Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Pyramid Scheme Network Marketing


All Network Marketing schemes are a PYRAMID SCHEME - fact or fiction.
Let's spend a little time on Pyramid Schemes, a Pyramid Scheme is illegal, the definition of a Pyramid Scheme is when people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in. In short you pay to get it; you get paid for people you bring in and so on and so forth, nothing to do with any product or service.
Direct Marketing however (which often gets confused with Pyramid Schemes) is based on legitimate companies who rely on solid sales over time who has a strong base of customers who love and use the products. Multi-level marketing structures are commonly used for the distribution of goods and services in the direct selling industry. These structures may seem similar to pyramid schemes, but in reality they are substantially different and are more similar to a conventional corporate business model.
So there you have it... Network Marketing is not a Pyramid Scheme BUT...
If you really want to get into Network Marketing - do your due diligence. Don't wait to be approached by someone, don't wait for someone to tell you they have the next best thing and it's best to get into it now while it's fairly new. Do your due diligence.
First think about what your area of expertise is what things you are passionate about, what things you know a lot about, what experiences you have. Then and only them seek out the top 25 Multi Level Marketing Companies in the World and do your research on them to see how they fit with you, your beliefs, your skill set and what they have to offer you.
Think about things like... what support systems do they have for you, what is their compensation plan like (make sure it is deeper than 5 levels), what tools do they provide, and more importantly what is the product or service and is it something I can believe in and feel comfortable to talk about with others. This is a business after all. Your business, so you need to do your research before you decide to take the leap.
Do a search on your niche, as in who will buy the product. Next and most importantly plan your success you will be given tools to help you do this. Don't skip this stay, plan, research and plan some more. Know what it is you want and how you are going to get it.


Network Marketing in Facebook


Network marketing can open new doors and frontiers. Many marketers find Facebook to be a bit difficult to penetrate. Facebook offers a completely new level for businesses to connect with their audiences, providing you can get past all the games. The biggest challenge is the near limitless games and applications on the site. Once you can get past these two problems, you could find a waiting audience. The audience may want additional ways to reach out to you. Facebook could be a good playground. What are some means to reach your audience on Facebook?
Photo sharing on Facebook
You should be sharing your photos on Facebook, especially ones that are tender. Humorous photos acquire a lot of shares and likes. If you can make your network marketing campaign fun, you could open up new doors for prospects to find you. Photos add a different dimension for your viewers. Most photos can be photo shopped with messages and other comments. You can use photos in a variety of ways to attract attention to your business page. Do not just use product photos in your Facebook campaign; try to mix in life's reality to help bring some attention to your business.
Video Sharing on Facebook
One of the most popular trends on Facebook is video sharing. If you can create small clips of your network marketing business and share them. You may experience interest and increased awareness. The small clips could be informative in nature or provide a small story about your business. Share your videos on Facebook and include a call to action in the video clip. You never know how much CTA can improve your website traffic flow until you try it. There are plenty of video editing software programs. Most of these programs are easy to use.
Interaction with fans
The biggest flaw that most network marketing businesses have is the lack of interaction with their fans. They tend to ignore comments or leave spam comments on their updates. Interact with your fans and delete comments that are not useful, especially spam ones that distracts from your audience. Start a conversation with someone among your fans or spark a debate on a topic. Get involved and let the community know who you are and you could find people coming to you for advice or business. These three areas are useful for serious marketers that want more out of their Facebook account.


Simplify Website


Network marketing businesses can seem like a big puzzle, and the business website can become complicated very easy. There has been a ton of push towards flashy sites for the past several years and now the trend is focusing on simplicity. Simple designs will allow your site to load faster; this will keep your prospects interested in learning more about you. This does not mean that you cannot make your site appealing. It means that you may want to lay off the flash and graphical elements that tend to distract. Yes, having dimension is great, but it can be distracting.
Simplify Your Pages
Keep your webpages simple and easy to navigate. You want to make your prospects pay attention to your network marketing message, not the AdSense ads and other factors that may cause them to click away. Your pages should flow smoothly and have a well defining set of text and graphics. You should make any callable action bold and allow it to stand out from the rest of the material. One of the most important features that often are ignored is the page's URL. On some sites, you will see a ton of letters and special signs that makes the URL ugly. Try reworking the URL to make it more appealing for the search engines and for your visitors.
Photos, Videos and the Word
Your network marketing website should use all types of content from photos to text to help your prospects. There is a fine balance between simple and complex, and it involves with overdoing the page with content. One image, 500 words or so and maybe a video or presentation on each of your pages should be fine. You want to make sure that your pages load fast and have quality information for your prospects. They do not want to be bombarded with AdSense or pop ups that are not relevant to their needs.
Focus and Redesign
If your network marketing website is not allowing your prospects to focus, you will need to redesign it. Most people hate to hear those words, but in reality, it can be a good moment in a busy schedule. Your experience will help you focus down on the most important aspects, and you can then follow up with other content. You can move your self-hosted videos to a video host and have other programs host your other multimedia content. A redesign will help you narrow the scope of your business and information that your visitors can access.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Principles for Network Marketing


Looking for the secret to achieving network marketing success?
When somebody makes a decision to join a network marketing business they do so for various reasons that are infinite in themselves. When somebody actually sticks around, however, they stick around for a reason that's bigger than them.
The truth is that there is no secret to attaining network marketing success, and the fact of the matter is that if you really want to achieve results you must keep two critical elements in mind before anything else. These two elements come from your word and your actions, and without them there is no organization to be built.
It's fine if someone wants to sell a lot of products and fend for themselves, however, if you want to lift people up to a higher status and really develop leaders within an organization you must first be able to master yourself and master the fact that consistency will outweigh short term bursts in any business.
Here are the two elements that you must master in order to achieve network marketing success.
First, be able to speak the same message to your team forever, and do not deviate from your message whatsoever. This must mean that if the company owners are speaking one message and you deviate from that message, disrespect them by doing so then expect for your downline to do the same and not listen to what you have to say. However, if you are in complete alignment and harmony with the message and the vision of the company and you do not deviate from that then expect to achieve massive results over an extended period of time.
Second, if you are consistent with your message then you must also be consistent with your actions and do exactly what you are telling people to do, and what the company is requesting for you two do. Excuses come one in a million, but if you are taking action and following every single step to a tee over an extended period of time it is virtually impossible to not see any results whatsoever inside of your business. If you must produce then be sure to produce, if you must market then be sure to market but by everything inside of you be sure to take consistent massive action.
Now, if you follow these two strategies and your rinse and repeat your virtually
guaranteed success over the long haul.

I can't promise anything with income, nor with what results you can produce because I am not sure if you will actually do what it takes to build your business. However, if you make a decision right now to do whatever it takes, you are in complete alignment with your message and you take consistent massive action then expect to receive results over and over again like clockwork.

Network Marketing Systems


If you're reading this article, you've probably put yourself out there as an online network marketer for any period of time. You've most likely seen how different teams, leaders, and companies adopt different strategies to grow their business.
In fact, for people who are just starting, and even for advanced members who've been in the loop for quite a while, it can be quite confusing. What option is best suited for me? What is the best system out there? To tell you the truth, I couldn't tell you the answer those questions in a million years. The reason is because one system works great for one individual or organization, while if it is transposed on to another company, it becomes a recipe for massive failure. As human beings, we tend to think in a polarized fashion.
The answers we always want are for questions like "Who is the best at this thing, and who is the best at that thing?" or "Which system is the number one absolute best?" But when you come out of your head and out into the real world, the world has more colors than black and white - success or failure - right or wrong.
Let's go through some principles governing systems:
1. If it's simpler, it's better.
2. If there is more focuses, it's better.
3. If it has a higher price, it will have more human touch.
The first one is pretty easy to comprehend and self explanatory. The simpler the system, the more it creates duplicate results in your business, and the more easy it is for the other person to utilize it.
The network marketing industry in whole is all about duplicating results, and if the process of doing that is really complicated, than the process of duplication will be really slow, or it doesn't happen at all. So if you're looking to create a system of your own, keep it simple, and the system will successfully create duplications inside your organization.
The second principle might need some or explaining to understand completely. Out in the network marketing world, there are two different types of systems. Internal ones, and external ones.
Internal systems are the company's systems and tools of marketing their business. We, being the distributors, have little or no control over this internal system. So it is very important for you to choose a company with a strong and healthy internal system from the beginning if you want to really get a head start in having a successful business.
Also, if you choose to use a system that is external, then make sure that the system is crystal clear and not ambiguous. People should be able to understand what you are doing, or else they wouldn't know what they were doing, and that leads to low duplication.
Why?
Continuity between the system you adopted and your company or team is crucial. Or else you risk creating a lot of confusion and loads of ambiguity. There are two different situations that you have to be careful about when choosing a system that you haven't created yourself. I've seen this many times during my time online, and failure to realize this will slow your business down or prevent you from having any success. Those two are: something that is just completely generic, and something that is 'just a system'.
If the system you're looking to implement in your business is NOT focused tightly around the business you're looking to promote, then the system becomes a 'system for a system'. It might look strong, and might convince some people that the system will help grow the other system, but in the end, that system is never the actual key to having success online. For example, you might have seen many tools and 'secret' templates that when you use, will earn you thousands of dollars 'in your current business'. While that kind of product(or system) might deliver some speed or make a process easier in your business, it won't be the key to success in your business. It never is, and if you start to lean on those kind of products and systems, you'll never get the success you wanted.
Moving on...
A system that has too many business opportunities to join into - These are systems where everything seems to be free at first, but as you move along they take you down into a path of "Join into THIS deal, then THIS OTHER deal next in order to have success!" it goes on and on like this because, it is all a part of the system.
The first thing that's limiting of this system is, that it violates principle number one. It is REALLY not simple. You immediately see too many steps involved in the process, and if you have to make other people take those many steps, too, duplication will never be easy.
The next thing that's limiting is that there's no real focus on growing your primary business. It is structured to promote other businesses, not yours. After joining into all the other businesses, people will have to focus on growing the other businesses in order to try and have success. This leaves little, or no focus left for them to work on your business.
You might have become a little overwhelmed, so I'll make it simple. The focus should always be on YOUR business. Whether you implement someone elses system, or you create your own, the FOCUS should always be on YOUR business. Never the other way around.
Put all your eggs in one single basket. Focus on only one of your businesses at a time. Only after it is self sustaining, or there is no more growth in your business should you start putting your eggs in another basket. But I'll tell you in advance, when you put your eggs all in one basket, you really wont want another basket. Why would you? When you are earning over $50,000 a month?
I've seen sites where they urge people to join into one business after another, promising consecutive success after another. The honest truth is that those methods might work for a little while, but it is never sustainable. The largest beneficiaries are always the creators of the system. But the people who are working the system always lack focus towards THEIR business, and the success stories start to fade. Make sure that the system you use, are you are going to use is straight and simple. Make sure that it is focused.
The last thing here is that the higher the price of your product or service that you are providing, the more human touch you will need to incorporate that system into your business and make it work. But for systems with especially top tier or high ticket products, that are over $1,000 or more, the human touch doesn't necessarily need to be in analog format. It can be done in a digital, automated systematic way. How? Well I'll teach you if you can convince me that you're worthy of teaching.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Secret of Network Marketing


Network Marketing otherwise known as Multi-Level Marketing is a form of marketing that utilizes Independent Advertisers to reach potential customers.
Network marketing is a flexible business as you decide when you work. Unlike traditional business where you enter a competitive job market which allows the employer to pay less than the value of the work done.
With multi-level marketing you have the luxury of uncapped income, which means that there is no limit as to the amount you can earn, so it is solely dependent on your dedication.
The Industry is an effective way to market and distribute products and services to prospective buyers. As a Network marketing representative it is on you to reach out to the public and advertise the companies products and services to create revenue for yourself. You are the most integral part of your business as your customers are directly associated with you.
Just like any business, the objective of a MLM business is increasing your customer base which in turn increases your revenue. The advantage of the Networking industry is that there are little or no costs involved as you are advertising for the company and there are no overhead costs such as rent or wages.
In traditional business the product goes through various channels before reaching the customer which adds to the cost of the product. With Network Marketing there are no middlemen which decreases the cost and leads to a better profit margin for you.
Network Marketing is very appealing as you are not tied down to a job or a routine and you have no boss. You are not required to meet any targets so you can't get fired. Having said that, you need to set your own individual targets so you can generate income for yourself.
Benefits and facts of The Industry
1. Shared knowledge
Networking is a fantastic opportunity for expanding on your view point, getting feedback and sharing ideas.
2. Increased Confidence
You will be dealing with people on a regular basis which will boost your self esteem and offers the opportunity of making connections.
3. Time Flexibility
MLM marketing provides great time flexibility so it is completely up to you as to how many hours a week you work. In effect you have more time to enjoy with your family and friends.
4. Opportunities
The common benefit of MLM is that you are all there to get business so it's natural for opportunities to emerge.
5. Uncapped Income
The best part of MLM income is that it is solely dependent on you and there is no limit on how much you can earn, which is why the industry produces more millionaires than any other industry.
Facts.
-There are in excess of 150,000 people worldwide that sign up per week.
-There is in excess of 50 million Networkers worldwide.
-Worldwide sales are in excess of 90 Billion Dollars.
-Approximately 80 percent of Networkers are part-time and 20 percent are full-time people who work 30 hours a week or more in their business.
-Approximately 66 percent of marketers are between ages 25 and 44.

Internet Marketing Trends in 2014


It's about that time of year when the internet marketing forecasts start coming out, even though we're just about ready to get into October. Nevertheless, just like a good marketing strategy, you always give the users what they want-especially when they don't even know they want it! With that said, here's our top three internet marketing trend predictions for 2014.
1. Little KISSes Will Go a Long Way
KISS, you know it and love it-Keep it Simple Stupid. KISS is going to be the prevalent marketing strategy. Simplistic messages are going to have a bigger impact over in-depth marketing messages. This flies directly in the face of Google's In-Depth articles, and we make no qualms about it. Google constantly gets things wrong and they have it wrong here again.
Take a look at the biggest brands out there-Apple, Pinterest, heck, even Google itself. These brands are sending a clean, simple marketing message that is non-intrusive and doesn't bombard their consumers with too much self-promotion or extraneous information. Like Joe Friday used to say, "Just the facts, ma'am."
Why is this? Because the people are connected to the marketing world almost 24-hours a day. At work and home on the computers and television and everywhere in between on their smartphones, tablets and laptops. There is a sensory overload going on right now so simplicity is going to gain the most traction when it comes to making the conversion and pushing goods and products.
2. The Mobile Revolution will Explode
You've heard about the mobile revolution being on the cusp of taking over for the past year and a half, but 2014 is the year when it finally gains full control. Companies, marketers and everyone in between now understand that mobile searches are the new King of Query. It's the reason why responsive website design has become so large and the best reason for marketers to start changing the way they think about optimizing and presenting the information on their websites.
Expect to lose customers to competition if you aren't taking into consideration the way your website looks and the experience it provides on every medium-PCs, Macs, Tablets, Androids, Smartphones, etc. Do it now since in 2015 it will be too late/hard to play catch-up.
3. Re-targeting Ads Becomes an Effective Method
While the word "cookies" still scares the heck out of a lot of Internet users, there really is no two ways around them with most modern browsers and websites. People don't know they want the cookies, but they get them anyways. Marketers are using these cookies to track their users' websites and then re-targeting the ads to the same users later on when they visit other websites. It's fairly genius and completely innocuous. The re-targeted ad simply seems like your product or service is very popular.
This takes care of a few problems facing internet marketers today. For starters, only 2% of conversions take place on the first visit, according to most numbers. A re-targeted ad simply puts the notion back into the consumer's head that the product or service is still out there, triggering a better conversion rate. The "oh, I forgot about that"response as we like to call it. We've all had them and even though we might intend to buy something, we forget about it or hesitate to bookmark it. Last year, the trend was to remind people what is in their shopping cart-this year, we believe it will go one step further with ad re-targeting. Of course, it also boosts brand recognition.