Success And Money

The MLM Structure

You should realize by now that that there is HOPE while you are stuck building your MLM business the old traditional way. The internet is a big goldmine just simply waiting for the right person to come along and dig into it.

One of the most basic principles you should realize in starting an MLM business is the importance of building your list!

It’s probably the first thing your uplines required from you when you started in your company. It can be a 10 person namelist or 1000. The number doesn’t really matter but the important thing is that you are building a list. Now, there are generally three ways to generate that list.

1. The people you know and the people they know, this is called your WARM or SEMI-  WARM list.

2. Purchase a generic lead from a lead company — this is called your COLD list.

3. Or you can generate your own.

For most of us we started out with our warm list. It’s the list of people you know who are primarily your friends and family. It’s the ones whom you would personally enjoy working with in your business but unfortunately is also the list where you experience the most painful rejections.

But there is something about a warm list that most people don’t realize that is the cause of the most frustration and rejection. And these two limitations are…

Limitation 1: Your WARM LIST is HIGHLY NON-TARGETED and UNQUALIFIED.

When you approach people in your warm market most of the time they have NOT even asked for what you have to offer. And this leads to a lot of rejection because you really
DON’T KNOW if they are interested in your offer.

Now assuming that they do join you, most of them end up as fence sitters or quitters because they really don’t have what it takes to succeed in this business.

Limitation 2:  The question of QUANTITY.

You only have a few people in your warm list and after that then it would dry up. Perhaps only 3% of networkers can generate endless leads from their warm market. And the rest will just simply cease their business building.

So what do you do next? Buy generic leads. That’s what they are telling you! But generic leads are much worse. You DON’T KNOW if they are interested in your offer. You DON’T KNOW if they are even fit for network marketing. You DON’T KNOW them and they DON’T KNOW you. At the end, using generic leads will only frustrate you big time.

Result? You might as well expect more rejections. And frankly be prepared to sound like a call center telemarketer at their end of the line.

Now I’m not saying that it’s wrong to work your warm and cold market. I just feel that it is not a very professional way to build an MLM business anymore. Just be prepared for a lot of rejections if you do this.

Now if you are like me, you are reading this because you are looking for solutions. An alternative way to build your list and that is what I will tell you now.

The solution to the two limitations of your warm market is really very simple. For limitation #1 it’s just simply MARKETING!

Marketing is simply the art of bringing your offer in front of people who have shown interest in it. It is not intrusive and no hard selling.

Do you ever notice the ads in TV, radio and billboards? They are very creative in how they present their offer to you right? And once they got your attention you call them and they don’t call you. And that is exactly what we would want for our MLM business.

When you know who your market is and how to meet their needs there will be no chasing after people. Instead, they will look for you.

The solution for limitation number 2 is to generate your own list, which is the third way of list building as mentioned earlier.

Notice that I used the term generate and not buy. Because buying generic leads is just a waste of time and money. Remember how even more limited your cold list is?

But you don’t just go about generating a random list. You generate a list of highly targeted people who have shown interest in what you have to offer.

This is done through the first piece of real estate you should have in the internet which is called a “lead page”.

In this page people give their name and email address to you through a web form in exchange for a free item or a free solution that you are offering to them.

Now imagine if you have even just 3 people added to that list every day, what would that do to your business?

In only a month you would have 100 new people to talk to about your business. And these people have already told you that they are interested in what you have to offer.

They have opened their doors for you to talk to them. Now wouldn’t that be nice?

Do you realize now that it is possible to build your MLM business using the internet? Do you realize now that this was never taught in your MLM company? Do you realize now that you’ve got a fighting chance in this strategy because people have yet to discover the benefits of this?

It is time to go MLM the better way!

A Successful Man

Let me introduce you to one of my beloved mentors having greatly influenced my life in such a remarkable way. This mentor effectively taught me some of the most important wisdom that he learned while he is still a teenager. Definitely, meeting him was one of the most magnificent things that ever transpired in my life.

And without the influence and guidance of this person, I may not be able to be where I am now in my life and career.

Go to any TSS Malls nationwide and you will most likely be bewildered by their relentless development. The first coach that I have is Mr. Alvin Go – the humble son of the renowned TSS founder Samuel Go.

Years ago, while I was bringing my books to Mega Bookstore located at the TSS MegaMall, Alvin saw and waived his hand to me. At that time, I was not really sure if I was the one he was calling. When I came near, he extended his business card and requested me to visit his office. Without any hesitation whatsoever, I replied yes.

At that time, I was personally doing the delivery myself because aside from me there was no other person working for my company. As I could recall, I was just wearing t-shirt, blue faded jeans and I think slippers. I literally looked like a delivery man.

However, before that chance encounter with Mr. Alvin, he first saw me at the debut of IMAX. Right after the first movie ended, I approached Mr. Alvin Go who was seated near me and personally handed him a copy of my book “The Changing Face Of The Job Market.”

I also brought a laminated copy of my Chronicles column talking on my experience of meeting his famous father. We sat and started to talk about more on his deep personal understanding.

“When a wise man pushed you to do something, it must be for a purpose.” This is the very first message I got from him.

Alvin remembered going to his father’s office to help for the first time. He was thinking that just like his father he was going to be a mini-boss that’s why he dressed up very neatly, had a tie, black pants and shiny shoes. When he finally got into the office of his father, the very first thing that his father ordered was “to toss the trash outside and sanitize the trash can.”

And he thought it was unfair. For his very young mind, it’s definitely ridiculous. He is a son of the owner of a big company and you had to do that. Was there any rationale?

To make the story short, his journey within the company included becoming a salesman, a cashier, a supervisor and a manager — before assuming the presidency of TSS Premium Holdings.

He confessed, “I must obey my father and do everything he asked me to do in following the tradition of respecting our parents.” Naturally, it was quite unsettling at first but later I realized that everything was done for a purpose.

Right now, no lowly employee under my leadership can grumble in our policy — not even on their jobs practically because I was also there in their positions and I was definitely one of them.

Always pay attention to your mentor or coach. Once they are asking you to do something — it must be for a purpose!

Have Your Own Online-Business Now

Some people choose to live their days like there is no more tomorrow. With no plan and no vision for the coming days, they want to enjoy everything that today could offer.

And some other people are living a very hectic life — so busy on worrying what tomorrow may bring and yet they never actually live at all.

What about you?  Does your career giving you the liberty to live for today and still have something left over in preparation for tomorrow?  If your answer is an honest no, then it is time to look for something much better. Don’t waste one more minute.

It’s about time that you seek a very good business that allows you to live well both today and tomorrow. Who would not want that? Almost all of us are actually looking for this balanced lifestyle.

So what business should we be looking for? Traditional types of business are great failures in giving us the freedom we are looking for: financial and time freedom.

Thanks to the amazing and over-reaching power of the worldwideweb or the internet, ordinary guys like you and me are now given the platform to earn excellent income just working based at home. With no need to wear office suites and drive through headache-producing traffic jams, home-based online business could be your best choice.

As compared to the regular kind of businesses, starting a web-based business is definitely much easier. Consider these advantages:

Advantage 1: You don’t need to shell out or sign out a loan for a big investment.

Advantage 2: You don’t need a fancy-sounding degree or very specialized training.

Advantage 3:  You only need to have some few simple online tools – some are available for free.

Advantage 4: You do need persistence but you can plan your time well.

Advantage 5:  You can reach a global audience and prospects.

Advantage 6:  Of course, you are the BOSS!

Get ready for your move to the right direction. The right time is today and not tomorrow. With internet as your correct vehicle, you can be sure to have a hell of a ride of your global business empire.

Where you are sitting at this moment is the exact place to begin your online business success!

Working At Home

As far as work-at-home entrepreneurs are concerned, time is the most important single commodity they have. There is no other asset that could replace time. It is in fact very valuable and precious. Once time is spent then nobody could take it back. You can only plan for the coming time and not be able to reclaim it.

All of us whether rich, famous or not are given the same fixed 24-hour day. Even if you wish to add more hours to a single day, it won’t happen anytime soon. The only thing we can do is plan our time so as to maximize its use and hopefully returns.

Out of the twenty-four fixed hours a day, we also have to spend some of them in other non-work related things. For one, we must have a good six to eight hours of sleep. We of course, must prepare and eat foods for sustenance. Not to mention, family concerns that have to be taken cared of. And don’t forget other personal needs as simple as grooming and taking a relaxing hot bath. Oh well, we are really running out of time!

As mentioned, our loved ones and even good friends necessitate allocation of some of our available waking time. Remember that to make it grow, relationships need to be nourished and nurtured well. Because the allotted working time is limited we must make sure we are maximizing it. There is no point on wasting time in unnecessary tasks which others can easily accomplish.

When you are able to trim a few minutes here and there, an efficient time management could ensue. Below are some important ideas in order to save more time and accomplish more things at the same time.

1. Limit your email accounts. I know that most of us are having multiple email accounts in different sites. Personally, I have at least 5 Yahoomail and at least 7 Gmail accounts. Certainly, opening and reading those emails can take enormous time. We have the tendency to use one account for this purpose and probably another account for another reason. If you are going to check them each and every day, you are consuming more time just for this task. So what should you do? Of course, the best thing to do is to limit your email account to a single account or a maximum of just two.

In reading your emails, take note of an email sent to many recipients as most likely it is just another time waster. Email has the potential to consume good amount of time. You must be able to filter the important ones from the irrelevant and spams. Just spend the time opening and reading emails related to your business or job.

2. Use an office table and set up priorities. Having a fixed work day is a well-organized schedule. You can accomplish many things with less time if you aware in advance and can already project the tasks next on line. As humans, we cling to visual aids as a sign of comfort and foundation for productivity. In this connection, a time table is a good visual aid which could help in managing time not just efficiently but also productively!

3. Concentrate more on result-producing tasks. In planning the work day schedule, make sure that the tasks scheduled are the ones that could create more impact for the business in terms of growth both short-term and long-term. There is no point in pretending to be a superman and do all the tasks yourself. Learn to delegate and outsource the non-critical and mundane things to others. For instance, why not hire outsourced workers for bookkeeping and accounting, article/e-Book writing and submission, travel and event planning and ad writing? Remember that other people can be able to perform these tasks efficiently than you can at a cheaper cost.

4. Limit counter-productive activities. As mentioned, friends and family members are demanding some of our precious time so it would help if we will not spend some of it on unproductive activities such as watching TV, playing PC games and just plain and non-sense conversation with a friendly neighbor.

Analyzing the way you are spending your time and planning a good work day can surprisingly keep you productive and efficient leading to a thriving and earning home-based business.

But don’t me wrong. We all need time for some relaxation and recharging energy. We are not programmed robots so it can not be all business at all times. With that in mind, it is more important to plan ahead so as to give the right time for relaxation and other non-work pleasurable activities.

Our time is limited and so precious so it is necessary that we make the very best out of it as much as we can.

It is all about time management!

Starting A JV

Do you get a little bit uneasy when you hear the term joint venture? Yes, it can be an uncomfortable situation to put your trust in someone else to partner with you for the business.

The process of joint venture is actually much easier than it seems. As a matter of fact, it is proven that people who take on joint venture marketing are able to bring their business up to the next level.

As with everything, you must do everything appropriately for joint venture to work for you. Always think about your profit potential, despite any preliminary feelings of uncertainty when initiating an agreement with a potential joint partner.

Not only will you build a business relationship with someone else, but you could build a lifelong friendship with you would cherish. In order to give you the confidence you need to launch your first joint venture, I will elaborate on the details of the process.

Joint ventures are not really complicated than most people think. You’ve probably heard it said that joint ventures should be reserved only for the big conglomerates. Well, you’ve been misinformed.

Joint Ventures have taken on mythic proportions in some people’s minds and a lot of misconceptions go around with it. As a result, many marketers are missing out on big opportunities. Marketers are leaving many opportunities for potential profits and goodwill on the table out of misconstrued fear and anxiety.

This fear resulted into believing that gaining any leverage through joint venture marketing will not be possible. A joint venture is nothing more than an interdependent alliance. It allows you to join financial strengths and develop a business jointly.

Large companies are into joint ventures. And we who are who into small businesses, home-based businesses, and one-man enterprises can follow suit. New joint ventures are launched everyday. As you are reading this, a joint venture is being sealed over a handshake. So if such kind of “real world” marketing makes you uncomfortable, you need to understand more the dynamics involved in joint venture.

Gain the necessary strategies for approaching the business. Online marketers now fully realize how important name branding and business marketing is for the business. And joint venture can provide the platform to achieve those goals.

Despite the many advantages, some people are still not into JVs because they don’t believe that they’ll work out in the long run. They don’t make the leap out of the fear and uncertainty of being denied by the prospective partner.

You should know then that the rewards you can reap in a strong joint venture are significantly greater than the potential downsides. This provides you with a very effective vehicle to market large amounts of merchandise quickly and globally. With the prospect of strongly launching your company’s brand and awareness, a good JV can yield the platform to gain an authoritative lead in your niche.

Another great benefit of JVs is the potential to generate a lot of buzz on your product with no big cash outlay necessary. This way you are building your business faster than you would not be able to do alone.

Joint Ventures (JVs) are very beneficial to all the parties involved by creating more opportunities to generate revenues and profits.

Welcome to your joint ventures!

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In the online world, most people do not have the necessary time or the required skills to write and create e-books to give away to their site’s visitors. This is where you can come in. Giving away e-books for absolutely free from your web site can easily mean you will receive more traffic and possible spikes in revenues. So with this goal in mind, it is quite a very wise decision to create promotional e-books for other people to use so they can promote it on their web site.

However, you will need to write and create your own e-book for giving away to your visitors. In case you don’t want to write it, you could ask permission to use someone’s articles or material. Or better yet use PLR or private label right materials which allowed you to stamp your own name as the author. Always include your text or banner at the beginning of the e-book.

Once your e-book is uploaded to your web site, it is time to promote it so that people will download it and hopefully will also share the same material to their web site visitors or opt-in mailing list. In this way, you are creating a viral campaign as your ad will continue to spread all over the internet.

You have the choice of taking this approach one step further making it even more powerful. Permit people to sign-up to get a special edition of the e-book with their own text or banner ad included in it. Because their own ad is included in the e-book, they have more motivation to work harder in promoting the same material.  This put your material as well as your ad or links potentially seen by even more audience.

Giving away for free is definitely a win/win situation for you and your visitors!

It is always nice to share – for free!

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Incentivized Opt-In List

We all know how it is more important to build your own list of prospects online in comparison to probably just having a list of your friends and family or wasting money purchasing cold and non-responsive generic leads. And frankly, I still have to meet a successful online marketer or networker who earns huge money online but did not build a subscribers or mailing list. Yes, it is quite true that the money is on the list.

Today I thought on sharing three common ways online marketers are building their list and at the same time I will pinpoint my personal preference out of the three.

1. Opt-in form in a lead page. This is I think the most popular among the three. A lead page is fundamentally a focused website that offers enticing reason or reasons so that visitors leave their name and email address in exchange for something like a valuable piece of information that they might be interested in.

Generally, a lead page is a sales page that draws visitors to do only two courses of action — leave or give their name and email in exchange for information (most likely e-books, reports, videos or any valuable digital material).

The opt-in form then is where the visitors input their contact information and once they do it they instantly become part of your mailing list.

2. Pop-up form in your website. Based on its name, this is a form that pops-up in your site which presents the supposedly benefits you are giving out to your eager visitors in return for their contact information.

The pop-up may come out in any part of the site but most likely it is set it to appear only at selected time intervals so as not to disrupt and irritate the visitors.

3. Using email. This form of list building uses mainly your email. In exchange for some free items, you will ask prospects to send a blank email to a specific address as specified in your list building software.

Though this is a less popular method, this is particularly good if you are searching for prospects from an email list like Yahoogroup or other email groups you are a member of.

You send an email to people or groups and just post the instruction on sending an email to your address. There is no need to go to a website or even enter any information as they just need to send a blank email to a specific address.

Of the three, I am personally more inclined to use lead pages because it presents a much focused page that leads your visitor to a course of action. Honestly, pop-ups can be a bit irritating and I personally don’t like seeing pop-ups whenever I go to a site.

So there you have it – the three effective ways in building an opt-in list!

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Make It Online

And so earlier today I was browsing for some little news and what I found is yet another of those doom-and-gloom piece predicting how we might be in for a “double dip” type of countrywide economic recession.

Double dip recession basically means that the first recession we just went through could generate another round of recession due to inability of things to pick up quickly as they should be.

To say it in a nutshell, the consuming public is not adequately confident that the economy is in good and robust shape and so people are expecting the economy to go into a tailspin.  Good but not funny stuff!

I’m sure most people are getting crazy just to think of another recession yet alone losing jobs … but as for me I am not even at least concerned.

Why? Because another round of recession could spell good news for some people…

Yes…I said good news. And it could be good news to you and me.

I know…I know that a lot of people will struggle more if we will have a second recession — and more people are going to lose their jobs… and no I am not really thrilled about that.

Losing jobs is definitely not good news especially if you have your own family and expenses to attend to!

The reason a “double dip” recession could be a good news for some people including me is for one plain reason …

Recession means there will be lots of local businesses — the brick and mortar types — who are looking for additional leads, clients and sales and these businesses are so willing to pay big money to the people who can assist them in that goal.

In fact, you could earn thousands of dollars a month even from just one individual client if you have the correct knowledge and are willing to utilize it.

Local business owners wish to find the bigger market online but are hindered because almost none of them have the idea where to start much more maintaining it.

They don’t know the right ways to get a first page rank on Google for their specific stores or the intricacies of running an effective local lead generation campaign.

And these businesses don’t have the willingness and time to learn how to do these things online.
The best option these offline businesses want to take is to get someone to do that stuff for them. And, of course, they are willing to pay a lot of money.

This is an opportunity that many are describing as the “next gold rush” and although I’ve heard and doubt that before…I am a firm of it this time.

Advertising dollars and clients’ attentions are moving to the Internet — away from the traditional Yellow Pages, magazine ads, and newspapers.

That’s equivalent to billions of dollars jumping away from the conventional type advertising and hopefully towards people like you and me.

Or to put it into another words, these billions of dollars “could” be moving to people like you…if we have the knowledge and some expertise on how to get our share of the money pie.

Let’s prepare ourselves now for the explosion of the online business in response to the coming recession!

Writing A Blog Post

The problem with PLR articles is that they could be virtually worthless if you will not rewrite and just use them on as is basis. Let us explore this thing a little deeper.

We all know that the main advantage of PLR articles is you instantly have the content you need without the need to be spending countless hours every day to do the research and writing them. Or if you outsource the task, you are saving some money to have an article writer do it for you.

But then what could make PLR articles useless is the duplication thing. In most cases, you can find that other sites or blogs have already published the same article word for word.

For instance, if you bought a PLR article package for around $10 you don’t have any control on how many other buyers will eventually use the same materials for their own sites. Consequently, you are facing some hindrances as enumerated below.

* The same articles will not be accepted by the top article directories.

* Because of duplication, search engines will not rank your site or post well.

* Readers have a tendency to get turned off by reading the same content found somewhere else.

* Credibility of the supposedly author of the article would be diminished and lack of good reputation could affect revenues.

Now, how would we remedy the situation then? Here are the things you can do:

1. Rewrite or revise the articles yourself to make them unique.

2. Get someone to do the rewriting for you.

3. Use some software to rewrite the PLR articles.

I am currently using PLR articles to prop up my niche blogs. But even when the research is already done for me, honestly revising PLR articles is still a pain and time-consuming for me!

And we know that outsourcing the job to a good copyrighter requires some money.

The best remaining option is to use software. However, the problem is finding good article rewriter software that does not churn out unreadable garbage. Based on my experience of trying a lot of article rewriter software, I finally settled down with TheBestSpinner which I think is really the best there is in the market now.

While all are claiming that their spinner is the best and could create thousands of unique articles in just minutes, the big problem is that the finished articles are really junk.

Not with TheBestspinner. Because TheBestSpinner utilizes the power of real users to bring up to date its thesaurus database, it has the capability to create quality and unique articles in no time that readers will enjoy and not scratching their head.

I am actually surprised that rewriting PLR articles would be this easy!

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