Integrate Internet Marketing and Relationship Marketing and you will be unusually successful in your MLM. Ignoring “Old School” methods and only embracing the “New School” is simply foolish.

I was amused to learn the words “Web 2.0″ and then later, “Attraction Marketing” . As a home based business owner who built my business using the Internet and the phone, I had been using those methods to build my business long before there were labels attached.  In fact, the coining of them was such a non-event for me that I missed an opportunity to corner those SEO terms – bummer!  The term “Attraction Marketing” is absolutely huge now and the experts abound!

Network Marketers across the world are embracing the “New School” way of building an MLM business by tapping into the millions of prospects who are online looking for ways to become financially free.  They are learning how to set up their blogs, build capture pages and how to market those sites using social media like twitter and facebook, search engine optimization and video marketing. It’s a frenzy of learning and application.  The content going up is staggering!

We’ve really done a good job of training up the competition

Now, I don’t really believe that there is scarcity of prospects – but there is scarcity of attention spans. And if all the “New School” Network Marketers are out there teaching “Attraction Marketing“, and posing as experts… where does that leave YOU?  If you are trying to claim your spot on the net, how will you stand out? How will you generate a lead in an environment where everyone is standing up and yelling ‘pick me, pick me’ ?

I don’t know man, I just don’t know…
maybe we’ll have to go back to the “Old School” methods of prospecting…

What are the ‘Old School’ methods, really? Does it mean making a list of your friends and family and expecting them all to be your business partners? That each and every one of them is just waiting to be an entrepreneur?  Or how about standing at the mall and accosting strangers about making extra money, doing just what you are doing?  No way, you say – that’s how you end up in the NFL. “No friends left” after you have unprofessionally approached them all with something that they weren’t asking for.

Is that really what is meant by “Old School” networking? Of course it isn’t, but its what you will hear from those who will tell you that the ‘Old School’ methods of building a MLM business are dead. They will make the offline methods sound stupid and downright degrading.  They will make it sound like you’d be a fool to follow the advice of the MLM millionaires who all built their business offline because ‘things are different now’.

Come on, do you really think things are THAT different? People are still people, and this is still a word of mouth business.

So what does “Old School” really mean, and why should you have respect for the ‘Old School” masters, instead of disdain for the term?
Its Relationship Marketing at its best.  It is listening for the needs of people and giving them an option to fill those needs. It’s connecting with people in your community who are looking for what you have to offer.

It was never, and never will be about chasing your friends and family, people!

Right now, there are people all over the world making huge money in MLM building OFFLINE, using “Old School” methods.
Right now, people are collecting six figure checks.

Are you?

If not, perhaps its time you took a look at expanding your skill set to include offline methods of building your business.
If you are really an entrepreneur with a product or service that the market is asking for – then you should have no trouble connecting with people who have a need for what you offer.

I’m an Internet Network Marketer and have been building my business online for 8 years. I generate my own leads and call my prospects after they have been exposed to the business through an online presentation. I have mad phone skills and people close themselves on my opportunity all the time.

However, I take every opportunity to look people in the eye and hand them my business card. Their attention to my website is far more valuable than the thousands of clicks I will get to this blog post. They are far more likely to take action to either become a customer, or even a distributor. Why? Because I looked them in the eye and professionally introduced what I do. I heard their need and I addressed it. They can see that I am genuine, am not at all a slimy salesperson, and if they have a desire to move forward, its on them.

My friends and family know what I do – and they are my CUSTOMERS. They aren’t entrepreneurs, and I wouldn’t prospect them for the business opportunity. But they do BUY MY STUFF!

If you are a closet entrepreneur, you are missing a huge profit zone. Get over it already and be the professional you strive to be. Introduce your product or service and let everyone know what you do.  Would a paycheck for doing so really be so bad?

There is so much more to this- pages and pages worth. But you really must know that all of the internet marketing prowess in the world is not going to make you residual millions in MLM. You simply must learn the skills of Relationship Marketing.  Your upline leader making 6 or 7 figures can tell you how to build a huge business. Listen!

By all means, learn and understand Attraction Marketing and apply those methods of lead generation. But what the heck are you going to say to those wonderful people who have asked you for more information?
Learning WordPress won’t help you with the one thing that will earn you a check – closing the prospect!

I guarantee that if you work on your offline prospecting and phone prospecting that you’ll make more money. Unless you are incredibly poorly suited for this profession, you can’t go wrong when you increase your skill set in those areas.

You can get generic Relationship Marketing training from Dani Johnson or Todd Falcone. These 2 are the real deal. I plug into the expert training from both of these MLM coaches all the time. Both of them clearly know that you must hone your prospecting and closing skill set, no matter how you generate a lead. They can both teach you how to generate endless leads offline, expose them to the opportunity, follow-up, close, duplicate, and ultimately lead a team.  And if you are generating leads online – its the same skill set! These MLM coaches know how to combine the Old School with the New School Attraction Marketing methods – and guess what? They are unusually successful!

How do you drive traffic to your home based business blog?

After all, a blog on the net will not simply attract people on its own.  It is not a case of ‘If you build it, they will come.’  If you already have a LIST, you have a ready audience.  If not, then just like any website on the net, you must do the work to get it indexed in the search engines for your targeted keywords.

In other words, you’ve got to make sure that people find you when they do a search for what you have blogged about!

I spent a weekend with master internet marketers and came away with some very interesting and strategic tips for you to use to drive traffic to your home business blog with SEO.  Most of them I wasn’t even doing yet … and my blogs do OK! Imagine how yours will do if you follow “The Six Step Formula for Driving Targeted Traffic to Your Blog.”

The Six Step Formula for Driving Targeted Traffic to Your Blog

1. Write a Magical Blog Post
2. Ping it at Pingoat.com
3. Comment on 5 blogs, linking direct to your new Magical Blog Post.
4. Add your post to 5 different RSS directories.
5. Join 5 MyBlogLog.com communities and add the owners of the communities as contacts.
6. Social bookmark EVERYTHING! I love www.OnlyWire.com for this task.
   Social Bookmark your post
   Social bookmark your 5 comments
   Social Bookmark the post’s RSS feed

When you follow the six steps above, you will be following best practices for getting your home business blog ranked high in the search engines.   This will result in free visitors, and hopefully free subscribers to your list!

As I said, I was only doing half of these things before, and I’ve done well.  Imagine if you start right now, from a place of Power, to work your business SMART, not hard!

Follow those 6 steps- as I can virtually guarantee your competition is NOT! Search Engine Optimization of your blog will set you apart from the other home based business blogs.

Need the instructions to set up your blog?  You’ll find a checklist and video tutorial when you get your own copy of MLM List Building Exposed.

Its about time someone gave you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth! Work your business the right way, from the start!

11 Free Lead generation methods for MLM, Network Marketers or Direct Sales.

Today I’m going to finish telling you about
the free or low-cost lead getting methods
you’ll learn in Renegade Professional…

Blogging, YouTube, HubPages, and Twitter.

But before we dive into that stuff, let me
answer some questions I’ve been getting.

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Question: “Is this program for me, even though
I’m comfortable with the computer and internet?”

Answer: Yes, you will still benefit heavily
from the training in Renegade Professional.

Because aside from the click-by-click guidance
that comes with each video tutorial…

We’re constantly injecting “big-picture”
stuff into them as well.

Time-tested and proven attraction marketing
skills you’ll need to acquire in order
to generate leads and make sales.

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Question: “I’m a little nervous this
is going to be too much for me to handle.

Is all this stuff actually going to work?”

Answer: I wouldn’t stress out about it.

You won’t need to go through all our training
before you start to see results coming in.

Plus, you can always go at your own pace.

Yes, Renegade Professional works if you’re:

-Serious about your business

-Open-minded and willing to learn

-Able to follow click-by-click instructions

-Willing to take consistent action

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Okay, now where did we leave off?

Ah yes, it was…

5) BLOGGING

Number of video tutorials: 28

Number of hours/minutes/seconds: (14:31:55)

Blogging has officially become mainstream.

According to a recent study by Synovate and
Marketing Daily, nearly 40% of Americans
have visited a blog this past year.

And with the total U.S. population hovering
under 306,000,000 people…

THAT’S ROUGHLY 122,302,473 PEOPLE!

Keep this in mind too.

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THESE NUMBERS AREN’T EVEN COUNTING
THE OTHER 193 COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD!
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Pretty mind-boggling, huh?

If you DON’T have your own blog set-up and
positioned where these people can see it…

THERE’S NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT!

We’ll show you exactly how to build one
from scratch.

And we’ll give you expert tips and ideas
on what to write about when it’s done.
Plus, we’ll also show you the secret to
getting potential customers and business
builders to not only visit your blog again
and again.

But also…

-Buy your stuff

-Request more information

-Fill out your lead-capture form

-Become members of your team or downline

Whatever YOU WANT THEM TO DO when they get there!

6) YOUTUBE.COM/VIDEO MARKETING

Number of video tutorials: 21

Number of hours/minutes/seconds: (6:16:26)

Did you know that U.S. internet users watched
14.3 billion online videos in December 2008?

THAT’S 14,300,000,000 VIEWS IN A SINGLE MONTH!

And guess what?

YouTube is largely responsible for this!

If you don’t know how to put your network
marketing business in front of YouTube’s
huge audience of people…

Or if you’re totally clueless when it comes
to the technical side of things…

(Video cameras, recording, or uploading files
to your computer.)

That’s okay!

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WE’LL START FROM THE VERY BEGINNING
AND SHOW YOU HOW TO DO EVERYTHING
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From ordering a cheap, simple-to-use video
camera (if you don’t already have one)…

To recording videos along with helpful advice
on what to say when the camera’s rolling…

To putting them up on YouTube and promoting
them so your prospects will find them and
get a kick out of watching them…

WE’VE GOT ALL THE BASES COVERED.

Which means you’ll be able to funnel
customer/opportunity leads from YouTube
into your email inbox every single day!

Regardless of your current experience level.

7) HUBPAGES.COM

Number of video tutorials: 14

Number of hours/minutes/seconds: (2:55:08)

HubPages is another place where you can
get mass exposure and build relationships.

According to Compete.com it received 4,727,564
visitors in January 2009!

Not to mention, Google and Yahoo LOVE this site
and reward folks who submit useful content to
it with top search engine rankings.

TWITTER.COM

Number of video tutorials: 11

Number of hours/minutes/seconds: (4:18:35)

Twitter is another service you can use
for free to create a loyal group of
prospects or “followers.”

Once you have an audience, you can use this
powerful tool to do lots of cool stuff.

You’ll be able to…

-Quickly interact with each one of your
prospects on a personal and genuine level

-Answer their questions and inform them of
upcoming products, events, or promotions

-Build trust and get them bonded and connected
to YOU by just being yourself

Here’s another thing I should add.

AT&T, Hewlett Packard, Ford, General Motors,
Verizon, Home Depot, State Farm Insurance,
FedEx, Walt Disney, Motorola, Dell, IBM,
and even Warren Buffet’s company…

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ARE USING TWITTER TO PROMOTE
THEIR BRAND, BOND WITH CUSTOMERS,
AND INCREASE THEIR PROFITS
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And we’ll show you how to do the same
with your business CLICK-BY-CLICK!

I’m running out of room here and will have to
briefly mention the rest of the no-cost/low-cost
methods you’ll find in our program.

9) SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

Number of video tutorials: 22

Number of hours/minutes/seconds: (2:50:59)

10) DOMAIN MAPPING

Number of video tutorials: 4

Number of minutes/seconds: (50:32)

11) CAMTASIA STUDIO

Number of video tutorials: 4

Number of hours/minutes/seconds (1:39:22)

12) HIRING WRITERS

Number of video tutorials: 5

Number of minutes/seconds: (51:04)

13) GETTING MORE PROSPECTS ONTO YOUR LIST

Number of video tutorials: 3

Number of hours/minutes/seconds: (2:08:28)

14) PODCASTS

Number of video tutorials: 2

Number of minutes/seconds: (59:16)

15) SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

Number of video tutorials: 4

Number of hours/minutes/seconds: (2:33:25)

PHEW!

I need a breather…

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THAT’S A LOT OF
TOP-NOTCH TRAINING!
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If you haven’t heard of some of this stuff
or don’t even know what it means…

That’s perfectly normal and you shouldn’t
worry about it at all.

As you move through the basic tutorials
you’ll gradually become familiar with
all the terminology being used.

It’s NOT as scary as it might look.

Having made that clear, we are finished
going through the no-cost/low-cost methods!

Lots to look forward to, isn’t there?
And we’re not done yet, not even close.

Get your free training here, today!

Originally posted at : Renegade Pro Blog