh content to your blog on a regular basis, preferably daily. Looking at that blank screen and wondering what to write can sometimes seem like an onerous task. Here are five ideas to help make the process of blogging easy: 2. Blog about a wide range of things that relate to your niche. Think about any information relating to your niche which your website visitors will be interested in seeing on your blog. Identify the sub-niches in your niche and write about those as well. You should never run out of ideas on what to blog about. 3. Invite your blog visitors to leave some comments relating to your posts and your niche. This is an easy way of getting unique content on your website. The more interaction you allow on your blog, the more content you will have on your blog. Do be sure that you moderate comments and have some spam protection in place so that you only get relevant content! 4. Research the key questions and issues that people in your niche are interested in, and provide information that addresses those questions on your blog. Look in the relevant forums for the hot topics that people are asking, and provide answers to these questions on your blog. This will make your blog useful to your visitors because it will have information which your visitors are looking for. This gives you a wide range of topics that you can blog about. 5. Use PLR (Private Label Rights) content. Make sure to customize it and make it unique before you break it into blog posts. Using PLR content as a starting point for your blog posts means that you will be able to create blog content easily and quickly. Use these five tips outlined above to make blogging easy. The more you blog, the more traffic you will drive to your website. To your success, 37. Home Small Business: Finding Your First Freelancer As your home business grows, you will soon come to the realization that you can't do everything by yourself. Sooner or later, even though you don't want to, you are going to have to outsource some of the more mundane tasks so you can concentrate on doing the things that make you money. Freelancers, also known as virtual assistants, can be a valuable and time-saving part of your business. There are so many places where you can hire freelancers, that it may be confusing. Where you go will depend on what it is you need done. Forums are one great place to find freelancers. The Internet is teeming with freelancers who need work and are willing to work at great prices for the members. Hiring people through forums has the added benefit of being a place where you can look around to see a person's reputation before you hire them. You can search the forum for their name to see if anything negative has been said about them, and to see if any positive remarks have been made. You can also make a post on a forum and ask for recommendations. You can post something like, "I'm looking for a good graphics designer who works quickly and charges a fair price. Who do you recommend?" You'll probably get a number of recommendations, as well as a few private messages from freelancers who want to work for you. Elance is a very popular freelance website. You can look through a number of different freelancers' portfolios, and you can also see their feedback. People with high feedback and very few negatives are less likely to do a bad job than others might be. You can also post a bid request and have freelancers bid for your job. You can get a variety of prices and freelancers to choose from, but don't automatically choose the lowest price. Lower priced freelancers are sometimes cheap because they're less experienced. That's not always the case, though! Sometimes they're cheap because they're new to the site and they need to build a reputation. Vworker (formerly known as rent-coder) is another popular freelancing site. They're popular for being a place to find programmers, but they don't only have programmers available. You can also find writers and graphics designers there, and sometimes people who will do things like site submissions and other administrative tasks. Perhaps the best way to find a good freelancer is to ask for referrals from friends and acquaintances you've met while networking. Another good outsourcing site is Odesk.com. Odesk is a highly structured site that allows you to monitor the work as it is accomplished, and allows you to build a team of experts to do what needs to be done for your business. By using one of the more reputable outsourcing companies and checking references and feedback, you stand the best chance at finding a good freelancer that works at a reasonable price and will do a great job. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 38. Home Small Business Online Marketing: Building Profits With Your Own List Listbuilding is a cornerstone of any online business. You might have even heard or read that "the money is in the list." First of all, let's answer the question, "What exactly is a list?" A list in Internet marketing terms is a database of your prospects and their contact information. If you have a product or promote products and I sign up for your list knowing that you might promote to me, then I'm a prospect that you can now market to repeatedly, with my permission, until I unsubscribe. So why is building a list so important? Let's say you start off as an affiliate marketer. You find a niche to promote to and you start working what you've learned into some traffic for your affiliate links. Over a period of 30 days, imagine that you funnel 5,000 prospects from the Internet who are interested in your niche straight through your affiliate link to the product owner's site. To continue our example, let's say that some of them even buy the product you are promoting. If you've made a 50% commission with a 2% conversion rate, for example, that means 2 out of every 100 people you sent bought the product, and your share was $26.00 (as an example). That would mean you earned a cool $2,600 this month - good for you! But you're leaving money on the table. Those 100 people who bought from your 5,000 clicks? They're now on the product owner's list, not yours. So what he's going to do is send them more offers over the coming weeks. After all, they are proven buyers. Over the next 30 days, those buyers fork over some more money for products that complement the original one they bought. That money goes to the product owner, not you - because you passed on building a list the first time around. A better way to build an Internet marketing business is to start with a list from day one. Before you let a single person slip through your link without capturing their name and email address, have your system set up to build a list. You can have unlimited lists for different niches using a simple tool called an autoresponder. Every day you can log in and see how many people have signed up, and you can create automated messages that get sent out to help convert your list into more sales. Why should the product owner get to cash in on that person again and again when you're the one who brought him the customer in the first place? Stake your claim to each prospect and leverage your relationship with him or her for future sales and commissions. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 39. Home Small Business Marketing: Driving Online Traffic With Offline Tactics You probably already have a business card with your website address on it. Handing it out might get you a trickle of traffic, but there are several very powerful offline marketing methods you may simply have never considered yet. They might seem a bit radical at first, but when you realize how few of your competitors are using them, you'll start to see the potential of these techniques to drive traffic to your website. Consider utilizing a local marketing or PR firm in your area. Many of them are run by skilled single agents - and although good ones don't come cheap, their services may not be as out of reach (or non-cost-effective) as you might think. A local marketing consultant has his or her hands in many different networks. They know plenty of resources and probably have some creative ideas about where to promote you, often at low or no cost to you. A basic rule of business is to expend your energy where your money-making skills lie. So you can be focusing on those areas, leaving your marketing or PR consultant free to do what they do best... promote you and drive people to your sites. You also may be shocked to hear that you should consider advertising on local television stations. That may be because we've all been conditioned to believe that TV advertising is something only the Big Leagues can afford - and, in general, that's certainly true. But did you know that advertising with your local TV station can be surprisingly affordable? As well as building your visibility as a "celebrity" - and even in just your own home town, you'd be surprised how inexpensive it can actually be. There's another big advantage to local television. Local newspaper editors may be much more inclined to print your press releases if they know you're also appearing on TV in your area. Now this may not sound as exciting as your own local TV ad, or as easy as simply hiring a marketing consultant or local PR firm, but offering a workshop to your Community College is a long term status and traffic-building strategy every online business person should consider. It can be quite easy to draw up a solid proposal, find out who to contact and make your pitch. Once you're done, the audio and video recordings make a great new product for you to sell, and the transcripts can be chopped up into articles, free reports, and more. Teaching provides another great opportunity to increase website traffic by sending out press releases - both to offline sources like local newspapers and trade magazines, and to online paid and free PR services. Another great way to promote yourself: join your local Chamber of Commerce or Trade Association, and participate. Networking with other business operators is a great way to get your name known. In the course of conversations, you may develop leads. Some of these organizations will allow members to have a display promoting their businesses at meetings and special events. Take full advantage of these, they are usually free. If your business could benefit from displays at trade shows, check out your local farmer's markets or flea markets. Again, booths at these markets are usually relatively cheap. The more offline promotions you do, and the more enthusiasm you put into them, the more you'll notice benefits returning to you... So stay positive, stay proactive, make the most of every online and offline opportunity - and watch your credibility and business reputation grow. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your Techniques For Generating Huge Amounts Of Hungry Web Traffic 40. Home Small Business Marketing:: Testing Conversion Rates To Boost Profits Split testing can significantly increase profits almost effortlessly. The process of testing conversion rates by sending traffic to multiple versions of a sales page or squeeze page can be done manually, or it can be automated with software. The important thing is to have a very good tracking system in place. Why should you split test? You should split test because tiny changes can generate huge results. That's why almost everything should be tested, whenever possible. You should test at least two versions of your headline all times, at least two different price points, and at least two different calls to action. You might also test multiple versions of your sales copy, different graphics on your sales page, and even different product names. Great marketers always tweak their pages for the best possible conversions. Very few people achieve maximum conversion rates for the first version of their sales letter. And many marketers underestimate how minor changes can have a huge impact on your conversions. A 1% change in conversion may not sound significant, but it's not so small if you think of it in terms of dollars instead of percentages. If you have a 1% conversion rate and you make a total if $3,000 from 10,000 visitors, that seems pretty good. But what if you doubled your conversion rate to 2%? Then you would have made $6,000 off of the same 10,000 visitors. An increase from $3,000 to $6,000 is a pretty big improvement for a tiny bit of work. Some people do their split testing manually. In this case, you simply have at least two different versions of your sales letter, and you send the same amount of traffic to each version. Ideally, the traffic will come from the same source, because different sources of traffic can have wildly different conversion rates. For example, traffic from Google AdWords might perform better or worse than traffic from an alternate pay-per-click or advertising source. After driving enough traffic to be able to see a difference, look at your conversion rate for the two versions to decide which one performed better. It's vitally important to send a decent amount of traffic to each version before deciding which version is the true winner or you could make the wrong choice from inadequate data. One hundred hits will probably not be enough to provide statistically valid data. You should probably send at least 1,000 hits to each version before you make your decision. However, the cost that may be involved is often a reason why marketers resist split testing their sales letters. It can be costly to drive traffic during the testing phase. If you send 1,000 hits to each version at a cost of $0.50 per click, that is $500 per version, for a total of $1,000. That might seem like a lot, but keep in mind that you should make some money off of the testing exercise if either of your sales pages is any good. Even a 0.5% increase could mean an additional $1,500 in your pocket in the earlier example, so it really pays to test. Remember to track very carefully. Be sure to use an analytics program like Google Analytics, or one of the many other programs available. This way you can track where your traffic is coming from, where it goes, and how well it performs on your site. Google Analytics is free, and it can help you track a lot of very important information, so you can test conversions more easily than ever before, without spending any money on tracking software. Some split testing tools do all of this work for you, automatically rotating your files and tracking the conversions for you. You simply log in, tweak something new, and sit back to see how much better (or worse) it affects sales. Never underestimate the importance of split testing. Be sure you make this strategy of your marketing plan. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your 41. Home Small Business Strategies: Discovering Profits In Physical Products Internet marketers love to promote digitally downloadable products. For some reason, many don't want to promote physical products. To some, it can seem like a nightmare of packaging and shipping, stocking of inventory, and dealing with suppliers. But there are some ways you can work them into your online business while minimizing the hassles. It's good to know your options and what's involved when thinking about promoting tangible goods for the first time. You could start by selling products yourself on eBay. Then if you're successful there, you could go off on your own and launch a dedicated website to sell the goods. Either way, you'll be in charge of making sure you have enough inventory on hand, and if an order comes through, it will be your job to box it up, take it to the post office, and ship it out. If the customer doesn't receive the goods, you should be able to verify proof of delivery. In some instances, you'll have to accept returns on the products, and won't always be able to resell it again, depending on what the product is and the condition it's returned in. Another option is to use a dropshipping service. With a dropship account, you may have to pay a fee to get set up with your own website, but they handle a lot more things for you. Typically, the customer would place an order, paying you for the items they purchase. Then you would pay the dropshipping company a portion of those earnings and they would ship the inventory to your customer directly. In that scenario, you don't have to deal with any of the inventory, but you do have to deal with customer relations. Your customers probably won't realize they've ordered from a dropshipping arrangement, so even though you're just a middleman, you'll often be perceived as the same organization. Another option is to become an affiliate. Millions of people shop online each year, and especially during the various holiday seasons, the demand for physical items to be sent as gifts is high. As an affiliate, you can get a share of that spending frenzy for yourself. The major benefit of being an affiliate is that you get to hand off the customer to the product provider, and they have to do all the work of getting the product to them and making sure that they are satisfied. That's why many online marketers start off as affiliates when adding physical products to their promotions. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 42. Home Small Business Email Marketing: Staying Clear Of Spam Complaints Some people seem to think of marketers as nothing but spammers, and it's easy to understand why. It seems that we all get mountains of spam emails on a daily basis - regardless of whether or not we gave out our email address. In order to avoid being labeled as a spammer, you'll want to take precautions to be careful about who you email and why. Spam is basically defined as sending unsolicited commercial email messages to people without their prior explicit permission to do so. Smart online marketers don't even get near spamming because it hurts their credibility, risks their reputation, and doesn't convert as well as targeted, welcomed email does, anyway. You can even have your ISP ban you for sending spam, and you can lose your autoresponder account, too. A rule all professional marketers should follow is to use an opt-in form where subscribers can willingly enter their first name and email address. In fact, it's best to utilize the double opt in option most autoresponders provide you A single opt in is when you just let the person enter their information once. But what's to stop one person from going around entering another person's contact information for unethical reasons? There's no way to verify who made the request with a single opt in system, so it's preferable to use double opt in to protect yourself. In a double opt in situation, the user lands on your website and sees an opt in box, asking for their first name and email address. They enter their details, usually in exchange for a free download or the promise of information at a later date. Then the autoresponder tool automatically sends out a verification email. The end user gets the email alerting them that they've signed up to be on your list, but it asks them to verify their subscription by clicking on a link in the email before they are sent their requested information or download. This means if someone goes to your site and signs someone else up, that person who was signed up will get a notification and have the option to decline if they weren't the one who really opted into the list. Make sure you follow permission marketing standards and give people a choice. Your subscribers trust you enough to hand over their important details, so don't abuse the privilege. If you respect the people on your list, it will grow and you'll have a ready-made pool of prospects that can help you earn more money over time. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your 43. Home Small Business Marketing Strategies: Unleashing Web 2.0 Profits Web 2.0 is a term that's often misused. Some people use the term to refer to a particular style of graphics design, or type of website, but that's not what web 2.0 is really about. Web 2.0 is, above all, about user-generated content. This means the visitors to your site generate the majority of the content on the site, as opposed to the site owner or writers creating the content. A perfect example of web 2.0 is Squidoo. Squidoo is a social network, which is a type of web 2.0 site. Although the site does post some of its own content, such as the lensmaster tip blog, the vast majority of the site was built by individuals creating their own pages within the site. When a user signs up to the site, they're allowed to position themselves as experts on anything from A-Z (they even have a separate section for R and X rated pages that are kept from the general G-rated public). They create a unique page on the Squidoo domain, with all sorts of information about their niche topic. They can create or join groups and post in the SquidU forum to communicate with others in the community. One of the oldest types of web 2.0 sites is the forum. Forums are almost as old as the Internet itself, and they were one of the first types of web 2.0 concepts. Other very old web 2.0 predecessors were guestbooks, free-for-all link sites, and classified ad sites. These days, web 2.0 sites are more complex. Rather than simply posting messages on a forum, users can typically generate their own profiles, create their own custom pages, and have more involvement in creating the site and its content. There are many different types of web 2.0 sites. MySpace and Facebook are two well-known social networking sites. Blogger is a very popular blog platform, which allows people to develop a type of online diary or journal. Twitter is somewhat like a blog, only users post very small snippets of content in each post. Social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon and Digg allow users to post their favorite links, and allow other people to vote on those links. Squidoo and HubPages are two sites that let people create pages of information about specific subjects, a bit like a one-page website about a particular topic, similar to Wikipedia. The basic function of web 2.0 sites is to allow users to post their own content to the site. Web 2.0 sites can be leveraged for marketing purposes if used correctly. The key is to immerse yourself in the community and become known as a real person rather than a nameless marketer hoping to cash in on their pooled traffic generation. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your 44. Home Small Business Marekting Strategies: Succeeding With Social Marketing Social marketing can really give your home business marketing efforts a big boost and help you achieve the success you want... not only more quickly, but also more efficiently. A social network is an online community that shares mutual interests. It is a "place" online where people gather to communicate and learn about things that they have in common. It gives them the capability to interact with each other through blogs, email and instant messaging, forums and any number of other online means of communication. They present some great ways to build your business. To get the most out of your social marketing potential, you have to be active in the community. The people have to see you as one of them and not someone trying to use them or sell them something. Members listen to each other, especially those who have been around a long time and have a solid reputation in the community. Those who are obviously intelligent and knowledgeable about the subject can gain a large amount of credibility. Social marketing easily exposes you to a larger market of interested and potential customers, which can help you with your research. It is a very cost effective means of finding out what your target market is interested in. You can find out what their true needs are, who they are, what they are drawn to, what they look for, and pretty much anything else you could want. It is a good way to throw ideas out and see what they think about them. Social marketing can also help increase brand awareness, as long as you are careful to not sound like you are selling something. This will turn many people off. If you see a discussion going on about a certain topic, and think you can make a contribution, you can subtly provide product awareness while helping to solve their problems. After you deliver value, others will be more interested in checking your link to find more about you. The greatest benefit of social marketing may simply be that it is a tremendously easy and cost effective means of communicating and interacting with your target market. Most networks are free and it only takes a little bit of time to keep interacting with the members of the network once you have gotten established. As communities grow, so does the amount of exposure you get, and the more success you will be likely to have. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 45. Home Small Business Tips: Outsourcing Success Secrets So many new marketers are reluctant to outsource, because they don't like spending the extra money. They think it would be a waste of cash to pay someone else to perform tasks they can do themselves. The truth is, outsourcing can be a great way to grow your business more quickly and much easier than doing it yourself. The top home small business marketers you know today have teams to help them go from the conception of an idea to a product launch. But before they could afford a staff, many used freelancers to outsource the more mundane tasks while they worked on building their businesses. Name just about any millionaire or billionaire in the world and chances are, that person has employees or outsourcers who take care of the vast majority of their work. It's nearly impossible for one person to grow a business to the seven figure range or greater by themselves. It can be done, but it would require a level of dedication that very few individuals possess. Try to think about outsourcing in terms of the money you deserve to be paid. What do you think your time is worth? Are you willing to go out and work at a job making minimum wage or a bit more? If not, then you're better off delegating your tasks to people who are willing to work for that. If your time is worth more than what it would cost you to hire someone else to do it, then it just makes sense to outsource the task. Trying to do everything yourself can also prevent you from reaching success. The more you try to do by yourself, the less you'll actually get done. Think about this. If you spent every single waking moment writing ebooks, you might be able to pull off one a month. If you're a very fast writer, you might be able to create a few more. But if you hired outsourcers, you could create a much greater number of them - and take the time to launch each one properly and get a hefty return on your investment, too! The number of ebooks you could have would only be limited by the amount of money you had to pay the outsourcers. You may have heard horror stories about finding reliable outsourcers. Yes, it can be hard to find someone who is reliable. But you don't have to get ripped off. You can give each outsourcer a small order first to test the quality of their work and the speed of delivery. The first few jobs might be smaller jobs. Once they've proven themselves a few times, you can start giving them larger jobs. Go from a pack of 5 one-page articles to a 50-page eBook. Some outsourcers will ask for payment up front, because they need to protect themselves, too. That doesn't necessarily mean you should discount them. Some very excellent outsourcers require payment up front to make sure they don't have their hard work stolen. Just make sure you always ask for references or take the time to examine their reputation and profiles first. If they have a lot of good testimonials from people you recognize, or they have a very good word-of-mouth reputation, then you're probably safe working with them. Even people with stellar reputations can let you down sometimes, but it's less likely than it might be if you went with a total stranger with no standing in the freelance community. Remember, outsourcing does cost money, but as long as the work they do makes you a profit and saves you time, it's worth it in the end. Here are some commonly used sites where you can outsource your work: - Fiverr: http://www.fiverr.com - Odesk: http://www.odesk.com - vWorker (used to be called RentACoder): http://www.vworker.com - The Warrior Forum (http://www.warriorforum.com/) is another great place to find experienced virtual assistants. Check the Warrior Classifieds section or place an ad there yourself. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 46. Home Small Business Marketing Strategies: Adding Graphics To Your Toolbox Almost every home small business online marketer needs graphics. Many graphics are available pre-made. You don't necessarily need to have every single graphic customized for your use only. Some graphics should always be custom made, but others can easily be stock material. If you're making sales pages of any kind, there are a few types of graphics you should almost always have. You don't necessarily need a header and footer, but sometimes you can't get away with having no graphics at all. The most important thing you need if you're selling an eBook, software package, membership site, or other digital products is a good eCover. This will have to be customized with your product name. A good eCover graphic lends credibility to your product. If your eCover is poorly done, a lot of people will think the product itself is sub-par. If your eCover is especially attractive, it will make it seem like your product has a higher value. A good eCover is essential, especially if you're selling to other marketers! A guarantee graphic is also important. Guarantee graphics help draw attention to your money back guarantee. A guarantee graphic can increase your conversions. If you don't have a clear-cut guarantee policy on your sales page, or if visitors don't see it, you could be throwing sales out the window. An attractive order button that draws attention is almost as important as your eCover. The order button is what people need to click in order to purchase your product. If they somehow miss the button, or if it's difficult to see, people might get frustrated and leave. Also, some people specifically look for the order button on your site first. The price of a product is usually near the order button, so some people will instinctively scroll down to the order button before they even read the sales letter. If your order button is especially tempting, your price is good, and your eCover is exceptional, they may hit the order button and buy without even reading the whole sales letter. This is especially true if they've already heard a lot about your product before they make it to your sales page. Bullets or accent graphics can also be important. They help draw attention to essential benefits and features. They should be used sparingly. Using bullets to accent everything on a page takes away from their usefulness, because they should only be used to draw attention to your most important benefits. If you're running an affiliate program, you should have a selection of banners for affiliates to use to advertise your site. Although some affiliates will only promote you through text links or emails, a lot of affiliates will still need banners for websites and blogs. Remember, pre-made graphics can really save you time and money, but it can also pay to have part of your graphics custom made. Great custom graphics can really help skyrocket increase sales. When using pre-made graphics, always check the usage licence to make sure you will not be violating copyright if you use the graphics on your website. Most sites which sell royalty-free stock images will grant you such a licence automatically. Here are some of the resources I use when purchasing stock images or creating my own graphics: Royalty-Free Stock Images: Full-featured Graphics Editor (Free) Flickr Creative Commons Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, And here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 47. Home Small Business Marketing Strategies: Mastering The Art Of Article Marketing Your home small business website is only as good as its content. If people don't want to read what is on your site, then they will be less likely to use your services or buy your products. That's why it's important to have well-written articles on your site whenever possible, to keep users interested and generate revenue. A simple way to get excellent articles is to hire a professional writer to develop them, but that can get expensive, especially if your site is just starting out. For many people, it is far more economical to write your own articles. But before you tackle this task, make sure that you're up to it, because the quality of your articles can make or break your website or online business. Anyone can write effective articles for their site. All it takes is practice and research. Read everything you can online. Find a writer or group of writers online whose work you admire and learn from their techniques. Eventually, you'll find your own rhythm for your articles. Having your writing on your site will add a personalized touch to your site that users will appreciate, because no one knows how to say what you mean better than you. The key is to just keep writing. Online, less is more. When you're laying articles out on your site, try to put as much space in as you can. Break paragraphs up and try to keep it so the reader needs to scroll as little as possible to read the entire article. Also, if you can, include pictures with the articles. The goal is to make your articles appear as short and text-light as possible, so users won't be intimidated and not bother reading them. Keep your sentences simple and easy to understand, without any unnecessarily long or academic words. Try to organize your articles so that the paragraphs can be broken up very easily into sections under descriptive headings. This will make the reading experience much smoother and faster for the user by allowing them to pick and choose what they want to read, as well as helping them find a specific piece of information when they come back to your inspirational and enlightening articles. Never publish your first draft. No matter who you are, it won't be up to your potential. After you write an article, put it aside for a day and don't think about it. Then come back to it with a fresh set of eyes. You'd be amazed at what you'll pick up, both grammatically and content-wise. Sometimes, it won't be uncommon for you to write three or four different drafts of an article before you find the one that you really like. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your 48. Home Small Business Affiliate Marketing Tips: Finding A Profitable ClickBank Product Do you know how to choose a winning Clickbank affiliate program? If you're going to be promoting a product, it's useful to have good solid criteria you can use to determine if the program is going to be profitable for you. Some of the key things you should look at are Gravity score, competition, the sales letter, the payout and the price. Learn what to look for in each area and you'll be able to quickly find the best products to promote. For beginners, it's best to promote products in the 20 to 50 gravity range. These are products that have been proven to be successful sellers, but don't have an overwhelming amount of competition. These are the products you want to shoot for when you first start out. Once you're more experienced, you can aim at the 50+ gravity range. Anything below 20 probably won't make you much money. Even if the product has a good gravity, that doesn't mean it'll sell for you. Sometimes gravity scores are elevated by vendors artificially boosting the score by selling their own products through affiliate accounts. Take a look at the sales letter and decide for yourself whether or not you think the product will sell. If it's not well-written and professional-looking, move on. Next, determine how much the product costs and what it pays out. As an affiliate, you should look for products that pay out at least $20 per sale. Anything below that amount may not be worth your time... and believe it or not, it's often as easy to sell a high ticket item as it is to sell a low ticket item. There are products on Clickbank that go for $97 - $197. If you can find a product that you believe you can promote and has a gravity of over 20, it's generally a better idea to promote that product than it is to promote a $40 product with similar gravity. In addition to payout and price, one other thing you can look for is continuity. Continuity is basically a month-to-month membership program that will pay you commission every single month. Again, it takes about as much effort to sell a product without continuity as it does to sell one with continuity... except with continuity, you keep getting paid. You also should look for competitors, because you actually want some competition in your area. That usually means other people are making money doing what you're considering doing. For example, if you plan on advertising a hypnosis product on AdWords, you will want to see at least one or two other advertisers selling hypnosis ebooks there, too. If there are no competitors, then chances are someone's tried it before and it didn't work. Keep in mind, however, that you don't want to go into an over saturated niche, either. Too many competitors can be just as bad as no competitors. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: The Complete Affiliate Marketing Handbook 49. Home Small Business Marketing Tips: Triggering a Flood of Testimonials Testimonials are an important part of any sales process. They are a form of social proof, which may help buyers trust a you more. Although some people have become suspicious of testimonials, they can still be extremely important in convincing other people to buy. But getting testimonials can be difficult. In general, people are bit lazy in this regard, and don't usually provide feedback unless it's negative, or unless you ask for it. You shouldn't offer money as an incentive for people to offer testimonials, because then they become "paid testimonials." People tend to distrust testimonials that people are paid for, because prospects know that some people are perfectly willing to lie about a product if they're paid to do it. Instead, you could offer some small token of your appreciation, just as a "thank you" to those who take the time to write a testimonial for you. It might be a free report, a link from your site to theirs within the testimonial box, or a coupon for 10% off their next order with you. As long as you're not offering cash, most people won't feel you're being dishonest to get your testimonials. It's not that they don't really want to offer one if they like the product, it's just that they don't think about it. Those that do think about it will often put it off "until later" and then forget about it. So make sure you ask your customers for their testimonials. You could ask them on your "thank you" page. You could ask them again on the last page of your product, or at the end of each audio or video file. You could ask them in a follow-up email. "Hi, I just wanted to find out how you're enjoying XYZ Product. Is it working out for you? If you haven't done so already, I'd really appreciate it if you could send me your thoughts on the product - I may even use it as a testimonial with a link back to your website! It'll only take five minutes of your time, and I'll send you a free bonus report as my thanks for taking the time to do this for me." Be sure to ask people if you can include their real name in the testimonial, or if you should use their initials. Some people don't want to have their real name anywhere on the Internet, and others don't mind at all. You might also want to ask for a picture, if appropriate. Some people have a tendency to trust testimonials more if they include a picture, because it seems more like a real person wrote the testimonial. Although some dishonest marketers might just steal photos to use for testimonials, don't give in to that temptation. Audio and video testimonials are great if you can convince your customers to call in an audio testimonial or email you the video file, but this is harder to obtain since many won't be versed in more advanced technology. If you can make it easy enough for them to give you these kinds of testimonials, you'll be glad you did. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. 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50. Home Small Business Tips: Setting Up Your Internet Marketing Home Office If you're new to Internet marketing, you may not yet have everything you need for your home office. Many people find they work better after they have all of the things they need for their business. Productivity can really go up if your office is equipped properly - even if it's nothing more than a laptop and convenient Internet connection. A computer and Internet connection is the most obvious thing you'll need. It doesn't matter if your computer is a PC or Mac. Either will work just fine for your marketing efforts. Just keep in mind that most Internet marketing software is created for the PC, so if you have a Mac, you may need to make sure you can also run Windows programs on it by using a Windows emulator, or installing Windows on your Mac. Your computer doesn't have to be a high-end model unless you intend to do a lot of extreme graphics work or video editing. Most Internet marketing tasks can be accomplished well even on systems that are several years old. You should probably have a high-speed Internet connection, but if you can't get one, you can still get the job done. You might be slower, but you can still accomplish most tasks on a dialup connection. However, a few things might be out of your reach on dialup. For example, you might not be able to do much video marketing if it takes you 12 hours to upload a single 10-minute video. But for the most part, you can do whatever you need to on dialup until your success takes off and you're able to upgrade. You'll need a comfortable place to work, preferably with an ergonomic chair. Most people find they're most productive if they have a clean room with few distractions. Your work surface should be as clear of clutter as possible. Have folders ready for projects and a place to store and file your receipts and other things you print out. You don't have to have a separate office, but you'll need to make sure you can have a little quiet space if you need it to work. If you live in a small apartment with a family, you may find it difficult to get any privacy, so a good set of noise-reducing headphones and a good white noise CD or MP3 can really help. White noise will help block a lot of bothersome noises, and will help you focus on your work. Music can also work, but it may be too distracting for some people. Some marketers even find it helpful to have a small refrigerator and microwave in their office area. This way, you can easily grab food and drinks without breaking your focus too much. If you only have to walk three feet to grab a soda, your focus won't be broken as much as it would be if you had to travel downstairs to the kitchen. But at the same time, it's equally important to take some small breaks to relieve stress and maintain your sanity. A fax machine and printer can also be very good purchases. Many companies will require you to print and fax documents like a W-9 tax form. Merchant accounts, banks, and government agencies can sometimes require you to fax certain documents to them as well. Most importantly, use a good planning and scheduling program, and keep your tasks well organized and documented so that you can achieve your goals easily. Stay tuned for another home business tip real soon, and good luck To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: The Quick Start Guide To Internet Marketing And Online Business 51. Home Small Business Advanced Tactics: Repeat Revenue with Membership Sites Many Internet marketers are turning to membership sites as a way of earning recurring cash. Membership sites can be great for bringing in money month after month, with very little extra work required to maintain them. A membership site is a website that's password protected, and generally requires users to pay a monthly fee. Most membership sites are protected by special scripts that handle the managing of the usernames and passwords of members. They also take care of canceling members whose payments don't go through, or members who cancel manually. Starting a membership site is relatively simple. You need a script, a billing provider, and content. The script will generally take care of the automatic monthly billing, member management, and protection of the content in the members' area. All you need to do is set up the script, add a billing provider such as PayPal, and add content to the members' area. Sometimes, a marketer gets burned out with their membership site, or they need money quickly for something. Selling a membership site with members can bring in pretty good cash. Another huge benefit of having your own membership site is that you can offer products and services to your list of members as an affiliate. Simply poll or survey your members to see what their needs are. Then investigate the affiliate programs that offer solutions to their problems. Sign up for a program, and send a link to your members, and you can generate relatively easy affiliate income. Getting new members is probably the most difficult part of managing a membership site. The best way to get members is to run an affiliate program and have other people bring in members for you. You can also get members by running PPC ads, advertising on forums, posting ads to relevant magazines and newspapers, and forming strategic partnerships and JVs with other webmasters. As you get more members, your monthly income can continue to grow, so you can have money coming in each month. You'll just need to continue delivering whatever it is you promised your members and subscriptions should remain relatively constant, or perhaps even increase. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 52. Home Small Business Marketing Tips: Setting Up a Squeeze Page A squeeze page is a web page that's used for the purpose of getting people to opt in to your newsletter or mailing list by entering their name and email address. A squeeze page generally doesn't have as much copy as a sales letter, but most squeeze pages have some teaser text and bullet points. Increasingly, video is being used in place of text on squeeze pages. Most text-based squeeze pages consist of a headline, a short paragraph or two of copy, a few bullet points, and an opt-in box - all "above the fold," meaning the reader doesn't have to scroll to continue reading. Some squeeze pages will also have graphics, including a header and footer, and perhaps other graphics such as an eCover for a free report that's being given away as a reward for opting in. No matter which you choose, you'll first need to create a basic HTML page. You can do this using a WYSIWYG editor, which should make it easier for beginners. WYSIWYG stands for "what you see is what you get." A WYSIWIG HTML editor lets you design visually, and you generally need to know little, if any, HTML to use one. Many people use a darker red or a medium blue as the background color for their squeeze page, but you can use any color you like, as long as it isn't incredibly bright and distracting and it looks good with any other graphics you might use on the page. You don't want to put your text directly on this colored background, because it will probably be difficult to read. What you want to do is create a table with a white background, and put all of your text and graphics inside the table. In your program, create a table with a single cell (1x1) and set the background color to white. This table should probably be between 700 and 800 pixels in width. Most people use between 750 and 770 pixels, because it's large enough to look good on monitors with very high resolutions, yet it still shows up well even at 800 x 600. Inside this table, you'll want to put the rest of your squeeze page information. This should include a headline, a little copy, bullet point or a video, and your opt-in box (you'll get the code for this from your autoresponder). You can also put the eCover of the product you'll be giving away to subscribers, if you have one. Your headline should be something that will tease visitors and make them really want to sign up to get the information you have. Next, you need to include some very short teaser copy. Just put in a paragraph or two of text or bullet points that describe the product you're giving away for free. Then, you'll create a list in your autoresponder and get the code for the opt in form. You'll need to paste the form code into the HTML area. Then you're finished with your squeeze page. Just save the file, upload it and test it, then start sending traffic to it. Stay tuned for another online business marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 53. Home Small Business Marketing Strategies: Pulling Profits From MySpace Making money on MySpace isn't as easy as it once was. It used to be incredibly easy to make money on the site. A marketer could create a profile, add thousands of friends using an automated program, and then simply send bulletins out to all of those thousands of people. Then people started complaining about the ridiculous amount of spam messages they were getting from marketers. Some people would receive dozens of daily spam offerings for everything from Viagra to ringtones to payday loans, and everything in between. Those people started to complain to MySpace, and so to protect the site's reputation, they got a lot stricter about enforcing their rules. One of the first things they did was put a limit on the number of friends you could add daily. This seriously hampered a lot of people, who were used to adding hundreds or even thousands of people per day to their lists using those automated programs. Then they started cracking down on the number of bulletins users could send, banning some users who abused the privilege. Users would find themselves banned within hours of sending out their first bulletin, which cause many marketers to simply give up trying to make money on MySpace. But smart marketers found out you could still use MySpace to make a great deal of money if you used it properly. Gone were the days of sending out bulletin spam, spamming affiliate links on guestbooks, and spamming the MySpace forums. But you could still promote your offerings tactfully on MySpace. You should offer MySpace users real value in return for being your friend. If they're just on your list for marketing purposes, make sure you provide them with plenty of free incentives, information and education to get them to stay. Once you've made friends with people, you can direct them to your own websites outside of MySpace. You could ask them to join your forum, sign up to your newsletter, or visit your blog. Once you get your friends to start networking with you outside MySpace, you're free to market to them however you choose. MySpace won't interfere with your marketing efforts off their site, even if someone reports you for trying to sell them something after they joined your email list from your own private website. Just keep in mind that there's always a chance you could be banned from MySpace for using any kind of marketing there. Although you can greatly minimize your chances, due to their terms of service that prohibit blatant marketing, there's still that small risk that you should keep in mind. The financial rewards are still there, but be sure to consult their terms of service and follow them to the letter in order to maximize your results. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 54. Home Small Business Marketing Strategies: Moving Your Blog to Your Own Domain Many people start their blogs on free hosted platforms. Free blogging solutions can be a good way to start, because they're free and they're generally trusted in the search engines. But there are perils associated with hosting a blog on someone else's server. For one thing, you're at the mercy of the owner of the platform. Blogger, for example, can delete a blog without warning because they decide that the blog was too much like spam or too commercial. Recently, Google has become much more active in deleting blogs. Apparently, they now designate any blog which promotes anything as a spam blog, and will summarily delete it. And there is usually no recourse. WordPress is another blogging host that doesn't allow affiliate links to be used on their blogs, so making money by hosting a blog on their servers can be more difficult for some. Ideally, you should start your blog on your own server, preferably in the root of the domain. Some people have their blog in a subdirectory, such as yourdomain.com/blog. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but if you are not using a squeeze page in the root directory, then putting your blog on its own domain can have special benefits. For one thing, a root domain often ranks better in the search engines than a subdirectory. Putting your blog on the main domain (just yourdomain.com) can help it rank better, and might even give it a little more credibility in the eyes of your visitors. If you have some sort of content on the root domain, and you have a blog in a subdirectory, then the people who come to your domain specifically to read your blog will need an easy way to find it. If your blog isn't easy to find, they may leave and never come back, unless you put an optin box somewhere on the site, so visitors can join your list. Many people who host a blog on their own server use WordPress. If you host the software on your own server, you're free to have affiliate links if you wish. WordPress also has a lot of support in the form of themed templates and plugins. If you're going to host your blog in the root of your domain, you'll upload all of the files and folder directly to the root instead of a subdirectory. If you had your blog previously in a subfolder or another domain, you'll need to do a 301 redirect to tell search engines and visitors that the files have moved, and where they've moved to. If you don't know how to do this, you can search Google for "301 redirect" to learn how to set this up. If you move your blog from a hosted solution, it's a lot easier to provide a link to your new blog in a post on the old location. Simply create a new post on the old blog, and say something like, "We've moved! This blog has been relocated to a new domain. Click here to visit the new blog, and be sure to update your bookmarks!" By linking to the new location, you'll not only be telling your visitors where to find you, but you'll also be telling search engines where to find your new blog. They'll follow that link to your blog's new location, and you'll probably get the new domain indexed faster than if you didn't link to it from the old one. You can save yourself from having to do this later by starting your blogs on your own domain from the beginning. A domain name is generally under $10, and hosting can be found very inexpensively. To install a fresh blog on a new domain, log into your Cpanel and click the Fantastico button. On the left sidebar, under Blogs, click WordPress. Then click New Installation. From the drop down directory, choose the domain you want it to reside on. If you want it to be located on yourdomain.com, leave the next field blank. If you prefer it to be on yourdomain.com/blog, then put the word blog in the next field. Then you'll just enter all of your administrative login information and click Install WordPress and your blog will be live! You can find plenty of free themed templates to customize your blog with a quick visit to your favorite search engine. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 55. Home Small Business Web Design: Integrating Text Links And Image Ads Most visitors pass through one of two types of links. Text links are when you string together a word, phrase or sentence that's hyperlinked to another domain. Image ads are things like banners, button, and pictures - graphical images that are hyperlinked with a URL. Both types of links have their benefits and drawbacks. Which type you use will be based on your site and your traffic - and you should ideally test both types to see which performs best with your particular demographic. In general, text ads tend to pull a lot more clicks than image ads, because many people have become "banner blind." That means they have learned to ignore banners, because they know they are ads. Text ads are a part of every website, so they're harder to ignore. This is one reason why Adsense is so successful. Of course, some sites could benefit from a few image ads. If your site is primarily text, you might be able to make it look more appealing through the use of a few graphical banners, and make some money in the process. Choose attractive banners with a clear call-to-action, such as banners that clearly state, "Click here for ____!" Believe it or not, some new Internet users may not yet realize that they can click directly on graphics, so it's important for banners to have this kind of call-to-action. Just be careful not to overdo the ads on your site. Two or three graphics per page is plenty. If you add more than this, you risk your site looking like a banner farm, and visitors may leave before they even have time to read any of your content. Text links are generally more effective than banners. They can be blended in with your content and can look more like recommendations than ads. Many people prefer to buy through recommendations rather than blatant ads, so text links can help you get a higher click-through ratio than you might get with banner ads. Coding a text link is very simple. To create a text link on your site, you need to use the "a href" code. A simple text link code might look something like this: <a href="http://www.domainname.com">Here's where the text you want hyperlinked will go.</a> Coding a banner link is only slightly more complex. You still use the "a href" code, but you also have to use the "img src" code along with it. It should look something like this: <a href="http://www.domainname.com"><img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/images/banner1.jpg"></a> So the first website address in that piece of code is the URL where you want your traffic to go. The second one is the URL where the image is being hosted on your server. This will make the image show up and when the user hovers his or her mouse over it, they'll see that it's clickable. Make sure you test your links to be sure they're going to the right place! If you accidentally link to the wrong place, you could end up losing money in commissions or sales, so it's very important to make sure your links are working properly. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 56. Home Small Business Advanced Tactics: Launching Your Own Affiliate Program If you have your own product, launching an affiliate program is a necessity if you want to reach your full profit potential. Even if you manage to control a massive 10% of your entire niche market on your own, that still leaves 90% of that niche's traffic on the table. By setting up an affiliate program, you can harness the power of having other people make money for you. Instead of spending your time promoting your product, you can let other people do it for you while you spend your time forming JV partnerships, developing new product ideas, getting new products created, and taking care of other tasks to grow your business. There are many ways to set up an affiliate program. Which one you choose will probably depend on what type of product you're selling, and where you're located in the world. A lot of people purchase affiliate scripts that allow them to run their own affiliate program through PayPal. However, PayPal doesn't allow users from many countries, and if you live in one of those countries, you'll have to find a different solution. If you're selling physical products like shoes or books, you might go through Commission Junction. Commission Junction is one of the largest affiliate systems in the world. They may be a little complex to set up, and they have certain rules you'll have to comply with, but they have a huge database of affiliates ready and waiting to promote your products. If you're selling digital products like software or ebooks, you might want to go through ClickBank. ClickBank is the world's largest seller of ebooks and other digital products. They make it extremely easy to run an affiliate program, and they take care of almost everything for you. They handle the billing for you, they handle customer refund requests, and they can even handle some of your customer service questions. They'll even pay your affiliates for you. ClickBank does take a percentage of your sales, so if you're paying your affiliates a 50% commission, you'll be making a bit less than 50% yourself, because of ClickBank's fees. They also charge an up front fee to approve your product before you're allowed to sell through them. But you'll have fees with any billing solution. After all, they have to make money somehow, too. An alternative to ClickBank is PayDotCom. PayDotCom is very similar to ClickBank, but with a few differences. With PayDotCom, you don't have to pay an upfront fee to sell a single product through them. The money also goes to your PayPal account, which can be another big benefit. But for people without PayPal accounts, PayDotCom isn't going to work. You need a PayPal account to be paid, and you'll also have to pay your affiliates out of your PayPal account, as well. Another easy solution for selling digital products is e-Junkie. E-Junkie has an affiliate program built in, and they also host your product downloads. They're very inexpensive to use, charging a monthly fee rather than high percentages... but not as many affiliates promote products through e-Junkie as through ClickBank or PayDotCom. Running your affiliate program can be very simple with a hosted solution. You might be tempted to use a script you host yourself, but it's probably better to leave it to the pros. Don't forget to create an affiliate toolbox, too! In order for your affiliate force to make sales, they'll need ready-made marketing materials such as banners, buttons, eCovers, emails, and articles they can use. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 57. Home Small Business Online Marketing: Profiting From Long Tail Keywords "Long tail" is a big buzzword in marketing these days. Long tail keywords are less-searched and often overlooked words and phrases that can often get more traffic combined than a broader, more general keyword ever could. Understanding the concept of long tail keywords and applying it to your business can open you up to new visitors, and new profits as well. For example, let's say the keyword "dog training" gets approximately 2,420 searches per day. Start looking at the lesser-searched keyword phrases for that niche - dog training collars, dog potty training, dog training careers, and so on. When you add up all of the long-tail keywords, which are easier to dominate in the search engine results pages, it equals more traffic than you might get if you simply went after Dog Training. If you have 10,000,000 websites competing for the term "dog training," but only 361,000 competing for "dog training DVD," then you have a far greater chance of reaching the first page than you would if you were competing against 10 million pages. Being ranked number one for a broad term like "mp3" would probably take a truly exceptional SEO expert many months of very hard work and a very large budget for buying backlinks to accomplish. But, ranking for a term like "1970s rock mp3s" might be much easier - because it's a long tail keyword. If the term gets 50 searches per day, and you rank number three, then you might get 20 or 30 hits to your website per day. If you rank number 30,714 for the term "mp3," you probably won't get any traffic from that at all. Finding good long tail keywords is very important, because you need those long tail phrases to bring in traffic... especially when it's harder to get placement with more popular keywords. While some marketers shun long tail keywords, believing they have to rank well for the prime keyword phrases, others are using it to reach a demographic that has money in hand. Rather trying to get traffic from people searching the word "golf", it's much easier to attract someone who types in "Taylor Made R580XD Titanium Driver," and could be potentially much more profitable. The searcher who gets more specific with their searches is often someone who's more ready to buy, because they know what they want. The person typing in "golf" may want to know its history for a project, might want to take a golf vacation, or could be interested in attending a local tournament. That won't do you any good if your site sells golf clubs, but the long tail phrase will cater to the right crowd specifically. Therefore, pick your keywords and phrases carefully. Separate your broad, generic terms from your long tail phrases so that you can monitor your search engine positioning and see how your keyword list is performing for you. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: The Traffic Siphon: Get More Traffic And Make More Money Now! 58. Home Small Business Online Marketing: Increasing Profits Through Complimentary Offers If you launch your Internet marketing business as an affiliate marketer, then you'll want to know how to add complimentary offers into your marketing plan. On eBay, it's called cross-promotion. For example, go to an eBay auction for an iPod. You will find cross-promotions of all sorts of accessories, battery packs, and bling they can add onto their order. You can do the same with an affiliate business. Let's say you want to promote work at home opportunities - like Internet marketing to stay at home moms. First, you could start with an ebook promotion about affiliate marketing. It's broad, it fits a large demographic - and it converts well. What else could the stay at home mom (who is soon to be entrepreneur) need that you can sell? Try to put yourself in situation for a moment. She has kids running around the house, she may have limited space, and so she may be in need of a dedicated home office space, for example. That means you could also promote affiliate items through Amazon that cater to her home office needs, such as: - An ergonomic chair But there's more she's going to need. If she's learning the ropes of affiliate marketing, she'll need to understand tactics and tools that are available to make her work easier and increase her profit potential. You could cross-promote offers such as: - Article marketing software and guides This is just the tip of the iceberg. When you first scout out your affiliate product promotions, think of all the ways you can add other offers into the mix so that they complement the original product and still suit the needs of your prospects perfectly. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 59. Home Small Business Online: Networking with Other Online Marketers Building an online business can make you feel isolated at times. You work from home, usually on solo projects, and except for the occasional forum and chat room participation, you don't have much opportunity to interact with others. Some new marketers make it worse by never branding their name, or simply watching forum posts from the sidelines, perhaps because they fear exposing themselves to judgment in the marketplace. But networking will help you make big gains as an online marketer. First and foremost, it helps you brand your name in the marketplace. You'll always want to participate in the Internet marketing niche, even if it's not the niche you're making money with. The reason for this is because you can find potential Joint Venture partners who are in the same (or a complementary) niche as you. These relationships and bonds you build with other marketers could serve you well in the future. Within every money-making niche you're in, you'll want to network as well. Always put your sights on someone who's a step above you on the ladder of success. This will help you build your own business because you're catapulting your momentum forward. If at all possible, try to attend Internet marketing seminars and seminars within your niche. You'll meet people and gain valuable insight that isn't sold online - secrets shared between friends rather than sold to a general public. Seminars can help you bounce ideas off other marketers and generate new ideas based on what you learn. It can also help you locate products and services that will help your business. You might meet graphic designers, freelance writers, or an expert who could give your product or site a mention to his or her own list. If you attend a seminar, have some business cards ready to hand out to people that include your name, email address, and website. Get cards from others, too and then follow up on those contacts to remind people of who you are - thanking them if they provided you with any information that helps you on your journey to becoming a successful Internet marketer. After you attend enough seminars and become more well known, you may even be asked to be a speaker at one! Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 60. Home Small Business Online: Defining Your Online Revenue Streams For many, success in the Internet marketing industry is a trial and error process. You have to learn as you go - on your own - soaking up information along the way. The first thing you need to know is what it means to be an Internet marketer, because it isn't always clear to everyone. Internet marketers can actually pick and choose from a whole host of options available to help them make money. Your opportunities are virtually endless, and can include one or more of the following: - Selling digital downloads (information products like ebooks) And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Being a newcomer to Internet marketing, you might be worried that you don't have anything to sell. That's okay - most people don't start out with anything, and you never have to stock a tangible inventory if you don't want to. Internet marketing is great because it has no gender or age boundaries in the way of your success. There are teenagers and even grandmothers who have launched successful online ventures, who started out as budding Internet marketers just like you. You don't have to do anything unethical or shady to succeed at Internet marketing. You can build a respectable business with a solid reputation if you simply learn how to find out what people need and then give it to them... it's as simple as that. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 61. Home Small Business Ideas: Making Adsense Work For You Adsense can be a fantastic moneymaker. There are many people who make thousands of dollars per month through Adsense alone. Hearing this may get you excited, and you may already have dollar signs in your eyes. But don't get your hopes up just yet! Although you've probably heard about people who bring in five or six figures per month with Adsense, you need to keep one very important thing in mind. In order to make that kind of money with Adsense, you need to have a ton of traffic or a LOT of websites, or both. In fact, most people who make more than $100 per month with Adsense either have a very large website with thousands of visitors per day, or they have dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of smaller websites. For most people, Adsense may not be worth the effort to create sites only for promoting it. Adsense only pays a few cents for each click, depending on the keyword you target (some pay a lot more) and those few cents are a lot smaller than they were just a few years ago. A few years ago, some people were getting several dollars per click for many keywords. These days, $1 clicks are relatively rare in most niches. Most clicks seem to bring you under $0.50 now, and smaller niches may experience clicks of only around $0.10 (or even less.) In order to make $10 per day, at $0.10 per click you would need 100 clicks. If your click through ratio were 5%, you would need 2,000 visitors to your site every single day just to earn $10 per day. For sites with very little traffic, you would have to have a really fantastic click through ratio in order to earn decent money with Adsense - or, choose highly competitive keywords that pay a lot, but are harder to rank in the search engines. Some sites just naturally have traffic that doesn't buy much as far as paid information, but the visitors like to click through links to access free information. Webmasters who have sites that target the freebie-seeking demographic should test Adsense links to see which type performs best. If you're running a site that has an extremely general audience, Adsense might also be a good alternative. Adsense is usually pretty good at delivering targeted ads. You can create thousands of content pages with Adsense links, place the code in your blogs, and watch your monthly earnings rise as you create more content for your readers. If your only goal is to make money without becoming a product owner, then consider creating a content-laden site that weaves affiliate links into the text and provides ample opportunities for clicks to Adsense links so that you can profit from the information you're delivering. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 62. Home Small Business: Making The Most Of Your Marketing Hours How do you know when you should keep working at something, and when you should just give up and call it a day? Whenever you start a new project, it's usually very exciting. It's fun, it's new, and it's a lot easier to stick with. After awhile, however, you may start to lose interest in the project. When it starts to get boring, it gets a lot harder to stay with it. Many people might tell you to keep pushing no matter what - that it's the only way to be successful. That's not always true. Smart people know when to escape those dead ends and walk away. You shouldn't always keep working at something with blind faith, because if it's going nowhere, it could be preventing you from realizing success. Yes, winners do quit, sometimes, but they quit when it makes sense to quit. Here are a few tips you can use to help you decide when you should quit and when you should keep pushing with a particular project. First, ask how long you've been at it. If you've been going quite awhile, giving up might be a waste of the work you've already put in. Then again, if you've stuck to something for a very, very long time and you're not seeing any results, it might not make sense to keep going. Next, ask yourself if the potential rewards are worth it. If you're really working hard to carve out a chunk of a very tiny niche, maybe it really isn't worth it. Will that tiny niche ever be worth the amount of work you're putting in? On the other hand, if you're already making some headway into a very large market, giving up might be a bit premature. Why give up on potential future earnings when you may already be halfway there? Finally, ask yourself if it's really worth it, not strictly in terms of money, but also in terms of quality of life. You're the one putting the time, effort, and money into a project. If the potential reward doesn't seem worth the hassle anymore, maybe it really is time to give up. By taking the time to consistently evaluate your progress and answer these questions with objectivity, it's easier to stay on track to success. You might even benefit from asking friends and family to occasionally help you with these questions... their answers may surprise you. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: Powerful Backlink Strategies To Generate Unstoppable Traffic 63. Home Small Business Marketing Online: Turbocharging Your Backend Profits Every good marketer knows how important it is to increase the lifetime value of the customer. It's much cheaper to make a sale to a previous customer than it is to get a new one onboard. The cost of acquiring new customers can be high, but getting more money out of existing customers won't cost you a penny. Building a backend to your business isn't hard... but without one, you're limiting your financial potential. A backend is how you continue selling to an existing customer. For example, let's say you sell an eBook on how to make money by blogging, Your eBook could discuss what a blog is, how to set one up, and how to make money from it. Your backend sales could come from affiliate items (if you don't feel like taking the product creation route again) or a new eBook, membership site, or video/audio package you sell. Whenever you first start selling online, always think of complementary topics you can tack on as a backend. For our example, your backend sales could be about social networking on other web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Facebook, or bookmarking sites. After you've begun seeing success with those, your backend sales could continue by focusing on more paid methods of marketing, such as AdWords. You set up your offers with your audience like stepping stones, moving from the first logical starting point to a more advanced stage. Insert your offers right into your autoresponder system and it will automatically serve the needs of your subscribers the longer they stay on your list. Another common way to add a backend onto a product is to offer personal coaching. Personal coaching can be expensive, sometimes even costing up to thousands of dollars per month. A lot of marketers offer this as a backend strategy, giving them the potential to significantly increase the return on their investment (ROI) of acquiring the prospect. If you take care to create top quality backend offers that add value to your customer's needs, they'll continue buying from you. If you promote anything and everything just for the sake of cashing in, they'll eventually lose trust in you. Your backend sales strategy isn't limited to just your autoresponder. You can put links to backend products on your "thank you" pages as well. And don't forget that each product can act as a backend item for another one. So you might start with an ebook about social marketing and then use a blogging ebook as your backend item for the customer. Just make sure you don't set yourself up for limited profits by using a single product without implementing a backend strategy that will work to increase your ROI over and over again. You're building a business, not dabbling in a few hit or miss sales. Stay tuned for another home small business marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: Quick Start Strategies To Building A Profitable Backend System 64. Home Small Business Marketing: Harnessing The Power Of Adwords Pay-per-click marketing can be very difficult to master. A lot of people have spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars before they learned to make a profit. Some people never become profitable, and give up after losing a considerable amount of money. In order to have the best chance at being successful, you have to learn to be extremely vigilant about your campaigns. You have to monitor them carefully, and always end campaigns that remain unprofitable for a long period of time. One of the first things you should monitor is your Click Through Rate (CTR). If your CTR is very poor, your ads will cost more. It will take more money for the same number of clicks your competitors might get if they have a better CTR. If your CTR is too low, you need to tweak your ad copy. You need to look at the text your competitors are using, and attempt to make yours better. Try to get inside the minds of your visitors, and think about what they're looking for when they search for a particular word or phrase. Use split-testing to test multiple versions of your ads, and use the best ones. Keep an eye on your quality score (QS). If your score is too low, then you need to do a few things to get your quality score up. The higher your QS is, the less you'll have to pay for your clicks, and the more profit you can potentially make. The quality score takes several factors into account for its ranking algorithm, and Google doesn't release the details of every single one. They give you a little general advice, but it's not really enough for most people to dominate AdWords right away. After a lot of experimentation, experts have come up with some guidelines than can help improve your quality score. Make sure you have each campaign's keyword phrases on the landing page itself. Don't use the keyword "golf carts" if the word "carts" doesn't appear anywhere on the page. That could bring your quality score down. Your landing page shouldn't be a single page with no internal links. Google doesn't favor single page landing pages. Add links to relevant products, articles related to the niche, or pages such as a privacy policy, terms of service, and a contact page. Keep your campaigns focused on a few highly related keyword phrases each, such as one for the product name only, another for long tail phrases, and a third for more broad keywords. You should make sure you target those keywords in your ad. For example, if you have "golf clubs," "golf bags," and "golf club warmers" as your keyword phrases, you should try to use at least one of those phrases in your ad. You might have something like "Golf Clubs, Bags, and Accessories" in your ad. The words people search for will appear in bold in your ad, so the more of them you have in your ad, the more likely it is to be clicked. Finally, you should carefully track conversions. Make sure you have a way to track which traffic came from AdWords if you're sending traffic from more than one source. Conversions are ultimately the most important factor in the success or failure of any pay-per-click campaign. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: The Complete Guide To Making Online Income With Article Marketing 65. Home Small Business Marketing: Creating Your First Affiliate Link Creating your first affiliate link is very simple. First, you'll want to register for a free affiliate (or associate) ID. On ClickBank, they call it a nickname. On Amazon, it's an associate ID, and on PayDotCom, it's your affiliate member username. On ClickBank.com, you'll go to the marketplace, which is the link at the top of the page. Enter some keywords to find a product you want to promote. You can select the option to view the pitch page if you want to review the sales letter, and then select the option to create a "hoplink" when you're ready to get your link. Enter your ClickBank nickname and click, "Create." You'll see two options, as shown below: http://Nickname.Publisher.hop.clickbank.net/ and <a href="http://Nickname.Publisher.hop.clickbank.net/" target="_top">Click Here!</a> The first one is your direct link, and instead of nickname and publisher, you'll see your personal nickname and the publisher's ID. The second one is ready for insertion into a web page. This makes the words, Click Here hyperlinked to the site via your own personal affiliate link. If you choose to use PayDotCom, you'll log into your affiliate account and click on Promote Products at the top of the screen. Next you'll click on the option that says, "Create a new campaign...from marketplace." Search the marketplace to find a product you wish to promote. When you find a product you'd like to promote as an affiliate, click the Promote link. Here, you'll see your raw affiliate link that you can use - as well as any other tools the product owner provides, such as banner ads, email announcements, etc. In Amazon, you'll log into your associate membership and then on the left sidebar, click "Build Links." You can choose which types of links you wish to build, such as a text link. Here, you'll enter the full URL of the product or search results page you want to promote and enter the words you want to be hyperlinked. You'll be able to quickly cut and paste the HTML code into your website or blog. Although they may look very different, each affiliate program has a similar system in place to help you create viable links, so don't let the technology differences confuse you. Basically, for each one, you'll log in, enter your username, and generate a link to copy and use online. It's easy, but if you get stuck somewhere, check out the support tutorials or email the product owner and ask for assistance. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 66. Home Small Business Marketing: Adding Audio To Your Website Audio is a very powerful selling tool. Some people aren't very good at reading, or really hate to read, but they don't mind listening as they multi-task. Using audio on your site is a great way to capture their attention and sell to people who really can't stand reading long sales pitches. Audio instantly captures attention. Some people see this is a bad thing, because audio can be very startling if someone has their speakers turned up loudly and aren't expecting a verbal pitch. This is why some marketers choose not to have their audio start automatically, but have a "play" button instead. Other marketers say audio loses its power if it's optional. It's probably better to test both options on your site to see which performs better for you. Audio is also very good for selling to those with visual impairments. Many of the visually impaired use the Internet frequently. By adding audio to your sites, you'll make it easier for them to understand your product. You can also use audio to provide tutorials. These can be tutorials that you place on your website or allow people to download. Some people learn better when they hear instructions than when they read them. Providing your tutorials in audio format will help reach these people in a way that written tutorials might not be able to. Audio testimonials are a very useful selling tool. By having people give you their testimonials in audio format, you help lend credibility to the content. A lot of people feel that since anyone could write a fake testimonial, they often don't trust them as much. But if you offer your testimonials in audio format, they'll be more likely to believe they were provided by real people, because they'll hear different voices in each audio file. Remember, if you're using audio for multiple testimonials, make sure you don't have the audios all start automatically. It may sound obvious, but there have been cases of marketers forgetting this and ending up with several audio files all playing at once! This would definitely chase off a lot of visitors. If you're going to offer audio on your site, it's important to use the best quality audio you can. If your audio quality is poor, people probably aren't going to want to listen to it. In fact, if the audio is bad enough, people may just hit the back button to get away from it! You don't have to record your website audio in a professional recording studio, but you should use a decent quality microphone and minimize background noise as much as you can. You should make sure you create your audio in a room with decent acoustics. It's best if you make it in a room with carpeted floors and a lot of plush, soft furniture. If you create your audio in a room with hard floors and little soft furniture, there may be a hollow, echo-like quality to the sound. You should also make sure the room isn't full of crying babies, screaming children, and barking dogs. Any background noises can be very distracting, so close the door and turn off the television, and turn off the phone. If done well, audio can be a remarkable tool for selling and teaching. You can even take a simple PDF file and turn it into a batch of downloadable MP3 files that your customer can take with them on the go. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 67. Home Small Business Online: Creating Your First Easy MiniSite The word "minisite" can refer to a number of different things. Some people call small niche article sites minisites, but that isn't the general use of the word. In Internet marketing, the word "minisite" is generally used to refer to very small websites that are set up to sell a product - usually an eBook or other digital download. Most minisites are only 1-5 pages. Some of them are only a single sales pitch page, plus perhaps a thank you page to be displayed after the customer places an order. Others have a contact page, a terms of service page, a frequently asked questions page, or other general pages. For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll just work on creating a single page minisite, and we'll cover only the design - not the sales copy. Most minisites have several key parts. They usually have a header and footer, although some have only a header, or may have neither. They also have a sales letter of some sort, which is used to sell the product. Finally, they have an order button that is clicked when a customer wants to purchase the product. Some minisites also have an eCover, which is a computer-generated image that mimics what an information product for sale might look like if it were an actual physical product. For example, if the product is an eBook, the eCover might look like a hardcover or paperback book cover (sometimes a spiral notebook, too). If the product is a membership site, the eCover might be a membership card. Software products usually have a 3D software box as their eCover. The first step in creating a minisite should be creating your eCover, if you intend to use one. Most people create their eCovers with Photoshop, because the eCover action scripts needed to create them only work with Photoshop. If you don't have Photoshop, you may need to create it from scratch, or have it made for you by a professional graphic designer. After you have your cover design, you'll need to create a header. A well-designed header can draw attention to your headline, and it can make your site look more professional. The header should contain your product's name and a tag line - like a one-sentence blurb that tells what your site is offering. It can also contain a photo that's related to your niche, and it might also contain a small version of your ecover - all tied into a theme that matches the interests of your audience. Let's say you're creating a minisite to sell your dog-training ebook. Your header could potentially contain a picture of a woman pointing at a dog, and the dog sitting down. The text on the header might say something like, "Dog Training 101: The Ultimate Guide to Training Your Puppy or Adult Dog!" Don't make your header too large. If the header is so large visitors can't see the headline without scrolling, it's too big! It should attract attention to the headline, not hide it. Headers are generally between 700 and 800 pixels wide and 100-200 pixels in height. The footer is usually the same width, but about half the height of the header. It may only contain the product name or logo, but may also contain an image or copyright notice. Finally, you need an order button that draws a lot of attention. Your button might contain your eCover, plus a brightly colored button and a call-to-action, such as "Click Here for Instant Access!" If you have the money to invest, you might consider ordering a minisite package from a professional designer. For about $300, you'll get the header, footer, eCovers, and even sometimes extra banners that you can use for off-site promotions. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 68. Home Small Business: Online Income From Digital Downloads One of the great things about marketing online is that you can sell digital products. Instead of having to physically create, store and ship tangible goods, you can eliminate all those costs and deal strictly in information products and other virtual items, which can significantly increase your profits. As a product owner, you get to set the price for your digital downloads. As an affiliate, you seek out products that have a good commission to promote. Both options are great for making money on the internet, without needing to maintain a warehouse full of stuff. Overall, digital downloads usually have a much better payout than tangible goods. Of course, if you're promoting a high-ticket tangible item, you might make more - but it could be harder to sell, too. A digital download is a text, audio, or video file that buyers can download instantly onto their hard drive and access immediately. Instead of waiting until tomorrow afternoon to run to the local bookstore, they can conveniently log in at 3 o'clock in the morning when they can't sleep and download an ebook on the topic they want. A tangible book that costs $14.95 in a local bookstore can sell for $27 and up on the Internet as a digital download. As an affiliate, your commission will probably be at least half of that, but even though you might make less, you also don't have to do any of the creation, selling, delivery or customer support, either. If you promote a tangible book on Amazon that costs $14.95, and you get 7% of that, you're only earning a little over a dollar. But a $47 digital download, for example - for an ebook about the same topic - can easily offer you 50% commission, giving you more than $20.00 per sale! It's not hard to see which one pays better. As a product owner, you can create ebooks to compete with tangibles. You'll charge a lot more, but you'll be able to pay your affiliates a lot for their efforts, too. If you're not a writer and prefer a different type of product creation for your digital download, you can choose to create a series of MP3 files - audio tutorials that teach your topic to a paying audience. The public loves information they can digest on the go using their portable audio player, smart phone or other electronic gadget. You can also use a screen-capture tool like Camtasia and create videos as your main products. Many people actually prefer to watch a lesson rather than read it. With both audio and video digital downloads, your price point can be much higher than what text-based infoproducts can bring in. Combine all three media elements and you can be poised to market a high-ticket digital download that takes in hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a single sale - something affiliate marketers will jump all over. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 69. Home Small Business: Building Your Business With Joint Ventures Joint ventures (also known as JVs) are partnerships between two or more people, usually with the purpose of cross-promoting products. There are various types of JVs, and what you offer your JV partners will depend on what you have to bring to the table, and what you're looking for in return. Most JVs are really affiliate relationships. You have a product, for example, and your JV partner has a forum, website, or email list. Your JV partner sends an email to his list about your product, or puts an ad on their website, blog, forum, etc. Then you pay that JV partner a commission for the sales he generates. (It could also be the other way around, where the other person is the product owner.) Although this type of relationship probably shouldn't be called a "JV," a lot of people do refer to it as such - probably because the product owner approached the JV partner to ask for a promotion instead of the product owner just deciding on his own to become an affiliate. A more common form of true JV is when two parties with email lists or websites exchange ads. Usually, both parties have lists of comparable sizes in the same general niche, and each person agrees to send a mailing out to their list on the other person's behalf. You send their message to your list, and they send your ad out to theirs. Joint ventures are great, because they allow you to go far beyond what you could accomplish by simply promoting to your own list, or on your own site. If you have a list of 10,000 people, and 200 people buy the product you're advertising, you have a 2% conversion rate. If you could find ten other people with lists of 10,000 people to send out your ad, and you also experience a 2% conversion, you could make ten times the money you'd have made by sending out a message only to your list of subscribers. Of course, in many niches, lists will often have duplicate subscribers. In the Internet marketing niche, many webmasters are on dozens of different lists. When a major launch goes out, you might get five or ten messages promoting the exact same product on the same day. But no two mailing lists will consist solely of exact duplicates. Even in the same niche, people can attract different audiences. JVs are a great way of reaching more people than you'd otherwise be able to reach on your own. If you're interested in doing a JV with someone, you should be well prepared before you write to him or her with your proposal. You must bring something to the table that is of value to the other person. A JV can be a cross promotion or a bartering situation, where each of you offers up a service or skill to jointly create and launch a co-branded product. Don't expect to write to a well-known marketer with a huge list and get an instant JV when you don't have a list and aren't offering anything special. It could happen, just don't expect it. Occasionally, you can entice a JV partner with a very generous commission. In that case, be prepared to pay 70% or more in order to get JV partners, unless you're already very well known in the niche or have a very large list of your own. You'll also probably have to JV with people who have lists that are similar to yours in size. Most people won't be willing to JV with you if their list is over 10,000 people and yours is only 200... but it never hurts to ask. Once you build up a large list of your own, you can start getting bigger JVs. Just don't forget about what it was like when you were new and your list was smaller. You shouldn't automatically pass over someone because his or her list is currently small. If they're offering you a good commission on a very high-quality product, it might be something you should consider. Plus, you'll be developing a relationship that might be very valuable in the future! Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: Secrets Of Profitable List Building
70. Home Small Business Online: Generating Cash Through Keyword Research Your keyword choices are critical to your success in nearly any online home small business model. Whether you're pursuing Pay-Per Click (PPC), blogging, Virtual Real Estate (VRE) and Adsense, or any number of Internet Marketing strategies, the keywords you choose can make or break your success. Keywords are important for several reasons. First of all, there's traffic. If you choose the wrong keywords to target, you're probably not going to get nearly as much traffic as you'd like. Whether you're using PPC or search engines to get your traffic, your keywords are going to affect your ranking and link performance. Another reason why keywords are so vital is the fact that you need targeted traffic. Ten thousand visitors coming to your domain via the keyword "books" is probably going to be worthless compared to 500 visitors who come via the keyword phrase, "Harry Potter books," if that's what you're selling. Someone who is searching for "books" is probably just browsing. They may not even be interested in buying anything - they could be interested in selling books, book history, book publishers, and more. But someone who is searching for "Harry Potter books" is probably ready to buy something right then and there. So it's not enough to just get a lot of traffic - you need a lot of traffic that's willing to take the action you want them to take. Whether you're looking to sell ebooks, promote affiliate products, get leads for a CPA offer, or just get sign-ups to your list, you want targeted visitors who are likely to be buyers now or in the future. Once you've chosen a niche you'd like to pursue, you need to research the keywords you'll use. If you're writing articles, you'll need to choose keywords to use in the titles and content. If you're building niche websites, you'll need to use keywords in the domain name, the title and the content. If you're buying PPC traffic, the keywords you choose will likely be one of the biggest factors in determining whether or not your campaign is profitable. WordTracker is a very good tool for researching keywords. If you can't afford to get a paid membership there (even for a day), they have a very good free keyword tool at http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com. Google has their own free keyword tool, and you can glean some useful information and ideas from their results: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal. There are also many paid solutions for keyword research out there. I've tried most of them at one time or another, and the one that I keep coming back to is Micro Niche Finder. It is easy to use, and I really like its ability to show you which keywords are most likely to be profitable for you. I always recommend using more than one keyword research tool to generate keyword ideas, and then I use Micro Niche Finder to pare the big list down to something manageable and to identify the probable winners in that list. To start your keyword research, you'll first want to research a base keyword for your niche. For example, let's say you're targeting the golf niche. You might enter "golf" into the keyword tool of your choice. Then the keyword tool will show you a number of related keywords. You might come up with "golf clubs," "golf tips," "golf swing," "golf bags," "golf carts," and "golf courses." This is a short list of more broad terms. Then you need to research each of these broad terms in more detail to come up with even more targeted phrases. You'll want to eventually generate a big list of targeted keyword phrases that you can use over the coming months and years, so get started today! Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: The Insider Trade Secrets To Generating Easy Online Income With Simple CPA Strategies 71. Building Your Income with Blogs Blogs are a fantastic way to make money. They perform well in search engines, they're easy to promote, and they can offer very sticky content. If you blog often, and you're good at what you do, you can develop a pretty large following of readers who subscribe to your RSS feed and read your content on a daily basis. One of the biggest keys to success with blogs is posting consistently. If you don't post regularly, you probably won't get much traffic, and people won't return. Posting frequently also keeps your content fresh, and search engines love fresh content. The more often you post, the more often the search engines will visit your site. And every time you post, you can ping your site at the various ping locations. This can also bring in more traffic. Another major key to blog success is creating sticky content. This means you have to write posts that people will actually be interested in reading. Readers probably don't care what you had for dinner, unless you're running a food blog. They want to read about topics related to your niche. If you're running a blog about golfing, at least 75% of your posts should be related to golf. Preferably 100%. You should talk about golf courses you've recently played on, tournaments you've watched, and clubs you've tried. You might occasionally post about family matters, or your dog, or your favorite restaurant as a way to connect on a more personal level with your readers, but most of your posts should be on target with your niche. Blogs are great for people who sell services. If you're a graphics designer or writer, having a blog is a good way to keep in touch with your clients. You can offer updates on your schedule and availability, current prices and special offers, and when you'll be taking some time off. You can also post samples of your latest work. If you have a number of clients subscribe to your RSS feed, you'll be able to keep in contact with them so they'll order from you more often. Don't start a blog with the intention of letting it sit dormant and earn money. It probably won't work. If you're going to start a blog, you need to be prepared to commit yourself to growing the blog, posting often, keeping it updated, and not giving up on it. They offer multiple selling opportunities - from text links woven throughout the content to image ads like banners you strategically place in between blog posts. The sidebar can also be utilized as an affiliate or direct sales revenue space. Make sure you take the time to transfer your blog over to your own domain instead of hosting it within the blogging community. This makes it more professional to the person who lands on your website and lends credibility to your efforts as the go-to person in your niche. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: Making A Fortune With Niche Blogs 72. Home Small Business Marketing: Building Links With Social Bookmarking Social bookmarking is extremely popular with marketers in many niches. Social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, and Technorati allow users to add links to sites they like, and then other visitors can grab those links and add them to their own lists, making your URLs go viral. Social bookmarking sites can be great for getting traffic to your own domains. You can bookmark your sites yourself and then hope others will share the links, and in some cases vote your entries up, like Digg users often do. If enough people vote for a particular story, it might make it to the front page of that bookmarking site. A front-page listing can mean thousands of visitors a day. But because of the very nature of social bookmarking sites, if you want to get a lot of traffic from the bookmarking sites themselves, then you have to make sure that the links you submit are newsworthy - not just your sales pitch page. Use the news to work your site into the bookmarking bevy of links. For instance - let's say you're in the gardening niche and you have a site on growing tulips. A simple how-to site may not get shared a lot. But let's say you read an article about a discovery by a group of scientists that says people who grow tulips in their yards are 60% less likely to develop lung cancer, for example. Then you'd have a pretty decent shot at having a lot of users in both the gardening and health demographic share your links with others. If your sites tend to be less newsworthy and more general, then you shouldn't worry about how many people vote for a story or share your links. Just concentrate on using the social bookmarking sites to gain backlinks to your sites. Concentrate on bookmarking the index page of each of your sites first. Be careful not to bookmark too many of your own sites at first, since that can appear "spammy" - remember to bookmark other interesting sites you see that you don't necessarily own yourself. The key to social bookmarking is to become part of the community who shares interesting information. Create a good profile that tells a little about you. Add a picture, and if the site offers it, start building a "friends" list. Be careful about how many links you add per day. You shouldn't go crazy and add 100 links the day you sign up to a social bookmarking site. It's often helpful to keep it to ten or less per day, but check the individual site's tutorial to be sure. After you've been a user for several weeks, you might be able to add more per day. Just make sure to keep bookmarking stories on other websites. Vote for a few of the stories that made it onto the first page. Bookmark a story at a news site every once in a while, or a funny Youtube video. This helps make your profile a lot more legitimate in the eyes of the community. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: Powerful And Fast Action Backlink Strategies
73. Home Small Business: Unlocking The Secrets Of One Time Offers One time offers are a great way to increase the money you make from your product offerings. A One Time Offer is an additional offer that is shown right after the customer clicks the Buy button for something they are already buying. Before they checkout, the OTO is presented for them to consider. The hook is that the price on the second offer is only available right at that moment. This is obviously a good way to increase the amount of your sale since they're already in a buying mode. One time offers are a very good way to give customers more value. The offer provides them with a chance to purchase something additional at a cost that is less expensive than the product would normally be, giving your customers the opportunity to grab another great deal from you while they already have their credit card out. Another great way to offer additional value is to trade OTOs with other marketers. For example, if you have a product that complements another marketer's product (and vice versa), then each of you would present the other's products to your customers as the OTOs, either sharing the revenue or giving the owner 100% in exchange for a reciprocal arrangement. If you can't find someone who will JV with you on an OTO offer, you can try to find someone with an affiliate program who will allow you to offer their product as an OTO at a discount. Simply tell them you expect a good volume of sales and you'd like to offer their product at a slight discount. You probably won't be able to land a deal like this unless you can prove you can do a large volume of business, because it would mean setting up a special sales page (or at least setting up a coupon code that could be easily tracked with your affiliate ID). The best OTOs are usually very difficult to turn down. They offer exceptional value at a very special price. There are three particularly popular types of one time offers. One is usually an upgrade to the first product, such as a more comprehensive version of it. The second could be a coaching program that takes the ideas of the product and offers them in a one-on-one coaching system. And the third could be a turnkey solution that goes along with the product you sold. For example, if you've sold an eBook about making money with Adsense, you could offer a package of Adsense templates as the OTO. Membership sites can also have OTOs. When someone joins your membership site, you could offer them an upgrade to a higher access level. Let's say you have two access levels - silver and gold. The silver level typically costs $50 per month, and the gold level costs $100 per month. You could offer anyone who joins at the silver level an upgrade to gold for only $25 more, at $75 per month - a $25 savings off of the normal gold level price. You can also offer one-on-one coaching as an OTO for membership sites. Since memberships are already a monthly fee, coaching is a perfect complement to many membership sites. Make sure you test your one time offers just like you test any part of your sales copy or site performance. Replace the offers and see which ones convert better and then tweak that offer until it performs as well as it can. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: Backend Mastermind - Quick Start Strategies To Build A Profitable Backend System 74. Finding A Niche To Make You Riche Finding profitable niches can be difficult. Discovering one that isn't extremely saturated can be intimidating when you're just starting out as an Internet marketer. The key to finding niches that are profitable without a lot of competition is to drill down through a top-level niche to find profitable sub-niches with fewer competitors. For example, let's say you're interested in creating a site in the beauty category. You can drill down into several different sub-categories. You could choose hair care, skin care, fitness, organic beauty, cosmetics, or any number of niches related to beauty. But these categories are still too broad to be profitable with small numbers of visitors. You need to drill down further. Let's say you decide to tackle the skin care demographic. Sub-categories of skin care might include eczema, acne, blackheads, wrinkles, age spots, psoriasis, and dry skin. Now you have a list of smaller niches that you can begin to narrow down. Acne might still be too broad. You can drill down even more by targeting teenage acne, infant acne, and adult acne. While you want to find niches that are narrow enough for you to dominate, you don't want to choose niches that have too little traffic available. To figure this out, it may be helpful to spy on your competitors. Go to your favorite search engine, like Google, and search for things like "how to get rid of acne." Try to really get inside the mindset of your target prospect. However, if you drill down too much, like targeting "blackheads," it may not turn out to be profitable. You should verify that your possible niche gets a decent level of search volume by using a keyword tool like WordTracker or the Google Keyword Tool. When you search within the niche using Google, see if there are plenty of AdWords ads on the right sidebar of the screen. If so, this means people are almost surely making money in this niche. The key is to take something that's already working and make it better. Any time you can come up with an original slant on an idea that's already churning profits online, you're in a good position to achieve success. For example, if you want to get into the online auctions niche, don't go after a broad subject area like "eBay for beginners." Instead, target something more focused and unique such as "eBay Success for Baby Boomers." Pick a specific target audience and then cater to their needs instead of approaching the masses with too broad an idea. Watch your inbox for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: The Complete Affiliate Marketing Handbook 75. Getting Indexed Fast in Google A lot of people seem to think it takes weeks (or even months) to get indexed in Google, but that's just not true. Almost anyone can get his or her site crawled and indexed in two weeks or less - sometimes you can even be listed in the Google index in as little as a few hours! There are several ways to get indexed quickly. All of them involve getting links to your site on other sites that have high PageRank, or sites that are updated often and get crawled frequently by search engine spiders. You don't have to pay to do this. There are plenty of ways to get these types of links to your site without paying a penny. One of the easiest ways to get indexed quickly is to ping your site. You don't have to own a blog to ping your site at places like pingoat.com or pingomatic.com. Just add your site's name and URL, and leave the RSS feed link blank. (It's not necessary.) Sometimes this technique alone can get you indexed in a day or two. Next, you should submit your link to various social bookmarking sites. These sites get crawled several times a day, so they can be a very good way to get your own site crawled and indexed quickly. You should get an account at all of the major bookmarking sites. Don't miss StumbleUpon, Digg, Furl, del.ico.us, and Slashdot. Press releases can be very helpful in getting your site crawled and indexed quickly. Most of the more popular press release sites have good PageRank, get crawled often, and can even get your press release posted on a number of different sites that borrow news from the PR directories. Sometimes it can be worth submitting a press release simply for the ease and speed of being indexed. Article marketing is another way to get indexed fast. Submitting an article or two can also help you get backlinks, better PageRank, and targeted traffic to your site. A lot of article directories have very good PageRank, so it definitely has benefits other than just quick indexing. Blog commenting can be a very good way to get indexed quickly. You'll need to find blogs that don't have the "nofollow" tag, because blogs that have "nofollow" won't let search engines crawl the links anyway. This is debated by SEO experts - some saying the "nofollow" tag doesn't even matter, since some search engine spiders ignore them anyway. Others claim you might get a small amount of traffic from the blogs themselves, but "nofollow" blogs will do nothing to help you get indexed faster. You should also make sure you do all you can to maximize the ability of spiders to crawl your site. You should have links that are easy to find and follow, use text links instead of only image links, don't use Flash or image maps unless you also have text links for spiders to follow, and make sure you keep your site as clean as possible. Having too many links on your main page can confuse spiders, and your site may not be indexed properly. Forums often get crawled on a regular (daily) rotation since the content is updated often. Popular forums have had posts on their site show up on Google just minutes after they're posted! It's very common for posts on very popular forums to show up in Google in less than 24 hours. Posting a small link in your signature on some of these forums can help you get your site indexed quickly. Please don't spam the forum! Make sure your posts are relevant and full of great content. Finally, you can exchange links with other webmasters in your niche. This a great way to build backlinks, and if their sites get crawled often, you'll be adding to the chance that your site will be crawled and indexed quickly, too. Link exchanges won't penalize your site, either - unless you amass too many too soon - so stick with organic growth (a few a day) and it shouldn't put up any red flags for the search engines. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: How To Generate Tons Of Website Traffic, On Demand
76. Home Small Business: Solving The Mystery Of Internet Marketing When you make a living online, many people will not understand what it is you do. Some of them will think you are nothing more than a spammer - just because you work on the Internet. You might even run into people who automatically assume you are into promoting something unscrupulous or undesirable, because they think that is the sole purpose of internet marketing! You need to be prepared to deal with people like this. Some of them may even be close friends and family members who are simply ignorant about the various marketing uses for the World Wide Web. The first thing you need to explain to people is that very few people who work on the Internet are spammers. Spammers actually make up a very, very small minority of those who make money online. Explain to them that subscribing to your newsletter is a lot like signing up for delivery of the newspaper, or a magazine subscription. People sign up to your newsletter, and then you send them valuable information, not just advertising. If you sell ebooks online, you can explain to people that you are a bit like a book publisher, but all of the books you publish are in digital format. You can tell them that instead of paying a lot of extra money for the printing, binding, marketing, and shipping of a physical book, you eliminate those costs by selling all of your If people still no not understand, you could even show them what an eBook is by letting them view one on your computer. If your main business is advertising affiliate products, you can tell people you are in advertising. Explain to them that you run a website (or websites) and you place advertising on that website. Every time someone clicks an ad and purchases something, you receive a commission. If you make most of your money through Adsense or selling advertising on your sites, you can simply tell people that you place advertisements on your websites, and you charge advertisers for that ad space. Perhaps you may feel more comfortable just telling people that you design websites. If you are a decent website builder, this will probably really impress people, but be prepared to get requests from people asking if you will make them a site, too. If you no not want to deal with all of the technical questions, just telling someone you design websites will usually be enough to satisfy them. If people are particularly doubtful, you can start to point out some examples of people who have been very successful making money online. You should realize that some people will just never understand what you do. Try to explain it the best way you can, and if it does not work, accept it. Some people just will not get it. If the in-laws or your spouse are nagging you because your money is not yet streaming in, and you feel pressured, put together a simple presentation that answers all of their questions and puts their minds at ease, or find some statistics or proof of earnings of someone who is doing what you are trying to do. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: Your Fast-Start Guide To Internet Marketing And Online Business 77. Getting Started With Video Marketing Video is a spectacular way to market on the Internet, especially now that so many Internet users have broadband access. More users are able to view and download video. Video sharing websites are more popular than ever. Youtube is one of the most visited websites in the world, and other video sharing sites are growing in popularity, too - including niche-specific sites, like those for Internet marketing. As a result of the gain in popularity of video sharing sites, more marketers are turning to video as a way to promote their products and services. Almost any type of product or service can be promoted through video, but it's important to do it properly. People generally don't visit video sites to view commercials. There might be exceptions for people who want to watch classic commercials, funny commercials, or extremely popular commercials. But for the most part, people don't want to watch commercials. They come to be entertained or to learn something. If you want your videos to be viewed a lot, you need to either be very funny, exciting, controversial or educational. If your free videos offer a ton of quality content, they have a good chance of going viral and making you money. Video is so powerful - not only because of the sheer number of people who view video sharing sites every day, but because it can be much more persuasive than the written word. Some people respond better to writing, but others respond better to video. Video can really help you to get your point across to people who don't read well, or people who really hate to read. Many marketers feel they don't look good on camera, or don't have the budget to produce quality videos. That's one big reason behind the popularity of Camtasia. Camtasia is a great program that allows you to make videos by taking video screenshots of your computer. You can select a portion of your screen to be shown, and then you can make your video by simply moving from through your online presentation. You can find more information about Camtasia at http://www.techsmith.com. If you're on a tight budget, check out Jing at the same site. You can also use a microphone to record your voice explaining the process as you go through it. Camtasia is very easy to use, making it extremely popular for people who aren't very good with technical things. Many people are able to make their first video with Camtasia within an hour of opening the software! This makes it perfect for almost any marketer. If you're promoting an eBook about Squidoo, for example, then your video could be a short tutorial about one aspect of how to use the site - like adding images to a Squidoo lens or setting up your own group on Squidoo. You can do this with nearly any kind of product. If your product is a dog training DVD, you can post a couple of samples from it. Show how to teach a dog to sit, and another showing how to teach a dog to heel. If your product is about how to make money with ebooks, you could have a couple of sample videos on how to get affiliates, or how to get more traffic to your website, making sure you show proof of your results within the video production. Even if you don't want to post your videos to the video sharing sites, you can post them on your own site or blog. You can even put video on your sales page for higher conversions. Video can be an important selling tool, but it's also effective as the primary media you use to create your product, too. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: How To Build Profitable Membership Sites Enjoy! 78. Branding Yourself Online Branding your name (or your pen name) is very important on the Internet, no matter what niche you're in. You need to establish yourself as an authority in your market, because people trust authority figures most of all. They trust their recommendations, they trust that their products will be of good quality, and they trust that they have integrity. It also gives your buyer confidence that you're a real person - not just some nameless, faceless entity trying to sell them something on a static, automated website. You should put your name on everything you create. Whether it's a membership site, an eBook, or something as small as a PLR article pack for sale - you should put your name on it. Getting your name out there and recognized is essential to your ongoing success. Think about all of the marketing experts you've heard of. People know and remember them because they put their names on everything they put out. Their names are all over the marketing forums, their eCovers, their headers, and everything else they do. They work very hard to brand their names, because their names become their brands. People buy their products simply because their name is on it. Buyers think that the product must be good, because the person is so well-known. You should do the same thing with your name. Always use the same name on everything you do within a particular niche. You may not want to use your real name for whatever reason, but your name needs to be a "real name." A nickname usually won't cut it in most markets, but sometimes it works. If you've signed up for forums under a nickname, ask the moderators if they can change your name to your real name or pen name. You might not want to tell the moderator's it's a pen name. That's up to you. Keep getting your name out there any way you can. Host teleseminars, JV with well-known people if possible, and offer to help create content for famous people in your niche in exchange for a Bio Box that hosts your name and link to your website. Offer to be an interview subject for someone. Be a "guest author" for popular websites and blogs in your niche, and create 100% original content for them. Never stop branding your name. Even someone as famous as Donald Trump, the king of name branding, doesn't stop marketing. Donald still puts his name on everything he does. His name appears in huge, bold letters on his books. He names buildings after himself. Think of Trump Tower, Trump Taj Mahal, and Trump Plaza. His name is all over everything. Not only is it a matter of pride, but it keeps his name everywhere. You may never be as famous as the Donald, and you may not even like him, but if you follow these instructions, you might become known as the king or queen of your own little niche or for a particular slant that grows in popularity. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 79. Building Your Ebook Empire While there are many ways to build a business online, building your own eBook empire is one method that can create long-term residual income for years to come. Of course, eBooks provide many perks up front. You don't have to stock any inventory. You can keep overhead costs low (no publisher and agent percentages like there are with print books). You have an endless supply that can be purchased at any time of the day or year. But they also offer many benefits that aren't so obvious. While a tangible book in your local bookstore might sell for $14.95, an eBook on the same subject could sell at anywhere from $27 or more online as a digital download. You don't have to be a professional writer to launch your own eBook empire. The writing is much easier for an online audience - more like you do every day via email than what you learned in a college-level English class. Many ebook authors start out as ghostwriters for other top Internet marketers on a freelance basis. When they discover how profitable their ebooks actually are, many actually decide to learn the entire process of launching their own ebooks themselves. You can even find quality freelancers to create your products for you at a fraction of the price, and turn around and launch them with your name on them - and it's not only legal - it's standard practice in this industry! So what does it mean to launch an empire of ebooks? You start with one, and then branch out - branding yourself as the go-to person for that demographic's needs. You don't have to write one definitive guide to wedding planning, for example. You can write one about picking the perfect wedding gown, another on wedding flowers, one on honeymoons, and so on. Each smaller niche idea that you drill down into gives you more selling opportunities. There's a step-by-step process for developing an ebook - which begins with finding your niche and ends with the launch of your own powerhouse affiliate program. You want to have an army of virtual salespeople out there pulling in profits for you while you continue adding building blocks to your empire with follow-up product ideas. You can use many free and low-cost tools to launch your first and subsequent ebooks online. It isn't a business opportunity that requires a large investment of money, but you do need to commit some time to ensure it's properly launched in a way that bolsters your reputation in the community. Watch your inbox for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: How To Make Money With CPA Offers
80. Getting Help To Build Your Business Getting Help To Build Your BusinessIn the world of Internet marketing, unfortunately there are some unethical money-hungry con artists ready to prey on your ignorance. They know you're new, and they know you won't realize you've been suckered until it's too late. So how does a newcomer to Internet marketing safeguard his or her pockets from the greedy, self-indulgent scams of an unscrupulous marketer? First, you want to do a bit of background research. If you land on a page where someone has recommended a course or tool that you feel will help accelerate your Internet marketing earnings, don't buy on impulse. You might regret it later and have to ask for a refund, or absorb the cost if no guarantee is offered. Google can be your friend here. Type that marketer's name into the search engines and see if there are any negative reports. But beware! One of the most common affiliate pre-pitches is to promote a product by using the "scam" keyword approach initially and then build the product up with the detailed review to make a sale for themselves. You may see about 5 page's worth of links if you type in [marketer's name] and scam, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're real scam accounts. Always read the pages with care. You also need to know that practically every marketer has a disgruntled customer. Some people get angry if their download link doesn't work and they don't get a response within 30 minutes, late on a Sunday night. Others intentionally try to sabotage the competition by posting false negative reviews online. You should be able to find at least as much positive endorsements as you do bad ones. If not, it might be best to exercise caution. Never rely on a marketer's own claims alone to make your buying decision. And if you find them in a forum, don't think that just because they have the highest post count, it means they're the best marketer. Get personal recommendations from other marketers or customers whenever possible. If you want to find out who has the best affiliate marketing guide, for example, then you can ask around in a forum to find out. A recommendation from a marketer you already trust can usually be counted on, because if they provide you with a poor product recommendation, it tarnishes their own reputation, too. Stay tuned for another marketing tip real soon, and good luck with your online marketing efforts! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business:
81. Forum Marketing For Fast Results Forum Marketing For Fast ResultsForum marketing is an excellent way to get the word out about your business for free. But there are a few tricks to marketing on forums without getting penalized. You have to be careful not to do any blatant advertising or you'll probably get banned very quickly. The first thing you should do when you're new to a forum is create an interesting profile. Add an avatar, such as a picture of yourself, or a picture related to the niche. If you're in the dog training niche, for example, you might use a picture of a dog - preferably your own. In the golf niche, it could be a picture of your favorite golf club or course. You get the idea. Next, start making posts that answer questions. You should never push your website or product outright at this point. Being a member of a forum, you're there to give people helpful answers to their questions and post an occasional thread of your own to spark a discussion or provide helpful tips. The point of this phase is to start establishing yourself as an expert in the niche first. By giving people valuable answers, you'll be seen as the go-to person in your niche. As forum members start to recognize your contributions, they might even start looking for your posts. This is a great way to develop a fast following. Check the rules of the forum to make sure they allow links in signatures. If they do, be sure to add a link to your site. You might prefer to link to a squeeze page, so you can start building a list of forum visitors that you can market to later. Don't do anything to draw attention to your signature - such as continually telling people, "I have more information on the site in my sig file." Just keep posting as you have been, giving out helpful information. Let your helpful posts do the talking for you. After you've built up a very good reputation at the forum, people may start searching for you on their own. Make sure the name you use on the forums is featured in the name or text of every project you promote, because you need to make it easy for people to find your products if they start looking for them on Google. You might even be able to JV with the forum owner after you've become rather well-known around the forum. You could offer a standard JV, or you could just ask the forum owner to be your affiliate. You might offer them a special deal, with a higher percentage of commission than normal affiliates - or a discount reserved just for their members. Respect the forum boundaries. Don't private message people and ask them to check out your site unless you already have some sort of previous relationship with them. The only time you should ever draw special attention to a project of yours is if someone makes a post that specifically asks for recommendations about products. For example, if someone asks, "Does anyone know of any good books that can help me housebreak my puppy?" You could probably get away with posting, "Actually, I wrote a book about how to housebreak a puppy recently. If you're interested, you can find the link in my sig." If it's an invitation to provide a product link, it's probably okay - but otherwise, let the forum traffic funnel in on its own. I hope you have found these tips useful. Stay tuned for more!! To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your business: 82. Protecting Your Commissions With Cloaking Link cloaking is a very important part of affiliate marketing. In a nutshell, link cloaking is a way to protect your affiliate commissions from being stolen. It's not totally foolproof. Smart individuals who are well-educated about the matter can still figure out how to keep you from getting your commission. But most people won't go that far, so cloaking your links will prevent most commission loss. How do people steal affiliate commissions? Well, have you ever hovered over a link and noticed that the link was an obvious affiliate link? Some people type in the parent domain instead of clicking the link as a way of making sure the owner of the site gets paid 100% for the sale. Some people falsely believe that if they buy from an affiliate link, they'll have to pay more for a commission mark-up. Some people actually do it for a different reason. If you're promoting a ClickBank product, especially to other marketers, many of them know they can insert their own ClickBank ID and get what's usually a 50% or more discount on the product. This is a different type of affiliate commission theft, because the person doing it gets the affiliate commission themselves, rather than just making sure you don't get it. Most people don't do that, of course, but it happens. Most people are pretty honest, and don't mind giving you a little affiliate commission in exchange for recommending a good product to them. But it's enough of a concern that you should take steps to prevent it. You can easily set up your own link cloaking system. You can set up a directory on one of your domains. Most marketers use the domain of their own name, as in bobsmith.com. Then they typically have a subdirectory called /recommends/. Inside of that directory, they create a new subdirectory for each product, like this: bobsmith.com/recommends/productname. In that directory, they place what's called a redirect file, which instantly takes the visitor to the actual affiliate link without displaying it. You can easily find out how create a redirect by looking it up online. It's very simple to do. There are also a number of link cloaking scripts available. Most of them are relatively easy to install and use. There's a big benefit to using a script rather than doing it yourself. Using your simple redirect, there isn't an easy way to check how much traffic you've sent to your link, like scripts do. Most link cloaking scripts also allow you to add new links very easily within an administrative area, and then each link is tracked so that you can see how much traffic is going through the link. If you use your own file, the only way to tell how much traffic you've sent is through your affiliate stats, which may be inaccurate, or through your web server's stats, which may be difficult to use and hard to understand. Cloaking your affiliate links is the smart thing to do if you want to be sure you are protecting your hard-earned commissions online. To your online success, P.S. Here's another great resource I created to help you build your 83. Avoiding Online Information Overload Avoiding Online Information OverloadIf you haven't yet heard this phrase, information overload, you will soon - because it happens to the majority of new Internet marketers at some time or another. Information overload is when you simply have too much to learn - so much that you feel overwhelmed, frustrated, and more confused than before you had help. It happens easily with this industry because there are so many options you have - an endless array of opportunities. You can be a product owner and an affiliate at the same time. You can use article marketing, social marketing, or pay per click campaigns. You're new, you may not know much about any of the above, and suddenly you're thrust into an environment where everyone's opinions differ and you don't know where to start! The first thing to do is calm down and take some of the pressure off of yourself. All of this information you need to digest isn't going anywhere. It's going to be here tonight, next week, and a year from now. Don't invest in a guide about Google AdWords, another about Squidoo, and one about Private Label Rights all at the same time. There's an old saying, "How do you eat an elephant?" Answer: One bite at a time. Internet marketing is your elephant and you have to choose whether you want to start with the ear, the foot, or the tail section first. It doesn't matter if you start out learning about social marketing before you know the ropes of article marketing, for example. The point is that you're educating yourself and putting that knowledge to work for you. As long as you start somewhere and then actually apply that insight to a method of making money, you're on the road to success! Execution is everything. However, there are a few things that will not make sense to learn before others. If you have no money to start with, then don't buy (or even download for free) a guide about pay per click marketing. Stay focused and start with something you can do. You also may not want a 5000-page guide to everything all at once. You'll probably want to invest in small, bite-sized chunks of information that you can digest and utilize before moving on. Want to start with a free blog? Get a blog guide. Launch a blog. Then move on to whatever interests you next, such as product creation or selling on eBay - whatever floats your boat. The key is to not get stuck by having too much information and too many choices at once. Good luck with your online marketing efforts! To get you started, pick up a copy of my Complete Guide To Article Marketing.
To your online success, 84. Making Money With Affiliate Marketing Making Money With Affiliate MarketingYou are engaging in affiliate marketing when you sign up to promote other people's products (or services) for a share of the sale in the form of commissions. As an affiliate marketer, you usually don't need any special training or start-up funding. Your job as an affiliate marketer will be to build traffic to the product owner's pitch page, allowing them to convert the prospect into a buyer. The more targeted you are with your traffic promotions, the higher will be your conversion rate. There are many things you can promote as an affiliate. On Amazon, for instance, you can promote anything tangible (and a few digital downloads as well). If you want to be in the paintball niche, for example, you can include links using your Amazon associate (affiliate) ID to sell specific paintball guns, paintballs, and attire. You can go to sites like ClickBank or PayDotCom and get a unique affiliate ID to promote an endless supply of information products. They have everything from acne to organic gardening products. You can even become an affiliate promoting actions. There are many Internet marketers who focus their business on getting a steady stream of traffic to take an action, such as filling out a survey online. These are called CPA (Cost Per Action) offers. With affiliate marketing, you don't have to worry about developing ideas and creating products. You don't have to deal with customer service follow-ups or continually create more products for the marketplace. Your job is made easier by product owners who care so much about their own success that they provide a toolbox to help you with your promotions. The toolbox usually includes ready-made emails, web reviews, and banner ads you can use with your own link embedded in them for to help you succeed. Most Internet marketers will eventually blur the lines of product owner and affiliate marketer. Product owners continually use their list of buyers to promote affiliate items, and affiliates often build such a good reputation in a niche that they're urged to come out with a product of their own. How much can an affiliate marketer earn? There are virtually no limits. You can market to multiple niches and work as much or as little as you want to generate targeted traffic through your links. Super affiliates can earn six figures or more, but even a beginner affiliate can often earn enough to pay the bills each month - with some change to spare! Want to know more about affiliate marketing? Pick up a copy of my Affiliate Marketing Handbook: a complete guide to making money with affiliate marketing. To Your Success,
Bill Brine has been earning income online for over 10 years now, and has written extensively about online lead generation, home small business, and internet marketing. You can pick up a free copy of a complete library of ebooks which will help you build your internet business at http://www.billbrinemarketing.com 85. The New Rules Of Selling In 2010 Now here's something interesting I just came across: Marlon Sanders has just released a brand new PDF called "How To Get People To Buy Your Product or Service Using the 7 New Rules of Selling In 2010" You can snag it here: http://www.my-linker.com/hop/pdf1 If you have a product or service and want to get someone to buy it, then this report will be of great value to you. Here's why: The things you did in the past to get people to buy aren't sufficient in 2010. The rules of the game have changed and this report explains why this happened and what the new rules are. You won't find this idea or method being taught anywhere else. And best of all, you can apply it immediately to your: * Emails To grab the PDF just go to: The information in this PDF is brand new and I haven't heard anyone talk about it before, including Marlon. You won't find this information anywhere else. So I know you'll benefit from it greatly. P.P.S. I don't know how long Marlon will have this PDF available so you should snag it right now while you can: To grab the PDF just go to: 86. Epic Traffic Systems Giveaway Epic Traffic Systems Giveaway: Do you need more and better ways of driving traffic to your website? I know I do. Here's a way you can find out about some very powerful methods to do just that, and if you choose to help spread the word about this system, you might just win a free copy of the product when it is released. Watch the intro video here: http://www.brincom.com/recommends/etsgiveaway Also be sure to watch the ongoing series of free videos they will be releasing this week. I just finished watching the first one on using Twitter for marketing purposes, and I was blown away. In it is revealed a complete system which you can use now to generate sales today! Nothing to buy, but you do have to opt in to their list. Just follow the link on the giveaway page (right above the video) to get access to the free training. Powerful stuff!!
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87. Generating Targeted Traffic As internet marketers, we all know that getting targeted traffic for our websites is one of our most important tasks. The more targeted the traffic, the better your conversions will be, and the more sales you will make. For those of you who want something simple to generate targeted traffic, I have recently launched a new service that is proven to generate traffic that has a 19.5% clickthru rate and a 29.5% conversion rate. And best of all, it is free to use! Conversion rates like these are unheard of in the traffic generation industry, especially for free traffic generators, but I can assure you that this technology works very well. Of course, there are paid upgrades (gotta make money somehow, lol), but you don't have to use them if you don't want to. You can even turn this into a business if you wish, there is a built-in affiliate program. Check out my new site to generate targeted traffic today, and sign up for free: Generate Free Targeted Web Traffic88. Home Small Business You Can Start With Just $5 Can $5, $40 or $150 Return $1,000,000? For over 15 years providing above average income for average people! 89. Home Small Business Tips Home Small Business Tips Asserting Your Rights as a Customer As a home small business owner, you are also a customer of those who supply you with products and services which support your business venture. Have you ever run into a situation where one of your suppliers provides little or no response to a problem? You feel frustrated and powerless to do anything to resolve the situation. As internet marketers, we have more power and influence than we realize. You can sometimes use this power and influence to help resolve such situations. Case in point: I recently signed up for a new service I wanted to try out. After about a week or so, I decided that I was not interested after all, so I consulted their website Terms of Service and dutifully submitted a support ticket as instructed, giving all the pertinent details and asking for the account and the monthly charge to be deleted. All good so far. I got the normal automated response that the system had received my ticket and it would be addressed within one business day. Hmm ... after 5 days there was no response. I logged into the ticket system and saw that nothing had occurred. So, I raised the priority of the ticket and inserted a response asking when someone was going to look at this. Still no response. I waited another 5 days (I'm a patient fellow). This time I raised the priority to critical and inserted the following response: "I have been more than patient waiting for a response to this issue. If I do not receive a positive response to this issue within 24 hours, I will initiate the following escalation plan: 1. I will submit 1 ticket per day requesting account deletion for 1 week, then 2 tickets per day, and so on until I get a response. 2. I will begin a massive blogging and online Press Release campaign detailing your company's unresponsiveness. Your website claims you pride yourself on good customer service. Lets see some of that." I got a response within the hour! The issue was resolved and my account and monthly charge were deleted, and I was happy. What can we learn from this? First, I think it is important to be patient. Don't expect instant resolution. But if something hasn't happened after a reasonable amount of time, come up with an escalation plan and tell them what you are going to do. Be nice but firm. Use your power wisely and proportionally, but never be afraid to use it. And above all, always provide excellent service to your own customers! Bill Brine-Home Small Business Coach Previous Home Small Business Tip 90. Free People Search Engines New Free People Search Engine Today my company BrinCom Internet Business Services announced a new free people search engine. Following is a copy of the press release: ------------------------------ Free people search is a heavily-used function on the internet, and there are many free people search engines which offer the ability to search for people information and then request a payment before you can actually view the information. Click Here to visit our new Free People Search Engine. This free people search engine offers free access to publicly available information such as Names, addresses, and telephone numbers. No payment is required to view the information. The site also offers paid subscriptions to services such as background checks, reverse phone lookup, search by Social Security Number, and finding email addresses. ------------------------- Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to establish and maintain a strong internet presence using the power of the Veretekk Automated Marketing System. Mr. Brine also assists would-be entrepreneurs to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs, using his unique Tomorrow's Home Business model as the basis. Click Here for more information about the Veretekk Automated Marketing System ### 91. Home Small Business Tip: Are You Ready to Work From Home? Home Small Business Tip: Are You Ready to Work From Home? When most people decide to start a home small business, they have visions of how easy and convenient it is going to be. They think that they will be rolling out of bed and rolling up to the computer in their pajamas. They have visions of being able to work and still never miss any of their favorite soap operas and talk shows during the day. And, of course, more importantly, they will have more time with their family. However, there is a lot more to contend with after making the decision to work from home than no more suits and no more commuting. To run a successful home small business, you need a lot of personal motivation and self-discipline. After all, there is no train you are going to miss and no boss you are going to tick off by showing up late if you can't get yourself out of bed by eight in the morning! Instead, people who work from home have to be their own boss and monitor their own schedule. This can be difficult if you're used to being motivated by the strict schedule imposed by an office environment. On the other hand, for many individuals who don't necessarily function optimally during "normal" working hours and who prefer a more alternative approach, the home small business option can be a blessing, because it allows them to work from home when it is convenient for them to do so. In many cases, this arrangement will make someone more productive, not less. Having a flexible working schedule is a business advantage, but it can also lead to failure if not managed properly. If you are planning to star a home small business, the best thing you can do is to set yourself a few ground rules and make sure you stick to them. Plan your workdays in advance - know when you are going to get up and start work, when you will break for lunch and when you will quit for the day, just as you would at the office. If you work from home, your schedule doesn't have to be the same as it would at the office, but it needs to exist in order for you to be productive. Set yourself a designated work area where you will operate your home small business and try to keep it as separate from your non-work life as you can. If you can close the door to this area at the end of your workday, do so. You will find that you will need this separation of work from non-work. Otherwise you will not fully appreciate the freedom that comes from operating your one home small business. Discipline is very important to keep some perspective in your work from home life. So are you ready to work from home? Its a great life, if you can be disciplined. Bill Brine Previous Home Small Business Tip 92. Home Small Business Tips: Phrases That Will Increase Traffic Home Small Business Tips: Phrases That Will Increase Traffic Looking to increase traffic to your home small business website? Here are 10 sure-fire phrases that will increase your traffic: 1. Add This Website to your Favorites 2. Subscribe To Our Free ezine 3. Participate On Our Forum 4. Sign Our Guestbook 5. Use Our Free Content On Your Site Or In Your Ezine 6. Tell A Friend 7. Fill Out Our Online Survey 8. Enter Our Contest 9. Give Away Our Freebie To Your Visitors 10 Join Our Affiliate Program There you have it, 10 ideas to increase traffic to your business website. You don't have to do all of these things, but even tackling one or two will make an noticeable improvement in your traffic. Bill Brine Previous Home Small Business Tip 93. Home Small Business Tips: Following Up With Your Leads Home Small Business Tips: Following Up With Your Leads So you've managed to generate some leads for your home small business. What do you do now? In any serious work from home business, following up with your leads properly is absolutely essential. Proper followup can turn a lead into a buying customer or even a business partner. Your leads should be treated as the finest gold. In the online business world, you will most often see autoresponders promoted as a solution to following up with leads. The general rule of thumb is that a person has to see a marketing message seven times before they will take action, and that email is the best way to do this. Email works very well, and it does have it place. There are many good autoresponder systems available today, and a good autoresponder is certainly a powerful part of your overall business strategy. But don't rely solely on autoresponders. Don't try to hide behind your computer or your website, as a lot of online business owners seem to want to do. You are in business after all! Nothing beats personal contact. One phone call, offering advice or assistance, can do more to build your home small business than any number of email messages. I recommend a simple 'courtesy call' (make sure you say that when you call) to touch base. Ask your prospect if they have any questions about your service or product, and ask them about their business and it goals. Do not try to sell them anything. By doing this, you are starting a positive relationship with this person. This will bring you more repeat business in the long run than any number of emails. Online business is really all about helping others to succeed. Treat your leads as the finest gold - help them, get to know them, and provide top notch services and products that solve their problems, and you will be successful. Bill Brine Previous Home Small Business Tip
94. Home Small Business Tip: Easy Video Production Home Small Business Tip: Create Videos Quickly and Easily As internet marketers. we need to keep up with new ideas and trends in internet marketing. I have been making money on the internet in my small home business for a long time now, and I have seen the internet change by leaps and bounds. Today, in order to be relevant in internet marketing, your website or blog has to do more than just be a static web page. These days, you have to have content and different methods to share that content, such as having a blog, a forum, and now the biggie, video. With increasing access to broadband, video is now possible for virtually everyone to use. Video has become the new must have , not only for internet marketers but for everyone who has a website. Local business owners who have a website can especially benefit from video. With video, there are new opportunities to get out your message, advertise your business, make video postcards, send video e-mails, create how-to videos - the ideas are endless. We website owners however, are thinking we want to get in on the video thing, but it is something else we have to learn how to do, another learning curve, and for many of us the idea just sort of fizzles. Well, no longer. I'm excited because I don't have to miss out this time, simply because I lack the expertise to create and broadcast videos, or just don't have the time to learn new technologies. I just found a unique new online free service which anyone can use to create videos, without having to learn all the techie stuff that goes along with that. If you have a webcam, you're good to go. This service makes it drop dead easy to make videos and to put them on any website. You can make a quality, professional looking video in less than 5 min. It works very well. If video is something you have been wanting to do but felt really intimidated by up to this point, you might want to try this service for yourself, because the best part is you can use the software and it doesn't cost you anything. Give it a try and let me know what you think. You will find the site at http://easyvideoproducer.brincom.com Until next time! Bill Brine
95. Home Small Business Tip for 2009 02 23 Home Small Business Tip for 2009 02 23 Effective Ways To Reduce Your Home Small Business Costs Most people who start a home small business on the internet are on a tight budget. Let's face it: we've all been lured by the promises of low startup costs, free or low-cost advertising, and the power of email marketing. But remember: even though you are running a home small business, this is a real business. There will always be ongoing costs. Until you start getting some real returns on your time and money, it is important to keep the costs associated with your home small business to a minimum. With that it mind, here are some effective ways to reduce the costs of operating your home small business: 1. Bartering 2. Networking 3. Wholesale/Bulk 4. Free Stuff 5. Borrow/Rent 6. Online/Offline Auctions 7. Plan Ahead 8. Used Stuff 9. Negotiate 10. Search Application of some or all of these ideas will help to reduce the operating costs of your home small business, and will help you see profits sooner. Bill Brine Previous Home Small Business Tip
96. Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 19 Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 19 10 Tips to Increase Sales and Profits for your Home Small Business Another in my ongoing series of home small business tips. Here are 10 ideas for increasing your sales and profits: 1. Offer to write exclusive articles for your home small business niche. "Exclusive" means that you only submit them to one place. Write these articles for high traffic websites in exchange for a link back to your site. 2. Create a positive online image. Tell your visitors about fundraisers you have sponsored or that you donate a part of your profits to charity. 3. Improve your customer service on a regular basis. Try out new technologies that make it easier to communicate with your customers over the net. 4. Ask your customers what they would like to see offered by your home small business in the future. This type of information can boost your sales. 5. Make sure your web host is not responsible for lost sales. If you get an email from someone that told you that they couldn't access your site, it might be your host. 6. Allow your visitors experience to be an enjoyable one at your home small business website. Provide easy navigation, good content, fast loading graphics, search options, etc. 7. Keep changing or adding freebies to your web site. If people see the same freebie in your ads they will say to themselves, "been there done that". 8. Add a directory to your home small business website. When visitors submit their home business website, email them confirming their link has been added and remind them to revisit. 9. Organize your marketing and advertising into a plan. Create a list of daily, weekly, and monthly goals for promotion. 10. Trade links only with home small business websites that your target audience or yourself would visit. They should offer their visitors valuable content or freebies. I hope these tips will help you to increase profits for your home small business. Stay tuned for more profitable tips. Bill Brine 97. Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 18 Increase Traffic to Your Home Small Business Website Do you have a website for your home small business? If you are not getting the traffic you think you should be getting, maybe its time to examine your website in more detail and rethink some of the things you are doing. There are many reasons why people do not visit your home small business website, or why they do not stay for long on your website. Here are 10 ideas that may entice them to stay longer or to come more often:
These are the top 10 strategies, in my experience, that you can use to increase the attractiveness and stickiness of your home small business website. Consider these ideas carefully, and implement those ideas that are appropriate to your home small business. Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master 98. Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 17 Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 17 Are you trying to build a home small business on the internet? You do have a website devoted to your business, I hope. If not, you'd better get one soon. A website is by far the best way to promote your home small business on the internet. To maintain a successful home small business website, you have to keep your visitors coming back again and again. Unless you offer them a reason to return, then chances are they will not. You will need content on your website that not only interests them, but also changes regularly. Here are 6 quick tips to keep people coming back to your home small business website: 1) Articles: Articles give your visitor something to read. Your customer may have a question, or want more information about the product or service that they received from your home small business. If the articles pertain to your business and the products and services that you offer, then they will be able to access the information. You do not necessarily have to write these articles yourself. You can post information about your products directly from the package, or the manufacturers website. There are several article directories online that provide good, quality content at no cost to you. It is as simple as visiting the directories, searching for articles that suit your home small business, and then copying them into your website. You are only required to provide a link back to the original authors website. 2) Contests: Who does not want to win something? By offering contests (especially if they change frequently), you give your visitors a reason to return. When the visitor signs up for the contest you may also want to include a link to your newsletter. The key is to change the contest frequently, whether it be weekly, monthly, or semi-annually. Just remember, the more you change your contest the more times your visitors will come back to your site. 3) Coupons and Discounts: You may want to provide coupons or discounts for your previous clients to entice them to return to your website. 4) Forums- Forums provide something that everyone craves: conversation. If a forum is provided on your site, the visitor will have a reason to visit your website frequently, whether it be to ask a question when help is needed or to keep up on a conversation. You can host your forum from your site, or choose to use a third party forum, whatever your prefer. Both have their pros and cons, it just comes down to what is best for your business. 5)Blog-- Believe It or not, people are interested in what you have to say! A blog will not only allow you to update your clients on your business and life, but it also gives you a great opportunity to add those much needed keywords to your website. There are quite a few free applications available that make blogging easy. 6)Newsletter- A newsletter is one of the best ways to keep your visitors coming back time and time again. You will want to include part of a unique article or tip in your newsletter, and then a link to the rest. This will force your viewers to visit your site to get the remainder of the story. Once again you do not have to write all the content yourself. Using free article directories will cut the time it takes to put a newsletter together in half. These are just a few ideas to help you develop strategies to keep people coming back to your home small business website. Stay tuned for more home small business tips.
99. Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 16 Home Small Business Tip for 2009 02 16 The power of Twitter as a home small business marketing tool I recently discovered the power of Twitter as a home small business marketing tool. Twitter is a free service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People write short updates, often called "tweets" of 140 characters or fewer. These messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search. These tweets can be used to increase exposure to any of your websites, as you are able to include a URL as part of your tweet. And to create a Tweet takes only a few moments. If you make tweeting a part of your daily routine, you have a powerful SEO tool at your disposal. For example, I download the leads generated by my Veretekk system portals on a daily basis in order to extract the email addresses for uploading into Veremail. This generates 3 tweets: Tweet 1: Downloading my daily list of new leads from my Veretekk system http://brincom.veretekk.com Tweet 2: xxxx small home business leads were generated by my Veretekk system yesterday http://brincom.veretekk.com (where xxxx is the number of leads generated by the system) Tweet 3: Uploading the leads into my Veremail system to start the optin process. http://brincom.veremail.com/ Veretekk makes it so easy! See how easy this is? Now if you post these tweets in your blog, you have another source of ever-changing on-page information that Google just loves! I have seen some of my tweets appear on page 1 of Google for particular keyword phrases within hours of producing a tweet. The key is to be keyword-specific and to tweet every time you do anything. For example, as I am writing this article I posted a tweet saying "Writing article to promote my home small business site http://homesmallbusiness.whystartandneverquit.com/". And when I have written and submitted that article, I will post another tweet that says "Article finished! Check it out at http://www.homesmallbusiness.org". Discover the power of Twitter for yourself. You can join Twitter at http://www.Twitter.com/BillBrine. Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master
100. Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 14 Home Small Business Tips So you've decided you want to start a home small business? Great! But before you start on this adventure, make sure you keep these important tips in mind. Starting a successful home small business should be a rewarding experience. And, if you approach it properly and in a businesslike manner, it will be. There are many important questions to ask yourself when starting a home small business: - Is this a viable home small business? With online businesses in particular, it seems that most people really miss these important considerations when starting that great home small business on Google. They succumb to all the hype about easy riches and "get-rich-quick", and click the "Submit" button before doing the groundwork to see if the business is really what it claims to be. On the internet, we call this doing your due diligence. The following are important considerations: o First, review the policies and procedures of the business. Does this program suit your particular needs? The policies and procedures should be available to you before you decide to join, usually from a link on the home page or sales page. If it is not available or readily apparent, you should reconsider before joining. o Go to Google and search for this opportunity. Are there many people promoting it? If not, find out why. If this is a 'startup' or a 'prelaunch' - stay away! You want to spend your time and money on established, proven business models. o Now search for the business owner's name in Google. Are they real and reachable, or simply hiding behind a website? If the latter, this could be a warning sign. o You should also conduct research to see if the company provides tools, training, and customer support by phone. No matter what business you start, you will not have all the skills and tools necessary to be successful from day one, and so you will need guidance, a recommended set of tools, and somewhere to report problems and have them addressed. o Contact other members of the program and get their opinions. If the program is real and credible, these people should have no problem in speaking with you without trying to recruit you. They should not be pitching you their deal here. You are only looking for valuable information that will assist you in building your home small business. o Now check some of the more prominent press release services and ezine article services. If the business owner is as good as he or she says he is, then he or she will most assuredly be well schooled in promoting on Google using these systems. The internet is a great place to work. Using the internet to leverage your time and effort to build a solid and profitable home small business will require thought, work and visualization. All the pieces of this puzzle must fit nicely together. Once you find a good organization where you can spend your valuable time and your hard earned money, you will definitely be in for the ride of your life. Making money online and starting a successful home small business is not complicated. It simply requires the right business plan and working that plan to assure your success. Once you start your business, especially if you get involved in any sort of MLM opportunity, you will be pressured to purchase leads as a quick way to build a business. Don't do it! Purchasing leads is not an effective way to build a business. You will waste hours of your valuable time and experience countless hours of frustration as you call and call people who really have little or no interest in you, your deal or your products. It simply does not work unless you are a hot-shot telephone salesperson. For more information on building a home small business, see Why Start and Never Quit a Home Small Business.
101. Home Small Business Tip Home Small Business Tip Are you using Twitter as part of your marketing strategy? If not, you should! If you are a Twitter user, check this out: I just found this site that shows you a way of getting thoudands of new followers on Twitter. I just started using it myself and its starting to work already! http://tweetergetter.com/BillBrine Thought it might interest you.
102. Avoid the Home Business 95% Faliure Rate Bill's Bully Pulpit: Avoid the Home Business 95% Failure Rate Welcome to my Bully Pulpit for February 11, 2009 http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk This week's issue includes: 1) Avoid the Home Business 95% Failure Rate 1) Avoid the Home Business 95% Failure Rate In this article we'll explore some of those reasons Unrealistic Expectations Most people attempting to market on the Internet for the first time have unrealistic expectations. These are fueled by all the hype they see in ads and on websites. These new marketers have no clue that they are viewing hype that is simply meant to separate them from the contents of their wallets. They believe what they see in these ads, and shell out their hard earned dollars for an unending parade of ebooks, membership sites, and eCourses, the contents of which are almost all available for Free on the Internet if they knew where to research the topics. They embark on an endless road in search of the magic formula that will put them in the top 5% of marketers online who actually do succeed. They really believe they can realistically earn a six-figure income within 90 days as some websites claim. Because they believe the hype they are seeing on the Internet, they spend unnecessary money and waste far too much time digging for that one big secret that will let them earn big bucks by setting up one website that will pump money into their bank accounts on autopilot. After all, isn't that what the gurus they have constantly paid keep telling them? Push a few buttons and get fabulously wealthy... Facing Reality First of all, these so-called "gurus" have lists of thousands that they have built up over several months or years. The guru develops a new "revolutionary, secret" informational product that is then promoted to these people who have opted-in to the mailing list. The members on these lists, are probably new or struggling marketers desperately searching for the magic pill that will make them rich beyond their wildest dreams. No wonder these gurus make six figures - they have the right tools, such as autoresponders, set of autoresponder letters they have developed, squeeze pages, presell pages, bonus offers, back-end offers, Newsletters, affiliate products, ebooks, back links, joint ventures and ad-tracking software to tell them which ads and advertising resources actually work. That makes all the difference. The new marketers, of course, have none of these at their disposal, and the new 'secret' revealed by the guru usually does not give the entire picture of what needs to be done to use the secret effectively. It only reveals enough to whet the appetite of the new marketers for the next 'secret' that is sure to come along soon. So what happens? The new marketers eventually realize that a LOT of time and effort has be put into building a business, so they give up this 'opportunity' in disgust and try another one that promises quick riches by just pushing a button. And so the cycle continues... Information Overload Most new marketers waste far too much time searching for the magic bullet. They end up jumping around from opportunity to opportunity when they find out that building a business takes time and effort. Basic information that they already have is probably more than enough to get started, but they will not earn six-figures in 90 days...that much is certain. Here are four suggestions to help you become one of the 5% who are successful: 1. Never get bogged down in information overload. Time spent on gathering information on marketing should be limited to reading only a handful of newsletters and information sent from opt-in lists. Too much of either is bogging you down and is simply a waste of time. If a Newsletter or opt-in list is only sending you an endless list of links that sell you stuff, and gives very little valuable marketing information, drop it like a hot potato. Such things are designed to do only one thing - to separate you from your hard earned cash. 2. Spend your valuable time on the Internet where it will offer the most benefit. If it will not earn you money, it probably is a waste of your time. A wise marketer always will refrain from jumping around from opportunity to opportunity and will pick only one or two long running, proven money making programs to promote. 3. Always do your due diligence before entering any program. Choose companies with a proven track record, with good support. Is the person whose business you are joining available by phone and email? Check out the company and the person by searching in Google. 4. Take things step by step and focus on actively promoting one or two of your chosen programs. Choose those programs carefully. A good program, if promoted, tested and tweaked properly, will be successful at earning a substantial income. Find programs that are selling to a particular niche market and which offer great support and training. If you follow these simple steps, online success will definitely follow. Just break all this down to four words. 1. Focus - Focus on less to achieve more Keep things simple. That practice alone has worked for hundreds of successful online marketers. Quite a few successful marketers have practiced the above principles all the way to the bank to deposit six-figure incomes. Are you next? For more information on building a home business in this manner, I offer 2 websites which may help: http://www.buildarealbusiness.com http://homesmallbusiness.whystartandneverquit.com/ My contact information: 2) Quote for Today Would you like free inspirational messages like this http://brincom.dailymessageonline.com/ to get the code. That's a Wrap for this Week Don't forget to send me any comments or questions you may have. I would be only too happy to help you in any way that I can. From time to time I'll send you important updates that will provide information that has the potential to greatly improve your online business... and of course your profits! However, you can rest assured that I will only ever recommend products that are considered to be of HIGH value and will provide indisputable benefits to help you grow your business. Have a great week! Until next time,
103. PRESS RELEASE: Gold Coins for Sale PRESS RELEASE: Gold Coins for Sale (Amherst, NS) BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding good prices for gold coins and gold bullion. The site is located at http://gold-coins-for-sale.BuyItForLessHere.com Collectors who are looking for gold coins or gold bullion now have a new resource to help them search out great deals. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can use their favorite RSS reader to monitor when the particular types of gold coins or gold bullion they are looking for are available. The site currently lists only American and Canadian coins and bullion. Gold coins and gold bullion from other countries will be added on a regular basis over the next few weeks.
Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at 104. Effective Link Partner Strategies Bill's Bully Pulpit: Effective Link Partner Strategies Welcome to my Bully Pulpit for December 19, 2008
This week's issue includes: 1) Effective Link Partner Strategies =================================================== 1) Effective Link Partner Strategies What is a link partner? Quite simply, a link partner is someone who links to your site in return for you linking to their site. These are also known as 'reciprocal links'. Google places great value on incoming links to your site when it is determining your page rank, especially if those links come from what Google considers to be an 'authority site'. And the higher your page rank, the better chance you have of appearing high up in the search engine results for your chosen keyword phrases. A link partner strategy is only one way to leverage your internet marketing efforts. Before we discuss this strategy, let's review some of the other methods. You should consider implementing some or all of these over time: - Advertising in ezines, online forums, websites and other sources - Participation as a member in online business and marketing forums, and forums related to your business niche - Participation in Social Networking sites - Get yourself a Gold Veretekk system and learn how to dominate the search engines With each of these leveraging systems, it may take some effort and time to get them set up and to begin establishing your website presence, so you need to be patient. You are in this for the 'long haul', so take your time and do it right. The advantage to any or all of these systems is that once set up, they will produce results for you with minimal effort and will continue to do so for quite a long period of time. Now back to link partners... Links can be in text ad form or banner form. Links might be included in an article, a site review or a blog post. Or they might be listed in a business services directory. The style or nature of the link exchange should be agreed upon before the links are posted to prevent any misunderstandings or disappointments. Link Partners may be easy to find, but the real essence of an effective Link Partner strategy is exchanging links with quality websites - sites with a respectable PageRank and who are already attracting the same kind of visitors that you are targeting for your online business. There are many good web tools available that can be used to check the PageRank of a website. You can do an Internet search for page rank tools. I personally use the Google toolbar, which can be set to show the pagerank of the current page in your browser. You can download the Google toolbar at To find quality sites and to encourage them to want to support your Link Partner strategy, here are some recommended steps. Keep in mind this is an ongoing process. Google loves to see sites where incoming links grow over time. So try to set a goal of getting 1 or 2 new link partners a month. 1) When you are surfing the net, watch for and bookmark sites that you believe are suitable for your purpose. You could also do internet searches for your keywords, then check out the sites that rate the highest in the search engine results. 2) Once you identify a suitable link partner candidate, write a complimentary review for the site and post the review on your website or blog. 3) Contact the webmaster or owner of the reviewed site, advise them of the review and give them permission to publish the review on their site along with a link pointing back to your site as the review source. As an alternative to publishing the review on their site, they can simply include a link that points to the review on your site. 4) Once the link has been established, be sure to check once a month or so to ensure the link is still in place. If not, contact the site webmaster or owner to find out what happened. This is supposed to be a reciprocal process; so if the site owner or webmaster has disabled the link to your site and you can't find out why or they will not re-establish the link, remove your review from your blog or website and keep looking for more suitable sites. No freeloaders here! A number of Veretekk members have reported good success with using the following method as an adjunct to the primary method given above: 1) Use the following search in Google (include the quotes) "powered By: hot links sql 2" This will provide you with a list of sites that are set up to allow you to request reciprocal links. You simply visit the sites and input your information. You will be given the information you need to place the reciprocal link on your site. Some of these sites will not allow you to request a link unless you pay; bypass those and keep looking. 2) Once you have requested the reciprocal link, check on a regular basis as usual to ensure the link is still active. If not, take the reciprocal link from your site. The links generated by this process will not have as much value as those generated by the first method. However, there is still some value in doing this every once in a while to get more links. You can apply these link partner strategies to any number of partners you choose, keeping in mind that the more link partners you have, the more effectively you will be able to leverage your efforts and expand your reach. An effective link partner strategy is one of the most important tasks in your internet marketing efforts. 2) Quote for Today
http://brincom.dailymessageonline.com/ to get the code. 3) Do You Have Any Comments? Comment on articles I've run in the newsletter, give me your thoughts on changes or your ad testing results or questions relating to your business, etc. In other words, just talk to me about what you think I need to do to improve the newsletter. Be sure to include your website address too, because if I use your comments in a future issue of the newsletter, I'll thank you by posting your address so that you can get additional free traffic to your site! Email your questions or replies to: brincom@veretekk.com with the subject "Bully Pulpit Feedback". All articles from this newsletter are also published in my blog at http://brincom.com/blogs/LeadGeneration That's a Wrap for this Week Don't forget to send me any comments or questions you may have. I would be only too happy to help you in any way that I can. From time to time I'll send you important updates that will provide information that has the potential to greatly improve your online business... and of course your profits! However, you can rest assured that I will only ever recommend products that are considered to be of HIGH value and will provide indisputable benefits to help you grow your business. Have a great week! Until next time,
http://www.brincom.com/weekly-marketing-tips.htm 105. Search Engine Optimization Tips Welcome to my Bully Pulpit for December 11, 2008 This week's issue includes: 1) Search Engine Optimization Tips 1) Search Engine Optimization Tips One of the powers of the Veretekk system lies in its ability to take advantage of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques to propel your small business website onto the first page of Google in record time. In this article I'd like to answer some of the basic questions that new marketers often have about SEO.
SEO is a collection of strategies that can be applied to a website to increase its search engine ranking. Search engine ranking is the position that your site occupies on the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) when a search is done using keyword phrases that are relevant to your website and your business.
The higher your site's position in the SERPs, the more people will see it. Many of these people may click on your listing, especially if you appear in the top 2 or 3 positions, thus bringing you more traffic. Google lists 10 search results per page. Most searchers never look beyond the first or second page of search results. If you can get your site listed in the Google top ten for your search terms, you will get significantly more traffic than if your listing shows up on any subsequent pages. There are two broad categories of SEO techniques: on-page factors and off-page factors.
On page factors are all the things you can do on your website to increase SEO. These usually revolve around keywords, and you use these techniques to let the search engines know what your site is about. On page factors include things like the use of TITLE, KEYWORD and DESCRIPTION meta tags, the use of the ALT tag for images, HTML header tags, keyword placement, and so on.
Off page factors revolve around backlinks. Keywords are important here as well. Backlinks are the links placed on other sites that point to pages on your site. Backlinks are also known as "inbound links", a term which is often easier to understand. Inbound links are those links pointing to pages on your site.
1. Always use TITLE, KEYWORD and DESCRIPTION meta tags For every page on your site you should have meta tags unique to that page. Here's a good reference for using meta tags: http://www.freelancedesigners.com/tools/meta_tags.cfm The TITLE tag is what will appear on the top of the browser window when someone views the page. It should be keyword-specific, and no more than 60 characters in length. The search engines use this tag as well. The KEYWORDS meta tag is a comma-separated list of keywords that are relevant to your site. Keywords don't have to be single words - you can and should use keyword phrases relevant to the content of that page. Do not use too many keywords or keyword phrases in this tag; I usually recommend using no more than 6. More than that and you will run the risk of having Google designate your page as keyword spam and thereby not indexing the page. Also, try not to repeat any single words more than 5 times. For the DESCRIPTION meta tag write a short description of your site that would make someone want to click your link. The recommended maximum length is 150 characters. This tag is used by Google as the text description of your site. So it is not just for the search engine's benefit, it is also likely to be seen by a person and it may be the difference between that person clicking on your site's link or another site.
The HTML code for including an image in your page has an optional attribute called the ALT tag, short for 'alternative text'. It was originally intended as a text description to aid viewers surfing with images turned off or using a screen reader so they could get an idea of what an image was about, since they couldn't see it. But search engines also use the ALT tag to find out more about your page. The ALT tag should contain keywords relevant to your site and the image they are describing. Instead of just putting "header" in the ALT tag for your header image, use the opportunity to tell the search engines what your site is about, with something like "Puppy Training Header", if your site is about puppy training. Don't over do it though, you want this description to be concise rather than stuffed with every keyword relevant to your site. Here's a good reference for learning more about image tags: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/article.php/3478181
The header tags such as H1, H2, and H3 are used by search engines to figure out what the important keywords for your site are. You can easily change the appearance of the header tags by using stylesheets, so try to use the standard HTML header tags instead of custom styles for your headers. Then just make sure you've got relevant keywords in the headers. The H1 tag should contain the primary keyword for your page, the H2 tag should contain the secondary keywords for your page, and so on.
Get backlinks. Lots of them. This should be an ongoing part of your SEO campaign. The more backlinks the better, but you want to grow your backlinks naturally. It looks a lot more natural if you work on getting a handful of backlinks every week than if you suddenly got 10,000 backlinks overnight because you bought them from a link farm. The search engines are watching for these unnatural patterns, and you are likely to be penalized for engaging in such practices. There are many ways to get backlinks: - You can develop relationships with other webmasters to get reciprocal links from other related sites. - Participate in forums related to your topic and be sure to have a link to your site as part of your signature. - Write articles for article directories which include a link back to your site in the bio box. - Create Squidoo lenses or HubPages with a link back to your site. If you have a blog submit your RSS feed to RSS Aggregator sites, and add it to your Squidoo lens or HubPage. - Use Social Bookmarking services to bookmark your pages and encourage your visitors to do the same. - Use Twitter to send out a 'tweet' when you post a new article. - And by far the most powerful technique: get yourself a Veretekk Gold system and configure it to target your keyword phrases. You will be able to generate hundreds of quality backlinks from many different domains very easily. For more information on Veretekk, see my information site at http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk This is just to get you started, it is not an exhaustive list by any means.
In some cases you don't have the option of specifying the anchor text. But don't miss the opportunity to specify it where you can. If you trade reciprocal links with another site, specify what you want your anchor text to be. The other webmaster will probably appreciate it because it saves them time having to decide what it should be. When you create Squidoo lenses and HubPages, or for your forum signatures you have total control over your anchor text. Use it wisely. In this article I have covered just a few basic, but very important, aspects of SEO. This is a very good place to start if you want to improve your sites search engine optimization. Keep applying these techniques until it becomes second nature and you should see an improvement in both your search engine rankings and an increase in the traffic to your site. 2) Quote for Today
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106. Building a Business Ethically and Easily Building a Business Ethically and Easily - by Bill Brine, Lead Generation Master As regular readers of my blog know, one of my main sources for internet revenue is the Its Good Business model. This morning I received and unsolicited email invitation to look at a business (i.e. spam), but the authors of the letter did not seem to be hyping the usual get rich quick stuff (although there was a bit of that in the letter). So instead of sending my usual spam reply and adding them to my blacklist, I decided to send a thoughtful reply. I will include the letter and my reply here, with some editing, for your education. First, here is a copy of the letter. The subject of the email was "This will be the hottest home based business this holiday season." Sounds a but like hype, but let's see what it says: ------------------------- We are with a large and established media company that has had a lot of success producing many winning infomercials for the last 10 years. We would like to show you how you can earn a passive, residual income with us from the TV business with a new business model that combines direct response, network marketing, and the Internet. While building traditional MLM we've made substantial money but we established a couple of key things right now (1) people can't afford costly leads (2) people are sick of bugging friends and family (3) there are no real customers in a traditional model of MLM.
We were introduced to TV infomercials about 10 months ago. For the first time we could see real customers that ordered from TV and grew oneÂ’s business very rapidly from home. Let us highlight a couple of things for you. Picture people sitting in their homes, watching TV. They see a 30 min infomercial and pick up the phone, dial an 800# and place an order. Now, imagine that a percentage of those customers who placed an order through a call center become your customers. Picture that you don't have to host another party or buy another lead. Picture that you have a chance to work and be mentored by some of the best in the industry. Picture that you can start for under $100 (includes kit, website, and product) Listen, we know that you have likely been pitched and promised before and don't want to reinvest your sweat and tears in something that will fall through. We understand! We know where you are coming from. But imagine being able to partner with one of the top infomercial companies on the globe that is poised to do 300 million in sales this year, spend 80-90 million on media, that is right now generating 15-30k customers a WEEK and you can capture a percentage of those customers.
Opportunities like this don't come around every day. So what do you do next? TAKE ACTION!
Call us at: 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx to find out more! We always enjoy talking to others in the industry, and we have many friends throughout the networking community. If this is not for you we would still love to hear how your business is going. Sincerely, Chris Herriford and Ariana Reed
Well, that's not too bad in terms of hype, But it sounds a lot like our Its Good Business model, so here is my reply. Due to legal restrictions, I am not permitted to mention the name of the company I am promoting in a public forum like this without prior permission, so I have replaced the name of the company with XXXX. The original reply, of course, does contain the name of the business. ------------ This email address is used exclusively for my XXXX business, so that must have been the website you saw. Normally I would consider an unsolicited email like this to be spam and take appropriate action, but you seem like someone who is actually serious about business building and not promoting a get rich quick scheme, so I would be happy to continue our conversation. Are you by any chance promoting XXXX? If not, perhaps you might like to look at our model. Here are some details: What you have described is exactly how XXXX works, and it works very well. They have been doing this for over 10 years now. They call it co-operative marketing. They own one of the largest media empires in the US, and they run infomercials on the cable networks that they own, they swap time with other cable networks, they run infomercials on radio and now are starting to run infomercials in Canada as well. They do all the customer followup and continue marketing to existing customers to keep them buying. All I have to do is purchase customers whenever I want, and the commissions from those customers are mine for life. In addition, the team that I belong to has blown the doors off this model by incorporating the most powerful internet marketing system on the planet, Veretekk, to drive massive amounts of traffic to our business model to introduce it to people who are sick and tired of the traditional MLM business model, which we know does not work. The entire team works to build the organization, without regards to crossline, downline, or sideways. I have never before worked in such a cohesive and motivated team. As members of the team, each of us contributes what he or she is good at and interested in to the overall team effort, and everyone benefits. XXXX is not an MLM, but it uses an MLM model for commissions. So I still have to build an organization that contains distributors. However, unlike traditional MLM, the focus is not on building an organization of salespeople who are all buying products in the hope that they can make money by recruiting other salespeople. Our organizations are built upon a stable customer base that we purchase from XXXX. As members of the team, we will occasionally have new customers assigned to us that we did not purchase, or even new distributors that we did not personally recruit. So there is no great pressure to recruit, even though it is still a good idea to do so. As a consequence, I do not have to send out any spam or do massive amounts of marketing. Nor do I subscribe to the '3 foot rule'. I only have to speak to people who are interested in building a real business, and who have seen our business plan and are excited about it. I spend my time contributing to the team effort and purchase customers on a regular basis, and regularly report on all this to the subscribers of my marketing newsletter, from which I have already had one person sign up as a distributor. This business model has propelled some of our team members to Presidential Director, the highest rank in XXXX distributors (we are called Business Associates or BAs), in a 2-3 month period, a process which before our team appeared would normally take a year or more. I personally advanced one rank within the first 2 weeks of signing up. In any traditional MLM, as I'm sure you are well aware, this would take 6 months or more, depending upon your ability to sell and recruit. So far I have not had to sell to or recruit anyone. I love this model! Our team offers free advanced training on all aspects of internet marketing from some of the most knowledgeable marketers online today. These are not the 'gurus' you will see promoting their crap ebooks which tell you nothing. These are people who are making real money by using ethical methods and powerful tools to promote real businesses. With our team working together employing our Veretekk marketing technology, we can easily dominate any keyword category in Google within a matter of days or weeks, and none of us have to learn everything about everything in order to get anything done. We simply concentrate on one area and learn as much about it as we can. So I invite you to take a look at our model. All you have to do is go to http://www.ItsGoodBusiness.net There are regular Saturday presentations you can attend online. If you are unable to attend, contact me and I can send you to a website where I have archived some of our past presentations. We don't do conference calls and you will not come across any of the usual hype in our presentations. We don't believe in that stuff. We don't need it, because we only seek people who 'get' our model and are interested in participating.
So there you are, I hope this has been of some use. At least now you know what the Its Good Business model is all about! ------------------- 107. PRESS RELEASE: Snowshoes at discount prices Snowshoes at discount prices A new site has been launched to help winter sport enthusiasts find snowshoes at discount prices. (Amherst, NS) BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding snowshoes at discount prices The site is located at http://discount-snowshoes.BuyItForLessHere.com Winter sport enthusiasts who are looking for good prices on new or used snowshoes or accessories now have a new shopping resource to help them search out great deals on snowshoes. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can use their favorite RSS reader to monitor when the particular types of snowshoes they are looking for are available.
Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at 108. PRESS RELEASE: Cool and Fun Online and Downloadable Games Cool and Fun Online and Downloadable Games A new site has been launched to help gamers find cool and fun games to play online or download to a PC or Mac. (Amherst, NS) BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding cool and fun games to play online or to download to a PC or a Mac. The site is located at http://fun-online.games.GetItForLessOnline.com Gamers who are looking for new cool and fun games to play online or download now have a new resource at their fingertips. New games become available on a regular basis. A large selection of online games is available, as well as games that can be downloaded to a Mac or a PC. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can monitor the release of new games in their favorite category by using their own RSS reader. An online gaming community is also available. ---------------------------------- Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at 109. Cheap Video Games, Systems and Accessories Cheap Video Games, Systems and Accessories A new site has been launched to help consumers find great deals on video games, video game systems and video game accessories. (Amherst, NS) BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding great deals on video games, video game systems and video game accessories. The site is located at http://cheap-video-games.GetItForLessOnline.com Consumers who are looking for a new or used video game, video game system or video game accessory now have another shopping resource which they can use to find good deals. A large selection of video games, video game systems and video game accessories is available. New items become available on a regular basis. The site is based on eBay auctions, and presents specific real-time pages devoted to video games, video game systems and video game accessories. Most popular brands are represented, such as PSP, PS2, PS3, Xbox, and Xbox 360. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can monitor auctions for video games, video game systems and video game accessories using their own RSS reader. For those who are unfamiliar with eBay, a short training video is available. "We have done all the hard work for our visitors", says Bill Brine, the CEO of the company. "We have determined where most sellers post their auctions within the eBay structure for video games, video game systems and video game accessories. All our visitors have to do is click on the type of video game, video game system or video game accessory they are interested in and they will be presented with a list of current auctions for those products." ---------------------------------- Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at 110. Canon G9 Best Price Canon G9 Best Prices The Canon G9 Powershot digital camera was launched in 2007 as the successor to the PowerShot G7. It is a 12.1 Megapixel camera which incorporates a number of improvements. For more information about the Canon G9 and to find a Canon G9 at the best price, visit my Squidoo Lens at http://www.squidoo.com/canon-g9-best-price Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master 111. PRESS RELEASE: New Shopping Site for GPS Systems and Accessories A new site has been launched to help consumers find great deals on GPS systems and accessories. (Amherst, NS) BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding great deals on GPS systems and accessories. The site is located at gps-navigation.GetItForLessOnline.com Consumers who are looking for a new or used GPS system or GPS system accessories now have another shopping resource which they can use to find good deals. A large selection of GPS systems and accessories is available. New items become available on a regular basis. The site is based on eBay auctions, and presents specific real-time pages devoted to GPS systems and accessories. Consumers can search by brand name and type of GPS system, as well as the type of GPS accessory they are looking for. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can monitor auctions for GPS systems and accessories using their own RSS reader. For those who are unfamiliar with eBay, a short training video is available. "We have done all the hard work for our visitors", says Bill Brine, the CEO of the company. "We have determined where most sellers post their auctions within the eBay structure for GPS systems and accessories. All our visitors have to do is click on the type of electric guitar they are interested in and they will be presented with a list of current auctions for those products." ---------------------------------- Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at 112. PRESS RELEASE: New Shopping Site for Electric Guitars New Shopping Site for Electric Guitars A new site has been launched to help musicians find great deals on electric guitars. BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding great deals on electric guitars. The site is located at http://electric-guitars.GetItForLessOnline.com Consumers who are looking for a new or used electric guitar now have another shopping resource which they can use to find good deals. A large selection of electric guitars is available. New items become available on a regular basis. The site is based on eBay auctions, and presents specific real-time pages devoted to electric guitars. Consumers can search by brand name and type of camera. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can monitor auctions for electric guitars using their own RSS reader. For those who are unfamiliar with eBay, a short training video is available. "We have done all the hard work for our visitors", says Bill Brine, the CEO of the company. "We have determined where most sellers post their auctions within the eBay structure for electric guitars. All our visitors have to do is click on the type of electric guitar they are interested in and they will be presented with a list of current auctions for those products." ---------------------------------- Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at www.BrinCom.com More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at www.ItsGoodBusiness.net 113. New Site for Digital Camera Shoppers Press Release - New Site for Digital Camera Shoppers A new site has been launched to help consumers find great deals on digital cameras. (Amherst, NS) BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding great deals on digital cameras. The site is located at digital-cameras.GetItForLessOnline.com Consumers who are looking for a new or used digital camera now have another shopping resource which they can use to find good deals. A large selection of digital cameras is available. New items become available on a regular basis. The site is based on eBay auctions, and presents specific real-time pages devoted to digital cameras. Consumers can search by brand name and type of camera. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can monitor auctions for digital cameras using their own RSS reader. For those who are unfamiliar with eBay, a short training video is available. "We have done all the hard work for our visitors", says Bill Brine, the CEO of the company. "We have determined where most sellers post their auctions within the eBay structure for digital cameras. All our visitors have to do is click on the type of digital camera they are interested in and they will be presented with a list of current auctions for those products." ---------------------------------- Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at www.BrinCom.com More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at www.ItsGoodBusiness.net
114. Bill's Bully Pulpit: Your Business Office Anywhere Bill's Bully Pulpit: Your Business Office Anywhere Welcome to my Bully Pulpit for October 17, 2008 For those of you who are new to my newsletter, my name is Bill Brine and I am a Lead Generation Master and a Veretekk Marketing System owner. As always, I am here to help you if you have any questions. My contact details are at the bottom of this email. If you wish to contact me, use the email address supplied there. If you are not familiar with Veretekk, see the overview page I put together at http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk =================================================== This week's issue includes: 1) Your Business Office Anywhere =================================================== 1) Your Business Office Anywhere These days, modern technology makes it simple to set up an office almost anywhere. Cell phones, email, laptops and updated office situations offer unlimited opportunities to start your own business. Whether you want a full-time enterprise or a part-time income, you need the right setup to be successful. Take advantage of advanced technology to have a convenient, functional office on your own terms. Home Offices The Mobile Office Virtual Offices Managed Offices Outsourcing Start your own business, gain credibility and build profits by customizing your offices to suit your unique needs. Whether you want to quit your day job or supplement your current income, you can create your own perfect office anywhere and anytime. 2) Quote for Today
http://brincom.dailymessageonline.com/ to get the code. 3) Do You Have Any Comments? Comment on articles I've run in the newsletter, give me your thoughts on changes or your ad testing results or questions relating to your business, etc. In other words, just talk to me about what you think I need to do to improve the newsletter. Be sure to include your website address too, because if I use your comments in a future issue of the newsletter, I'll thank you by posting your address so that you can get additional free traffic to your site! Email your questions or replies to: brincom@veretekk.com with the subject "Bully Pulpit Feedback". All articles from this newsletter are also published in my blog at http://brincom.com/blogs/LeadGeneration That's a Wrap for this Week Don't forget to send me any comments or questions you may have. I would be only too happy to help you in any way that I can. From time to time I'll send you important updates that will provide information that has the potential to greatly improve your online business... and of course your profits! However, you can rest assured that I will only ever recommend products that are considered to be of HIGH value and will provide indisputable benefits to help you grow your business. Have a great week! Until next time,
115. Make Money Online Advice 8 Make Money Online Advice 8 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master So you've out a lot of time and effort into doing some market research, and have designed a great product that you think will sell like wildfire. Unfortunately, it doesn't sell well. It hardly sells at all... Now what? Is there still a way to make money online with this product? Or should you just throw it out and start again? Well, there are some things you can do to resurrect the situation. Here are 10 ideas you can use to make use of the product and still make money online: 1. People are always looking for new products to sell. Sell the reprint or reproduction rights to the product. Sell a resale license. 2. Give the product away as a freebie from your home business website. Just because it won't sell doesn't mean people won't visit your home business website to get it for free. They may see another product you sell and buy that one while they're there. 3. List the product at an online auction site such as eBay. You may make part of your investment back. If you're lucky, you may even make a profit. People sometimes get into bidding wars and will bid a higher price than the product is actually worth. 4. Offer your product as a free bonus for another product you sell. This will increase the perceived value of the product you're selling. People will feel they're receiving more for less. 5. Contact businesses with the same target market and see if they would be interested in using your product as a free bonus for their product. You can get free advertising by placing your ad on the product. 6. Sell your product to businesses at wholesale cost as a promotional item. Businesses are always looking for products they can give to their customers with their advertising on the product. You could make part of your investment back. 7. Barter your product to other businesses for things you need for your own business. You could trade for their products or services. This will save you money and help make up for your profit loss. 8. Create an online contest with the product as a prize. This will attract traffic to your web site. You could also get free advertising by listing it on online contest directories. 9. If you decide to give away the product for free, allow other people to give the product away for free as well. Place your home business website ad on the product. This will spread your advertising and attract even more people to your site. 10. Ask businesses with the same target audience if they would be interested in combining your product with their product. You could then sell them together as a package deal and split the profits. You may have better results selling your product this way. There are many more creative ways to make use of a product that is not selling for some reason. You can still make money online, even if the product is a poor seller for some reason. ------------------- 116. Make Money Online Advice - Increasing Sales Volume Make Money Online Advice - Increasing Sales Volume Are you frustrated in your efforts to make money online because of low sales volume? This article may help. Here are 10 proven strategies that will help increase your sales volume. 1. Make people feel safe when they order. Remind people that they are ordering through a secure server. Tell them you won't sell their email address and all their information will be kept confidential. 2. Make your ad copy attractive. Do not concentrate on features; market the benefits instead. Make sure your headline is attractive to your target audience. Always include testimonials and/or guarantees. 3. Remind people to come back and visit. People usually don't purchase the first time they visit. The more times they visit your site, the greater the chance they will buy. The most effective way to make them return is to give them a free subscription to your ezine. 4. Tell people about your business. They will feel more comfortable if they know who they are buying from. Publish a section called "About Us" on your home business website. Include your business history, profile of employees, contact information etc. 5.Give people as many ordering options as possible. Accept credit cards, checks, money orders, and other forms of electronic payments. Take orders by phone, email, home business website, fax, mail, etc. 6. Make your home business website look professional. You must have your own domain name. Your web site should be easy to navigate. The graphics should be related to the theme of your home business website. 7. Let people read your ad before they get your freebie. When you use free stuff to lure people to your home business website include it below your ad copy or on another web page. If you list the freebie above your ad they may never look to see what you're selling. 8. This may sound simplistic, but be sure that you are attracting the target audience that would buy your product or service. A simple way to do this is to survey your existing customers to see what attracted them to buy. This information will help you improve your target marketing and advertising.
------------------- 117. Make Money Online by Working At Home Make Money Online by Working At Home - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master So you want to make money online? In researching you have probably come across dozens of money making home business opportunities websites saying just join our program or that program and the money will flow in while you sleep. Be careful and take everything you read with a large degree of skepticism. Every make money online program out there needs your effort and money for the program to work. Not a lot of money, in some cases. Even just a little can go a long way. But any business will require time, effort and some of your own money to be successful. If you know how and where to invest your money, work at home online success can be yours. If you are not willing to work hard and wisely and spend money on your work at home business to make money, the odds will be stacked against your success. This is where you get an unfair advantage in your pursuit of success. You will have to guide yourself to finding quality information, tools and tactics to become successful at making money online. With some or absolutely no idea how to make money online you have to be diligent in your efforts to succeed. My experience suggests that you should follow the path you feel comfortable pursuing. This will enable you to be successful and happy in the pursuit of your goals. You'll see lots of no cost work for free business models on the Internet and in business opportunity magazines. Stay away from these! How can anyone possibly make money if it costs nothing to sign up? If it looks to good to be true, it probably is. You need to find proven business models that are working. Stay away from pre-launches and new programs. Be sure to contact other business owners in whatever programs you are investigating to find out their experiences. Any reputable business owner will be happy to share their experiences with you. Good luck with your search. Now go make money online! ------------------- 118. Make Money Online Advice 7 Make Money Online Advice 7 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Here are more tips for those of you who are looking to make money online. Today we'll once again look at ideas for increasing sales volume for your products and services: 1. If you are using mass media advertising, consider investing in targeted advertising instead. Don't waste your limited ad dollars on people who aren't interested. 2. You can increase your profits by concentrating on small details. Improving small things like text size, color, or graphics can really make a positive difference. 3. Keep your offers flexible. For example, if you offer a set price for your product, offer an optional payment plan for the people can't afford the whole cost up front. 4. You can offer your knowledge or consulting as a bonus to those who order a product. For example, you could offer a free 15 or 30 minute consultation. This will add tremendous value to your product. 5. Make sure to personalize all your email messages so they get read. Include the recipient's name in the subject line. This will grab peoples attention quickly. 6. Keep your home business website consistent. Do not keep things on your home business website that are unrelated to the theme of your home business website. 7. You can attract more subscribers to your free ezine by giving them free bonuses like ebooks, software, online services and other incentives. 8. Sell advertising space in your ezine and on your home business website. This will create an extra income stream for your business. 9. Make your home business website ready for the public. Have an "About Us" page and clear descriptions of what actions you want your visitors to take. 10. Don't just start advertising everywhere. Plan out your marketing. Locate places and publications that your target audience would congregate around. These 10 ideas will help you to ramp up your online sales volume. Stay tuned for more ideas in the next article in this series. Now go make money online! ------------------- 119. Make Money Online Advice 6 Make Money Online Advice 6 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to another in my ongoing series of articles to help you make money online. Today we'll look at more ideas for increasing profits:
2. Cut down on expenses by taking on as many of your business' chores as you can handle. Outsource what you can't handle. 3. Don't be afraid to try out new business opportunities, even if they are not related to your main focus. Multiple streams of income are the way to go if you want to make money online. 4. Search out home business websites that are related to your market and create an alliance with 3 or 4 of them. Include each of your ads or banners on the other home business websites. You will all share targeted traffic from each other. 5. Create a free ezine directory. This will attract a lot of traffic from ezine publishers and people that want to subscribe to the ezines. Gather contact information by offering people the ability to sign up to be notified when a new ezine is added to the directory. 6. Offer freebies from your site and submit them to free stuff sites. These sites provide target categories, which means targeted traffic for you. 7. Make your visitors curious about your product by telling them they need to sign-up to get into a password protected site to read the rest of the ad. 8. Keep in mind that the little things about your web pages really do count. Include the title of your site at the top right corner, a description of your site, make it easy to navigate, etc. Do not assume that anyone who visits your website understands how it all fits together. 9. When you ask someone to sign-up to receive a freebie, don't ask for really personal information. This is a fast way to lose a potential prospect. 10. Make use of newsgroups. Newsgroups are still very popular. You can post your ad in ones that allow it or you can simply leave messages with your signature line included. Stay tuned for more tips designed to help you boost sales and make money online. ------------------- 120. Make Money Online Advice Make Money Online Advice - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master If you want to make money online, you have to sell something. And if you want to sell something, you are going to have to design ads or sales pages. When designing an ad, one of the most important considerations is how to end the sales message. Here are 10 ideas for ending your sales message that will persuade people to purchase the product you are selling: 1. End your sales message by telling people what will happen if they buy your product. Use your most powerful benefit as the example. 2. End your sales message by telling people what will happen if they don't buy your product. Use a problem that they won't be able to solve without it. 3. End your sales message with a question to which they will always answer "Yes". This will put them in the right frame of mind to answer "Yes" when you ask them to order. 4. End your sales message with a short review of your whole ad. Repeat all the major benefits and features they will receive. 5. End your sales message with a deadline. Tell them it's a limited time offer and they need to order by a specific date. 6. End your sales message with a powerful guarantee. Give them a lifetime or triple your money back guarantee. 7. End your sales message with a testimonial. Use one or more of your customers' testimonials that are believable and include specific results. 8. End your sales message with a free bonus. When you give them a free bonus it increases the product's perceived value. 9. End your sales message with a discounted price. Just list your regular price and then offer a discounted price off the order right now. 10. End your sales message with a free sample or a trial version of your product. If your ad didn't attract them to buy, maybe a free sample or trial would. Using one or more of these strategies to end your sales message will make your readers more disposed to purchase the product. Try different combinations, and be sure to test the different combinations of strategies to see which works best. Watch for more articles in my Make Money Online Advice series. ------------------- 121. Make Money Online Advice Make Money Online Advice - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master If you are trying to make money online, you are no doubt offering some sort of product or products for sale. In this ongoing series of articles I will offer short ideas to increase your sales so you can make more money online. Here are 10 more tips to increase sales for the products and services you offer in your home business: 1. Create instant rapport with your target audience by expressing the same views as your audience. Bring up common likes and dislikes in your ads. 2. Consider adding viral marketing to your promotional plans. Allow your visitors to give away your free stuff, just include your ad somewhere on all the freebies. 3. Design your website to be less confusing. Don't use a lot of graphics, links or anything else that takes away from your sales message. The best sales page for any product is a page that has no outgoing links to anywhere else, except perhaps for the usual terms of service and contact page. 4. Your website visitors may not have the time to review your entire website at the time they visit. Give them the option of viewing your web site by autoresponder or printing it out. It is also a good idea to provide an "Add to Favorites" button. 5. Want to increase your opt-in email list quickly? Give away a product at no cost as long as people subscribe to your ezine in exchange. 6. Seek out joint ventures with offline businesses. Look for businesses that have the same target audience and create a win/win deal with them. 7. Expand your target audience by adding a new product line or packaging your main products with other ones. You could also add-on extra services. 8. People buy from people they like, so if you can persuade your visitors to like you, you will automatically be more trustworthy in their eyes. You could tell them a joke, give them a compliment, give them a freebie, etc. 9. Submit all the free stuff you offer to online freebie directories. These directories get tons of traffic, because people like to get things for free. 10. Always use headlines and sub headlines that are aimed directly at your audience. For example, if you're selling things to real estate agents, use a headline like "Attention All Realtors!".
------------------- 122. Make Money Online Advice Make Money Online Advice - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master When you are designing ads or sales pages for the products that you develop and/or sell, try to design them with certain things in mind. If you want to make money online, you have to hit people's hot spots - you have to motivate them to want to buy your stuff. Here are 10 motivational triggers to keep in mind that will make people eager and willing to buy your products and services: 1. Everyone wants to make more money. For example, they may want to start their own home business, get a higher paying job or invest in the stock market. This makes them feel successful. 2. Everyone wants to save money. For example, they may want to invest for the future or save for a big purchase. This makes them feel more secure. 3. Everyone wants to save time. For example, they may want to work less and spend time enjoying life's pleasures. This makes them feel more relaxed. 4. Everyone wants to look better. For example, they may want to lose weight, tone their body, or improve their facial features. This makes them feel more attractive. 5. Everyone wants to learn something new. For example, they may want to learn how to change their car oil or build a deck. This makes them feel more intelligent. 6. Everyone wants to live longer. For example, they may want to get in shape, eat better or gain extra energy. This makes them feel healthier. 7. Everyone wants to be comfortable. For example, they may want to relive aches and pains or want to sleep in a more comfortable bed. This makes them feel relieved. 8. Everyone wants to be loved. For example, they may not want to be lonely anymore or want to start dating again. This makes them feel wanted. 9. Everyone wants to be popular. For example, they may want to be a famous celebrity or be more popular in school. This makes them feel praised and admired. 10. Everyone wants to gain pleasure. For example, they may want satisfy their appetite or their sexual desires. This makes them feel more fulfilled. Work one or more of these ideas into any ads or sales pages you are designing. This will increase your chances to make money online. ------------------- 123. Make Money Online Advice Make Money Online Advice - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome once again to my ongoing series of tips to help you make money online. Today we'll continue looking at ideas for increasing the order rate for your products and services: 1. If your business is an online business, automate as much as possible. This will save you extra time for marketing and advertising. Consider such tools as auto- responders, time saving software, submission software, etc.
I hope these ideas will trigger some creative thinking on your part. You have to be constantly looking at new marketing ideas when you want to make money online. ------------------- 124. Make Money Online Advice Make Money Online Advice - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you trying to make money online with a business? Wondering how to increase sales for your products and services? Well here are some ideas that may help:
------------------- 125. Make Money Online With Words That Make People Buy Make Money Online With Words That Make People Buy - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you selling a product or service online? Then you are no doubt designing ad copy or sales pages. In today's article about making money online, I'll show you 10 words that you can use that will make people purchase the products or services that you are advertising. 1. "Fast: - People want fast results, fast delivery, fast ordering, etc. Nowadays, we usually value our time more than our money. Use this word somewhere in your ad.
If you work these 10 words into your ad copy, you will vastly improve sales for your products and services. Stay tuned for more ideas to make money online. ------------------- 126. Smoothies - a Healthy and Tasty Weight Loss Treat Smoothies - a Healthy and Tasty Weight Loss Treat Have you noticed all the smoothie shops springing up lately? There seems to be a new one opening up almost every day. Why makes these drinks so popular? Smoothies can very soothing and invigorating. When you are in a hurry they can be a great meal replacement. Plus they are quite tasty, and if they are made right, they are low in fat. They can be a great weight loss tool. Smoothies fill you up so don't feel hungry. They are easy to make. You can grab them and take them on the go. These are all huge advantages in our busy lives. You can pack lots of fruits and vegetables in your meals or snacks by making a smoothie. They refresh and energize your body. Best of all, drinking smoothies as an aid to weight loss really does work. You won't feel hungry or deprived. You won't feel like you are on a diet. Smoothies are so filling that you will never feel hungry. There are a few tricks to preparing your smoothies and some special ingredients you can add to your smoothies that will assist with your weight loss goals. Because smoothies can contain so many different ingredients, not all smoothies are created equal. To lose weight with smoothies you need take care that your smoothies include a variety of nutritious vegetables and fruits. The majority of the ingredients should be low fat and low calorie. This does not mean that your smoothie won't be delicious, however. You can make smoothies that are highly addictive because they taste so delicious! Smoothie recipes that encourage weight loss and improve your health are simple to find online and in many recipe books. You can hasten your weight loss, boost your energy, enhance your health and improve your appearance all by adding nutritious tasty smoothies to your daily regimen. So try adding smoothies to your menu today and start to see those extra pounds disappear and the new healthy you begin to emerge. Lose weight with smoothies! ------------------- 127. Make Money Online in a Home Business 080918 Make Money Online in a Home Business 080918 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome once again to my ongoing series of tips for those of you who are trying to make money online with a home business. Today we'll look at 10 ideas for increasing the order rates for your products: 1. Set up a reward program for repeat customers, and for referrals. This will keep people revisiting your home business website and buying your products. Sample rewards could be small gifts, discounts, discounts on future purchase, etc. Be creative.
Stay tuned for more in this series. ------------------- 128. Make Money Online with Blogging - But Not At Wordpress! Make Money Online with Blogging - But Not At Wordpress! - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Most everyone who knows anything about internet marketing knows that blogging is a great way to drive traffic to a business website. Put up a blog, start posting some unique content, and include links to your business website. Post new articles regularly and often, and you will start seeing Google pay more attention to your business website. This is a very important step on the road to helping your business make money online. You may have heard that Wordpress is great software for blogging. That's true, but you need to be very careful. Whatever you do, DO NOT set up a blog at Wordpress.com. You need to own your own domain, upload the software, and set it up where you have total control. Here's why: I set up a blog on Wordpress.com to promote a home business website. Since I never do anything black hat, but always employ standard and ethical internet marketing techniques, I did not read the Wordpress TOS before I set up the blog. I figured that Wordpress, like other free blogging sites, would welcome unique content giving great information to others who are struggling to build an online business and make money online. Big mistake! A couple of weeks after setting up the blog and posting regular unique content, I was happy to see that other blog owners were linking to my articles and I was starting to get some traffic. Then suddenly my blog was deactivated by Wordpress for "violation of the Terms of Service". What??? As it turns out, Wordpress does not welcome business-related blogs at their site. Anything else is OK, as long as you are not trying to promote a business. Here is a quote from their TOS: "here are some examples of blogs that are banned from Wordpress.com (all of these fall under the general heading of "spam blogs", or splogs, and we will be deleted as soon as we find them or they get reported): * Scraper blogs: Blogs that take content from other blogs and re-publish it without permission (this is sometimes called scraping). If a blog contains all or mostly stolen and unoriginal content, it's gone! * SEO blogs: Blogs that are written for search engines instead of humans. These blogs are dedicated to trying to fool Google and other search engines into ranking them highly. Wordpress.com is not meant for this type of activity. * Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes ("Make six figures from home!!", "20 easy steps to top profits!!", etc). To be clear, examples like people writing original book or movie reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category. * Warez blogs: Blogs that promote pirated copies of ebooks, software packages, music, movies, games, etc. I was doing none of these things, but Wordpress deactivated my blog anyway. I have not bothered to try to get them to reactivate the blog, since I know from others who have experienced this, that the geeks at Wordpress are very unresponsive. Fortunately, I have saved all my posts and I will set up a new blog at a site which I own and control. So, lesson learned: stay away from Wordpress.com if you are trying to promote a business. Set up blogs only on domains that you own and control. Don't let Wordpress.com, the Big Brother of the Internet, control how you run your business! ------------------- 129. Weight Loss Advice 15 Everyday Weight Loss Advice 15 This is the last in my ongoing series of weight loss advice articles. I hope you have found this advice useful. Here are today's tips: 1. Stop slouching in your chair! Try to maintain an erect posture with your tummy tucked in. Slouching is a very bad habit. It is bad for your back, and it also contributes to your flab. It is your way of saying yes to a comfortable position that detracts from your weight loss program. Always make it a point to sit as erect as you can. This is also a terrific way to ward off back problems. 2. If you have a banister rail or a balustrade that will support you, sit on it and pump your legs as if you are riding a bicycle. Be careful not to fall off! This might sound like a crazy idea, but by doing crazy things like this, you are in fact not missing a single chance to lose that weight. It is a way of keeping your mind alert all the time. Try to fit some form of exercise into everything that you do and into every situation in which you find yourself.
4 Here is a list of various exercises and the number of calories that are burned by each exercise during a 20-minute workout. Choose what you can do best, and choose something that you will enjoy doing on the long run. The choice of the exercise is completely up to you. Try to do whatever exercise you choose for at least twenty minutes. It is only after you do the exercise for twenty minutes that the actual calorie burning sets in. Aerobics: 200-250 calories You can see that even walking is good for you. If you really find your days to be too full to fit in any other form of exercise, then walking is your best bet. Walk as much as you can. Try getting to places and leaving places a little early. This will give you time to walk. Well, that's it for my series of weight loss advice articles. The ball is now in your court, so what are you waiting for? Get rid of those extra calories and pounds and try to enjoy life the best you can without inviting all those terrible diseases that come with a few extra pounds. Good luck with your weight loss program! ------------------- 130. Weight Loss Advice 13 Weight Loss Advice 13 Are you feeling overloaded with weight loss information? You're not alone. There is so much information out there today that it can get confusing, and each and every program is hyped as the answer to your prayers. In reality, of course, there is no foolproof way of knowing what works and what doesn't. There is no way of knowing if the diet is one that enables you to lose weight and then keep it off. This is what is most important. When considering any weight loss program, start by trying to determine if the diet has a scientific basis for its claims. Have there been any significant trials done to ascertain if people have been able to lose weight effectively? Is there any data to show how successful the program participants are in keeping the weight off after 1, 5 or 10 years? Do your research. Did you know that you can lose weight by eating a diet high in a particular type of fat?. This fat is called a MUFA - monounsaturated fatty acid. MUFAs are the good fats you find in food like peanuts, olive oil and avocados. Current research has demonstrated that MUFAs help to seek out and reduce your belly fat. They all also have additional health benefits: they help to lower cholesterol levels in your blood, and they lower your risk of heart disease and strokes. Other studies have shown that MUFAs can also help fight diabetes. Experts believe that MUFAs prevent and even eliminate central fat distribution in your body. One of the most difficult things about any weight loss program is usually the diet. Whatever program you choose, you will be reducing the amount of food you consume, or you will be replacing those foods you crave with foods that are not all that interesting until you get used to them. This means that, at least for a time, you will be left feeling unsatisfied and hungry. This is a another benefit to MUFAs: their higher fat content will have the effect of satisfying your appetite for a longer period of time. As a result you will be less likely to want to snack, and you will also be less likely to have cravings for sweets. As with any weight loss program, it is advisable to add some exercise to your dietary regime to encourage your body to lose weight more effectively. With as little as 10 minutes exercise, your brain will begin to produce beta endorphins. These chemicals will calm you down, regulate your stress hormones and make you feel good. A recent study demonstrated that the secretion of beta-endorphins can actually offset the belly bloating effects of cortisol and insulin. An exercise plan that will help you with weight loss will take no longer than 25 minutes a day. The plan consists of three parts:- 1. A cardio component - this can be as easy as walking 2. A strength training program to build lean muscle 3. A Pilates-based workout - this is excellent for building your core strength A combination of these will provide all you need for a successful weight loss regimen. Remember, its all about balance. With a good healthy nutrition program, combined with sensible eating habits, plus some daily exercise, in time you will be successful in your weight loss efforts.
131. Make Money With Better Banner Ads Make Money With Better Banner Ads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Have you ever tried to sell something via banner ads? 1. Use reverse psychology when designing your banner ads. You could tell people not to click on your banner ad. For example "Don't Click Here Unless You Want to Make Money".
------------------- 132. Weight Loss Advice for Every Day 12 Weight Loss Advice for Every Day 12 Welcome once more to my series of daily articles about things you can do every day to help you with your weight loss plan. Here are today's tips: 1. Try doing pelvic rotations when nobody is watching. The mid section of your body is the part that gets the least amount of exercise. That is probably why weight gain is mostly seen in that section. It is hard to lose weight around your midsection for the same reason. The best thing you can do is to consciously try to give that part of your body a little bit of exercise. Stomach crunches might be too strenuous an exercise to start off with, but rotations are relatively mild. This is the best way to tighten every muscle in that midsection.
4. Try yoga. Yoga is one of the best ways to supercharge your weight loss program. One of the benefits of yoga is that you learn to control virtually every muscle and joint of your body, which will really help you with your weight loss regimen. Stay tuned for more weight loss tips in tomorrow's article. ------------------- 133. Weight Loss Tips 11 Weight Loss Tips for Every Day 11 Welcome back. Once again here are some tips you can incorporate into your everyday life to help you with your weight loss program: 1. Wiggle your toes and your fingers whenever you can. This is a great stress buster, and it gives you a chance to at least work your hand and leg joints. This will tell you how sore they are. If their condition is so bad, What about the rest of your body? 2. When watching TV, walk around during commercial breaks. If you want to sit all evening with your eyes glued to the tube, then do so. But at least spare your eyes the agony of a commercial break. When the next commercial flashes on screen, instead of channel surfing, get up and take a walk. Reach over and try to touch your toes or do some simple exercise that will at least get the blood flowing in your veins. 3. Turn on music and dance wildly. Let your hair down once in a while. Go back to the days of your childhood. Close the door of your room, turn on your sound system to the highest volume possible (but a little lower than the level at which your neighbors start to complain) and then do the wackiest dance that you can think of. Jump on your bed and jump off it again. Just get moving! 3. Carry a soft flying disc or Frisbee with you. Toss it around and get up to fetch it. This is also an excellent way to beat stress. It makes you feel good to throw something away forcefully when you are all worked up. And since the thing that you throw is something soft, you can't damage anything. It is not really the throwing part that we are interested in. It is the fetching part. Each time you get up to fetch it back; you are giving yourself a chance to stretch those muscles and joints 4. If you are taking a taxi somewhere, get off a block before your destination and walk the rest of the way. You might not have time to fit in long walks in your busy schedule, so this is one way of ensuring that you at least get to walk for a little bit every day. If you take the bus or the subway, get off at an earlier station and see if you can walk the rest of the way. If you drive to work, see if you can get space in a parking lot that is a little further away from your office.
------------------- 134. How To Succeed in a Home Business How To Succeed in a Home Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master We all want to have a viable home business that offers financial security and time to enjoy life. However, looking for that "cash cow" can sometimes mean that you can fail to realize what it really means to market online. The first thing to remember when working a home business is this: do not to try to do everything at once! You will come across tons of gurus online who tell you to do all sorts of things that will make you fabulously successful. What you have to do is to successfully separate the real from the fictional. That is not always easy to do. Look at the sales letter and see if there are exaggerated claims such as, "Purchase this item and you will never need any other marketing tools" or "This particular item will be so easy to use that you will have thousands of dollars in your bank account next day". Claims such as these are a definite indication that you are being hyped. Only one situation will bring you success online: hard work, diligence and service to your customers. Always, always, spend time researching your niche, your marketplace and your competition. Your customers have a certain mindset. They have a certain way they like to shop. They have a certain way they will find your website. The list is endless. You must make it easy for them to find out about you, your business, your products, your attitudes, your service policies, and your abilities. Do not hide behind your computer. Make it easy for your customers to contact you. Check out other websites in your niche and see what they are doing. Can you offer a better product, solution or package? Can you offer a better price? Price points for products or services can make or break a home business. You do not have to have the highest price or the cheapest offer, but you do have to provide value for the dollar or you will not get repeat customers. Repeat customers are your bread and butter, so do all that you can to keep people coming back for more. It takes a lot to get a customer to your website, so you had better be prepared to do more than one follow up to complete that sale. You need to decide how you will accomplish this. Will you use autoresponders, an ezine or newsletter, a blog? How will you correspond with your website visitors to continue to convince them of your integrity and honesty and build a trusting relationship? You need to decide this before you even design your website. You will need the proper tools to build a home business online. Consider the purchase of such tools as part of your research and development expenses. You will need one or more domain names, a webhost, a product or service that you own and can profit from, a way to build a website either by yourself or with a web designer, and multiple ways to bring traffic to your website. Without any of these components, your online home business will not be successful. All of this will require a lot of work. Building any business takes time and effort. There is no short cut, despite what the gurus might say. There will be a lot of late nights and time spent in front of the computer before you see success in your business. If anyone tells you differently, that is a good sign that you need to run, not walk, to the next website! Of better yet, stop looking at all the offers you get about the latest and greatest tools, and start actually building something! Continue to believe in yourself and in your product or service and you will soon operating a successful and viable home business. Keep a positive attitude and you will avoid countless mistakes. Trust your instincts and watch out for hype. Continue to build and you will reap the rewards of having a successful online business can make you very happy. ------------------- 135. Work At Home Business Ideas: Print Brokers Work At Home Business Ideas: Print Brokers Can you imagine a work at home business that is always in demand, thrives in any economic condition, and requires no special skills other than the ability to read and write? Can you imagine a work at home business you can start on Monday for less than the cost of a tank of gas, and can have people practically begging you to take their money by Friday? Believe it or not, there is such a business. It is called print brokering. Starting and operating a work at home business as a print broker may just be a perfect business. Think about this for a moment. Business people need business cards, printed forms, and documents. Every business, club, group, or organization in any town, city, or county... need and use various printed forms and documents in doing business. And, they all need these forms and documents over and over again. Virtually any business or business person uses at least two or more types of documents or forms that need to be printed. As a work at home business print broker, you simply take orders and forward them to printers who do the work for you wholesale, and then ship the work to your customers. Operating a work at home business as a print broker is quite straightforward, and will grow to make as much money as you desire without paying a penny for advertising or getting more customers. How is this be possible? It is possible because of a concept in the print business known as co-op printing. One customer's non-conflicting document is printed on the back of another customer's document. Using this concept, you, as a print broker, can easily grow your work at home business to make as much money as you desire... without spending one red cent on advertising. Here's an example: Norah's beauty shop needs to drum up some more business, and Norah decides to have 1,000 flyers printed up on color paper to distribute locally. Local printers would charge about $50, plus tax for the job. You offer the same service for $40... if Norah allows you to print your non-conflicting discount printing services flyer on the back of her flyer. The beauty shop saves 25% on the cost of printing, and you get 1,000 of your advertisements printed and distributed free or charge. The beauty shop is happy, and you are happy. It is a win-win situation for both of you. However, note what just really happened: you were actually paid to advertise and grow your work at home business because your printer only charged you $25 for the order. 1,000 people and businesses will see your discount printing services... which will cause more orders to come rolling in without any effort or expense on your part. And, you can repeat this free money making work at home business growth technique as often as you desire by offering co-op printing services to other customers and businesses. Be careful with this technique, however. Many work at home business print brokers have used this technique too often, and found themselves overwhelmed with orders that they cannot handle on a quick enough basis. There is probably no other work at home business you can imagine that is so easy, costs so little to start, recession proof, and actually pays you to grow it. Of course, this is a simplistic view of this work at home business. There would still be a lot of legwork to set up the business, find and strike deals with discount printing services, and do your initial advertising. But I think it is an intriguing idea. ------------------- 136. Make Money Online Tips Want To Make Money Online? Defeat Your Competition - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you struggling to make money online in your work from home business? Here are some tips that might help. One of the best ways to make money online is to scout out your competition and offer things that they don't offer. Here are some ideas to consider: 1. Offer free useful original content. If your website is the only place where your visitors can find this stuff, your home business website will get lots of visitors.
Stay tuned for more tips on how to make money online in future articles.
137. Weight Loss - Your Big Belly Weight Loss - Your Big Belly It seems that everywhere you look these days, you see an advertisement for a weight loss product. We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, and advertisers and product manufacturers are itching to cash in. You see so many compelling commercials to sell you on why a particular weight loss product is the best. Weight loss claims are subtle enough to stimulate the imagination and create the illusion of benefits in your mind. Have you considered purchasing an exercise machine? What about diet pills. Have you ever talked to your doctor about these drugs? Have you walked into a health shop and looked for information about weight loss, fat-burning or muscle-building supplements? Have you bought the latest fad diet book? Have you done a Google search or watched TV and listened to a fitness guru talk about an amazing new diet that helps you to lose weight in record time? Have you searched the web for information about diet, nutrition or weight loss programs? If you have done any of the above then the chances are you've been told a lot of things that are just not true! It is an unfortunate fact that if you are looking for honest and accurate information about nutrition and effective weight loss, you will find that it is hard to come by these days. Nearly everyone has been misled at one time or another. Now, it could be that the so called "guru" thinks that the information they are giving is correct and may have been misled themselves. But to ensure that you are receiving or giving accurate and honest information you need to look very carefully at the scientific evidence surrounding the claims. One of the most important principles in any weight loss program you may follow is to be able to see visible results quickly. Getting rid of that big belly can be a great incentive for most people. Better to get rid of it from the start than be left with it at the end of your diet. So what causes this big belly? Ingesting foods that your body cannot tolerate can cause inflammation. This is one of the main reasons for a bloated belly, especially if that belly is of the pot belly variety. Inflammation and excess gas caused by undigested food can be a major cause of both inflammation and a bloated belly. Most people who have tried any weight loss program will be familiar with the term "water retention". Although this can often be more prevalent in the ankles and other joints. it can also be a contributory factor for a swollen midsection. For weight loss to take place it is advisable to address these underlying intolerances first, especially if you want to a flat belly not a fat belly as a result. ------------------- 138. Everyday Weight Loss Advice Everyday Weight Loss Advice 8 Welcome to another in my ongoing series of weight loss advice. Once again, we will explore some of the many ideas you can implement in your life to help you with your weight loss program. Let's get started. Today we'll continue our focus on exercise. 1. It is important to stop exercising when your body has had enough. There is no sense in pushing it. When you have worked out for a considerable time, your body will start giving you signals. Heed those signals. This is particularly true in the initial stages. Take it one step at a time. Stop when you are out of breath or when a certain part of your body tells you that it has had enough. It is the cumulative amount of exercise over time that will help you with weight loss. Take it slow and easy.
5. Are you sitting down? Don't just sit there. Stand up! If you can stand, then do not sit. The golden rule is to choose a position that is less comfortable. 6. Are you lying down? Don't lie down. Sit! The rule that we mentioned above rings true here as well. 7. Stop being a couch potato. It is the easiest thing in the world to become a couch potato: that shapeless thing that sits or reclines on a shapeless chair in front of the television and stupidly munches away at something fried! If you are inclined to become a promising old couch potato, break the habit. What is the best way to do that? Take away that favorite chair of yours. In fact, it would be a very good idea if you could keep a chair that isn't too comfortable in front of the TV. This will discourage any tendency to become a couch potato. I hope these daily advice articles are helping you with your weight loss program. Keep up the good work! ------------------- 139. Work At Home Business Advice Work At Home Business Advice: Increase Your Profits With These 10 Tips - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to another work at home business advice article. Today, let's look at more ways to increase your profits.
140. Everyday Weight Loss Advice Weight Loss Advice for Every Day 7 Welcome to another article in my series of weight loss advice for every day. Today we'll look at exercise in more detail. We all know that exercise is an important part of any weight loss program. 1. Check your weight before you start your exercise routine and keep checking for changes. But do not expect a radical change immediately. It might be one or two weeks before you notice some weight loss. In fact, your weight may increase for a bit as you turn fat into muscle. However it is crucial that you continue to monitor your weight. Even a few pounds or inches lost is a big achievement. 2. When you do notice a change, reward yourself. Now, don't go for some goodies like chocolates or sweets. After all, this is a weight loss program! Maybe you could go for a movie or buy yourself something like a new dress or a trinket. This is something that can keep you going. 3. You can take a day off from exercise every week. This is not just a very good idea but it is part of the exercise routine. Your body needs a day off from an exercise routine. 4. Exercise outdoors as often as possible. There are two advantages of exercising outside. One advantage is that it gives your body a chance to get much needed fresh air and sunshine. The second advantage is that the surroundings keep you perked up and it is a break from remaining cooped up all day long 5. Try to collect some information about exercise. There are a lot of things that you can do at home. Extensive research has been done on exercise and plenty of this information is easily available. You can try browsing the net or getting a book or two on how to exercise at home. This information will be useful to you to know how much you need to work out on each specific exercise in order to burn off the desired number of calories. 6. Try to get somebody to exercise along with you. It should be somebody committed to exercise and/or weight loss or else your interest might dwindle. One of the advantages of getting a committed person to exercise with you is that it keeps you going. There may be days when you feel just too lazy to crawl out of bed in the mornings. On such days, the knowledge that somebody is waiting for you is enough to slide out of bed. Another advantage is that you can discuss your progress and fears with another person and be a sympathetic listener to the other person as well. This is a great way to get motivated your self. In the next article in this series, we'll continue looking at exercise, an important part of your weight loss program. ------------------- 141. Tips to Make Money Online Tricks to Make Money Online - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Wouldn't it be great if you knew some easy tricks to make money online on the internet? Now, the word "tricks" implies a short cut or a cheat of some sort. As a general rule, using a short cut is bad news for anyone looking to build an online business. Building an online business properly requires a plan, then a foundation, and then a structured system of making money. However, there are some "easy" tricks to make money on the internet. The word "easy" is a bit of a misnomer here - each of these tricks will require that you know exactly what you are looking for and that you have some skills to pull them off. For example, Ebay recently changed its policies so you can no longer sell digital products in auctions. A lot of people went out of business overnight. The more savvy Ebay marketers used a great trick to keep using this service - they now offer their digital products as physical products in the form of CD's and DVD's. To save even more time with this trick you can use a product fulfillment service to take care of everything for you. This change actually made things better for the marketers who did not give up. Now there is a lot less competition, so there is a much higher conversion rate for the products. This is a good example of 'going with the flow' in an online business. Instead of throwing up your hands and saying "I'm out of business", these business owners looked at the problem and said "How can I sell the same products in a different manner?". This is how you operate an online business. This is how you make money online. Next is a neat trick to make money online through Clickbank: - Find a product that is selling well (high gravity).
Another trick to make money online: - join a CPA (Cost Per Acquisition) program. And, of course, my favorite trick to make money online: Join us at Its Good Business where you will build a solid business by simply buying customers. No cold calling, no website development (unless you want to), no marketing to acquire or retain customers (unless you want to), and all the free training you will need to build a serious walk away income. Check Out Its Good Business 142. Everday Weight Loss Advice Everyday Weight Loss Advice: Creating your Weight Loss Program So, the time has finally come that you realize that you need to lose weight. But, what plan will you follow to help you with your weight loss goals? There are a certainly lot of plans and methods available on the internet to help with weight loss. Have you ever thought about creating your own plan for weight loss? Weight loss programs can serve as motivation and as a guide for a lot of people, and have helped them realize their goals for weight loss. Programs for weight loss, whether they be local or online, can give you a plan to follow. You may also like the idea of doing your own thing.
Well, the first thing to do is educate yourself. Become familiar with the different types of diets that are out there. Be aware of fad diets, and supplements that can do more harm than good. After doing some reading, you may find yourself putting together several components from different diets, thereby building your own unique diet. The most important thing is to eat healthy, no matter what diet you pursue. When creating your own weight loss program, you need to eat healthy, and avoid situations and ideas that will cause you to not eat enough. Calories, fat, carbohydrates and sugar are all important in your diet, and it's important to not eat too much - or too little - of any one food. Depending on your personality type, you may be able to allow junk food in your diet once in awhile, rather than eliminating it forever. Or you may allow yourself cheat days every so often. You need to keep a close watch on your diet. No matter what kind of weight loss program you decide to follow, it is important to keep track of what you're eating. Keeping a journal of calorie intake, along with sugar and fat intake will keep you aware of what you consume. It also helps you in real life: soon you'll have all kinds of food and the caloric content memorized. Big bonuses if you weigh and measure everything - after a bit of time you will be able to eyeball anything and know how much you're getting. You must exercise to lose weight. Exercise is important. But don't let having to exercise along with dieting put you off from starting a weight loss program. It is perfectly ok to start a diet and then begin exercising down the road. If you are obese, you will most likely not be able to do much exercise anyway when first starting out. But stick with it: as your weight loss adds up, you will be able to exercise more and even like it. You may not like the idea of visiting a gym an exercising around other people. That's fine. There are lots of home exercise programs and equipment you can use. Your best bet; just start walking! Everyone can do that. It can he difficult to stay motivated to exercise. If you need support, ask friends, your partner or a coworker if they would like to accompany you. Get an "exercise buddy" and challenge each other to go a little further or do a few more reps each day. Put your weight loss program in writing. If you have a plan of action for your weight loss program, write it down! Record any exercise you participate in, as well as what you eat. It can be a great motivator as you try to improve with each passing day. Also be sure to measure and weigh yourself no more than once a week. It is a great motivator to see those pounds dropping off and the waist getting thinner. Creating your own weight loss program can be a challenge and a huge motivator for you to succeed with your weight loss goals. I hope you are successful with your weight loss program. ------------------- 143. Make Money Online Advice Make Money Online Advice: Autoresponders - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you trying to make money online with a home business? One of the many ways to get your message out and promote your products is to use email autoresponders. Listed below are 10 innovative ways to use your autoresponder to help you promote and sell your home business products so you can make money online. 1. Use your autoresponder to collect leads. Your autoresponder will provide you with an email digest of the email addresses of everyone who requests information. 2. Use an autoresponder to publish a price list of all your products and services. You could also include order forms, product descriptions, and other sales material. 3. Publish free reports in autoresponder format. These reports should be related to your home based business or your website. Giving away free stuff will quickly increase your traffic. 4. Use your autoresponder to publish a survey to collect vital customer satisfaction information. This type of information will help you serve your customers better. 5. Instead of answering every customer question that's emailed to you, publish a "Frequently Ask Questions" in your autoresponder. This will save you time and money. 6. You could publish your home based business testimonials or endorsements in autoresponder format if you don't have enough room in your ad copy. It's more effective to include all of them. 7. Provide back issues of your ezine archives in an autoresponder. This will give your subscribers and web site visitors easy access to them. 8. Publish your entire web site in autoresponder format. Sometimes visitors don't have enough time read your entire site. They could print it out and read it offline. 9. Do you publish an ebook? Offer it in autoresponder format. Your visitors won't have to download it or have the software to read it right away. 10. Publish the terms and conditions to any business transactions in autoresponder format. This could include return policies, purchases, refunds etc. Think out of the box and you can come up with more creative ways to use your autoresponder to market your home business products and services. Stay tuned for more articles in my series of advice for online home businesses. Now go make money online ! ------------------- 144. Everday Weight Loss Advice Everyday Weight Loss Advice Here we are again with more everyday advice to help you with your weight loss plan. 1. Do not completely deprive yourself of the foods that you love. Go ahead eat them, but only for flavor and only once in a while. There are many things which you have to avoid from your diet but which you may have an undying craving for. Do not avoid them altogether. You could call them cheat foods and indulge in them once in a while. But take care just to tingle your taste buds, don't overeat. Instead of that, share them with others. 2. Watch your intake of fat. Each fat gram contains 9 calories. By reading the total calories on a food item and knowing the quantity of fat, you can estimate the % of fat, which should not exceed 30% of the calories from that food. 3. Go easy on salt. Too much salt is one of the causes of obesity and high blood pressure. Make it a point to really cut down on salt. Try to bring down your salt intake to half of what it was last year. Here's a great tip: make a cup of tea out of ground parsley and have a cup once a day. This will reduce your salt cravings over time. 4. Use cholesterol free butter. Bear in mind that small changes like this can go a long way towards helping with your weight loss. 5. Stop frying food! Try baking food without fat. Baking is a far more healthier method of preparing food than frying. Baking requires less oil or fat. 6. Use a non stick frying pan for your cooking so that you do not have to add oil. The golden rule is to try and avoid as much oil as possible and a non stick pan is one solution to this problem. 7. Boil your vegetables instead of cooking them. Even better, eat them fresh. However if you do not like eating your vegetables raw, try steaming them without adding anything at all. This is probably the healthiest way to eat cabbages, cauliflowers and a host of other vegetables. 8. Carry parsley with you. Parsley is an excellent food to munch on in between meals. Not only is it good for you, but it is also a perfect way to freshen your breath. That's all my advice to help you with your weight loss plan for today. Stay tuned for more! ------------------- 145. Work From Home Business Advice Work From Home Business Advice: Sell Your Products Now - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome once again to my ongoing series of work from home business advice. Today we're going to look at 10 ways to sell your products now. We'll discuss ways to design sales pages: 1. When writing the copy for your ad, try to make your reader visualize that they have already bought your product. Tell them what results they have gotten and how it makes them feel. They'll become emotionally attached before they buy.
I hope you have found this short list to be of use. Stay tuned for more work from home business tips in future articles. -------------------- 146. Everday Weight Loss Tips Everyday Weight Loss Tips Here we are once again in my ongoing series "Everyday Weight Loss Tips". Here are today's tips: 1. Believe it or not, you will each your weight loss goals if you make carbohydrates 50 to 55% of your diet. It is a myth that you should try to avoid carbohydrates when you are on a diet. Carbohydrates are a ready source of energy. But be sure to pay attention to the quality of the carbohydrates. 2. Proteins should make up 25 to 30% of your diet. Various processes are taking place in your body. Things are broken down and being rebuilt. Resistance has to be built up, recovery from disease is needed. For all this the body needs plenty of proteins. 4. Fats should only be 15 to 20 % of your diet. 5. Consider adopting a vegetarian diet. A vegetarian diet is a very healthy weight loss plan. There are a lot of advantages of keeping to a vegetarian diet. Make non-vegetarian food a weekend or once in a while event if you find it impossible to give up eating all that meat. 5. If you do eat meat, choose white meat rather than red meat. White meat, which includes fish and fowl, is much healthier than red meat, which includes beef and pork. 6. High fiber multigrain breads are better than white breads. This is a great way to increase the fiber content in your diet. 7. Reduce or eliminate your intake of pork. Pork is not something that can help you with your weight loss goals. So the less pork you eat, the better chances you have of losing weight. Remember that pork includes the pork products as well, like bacon, ham and sausages. 8. Limit your sugar intake. If you can't have things unsweetened go for sugar substitutes, or, better yet, Stevia. 9. Graze 5 to 6 times a day. Instead of sticking to just three meals a day, try grazing. Grazing means try having 5 or 6 smaller meals instead of three king sized meals. It is an excellent way of eating smaller quantities of food. Stay tuned for more everyday weight loss tips in future articles. ------------------- 147. Work From Home Business Advice Work from Home Business Advice: More Ways to Increase Your Sales - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to another article in my Work from Home Business Advice series. Today we'll look at more ideas for increasing sales for your work from home business:
2. Maximize the effectiveness of your banner ads. Don't just use the same ad on every banner. Use a variety to attract the greatest number of clickers. 3. Offer free advertising space to well known and respected companies on your work from home business website. This will help build your credibility. 4. People have been taught all their life to respect people in authority. Tell your visitors that you are the president or CEO of your business (which, in fact, you are!) 5. Offer people a free telephone consultation before they order your product. When they get to know you personally, it could convert to more sales. 6. Test the "bill me later option" on your website. Most people are honest and will pay you. It is a powerful little niche and could increase your sales. 7. Find a charity your target audience would likely support and commit to donating a percentage of your profits to this charity. Tell people on your ad copy that you will do this. 8. Hold a "buy the most wins contest" on your web site. Tell people each monthly winner will get their entire purchase refunded. 9. Attract visitors to your work from home business website by offering them a free course. The course can be set up in a follow-up autoresponder to send lessons daily. 10. Interview people related to your industry and get their permission to convert the interview into an article. Promote your website by submitting this article to ezines and article directories. That's all for this article. Stay tuned for more advice designed to help you make more money in your work from home business.
------------------- 148. Everday Weight Loss Tips 080830 Everyday Weight Loss Tips Welcome once again to my ongoing series of articles presenting things you can do every day to help you wight your weight loss goals. Here are today's tips and tricks: 1. As hard as it seems, try to count calories as you eat. Its a good idea to have an idea of the calories that most food items have. Fewer calories equals weight loss! 2. Do you feel that you have consumed more calories than you should have during the week? Then make sure that you work off those extra calories by the end of the week. 3. Stay away from fried food at all costs. Lots of hidden fats here, and bad fats as well. 4. Do not skip meals. The worst thing you can do while watching your diet is to skip a meal. It has just the opposite effect of what you want. You need to have at least three regular meals every day. 5. Eat fresh or frozen vegetables rather than cooked or canned vegetables. Try to eat your vegetables raw. When you cook them, you are in fact taking away nearly half the vitamins and nutrients in them. Canned vegetables will usually have all sorts of added ingredients that are not good for you, especially salt. 6. Do you like chocolates? Its OK to indulge very occasionally, but make chocolates a luxury and not a routine. Chocolates are not a food group! So do not indulge too much. 7. Make sure to choose a variety of foods from all food groups every day. This will help keep deficiency diseases at bay, and it will help you to experiment with a variety of dishes so you won't get bored with your diet. 8. Stay away from alcoholic beverages as much as possible. Alcoholic beverages too are not good for you. Beer can be fattening. Other alcoholic drinks may not be fattening by themselves, but after a couple of swigs you will be in no position to watch your diet and control your appetite. One glass of wine with dinner is probably OK. 9. Try to have breakfast within one hour of waking. ItÂ’s always best to have breakfast within an hour of waking up so that your body can charge itself with the energy it needs for the day. The idea is not to wait for yourself to get really hungry. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day but that does not mean that it should be the most filling meal of the day. More tips to help you wight your weight loss program will be coming in future articles in this series... ------------------- 149. Work From Home Business Advice Work From Home Business Advice: Tips to Increase Sales - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome once again to my ongoing series of tips for your work from home business. Today I have some ideas that will help you to increase sales for your products: 1. Place a customer survey on your work from home business website. Be sure to offer your visitors a freebie for filling it out, otherwise the vast majority of website visitors will not bother. Surveys can give you valuable insight into your business and your customer base.
Stay tuned for other work from home business tips in future articles. Read More About Work From Home Businesses ------------------- 150. More Everyday Tips to Lose Weight Everyday Tips To Lose Weight 3 Welcome to another in my continuing series entitled Everyday Tips To Lose Weight. Here are today's tips and tricks: 1. Set scheduled times to have meals and stick to it. You can stretch these times by half an hour, but anything more than that is going to affect your eating pattern. The result will either be a loss of appetite or that famished feeling which will make you stuff yourself the next time you eat. This of course will defeat your efforts to lose weight. 2. Eat only when you are hungry. Don't use food as an excuse to fill time or to comfort yourself. Some of us have the tendency to eat whenever we see food. We use parties as an excuse to stuff ourselves. Understand that the effect of a whole week of dieting can be wasted by just one dayÂ’s party food. Whenever you are offered something to eat do not decline it completely, but just take off a nibble so that you appear to be polite and at the same time can watch your diet. 3. Stop snacking between meals! This is especially true if you have to travel a lot. When traveling, you may feel that the only time you can get a bite to eat is snacks and junk food. The main problem with most snacks and junk food is that they are usually less filling and contain a lot of fat and calories. Just think about French fries - tempting but terribly fattening. Remember your goal: lose weight! 4. If you must snack, snack on vegetables. You might get hunger pangs in between meals, but it is something that you can control. Even better, try munching on carrots. They are an excellent way to satisfy those hunger pangs and are good for your eyes and teeth. 5. Go easy on tea and coffee. Tea and coffee are harmless by themselves. ItÂ’s when you add the cream and sugar that they become fattening. Did you know that having a cup of tea or coffee that has cream and at least two cubes of sugar is as bad as having a big piece of rich chocolate cake? 6. Try to stick to black tea or coffee. Black tea or coffee can actually be good for you. Personally, I recommend tea rather than coffee. The caffeine in the coffee is not really good for you because it is an alkaloid and can affect other functions of your body like you metabolism. I hope you are finding these tips useful for your efforts to lose weight. Stay tuned for more in future articles. Read More About How To Lose Weight ------------------- 151. Home Business Advice Your Home Business Should Give You Freedom - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master As home business entrepreneurs, we know that setting goals is crucial to our home business success. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you're there? Or, more importantly, when you're heading in completely the wrong direction? As the owner of a home business, what is your goal? To make it to the end of the month with enough money in the bank to cover your expenses? To take a holiday for the first time in five years? Every home business owner should have the same goal - sooner or later, to become independent of the business. Small businesses turn into big businesses only when they are able to operate smoothly without the owner being present. When you can stay away for a week, or a month, or a year, and return to find the business running better than before you left, you have the opportunity to do whatever you like - sell the business and start a new one, retire, buy a yacht and sail around the world. True financial independence is the ability to live your life doing what YOU want to do. Do you really want to show up for work an hour early every day, leave late at night and never take a holiday, for the rest of your life? I know I don't! What is the key to being able to walk away? Simple: you need a system in place so that everyone in your business knows exactly what's expected of them. Does your home business employ others? When you take on a new employee, how do they learn what they're expected to do? Does an existing employee take them in charge, explaining how things work? How can you be sure that the new employee is learning what you want them to know? As the owner of the business, it's your job to ensure that a system is put in place as the business grows. The system will ensure that everyone knows what they need to know to do their job effectively. How do you think companies like McDonald's are able to manage thousands of restaurants across the planet? McDonald's Head Office doesn't sell hamburgers. They sell franchises, and their customers are the franchisees. The most valuable asset they have is their system. It regulates what employees wear, the words they say to customers, how many seconds a patty is left on the grill. Every contingency is dictated by the system. The system makes it possible for new employees to fit in. They are educated on 'how we do things around here'. They are taught the specifics of their job. They may be required to sign a performance agreement. In a well-designed system, there is still space for individual creativity. Better ways of doing things should always be sought out and encouraged - and written into the system for the future. The system provides the framework for ensuring that the business is never entirely dependent on any one person. If you own the business, your future depends on the quality of your system. But you say that your business does not have employees? Well, this principle applies to us sole home business owners as well. We need to develop systems and processes to handle all the various tasks and to take action when the unexpected arises. And we need to put systems in place that will allow us to eventually walk away from the business and let it run on autopilot. This is what we have done with the Its Good Business model that I often write about. Our system is simple: we buy customers, not leads. We all work as part of a team of experts building each other's businesses and training each other in our respective areas of expertise. And it works. Do you know that, after only 3 months in this business, I could walk away right now and receive residual income for the rest of my life? And that income will continue to grow even if I do nothing. Granted, it would only be a small income at this point, which is why I will stay involved for a few years yet. But my point is, that from day 1, our Its Good Business model is based on a system that will let you walk away from it whenever you have reached your income goals, and never have to worry about it again, except perhaps to buy more customers once in a while. How great is that? Come see us at http://ItsGoodBusiness.net You'll be glad you did... ------------------- 152. More Everyday Tips to Lose Weight More Everyday Tips to Lose Weight Welcome once again to my series of articles presenting tips to lose weight. Here are some more tips to help you with your program: 1. Include foods in your diet that contain more water, such as tomatoes and watermelons. These foods contain 90 to 95 % water, so that there is nothing that you have to lose by feasting on them. They fill you up without adding to the calorie count. Cut the calories and you lose weight! 2. Stay away from sweetened bottle drinks, especially sodas. All those colas and fizzy drinks are sweetened with sugar, and sugar means calories. The more you can cut out on these sweetened bottle drinks, the better for you. So if you must drink sodas, then stick to diet sodas. Even better: just drink more water! 3. Eat fresh fruit instead of drinking fruit juice. Juice is often sweetened with sugar, but fresh fruits have natural sugars. When you eat fruit, you are taking in a lot of fiber, which is needed by your body, and fruits of course are an excellent source of vitamins. 4. If you do have a craving for fruit juice then go for fresh fruit juice instead of those that contain artificial flavors and colors. Or even better, try making your own fruit juice. Take care not to sweeten it with too much sugar! Instead of artificial sweeteners, try Stevia. 5. Choose fresh fruit rather than processed fruits. Processed and canned fruits do not have as much fiber as fresh fruit and processed and canned fruits are nearly always sweetened. 6. Increase your fiber intake. Your body needs a lot of fiber. Try to include in your diet as many fruits and vegetables as you can. 7. Go crazy on vegetables. Vegetables are your best bet when it comes to losing pounds. Nature has a terrific spread when it comes to choosing vegetables. And the leafy green vegetables are your best bet. Try to include at least one salad in your diet daily. 8. Eat intelligently. The difference between man and beast is that we are driven by intelligence while beasts are driven by instinct. don't just eat something because you feel like eating it. Ask yourself whether your body really needs it. 9. Watch what you eat. Keep a watchful eye on everything that goes in. Sometimes the garnishes and accompaniments can be richer than the food itself. Remember that it is the easiest thing in the world to eat something without realizing that it was something that you should not have eaten! Discipline yourself and you will lose weight. 10. Control that sweet tooth. Remember that sweet things generally mean more calories. It is natural that we have cravings for sweet things, especially chocolates and other confectionary. Go easy on these things and each time you consume something sweet understand that it is going to slow down your weight loss plan. Stay tuned for more everyday tips to help you in your quest to lose weight. Read More About Ways to Lose Weight ------------------- 153. Work From Home Business Advice Work From Home Business Advice: Creating Sales Pages - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master At some point in your work from home business career, you will no doubt have to create a web page or sales letter to sell your products or services. Since we are all not born salespeople, it can be hard to get it just right. You should study successful sales pages to get some tips from them. Here are 9 strategies that I have come across when perusing sales pages: 1. Many advertisers use a hand written letter as part of the sales page instead of text. Write the ad on a piece of paper, scan it and publish the ad on your web page. A personal touch will always increase your sales. 2. Show before and after photos for your products on your web page copy. Show the problem picture and then beside it, show the picture of the resolution to the problem when they use your product. 3. Do you have some famous or respected people who have purchased your product? Publish that list on your sales page. People will think that if these people bought from you, they should also trust your work from home business and purchase your products. Make sure to get their permission first. 4. Include an article or review that has been written about you or your work from home business within your sales page. This will show people that your work from home business is respected and will increase your credibility. 5. Do you offer free bonuses on your sales page? Then list the dollar value beside each bonus. People will feel they're getting a good deal and it will increase the value of your product. 6. Include a good professional picture of yourself on your sales page. This will show people that you're not hiding behind your sales page and will increase their trust. Also, include your work from home business contact information below the picture and a brief statement or quote. 7. Make a commitment to donate a certain percentage of the product purchase price to a specific charity, and tell your potential customers about it. This will show them you really care. They may just buy your product to donate to the charity. 8. Ask your potential customers plenty of yes and no questions in your sales page. The questions should remind them of their problem and make them think about what will happen if they don't purchase your product. 9. Tell your potential customers they will receive a free prize if they find the five words in your sales page that are misspelled or spelled backwards. The longer you can keep someone reading your copy, the greater chance of them purchasing. Selling is a fact of life in a work from home business. No sales, no profits! Follow some or all of these strategies when designing a sales page and your work from home business will thrive. Read More About Work From Home Businesses ------------------- 154. Everyday Tips to Lose Weight Everyday Tips to Lose Weight: The Importance of Water Welcome to the second article in my series entitled Everyday Tips to Lose Weight. Each article will explore various strategies you can apply to help you lose weight. Today we will look at the importance of water to your plan to lose weight. We all need to drink plenty of water. Most people don't get enough water. Our bodies need a lot of water, so drink it! Water is not just a way to flush out toxins. If you have more water in your body, you will generally feel healthier and fitter. This itself will discourage any tendency to overeat. The best thing about water is that it has no calories at all. First, start your day with a glass of cool water. Its a wonderful way to start your day, and you will only need a smaller quantity of your breakfast drink after that. A glass of water lets out all your digestive juices and lubricates the insides of your body. You may have your morning cup of tea or coffee but have it after a glass of water. It is good for you. Drink a glass of water before you start any meal. Water naturally needs some space so that you will feel fuller without actually having to stuff yourself. One of the goals of losing weight is to eat less. You will eat less if you feel full even before starting the meal. Drink that water! Also, be sure to have another glass of water while you are having any meal. This is another way of making yourself full so that you can actually rise from the table eating less. Instead of drinking it one gulp, take sips after each mouthful. This will help the food to settle faster so that you get that feeling that you are full. And finally, have a glass of water after the meal. This again will contribute to feelings of fullness. Water is such a remarkable thing, but seldom do we give it the credit that it deserves. Did you know that over 66% of your body weight is nothing but water? ItÂ’s amazing! Water also plays a vital role in weight control. Stay tuned for more articles about strategies to lose weight. Read More About Strategies to Lose Weight ------------------- 155. Home Business Tips Home Business Tips: Boost Your Sales With These Ideas - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to another segment of my ongoing series presenting home business ideas and tips. In this article are 10 ideas to help you increase sales and profits for your home business: 1. If you don't have a website for your home business, create one! A website is an extremely important part of your internet marketing strategy. 2. Your home business website should be a targeted resource center, full of all sorts of useful information for your target market. Choose one subject and build on it. You will gain repeat visitors that are interested in that topic. If you sell more than one class of product, build a targeted site for each different class of product. 2. Add a forum to your home business website. People love to interact with other people that have the same interests. Make sure to participate yourself as an 'expert' who can answer some of the questions being asked. 3. Want to increase your search engine rankings? Entice people to link to your home business website by giving them something free in return. 4. Trigger your reader's emotions in your ad copy. For example, if you sell a book on weight loss, tell them the feelings they'll get when they lose a lot of weight. 5. Ensure that your site looks good in all browsers and at all screen resolutions. You could be losing sales because it looks distorted in some web browsers or on smaller screens. Also, don't use too many large graphics - there are many internet users who still use dialup access. A slow-loading website is a sure way to lose sales. 6. More and more people are using cell phones to browse the internet these days. Create a mobile version of your home business website for these users. 7. Increase your sales by emailing full page ads to your ezine subscribers. Remember to tell people before they subscribe or they may consider it spam. 8. Ask people questions in your ad copy that make them think about their problems. For example: Do you want to be free of your debts? 9. Magnify the size of your prospects problem in your ad; show how your product can solve it. The bigger the problem, the more sales you will have. Focus on benefits and solutions rather than hype. 10. Always invest a percentage of your profits right back into your home business. Set a target percentage up front, and stick to it. Spend it on marketing, product improvement, customer service, advertising, outsourcing - basically anything that can improve your home business. Stay tuned for more articles on home business. ------------------- 156. Everyday Weight Loss Tips Everyday Weight Loss Tips Welcome to the first in my ongoing series about weight loss. In these articles I will be presenting things you can do every day to help you shed those pounds. Once upon a time, the weight loss was not a problem. People ate well, and they worked all day at physically demanding jobs. As a result, they could eat almost anything they wanted in whatever quantities they wanted. And the food was more nutritious before big business got involved in the distribution and sale of food. The world has changed so much since those days. Lifestyles have changed, and the comforts and facilities have increased. As a result, our state of physical well being has changed as well. Now most of us have sedentary jobs that demand little or no exercise at all. Modern farming and food distribution methods have stripped our foods of much of their nutrients, and processed foods give us nothing but taste and a lot of sugar and salt. And so, weight loss has become a major concern for almost everyone. When we're young, this is not such a major concern, although in recent years even the youngest of our children are experiencing obesity problems. However, as soon as you turn twenty, you start showing signs of weight gain - and that in all the wrong places. ItÂ’s not about the hour glass figure or the perfectly sculpted and toned body. It is more about staying fit and remaining healthy to ensure a long, disease-free life. Every body knows that those extra pounds lead to serious long-term physical problems. People everywhere are switching to a healthier lifestyle. The phrase "weight loss" has almost become a mantra. This series of articles will be dedicated solely to the cause of helping you with your weight loss program. Some of what you read may surprise you. There is only one thing that you have to bear in mind. Weight loss does not happen by itself. There are only two ways to accomplish it: The first is by watching what you eat and the second is by seeing to it that your body gets the exercise that it needs. Stay tuned for future articles in this series where I will present some of my everyday tips for weight loss. My hope is that you will be finally able to shed those pounds by implementing small but important changes in your life. ------------------- 157. Home Business Tips Home Business Tips: Exploding Your Orders - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to another article in my ongoing series about increasing sales for your home business. Here are 10 tips that will definitely help you to explode your orders: 1. Persuade visitors to link to your home business website by giving them a freebie in exchange for their link. It could be content, software, free service, etc. 2. Link to websites that provide useful information or services for your visitors. If you have many useful links on your site, they may make it their start page. 3. Spice up your website's wording using plenty of adjectives. It gives your visitors a clearer vision of what you are explaining or describing to them. 4. If you use banner ads for marketing, don't make your banner ads look like ads. Most people ignore banner ads. Design them to look like content and have them click to read the rest. 5. Join affiliate programs that are related to the theme of your home business website. Your visitors will have little or no interest in affiliate programs that are not related to what they are looking for. 6. Market your website as a "free club" instead of a website. People enjoy belonging to groups. This will increase your repeat visitors and sales. 7. Interact with your online customers on a regular basis by setting up a forum or chat room. This will show them you care about them. 8. Check your website links on a regular basis to make sure they still work. After people click on one link, and it doesn't work, they usually won't bother wasting their time clicking on another one. They'll just go to another site where all the links do work. 9. Give visitors a positive experience when they're at your home business website. Provide them with original content and free stuff. They'll tell all of their friends about it. 10. Share customers with other businesses that have the same target audience. Offer their product to your customers if, in exchange, they do the same for you. Stay tuned for more articles in this series about improving your home business. ------------------- 158. Help Teens to Lose Weight Teen Tips: Ways to Lose Weight Are you the parent of a teenager looking to help him or her to lose weight? Here are some tips that may help.. These days, teenagers face more than just hormonal changes. For a teenager, losing weight is a perpetual issue. During their times of raging hormones and attempting to adapt to their changing bodies and social roles, you'll find teens complaining about their looks, especially their weight. The first think you need to do is to consult a doctor or dietitian to determine if your teenager is indeed overweight or if he/she needs to lose weight fast. If a teen is really overweight, then moral and emotional support is one of the most basic things needed to overcome their weight problems. Weight loss and weight management is a long-term process and involves not just the person who is trying to lose weight. It also involves the people who prepare his or her food, as well as many other factors. Teenagers that have the support of their families show much better results in weight loss programs that those teens that try to lose weight on their own. When trying to lose weight, be sure that you approach the process in the safest way possible. Recent medical studies recommend losing not more than about two pounds per week. Losing weight can be accomplished through a combination of programs, including exercise and decreased calorie intake. Make sure to get into a program that helps you lose weight the right way. The medical community warns that it is unsafe to lose more than 2% of your body weight in a period of 24-48 hours. The results would be a decrease in aerobic performance and endurance. Meanwhile, losing more than 5% of your body weight in three to four days will have detrimental effects on your power, muscle endurance and strength, aerobic performances and even mental concentration. With such extreme programs to lose weight, the body also loses the ability to cool itself, which can cause a host of other problems. Aside from the right exercise, you need to compliment this increased activity with the right diet. Avoid drinks that are high in calories like sodas, high-sugar juices, and other drinks. Stay away from low calorie drinks that are sweetened with sugar substitutes such as aspartame. These products have been proven to have serious detrimental effects over the long term. Make sure that you drink lots of water and fruit juices that do not have added sugar. This will help you stay away from those sodas. It is best to take your program to lose weight one step at time. More often than not, we all tend to go back to our normal ways quickly if changes are introduced drastically. That's why it is better to move forward gradually rather than leaping two to three steps forward and finding yourself five steps back after a few weeks. One great tip to reduce your food intake is to stop eating when you're already full. Avoid eating when you're emotionally unstable. This happens a lot, especially in teens with constant body changes. When people eat because they are bored, lonely, or stressed, they tend to continue eating despite the fact that they are already full. Eat slowly since it will take about 20 minutes before your brain recognizes the amount of food in your stomach. A good strategy here is to put down your fork or spoon after each mouthful. Eat slowly, and take the time to really enjoy what you eat. Be sure to eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Try to replace most of your junk food intake with fruits or vegetables. Not only will you lose weight, but it will keep your heart and body healthy. Don't replace food groups or avoid eating them in your attempt at weight loss. As a teenager, you should avoid such forms of diets since your body still needs the nutrients for growth and development. Diet pills are also a no-no. These pills can be very dangerous to your health even if taken with a doctor's prescription. It is better to go about losing weight the more natural way. It will create discipline and is more sustainable in the long run. Read More About Easy Ways to Lose Weight ------------------- 159. Work From Home Business Tips Work From Home Business Tips: 9 More Ways Increase Sales - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to another article in my continuing series on how to increase sales for your work from home business. Today we have 9 more ideas to consider: 1. Consider multiplying your marketing and advertising efforts on the Internet. How? Start an affiliate program or use viral marketing for products that you sell in your work from home business. 2. Increase the ratio of visitors that purchase your product(s). Make changes to headlines, offer a stronger guarantee, add testimonials, and so on. Be sure to track everything you do, and once you find something that shows an improvement in sales ratio, work on improving that. 3. Offer a free and informative ezine. This will uncover the strongest potential customers for your work from home business. The visitors that are very interested will subscribe to it. 4. Team up with your competition by starting an association for your specific industry. It could lead to a profitable partnership with them. 5. Search for your name and the name of your work from home business in newsgroups, discussion boards and forums. Some of the comments you find could help you improve your business. 6. Attract people to link to your work from home business web site. You could offer them a discount on the products you sell or give them free stuff for linking. 7. Develop your own opt in email list by giving your visitors a reason to give you their email address. Allow them sign up for free stuff or contests. 8. Create a "PR" web page for your business. On this page, place information items that could be considered newsworthy for ezines, newspapers, magazines, etc. Submit these items to online Press Release services as well. 9. Make sure your home business website links to websites that have written positive stories about your business. This will give both you and your business credibility. As you can see, its all about getting your message out there in a positive manner without hype. Implement some of these strategies and over time you will see an increase in sales for your work from home business.
------------------- 160. Help Teens to Lose Weight Helping Teens to Lose Weight - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Teenagers can be plagued by many health problems triggered by many factors. One of the most basic issues during this stage of life is the peer pressure to maintain a normal weight. Teens sometimes will take extreme weight loss measures to get to that "ideal" weight, even to the point of becoming anorexic. Losing weight for teens requires discipline, perhaps more discipline than for adults. This has to be more than just skipping meals - all that will do is make you feel tired and haggard as you struggle with your weight loss program. Want your teens to lose weight? Start at home. If the environment has erratic schedules, chances are the lifestyle is chaotic too, and this will affect your meal plans. Your teens can end up eating at fast food chains or they will keep busy in front of the TV nibbling junk food. Take the time to plan and serve healthy meals on a regular schedule. After all, the long-term health of you and your family is certainly worth more than any form of recreation. Get a book which lists the calorie counts of various foods, and keep it handy. Encourage your teens to keep track of calories consumed. Get them off sodas and diet drinks. Ice cream is a big culprit in adding extra calories. One serving of ice cream can be more than 450 calories, which is almost a third of an average person's complete meal. Hardly conducive to losing weight! Fruits and vegetables are an important part of any diet. Teens must not forget to take these food groups in larger quantities to help them with an efficient diet. Cakes and fancy pastries are rich and tasty, but they can't fully satisfy your hunger. A good serving of natural cereals for breakfast is a good start for the day. If you want your teens to lose weight, encourage them to focus on getting trim. Don't fall for all those fad diets or diet pills you see advertised everywhere. At this young age, diet and exercise should be sufficient, and you will be ingraining lifelong healthy habits. Diet pills and tablets may sound encouraging, because of the promise of instant and seemingly spectacular results.. But they can have serious side effects, particularly at so young an age. Don't fall for the hype. The only key to permanent weight loss is still limiting the amount of food taken, knowing the calories consumed, and exercise. This is the healthy and natural way for teens to lose weight. Read More about How to Lose weight ------------------- 161. Work From Home Business Tips Work From Home Business Tips: Ignite Your Sales With These Strategies - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Here is another article in my ongoing series of work from home business tips. Looking for ideas to boost your sales? Here are some that should get you thinking: 1. Join online business associations or clubs. If you join, they will usually list all their members on their website. It will give your work from home business extra exposure. 2. Sign up your work from home business website for website awards. When you win, some award sites will publish your website link, name and description on their site. 4. Improve your work from home business by encouraging customer feedback. Tell them you want their honest opinions about your business, good or bad. Publish those comments and your replies on your work from home business website. 5. Design your packaging so it sells your products. Utilize colors and lettering that make your product more attractive to your prospects. 6. Compare your product's guarantee to your main competitors. Can you design your guarantee to be more powerful? 7. Do not assume your audience understands everything in your ad copy. Avoid using acronyms or technical terms. Define any words that you think they may not know. I read once that if you write your ad copy as if you were explaining it to a ten year old child, the vast majority of your audience will understand you. 8. Build alliances with other online businesses. You could trade links or ads, create joint venture deals, cross promote your products - there are all sorts of things you can do. 9. Design your work from home business website to be a valuable resource for people. Include original content, links to other interesting websites, ebooks, software, forums, and so on. 10. Compete with highly branded businesses by practicing good customer service, strong product quality and speedy service. Implement these ideas in your work from home business and you will see an increase in your bottom line. Stay tuned for more work from home business tips in future articles in this series. Read More About Work From Home... ------------------- 162. Work At Home Business Tips Work At Home Business Tips: 10 Ideas For Increasing Profits - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Looking for ideas to increase your profits for your work at home business? Here are ten ideas that I came up with: 1) Do your market research before creating new products of services. Only create new products or services if there is a strong need for them. You won't have anyone to sell them to if you don't have a market! 2) Be sure to always use a "P.S." at the end of your ad copy. Use this section to repeat a strong benefit or offer a free bonus. 3) Compliment your visitors in your ad copy. This will earn their trust and put them in a positive mood. In return they will be more receptive to your marketing messages. 4) Publish a free ebook and give it away on your web site or in your ezine. This will increase your traffic, your sales and ezine subscribers for your work at home business. 5) Investigate ways to create multiple streams of income with your work at home business web site. You can sell your own products, join affiliate programs, sell advertising space, use Google Adsense - there are many options. 6) Sell your backend products to your customers right after they order. Take them to a "Thank You" web page that includes other products you sell as an upgrade or add-on. 7) Sell only a few products on your work at home business web site instead of selling a large amount of products. Too many choices can overwhelm your visitors and they won't buy anything. 8) Include content and free stuff on your web site that promote the products you are selling. If your visitors don't read your ads, they may read your offerings. 9) Show your visitors that you are human and not just a web site. Publish your contact details, a little information about yourself, and a good picture. 10) Provide a "Contact Us" page on your work at home business web site. Give your visitors as many options to contact you as possible. This will add credibility to your work at home business. Stay tuned for more work at home business tips in future articles.
------------------- 163. Home Business Tips Home Business Tips: 10 Awesome Ways To Attract More Orders - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Your home business website can be a great part of your lead generation efforts. Here are ten tips on improvements to your website that will increase its lead generation capabilities and lead to increased orders: 1. Create a free ebook directory on a specific topic at your website. People will visit your website to read the free ebooks and may see your product ad. 2. Turn part of your website into a members only website. Instead of charging for access, use it as a free bonus for one of your products. 3. Add a free classified ad section to your website. You could then trade banner ads with other websites that have free classified ad sections. 4. Create two versions of your ezine so people can choose if they want ads included with it or not. This will attract the people who hate ads to subscribe. 5. Publish your ezine only on your website. Have people subscribe to a "new issue" email reminder. This could really increase your traffic and sales. 6. Sell advertising space in your product package. You could sell inserts, flyers, brochures, booklets, and digital ads for electronic products. 7. Offer daily or weekly visitor bonuses. This will increase your repeat traffic and sales because your visitors will visit regularly to get the visitor bonuses. 8. Allow people to download software or ebooks from your website at no cost. Just ask your visitors in return if they'll refer their friends to your website. 9. Build up the number of people that join your free affiliate program quickly by temporally offering your product for free to the people that sign up. 10. Negotiate with ezine publishers to get free or discounted ads by letting them join your affiliate program and earn commissions on the ad you run. Stay tuned for more ideas to increase website visitors and revenue in future articles in this series. ------------------- 164. Business Opportunity Leads Tips Business Opportunity Leads Tips: 3 Quick And Easy Ways To Build A Profitable Opt In List - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master There are all sorts of ways to generate leads for your business opportunity. In most cases, you will then funnel the email addresses of the leads you capture into an email autoresponder series, also known as an opt-in list. Have you read countless articles, sought expert advice and read many success stories of people creating a small fortune with opt-in lists? Have you followed their advice to the T and you still weren't able to make a profit? So what could have gone wrong? Why have others succeeded where you have failed? The most common mistake is that you dove right in. You chose a topic which you thought could be quite popular and would earn you money. This just not the case. Just because you wrote people from the list doesn't mean they are going to buy instantly. Here are some ideas for rejuvenating your opt-in list. For those who are just starting out, here are three quick and easy ways to build a profitable opt-in list. 1) Get your customers to trust you and your products first. Just launching your opt-in list will not make you an expert and a believable seller. Start a blog and write many articles first before you start an opt-in list. Write about the topic you know and have started and used for your site. Visit forums first to gain knowledge about your customers, about their wants and needs and target those wants and needs. Join forums from other sites as well. Provide expert advice and recommendations. When you feel that people trust you already, you will be able to start your own opt-in list. You can build a base as well with other forum users. You can ask them to join your list. Friends are always good customers. Put up a link to your site so that they may be able to see what your business is all about. The money will only come in when the consumers and subscribers believe and trust you. They want a product or service that will be good value for their money. People are not going to buy something on your recommendation if they don't know you. 2) Find a product or service that people want and need. Although it may not be your forte, if you provide a service and product that you have researched and learned about, you can make it successful. While it is true that it is best to sell something that you have an interest in, there are not many people who have the same interest as you if you decide to sell something that is not entirely popular or profitable. Do your market research well and you will see the profits come in. Provide your subscribers with promotional material that they can actually use and spread around. 3) Make friends with other opt-in list users. This is beneficial especially if it is someone who has already launched a successful opt-in list. These are people that have the experience in this venture and experience is still the best teacher. While there are many articles available for you on the internet to use, there is nothing like getting a first hand account from someone you trust. Experienced opt-in list users will be able to tell you what to do and what not to do because they have gone through it. While different situations occur for different people, the general concept can still be very helpful. There are many things to avoid and these people will be able to tell you which ones. Building a profitable opt-in list doesn't just happen overnight. A lot of preparation and effort goes in upfront. Opt-in lists are built from scratch. As your list grows, you should also maintain the quality of your list. Keep it organized and manageable. Get or hire help if need be, just make sure that your subscribers are happy and satisfied and they will be willing to buy from you. ------------------- 165. Business Leads Tips: Wow Your Customers Business Leads Tips: Wow Your Customers - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you a small business owner who runs your own retail store? Once you have put strategies in place to generate leads and turn them into customers, what are you doing to turn those customers into loyal customers? Whether your retail store is a small convenience store or a specialty store, like one that sells collectible figurines or plus size clothing, you will likely have some type of competition. There is a good chance that most of your competition will come from large businesses such as department stores; ones that have more financial resources at their fingertips. Although it may seem like your competition has the advantage, it doesn't have to be that way. There are a number of different ways that you go about "wowing" each and every one of the customers who walk through your door, to the point where they will be a returning shopper. When it comes to "wowing" your customers, the "wowing" process isn't actually as hard as you may believe it to be. For instance, the first step is to make sure that your store is completely clean and free of debris. If you have shopping carts, you will want to make sure that your customers can push a shopping cart down each of your aisles, without running into merchandise or boxes on the floor. You will also want to make sure that your store shelves are organized in a nice, professional matter. The last thing that a consumer wants to do is shop at a retail store that leaves them feeling unclean or dirty. You want your customers to walk into your store and say "wow." Another way that you can go about "wowing" your costumers is by just being nice to them. It really is as simple as it sounds. In today's society, where everyone is in a rush to get things done, we often forget to be kind and polite to others. The best way to "wow" your customers is to treat them with kindness. You will want to make sure that all of your employees greet your customers as soon as they walk into the door, ask them if they need any help finding anything, and thank for them for their business after being checked out. Just being kind and compassionate to your customers is a great way to "wow" them and bring them back for more kindness, especially since that kindness is now missing from many big box retailers. Another simple way that you can go about "wowing" your customers, is by offering them free discounts or savings. You may want to think about making coupons that can be handed out to all of your customers, preferably those who end up spending a certain amount of money, like fifty dollars or more. Moneysaving coupons are actually used by many shoppers, but most have to actually go searching for them, as most retailers don't hand them out free of charge. Giving your customers moneysaving coupons is a great way to give your business a good public perception and it also tends to up your chances of returning customers. These strategies are just a few of the many that you may want to take when looking to "wow" your customers. What you need to do is look at it from the perspective of your customer. If you were to walk into your store, what would you want it to be like and how would you like to be treated? ------------------- 166. Business Opportunity Leads Tips Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Viral Marketing - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Viral marketing is a great lead generation strategy for online businesses. Here are some of my thoughts on this strategy: Creativity is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition for business on the Internet today. With so much competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed. It doesn't matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website: if people don't know that you exist, you are not going to make it big. Worst of all, you business could fail miserably. There are many different methods of getting noticed online. One of these is called Viral Marketing. While the term Viral usually depicts a virus, a word very much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it seems. You do not actually use a computer virus to spread your business. Viral Marketing Overview Viral Marketing, also known as Viral Advertising, is a marketing technique used to build public awareness of a product or company. Viral marketers use many forms of media to reach out to the public without actually promoting the product, by promoting other forms of addictive media that people love to pass on to their friends and acquaintances. The media will normally contain some subtle form of advertising for the company or product in question. In a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if people like the content of a media they will pass it on to their friends and family. They sponsor the media, such as a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story and such, which one may pass on to another with the company brand or logo or the products description or any other content to help promote the company or its product. Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because it is relatively low cost. Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and rebates to help in spreading their viral marketing. They rely on the number of recipients a viral marketing gets from one person in determining the amount or number of incentive they can be attributed with. Using Viral Marketing to your advantage The main advantage of viral marketing is that you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your site and your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic that are potential leads. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and announce your existence. Most sites and companies these days use some form of Viral Marketing and Advertising. Not using it could kill your business. Along with other schemes and methods in promoting your site, like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral marketing could easily push you ahead in the rating games. Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people to know about you and your company. You get them to pass your advertisement along. All it takes is a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story - many ideas are still out there. Create a buzz. Hollywood has this down to a science. Ever notice how many movies are promoted by using scandals and gossips to make them more popular? Many big companies have tried viral marketing and have had much success with it. A classic example is Microsoft's Hotmail. They were the first known big company to utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders for them. Now it's your turn to use viral marketing to work wonders for you. Act now and reap the benefits Viral Marketing will provide for you and your business. ------------------- 167. Business Opportunity Leads Tips Business Leads Tips: Solving Writer's Block - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master One of the most effective strategies for generating leads for your business is to brand yourself on the internet as a leader or expert in your chosen market. And there is no better way to do that than to write articles consistently and post them to article directories and blogs. But writing about the same thing day after day can get tiresome, and you will often experience writer's block - what on earth am I going to write about today? Here are 5 easy ways to get your creative juices flowing:
Ideas can be triggered by anything you may hear, see, or smell. Your senses are your radar in finding great ideas. Write all of them into a journal and keep it with you for future reference. You may also write down anything that you have read or heard. Someone elseÂ’s ideas could be used to develop your own ideas and this is not stealing. Remember that ideas and creativity can come from anywhere; itÂ’s the development of the idea that makes it unique. One thing I do is check online news items at Google every day for keywords that are relevant to my chosen niche. A good news item can trigger an article in which you give your view of whatever was reported.
A jumbled mind cannot create any space for new ideas. You must have a clear mind if you wish to have your creativity up to full speed. Get rid of all obstacles that can be a hindrance to your creativity. If you are bothered by something, you cannot force your mind to stay focused. Try to relax whenever you can and think about your experiences and interactions with others. Your experiences are what shape your mindset and your opinions, and these will be reflected in your writing. Try to discover yourself, find out what triggers your emotions. Discover what inspires you and what ticks you off. You can use these emotions to help you in expressing yourself and your ideas.
Your working place can be quite a hindrance if it doesn't make you feel happy or relaxed. Creativity comes from being in a good state of mind and a messy workplace that causes distraction won't be conducive to firing up your creative flow. Surround your working place with objects that make you happy and relaxed. You may put up pictures, objects that inspire, or anything that can get your creativeness cranking. A clean and well organized workplace also gets rid of distractions and unwanted hindrances. With a good working place, you can work in peace and never notice the time pass by.
Setting the mood requires you to just go with the moment or to induce yourself to feeling what makes your mind works best. Finding out what makes you tick could help you find ways to get your creative juices flowing. Set the pace and tempo for your mood and everything else will follow.
Letting yourself go and have fun produces adrenaline that can make your imagination go wild. Take an adventure or a solemn hike. Whatever it is that is unusual from your daily routine can take the rut out of your schedule. In no time at all, your creativeness will make use of that experience and get your imagination to go on overdrive.
------------------- 168. Business Opportunity Leads Tips 080809 Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Why Do I Need a Website Anyway? - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master You've no doubt seen it said again and again that a website is an indispensable tool for generating and maintaining leads for your business. If you are a brick and mortar business, you may think that you don't need a website. Why would you need one? The 20th century internet boom showed us that even the smallest of businesses needs a website to compete in today's market. As we entered the 21st century, this became even more apparent as everyday people gained internet access and started searching for products on services online. Over 90% of all American families have a home computer, and some form of internet access, whether it be dial up or high speed broadband. Out of those 90%, over 65% will search online first when making a new purchase or hiring someone's service. If those numbers alone do not convince you to build a website for your business, then these reasons should: 1) Sell your products online 2) Provide information that you would not normally be able to 3) Websites are global 4) Website are cheap 5) 24 Hour Product Purchases 6) Minimize customer problems and questions 7) Keep Up With Your Competition Bottom line: your business needs a website! ------------------- 169. Business Opportunity Leads Tips Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Website Mistakes - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Your business opportunity website can be a great source of leads for your business. But you must be careful about how you design and manage your business website these days. The website boom of the early 21st century showed us that the business world was indeed ready to enter into the world of the internet. However, times have changed, and many of the websites have not changed with it. Here are a few mistakes that website owners make in today's internet culture: 1)Infrequent updates 2) JavaScript pop ups 3) Heavy graphics 4) Using heavy, high contrasting colors 5) Cluttered pages 6) Lack of a navigation system 7) Overusing Advertising 8) Audio that plays as soon as the page loads Avoid some of these errors and people will visit your website more often and stay there longer. ------------------- 170. Business Opportunity Leads Tips 7 Surefire Ways To Increase Your Website Traffic Starting Yesterday - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Internet. Business. Profit. To fully integrate all of these words into a successful whole, you will need another word. Traffic. Every article you will find about making your site or company successful will always include the importance of generating traffic to your website Traffic is the most essential thing to a successful internet based business. Aside from ensuring that you have a great product to sell, and you have your company's internal organization well taken care of, you need to start generating traffic to your website. Timing is essential. But with generating traffic, you should always be on your toes and be a day ahead of your competition. Never think of today and tomorrow as a starting point for increasing your site traffic - you should have started yesterday! To help you out in generating more traffic for your site, here are seven surefire ways to increase your traffic starting from yesterday. 1) Invest in good advertising with search engines Google's Adwords and Yahoo's Overture provide great advertising schemes that are very truly popular and assure great traffic. Although this way to increase your traffic does cost some money, it is a surefire way to generate traffic quickly. You can see for yourself the success this search engine advertising methods have reaped rewards for so many companies. Lots of sites feature these advertising systems and many have signed on to reap the benefits. Do not be left behind. Every penny is worth it with using Google and Yahoo's advertising. But be careful to track your results so you don't spend more money on ads than you take in from product sales. 2) Exchange or Trade Links with other sites When you exchange links with other sites, both of you will benefit from the efforts from both business owners to enhance site traffic. The more links you trade, the more traffic can be expected. Be careful here to only trade links with sites that are related to your market and would be of interest to your site visitors. 3) Use Viral Marketing Viral marketing allows you to spread the word about your company and product little or no cost. This is a marketing method that can be quite sneaky; you can attach your company's name, product or link to a certain media such as a funny video, a free ebook, entertaining game, an interesting article or a gossip or buzz. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the medium and they will pass it on to many people. 4) Do keyword research and make sure you use those keywords on your site. Your site needs to be optimized for the keywords that your potential customers are searching for on Google. Don't guess at what you think they may be searching for. Use a keyword research tool to find out what people are actually searching for, and target the top 1 or 2 keyword phrases with the content on your site. Also remember to set the TITLE, DESCRIPTION and KEYWORDS meta tags in the html code for your site pages. 5) Write Articles that can lead traffic to your site Submit articles to sites that are of interest to your potential market. For example: if you sell car parts, write press releases and articles about cars and car parts. Attach your sites description and services at the end of the article as well as the link back to your site. 6) Join forums and form online communities Capture a market and show your expertise and credibility. When you put in place a good foundation for your site, people will trust you and your site and will recommend your site to others. Traffic will certainly increase because they know that you can provide what they need. 7) Offer newsletters If many people know what you are about and your existence is shared with many others, traffic to your site will increase and it will be loyal traffic. Create a newsletter on a regular basis. Implementing these 7 strategies will increase traffic to your website and will thereby increase the number of leads you bring into your business. ------------------- 171. Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Using Myspace to Promote Your Business Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Using Myspace to Promote Your Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master One of the newest phenomena hitting the business world on the internet is using interactive community sites, such as Myspace, to promote your business and generate good targeted business opportunity leads. Why have business owners chosen to promote their businesses on Myspace? With an average of over half a million visitors a day, Myspace is easily one of the most popular websites on the internet. With this kind of traffic, every business is sure to find a target group that is interested in their products, or services. Perhaps one of the best reasons for using Myspace to promote your business is the fact that it is free. The only investment you will need is some time to build your profile, and time to find and add people to your "friends list," which in this case is actually your targeted group. Setting Up Your Profile Once you sign up, you will be asked to create a profile. Your profile is the single most important thing to consider when you decide to advertise using Myspace. Your potential leads will look at this profile first. It will give them their first impression of you. You will want to set up your profile with as much information as you can without sounding like an advertisement. Describe yourself and your business, and what you are all about. A good balance is key. Do not over use images or other media within your page, so it will load fast for even the slowest of internet connections. Gaining Leads Once you have everything setup on your profile, you will want to begin looking for leads. Look for the type of people that may be interested in your business. Myspace provides a search feature that allows you to search by age, gender, status, and location. Use this feature to search and find people in your area. Click on their profile, and if they fit your criteria, then use the "add to friends" button. A message will be sent to them, and then they will be able to add or deny your profile. Once you see that they have accepted you, then post a "thank you" message on their profile.
When using Myspace to promote your business, you will want to practice some etiquette. It is easy to overdo it, which can greatly hurt your image, especially with potential local consumers. After all, the idea is to promote your business, not to hurt its image. Spamming, or sending unsolicited messages to random users and addresses, is strictly prohibited, and will get your account deleted. Never send unsolicited or unwanted messages to anyone. However, if the person contacts you first (whether it be by comment, or message) feel free to communicate with them about your business. Another type of spamming, which is potentially dangerous for your business, is over-posting comments. The comment system on Myspace allows you to post comments on other's profiles, that is usually viewable by everyone that views that person profile. This can be a great way to reach additional contacts, provided that you follow some rules. First, never post a comment solely about your business. Instead, you can post a message thanking that person for accepting your friend request, or thanking them for sending you a friend request, whatever the case may be. The only acceptable way you should post a comment about your business is if the user posted a comment on your profile first. Never post pictures on other users profile. ------------------- 172. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Business Opportunity Lead Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master The only way that companies can be assured of survival in today's remarkably competitive world is to maintain an ongoing supply of leads for new business. But many companies, especially small businesses, don't have enough personnel or simply don't have the expertise to generate targeted, qualified leads. In most cases, they are happy to outsource lead generation. The results are usually not all that great unless you have the money to purchase large numbers of these types of leads. Don't fall into this trap. You need to learn how to generate your own exclusive leads for your business. If you take the time to learn how to do it, it is not as onerous a task as you may think. In fact, once you learn how to do it for your business, you could then apply the same principles and sell your services to other business who are looking to generate leads. I'm not talking about reselling leads here. I'm thinking more of you creating yourself as a consultant who, for a fee, will set a business up to generate its own exclusive targeted leads. Companies will pay handsomely for such a service. So how can you leverage the power of the Internet to effectively generate targeted, qualified leads? The first step to generate leads from your website is to make sure that you're attracting the right kind of visitors. It's essential that you understand your target market. Being completely knowledgeable about the kind of lead you're looking for will help you focus your message and will make your efforts more cost-effective. You've got to be visible where your target market tends to congregate. This includes spending time in forums and other online communities to get the word out about your site. This will also help you understand the needs and wants of your target market. Next, it's essential for you to tailor your message to your target market. You have to clearly communicate what problems you can solve, the benefits you can provide, and the results prospects can expect. All of this must be shared in a way that's meaningful to them, not necessarily to you. It probably won't be possible to convert a website visit into a lead unless you build faith and trust with your visitor. You can help to do this by providing information that they really care about in the form of articles, research reports and white papers. A professional website design that appeals to your target market also plays a large role in building credibility and trust. Regardless of the importance of the foundational steps listed above, it's impossible to generate leads without the use of an effective web form. Your lead form can't be hidden or buried somewhere on the "contact us" page. It must appear at the appropriate time in a location on your website where interested visitors are likely to be. Testing and tracking the performance of your forms is crucial. Test multiple forms and monitor the conversion rate of each. As soon as you have a winner, create another form and try to beat it. It's often effective to offer additional means of contact. Even though your visitor found you on the Internet, they might be more comfortable providing their information over the telephone. Companies of all types and sizes are hungry for leads. If you could learn how to generate leads quickly and show other how to do the same, companies will beat a path to your door. And they will be ready to pay you handsomely. ------------------- 173. Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Low-Cost Advertising Ideas Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Low-Cost Advertising Ideas - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master How to Save Money When Advertising Your Work at Home Business Are you looking to market your work at home business to the general public, preferably your targeted market? Your targeted market should be the individuals who are most likely to need what your business has to offer. For instance, if you run a professional resume writing business, you will want to target those who are currently unemployed or those who are looking for jobs. As important as advertising is, it can sometimes be time consuming and costly. The costly part is what often causes many work at home business owners to cringe. The good news is that there are a number of different ways that you can go about advertising your work at home business without having to spend more money than you need to. One of the best advertising methods is word of mouth. In today's society, many consumers like giving a company feedback or ratings, literally or figuratively. That is why many consumers tell their friends when they find a nice new store; one that is worth visiting, or a store that they had a bad experience at. You should never underestimate the power of the customers that you already have. Not only will keeping your current customers happy increase the chances of them coming back again, it also ups the chances of them recommending your business to those that they know. Another easy and relatively cheap way that you can go about advertising your work at home business to your targeted market is by carefully choosing where you choose to advertise your business. In keeping with the above mentioned example of running a professional resume writing business, you may want to think about distributing flyers or business cards to local coffee shops or college campuses. The same can be done for other types of businesses. For instance, if you run a dog grooming salon, you can advertise your business in local pet supply stores, vet offices, and such. Of course, you will need to get permission from other businesses before placing your business cards or flyers on their properties, but you will find that most are willing to assist you. In fact, you may even want to think about doing a flyer or business card swap. In addition to handing out traditional business cards or flyers, you may also want to think about giving away free coupons. There are many consumers who like free stuff, even if it is only a few coupons. When a customer has a money saving coupon, they are more likely to buy what you are selling, whether it is a product or a service. If you are trying to target a specific group of individuals, you may want to carefully choose how you distribute your coupons and how much in savings you give away. If you are just trying to generate as many sales as possible or create a "buzz," you may want to think about contacting one of your local newspapers to put coupons inside their paper. Another idea to attract the bargain hunters: hold a contest or a drawing for your customers. For instance, if you run a pet supply store, you may want to think about creating a pet gift basket, like one that may include food, treats, or grooming supplies. Allow each of your customers, the ones who make a purchase, to enter into your contest. If the prize is nice enough, you will find that some customers will buy something just to get entered into the contest. Hosting a contest is a great way to generate sales and business "buzz." These approaches are just a few of the many low-cost, affordable ways that you can go about advertising your work at home business to the general public or even just to your targeted market. The decision as to whether or not you want to use any of these methods is yours to make, but they are at least worth looking into. ------------------- 174. Avoiding Business Opportunity Failure Avoiding Business Opportunity Failure - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master If you are researching work at home business opportunities, you have no doubt been inundated with all sorts of schemes that promise to make money. Most of them seem too good to be true, and probably are. How do you make sense of all this stuff? In this article I will analyze a recent promotional email that I received, and point out what you need to look out for. The email is shown below, with my comments in italics. 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I visited the website URL in the email - it was, as you would expect, nothing more than a page with more of the same meaningless hype, along with an lead capture form. Presumably if you were to sign up for more information, you would be inundated with all kinds of emails extolling the virtues of this scheme without telling you much of anything else. Folks, you have to learn to stay away from stuff like this! Get it into your head that there is no quick and easy way to make money. It saddens me to see so many people duped by hucksters like this every day. MAKE IT STOP! Building a proper business takes time, effort and capital. Stop throwing your money away on hype and promises. Research legitimate business opportunities which offer proven, stable income opportunities and where you can contact the business owner personally to talk about the business. Do your due diligence before investing your money. I offer such an opportunity. I don't purchase leads, cold call people, or send out spammy emails like the one above. How do I build my business? I buy customers to provide a stable base income. I work with a team of internet marketing professionals to promote my business ethically and responsibly. Our team offers complete training in all aspects of internet marketing and business building to all newcomers. And I don't hide behind a website. My contact details are below. If you're tired of all these schemes and dreams, come to my site at Watch the movie, attend one of our weekly presentations where you will be given facts, not hype. And be sure to contact me if you have any questions. I build real businesses. ------------------- 175. Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Forums Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Forums - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Want to generate more leads for your work at home business opportunity? Create and manage a forum related to your products or services. The best solution here is to create a forum incorporated into your work at home business website. Most web hosts these days provide this software for you. Make sure you link to your forum from every page on your site. Alternatively, you can set up a forum at one of the many free online services set up for this purpose, Just do a Google search for "free forums". Setup is usually quite straightforward. During setup make sure that you enable all protection from unauthorized signup, otherwise your forum will become a target for spam and porn bots. Once you do get the forum set up, though, you will need to be prepared to manage the forum on a regular basis. This is usually not too onerous a task, but it must be done. Why set up a forum in the first place? Well, here are eleven reasons I came up with: 1. You'll be able to communicate with your visitors. They'll begin to trust you and get to know you on a more personal level. People are more willing to purchase products from somebody they already know and trust. 2. People will revisit your web site to participate in your forum. They will meet other people with similar interests and your web site will become a hang out were they can chat. 3. You can learn important information about your visitors by reading the conversations they have. They may chat about your web site or products. With this information you could learn to market your products more effectively. 4. You can answer the questions your visitors ask in your online communities. You'll become known as an expert by giving the answers to their questions. This will give you and your business more credibility. 5. Add an online conference room and you can teach a free online class. This will give you an expert status and increase traffic to your website by offering the free class. You can get a free online conference room at http://brincom.vereconference.com/ 6. When your forum becomes popular, you can sell advertising space on it. This will give you an extra income stream for your web site. 7. You can network with other businesses by having a forum. You could exchange business ideas, leads, advertising, etc. 8. You could allow other web sites who don't have a forum to use yours. You will get free advertising by allowing them to link to your online community. 9. When you have a forum you can get free advertising by listing it in online community directories. You can also join web rings with similar discussion topics. 10. You can make money by advertising your own products and services on your forum. You could also join other people's affiliate programs and make commissions advertising them. 11. Search engine spiders love forums! And since most of the posts in your forum will probably be rich in the use of keywords related to your niche, the spiders will visit more and more often as more people use the forum. And when they visit the forum, they also visit all the pages that are linked to by the forum... Forums are another very important component in your online marketing arsenal. Used correctly, a forum can provide your work at home business with highly targeted leads. ------------------- 176. Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Viral Marketing Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Viral Marketing - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Viral marketing is another great way to generate leads for your work at home business opportunity. Viral Marketing is a process whereby you allow people to use and give away your free product or service in order to multiply your marketing messages quickly over the internet. The idea behind viral marketing is that you include your ad with the freebie people use or give away. There are many things you can do to start a viral marketing campaign. Here are ten viral marketing strategies to get your creative juices flowing: 1. Allow people to reprint your articles on their web site, in their ezine, newsletter, magazine or ebooks. Include your resource box and the option for article reprints at the bottom of each article. 2. Allow people to use any of your freebies as free bonuses for products or services they sell. Include your ad on all your freebies. 3. Allow people to use your online forum for their own web site. Some people don't have one. Just include your banner ad at the top of the board. 4. Allow people to sign up for a free web site on your server. Since you are giving away the space, require them to include your banner ad at the top of the site. 5. Allow people to add their link to your free web site directory. Just require that they return a link back to your web site, advertising your directory. 6. Allow people to provide your free online service to their web site, visitors, or ezine subscribers. They could be free email, email consulting, search engine submissions, etc. 7. Allow people to give away your free software. Just include your business advertisement inside the software program. 8. Allow people to give away your free web design graphics, fonts, templates, etc. Just include your ad on them or require people to link directly to your web site. 9. Allow people to place an advertisement in your free ebook if, in exchange, they give away the ebook to their web visitors or ezine subscribers. 10. Allow people to give away your free ebook to their visitors. Then, their visitors will also give it away. This will just continue to spread your ad all over the internet. These are just scratching the surface of what you can do with viral marketing. I'm sure you can think of many more. ------------------- 177. Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Web Traffic Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Web Traffic One of the strategies you must use when building your work at home business is to create a lead capture page and then drive traffic to that page. In many cases, this page will be incorporated into a website that presents your business and your services to website visitors. So how do you drive traffic to that website? Here are ten ideas I thought of: 1. Are you publishing an ezine for your work at home business? If not, you should be. Give people a free subscription to your ezine. Almost everyone is publishing a ezine nowadays, so be sure to give something extra with the free subscription. You could offer a free gift or some free advertising to new subscribers.. 2. Provide your visitors with free content. Your content will be more attractive to your visitors if it is up-to-date or original. You could also offer people the option to reprint the content in their ezine or web site. 3. Offer a free online directory. The directory could be full of interesting ebooks, ezines, web sites etc. If people find your directory to be a valuable resource they will visit it over and over. People love it when someone else does their research for them. Make sure you update the directory on a regular basis, and give visitors the option to subscribe to be notified when there are updates. 4. Give your visitors a free ebook. You could also include your own ad in the ebook and allow other people to give it away. If you don't want to take the time to write one, you could ask other writers permission to use their articles, or you can hire ghost writers at websites like elance.com. 5. Hold free online classes or seminars. They could be held in your web site's chat room. The idea of "live" information will definitely entice people to visit your web site. You will become known as an expert on the topic. 6. Give visitors a free entry into your contest or sweepstakes. The prizes should be something of interest or value to your visitors. Most people who enter will continually revisit your web site to get the results. 7. Let visitors download free software. It could be freeware, shareware, demos etc. You could even turn part of your site into a free software directory. If you created the software, include your ad inside and let other people give it away. 8. Offer free online services or utilities from your web site. They could be search engine submission, copywriting, proofreading, a niche-specific forum, etc. The service or utility should be helpful to your target audience. 9. Give free consulting to people who visit your web site. You could offer your knowledge via email or by telephone. People will consider this a huge value because consulting fees can be very expensive. 10. Give your visitors a free membership to your online club. People want to belong to something, why not your online club? You could also give away a free ezine for club members only. There you are, ten ideas to drive traffic to your work from home business website. There are many other ways to drive traffic - put your mind to it and you can find all sorts of creative ways to increase traffic. ------------------- 178. Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Ezine Articles Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Ezine Articles Ezine Articles are a great way to generate leads for your business. Writing is not easy at first, but it does become easier after a while. Why would you want to put all this effort into writing articles? Well, here are ten benefits of submitting articles to ezines: 1. You will brand your website, your business and yourself by submitting articles to ezines. You can include your name, your business name, your credentials, your website address and your email address in your resource box. 2. You will become known as an expert on the topics you write about. This will give you and your business extra credibility which will help you compete against your competition. 3. Your article might also be placed on the publisher's home page. This will give you some extra exposure as well as powerful backlinks to your website. 4. You will get extra exposure if the ezine publisher archives their ezine on their site. People might want to read the back issues before they make the decision to subscribe. And this generates more backlinks to your website. 5. You will get free advertising. This will allow you to spend your profits on other forms of advertising. You could buy advertisements in other ezines that don't publish your articles. 6. You might get extra income from people wanting to hire you to write other articles, books, or even ask to speak at seminars. This is a great way to multiply your income. 7. You could allow ezine publishers to publish your articles in their free ebooks. Since people give them away, your advertising could multiply all over the internet. 8. You will get your article published all over the web when you submit it to an ezine publisher that has a free content directory on their website. They will allow their visitors to republish your article. More backlinks.... 9. You will gain people's trust. If they read your article and like it, they won't be as hesitant to buy your product or service or to contact you for information. 10. You could get your article guaranteed to run in an ezine. You could agree to run one of their articles in your ezine if, in exchange, they run yours in their ezine. It's a win/win situation. Good, relevant, keyword-rich content is the key to getting yourself known on the internet today. Submitting articles to ezines is one way of achieving this goal. Now get writing! ------------------- 179. Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Ways to Increase Traffic Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Ways to Increase Traffic - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master In any work at home business, you need leads. We all know that. If you have a business website that captures the email addresses of interested prospects, you need to get a lot of traffic to that website. Here are ten high powered ways to increase traffic to your website. These are not presented in any particular order. Perhaps these will trigger some ideas in your own marketing strategy for your work at home business: 1. Trade links with other web sites. They should be related to the subject of your web site. Instead of trading links, you could also trade banner ads, half page ads, classified ads, etc. 2. Start an e-zine for your web site. When people read each issue they'll be reminded to revisit your web site. They'll see your product ad more than just once which will increase your orders. 3. Form an online community. It could be an online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room. When people get involved in your community they will regularly return to communicate with others. 4. Write articles and submit them to e-zines, web sites and magazines that accept article submissions. Include your business information and web address at the end of the article. 5. Give away an electronic freebie with your ad on it. Allow your visitors to also give the freebie away. This is known as viral marketing and will increase your ad exposure and attract people to your web site at the same time. 6. Combine your products or services into one big package deal with other businesses offerings. You could share a web site and advertise the package deal; which means double the traffic. 7. Submit your freebie to the online directories that list your particular item or service for free. If you're offering a free e-zine, submit it to all the free e-zine directories on the internet. 8. Participate on forums. Post answers to other people's questions, ask questions and post appropriate information. Include your signature file at the end of all your postings. 9. Exchange classified or sponsor ads with other free e-zine publishers. If there is a huge subscriber difference between e-zines, one can run more ads to make up for it. 10. Post your ad on free advertising areas on the internet. You can post it on free classified ad sites, free for all links sites, newsgroups that allow ads, free yellow page directories, etc. While very few people actually see these ads, they are great food for the search engine spiders and will build up backlinks for your website. There you are, 10 ideas for increasing traffic to your website. Happy prospecting! ------------------- 180. Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Using Forums Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Using Forums - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master If you are building a work from home business on the internet, you most likely are aware that an important part of generating traffic to your website or blog is to rank highly in the search engine result pages (SERPs). Good, relevant content on your site, and lots of it, is important, but you also need high quality backlinks to your site. A backlink is a hyperlink on another website which links to your site. The most powerful backlinks are one-way backlinks. This means that another website has links pointing to your site, but you don't have reciprocal links pointing back to theirs. One good way to generate high quality backlinks is to use forums. Forums have the added advantage that they can create traffic to your site as well. If other forum members like your posts, they are more likely to click on your links to find out more about you and your business. Be very careful when using forums for marketing. Do it wrong and you will be branded a spammer and most likely get your forum account closed. If used correctly, forums can be a very powerful tool in your business opportunity lead generation arsenal. Here's how to do it correctly: Step 1: Find forums that are relevant to your market This part is easy: just search in Google for your niche keyword followed by the word 'forum'. For example, suppose you have a blog about Jazz music. Go to Google and search for jazz music forum Why would you want to find forums related to your niche? Well, there are two reasons. First, the search engines will give more weight to links pointing to your site if they come from sites centered around the same niche as your site. Second, you'll get much more direct traffic from a forum where the members are interested in your niche and in what you have to say. Step 2: Pick the best forums and join them The forum should have a good number of members, and should be fairly active. Poke around to see when some of the last postings were made; if there were a lot in the last day or so, this is a fairly active forum and you should consider joining. Search Engines love sites where content changes quite often. Before joining, make sure the forum allows you to set up a signature. Look at some of the posts: are there signatures at the bottom of other people's posts? If not, move on to another forum. Without the ability to create a signature, you will have no place to put your links. When you find a forum that meets the criteria, follow the steps to register and confirm your membership. If you find just three or four forums that's plenty to start with. Step 3: Set up your signature Forums use a special kind of code to allow members to format their posts. It's called BBCode and it's quite simple to use once you get the hang of it. Copy the example below and change the URL to your URL and the text to some catchy keyword-rich text. Paste the code into your signature box and save it. Link to your website or blog with code similar to this: Learn all about [URL=http://www.jazzmuscicblog.com/]Jazz Music[/URL] at my blog. There are many other things you can do with BBcode such as changing the fonts, bolding the text, changing the text color and so on. I won't go into them here. Most forums will usually have a link to a BBCode help page to assist you if you wish to be more creative. Personally, I like to keep my signature as simple as possible. Less is more. If you make your signature look like you are marketing something, people will treat you like a spammer. You don't have to use up all available lines in your signature. Make it short, sweet and to the point. If you post great content and people are interested, they will click on your link. Step 4: Participate Be sure to have good content in your posts. A post should say something more than "Great post, I agree". You need good relevant keyword-rich content. Every post you make will give you a backlink to your site. The higher the quality of your post, the more powerful your backlink will be. If you simply participate in the forum and try to be friendly and helpful, chances are your content will take care of itself. That's it. Have fun. And remember, you can change your signature any time you want. Try changing the text a bit from time to time to find out what generates the most clicks through to your site. ------------------- 181. Business Opportunity Leads Tips Business Opportunity Leads Tips - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Using Safelists Continuing with my ongoing series about free online lead generation techniques, today we will discuss safelists. A safelist is somewhat like a traffic exchange. You sign up and agree to read the emails sent by other members of the safelist. By doing so, you build up credits to send your own promotional emails to the members of the list. This is another way to get your message out. Marketing with safelists can be a total waste of time if you do not do it correctly. And you must be prepared to set aside some time each day to wade through the hundreds of emails you will receive. Before you start using safelist marketing, here are 3 tips to help you get started correctly: 1. Set up a separate email account with Gmail only for your safelists. Use that email account to receive messages from other marketers. Gmail is the best option here, as it does not do anything with spam other than send it to your spam folder. Most of the messages coming from the safelists will most likely get flagged as spam. Other services such as Hotmail and Yahoo filter spam and do not deliver it all. 2. Spend time reading emails. Join credit-based safelists that reward you for opening your mail. Read the messages to earn credits and in turn create opportunities for your email to be read. The more credits you collect, the more messages you can send. Much like traffic exchanges, and other forms of internet marketing, marketing with safelists is a numbers game. With credit based safelists, even an average ad with an average title will get seen because your audience is trying to create credits. This is good for you as long as you have plenty of credits built up. With most safelists, you can buy credits, or you can spend your time and earn them reading emails if you are working with a credit based stateliest. Pay attention to the emails that you read, and make note of any ideas they generate for good titles and content.
Using this approach will enable you to get the most out of your safelist marketing efforts. Read More... 182. Business Opportunity Leads Tips Business Opportunity Leads Tips - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Traffic Generation Techniques: Using Traffic Exchanges You have probably heard of, or have used, one or more traffic exchanges. Properly used, Traffic Exchanges can be another source of free traffic to your website, but you have to use them correctly. Here are a few tips. The concept is simple. In exchange for you spending some time (usually 15 to 20 seconds) viewing someone else's promotional page, your page gets displayed to someone else who is using the traffic exchange. Your Promotional Page Keep in mind that people are seeing your page for only 20 seconds or less. That is barely enough time to read what's on the page. This time will be shortened if your page contains a lot of graphics or other things that make it slow to load. Also, if the page needs to be scrolled, your viewers will probably never do that. For these reasons, you should never just insert an affiliate page or a long sales letter. Your page should be short and to the point, load quickly, and should be designed to fit within an 800 by 600 pixel screen, as this is the smallest screen that people can use. Use a Traffic Exchange page as a lead capture page. Your page should contain a form to collect at least an email address for your autoresponder system. When I design my pages, I always add 2 links to the page: Open This Page In A New Window, and Add To Favorites. Many times when surfing I have come across something that piqued my interest, and I often want to save that page in my favorites or open it in a new browser window so I can view it later. Many traffic exchanges do not provide these capabilities, so I provide them for the people who view my pages. The code to open the page in a new window is very straightforward: <A HREF="YOURURL" TARGET="_blank">Open In New Window</A> where YOURURL is the full URL to your traffic exchange page. The Add to Favorites code is a bit more complex and usually involves adding some Javascript to the page. Do a Google Search for "Add to Favorites" and you will find some solutions. Always make sure to consult your traffic exchange terms of service for what kinds of pages you can promote. Some do not allow pages with audio. Some do not allow page rotators. Many allow you to promote more than one page. Using the Traffic Exchange Now that you have set up your promotional page, it's time to start using your traffic exchanges. It is a good idea to join more than one traffic exchange. To save time and effort, when surfing, use a tabbed browser like Crazy Browser or FireFox. You can set it up to load multiple traffic exchanges, one on each tab, and then rotate through the tabs to surf multiple exchanges. Before you start using a traffic exchange, make sure your computer is well protected from viruses and malware. Unfortunately there are many unscrupulous people who use traffic exchanges to spread viruses and other nasty things through traffic exchanges. Most of the traffic exchanges have protection in place to catch this, but there is always someone who managed to slip through the protection. It is best to be safe. If you really want to be safe when using traffic exchanges, use a Sandbox. Sandboxing is a way of protecting your PC by corralling off potentially dangerous applications such as your browser from the rest of your PC. Sandboxing your browser means that your browser effectively runs in a virtual PC within your PC. Anything nasty that happens in this sandbox cannot affect your real PC. And when you close the Sandbox, anything that was placed on your virtual PC is gone. You can find more information and suggested free Sandbox software here: http://www.techsupportalert.com/safe-surfing.php Discipline Discipline is very important when using traffic exchanges. Set yourself a daily goal of surfing a certain number of total pages across all the traffic exchanges, or set aside a certain amount of time to surf. Resist the temptation to respond to the promotional pages that come across the screen. Your focus is to generate hits, nothing more. Most traffic exchanges will allow you to purchase hits so you don't have to spend time surfing. If you have the budget, I recommend this. Surfing can get very boring after a while, and you really have to discipline yourself to do it every day. If you are not using a sandbox, then when you are done surfing for the day, clean out your internet cache and reboot your computer. This will help to clean out a lot of the clutter that is left on your computer from using traffic exchanges. Keeping Track It is very important to track whether or not your promotional pages are actually being displayed, especially if you are paying for hits. So I recommend adding a tracking code to each page. You can set up free tracking accounts at Veretracking ( http://brincom.veretracking.com/ ), or at Google Analytics ( http://www.google.com/analytics/ ) Once you start joining more than one traffic exchange, it is a good idea to set up a text file where you track all the details of each exchange: Your login URL, your surfing URL, a short note of what kinds of pages are allowed, and the URLs of the page or pages you are promoting in that exchange. Whenever you design a new page and want to test it, this information will be invaluable. In my experience, you will get the best results if you surf 5 or less exchanges at the same time. Any more than this and sometimes your web browser may become bogged down or even crash. I have joined 30 traffic exchanges, and I then assigned 5 of those to each day of the week and Saturday. Then I surf those 5. Occasionally, if one of the exchanges of the day is not working, I'll add one from another day. Over time I build up a lot of hits across all the exchanges. You will find over time that many traffic exchanges will go out of business or just not deliver the hits you are looking for. That's fine - just drop that one and go looking for a new one. There are plenty out there! Properly used, traffic exchanges can be a good source of leads. Use them wisely, and you will be rewarded. ------------------- 183. Two Free and Easy Methods to Generate Leads and Traffic Two Free and Easy Methods to Generate Leads and Traffic - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Your work from home business will only be successful if you have traffic coming to your business website. Traffic generation is the most important part of your online business promotion efforts. Without traffic, your business is dead in the water. Here are two free and easy ways to get traffic to your website: Blogging You probably already have a blog or have at least have heard of blogging. If not, I urge you to learn about blogging and set one up. Do you know how important it is to develop an informative blog that people are going to follow? A successful blog should be updated daily and should present only quality information. No pitching of deals here. You want to present solutions to problems, and talk about the benefits of your services and how you can solve those problems. To keep people coming back to your blog, offer free stuff that is related to your business. It could be a free e-book or report that you have written, or a free template that will be beneficial to the people that are reading your blog. Search engines love blogs and will crawl them more and more often as more content is added. Research has shown that search engines will start to pay more attention to blogs once there are more than 100 posts, so it is important to add new content. Daily is best. Two of the more popular blogging sites are Blogger.com, which is very user friendly, and Wordpress.com, which is a little more advanced. Both of these are free to use.
Forums are another free way to get traffic. Here your approach has to be a little more subtle. Do a quick search in Google and find a few active forums that are related to your business topic. Sign up for the forum and then read through a few of the posts to get a feel for the way that things are done. Find out what people are talking about. Find out what questions they're asking. Once you get familiar with how the forum operates then simply start posting. One important point here: do not spam the forum. Do not just start posting all about your business and products with a bunch of links to your website. This will get you promptly removed from the forum. Just post relevant information that will help solve some of the problems that the people on the forum are talking about. Just make sure that each time you post it has value to it and you'll never be accused of spam. What you are really doing with these methods is branding yourself on the internet. You are building up your reputation. As you produce more quality content and become known as an expert in your chosen niche who is willing to help others, people will actively seek out your posts and comments to see what you have to say next. They will click on the links in your signature or About Me page to see what else you are offering. Both of these methods of traffic generation are free and easy, and have the added advantage of generating targeted traffic. So there you have it, two free ways that you can drive traffic to your Website. There are many other methods of traffic generation, but these two are simple and you can start using them right away. ------------------- 184. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Business Opportunity Lead Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Lead generation is absolutely necessary to run a profitable business. Whether you are a Fortune 500 company or a small work from home business operation, you need people who are interested in what you have to offer if your business is to be viable and profitable. Word of mouth is fine, but getting started in a small business, or growing an already existing operation, requires more proactive steps. One common approach is to purchase leads. On the surface, this seems like a good approach. In the vast majority of cases, you will simply lose your money doing this, especially if you buy generic leads or those who've shown only a marginal interest in your business. One of the worst strategies is to purchase a list of email addresses for generic leads. These have usually been sold to multiple users. If you do this, don't just start sending the marketing messages. You must send am introductory email that asks them to opt in to your autoresponder series only. After all, these people don't know you. If they start receiving marketing messages out of the blue, you will end up with a lot of abusive replies and maybe even some spam complaints. A safer, and more profitable approach, is to develop an automatic lead generation system that is either free or else costs very little to set up and maintain. In particular, you require the exact steps that will put your lead generation on auto-pilot - techniques that come with step-by-step instructions. If your business requires phone numbers, this can be taken into account when you set up your free lead generation system. Design it so that your leads are not only pre-qualified but you are able to obtain telephone numbers at this time. Postal leads (snail mail) are another solution, but these are also risky, as well as being expensive. As with generic email leads, don't just send a full package and hope for the best. First, send a post card with a reply coupon to find out who is interested. This way you won't incur costs on people who simply aren't interested or who may have already joined your program. It isn't easy to even recover costs with postcards. It isn't all just doom and gloom, though. You still need leads and there are methods which enable you to set up an automatic lead generation system, put them into an autoresponder for a series of emails, and send them a postcard later. One of the best systems I have come across for doing this is the Veretekk Lead Generation system. More details are available at this site: The secret is to pre-qualify. The essential ingredient in building a lead generation system is to be sure you pre-qualify them for your offer. Fortunately, there are free and low-cost methods for doing this. Some of them will be mentioned briefly here. You should follow-up with a fuller, in-depth study of each. Method 1. Viral List Builders: Techniques that encourage users to pass the product onto others, such as ebooks, jokes, cartoons, pictures, and important information. Method 2. Ad Co-Op Publishing: Co-operative ventures with others who agree to place your advertising on their web pages in exchange for you doing the same with their ads. Method 3: Forum Marketing. There are thousands of forums covering just about every topic. These provide opportunities to become known and to introduce readers to your informal advertising through your forum signature. Method 4. Article Marketing: Articles are valuable as sources of content and information, as well as providing back links to your web site and pages. Method 5. Special Bonuses: There are many ways incentives can be used to persuade prospects to join your email list and to convert visitors to buyers. Method 6. Reverse Marketing: Join every offer you can find that is related to your market and contact the person making that offer. They have already demonstrated an interest in your particular niche and are likely to require more quality information. Method 7. Joint Ventures: Contact others who have shown a similar interest and invite them to joint venture with you. They provide leads and you just close the sales, offering a discount to their list. Method 8. Buy Customers: Instead of buying or generating leads, there are certain businesses for which you can buy customers. This shortcuts a lot of the work necessary to create a viable and profitable work from home business. Business Opportunity Lead Generation can be a costly and time-consuming process unless you have the right tools and the right training. But it is possible to put in place a low-cost automated system that generates pre-qualified leads with whom you can develop a relationship. Do further research in any of the areas I have touched on in this article and you will no doubt find something that fits your business. ------------------- 185. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Techniques Business Opportunity Lead Generation Techniques - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation Techniques - an Overview What is Lead Generation? According to Wikipedia, lead generation (commonly abbreviated as lead-gen) is a marketing term that refers to the creation or generation of prospective consumer interest or inquiry into a business' products or services. Often lead generation is associated with marketing activity targeted at generating sales opportunities for a company's sales force. Therefore a lead is correctly described as information regarding or provided by a consumer who may be interested in making a purchase. Generation is one of a myriad of activities that may produce that information and perceived interest. Every conceivable business participates in some form of lead generation. After all, businesses must make sales to stay in business, so they are always looking for leads that they can turn into customers. Lead generation is a very broad subject. For the purposes of this article, we will concentrate on the various forms of business opportunity lead generation that are available on the internet: 1. Email marketing, e-zines, newsletters (1) Advertising in e-zines or newsletters can be a good method for acquiring targeted leads. You should subscribe to various e-zines to verify that the readers would be interested in your offer. Then select those e-zines you feel are targeted to your niche and place a solo ad, a sponsored ad or a classified ad. Usually the solo ad is more expensive, since this type of ad gets a full page or a separate mailing, whereas the sponsored ad is about a quarter page and the classified ad is only a few lines. Your best bet is with the solo ad. Costs can vary widely among e-zines. The total circulation of the e-zine guides the price of these e-zine ads. The larger the e-zine circulation, the higher the price per ad. (2) Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results or the higher it "ranks", the more searchers will visit that site. SEO can also target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. SEO is an art as much as a science, and much work and testing has to go into improving website results. The key here is consistency - producing lots of relevant content, on a regular basis, which subtly promotes the main website. (3) The terms pay-per-click (PPC) and cost-per-click (CPC) are sometimes used interchangeably, sometimes as distinct terms. When used as distinct terms, PPC shows payment based on click-through, while CPC shows measurement of cost on a per-click basis for contracts not based on click-through. In a PPC agreement, the advertiser only pays for qualifying clicks to the destination website based on a pre-arranged per-click rate. Popular PPC advertising options include per-click advertising networks, Google's AdWords or Yahoo's Search Marketing, and affiliate programs. To utilize PPC. you write a short, three or four-line ads to be displayed by the search engine, that contain the keywords on which you have bid money. Each time one of the ads is "clicked on" by a viewer; you must pay your bid amount to the search engine. If you manage to convert enough of your visitors into sales, your PPC campaign will be profitable. It is very important to track your income and expenses and the ROI for your ads when utilizing PPC. You can lose a lot of money very quickly if you are not very careful. Pay-per-action is the action defined in a cost-per-action agreement that relates directly to some type of conversion. A sale being made or a registration of some sort is the most common type of action. In a pay-per-lead agreement, the advertiser only pays for leads generated at their destination website. No payment is made for visitors who do not sign up. Pay-per-impression is a typical referral link/banner ad arrangement where the website wanting to purchase advertising space pays the host's website for each time it displays the ad. Typically, prices are set per 1000 exposures and software is added to the hosting web server to track the number of impressions displayed. (4) Free Classified and Free For All advertising is not really recommended. No-one really looks at these sites any more. The main use of such services now is to provide backlinks to the site you are promoting. (5) Buying leads from any of the various lead generation companies out there can be very costly, both in terms of time and money. You will normally find that when you call such leads, they have already heard from many other entrepreneurs pitching them all sorts of deals, and they will insult you and hang up. You'll be fortunate to get 1 or 2 out of every 100 leads who may be interested. Unless you're a crack telemarketer who enjoys this sort of thing, you will soon give up in disgust. (6) There is one type of lead purchase that has recently seen some success: Co-Registration leads. Co-Registration occurs when someone registers for one thing (for instance, a membership or a magazine subscription) and then is offered more information on a related topic (such as making money from home). In another case, they might be visiting a website targeted to entrepreneurs and a pop-up asks if they would like related free information by email. Those who sign on are very good targeted leads as they have opted in to receive more information. Once you have your leads opt-in to your own list, now you can pamper them, shower them with gifts and take extra good care of them because they are now your future. You must gain their trust and once you have that, you have to live up to that trust by being honest and above board with them at all time. They will then buy from you again and again. (7) The best way to generate leads is to learn how to generate your own targeted leads. The best way to do that is to grab yourself a Gold Veretekk system, which will provide you with all the tools and training you will ever need to dominate the search engines for your chosen keyword categories, and also to generate leads who are already familiar with your name, are expecting your call, and are interested in what you have to offer. I hope this overview of Business Opportunity Lead Generation Techniques has been useful. For more information on any of these strategies, you can contact me. I have tried them all. My contact information is at the end of this article. And if Business Opportunity Lead Generation seems like a lot of work, you're right! But there is a way to shortcut the process. Drop by my website at for more details. ------------------- 186. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tools Review Part 3 Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tools Review Part 3 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master In this series of articles, I am reviewing 2 similar free business opportunity lead generation tools which I have used: the First Family Classifieds portal (a component of the Veretekk business opportunity lead generation System) and the Isell Classifieds Script from Becanada. In my last article, I reviewed the facilities within each tool that are available to help you promote these business opportunity lead generation tools on the internet. In this article, let's talk about results. How do these tools compare in terms of delivering leads? How good are the leads that are delivered? What opportunities are there to develop these leads into business partners or paying customers? First, leads quantity: As far as I can determine, both of these business opportunity lead generation tools have delivered about the same number of leads in the time I have been testing them. I say "as far as I can determine", because it is difficult to measure how many leads are generated by the Isell script - the contact details are stored on a category basis and disappear once the ad has expired. They are not stored in a central location. With First Family Classifieds, on the other hand, the ads never expire, and the contact information for the people who post ads are stored in my Veretekk leads database and are always available, Very simple to track the number of leads that are generated. What about leads quality? Here again, First Family Classifieds is much better. The nature of the Isell script is such that the vast majority of the postings come from automated ad blasting services. Yes, the ads have to be confirmed, but I have found that these types of leads are generally not responsive to any reply emails that they get, since they are probably getting thousands of emails and are just deleting them. First Family is all about a person actually submitting an ad themselves. In that situation they are much more likely to respond to email marketing. I have never gotten any responses or any clicks on the 'email ads' that are included in the emails sent from the Isell script. As there is no way to easily incorporate an autoresponder with Isell, this is the only contact I ever have with them. I have never been contacted by anyone using my Isell sites. First Family Classifieds is very different: the confirmation email from the ad posting allows the people posting the ads to opt in to my Veretekk email list, and the autoresponder takes over from there. I also have the ability to send a newsletter once week to all the leads generated by all my Veretekk portals. Sometimes people have questions - they can email me right from the First Family Classifieds interface and I will respond. This allows me to start developing a relationship with these leads (relationship marketing), which often turns into something profitable for both of us. As for developing a relationship with these leads, again First Family Classifieds is the clear winner. If someone is interested in using First Family Classifieds as a business opportunity lead generation portal, they sign up for a Veretekk system from the portal. Now I have a legitimate reason to contact them and develop a deeper relationship as I help them get going, learn a bit about their business and see if my business can be of any assistance to them. And, if they decide to upgrade to the full Veretekk system, I will get paid an affiliate commission on the monthly membership fee. With Isell, there is an affiliate link at the bottom of the page through which a lead can download the script. That's it. If they decide to upgrade to one of the paid versions, I will get a one-time commission. All help with setting up the script is done through Becanada, so I don't have the chance to develop a relationship with these leads. So there you have it, my review of 2 business opportunity lead generation tools. As you can probably tell, I am a big fan of the First Family Classifieds portal as a business opportunity lead generation tool. In fact, I am an even bigger fan of the Veretekk business opportunity lead generation system, which provides me with 23 different business opportunity lead generation tools like this, and an email system which ties it all together. I hope this series has been useful for you when deciding on business opportunity lead generation tools for your business. ------------------- 187. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tools Part 2 Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tools Part 2 In this series of articles, I am comparing two similar business opportunity lead generation tools which I have used: the First Family Classifieds portal from the Veretekk Lead Generation system, and the Isell Classifieds Lead Generation script from Becanada. In my previous article, I gave a general overview of each business opportunity lead generation tool. In this article we will discuss the built-in capabilities that are provided within each system to help you to promote the system on the internet to start generating leads for your business. First Family Classifieds Business Opportunity Lead Generation Portal In order to use First Family Classifieds as a business opportunity lead generation portal, you must first sign up for a free Veretekk Lead Generation system. After 7 days, you upgrade to the Gold system and then you have the capability to configure the portal to your liking. Once inside the Veretekk Gold back office, you have the following tools to help you to promote your First Family Classifieds Lead Generation Portal: 1) You can set the Title, Description and Meta Tags to whatever you wish, allowing you to target selected keyword categories in the search engines. 2) You have the capability to add a 'displayed text' section. This is used to provide keyword-rich text on the page, allowing you to further enhance your portal for the search engines. 3) You have the capability of adding any RSS feed to the portal, so that the contents will change over time. Again very important for the search engine robots. 4) The portal has 5 slots into which you can put links to other websites. 5) A flash ad is provided which you can use as part of any promotional page, such as a traffic exchange page or a squeeze page. 6) The portal has an 'action URL' so that you can register your classified ads system with any network that accepts new classified ad sites. This will get your portal into lists that get lots of automated entries from ad blasters. 7) You are provided with a form code which you can place on any promotional page such as a squeeze page, so that people can submit ads right from the page that you have created. 8) You can select any of a number of pre-written autoresponder messages which will go out to people who post ads. You can also create your own autoresponder messages. 9) You have access to The Hammer - Veretekk's proprietary ad blasting service which you can use to blast information about your portal out to over 2 Billion places on the internet. This is the same technology which drives the Veretekk Leadsomatic Ad Blaster service, but it costs you nothing to use it to promote your First Family Classifieds portal. 10) You are provided with a full-featured tracking service, called Veretracking, which allows you to see how well your various promotional efforts for the portal are doing. As you can see, the possibilities for promotion here are almost endless. And don't forget that free training is available from Veretekk on how to do any of these! I especially like the ability to target specific keyword categories in the search engines. That way, if you are searching for specific kinds of leads, you can get them. Isell Classifieds Lead Generation Portal The possibilities for promoting the free Isell Classifieds Lead Generation Portal a quite limited, or will require much more effort and some programming expertise: 1) Unless you know something about CGI programming, you do not have the capability to set Title, Description or Meta Tags. 2) There is limited capability to add extra text to the page, and the admin interface is quite basic. 3) There is no way to add an RSS feed to the page, unless you know something about CGI programming. 4) There is the capability to add 2 links to the page. 5) If you want to use a Flash Ad, you will need to create one yourself. 6) There is no action URL provided. You have the capability to register your classifieds site with the global network of existing Isell classified sites so that you will get automatic postings from that network. 7) There is no form code which you could place on another site to enable people to post ads. The best you can do is to provide a link to the classifieds page. 8) There is no way to associate an autoresponder with ad postings. You are provided with 3 types of emails that go out that you can customize: an email that confirms placement of the ad, an email that goes out when the ad expires, and an email that goes out if someone chooses to use the "Send This Ad to a Friend" function. Each of these can be customized with an 'ad' at the top and the bottom of the email. If you want to do anything else, you would need to download the emails from the classifieds database that is kept by the Isell script and then upload them into an autoresponder service. 9) If you want to blast information about your classifieds site out to the internet, you will need to use a third-party blasting service. A good choice here would be the Veretekk Leadsomatic Ad Blaster service at $10 a month. 10) Tracking your promotional efforts can be accomplished by using the website stats available from your web hosting provider. These may not provide all the details that you need; more precise stats would require that you be able to modify the Isell script. In terms of promotional capabilities and ease of use, the Veretekk First Family Classifieds Lead Generation Portal far outshines the Isell Classifieds Lead Generation portal. However, I do like the Isell capability to register your classifieds site with a large and growing network of classified sites. I have registered my First Family Classifieds site with that network using my action URL, so I get the best of both worlds! In the next and final article in this series, I will review how each of these portals has served me in terms of business opportunity lead generation. Until then: keep generating those leads! ------------------- 188. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tools Comparison - Part 1 Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tools Comparison - Part 1 There are many different tools online for Business Opportunity Lead Generation. In this series of articles, I will be comparing two very similar tools that I have used for Business Opportunity Lead Generation: the First Family Classifieds service from the Veretekk Business Opportunity Lead Generation System, and the Isell Classified Ads service from Becanada. Introduction to the two Business Opportunity Lead Generation Systems Both of these Business Opportunity Lead Generation tools have one primary goal: to collect the contact information of those who are placing online classified ads. Once someone has posted an ad to the site, the site owner now can email them back with a thank-you email which incidentally will contain a subtle promotion for a product or service, First Family Classifieds is a free service. To get your own First Family Classifieds portal, you sign up for a free Silver Veretekk Business Opportunity Lead Generation System. Then you can start promoting your classified ads service. The system automatically captures the information of everyone posting ads, and by using the Veremail system (part of the Veretekk System), you can send these people emails which promote your Veretekk system. If you upgrade to the Gold Veretekk system at $41.95 a month, you can create your own autoresponder series and send them in either HTML or text. The ads that are posted do not expire. If you have any problems with signing up for Veretekk or configuring and using your portal, there is plenty of online free training available. You will also have the complete contact details of your Veretekk sponsor. I've never had any problems with the First Family Classifieds Portal, or any of the other Veretekk services, so I've never had to contact my sponsor. The free training was more than sufficient to get me going. The basic version of Isell is also free, but it is a script which you download and then install on a server. So that means that you will need a domain name and a hosting account. Once you install it, the system provides the capability to send one email to the ad poster to confirm placement of the ad, and another when the ad expires. These emails can be in HTML or text format. The documentation to install it is clearly written and the install is very simple - just upload the script to the proper place and follow a few simple instructions and you are ready to configure the system. Configuration is a bit more complex - you may have to read the instructions a few times before you understand what they are trying to say. This system also stores the contact information of ad posters in a database on your site, and you can email them all from the online administrator interface. Isell has 3 Upgrades available, each of which adds additional features: The Silver Version for $29,95, the Gold version for $69.95, and the Platinum version for $129.95. There are many options available, such as the ability to run paid ads, that would make this a good choice for anyone who would want to run a full-fledged online classifieds service. If you run into any problems with Isell, all you can do is send an email to Becanada and hope for the best. I recently tried to install Isell, but could not get the admin functions to work. As it turned out, my hosting provider had recently installed some new security software which rendered the Isell admin script inoperative. I dutifully reported this to Becanada. Their reply: "Find another hosting provider." So much for customer support... In summary then: - First Family Classifieds is your choice if all you want to do is provide a classified ads portal to enable you to offer a free classified ads service. Signup is easy, you do not need to install or host anything, and configuration help is available. - Isell Classifieds is your choice if you want to manage and run a complete online Classified Ads service, including paid ads, banner exchanges, and the like. Configuration is moderately difficult, and help is spotty. In the next article in this series, I will explore how each of these Business Opportunity Lead Generation services provides its own promotional capabilities. ------------------- 189. Work From Home With FreedomRocks - Part 4 Work From Home With FreedomRocks - Part 4 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to part 4 of my series "Work From Home With FreedomRocks". In the previous article in this series, we looked at the FreedomRocks work from home business opportunity. In today's article we will explore some recent additions to the FreedomRocks opportunity - tools to help you manage your finances and get out of debt more quickly and in a disciplined manner. As we all know, rising consumer debt and poor credit is becoming an international epidemic. The gap between the wealthy and the middle-class is widening. More and more people are falling further and further behind and may never achieve their dream of financial freedom. The best way to get started is to become and stay debt-free. At FreedomRocks, financial tools such as the Freedom Accelerator will help you optimize your monthly payments and calculate the date when you'll be debt-free. Depending upon your financial situation, this can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest and years on your mortgage - all without increasing the amount of money you're currently paying each month. The FreedomRocks Freedom Accelerator allows you to visually document your debt profile. You can perform optimization analysis on your outstanding debt (what-if analysis), track your plan progress by month, and even get email reminders when your payments are due. FreedomRocks also provides their members with other types of invaluable financial information to assist them in maintaining a good credit profile. The importance of proper documentation in order to obtain the tax advantages of operating a home-based business is stressed.
- a solid and proven tool for investment Work From Home With FreedomRocks ------------------- 190. Work From Home With FreedomRocks - Part 3 Work From Home With FreedomRocks - Part 3 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master In the previous article in this series, we reviewed the FreedomRocks Wealth Builder product. In this article, we will explore the FreedomRocks Business Opportunity. The FreedomRocks Wealth Builder product is a great help in learning to trade properly and profitably in the Forex market. In addition to trading your own money, you can also, if you so desire, introduce the concept to others and earn commissions on the monthly fee they pay to use the product. This is the basis of the Work From Home aspect of your FreedomRocks business. The cost to become a FreedomRocks representative is very minimal, basically a small annual charge for a website maintenance fee. There will also be a training fee in the first year only, to cover the cost of the compliance training that all new representatives must complete. As with most MLMs, there are restrictions on what you can and cannot do while marketing your business. Of course, spam is not tolerated within the FreedomRocks community. You may not list your FreedomRocks website URL on ANY e-mails directed to people you don't know. If you choose to send e-mails of this nature, you MUST create your own website (containing no reference to FreedomRocks) where people can enter their e-mail addresses for more information. Once they've done that, you may send them your FreedomRocks website address. You may not use the "FreedomRocks" name or logo on ANY website. There are certain groups who have been granted the ability to create 'affiliate websites' and you can sign up with these groups to further your marketing efforts. You must NEVER state anything about potential returns, interest rate numbers, bonus check projections, and so on .A simple rule of thumb: If it has a number on it, DON'T SEND IT!! Compensation Plan Sales representatives are first paid on the sale of products only. Each sale of a full product package earns a one-time commission. Bonus commissions are paid on the total sales made in your own team based upon the FreedomRocks Compensation Plan. As an Independent sales representative, you are required to maintain 100 US dollars in personal sales volume each month. This is easy since that is the monthly cost to access the trading software. In addition, you are required to sponsor at least one new Independent Sales Representative onto each of your two teams who does the same. When this happens, you become what FreedomRocks calls an Independent Sales Manager and are now eligible for cycle and bonus commissions. FreedomRocks calculates and pays compensation on a weekly basis. At the end of each weekly pay period, the FreedomRocks computer counts the total sales volume on your left and right teams. For every $200 in sales volume you accumulate on the weaker team and $400 on the stronger team, you will earn a cycle bonus of $40. You may cycle as many times as you like each pay period, right up to a very generous cap of $25,000 per week. As you sponsor new representatives into your organization, you will begin climbing the FreedomRocks leadership ladder: - Sponsor your first new representative, you become a Bronze Leader. - Sponsor four and place at least one active representative on each leg, you become a Silver Leader. - Sponsor eight, you become a Gold Leader. Now you become eligible for the first leadership bonus - the Matching Bonus. - When at least 10 of the representatives you've sponsored have reached the Bronze level or higher, you become a Platinum Leader. Now another bonus kicks in - the Car Bonus. - After achieving the Platinum level, your status in the company is then based on the average amount that you receive in your weekly cycle bonus. If you can then maintain an average of 25 cycles or more per week, for five consecutive weeks; you will become eligible for the fifth bonus - the elite Freedom Bonus. Spill Factor FreedomRocks has developed a key to explosive growth and incredible stability - the "Spill Factor". When you sponsor a new representative into your organization, you can choose where to place them if you wish. By default the FreedomRocks computer will count the representatives on your left and right teams and place your new representative on whichever team is smaller. The way they're placed though is significant. New people will always be placed on the extreme left side or the extreme right side of your organization, also known as your outside legs. Placement in this manner allows the previous representatives you sponsor to receive the maximum benefit from your continued sponsoring efforts. This same thing is happening to your upline, so it is very possible that new representatives will appear in your organization whom you have never met. This is a brief overview of the FreedomRocks compensation plan. For more details, see the FreedomRocks corporate website at www.FreedomRocks.com. In our next article we will look at the FreedomRocks Freedom Accelerator and other financial management tools. ------------------- 191. Work From Home with FreedomRocks - Part 2 Work From Home with FreedomRocks - Part 2 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master In the previous article in this series, I gave an introduction and overview of the FreedomRocks work from home opportunity. In this article we will explore the FreedomRocks Wealth Builder program in more detail. The cornerstone of the FreedomRocks Wealth Builder program is an online system that helps you, as in investor, participate in the Forex market. Simply, the system gives buy and sell recommendations, using a proprietary algorithm. It also employs a hedging strategy, allowing you to earn interest on your investments while you are holding currency pairs. What makes this so different from other Forex trading systems? The FreedomRocks Wealth Builder program is a complete paradigm shift from more traditional trading models. Here are just some of the differences: - There are no charts or graphs to read. - You do not have to do any research. - There are no signals that you have to worry about. - You always trade currency pairs which (historically speaking) move in opposite directions. - You will seldom exit your positions. - A portfolio of any size can be managed in just a few minutes per week. - There is no need to monitor your portfolio all night when the markets are their most active. - In addition to your trading gains, you can set your portfolio to produce virtually any level of interest. The interest you are paid is based on the interest rate differences between the currencies in the pairs you buy. If you buy the currency with the higher interest rate (and therefore, sell the currency with the lower rate), you will net interest each day. The interest is calculated (depending upon the broker) at 5:00pm EST. Since interest is not paid on the weekends, it is normally tripled on Wednesdays to compensate. The FreedomRocks Portfolio Allocator will allow you to select virtually any interest rate you desire on your portfolio (based upon today's approximate rates). Keep in mind that higher levels of interest may significantly increase the volatility and overall risk of your portfolio. What sort of returns can you expect? Neither FreedomRocks nor any authorized affiliate websites will provide any numbers on the FreedomRocks system. As with all financial systems, individual results will vary depending upon your available capital and your investment strategy. Besides, if no claims are made, FreedomRocks cannot be accused of fixing the numbers in their favor. ANY results received from system authors should be intensely mistrusted. Instead of providing results, FreedomRocks offers a free 15-day trial of their trading system. Forex brokers allow you to open one or more demo accounts, after which you can try the FreedomRocks system for yourself for free and without risking any real money. This also allows you to listen in on a few FreedomRocks weekly training calls, and see the power of the FreedomRocks Wealth Builder program for yourself. In the next article, we will explore the FreedomRocks Business Plan, which allows you to earn money by selling the FreedomRocks work from home opportunity to others. 192. Work From Home with FreedomRocks, Part 1 Work From Home with FreedomRocks, Part 1 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master If you are researching online opportunities to start a work from home business. you may have come across FreedomRocks. You probably have some questions about this work from home opportunity. In this series of articles I will attempt to answer some of the most frequent questions about FreedomRocks. The flagship product offered by FreedomRocks is an online system which assists you in trading the Forex market in a disciplined and lucrative manner. According to Wikipedia: "The foreign exchange (currency or Forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is the largest financial market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions. The average daily trade in the global Forex and related markets currently is almost US$ 4 trillion." Until very recently, only banks or extremely wealthy people were able to trade in this market. Over the last few years, this market has now been opened to the modest investor through the introduction of online brokerages. How much do you need to start investing? However, you CAN start with as little as $2,000 - $3,000, but there are always tradeoffs in risk. At this lower level of capital, you will need to focus on just 2 currency pairs, use a 400:1 leverage, and likely use at least 10% of your margin to reach the suggested minimum of 25 lots of each currency pair. Remember, 10% at 400:1 is the equivalent of 40% on 100:1. You do not invest your money with FreedomRocks. FreedomRocks is not a Forex broker. You will open your own brokerage account with the brokerage firm of your choice. FreedomRocks does have a recommended broker; but you can choose any broker you wish. FreedomRocks never has any control over your investment dollars. What if you know nothing about Forex? In my next article, we will explore the FreedomRocks Wealth Builder Program. Read More about Work From Home ------------------- 193. The FreedomRocks Work From Home Income Opportunity The FreedomRocks Work From Home Income Opportunity - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master FreedomRocks is fast becoming a strong contender in the work from home industry. Did you know that, according to the Direct Selling Association (DSA), over 185,000 people join the network marketing industry each week? Why do they join? Because, in theory at least, network marketing allows you to start a work from home business with virtually unlimited income potential for very little upfront costs. There are some challenges, however. Customer retention rates can vary. In some work from home business opportunities, those with more cash on hand are able to simply buy their way into higher levels of the company. In other cases, there are back-end requirements that make it very difficult to get any meaningful commissions. The FreedomRocks work from home income opportunity offers some innovative solutions to these and other challenges. The power of the FreedomRocks investment strategy and some of the unique characteristics of their compensation plan has resulted in a business opportunity which is structured for success. Some of these unique features include: - Extremely high customer retention rate due to the success of their revolutionary investment strategy product - No possibility of buying your way into a higher representative level - No back-end requirements to prevent you from getting paid - FreedomRocks is completely computer-based company. Your business can grow exponentially almost overnight. - FreedomRocks features a virtual product, so geographic boundaries are a thing of the past - Because FreedomRocks features a virtual product, the company doesn't need to pay for development, manufacturing, packaging, warehousing, or shipping, As a result, the compensation plan pays out up to an unprecedented 90% of the income back to representatives. No other program even comes close. These unique features make the FreedomRocks income opportunity an attractive option for anyone looking to build a work from home business. ------------------- 194. FreedomRocks - Wealth Building By The Numbers FreedomRocks - Wealth Building By The Numbers - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Like many people today, are you shrinking your dreams to match your income? Perhaps. Here are some symptoms: - You work more and live less. There is no magic solution to building wealth. Building wealth happens one step at a time. It is a process. It can be learned, and more importantly, it can be repeated. The FreedomRocks 3 step financial freedom plan and associated products and services can help you achieve each step. Phase 1: Increase Your Cash Flow Are you spending money faster than you make it? If so, you'll never be financially free. Budgeting is a help, but it is not the solution. You cannot budget your way to financial freedom. You can deprive yourself and your family only so far. At some point, increasing your cash flow is the only option. FreedomRocks can show you how to do that. You can get an immediate pay raise that could put hundreds of dollars each month into your pocket. Phase 2: Stabilize Your Finances Rising consumer debt is becoming an international epidemic. The gap between the wealthy and the middle-class is widening. More and more people are falling further and further behind and may never achieve their dream of financial freedom. The best way to get started is to become and stay debt-free. FreedomRocks financial tools such as the Freedom Accelerator will help you optimize your monthly payments and calculate the date when you'll be debt-free. Depending upon your financial situation, the Freedom Accelerator can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest and years on your mortgage - without increasing the amount of money you're currently paying each month. Phase 3: Invest For the Future FreedomRocks will introduce you to investment concepts used by the wealthy for decades that very few people even know exist. FreedomRocks has do-it-yourself trading programs. For those with little or no time, special arrangements have been made with licensed, professional traders to do the work for you.
195. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tip: Want More Leads? Stop Advertising! - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Do you want to generate more leads for your business? Then stop advertising on the internet! This probably sounds like bad information to you. However, on the internet today, getting out of the advertising mindset can help you to generate many more leads for your business. Most new internet marketers have been presented with lots of information that tells them to start writing little classified ads and use automatic ad blasters to blast their ads to classified sites, safelists, FFA sites, and so on. It seems like an easy way to do low-cost or no-cost advertising. Do you really think anyone actually see these ads? Think about it. When was the last time you went to a classified ad site looking for something specific? What did you do instead? You used Google or some other search engine. Well, that's what most everyone else does. And in those search engine listings, did you concentrate on the paid ads on the right hand side, or did you pay more attention to the organic listings - the summaries of web pages that contain the phrases you searched for? Most everyone will tune in to the organic listings, under the assumption that the website that is behind the paid ads will try to sell them something. They want free information! Providing good, relevant content on a consistent basis is the key to getting your message out on the internet today. Writing and blasting ads will not be of much use, except for providing backlinks to your website that may help with website ranking. You have to get out of the advertising mindset and into the content mindset. Attract leads with great content that offers a solution to their problem, and they will want to know more. With this in mind, you can still use ad blasters and the like. But use them with as food for the search engine spiders, not as a venue to advertise your business. What does that mean? Well, in order to get your website to the top of the search engines, you need to learn about search engine optimization, or SEO. SEO is an art, and you need a good set of tools to support your efforts. This is where the Veretekk Lead Generation System shines. Free training from some of the top SEO experts and internet marketers, and an integrated set of lead generation and marketing tools that are incredibly powerful, will help you to become an SEO Master. Want to find out more? Stop advertising. Grab a Veretekk system and attend our free SEO training, and you will be well on your way to generating some of the best leads for your business that you have ever seen. We'll show you a better way! And while you're at it, we'll show you how to buy paying customers for your business, so that you can start building a profitable business from day 1. So stop wasting your time with all that ad blasting. We don't buy leads. We don't blast ads. We buy customers. We produce quality content that gets us to the top of the search engines and attracts serious business builders to partner with us. No hype, no fluff, no get-rich-quick foolishness. If you are serious about building a business, forget all the hype. Come visit us at
196. Legacy for Life Leads Legacy for Life Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Legacy for Life Leads - How Well do they work? Are you building an Legacy for Life business? Legacy for Life is certainly a great product and a great business concept. The Legacy for Life patented product line will provide you with a secure, lucrative home-based business opportunity in the exploding health & wellness industry. Have you seen whatÂ’s going on and where the opportunities exist for your future? Just take a look at some recent headlines: Loss of Jobs in America Don't let these converging trends overtake you or pass you by. Grab your chance to act and take advantage of the next huge business revolution. Billions are being made in the wellness industry. Legacy for Life has a proven plan to ensure you get your share. Building Your Legacy for Life Business If you are involved in the Legacy for Life opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your Legacy for Life business. How is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM companies are usually paranoid about allowing any of their distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor None of this was of any benefit whatsoever in building a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLM opportunities and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions, for life. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 197. Legacy for Life Leads Generation Legacy for Life Leads Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you building a Legacy for Life business? There are as many different reasons to be in this business as there are Legacy for Life Distributors. A Legacy for Life business can help with those tuition bills. It can help reshape your work week. It can help you build a future for your family. It's your life and Legacy for Life can help you build your own business - the way you want it. Discover the tremendous opportunity that awaits you with Legacy's "Power of Teamwork" Compensation Plan. Of course, to build your Legacy for Life business, you are going to have to recruit customers and distributors. How do you do that? You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with Legacy for Life, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is so important that I will repeat it: Do not purchase leads! This is a waste of your time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your Legacy for Life business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby... You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the Legacy for Life products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% of the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of Legacy for Life, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using search engine optimization techniques to get your replicated Legacy for Life affiliate website to appear on the first page in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong and stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the Legacy for Life business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is called Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- Are you worn out and tired from your MLM experience? I know at times, I have certainly been emotionally and physically drained. It always seemed like I had to be out there recruiting every day to build my residual income. If I stopped for even a few weeks, I saw my income drop. I have been active for the past 10 years in network marketing and was actually introduced to the concept originally back in 1985. So until March of 2008, I thought I had seen all the different ways of building a home business. When I was first introduced to Its Good Business in March of 2008 and the concept of Buying Customers, I was amazed at the simplicity. Tom Prendergast went on to explain how he was able to build his business approximately 7 years ago for a 3 month period and then had to leave it alone to work on completing Veretekk for the next 6 years. Yes, he left his business alone for 6 years. He didn't call his customers as the company looked after following up with them. Yet, his income kept going up each month. Sometimes by only a small amount, but nonetheless, it kept increasing. I don't know of any network marketing business that you could leave alone for 6 plus years and have an income afterwards. Finally, I found a business model that made complete sense. The company operates as a traditional business, acquiring customers like any other business. However, they then allow you to buy those customers and they get placed in your data base. every time a customer orders, you make a commission. When I analyzed the business model, I realized that well over 90% of my business would be made up of paying customers and not distributors. The light bulb finally went on about why I had not had the level of success I had hoped and worked so much for during the past 10 years. I was following a business model about duplication which has a 95% failure rate in the industry. With Its Good Business Team, we operate as a traditional business, delegating various tasks within the group, like all other successful businesses out there do. It's interesting, when you look at Network Marketing companies, they have a delegation business model themselves. They have an accounting department, customer service, training section etc. Yet, teach us the concept of duplication to build a successful business. Those companies go on to say, we should look at the successful leaders and duplicate what they are doing. Hmm? No thanks, that's a recipe for failure. I really got it and hopefully you will take a look at what we are doing. There is no hype, lies and BS going on in this team. We use the power of Veretekk, advanced technology for marketing on the internet. We really are marketing at the speed of thought. We have broken all the records in the company we have partnered up with in 60 days. Thank you Tom Prendergast for your leadership, vision and putting together the best team on the internet today. Make it a great day Darrell Lischka- Business Coach Darrell is just one of our very successful recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 198. Its Good Business: A Ray of Sunshine in the MLM Industry Its Good Business: A Ray of Sunshine in the MLM Industry - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Once upon a time. internet marketing was simply a way to create a home based business and make some residual income. These days, however, the internet marketing arena is filled with those who have it all and those who seem to have nothing and are continually losing money. Over and over again we hear stories of people who have had their hopes and dreams dashed, and have lost a lot of money while trying to build an online business. They have used all their retirement funds, maxed out their credit cards, and gone heavily into debt in order to chase that elusive dream of easy online profits which is promoted particularly by the Network Marketing (MLM) industry. But there is hope. In this plethora of internet marketing hype, scams, shams, lies and greed, a ray of sunshine has recently broken through. A quiet little business is literally changing the face of how businesses are built on the internet. Through the application of a proven and ethical business model that is offered by no other company in the world today, this business is putting an end to elitist MLM pyramid schemes which promise much and deliver only broken dreams and empty wallets. This business has found a way to generate long term residual income and wealth creation, ethically and responsibly, with no hype. This new marketing group is simply called Its Good Business. So from day 1, your business is successful. You acquire customers who are already purchasing your products. This is the heart of Its Good Business wealth creation and long term residual income plan. But that is only the start of the plan. Once you become part of the Its Good Business group, you will be become part of a team which works co-operatively in the areas of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and lead generation. blogging, writing press releases, and sales. You do not have to learn how to do all of these things. Now you can concentrate your efforts in the one area in which you already have skills or which you want to develop. By working in your designated are of expertise or passion, you will benefit from the efforts of the entire team. You may get new customers from other members of the team. You will get new distributors (called Business Associates or BAs) from the efforts of the team. Even better, Its Good Business trains their team members to become complete marketers and business entrepreneurs by providing information on how to properly use internet marketing techniques to grow any business successfully. With this business model, you no longer have to learn how to do everything before you are successful. The team as a whole does everything that needs to be done. There is even a sales team who does nothing but provide information to interested parties and help them join the group. This eliminates the number one reason for failure of 95% of online business ventures: the new business owner is not a salesperson, hates rejection, and is frightened of that phone. With the Its Good Business model, individuals get strategic placement based on their skills and the group's downline gets filled. No one has to purchase leads, make cold calls, or attempt to recruit everyone in sight. All you have to do is buy customers, which creates long term residual income for the life of the business relationship, and work at your designated team task or tasks. You may think this sounds too good to be true. I know I did. But I can assure you, it is worth checking out. There is no other business model out there that works as well and as ethically as this one. All you need to do is attend one of our weekly information sessions, given on Saturdays at 1 PM Pacific time. If that is not convenient for you, contact me and I can send you to a recorded presentation. There will be no hype, and no-one will try to sell you anything. Just solid and proven information to help you make a decision as to whether you want to build a business this way. You can register for our sessions and watch a short introductory flash movie at this site: Come join us, watch the presentation, and don't be shy to ask questions. We present facts, not hype. Of course, this business may not be for you. But you won't know that for sure until you get all the details, will you? ------------------- 199. Business Opportunity Lead Generation For Your Legacy for Life Business Business Opportunity Lead Generation For Your Legacy for Life Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Legacy for Life Business - Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your Legacy for Life business. As you know, Legacy for Life is a world leader in the health and wellness arena. The company has gone beyond nutrition to bring you the best, most natural health and wellness products; each uniquely designed to keep you feeling and looking your very best. The Legacy for Life Compensation Plan rewards Distributors with one of the most lucrative plans in the global marketplace. In fact, there are 7 highly lucrative ways to earn money with Legacy for Life. Of course, to earn in these 7 ways, you need distributors. Where do you get them from? As I'm sure you have already experienced, generating quality leads for your Legacy for Life business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your Legacy for Life business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? How many times have you bugged your family and friends, to the point where they run the other way when they see you coming? So what do you do? As a Legacy for Life distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Have you lost family and friends due to your aggressive recruitment techniques? Perhaps its time to consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation 2) Learn how to generate your own exclusive quality leads. Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders as long as they continue to order products. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who recognize my name and are expecting my call, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! I don't even have to know all that much about the products. This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 200. Lead Generation For Your Quixtar Business Lead Generation For Your Quixtar Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Quixtar Business - Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your Quixtar business. The Quixtar Sales and Marketing Plan is a low risk, low start-up cost business opportunity that is open to everyone. It allows you to build your business through retailing products and sponsoring other people who, in turn, can retail products and offer the business opportunity to others. By passing your sales and marketing knowledge to your developing team, you not only build your own business network but also enable others to build one of their own. The core of the Quixtar Sales and Marketing Plan's income opportunity is the sale of quality products and services to retail customers. As your Quixtar business grows, the rewards you earn grow in proportion. The Quixtar Sales and Marketing Plan does not compensate anybody for simply recruiting others as Independent Business Owners. Generating quality leads for your Quixtar business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do you do? As a Quixtar distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation 2) Learn how to generate your own exclusive quality leads. Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who know a bit about me, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 201. MLM - Truth or Fiction? MLM - Truth or Fiction? - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master In these day of high interest rates, high gas prices, credit crunches and job losses, more and more people are looking for alternative streams of income. Many will turn to the internet for their solution and Google terms like MLM, network marketing, home business, or other such keywords. Mostly what they will find is a lot of sites that promise quick wealth without much work. The vast majority of such sites are promoting MLM opportunities. These MLM companies promise quick wealth and overnight success with a minimum of effort. The concept is very attractive to those who are desperate to find alternative sources of income and who are not business savvy. Many people will put their hard-earned money and their valuable time into these opportunities, only to find out that the company is unwilling to help them build a real business, beyond selling them 'tools', which are usually motivational tapes and books designed to keep them from quitting the MLM business. All that really happens here is that the MLM company gets richer. You see, their basic business model is flawed: all that new distributors are taught is to recruit more distributors. No-one is actually buying the products because they like the products - they are buying the products because they have to in order to qualify for commissions. And the winner: the MLM company of course! An organization consisting of only salespeople will eventually collapse, especially when most of the 'salespeople' are incredibly uncomfortable with selling anything, as are most people who get into MLM opportunities. You cannot build a business on salespeople alone. You need a stable base of customers. Customers who purchase the products on a regular basis because they like them. I have been in many MLM businesses over the years. Why I kept coming back, I'm not sure. I guess I knew that there was something there, but I could never quite make it work. If I tried to get customers rather than distributors, my upline and the company would disown me, and sometimes put all kinds of obstacles in my way. And yet I knew, deep in my heart, that this was the proper way to build a business. Finally I gave up in disgust, until I was introduced to the only company that does it correctly. I was extremely skeptical at first, but once I saw how it worked, I was captivated. Here at last was the correct business model. We call it the Its Good Business model. We don't buy leads to build our businesses. We buy customers. We don't try to recruit everyone that comes within three feet of us as a distributor. We don't need to. We only talk to business prospects that are already presold, who understand how the business works, and are ready to get started. Our parent company is skilled in selling products to the end user, the customer, and then selling the buying customer to us, the business affiliates (BAs). Why would they do this you ask? This allows them to reduce their marketing costs and to create multiple streams of revenue at the same time. They call it Co-operative Marketing. We call it Good Business. It's a win-win situation. As a consequence, this model has no failure rate. As soon as you sign up and buy customers, you start receiving revenue from those customers. For a one-time fee, you get commissions on their purchases for life. You don't have to market to them, you don't have to encourage them to purchase more products, you don't even have to follow up with them unless you want to. The parent company does all that. This is the total opposite of the traditional MLM model, where 95% of people fail to build a significant income, because they are unskilled at selling, whether it be to leads or to potential business partners. This is unique; a real paradigm shift. It requires your immediate attention. If you want to build a real business with real business people. come see us! ------------------- 202. Quixtar Leads Quixtar Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Quixtar Leads - How Well do they work? Are you building an Quixtar business? Quixtar is certainly a great product and a great business concept. Quixtar is the North American version of Amway, a multi-level marketing, or network marketing company founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Rich DeVos. The company's name was a contraction of "American Way." Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Alticor reported sales of US$7.2 billion for the year ending December 31, 2007, marking the company’s sixth straight year of growth. Its product lines include personal care products, jewelry, electronics, Nutrilite dietary supplements, water purifiers, air purifiers, insurance and cosmetics. The company conducts business through a number of affiliated companies in more than ninety countries and territories around the world. In the United States and Canada it now operates as Quixtar. Building Your Quixtar Business If you are involved in the Quixtar opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your Quixtar business. How is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLM opportunities and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions, for life. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 203. Quixtar Leads Generation Quixtar Leads Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you building a Quixtar business? There are as many different reasons to be in this business as there are Quixtar® Independent Business Owners (IBOs). A Quixtar business can help with those tuition bills. It can help reshape your work week. It can help you build a future for your family. It's your life and Quixtar North America, part of the Amway global business, can help you build your own business - the way you want it. But if you want to build your Quixtar business, you are going to have to recruit customers and distributors. How do you do that? You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with Quixtar, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is so important that I will repeat it: Do not purchase leads! This is a waste of your time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your Quixtar business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby... You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the Quixtar products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% of the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of Quixtar, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using search engine optimization techniques to get your replicated Quixtar affiliate website to appear on the first page in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong and stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the Quixtar business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is called Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- Not only am I an MLM junkie, but I am guilty of joining more sites and opportunities online than I care to admit to. I haven't dared to add up the total amount of money I have spent online over the last 18 months, some large amounts and lots and lots of small amounts on this and that. None of these things offered me the answer I was looking for, and so I kept searching and spending. I am not one for giving up and my positive resolve to be successful online and find that perfect business opportunity kept me searching ever onwards. Just three weeks ago I was sent a presentation by an online friend. That presentation has changed my life. While I was watching it I knew I had stumbled upon the Holy Grail, the answer I had been looking for, and although the cost to join was far more than I could really afford I knew that I had to make that commitment there and then. Buy Customers Not Leads, was music to my ears. I had had my fair share of cold calling and the negativity that brings and so to think that my money would be wisely spent on buying customers made a lot of sense to me. I was also delighted to learn that part of the deal was using Veretekk to promote the business. Although I had not fully utilized Veretekk in the past I was very aware that it had great potential as a marketing tool and I was eager to get to know how to use it to best advantage. I have to say that so far I have not been disappointed. The training and support are first class and I am thoroughly enjoying all I am doing and all I am learning. The approach to the business has a simplicity about it that is very appealing. I am also delighted to be part of such a professional team. The potential here is quite mind blowing and I have no doubt that I am in the process of building the foundations for something really big. Tom Prendergast and Butch Hamilton are 3 steps ahead of the game and I would like to personally thank them for all they are doing to master mind this team. It is a privilege to be a part of it. Its Good Business is the best opportunity I will ever have and I intend to do all it takes to make it work. Thank you Janet is just one of our very successful recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 204. The Evolution of Lead Generation Techniques The Evolution of Lead Generation Techniques - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master As a Lead Generation master, I keep my eye on the lead generation business. A recent news article caught my eye this morning. According to the CEO of a company called Incisive Media, online marketing specialists will have to turn more and more to new methods of lead generation to keep up with developments in the media industry and to stay on top of new models of marketing. His company's approach is to build an online lead generation engine, where the company offers leading content in the form of whitepapers and webinars. People are allowed to gain free access in return for their contact details. Hmmm - so what's so new about this? It is still basically the same process - offer something for free in return for contact details, which are then sold or resold. All that has changed is the free stuff! And not only that, but his company charges up to $100 per lead! Veretekk has been doing this for years, with the added benefit that the contact details are made available only to the Veretekk system owner. Not only that, but the method used to sign up for the free service ensures that the Veretekk system owner's name is exposed to the prospective customer, so that he or she will already be familiar with that name when he or she is contacted by the Veretekk system owner. And with a Veretekk system, you pay a low fee once a month to generate all the leads you want. Now that is a great deal! Couple that with the Its Good Business model of buying customers to provide a solid income foundation for your business, and you can't lose. If you are sick and tired of buying worthless leads, getting rejected by all the leads you call, and losing money on leads purchases, come see us at Its Good Business. We can show you how to escape all that drudgery and frustration and build a strong and stable business. ------------------- 205. Business Opportunity Lead Generation For Your Quixtar Business Business Opportunity Lead Generation For Your Quixtar Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Quixtar Business - Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your Quixtar business. The Quixtar Sales and Marketing Plan is a low risk, low start-up cost business opportunity that is open to everyone. It allows you to build your business through retailing products and sponsoring other people who, in turn, can retail products and offer the business opportunity to others. By passing your sales and marketing knowledge to your developing team, you not only build your own business network but also enable others to build one of their own. The core of the Quixtar Sales and Marketing Plan's income opportunity is the sale of quality products and services to retail customers. As your Quixtar business grows, the rewards you earn grow in proportion. The Quixtar Sales and Marketing Plan does not compensate anybody for simply recruiting others as Independent Business Owners. Generating quality leads for your Quixtar business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do you do? As a Quixtar distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation 2) Learn how to generate your own exclusive quality leads. Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who recognize my name and are expecting my call, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 206. The Quixtar Business Opportunity The Quixtar Business Opportunity - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Looking to build a business online? Have you seen the Quixtar opportunity yet? Here is some introductory information from their website: What do you want out of life? There are as many different reasons to be in this business as there are Quixtar® Independent Business Owners (IBOs). A Quixtar business can help with those tuition bills. It can help reshape your work week. It can help you build a future for your family. It's your life and Quixtar North America, part of the Amway global business, can help you build your own business - the way you want it. Back in the 1950s, Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel were sales reps for a vitamin company called Nutrilite®. They envisioned an even better sales and marketing plan, however, and created a little company called Amway to set it into motion. Working with a core group of Independent Business Owners (IBOs), they provided a new opportunity to people in the U.S., Canada, and, today, more than 3 million entrepreneurs around the world. In 1999, Quixtar was launched to combine the best aspects of Amway with the power and convenience of the internet. Three years later it became the company's exclusive opportunity in those markets. Now, Quixtar North America is making a transition to the Amway Global brand to leverage the power of the $6.8-billion business Rich and Jay built. This business opportunity features: - An industry-leading compensation plan. Quixtar is the number-one online retailer in the Health & Beauty category based on sales, and 22nd among all e-commerce sites, according to Internet Retailer magazine's "Top 500 Guide." People who register with Quixtar today become Quixtar® IBOs. By 2009, following unprecedented improvements to all aspects of the business opportunity, the rebranding of this business to better align with the global Amway® brand will be complete. ------------------- 207. Amway Leads Amway Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Amway Leads - How Well do they work? Are you building an Amway business? Amway is certainly a great product and a great business concept. Amway is a multi-level marketing, or network marketing company founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Rich DeVos. The company's name is a contraction of "American Way." Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Alticor reported sales of US$7.2 billion for the year ending December 31, 2007, marking the company’s sixth straight year of growth. Its product lines include personal care products, jewelry, electronics, Nutrilite dietary supplements, water purifiers, air purifiers, insurance and cosmetics. Amway conducts business through a number of affiliated companies in more than ninety countries and territories around the world. In the United States and Canada it now operates as Quixtar. Building Your Amway Business If you are involved in the Amway opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your Amway business. How is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLM opportunities and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions, for life. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 208. Amway Leads Generation Amway Leads Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you building an Amway business? Amway is a global leader in direct selling, with over three million Independent Business Owners (IBOs) in over 80 countries and territories around the world. No other direct selling company can compare with our longevity, stability, and global reach. For more than 45 years, Amway Corporation has enabled people to have a business of their own. Originally known for direct selling of our household cleaning products, such as SA8 Laundry Detergent and L.O.C. Liquid Organic Concentrate, our business opportunity is now supported by an excellent portfolio of hundreds of high-quality products and brands that can only be purchased through our IBOs. You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with Amway, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is so important that I will repeat it: Do not purchase leads! This is a waste of your time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your Amway business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby... You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the Amway products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% of the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of Amway, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using search engine optimization techniques to get your replicated Amway affiliate website to appear on the first page in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong and stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the Amway business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is called Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- After spending a decade struggling with starting and running 3 businesses, I was ready for a change. Let's face it, dealing with all the issues that come up everyday (employees, payroll, permits, sales etc.) is enough to drive anyone nuts. I was introduced to mlm about 9 years ago and I loved the idea of leverage and residual income. Isn't that the goal that all of us would like to achieve? The problem I have had with the industry has been bothering my friends and family, buying expensive leads, standing at street corners handing out flyers and all the other crap they tell us to do to be successful. Come on, even if I had the time and money to do this - how many other people would be willing to do this on a daily basis. As I found out, not too many. I have been left bruised, battered and a little cynical with the industry. This all changed in April 2008. This was when I was introduced to http://ItsGoodBusiness.net and the concept of Buying Customers. Instead of begging family and friends to try the products, I buy customers and let the company market to them. What a concept. My business will be made up of primarily paying customers not distributors that I need to train and motivate. Plus the selling and questions from my customers are taken care of by the company. Every time a customer orders, I make a commission. I have been equally impressed with the marketing plan that Tom Prendergast has created. I have always been looking for a way to utilize the Internet. The power and leverage that the Internet provides the average person to succeed is unparalleled. Tom has developed a way to harness that power and leverage with his Its Good Business team. The team operates like a traditional business by delegating various tasks within the group instead duplication. Tom and the other successful Internet marketers on the team have been very supportive and willing to teach what they know to be successful online. This supportive team atmosphere at Its Good Business has been refreshing. I'm learning and having fun everyday. The lessons on how to market on the Internet have been very valuable plus I'm getting paid while I learn. The team has broken all the records in the company we have partnered up with in 60 days with the Its Good Business marketing plan. I can't wait to see where we'll be in the next 60 days. Thank you Tom and the IGB team for letting me be a part of something so special. Dave Shlitemeier Dave is just one of our very successful recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 209. Lead Generation For Your Amway Business Lead Generation For Your Amway Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Amway Business - Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your Amway business. The Amway Sales and Marketing Plan is a low risk, low start-up cost business opportunity that is open to everyone. It allows you to build your business through retailing products and sponsoring other people who, in turn, can retail products and offer the business opportunity to others. By passing your sales and marketing knowledge to your developing team, you not only build your own business network but also enable others to build one of their own. The core of the Amway Sales and Marketing Plan's income opportunity is the sale of quality products and services to retail customers. As your Amway business grows, the rewards you earn grow in proportion. The Amway Sales and Marketing Plan does not compensate anybody for simply recruiting others as Independent Business Owners. Generating quality leads for your Amway business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do you do? As a Amway distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation 2) Learn how to generate your own exclusive quality leads. Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who know a bit about me, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 210. The Lead Generation Process The Lead Generation Process - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Have you ever purchased leads for your business? Did you ever wonder how these leads were generated and why they are typically so unresponsive? Have you spent lots of money on purchased leads, only to find that a very small percentage of these leads are interested? The process of lead generation is actually very simple: offer someone a useful product or service in exchange for their contact information and permission to contact them. Then, you start sending them your marketing information. Or, if you are in the lead generation business, you will resell that contact information to companies who are willing to pay for fresh leads in whatever market you are targeting. In many cases, the companies that do this sort of thing are bringing in a broad spectrum of leads that are not really all that interested in the offers that come their way. These leads just wanted to get something for free. This is especially true in the home business industry. There are tons of lead generation sites out there that give away free stuff, and usually there will be a checkbox on the page (already checked off) that indicates that the person filling out the form would like to receive information on starting a home business, when all the person really wanted was the free stuff. Then the contact information is resold many times over. The result? The lead gets all kinds of phone calls from people he or she never heard of, trying to recruit them for many different kinds of business opportunities. No wonder these kinds of leads are almost worthless! Now of course you can increase the quality of the leads by giving more targeted free stuff. Some lead generation companies all also 'survey' the leads by phone to further qualify them. These types of leads are of better quality, and of course are more expensive. But you still run into the same problem - when you call they have never heard of you and so are hesitant to enter into any sort of discussion. Unless you are a master closer you will experience a lot of frustration and rejection. So what's the solution? How about a completely new approach: instead of beating your head against a brick wall and sinking thousands of dollars and hours of time into worthless leads, why not buy actual customers for your business? You don't have to market to them, you don't have to contact them, you don't even have to encourage them to buy products. They already are buying products, and all you do is purchase the lifetime rights to earn commissions on their purchases. Doesn't this sound like a better solution to building a business? Come see us at and we'll show you how it is done. No obligation, serious business builders only! ------------------- 211. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Business Opportunity Lead Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Would you like to know the secret to generating the best leads for your business? There is lots of information, tools and software promotions online lately that promise to teach you the secret of generating good quality business opportunity leads. What is this secret anyway? Is there really a secret? Think about this for a second: if you were privy to a great secret that no-one else knew, and that was making you a lot of money, would you sell it to other people? Or would you continue to exploit it and continue pulling in all that cash? I know which one I would do! There is no real secret. What there is, is knowledge or an idea which you yourself have not yet come across. Do you want to generate quality leads for your business? Sure, there are great online systems that can help. But do not rely solely on such online tools. The process of generating leads, like any other discipline, is hard work. Automation helps, but personal effort is the real key. The real secret to lead generation, is to establish yourself as an expert in your selected niche, and then to tell people about it! Study leading sites in the niche you have chosen and get information and ideas from them. Learn all you can about your business and the niche you have chosen, and write about it. Issue Press Releases whenever something happens in your business. Write Ezine articles about your business. Set up a blog. Write, write, write and do it consistently! And never stop studying your niche. Become an expert! And. most importantly, ensure that your name and contact details are included in everything you write, and that you state clearly that you are an expert in the niche you have chosen. For example, look at my byline at the top of this article. My chosen niche is Business Opportunity Lead Generation. And so, I tag everything I write with the tag Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master. Continue this consistently, day after day, and eventually your name will become associated with the keyword phrases you have chosen on the internet. People will start to view you as an specialist in your chosen market. When that happens, leads will start to call you! And when that happens, your income will start to skyrocket. Now, this will take time and effort on your part. But keep in mind that, if you work at this consistently, you will be far ahead of most other online business owners who are not willing to put in the time and effort required. Be consistent. Be focused. Become the expert, and you will build a popular business! Of course, while you are working at branding your name in this manner, it would be good to be able to bring in some income... Here's what I do: I buy customers! That is what we do over at Its Good Business. We do not buy leads. We buy customers to provide a solid reliable source of income for our businesses. Our lead generation is focused solely on attracting business-minded people who want to become our business partners in this new business model We do not need to convert leads into customers. Because of the manner in which we generate our business opportunity leads, we do not have to work very hard to convince people to join our businesses. By the time we talk to them, they have already sold themselves. I can tell you from personal experience, this approach sure takes away a lot of the pressure, stress and frustration associated with building a business on the internet. Come see us at and we will show you how it is done. ------------------- 212. Business Opportunity Lead Generation and the Veretekk Platinum Control Panel Business Opportunity Lead Generation and the Veretekk Platinum Control Panel - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Those of you who have seen my articles before know that I am a fan of the Veretekk Marketing System. This system, which has always been very powerful, has now reached a whole new level of power with the release of the new Platinum Control Panel. The Veretekk Platinum Control Panel is an integrated management system. It allows you the ability to configure all of your Veretekk Gold System portals, all 41 of them, from on central control panel. If you have more than one Veretekk Gold system, as you should if you intend to dominate the search engines, then you no longer have to log into each system and manually configure the system to target your select keyword phrases. If you have not yet configured a Veretekk system, you may not realize the importance of having this function. Veretekk configuration is a time consuming process. It would try the patience of Job. I know, as I have configured a few of these systems for myself. Sitting in front of my PC, and having to click to add the title, meta tag and keywords, is a mundane, repetitive task, but it is essential to get your systems configured properly. This is how you dominate the search engines for your selected keyword phrases. The Veretekk Platinum Control Panel allows you to do this process very quickly. This makes it extremely useful, especially if you have multiple Gold Accounts, which I highly recommend. Having this type of promotion tool working with your other online promotions boosts not only your URLs, but also your name recognition on the search engines. This frees up your time to attend to the most important element in marketing successfully on Google: writing keyword specific content. Keyword rich content is the key to marketing successfully on Google. Google is about one thing: good and relevant information. When you place benefits and solutions information on Google, in the right keyword specific manner, you will get visitors to view your information. The Veretekk Platinum Control Panel will allow you much more time freedom to pursue your writing routine. The Veretekk Control Panel is all this and more, but let's talk about what it is not. This business management system will not make you rich quick. This system will not make you wealthy for no effort. If you think that you can simply come in here, spend $2970 for the beta version, and gain instant notoriety and presence on Google for no effort, then you will be sadly disappointed. There is absolutely nothing that can make you money instantly online. It all requires work, effort, consistency and writing good content. When you get out of the get-rich-quick mentality and start thinking as a business person, you stand a very good chance of making money. In my professional opinion, the Veretekk Platinum Control Panel should be made a part of your marketing routine. It will supercharge your online efforts with a very compact and simple to use business system that will allow you to get your sites listed on the top of Google, Yahoo, MSN and all the other major search engines. I would highly recommend this service to anyone wishing to improve your online business. Multiple Veretekk systems and the new Platinum Control Panel are a very important part of our strategy at Its Good Business. The new control panel makes it much easier for team leaders to get new business associates up to speed very quickly on what they need to do to contribute to the team. Our strategy is simple at Its Good Business: we buy customers for our businesses. We do not purchase leads. We do not cold call anyone. And we use the power of the Veretekk system, now enhanced with the new Platinum Control Panel, to drive massive traffic to our main presentation site, from an ever-growing list of keyword categories and phrases. Come join us as we make online business history! ------------------- 213. Lead Generation For Your Avon Business Lead Generation For Your Avon Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Avon Business We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your Avon business. You need a business where the entire company works as a team and equips all members of the team with powerful tools and resources to be successful at any level of participation. Avon Products, Inc. markets its products to women in well over 100 countries through over 5 million independent Avon Sales Representatives. Avon's Five Values, and their Principles as expressed by the company's Founder have served as a continuing source of strength throughout Avon's proud history; and they remain at the heart of who they are. - To Provide individuals an opportunity to earn in support of their well-being and happiness. - To Serve families throughout the world with products of the highest quality backed by a guarantee of satisfaction. - To Render a service to customers that is outstanding in its helpfulness and courtesy. - To Render full recognition to employees and Representatives, on whose contributions Avon depends. - To Give with others the rewards of growth and success - To Meet fully the obligations of corporate citizenship by contributing to the well-being of society and the environment in which it functions. - To Maintain and cherish the friendly spirit of Avon. Without question, Avon is the leader among make-up products for women. The success is well founded in solid business principles that are clearly defined. Generating quality leads for your Avon business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do we do? As a Avon distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation 2) Learn how to generate your own exclusive quality leads. Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who know a bit about me, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 214. Business Opportunity Lead Generation: Avon Leads Business Opportunity Lead Generation: Avon Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Avon Leads - How Well do they work? Are you building an Avon business? Avon is certainly a great product and a great concept. Avon Products, Inc. markets its products to women in well over 100 countries through over 5 million independent Avon Sales Representatives. Avon's Five Values, and their Principles as expressed by the company's Founder, David H. McConnell, have served as a continuing source of strength throughout Avon's proud history; and they remain at the heart of who they are. - To Provide individuals an opportunity to earn in support of their well-being and happiness. - To Serve families throughout the world with products of the highest quality backed by a guarantee of satisfaction. - To Render a service to customers that is outstanding in its helpfulness and courtesy. - To Render full recognition to employees and Representatives, on whose contributions Avon depends. - To Give with others the rewards of growth and success - To Meet fully the obligations of corporate citizenship by contributing to the well-being of society and the environment in which it functions. - To Maintain and cherish the friendly spirit of Avon. Without question, Avon is the leader among make-up products for women. The success is well founded in solid business principles that are clearly defined.
If you are involved in the Avon opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your Avon business. How is this working for you? When I was in the Network Marketing game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The Network Marketing company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this Network Marketing business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my Network Marketing business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor The last point was a particular favorite of mine. I remember a so-called special promotion once, whereby we were told that if we doubled our product orders for 6 months we would get some special reward at the next convention. Having dutifully done that, I attended the convention. Sure enough, all of us who qualified were told to stay around after the main presentations were over for the day. I was excited! And the big reward? We got to shake the hands of our upline diamond! What a disappointment. You can bet I soon dropped out of that Network Marketing company! None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the Network Marketing world? I know I did, after trying many different Network Marketing Opportunities and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an Network Marketing business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our Network Marketing company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 215. Global Resorts Network Lead Generation Global Resorts Network Lead Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you building a Global Resorts Network business? Global Resorts Network was launched in 2007 as a new marketing arm for one of the most prestigious Private Membership Clubs on earth, creating an exciting new home business unlike anything else offered. For over 20 years, this VIP Luxury Resort Membership has been sold exclusively to high net worth individuals via private sales presentations. Global Resorts Network is offering the exact same Luxury Resort Membership at the best price ever offered in the membership's 21 year history. This is your opportunity to revolutionize the $86 Billion luxury travel industry. Global Resorts Network has recently become the exclusive online marketer for the world's most prestigious Private Luxury Membership and will pay you up to $1,000 for every referred member, as well as residual $500 and $1000 commissions. You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with Global Resorts Network, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is so important that I will repeat it: Do not purchase leads! This is a waste of your time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales and loves doing business in this manner, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your Global Resorts Network business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby, right? You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the Global Resorts Network yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% of the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of Global Resorts Network, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using search engine optimization techniques to get your replicated Global Resorts Network affiliate website to appear on the first page in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong and stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the Global Resorts Network business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is called Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- What a ride thus far.......a month and a half in "Its Good Business", and as of today the volume shows me as qualifying for a 2 Star BA. Believe it or not, all the numbers are not yet in for month's end, as team members were enrolling new affiliates right up to the midnight hour! Unbelievable! Never have I worked with such a team of dedicated people; committed to the success of each and every one of us. Tremendous leadership; one of a kind business model; prestigious marketing system, coupled with priceless training from top notch people in the industry, all designed for optimum success! I am simply beyond comprehending this whirlwind voyage thus far...Cannot wait to get up everyday, as the sun peaks up over the horizon; lets me know... I have finally found true success! Thank you Tom Prendergast, Susan Bennett and the entire team for welcoming me aboard. I am truly blessed! Kim Buchanan Kim is just one of our very successful recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 216. Its Good Business For Everyone Its Good Business For Everyone - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master As use of the internet grows, more and more internet-savvy consumers and businesses are finding that social networks are a great way to network with like minded individuals. With the popularity of Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and other less well known social networking sites, people are growing their sphere of influence in leaps and bounds. One new social network is showing people the right way to meet people with social networking, and the right way to build a business without all the hype traditionally seen on the internet. Based on a Buy Customers and Not Leads model, members are coming together in a social setting to share their experiences. The result: a much less stressful manner of building a home business. No longer do online entrepreneurs have to venture into the shark infested networks where so-called marketers and gurus jump on new people in order to get them into their deal of the day, promising thousands of dollars overnight in some get rich quick scheme. At times in the past I ventured into these social networks, with disastrous results. No sooner would I sign up and express interest in business, than my email inbox would be inundated with all sorts of get rich schemes and worse. Yet I knew that these networks could, if used properly, be a great source of leads for my business. With this new business model, which we call Its Good Business, we are all learning how to use these social networks responsibly and ethically to build businesses based on solid, proven results - not hype. And man, does it work! After less than 2 months using this model, starting from scratch, I have over 100 customers who regularly purchase products from which I derive commissions, and I already have one distributor in my sales organization. The social network, located at http://itsgoodbusiness.ning.com/, has just launched. Membership is expected to grow exponentially as this new business model becomes known on the internet. Come join us today and find out how we do what we do. ------------------- 217. Global Resorts Network Leads Global Resorts Network Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Global Resorts Network Leads - How Well do they work? Are you building a Global Resorts Network business? Global Resorts Network is certainly a great product and a great concept. Global Resorts Network was launched in 2007 as a new marketing arm for one of the most prestigious Private Membership Clubs on earth, creating an exciting new home business unlike anything else offered. For over 20 years, this VIP Luxury Resort Membership has been sold exclusively to high net worth individuals via private sales presentations. Global Resorts Network is offering the exact same Luxury Resort Membership at the best price ever offered in the membership's 21 year history. This is your opportunity to revolutionize the $86 Billion luxury travel industry. Global Resorts Network has recently become the exclusive online marketer for the world's most prestigious Private Luxury Membership and will pay you up to $1,000 for every referred member, as well as residual $500 and $1000 commissions. Building Your Global Resorts Network Business If you are involved in the Global Resorts Network opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your Global Resorts Network business. How is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLM opportunities and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions, for life. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 218. Lead Generation For Your Global Resorts Network Business Lead Generation For Your Global Resorts Network Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Global Resorts Network Business - Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your Global Resorts Network business. Global Resorts Network officially launched in March 2007 as a new "marketing arm" for one of the most prestigious Private Membership Clubs on earth, creating an exciting new home business unlike anything else offered. For over 20 years, this VIP Luxury Resort Membership has been sold exclusively to high net worth individuals via private sales presentations. Now, for the first time ever, Global Resorts Network is offering the exact same Luxury Resort Membership at the best price ever offered in the membership's 21 year history. This is your opportunity to revolutionize the $86 Billion luxury travel industry. Global Resorts Network has recently become the exclusive online marketer for the world's most prestigious Private Luxury Membership and will pay you up to $1,000 for every referred member, as well as residual $500 and $1000 commissions. Generating quality leads for your Global Resorts Network business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do we do? As a Global Resorts Network distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation 2) Learn how to generate your own exclusive quality leads. Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who know a bit about me, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 219. eCreditShield Lead Generation eCreditShield Lead Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you building an eCreditShield business? The eCreditShield Wealth Generation system provides a simple, easy to use, totally turn-key marketing and CRM solution to accelerate your path to financial freedom. For the extremely low-cost of the Silver and Gold Plans, ECS members receive access to thousands of dollars worth of tools, resources and strategies to achieve total and complete Financial Independence. Many business opportunities focus on only one element of the multifaceted idea of financial independence and that is earning extra income. eCreditShield focuses on all aspects of establishing, retaining and protecting the true Concept of Financial Freedom. Our members receive unprecedented advantages and benefits, never before offered in one place. You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with eCreditShield, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is so important that I will repeat it: Do not purchase leads! This is a waste of your time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your eCreditShield business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby, right? You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the eCreditShield products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% of the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of eCreditShield, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using search engine optimization techniques to get your replicated eCreditShield affiliate website to appear on the first page in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong and stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the eCreditShield business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is called Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- WOW, how time flies when we are having fun ... hard to believe my personal IGB journey began just shy of 3 months ago, and what an adventure so far! 2-Star BA in 3 weeks, 3-Star BA in first full month, 4-Star BA in 2nd full month, and headed toward Director ... and, I am on Tom's 5th level! Just shows what's possible when you wrap your mind around what we have here. It's an honor and a privilege to work with a team of incredible people who GET what this is all about! We now have 25 BAs and over 900 customers and growing daily! Still not even breathing hard nor sweating What's mind blowing for me is that we've only just begun, and there is so much more to come, and yet it is already beyond exciting to see the results we are achieving as we move toward full speed ahead! As soon as this week, we will become Tom's first "satellite" marketing center, and we will have our first of two Platinum Panels for our team. So much to look forward to! Every day holds new and amazing wonders here ... it's all VERY GOOD BUSINESS! It's thrilling to watch as Tom has stepped into the marketing of our parent company and is honing Veretekk into a finely tuned SEO engine and our parent company into a HYBRID concept of non-MLM with our unique IGB Business Plan ... it just keeps getting better all the time, and no telling where things are headed with respect to marketing and sales now that we have the new Platinum Control Panel ... we are totally on board with this phenomenal SEO tool ... CONGRATS to Tom and Mike for your latest creation, and thanks for your tireless dedication to ensuring success for all of us always and in all ways! JOBS WELL DONE! Look out Google, here we come! A special thanks, too to Al Gonzales and Butch Hamilton, and to everyone on the IGB team! Prosperous regards,
Susan is just one of our very successful recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 220. eCreditShield Leads eCreditShield Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master eCreditShield Leads - How Well do they work? Are you building a eCreditShield business? eCreditShield is certainly a great product and a great concept. The eCreditShield Wealth Generation system provides a simple, easy to use, totally turn-key marketing and CRM solution to accelerate your path to financial freedom. For the extremely low-cost of the Silver and Gold Plans, ECS members receive access to thousands of dollars worth of tools, resources and strategies to achieve total and complete Financial Independence. Many business opportunities focus on only one element of the multifaceted idea of financial independence and that is earning extra income. eCreditShield focuses on all aspects of establishing, retaining and protecting the true Concept of Financial Freedom. Our members receive unprecedented advantages and benefits, never before offered in one place. Building Your eCreditShield Business If you are involved in the eCreditShield opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your eCreditShield business. How is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLM opportunities and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions, for life. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 221. EDC Gold Lead Generation EDC Gold Lead Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you building a EDC Gold business? With the EDC Gold Opportunity you have the power to generate tremendous income opportunity, and EDC Gold's model couldn't be any simpler. Among tons of reasons, here's the top 6 reasons that make EDC Gold the No. 1 Business on the Internet Today :- - You make big money here. Tons of it. EDC Gold has recorded the fastest industry growth rates with a solid track record of success - $10,367,769.00 in sales by its members since March 2006. The Marketing System is proven, tried, tested and has credibility. - You're paid 100% of your commissions immediately deposited directly in your bank account. No waiting for bi-weekly paychecks after you've done all the work. - You're paid at 3 levels - EDC Diamond - $1500 , EDC Gold - $997 and Easy Daily Cash - $397. Anyone that visits you're site and wants to start a business has not 1 but 3 affordable options to choose from. You don't turn anyone away cause they can't afford it. Very important for your cash-flow. - Top Rated Live hands-on training from Internet Multi-millionaires and the owners themselves- they've made money and teach you exactly what they do STEP-BY-STEP and LIVE. Not some Joe Bloe's still experimenting themselves. - Unmatched live telephone support helping you run all aspects of your business step-by-step. You have access to the best in marketing support anytime you hit a roadblock or need assistance. This ongoing support is critical. How can you fail with this kind of support ? - Real high value digital products that teach you how to drive traffic to your website. This is your No. 1 marketing problem solved and it's the way of the future. It all sounds great, doesn't it? But consider this: The World Wide Web has drastically changed the way that people run their companies. It has also played a major role in influencing the methods used by network marketers to generate leads for their MLM businesses. You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with EDC Gold, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is so importantthat I will repeat it: Do not purchase leads! This is a waste of your time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your EDC Gold business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby, right? You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the EDC Gold products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% of the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of EDC Gold, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using search engine optimization techniques to get your replicated EDC Gold affiliate website to appear on the first page in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong and stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the EDC Gold business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is called Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- What a ride thus far.......a month and a half in "Its Good Business", and as of today the volume shows me as qualifying for a 2 Star BA. Believe it or not, all the numbers are not yet in for month's end, as team members were enrolling new affiliates right up to the midnight hour! Unbelievable! Never have I worked with such a team of dedicated people; committed to the success of each and every one of us. Tremendous leadership; one of a kind business model; prestigious marketing system, coupled with priceless training from top notch people in the industry, all designed for optimum success! I am simply beyond comprehending this whirlwind voyage thus far...Cannot wait to get up everyday, as the sun peaks up over the horizon; lets me know... I have finally found true success! Thank you Tom Prendergast, Susan Bennett and the entire team for welcoming me aboard. I am truly blessed! Kim Buchanan Kim is just one of our recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 222. Business Opportunity Lead Generation: EDC Gold Leads Business Opportunity Lead Generation: EDC Gold Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master EDC Gold Leads - How Well do they work? Are you building a EDC Gold business? EDC Gold is certainly a great product and a great concept. EDC brings you a simple, transparent method of doing successful business online. EDC Gold lets you in on their marketing secrets, they guide you through the steps and they give you the tips to help you successfully earn upwards of $4000 a day online through EDC Diamond, EDC Gold and EDC. No jargon-rich emails to bore you, no flash presentations to stump you - it's all step-by-step and personal. EDC has found a way around critical issues that have barred your way to success with other online business programs. They will put you directly on the springing board with a sophisticated closing website complete with the top sales system on the Internet. Building Your EDC Gold Business If you are involved in the EDC Gold opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your EDC Gold business. How is this working for you? When I was in the Network Marketing game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The Network Marketing company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this Network Marketing business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my Network Marketing business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor The last point was a particular favorite of mine. I remember a so-called special promotion once, whereby we were told that if we doubled our product orders for 6 months we would get some special reward at the next convention. Having dutifully done that, I attended the convention. Sure enough, all of us who qualified were told to stay around after the main presentations were over for the day. I was excited! And the big reward? We got to shake the hands of our upline diamond! What a disappointment. You can bet I soon dropped out of that Network Marketing company! None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the Network Marketing world? I know I did, after trying many different Network Marketings and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an Network Marketing business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our Network Marketing company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 223. Lead Generation For Your EDC Gold Business Lead Generation For Your EDC Gold Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your EDC Gold Business We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your EDC Gold business. EDC brings you a simple, transparent method of doing successful business online. We let you in on our marketing secrets, we guide you through the steps and we give you the tips to help you successfully earn upwards of $4000 a day online through EDC Diamond, EDC Gold and EDC. No jargon-rich emails to bore you, no flash presentations to stump you - it's all step-by-step and personal. EDC has found a way around critical issues that have barred your way to success with other online business programs. We put you directly on the springing board with a sophisticated Closing Website complete with the top sales system on the Internet. Generating quality leads for your EDC Gold business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do we do? As a EDC Gold distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who know a bit about me, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 224. A new MLM Business Model A new MLM Business Model - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master In case you haven't noticed yet, there is a paradigm shift going on in the MLM business world on Google. People are become disgruntled at the old ways of conducting a business online. The strategy of duplication is now being replaced by delegation. This new breed of savvy entrepreneur is becoming educated about how the search engines work and how to get their sites noticed by visitors looking for vital information. This new business model is called Its Good Business, and it is taking the online business world by storm. Up until now, the MLM business model has been closely followed by nearly all the multi-level companies on Google. They simply build a program around a product or service, then use email blasts, classified advertising, or calling in friends and spheres of influence, usually with lots of hype, to attract people looking for easy money. Then they sell these people on the concept of 'buying from themselves', and another MLM company is born. The distributors are taught to recruit other distributors, all of whom are buying the product or service only because they want to qualify for commissions. The result? An organization of hungry salespeople that will eventually collapse. Not so in this paradigm shift towards real business online. Highly trained and sophisticated Internet warriors are now being groomed to take over the entire MLM industry. These people are wise to the ways of online marketing. They have chosen to educate themselves before jumping into an online business. Their goal is to build lucrative and stable work from home businesses correctly. They choose to be bold and aggressive with their internet marketing. They are not satisfied with the results that they have seen with the old hypes and lies that have plagued this industry for years. They know that there is no such thing as Get Rich Quick. This paradigm shift was inevitable. The MLM industry by and large has been responsible for far too many good people losing their hard earned dollars while looking for a good business to be part of. People are becoming wise to seductive phrases such as "jump on board with me, get rich quick, get rich on the net with no effort, buy the big house on the hill, drive the expensive sports cars" and all the rest of the digital trash they have been subjected to on Google. This paradigm shift in the MLM industry is a breath of fresh air to a dying industry. Once upon a time, all a person really had do was to join an online business and follow the leadership of the upline. You stood a good chance of making some money if you worked tirelessly and diligently. This is not the case in today's marketing world. More and more people are realizing that reading the policies and procedures before pushing that "I Accept" button is the first thing that must be accomplished. This positive effect is going to be far ranging in the overall MLM industry. Already many people who were disillusioned or disgusted with their past attempts at MLM, are seeing success that they never thought possible. Success is possible, with the right tools, the right training, and a powerful team. If you, too are tired of all the hypes and lies, and need a breath of fresh air. come see us at No lies, No bull, No hype. Just a business model that works. But beware: we only accept serious business builders. If you think this is a get rich quick scheme, go somewhere else. We build businesses, not dreams! 225. ACN Lead Generation ACN Lead Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you building a ACN business? With the ACN Opportunity you have the power to generate tremendous income opportunity, and ACN's model couldn't be any simpler. ACN bypasses traditional advertising outlets and working with Independent Representatives passes savings directly onto the customers...while positioning the representative to build a lucrative business of their very own. By simply acquiring a customer once, you can get paid on that customer for as long as they continue to use the services...up to 10%. And by teaching others to do exactly the same thing, you can get paid for their efforts too. The higher you go in ACN, the larger your organization grows, and the more money you are positioned to earn. The World Wide Web has drastically changed the way that people run their companies. It has also played a major role in influencing the methods used by network marketers to generate leads for their MLM businesses. You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with ACN, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is a waste of time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your ACN business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby, right? You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the ACN products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% of the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of ACN, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using search engine optimization techniques to get your replicated ACN affiliate website to appear on the first page in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong and stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the ACN business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is called Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- Are CEO Tom Prendergast "Hit The nail On the Head" because it is definitely GOOD BUSINESS! Never before have I been in a TRUE business over the internet where I'm treated as a professional in my field and rewarded for it. Never before have I seen LEADERSHIP in this industry that produces loyal soldiers that will accomplish tasks which drives mission success. Never before have I seen TEAMWORK from people all over the globe come together as one for the good of ItsGoodBusiness Vision! My initial investment was small and now my returns are substantial. And it continues to grow. This is the real deal. We are all over the internet and soon everyone will know what and who we are and how we are doing it. Robby Young Robby is just one of our recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 226. Lead Generation For Your ACN Business Lead Generation For Your ACN Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your ACN Business is Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your ACN business. With the ACN Opportunity you have the power to generate tremendous income opportunity, and ACN's model couldn't be any simpler. ACN bypasses traditional advertising outlets and working with Independent Representatives passes savings directly onto the customers...while positioning the representative to build a lucrative business of their very own. By simply acquiring a customer once, you can get paid on that customer for as long as they continue to use the services...up to 10%. And by teaching others to do exactly the same thing, you can get paid for their efforts too. The higher you go in ACN, the larger your organization grows, and the more money you are positioned to earn. ACN's Compensation Plan Is Unparalleled! - Immediate and Ongoing Bonus Income - Give your monthly income an immediate boost by qualifying for bonuses and reaping cash rewards - Growth Income - Earn commissions and bonuses on your personal production as well as on your downline's sponsorship efforts. - Wealth-Building Income - Receive unlimited income potential! ACN's plan also provides overriding monthly residuals of up to 8% of your entire downline's production. Generating quality leads for your ACN business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do we do? As a ACN distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who know a bit about me, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 227. Building a Business? Think Like a CEO Building a Business? Think Like a CEO I had an interesting discussion this week with one of my ItsGoodBusiness (IGB) business partners, and I thought I would share it with you. Jim has recently joined my IGB team after years of trying to build an online business. As you know from past articles, our IGB business model is based on buying customers, not marketing to acquire customers. We think like CEOs - we outsource our customer acquisition to a company who can do a much better job of that than we can, and concentrate on working as part of team who does massive marketing to attract new business partners. Jim was still in the old mindset of doing everything himself. He kept asking me if he should be setting up websites to promote our products and sell them on the internet. I tried various ways to explain our business model, and he finally got it! Here in part is my reply to Jim: ----------- A lot of MLM companies now are advertising their products on TV and in magazines, I presume because they see their industry failing. When doing this, they undercut their distributors. The distributors do not get any benefit from these advertising campaigns, other than recognition of the brand name. With our MLM company, of course, the story is different. Our company does extensive infomercials on different cable networks and radio stations, and I believe in some trade magazines. We directly benefit from this, because we can buy these customers. We don't have to market to them, we don't have to call them, we don't have to convert them to product buyers, we don't have to babysit them in any way. The company does all that for us. Personally, I see no benefit in developing a website to promote my MLM affiliate sites. The company does a very good job of promoting their flagship products, all I have to do is buy the customers. I think my time and effort is better spent on acquiring new BAs (Business Associates). You can, of course, still acquire customers on your own. Use the products, find something that you like, and share that with people that you know. That's all you really need to do. My point is why put all that effort into doing something that is already being done? Concentrate on the team effort - attracting people who are interested in building a business. That's where the real money is. Let's look at what would be involved in developing and marketing a site to promote your own MLM site: - You get the domain and an associated Veretekk system. - You will also need to start developing backlinks from other sites to all of your promotional sites. It is also a good idea to develop splash pages promoting your main site and insert those into one or more traffic exchanges. Then there's all the Web 2.0 ad social bookmarking stuff that you would also have to do. And in all of this, you are on your own, no-one else is promoting your site except you... In addition to all of this, you will presumably continue to work as part of the IGB team doing whatever task or tasks you have been assigned. All of this and much more is required to get your site noticed by the search engines. And it will take a lot of time and effort since you will be the only one doing it. Now consider what we are doing in IGB: We buy customers. That's all we have to do to build a stable income base for our businesses. Sure we can develop a few customers on our own, but this is not all that important and can be done at our leisure. The IGB team is as we speak putting together a 'customer calling center'. These people will call each and every customer in the entire IGB organization just to touch base and put out some feelers to see if any of them might be interested in becoming a BA. So we don't even have to do that unless we want to. All of the tasks I mentioned above are or will soon be in place to promote our main IGB site to attract business people, particularly from other MLM companies. And as you work as part of the team, your name will get noticed and some of these leads will probably call you, just as you called me. Its already happening to some IGB members, and our marketing campaign has barely gotten underway. What you need to use your Veretekk system for, in addition to promoting the IGB site, is to develop your 'sphere of influence' to whom you can expose this business. You do this by developing your personal "Bully Pulpit" which you send out once a week to the leads collected by your system, and by setting up your Veretekk Market Center to promote the IGB site. We'll show you how to do all that. This is how you get your own BAs. - We have thousands of blogs in place with teams of people producing daily keyword-specific content. So unless you want to be a blogger you don't have to do that. You can still participate by posting to any one of the superblogs that Tom has set up, you don't have to be part of the blogger team. - Tom has a series of autoresponder letters which he is going to give to us to use in our Veretekk systems to promote IGB. So we don't have to do much here, other than perhaps personalizing them a bit. - Tom is now setting up a series of forums which are driven from our Veretekk RSS feeds, so we will soon have a series of super-forums just like we now have super-blogs. All we have to do is write something on a regular basis and post it in one place. - There will be a team of people set up to promote IGB on the traffic exchanges. One more thing we don't have to worry about unless it is of interest. - There will be a team of people set up to promote IGB using Web 2.0 and Social Bookmarking strategies. I know next to nothing about this area and may participate just to learn. - Tom is going to be setting up radio advertising campaigns to promote IGB. I would certainly not have the expertise nor the capital to do something like this. - There will be a team of people to develop backlinks to the main IGB site to help with Search Engine rankings. This is one area I'm interested in so I will join this team. And in all of this we are not working alone. We will get some BAs from the team effort. As long as we are contributing to the team effort, we will get customers from those above us who are buying up to 100 customers a month, in addition to the ones we purchase on our own. So we don't have to learn and do everything before we can be successful. The best use of your time and effort is to work with the team and start to get a picture of how all this fits together. Don't worry about customers - buy them! We are getting an incredible education here in how internet promotion is really done, and once we understand how it all fits together, we could take that model and apply it to any other business, and be successful in very short order. I hope this has opened your eyes to the possibilities of this new co-operative business model that we call Its Good Business. As always, if you want a free no-obligation introduction to our concept, come see us at and we'll show you how its done. This works folks! 228. Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Youngevity Opportunity Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Youngevity Opportunity - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you building a Youngevity business? Youngevity sounds like a great product and a great concept. Youngevity is a name synonymous with worldwide health, beauty, and youthful energy. For more than 40 years it has been the founder, Dr. Wallach's mission to bring accurate and timely health information to the world. Youngevity's mission is to bring you the finest array of technologically advanced essential and beneficial nutritional products. Working hand-in-hand with Dr. Wallach, Youngevity is the only network marketing company to have an authorized FDA Health Claim. In fact, Youngevity and Dr. Wallach have two authorized Health Claim Petitions through the FDA. These petitions are expensive and time consuming to file. Youngevity does this in an effort to provide more truthful health information to the general public for better health. Youngevity Essential Life Sciences is a nutritional company dedicated to improving lifestyles by promoting vibrant health and flourishing economics. Since 1991, Youngevity has been providing innovative health care products to satisfied customers. This stability provides a solid foundation for your business. The company uses a simple, proven approach to help you introduce their state-of-the-art products to people worldwide. Imagine waking up each day full of energy and vitality, functioning at top form, both mentally and physically, having that unmistakable glow of radiant good health.... That's what Youngevity is all about! Dr. Wallach is nationally known as 'The Mineral Doctor.' But he could easily be The Millionaire-Maker. That's because Dr. Wallach has helped a growing number of alert entrepreneurs reach their dreams of owning a million-dollar business. And he's done it by showing them how to help end America's mineral deficiency crisis. Dr. Wallach promotes Youngevity including the Majestic Earth® line of liquid colloidals and vitamins, - formulated from organic colloidal trace minerals literally mined from a prehistoric plant deposit. Youngevity products, complete with personal care, household and pet products could be your ticket to reaching your financial goals. Building a Youngevity Business You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with Youngevity, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is a waste of time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your Youngevity business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby, right? You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the Youngevity products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% of the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of Youngevity, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using internet marketing techniques to get your Youngevity affiliate website to appear on the first few pages in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the Youngevity business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is call Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- What a ride thus far.......a month and a half in “Its Good Business”, and as of today the volume shows me as qualifying for a 2 Star BA. Believe it or not, all the numbers are not yet in for month’s end, as team members were enrolling new affiliates right up to the midnight hour! Unbelievable! Never have I worked with such a team of dedicated people; committed to the success of each and every one of us. Tremendous leadership; one of a kind business model; prestigious marketing system, coupled with priceless training from top notch people in the industry, all designed for optimum success! I am simply beyond comprehending this whirlwind voyage thus far...Cannot wait to get up everyday, as the sun peaks up over the horizon; lets me know... I have finally found true success! Thank you Tom Prendergast, Susan Bennett and the entire team for welcoming me aboard. I am truly blessed! Kim Buchanan ------------------ Kim is just one of our recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 229. Lead Generation For Your Youngevity Business Lead Generation For Your Youngevity Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Youngevity Business is Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your Youngevity business. The success of your independent Youngevity network marketing distributorship is directly related to relationships - relationships with customers, other Youngevity Associates and the company. Success is measured in many ways including lifestyle, financial freedom and accomplishing personal goals. Tied closely to your business success is the company's distributor support structure and the method by which Youngevity will compensate you. Experience has shown that a simple, rewarding and well defined compensation plan is the key in planning your efforts for maximum return and effectiveness. Youngevity has a very simple and straight forward plan that achieves these goals. As you study the Youngevity Plan , you will find that it is very concise and simple to explain. You will find that the plan can lead to success and rewards for you as well as those who join the Youngevity team. Generating quality leads for your Youngevity business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do we do? As a Youngevity distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who know a bit about me, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 230. Business Opportunity Lead Generation: Youngevity® Leads Business Opportunity Lead Generation: Youngevity® Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Youngevity® Leads - How Well do they work? Are you building a Youngevity® business? Youngevity® is certainly a great product and a great concept. Youngevity® is a name synonymous with worldwide health, beauty, and youthful energy. For more than 40 years it has been the founder, Dr. Wallach's mission to bring accurate and timely health information to the world. Youngevity®'s mission is to bring you the finest array of technologically advanced essential and beneficial nutritional products. Working hand-in-hand with Dr. Wallach, Youngevity® is the only network marketing company to have an authorized FDA Health Claim. In fact, Youngevity® and Dr. Wallach have two authorized Health Claim Petitions through the FDA. These petitions are expensive and time consuming to file. Youngevity® does this in an effort to provide more truthful health information to the general public for better health. Youngevity® Essential Life Sciences is a nutritional company dedicated to improving lifestyles by promoting vibrant health and flourishing economics. Since 1991, Youngevity® has been providing innovative health care products to satisfied customers. This stability provides a solid foundation for your business. The company uses a simple, proven approach to help you introduce their state-of-the-art products to people worldwide. Imagine waking up each day full of energy and vitality, functioning at top form, both mentally and physically, having that unmistakable glow of radiant good health.... That's what Youngevity® is all about! Dr. Wallach is nationally known as 'The Mineral Doctor.' But he could easily be The Millionaire-Maker. That's because Dr. Wallach has helped a growing number of alert entrepreneurs reach their dreams of owning a million-dollar business. And he's done it by showing them how to help end America's mineral deficiency crisis. Dr. Wallach promotes Youngevity® including the Majestic Earth® line of liquid colloidals and vitamins, - formulated from organic colloidal trace minerals literally mined from a prehistoric plant deposit. Youngevity® products, complete with personal care, household and pet products could be your ticket to reaching your financial goals. Building Your Youngevity Business If you are involved in the Youngevity® opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your Youngevity® business. How well is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor The last point was a particular favorite of mine. I remember a so-called special promotion once, whereby we were told that if we doubled our product orders for 6 months we would get some special reward at the next convention. Having dutifully done that, I attended the convention. Sure enough, all of us who qualified were told to stay around after the main presentations were over for the day. I was excited! And the big reward? We got to shake the hands of our upline diamond! What a disappointment. You can bet I soon dropped out of that MLM company! None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLMs and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 231. Lead Generation For Your FreedomRocks Business Lead Generation For Your FreedomRocks Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your FreedomRocks Business is Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your FreedomRocks business. FreedomRocks has a simple 3 step Financial Freedom concept which is closely tied to products and programs designed to help you achieve each step. FreedomRocks can help you to increase your cash flow, stabilize your finances, and invest for the future, by providing cutting-edge financial tools and investment strategies. For those with little or no time, FreedomRocks has made special arrangements with licensed, professional traders to do the work for you. Generating quality leads for your FreedomRocks business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do we do? As a FreedomRocks distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who know a bit about me, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 232. Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your 4Life Opportunity Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your 4Life Opportunity - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you building a 4Life business? 4Life is certainly a great product and a great concept. Transfer Factors and Nanofractions Transfer Factors In 1998, 4Life licensed the patent to extract transfer factors from cow colostrum. In the years that followed, 4Life launched new products, stabilized transfer factors in liquid form, patented the extraction of transfer factors from chicken egg yolks, and combined our two sources for a truly synergistic formula. Nanofractions Nanofractions are low-weight molecules found in the immune systems of certain mammals and birds. They function as part of the "command and control" network of the immune system. Transfer factors and nanofractions transfer immune memory, knowledge, and wisdom from one entity to another. The two most abundant and safest sources for transfer factors and nanofractions are cow colostrum and chicken egg yolks. Because these molecules aren't species-specific, we can benefit from the knowledge gained by these animals during their lifetimes by transferring that knowledge from their immune cells to ours. The 4Life Life Rewards Plan Building a 4Life Business You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with 4Life, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is a waste of time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your 4Life business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby, right? You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the 4Life products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% pf the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of 4Life, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using internet marketing techniques to get your replicated MLM affiliate website to appear on the first few pages in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the 4Life business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is call Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- Not only am I an MLM junkie, but I am guilty of joining more sites and opportunities online than I care to admit to. I haven't dared to add up the total amount of money I have spent online over the last 18 months, some large amounts and lots and lots of small amounts on this and that. None of these things offered me the answer I was looking for, and so I kept searching and spending. I am not one for giving up and my positive resolve to be successful online and find that perfect business opportunity kept me searching ever onwards. Just three weeks ago I was sent a presentation by an online friend. That presentation has changed my life. While I was watching it I knew I had stumbled upon the Holy Grail, the answer I had been looking for, and although the cost to join was far more than I could really afford I knew that I had to make that commitment there and then. Buy Customers Not Leads, was music to my ears. I had had my fair share of cold calling and the negativity that brings and so to think that my money would be wisely spent on buying customers made a lot of sense to me. I was also delighted to learn that part of the deal was using Veretekk to promote the business. Although I had not fully utilized Veretekk in the past I was very aware that it had great potential as a marketing tool and I was eager to get to know how to use it to best advantage. I have to say that so far I have not been disappointed. The training and support are first class and I am thoroughly enjoying all I am doing and all I am learning. The approach to the business has a simplicity about it that is very appealing. I am also delighted to be part of such a professional team. The potential here is quite mind blowing and I have no doubt that I am in the process of building the foundations for something really big.
Its Good Business is the best opportunity I will ever have and I intend to do all it takes to make it work. Thank you
Janet is just one of our recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 233. Business Opportunity Lead Generation: 4Life Leads Business Opportunity Lead Generation: 4Life Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master 4Life Leads - How Well do they work? Are you building a 4Life business? 4Life is certainly a great product and a great concept. The story of transfer factors and nanofractions Transfer Factors In 1998, 4Life licensed the patent to extract transfer factors from cow colostrum. In the years that followed, 4Life launched new products, stabilized transfer factors in liquid form, patented the extraction of transfer factors from chicken egg yolks, and combined our two sources for a truly synergistic formula. Nanofractions Nanofractions are low-weight molecules found in the immune systems of certain mammals and birds. They function as part of the "command and control" network of the immune system. Transfer factors and nanofractions transfer immune memory, knowledge, and wisdom from one entity to another. The two most abundant and safest sources for transfer factors and nanofractions are cow colostrum and chicken egg yolks. Because these molecules aren't species-specific, we can benefit from the knowledge gained by these animals during their lifetimes by transferring that knowledge from their immune cells to ours. Life Rewards Plan-The beauty is in the balance Building Your 4Life Business If you are involved in the 4Life opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your 4Life business. How is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor The last point was a particular favorite of mine. I remember a so-called special promotion once, whereby we were told that if we doubled our product orders for 6 months we would get some special reward at the next convention. Having dutifully done that, I attended the convention. Sure enough, all of us who qualified were told to stay around after the main presentations were over for the day. I was excited! And the big reward? We got to shake the hands of our upline diamond! What a disappointment. You can bet I soon dropped out of that MLM company! None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLMs and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 234. FreedomRocks Leads Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your FreedomRocks Opportunity - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master So you've decided to build a FreedomRocks business. Good for you! FreedomRocks has a simple 3 step Financial Freedom concept which is closely tied to products and programs designed to help you achieve each step. FreedomRocks can help you to increase your cash flow, stabilize your finances, and invest for the future, by providing cutting-edge financial tools and investment strategies. For those with little or no time, FreedomRocks has made special arrangements with licensed, professional traders to do the work for you. The World Wide Web has drastically changed the way that people run their companies. It has also played a major role in influencing the methods used by network marketers to generate leads for their MLM businesses. You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with FreedomRocks, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is a waste of time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your FreedomRocks business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby, right? You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the FreedomRocks products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% pf the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of FreedomRocks, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using internet marketing techniques to get your replicated MLM affiliate website to appear on the first few pages in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the FreedomRocks business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is call Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- After spending a decade struggling with starting and running 3 businesses, I was ready for a change. Let's face it, dealing with all the issues that come up everyday (employees, payroll, permits, sales etc.) is enough to drive anyone nuts. I was introduced to mlm about 9 years ago and I loved the idea of leverage and residual income. Isn't that the goal that all of us would like to achieve? The problem I have had with the industry has been bothering my friends and family, buying expensive leads, standing at street corners handing out flyers and all the other crap they tell us to do to be successful. Come on, even if I had the time and money to do this - how many other people would be willing to do this on a daily basis. As I found out, not too many. I have been left bruised, battered and a little cynical with the industry. This all changed in April 2008. This was when I was introduced to http://ItsGoodBusiness.net and the concept of Buying Customers. Instead of begging family and friends to try the products, I buy customers and let the company market to them. What a concept. My business will be made up of primarily paying customers not distributors that I need to train and motivate. Plus the selling and questions from my customers are taken care of by the company. Every time a customer orders, I make a commission. I have been equally impressed with the marketing plan that Tom Prendergast has created. I have always been looking for a way to utilize the Internet. The power and leverage that the Internet provides the average person to succeed is unparalleled. Tom has developed a way to harness that power and leverage with his Its Good Business team. The team operates like a traditional business by delegating various tasks within the group instead duplication. Tom and the other successful Internet marketers on the team have been very supportive and willing to teach what they know to be successful online. This supportive team atmosphere at Its Good Business has been refreshing. I'm learning and having fun everyday. The lessons on how to market on the Internet have been very valuable plus I'm getting paid while I learn. The team has broken all the records in the company we have partnered up with in 60 days with the Its Good Business marketing plan. I can't wait to see where we'll be in the next 60 days. Thank you Tom and the IGB team for letting me be a part of something so special. Dave Shlitemeier
Dave is just one of our recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 235. FreedomRocks Leads Business Opportunity Lead Generation: FreedomRocks Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master FreedomRocks Leads - How Well do they work? So you've decided to build a FreedomRocks business. Good for you! FreedomRocks has a simple 3 step Financial Freedom concept which is closely tied to products and programs designed to help you achieve each step. FreedomRocks can help you to increase your cash flow, stabilize your finances, and invest for the future, by providing cutting-edge financial tools and investment strategies. For those with little or no time, FreedomRocks has made special arrangements with licensed, professional traders to do the work for you. So how are you going to build your FreedomRocks business? Will you pay someone for FreedomRocks leads? Will you call people who do not know you in order to build a massive downline in the FreedomRocks opportunity? Will you attempt to recruit everyone you know as a distributor? What about advertising? If you are involved in the FreedomRocks opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your FreedomRocks business. How is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor The last point was a particular favorite of mine. I remember a so-called special promotion once, whereby we were told that if we doubled our product orders for 6 months we would get some special reward at the next convention. Having dutifully done that, I attended the convention. Sure enough, all of us who qualified were told to stay around after the main presentations were over for the day. I was excited! And the big reward? We got to shake the hands of our upline diamond! What a disappointment. You can bet I soon dropped out of that MLM company! None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLMs and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 236. Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your MLM Opportunity Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your MLM Opportunity - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master The World Wide Web has drastically changed the way that people run their companies. It has also played a major role in influencing the methods used by network marketers to generate leads for their MLM businesses. You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let us talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, do not use hype. Provide prospects or leads with the good solid information about products and service from materials provided by you MLM company. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is a waste of time and money. Your MLM company may even recommend this to you. Do not do it! Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I have been there. 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby, right? You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% pf the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of your MLM company, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using internet marketing techniques to get your replicated MLM affiliate website to appear on the first few pages in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is call Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- Hello: I've been with Its Good Business for almost 3 months now and have received 2 pay checks. They pay out check or bank deposits twice a month your choice. The first one was a little over $50; and the second one was a little over $250. I see it working and love it. My down line is growing like topsey; they are out there doing something. I now have 99 customers in my down line. Some are front line some are second line some are third line etc. I will tell you folks this is a dynamic company and well worth your time to investigate. You can log into Its Good Business and get the scoop from Tom Prendergast CEO. Ever since I joined Veretekk Gold less than 2 months ago I have been awestruck. I am an ancient computer programmer of the old dinosaurs. Those old computers in their day were awesome but nothing compared to today. Those old computers had very little software and many were hard wired and just sat there and clunked away. Today there are people like Tom Prendergast CEO, Butch Hamilton SEO, and Dr. Raymond Jewell, Financial Advisor are making these new computers take notice. You havenÂ’t even seen the tip of the iceberg, however if you have ever seen a picture of an iceberg in total, above water and below water, you will know that it is awesome. That is what I compare to Veretekk, ItÂ’s Good Business systems and todayÂ’s computers. They are awesome and the three people mentioned are major players. Well worth your time to get to know them. You can actually talk to them. I have and I feel really great about learning from these mentors. IÂ’m an old man of nearly 77 years and as excited as a kid in a candy store with a fist full of coins. can't wait to get that bag filled with candy. I could go on and tell you more but discovery is part of the fun and enjoyment when building a business and exploring all the new things that are available. Come in and swim around, the water is great and there aren't any sharks to worry about. IÂ’m sure that you will also love it. The place to start is ItÂ’s Good Business. Thank you for reading my letter. Brad Vigansky
Bradley is just one of our recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 237. 10-In-One-Vitamin Leads Business Opportunity Lead Generation: 10-In-One-Vitamin™ Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master 10-In-One™-Vitamin Leads - How Well do they work? So you've decided to build a 10-In-One™-Vitamin business. Good for you! GBG's unique below wholesale pricing and simple MLM pay plan can help ordinary people achieve extraordinary success in MLM. GBG's 10-In-One™ Liquid Multi Vitamin and Super Mineral Formula is an exceptional product offered at an incredible low price on autoship. So how are you going to build your 10-In-One™-Vitamin business? Will you pay someone for 10-In-One™-Vitamin leads? Will you call people who do not know you in order to build a massive downline in the 10-In-One™-Vitamin opportunity? Will you attempt to recruit everyone you know as a distributor? What about advertising? If you are involved in the 10-In-One™-Vitamin opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your 10-In-One™-Vitamin business. How is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor The last point was a particular favorite of mine. I remember a so-called special promotion once, whereby we were told that if we doubled our product orders for 6 months we would get some special reward at the next convention. Having dutifully done that, I attended the convention. Sure enough, all of us who qualified were told to stay around after the main presentations were over for the day. I was excited! And the big reward? We got to shake the hands of our upline diamond! What a disappointment. You can bet I soon dropped out of that MLM company! None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLMs and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 238. Business Opportunity Lead Generation: Xooma Leads Business Opportunity Lead Generation: Xooma Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Xooma Leads - How Well do they work? So you've decided to build a Xooma business. Good for you! Xooma has great products, like its unmatched X20 water, which naturally raises the PH of your body. Now how are you going to build your Xooma business? Will you pay someone for Xooma leads? Will you call people who do not know you in order to build a massive downline in the Xooma opportunity? Will you attempt to recruit everyone you know as a distributor? What about advertising? If you are involved in the Xooma opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your Xooma business. How is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor The last point was a particular favorite of mine. I remember a so-called special promotion once, whereby we were told that if we doubled our product orders for 6 months we would get some special reward at the next convention. Having dutifully done that, I attended the convention. Sure enough, all of us who qualified were told to stay around after the main presentations were over for the day. I was excited! And the big reward? We got to shake the hands of our upline diamond! What a disappointment. You can bet I soon dropped out of that MLM company! None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLMs and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 239. Business Opportunity Lead Generation for Network Marketing Business Opportunity Lead Generation for Network Marketing - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Network Marketing Leads - How Well do they work? If you are involved in any Network Marketing opportunity, you have probably been advised to purchase leads to build your business. How is this working for you? When I was in this game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors. What we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone as a distributor None of these helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building a network marketing business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products, who buy then on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 240. Its Good Business Scores Another Triumph Its Good Business Scores Another Triumph (AMHERST, NS) BrinCom Internet Business Services is pleased to announce that Mr. Bill Brine, noted lead generation master and owner of the company, has just received notice that he has achieved the level of 1 Star Business Associate in his Health and Wellness MLM business. This occurred less than 1 month from the time that Mr Brine registered as a Business Associate with his MLM company. This is unprecedented in such businesses. Normally the time required to receive promotions such as these is many months, if not years. Says Mr. Brine: "I could not have advanced this quickly without two most important factors: the co-operative marketing strategy employed by my MLM parent company, whereby I can purchase customers for my business to provide a solid income source, and the powerful Its Good Business Model which allows me to benefit from the efforts of an entire team who are working together to build everyone's businesses." Mr. Brine goes on to say: "This business model makes so much sense. In most MLM businesses, distributors are taught to recruit an organization of salespeople only. What business could exist by only selling their products to other salespeople? A true business needs customers to survive. Customers who like the products and purchase them on a regular basis. Not salespeople who are only purchasing the products in the hopes of recruiting other salespeople to do the same. How could anyone build a solid business that way? All you end up doing is constantly motivating your front line distributors not to quit, when you know that they are losing money. It just does not make sense." Other members involved in this effort are reporting similar unheard-of success in building their businesses, and are breaking all records at their parent MLM company for recruiting and advancement achievements. The Its Good Business model, recently released to Veretekk members, incorporates a team of Veretekk owners who work together to create huge internet marketing campaigns to attract business builders to look at their business model. Most business-minded entrepreneurs, when they understand the business model, are eager to sign up as new distributors. New distributors who have not been referred by someone specifically, are given as a personal referral downline in the organization to those existing distributors who are working with the team to accomplish its goals. Each team member is given a specific task to accomplish and only has to concentrate on that task to contribute to the team effort. Unlike most online business models, this means that the new business owner no longer has to learn everything about everything - he or she can now learn how to do one task and still contribute to the team effort. In addition each team member commits to purchasing a certain number of customers each month, which they will distribute to their own front line or down through their growing distributor base as needed. This results in a constant flow of new distributors and customers each month into the entire organization which is being built. The organization is growing exponentially at a very fast rate at this time. State-of-the-art training in all aspects of internet marketing are provided by Veretekk, and the parent MLM company provides training on how to build the MLM business. Each team member is expected to attempt to get some personal customers and distributors as well as benefiting from the team efforts. However, unlike other MLM models, in this case there is far less pressure to do personal referrals, since each team member is building a solid customer base by purchasing customers. This results in a much better experience for each distributor, which in turn makes personal referrals and recruiting much easier. It is expected that this business model will contribute to the success of many who have been disillusioned by the MLM industry as it now exists. More information is available at http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ---------------------------------- Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs such as the Its Good Business Model. More information on Veretekk is available at More information about the company is available at More information about the Its Good Business model is available at ### 241. Its Good Business Success! Its Good Business Success! - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Just a few days ago I received the following email: ----------- Dear Bill Brine, As a valued member of our TriVita community, we are pleased to confirm your promotion, effective May 2008. You now will earn on an additional tier within the Reciprocity Rewards Career Plan: a total of four tiers in both the Customer Unilevel and the Business Affiliate Unilevel, as long as you maintain a personal monthly order of at least 50 Vita Points and one personally enrolled Business Affiliate. Remember you are not alone. For all kinds of support, please utilize your enroller or closest upline director (who are both copied on this email), your online business center www.MyTriVita.net, and feel free to call us here at Business Services whenever you have a question at 1-800-TriVita. We look forward to helping you with your TriVita career and on your wealth and wellness. To your success! From all of us here in Business Services! This is at the end of my first month in Its Good Business, and already I have moved up one rank in their distributor rank. Do you know how long it took me to do this in any of the other MLMs I've tried over the years? Months!! And even better, because I buy customers on a regular basis, I have a stable base of 45 customers now that purchase products from which I get commissions, and I don't even have to market to them or follow up with them. In fact, all this has happened while I am still learning the ropes here at Its Good Business. I haven't even broken a sweat yet. This is SO cool! This is the Its Good Business Model at work. This business makes SO much sense, after all the crap I went through in other MLMs who taught me to recruit everyone I saw as a distributor. It is so refreshing to work with a team who wants to BUILD a business as opposed to an upline who wants to inspire you to buy more products, tapes and books that get you nowhere. If you are building an MLM business, you are probably losing money and sleep. Stop the insanity and do it the right way for once. Come join us at http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ------------------- 242. Business Opportunity Lead Generation: Home Business Leads Business Opportunity Lead Generation: Home Business Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you trying to build a home based business on the internet? Have you ever thought about how many other people are trying to do the same? I just performed a search for Home Based Business Opportunities on Google. There were 12.5 million websites which contained some combination of that keyword phrase. Do you think this might be an active and competitive market? There is one thing that each of these sites are seeking: leads! Leads who will conduct business with them. Leads who can be changed into buyers. Insurance leads, MLM leads, sales leads, mortgage leads... the list is endless. As a work at home business professional, you know that you require leads for your home business concern so it can be successful. So how do you get these leads? There are numerous ways by which you can find leads. You can purchase leads, you can create your own leads by different techniques, or you can find leads by cold calling right out of the telephone directory or some other list (if you are brave enough). And now, you can even purchase customers for your business, thus bypassing the need to convert those leads you generate into purchasers. Here is a look at each of these lead generation techniques in more detail: Cold Calling: cold calling means simply calling someone about whom you know nothing, and pitching them on something. Those pesky calls we all get from telemarketers? That is a form of cold calling. Most home business entrepreneurs are not salespeople, and if you are one of those (like me), this technique of lead generation will not be successful for you. That phone can seem to weigh 100 pounds at times... Lots of rejection here, for sure! Despite the fact that this does not work for most people, the MLM industry in particular teaches this as one of the primary means to build a business. There is something wrong with this picture...
Is this a good solution? Well, maybe. It all depends on how comfortable you are with calling up complete strangers and pitching them on your business. It also depends on how attractive your proposition is to these leads. If your conversion rate is low, you could end up losing money on your leads purchases. In most cases, these leads have filled out some kind of form to get something for free, perhaps something not even related to home business. In the process of supplying their contact information they have agreed to be contacted by other business owners. Many probably do not even read the agreement, they just sign up to get the free stuff. By the time you get their contact information, they have usually talked to many other business owners and are sick and tired of getting phone calls. Or, if it is not free to join, they are just not interested. Or perhaps they are vaguely interested in getting a business going, but just not your business. Again, more rejection. This is one step above cold calling, and again will not work for most people. Again, the MLM industry teaches this as their primary means of building a business.
The quality of these leads will exceed leads generated by the best lead brokers. These leads will be interested in your products and services. These leads are exclusive to you and are already familiar with your name. The best system out there for doing this sort of thing right now is the Veretekk Lead Generation and Marketing System. At Veretekk, we provide all the training you will need and all the tools you will need to dominate the search engines in your marketing niche and attract both like-minded entrepreneurs into your downline, or customers for your business, or both. For more information on Veretekk, see my contact information at the end of this article.
Using the power of the Veretekk system and a revolutionary new business model known as Its Good Business, you can now have the best of both worlds. Here is how it works: We buy customers. We do not buy leads. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with these customers. We do not have to follow up with these customers. We do not have to encourage these customers to purchase products from our businesses. We just buy the rights to their purchases and start getting commissions on their purchases. Now that we are assured of a growing and active customer base for our businesses, we use Veretekk to market our business model to other business owners. This ensures that the only people we ever have to contact are people who already know our name, are interested in building a business correctly, and are eager to get going. What a change from the conventional methods of building an online business! If you are frustrated with your current efforts, drop by our site at and we will show you a better way, something that actually works! Come see us today. 243. Business Opportunity Lead Generation is Simple Business Opportunity Lead Generation is Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, and are seeking potential business partners. Generating these quality leads can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do we do? If you are an MLM distributor looking for quality MLM leads, your upline will usually tell you that you just buy more leads. Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes! Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Perhaps it is time to consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who know a bit about me, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. 244. Business Opportunity Lead Generation via Reverse Marketing Business Opportunity Lead Generation via Reverse Marketing - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Did you know that you could be throwing away a possible source of new customers? What do you do with all that spam that floods your inbox day after day? Do you curse it and delete it like most people? Do you look for ways to reduce it by purchasing spam recognition software or subscribing to a spam protection service? I used to do that. Then I came to the realization that having to scan through all the trapped spam to identify emails that had been incorrectly identified as spam, was more effort than simply hitting the delete key. Then I was introduced to the Veretekk lead generation system, and my spam deleting days were over.... Now, I love spam! Done properly, making use of the principles of reverse marketing, spam can actually be a source of good leads for your business. I am often amazed by the volume of responses I get to my reverse marketing efforts. Not all spammers are professional spammers. Many are new or struggling business owners who are trying email blast or ad blasting services to try to get their message out. They simple don't know any better. These are the leads you can connect with by diligent application of reverse marketing principles. Show them a better way - the Veretekk lead generation and automated marketing system. Reverse marketing and the online software to do it are an integral part of the Veretekk lead generation and automated marketing system. When you promote one of the many Veretekk Lead generation pages, such as the Leadsomatic Tool for blasting ads, you will get a lot of spam to your Veretekk email address. Veretekk just loves this stuff! You can configure your Veretekk lead generation system to reply to each message with an innocuous message that subtly promotes your Veretekk system or your primary business. There are more advanced features available that will allow you to send a confirmation email to some leads, whereupon they opt in to your newsletter or autoresponder series. Again this is all handled within the Veretekk system. Don't know how to do Reverse Marketing? We'll teach you how to do that in our free online training sessions. Don't have a business opportunity to expose to these leads? We can help there too. Through the use of a new business model called Its Good Business, Veretekk owners are turning the MLM world on its head. Veretekkers have never purchased leads, of course. We don't need to. But you do have to work with the quality leads that you get from a Veretekk system to turn them into paying customers. Well, no more. We buy customers for our businesses. Customers who are already purchasing products from which we can get commissions, and customers who will continue to purchase the products. We use the power of the Veretekk system to attract like-minded business owners who want to develop a stable customer base with almost no effort, while working closely with other Veretekk owners and quality leads to build a distributor base as well. It really is the best of both worlds. We are already breaking records with our MLM company, and expect to continue to do so. Want to see it in action? Come visit at and we'll show you how to build a real business. No hype, no fluff, only serious business people building serious long-term residual income. This works folks! 245. Business Opportunity Lead Generation using Veretekk Business Opportunity Lead Generation using Veretekk - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Anyone who has seen my previous postings will know that I am an advocate of the Veretekk lead generation and marketing system. I do not believe there is any other lead generation system for online business opportunities which can do such a high-quality job of creating quality leads and helping me achieve top seach engine rankings for my selected keyword phrases. In this article, I will give you a very brief introduction to the system. For those of you who are already Veretekk users, this may be a review for you, so please bear with me. For those of you who are not Veretekk system owners yet, why haven't you signed up yet? You can test drive this great system for generating leads for as long as you wish at no cost, and our extensive online training is included as part of the system. The Veretekk lead generation and automated marketing system has 3 purposes 1) to brand yourself on the internet 2) to provide the capability to create tons of quality backlinks to your sites, thereby raising the search engine rankings for the site you are targeting 3) to provide a spam-compliant, reliable email system to put you in contact with fellow entrepreneurs who are building internet businesses and are searching for better and smarter ways to create high quality leads without spending lots of money. You can use the Veretekk lead generation and marketing system to promote one or more of your own businesses, but this is incidental to the whole process. What is more important is building trust and good relationships with other like-minded entrepreneurs. Once people trust you they are more likely to do business with you. The Veretekk lead generation and marketing system provides a number of lead generation pages which can each be configured separately. You have complete control over meta information such as title, keywords and description, and you can add additional text to customize the content more specifically to your market. You can add RSS feeds to make the portals more attractive to the search engine spiders. And the Veretekk lead generation and automated marketing system has many different promotional tools available which will help you to gain top search engine positions quickly. These lead generation portals are basically no cost services, each of which appeals to a different kind of marketer who is struggling to generate leads. Once the marketer signs up to use the service, their contact details are captured and you can then follow up with them to see how you can help them further. When signing up for a service, the lead is shown your name and contact information, and so when you phone this new prospect, he or she is already familiar with your name and knows a bit about you. This eliminates a great deal of the rejection you will experience from leads that you purchase, who generally have no idea who you are and very often have forgotten that they filled out a form requesting to be contacted. This also eliminates much of the 'tire-kickers'. The leads who use the Veretekk products are actively building a business and are more than willing to have someone help them. Included in the system is free training on all aspects of online marketing from some of the leading experts in the industry. You will earn about such things as: keyword research, search engine optimization, HTML coding, daisy chaining, writing content, writing Press Releases, blogging, backlinking, following up with your leads using the phone as well as email, and much more. All done in Veretekk's state of the art web conferencing room. You can even record the trainings and review them at your leisure. As more and more power is added to the Veretekk system, it is becoming an incredible powerhouse in the online world of marketing and Search Engine Optimization. When you couple the power of the Veretekk system with a proven business model, the results are incredible. Here is how it works: we do not buy leads. Ever. Nor do we cold call people. We buy customers for our businesses on a regular basis, which gives us a solid foundation on which to base our businesses. We do not have to market anything to these customers - they are already purchasing and enjoying our products. Then we work as a team, all using the power of the Veretekk system to attract other like-minded online business seekers to look at our business model and join us. Everyone on the team benefits from the efforts of the entire team. See more about how this works at No obligation, no hype. Just something that works! 246. Business Opportunity Lead Generation: The Key to Generating The Best Leads For Any Business Opportunity Business Opportunity Lead Generation: The Key to Generating The Best Leads For Any Business Opportunity - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master There is a great deal of information, tools and software promotions online lately that promise to teach you the secret of generating good quality business opportunity leads. What is this secret they are talking about? Think about this for a second: if you were privy to a great secret that no-one else knew, and that was making you a lot of money, would you sell it to other people? Or would you continue to exploit it and continue pulling in all that cash? I know which one I would do! There is no real secret. All there is, is knowledge or an idea which you yourself have not encountered yet. Do you want to generate quality new leads? Sure, there are great systems, such as Leadsomatic, that can help. But do not rely solely on such online tools. The process of generating leads, like any other discipline, is hard work. Automation helps, but personal effort is the key. The real secret to lead generation, is to establish yourself as an expert in your selected niche, and then to tell people about it! Study leading sites in the niche you have chosen and get information and ideas from them. Learn all you can about your business and the niche you have chosen, and write about it. Issue Press Releases whenever something happens in your business. Write Ezine articles about your business. Set up a blog. Write, write, write and do it consistently! And never stop studying your niche. Become an specialist! And. of prime importance, ensure that your name and contact details are included in everything you write, and that you state clearly that you are an expert in the niche you have chosen. Continue this consistently, day after day, and eventually your name will become associated with the keyword phrases you have chosen on the internet. People will start to view you as an specialist in your chosen market. When that happens, leads will start to call you! And when that happens, your income will start to skyrocket. Now, this will take time and effort on your part. But keep in mind that, if you work at this, and if you do it consistently, you will be far ahead of most other online business owners who are not willing to put in the time and effort required. Be consistent. Be focused. Become the expert, and you will build a popular business! Of course, while you are working at branding your name in this manner, it would be good to be able to bring in some income... Here is an idea: buy customers! That is what we do over at Its Good Business. We do not buy leads. We buy customers to provide a solid reliable source of income for our businesses. Our lead generation is focused solely on attracting business-minded people who want to become our business partners in this new business model We do not need to convert leads into customers. Because of the manner in which we generate our business opportunity leads, we do not have to work very hard to convince people to join our businesses. By the time we talk to them, they have already sold themselves. I can tell you from personal experience, this approach sure takes away a lot of the pressure, stress and frustration associated with building a business on the internet. Come see us at and we will show you how it is done. 247. Business Opportunity Lead Generation 08.05.09 Business Opportunity Lead Generation - Generating Customer Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Have you ever performed a search for Home Based Business on Google? I just did. Wow! There are over 600 million websites which incorporate some combination of that phrase. And there are hundreds of different Google Ads targeting this keyword phrase! Without doubt, this is a extremely competitive and active market. More and more people are looking to the internet to provide a source of income. There is one thing that all of these websites and ads are looking for: leads! Leads who will do business with them. Leads who can be converted into customers. Insurance leads, MLM leads, mortgage leads, sales leads, customer leads... the list is endless. As a internet business owner, you no doubt realize that you need an unending supply of fresh leads for your home business in order for it to be successful. Now, there are many ways that you can obtain leads. You can purchase leads, you can generate your own leads by different methods, or you can obtain leads by cold calling right out of the phone book. Let's do a brief comparison of these methods: Purchasing Leads If you purchase leads from any of the many lead brokers out there, you'd better be prepared to do some hard selling. In many cases, these leads have filled out some kind of a form to get something for free, and have ticked off a box that says they would like information about starting a business from home. Sometimes they don't even realize that they have done so. By the time you get their contact information, they have often talked to many other people pitching their particular opportunity, and are sick and tired of getting phone calls. Or, if it is not free to join, they are just not interested. Lots of rejection! Cold Calling Leads Definitely not for the faint of heart. Imagine just calling someone out of the blue and pitching your deal! Not something I would do, because I am not a salesperson. You have no idea who they are, what their interests are, etc. This method of lead generation is very scary! Generate Your Own Leads This is the best method. You use reverse marketing and other techniques to generate leads who are interested in your services. The leads are exclusive to you and are already familiar with your name. There are many tools out there to help you with this. The best of these is the Veretekk Lead Generation and Marketing system. Why Generate Leads? Why Not Buy Customers Instead? Of course, all these methods of lead generation involve a lot of work to convert the leads into paying customers or new business partners. What if there was a way to shortcut the process? Well there is: a new business model has emerged, called Its Good Business. Here's how it works: We don't buy leads. We buy customers. Our parent company acquires the customers through extensive media campaigns and even follows up with them. All we do is buy the customers and start earning commissions on their product purchases. We work as part of a team which is advertising right now via extensive internet campaigns to attract other online entrepreneurs to our business model. All of us benefit from the efforts of the entire team. Once you see this business model, you will wonder how you ever did business any other way. Come see us with no obligation at You'll be glad you did! 248. Business Opportunity Lead Generation 08.05.08.01 Business Opportunity Lead Generation: Leads Quality - By Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Recently I saw a news item which indicated that the amount spent by various companies on internet business opportunity lead generation was $592 million dollars in the first half of 2006, an increase of $245 million dollars, or 58%, over the same period in 2005. That's a lot of spending on internet business opportunity lead generation, and it is still increasing. Problem is, not all of these business opportunity leads are of good quality because of the plethora of processes and websites used to generate them. A huge proportion of all that money has just gone into the pockets of the leads brokers and has not produced any return on investment for the businesses who purchase the leads. Last year, after a round of meetings with some of the leading online lead generation companies, the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) came out with a set of recommended guidelines for determining the quality of online business opportunity leads. In this article I'd like to explore how my favorite lead generation system, the Veretekk Lead Generation System, stacks up against these guidelines. There are five areas that are scored in this quality determination: 1) Lead Origin: meaning the method used to capture the contact information. The guidelines ranked information gathered on an opt-in basis to be of higher value than information collected without an optin. With Veretekk, all leads have to reply to a confirmation email, which opts them into the Veretekk autoresponder system. Score: High!
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And I won't have to pay $592 million dollars to get these leads. A measly $41.95 a month is all it costs! But Veretekk has one more feature that makes it by far the online lead generation and marketing system of choice. It is an incredibly powerful search engine optimization system. Not only can you generate business opportunity leads who are interested in your business, but you can also bring any web page that you own to the front page of Google for its chosen keyword phrases. Want to see it in action? A group of Veretekk owners have banded together to create new business model which we call Its Good Business. We are dominating the online MLM industry with an entirely new business model which works, and works well: - For our MLM business, we buy customers. We do not buy leads. We build up a solid, reliable base of paying customers while looking for new distributors. - All customer interaction is handled for us by our parent company. - We do not cold call anyone. - To recruit new distributors, we are using the power of the Veretekk system to expose our business model to online business entrepreneurs. So we never have to talk to people who are not interested or have to be convinced.
You know, they say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again when you know it does not work. Is your method of building a business working? Come join me at Its Good Business and I'll show you how to build a real business! The URL: http://ItsGoodBusiness.net 249. Business Opportunity Lead Generation 08.05.07.02 Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tip: Stop Advertising - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Want to generate more leads for your business? Then stop advertising on the internet Does this sound counter-intuitive to you? Yet on the internet today, getting out of the advertising mindset can help you to generate many more leads for your business. Most new internet marketers will be very anxious to start writing little classified ads and use automatic ad blasters to blast their ads to classified sites, FFA sites, and so on. Does anyone actually see these ads? When was the last time you went to a classified ad site looking for something specific? What did you do instead? You used Google or some other search engine, right? And in those search engine listings, did you concentrate on the paid ads, or did you pay more attention to the organic listings - the summaries of web pages that contain the phrases you searched for? Hmm.. Providing good, relevant content on a consistent basis is the key to getting your message out on the internet today. Writing and blasting ads will not be of much use, except for providing backlinks to your website that may help with website ranking. You have to get out of the advertising mindset and into the content mindset. Attract leads with great content that offers a solution to their problem, and they will want to know more. In order to get your website to the top of the search engines, you need to learn about search engine optimization, or SEO. SEO is an art, and you need a good set of tools to support your efforts. This is where the Veretekk Lead Generation System shines. Free training from some of the top SEO experts and internet marketers, and an integrated set of lead generation and marketing tools that are incredibly powerful, will help you to become an SEO Master. Want to find out more? Stop advertising. Grab a Veretekk system and attend our free SEO training, and you will be well on your way to generating some of the best leads for your business that you have ever seen. We will show you a better way... We will also show you how to buy paying customers for your business, so that you can start building a profitable business from day 1. So stop wasting your time with all that ad blasting. We do not buy leads. We do not blast ads. We buy customers. We produce quality content that gets us to the top of the search engines and attracts serious business builders to partner with us. No hype, no fluff, no get-rich-quick foolishness. If you are serious about building a business, forget all the hype. Come visit us at And we will show you how it is done! ------------ 250. Business Opportunity Lead Generation 08.05.05 Business Opportunity Lead Generation: Stop Buying Leads - Buy Customers Instead! - By Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of our businesses. Without a good reliable source of leads for a business, we are doomed to failure. But generating quality leads can be an onerous process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest whatsoever in what you are marketing? And even with those leads that are interested in what you have to say, how hard do you have to work to sell them on the concepts of your business or products? What's the best solution? If you're an MLMer wanting to obtain quality MLM leads, your upline will most often tell you to buy more leads. "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!". Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of phoning all those 'premium leads' and getting rejected time and time again? Perhaps it's time to consider a different approach to generating leads: buy customers instead! Imagine the following scenario: - From the first day of your business, you are able to purchase actual customers who buy products and from whom you get regular commissions. You do not need to contact these customers. You do not need to encourage them to buy more products. You do not even have to follow up with them (unless you want to). The parent company does all that for you. As your budget allows, you simple add more customers to your business in this manner on a regular basis. - You work as part of a team which works to attract other would-be or existing business owners to partner with you in building this business even bigger. More business associates means even bigger commissions. The marketing strategy ensures that the only people you will ever have to talk to are already presold on the business concept and are eager to get involved. When you call them, they will be expecting your call. And many times these people will call YOU. Think this is a dream? Well, its not! A revolutionary new business concept has now become available which makes the above scenario possible. I know, because I became a member as soon as I heard about it. It just makes so much sense, It sure is great to talk to people who are serious about starting a business and who are expecting my call. The system is known as Its Good Business. Need more information? Just pop over to http://ItsGoodBusiness.net for a preview of what our team is doing. Stop buying leads. Buy customers and start making some real profits! Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Phone: 902.667.0798 Skype: billbrine 251. Business Opportunity Lead Generation 08.05.06 The Most Underused and Powerful Method of Business Opportunity Lead Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you worried about selling enough today so you can feed your family tomorrow? Would you like to be one of those top producers who get phone calls from new prospects every day? Would you like to find your email box full of messages from potential clients every day? Sounds wonderful? How do they do that? Well, read on. I will show you the easiest, quickest and most effective lead generation method to grow your business - using referrals. Referrals are by far the most effective way to create a steady stream of customers for your product or service. In most businesses, referrals generate more than 70% of their sales. Yet, for some reason, salespeople spend the least amount of their time, money and energy developing referral sources. Why not put your focus, attention and resources into the lead generation activities that will reap the greatest benefits? Makes sense, right? If you are not currently using a system to generate referrals, you are leaving thousands of dollars on the table. You are missing out on a golden opportunity to skyrocket your sales. Did you know that the average person has a relationship with 250 people? So every one of your current clients is a potential source of 250 new clients! So, if you can get your clients talking about your business, you will have a big network you can easily tap into. So how do you tap into this market? Start by creating relationships. Smart sales people will break even or even lose money to create a relationship with a new customer. This is called a "loss leader". Once you have a relationship with a client, selling to them becomes much easier. So it makes sense to do whatever you can to create new relationships. Word of mouth is a very powerful tool. When you harness the power of word of mouth, you can build relationships with hundreds of people through the network that your clients have. Since we all trust our family and friends more than we trust sales people, getting a new client by referral is easier than getting a new client by any other means of promotion. A referral gives you instant credibility. When your clients refer someone to you or your business, they are giving you a personal endorsement. They are saying to that friend or family member that they trust you. Whatever bond you have with your clients can and often will get transferred to their friends when they recommend you. It is a well known fact that customers who arrive at a business through a referral: - Spend more money on each purchase Seek out referrals and you will increase your bottom line and have more time to enjoy life. The number one strategy: give excellent service and always try to deliver more than the client wants. Impress someone and they will be sure to recommend you. There are many tools, techniques and ideas out there for making full use of referrals to build your business. There is, however, only one business plan that I have seen that implements this idea of building a business through referrals to its maximum. It is known as the Its Good Business model. Read on... How does it work? We buy customers. We don't buy leads, nor do we cold call anyone. Those customers are acquired by our parent company, and they are encouraged by the parent company to get more customers by word of mouth. If they do, they are rewarded monetarily. This builds our individual customer base. Result: profits from a growing customer base, and all we do is buy the customers... And then we take it one step further: we operate as part of a team which uses internet marketing techniques to attract new or existing business entrepreneurs to look at our business model. Those who want to sign up are assigned to those team members who need another business partner on their own team. So we all benefit from the team efforts as well as our own efforts. This works and it works very well! Come on over and see us at No obligation, no hype, this is not get-rich-quick. Beware: we are only seeking serious entrepreneurs who are willing to put time, energy and capital into building a real business! 252. Business Opportunity Lead Generation 08.05.07.01 Business Opportunity Lead Generation - Finding Targeted MLM Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master We all know that the objective of multi-level marketing (MLM) is to sell the product or service and to encourage the client to become an independent distributor, who then sells the service or product as well. Now let's think about this for a moment - is this a good business plan? If you owned a department store, would you spend all your time recruiting sales people? Would it not be a better idea to get some customers in there to buy the products because they like them and keep coming back for more? Yet most MLM businesses will focus only on recruiting salespeople, and will actually discourage their distributors from trying to develop a customer base. So in an MLM business, you should really be looking for 2 kinds of leads - customers and potential business partners. Not every customer will want to become a distributor (in fact, most will not be interested). Some few will be interested, but in the normal method of MLM recruiting you will need to sort through all the customers who are not interested in order to find the few who are. And along the way, your pestering of the potential customers may drive them away from your business. They don't want to start a business! They just want to use the products! Of course, leads are vital for any business to grow. In order for the business owner to be successful, the leads must be curious enough in the business opportunity to have expressed an interest. The prospects that have expressed an interest in becoming distributors are known as Targeted MLM Leads. There are lots of places from which you can find targeted MLM leads. However, like all purchased leads, you will normally find that these are people who have filled out some sort of form indicating interest in starting a business, in return for some free product, service or ebook. Their contact information is sold and resold many times over, and by the time you call them, they are tired of all the pitches, or they have forgotten that they filled out the form in the first place! Not a good solution, to be sure. And meantime, since you have not built a solid customer base for your business, you are losing money every month. All the distributors that you do manage to bring into your business are taught to do the exact same thing. So, unless you work 24x7 7 days a week to keep your sales organization motivated, the whole thing will collapse. So how do you stop this insanity? Well, I have a way: I never buy leads. I buy customers for my business. I do not have to advertise to get them. I do not have to convert them into product purchasers. I do not have to call them or even follow up with them unless I want to. My MLM company does that all for me. All I do is buy them on a regular basis and that builds a solid base of product purchasers to support my growing business. What about more distributors? Well, I work as part of a team that is using a co-operative internet marketing technique to expose existing business owners and new business seekers to our business plan. When someone decides to join, he or she is assigned to a team member who needs another distributor. I never have to cold call anyone. I do not buy leads. I only have to talk to people who understand what we are doing and who are ready and eager to start building some income. I never have to experience rejection again. Its the best of both worlds for me. After years of struggling to build an MLM business in the way I was taught, I am now building a business correctly. Come see us at and we'll show you how it is done. ----------- |
