Search engine optimization

Last weekend I had a great conversation with two guys who were into internet marketing. First I thought that I could get those guys to sign up with my Global Domains International or my Rolution business (or both) but they weren’t interested. Too bad but we kept talking about internet marketing an especially about Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

They told me they were having a couple of websites that were on the first page in Google and therefore had up to 300 to 1000 visitors a month. With some websites they earned $ 100,- a month but with other websites they earned up to $ 300,- dollars. While I was listening I did the math. They were talking about 8 websites, let’s say they earned $ 100,- with half of them and $ 300,- with the other half. That’s $ 1600,- passive income. They told me they had to work to develop the websites and to get them to the first page but now the money just comes in every month. 

I was impressed and I asked with what kind of companies they were working and what kind of products they were promoting. They told me that they were working with different kinds of companies and different kinds of products and for each sale the received $ 2,50 and in some cases $ 25,-. I told them again about the compensation plan of GDI and Rolution. I told them that for all the sales they were making they still could have earned $ 1,- a month when it was with a network marketing business. Unfortunately I still couldn’t convince them but it kept me thinking.

Imagine that I had a website that was on the first page in Google and was getting 1000 visitors a day, how much sign ups would that get me? I’ve been thinking about it all week and I think I’m going to give them a call later on today. I want to discuss the opportunity of them making a professional website for me and also getting it to the first page in Google where I’ll get lots of free customers. This would be a onetime investment and it would give me a continuously growing business. I keep you posted!

Social Media

I think using social media can be a powerful marketing tool. Looking at my own social media profile I have more than 400 friends on Facebook. Spreading information or the link to my website can reach all those people at once. I haven’t did this yet because I want to make sure my website is finished first. I can also spread a link to this blog on Facebook. It’s getting pretty big now and I think it contains a lot of interesting and useful information. What kind of social media is there and how can you use it?

Facebook 

One of the biggest and well known social media networks is Facebook. There are several ways to use Facebook for your network marketing business. First you can share information about your business opportunity. People will see the information and that way they might get interested as well. When they like your information they can ‘Like’ your post and that way hundreds of other people in their network will see the information as well.

Another way of using Facebook to promote your business opportunity is by creating a business page. This is like a website but in Facebook. Here you can write everything about your network marketing opportunity and of course you can put your affiliate link on the page so that people can sign up with your business when they’re interested. Videos can added as well and of course people can ‘Like’ or join the page. This can be a powerful tool to create a network.

Facebook also offers the possibility to advertise. Just like Google Adwords you can use paid advertisement to promote your MLM business. With Facebook you can target your campaign very specific. You can select areas, gender, age and time for example. Do you think men in Peru in the age of 28 to 40 are the best people to have in your downline? With Facebook you can create a campaign only for those people.

Twitter 

Another well-known social network is Twitter. Twitter is different from Facebook. On Twitter you can start mini blogging about a subject and you can start following others who are writing about the same thing. They can follow you back as well. When you write about a subject others who are looking for information about that subject can find you and start following you on Twitter. It’s a kind of search engine. When you’re active on Twitter people will find you and join you. When you write about interesting information people will follow you. Remember, there has to be a reason to follow you, write about interesting things and share useful links as well.

LinkedIn 

LinkedIn is a business social network. Here you can also create a profile and you can connect to other professionals. For example it could be interesting to connect with someone who’s specialized in search engine optimization, internet marketing, web design or network marketing. You can also find interesting information on Twitter, participate in discussions or share you own information about you network marketing business.

Other social media 

These three social networks have a lot of users and offer great opportunities to build a network and to spread information about your own business opportunity. Using these social networks can be described as social network marketing. There are a lot more social networks like Google+, Orkut and Myspace. Google+ is the answer of Google to all social network success. They integrate all their services into the social network. In the future it can become an interesting network but for now most people are with Facebook and Twitter so that’s where you should focus as well.

Not everyone knows this but YouTube and Blogger for example are social networks as well. Sharing videos or articles is also a way of social networking and you can join others as well. There are a lot of other video websites and blog website to use as a social network. Flicker is a social network as well where you can share pictures. Recently Pinterest and Instagram are becoming more popular and are growing every day. You never know which social network will be the biggest and most popular in five years.

Email marketing

Another way of promoting your MLM business is email marketing. When you have a website you can make people sign up for a newsletter. That way you can keep in contact with members and/or prospects. There’re different ways to make visitor sign up for email marketing. Some websites offer the possibility to sign up somewhere on their website. Visitors just have to give their email and then there subscribed to the newsletter. Sometimes an email activation is required to prevent unwanted sign ups or other spam.

Why should you sign up for a newsletter? There has to be a reason for people to join your email marketing system. This can be one of the following reasons:

• Interesting news
• A guide to success
• Free promotional tools
• A step by step plan to build a website
• An Internet marketing newsletter 

These are some examples of subjects that you can use in a newsletter which could be interesting for people who visit your website. of course you have to write a weekly or monthly newsletter but if that gets you more visitors or at least more contact with others about your network marketing opportunity it’s worth the investment/time.

I’m not using email marketing yet but now that I know maybe I’ll write a monthly newsletter. I think this can be great to help your members. Every month you can write about a different topic on how to build your GDI network, a new marketing strategy, how to support your downline or the newest network marketing trends.

Join a Forum

I’ve talked about using forums before on this blog and since then I’ve signed to three forums. The first forum I’ve signed to was the Global Domains International forum. When you’re a member you can use this forum to talk to other GDI affiliates. There are several topics on how to expand your business. After a couple of days I’ve noticed that there is not a lot of activity on this forum. I’ll keep checking it because I think it’s interesting because a lot of GDI members are there.

The second forum I’ve joined was the scam forum. I joined that in the time I was looking for a network marketing opportunity. There’s a lot of activity on the forum and the information is different than the information you’ll find on the websites about the MLM opportunity. The forum is all about internet scams so the information is about bad experiences. I joined the forum because I wanted to see what people are saying about MLM and GDI in particular. I have to say, reading that kind of information doesn’t motivate you but you can also learn from it. For example people write a lot about joining a network marketing company and leaving it within two or three months. After that they describe their experiences and how you should never join a MLM company. When I see that I’m thinking, what did you actually do to build your company. It’s a bit cliché but I’m thinking: ‘Winners don’t quit and quiters don’t win’. I’ve learn on this forum that a lot of people think you can get rich with MLM the easy way. Also there are a lot of serious warnings on which MLM companies not to join. People describe how they paid their monthly contribution and by the time they earned some money they never got it.

The last forum I’ve Joined recently is Wickedfire. This is a forum about search engine optimization and internet marketing. I thought it would be interesting since I’ve discovered that there’re so many other ways to promote your business. Here they have a Sell, Buy and trade section where you can buy services to optimize your website. I’m figuring out how to make my own GDI website better and how to get more visitors. That´s why I joined this forum.

When you join a forum you can learn a lot. Also people are willing to help you. On most forums it’s possible to use a signature. That way every post you write contains a signature with a link to you website or blog. That way you can use those forums as a marketing tool as well.

Who do you want in your downline?

After my research about pro’s and con’s of network marketing I kept think about why some people are successful with network marketing but also so many people quit. What’s the difference between success and failure. Will I be one of the people that will be successful or is this the beginning of me quitting as well?

While thinking about this I asked myself another question: Who do I want in my downline? The first answer that came to my mind was people who don’t quit. Then I thought about people who are successful with network marketing. I want to have people in my downline who can build their own business, they have to be creative, independent and most of all they have to achieve success and don’t quit. I can sign up one hundred people who quit after six months or five people who won’t quit until they also have found five people each that will be successful as well.

This tells me two things. First I can’t just tell everybody about my business opportunity and hope they’ll join. Telling my friends is ok but only if they are really interested. The thing about telling them and making sure they’ll sign before leaving is now officially over. The second thing is another question: Where do I find people that are willing to invest the same energy, time and maybe a little bit of money to build their business.

I thought about two things to answer this question. The first thing was Google Adwords. I thought I should advertise for domain registration and for business opportunities. That way I could reach people that were looking for business opportunities or who were looking to register a domain. I also thought about advertising for network marketing and MLM opportunities. I’ll start doing this next Monday and I’ll keep you posted about the effects.

Another thing is joining a forum about network marketing, global domains international or about business opportunities. Here I can learn a lot and maybe I can find people to join forces with. It feels good to have new things to try and to realize maybe I wasn’t on the right track yet. I’m excited and I’ll write about my experiences as soon as possible in my next post.

Online guide to success with network marketing

Hello and welcome to my blog about network marketing. Why network marketing? Years ago I’ve worked with Forever Living Products, this was the first MLM company I ever worked with. In the beginning I was more than enthusiastic about the company. Why I looked at the earning system behind it I really thought I could get rich! After six months I quit. Why? To be honest I didn’t know how to expand my company. In the beginning I told about the business opportunity to all my friends, family, my neighbors, friends from friends and even people I didn’t know. I was under the impression that all those people would react to my story just like I did but they didn’t. Instead of being just as enthusiastic about it as me they we’re all like it’s a scam, don’t believe it and must of all don’t bother us with it. I was surprised and sometimes I got a little irritated about it as well. Why wouldn’t anyone listen to my story without judging it right away. And why where they all so skeptical about network marketing?

I started searching the internet and I found a lot of stories of people that where very successful with MLM. I started to think that when I wanted to attract new members for my company I would also spread around positive stories about my business opportunity. I looked up some articles about the other side of network marketing and I discovered that there are just as much negative stories than there are positive stories. I found people that were having the same problems as me and after six months I gave up.

Years after my first experience with network marketing I was looking for ways to make money online. The thought of having a source of income that’s up and running twenty four hours a day, seven days a week and also worldwide is very interesting. In my search I found a lot of different possibilities. I’ve tried some of them but I found out that making a lot of money with it was hard because of the poor compensation plans. That’s when I thought about my network marketing experience years back. With the power over online marketing I could reach out to people all around the world. That would solve my problem I had before of not knowing who to tell about the opportunity anymore.

I realized that I needed help to build my MLM company. I didn’t have that with FLP and that was one of the reasons I quit. This is the reason I’m starting this blog. I want to share my way to becoming successful with network marketing with others so that they can build their own companies as well. At this time I don’t know what opportunities are out there so the first thing I will do is find a company to work with. Soon I’ll give you an update on my search of a good company. After that I will use online marketing to build my company. I will share all my experiences with you so that you can use this blog as a guide to build your own network marketing business.