This is a subject I have long felt passionate about, but I think I have changed my mind a little. How long do you help that new person that you signed up in your MLM or other business opportunity?

Well, my answer is for as long as they are in your group or “downline”, but there are limits. I used to get angered at my so called “sponsor” when I’d join them and as soon as they knew I was in, the schmoozing stopped, the phone calls slowed down, and barely a trickle of emails came in…

 My theory as the “new guy”, was I’m doing the sponsor a favor. I am bringing them money, I am adding to their residual incomes and more! I took offense when they weren’t at my beck and call…But as time went on, I grew to understand why they weren’t always there when I needed them. Like any business, Network Marketing or MLM is a numbers game.

In order to grow an organization, sponsors need new blood or customers to come on board. To get these new customers, the sponsors need to spend their time advertising and marketing to find new reps. Now, this in turn will lead to less and less time that a sponsor has to spend with their past new recruits…All businesses are about about acquiring the most customers possible. The math is simple, the more people you have in your downline means the bigger your checks are!

It just makes sense, that if you want to achieve the dream of long term residual income, you’re going to need a constant influx of new distributors. now with that being said, I feel it’s a sponsors obligation at the very beginning to ensure that his/her new sign up gets the proper training and this doesn’t mean throwing them on some training call. You should make sure your new sign up understands the compensation plan, and what the best ways to market the business are.

You are doing your new recruit and yourself a great disservice if you ignore them so you can go headhunt and find more people. New recruits expect you to take their calls, to respond to their emails and more. If you don’t know the answers to their questions, you should go upline to get their answers in a quick manner.

What I don’t feel in necessary is to feel “obligated” to answer their calls 24/7, when you’re in bed at 3:00 am in the morning or while at work. Some people are like leeches, they just don’t know when to let go.They will constantly bug the sponsor, whining and complaining that they aren’t recruiting anyone, they don’t like to sell or any number of excuses.

People like this will become MLM junkies or program hoppers.They will give up, say it’s their sponsors fault and join some new person and do the same thing over again…They really need a 2nd job, not an MLM program, they are not true entrepreneurs.

A true entrepreneur will cut the chord pretty soon, they will set out to become a leader so they can mentor others…These are the queen bees, not worker bees.

In closing, I say give your new recruit a couple weeks of good attention, and wean them off pretty quick. Give them the attention they desire and you’ll know pretty quick who are are leaders and leeches. You cannot make everyone happy all the time so don’t even try, it’s futal.

So, work with those who can and will produce, and cut the leeches away as soon as possible, but be nice, or they will rob you of your goals. Sometimes, that’s just the way it goes.

If MLM or other “typical” home based businesses aren’t for you, then perhaps this might interest you? You’ve probably heard it all your life, that real estate is responsible for more millionaires than just about every other industry out there…Well, it’s true!

Don’t be completely shocked if you don’t know any millionaires personally that made there fortune in MLM…MLM is great, but making it work is a little tougher.

Would you be interested in learning how to buy Real Estate for as low as $100 to $1000 and then reselling it for near retail prices? Imagine that! Buying for hundreds, then reselling for thousands! Yes it can be done! It is being done right now!

My friend Ken Dinkins, created his very own course that can teach anyone how to create a 6 to 7 figure yearly income while never having to leave their homes! You can become a real estate tycoon without needing a license, you will not be “flipping” homes like you see on TV, you won’t become a landlord dealing with tenants! You won’t be dealing with foreclosures and kicking people out of their homes! NO WAY!

Ken has a very powerful, yet simplified plan to show you how to earn a huge income! He has been using the very same information you will get! While the rest of the world has been struggling with MLM’s and me too deals…he’s been pulling in thousands per week and even per day!

With Kens’ information he will show you how to:

Sell the properties lightning fast for a little as $2 (with a special technique)

Find people that will BEG to buy from you over & over again!

Find lots and tracts of land incredibly cheap!

Buy properties through the mail!

and much more!

So in closing, if the MLM stuff, the autoships, and the recruiting game isn’t for you, but you’re still open to looking at a tremendous moneymaker, then I HIGHLY recommend you look into this mega moneymaker ASAP!

You will NOT see this all over the web…Your neighbor won’t tell you about it! You will have virtually zero competition-So Get going! OH and don’t worry about the economy! This system actually works even better in a down market or recession!

Isn’t it time you started growing your nest egg with a proven, legitimate and very solid way to earn big profits? You know what to do next!

And the Buzz Goes On – How to Use Viral Marketing

Before we get into the meat and potatoes of how you can use viral marketing to help get a buzz going about your small business, let’s start with a definition of exactly what “viral marketing” means.

According to the Wikipedia, “Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet. Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, images, or even text messages.”

If you’ve ever had a hotmail, yahoo or G-mail account, you’ve participated in a viral marketing campaign every time you sent an email to someone – because the company inserted a small (and usually discreet advertisement) at the bottom of all of your outgoing emails – inviting the people you were communicating with to receive their own free email account.

So how can you put a viral marketing campaign together for your own business – and more importantly, do you even want to?

Let me answer that second question first, okay?  YES! You definitely want to take the time to brainstorm your own viral marketing campaign – even if you don’t someday want to be as big as hotmail, yahoo or Gmail.

Why?  Because according to a recent survey done by Forrester Research, people are almost 65% more likely to trust a review posted by a peer – or even a complete stranger – than they are to trust the marketing or sales information put out by the company.

Don’t believe me?  Check out Amazon.com and I-tunes.  Why is this the case?   Because as consumers we tend to think that the average “Joe Blow” has less of a personal agenda when posting his review about the latest “Dixie Chicks” album and so we give it more weight.

And, by the way, this is a normal reaction – it’s one that’s kind of hard-wired into all of us.  People have always shared the things they like – or hate – with their friends and family members.  Back in the 50’s and 60’s, our grandparents used to talk to their neighbors over the “back fence,” call each other on the phone or tell their friends during lunch.  The difference is, these days we use the Internet and cell phones.

What’s interesting though, is that with the popularity of the Internet, our trust - and believe in “social proof” – has become even stronger.

By creating your own viral marketing campaign, you’ll be doing more than getting the word out about your new affiliate product.  You’ll be gathering social proof – and that will help your sales to go through the roof.

So how do you set up your own viral marketing campaign?  The first thing to do is to get back to the basics.

Here’s the real “secret” to making a lot of money with affiliate products.  Have the right product, with the right message to the right people in the right time.

So start with your affiliate product.  Make sure that there’s a hungry audience for whatever you’re selling.

Then make sure that you’re sending out the right message – an in the right way.  If you’re marketing a product to teens, you’ll want to make sure that it’s something they want – and you’ll have to reach them where they’re hanging out.  That might be on MySpace, twitter or even Friendster.

What’s the right message?  Maybe it’s a special report.  But it could just as easily be a video.  Or an audio mp3 file.  Match your message to your audience.  And finally, make sure that you’re getting your message out at the right time – when your audience is ready to buy it.

Make your viral marketing campaign stand out from the crowd – because that’s how it’s going to get passed around and become viral.  By understanding the basics – who your audience is, what they want, how they want to get it and when they want it – all you have to do next is to create something that your audience loves – or hates – or finds interesting enough – to pass around to their friends.  And because your product comes with an implied endorsement – social proof – those people will pass it around to other people – and the buzz goes on…and on…and on…and you’ll start hearing the “ka-ching!” of your cash register going off a lot more often

Affiliate Marketing Basics: Let’s Talk About Traffic

When you’re just getting starting in Affiliate Marketing, one of the most important things you need to learn about is traffic – specifically what it is and how to get it.

Why?

Because although it’s become somewhat of a cliche these days, the truth is, “the money is in the list” – but that means YOUR list, not the list of the people whose products you’re selling – at least not if you want to be successful.

Here’s why.  As an affiliate, your job is to find people who want to buy the products you’re promoting, right?  So to do that, you need to write an ad (or hire a copywriter to write it for you), and send people to a Website where they can buy the product.

BUT – there’s a serious problem with using this method.  Do you see what it is?

Anywhere from 60 to 95% of the people you send to the sales page probably aren’t going to buy the first time.

1. Most people want to be certain that they’re making the right decision, so they usually need to see or hear from you between 5 to 12 times before making a buying decision.

2. If you’re paying for the ad and sending people to the seller’s Website, the ones who don’t buy disappear forever. (And neither you nor the seller will benefit.)

3. Of those who do buy, if you’re only sending them to the sales page, YOU still lose them forever because you have no way of knowing who they are.

Here’s the solution:

1. Write your ad and send prospects to a well-written squeeze page – YOUR squeeze page. (A squeeze page is a single page Website that has one purpose – to convince prospects to give you their contact information.  Squeeze pages should be simple – no flash, no links, and if you use a graphic or photo, keep it simple and make sure it relates to the purpose of the page.  How do you convince prospects to give you their contact information?  By giving them information that is what they’re expecting to find and that’s useful to them.)

2. Offer them an incentive to give you their contact information. (This could be a free report, a free newsletter, an audio or video product – just make sure it’s related to the niche or affiliate product.)

3. After they’ve opted in to your autoresponder, send them to your affiliate sales page.

4. Follow up with them on a regular basis – mixing good information, free bonuses from time to time and additional affiliate products.

Lather, rinse, repeat. (Once you’re making money from your first affiliate product, move on to the next and then the next and the next.)

The best thing about this is that you can set most of it up on your autoresponder, so you turn it into a “system” and it runs “almost” on autopilot.  (There is NO SUCH THING as a business that runs 100% on autopilot – and don’t believe anyone who tells you differently.)  Any business – real business – takes work and effort.  But by setting this system up this way, your autoresponder does the majority of the work, and you will only need to do simple updates and make sure you keep fresh information flowing.

 5 Easy Ways to Ramp Up Your E-Book Sales

Once you’ve written your E-Book, got your Website up and integrated your shopping cart, you can sit back and start waiting for the money to come rolling in, right?

WRONG!

These days it’s getting harder than ever before to be able to get people to notice you – and just because “you build it” doesn’t mean they’re going to come.

So what’s an author to do?

Actually, thanks to all the tools that are available to you – including Web 2.0 – marketing your book – and ramping up your sales – is not as hard as you might think.

In fact, here are a few ideas to get your juices flowing.  Add them to your sales plan, and use them as a jumping off place to help you make even more sales.

Create a long-term plan before you write even one word of your first book.  The truth of the matter is that you’re probably never going to get rich from writing one E-book.  So before you start writing your first book, start thinking about your second book.  And the first product that will tie into your first book.  And the second.  And then the third.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.  Come up with as many different income streams as you can and plan to build them into your plan.  For example, can you create a workbook from your E-book?  What about recording some audio files that go into further details or give more information.  What about doing a joint venture with other experts in your industry?

Sell more books at one time.  If your book covers any one of a number of popular subjects – self-help or development, home improvement, business, religion – there are probably corporations, organizations or niche markets that are always on the look-out for inexpensive gifts or bonuses for their employees, clients or associates.  Your book could be just the ticket.  Although you might have to go down in price – what do you think sounds better?  Selling one or two books at a time or selling box loads of them?

Once you’ve built up your credibility as a published author, it’s time to take things to the next level.  Have you ever dreamed of attending seminars or workshops as a presenter?  What about having a speaking career and being flown all over the world speaking to people in your niche market?  If you don’t like traveling or crowds, consider putting together teleseminars or holding intimate bootcamps.

Create joint ventures.  This is the fastest and easiest way to leverage your expertise and start raking in the cash.  Find people who are in similar – but not competing industries as yours.  Explore ways for you to provide value to both of your customers while you’re cross-selling or upselling.  For example, if you own a restaurant, what about creating a special Valentine’s Day promotion with the local florist.  Offer free drinks or desserts to any of the florist’s customers who bring in a special card (that you’ve provided to them) when they come to your restaurant.  And your joint venture partner (the florist) gives you roses or carnations that can be given out to any women when their companion gives you the special dessert card.  See how simple that is?

 Real value that makes your customers happy, and builds loyalty and trust – and positions both of you as the first people your customers think of when they need flowers or want a romantic restaurant or a place to eat during a special occasion

I’m sure by now you are aware that well written articles can suck in highly targeted traffic from the search engines right? Let me ask you a question, are you using them?

Chances are you might say this, well…I would love to but I can’t write my way out of a paper bag! You probably attempted to create fresh content on your own didn’t you? Did you get all pumped in front of your PC only to be banging your head on the wall 10 minutes later? Writers block is a common occurrence and it can keep you from creating that masterpiece that you know you’re capable of.

You’ve probably considered giving up to hire a “professional”, but then you realized how expensive they were right?

Well I say NEVER again! There is an easier way!

Introducing “Article Generator”

With this amazing software, you will discover how to attract thousands of highly targeted leads from the world’s largest and most popular search engines!

PLUS you can:

• Create a “sales explosion” for your MLM or affiliate products!
• Create an adsense cashbox by using tons of fresh content rich articles
• Use this software to create your very own info products or ebooks!

This is just the beginning! With tons of articles, the Search Engines will come back to your website more often to “spider” your pages, giving you a higher position and ranking, thus increasing your visibility and sales!With tons of freshly written and professional looking articles, you now look like the expert. People will tend to look upon you as a professional in your field!

People love to join winners and you will convey this message when you have boat loads of  articles out there working for you!

Article Generator is hands down one of the easiest ways there is to getting gigantic amounts of targeted search engine traffic! You should consider grabbing a copy today!

This killer little program is a steal at $200.00 for what it can do, but you won’t pay anywhere near that price! In fact, if you order today, your price is ONLY going to be $7…Yes you read that right! This is one of those times where you shouldn’t even ponder it…just get a copy today before the price goes up!

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Articles are easily in the TOP 10 ways online to get hordes of sales and leads…To get your very own copy today just go here right now!

Hello!

Ya, believe it or not … several videos
on the famous Youtube.com site are getting
well over 300,000 views!

Could you imagine if you had a video
that was promoting an affiliate product
where you earn commissions everytime
someone purchases that product?

… In Other Words …

Do you want those 300,000 views to turn
into visitors to your website or affiliate
links?

YES? … I do!

Well, you can actually create your own
video for next to nothing using the new
CamStudioPro software recently re-developed
by Dave Guindon.

Watch the sample video

Simply create a screen-capture video
demonstrating your product or an affiliate
product, then upload it to YouTube and
Google Video.

AND … also upload your video into an eBay
classified Ad! Dave Guindon has provided
several videos on how to do this.

Watch the sample video … Dave shows you
how he made $3,300 in 5 days and over $7,000
to date by using one single online video!

Check out the videos on this page. Simply
scroll down the page and you will see them:

Videos are the number 1 way right now to promote

your products, services, home businesses or whatever!

If you are not on Youtube and the other video websites

then you are missing the boat completely! A video can

skyrocket you to the top of the search engines in hours!

What are you waiting for? Thousands of people are raking

in money had over fist daily! Why aren’t you? It’s not hard!

Watch the sample video    Highly Recommended! Do it now!

Craig Wilson

Well, I’ve only been in the spider web marketing system now for just a few days and I’ve already gotten 5 sign ups into one of it’s core programs! I am very impressed with this system so far! Anyone and I do mean anyone that is looking for an easy to do and extremely affordable home business opportunity should be looking into this!

It’s a great concept! There are no large upfront fees to worry about coming up with! There are plenty of $300, $500 and $1000 programs out there that do not have anywhere near the potential that this one does!

This one is truly special…I see great things coming here! This is only going to grow and get very large very fast so don’t sit on this one for long or you will kick yourself! I only wish I could truly convey my excitement in these words…

It’s a simple yet complex system all at the same time. This is truly the most advanced business I’ve seen in a long time! It has everything I look for in an opportunity…mass appeal, great money making potential, ease of use, and this has it all!

Once you see the forest for the trees, you’re going to see one heck of an opportunity staring you in the face! It’s not too to be true, it’s too good to pass up!

Take a look at it now, in 6 months you’ll greatly regret it if you ignore this one.

A massive, passive residual income awaits you!

Over the next few weeks my advertising website is going to look completely different! The current website has served it’s purpose but it’s bigger brother is coming out and it’s going ot be nice!

It’s a website that you will want to bookmark for certain! As if my E-book that I put together wasn’t already jam packed with cutting edge goodies for advertising, I have included many new things!

You’ll see things and go man, I wish I had known about that like years ago! I show anyone how to blast their new or existing online business into the stratosphere and fast!

I’ve seen my share of Ebooks showing sources, and this and that, but I’m here to tell you that you’ve never seen so many top notch resources in one place!

From how to make Youtube Videos and blast them out to tons of killer video websites, to cutting edge web 2.0 or social networking websites, to affiliate programs! It’s all covered!

You will just have to see it for yourself! Be sure to check back here often! On the new website, you will see a plathora of free and valuable gifts that will make your buying decision much easier!

Come back often! Tell your friends who need to make money in their MLM opportunity!

Product Review: Prospect Response: Converting your ads into money?

When I first came across Prospect Response,I was more attracted by the idea of being paid for every email I received.

When I signed up, I started receiving emails from other Prospect Response members. In my curiosity to earn money for every ad I read, I realized I was actually responding to those ads. I would find a message that was quite interesting that appealed directly to my needs.

I therefore realized one thing:  My ads are getting more response than I thought possible previously, especially at this time and age of email filters.

Their methods work! You should be using them!

All my ads are on auto-pilot and I still get response even in my sleep.

Not only do they deliver email, they also offer cool stuff that you only get at top dollar in other places, such as (among others)

• Free unlimited follow-up autoresponder!
• Fly-in ads generator

If you are not already using this service, you better start now!

Oh, did I mention you also get attractive recurring commissions for every friend you send? This alone can be several hundred to several thousand dollars a month, in addition to the profits you make through your ads as you use the service.