Squidoo lenses are one of the most powerful ways that you can gain attention for your business opportunity.
Up until a few years ago, Squidoo wasn't even heard of. Heck it wasn't even live and available to the world until 2006. Now, it's a powerhouse for social marketing! The growth of Squidoo has been phenomenal. But what is it? What's it all about?
As I mentioned, Squidoo is a website for social marketing and social networking. It's for sharing information of all kinds. Some people share information about their favorite foods and recipes. Some share information about dog breeds. Some share information about businesses.
Squidoo offers a very unique way for an entrepreneur to promote his or her business – by publishing Squidoo Lenses. Squidoo lenses are wonderful single page websites that anyone can build. Lenses can feature articles, photos, recommendations, reviews, polls, blog feeds and a lot of other helpful tools.
By creating an interesting and informative combination of these features and tools you are able to show the world, in a very interesting way, what your business is about. Lens creation isn't difficult, and most people consider it fun! If you don't have the time or don't feel you have the creativity to create your own lens, you can hire someone to do it for you (make sure you hire someone with experience and a good reputation).
What else is great about Squidoo? Joining Squidoo is very easy and you can get to know people who are like you – who share the same interests or maybe work in the same type of business as you. You can also link your Squidoo lenses to your website or blog and you can set it up so that every time you update your lenses, a tweet is posted on Twitter. Squidoo is one of those networking sites that really does connect you in a lot of different ways.
And here is one of the best things about Squidoo – Google loves Lenses! If you create a great lens, chances are, you will eventually find it ranked on Google! More recognition and traffic for you!
If you really want to make an impact, you can create several related lenses on Squidoo. You could create one about your MLM opportunity, one about your own MLM journey, one about products, one that offers tips and techniques for owning a successful MLM business. The list could go on and on – use your imagination and think about what your potential recruits or customers would like to see and read.
So, let's sum up, shall we?
Squidoo should be part of your business marketing plan because it's easy to join and to get one or many lenses up and running quickly. It's a fantastic way to meet people who are interested in what you have to offer, and it's a great way to meet people who are working in MLM and who are willing to share ideas and information. Finding prospects and leads is made easier when you create Squidoo lenses that grab the attention of viewers and pull them in.
So don't forget to use the power of Squidoo lenses as part of your MLM plan!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Facebook Puts the “Network” Back in Network Marketing
A favorite network marketing recruiting website for many people is Facebook.
Facebook really is all about networking. You can connect with friends, both old and new and build different networks of friends based on the things you have in common with them.
Aside from using Facebook to connect with friends, which is what many people use it for, you can also use it to create groups of friends, or to join groups that are built around your love of network marketing and MLM and a common desire for success.
Facebook is easy to join and allows members to create a profile that will give friends a comprehensive snapshot of you and what you're about. One of the features of Facebook is a “news feed” that is added to each time one of your friends changes status or does something like makes a comment or adds a link to his or her profile. This allows you to keep up with what your friends are up to and it alerts them to what you're doing.
To network on Facebook with other network marketers and MLM professionals your best bet is to connect with like-minded people through Facebook groups. You are likely to find several MLM and Internet marketing groups on Facebook that appeal to you and you can join each of them if you like. This gives people a way to see and get to know you and for you to get to know other marketers.
The point of joining groups on Facebook is to interact with other group members. You can learn from them and they can learn from you. A lot of good-natured idea and information sharing goes on, which leads to every participant having more resources for success. But you need to go beyond the groups in order to really benefit from Facebook networking.
Start to make “friends” with other group members. You can do this by going through group list and inviting individual group members to be your Facebook friends. One way to accomplish this is to go down the list and simply request each person as your friend. You can choose to send them a message along with your request, which is helpful if they don't already know you. But don't send the exact same message to each person – you'll be accused of spamming by Facebook and risk losing your membership!
Once your own friend list begins to grow, you might want to separate your friends into lists so you can keep track of them. For example, you can create a family list – that's where your family will go (obviously). Then you could create a college friends list, or a church friends list or whatever, and of course, you will want to create an MLM friends list. Eventually you will be able to post a new link on your profile and it will be seen by hundreds of people within a day or two.
The beauty of it is that you have the prospect of gaining new friends each time you add a friend to your list – they all have friends that you might like to connect with as well! As you can see, networking through Facebook is easy to do, and it has the potential for growing your list of connections by leaps and bounds!
We are looking for great and dynamic people who are looking to reach the next level of success in network marketing. Please contact me at dorota@myacaiberryjuice.com
Facebook really is all about networking. You can connect with friends, both old and new and build different networks of friends based on the things you have in common with them.
Aside from using Facebook to connect with friends, which is what many people use it for, you can also use it to create groups of friends, or to join groups that are built around your love of network marketing and MLM and a common desire for success.
Facebook is easy to join and allows members to create a profile that will give friends a comprehensive snapshot of you and what you're about. One of the features of Facebook is a “news feed” that is added to each time one of your friends changes status or does something like makes a comment or adds a link to his or her profile. This allows you to keep up with what your friends are up to and it alerts them to what you're doing.
To network on Facebook with other network marketers and MLM professionals your best bet is to connect with like-minded people through Facebook groups. You are likely to find several MLM and Internet marketing groups on Facebook that appeal to you and you can join each of them if you like. This gives people a way to see and get to know you and for you to get to know other marketers.
The point of joining groups on Facebook is to interact with other group members. You can learn from them and they can learn from you. A lot of good-natured idea and information sharing goes on, which leads to every participant having more resources for success. But you need to go beyond the groups in order to really benefit from Facebook networking.
Start to make “friends” with other group members. You can do this by going through group list and inviting individual group members to be your Facebook friends. One way to accomplish this is to go down the list and simply request each person as your friend. You can choose to send them a message along with your request, which is helpful if they don't already know you. But don't send the exact same message to each person – you'll be accused of spamming by Facebook and risk losing your membership!
Once your own friend list begins to grow, you might want to separate your friends into lists so you can keep track of them. For example, you can create a family list – that's where your family will go (obviously). Then you could create a college friends list, or a church friends list or whatever, and of course, you will want to create an MLM friends list. Eventually you will be able to post a new link on your profile and it will be seen by hundreds of people within a day or two.
The beauty of it is that you have the prospect of gaining new friends each time you add a friend to your list – they all have friends that you might like to connect with as well! As you can see, networking through Facebook is easy to do, and it has the potential for growing your list of connections by leaps and bounds!
We are looking for great and dynamic people who are looking to reach the next level of success in network marketing. Please contact me at dorota@myacaiberryjuice.com
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Supercharge Your MLM By Blogging Your Success!
Now is not the time to be shy or humble. Now is the time to blog about your MLM success! People want to hear about your MLM journey and they want to know about your successes. They even want to know about your failures and how you kept on working to find success!
Your blog is capable of being one of your best MLM recruiting tools, and here's why: your readers want to know about you. They want to identify with you and they want someone they can look to as a role model. They want someone who will share tips and information and also tell them what to avoid. They want someone who isn’t afraid to put themself out there in public and make a name for themself. If you can do that, you'll gain readers and subscribers and you'll grow your business!
If you haven't already created your own blog, I highly suggest you do so as soon as possible. If you've already created one, I'd like to suggest some things you could share with your readers that will really grab their attention:
• Your “journey to success” story.
• Your advice on what not to do. Don't be afraid to share the stories of mistakes you've made – just share how to avoid or fix the mistakes as well!
• Ten reasons why your opportunity kicks the butts of every other opportunity out there.
• Your tips for developing a strong business plan.
• Your goal setting tips.
• Stories about other successful people – they don't have to be network marketers, just stories about successful people who reached their goals through hard work and perseverance.
For those of you who are hesitating to start their own blog, I want to share with you some excellent reasons to:
• It's easy. Even people who are technologically challenged can start a blog!
• You can increase traffic to your website from your blog.
• You can automate your blog posts, meaning that you can write one today, and set it up to post on any date that you choose.
• Google likes blogs!
• You can get backlinks to your blog and increase your page rank.
• More visibility and another excellent way to build your personal brand.
• You can monetize your blog with Adsense and earn some extra money!
• You can sell products (yours or other people's) through your blog.
• People will subscribe and you'll have an audience that is just waiting for your next post!
• If you post on a consistent basis, your reader base will increase.
• Readers can post comments, which means they can participate. You can answer comments if you like, creating a sense of trust and friendship.
• You will earn the reputation of being an expert!
I hope I have convinced you to either start a blog or to continue blogging with lots of energy. Blogging is an incredibly powerful way of bringing in more traffic to your MLM website and making those valuable and highly sought after sales and recruits that we all need for success!
When you let people in on your MLM journey, share your successes and your publish helpful information, they will begin to see you not only as a trusted expert, but also as a trusted friend. This will lead to continued success on your Network Marketing quest.
Your blog is capable of being one of your best MLM recruiting tools, and here's why: your readers want to know about you. They want to identify with you and they want someone they can look to as a role model. They want someone who will share tips and information and also tell them what to avoid. They want someone who isn’t afraid to put themself out there in public and make a name for themself. If you can do that, you'll gain readers and subscribers and you'll grow your business!
If you haven't already created your own blog, I highly suggest you do so as soon as possible. If you've already created one, I'd like to suggest some things you could share with your readers that will really grab their attention:
• Your “journey to success” story.
• Your advice on what not to do. Don't be afraid to share the stories of mistakes you've made – just share how to avoid or fix the mistakes as well!
• Ten reasons why your opportunity kicks the butts of every other opportunity out there.
• Your tips for developing a strong business plan.
• Your goal setting tips.
• Stories about other successful people – they don't have to be network marketers, just stories about successful people who reached their goals through hard work and perseverance.
For those of you who are hesitating to start their own blog, I want to share with you some excellent reasons to:
• It's easy. Even people who are technologically challenged can start a blog!
• You can increase traffic to your website from your blog.
• You can automate your blog posts, meaning that you can write one today, and set it up to post on any date that you choose.
• Google likes blogs!
• You can get backlinks to your blog and increase your page rank.
• More visibility and another excellent way to build your personal brand.
• You can monetize your blog with Adsense and earn some extra money!
• You can sell products (yours or other people's) through your blog.
• People will subscribe and you'll have an audience that is just waiting for your next post!
• If you post on a consistent basis, your reader base will increase.
• Readers can post comments, which means they can participate. You can answer comments if you like, creating a sense of trust and friendship.
• You will earn the reputation of being an expert!
I hope I have convinced you to either start a blog or to continue blogging with lots of energy. Blogging is an incredibly powerful way of bringing in more traffic to your MLM website and making those valuable and highly sought after sales and recruits that we all need for success!
When you let people in on your MLM journey, share your successes and your publish helpful information, they will begin to see you not only as a trusted expert, but also as a trusted friend. This will lead to continued success on your Network Marketing quest.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Becoming an Expert for Your Customers with Article Marketing
If you were considering spending your hard-earned money on something, would you prefer to make that purchase from someone who you considered to be an expert, or from someone who you weren't sure knew anything about what you were buying?
You'd buy from the expert wouldn't you? Most people would agree with you – that it's better to buy from an expert. That's why in your MLM business, it's extremely important to be an expert in the eyes of your customers and the people who may eventually become a part of your downline.
Article marketing is one way to effectively build your reputation as an expert. It's easy to do and completely free, and it has a huge impact! A well-written article that is packed with good, solid information is the kind of article that will find its way in front of potentially thousands and thousands of eyeballs! All these eyeballs could belong to potential customers!
Let's start at the beginning. How can article marketing make you an expert? It's very simple, actually. If you publish a good article online – one that informs, helps and even entertains, people will read it and associate you with the topic of the article. If you publish more articles on the same topic or related topics and people find those articles to be helpful and interesting, people will begin to think of you as an expert on the topic. They can bounce between your articles and start to build a great respect for you and your knowledge.
Being an expert is an advantage, as we've already discussed. Think about it. If you have a toothache, you are going to consult with your dentist about it because he or she is perceived to be an expert on how to handle toothaches. You're not going to ask your car mechanic about your toothache.
In MLM, the concept is the same. You have your business opportunity and your products. You are an expert on those things. One way to prove that to the public and to gain the confidence of customers is through publishing many, many articles that constantly reinforce your image as an expert.
I bet someone who is reading this is thinking, “Oh, but I can't write articles!” It's true that some people don't feel they have the skill (they are skilled at other things) to write an article. And some people haven't got the time or inclination to do it. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't use article marketing as a way to build your reputation as an expert. What this means is that you should get help with writing articles.
You own your own business. You know your products inside and out. You believe in your products. You're an expert! Just because you can't or prefer not to write your own articles doesn't take that away from you! Consider hiring a skilled ghostwriter who will write the articles for you. You receive all rights to the article when you pay your ghostwriter, and then you will publish the articles in your name! There is nothing wrong with doing this, and in fact it shows that you know how to capitalize on your own talents and let someone else capitalize on theirs! It's working smart!
Articles can be published in article directories online. You can also publish them on your own website or blog too. You may want to mail them to the people on your email list, or even allow a business associate to mail them to those on his or her list (keeping your own name and contact information connected to the article).
The point here is to use article marketing to your advantage. It's a great way to build your reputation as a trusted expert for your customers, a great way to generate traffic to your site, and a great way to build your business!
You'd buy from the expert wouldn't you? Most people would agree with you – that it's better to buy from an expert. That's why in your MLM business, it's extremely important to be an expert in the eyes of your customers and the people who may eventually become a part of your downline.
Article marketing is one way to effectively build your reputation as an expert. It's easy to do and completely free, and it has a huge impact! A well-written article that is packed with good, solid information is the kind of article that will find its way in front of potentially thousands and thousands of eyeballs! All these eyeballs could belong to potential customers!
Let's start at the beginning. How can article marketing make you an expert? It's very simple, actually. If you publish a good article online – one that informs, helps and even entertains, people will read it and associate you with the topic of the article. If you publish more articles on the same topic or related topics and people find those articles to be helpful and interesting, people will begin to think of you as an expert on the topic. They can bounce between your articles and start to build a great respect for you and your knowledge.
Being an expert is an advantage, as we've already discussed. Think about it. If you have a toothache, you are going to consult with your dentist about it because he or she is perceived to be an expert on how to handle toothaches. You're not going to ask your car mechanic about your toothache.
In MLM, the concept is the same. You have your business opportunity and your products. You are an expert on those things. One way to prove that to the public and to gain the confidence of customers is through publishing many, many articles that constantly reinforce your image as an expert.
I bet someone who is reading this is thinking, “Oh, but I can't write articles!” It's true that some people don't feel they have the skill (they are skilled at other things) to write an article. And some people haven't got the time or inclination to do it. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't use article marketing as a way to build your reputation as an expert. What this means is that you should get help with writing articles.
You own your own business. You know your products inside and out. You believe in your products. You're an expert! Just because you can't or prefer not to write your own articles doesn't take that away from you! Consider hiring a skilled ghostwriter who will write the articles for you. You receive all rights to the article when you pay your ghostwriter, and then you will publish the articles in your name! There is nothing wrong with doing this, and in fact it shows that you know how to capitalize on your own talents and let someone else capitalize on theirs! It's working smart!
Articles can be published in article directories online. You can also publish them on your own website or blog too. You may want to mail them to the people on your email list, or even allow a business associate to mail them to those on his or her list (keeping your own name and contact information connected to the article).
The point here is to use article marketing to your advantage. It's a great way to build your reputation as a trusted expert for your customers, a great way to generate traffic to your site, and a great way to build your business!
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