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The Alternative to Buying Business Opportunity Seeker Leads

Posted on 31. Oct, 2009 by Casper.

The most difficult tasks as an online marketer is finding people to talk to about your service or product. There are general two ways for new online marketers to find leads, and these are often the ones that are told to them when they have joined a MLM-business.

Look for friends and family, that would be interested in your product – (not really something I would do)

Buy leads of people seeking online business oppertunities, which can be expensive,

Although the warm market approach works for some people meaning about 1% of all network marketers, it’s generally not a good idea. You are limited in the amount of people you can prospect and there are many reasons why, however it’s not the topic of this article. Instead we’re going to analyze buying expensive business opportunity seeker leads.

Why Buying “Business Opportunity Seeker Leads” Is Not a Good Idea, Your MLM Success Depends On It

Buying these business opportunity leads is unfavorable to the success of your mlm business and here’s why:

MLM Success Secret #1 – Because They’re Expensive and Not Exclusive

Business opportunity leads will often cost well north of a dollar per lead depending on the type of lead you are actually buying. The leads you have paid an expensive amount for aren’t exclusive to you meaning that people in other MLM businesses will have access and be able to purchase the same leads. That’s how these crafty MLM lead brokers make their money, by selling the same lead to multiple network marketers.

Usually by the time you get the lead on the phone they’ve already been contacted by multiple people and more than likely they’re sick and tired of being pitched by every so called great opportunity. These people have already been invited to multiple presentations and are constantly receiving tons of annoying follow-up calls.

By the time you make the call, they’ve got a response already prepared for you. Just in case, I would recommend you be prepared yourself because more than likely you are going to be shot down and be made to feel like a piece of trash right before getting hung up on. Fantastic! You just spent a dollar or more for that? Get ready, because if you keeping buying those type of leads it is exactly what you’ll get, try and see for yourself.

MLM Success Secret #2 – Many Of The Leads You Purchase Are Not Looking For a Business Opportunity.

I can personally tell that I’ve dialed thousands of these kinds of leads and I know for certain that most of the leads you call won’t be looking for a business opportunity. In fact more than 50% won’t have the money required to invest into a business and they’re really looking for a JOB.

For example, lets say you buy 100 leads at $2.00 per lead. This means that you will have spent $100 to speak with people who don’t have a credit card or may be on welfare. This means they can’t join your business or even by your product or service.

It’s truly sad, but most of these people were probably online at 2:00AM and filled out some type of survey to receive some type of FREE offer they were promised for completing the survey. Somewhere along the line they probably clicked a box that said they were interested in starting a home based business without even paying attention to what they were actually clicking on.

The other $100 you bought in leads is a toss-up between you and all the other marketers out there. It depends on who gets to the lead first without getting beat to the punch.

Why Do Network Marketers Buy Leads?

Network marketers buy leads because they don’t know where to begin or how to find leads on their own. Bottom line you’ll get lucky every great once in a while if you stick with it long enough. Eventually you’re bound to find a superstar that will explode your business but you have to ask yourself is it worth the time and expense? NO! Most definitely not!

There Are Better Faster Ways to Find Leads

I have personally found that using the internet to generate my own leads has been the single best way to find leads. If you own the lead that is being generated by you, you have a sense of control over it and your business will be in good shape. I guarantee it.

By generating your own leads, you are the only one who gets it. It’s not resold to other potential marketers. Someone who searches for your product or service finds your website online. Your marketing message is presented and the person that found you online decides to leave their contact information for you and only you.

At this point they are expecting your call so when you do finally get around to it they already have a sense for who you are. This makes the conversation a lot easier as the prospect has expressed an interest in you first, not the other way around.

Grant it there is still a bit of a cost involved but as you already know, running a business from home is going to involve some business expenses, right?

The secret to MLM success on the internet is to learn how to create a website with the right marketing message so that you are speaking to a targeted audience of qualified prospects. It makes your life much easier and not to mention it is a system that will work for you 24/7 while you sleep.

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B2B Marketing

Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by Casper.

B-2-B Marketing is a marketing tool that a lot of business owners are not very familiar with. All B-2-B marketing stands for is business to business marketing in your brochures and other advertising materials that help you increase your overall profits by having other companies as well as organizations market your products and or services for you. You will actually get other businesses to purchase your product and in return, they will sell to their clients. So now you are probably wondering how you can introduce this process into your own marketing campaign. Well actually it is quite simple all you have to do is follow these simple and easy tips.

High Quality Products

If you wish to be successful in this type of marketing you need to be sure that you are offering only the highest quality products and services only. This is even true in your cheaper brochures as well. With today’s economy companies are fighting for every sale they get and therefore, the mediocre products are out. You need to be sure that you are offering your customer more for their money. This can also give you the opportunity to outdo your competition.

Benefits

You need to stop concentrating on yourself, and what you have achieved as a business in your brochures. If you are looking at trying to convince your target audience to purchase your product or service then give them reason to do so by offering benefits. Customers are looking for what they will get out of purchasing your product, and you need to tell them. You need to be sure that you let them know of what the benefits are before they even purchase your product. Let them know what your product or service can do for them when it comes to solving a problem or answering a question. The key to offering these benefits is to discover what your target audience is looking for.

Discounts

Be sure that you offer your customers price cuts and discounts if they decide to purchase your product or service in bulk. When you give your customers certain perks for doing business with your company, they will be more apt to purchase your product.

Testimonials

Make sure that you are offering testimonials from fellow customers. This will make your product more appealing and trustworthy to your future customers.

As you can see B-2-B marketing is not a difficult task to achieve. The key to your success with this marketing technique knows these simple steps. The more you use these steps the better your B-2-B marketing campaign will be.

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WordpressTrafficPlugins.com Review – Do They Work?

Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by Casper.

So it is time again for a product review. This time I have tested 3 plugins from the Clickbank product “WordpressTrafficPlugins“. Let’s get right to it and see what happens when you download these plugins and put them to work.

Once the packet is downloaded you have 3 plugins that does very different things:  Poster Pro, Socialize-It Pro and as a bonus The RSS Aggregator.

Poster Pro:

I simple plugin that allows you to upload multiple articles and shedule them for later publishing. Articles can be added to chosen category, and will be tagged automatically.

Socialize-It Pro:

This plugin is the reason I bought this product. It automatically bookmarks your post when it gets published. It comes with 30 bookmarking sites but you can add or delete as many as you want. There is also a nice feature where you can choose how many percentages of the sites you want to use for a post to avoid any spamming problems. It can also send you an email with the stats of your bookmarking when you have published a new post.

The RSS Aggregator:

The RSS Aggregator let’s you fetch RSS feeds and post them to your own blog. Just adding the RSS feed and choose how many posts you want.

The three plugins are easy to install and also very simple to setup. They all work but with a few minor negative sides:

The Socialize it pro plugin takes time to setup as you have to manually register at each of the bookmarking sites and then enter the details for each site within your admin area. Also some bookmark submits are failing permanently, probably due to robot-prevention measures on the site.

The RSS Agregator needs some IT knowlegde as you need to setup a cronjob for it to work 100% on autopilot.

The Verdict:

I must admit that the Socialize-It Pro plugin it is really worth the money if you are looking for an easy way to bookmark your blog posts. Once you have it all setup you never have to worry about bookmarking again!

Click here to learn more about the plugins from WordpressTrafficPlugins.com

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Three Power Tips For More Effective Emails

Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by Casper.

People think that copywriting is purely in the world of sales letters, web pages, and newspaper ads. However, copywriting is really anything that is written for the purpose of advertising or personal relations. That means email.

Copywriting for your email marketing campaign is actually more important than the writing on your website’s sales page. The copy in your email has the demanding task of turning skeptical readers into emotionally charged buyers. Try these three copywriting tips for your next email.

It all starts with an entrancing subject line

The first part of your email that will be seen by any prospective reader is the subject line that shows up in their inbox. A dull sounding subject, or something that is just too flashy, will send it straight to the trash. Take time in crafting a subject line that will catch the reader’s attention and pull at their emotions.

Most people will open a subject line that has things like;

·    “10 Biggest Secrets of…”
·    Have you ever thought of…”
·    How I Saved Money On My…”

Follow-up with a personal greeting

Having the opportunity to use the subscriber’s name in your email is a technological marvel. With this ability you can go from autonomous marketer to almost friend. People love it when they are being addressed by their name. Take advantage of this and begin the body of your email with a personal greeting.

Use plenty of paragraphs

Traditionally a paragraph is 4 to 6 sentences all contained within a main idea. When writing an email ad or newsletter, the regular rules of grammar are thrown out the window. Short, concise paragraphs will hold the reader’s attention more because they can actually speed read, or “skim”, your email and not feel like they are going to waste time reading it. Every three, two, or even single sentence you should jump to another paragraph.

Email copywriting is essential to the overall success of your marketing campaign. Blow up your next email marketing campaign with these simple copywriting rules.

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5 web 2.0 techniques for web traffic

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Casper.

Getting regular traffic on your website is a challenge and the most important aspect of internet marketing. It’s very simple – if you are getting an ample amount of traffic on your website, then you can surely make money from it. The amount of traffic is directly is directly proportional to the success of your website. Here you can see the best proven strategies to start receiving traffic on your website.

Create quality content:

The internet or say the web world is the synonym of information. People visit website to seek information; in fact, reliable and quality information. You should create quality content daily in the form of articles or videos.

Share your views:

Many people visiting online forums and they love o share their views, their opinion about a particular product. You can participate in various blogs, social networking websites to share your views with the people around the globe and while posting your views, you can post the link of your website.

Radio Show:

Did you ever hear something like it? I’m sure, you didn’t. It is not that much difficult as you think. You can find such a kind of services at www.blogtalkradio.com. All just you need to create a free account on this website, make a call to your favorite personal show number and start speaking, that’s it!

Socialize
The top internet marketers are now focusing towards online media and social networking to receive huge traffic consistently. The social networking websites like www.twitter.com, www.facebook.com, www.orkut.com, www.linkedin.com are really helpful. They help you to connect other marketers for promoting your product or content more efficiently.

Video
www.youtube.com; most of us type this address into our address bar, daily. YouTube has now become the part of our life. You can find many videos of almost all the niches on YouTube. To promote your product; you can create some simple tutorial videos and post them to YouTube. If people visiting YouTube find your video really good, then they will definitely visit your website.

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Affiliate Marketing Success with Social Media

Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Casper.

Social media marketing is the newest form of advertising that affiliate marketers can take advantage of in promoting their affiliate sites and products. No matter what niche your site is in, there is a social network for it. Getting started with social media is not something to take lightly however. If you’re going to market affiliates through it, there are some success tips you might want to keep in mind.

1. Start Slowly

Don’t automatically begin throwing all your affiliate links at your social networking friends. This will label you as a social spammer and you will be blocked. Start slow in your social campaign and begin interacting rather than dictating.

2. Add Value

As you start to add friends and followers to your networks you start to gain influence when you add value. Places like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social networks thrive on information. By keeping involved with people you follow, or are friends with, and adding solutions, and valuable content, you are gaining authenticity and your links will be clicked and less intrusive.

3. Cloak Your Link In Information

Blatant, outright affiliate links are not going to be looked at in a very good light. The best way to earn affiliate commissions through social media is to place your links in articles or blog posts. This way people know you aren’t just trying to make money off them.

4. Be Consistent

Nobody likes a hit and run social networker. The quickest way to make yourself irrelevant is to join some networks, participate, disappear, and them come back again a few weeks, or few months later. Whatever credibility you built up has now since disappeared and you will more than likely find your follower numbers way down.

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