Got a great email from a fellow marketer Matt Furey which really got me thinking about how this applies to internet network marketing and network marketing in general.

Just the other day, Alex Rodriguez belted his 600th career home run,
making him only the 7th major league player to do so in 110+
odd years of the league.

Now, truth be told, I am no fan of the New York Yankees, having
grown up near Boston, and even less so of an admitted steroid
user…..one has to admit that this is a herculean feat in itself.

One of Alex’s keys to his success has always been visualization of
his goals, particularly that of hitting home runs.

In fact, a short while ago, he wrote the forward of a book for a
noted sports psychologist, Gary Mack, where he discusses this very fact.

How he visualizes home runs from each and every angle and not just
from the batters box. From the outfield, from the stands, from 2nd
base, everywhere.

Why I bring this up is that this is also one of the hidden roadblocks to
success in any kind of business, particularly in Netw’ork Marketing.

Often this is our own first entry into owning and running a business on
our own and there is a lot of mental garbage we need to sort through
to be successful.

Things like:

“Does net’work marketing really work?”

“Why would someone buy anything from me?”

“I don’t know how to sell anything”

What makes mattes worse is that you have nay sayers from your
family and friends.

Now, I’m not here to convince you that this industry works, or that
you can run a successful business.

What I do want to tell you is that I personally got through alot of the
mental garbage about running a business by learning how to combine
internet marketing and net’work marketing and learning a few basic
marketing principles like target marketing, list building, lead generation,
etc.

It’s really not that hard, just learn a few basic skills and you can start
growing your business today, step by step.

One of the things you can learn in my Simple ML’M Leads Course
is the thought process and some easy proven methods for you to start
generating leads for your own business right now, today, without
all the hype and fluff you hear from many marketers.

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What Is New In Network Marketing?

It’s amazing in the online marketing world that it seems to me that what is old appears to be new again.

What I’m referring to is the resurgence in interest in things like Search Engine Optimization, and other forms of content marketing such as article marketing.

Now, just to clarify, Search Engine Optimization, or SEO is the art and science of ranking your websites and pages in search engines for particular keyword phrases.

Particularly with the numerous “Slaps” that have gone on throughout the online marketing world in the online world, everyone is searching for the “next G…”.

In fact, a fairly well known online marketer what I had always believed to be a “paid marketing” guy, Ryan Deiss, just is releasing this week in fact a product on search engine optimization.

There have been courses on, just to name a few in the last year:

- Yahoo marketing (Screw G.)
- Facebook PPC
- Gmail marketing (we wouldn’t dare call it marketing on the content network)
- Pay Per View Marketing

However, an old standby that I mentioned earlier Search Engine Optimization has really come back to the forefront as an alternative way to “get in front” of your targeted customers from search engines.

In my own SEO journey, particularly in the network marketing industry, I’ve discovered a couple things to be true:

- SEO isn’t hard or complicated

- People, even in our own industry, will tell you certain keywords are “too hard”.  I even read an excerpt that said this very thing in a very well known online industry publication.

- Alot of the information out there is fear based (i.e. you will end up in the “sandbox”, “they” will penalize you for this, you “can’t” build links too fast)

- You can end up really going down a rabbit hole paying attention to TOO many details.

- SEO does take some time, but not as much as you think it might.

In any case, where to start with SEO?

Well, my advice is to start with getting in front of your most targeted prospects for your own company…..those that are actively searching for information regarding your own opportunituy in search engines.

I always like to think of search engines as what the yellow pages and the encyclopedia used to be…to find information and do research on problems or questions.

With that said, one of the best ways to do this is to “be found” on page one, or better yet, close to the top of search engines for keyword phrases relating to your company name.

What is the best way to start with this?

Before you start creating content, before you start on-page optimization…before you start building links….

A “good” domain name…..one that contains your company name in the root URL, the closer to the beginning of the site name, the better.

For example:

If you were in Amway (as an example, everyone knows Amway)

Get a domain name like this:

- AmwayReviews.com
- AmwayWorks.com
- AmwayTopTeam.com

Now, some companies might complicate things, by not allowing you to use their name on your website….check with your company before you begin this.

Now, these days some of the better keyword names might be taken, so you can use this handy reference to use for “stop words” http://www.seowhitehats.com/2009/03/10/search-engine-stopwords.html

Why should you start with a good domain name?

Well, I’m an ex-Army grunt so I can best put it in terms of military terminology, it sets the conditions for success best for your website.

Think of search engines as a computer program (which it is).

One of the first things the search engine bots who research your site will read is your URL name.

Why not give your site the best chance possible, and from the beginning, and get yourself in front of the MOST targeted prospects for your opportunity with internet network marketing.

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Network Marketing Propsects Do They Act Like This?

It has been absolutely crazy over here the last week or so. I’ve had all kinds of problems with my website hosting account.

Just a word of advice, when you do go with a website hosting, make sure to go with a well established name with 24/7 support and don’t go the cheap route like I did with my 1st website. That makes things painful when everything goes awry.

Anyway, I was just on the phone Saturday with one of my business builders and she had and awesome question that I think alot of people struggle with when they get started in internet network marketing, what exactly do you write about on your blog or in a newsletter?

Now, she is very product focused, and not so much into recruiting business builders, but the same principles apply there as they do anywhere.

She is very new to internet network marketing, but not new network marketing in general and she had a really hard time grasping what to write about on her blog or newsletter that her current clients and prospects would be interested in .

Her initial reaction was to write about how wonderful her product lines are how they would be great for people to use (bleh), which is a fairly typical way for those in network marketing to look at things…..its all about them.

What I suggested was this…

Write about a particular pain or frustration that your customers and prospects are having, giving them information about it, and then in the end tying in how a product or service in your company can help them alleviate that.

You really need to target who your customers are as well.

So, for example, let’s say that you are in a nutritional business and many of your prospects and customers are mom’s who are concerned about the health of their kids.

The way you need to approach that is write something about “common childhood illnesses” and how they are related to poor nutrition and then offer up your product as a solution to their kids getting better nutrition.

It’s really as simple as that.

We all want to read more about our pains and frustrations and how we can get rid of them, so you need to write from that angle, not from the perspective of just another MLM’er looking to make a sale.

Guaranteed if you do it right, you will have people beating down your door for more information about your product or opportunity.

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Top Internet Network Marketing Tools

Here is a list of the “Top 10″ internet network marketing tools, trainings, and sources to just give to you as a shortcut to your success.  But, I’ve divided it up into several different categories.

OK, not exactly 10 resources…..

Don’t take this list lightly, as it has literally taken me years of trial and error to put together.

Article Directories -

EzineArticles.com

ArticlesBase.com

GoArticles.com

IdeaMarketers.com

ArticleDashboard.com

Article Marketing Tool -

Unique Article Wizard

Video Site

YouTube.com (Duh )

Video Submitters

TubeMogul.com (Free)

TrafficGeyser.com (Paid)

Video Editing Software

Camtasia

Favorite Place To Get Leads From

Google

Yahoo

Place To Get A Website  -

Hostgator – Plus they will install a blog in one click for you

Autoresponder

Aweber

Shopping Cart

1ShoppingCart.com

Internet Network Marketing Trainers

Mike Dillard

Daegan Smith

Marketing Trainers

Dan Kennedy

Perry Marshall

Places To Network And Learn

BetterNetworker.com

WarriorForum.com

Place to find offers that complement my main opportunity

Clickbank.com

If you like this, if you wouldn’t mind re-tweeting or sharing on Facebook.

Kurt

Are There Really Any Secrets To Network Marketing?

Far too often, the new distributor starts off very enthusiastically, works for a month or two and struggles and finally begins a quest for whatever secrets network marketing that there are out there.

Often they see the parade of successful distributors, especially at a convention where companies tend to highlight those high achievers especially.

Well to be honest, there are no real secrets to network marketing, but success in it does come down to a critical few skills that you need to master.

First, you need to be able find people whos needs you can suit best and become a problem solver and solutions provider for them first.  For example if you have an anti-aging product, your best customers are those that are already searching for a way to reverse aging, and not those people you “just happen to talk about it with”

Next, you are going to need a way to generate leads from that targeted group of individuals.  This is where internet network marketing comes into play.  By using some simple stuff like a blog and creating some basic content that would be of interest to your target market, you can absolutely go out and start to generate leads from those most interested in what you have to offer.

Finally, need a way to convert those leads to either sales of downlines in your organization.  The real secret here is your ability to be able to write a compelling letter that will entice your target market to take some kind of action, whether that is to buy your product or to join your opportunity.

So, really the only secret here is that you need to develop some skills, a process and a system to flesh out those details of how to follow those processes to build your business.

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