The  Association of Better Networkers featured Better Networker Instructor Melanie Milletics in this month’s interview.

Melanie got her start in the industry in 2001, and since has recieved numerous accolades. She’s consistently ranked near the top of the industry’s affiliate contests and became the #2 top enroller in her company for the 2nd quarter of 2010.

Most recently, Melanie was featured in the September 2010 issue of Success from Home Magazine.

Melanie’s specialty is in utilizing list building to build a downline stress free and teaches based on her direct experiences in the industry.

In “How to use your Online Presence to Build a Massive Offline Downline,” you’ll learn:

• Why building a business locally is and will always be the strongest way to build a truly powerful & stable organization.
• Where to find the movers & shakers in your community so you can go for a major “Transfer of Talent” into your organization.
• What to say when you are introducing yourself so that people are magnetically attracted to you and want to keep in touch.
• How to ‘wrap your social media arms around’ your local contacts and continually expose them to your business, without ever spamming them.
• How to build a steady customer base that will reliably upgrade to distributors.

You must be a member of the Association of Better Networkers (ABN) to access this interview (and countless others) in the ABN Training Vault.

If you missed the Real Wahms radio show with Melanie Milletics, you will want to listen to the rebroadcast for sure…Especially if you want to have a presence on the Internet with your company or product!

Melanie gave us some simple steps and reasons why she has created massive results for her own business using social media and Internet marketing to help support her home business!  She covered the simple online setup she gives the instructions for free at and how using automated tools frees up her time to be MOM while the machine keeps cranking to produce leads that convert to enrollments and customers.

You can listen to the rebroadcast by going to The Real Wahms Blog Talk Radio

How to Convert More Leads into Buyers Using the Power of Facebook Marketing

Social Media Marketing is “the way business is done” today.  You cannot make it through the day without hearing or seeing something about Twitter or Facebook.  It goes without saying that your business marketing strategy should include the use of these high-profile networks.  Those who are most successful in business today are certainly using Social Media Marketing effectively.

We’ve been using Social Media Marketing strategies since before the strategies were given a name … Most of the profits from our business come from the effective use of Social Media Marketing… And I want to share those methods with you.

You see, Twitter rocks – but it is like a big networking event. Its loud, and perhaps a bit rowdy – and everyone is allowed in.  Lots of connections are possible, but only a few are made.  I do tweet links to my capture pages occasionally – but leads are rarely generated there.

On the other hand, Facebook is like the private party after the event – or the hallway outside. Where you can actually ‘hear’ and get to know the person you may do business with.  Facebook is where the deal is made. Facebook is the point of conversion.

So how do you make the best use of this knowledge? Ask your Twitter followers to friend you on Facebook. Its bound to come up naturally. Even more powerful – add your prospects as Facebook friends!  No matter where the lead was generated, add them as a friend on Facebook.

I promise you ~ just doing that one thing will get you more results in business ~ as long as you are being authentic and YOU in your marketing in Facebook. No one ever said to spam your friends… OK?

By the way… are we FB friends?

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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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 .

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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!

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I had achieved the rank of Regional Director, and the BMW Bonus!

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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!

In the world of Internet Marketing, it is said that ‘content is king’.
That’s only half the story, of course, because if your content is buried, it cannot be found- that is, unless there are lots of good maps back to it, through social media marketing!

Those who are at the forefront of marketing knowledge have been doing something called ‘syndication’ of their content and using social media marketing for quite some time. It’s how we appear to be everywhere at once, and also how we dominate the search results for whatever keywords we choose. Until just a few short weeks ago I achieved this syndication of my content by outsourcing my marketing – to my VA.
Effective? To a point, yes. But the results are absolutely minuscule compared to what I have found by implementing the SYNND system put together by the guys over at Social Media Science to outsource my marketing.

I am humbled at the power of what they have put into our hands. I am also well aware that those of us who implement this level of syndication by outsourcing your marketing will steamroll our competitors!
This is truly the Future of Online Marketing.

Read below an interview of the SYNND creators, Thomas Rozof & Charles Heflin, SocialMediaScience.com

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In preparation for our upcoming book, Charles Heflin and I were asked the following question by the other co-author, Richard Dennis:

“Charles and Tom, what is it about content syndication that blows your mind?”

Since I’m older and cuter I went first…

OK, I know, having your “mind blown” is a rather dated colloquialism, but it still manages to get the job done, and just about everyone knows what Richard was after by his question. So here is my answer. Actually, to be honest, it’s a SUMMARY of my answer. You must read the book to get the complete picture (you knew that was coming, didn’t you?).

What blows my mind about content syndication is that it is the ultimate END GAME for all current and future successful online marketing; yet only a minuscule number of people understand its immediate and long term effects and implications. Even fewer know how to execute a successful content syndication campaign. Now stop for a second… and read this sentence again. I’ll wait…

If this statement is ANYWHERE NEAR true then you have every reason to dissect, explore, test and literally devour what I’m about to share.

Content syndication currently exists in a kind of “FUTURE SHOCK” state, to borrow Alvin Toffler’s description. He defined Future Shock as the “The premature arrival of the future.” This is exactly how I view the current state of content syndication.

It’s “premature” only in the sense that the online world is not ready for nor do they expect the outcomes and massive success that content syndication will generate, especially when it’s executed properly, as we have demonstrated and continue to perfect at SocialMediaScience.com.

It’s the “future” in that content syndication is where ALL future online marketing is heading, regardless of whether people like it or not. In the very near future EVERYONE will be forced to abide by what will seem to be a very stringent code. But it’s not stringent to those of us who have practiced these syndication protocols for years and LOVE THEM because of the results we get, time and time again.

Even the words, “Content Syndication”, both alone and together are packed with stellar meaning. Quality, relevant “Content” describes the number one motive and goal for every person engaging in an online SEARCH. The primary goal of ALL search engines therefore is to deliver this quality, relevant and easily digestible CONTENT to all its users. The search engines KNOW that this is the ultimate end GOAL.

What is mysterious and baffling here is that most online marketers also know about the role of quality content. Around the world millions engage in various kinds of SEO strategies as a costly and often unpredictable solution. They understand the “trees” but for many reasons they have yet to see the “forest.” Believe me, once you see the FOREST and you understand what this vantage point offers, you will kick yourself for not seeing it sooner. It’s as if Fort Knox has stacked its gold bullion onto the center of Times Square and day by day people walk by and see only shiny metallic images, with less than 1% of 1% ever stuffing one of those valuable gold bricks into their backpack. The FOREST and the GOLD BULLION is CONTENT SYNDICATION.

In the next few years the search engines will finally perfect their search architecture to such a degree that they can superimpose their MASSIVE CONTENT SIEVE onto every combination of words and phrases that people so glibly submit as CONTENT. Expect the Net as we know it today to undergo the most massive and complete CONTENT HOUSE CLEANING since its inception. We have already seen smaller versions of this grand WORD PURGE; but you ain’t seen nothing yet! Expect this grand daddy of them all to be on the horizon soon.

Online marketers are fond of calling this “The Google Slap.” Well, call me a seasoned sadist, because I LOVE it whenever Google slaps me (and rest of the net). “It hurts soooo good!” Why? Because when they do this I see yet ANOTHER reason why content syndication blows my mind and another reason why it SHOULD blow yours. It’s like cleaning up the streets of New York City so that the hard working, honest and law abiding citizens can walk freely and enjoy the fruits of their labors; which for us content syndication advocates means more READERS and more SALES. Whenever the net get’s SLAPPED I win, because I know how to leverage my content by syndicating it on the new and cleanly swept syndication sidewalks that Google cleared off just for me and for everyone else who VALUES true content. And just think; now we get to do this without all the hindrances and trash that used to line the content roadways of cyberspace. Do you get the picture?

Lastly, what blows my mind is the word “SYNDICATION” itself, and the various meanings it conveys. Have you ever done a study on this word? Do you know what it means to “syndicate” something? For example when applied to online content I discovered that to syndicate means all of the following:

1. To BROADCAST through multiple channels.

2. To CONTINUE to broadcast through multiple channels on a REGULAR basis.

3. To syndicate so often and so well that you DOMINATE your content niche, topic or keyword. For example, when we say things like, “Las Vegas is still run by the Syndicate,” we are implying that a “Syndicate” is a group of people who have established themselves as a powerful multichannel force, one that will not be EASILY MOVED.

4. Isn’t this EXACTLY what we want our content to accomplish…to dominate our chosen niche so that NO ONE can move us aside…ever?

Now consider this. When most people think of content they automatically think of something written, like an article, blog post, press release, etc. But as my friend, Russell Wright, reminded me recently, content means any “item” that is capable of embodying meaning and can be distributed through typical online channels. When you consider the implications of this you have to get excited. As the average online business owner begins to explore and understand the value and the mechanics of content syndication expect to see a tidal wave of new approaches to online marketing.

OK, if you have followed me this far you have either concluded that this guy is on to something historic and monumental or that he is a complete idiot mind freak toying with my lack of knowledge and worse yet, my emotions. Obviously, you must be the final judge, and I welcome that. I’m not trying to be cute or flamboyant about all this…(OK, so maybe I am a little). The point is that you owe it to yourself to find out if these predictions and forecasts are based in truth. If you discover they are then I suggest you begin now to learn how to live and succeed in the state of CONTENT SYNDICATION FUTURE SHOCK…because it has already arrived and it’s here to stay.

Now for a word from my partner Charles Heflin on this “Future Shock”…

The facet of content syndication that blows my mind is its leveraging power.

There is no other single thing in Internet marketing that you can do that holds more leverage than content syndication.

Why?

In a SINGLE move you can (single being the KEY word)…

• Initiate the viral spread of your content to many, many networks and people
• Enhance the visibility of your content in social circles from other people propagating (spreading) your content.
• Enhance the visibility of your content in the search engines through multiple references all leading to your content
• Enhance the ranking of your content in the search engines because of all the ‘Social Buzz’ surrounding your content

There is simply NO other more efficient action you can take in Internet marketing today that has more leverage, none. You can effectively narrow your marketing tasks down to simply writing educational, enlightening and entertaining content for your target audience, syndicate that content and watch as your target audience begins to arrive at your website in perpetually growing numbers.

No other form of Internet marketing is this easy and none is more powerful in terms of time spent to reward gained.

Of course to use this leverage you have to go through a paradigm shift in what you “thought” Internet marketing was all about. To use this leverage you must forget marketing and start being educational, enlightening and entertaining to the audience you wish to attract. Then this audience will seek out your wares, no selling required… Sales just happen.

It is a shift away from the “pitch” and into quality of information which leads to sales. Internet consumers are VERY wise these days. They base their judgment of what to buy based on trust and social mention. Consumers are savvy now; they know how to research to find the answers they seek… Are you going to be one that answers those questions in an educational, enlightening or entertaining way or are you just looking for a sale
To harness the leverage of content syndication you MUST shift your thinking and forget about marketing. As you forget about marketing and focus on delivering quality content, marketing will happen for you automatically. How is this for counter intuitive?

Are you ready for some FUTURE SHOCK? … If not I suggest you get ready. It’s already here and Thomas and I (and our partners and staff) have spent over 4 years researching, testing and visiting Times Square, daily claiming our gold, which nobody else seems to notice…Honest, you should see OUR backpacks!

Thomas Rozof & Charles Heflin, SocialMediaScience.com

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You have 2 options now. you can bury your head in the sand and pretend you don’t understand the brevity of what has been revealed to you… or you can move forward at lightening speed to gain the advantage you need right now to absolutely CLAIM your gold online by outsourcing your marketing with SYNND.

I know you are an intelligent person ~ you are going to check out SYNND right now, arent you

Fusion Academy Live will equip you for entrepreneurial success in today’s Network Marketing in an ‘online world’.

Online Social Media Marketing Mastery + Network Marketing with ViSalus
= Your Residual Millions!

ViSalus Sciences is held its last Fusion Academy Live Training of 2009 this weekend in Tampa Florida. This event was simply stellar! The Red Carpet Event on Friday night kicked off Fusion with entertainment and a party till late where some of the most fit and positive people from across the country partied till all hours. The training on Saturday and Sunday equipped the entrepreneurs who attended with a success blueprint to take their ViSalus business to 7 figures and beyond.

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The training last weekend covered the fundamentals of Network Marketing with ViSalus and encompassed all of the training modules covered in the Fusion Academy. It also covered in depth how the ViSalus marketing system, the Vi-Net , integrates directly with social media like twitter, Facebook and MySpace and how you can use our online marketing system to generate endless free leads for your ViSalus business using smart social media marketing. We learned that our company is literally years ahead of every single company in our industry when it comes to online marketing. Our Vi-Net and our training on how to market effectively online, is unmatched!

21 New Bimmer Club Members Recognized!

ViSalus Sciences awarded the 21 newest Regional Directors with their BMW ‘Told You So’ plates, plus $1000 cash! This was incredibly exciting, because I was one of those people! I qualified for the Bimmer Bonus in October! I qualified, and I attended the Fusion Academy to learn exactly how to help others earn their BMWs.

That is where YOU fit in. You see, there is still time for you to start your ViSalus business and register for the next Academy. The training for the weekend WILL give you the complete success blueprint to succeed in ViSalus. I would like nothing more than to have you in my team’s row, so that you can get the training you need to get yourself into a BMW! It is absolutely possible – and this ‘entrepreneur’s university’ is going to prepare you for an incredible future.

The Fusion Academy training is truly unique, and incredibly effective. The top earners in ViSalus had no prior MLM experience, yet succeeded wildly because of the training in place. What will YOU do when given the blueprint for success?

You have the opportunity to attend the next
Fusion Academy Training LIVE
Ask me HOW!