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It took me some time to learn this, but in all you do
in your prospecting efforts there is a much
better way than following a cold calling script and
putting undue pressure on both yourself and your
prospect for the close and it's much easier than you
think.

Once I really understood the power of doing this one
thing my business took off.

Here it is.

Instead of going for the hard sell, BE what your
prospects are looking for.

Very subtle what I just said, but more powerful than
you can imagine.

Instead of reading a script and getting nervous about
whether or not you're going to close that
particular lead into your business shoot right on
past it. Start training them from the outset.

What are you as a sponsor?

A coach that is going to help your prospect get to
where they want to go faster and easier than if
they tried on their own, so my philosophy is this . . .

Start teaching and training your would be recruit
BEFORE they are a recruit and just watch what
happens.

They won't know what's happening, but you'll be
attracting them towards like a magnet INSTEAD of
forcing them into your business with all your might
with the hard sell.

Speak to your prospect about what you do, give them
advice, steer them in the right direction WHILE
they are still prospects and watch how naturally most
will want to BE a part of whatever it is you're
doing.


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This took me some time to really really understand the
value of this. It's one of those things that can take
your from being an average marketer online to an
advanced one.

Your business is like a big jigsaw puzzle. Each new
thing you learn or do is a new piece of the puzzle that
you're filling in. But the bigger picture is this, when
you begin you start out with no pieces and you don't
even know what the final picture is going to look like.

Each piece of the puzzle you create let's you know a
little bit more about what the entire picture really
looks like and leads you in the direction of finding
and creating the next piece.

Vague idea I know, but here's an example what this
means:

If you use article marketing as a marketing strategy in
your business you'll soon see that some of your
articles get more traffic than others. That's important
and you should take note of it because this will give
you a quantifiable direction to go next.

If you have an article that's doing exceedingly well
then you need to ask yourself the question "Why?"

Is it because of the keywords I used?

Is it because of the topic of the article?

Once you figure that out you know where to go next.

This was a major leap for me personally. If it works in
one area it will work in others.

First you write more articles and create more content
around that particularly well performing article and
then you go out and you do a PPC campaign around the
keywords used in the article.

Maybe you even find a new headline for a lead capture
page to test or a Google adword campaign. Etc.

What works in one area will work in ALL areas. Be sure
to pay close attention to this and leverage in your
marketing scheme.

Our example was article marketing, but you can pull
vitally important information from anything you do and
use it to grow your marketing campaign in different
areas and media as long you know the importance of
asking yourself why a particular thing you're doing is
going so well and then ask what yourself what you can
do to leverage that success into another area.

It all goes together.



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frustration a thing of the past? How much quicker would
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Today's message is on a topic I rarely see discussed
online, that being how to apply direct marketing
principles to your network marketing business.

To be fair, network marketing itself, does in fact
follow a direct marketing model, but not in the most
efficient way.

It's understandable why, in many highly successful
direct marketing businesses the phone is a key
component to creating results, but you don't see the
owner of the organization on the phone themselves,
rather they hire a phone room to do the dirty work.

When done properly it can be highly effective, but when
done improperly it can alienate your customers and give
them a bad impression of you and your business.

Just yesterday, which was Sunday, I was riding along in
the car with a friend when my phone rang. It turned out
to be a telemarketer who had pulled my name from the
list of customers of someone I had purchased an
information product from trying to solicit a seminar
sale.

I was wholly closed to this because it was Sunday and I
have better things to do than be sold a ticket to a
seminar that I had no interest in.

The phone is a very sensitive media and this should be
understood. Now, instead of looking favourably upon the
person I had purchased from I will forever hold a
negative vision of them because of this call.

So that's how telemarketing can be done wrong.

In network marketing you're taught to do 3 way calls,
which can be effective, but understand when you're
taught to do this without first being taught how to
generate your leads first you're basically being
reduced to a telemarketer.

Understand that the phone if you so choose to use it in
your business is only one piece of the puzzle and all
pieces must be present for optimum success.

It starts with lead generations. Where are you going to
find your prospective recruits? Online there are
several different ways to do this.

Next comes qualifying them. How are you going to get
them to raise their hand and show you that they are
interested in what you have? Are you going to use a
lead capture page or something else to have your leads
qualify themselves?

Next comes communication with your leads. How are you
going to constantly communicate with your leads so that
a trusting relationship is built? Are you going to use
email, teleseminars, personal phone follow up, or are
you going to do them all.

Finally we come to the offer. What are you going to
offer your prospects that they want and how are you
going to have them take action to get it? Will it be a
sales page that you use, direct mail?

In all this you have to understand that all parts of
the system must be congruent with each other. You can't
get traffic from people interested in health and sell
them personal development. It won't work optimally.

Further you can't have your leads opt into a lead
capture page for one thing and then in your email
follow up talk about something completely different.

It's all got to fit together.

And you've got to offer your prospects what they want.
So you have to know what they want. You can't guess at
this, because you don't know until you ask them.

It's like the game show "Family Feud" you don't get
points for giving the BEST answer you win by giving the
answer that most people polled said.

It's not about you, it's about them.

All these things must be in harmony for you to leverage
a direct marketing approach to network marketing most
effectively, it's not just getting some leads from a
leads company and calling them.

If you just do this you'll miss out on truly leveraging
what direct marketing should be for your network
marketing business, especially when we talk about the
Internet.



What if you could grow a network marketing organization
of 6057 in less than 2 years and personally recruit 401
people without picking up the phone? Imagine how
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It was a late night last night of updating and
improving and in the process of doing that it got me
thinking . . .

An online business, and even more so an internet
network marketing business, can really get you
scratching your head sometimes.

We're conditioned to think in a linear fashion. Do
this and get that result is really how we think.

Work 40 hours a week and get paid for 40 hours of
work. It's how we grew up and for most of us it's
how we were conditioned to think about our results in
life.

When it comes to business this isn't always the case,
and really most of the time it's not the case.

Business is not a linear thing.

Just yesterday I was sitting at my computer
scratching my head.

4 people joined my business directly with me as their
sponsor in the last 2 days. Not something to
complain about, after all I am the king of never
calling a single lead and that's the way things work
most of the time in my business, but this time it was
a little different.

You see during that period I had absolutely no ads
running for my business and still 4 people joined
with me as their sponsor without me having to do a
thing, meanwhile my first year in the business all
I did was prospect and call leads and nothing happened.

Why is it so easy now?

Well, once you have passive traffic coming your way
good things happen and you don't have to do
anything additional actively for those good results.

But this can get people confused. I know it did for
me for a long time. Some days would be great with
little effort and some days would be not so great
with a Herculean effort.

What the heck right?

That's business for you. It's not linear. You set it
up and once you get all the pieces in place
sometimes the results flow like the mighty Amazon and
others well just one lead would keep you going.

This shift stunts most. They still want to think that
their efforts should correlate directly to their
results and when it doesn't it frustrated the heck of
them. The best advice is settle down, know your
conversion figures, and just keep on pushing.

Let me tell you . . .

If you have a great marketing system, you're doing
the right things for generating interest in your
business via your marketing system you're on the
right track despite what the results show.

They will exceed your expectations in the long run.

Think about your business like this. It's more like
having a boat tethered to port by several ropes
than going to the J.O.B.

You may spend a huge effort getting one rope off and
you've made progress, but there is still 8 more
ropes to go and nothings moving.

You've made positive progress and you know it, just
don't let money be the only marker of your success
in the beginning.

That will come.



What if you could make a living online? How would
you're life change? What would you do? I took this
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and because it I recommend it as a MUST have for
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(This is an extract from our newsletter - if you would
like to find out more check out the resource box)

It's a beautiful morning here in Washington DC. I woke
up and went out side and just sat there for a few
minutes to listen. There's a light breeze and just
hearing the rustling of the leaves as gentle wind blows
on them is a powerfully calming feeling.

As I sat there I thought about the Internet and how we
use it. As I watched the leaves blow from one direction
to the next an extremely important principle popped
into my mind. Something I've never thought about
directly, but just as that gentle wind blew the leaves
from direction so does this affect your business, maybe
without you even knowing about it.

This may be one of the most important emails that I
ever send to you. If you can understand what I am about
to say you'll understand the true fabric of both the
Internet and using the Internet to grow your network
marketing business.

Understand this . . .

Just as there are two sides to everything, a ying and
yang to say, so are there two sides to your internet
business and many make the mistake by not taking note
of this.

There are several things that you can do to generate
targeted traffic to your site and for each and every
single one of them there are about 50 guys with
products telling you and me how to do them the best.
That's fine and it's actually a good sign because it
means there truly is more than one way to skin a cat
with any given traffic generation technique, but unless
you realize what you're doing you can put a great deal
of undue stress on yourself.

I don't mean know what you're doing in terms of being
an expert in any of this stuff, I mean a goal, a vision
of what your business is going to look like one year
from now, and then 5 and 10 years from now.

Without this you can easily put yourself in a position
where you're doing far too much for little to no
appreciable result and a mind full of mixed emotions
and fear.

Quite a few of the people that email me fall into this
trap. (It's not their fault, it just happens to us a
people if we're not aware of what's going on in our
mind and let our emotions lead us.)

Their emails go something like this . . .

"John I've been doing xyz and I've generated some
traffic, but no one is buying anything I'm scared,
frustrated, and I think I'm going to quite."

What you think is what generally happens so when I read
these words I can literally see the little spark that
started their business start to flutter out.

Further . . .

Even putting things like this into writing is the wrong
idea because it creates and transmits the wrong mental
vibe for success, and mostly likely will send you on a
downward spiral towards a negative outlook on your
business. And if you're not positive about your
business you're on the way out.

It's reactionary in nature. Entrepreneurs don't react
they create.

And all this happens because most don't really know
what they are doing. They have a vague idea that they
want more money right now and they've found a business
with an opportunity to fulfill that, but they don't
think past it.

This happened to me when I began and it left me open to
self victimization. Anything that promised me money now
I bought

and subsequently failed.

Understand this about the internet . . .

There are things that you can do that are quick fixes
and others that will build a foundation so that your
business continues to grow for years to come.

I chose to do the later, after trying the other way.

The strategies and the mental focus differ
significantly.

If you think I need to set up a PPC campaign so that I
can get people into my business today because I need
money right now then you'll most likely do the
following.

You'll find the quickest and easiest way to put up a
vaguely targeted Google Adwords campaign and just throw
it out there to see what sticks.

Most of the stuff won't. And you'll say I generated
some traffic but nothing is happening.

On the other hand, if you think with a long term
perspective in mind on your business when you approach
your marketing, even with that same exact PPC campaign
you'll do things totally differently.

You'll say I want this campaign to still produce
targeted traffic a year from now and I don't want to
have to keep updating it all the time so let me make
sure when I do my research I do it thoroughly so I
won't have to do it again.

It will take longer to do, but the results are much
much better both in the short and long term.

Do you see what I'm saying here?

It's where you focus you mind in your marketing that
will dictate your results.

Think first of what you want and then create your
internet advertising campaign around that, and what you
want has to be more specific than just some targeted
traffic and some leads and some people in my business
so that I make money now.

Have a real defined end in mind before the game begins.

And don't think this faulty mindset is something that
only happens to us as marketers. It happens to owners
of network marketing companies that go out of business
in just a few short years and those guys launching
product after product just to see what we will buy.

These people also have a frantic "now now now" frame of
mind.

Think about the type of people and companies you are
dealing with just as much as yourself when doing your
marketing.

Stay as far away from those with vaguely defined goals
and visions of what they want no matter if they are
your upline leader, company owner, or the guy you're
thinking about buying an eBook from.

Why?

Well remember how I said I was listening and watching
the leaves blow in the wind?

If you or you follow the advice of a person who only
thinks about right now well then you become just like
those leaves. You leave yourself open to whatever
weather blows you're way.

If you plan and set out only to do those things that
fit your plan you root yourself deep into the ground
like a sturdy oak tree that ain't moving.



Internet Network Marketing is about creating long term
stable wealth online, not vague ideas on how to get
rich quick only to be left broke. If you'd like to
learn the real secrets to creating a long term stable
online business that will allow you retire on here's
where to learn it live and in person:
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(This is an extract from our newsletter - if you would
like to find out more check out the resource box)

The biggest problem I have with a lot of the stuff that
I see people selling to others online is that I
sometimes wonder if they are actually using the
information that they are peddling or if they are just
unloading it on the public.

If there is one thing that I will consistently be is
the biggest testimonial that Internet MLM Success works
and continues to work, so I want to share with you the
complete results of an advertising campaign that I
carried out recently in my OWN current Internet network
marketing efforts.

A few months ago I placed an ad online.

It was costly at $695.

It took about a month for the ad to run, but here are
the results . . .

The ad brought in 2818 unique views at a cost of $.25
cent per click (not so bad) . . .

It generated over 460 leads at $1.51 a lead.

Here's the IMPORTANT info . . .

From those leads I had a total of 48 people join my
team at a cost of 14.47 per new team member.

Of those 16 upgraded to a premium level in my company
on the front end, so that's an upgrade at $43.44.

All this while I was away at work.

That's what Internet network marketing is all about.

It's not about buying leads, it's about leverage.

It's about finding groups of people that are interested
in your product or service and then giving them the
opportunity see what you have to offer and THEN letting
the interested parties take action.

That way you never deal with anyone that isn't
motivated for success, and you're making the absolute
best use of your time as a marketer.

That's the way to do if you asked me . . .


What if you could guarantee you make money in your
business regardless of whether or not any joins your
business?
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If your planning to do any kind of article marketing then your going to need your own domain name. Article directories do not allow affiliate links to be placed directly into an article.

The simplest method is to go to Godaddy.com

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2. Use these promo codes to save some money!
   
   OYH3 - $2 off / $6.95 any .COM (renewals too... just used it)
   
   OYH2 - $5 off a $30 purchase
   
   OYH1 - 10% off whatever
   
   
3. Skip to the express checkout and pay
   
   
4. Now log into your GoDaddy account
   
   
5. Go to Domains/My Domains
   
   
6. Click on your domain name and then select forward
   
   
7. Click the enabled button and enter the affliate link you want to use
   
   
8. Select 302 moved temporarily
   
   
9. Then click the masking tag and tick the mask domain box
   
   
10. Put the title here that you would like to appear on peoples browser tag. For Success University put Success University
    
    
11. Click ok and wait about 30 minutes.
    
    
12. Test your domain name and you should be good to go!

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This is a message from your upline Director John O’Driscoll. Team we are 310+ strong and growing fast!
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Guys

What a start to August!

1. Welcome to new team members
   
   I would just like to say a personal welcome to new team members who joined us yesterday, congratulations and welcome to the team.
   
   David Brown
   Debbie Frier
   Fabio & Sandra Fernandez
   Larry Nichols
   Harbans Verdi
   
   Make sure you go to our first steps guide Click here
   
   
2. A Faculty call you have to listen to!
   
   If you missed Tony Michael, Vice President of Sales, last night then I strongly urge you to look out for the replay - it will blow your socks off!
   
   
3. Would you like to be trained by a Vice President with a team of 20,000+?
   
   Whether your new to Success University or a seasoned veteran I know we can all benefit from learning first hand from someone who went from being a tool maker to one of only 2 Vice President's in Success University. Ned & Cheryl Rae have built a team of 20,000+ in just over 2 years, would you like to duplicate their success? Get on the call this Saturday.
   
   Saturday 1pm CST
   
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4. Day 18 of the 90 day Blitz…
   
   Have you joined Executive Director's Chris & Julie Chojnowski's 90 day blitz? We are 18 days in and we are seeing huge growth throughout the team. Don't worry if you haven't started as you can start at any time. Here is a replay of the training call http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/W8kY3mxs
   
   
5. Coop Update
   
   Coop members will have seen some activity yesterday which I will update in the Coop blog. All I will say guys is that activity was a free bonus from me and didn't dent the kitty one penny! Please make sure you send me details of your successes so i can update the blog.
   
   
6. Claim your $500 bonus in August
   
   You should already be working your way towards your bonuses for this month but for new members look out for details of this months bonus schedule by email. One of the most popular and easy to attain bonuses is the $500 2x2. All you need to do is introduce 2 people to Success University and teach them to do the same. We all know 2 people right? Go for it!
   
   
7. 3 days till I fly…
   
   It's drawing very close now. We fly back out to Malaysia on Sunday to continue to build our team there. We will stay until the end of August and should be back in the UK by August 31st. I will update what my Malaysian contact number will be if you need me to speak with any of your contacts while I am out there. For team Malaysia lets make this another goal breaking month!

Gwyneth Paltrow as country singing star Kelly Canter. No you're not having a Jack Daniels flashback of "Tender Mercies", "Crazy Heart" and "True Grit", though you wouldn't be far off if you did. Now playing.

Gary Chew, JohnnyK and I enjoyed Bradley Denton's ebook, "Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede". My recent e-reading and the software that made it possible are listed in GroupBlog 321.

The best movie from 2010 that Chew has seen in 2011... and eligible for the Best Picture Oscar this weekend. With Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter. Now playing.

Will Ferrell is Nick, recently-fired regional VP of sales and backsliding alcoholic whose wife put his ass out in the grass. Rebecca Hall is Samantha, newly moved in across the street from Nick, pregnant and awaiting her husband's arrival to settle down to Arizona living. Laura Dern is Delilah, divorced former high school bud of Nick's, living in the area with her two kids. She and Nick haven't seen each since graduation. Opens at the Circle Cinema 5/13.

The public is invited to a 10:30 am Saturday groundbreaking ceremony at the drive-in which will serve as a kickoff for the rebuilding effort. Bring your own shovel. Tulsa World story link in just archived GroupBlog 327.

I took some photos at the event today. Check them out at the Flickr link in GroupBlog 328.

A tender, funny, coming-of-age yarn starring Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Alicia Silverstone, Blair Underwood and Rita Wilson. Opens wide June 17.

Neil was one of the original KOTV engineers who put the station on the air in 1949. Tulsa World obit link in GroupBlog 330.

1979 KTUL sign-off with Mancini's "Dreamsville", Don Tiki video of "An Occasional Man" and the 3-Minute Drive-in Intermission Samba, featured on the main page. Maybe we'll hear the latter at the new Admiral Twin later this year.