How it started
2007-04-06 23:10:00
I have asked myself this question many times before, specially when I was seeing no sign of success... why did I ever get into network marketing?One day I decided I want to be my own boss, I want to work from the comfort of my home, and I want to be rich! I did some thinking and I figured my only way of doing that would be to do something online. At that time I wasn't aware of anything MLM related, I did not know such thing existed so it wasn't exactly what I was aiming for. I did some research, but I haven't found what I was looking for. I thought maybe I should visit some chat rooms and find some like minded people, maybe I'll find out about some interesting opportunity that will make me super rich over night.I logged in to the chat room, and man was I flooded with IMs with 100s of different opportunities that all promised I will make money without even working! I looked at many of the links I received, but I was a little skeptical. One opportunity however caught my eyes..."For $
What it's about
2007-04-06 01:27:00
This is my first post in my "Network Marketing" blog. This is the post where some (most) network marketers would brag about the success he/she hasn't seen yet. They will tell you that they make at least $1500 without lifting a finger and they will promise you, you will too. They'll make you think you are given an opportunity of living the dream lifestyle you've always wanted to live, but they're only selling you false hope.I am a marketer, and you will expect all those lies I'm talking about from me... but I have another kind of promise to give and if you give me the time you'll see what I am about. My promise is to share my failure over the past few years, I'll share the stories of how I've lost money and fell for lies...I was so blinded by my dream of becoming the next young internet millionaire that I missed the signs of those obvious lies.Failure is what you make it, you can see it as... failure, or you can see it as the blessing in disguise. I chose the second option, I ha
More online opportunities .. even more failure.
2007-04-08 21:11:00
After many " We will make you money within 30 days GUARANTEED. We will do all your work for you" programs, I thought it was about time I gave up on the whole work on the internet thing. But I couldn't, every time I thought " This is it, I should just stop right now before I lose all my money" something in me wanted to keep trying. And so I did...Next in line was Affiliate programs, free to join and will not cost me any money, or so I thought at that time. Since affiliate programs are free, I joined 'em like crazy! I joined all kind of programs offering all kind of products: Magazines, Vitamins, Books... you name it!That was the first step, my second step was to actually SELL something... no problem or so I though! (I sure had a lot of thoughts) . I simply took my links and spread them all over the net, in classified ads, in chat rooms, safe lists ads... and after generating $00000.00 in sales I knew that what I was doing was not the way to do it!I gave up, yet once again, and thought
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Building the list...
2007-04-10 20:25:00
I promised I'll explain how you can start building a list in this post.Ed has left me a comment asking about my list, how big is it and it is making me any money?Before I answer that I'd like to explain where I'm at in the network marketing field. I have stopped marketing for more than a year now, I have stopped out of frustration and this blog is a new attempt to make money online.When I first decided I'm going to start building my list, I was totally broke and had no money to build a website, so I had to use free tools. As to what type of list I wanted to build, it was mainly for people who wanted to learn how to market online using free resources like I did. I wasn't looking to sell anything, I did it to promote my other free opportunity, my Vortex Marketing Group (the best thing that happened to me, I shall talk about it soon).I started doing research and looked for free tools to help me with my list building mission.Here's what I needed:- Free website hosting- Free auto resp
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The Money Is In The List
2007-04-10 14:45:00
I was not sure what to write about today, should I write about more failed attempts to make money online? or should I just get down to business?I've already given examples of my failure attemps, I failed, I get it and by now you should get it to... I should definitely move on and get down to business!Whatever business you choose to start online, what I'm about to mention is the KEY to success. It is your first step towards a six figure income online and without it, you are wasting your time!It is no secret really, but %90 of internet marketers fail because they don't have a LIST.If you've been in the internet marketing field for sometime now I'm sure you've heard that "the money is in the list" at leat 100 time... this is time number 101.. "The Money
Is In The List" MLM, Online Marketing , Internet Marketing.. also known as.. and this is my favourite name for it "Network Marketing", Network THEN Market. The thing is, when people decide they want to make an income online, they con
Dare I say.. even more opportunities?!
2007-04-09 16:54:00
So.. after reading the ebook 'Affiliate Masters' I understood that affiliate marketing is not for me. It requires a alot of time, money and patience, which is something I didn't have at the time. I'm ashamed to say I was looking to get rich over night, so I gave up on affiliate marketing and went on searching for my next opportunity.I spent hours and hours searching forums, chat rooms, reading ads... finding my next business was a little hard, because most people at the time were involved in MLM and affiliate programs and that wasn't what I was looking for.I finally stumbled upon something that was totally new to me, a new world of opportunities that got me exicted all over again. HYIP, Money Doublers and Auto-Surf Programs.-HYIP were totally appealing to me! Invest as low as $10 and sometimes as low $1 in FOREX and get %140 within 10 days. Who in their right mind would say no to such an offer??I invested $25 right away... and checked the site daily to watch my money grow. 10 days
Note to readers
2007-04-09 15:34:00
I am slowly building this blog as I don't have much time to spend on it. I am looking for blogs which are network marketing related of course to be added to my links sections. So, if you're a network marketer blogger and want your blog listed here please leave me a comment with your link or email me at dshihab85@gmail.com .
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Alternative ways to build a list
2007-04-11 21:43:00
Not everyone has the time or resources to build a massive. So I thought I had to talk about simple programs that are %100 free to join and help you build your list.I won't be mentioning a lot of programs, because I want to be completely honest in my reviews and will only talk about programs I have personally tried.1- Liberty List: Join in for free and get a list of 150 emails weekly. The Emails you get are from people who have already agreed to receive your ads. Your emails go directly to recipients' inbox. Of course in order to be able to send to people you must agree to receive from people as well and that's how it works with most email marketing programs. That's why you are advised to set up a separate email account for your email marketing where you can send and receive all ads on it.2- Your Lucky List: This program generates leads without any work on your side, but you shouldn't expect that many subscribers to your list if you're not promoting your link.3- Triple Your List:
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An Apology
2007-04-13 17:29:00
I would like to apologize for that I won't be posting today, I have several posts on Email Marketing ready but they are trapped in my laptop which I can't seem to start because the battery is dead and apparently the charger loved it so much it decided to die. I expect this problem to be fixed by tomorrow or else I'll die too! Who can live without their computer now a days?! I know I can't.Meanwhile, you can browse the old posts if you'd like. As you can see I have changed the template and I have organized the posts into categories for easier navigation:- Email Marketing - Affiliate Marketing - Free eBooks - Free Marketing - Lessons to be learned -List building - MLM - Network Marketing - Niche Marketing .More categories will be added as I add new entries. If you have a category in mind that you would like to suggest, please do so :)If you think this blog is helping you at all, or if it isn't (so far) please let me know. I am looking for ways to improve my blog and make it as easy
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Advertising your business
2007-04-12 18:56:00
My next few posts are going to be mainly about advertising. Advertising
seems to be the hardest part, and from my experience I would say that it isn't hard if you know what you're doing, but it is time consuming and requires a lot of patience before you can see its effect.There are many ways to market your business online, and I will try to cover some of them:- Email marketing- Traffic generators- Advertisement forum- Links exchange programs- Site reviews/ Social bookmarking- Articles- Joint ventures- Search Engine Submission- Give awaysLooking at the list you would think "Whoa!" … yes exactly! Advertising requires a lot of patience and it requires you to stay focused and strong, because sometimes frustration takes the best of us and if we don't see results instantly, we tend to give up. God knows how many times I've done that!Sometimes marketers put a lot of energy and time on marketing their businesses, they apply more marketing methods that I have mentioned above and still the
Reverse Marketing, promote though socializing.
2007-04-14 15:52:00
Here's a technique that you will find very useful:If you have applied safelist marketing already, you should have noticed by now how some people include their contact information in their ads.This technique is called Reverse
Marketing
, what you do is you contact the person who sent the ad and ask them if they would be interested in exchanging contact information. Ask them about their opportunity and if they are having any luck promoting it, share some though
ts and ideas on marketing and then you can share your business with them.DO NOT send ads directly to people who have not agreed to receive ads from you. If you do so you will be considered as a spammer and people will have the right to complain against you and your email account will be terminated.Reverse Marketing is about socializing with other likeminded people. Do not abuse this technique, you don't want it thing to turn against you.Look out for my next post to learn about traffic generators and how to use them to drive target
Paid Email Marketing
2007-04-14 15:33:00
In my last post I have covered 2 forms of email marketing: Safelist advertising and free leads. In this post I will talk about paid leads, how to contact leads and email marketing campaigns.Paid leads: these are definitely a good investment, because paid leads are more targeted, fresh and are highly responsive. Leads are great because you can buy them, contact them and train them to be your team. It really depends on how you use them, you can get your leads and send them your ad right away, and they may or may not response to it. Or you can introduce yourself to those leads, explain to them what you do and how you can help them and they become your dream MLM team! Leads2yoursuccess.com ,Networkleads.com, Leadersclub.com are three examples of companies that sell high quality leads, Some offer free leads for you to try.Now you've got your leads, paid or free, you will need a way to communicate with them. Email
ing them from your regular email would be a hard task and will require a lot o
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Free Email Marketing
2007-04-14 13:59:00
Email marketing is a popular form of direct marketing. It has its advantages and disadvantages, it is very cheap comparing to other forms of advertising, and the results are quite effective if done properly but there's always a possibility of having your email considered as bulk email, also known as, SPAM. Luckily, there are many ways to avoid this kind of problem. Using the right tools for your email marketing is your solution.First, I will talk about free email marketing because that's what we like, don’t we?- Safelist Advertising: Safeslists are a good way to start your email advertising, even though it isn't the most effective way, but using safelists to promote your business helps you understand how things work, you get to see other ads and learn what kind of ads work or not. You get to reach thousands of people who have agreed to receive ads and its completely free (paid options available as well). The downside of safelist advertising is that most people setup a separate ema
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Don't forget to network!
2007-04-15 14:43:00
I don't know how many times I have mentioned this before, I'll say it again anyways and I'll keep saying it in the future.To build a successful online business it is important that you network
with other people, Internet business is ALL about networking with other marketers. Working solo will not take you anywhere and will make you zero profit.Networking with people is the easiest part of the business, there are many ways to successfully establish relationships with other marketers. I have mentioned Reverse Marketing before, it's an easy way to network with marketers and you'll be amazed of how much you can learn and benefit from relationships you'll make.Another way to establish relationships with other networkers is Direct Matches.com is a great site. It is the Myspace of MLMers, with thousands and thousands of people who are looking to network with each other. You can also make money with it, because not all memberships are free on Direct Matches, if someone you referred upgra
I am a network marketer.
2007-04-15 14:27:00
The reason I have posted the article "Can I really be a network
marketer" by Liane Bate is because I relate to it. When I first started out, failure after failure, I have asked myself: "Can I really be a network marketer?" On a good day I would say "YES! I know I can do it" but a lot of other times, my answer would be to give up.Long time ago… about 2 years ago, I was going through my safelist email account reading ads to look for my next venture. I wasn't sure what I was looking for but I wanted something that will make me quick money. I found an ad from a guy who was in a new marketing group and was looking for 50 people to join his team, there was no site to see, if I wanted to be in I had to email the guy directly and so I did. He gave me a voucher code to activate my diamond position in this marketing team for free and he said that I will be hearing from the CEO of the company soon. To be honest, I was so skeptical about the whole thing… why would the CEO of a so called succe
Can you be a network marketer?
2007-04-14 16:29:00
Title: Can I really be a network
marketer?By: Liane BateWhen I first got into business online, I didn’t really know what it meant to be a network marketer or be involved in multi-level marketing (MLM). I wanted to sell a product and a service that would eventually generate a good residual income for me. It is becoming clearer to me now as I get into network marketing that it does take a certain kind of person with certain skills to excel in this business, but if you’ve got the desire, passion, energy, and commitment to be successful at it, then anyone can do it!Network marketing, or multi-level marketing is about people. It’s about building and team – a downline – and teaching them to be successful like you. Yes, there are different levels in the organization you build, but that’s not to say that all network marketing endeavors are pyramid schemes. As long as there is something of value being offered in the program and it’s not a program designed to pay only those higher
Free article submission
2007-04-14 16:09:00
In my previous post, I have mentioned how writing a simple article can help you promote your business and at times a high rank in search engines.Here are some sites where you can start promoting your articles for free:Ezine Articles: Free service that requires you to sign up, but you will get to publish as many articles as you'd like. Your article will be reviewed and then published. I like this site the best, even though I only have one article published there it did get me some traffic.Articles Factory.com is another free service. Once you sign up, you have to fill your profile and it must be reviewed before you start submitting your articles. This is an important step in order to insure quality contents.Article Hut.com: A great site, easy to use and you can submit your article right away. Though you shouldn't forget to include your contact info at the bottom of the article.ArticlePR.com : this site will allow you to either submit your own article or hire a ghost-writer to right an
Promotion using article marketing.
2007-04-14 16:01:00
Whenever I have a new link/business I would like to promote, the first thing that hits my mind is to submit it to search engines. While that is a very good idea, if your site is not in the top 10 or 20 in the listings chances are no one is going to see it.Achieving a high rank in search engines is not an easy task, and if you want to ensure that your link is on top it might cost you some money or you can play a little smart and get a high rank another way. One of the strategies that is proven to get you a high rank in search engines and is a great way to promote products is article marketing.Article marketing is very popular now a days, due to higher awareness in marketing methods and technology people now are tired of being marketed too. They understand that someone is trying to persuade them into buying their products and they're not even given a second chance to think about it. Writing an article about your product or site is a lovely way to have your potential customers understand
Driving Traffic to your site
2007-04-14 15:56:00
I've covered most of email marketing techniques, I hope you are already putting them into use and seeing some effective results :-)In this post I will talk about yet another important form of advertising. Traffic and how you can easily drive targeted visitors to your sites. There are a lot of ways to drive traffic, my favorite is a simple tool called Instant Buzz. This is a must for every person who has a site to promote, it’s a small tool bar that you install… it views and rotates text ads in the bar as you surf the web. For each ad viewed you earn advertising credits, you use them to display your own ad in the bar. The more credits you have the more your ad is displayed to other people. You can have more than one ad to be displayed and you can purchase extra credits. It also has a referral program, members' forums and a lot more. This program is a must!Traffic Swarm is another way to create traffic, with over 300,000 members you will be able to attract targeted traffic to your
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How to grab their attention.
2007-04-17 15:36:00
I have talked about Email Marketing before, both free and paid email marketing. I have also mentioned that the success of your email marketing campaigns depends on the quality of your email ad, but there is something that is more important than the quality of the ad, something that will make your potential customer wants to open and read your ad. You've probably guessed it, it's the subject line. The subject line of your email ad is just as important as the quality of your ad, maybe it's even more important, because if the subject line is not interesting chancing are no one is going to open the email. There are few things that make a subject line a good one, your subject line has to be short and brief, and you want it to be catchy to get your readers to open the email. But how can you make that subject line grab their attention
?There are many forms to use, you can provide a subject that says what your email contains for example: "How to…", "Tips for…", "Guide to…" . Another wa
Social Networking Unplugged.
2007-04-17 15:33:00
There's a new trend in the online marketing world, it's growing rapidly because it is a free method to promote your business and network with other marketers.Myspace, Facebook, Friendster… believe it or not but these are the new marketing tools!Marketing with Social
Networking sites is what most marketers are doing right now, it's a great way to show people that you are an ordinary person just like them, you get to network with people that have similar interests and promote your business. Just like many artists, specially musicians use MySpace to promote their music, you can do the same to promote your business. Set up a profile with your information, but try not to focus on your business too much, remember that your business is only one thing that you do, it's not all what you're about. After that, you can use the search tool on the site to find people with similar interests and network with them. If you find this way of promotion interesting, here's an eBook on this subject t
Free IQ, the ideas market place.
2007-04-17 15:30:00
When I got an Email from Mike Filsaime with the subject "YouTube is going to be scared", he really got my attention there!I had to immediately check what he was talking about and I think he is right, with this YouTube is going to be scared!How many times have you viewed a YouTube video? And how many times have you shared one?? Imagine that you got paid for every video you that you have shared? You would have made some good money right?This is exactly what Free IQ offers! It's the YouTube of network marketing; on Free IQ you can share videos, audio, ebooks and articles. This site is YouTube combined with Amazon with a Google Search Engine!Why should that matter to you??Free IQ has an affiliate program that will make you money! You will get paid for promoting other people's videos, since most of us do that already why not get paid for it right?Why should you join now?Because this program is still on beta phase, do you want to be one of the first people to join? Okay you won't be THE f
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Marketers favourite...FREE advertising.
2007-04-17 15:28:00
Free advertising is awesome, and it works just as much as any other form of advertising.Blogs are really hot these days, they allow the average person to share and express their feelings and knowledge on a specific subject or subjects (ehm, this is exactly what yours truly is doing here!). I never thought of blogging before, I thought it was only for people who were into writing. But that's not the case, I saw blogging for what it is (sharing) and that's what I am doing, there's no need to keep knowledge to myself.Anyway, I came across a great blog… I really loved the concept of it. The writers of the blog are you, me and other people… the content is our advertisement.Another great idea of Mike Filsaime's, The Free Advertising Blog is… let's see... a FREE advertising blog! Join and advertise the night away! Oh I wish that was possible, but that would cause in so much service abuse, the advertising is limited (you can advertise more if you refer new members) but hey it's sti
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Why not use someone else's list?
2007-04-17 15:27:00
Joint ventures are a great way to attract new customers to your business almost instantly! It is how top marketers generate thousands and thousands of dollars in the matter of days.If I can explain joint ventures in few words, I would basically say that it's a legal way to steal someone else's customers (their profitable list).Back in the days, it was really hard for new marketers to find likeminded people who would be interested in the same business and are willing to work together. But thanks to the amazing advances in technology and thanks to great marketers with great minds, joint ventures aren't as hard as they used to be. In fact, now adays networking is the easiest part of the business!I have mentioned Direct Matches before, it's a site where you can network with other marketers and make money. If you have signed up for Direct Matches and liked it, then I'm sure you will LOVE this.JV-Network.com is for people who are looking to network with marketers and do some serious joi
Ezine Marketing
2007-04-17 15:23:00
I have previously mentioned that when I first tried building my profitable list, after reading Keith Wellman's The List FX, I managed to build a list of more than 500 subscribers in less than a month before I lost it by using a lousy auto responder service.How did I do it?It was a combination of Instant Buzz advertising, Safelist advertising and traffic generators. But where I got most of the subscribers was by offering advertising spaces for people on my newsletters. I was listed on one site only, this site was Evie B's site.Ezine
advertising is just another form of Email marketing, It's a great way to reach targeted audiences for very cheap prices.Check EzinesRUs.com and Evie B's site for some paid and free marketing tools.
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Be an Affiliate Money Machine
2007-04-17 15:15:00
Being an affiliate in any company is not enough to make you money. While promoting your links directly by using which ever method of marketing will make you some money, but it won't be a long term success, and it won't make you a residual income, which is the measure of success in affiliate marketing.To make a residual income doing affiliate marketing, there are few things that you must apply and learn. There are elements and rules to learn and follow before you start making money.I downloaded and read this eBook called The Affiliate
Money
Machine
by Ewen Chia, it's a good read with loads of information. Click here if you want to download it.Remember that knowledge is the key success in this business, if you don't know what you're doing you won't go anywhere, learn what you should do first then do it.
Viral Marketing, it's the most effective!
2007-04-15 14:45:00
One of the most and I mean MOST effective
way to advertise your business online is through Viral
Marketing
. Why is viral marketing important and how can you apply it?There are many ways t start your viral marketing campaigns, one of them is article marketing. I have already spoken about article marketing but I'll explain here how it is viral and how it will help you drive crazy amount of traffic to your website. When you write a simple article of good quality and submit it to article directories, two things will happen: the first is that someone will read it, they will like what they read and will want to know who you are so they'll end up clicking on your site link. The second thing is that some people go to article directories looking for articles to publish on their ezines or blogs. If a publisher likes your article, they will end up publishing it to their readers with a link to your site, readers will like what they read and will end up coming to your site. Now imagine the amount
And the rules are...
2007-04-20 01:24:00
I promised there won't be many rules, and I promise I won't break that promise!The rules are quite simple:Rule #1: Whatever it is you want to promote, it has to be marketing/money making related. If you're not sure if your site falls into the category send it my way and I'll check it. (or check the list of my posts categories)Rule #2: Your site/blog must be full of contents. Blogs must have at least 15 posts. If you want to promote a money making opportunity then read the next rule.Rule #3: If you want to promote a money making opportunity, it has to be free to join or at least offers a free trial so I can join under you to see everything about your program. Don't worry though, I'll be posting your affiliate link in the review.Rule #4: If you want me to review your paid program, then bookmark this blog, come by EVERYDAY and click on the ads excessively and I mean EXCESSIVELY so I can make a nice chunk of money to pay for your programs! Hahaha I'm obviously kidding, though I real
Have your links ready!
2007-04-17 15:46:00
Ever since I started this blog I was waiting for the right time to write this post.There are many reasons why I have started this blog:- I am addicted to marketing, I'm not sure if this is normal but I really am addicted to it, or passionate about it to be more exact. Every day, I must have my coffee, eat my chocolate and read and learn about marketing (online marketing specially).- I have been in the network marketing field for more than four years now, so you can say that I have picked up on few things. I've actually learned A LOT and I'm very happy about that because I love learning things that interest me.- When I first started network marketing, I struggled a lot. I have spent a lot of money that I could have used on other things (bills, education) but I ended up losing everything and that wasn't the worst part, the disappointment and frustration was.At that time, I have hoped that I had guidance from someone who was honest, who would tell me the truth and not just try to make
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Marketing your products with blogs.
2007-04-17 15:40:00
Successful affiliate marketing does not happen when you advertise each affiliate link solely, that might get you few sales but if you are looking to build a six figure residual income with affiliate marketing, without a doubt, you will need a professional website to include all your products. If you have not downloaded the Affiliate Masters eBook, click here to download it for awesome information on affiliate marketing.Not all of us have the time, money or knowledge to build websites, but we are lucky that advance technologies now allow many people to build and maintain sites in minutes – no headache necessary!One thing that affiliate marketers should consider is blogging. It is free, you can set it up in seconds and it's an easy way to promote your products, network with marketers and keep in touch with your current customers.If you want to create a blog, you have the option of having a free one hosted on any blogging service such as Blogger or Wordpress, and you can choose whether
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