There is so much confusion right now as to how to build a successful home based business. I can totally understand that as I too fell into all the GURU ideas and opted into list after list to find out the HOW of making money from home.
I woke up and decided to stop the insanity! I began with unsubscribing to tons of list as those emails were nothing but a distraction for me with a new idea, strategy or secret. I’m not saying to unsubscribe to all lists but the majority need to go.
Begin with the end id mind….have you heard this before? That is right. What’s your goal and what do you want to accomplish? Maybe it’s to make $250 a day or to have X number of people in your MLM or this or that. Let’s start real simple here…. Make sure you have something of value to offer to your prospects, make sure it is FREE and that they also perceive to be of great value and then drive people/traffic to this site.
You can send people to your company replicated MLM site BUT that doesn’t work very well when marketing and driving traffic. The reason is it looks generic, amateur and if they aren’t interested in your business; then they are out of there.
After all…what do you do…? You need to build a marketing funnel that allows people to easily and freely check things out. Maybe you offer a report an audio or some other training to help then with THEIR business.
A good marketing funnel will offer a real value to your prospects, present your business and then those interested sign up and those that aren’t can see what offers you have for tools and services to continue to build their business.
The neat thing about that is you monetize your list and it helps pay for you marketing costs and then some while you build your primary business. Your prospects should continue to gain value by the information you send and you build a rapport with that person.
Remember people buy from those they know, like and trust…..
There are several marketing funnels in the marketplace or you can start from scratch. If this is fairly new to you, simply go with one of the services as there is no need to reinvent the wheel.
Review this example http://www.Join-The-Tribe.com
Decide what your outcome should be and then back into that and finally generate leads to “feed” into the funnel and let them go through the process to discover your future business partners and those that will simply take advantage of something you offer to help them build their business.
Coach Al Rod is a former coach for the Real Estate and Mortgage professions and now dedicates his time working from home to help other entrepreneurs cut through the hype and nonsense to simply make money and build their business on their terms. His blog is http://www.CoachAlRod.com
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It’s almost funny to see the MLM guys in one corner and the Top Tier guy in another as to what is best. I have to tell you the truth; marketing is marketing and you just have to find something you like and then apply yourself.
I want to explain in detail a system called the Press 1 Marketing System and you can see the pros and cons and see if it is applicable to your business and style. I’ll be blunt and direct and on the surface it may seem like just a voice broadcasting service and it may stir up the emotions of that being old school or “I always hang up on those things” and you would be partially correct, but…. The Press 1 Marketing System has gone well beyond a simple calling service as they have incorporated sizzle calls, which is old school but believe it or not work very well to get people to take another step forward.
At the end is just simple, they combined a few tools and bundled it in such a way that it’s a turnkey marketing system for any business. One tool using a simple to use system whereby plugging in a keyword you search for active network marketers online by company name, niche and you can even search by geographical area and more. You can have 100 or thousands of prospects.
The net tool extracts leads of active people in a home based business and/or MLM off of Craigslist and it is so easy to use that a 10 year old can do it.
Okay, then the system takes all these leads into the built in auto-responder with all the messages loaded to bring those people back to you. I want to address the “I hang up on all those messages” argument because I thought the same.
Next process is that the system takes all these leads into the built in auto-responder with all the messages loaded to bring those people back to you. I want to address the “I hang up on all those messages” argument because I thought the same.
Now take a loo of this two important things:
1) It targets people already active and in the business and the professionally recorded calls are, awesome and meant to attract their attention.
2) As all things in sales; it’s a numbers game. How long would it take you to call 1,000 people? Let’s say you really committed and called 50 people a day and did this 5 days a week…it would take an entire month as opposed to doing this for about $20 to call those same 1,000 network marketers. The best thing is no negative people, no rejection, no leaving tons and tons of voicemails and it calls them in less than 15 minutes!
At the end not everyone will join your business but all of them want a way to make more money in THEIR business and the strong and automated affiliate aspect to the program monetizes your efforts along the way. Hey you won’t get rich but this alone can add $1,000 a week to your bottom line and maybe more.
This is bigger picture thinking; but imagine if you had just 5 or 10 people on your team (whatever MLM) to do the same and you all called 1,000 people a day or a week?
AMAZING!, that is something that not only duplicates but even if 10 people sent out just 1,000 messages each and only 3 times a week would mean over 100,000 exposures on your team monthly.
My last opinion about this system is that on the negative side it will take about an 60-90 minutes to set up the system and you will need a little bit of marketing dollars after you have paid and signed up for the program. On the positive side it is “done for you” with no special knowledge or expertise needed, you don’t have to be a superstar salesperson and in addition to the great training calls and webinars; it’s just a turnkey system to either build your present business or go full bore marketing the Press 1 Marketing System as the affiliate and overrides are very good.
For more details on the sizzle call, how the system works step by step and the compensation model; Just click here: http://www.GetLeadsRightNow.com
Coach Al Rod (Al Rodriguez) is a home based entrepreneur earning a living full time from home and using non-hype and make sense tools and tactics to simply earn a great living from home. His blog is http://www.CoachAlRod.com
See you at the TOP!
Coach Al Rodriguez
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1. Connecting with People – We have all heard of know, like and trust BUT a huge mistake people make in prospecting, marketing and sales is that they will can not build a strong rapport or connection with their prospects before pitching them on their business; Nuriche or any other. This makes the business very difficult, no fun and full of rejection. Plus others see your business (the business you want them to join) for only “sales types” and just a pitch-fest. Simple remember to create the relationship first, the “friendship” and the rest will tend to fall in place. If you don’t have a good connection with your prospect, you’ll never know his/her real objection. It sounds corny, however people want you to be interested in them, to care about them and if the connections is there it opens it up to discuss their concerns, objections and desires for your business in a much more open and easy manner. This if often overlooked and if you place this into practice, people will trust you more, connect with you better and that will result in sponsoring more people.
2. Pre-qualifying – This common mistake and part of the process that is overlooked. Some of you may know that I spent years as a mortgage company owner and a very successful loan originator. Pre-qualifying a prospects come from years of experience in that prior profession to determine the best and highest use of my time. You see a prospect that could not buy a home (terrible credit, no job, high debts, low motivation, unrealistic expectations, etc) was not really a prospect and more like a suspect. Some loan officers did not understand it and I see people in network marketing that just don’t get this either. A prospect will have a genuine conversation with you and will ask questions but they make sense. A suspect wants to make $10,000 a month but has no money, doesn’t know anyone, wants to know why they can’t get in for no-cost, thinks network marketing doesn’t work or whatever else but you get the picture. You must develop a series of questions to ask prospects and/or a marketing funnel to filter through and separate the real prospects from the suspects for your Nuriche or other business. Develop a set of questions (or check out my next article or video) that will take a prospect through a few key questions to see if there is a basis to spend time talking about working together.
3. Find their WHY – What they are looking for and why? Take time to discover and find their need as it is different for each person. In fact, I made a huge mistake for many years and missed this step, sponsored people into my program anyway and then wondered why they never did anything (but complain or drift away). Fortunately, if people have come through your marketing funnel; chances are you’re not talking to someone unless they have a strong desire or WHY but you need to figure out what it is. Take people through this process and you will weed out the people that usually are you big time wasters and end up with better prospects for your business.
Follow these three easy but powerful steps to gain maximum leverage on your Nuriche business and align with better partners to go on and build a successful business.
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Stay Strong!
Coach Al Rodriguez
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What would you be able to do, create and accomplish? If you really take the time to imagine this; you’ll feel like a big weight has been lifted from your shoulders. By destroying FEAR you can begin living and feel the freedom you have always desired.
The FEAR keeps us chained to our limiting beliefs and insecurities and holds us back from true success, harmony and happiness. If we didn’t buy-in to the fear, it would have no power over us.
How do you overcome fear? I came from good parents but a father that always told me to watch out for this or that. He warned me and warned me about this or that and more; all the while to “protect” me from life. However, years and years of hearing; no, don’t do that, watch out for this… takes a toll on the emotions.
I developed a fear of what others thought of me; fear of how I looked, fear if I was good enough; smart enough, fear of being rejected, fear of not being loved and much more but I think you get the idea.
After high school I began to listen to Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Les Brown, Dennis Waitley and more and my fear began to get replaced with positive ideas and the possibility of being success, self-worth and happy, etc. I remember being just 18 years of age and listening to these great speaks tell ME; that I could do it, that I could succeed, that I can visualize success and a life of happiness and abundance. Thank God I was young and nave; because I bought into it hook, line and sinker! This didn’t happen overnight!
Being an entrepreneur has been a HUGE benefit in helping me overcome many of the fears and limiting beliefs that I had had carried inside of me until this point.
The first time I had to speak to a group, I was extremely nervous and intimidated… But I did it, and today I love speaking to others in person, on video and cherish the opportunity to inspire those around me.
After taking the actions, becasue I believe in myself, the more I got involved with the word “can do” information; the more I overcame that fear. In other words, the “taking action” was in itself a cure for FEAR.
Does owning a business cause or cure fear? I feel owning your own business is so much more than making money, financial success or anything tied to material things. Don’t misunderstand me, those things are fine but WHO you become is the most valuable of all.
There are many people “get into” a business and worry about marketing, selling, promoting and more but rarely take enough action towards their mindset.
When it comes to having your own business, (offline or online) and creating the life you truly desire….what’ holding YOU back? What are your biggest fears?
Ask great quality questions and you discover much about yourself. I would really life to hear from you; share your thoughts with me on my blog. Face and recognize your fears and then take immediate action to combat them through reading great books, listening to audio, doing daily affirmation and certainly aligning with great and positive minded people even a mentor if that is available to you.
It was so great to be able to let you know a bit about me and how we can all work on eliminating those things that hold us back from living a life of true freedom!
I support and challenge you today to take at least ONE action towards the elimination of fear in your life; work on it and build it like a muscle.
If you want to connect with me further make sure you join me here for great online training at http://www.Join-The-Tribe.com and of course my blog at http://www.CoachAlRod.com
I will be here to help you on your journey of enlightenment and success!
Stay Tunned!
Coach ALROD
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I don’t know about you but sometimes life gets us going in many directions and sometimes it’s good to STOP and focus for a few minutes. Do you remember your; WHY when you joined your MLM business?
Did you want wealth, health, happiness or…..? Whatever it is, take a few minutes and write down ALL the reasons why you joined your MLM business. There are no wrong answers as they are your reasons. Are these reasons compelling enough for you and are they causing you to take the daily action needed to succeed?
I don’t know you or your MLM business but I do know people after having personally coached many for years and if we don’t have this WHY clarity, we tend to lose enthusiasm, question the opportunity or ourselves.
Today could be the day that you simply assess and decide where you go from here. I’m in no way saying to abandon your MLM business but even that could be an option for you.
Pretend today is the first day of your business and do the following:
1) Write down all the reasons WHY you are doing an MLM business?
2) Write down a simple action plan with dates and expected results.
3) Take immediate action.
4) Measure your results at least every 30-days.
This is a simplified action plan and will work for most people. This is meant to have you think about all of this and then take immediate action. If you want a generic place to get free motivation and training then go here: http://www.Join-The-Tribe.com
In addition, I suggest you connect with someone that can serve as a coach, mentor or at least partner in your opportunity. If you don’t have someone in yor present opportunity to partner with then either keep searching upline, decide on another company or pick up a good book today and begin to feed your mind with “good stuff” but…but…but more importantly take immediate and consistent action right now.
To build and succeedis this business, you need a few focused ideas to implement and succeed. Don’t buy into the GURU hype and their secret sauce formula; just keep it simple and implement daily. If you need ideas on how to generate leads or market then go here: http:///www.Join-The-Tribe.com Or SIMPLE DO IT!
The bottom line is, get clear, get into action and keep going as you adjust along the way.
Coach Al Rod is a former coach for the Real Estate and Mortgage professions and now dedicates his time working from home to help other entrepreneurs cut through the hype and nonsense to simply make money and build their business on their terms. His blog is http://www.CoachAlRod.com
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This is part of an ongoing series of Mindset articles to help you build your MLM, Direct Sales or Top Tier program. Before I go over the 6 steps there are three things you really, really need in business and they are:
A) You have to create for yourself the right mindset. Now I know that you hear about all the personal development talk and some of you may wonder if it really matters or whether it’s all a waste of time. I can assure you this is the most important part of your success. If your mind is right, then the rest will get figured out.
B) You MUST have a big WHY. That’s right WHY do you do what you do? This needs to be an emotional, gut wrenching process that will get you into action and I can assure you it is not about the $10,000 a month. Your; WHY will get you through the tough times and sticking points in your life and business and this needs to be in writing and referred to on a regular basis.
C) You need a strategy to get enough people to see your opportunity. A steady amount of people looking at what you have to offer is simply a numbers game. This holds true whether you are doing offline or online marketing or both. More on this later.
The next 6 steps are taken from my recent study (re-study) of Napoleon Hill and the book, Think and Grow Rich. In chapter 2 a short exercise is discussed to help you achieve anything you want and I have outlined it here for you. Write it down on a sheet a paper and do each step and make sure to review regularly:
1. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient to say that you want plenty of money. Be definite in the amount. There is a psychological reason to be definite. When you study in a MasterMind group that teaches you to Think And Grow Rich it will become clear as to why this exercise is important. When you study in a MasterMind group that teaches you to Think And Grow Rich it will become clear as to why this exercise is important.
2. Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. There is no such reality as something for nothing. The only way you can get massively rich is to contribute massively to society. It is the law.
3. Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.
4. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire. Begin at once, whether you are ready or not to put your plan into action. You can refine the details of your plan. It is important to not just think about the plan, but do something now. By taking action, you will have made that commitment to your subconscious mind.
5. Write out a clear and concise statement of the amount of money you intend to aquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.
6. Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring for the night and once after arising in the morning. As you read, see, feel and believe yourself already in possession of the money.
You may or may not have been familiar with this in either case TODAY is the day you can apply this in your life and business.
Coach Al Rod is a former coach for the Real Estate and Mortgage professions and now dedicates his time working from home to help other entrepreneurs cut through the hype and nonsense to simply make money and build their business on their terms. His blog is http://www.CoachAlRod.com You can also see additional training at http://www.Join-The-Tribe.com at no cost; enjoy!
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Early on, I realized to succeed required getting and developing the right “mindset” to be my own boss. This meant getting over self-defeating talk and convincing “me” that I could do it.
I sold myself on the idea of going into business for myself, but that didn’t take away the realistic fears and insecurities. I began as an independent mortgage broker with my sister as a receptionist in a tiny little office and I poured over Tony Robbin audios and listened to Les Brown tell “me” how I can do this or that no matter my circumstances or present situation.
When I started the business there I did not have any idea when the paycheck will be set or when the money would arrive, and even worse I worried that the money might not show up at all.
This became my biggest fence to climb.
Anyway, I kept going and eventually grew that operation to three offices with over 40 employees and even opened a Real Estate franchise some time later with over 40 people there as well.
This is not to impress you but to impress upon you that YES the obstacles will come but you must continually feed your mind with good books, great audios and even a coach or mentor to keep you going on those “not so good” days.
However, today I work from home and have no desire for that large overhead and responsibility but the same discipline and mindset tactics apply. In fact, they are even more important if you’re where at home due to a lack of a real social group.
Today, I invite you to just take one baby step towards a better you. No lip service, just do something you have been putting off, pick up that Think and Grow Rich book and simply make an improvement today.
This particular lesson will focus on unique article marketing. I will cover two very important areas of unique article marketing. If you are serious about article marketing submitting unique articles is a must. If you just submit the same article to different sites you’re articles will not be as effective or get the traffic you could achieve with unique articles. Read on for my simple but very powerful tips.
What is unique article marketing? The answer is quite simple. It is simply unique articles to the article directories. Simple enough right! Well you came to this article marketing lesson site to learn more than that! Unique article marketing is simple but it is a bit more than just submitting unique articles. Let me back up a bit.
Unique articles must not be essentially the same article with just a few words changed. It must be more unique than that. The search engines will easily detect if you’re articles are basically the same. Here is where you must write your articles with unique content.
The title must be unique. This is very important. I suggest a keyword tool to help you put keywords in your article titles. There are many free keyword tool sites and some that charge a fee but they are well worth it. You can have a great unique article but your readers must be able to find you. I also suggest long tailed keywords. They are more effective most of the time because the competition is very stiff with the top keywords. This is a topic for another lesson but for now we will stick with unique article marketing. Here is the key point make each article title unique and relevant to your article and include different keywords in each title.
Here is another key point to getting unique article marketing results. Write your articles and make them at least 30% unique. Simple enough. It will take longer to make your articles unique but well worth the time. When your articles get submitted you may have different ones show up in the search engines. How cool and powerful would that be.
Last but not least is a often overlooked unique article marketing tip. You must and I repeat you must make your resource boxes with unique content. By this I mean use different keywords and domain names in them. What this means is to insert different domains related to your articles in your resource boxes. When you do this you will help the different domains get backlinks which will drive your sites higher up the rankings.
I want to thank you for reading my unique article marketing lesson. I also recommend using article submission software that will submit your articles to the directories in unique content format. I also suggest not mass submitting your articles to hundreds of sites overnight with these services. A recommended submission of 10-20 unique articles a day may get you fantastic results. I use the Unique Article Wizard because it makes my articles unique, submits them to hundreds of article directories, and also gives you the ability to submit your articles in a natural way to the number of sites you select daily. The Unique Article Wizard helps my websites build authority in the search engines which helps me generate more traffic.
Writing articles as I am sure many of you know is a very popular way of increasing the amount of backward links that you have pointing to your site. In theory, the more of these backward links we are able to obtain, the more traffic our site should receive. There are however some very important things to take into consideration when writing and submitting your articles as you do not want to be wasting your time and you do not want your site to get dropped by the major search engines or put in some sort of sandbox.
The first thing to remember is that Rome was not built in a day. What I mean is if you have a new website, about for example hair loss, you may want to reach the top ten in Google for your keywords within say six months. You hear that one way to do this is by building up good number of backward links to this hair site. You think that the more the merrier and start pounding out one article after the other and are very proud of yourself after the first month because you were able to write fifty articles all pointing to your new hair website.
I believe this approach to be totally wrong. The weight loss websites which are in the top ten of Google have probably been around for quite a number of years and will without doubt have a number of quality back links. If your site sticks around for a long time and you continue to build up its back links it will go higher and higher in the search engines over time.
The one thing you do not want to do is to raise any red flags with the search engines. A new site which has eight hundred back links after one month could raise this red flag. The search engines will now probably not trust this site and could easily put it in some sort of sandbox until it decides whether it is kosha or not.
In my opinion it is important to build up the number of backward links to a new website fairly slowly. When writing articles, I would personally only write one article with a link to a new website per week. Of course if you have ten websites, you are able to write ten articles if you only decide to have one link on each article etc.
I also think that it is very worthwhile to only submit the same article to around five or six of the different article directories. I would submit the article in total to around twenty-two article directories but would have around four variations of it etc. The differences in each article are not massive but are big enough to make it more original. There is a big thing being debated at the moment in webmaster circles about the potential damage that can be caused by duplicate content. From what I have read, everybody seems to have a different opinion on this subject. My opinion is that it is better to be safe than sorry, therefore why take the risk? It would be good however if the major search engines could clarify their position on the subject, but lets face it, that is never going to happen.
In conclusion, my advice is to enjoy writing articles, have patience, build up the number of back links slowly and to submit different variations of the same article to the directories. There is tremendous software system that submits your articles iin unique form. It also can submit your articles slowly at a rate you choose each day. Please visit the Unique Article Wizard website. It could change your article marketing results forever.
YouTube is really the undeniable front-runner when we’re talking about web 2.0 sites. Web juggernaut Googl bought over YouTube, which should be a clear indicator that YouTube is here to stay. It’s the number-one video-sharing site on the Web, and because of that, it can be an invaluable promotional tool for your business, if you know how to get more YouTube views for your content. That part is easy, however. All you have to do is read this article and you’ll be well on your way.
To get more YouTube views, it’s a good idea to upload short videos. Be careful, though: If you upload videos that are too short, you’ll run the risk of taking a hit to your credibility.
In this the information age, people want their information fast. We don’t have the time or the attention spans to sit and watch lengthy videos in order to get the info we need. Ensure your videos are succinct and to the point, but still informative.
Make them laugh. Make them think. Make them talk. Whatever the goal of your YouTube video, ensure that what you are uploading is of some value to your viewers. Yes, it is important to be succinct, but it’s equally important to provide your viewers will the kind of content that will make them want to continue watching.
There is a seemingly endless number of YouTube videos available for viewing, and it’s not always easy to stand out from the crowd under those circumstances. If your goal is to get more YouTube views, you’re going to have to find out how to be original. One way to do this is to narrow your focus so that your content is more specialized. Give people no other choice but to get the information they want from you, and then deliver content they won’t forget.
YouTube is a community-driven site. That reality provides a prime opportunity for business owners to promote themselves! You can drive traffic to your content by commenting on other people’s videos. You can even upload video responses! If you get involved in conversations and get your name out there, before long you’ll notice that your videos are getting more views then ever.
I know, I know: You may not want to spend your precious time trying to get more YouTube views. Fortunately, uSocial.net has devised a program so you don’t have to. With uSocial.net, all you have to do is purchase a package from them and they will drive targeted traffic to your videos.