How Network Marketing Works

Did you know that Yahoo! is one of the biggest sources of internet traffic – and you can use it for free!

Here’s how to tap into Yahoo and drive loads of targeted visitors to your network marketing website. This page will even show you how to brand yourself as an authority figure.

Many people go to Yahoo Answers to ask a question or seek information regarding a certain topic. Yahoo Answers is in fact quite similar to forum marketing. The main difference between Yahoo and forums is that with Yahoo you also get the benefit of search engine rankings. And you get to leave your signature at the end of the post as well!

One of the main reasons why Yahoo Answers is so effective when it comes to getting leads for your network marketing business is that when people ask certain questions – especially if it is about building a network marketing opportunity, you will have the chance to give them an answer – simply by stating your opinion or by sharing your knowledge. They will see you as an authority figure and you can build your credibility there.

Once you have authority and people trust you, it is so easy to get them to visit your website. You can then even get them to join your downline or buy your products!

So let’s look at some ways to generate traffic:

• Try and answer as many questions as you can. Yahoo Answers works by using a points system. You gain points for answering as many questions as you can and you score big points for getting the best answers if they are voted by the person asking the question (remember, the one posting the question could be your friend, so work together with him or her).

• You need to have a great signature at the end of your post – you can place your URL or even your blog address (assuming that you have a blog that is about network marketing – if you don’t have one, it is good to make one).

• Look for questions that are quite relevant to your network marketing business – especially if it concerns your product. Let’s say people are looking for ways to clean metal, so recommend your metal cleaner there. Just make sure you are giving constructive information rather than ’spamming’ links.

• This isn’t strictly good etiquette but could be tried occasionally. If you don’t find relevant questions regarding your network marketing business, there is one thing that you can do and it is very simple – simply get another Yahoo user to post a question about your network marketing product. You can be the one who answers the question and you can even ask the user to vote your answer as the BEST answer.

Remember to build your reputation on Yahoo! You will be able to get lots of traffic because Yahoo Answers tend to rank very well on Google and because Google treats Yahoo! as an authority.

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Article marketing is an important tool to have when it comes to generating traffic for your network marketing business.

It’s all about writing informative and helpful articles which will be submitted to article directories. These article directories have a team of editors who have to approve your article before it can be shown. An article’s approval is based on its relevancy, its grammar and vocabulary, whether is it informative enough and not too ’sales pitchy’, and whether it not it is the appropriate length (about 400-750 words is usually fine).

One of the main reasons why article marketing is so effective is that it is capable of generating really long-term traffic. So when you submit an article to an article directory, you are gaining all the benefits of viral marketing. But just how does this viral marketing technique work?

It works like this: When your article gets approved by the editors, people will be able to find your articles on their search engines. If your article is written well, people can even republish the article (as long as they keep the information intact without altering it and quoting where they get the published article from).

And the people who republish your articles will also keep your bio box intact – which is where you get to sell yourself and let loads more people know who you are and where you are.

Once people start republishing your articles, you will get traffic from sources everywhere and others will be doing your marketing for you – this is what is meant by creating a viral effect.

Of course, the first thing you need to do is write your article! Or you can pay someone else to do it for you. Look for freelancers on elance.com or getafreelancer.com. You can find someone to write your article from as little as $5 to $10.

Make sure the article you are submitting contains good grammar. You don’t need have a master’s degree in English literature to write a good article, but it does help if English is your first language – so look out for this when hiring freelancers. Make sure you don’t have blatant mistakes and you should be okay.

Your article needs to be written as an educational or informational piece and not a sales pitch. Most article directories frown at people who try to do blatant promotion on directories, so try to be as neutral as possible.

Of course, you can ’sell’ yourself, you can do so in your author’s bio box.

Following is a list of directories where you can submit your articles:

1) EzineArticles.com
2) GoArticles.com
3) Buzzle.com
4) IdeaMarketers.com
5) ArticleDashboard.com
6) Articlealley.com
7) Articlecube.com
Amazines.com
9) Searchwarp.com

In order to generate massive leads for your network marketing business, make sure your article educates people about your product. Or even try to share tips on how to get more network marketing leads.

Submit 4-7 articles per week or if possible, 1-2 articles per day. This does not mean that you have to commit to writing 4-7 articles, because if you can’t write them you can just outsource.

When searching for an article writer don’t give up too soon if you can’t find any good one initially. Sometimes you need a few try before you can get really good writers to write for you.

Keep to your article marketing plan and you will soon be able to see a lot of consistent targeted traffic.

Jaz Lai is the King of Online Network Marketing . Download your free white paper and audio on how to use the internet to Double or Triple your organization within the next 30 days. Available for the next 24 hours only, click below for instant access : http://www.HowToNetworkMarketing.com

Did you know that when you post comments on other people’s blogs you can drive traffic to your own network marketing website and increase your number of prospects at the same time?

Sound too good to be true? Read on…

People love it when you post comments on their blogs. Whether it is a positive comment or a negative comment you can still get lots of traffic to your blog as a result of raising controversial issues or expressing your opinion in a forceful way.

There are two main types of situation where people post comments:

1) Many people just post comments ‘naturally’, which is when they want to engage in a conversation or express their own opinion, be visible to other blog readers and sometimes to get people to visit their website through their name (which is a link to their website).

Occasionally, people abuse this method by posting poor or pointless comments only to facilitate their own interests by publishing their links. These type of comments are generally frowned upon, but good comments will be noticed by other readers and this often results in additional traffic.

2) The second reason behind comments posts is to get the page rank juice from them. For most Wordpress sites, there is a default ‘no-follow’ tag – this means that the links do not pass on the ranking juice. A lot of other blogs out there have a ‘do-follow’ tag – like Squidoo or other platforms. By commenting on these blogs, your site’s page rank will increase.

So which sites are worth commenting on? Here are some ways to find sites where you can comment:

Do a Google search and look for the keyword ‘network marketing blog’ or ‘MLM blog’. The term network marketing or MLM blog can be replaced by other network marketing company names such as – Forever Living, Zrii, Xango, Amway, or others. As long as you search for active blogs, these will be the best kind of platforms for you to comment on.

When you go someone’s blog, make sure you give constructive comments or advice. Whatever you do, don’t spam them by commenting; "Great Post! Meanwhile, check out my network marketing opportunity…" This is the worst way to start a conversation and is frowned upon. People will probably remove your comment entirely from the blog. Introduce yourself properly first, and don’t pitch your business opportunity the very first time you meet someone – wait until you have built up a rapport.

Begin and follow up a healthy discussion comparing network marketing products. One example is how you can generate more leads etc. There are loads of ways you can engage in a healthy discussion, and after posting a few good comments, people will take notice of you (most likely as a regular commenter) and will visit your own blog to find out what you are all about. The key here is to take time to build relationships and trust between different blog readers.

It is possible to outsource the blog commenting tasks to others by paying them a fee to do so. This is also viable but you must make sure that the person who is commenting is properly reflecting your personality and passion – you don’t want them to misrepresent you!

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There is a fantastic tool on the Internet that is quite controversy but it is also a well kept secret – the Tell a Friend script. It is one of the most useful tools on the Internet which you can use to build your network marketing business.

But just how useful is it? First, let’s look at the figures.

The Tell a Friend script gets installed on your opt-in form. Then, when someone register and opts-in, they will have the option to refer 3 or more friends to your lead capture page. These 3 referrals then get a chance to view your lead capture page and they can join your subscribers’ list – and this is achieved all by leveraging the efforts of other people.

So, you’re thinking this mean that you get up to 3 times the number of leads? You won’t believe it but you can get loads more than that!

If one person refers 3, those 3 might opt-in and get ANOTHER 3 each – making a total of 9 new subscribers! When those 9 then refer another three each, you will have 27 and then later 81 and so on! And on and on!

Of course, these figures are hypothetical – but even if you only succeeded a third of the time, you would still be managing to grow your subscription rate far more quickly than without Tell a Friend script.

This is the power of duplication on the Internet – just like in network marketing!

So what is the best way to use the power of the tell-a-friend script and watch your business grow? First, write a special report (usually about 10-15 pages long) about your company’s business opportunity to set the bait for getting prospects to opt in to your mailing list.

Next, give them the free report in exchange for their primary email address and a chance for them to collect another free gift (perhaps another free report) when they refer three of their friends to your landing page.

If you don’t want to write a free report yourself or don’t want to pay a ghostwriter to do the work for you, you can even obtain private the label rights to network marketing E-books and re-brand them with your own name as the author.

Where do you obtain Tell a Friend scripts? Look around for a good viral product – one product that is very popular is Mike Filsaime’s Viral Friend Generator.

With these tools, you can start driving huge traffic to your website – the key is to submit articles to article directories with your lead capture page or landing page in the author’s box. You can also get a lot of traffic from other people’s blogs by posting comments (useful comments… don’t spam) on their blogs or by exchanging links with them.

And as long as people find your free report useful, they will be more than willing to share it with their friends or even their downlines! This is the way to build up a great reputation as an expert, too.

Once you’ve set up your Tell a Friend system, you can start to divert all your traffic from blogs, articles and other sources to that page and watch as your leads and prospects increase. After all, network marketing is about word of mouth, and word of mouth works just as well online!

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In the last article we talked about the quick and easy way to set up your first blog. Now that your blog is up and running, we will discuss how to structure your content – and most importantly how to make money from it.

First you need to drive traffic to your blog. This is essential. But what are the best ways to do this? Your answer lies in SEO (or Search Engine Optimization). PPC or pay per click is also a great way to get traffic but you will need to have a way to track your costs or there is no way to tell how effective it is. There is more on this below.

First let’s look at blogging. Blogs and SEO are inseparable. Normal websites take a while to get high ranking in the search engine. On the other hand, it is easy to get blog to rank well in the search engines, but also very quick to be dropped. Since we need to make kick start our mlm traffic, it is always better to get traffic fast and show some results rather than worry about long term ranking.

Here is a tip to achieve this:

Visit https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Type in a keyword of your choice – it could be any keyword that helps with network marketing lead generation: Forever Living, Xango, Amway, Herbalife or simply network marketing tips. Look for keywords with a high search count and blog about that!

Include the keywords in your blog post title and 2 or 3 in the body text and this will start picking up search engine traffic. Make sure you target long tail keywords as well (examples of long tail keywords are: ‘driving traffic for network marketing’ and ‘network marketing for moms’). Remember, lots of long tail keywords will get you more combined traffic compared to the main page of a blog.

Next, you need to select a theme for your blog that is suitable for your network marketing business. The best way to go about it is to choose a theme color that matches your network marketing company’s main website. This will give it a matching feel and gives the site credibility – it also makes the readers the think it is an authority site.

You can also get traffic from Google AdWords. Although pay per click is quite expensive, you can get a rough idea how well the traffic responds to your offers if you have a lead capture page set up on your blog. As long as you get about 200 clicks, you can gauge the conversion or opt-in rate for your blog and can tweak from there.

The last thing you need to do is find a few ways to monetize your blog.

Here are the best 3 ways to monetize:

1. Sell your own information product at the front end. You can write a twenty page report (or outsource it at Elance.com) that shares information on your network marketing company’s product. Use it as a tool to build relationships and sell it inexpensively at $7 or $10 for cash flow. This will also brands you as an authority.

2. Promote network marketing affiliate programs such as HowNetworkMarketingWorks.com or MagneticSponsoring.com

These programs provide really good conversions (in other words, a very high chance to close sales for you) and allow you to strengthen your rapport with all your prospects.

3. Promote your network marketing opportunity on the front end as well. With good information sites you will have targeted visitors. Make sure your company has an affiliate link or page that will allow your customers to access the purchase screen easily.

Blogging is the 21st century way to build your network marketing business. In an age where practically everyone you meet is a distributor of a network marketing company, you have to learn to differentiate yourself by using personalized techniques.

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This step by step guide will show you how to bring in network marketing leads using blog traffic – one of the most profitable and easy ways to generate leads. Read on…

Free Blogs

The best blog format you can use for the free blog model is Blogger.com. This is suitable for anyone who is building a home-based business on a tight budget and is easy to use and set up. Even though it’s free, it is still able to get loads of blog traffic.

Beware of the free Wordpress blog – the administrators at Wordpress don’t want people making money with their free sub-domains, so it may be best to avoid using this model. (If you want to make the best of using Wordpress read the ‘paid-for blog’ section below.)

Blogger.com is easy to use – just follow the instructions in 3 easy steps :

1. Create a Blogger account
2. Name your blog (in other words give your blog a URL which will be yourblog.blogspot.com)
3. Choose one of their generic templates for your blog. There are loads to choose from and you can find one which suits the corporate image of your business.

The Paid-For Blog Model

The paid-for blog model offers some advantages, for example:

• Your content is not owned by a third party. With Blogger there is the danger of having your blogs deleted by the administrators.
• You will have complete control over the content of the blog and the traffic you receive.
• There is more scope to customize your page, with the theme, styles, fonts and overall appearance and functionality.

Now you have decided which model to use, it is time to drive traffic to your blog.

Firstly, look for one way links as soon as you can. Look for other MLM bloggers using Google and Technorati and offer to either promote their products on your blog or request a Blogroll exchange. Remember, people tend to reciprocate when they know you have something useful you can offer in return.

Next, get some of your blog posts and rewrite them in article format. This will not only get you traffic and rankings from article directories and Google, but you also saves time because you don’t have to write the article from scratch.

The next step is to submit your blog to blog directories. Most blog directories require you to have a few blog posts up before they will approve your site, so make sure you have at least six posts posted.

TAG your posts with relevant keywords. These meta tags are picked up by the search engines and that way you can be found easily when people are searching for a particular keyword.

Be sure to write (or outsource if you can’t write them yourself) really good quality posts. You can get a lot of natural traffic through viral marketing if people start talking about your blog posts – or if they give you some link love.

Use link baiting strategies to promote your blog. This is when you encourage others to link to you on their blog posts. Again, you need to give them an incentive to do so.

Write short press releases and submit these to prominent press release sites. Some press release sites get approved very quickly and you might even see links pointing to your sites appearing on Google News!

Once you’ve completed the steps above you will be ready to monetize blog traffic – and this will even work long after you’ve stopped writing content.

Jaz Lai is a network marketing online expert. Download your free white paper and audio on how to use the internet to Double or Triple your organization within the next 30 days. Available for the next 24 hours only, click below for instant access : http://www.HowToNetworkMarketing.com

Building your network marketing business is very dependent on your ability to build a successful downline for yourself. If you cannot recruit network marketers under you, then you will not be a network marketer. Your downline is the structure, the framework of your entire network. Without it you will have no network.

These are 5 MLM marketing tips that will help you to succeed with your network recruiting methods.

1. You must be able to convey to people that the business and product line has great value. This will be the first thing on anyone’s mind. You must be able to show the prospects how valuable the products are above any others. Why the products are of high quality and what they offer to the market. Why the products create loyal customers and why the company is the best darn network marketing company that is in the industry.

The prospects will all be interested in the opportunity and compensation plans that company has to offer them, but above all, they want to know if the products the company markets are good. When you paint a picture of the the products being the best available and has a growing market, then you are doing your job.

2. Once you have sold the prospect on the product and company, you need to let them know that they have commitment and support from the company with regards to training.

No one wants to join a company only to find themselves left on their own. The new recruits need training in order to become solid network marketers. Many of the prospects you will be dealing with do not know the first thing about marketing and will be looking to you for starting things off on the right foot. It will be up to you as their sponsor, to ensure that you will be there for everyone you sign up. This is about being responsible and being a good sponsor.

3. Showing all of your recruits the different options of network marketing techniques that are available on the Internet and off the Internet.

There are many different options to network market with. It will be up to you to show the recruits what methods are available for them to choose from. Everyone is different. What works well for you might not be something that someone else is interested in duplicating. If you are open and honest, leaving the different options up to your downline, they will respect you for this. If you are not very familiar with a particular method of network marketing that a new recruit wants to investigate, let them know and find out how to do it.

4. Be confident with your prospects. As a sponsor, your downline will be looking to you for the emotional support they need. The best sponsors will always lead with instilling confidence in their downlines ability to do the best they can. Lead by example and the pack will follow you anywhere. When you are confident that your downline can succeed, then they will probably surprise you and be a success. If you are open and honest with everyone, they will return the favour.

5. Wet your downline’s appetite from time to time. Whether it is a new sales contest or a company retreat or convention. When you find out about something on the horizon, teasing your downline with some anticipation for something great is invaluable. It will always create an air of excitement and motivate everyone for more sales.

These five tips will certainly help you get and keep a downline. Being a sponsor is wearing a few different hats sometimes, but will always pay off for you if you are honest and respectful to everyone around you that is depending on your lead.

Jaz Lai is a network marketing online expert. Download your free white paper and audio on how to use the internet to Double or Triple your organization within the next 30 days. Available for the next 24 hours only, click below for instant access : http://www.HowToNetworkMarketing.com

When it comes to Web 2.0 list building, you’ll find that this is one revolution that you cannot afford to miss out on. When you are thinking of Web 2.0, you’ll find that people are not referring to any sort of new technology; as a matter of fact, many of the different tools that are definitive to the Web 2.0 experience are tools that have been around since the early days of the web, but the truth is, this phrase implies a new and exciting use of these tools.

One of the first tools that you need to make sure that you have handy is your blog. With blogs being added every day, it is easy to see that many people have realized how useful and powerful they are. Your blog can get your customers new and updated information about what it is and what’s more, you’ll be able to take advantage of the various search engines that are designed specifically to take advantage of the blogging revolution.

The oldest blog indexing site around, and arguably one of the best is Technorati. You’ll find that people will go on to blog index sites merely to browse and to find new work to look at, and if your blog is interesting and has a lot of good information on it, you can be sure that you’ll see a boost in traffic. Technorati will allow your blog to be ranked according to popularity, and you’ll also see that there is a great deal of benefit when it comes to link building and other similar techniques that will allow you to push your Google ranking up.

When you are looking for ways to maximize your list building when it comes to Web 2.0 techniques, don’t forget that you need to look at the sites where people go. If you have the technology, the means and the time, consider putting up an amusing video clip of some sort on YouTube. YouTube gains millions of hits a day, and if you can claim even a tiny fraction of them, you’ll find that this is one way that you can really make your mark on the industry.

Web 2.0 link building will also let you see the advantage of using the social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. This is a good way to get your name out there in a place that people will definitely see, and it will also allow you to really figure out what people are saying about your product. You’ll see that enabling comments is a good way to make sure that you stay on top of what is popular and what is desirable, and you’ll also see that there is a great deal to be said for taking advantage of the viral network marketing that occurs in such places as well.

You’ll also find that using sites like Spicypage, StumbleUpon, Digg, Squidoo and Del.icio.us are great ways to both establish yourself as an expert and to really take advantage of the people browsing those sites. Take some time to really figure out what you can do and what your resources, and you’ll soon realize how vital Web 2.0 marketing really is!

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When you are looking to make a new start in the field of online marketing and sales, you’ll find that there are a lot of terms that are thrown your way and direct network marketing and direct sales are going to be two that see a great deal of. Although both of these options are excellent for helping you make money, you need to understand a little bit about the difference between them and how they relate to you. Remember that you will want to go with the options that play to your strengths, and that you will want to make sure that the choices you make reflect the manner in which you want to make money.

First, we can take look at network marketing. Network marketing involves a very hands-on business approach, where you will be given plenty of support and where you will find yourself in an intricate sort of compensation plan. When you sign up, you are given a sponsor who will essentially work as your contact with the company as well as providing you with the support that you need to get started. You’ll find that the sales that you make will be credited in part to your sponsor, who will receive a percentage of your earnings. This will get passed on later down the line when you act as a sponsor yourself and you will reap commissions from your own downline.

Direct sales, on the other hand, involves no sponsors, and you will be paid a straight percentage in terms of commission whatever you choose to do. Instead of selling memberships, there is a good chance that you will be selling specific goods instead, and you’ll see that this is a very independent sort of business. In some cases, you may be asked to hold your inventory, but more and more, companies that are giving out direct sales opportunities will simply hold the merchandise for you; all you need to do is make sure that people find the merchandise in question by using the link or pages that you provide.

Both of these forms of internet business are known for making a fair amount of cash, and it is not surprise that more and more people are flocking to them. If you have an interest in making money on your own terms and making your own hours, this might be exactly what you are looking for. It is important to consider what your resources are; can you afford the time it takes to get this business set up? Keep in mind the fact that no matter what the website promises that you cannot get something for nothing. There is a great deal of information on the fact that you need to put a fair amount of work into these endeavors, especially at the beginning.

Take some time to see what good can come from network marketing and from direct sales. There are many differences between the two different fields, so figure out which approach really works for you and move forward with your goals!

Jaz Lai is a network marketing online expert. Download your free white paper and audio on how to use the internet to Double or Triple your organization within the next 30 days. Available for the next 24 hours only, click below for instant access : http://www.HowToNetworkMarketing.com

When searching for the best network marketing opportunity for yourself, there are a few pitfalls you wish to avoid. Sometimes, knowing what you want is not enough. Network marketing companies, as whole, takes a bad wrap. There are plenty of great network companies out there to choose from, but there are also a few things to avoid before selecting a company you wish to work for.

1. Does the Sponsor’s nose begin to grow as he talks about his company?

When choosing a company, you will be in communication with someone who will sponsor you. There is a lot of hype involved with some of the pitch, sometimes. A sponsor will want you in his downline because you are an investment. Empty promises are something to look out for. If your sponsor can not do anything but talk the talk, then avoid the company or find someone else in the company to sponsor you.

A good sponsor will run the business based on integrity and honesty. Being a good sponsor means that everyone is the sponsor’s downline gets full support and commitment from him or her. A good sponsor might talk a mile a minute and be enthusiastic about the company, but will not lie to you. Great sponsors will command the respect of the company and network under them.

If you are in doubt as to the integrity of a particular sponsor, ask to communicate directly with some of his downline team. If the sponsor puts you off, then move on. This would indicate that the sponsor has something to hide.

2. Does the company sound too good to be true?

In the network marketing industry, many companies seem to spring up overnight with the best laid compensation plans and products in the whole world. Wouldn’t it be nice to become a millionaire overnight?

If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. Consider that many network marketing companies fold up within a couple of years. It would put you into a state of shock if one morning you went online to find your company was simply gone. All the time and commitment you put into your business would be gone very suddenly.

If you stick with companies that have survived for more than four years, then you are dealing with companies that are doing almost everything right. Network marketing is a great way to make a lot of money, but the newer companies are a risk.

3. Should you go with a company that says It’s our way or the highway?

Finding a good company that is about duplicating good solid methods for success is one thing, but a company that insists everyone is imitating everyone else spells disaster.

There are many great Internet techniques that can generate great leads and sales for you to learn. Duplicating these techniques will ensure you a good income, but if you are not encouraged to be independent with some of your own twist on things, it will discourage any creative input you might have.

4. Again, with bad sponsors…

Yes, again with bad sponsors. If you have verified and clarified everything with your sponsor, then join and find out the sponsor is not accessible to you, get out or find another sponsor. Life is too short to wait around for someone who makes promises but won’t deliver.

5. What is your gut telling you?

The pitch has you dizzy with dollar signs in your head, but the company is brand new. Pay close attention to what your natural instincts are trying to tell you. Do not jump into something because you can’t see past the dollar signs that are floating in front of your eyes!

Jaz Lai is a network marketing online expert. Download your free white paper and audio on how to use the internet to Double or Triple your organization within the next 30 days. Available for the next 24 hours only, click below for instant access : http://www.HowToNetworkMarketing.com