should realize that a ‘blog’ is the central hub of your
online presence.
3 years ago you needed to have a professional web designer
build an HTML site for you. It was expensive and then you had
little or no control over the site, changes to it etc… you were
dependent on the web master.
Today its a truly simple process and everyone from 10 year old kids
to 80 year old grandma’s are able to create a website in a matter
of minutes – by launching a blog.
Easy right? But there are literally hundreds of options to choose
from for a blog platform, right? WRONG
by all online marketers – the self-hosted blog.
online in minutes. The video instructions and a step by step checklist
are right HERE:
Go now to get full instructions on how to launch your wordpress blog!
Melanie Milletics
Tags: best blog site for business, blog instructions, build a blog, how to build a wordpress blog
Now more than ever you need to learn recession proof skills.
Your success in your Home Based Business depends on it!
Case in point:
Two Renegade students just closed on new homes last week!
One is a guy who cleans houses for a living and the other is a home school mom of three who just became a single parent.
Now, a year or so ago this would have been a really big deal.
But in today’s huge economic crisis of banks going belly up, people losing their jobs and massive foreclosure rates this is not only a big deal… it’s a HUGE deal.
But look, it’s not just because of the uncertain economic times that make this news special.
More special is “WHO” and “WHY” these Renegade students are closing on new homes.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY — WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE?
I want YOU to discover how to redirect your entire future — just like these Renegade students have.
You see about four years ago I made a decision (actually it was more like a “do-or-die” commitment) to learn how to build income on demand.
Back then even when the economy was good, I acted as though my entire future was at stake at that very moment. Because, well, it was.
But I want you to know even with the market correction going on right now, it’s never too late to make good decisions about your future.
NOW MORE THAN EVER YOU NEED TO LEARN RECESSION PROOF SKILL SETS
And while you might have had the luxury to toy around with this idea a few months ago, this is no longer the case. There’s no time for messing around.
Back to the two Renegade students – Wendy Mills and Thomas Hernandez.
Wendy Mills, a homeschool mom from New York who hasn’t held a job in over SIX YEARS said the past couple months have had her head spinning in a thousand different directions.
She had to prepare for her new home purchase… nail down health insurance coverage for her kids… and attend umpteen meetings with her divorce attorney.
But despite all that chaos — her business growth has hit an ALL TIME high!
Apparently, someone forgot to tell her we’re right in the middle of an economic “melt down” and nobody’s supposed to be buying much of anything these days.
And as far as the other Renegade student, Thomas Hernandez… He’s a twenty-five year old guy who cleans homes for a living with his wife.
He basically just started marketing his business online a few short months ago and has already been making enough money to cover his monthly mortgage payment. Now he’s taking it a step further and buying a new home!
But his story gets even better…
Seven months ago he didn’t even own a computer. In fact, he HATED computers because he thought they were boring!
Not anymore.
Because now he has 6-8 new people coming to him EVERY DAY from all over the world – for FREE! And they all want to find out more about what he’s doing and how they can join him in business.
He calls his new-found way of doing business “Rejection Free Marketing.”
If you haven’t started experiencing this yet yourself, there’s literally never been a better time. Generating your own high- quality leads on the internet has never been easier – or cheaper!
Plus, I just finished up something that should make learning my material A LOT easier and much more comfortable…
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Here’s how profitable it can get when you learn how to bring business to you. In just two short months, another student of mine, (Angela) who spends a mere two hours a day on her business, has so many people calling her she had to start charging $100/hour just to get some of them to leave her alone.
The only problem is, it didn’t work! Her prospects (people who hadn’t even joined her opportunity yet) were more than willing to pay what she was asking for!
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Tags: ann sieg, attraction marketing, be successful in the recession, home based business success, network marketing success, rejection free selling, renegade network marketer, renegade system
Its time you met my friend Bob Jenkins. Truly one of the nicest guys around, he is a master internet marketer who’s productivity astounds me.
I first met Bob the Teacher years ago at WAHM.com, a forum for Work at Home Moms. He was one of the few guys who was welcome in the conversation, which should tell you something right off the bat… Bob is unpretentious and doesn’t have an arrogant bone in his body. For those reasons alone I am happy to call Bob a friend.
In April of 2009 Bob was one of the Speakers at the “Last Masters Seminar” in Tampa. He spoke on using teleseminars to create products, build your list, generate affiliate profits and create a stronger relationship with your customers. I walked away from that session knowing I had a blueprint for making more profits from what I was already doing with my training webinars! He actually revealed that I had a ton more information products I could be selling from the content I’d already created. I was so pumped up, I left that seminar and built www.SponsoringSuccess.net ! How’s that for inspiration!
Bob Jenkins and Melanie Milletics, Tampa 2009
Bob also happens to be absolutely brilliant. He built a six figure business online in 15 months using his methodical internet marketing methods. Bob Jenkins is a product creator, a list builder, and a master at leveraging existing technology to make more money with what you already know…
And Bob is a teacher! Or rather, he was a teacher. Bob taught High School history for 10 years. You can see that now, when you look at him, cant you .
Bob was the teacher that everyone loved. You know, the one who was recognized, year after year for his ability to help his students to excel. He also helped other teachers learn how to be more productive in less time. Bob truly knows how to teach YOU.
I trust Bob. Totally. I know that when I send you to him to learn how to take what you already know and make more money, that you will actually get what you are looking for.
You wont get HYPE – you will get real lessons you can use and apply today.
Are You Eager To…
- Impact a larger audience with your products and services?
- Become the expert instead of the “best kept secret” of your industry?
- Profit from exploding your revenue while simultaneously slashing expenses?
- Escape from the time for dollars trap that you find yourself in right now?
Then click on over to Bob’s IM Success Library > HERE
Inside the library you will learn things like
- Website management
- Affiliate marketing
- Becoming the go-to expert
- Information product creation
- Email list building and autoresponder strategies
- Social networking (like Twitter and Facebook)
- Blogging strategies
- Internet traffic methods
- And much more…
Go on, Bob’s a good guy. He wont send you a ton of junk email like alot of Internet ‘gurus’ do… promise. I trust him to teach my Network Marketing friends Internet Marketing. Completely! You can get his Silver membership FREE.
Click on over to Bob’s IM Success Library > HERE
Tags: bob jenkins, internet marketing, internet marketing training, teleseminars
As much as we would like them to, the reality is,
a lot of people simply will not buy from us the first
time they come across our message.
In fact, the majority of them won’t.
Even if your offer is EXACTLY what they’re
looking for, it’s actually quite rare that someone will
buy from you or sign up for your opportunity the
very first time you make contact with them.
This is just something you have to factor into the
equation when you’re hammering out your
overall sales process.
Perhaps you’ve heard this popular mlm phrase
before…
“Some will, some won’t, who cares, who’s next?”
My upline in one of my former companies used to
embed this saying into our heads every chance they
got. The idea being that if someone isn’t interested,
you’re supposed to just forget about them and
move on to the next person.
Aside from the fact that we weren’t talking to the
right people in the first place, this has to be some of
the most damaging marketing advice I’ve ever fallen
victim to.
If you don’t have a systemized follow up procedure
in place for every single one of your prospects,
you’re leaving untold amounts of money on the
table.
A good autoresponder follow up sequence can EASILY quadruple
your sales because rather than just being able to sell
to the same person once, you can sell to them 5
times… 10 times… even 100 times.
The fortune truly is in the follow up.
Now here’s another popular saying you may have
heard:
“A prospect has to see your message at least 7 times
before they actually buy.”
While it certainly is true that your prospects need
repeated exposures to your offer before they will
decide to take action on it…
Merely SEEING your message isn’t enough.
Unfortunately, this “7 times rule of thumb” only
paints half the picture. Many people implement it
the wrong way.
See, when you follow up with someone, you cannot
continue to hit them up with a sales pitch every
time.
If a plain old sales pitch was enough, they would
have bought the first time. Seeing or hearing it 7
more times isn’t going to do the trick.
The reason they didn’t buy the first time around is
because they weren’t convinced that you’ll really be
able to deliver what your sales pitch promises.
You have to prove it to them.
The purpose of the autoresponder follow up is to build trust and
credibility because these are some of the biggest
obstacles that hold anyone back from making a
purchase.
Every time you contact someone, each message
should sell them on the idea that their time and
money will be well spent with you not because
you asked for it, but because you gave them
valuable information for free.
This information has to be genuinely useful to them
regardless of whether or not they ever buy from you.
This is the only way autoresponder follow up becomes effective
and how you get your message in front of people,
because prospects don’t pay attention to pitches,
they pay attention to value.
When your messages become educational rather
than confrontational, all resistance melts. The
natural defenses that every person has against being
sold disappear.
So the next time you communicate with someone,
just picture their busy schedule with ten million
things on their to do list. Ask yourself if what you’re
trying to say is something they could easily dismiss
and relinquish to the junk folder… or… if it’s
something they won’t be able to ignore because it
would immediately improve their lives in some way
the moment they read it.
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Excellent words of wisdom from the Renegade Networker herself, Ann Sieg.
To learn more from Ann and her team of Internet Network Marketers (I’m one )
download her 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing, now.
P.S. – The best part about this “under the radar”
style of marketing is that it’s a far more powerful
(not to mention more enjoyable) way of selling
someone than actually, deliberately trying to sell
them!
Tags: 7 great lies of network marketing, ann sieg, autoresponder followup, sales followup
I know lots of people tend to obsess over the size of
their email list.
Which makes sense – I mean, more people getting your
emails has to be a good thing, right?
Problem is, not everyone who GETS your email actually
READS it. Or even opens it. In fact, the actual numbers
are that on average only 20-30% of your list is going
to open any given email they receive from you.
Ouch huh?
Not that it’s your fault or anything… they could just
be super busy at the time. Or perhaps it got lost in a
flood of emails that just happened to come in at the
same time yours did.
Or maybe they are just plain tired and will “look at it
later” (which we all know won’t happen)
So what can you do about it?
Well with a lot of the people who don’t open your
email it’s simply a matter of timing.
It’s not that they aren’t interested in what you have
to say… it’s just that it came in at the wrong time.
So how about this for an idea…
Take all the people who DIDN’T open your first email
and send them the SAME email the next day with a
different subject line.
Just a different subject line. Takes about two minutes.
Simple but powerful.
Check out these numbers from a recent promotion for the Renegade System:
First mailing: 121 sales
Second mailing (SAME email): 66 sales
Third mailing (again the same email): 47 sales
Simply by changing the subject line and resending the
same email, that’s an extra 113 sales!!
Almost DOUBLE the sales if you only emailed once!
Pretty cool, huh 
In fact, it’s so cool that I wish it was my idea!
Unfortunately, I can’t take the credit for this one.
It’s one of the 13 tactics that my friend Ryan Deiss
will show you in his new Sneaky Email Secrets Report.
This is seriously cool stuff, and I highly recommend
it.
After all, if just that one secret could DOUBLE your
total sales… imagine what you could do with all 13
secrets.
Ryan’s been building businesses online for almost ten
years now and he’s one of the few people I recommend
listening to when it comes to making more sales with
your emails.
I’ve personally tested and used just TWO of the secrets
in his report and I can tell you they work like crazy.
If you don’t know these 13 + secrets… but your competition does???
Tags: email list, email marketing, email marketing training, how to sell with autoresponders, how to write an autoresponder, ryan deiss
2009 is officially gone, and I could very easily simply leave it behind me. There were some major personal upheavals that happened, and in the sake of sanity… sometimes you just have to look forward, right? I mean, isn’t that what every personal development book under the sun tells you? Forgive, forget, and move on, lest your own baggage will keep you way, way down?
Sometimes, but not in the case of the story of 2009, and isn’t Melanie Milletics just incredibly LUCKY???
Ha, no way – the harder I work, the luckier I get.
First, a brief explanation of who I am, what I do, and how all the pieces of this 2009 story fit together. I’m a wife, mother, and primary bread winner in the household. Mom’s little home based business became awfully profitable after she learned a the power of List Building. I’m a Network Marketer who generates her own leads online through what people now call Web 2.0, and more recently ‘attraction marketing‘. In plain speak, I have a large subscriber base that is primarily made up of people who are either home business buyers, seekers, or simply curious. I work to entertain said subscribers by posting informative lessons on this here blog… and a good number of those people decide they like me enough to work with me in my Network Marketing company. Those that don’t may decide to buy one of the information products or services I review for them. I’m extremely careful about what I recommend to my subscribers… after all, I want them to like me and stay subscribed I only share those things I have personally used and found to be beneficial, or educational and of value. I’ve been building this list of subscribers since 2006 … and that list is literally GOLD. Its because of that list that much of what you see below was made possible.
So, without further ado, 2009 in video review.
The first video was actually taken in November of ‘08, but its very applicable to this story. See, its all about my getting the best home based business tax course in existence for FREE. Yep, my ‘lucky star’ was shining while I was cruising, and Sandy Botkins handed me Tax Strategies for Business Professionals, a course worth about a grand. I won it – and it really made a difference in how I tracked my business income and expenses in 2009. After all, I want to KEEP as much of the money I earn as possible.
I actually am pretty ‘lucky’. I just expect that great things will happen to me, and that life will be sweet. Most of the time I get what I expect. Imagine that…
In early 2009 I decided to expand ‘Me Inc’ and my online real estate. Since I had been building my own list since 2006, it made perfect sense to start MLM List Building Secrets. I also started to provide training webinars for my subscribers to teach them the methods I had used to become the top enroller in my company using 100% online marketing methods.
In the spring of 2009 the Renegade Network Marketer, Ann Sieg, announced the merging of the Renegade System with with Mike Klinglers Marketing Merge. She asked me to be a coach for the system and to provide exclusive training on my expertise, MLM list building. They ran a affiliate promotion to enroll Renegade Professional students, and I was the #1 affiliate for leads generated, and in the top 3 for sales.
The video is actually a thank you to my friend Mike Dillard ~ for it was his Magnetic Sponsoring course that I purchased back in 2005 that really changed my money pit of a home business into a cash cow. It’s also what helped me to become the #1 woman affiliate in the MLM niche
As the Renegade Professional and the launch of Mike Dillard’s Better Networker increased the number of Network Marketers who were attempting to build their business online, it became clear to me that there was alot of confusion about ‘best practices’. Since I had been studying top internet marketers since 2001, I had a very clear idea of how to best set up a home based business online. I felt an overwhelming need to tell everything I knew, and knew I could help those who were struggling to establish themselves online to get it done right the first time. I created a free membership site at www.SponsoringSuccess.net and provided clear instructions on how to build a Network Marketing business online.
In probably the most technically complex tasks of my life, I launched SponsoringSuccess.net membership site, a web based resource to help the home based business owner succeed wildly online.
In the summer of 2009 Mike Dillard announced the release of the Traffic Formula 2 course, and an incredible affiliate contest. While traveling to Los Angeles to investigate my potential new Network Marketing home, I participated in the affiliate launch and was the only woman on the top 10 leaderboard. Ultimately, I ended up in lucky 13th place… but hey, I was traveling!
Mike Dillard used my video on the sales page – and subsequently asked me to be an Instructor at Better Networker.
In June I officially made my move to work with ViSalus Sciences, a Network Marketing company who’s marketing system, the Vi-Net, is actually a social networking site that directly integrates with sites like Facebook and Twitter to make Social Media Marketing easy. In July, ViSalus launched the Nationwide Body By Vi Challenge, and I launched my own 90 Day Challenge Vlog at www.my-body-by-vi.com .
I set out to transform my body – and spent the next 90 days focused on my own health. You can see the videos I created in the archives at www.my-body-by-vi.com .
I put all of my effort and focus into building up ViSalus, and by the time the ViSalus Fusion Academy came to Tampa, I had a couple of excellent accomplishments recognized!
I had achieved the rank of Regional Director, and the BMW Bonus!
I also earned a Free Cruise for being a Top Producer in the Body By Vi Challenge.
The end of 2010 was all about helping those people I had gotten started in the fall to get up to speed and making money… after all, thats how this business model works!
2009 was pretty spectacular, considering all that I set my mind to accomplish. The bar is now raised, and the first set goals for 2010 are already on paper. I’ll continue to grow my list and provide valuable training to those who seek to have a profitable internet based business. I’ll continue to climb the ranks in ViSalus by training others with the methods of the Fusion Academy. I know the goals I have written will come to pass, for I am unstoppable.
Faith is a spiritual gifting that is present in the Entrepreneur. It is obedience to a calling, risk taking in response to a vision – a believing wholeheartedly in the unseen. You have been called to greatness ~ it is time to step out in faith. http://budurl.com/liveyourdreams
What are your goals for 2010? Have you taken the time to examine what you have achieved and how you can build on your successes? Please tell me your goals for 2010, in the comments below!
Tags: attraction marketing, body by vi challenge, fusion academy, magnetic sponsoring, MLM List Building, renegade university, social media marketing, visalus sciences, web 2.0
“Once You Know How To Sell To 10,000
People In The Same Amount Of Time It Personally
Takes You To Sell To One Person…
You Will Never Have A “Duplication Problem” Again”
You know that feeling when you’re out having coffee with a friend… or you bump into someone you know at the grocery store… and you think to yourself, “I really need to talk to this person about my opportunity. I haven’t done anything yet to build my business today?”
And then, afterwards, when you fail to share your opportunity with them, you feel really guilty about it because you know you’re not any closer to your dreams of residual income?
How would you like to never have that feeling again?
Let’s face it.
We all hate talking to people who aren’t interested in our opportunity, and none of us would do it if we knew there was a better option available.
It’s about as enjoyable as chewing on broken glass and somehow, at a gut level it just doesn’t feel right.
So Why Do We Force Ourselves To Do It?
Well, a lot of us have been given the impression that it’s simply the only way to do this business.
Many of us have been told that the very core of network marketing, the very reason it’s so powerful, are the one-to-one relationships that allow us to immediately connect with our prospects and have our message heard above everyone else’s.
Remove the “one-on-one” aspect and you no longer have network marketing.
There are three main reasons we’re repeatedly ingrained with the idea that this form of direct selling is superior to all others:
- *t’s more effective than other forms of advertising.
- It’s the only way “the little guy” can compete with the big companies and build a business today.
- It’s duplicateable.
But is all this really true?
Let’s take a look at each one of these arguments.
#1. “Direct selling is more effective than other forms of advertising.”
The average person today is busier than ever before and the amount of things competing for our attention is at an all time high.
We’re constantly bombarded with as many as 1,600 to 3,000 different ads or marketing messages every single day.
Because of this, we’re told that the only way to cut through all the noise and get people’s attention is through personal, pre-existing relationships.
An individual is actually able to get much better market penetration with their “circle of influence” than a big company with a huge advertising budget because “people buy from those they know, like and trust.”
Right?
Now, at face value, this seems to make really good sense.
But if you’ve made even the smallest attempt at expanding your business through your warm market, you know that something’s not quite right with this picture.
Were you greeted with open arms by every friend, family member, coworker, referral and
acquaintance you’ve ever tried to prospect?
Did they happily whip out their checkbook and immediately buy from you because they know you or because you’re a friend of a friend?
Probably not.
In fact, you’re probably more familiar with the experience of being avoided or shunned by people the moment they found out what your real motives for talking with them were.
So much for “cutting through all the noise” right?
So why doesn’t it all play out perfectly the way it should? Why the big disconnect between theory and reality?
It’s because…
Direct Selling, Regardless Of Whether
Or Not You Already Know Someone, Is
Still A Form Of Interruption Marketing
You’re still intruding on people’s lives with the one thing people hate almost more than anything else: An unwanted sales pitch.
Sure, you’ll be able to get your foot in the door because they know who you are… but it doesn’t matter if you’re their best friend or a total stranger, once you hit them up with a sales pitch, all of that goes out the window!
You’ve just placed yourself in the same category as all the other solicitors they ignore! It completely voids the fact that you have any kind of relationship with them.
Any trust between the two of you has been damaged because people don’t like being taken advantage of. And that’s how they feel when you assume that they’ll automatically give you their money just by virtue of the fact that you know them.
Especially if you’ve used some sneaky, bait-and-switch “I just want you to evaluate what I’m doing” or “I can’t explain it, you’ve just gotta come and see it for yourself” tactic that many uplines teach and employ.
(Deep down inside we all know this instinctively because that’s not how we would want to be treated. That’s why it just doesn’t feel right when we push our stuff on people.)
More importantly…
Any Pre-Existing Relationship You Have With
Anyone Is Completely Meaningless If They
Don’t Already Want What You’re Selling
This is the most important and fundamental rule of marketing and it’s prerequisite to everything else.
If you’re not abiding by this rule, NO form of advertising is going to work.
In fact, person-to-person is actually the worst form of advertising for practicing this sort of “interruption marketing” because with something like television or a magazine ad, your prospect can simply change channels or turn the page if they’re not interested. No big deal.
But nothing is more uncomfortable than having to turn someone down who won’t take “no” for an answer. Especially when you’re trying to be careful and polite about it because that someone is your friend.
It’s also a lot harder and more wearing on you because you personally have to deal with the rejection over and over again (another thing that we humans don’t do well with), as opposed to an ad that couldn’t care less.
While the whole point of direct selling is supposed to be to allow you to breakthrough all the other advertising clutter, there’s actually a much better and more natural way to accomplish this.
Effectively getting someone to listen to you has nothing to do with communicating at a one-to-one level.
It’s all about whether or not you’re tapping into a need or desire that already exists.
If you’re not offering them something that they’re already highly interested in, you’re not going to be able to hold their attention and you’re certainly not going to get them to take action.
The REAL KEY to getting and keeping your prospect’s undivided attention is to deliver laser-targeted messages to them at the exact moment that they’re looking for answers.
Good Marketing Is About Delivering The Right
Message, To The Right Person, At The Right Time.
This is how you stand out from the crowd and the internet allows you to do this like no other advertising medium in history because what are people doing when they go on the internet?
Searching for information!
This is the exact state of mind you need someone to be in in order for them to be receptive to your offer – not when they’re having dinner or out grocery shopping.
The very nature of the internet is that people go on it to look for answers. It’s like a giant virtual yellow pages, except infinitely better and more powerful (in ways that I’ll talk about more in future emails).
It’s THE perfect pool of prospects – warmer and more receptive than any “warm” market.
Which brings us to the next point…
#2. “One-to-one marketing is the only way “the little guy” can compete with the big companies and build a business today.”
We would all love to advertise and have business come to us if we could right?
However, we’re told that the average person just can’t afford to do normal advertising like “the big boys” can and one-to-one, word of mouth marketing is really the only option available to us small home based business owners who don’t have a lot of money to start with.
Now, 20 years ago when everything was offline this *MIGHT* have been true…
But today with the internet, this argument is simply outdated and no longer valid.
Reaching mass audiences of hundreds of thousands of people with an advertising campaign in the offline world can cost as much as a small house.
With The Internet, These Same Numbers And Results
Can Be Achieved For Nothing Or Next To Nothing
Let me give you some examples…
- To take out a full page ad in The Washington Post, which has over 2.4 million readers, you will need to fork over a hefty $100,000.
On the other hand, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which has a circulation of about 370,000 readers, will only cost you $15,000.* A typical full page ad in most magazines will cost you anywhere from $20-40 CPM. This means ‘Cost Per Thousand’ – the cost per thousand viewers or readers. So if you want your ad to be seen by roughly 100,000 people, it may cost anywhere from
$2-4,000. - * Depending on the type of postage you use and a few other things like printing, paper, mailing list rental and lettershopping, having your offer sent to 100,000 people through direct mail can be in the neighborhood of $50,000 or more.
* With production costs and air time, a 28 minute infomercial can easily run you up a good $200,000.
Now, compare this with similar methods on the internet:
Youtube
Cost: Free.
Reach: Sky’s the limit. Just now as I’m writing this email I went and looked up some videos about how to start a home based business and found a bunch that have gotten
54,542 views… 34,197 views… 74,907 views… 12,959 views… etc. All of them were done by individuals in their home. None of them were done by big corporations.
Article Marketing
Cost: Free if done manually, or for less than $200 you can have a good professional service do it for you for an entire year.
Reach: Hundreds of websites with thousands of regular visitors pick up your articles and distribute them.
Here are some recent comments about article marketing from someone who purchased the Renegade Network Marketer:
“Averaging About $4,000/mo In Sales”
“Ann…
By the way, I am averaging about $4,000 a month in sales, and only spending about $28/month to do that. Out of that, $19 is to keep Aweber getting my newsletter out, and the rest is my monthly fees for my website and blog. Really, I don’t spend anything
on marketing yet.It’s all article marketing, blogging, and newsletter stuff.
I’m averaging about a 94% profit margin!”
-Scott Rogers
Duncanville, TX
Banner Advertising
Cost: $1-5 per thousand impressions, depending on the websites you advertise with (an impression is when your ad is shown) So to have your ad shown 100,000 times would cost between $100-500.
Natural search engine listings (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc)
Cost: Time.
Reach: Thousands to millions depending on the search terms you’re targeting.
Ezine Advertising
An “ezine” is an online newsletter and when you advertise with one, your offer gets emailed to the entire list of subscribers. This is one of the most effective methods for targeting huge crowds of people who are interested in your offer. There are
hundreds of home based business/network marketing ezines you can advertise with, but here are just a few examples that I found in about 10 minutes of looking through an ezine directory:
-$150 to have your ad sent to 470,000 subscribers
-$135 to have your ad sent to 280,000 subscribers
-$99 to have your ad sent to 100,000 subscribers
-$50 to have your ad sent to 37,000 subscribers
-$35 to have your ad sent to 20,000 subscribers
With the internet, anyone can advertise like the big companies, and in fact, in many cases, the “little guy” can do it a lot better.
Most Fortune 500 companies are just now starting to get up to speed on strategies and techniques that were being talked about and used with tremendous success 5-10 years ago by pioneering individuals and small home based business owners.
This may sound surprising, but did you know that during the 21st Century, 90% of the most significant breakthroughs and discoveries in science and business came from small businesses?
Why?
Because it’s very difficult for large, slow-moving, bureaucratic corporations to adapt and change.
The Fortune 500s and the Inc 500s – just like the vast majority of MLM companies – failed to adapt to the internet and are now playing catch up. (Actually, they failed to allow their
DISTRIBUTORS to adapt to the internet).
Is it really any surprise that the warm/cold market approach has become outdated?
After all, network marketing was first conceived of well over 50 years ago.
Things change. Techniques change. That’s okay.
This does NOT mean that MLM itself is outdated, just the methods that people are being taught to use. It’s more powerful now than ever, when combined with effective marketing strategies.
One more thing about this idea that home based business owners can’t advertise like the big companies can…
Notice how I said that “20 years ago when everything was offline this *MIGHT* have been
true…?”
Well, the reason I say “might” is because if you advertise like MOST distributors do, this statement is true.
You WILL lose money. Every time.
When Done Wrong, Any Kind Of Marketing
Is Expensive – Even Warm Market Prospecting
Which Is Supposed To Be Free
Most MLMers lose money because they don’t know WHAT to advertise (hint: it’s not your
opportunity).
However, when done correctly, all of your advertising expenses become a complete non-
issue.
Read that again.
WHEN DONE RIGHT…
COST IS IRRELEVANT.
Yes, even the most expensive kinds like direct mail.
If this sounds like something you’d like to learn how to do, you need to check out my book The Renegade Network Marketer.
In it, I show you EXACTLY how to have all of your advertising immediately pay for itself so that you have no out-of-pocket expenses – regardless of how big or small it is.
You’re really at a huge disadvantage if you’re not using this strategy in your business. Other people are every day and they’re finding they’re able to expand their advertising endlessly as a result.
Just click here to learn how to do this right now.
On to number three…
#3. “Warm/cold market prospecting is duplicateable.”
This argument goes right along with the first one.
If we’ve already established that prospecting people who don’t care about our opportunity one at a time is NOT an effective form of marketing (and in some cases, one of the worst forms when done incorrectly), why would you want to duplicate it?
Of course the whole point is supposed to be that making a names list and calling those people is supposed to be something that absolutely ANYONE can do without needing any money, skills, or experience whatsoever (not true, by the way)…
But in reality:
2nd Rate Methods Lead To
2nd Rate Results
Many MLMers might look at this and ask (as I would have in the past), “but didn’t John Paul Getty say that he would rather have 1% of the efforts of a hundred men than 100% of his own?”
And he did. But what he left out of that famous saying is that in order for it to apply, that 1% has to at least amount to SOMETHING.
The fact is, the old school techniques of trying to sell to unqualified prospects usually yield zero or even negative results for most MLMers and only ends up in frustration and failure.
And this is all assuming that the warm/cold market approach really is duplicateable in the first place.
But this is hardly the case.
It’s too dependent on how big your warm market is… what kind of people it consists of… and how much influence you have with them.
The problem is, most of us are not positioned very well as someone who our family and friends would see as a good person to follow into a business venture.
And in either case – whether you’re trying to recruit in your warm or cold market – when you’re prospecting people who have expressed little or no interest in your product or opportunity, only the most tenacious and pitbull-like reps can achieve any kind of consistent, ongoing success. Usually those who have had lots of experience in previous
sales positions.
Does This Mean That One-To-One
Communication Is Completely Out?
Absolutely not.
It’s simply a matter of shifting and redefining your idea of how and when to use it.
It’s just as important today as it ever has been – WHEN used correctly, with the RIGHT people at the RIGHT time.
Developing one-to-one relationships with your top business builders and your best prospects is very important…
But it’s definitely not needed for ALL your prospects. This tedious grunt work of sifting and sorting can and should be automated.
Most people find that when they do this, they literally get TEN TIMES the results.
No exaggeration. In fact that’s quite normal.
Here’s an example of just one such success story:
“I’ve Already Made Over $6,000 In
Commission Checks And I Have Attracted
Over 500 Prospects Who Came To Me”
“I’m a 22 year old Bulgarian and I came to this country about two and a half years ago. I came here to go to college and I’m pretty lucky because in my first few days of coming into this country I was introduced to the network marketing industry.
I was really enchanted by the idea of being in business by myself and having a residual income every month and all the different things that come with it. And so I was very motivated to make that happen. I started doing everything I was told I should do. I started prospecting everyone in my college, everyone in the gym, I started cold calling leads – a lot of leads. Many hours. And then I started investing a lot of money in inspirational and educational materials. Inspirational materials particularly to keep me cold calling…
I flew to California, I went to a $1,500 event with Jeffrey Combs – “Breakthroughs.” And then I flew to Las Vegas. I spent hundreds of dollars there for “First steps to success” – Danni Johnson, a big industry coach. I spent a lot of money on these CDs as well. In fact, after coming back from this event I had put scripts all over my wall because that’s what I had learned at that event. I had everything on the wall so I knew what to say in every different scenario…
And you know… this has been great. It has helped me grow a lot… but the fact is that in my two years of trying to build my business I spent a lot of money. Too much money. And I did not get back in return even a fraction of what I spent. So this was really a very unsuccessful way to build my business. And when I came across Ann Sieg’s book The Renegade Network Marketer, I was given hope.
I read the book and in my first month by applying the teachings of The Renegade Network Marketer I’ve already started making money and attracting prospects to me. And it has now been over six months and I’ve already made over $6,000 in commission checks and I have attracted over 500 prospects who came to me… are calling me… emailing me… and want to talk to me… this is really empowering. I’m making money even when they don’t join my network marketing opportunity and this is great because that’s what a real business is. Thank you Ann Sieg for teaching me and providing this book to the network marketing world.”
-Diyana Alcheva
Gresham, OR
To Your Success,
Ann Sieg
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“I’ve been in (and out) of the network marketing industry for over 7 years. After reading this ebook, I now realize the reasons why I was never truly successful. This is an amazing ebook!
It’s simply the most complete ensemble of information on how to market on the internet that I’ve ever seen. It’s well worth ten times the price.”
-Terry Shafer
Originally posted in… an email from Ann Sieg
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I am going to hit a soft spot here, but you really need to think
about this because it is very true.
Remember when you were little and anything was possible? What did
you want to be? A doctor, a fireman, a pro athlete, a rock star, a
teacher… what was it? You remember…
I love watching my kids play because their minds have no limitations.
Thinking about this made me ask myself a while back, “Why do so
few people have dreams these days?”
It’s because people are afraid and think, ‘Dreams cost money.’
But dreams are what make us succeed in life.
Dreams are what we all deserve to reach in our lives!
One of the more important values I have found with ViSalus(TM) is how
they stress the importance of living your dreams. The top producers
not only show off what their success has bought them, but even more
they speak of the lifestyles they have achieved and show others how
they too can have the same kind of life. ViSalus is about great
products; it is also simply about HOPE. It’s about inspiring others
to go for their dreams. It is exactly what the name stands for -
impacting life, health, and prosperity around the world.
Too often, I hear people look at something they want and say, “I
can’t afford it.”
How about instead saying, “How can I afford it?”
There are too many dream stealers out there these days. We need to
look out for the people who may innocently say negative things
like:
“You can’t do that!”
“That is too risky.”
“Don’t be silly!”
“If this is such a good idea, why hasn’t someone else done it
before?”
“Oh I tried that years ago, let me tell you why that won’t work
for you.”
Empowered people have big dreams that they have every chance to
achieve, while people who are afraid to grab their dreams simply
spend their lives moaning about what they never have. If you want
to change who you are and how you live, begin by changing the size
of your dream.
What is it that you really want?
Why not go for it? You really have nothing to lose!
ViSalus is an opportunity, giving you the vehicle that can take you
down the road to achieving your dreams while providing you with the
fuel to keep you moving toward your destination!
I know you have a dream worth looking at. And it begins here!
Then call me…I want to help make your real dreams come true!
Tags: live your dreams, Personal Development, vislaus sciences
In the following audio Jim Rohn explains how the Law of Sowing and Reaping is so very clearly played out in growing a Network Marketing Business. It is the thorough understanding of how it works that enables us to discipline our disappointment and keep sowing, and ultimately succeed in Network Marketing.
In Mark 4:3-8, Jesus says:
There went out a sower to sow:
And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
You, as a Network Marketer are the ambitious sower with excellent seed. You have drive, determination and are ready to spread the word. Your seed is good. You have an excellent company, with an excellent product and you have been given just the right words to say.
But the facts are the facts, and we are told clearly how this world works in the parable above. There are some things that are indeed, inevitable.
#1 The birds are going to get some of the seed.
You can give the invitations, and even get confirmation that some guests will attend… but then they will not show.
Oh well! Some will, some wont, so what!
Don’t chase those birds,for if you do, you will leave the field. You aren’t sowing if you are chasing. Chasing will distract from your future, not add.
Its better to just accept it as it is… for you were told: The birds will get some of your seed.
Now, if you keep on sowing, you will eventually plant enough that the birds cannot eat it all, and you will get sign ups into your business. Unfortunately…
#2 The seed falls on rocky ground where the soil was shallow. On the first hot day it withers and dies.
Those wonderful signups who seem so gung-ho? Some are going to drop just as soon as the excitement wears off. The hot weather is gonna get some – this is not of your making.
Some don’t stay. Attrition is real. Sure, there are things you can do to make sure your people have everything they need to stick if they are going to… but some wont no matter what you do!
You cant solve this. You can only cooperate with things the way they are…
And keep on sowing! You need to discipline your own disappointment and keep on prospecting and showing the plan.
You will sign up more people, and make more money, as long as you continue to sow. You will enroll more people and you will find that…
#3The seed falls on thorny ground. The plant starts to grow again, but the thorns choke it and it dies.
Some of your new people will let cares and distractions choke their business. The unfortunate fact is that people will let little things cheat them out of big opportunities.
They wont listen to the conference calls, won’t make it to the local training events. They’ll let ‘real life’ as they see it get in the way of their dreams. They wont make the dream money either… and then they will choke, and fall away.
Its just the way it is…
The good news?
The sower keeps on sowing, and
#4 some of the seed will fall on fertile ground and will spring up and grow.
As long as you keep on sharing the story, keep on giving the invitation – finally the seed falls on good ground.
The fact is, it always will, if you keep sowing.
This is the way the world was made.
Dont try to figure out WHY, just work with it!
Now the last piece of this is that the people you enroll will work their business with differing intensities. You cannot change them, and should not push them.
The parable says that some will work at 30%, some at 60% and some at 100%. You can never expect a 30%er to do the work of a 100%er. Instead, you must acknowledge and water the sprouts of the 30%ers… and keep on sowing!
A beautiful effect of your continuing to sow? Your skill level will inevitably increase. You have be be bad before you are good and good before you are great. So initially, you may find that you aren’t very good at inviting… but you totally make up in numbers what you lack in skill! And the act of running the numbers will result in your getting better at prospecting and closing.
In short – get to work sowing, and don’t quit! Just understand the way the world works, and roll with it!
You can access more personal development audio from Jim Rohn in your Success Library Online, part of your ViSalus Vi-Net.
Personal development is a master key that will help you in all areas of your life. It will help you to find a power within to do amazing things in life. To know that your childhood dreams were meant to be your reality.
If you have been living a less than vibrant life, get started as a ViSalus rep today and dive into the personal development training that is included in the Fusion Academy.
You have a full audio and book library worth thousands from Success Magazine available to you!
Tags: Jim Rohn, jim rohn mlm, jim rohn network marketing, law of sowing and reaping, network marketing success, you reap what you sow
Its truly good to give out of your abundance. It can give you great joy and increase your giving spirit. And just in case you aren’t aware of how things work right here on planet earth – when you give out of your abundance, the law of 10 fold returns applies. That is, when you give – you claim a 10 fold return, knowing that it will come back to you – and abundance will flow back into your life. Try it
Today is my birthday, and I have just one desire. I desire that more children in need across the USA would have full bellies, and healthy minds. I desire that they would recieve the donations of the ViSalus Community Challenge through their local foodbanks. That their parents would have a healthy, nutrition loaded shake to give them each day that has everything their beautifully designed minds need to develope properly. That those same children would grow into the greatness they are meant to be – and ultimately – give out of their abundance!
When you donate $24 out of your abundance through the ViSalus Community Challenge, you provide 30 meals for children in need in the USA. ViSalus will then match your donation and give another 30 meals – so in fact, your $24 donation will give 60 meals to children in need!
All across our country, food banks are in desperate need for donations to feed the growing numbers of hungry people. As the unemployment rate exceeds 10% nationwide, more and more children go without a decent meal – and many are starving for protein. Protein is needed for growth, intellectual development and a healthy immune system. The children who are going hungry are not only suffering now, they are bound to experience the long term results of a protein deficiency – stunted growth, decrease in mental function and a lifetime of health problems.
Why would I bring this to your attention, and on my birthday?
Because each and every morning I give thanks for the ability to feed my children a healthy, substantial meal before they head off to school. I pray for those who go without ~ and I am moved to help them.
The ViSalus Community Challenge has a goal to feed 100,000 meals by the end of 2009. On this day, I would hope that my wide internet reach will help to reach this goal. If you would find it in your heart to give, out of your abundance, you would be part of a movement to eradicate hunger right here, in our own cities and towns across the USA.
By sharing this post through a retweet on Twitter or a Facebook share, you will be participating in a model of charitable giving that that has never been available to us before social media.
Retweet on Twitter :
Click on the green ‘tweetmeme’ button on the top right of this post, or copy and paste this into your status:My Birthday Gift? Share thru RT, and Feed Hungry Kids! http://bit.ly/4CZIMy
Share on Facebook :
You can find my post on my profile wall and share that, or post this to your wall:The Social Media Birthday Giving Challenge : Please Share, to Feed Hungry Kids in the USA!
http://budurl.com/birthdaywish
The more of us who post, retweet, and share this message of giving out of our abundance- the more meals will be provided to children in need.
So please, don’t give me a facebook virtual gift – instead, give me a gift by donating to the cause, posting that link to your wall, using Ping.fm to share and tweeting my birthday wish
When you do, you will be participating in a movement to truly impact children!
LOS ANGELES, CA – November 18th, 2009 – ViSalus Sciences has made another step towards bringing
its mission of Prosperity to families in need. From Fusion Academy, a ViSalus national convention in Tampa, Florida, CEO Ryan Blair announced a new initiative that will leverage the company’s Vi-Shape® Nutritional Shake Mix to provide, healthy nutrition to children from coast to coast.
The Body by Vi™ Community Challenge has set a goal of donating 100,000 children’s meals through a network of local Distributors working with charitable organizations in their communities. For as little as 50 cents per meal, ViSalus Distributors and Customers can make a donation to be matched meal for meal by ViSalus.
The Challenge was given a head start towards this goal by Co-Founders Ryan Blair, Nick Sarnicola, and Blake Mallen, who together pledged the first 15,000 meals on stage today.
“Our company is founded in name and spirit on the pillars of Life, Health, and Prosperity,” said ViSalus Chief Marketing Officer Blake Mallen. “To us, Prosperity is about much more than financial freedom; it’s about the ability to give back to the people and causes that touch your heart.”
Chief Sales Officer Nick Sarnicola is humbled to have an opportunity to combine the benefits of
ViSalus products with the giving spirit of the ViSalus community. “To have great products is one thing,”
said Sarnicola. “To have a great product that children can benefit from and enjoy is another. For our
community to make this product available for free to the children who need it most is the ultimate
form of contribution we can achieve.”
ViSalus Founder Ryan Blair was inspired to take this cause to the masses after a recent trip to Jamaica
showed him what a difference the ViSalus community could make. “There are too many children in this
world who don’t have a fighting chance because they simply don’t have the means to get the nutrition
their bodies need each day. To succeed at school, on the athletic field, or simply to grow up to be
healthy, nothing is more important than nutrition, and I hope the children of the world know we don’t
plan on stopping at 100,000 meals,” said Blair.
About ViSalus Sciences®
ViSalus Sciences®, with headquarters in Troy, Michigan and Los Angeles, CA, is a leading Weight
Management and Nutritional Supplement maker utilizing the direct selling channel to distribute its
products. ViSalus is the company behind the Body by Vi™ Challenge, a health transformation program
helping people achieve their weight loss and fitness goals for a chance to win over $100,000 per year
in total prizes.
Originally posted at : My Birthday Gift? Use Social Media to Share, and Feed Hungry Kids!
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