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I’ve been involved with Network Marketing for a while now and it wasn’t until I discovered the concept of Attraction Marketing and began applying it that I started to see drastic positive results in my business. I now have many of the essential Network Marketing Tools, which include: 1. A Blog, 2. Opt-In Form, 3. Free Report to reward people for Opting In, 4. Autoresponder to keep in contact with my subscribers and 5. A Money Making System that ties it all together.

Another Network Marketing Secret that I have discovered that has had a MAJOR positive impact on my business is to align myself with other Network Marketing Leaders and successful people in the Business.

There are a few Network Marketing Experts and Leaders that I have the privilege of working with and I highly recommend if you are not “friends” with them on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Better Networker, or any of the other Social Networking Sites, I highly recommend that you look them up and get to know them. They can help you become successful as well. Make sure to visit their blogs and subscribe to get up to date information and valuable Network Marketing tips and strategies.

Carin Davis is the first Network Marketing Expert that I met in my ventures online. We originally met on Linked-in and have since evolved into a strong partnership and friendship.  She is extremely knowledgeable and does a wonderful job with Video Marketing. If you need assistance with learning how to Market your business, go sign up for her Home Business Video Trainings.

Bill McMahon, is another Network Marketing Expert and good friend that I have the honor of privilege of working with on a regular basis.  He is always willing to lend a helping hand.  If you have any questions, he will get back to you right away.  He has a WONDERFUL sense of humor coupled with just the right amount of Professionalism. You’ll be glad to be a part of his circle.

Lisa Torres, is an Online and Offline Business Consultant and my Business Partner.  She has several years of business experience. She knows how to market and advertise your business online and offline. If you need help with “Branding” Yourself and need some design work for your blog, she is the lady to see.  She has done exquisite design work for many of the top Networking Leaders in the Industry.

Jeffrey Michael Martin is an upcoming and rising superstar in the Network Marketing Industry. I am proud to call him my good friend and business partner.  Although he has been involved in Network Marketing for a short period of time, he already has some of his articles ranking on the first page of google!  Jeffrey knows how to combine Video and Article Marketing to get tons of traffic and leads to his website on a daily basis.

W. Clement Stone says: “Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.” That works for me. I see what other successful people are doing and I duplicate what they are doing. Network Marketing really isn’t rocket science, if you have the skills, the tools, and are “hanging around with the RIGHT kind of people”, you can and will be successful.

Jocelyn Jones

Network Marketing Expert and Mentor
To learn more Network Marketing Secrets go to: http://moneymakingsystem75.com

So you’ve just gotten involved in Network Marketing, or maybe you’ve been around for a while, and you’re not quite sure how to go about promoting your business and getting people to join your opportunity. Many Marketers today have learned how to use attraction marketing in order to earn people’s trust and have them want to join the opportunity. How can you go about doing this? It really is quite simple. There are certain Network Marketing Tools that I feel are essential that you need to be using in order to be successful in building your business.

1. Start a Blog. Blogging is a great way for people to get to know you and interact with you. By posting valuable content on a consistent basis. Try to post at least 5 times a week for best results, this will give you exposure and the search engines will pick up on this rather quickly. By providing valuable content, people will start looking for your blog and look forward to what you have to say. There are many free options available such as wordpress.com or blogger, but I highly recommend that you use www.wordpress.org so you can choose your own domain name. Attraction Marketing is all about “branding” yourself, so choose a catchy title, possibly even your own name for your domain. You can get hosting through Go Daddy or Host Gator that is relatively inexpensive. This will make you look much for professional when you have your own domain name then just using one of the “free” sites.

2. Make sure to use a Lead Capture Page. You can have the most beautiful looking website in the world, but it won’t do you any good if you don’t have any way to gather people’s information when they visit your site. You can have a separate page or put one on your blog. Aweber has an option that enables you to install a web form right on your blog.

3. Reward people for visiting your blog and taking the time to see what you have to say. When someone opts in to find out more about you and what you have to offer, give them something of value for their time. Giving away a Free Report or a Free Ebook that teaches them something is a great thing to use.

4. Set up an Autoresponder. Once you have people opt-in, you are going to want to be able to continue to have interaction with them. Send them daily/bi-weekly messages with useful information to keep them interested in what you have to say.

5. The most important Network Marketing Tool that I have discovered and highly recommend is: “The World’s Most Powerful Money Making System”. This is a step by step system that teaches whether you are an “Network Marketing Newbie” or “Seasoned Networker” how to make money and tons of it on the Internet. It is completely duplicatible and enables you to make residual monthly income. It in turn allows you to enroll people into your primary network marketing opportunity.

By combining these Network Marketing Tools, you will soon be on your way to having an extremely lucrative Network Marketing Business.

Jocelyn Jones

If you’re ready to learn how to build your Network Marketing Business visit: http://moneymakingsystem75.com

The internet is an integral part of the business world.  If you own a business, you most likely have a website.  But chances are you aren’t getting enough out of your space online.  Don’t let your site just sit there collecting dust.  If you aren’t getting a lot of virtual foot traffic to your site, you need to revamp your site to make sure it is really working for your company.  The internet is crowded with millions of websites.  How do you get surfers to visit yours?  Traffic building is a vital aspect of growing your business and retaining loyal customers.

Consider the websites you visit again and again.  Why do you keep coming back?  One reason is probably that there is new content posted often to that site.  If your company website consists solely of your contact information, you aren’t going to draw any repeat visitors.  Adding a blog to your site can help traffic building efforts.  Through a company blog, you not only let your current and potential clients know what’s going on, you paint a picture of your company and give them a reason to visit you repeatedly.  For example, if you’re a contractor, it could be as easy as posting pictures of your new projects once a week or every day.  The point is to give people a reason to visit and a reason to come back.

Another way to build traffic to your site is to use SEO keywords.  SEO, or search engine optimization, is a strategic tool that gets customers to your site via search engines.  You can build more traffic to your site by using relevant keywords in the title, headings, and body of your website.  So, if you’re an interior designer, it’s not enough to title your web page “Abbey’s Designs.”  Incorporate specific keywords that are specific to your company.  A much better web page title would be “Abbey’s Designs:  Contemporary Interior Design for your Home.”  Think about terms you would use to search for your own sight.  Look at sights similar to yours and pay attention to their keyword strategy.  Build traffic by highlighted SEO keywords in your web page.

Pay per click campaigns can also increase and build traffic to your company site if you have a little extra cash for advertising.  In a PPC ad campaign, you pay a search engine to feature your company’s ad every time your keyword phrase is searched.  You then pay a certain amount every time your ad is clicked, directing customers to your site.

More traffic to your company’s website means greater recognition and more sales.  Building traffic makes money.  Even if you opt to pay for a PPC campaign, your money could be well spent when you see an increase in traffic and your bottom line.

Jocelyn Jones

Network Marketing Expert

For more Traffic Building strategies,  visit: “The World’s Most Powerful Money Making System” at:  http://moneymakingsystem75.com

Earning an income from the comfort of your own home is the reason why so many home based business seekers search the internet daily…they yearn for the financial freedom.With the economy at it’s all time high, it’s no wonder why they are looking for a Residual Income Business Opportunity.

The fact is, when you are working for someone else other than yourself, your limiting your income potential. However, when you join a network marketing or MLM company and you work at building that business, you are actually working on building passive income that grows more and more month after month, year after year after all of the hard work you put into it in the beginning.

However, the problem is, the Internet is overwhelmed with business opportunities that you do not know which way to turn. Most of them offer great compensation plans and there may be some where you are really attracted to the product or service that they have to offer and that is great. But, it’s not always about the compensation plan or the product or service. It’s about creating a marketing funnel that can help you generate leads and upfront and residual income so that you can fund your network marketing or MLM business expenses. It’s about turning your expenses into profit centers.

So, what exactly is a marketing funnel and how can you profit from it?

I want you to imagine a triangle. The very top of the triangle is a pointed tip which is the beginning of your marketing funnel. This comes in a form of what is called a lead capture page. A lead capture page is a one page website where you can “capture leads” which you can do by including an opt-in web form so that your prospects can enter their name and email address which will be placed on your autoresponder. An autoresponder allows you to track your leads and send your leads automated emails. It may sound complicated right now, but don’t worry…read on!

Once you have your lead capture page and autoresponder set up, you can now start marketing it to the world on the Internet by way of social media, forums, video marketing, articles, blogs, etc.

When your leads start going through your marketing funnel, they will be exposed to information or training that you can provide to them which will encourage them to make an informed decision whether or not they want to pay for what it is that you have to offer, which includes any affiliate products or your residual income business opportunity, just to name a few. By doing do, you will be well on your way to creating big profits.

There are many plug and play marketing systems that offer great information and resources that you can take advantage of. However, you can quickly be overwhelmed with the amount of information that you will be exposed to. So, it’s important to find a step by step, paint by numbers type of system that will show you how to build a successful and profitable internet business in an organized way.

I myself have been a part of several marketing systems, and the one that seems to be the easiest and most profitable is The World’s Most Powerful Money Making System. And the best part is, you can use it to build ANY Network Marketing or MLM business. Plugging into this system will allow you to earn big profits from a Residual Income Business Opportunity, perhaps for years or even the rest of your life.

You can learn more about it here: http://www.MoneyMakingSystem75.com

This post originally written by Lisa Torres, Online and Offline Marketing Consultant: http://www.lisatorresonline.com

When it comes to products found on store shelves, everyone knows what brand recognition means. It is simply a way for a particular company to show that their particular version of a product is special. It is accomplished by using easily identifiable packaging or slogans. If you are in the business of network marketing, you can benefit from brand recognition of a slightly different variety.

The main focus of brand recognition is to make yourself stand out from the crowd. It seems that everyone has something to sell. It becomes an endless stream of interchangeable people. If you want people to really take notice of you, you have to be different in some way. The best way to accomplish this in the electronic age is to brand yourself through visual images and text copy that is unique to you.

Start by thinking about what you want your brand recognition to be in terms of style. You must choose whether you want to present an image of casual friendliness or formal professionalism. Of course, you need to know what business or businesses you represent and how they affect your branding. For example, someone who sells toys might want a different type of brand recognition from someone who sells real estate.

Make a photo for websites, flyers, ezine author boxes, and social networking sites. Use the same photo wherever you use a photo of yourself. Make that photo good for brand recognition by tailoring it to the image you are trying to present. Choose the background, clothing, hair style, and anything else you want your customers or associates to remember you by. When you have your best picture, post it.

Select certain phrases that are unique to you and your business. This can be a motto, a guarantee, or any catchy phrase that will resonate in the customer’s mind. Use these types of brand recognition whenever you talk about your business on any type of advertising, including FaceBook, YouTube, ezine articles, or on your website.

Speaking of your website, continue your brand recognition throughout your website. You should have your special photo on the front page. If you can get one of the unique phrases you have used or will use for branding yourself as your domain name, it is a great idea. The more you can get your message out to the people, the more brand recognition you will have.

When millions of people are putting themselves on the Internet to support their businesses, you truly need something special to make yourself visible. Use brand recognition to accomplish this feat. Soon many people will associate your name or company name with your special type of business or product. Brand recognition can make that much difference.

Finding new leads and potential customers for your business is the challenge of every small business operator in America. Since most don’t have the resources of major corporations to advertise nationwide they must find the best way to maximize the resources they have to attract attention. A great resource for small business is BetterNetworker.com.

BetterNetworker.com describes itself as: “The Internet’s #1 social community for Home Business Owners. On the site you will find a wide variety of articles about how you can make your company more successful. Charles Heflin focuses on social media and using it to “flood your business with free traffic, leads and long term profit.” Mark Weiser focuses on prospecting. His latest article is “The proper way to follow-up with prospects so they will say yes I want to join your team.”

BetterNetworker.com is affiliated with the Association of Better Networkers. The website includes interviews with a number of ABN veterans who operate very successful home businesses. Through the interviews, they share many of the secrets that they have used to find new customers and grow. Would you like to know more about using blogs to generate traffic, new prospects and distributors? What about the steps people are missing in generating leads? Or creating a six figure income with MLM? Those are all featured interviews at BetterNetworker.com.

BetterNetworker.com also includes an extensive forum section where you can ask questions of the experts and share success stories. There are thousands of posts on hundreds of topics that could help you build your business. There is an MLM training forum, as well as a copywriting forum and even a lounge just to relax and chat with fellow entrepreneurs. Wondering about the best way to promote your business with Google pay per click or search engine optimization? The answers are right there in the forum section.

BetterNetworker.com also includes an extensive section of business opportunities.  Here you can post information about your own business to find people who will help you sell or you can search for other business leads that may tie in with what you are selling.

The website also includes a resources section that can help with website development and posting articles about your business on other sites like EzineArticles.com and www.articlecity.com.

This post was originally written by Home Business and Network Marketing Expert, Carin Davis.  Visit her blog at: www.carindavis.net

Social Networking has become a powerful tool for making connections.  A social network can be loosely described as an online group or community.  These online groups are very interactive and can help you connect with people who have similar interests.  Whether you’re looking for a date, a friend, an employer, or a new client, there’s a social network that can cater to your needs.  You can post pictures, send messages, and post comments.  Profiles let you share details of your life, such as where you live, work, and play.  Due to the high level of user interactivity and the wide audience social networks can reach, social networking can be both beneficial and detrimental to your personal or professional life.

You use online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Linked-In to keep in touch with your friends, family, and peers.  Each tweet on Twitter, every status on Facebook is a chance to paint a picture of yourself to the world.  The fun is condensing yourself into just a few lines in one moment.  Whether it’s a mood, a feeling, or an opinion, you’ve put a least a little thought into your statement.  Hundreds of people will potentially read your updates or browse your photos.  It’s important for your professional and personal life that you bring self-awareness into every post you make to a social networking site.

Social networking has expanded our world.  It’s so easy to make connections and keep in touch with people across the nation and around the globe.  In the past, we might have been limited to meeting people within our region.  Thanks to social networking, region is irrelevant.  However, social networking has also put us under more scrutiny from our expanded network.  Everyone from our boss and coworkers to potential employers or clients may have access to our social networking pages.  No longer is it a good idea to tweet about what a jerk your boss is, or post pictures of yourself partying hardcore.

Just as you use social networking to portray yourself to an online community, you can take the same approach in marketing your company to millions of potential customers online.  Social networking is a great way to make business contacts.  You can update your company’s social network on upcoming sales, send invitations to special events, and post updates on new products or services.  Whether you’re using social networking for business or pleasure, it’s a great tool for marketing your professional or personal self.

Despite their interchangeability in everyday jargon, marketing and advertising are two different concepts.  Marketing refers to the research and branding, and strategy related to selling your services or products.  Advertising is just one of the ways that marketing is implemented.  Advertising is a message to the public announcing your company, services or products.

Advertising ties into your marketing strategy by staying on message.  Frequency and medium are factors to consider in ad marketing.  How can you best announce your company?  Billboards and signage are probably the most basic methods of advertising.  However basic, these strategies still get the message across and can work well for your marketing campaign.  Radio, television, and newspaper are advertising mediums that have been around for quite a while also.  Unlike signage, which is more static, media advertising can focus on a specific demographic via market, time of day, and related programming.

The newest marketing and advertising tool is the internet.  Virtual ads can draw traffic directly to the products and services on your website.  Because of the sheer amount of information available online, you can reach your targeted buyer even more efficiently through keyword search engine optimization.  In the past, you might have set up a billboard along the highway, hoping someone looking for your services would drive by, and be able to recall your company in the future.  With internet marketing, your ads show up right on the target customer’s doorstep as soon as they search for your keywords.

While search engine related company ads would be classified as advertising, there are other ways to market your company online.  One instance of online strategic marketing is blogging.  A blog is like an online journal.  It is interactive, meaning people can comment on your entries and you can reply to them.  It’s a great way to start a dialogue with existing and potential customers.  Blogs are meant to be fluid.  Ideally, new posts are added often, enticing blog followers to come back again and again.  In this way, your company can develop a loyal consumer population online.  While they may not be in the need of your products or services at the moment, when they are in need they will know they can go straight to your company.

Marketing and advertising are vital to your company’s sales and growth.  In the past, print, television, and radio have been great media for reaching your consumers.  However, it’s important to take a serious look at internet marketing to maximize your pool of potential customers.

Lead generation can be difficult when you are just getting started in network marketing. One way you probably do it is with a form on your website that people can fill out to receive information. A few people might sign up just to get whatever information you might send. Yet, you can get even more people to fill in that form if you give them something of intrinsic value.

You will improve your website lead generation by giving away prizes. That may sound scary and expensive, but you can actually do it with no cost at all to you. You might have to spend a small amount of time, but the rewards will be great. The best prizes you can give are digital gifts such as ebooks and newsletters.

Your customers can receive an ebook as a prize for filling out the form. If you make the ebook title compelling enough, people will be anxious to download it. They will readily sign up their name and give their information just to receive this present. Lead generation by this method only takes a short time and a little creativity to write up an ebook.

Start out by brainstorming about the advantages and benefits of your business or products. You have a knowledge base that you can share with your potential customers or associates. Use that information for lead generation. Write something your reader will want to know about.

Most importantly, make the title of your ebook interesting and give a short, exciting description of the ebook on your website. Just below this, you can have the short form that makes up your lead generation builder. Once they fill out their name and contact information, you can have it set up so that they can do a one-click download of the ebook you have created.

Just having people sign up this way will make for fantastic lead generation. Giving them a valuable and well-written ebook will have them coming back for more of your wisdom. Then is the time to really give them attention in your business. Do not let people fall through the cracks when you have interested them in your products and company.

Of course, if you do not feel up to the job of writing an ebook, you can give the raw information to a ghost writer and have her actually put together the ebook. It will cost a small fee, but it will pay for itself in the lead generation it creates. Giving digital products away can convert website visitors from leads to real customers. After all, that is what lead generation is all about.

Internet Marketing is the best new way to get your home based business going strong. You will find that many of the methods of Internet Marketing are inexpensive, while others are actually free. A few tips will help you get started.

1. Learn to write quality articles for directories. You are a smart person. Otherwise, you would not be able to run a home based business. As long as you can read and use the keyboard of your computer, you should be able to write your own articles. The best way to begin is to go to the article directory you intend to use and take a look at their editorial guidelines. That will help you to understand what is expected of you.

The articles themselves should be informative and should not include a blatant sales pitch in the body of the article. You can tell your audience something about your home based business in the form of a how-to article, for example. The specific information about your business and products will be in the author box for those who are interested.

2. Make a blog. You can go to WordPress or some other blog site and create your own blog instantly. You just fill out the online form; it is simple. There are a few things to remember about this form of Internet Marketing. For one, you can set up the URL for your blog to be your business name. Think about what you want the name of your blog to be. When you fill out the username on WordPress, that username will become the name of your blog. Once you have your blog, you can write up-to-date entries detailing new developments in your industry. You can also educate about your products and their uses.

3. Learn about Internet press releases. A press release is an Internet Marketing advertisement in the guise of a newsworthy tidbit of information. If you can find a way to make your home based business or product newsworthy, your press release will be picked up by more services and spread across the Internet. You can also use this form of Internet Marketing to post the press releases on your website.

There are a few different ways to do a press release. You can hire a press release writer to do the work for you. For a small fee, they will even submit it to the press services. You could write it and submit it yourself. There are some tools out there to help with this sort of Internet Marketing. Ezinearticles.com has a new press release feature on their website.

You may even use other types of Internet Marketing tools to promote your home based business. YouTube videos are popular. Another help is to get links from compatible businesses to put on your website and request that business put your link on their website. There are numerous ways to do Internet Marketing, so do not limit yourself to only one.