Sunday, June 8, 2014

I am new to Interne Marketing and need help

Here's a quick test. Go into any network marketing forum online and ask the above question and look at the reaction . .
It's like magic!
First off it's going to be the most popular thread in the forum for
about a week or so, and second it's going to be filled with network
marketers jumping to your rescue telling
you why their company is SO much better than the next guy's!
And you know what?
It really doesn't matter!
Until those in the industry understand that it's not about companies,
 it's about delivering unique value via YOU!  People buy you, not
the company, not the product. Until people understand that one simple
concept the high failure rate and turnover will continue.

If you ever get taught to handle the objection of "Why should I join
your business and not a,b or c?" by explaining how great the compensation plan
and products are, do yourself a HUGE favor and do NOT do it! YOu are selling!
Why?
First of all, it's wrong! It's exactly what the other 20  people
are trying to tell your prospect!  That potential new team member is
confused out of his / her mind and more than likely sick of the B.S.
And it's not really what they are looking for.
Let me explain a little more about network marketing...
The industry is great. It allows average everyday people like you
and me to achieve extraordinary things and grow into the people that
deserve it, but when we start we're not extraordinary yet.
So we take a leap of faith.
We join a business and we say "Just tell me what to do to make money
and I'll do it!"  The other famous saying: I do not know what to do!


This seems like a smart move (taking a leap of faith) and in some
cases it is, but that rarely happens because most of the time the person we are
trusting as our upline is as uneducated and clueless as we are.
They also just hope to find that big star who can get 1000's of leads signed up in a month.
Most of the time when we are waiting for instructions others are
taking action by finding the info, learning it and implementing it.
In the old J.O.B. mentality most of us are used to being spoon fed with instructions.

It's time to get a dose of reality and put on your entrepreneur hat.
Yes systems are good, knowing what to do is awesome and when you
find the right person to work with you, you can get amazing direction,
but this is not a job.  You have to take responsibility to keep
learning and growing regardless if you have an amazing sponsor, system, etc.
That's right your success is in your hands. And if you treat this
like a job or hobby you will get the same kind of pay.
Yuck!
The danger is . . .
We try to build the company up into something irresistible that our
 prospects can't help but to join and in the process diminish
ourselves into obscurity.

Very dangerous because this leaves the prospect choosing between
companies, something we have no control over when in fact, we should
 be branding ourselves and letting them know what we can offer them
(if you get to know that person, it will be easy to find out if you
can help them to achieve their desires).

When they choose YOU, you can win a lot more than when they are
choosing between corporations. You are building loyalty.
Think back . . . Why did you join your company? Was it because of
the company OR the person in the company that was going to show you
how to use the company as a vehicle to your life's dreams?
Most of us choose a company for the second reason whether we
consciously know it or not and it's why we should choose a company
 in the end anyway.
A network marketing company is only as strong as its leaders and a
leader is only as strong as his or her leaders.
And what a real leader does is they take the choice of choosing the
company that a prospect joins away from the technical aspects of the
 company and instead have their prospects decide whether or not to
choose to work with them.
Brand youself, offer your services and watch your business grow.
People choose people.
As an industry we MUST get away from diminishing ourselves and
building up our company and start to do the exact opposite.
What happens if you build your company instead of yourself and your
company vanishes over night, then what?
Don't wait for others in the industry to change. Start the change
 in you... RIGHT NOW!
If you want to learn how to brand yourself, reply to this post and let me know.

What is the the correct way to do eMail Marketing

How do you communicate correctly per email on the internet with a group of people?

There is something that upsets me quite a lot and that is when I open my inbox in the morning and my computer starts downloading all the new messages. I then receive my daily quota of jokes and nonsense everybody passes on faithfully as part of their  daily workload when they have nothing else to do or do not want to work. Some of those jokes have been circulating on the internet for years. Amongst these all  the fantastic offers of free cellphones or Ipads, epads and don't know what...all sorts of electronic gadgets, pads and even money you will receive if you pass "this" message on to at least 10, 15 or 20 people. What happens is that most people just click on the forward button and all the email addresses of the previous recipients are still attached to this specific email and they all get passed on to the new group of people in your address book. My email address is also in that email and although I do not pass it on 9 other people will forward that email to whoever they know all over the world. That results in my email address becoming available to a lot of people I do not know and as a result I start receiving new email on a daily basis with the biggest lot of nonsense which I am not interested in. There are people who start these chain email with the specific purpose of harvesting email addresses which can be sold on the internet.  They are put on specific lists and sold again and again and again. Somebody is making money from email addresses of people who in the first place did not agree to receive information about specific offers and did not request the information that is sent to them on a continuous basis.

If you want to pass on a good joke or some info to a few of your friends or even if your are selling something, use the "Bcc" function. This will prevent the receiver of the email to see all the other addresses and it will look as if that specific email was sent only to them. 

As soon as you are getting seriously into email marketing of any type of product or service and you are sending emails to a group of people or different groups on a regular basis you must seriously consider using an autoresponder. a Lot of people still do not know what an autoresponder is and how you can effectively use it to take over the marketing / selling side of your product. 

An autoresponder is probably one of the most important tools if not the most important tools that you can use in internet marketing.

What can you do with it? Let me give you an example.

Let's say you have joined a specific MLM or nework marketing business and you have received a link with your "own website" which you start advertising on different free advertising sites. That is not wrong but...it's a lot of hard work to keep all those ads up to date. 

Now somebody  comes along and they click on your ad and read it.  They were actually looking for something else when they clicked on your ad and decide that they are not really interested right now and they close it and move on. What happens is that you have lost a possible client for the future and you start advertising all over again. 

When you have a autoresponder you create a capture page. What is a capture page?  That is very a short webpage message with very powerful information (1 or 2 sentences) and a space where that possible client can leave his or her name and email address and they sign up to your autoresponder.   

Now you have that guys or girl's name and email address and you are starting to build a marketing list. They are free to leave your autoresponder at anytime but now you have an opportunity to market responsibly to them. You can load your autoresponder with 200 or more pre-written email messages which will be sent of to everybody that signs up to your responder. You can even have different groups in your autoresponder and program it so that different groups get different sets of pre-written e-mail letters at specific intervals which you also decide beforehand. Let's say you are in the USA and somebody in China or Russia or South Africa signs up to your autoresponder this little tool will start sending out these letters to these people, even while you are sleeping. You can even switch your computer off as this autoresponder is web-based and the internet never sleeps.

You can never be accused of SPAM as the people who sign up do so out of their own free will and agree to receive the information you send then. They can also sign out of the autoresponder at any time and that is why you must treat them like gold. Do not send them a lot of nonsense 10 times a day. A powerful emai with information which can help them will be much more appreciated.

Do you understand why you must not not market your product directly on the internet but rather get the people to sign up to your autoresponder. 

There are a lot more that you can do with your list. When you have a big list of 1 000 or more people you can start selling ads on your list. That is just one of the things you can do or you can send out a weekly / monthly  newsletter.  THe most important thing to do is to build a relationship with the people on the list and when they get to know and trust you they will but from you of join your business.

Which is the best autoresponder to use? There a lot of different ones available in the market from free to very expensive.  

I use Traffic Wave because they have fixed amount you pay every month regardless of how many groups you have in your autoresponder or how many people in every group.  

The other reason why I use Traffic Wave is that they they also have a very good payplan as well. So I use them to market my other products and programs but people sign-up from my link and I earn an income from them as well. You can do the same. So, even before I have started selling I already earn an income.  If you want to know how much you can earn, click on MAKE MONEY WITH TRAFFIC WAVE.

If you want to know how it will cost compared to other autoresponders, CLICK HERE to understand why I chose Traffic Wave as the best.