Friday, November 30, 2007

Get Rich Quick With MLM

Get Rich Quick With MLM
If you're trying to earn money online you will see a lot of
so called business opportunities that promise quick payouts
and huge returns. When you see MLM's like this they are
most likely scams. The methods used are usually unethical
ways of making money or worse yet, be completely illegal.
In many of these ponzi schemes some of the people who got
in early will make money at the expense of those people who
came in later. In a few months most of the companies are
gone, with most people losing there investment entirely.
Getting involved in these schemes is never a long-term plan
for financial success online.

You can get rich with MLM companies but you need to change
your idea of what get rich quick means. The true meaning
is a few years, not overnight. Yes there are some who can
jump in any company and make money right away. However the
average person on the internet can not become a millionaire
overnight by joining a MLM company. What you should be
focusing on doing is building yourself a residual income
instead of getting rich quick. In order to build a
residual income you will need to be dedicated and have
patience to succeed in any company. Do not jump from
opportunity to opportunity.

Some MLM companies out there are not structured to be
around for years down the road or the CEO has a track
record of opening and closing companies every few years. It
is important that you research a company and the CEO before
joining to find out that information. You want to avoid
those types of companies, while they may not be scams you
can not build a long term residual income if the company
will not be around after a few years. You are looking for
a solid company that has a track record and will be around
10 years plus. There are legitimate MLM companies out
there that are structured for long term success for you to
build yourself a residual income.

There are many warning signs that scream scam when you are
looking at a MLM company. Some of the obvious signs are
companies that have no name of the CEO or a contact phone
number on the website. You have to ask yourself if this is
a legitimate opportunity why are they hiding there
information. Signs that are no so obvious are start up
fees, front loading of products, selling leads and training
where you have to pay. These all look like legitimate
costs, but for the most part they are additional ways for
the company to make money off of you.

One simple rule to spotting get rich quick scams, is if the
proposal seems too good to be real then it most likely is a
scam. MLM is not get rich quick it is build a long term
residual income. This will take time, dedication and hard
work. With the right company any one can succeed online.


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Theresa Stauffer is a successful internet marketer that is
looking to help people from making the same mistakes she
did. To help people avoid getting scammed by opportunities
out there. http://www.getgbgvitamins.com

Fascinating Marketing Lesson From California Gold Rush

Fascinating Marketing Lesson From California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered at Sutters Mill,
near San Francisco California. Within a year the Gold Rush
was on, and San Francisco became a boom town. Many people
became rich.

But it's interesting to note that the very first
millionaire wasn't a miner. The first millionaire from the
California Gold Rush was a man by the name of Samuel
Brannan. Mr. Brannan set up a store to sell gold
prospecting supplies, and within a year had revenue of
$150,000 a month. And in 1850 $150,000 was a LOT of money!

In other words, the wealth wasn't just in the gold, it was
in the shovels, picks and gold pans that the miners needed.
Since then, marketers have adopted this as an analogy, and
we still talk about selling "shovels to miners", but how
can that help YOU build an online network marketing
business?

The best way I know of to take advantage of this powerful
marketing strategy is through a Funded Proposal. Simply
put, a funded proposal is a method of selling an
inexpensive item to people in your target market. When they
buy the product, you then know that you have a very serious
prospect, who is not only interested in your niche, but is
willing to invest in their own business.

One way I do this is by marketing an e-book that has
something they want- in my case a powerful e-book about how
to stop chasing people and start ATTRACTING them into their
business. This is information network marketers crave. So
they go to my capture page, enter their info, and about 5%
buy the book. So for every thousand leads I sell five books
at $37, a total of $1850.

But the money isn't the best part, the free leads is what's
important. As a matter of fact, I actually don't plan on
getting rich selling shovels. My passion is for online
network marketing, and my goal is to build a team of
100,000 people. So the best part of the equation for me
isn't the money (although that's nice!), it's the fact that
I am generating extremely high quality, targeted leads of
people who are experienced network marketers, and now I
have a chance to get to know them and eventually show them
my business.

Rookies to online network marketing wonder why they should
use a Funded Proposal system to market their business. They
can't understand why they shouldn't just market their
business to people directly. The answer lies in the shovel
story. What I'm doing is called double dipping. I not only
sell shovels to the miners, but I also have a mine. I sell
them a book that teaches them something they need: how to
attract people into their network marketing business. But I
know that many of them have a lousy mine. So then I get a
chance to say, "Hey, I sold you a great shovel, but are you
digging in a profitable mine?" If the answer is no, I can
show them my business.

So the funded proposal is powerful for a variety of reasons:

1. It is a source of extra cash flow.

2. It gets me qualified leads of people in my niche.
(Online Network Marketing)

3. It builds my credibility with people. They perceive me
as an expert.

4. It allows me to market in places where others aren't
successful. For example, social networking sites like
Direct Matches are crammed with people marketing their
opportunity to each other, with very little success,
because they're all pushing their own companies on each
other. But I market something they can ALL use, no matter
what business they are in.

5. The funded proposal gets me the highest quality, real
time leads available. Let's face it, when you buy leads
from a broker you are buying low quality, used goods. But
when you generate your own real time lead that aren't
shared with anybody else, it's worth its weight in gold (no
pun intended!)

The bottom line is this: if you are in online network
marketing and you aren't using a funded proposal system,
you're working too hard!


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Dave Sherwin is a Network Marketer who won the "Rookie of
the Year"award in a large international network marketing
company in 2006. He is the co-author of "Lighthouse
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Why Writing A MLM News Letter Online Is The Way To Go

Why Writing A MLM News Letter Online Is The Way To Go
Have you ever thought of publishing your own MLM News
Letter Online? If you are in an MLM business writing your
own newsletter online can be a great way to get new leads
and offer training to your group and other people in
general. Let's look at this idea a little closer.

Usually the MLM program with the most MLM leads is
considered the fastest growing business. That makes sense
because new prospects are the lifeblood of every successful
business. To get more leads you have to ramp up your MLM
marketing efforts.

This can involve everything from Internet advertising such
as, classified and solo ads in ezines to offline
advertising like, business cards and newspaper ads. Another
opportunity that most people will not think of is
publishing their own MLM newsletter online as a form of
outreach.

You need not worry with doing all of the creative writing
yourself. There is no end of people writing articles that
you can use for free as long as you keep their bio box at
the end in tact. You can find those on numerous Internet
article directories that allow you to copy and paste the
author's articles on your own site. Just remember to give
credit to the contributing writer.

With this in mind you only really need 3 things to make an
MLM newsletter online worth your time.

1. You need subscribers.

2. You need a way to contact them.

3. You need a template to plug information into that you
can call your newsletter.

All of these can be quickly and easily done using an
Autoresponder company such as Aweber of GetResponse. These
companies will allow promoting your MLM newsletter online
and allow others to subscribe by email.

All you do is promote your email address. You do not even
need a website if you don't want one. Now many MLM
companies are hooking up with media companies that offer
splash pages that you can use to promote your business and
tie back to your newsletter if you prefer to do it this way.

Contacting your subscribers is quick because you already
have their name and email address when they subscribe. You
can email them anytime for years to come with the click of
one button.

Getting a template for your MLM newsletter online can be
quick too. Once you lay it out the way you want all you do
is copy and paste it into your Autoresponder. Then you
paste in whatever your current subject matter that
describes the issue. Copying and pasting is the hardest
part of it. After you do it a couple of times you will see
how easy it is to publish your own MLM newsletter online.
Every subscriber then becomes a potential lead for your
business.


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Aubrey Richardson is the founder of http://www.logofax.com
a Logos & Clip Art site and has created
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others how to build a successful online business. Find out
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What Makes A Top Home Based Business

What Makes A Top Home Based Business
In this article we want to look at answering the question
what makes a top home based business. Many times it is
searched on the Internet as what makes a top home based
business.

Regardless of how you search it we are still looking for a
business that can be run from home and what does it take to
be considered a top business.

1. First of all for a business to be considered a top home
business it must be one that you enjoy working and a
business that you want to get up and do every day.
Businesses today are being run out of the home and
considered a home based business, yet people do go outside
of their home to actually do them because it is in a field
they enjoy.

Many small businesses such as electrical contractors,
plumbers, heating and cooling contractors, and so on, can
be run out of their home and yet be a top home based
business. They start at home and end up in someone else's
home where they actually do the work.

2. I'm sure you aware that people can run a top home base
business by using the Internet to make money. The Internet
offers so many different avenues for people to make money
and run a home business that there really is no limit to
what people can do if they put their mind to it.

3. One of the criteria I feel a top home business must have
is it must be profitable. A home business, regardless of
the product you sell, has got to be able to create profit
for you.

Just because you run very low overhead, and it doesn't take
a lot of money to make a profit, does not automatically
mean you will make money. Many people that do run a
business out of their house go out of business because they
do not make enough money to cover the minimum overhead they
have.

4. So for businesses to be profitable you need to have a
product that people want to buy and are spending money on
now. Many times this is overlooked when people get started.
A top home based business is one that will have a product
people are coming online and looking for right now.

This should give you four ideas on what makes a top home
base business. There are many other things as well, but
for you to be successful it should be a home business that
you want to get up and go to work every day. It should also
offer a product that can create profit for you.


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Growing Your Online Business in Three Easy Steps

Growing Your Online Business in Three Easy Steps
Getting your website up and running is an exciting thing at
first. You get a lot of people coming to visit your site,
they're buying things and you seem to be doing pretty well.
But after a time, the initial excitement wears off and you
begin to ask yourself, "Is this all there is?" Before you
get to that point, you need to learn the three basic steps
to take in order to grow an online business and stay
relevant in the ever changing virtual marketplace.
Thankfully, most of this information is common sense, but
that doesn't mean you can't learn a thing or two (or three).

Get People to Come to Visit

Your main concern in the beginning year or so of your
website is getting people to come to your website. You can
do this by employing a number of basic tactics:

1. Learn about search engines - When you begin to learn
what search engines are looking for in a site in order to
rank it higher, you will begin to get more hits on your
site.

2. Tell everyone you know about the site - Put your website
address on everything that you can in order to get people
coming to your site.

3. Link with other related sites - If your friend has a
website, link with them or link with others in the same
market as you to increase your website traffic.

4. Make your site exciting - By offering new and fun things
on your website, you will encourage new traffic on your
site every day.

5. Advertise your site on other sites - By heading to video
share sites and posting a video of what you do on your
site, you might just drive new traffic to your web page.

Keep Them There

Once you have visitors coming to your website, it's your
job to keep them there and to keep them coming back. There
are several ways to do this:

1. Change your content, but not your layout - When you keep
things in places where people can easily find them, you
will allow the loyal web surfers the ability to easily
browse from page to page to find what they way.

2. Introduce new features on your site that are easy to use
- Add a video blog or perhaps a few animations that are
easy to load up and that change regularly.

3. Include 'teasers' on your site - Make mention of things
that are coming up on your site (and on the website only)
in the coming days. This will keep people coming back to
see what's new and exciting.

4. Offer discounts - By helping loyal customers and
visitors buy merchandise with discounts, you are going to
keep them coming back and looking for more to buy.

5. Make sure your web hosting is top notch - When your site
is always available, no matter what the web traffic is, you
will keep people coming back. If you ever have any server
problems, fix them immediately and then apologize to those
that may have been affected.

Find Ways to Branch Out

You can't stay exactly the same when you're trying to
compete in the ever-changing world of the internet. You
need to find new ways to add to your current business so
that you're always interesting to your customers. Try
looking for suggestions from your customers in your
comments sections of your site to see what else they might
want to buy that would complement or add to their buying
experience with you. For example, if you sell sailboats,
maybe you can begin to offer instructional videos for
sailing so that they can enhance their skills.


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