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The "Biggest" Mistake New Networkers Make
There is no denying it, if you’re in network marketing, or you are currently looking at it seriously as a way to generate more income, you’re probably entertaining the following thoughts:
1. How much Will I get paid?
2. When will I get paid?
3. How about if it doesn’t work?
Now of course, at first glance, these questions appear to be extremely logical and reasonable. But the “sponsoring” thoughts behind these questions is, is this going to be a “sure” or “secure thing”. That’s really what’s behinds peoples thoughts. So when they get into network marketing and things don’t start moving fast enough, (ie. I need my paycheck by Friday) they turn around and quit and start looking for another “Job”, or other network opportunity hoping things will be different and claiming that they were scammed.
Think about it. I remember when I was working construction back in the day, when I was 19. I hated my first job, more like my boss, with a passion. Mind you, I was working inside in an interior contractors office, and that man was so mean to the employees, he just made me want to quit. But I desperately needed the money because I was already living on my own at the time, and on South Beach, none the less, and I had just bought my first car on my own. So there were alot of things hanging by a thread for me.
Needless to say, I got my “walking” papers right after I had bought my car and I was worried about what I was going to do. But as my luck would have it, another opportunity arose, and another Contractor ended up looking for me, hiring me and I ended up making even more money.
The point here, however is, that I had no cushion in the background. I couldn’t fiddle around, I had to step it up and start networking so that I could get a job and get paid in time to make my next car payment and rent payment. Getting another Job, it was “secure”. I would have never dreamed of starting a business under those circumstances because I needed to get paid, yesterday! (and most people join opportunities with that exact mindset!)
And if you back it up for a second, losing my first job, I didn’t really see that coming. So it just goes to prove that “nothing” is secure, not even a job. Whether it’s a job or a network marketing opportunity, nothing in life is secure.
The only security there is, is in your Actions.
You can be certain that if you continue to take proactive actions towards your network marketing business, something is bound to flourish, the catch is, it won’t happen in your time, or by “friday”.
Too many people enter this industry with an “employee” mentality. And who can blame them. They are only looking for what they already know and feel comfortable with.
Think about it, haven’t you ever had a friend, who, no matter how many times he or she had a bad experience with a certain type of mate, they end up dating the same kind of person over and over again??
It’s because we are creatures of habit, and we are looking for predictability and security, it’s in our nature.
So if you are considering a network marketing opportunity, see it for what it is. It is an “opportunity” (a good position, chance, or prospect, as for advancement or success) Nothing in the definition of opportunity says, guaranteed.
It is completely up to you.
To better your odds, align yourself with the people who are already in the industry, building their businesses, and can help you shave off time to your learning curve. That way you will get to where you want to go much much faster.
And one more thing, the beauty of network marketing, is that, unlike a job, you will get paid exponentially for your efforts. Potentially there, is no ceiling on your income. This is one of the only industries where average people can replace their yearly incomes in only a months time. So don’t be afraid to get in the game, just change your perspective on it!
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Generating Qualified Free Monavie Leads: Easier To do than you Think
My Monavie Friends, if you are still frustrated because you are still inside the “traditional” bubble of network marketing that tells you to make a list of family and friends to pitch your opportunity to, or have gone through yet another round of “Garbage” dead-end leads, this article contains information that will completely open a new door of opportunity for you, and change your perspective on marketing altogether. You will even begin to enjoy growing your business again. In the next few paragraphs you will have a paradigm shift in the way you market, and you’re going to ask yourself, “why didn’t I know about this before?”
You can easily generate FREE LEADS that are Interested in your products without you having to cold call, buy your way into the top levels of your organization, or harrass your friends and family.
There are FREE methods and paid methods, and if you use both at the same time, you will end up generating more leads than you know what to do with.
Here are 6 Different ways to start generating qualified recruiting leads for your Monavie business within the next 72 hours. So get ready and take notes.
1. Social Networking. There are several social networking sites like Myspace, Facebook and LinkedIn just to name a few. The purpose behind setting up a profile in a social network site is to network with people who may be interested in your business. A good place to start would be to search for friends who have common interests as you do. You can do this by conducting a search right on MySpace. You can enter words such as “Athletic” “Weight Loss” or target groups who may have a genuine interest in the products you have to offer, such as “stay at home moms” or “dieticians” for example.
The key is to find the people who are already buying the same or similar products that you are selling, and to place yourself right in front of them. But don’t go in there and start pitching your product because that is a big NO-NO in Social Networking. The idea is to network and start building relationships on these sites, and place your links strategically so that people passively click on your links to your site as they get to know you better. Also keep in mind, just because people don’t join your business, doesn’t mean they are not valuable. You just never know what those networking relationships can evolve into.
2. Article Marketing. Article Marketing is very powerful. Although it can be a time consuming task, once your content is out there. It becomes viral, and it will continue to work for you 24/7 365 days a week. Simply write articles that have to do with your products, and the benefits, or case studies or personal stories about what your products have done for you or other people. Make it “keyword” rich, and you are as good as gold.
3. Video Marketing: There is nothing more powerful than video marketing, in my personal opinion. But you must take a conservative approach to doing it. In other words, you can’t just go out there and start pitching people on video. You must offer VALUE by way of information or coaching and training, and then include links in the description of your videos for people to contact you.
4. Pay Per Click Advertising: Want instant Results? Pay Per click advertising is surely the way to go. But doing it the wrong way can be DISASTROUS. I personally lost $500 in less than two weeks when I first tried it. Thanks to educating myself and learning from some of the most influential marketers on the internet, pay per click is no longer an issue for me, as a matter of fact, it has been profitable. But you have to know what you’re doing. Do it right, and you can get instant results and red hot leads for your Monavie Business.
5. Forum Marketing – Forum Marketing is so laser targeted, that this is a bonafide way to generate free leads and traffic to your site. This is as simple as finding a forum that is geared towards your niche, which could be health or weight loss, for example, and start posting away. Get involved in the conversation. Add Valuable info to the forum. Don’t just chime in for the sake of getting notice. Really add value, and then you can post links to your website. People are nosey, and you can bet they will click on them.
6. Twitter: This one falls under Social Networking, but it is so incredibly powerful that I placed it in it’s own category. Twitter is what is called a “Micro-Blogging” site. It’s a Micro-Blog because you are only allowed to write up to 140 characters per post. So you have to make it short, to the point, and make sure it’s either valuable, or make it a little personal. Why? Because the internet’s very nature, breeds suspicion. People want to know they are doing business with a “real person” and not a scammer. So updating with some personal stuff gives your potential lead or others some insight into your life and who you are and inspires trust. This is super important. Make sure to add a personal photo of yourself and not your company logo. People want to do business with people not their company.
Keep this in mind, my Monavie friend, that when you purchase leads, they are more than likely “Generic Biz Op” Leads. They are not necessarily interested in any particular business and are more than likely just shopping around for information. Why spend $1-$5 or more on someone who may not even have any interest in the nutritional field whatsoever!
If you start to implement the strategies that I have laid out for you, you can attract laser targeted leads to your business and recruit the RIGHT people into your business!
If you need any help, or more information, feel free to contact me!
Barbie Figueroa
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1 commentAdd Language Translation to Your Website – Tutorial
With a last name like “Figueroa” chances out you have already figured out that I am Bilingual. Yep, I’m Cuban American, born in Miami, USA. My parents are Cubans who immigrated to this country in 1963 and my husband came here as a little 8 year old boy from Cuba, in 1980. As Fate would have it, I am a Top Sponsor in a Bilingual Network Marketing Opportunity and I was creating a 10 page mini-site for myself and my team, to really put that extra “branding” touch to our Online Marketing Approach.
The problem was I didn’t want to have to re-design and translate the entire site into spanish, whew, that would take a lot of time and energy, so I did the next best thing. I placed a Translation script into my Website so that with one click of a button, a new window would open up and reveal the site completely translated into Spanish, or any of the other languages available for translation.
The only thing it will not translate are IMAGES. So if you have any text on your website or blog that are really images, of course, it will not translate. It will only translate actual writing so keep this in mind when you plug the script into your site.
I found a great tutorial on the internet that explains exactly how to place these scripts on your website so I’ve posted it for your review, Enjoy!
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How to make foreign visitors love your website even if they don’t understand your language ? Add Language Translation to website and blogs – This is a simple Step by step guide to provide instant language translation in your website. Your site visitors can translate any webpage by clicking on the corresponding country flag and read your website in their native language.
Machine translation in blogs or websites is probably the easiest way of helping readers from different countries communicate. Even if a blogger writes in Spanish and a reader speaks English, or vice versa, both of them can still understand each other.
Today, people are blogging in multiple languages to create a conversation with readers outside the English Speaking blogosphere. Free language translation tools let bloggers post messages simultaneously in English, German, French, Spanish and other languages.
The most popular free Web-based language translation tools are offered by Google, AltaVista Babelfish and WorldLingo. Using these services, web audiences who speak English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Korean or Russian will be able to translate websites into their native language.
With over 65% of web users speaking a language other than English, providing the means of translating websites with English content to another language is very essential. Your multilingual website becomes more accessible and popular if users can translate your website content into their native language.
There are two methods to let your visitors easily translate your website:
Method ONE: All these services provide a translation box. To translate a webpage, you simply type in the URL of the website, choose the source and target language, and click the Translate button. [World Lingo, Google Translate, BabelFish Translate]
Method TWO: Here we will integrate the translation form in the website itself without requiring the user to visit any external page for translation. Your web visitors will be able to translate foreign language content into their native language by simply clicking the country flag icon. (Notice the top right corner of this page to see the various country flag icons). Simply cut and paste the code into your pages.
1. Alta Vista Babel Fish:
Babel Fish Translate is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. Just add the following single line of JavaScript code to your website.
2. Google Translate: Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Simplified). Remember to replace the value of variable “u” with the URL of your website. The translated pages can even be bookmarked.
3. WorldLingo URL Translator: World Lingo is my favorite service since Google indexes the static URLs translated by World Lingo. Thus, my website can be found on Google even while searching for non-english terms. World Lingo supports English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Korean and Russian. The translated pages can even be bookmarked.
The above World Lingo Translation Code is customized for the Blogger Template. Since I have added translation to every page on my weblog, I have used wl_url=<$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$> in the URL. You will need to change this if your blog is hosted on another service like Typepad or Wordpress.
The <$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$> tag should be wrapped inside the <Blogger> tags.
These techniques can be applied for translating websites to English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Translation Support for Middle Eastern languages like Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Persian, scripts like Hindi, Sanskrit, Telugu, Punjabi, Marathi, Konkani scripts are provided by professional translating services only.
Update: Since WorldLingo is no longer free, you can use this new hack to add Google Flags to your website.
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No commentsTraffic Geyser vs Tube Mogul: Battle of the Massive Traffic Video Tool
It’s the most probing question on all marketers minds, and it’s a constant pursuit in everyone’s marketing plan. “How do I get more Traffic to my website” is the pressing thought of the day of an online marketer!
There are several ways to get traffic to your site, and one of them is with Video Marketing.
Video marketing happens to be my “specialty”. Only a little over a year ago, I was a camera shy ex-struggling web designer, starting up in the network marketing scene. Getting me in front of a camera was very much like convincing a Cat to take a Bath “Meeeeooooooooooooow”! Well, after I had a long conversation with my self, I decided to just go out there and do it.
Once I finally got comfortable with Video Marketing, I had to figure out how I was going to get more traffic to my website through the proper use of Keywords, Description, titles and tags. This is a science all on it’s own, but I started to figure it out thanks to training with some of the hottest knowledgeable web 2.0 marketers (which I plunked $2,000 for for extensive training) and a nifty little Video Profit E-book that took my expertise to the next level.
The E-book also explains all the different sites you should be on if you want to have massive results. Some of the sites, you’ve probably never even heard of, but surprisingly, these little obscure video sites generate even more traffic than Youtube does. If you want to discover what these sites are, you’ll just have to read the book to find out. This information was not even revealed to me even after I paid $2,000 for video training, and this little piece of information contained in this book has made a huge impact on my results.
Great, so I understood how to make videos, how to tag them and how to upload them to Youtube. That was definitely a great start, but now I had to figure out how to multiply my efforts, after all, this network marketing and mlm industry is about “leverage”.
So the moment I found out that there was a way to upload 1 video to up to 45 different sites, simultaneously, at the click of a button, I had to test it out. Imagine the TIME SAVED by using a video deployment tool, as opposed to uploading 1 video to multiple sites, one single video at a time….That is NO Way to Run a business.
I have tested two of the most popular video submissions tools out there: Traffic Geyser and Tube Mogul.
Traffic Geyser costs a pretty penny, ($47.00 or $97.00 per month) but has tremendous benefits. If you are a “serious” business owner who want’s “serious” results, you’ll have to look beyond the pricetag and start measuring potential results. They have two levels you can use their service at… you can click here to read all about it yourself . Imagine the power and leverage you have by having 45 “you’s” out there working for you day and night and in your sleep. Remember the movie “Multiplicity” with Michael Keaton? There were 4 of Him (but each kept getting dumber?) well, same concept, except you actually do have true multiplication of your efforts with a powerful tool like Traffic Geyser.
Tube Mogul is FREE. I believe they do have a paid version, but I have personally not used it myself. I can tell you that Tube Mogul has some cool features in that it will give you a graphical view of what your videos are doing so that you can measure your results, and it does have a handful of video sites that traffic geyser does not have, like Metacafe, for example, which is a site that gets TONS of traffic. But what I don’t like about Tube Mogul is that you can only upload to about 14 sites, it doesn’t upload to podcasting sites like traffic geyser does, it doesn’t convert your videos to MP3’s like traffic geyser does and it doesn’t cross post to your blogs, like Traffic Geyser.does. The old addage rings true, that “you get what you pay for”. and in my experience, what you sacrifice in MONEY, you will have to give up in TIME and if TIME is MONEY then you need to consider your options wisely.
I still hold “top spot” for some major keywords on google, from videos I uploaded through Traffic Geyser.
Here’s a Quick Video to show you how I used Traffic Geyser
Does Traffic Geyser Really Work?? (BackDoorTraffic.com)
Ok so what are some of the other benefits to using a Video Uploading tool like Tube Mogul or Traffic Geyser?
For Starters, Google LOVES Video for some reason. Maybe it has to do something with the fact that google bought youtube for like 1.2 Billion dollars a few years ago? Yeah, that may have something to do with it (wink wink). I don’t know exactly what it is, you’d have to ask the creators of the software to find out exactly what it is, but there is something about Traffic Geyser that when you deploy your videos, they appear in the top spots for your specific keywords super fast, sometimes within 24-48 hours. This means that you can literally skip the existing organic search results that have been steadily climbing the placement on google pages, soon after deploying your videos. It’s like your video is on Greased Lightning with Traffic Geyser.
For someone in Network Marketing or MLM, this is a huge advantage to getting loads of traffic to your site. All you have to do is create a Video or a Podcast that brings Value to the Marketplace for the keywords you are trying to dominate, upload the video or podcast with Traffic Geyser and prepare to have people start contacting you to join your business.
If I were you, I’d use both. Actually, I do use both! One is Free and one is Paid but both working together brings massive results.
Remember, as Network Marketers, our main goal should be to generate atleast 100 leads a month. If you are a beginner, this should be your Primary Goal. After that, it’s simply a numbers game. And Traffic Geyser or Tube Mogul will give you an unfair advantage over others that are not using these tools, to place you right in front of your target markets path, so that they are more than likely to join with you.
Stay tuned for more articles regarding using free and paid methods to send massive traffic to your site and for ideas on how to bring Value to the marketplace.
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