Personal Blog of Forest Marie

As an ambitious network marketer, who has decided to develop his business on the internet, you need to learn how to take advantage of the various network marketing forums on the internet. forums are places where other network marketers come online and discuss their business issues and network with other like minded people. Others who are interested in joining a particular MLM opportunity also visit these forums to see what distributors are talking about. So if you are able to make your mark on these forums, you can generate a massive amount of leads from forums. Here is what you need to do.

1. Help others: The first step is to register on 2-3 forums and check out what kind of people are present and what they are discussing. You want to join forums where there is a lot of positive energy and people are helping each other. So you also begin by helping other people sort out their problems. Help only if you have the necessary knowledge and the experience. It is better to teach through experience than through theory.

2. Develop your brand: When you help other people, they start looking at you as an expert in MLM. They may not know about your business or your status in your organization. But since you are friendly and give useful advice, they will start loving you. On your part, you need to develop this further by offering higher quality advise. You read, learn and then help other people. But watch your steps carefully because it is very easy to lose credibility with one bad remark.

3. Do not spam: There should never be a need to talk about your business opportunity directly. If you start selling your business and your products, then it is known as spamming and most forums do not allow this. If they find you indulging in this, they might ban your account and that would be the end of your presence on that forum. There is another way you need to promote your business.

4. Signature: The signature is a small piece of text which goes along with each of your posts on the forum. This is the place where you mention who you are and possibly give a link to your site or blog. This is the legitimate place to talk about your business. When people want, they will click your URL to know more.

So if you are serious about forum marketing, then the above tips will help you get going.

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I have always believed in the power of writing articles to generate more leads for my business. If you are a network marketer, then you cannot ignore the power of this medium. Not only will it help to get you more people into your business, it will create your reputation as an expert which will continue to attract more and more people towards you. So here are the basic things to keep in mind for article marketing.

• Composition: Write your articles in a casual conversational sense. Do not write as if you are writing a dissertation or a technical paper. You are writing so that you are able to talk to your potential customers who are searching for information about your business. Make sure the title is attractive and write only one or two major points in one article. If you want to write more, create more articles. Create a title which attracts the attention of the reader such as “XYZ business review” or “ABC business – is it a scam?”.

• Keyword usage: Using keywords properly is an art which you need to learn. The science is pretty simple. Use the keyword i.e. the name of the company 3 to 5 times in a 100 word article. make sure the keyword is also present in the title and also give a link using the keyword as the anchor text. The art lies in using related words like MLM, network marketing, company name scam, company name review along with the main keyword so that the search engines are able to find the article relevant.

• Choosing directories: Now there are hundreds of article directories on the internet. ideally, you need to post to as many as you can. But when you begin, you can choose the top 5 or top 10 including ezinearticles.com, articlebase.com, 365articles.com, amazines.com and others. On each directory, create your author account and post the articles. It is recommended that you post on ezinearticles first since they do not accept duplicate content.

• Multiplying: Once you learn how article marketing works, you need to multiply your efforts. It is said that you need to post a minimum of 5 articles per day but if you can do more, its even better. You can hire some freelance writer who can write those articles regularly. And you can pay for an article submission service which will blast your article automatically to hundreds of article directories.

This was just an overview of the article marketing process. You need to start writing your first article and submit it to an article directory as soon as possible.

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Real online marketers realize the tremendous potential of product launches in generating traffic for their site. The hype surrounding a new product can create almost 2 times to 4 times your regular traffic. Many companies have experienced an increase to the extent of making their web servers slow. If you are planning to introduce a new product in the market, I will tell you what you need to do.

Step 1 – The Pre Launch Phase: Give yourself 3-4 weeks to create the pre-launch hype. Identify the right channels to announce the upcoming product launch. Ideally, you must put up the information on your blog and create a hard hitting capture page and write out your auto-responder messages. Offer a fantastic FREE report as a reward for opting in. Then create some videos and put them up on YouTube and link them back to the squeeze page.

“Leak” the news on social media like Twitter and Facebook so that the information spreads in a viral manner. Send people to your capture page or your blog for more details and also ask them to leave their comments. Get some interactions going on your blog as that will get you on the search engine results quicker.

Step 2: The Launch Phase: The standard practice is to launch the product on a predetermined day. However, it might be a better idea to continue the launch celebrations and offer over a week or 10 days. This will give more people an opportunity to go for your launch offer. Announce an attractive discount or a one time launch promotion to attract more prospects. However, keep in mind that make realistic offers which you can afford. Remember that if you do not keep your promises, people will never come back.

To increase awareness, start making press releases and post them on various sites. Press releases are always a great tool to draw in more number of people to check out your products. Get an expert site to write reviews about your product and give a rating in comparison with competitor’s products. Share the success of the launch on Twitter.

Step 3: The Post Launch Phase: This phase is usually neglected by most marketers. They might do a fantastic job with the first two phases and generate a lot of traffic but after the launch they are not able to sustain the flow of people. What you need to do is to continue to make offers and can now add in testimonials from satisfied customers in your campaign.

It is important to give equal attention to all the phases of the product launch process to get the maximum benefits for your business.

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Imagine what would it would feel like to be able to fire your boss, make a fortune from home, spend more time with your family, have millions invested in real estate allowing your money to work for you and retire in style living a life of luxury while leaving behind a kick-butt legacy for many generations to come.

How would that feel? If it feels like utopia, I have some GOOD news and BAD news for you…

Because I like to solve people’s problems, I always like to get the BAD news first, so here it is …

Bad News … Oh No!

The BAD news is that it’s NOT easy as it sounds to setup and build a successful online business with a strong residual income, especially if you have a poor work ethic and a job mentality mindset..

Here’s a few things you must get good at to achieve that utopia you recently painted in your mind from home with a home business:

• How do you master lead generation?
• Do you use offline or online advertising or both?
• How do you “effectively” follow-up with your prospects?
• How do you know if there’s actually a market for your product?
• How large should your marketing budget be if you want to make $50,000/monthly or more?
• How do you make ads FTC compliant so that you stay of out hot water with the government?
• How do you leverage your time with a personal assistant? Where do you find one?
• What should you do with the money you make so you don’t blow it all like most people do?
• How do you train your team so that they can duplicate your success?
• How do you leverage your time and resources so you’re not working 70 hours a week? (this is huge)

Good News … Yeah!

There’s a lot to it, but the good news is that you’ve found this blog and I can help you … if you can help yourself.

If you’ve ever pursued a home business before, then this information is going to feel like a completely honest, open, and revealing breath of fresh-air compared to some of the garbage you’ve probably heard in the past.

I can show you how to build a pipeline of prospects, and then how to market to them “correctly” using automated tools … it’s the only way to go in my opinion.

The Internet is Full of Garbage …

Too many times, too many people get sucked into hype and sold on empty promises like, “The system does all of the work for you.”

Well guess what … That kind of talk and positioning does nothing but attract lazy losers who don’t want to do anything, unappreciative customers, and the attention of the good-ol’ boys at the FTC.

Sounds like a winning strategy, doesn’t it?

Well before we go any further into that topic, let’s step back and take a quick look at your options…

95% of all home businesses are usually found in the MLM or direct sales industry.

While they have many similarities, the primary difference is the compensation model. I prefer the direct sales model because it’s MUCH easier to replace a full-time or six-figure income compared to any other type of home business. Period. With that said, here’s two secrets of earning a real income from home …

Two Quick Secrets

Secret #1: Choose DIRECT SALES over multi-level marketing (MLM)

If you want to generate a large income quickly and attract higher quality people. If you want to attract the business owners, professional salespeople and white collar professionals like I do, you need to have a business that pay high ticket money.

Let’s be frank: Business owners, professional salespeople and white collar professionals have, during their life, proved they can finish what they start and they are producers and go-getters. We don’t want to bust our ass for $20, $30, $50 and $100 checks … period. If that doesn’t resonate with you, build a bridge and get over it.

Secret #2: Understand how you will really make your money and build your mini-empire.

You see, a business opportunity is really nothing – not an opportunity at all. In fact, it’s just an agreement on a piece of paper.

Joining for the Wrong Reasons

The vast majority of people who end up starting a home business do so because they get all hyped-up, usually on a conference call, about some “super” new product that they think will overtake the market and make them millions in the process.

Well .. unfortunately … that’s not how it works. But boy did that conference call sound good and that presenter was massively articulate.

The only way you’re ever going to make REAL money … I’m talking $500,000, to multiples of that, is to do one single thing…

And if you’ll sit back and really absorb the meaning of what I’m about to share with you, money will NEVER be an issue for you again. Ever. I guarantee it 100%.

So here’s the most valuable piece of advice you’ll ever get from me:

Increase your personal value to the world.

IS THAT IT?

Yes that’s it: “Increase your personal value to the world.”

Did you ever consider that the amount of money you make is a direct measure of your worth to society? It’s why a software engineer makes more than a cashier. They’re simply more valuable.

And if you want to increase your income, you MUST increase your value to others. Once you do that, money starts coming at you like wouldn’t believe. Business becomes a piece of cake.

Social Dynamics

It all comes down to “social dynamics.”

You see, people like to work with, learn from, and buy from proven leaders who can offer them REAL value. People want to invest in a business from someone they perceive as a consultant, not just another peddler preaching hype.

It’s a genetic instinct because associating ourselves with people of means and power increases our chances for survival and prosperity. If you don’t believe me, take a look at how much money you make and then take a look at how much the five people you spend the most time with make. Then find someone making 50K+ a month and check out how much the five people he spends the most time with makes.

This is nothing new — this behavior dates back to the cavemen days.

In essence, when you increase your value to others, you never have to “sell” anything. People approach you. Your become a prosperity magnet, an agent of change, a leader and achieving the kind of financial prosperity you want becomes so easy, it’s a “non-issue”.

On the other hand, if you don’t have any real value to offer someone, they’ll take their business elsewhere to a court they see has value, especially if it’s a great prospect and an attractive person.

As Jim Rohn says,

To attract attractive people, you must become attractive.

So the most important thing you could ever do, no matter what your occupation, is to increase your value to others by increasing your knowledge, experience, and skill sets.

And that’s when marketing becomes FUN!

It’s My Advantage

My knowledge of Internet Marketing is why so many entrepreneurs choose to work with me. As one of the top income earners in the industry with the ability to write and engineer custom Web Sites and software, I obviously have a lot of value to offer sharp, ambitious people like yourself …

… especially in the arena of Internet Marketing and using online systems that market and generate leads and sales non-stop. I love the Internet and know how to to de-mystify the “techie” stuff.

Now go learn all you can about Internet Marketing, leadership, prospecting, etc. There’s a ton of resources out there. And make sure you align yourself with winners!

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Do you need leads and money? Potential business partners anyone?

Then I have a solution!

I’ll be discussing ViralUrl, the Internet’s best kept secret and Magnetic Sponsoring, a top affiliate program that converts insanely well.

As a gold member with ViralUrl, you can send 3000 emails every 3 days to Network and Internet Marketers or those wishing to learn more about making money from home. You do not have to provide the E-Mails. You send them directly to the ViralUrl community members, which is very sweet since it’s laser-targeted.

One key thing about marketing is simple: It’s called market discovery. If you know where people looking for a business or struggling networkers ‘go’ online, then you simply need to put what they are are looking for in front on them. It’s really that simple.

Now if you can put what they’re looking for in their inboxes, it’s impossible to not make money.

And there’s where ViralUrl comes in. You’ll be able to send your offer to 3000 inboxes every 3 days, 100% legally and legit. You’ve probably heard the phrase “the money is in the list.” Well, ViralUrl has a fairly large list that you can tap into, in chunks by 3000.

But what exactly do you put in their e-mail boxes?

Ah, ha!

This is a million dollar question (and no this NOT a figure of speech).

I’ve always found that funded proposals work a lot better than anything else, period. And that’s where Magnetic Sponsoring comes in.

If you are not familiar with Magnetic Sponsoring, it’s a book you purchase for a small one-time fee of $37 that teaches you HOW to generate leads who will want to sign up with you.

You also get to become an affiliate of his free with lots of products you can sell and lots of capture pages. Also included is great Internet Marketing training in the back office (again, no monthly fees, only $37).

Now for my case study and “stats” (such a boring word I know, but learn to love it)…

Every time I send out 3000 E-Mails on ViralUrl promoting Magnetic Sponsoring, I generate, on average, 8.65 leads with an average opt-in rate of about 17%, a VERY good number.

On average, for every 34.6 leads I generate using this combination, someone purchases the Magnetic Sponsoring book and becomes a Magnetic Sponsoring affiliate. When this happens, I make $20.

So it takes me four blasts to get $20 and 34.6 leads, which equates to $5 in instant cash sales and 8.65 leads per blast.

Each ViralUrl account allows you to send 3000 emails EVERY 3 days, so you can send about 122 blasts a year.

Now I’m NOT perfect, and I probably use 85% of all my allotted blasts, so I do about 103 blasts a year per account.

Even at 103 blasts a year, you will see that per account, I generate roughly $515 dollars and 890.95 leads:

103 * $5 = $515

and

103 * 8.65 = 890.95 leads.

In other words…

are you REALLY ready for this?

For every ViralUrl account I have, I see on a yearly basis a 261% return on my investment (ROI)…

and 890.95 leads!

Now, I use 9 ViralUrl gold accounts, which will cost you a small $1793 a year or a meager $147.50 a month, one hell of an investment. That $1793, at the end of the year, turned into $4635 dollars and 8018.55 leads!

You will notice I only has 9 accounts that I use for this. However, this is scalable. You can always buy more ViralUrl gold accounts and generate more commissions and more money. And you can mix in different affiliate programs if you like. I love it!

By this way, this entire process takes me about 5 minutes every morning to do. It’s as simple as copy and pasting and pressing a button!

How You Too Can Do This

It’s quite simple actually, so check this out:

Step 1: (optional) Create a Gmail e-mail account at Gmail.

Step 2: Create an account at ViralUrl with the E-Mail address you created in Step 1. Fill out the form on the first page. On the second page, you will offered a one-time-offer to become a gold member for $197. Go ahead and complete that process.

Step 3: Check your E-Mail and confirm your account.

Step 4: Log into ViralUrl and watch the getting started videos.

Step 5: Decide what you’re going to promote. I highly recommend Magnetic Sponsoring unless you have your own informational product or bootcamp series.

It’s that easy! Get it done and contact me if you need help or some sample E-Mail copy I use.

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