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Many of us dream of being our own bosses. The lure of big money and flexible work hours is quite attractive. However, many are afraid to venture out on their own. They fear that they do not have the capital required to get a business started or they don’t want to loose the security of their day job.

The solution could be starting a home business. The truth of the matter is that you can start your home business with no money at all. Ask yourself this, do you have a spare room or space in your house. Do you have a computer with an internet connection? Do you have a phone line? If you have these three things you have the essentials of an office from which your home business can be made.

Affiliate marketing can be a great way for you to get started in your home business. Affiliate marketing will provide you with the opportunity to sell either a product or a service. With low capital and little space you may want to concentrate on services.

Once you have made the decision, you need to evaluate your skills. What services can you offer and what skills can you bring. Many people start of with affiliate marketing programs from major search engines. If you”re good at website design, you could register your page with someone such as yahoo publisher. This way your site will get traffic with the help of the search engine Yahoo. If yours is a sales website, your traffic could translate into increased sales. The more exposure to your site the better.

The other thing you can try to do is attract traffic to other sites. Retail sites such as Amazon and EBay have affiliate marketing programs. If you can generate traffic and increase sales then you make money. Both programs offer ways to increase revenues through links and blogs. These are usually free and worth using. Remember, the more you make the more they make.

Finally, your site can make money in another way. When it is posted on sites such as yahoo publisher or Google ad sense, there will be ads placed. Whenever a visitor clicks on an ad you make money. The more clicks the more cash. The operators take care of all the advertising costs and placement. They also try to place appropriate ads to your page. If you”re selling rare books ads for fish food are not likely going to get clicked.

If you want to start working for yourself but feel you don’t have the money then you”re wrong. If you have a computer and space to put it then you have all you need. You can also start you home business and work it around your job. You can gradually commit more time as your home business grows.

If you”re tired of your job and really want to work for yourself then stop making excuses and do it. Though affiliate marketing programs and selling services you will find that having your home business is easier than you think. All it takes is time and a commitment to succeed. By taking advanantage of the affiliate marketing programs that are currently available, you can make money and improve your own marketing skills. Remember, you can always expand into other areas and venture out totally on your own later. Right now, get marketing and get clicking.


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Blog marketing is sweeping the internet world. It is something that most everyone is doing and using to make an income. There are some that are even six figure bloggers. How do you become a six figure blog marketer? Anyone that is making six figures with blog marketing is not very likely to give up their secrets. Unless they can sell it to you in an ebook. However, if you are serious about making that amount of money and you have money to invest in it, chances are you could be a six figure blog marketing guru as well.

Six figure blog marketing is more than likely not done with one single blog. It would take many many blogs to create a six figure income, and if you have the funds and the resources, it could be done. The first thing that you would need to do is find out the markets that are low in competition but are high in the search engine rankings. Doing so will give you a great idea of what you should be marketing in your blog and what you should stay away from. Finding a niche market that is barely touched in the world of internet marketing is the best thing to do. However, you then have to decide if the niche markets that you have discovered are ones that you are interested in. Some start out with things that they know and get great results, whether they are niche markets or not.

When the goal is six figure blog marketing, you are going to find out real fast that outsourcing some work to others is not a bad idea. Doing all of the work yourself is not something that is possible when you are wanting to make that amount of money. Just be sure that you hire those that you can trust and have a great reputation for getting work done on time and accurately. You  will not want your workers to put you behind schedule.

While you are planning to outsource some of your work to others, you may want to decide and get an outline of just what is needed and the priority. Perhaps you need someone to set up your many blogs, or maybe you need someone else to write the content for the blogs. You can easily find experts on particular markets that you are wanting to blog about and pay them for the rights to their articles. Then post them as needed on your blog.

When you start looking to make a six figure income with your blogs, you are going to see that you will need to be sure that they are all updated in a timely manner. You are going to have to update them as often as possible, and maybe even hire help to be sure that everything goes smoothly with that as well.

Making a six figure income with blogs is the ideal work at home job. You make great money, and have great people working for you. Just be sure that you hire those that know what they are doing and are fluent in the language that you are marketing in as well. Someone that speaks and writes poor English will not help your income, but may hurt it if you have English based reader
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Any MLM business opportunity worth considering will either have a track record that you can investigate and evaluate or it will have a clear statement of the plan, the potential, and the up-front costs.

Before investing any time or money in a specific MLM business opportunity, there are some questions you should consider first.
How long has the business opportunity been in business? Before investing time and money in marketing an MLM business opportunity, it is important to determine how long it has been operating.

If it is a new concept that has not been proven in the marketplace, you have no assurance that it will even work.
Does the company have a fixed address and phone number? This may seem obvious to you, but the fact is, thousands of companies operate with nothing more than a website and an email address.

Many of them are here today and gone tomorrow. Make sure the business you intend to deal with has a fixed address, physical location, and established phone number.

Does the MLM business opportunity have some successful members you can talk to? Most business opportunities will show you testimonials. But these are often untrustworthy.

They could even be completely fabricated. Ask the owner of the business for names of real people you can talk to. Call them on the telephone and ask them to share their experiences with the program.

This will not only provide you with valuable first-hand information about the program, but it will give you a list of advisors who might be willing to help you along the way.

How much initial investment is required? In many cases a proven MLM business opportunity with a successful track record will involve some kind of initial investment.

You should not assume that a business opportunity that is free to join is a better investment. Usually a free-to-join business will involve other costs such as marketing and advertising fees. Just keep in mind that nobody gives away “opportunities” for free.

What you have to determine is whether a specific MLM business opportunity has a successful track record, is managed by honest people and offers you a realistic chance of actually making some money. These are the things you must weigh against the entry costs.

What is the realistic income potential of the business? Have a careful look at the numbers and projections provided by the business opportunity. Then talk with actual members who are using the program to determine if they have been able to turn those numbers into reality.

Are there extra fees such as yearly or monthly subscription fees, shipping costs, or minimum purchase requirements? Make sure to get a detailed list of all the fees involved in operating the new business. These things may not seem significant now, but they can easily eat into your profits later.

How much control of your new business will you have? Be clear on who owns the business, and who controls the way it is developed and marketed. You may want to diversify your product offerings in order to avoid being at the mercy of a “head office.

The MLM business opportunity should require low initial investment and have high profit potential both in the short term and in the long term. It should allow you to build a profitable business of your own that will be a source of income far into the future.
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How much you can make from placing articles and affiliate links on your website differs from person to person. How much you are able to make will depend mostly on how successful your site is. This means getting good search engine rankings through SEO efforts, making your site enjoyable and informative to read through engaging content, building your site around a great niche subject, how big your site is, and how many sites you have.

Some people claim to make as much as $10,000 per month ($120,000 per year) through building and promoting niche sites, however, most people should not expect this kind of success, especially if you are very new, as that kind of success usually only comes with experience and acquired skill. A reasonable income to expect from a niche site, after you have worked for months to gain traffic and are hooked up with good affiliates, may be $500-$1,000 per month. However this is recurring income, so you will make that much monthly off of the efforts you put into that one site, it is not a one shot deal.

After you have a successful site, most choose to continue to build niche sites. The more sites that you build, the better an income you can generate. Some also choose to build very fast and very short sites over sites that are slightly longer in length. It should be noted that the larger each of your sites are, the more income you will likely generate off of them.

When starting out, it is important to remember that your first site will always be your hardest, since you are just learning the ropes of the business, and that not everyone is cut out to market and promote niche sites. It may not work out for you and you may end up losing a little bit of money, but that is a risk that everyone in this business has to take.

The important thing is that you don’t give up without a good shot at it, if this is really what you want to do. Your first site may take a long time, the work may be tedious, and you may feel like throwing in the towel. However, if you give up too early, you will never know what could have been. And who knows, you may be the next great website marketer!
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Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication. There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.  Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.
Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.  Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving…
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If you would ask this question, “Which one is more important – the mailing list or the product?” any savvy marketer would answer you, “The mailing list”.

Principally, any wise business person puts the importance of hungry demand (and not just any demand) in front of the product. In other words, there is no product if there is no demand! And a mailing list represents the demand or your business if you would like to call it.

If you frequent the Joint Venture forums and membership sites of any kind, you will find that product and service owners need mailing list owners more than the other way round. This is because the mailing list owners have the prospects that the other type of partner is looking for to sell to.

And if you are a mailing list owner, you do not have to necessarily make money from selling your own product. You can sell advertising space or craft a Joint Venture with product owners in return of commissions, recurring or not.

Most of the biggest success web businesses on the Internet today often establish the mailing list (or subscribers) first before the product. One fine example is Friendster.com.

Friendster.com, in the nutshell, is a website that connects friends and potential friends from around the world through a free membership access.

While Friendster.com does not make money from the number of members who join the site, the business makes money from selling advertising space and partnering with other big time merchants and businesses, owing to the established number of members Friendster.com has recruited.

This business is perfect example that demonstrates why every business should establish a need or demand before the product itself, and why you should do the same, whether you run a friends site or not.

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Having connections can be a very good thing. However, you

might never realize the true potential that these

connections can give you until you decide to enter into the

exciting work of internet network marketing. Once you have

entered into this you will find that the following reasons

are ones that you will want to perform this style of

marketing.

One benefit that you will find is that you are going to be

using already established links that you have. Some of these

people could be ones that you rarely talk to, but by being on

your friends list they will get the exact same update that

you put out.

Going into some of these sites you are going to notice that

they are going to have various groups that are available to

join. If you join some of them that are in your area of

expertise you will find that you are going to be able to

post your link and make it visible to thousands of other

group members.

Many people are going to like the product that you have

listed. If they enjoy the product they could reach the point

of even re-posting the link that you provide. By doing this

you are going to reach outside of your own list to the list

that other people have as well.

You can also take advantage of the programs that they have

that can allow you to advertise on them. If you are able to

use these programs your ads could be exposed to millions of

users for those sites and that could allow you to find a new

customer base that you never dreamed of seeing before.

Something else that you never dreamed possible is that the

search engines are going to look at your links in here as

well. Since many of these websites are very high ranking it

could help boost your rankings quickly even to the point of

possibly landing on page one of a major search engine.

Going into marketing of any form can be very exciting. The

problem can be though that when you attempt to get into

internet network marketing it can be hard to succeed, but

you will want to make use of all those connections that you

have made to help you be successful.

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RE: How To Recruit With Words
By Guest Expert: Daegan Smith

I just pulled this question out of the
grab bag and what follows is money in
the bank and recruits in your downline.

The answer to Chris's question below
will certainly be something you'll want
to save and refer back to . . .

"Hey Daegan,

I have a question regarding direct
marketing style sales letters.

My company does not currently have that
type of sales letter in its system that
is used to convert prospects into
signups.

I am thinking about creating one, and I
am looking for a little advice.

Should the sales letter be focused on
the marketing and training system I have
created for my team, or more about the
benefits of my specific company or both?
If you were going to create a sales page
for your business how would you go about
doing it?"

-Chris

The King's Response:

Chris, this is by far one of the best
question I've ever received, and the
answer I'm about to spell out to you can
mean many recruits for you and certainly
can mean a lot of duplication for your
team soon afterwards.

Pay close attention . . .

SIDE NOTE:I have no problem revealing
this because, for me, the story has
already been written, now it's your
chance to leverage what I know for
serious money.

Just a few days ago I was going through
a free report that I downloaded a few
weeks back that will shed some powerful
light on your situation before I give
you the step by step breakdown.

The author of the report was a
professional copywriter working for one
of the most famous copywriting firms in
the world.

This guy was writing a sales letter for
a golf related product for one of this
client.

In the letter, the copywriter referred
to what he THOUGHT was most important to
his market.

He addressed two major frustrations in
the golfing world - hitting the ball
father and eliminating hooks and slices.

Upon completion of the letter the
copywriter took the letter to the big
boss for a final review.

His boss, being on of the most
accomplished copywriters in the world
and having written several high
performing offers for the golf world,
looked at the letter and gave him some
simple advice . . .

"Forget about the slice stuff and focus
the entire letter on hitting the ball
farther. That's REALLY what the market
is after."

The copywriter followed the advice of
his boss and made the appropriate
changes and ended up with a winner.

The moral of the story is . . .

Don't worry about the ancillary stuff.
Deal with the biggest problem and
frustration of the target market and dig
deep on it.

So Chris, what this means to you and I
as network marketers is this, and it's
important you get this before I go
through the process step by step, forget
about everything in your letter except
solving the main problem of your
prospect.

In the network marketing world, the
problem always comes back to money.
Solve that and that alone.

To be honest, no one cares about your
companies products for the most part.
All they really want to know is "how"
they are going to make money.

From your prospect's perspective, if you
give them a good opportunity to solve
their money problems, they can always
rationalize that the product or service
is "good".

Waste no time describing your product or
why your company is so great, unless it
directly supports how and why your
prospects have the best chance of making
money with it.

Look around both the online and offline
network marketing world and you'll soon
see very clearly that this is the model
that just about every highly successful
opportunity uses.

So, you use it to. And you think of
yourself as the opportunity NOT your
company, but I'll explain as we dig
deeper here.

Further . . .

If you remember back to what you were
trained to do when calling leads if
you've been through the process you'll
again realize here - the focus of the
conversation you're trained to have is
again solving the money issue.

CLUE!

So let's get to the step by step.

First, you begin with a headline that
addresses the concern of money.

Second, you start your sales letter with
a lead in that either pulls your
audience directly into your story to
both entertain and address again the
concern or you can simply pose a
question that would pull them in deeper
like "If you're sick and tired of
working pay check to paycheck then pay
attention to everything you're about to
read."

Next you dig deeper into your story. If
you have a good one be sure to bring up
your real life failures that they can
identify with.

Why?

So that when your prospect reads it he
then begins to think "If this guy can do
it after going through all this then so
can if I just know what he knows."

If you can arouse that sort of curiosity
then you're on the right track.

Follow this up by bringing up a few
things that they may have learned or
tried in the past and explain why the
only result of following that path is
failure. Be sure to explain exactly why.

Allude to the idea that you've found a
way around.

Bring up your biggest "Ah Ha" moment.
The thing that changed everything for
you.

Introduce your solution or system.

Explain why it will work for them where
the others have not. At this point you
can bring up a few details about your
company or compensation plan, but don't
name names. Keep them curious.

Now it's probably time for some bullets
about what you have. Provide 30 or so
bullets that keep them curious, but
again don't give away the farm.

Next it's time for you to explain
exactly how the process works. Make
whatever it is that you do as simple as
possible from the prospect's
perspective.

One that always works if you're working
from the perspective of never calling
leads again and providing a form of an
online solution is "Just think what it's
gonna be like when your prospects are
doing exactly what you're doing right
now."

This is a powerful and an incredibly
enticing mental image to create in your
prospect's mind. It get's them to think
into the future as a member of YOUR
team.

Subtle but powerful.

Now it's time to talk about what makes
you different. Remember anyone can just
go to your company's website and join so
you have to provide something above and
beyond just get in under me if you're
looking for a high level of response and
duplication down the line.

Good things to bring up here are that
you provide one on one coaching, live
weekly training on whatever it is you
do, and a team co-op if you decide to
provide one.

Another thing that really helped me was
creating a team marketing guide that
every new member received after joining.
It's a good idea to think about creating
one for two more reasons. First it
establishes you as leader and second it
takes the huge burden in the way of
training off the shoulders of you and
your future downline.

Instead of having train everyone have
them train themselves by going through
your team training guide and provide
support from that point. Address
questions and concerns and then help
them actually get started after they
know the lay of the land to say.

Next, if you feel comfortable doing so .
. .

Nothing removes more risk from your
prospects shoulders than a strong
guarantee, so here would be the place.

Now it's time to tell them exactly how
to join you. I don't know your company
so the method will vary from this point
on, but I think you can figure this one
out.

If you're incredibly forward create a
video AS WELL - not in place of - the
text to describe the process your leads
need to go through to get access to your
team so nothing is left to chance.

If you have success stories be sure to
add those throughout your letter.

Finally close out.

Provide a PS or two and you're done.

Now here is what will separate you from
the crowd. You've got to go out and test
your letter on your own. If it converts
great! Don't change a thing.

If not, continue to test and make
changes until it converts profitably for
you. Why?

Well you don't want to roll out a team
marketing system that doesn't work so
you've got to be sure it works and
converts before you make it something
your team can use as well.

Once you do though, put the pieces in
place to make that system available to
your downline.

Then . . .

Watch the magic of duplication. Sit back
and watch your company checks grow
larger and provide the best support you
can.

That should be enough to get you on the
right track.

But let me emphasize. Your company or my
company DOES NOT matter. Only the
opportunity matters in the eyes of your
prospects so focus your efforts intently
and totally on that end and you will
succeed.

To the top,

Daegan 
"The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead"

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RE: How to use your blog to recruit . . .
By Guest Expert: Daegan Smith

A few days ago in our regularly
scheduled "Inner Circle" no holds barred
q and a session we discussed the proper
use of blogging to recruit and enhance
your home business. Make no mistake
blogging is extremely powerful as a
business building tool "if" used
properly, here's how to do it 
right . . .

One of the biggest mistake I see people
making in their blogging efforts is
"why" they use them. Most people tend to
think of blogging as a primary traffic
generation strategy, and it can be, but
it's not THE best use of a blog in our
type of business.

You should think of blog traffic more
like icing on the cake. The primary and
MOST powerful use of starting and using
a blog in your business is it's ability
to create a powerful testimonial for
you. Let me explain . . .

When I started my first successful
business here's exactly what I did. On
an almost daily basis I blogged about
something relating to my business, at
the top of that blog I would always note
the number of people in our team, and
then carry on with the message.

Sometimes if I had new recruits I would
create a formal blog welcome to my new
team mates by listing their names and
welcoming them to the team.

If there was a co-op, advertising
strategy that was working well for me,
you better bet I put in on that blog.

Why? Well, I haven't told you how I used
my blog to recruit yet (we'll get to
that in a second), but along with using
a blog to recruit I also constantly
referred my team members there for any
and all updates on our business.

It was a central meeting point. As a
result my team always checked the blog
to see what was going on in our
business. This was important for two
reasons:

First, easy access to important current
information pertaining to our team, and
second as team wide social proof.

They came to the blog and saw the number
of people on the team growing and
welcome messages to our new team members
and subconsciously it helped raise their
belief level about the business they
were in.

It's sometimes easy for a new recruit to
get discouraged without encouragement
and the blog helped give them that
encouragement they needed. As a result
they "believed" in the business, and
took more proactive action to go out and
do what we were doing to grow which
translated into a higher rate of
duplication in the business and longer
retention.

So let's recap so far, we've got a blog
where we're blogging about our team,
what we're doing to advertise, we're
"training" our team members to check the
blog often for advice and encouragement
and as a result their using that
motivation to go out and build. This
causes the team to grow faster,
stronger, and better.

What do we have? That sounds like a
pretty darn powerful testimonial to me.
And that's the primary use of the blog
as far as recruiting is concerned as I
mentioned earlier.

The mistake most people make is they
want to blog for traffic, which you can
do, and I'll share a few tips to doing
that better in a few, but not it's best
use for recruiting. Here's how to use
your blog to recruit . . .

I'd generate leads directly to my own
lead capture page or my company's lead
capture page. Once I saw my lead opt in
I would send them a personal email to
tell them a little bit about myself, our
team, and our business. In that email I
would always include a link to my blog
so my prospects could get an inside look
at who I and our team was doing.

This is powerful as heck for a couple
reasons where recruiting is concerned.

First, people are inherently
voyeuristic. They wanna spy, so let
them. By sending my prospects to my blog
they now had the opportunity to get to
know me and my team without me even
being there. As a result, when we did
have an email correspondence or they
called me they already knew me.

I've always found this to be a MUCH
better option than cold calling leads. I
let them get to know me first.

Second reason this is powerful is based
on a principle called "The Power Of
Documentation" which states we as humans
tend to take things which we read as
more truthful than things we just hear.

In other words, a prospect who goes to
your blog and reads about you and your
team is going to take what they read
there at face value where if you're on
the phone telling them the same thing
they're most likely saying "Yeah right"

If you've ever called leads and had that
question come up of "Well why should I
join you?" Having and sending your
prospects to your blog first will
virtually eliminate this objection and
ignite powerful curiosity and intrigue
about you and what you do.

So, when it comes to using a blog to
recruit, it's best us is as a secondary
traffic strategy. You get the lead, then
you send them to your blog for a
powerful testimonial.

So I can hear the question welling up
"What should I put on my blog to start?"
Simple, talk about yourself, your
company's products and service, why you
love your company, your team, AND here's
a key . . .

Ask your upline or downline to write you
a quick note about why it's great to
work with you and put it on your blog.

You do that, and you've covered all your
bases. Not only are your prospects
learning about you, why you like what
you do, your personality, your team, BUT
they're also SEEING other people saying
great things about you. Third party
validation about you is a powerful
thing.

Simply doing this and nothing else, I
was surprised to see that after about
six months of consistent blogging my
blog received about 300 site views per
day from people finding online via
search engines. I did nothing but blog,
but just because I had content on the
blog I had tons of people finding it for
free, and as a result, calls out of the
blue from people saying "yeah I found
your blog, what's up with your business"
(kinda cool)

So let me share a few things you can do
to improve you search engine rankings
for you blog posts to enhance your free
traffic.

First, do a little keyword research
using the Google Keyword tool. Find a
few keywords related to business and use
those keywords in your blog title, and a
few times, along with a few synonyms for
that main keyword in your blog post.

One secret strategy that's really
increased my blog traffic personally is
using images in my blog.

On blog posts where I insert an image to
correspond to the blog post keyword I
tend to get about double the traffic. So
find a few images related to your blog
post keyword.

Name those images as your main keyword,
for instance if my blog post was based
on the keyword "internet network
marketing" then then I would find 3
images I could use for that keyword and
I would name the images:

internet-network-marketing1.jpg,
internet-network-marketing2.jpg,
internet-network-marketing3.jpg 
etc.

Search engines rank you based on how
many other websites link to your post
related to your keywords, so when you
create a new blog post, write an article
with the same keyword and submit it to
the major article directories with a
link going back to your main blog post.

Find a few other blogs in the niche and
comment on a few post and link back to
your blog post.

Create a facebook, twitter, myspace,
squidoo account and post some content
based on the keyword and link those back
to your blog post.

You do that for you blog and you're
ahead of 99% of marketers.

So now that we've got traffic down,
let's talk about $$$, how do you make
money with your blog? I think the
simplest way to make money with blog
from the outset is to simply add Google
Adsense to each blog post, not so much
because you'll make a ton of cash from
it, but when people do click on your
Google Adsense ads on your blog you'll
make a few bucks which is powerful
positive reinforcement for your efforts
in the early going.

It'll fuel you forward. You'll see money
coming in and you'll get excited.

The best long term way to make money
with your blog though is . . .

Integrating your blog with your email
marketing efforts. I love using the one
two punch of email marketing and
blogging because it allows you to change
the dynamic of your email messages to
your prospects from a one way
conversation to a two way conversation
by giving your prospects the ability to
comment back to you.

Getting people involved and commenting
on your blog is a powerful way to build
trust. Think of your blog as a
conversation and you'll see the bond
between you and your prospects growing
stronger daily and for it your income
will increase.

There are two powerful benefits of
turning your emails into a blog
conversation.

The first is simply when people get
involved and proactively comment they've
taking a powerful step into your world.
The second benefit is a little more
sneaky, but extremely powerful.

Say you send a prospect to your blog to
share an important post today and 15
people comment on that post. Great!

Well what if you take the email that you
sent people to your blog and add it to
your auto responder?

Now the leads that join your list 3
months from now will get that email
automatically via your autoresponder
email sequence you set up and when they
get to the post not only are they going
to get to participate in a conversation
you set up on autopilot, but they'll
also see all the people that commented
prior and say . . .

"Wow! I just got this email and 15
people already comment there must be a
lot of people listening in." and hence
conclude you're a good teacher and
someone a LOT of people listen to.

So there's more I could go into on
blogging, but I think that's plenty for
now. No matter what you do if
you haven't checked out this free
website. Go here now:

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To the top,

Daegan 
"The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead"
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RE: What To Do If Your Company Won't Let
You Promote Online - By Daegan Smith

I just got a great question in from
Shannon Hanaway, that I think you may be
interested in the answer to:

"I've just been advised that my MLM
company won't allow any website- outside
their provided template-that customers
can link back to for product information
and enrollment.

These are my products.

Am I dead in the water or do I just get
really creative?"

My Response:

Shannon,

Fantastic questions and by no means are
you dead in the water. You just have to
think a little bit differently about how
you introduce people to your
opportunity.

In all honesty, just sending people to
your companies website to learn about
your product line isn't going to win you
many sales anyway, so it's really more
of an non issue than you may think.

I've said it before and I'll say it
again. People don't join opportunities,
they join people.

Therefore nothing that you do on the
front end of your business even needs to
ever mention your company. Let me
explain . . .

Your best prospects will always be the
doers like you. The people striving for
success.

What do doers look for?

Information and guidance.

This is all your business on the front
end should provide. People will join you
because they "know" and you've proven
you can help them, not because your moon
juice is cooler than the next companies.

So on the front end, do what I do.

Create your own newsletter. Your own
lead capture page. Communicate daily.

If you get adventurous create a front
end product that solves on of your
prospects major concerns.

1. Getting more leads 2. Making more
money 3. Recruiting without rejection

Allow them to purchase it from you and
then . . .

Once all your marketing costs are paid
for by your profits, on the back-end
give you your customers a call.

Ask how you can be of further service,
naturally they'll be inquisitive as to
what else you're up to.

There, right there, is the time you
bring up your back end company.

You may say, but "Daegan I can't create
a product."

I have two answers for you.

Yes you can and you don't even need a
product to recruit online. It just makes
it easier.

Even if you were just to create your own
list online. Share stories and marketing
strategies daily, and as a call to
action at the end of your message you
said something like:

"If you'd like some personal help give
me a call between 4pm and 8pm tonight at
XXX-XXXX I'll be in the office to help"

You'll have people ringing your phone
off the hook all day and night. Trust me
on that one.

See how we never even bring up our
company online following this
methodology? Well, that's exactly why
you're in no way shape or form dead in
the water.

If you'd like to learn how to either
generate a boat load of leads, create
your first front end product, or create
a daily flow of profits, there is no
better place to learn these skills than
as a part of our family.

Watch this short presentation to learn
how to make that happen:

==> https://daegansmith.infusionsoft.com/go/freedvdbootcamp/darien20

To the top,

Dalton Dewar

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