Network Marketing Alert! Help And Tips (incorporation services online)

October 29th, 2008 admin Posted in business |

By Mike McCoy

Protect your home business by choosing the right company to represent. There is too much of your time, money, and emotional energy at stake to casually join a network marketing company without thoroughly investigating it.

Watch out for: Exaggerated income claims that appeal to greed, without a sustainable source for the income, other than fees paid by new recruits. Emphasis on shifting money from person to person, without having a product or service change hands. A compensation plan that funnels money to the top brass, rather than distributing it to the associates who make the sales.

Analyze the management. Be suspicious of company leaders whose whole focus is making money, with no regard for helping others. A new, untried company with no track record is no place to risk your business success.

A company that is growing too fast may not be financially stable and possibly has a heavy debt load. An older company whose growth momentum has tapered off may have saturated its market, making it difficult to find new customers.

Avoid a company that requires you to stock, invoice, and deliver products purchased by your customers. This is too time consuming and expensive for you. The company could do it more efficiently. This is also true of managing team structure, accounting, and calculating of down line sales volume, paychecks, and bonuses.

Likelihood of enrolling new MLM team associates: It will be hard to recruit if there is no convenient way to sign up, like a web page or an application form that can be faxed, or if the company does not accept credit cards for required fees. Avoid a company that offers no help with marketing, beyond having you contact your family and friends or calling strangers. It is only interested in access to your warm market.

If there is no website that describes the products or services offered and the business opportunity, it will be hard to sell or recruit, beyond local contacts. Also, you will need to do one-on-one product promotion that could be done more efficiently by a website. Stay away from a company that does not offer good training aids, such as new associate guidelines, CD’s, DVD’s, web pages, brochures, e-mail newsletters, and meetings. You, the recruiter, would need to take extra time with new recruits to train and support them, so they wont drop out.

Unrealistically high team purchase quotas to qualify for override commissions make your income too dependent upon other peoples actions.

Avoid the following products: Limited in number with narrow market appeal Unstable supply, causing back orders, disappointed customers, and lost sales overpriced and/or have no clear advantage over ones that are cheaper and are readily available small, one-time purchases that would not generate residual income.

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Can You Earn Affiliate Marketing Income Without Your Own Website?
By John Baril

Affiliate marketing income works well for many people because you can start a business with very little or no upfront capitol. In addition, the best affiliate marketing programs will supply you with all of the free promotional materials that you will need to market your business.

Many online affiliate marketing programs also supply you with a standard affiliate website with all the product sales material and payment processing preloaded onto it. A common question is, can you succeed with an affiliate marketing income business without your own website and simply direct customers to the generic website that your affiliate program supplies?

The consensus of expert opinion is that it is much better to set up a website of your own so that you can present your products in your own words. Unique content looks good with the search engines and will help you a lot with your traffic building efforts. When visitors arrive on your site your unique sales copy will also pre-sell the benefits of the products to them, making it much more likely that they will purchase the product when they click through to the affiliate page from your website.

Nevertheless, if you really want to market your affiliate program without the hassle of building and maintaining a website, there are several ways that you could do it. Here are some examples.

You can run email marketing campaigns without a website of your own. You can plug your affiliate links directly into the e-mail messages. Use the email to discuss the product and pre-sell it to the readers and direct them to your affiliate sales page via a link in the email.

You can purchase or generate opt-in leads in various ways and import them directly into an auto-responder that you have pre-loaded with messages about the product you are promoting.

You can also advertise your auto-responder address in various ways, such as on appropriate discussion forums, via articles that you can publish on directories, or by starting a blog of your own and posting the link on it.

You could also create a series of e-books and give them away. Dedicate each ebook to a specific theme and fill it with useful information that people would want to read and that would make them more likely to buy the product via your link embedded in the ebook. You don’t have to have a fantastic writing style, and you don’t have to write a 200 page book. Twenty to thirty pages is plenty long enough. You can insert links to your affiliate products at appropriate places in the book and generate some extra sales or sign-ups.

Some article directories and discussion forums prohibit you from placing links to affiliate sales pages in your signature file. On the other hand they will allow you to link to a website or a blog. So if you do not want to set up and manage a website, why not start a free blog with Blogger.com instead? If the blog is simply there as a surrogate website you would not even need to make regular posts. All you would need to do would be to place a sign-up form along with an article to pre-sell the affiliate product you are promoting. By doing that you will be able to participate in discussion forums and send traffic to your pre-sell blog article via the link in your signature file at the same time.

You could do much the same thing with articles that you post on directories. This is a great way to run an online affiliate marketing business without a website. Simply write a series of interesting articles and place a resource box at the foot of each article with a link either to your affiliate page or to the pre-sell page on your blog.

To conclude, while I think it is much better to run an affiliate marketing income business from a website of your own, I must admit that it is not absolutely necessary to do so if that is not something that appeals to you. It is possible to promote your affiliate program and generate sales in the various ways that I mentioned in this article without building a unique affiliate website of your own.

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