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February 18, 2008
Free MLM Marketing Tips
As a professional network marketer, you want to use resources that are effective as well as low cost or free to market your product, service, or opportunity. Squidoo is one such source! Here are 7 free mlm marketing tips you can use successfully with Squidoo today.
Tip #1: Make your Squidoo lens useful. If is is filled with junk, it will be poorly rated. People need to appreciate what you are offering. So, make sure you have good content on your lenses.
Tip #2: Make your lens easy to find. This is done by doing your keyword research first. You can also check the tag clouds within Squidoo itself. The words in larger fonts are the ones that are highly searched. After you have done your research, place your chosen keyword phrase in the title of your lens. You can also add them to your lenses tags. Make sure you find keyword phrases for all 40 tags Squidoo permits you to have per lens. This will help people find you even easier when they use search engines such as Google.
Tip #3: Proclaim yourself as an expert. You can do this in your bio section of Squidoo. Make sure you add your picture as well. Always use a professional username. It is ok to say that you are an expert. After all, each of us are experts in some area!
Tip #4: Get your readers involved. This is a great free mlm marketing tip for Squidoo. Your readers need to view you as someone they can connect with. Here are a couple of suggestions for you:
-Have controversial topics on your lens.
-Use the Guestbook module to ask provoking questions.
-Permit others to link your lens to theirs. you do this with the Plexo module. What is neat about this is that it also helps your lens rank to go up and gives your more content. It also shows that you are open to other's views.
Tip #5: Keep fresh content. When you start a lens, you will want to keep it updated with fresh content everyday. You can do this by adding modules. A good one to use is the RSS module where you put RSS feeds from your blog or others and set it to update daily, hourly, etc. The key is to keep the fresh content coming.
Tip #6: Keep your readers coming back. You will want to keep your readers constantly coming back to visit your lens. You can easily do this by having an autoresponder set up where you can notify then when you make changes. If you blog, participate in forums, comment on others blogs, etc., you can also have the URL to your lens in your signature file.
Tip #7: Use social bookmarking and pinging services. You want to create links coming back to your Squidoo lens. You can do this by using sites such as Only Wire and Social Poster to bookmark your lens. You can also use the RSS functions of sites such as Pingoat or Pingomatic as well. All of these resources will increase traffic to your lens.
As you can see, there are a number of things you can do to effectively market your mlm product, service, or opportunity with a Squidoo lens. Begin to follow these free mlm marketing tips today!
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February 13, 2008
Running a Work at Home Business
For anyone who wants to earn more money than they'd ever get with a day job, then the only real answer (besides winning the lottery) is to start their own business. Of course, starting a business can be very costly, something that puts starting a traditional business out of the reach of many people.
However, there is an alternative, and that's starting a business from home. There are several different alternatives a person can choose from, from coming up with a completely new idea and concept and creating their own products, to joining an existing MLM type business, to starting an online business.
Lately, a huge number of people have been lured by the idea of making their millions on the Internet, but the sad fact is, few of them ever make a decent living, let alone a fortune, online. Why is that? Many online opportunities are promoted as being very simple, and easy enough for everyone to do. If that were truly the case, there would be a lot more online success stories today than there are!
One problem people have is too much choice. There are so many different opportunities and ideas, that they try and run with the lot, and end up falling quite heavily, simply because without focus a business is doomed to failure. Another problem is that many people really don't have any idea about running a business, and don't think about their home business as they would a real, traditional business.
If you really do want to start a work at home business, and aren't afraid to put in a lot of time and effort (especially in the beginning) there are a few important things you need to know to set you on the right path.
Firstly, watch your expenditure. An online business can be one of the least expensive businesses to run. Most people already have the basics they need to get started (a computer with an Internet connection). However, the problem comes when they actually start looking at online businesses and means of making money. Suddenly they're confronted with a million and one different products ALL of which are supposed to guarantee success.
Many people spend hundreds, or even thousands of dollars, very quickly when they're starting out in the world of Internet business, and soon find that most of it was money down the toilet. To avoid this, you need to work out what it is you're going to be doing online and create a plan. There are numerous ways of making money on the Internet, including: eBay and other auction sites, affiliate marketing, Adsense (and other contextual advertising), as well as marketing your own product. Once you know what it is you want to do, then find one very good resource, and stick to it, The hint here is to do a bit of research first, and get honest reviews of any product before you purchase, rather than letting a sales letter induce you to purchase another worthless product.
The next thing you need to focus on is how you're going to build your business. Most online businesses start with a website (and although there are plenty of sites that promise you don't need a website of your own, anyone who wants to make a long term living online will need a website). You then need a step-by-step plan you can follow, and you need to be able to follow it! One of the best things about working from home is also one of the most problematic, and that's the fact that you can work your own hours. Unfortunately, if you're not able to discipline yourself you may find that the hours actually spent in front of your computer aren't enough. It helps if you can work out a day to day plan of exactly what you want to accomplish each day, so that you know you're on the right track.
Finally, it's worth remembering that a work at home business, even an online one, will require a certain amount of dedication and effort before you'll be rewarded with results. It's not a matter of whipping up a quick website and waiting for the money to start flowing in, and if anyone tells you it is, odds are, they're lying! Be prepared for months (even years) of hard, consistent work, and you'll reap the rewards, but fall for too many get-rich-quick schemes and promises and you'll be back to your day job before you know it.
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