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Business Opportunity Lead Generation on Google, from Bill Brine-Lead Generation
Feeds for Business Opportunity Lead Generation on Google [Published by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master ] 1. Home Small Business Tips Home Small Business Tips Asserting Your Rights as a Customer As a home small business owner, you are also a customer of those who supply you with products and services which support your business venture. Have you ever run into a situation where one of your suppliers provides little or no response to a problem? You feel frustrated and powerless to do anything to resolve the situation. As internet marketers, we have more power and influence than we realize. You can sometimes use this power and influence to help resolve such situations. Case in point: I recently signed up for a new service I wanted to try out. After about a week or so, I decided that I was not interested after all, so I consulted their website Terms of Service and dutifully submitted a support ticket as instructed, giving all the pertinent details and asking for the account and the monthly charge to be deleted. All good so far. I got the normal automated response that the system had received my ticket and it would be addressed within one business day. Hmm ... after 5 days there was no response. I logged into the ticket system and saw that nothing had occurred. So, I raised the priority of the ticket and inserted a response asking when someone was going to look at this. Still no response. I waited another 5 days (I'm a patient fellow). This time I raised the priority to critical and inserted the following response: "I have been more than patient waiting for a response to this issue. If I do not receive a positive response to this issue within 24 hours, I will initiate the following escalation plan: 1. I will submit 1 ticket per day requesting account deletion for 1 week, then 2 tickets per day, and so on until I get a response. 2. I will begin a massive blogging and online Press Release campaign detailing your company's unresponsiveness. Your website claims you pride yourself on good customer service. Lets see some of that." I got a response within the hour! The issue was resolved and my account and monthly charge were deleted, and I was happy. What can we learn from this? First, I think it is important to be patient. Don't expect instant resolution. But if something hasn't happened after a reasonable amount of time, come up with an escalation plan and tell them what you are going to do. Be nice but firm. Use your power wisely and proportionally, but never be afraid to use it. And above all, always provide excellent service to your own customers! Bill Brine-Home Small Business Coach Previous Home Small Business Tip 2. A Social Network that PAYS!! A Social Network that PAYS I'm sure you are aware of the emerging trend on the internet of social networking sites such as Facebook, Youtube, Myspace, and the like. More and more people are using these site to keep in touch, and to renew relationships with old friends. Used properly, these sites can also be a powerful addition to your marketing efforts. Google just loves these sites! Now, what if you could get PAID simply for participating in a social network such as this? What if you could get paid for all the activities of everyone whom you introduced to this network? What if you could get paid whenever you do anything within the network? Get paid to promote your sites and services... Get paid for reading and sending emails... Get paid when you share photos and videos... Get paid for blogging or sharing an article. Get paid for chatting and playing video games... Get paid for listening to music.. If you are a musician, you can get paid royalties whenever anyone listens to or downloads your music... This is the concept behind a new social network, called My Music Ticket, that is set to launch within the next 2 days. The potential is HUGE. A lot of money will be made by those who take action and become Pro members at the ridiculous price of $59.95 a month. I was introduced to this only yesterday by a new friend in one of the many social networks to which I belong. Turns out he is the number 4 person in the company pre-launch matrix, and is now building a downline of leaders who will be give first crack at top positions when My Music Ticket officially launches within the next 2 days. When I saw everything that is going to happen with this, I knew I wanted in. Many experts are saying this could get bigger than Youtube or Facebook. Pro members who get in early stand to make a lot of money if promoted properly. I have already started heavily promoting this, and I'm looking for other leaders and fast movers to join my team. Being as my sponsor is #4 in the company matrix before the launch, our team will be at "the top of the food chain". I have spoken with one of the company founders and am very impressed with their plans. I'm excited! If you are someone who is looking to diversify income, and you are a leader, can make decisions and can move fast, I urge you to check out the 2 websites I have set up: Overview: http://mymusicticket.brincom.com
There are so many ways to earn money with this... be sure to check out the compensation page I threw together at There is also a 24-hour hotline you can call to get more information. Here is the number: (616) 712-2848. You will need to move fast on this, launch will be happening within the next day or so. Check it out, do your due diligence, and contact me from the web page http://mymusicticket.brincom.com As an added incentive, for all Pro members who join this team, I will include your MyMusicTicket affiliate site in my advertising rotators, so that you will benefit from my marketing efforts added to your own efforts. Don't worry if you think your marketing expertise is not up to the task. If you are willing to work and learn, I and others will coach you and turn you into an internet marketing expert. See you at the top!
Bill Brine-Home Small Business Coach 3. Free People Search Engines New Free People Search Engine Today my company BrinCom Internet Business Services announced a new free people search engine. Following is a copy of the press release: ------------------------------ Free people search is a heavily-used function on the internet, and there are many free people search engines which offer the ability to search for people information and then request a payment before you can actually view the information. Click Here to visit our new Free People Search Engine. This free people search engine offers free access to publicly available information such as Names, addresses, and telephone numbers. No payment is required to view the information. The site also offers paid subscriptions to services such as background checks, reverse phone lookup, search by Social Security Number, and finding email addresses. ------------------------- Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to establish and maintain a strong internet presence using the power of the Veretekk Automated Marketing System. Mr. Brine also assists would-be entrepreneurs to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs, using his unique Tomorrow's Home Business model as the basis. Click Here for more information about the Veretekk Automated Marketing System ### 4. Home Small Business Tip: Are You Ready to Work From Home? Home Small Business Tip: Are You Ready to Work From Home? When most people decide to start a home small business, they have visions of how easy and convenient it is going to be. They think that they will be rolling out of bed and rolling up to the computer in their pajamas. They have visions of being able to work and still never miss any of their favorite soap operas and talk shows during the day. And, of course, more importantly, they will have more time with their family. However, there is a lot more to contend with after making the decision to work from home than no more suits and no more commuting. To run a successful home small business, you need a lot of personal motivation and self-discipline. After all, there is no train you are going to miss and no boss you are going to tick off by showing up late if you can't get yourself out of bed by eight in the morning! Instead, people who work from home have to be their own boss and monitor their own schedule. This can be difficult if you're used to being motivated by the strict schedule imposed by an office environment. On the other hand, for many individuals who don't necessarily function optimally during "normal" working hours and who prefer a more alternative approach, the home small business option can be a blessing, because it allows them to work from home when it is convenient for them to do so. In many cases, this arrangement will make someone more productive, not less. Having a flexible working schedule is a business advantage, but it can also lead to failure if not managed properly. If you are planning to star a home small business, the best thing you can do is to set yourself a few ground rules and make sure you stick to them. Plan your workdays in advance - know when you are going to get up and start work, when you will break for lunch and when you will quit for the day, just as you would at the office. If you work from home, your schedule doesn't have to be the same as it would at the office, but it needs to exist in order for you to be productive. Set yourself a designated work area where you will operate your home small business and try to keep it as separate from your non-work life as you can. If you can close the door to this area at the end of your workday, do so. You will find that you will need this separation of work from non-work. Otherwise you will not fully appreciate the freedom that comes from operating your one home small business. Discipline is very important to keep some perspective in your work from home life. So are you ready to work from home? Its a great life, if you can be disciplined. Bill Brine Previous Home Small Business Tip 5. Home Small Business Tips: Phrases That Will Increase Traffic Home Small Business Tips: Phrases That Will Increase Traffic Looking to increase traffic to your home small business website? Here are 10 sure-fire phrases that will increase your traffic: 1. Add This Website to your Favorites 2. Subscribe To Our Free ezine 3. Participate On Our Forum 4. Sign Our Guestbook 5. Use Our Free Content On Your Site Or In Your Ezine 6. Tell A Friend 7. Fill Out Our Online Survey 8. Enter Our Contest 9. Give Away Our Freebie To Your Visitors 10 Join Our Affiliate Program There you have it, 10 ideas to increase traffic to your business website. You don't have to do all of these things, but even tackling one or two will make an noticeable improvement in your traffic. Bill Brine Previous Home Small Business Tip 6. Home Small Business Tips: Following Up With Your Leads Home Small Business Tips: Following Up With Your Leads So you've managed to generate some leads for your home small business. What do you do now? In any serious work from home business, following up with your leads properly is absolutely essential. Proper followup can turn a lead into a buying customer or even a business partner. Your leads should be treated as the finest gold. In the online business world, you will most often see autoresponders promoted as a solution to following up with leads. The general rule of thumb is that a person has to see a marketing message seven times before they will take action, and that email is the best way to do this. Email works very well, and it does have it place. There are many good autoresponder systems available today, and a good autoresponder is certainly a powerful part of your overall business strategy. But don't rely solely on autoresponders. Don't try to hide behind your computer or your website, as a lot of online business owners seem to want to do. You are in business after all! Nothing beats personal contact. One phone call, offering advice or assistance, can do more to build your home small business than any number of email messages. I recommend a simple 'courtesy call' (make sure you say that when you call) to touch base. Ask your prospect if they have any questions about your service or product, and ask them about their business and it goals. Do not try to sell them anything. By doing this, you are starting a positive relationship with this person. This will bring you more repeat business in the long run than any number of emails. Online business is really all about helping others to succeed. Treat your leads as the finest gold - help them, get to know them, and provide top notch services and products that solve their problems, and you will be successful. Bill Brine Previous Home Small Business Tip
7. Home Small Business Tip: Easy Video Production Home Small Business Tip: Create Videos Quickly and Easily As internet marketers. we need to keep up with new ideas and trends in internet marketing. I have been making money on the internet in my small home business for a long time now, and I have seen the internet change by leaps and bounds. Today, in order to be relevant in internet marketing, your website or blog has to do more than just be a static web page. These days, you have to have content and different methods to share that content, such as having a blog, a forum, and now the biggie, video. With increasing access to broadband, video is now possible for virtually everyone to use. Video has become the new must have , not only for internet marketers but for everyone who has a website. Local business owners who have a website can especially benefit from video. With video, there are new opportunities to get out your message, advertise your business, make video postcards, send video e-mails, create how-to videos - the ideas are endless. We website owners however, are thinking we want to get in on the video thing, but it is something else we have to learn how to do, another learning curve, and for many of us the idea just sort of fizzles. Well, no longer. I'm excited because I don't have to miss out this time, simply because I lack the expertise to create and broadcast videos, or just don't have the time to learn new technologies. I just found a unique new online free service which anyone can use to create videos, without having to learn all the techie stuff that goes along with that. If you have a webcam, you're good to go. This service makes it drop dead easy to make videos and to put them on any website. You can make a quality, professional looking video in less than 5 min. It works very well. If video is something you have been wanting to do but felt really intimidated by up to this point, you might want to try this service for yourself, because the best part is you can use the software and it doesn't cost you anything. Give it a try and let me know what you think. You will find the site at http://easyvideoproducer.brincom.com Until next time! Bill Brine
8. Home Small Business Tip for 2009 02 23 Home Small Business Tip for 2009 02 23 Effective Ways To Reduce Your Home Small Business Costs Most people who start a home small business on the internet are on a tight budget. Let's face it: we've all been lured by the promises of low startup costs, free or low-cost advertising, and the power of email marketing. But remember: even though you are running a home small business, this is a real business. There will always be ongoing costs. Until you start getting some real returns on your time and money, it is important to keep the costs associated with your home small business to a minimum. With that it mind, here are some effective ways to reduce the costs of operating your home small business: 1. Bartering 2. Networking 3. Wholesale/Bulk 4. Free Stuff 5. Borrow/Rent 6. Online/Offline Auctions 7. Plan Ahead 8. Used Stuff 9. Negotiate 10. Search Application of some or all of these ideas will help to reduce the operating costs of your home small business, and will help you see profits sooner. Bill Brine Previous Home Small Business Tip
9. Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 19 Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 19 10 Tips to Increase Sales and Profits for your Home Small Business Another in my ongoing series of home small business tips. Here are 10 ideas for increasing your sales and profits: 1. Offer to write exclusive articles for your home small business niche. "Exclusive" means that you only submit them to one place. Write these articles for high traffic websites in exchange for a link back to your site. 2. Create a positive online image. Tell your visitors about fundraisers you have sponsored or that you donate a part of your profits to charity. 3. Improve your customer service on a regular basis. Try out new technologies that make it easier to communicate with your customers over the net. 4. Ask your customers what they would like to see offered by your home small business in the future. This type of information can boost your sales. 5. Make sure your web host is not responsible for lost sales. If you get an email from someone that told you that they couldn't access your site, it might be your host. 6. Allow your visitors experience to be an enjoyable one at your home small business website. Provide easy navigation, good content, fast loading graphics, search options, etc. 7. Keep changing or adding freebies to your web site. If people see the same freebie in your ads they will say to themselves, "been there done that". 8. Add a directory to your home small business website. When visitors submit their home business website, email them confirming their link has been added and remind them to revisit. 9. Organize your marketing and advertising into a plan. Create a list of daily, weekly, and monthly goals for promotion. 10. Trade links only with home small business websites that your target audience or yourself would visit. They should offer their visitors valuable content or freebies. I hope these tips will help you to increase profits for your home small business. Stay tuned for more profitable tips. Bill Brine 10. Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 18 Increase Traffic to Your Home Small Business Website Do you have a website for your home small business? If you are not getting the traffic you think you should be getting, maybe its time to examine your website in more detail and rethink some of the things you are doing. There are many reasons why people do not visit your home small business website, or why they do not stay for long on your website. Here are 10 ideas that may entice them to stay longer or to come more often:
These are the top 10 strategies, in my experience, that you can use to increase the attractiveness and stickiness of your home small business website. Consider these ideas carefully, and implement those ideas that are appropriate to your home small business. Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master 11. Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 17 Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 17 Are you trying to build a home small business on the internet? You do have a website devoted to your business, I hope. If not, you'd better get one soon. A website is by far the best way to promote your home small business on the internet. To maintain a successful home small business website, you have to keep your visitors coming back again and again. Unless you offer them a reason to return, then chances are they will not. You will need content on your website that not only interests them, but also changes regularly. Here are 6 quick tips to keep people coming back to your home small business website: 1) Articles: Articles give your visitor something to read. Your customer may have a question, or want more information about the product or service that they received from your home small business. If the articles pertain to your business and the products and services that you offer, then they will be able to access the information. You do not necessarily have to write these articles yourself. You can post information about your products directly from the package, or the manufacturers website. There are several article directories online that provide good, quality content at no cost to you. It is as simple as visiting the directories, searching for articles that suit your home small business, and then copying them into your website. You are only required to provide a link back to the original authors website. 2) Contests: Who does not want to win something? By offering contests (especially if they change frequently), you give your visitors a reason to return. When the visitor signs up for the contest you may also want to include a link to your newsletter. The key is to change the contest frequently, whether it be weekly, monthly, or semi-annually. Just remember, the more you change your contest the more times your visitors will come back to your site. 3) Coupons and Discounts: You may want to provide coupons or discounts for your previous clients to entice them to return to your website. 4) Forums- Forums provide something that everyone craves: conversation. If a forum is provided on your site, the visitor will have a reason to visit your website frequently, whether it be to ask a question when help is needed or to keep up on a conversation. You can host your forum from your site, or choose to use a third party forum, whatever your prefer. Both have their pros and cons, it just comes down to what is best for your business. 5)Blog-- Believe It or not, people are interested in what you have to say! A blog will not only allow you to update your clients on your business and life, but it also gives you a great opportunity to add those much needed keywords to your website. There are quite a few free applications available that make blogging easy. 6)Newsletter- A newsletter is one of the best ways to keep your visitors coming back time and time again. You will want to include part of a unique article or tip in your newsletter, and then a link to the rest. This will force your viewers to visit your site to get the remainder of the story. Once again you do not have to write all the content yourself. Using free article directories will cut the time it takes to put a newsletter together in half. These are just a few ideas to help you develop strategies to keep people coming back to your home small business website. Stay tuned for more home small business tips.
12. Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 16 Home Small Business Tip for 2009 02 16 The power of Twitter as a home small business marketing tool I recently discovered the power of Twitter as a home small business marketing tool. Twitter is a free service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People write short updates, often called "tweets" of 140 characters or fewer. These messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search. These tweets can be used to increase exposure to any of your websites, as you are able to include a URL as part of your tweet. And to create a Tweet takes only a few moments. If you make tweeting a part of your daily routine, you have a powerful SEO tool at your disposal. For example, I download the leads generated by my Veretekk system portals on a daily basis in order to extract the email addresses for uploading into Veremail. This generates 3 tweets: Tweet 1: Downloading my daily list of new leads from my Veretekk system http://brincom.veretekk.com Tweet 2: xxxx small home business leads were generated by my Veretekk system yesterday http://brincom.veretekk.com (where xxxx is the number of leads generated by the system) Tweet 3: Uploading the leads into my Veremail system to start the optin process. http://brincom.veremail.com/ Veretekk makes it so easy! See how easy this is? Now if you post these tweets in your blog, you have another source of ever-changing on-page information that Google just loves! I have seen some of my tweets appear on page 1 of Google for particular keyword phrases within hours of producing a tweet. The key is to be keyword-specific and to tweet every time you do anything. For example, as I am writing this article I posted a tweet saying "Writing article to promote my home small business site http://homesmallbusiness.whystartandneverquit.com/". And when I have written and submitted that article, I will post another tweet that says "Article finished! Check it out at http://www.homesmallbusiness.org". Discover the power of Twitter for yourself. You can join Twitter at http://www.Twitter.com/BillBrine. Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master
13. Home Small Business Tip 2009 02 14 Home Small Business Tips So you've decided you want to start a home small business? Great! But before you start on this adventure, make sure you keep these important tips in mind. Starting a successful home small business should be a rewarding experience. And, if you approach it properly and in a businesslike manner, it will be. There are many important questions to ask yourself when starting a home small business: - Is this a viable home small business? With online businesses in particular, it seems that most people really miss these important considerations when starting that great home small business on Google. They succumb to all the hype about easy riches and "get-rich-quick", and click the "Submit" button before doing the groundwork to see if the business is really what it claims to be. On the internet, we call this doing your due diligence. The following are important considerations: o First, review the policies and procedures of the business. Does this program suit your particular needs? The policies and procedures should be available to you before you decide to join, usually from a link on the home page or sales page. If it is not available or readily apparent, you should reconsider before joining. o Go to Google and search for this opportunity. Are there many people promoting it? If not, find out why. If this is a 'startup' or a 'prelaunch' - stay away! You want to spend your time and money on established, proven business models. o Now search for the business owner's name in Google. Are they real and reachable, or simply hiding behind a website? If the latter, this could be a warning sign. o You should also conduct research to see if the company provides tools, training, and customer support by phone. No matter what business you start, you will not have all the skills and tools necessary to be successful from day one, and so you will need guidance, a recommended set of tools, and somewhere to report problems and have them addressed. o Contact other members of the program and get their opinions. If the program is real and credible, these people should have no problem in speaking with you without trying to recruit you. They should not be pitching you their deal here. You are only looking for valuable information that will assist you in building your home small business. o Now check some of the more prominent press release services and ezine article services. If the business owner is as good as he or she says he is, then he or she will most assuredly be well schooled in promoting on Google using these systems. The internet is a great place to work. Using the internet to leverage your time and effort to build a solid and profitable home small business will require thought, work and visualization. All the pieces of this puzzle must fit nicely together. Once you find a good organization where you can spend your valuable time and your hard earned money, you will definitely be in for the ride of your life. Making money online and starting a successful home small business is not complicated. It simply requires the right business plan and working that plan to assure your success. Once you start your business, especially if you get involved in any sort of MLM opportunity, you will be pressured to purchase leads as a quick way to build a business. Don't do it! Purchasing leads is not an effective way to build a business. You will waste hours of your valuable time and experience countless hours of frustration as you call and call people who really have little or no interest in you, your deal or your products. It simply does not work unless you are a hot-shot telephone salesperson. For more information on building a home small business, see Why Start and Never Quit a Home Small Business.
14. Home Small Business Tip Home Small Business Tip Are you using Twitter as part of your marketing strategy? If not, you should! If you are a Twitter user, check this out: I just found this site that shows you a way of getting thoudands of new followers on Twitter. I just started using it myself and its starting to work already! http://tweetergetter.com/BillBrine Thought it might interest you.
15. Avoid the Home Business 95% Faliure Rate Bill's Bully Pulpit: Avoid the Home Business 95% Failure Rate Welcome to my Bully Pulpit for February 11, 2009 http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk This week's issue includes: 1) Avoid the Home Business 95% Failure Rate 1) Avoid the Home Business 95% Failure Rate In this article we'll explore some of those reasons Unrealistic Expectations Most people attempting to market on the Internet for the first time have unrealistic expectations. These are fueled by all the hype they see in ads and on websites. These new marketers have no clue that they are viewing hype that is simply meant to separate them from the contents of their wallets. They believe what they see in these ads, and shell out their hard earned dollars for an unending parade of ebooks, membership sites, and eCourses, the contents of which are almost all available for Free on the Internet if they knew where to research the topics. They embark on an endless road in search of the magic formula that will put them in the top 5% of marketers online who actually do succeed. They really believe they can realistically earn a six-figure income within 90 days as some websites claim. Because they believe the hype they are seeing on the Internet, they spend unnecessary money and waste far too much time digging for that one big secret that will let them earn big bucks by setting up one website that will pump money into their bank accounts on autopilot. After all, isn't that what the gurus they have constantly paid keep telling them? Push a few buttons and get fabulously wealthy... Facing Reality First of all, these so-called "gurus" have lists of thousands that they have built up over several months or years. The guru develops a new "revolutionary, secret" informational product that is then promoted to these people who have opted-in to the mailing list. The members on these lists, are probably new or struggling marketers desperately searching for the magic pill that will make them rich beyond their wildest dreams. No wonder these gurus make six figures - they have the right tools, such as autoresponders, set of autoresponder letters they have developed, squeeze pages, presell pages, bonus offers, back-end offers, Newsletters, affiliate products, ebooks, back links, joint ventures and ad-tracking software to tell them which ads and advertising resources actually work. That makes all the difference. The new marketers, of course, have none of these at their disposal, and the new 'secret' revealed by the guru usually does not give the entire picture of what needs to be done to use the secret effectively. It only reveals enough to whet the appetite of the new marketers for the next 'secret' that is sure to come along soon. So what happens? The new marketers eventually realize that a LOT of time and effort has be put into building a business, so they give up this 'opportunity' in disgust and try another one that promises quick riches by just pushing a button. And so the cycle continues... Information Overload Most new marketers waste far too much time searching for the magic bullet. They end up jumping around from opportunity to opportunity when they find out that building a business takes time and effort. Basic information that they already have is probably more than enough to get started, but they will not earn six-figures in 90 days...that much is certain. Here are four suggestions to help you become one of the 5% who are successful: 1. Never get bogged down in information overload. Time spent on gathering information on marketing should be limited to reading only a handful of newsletters and information sent from opt-in lists. Too much of either is bogging you down and is simply a waste of time. If a Newsletter or opt-in list is only sending you an endless list of links that sell you stuff, and gives very little valuable marketing information, drop it like a hot potato. Such things are designed to do only one thing - to separate you from your hard earned cash. 2. Spend your valuable time on the Internet where it will offer the most benefit. If it will not earn you money, it probably is a waste of your time. A wise marketer always will refrain from jumping around from opportunity to opportunity and will pick only one or two long running, proven money making programs to promote. 3. Always do your due diligence before entering any program. Choose companies with a proven track record, with good support. Is the person whose business you are joining available by phone and email? Check out the company and the person by searching in Google. 4. Take things step by step and focus on actively promoting one or two of your chosen programs. Choose those programs carefully. A good program, if promoted, tested and tweaked properly, will be successful at earning a substantial income. Find programs that are selling to a particular niche market and which offer great support and training. If you follow these simple steps, online success will definitely follow. Just break all this down to four words. 1. Focus - Focus on less to achieve more Keep things simple. That practice alone has worked for hundreds of successful online marketers. Quite a few successful marketers have practiced the above principles all the way to the bank to deposit six-figure incomes. Are you next? For more information on building a home business in this manner, I offer 2 websites which may help: http://www.buildarealbusiness.com http://homesmallbusiness.whystartandneverquit.com/ My contact information: 2) Quote for Today Would you like free inspirational messages like this http://brincom.dailymessageonline.com/ to get the code. That's a Wrap for this Week Don't forget to send me any comments or questions you may have. I would be only too happy to help you in any way that I can. From time to time I'll send you important updates that will provide information that has the potential to greatly improve your online business... and of course your profits! However, you can rest assured that I will only ever recommend products that are considered to be of HIGH value and will provide indisputable benefits to help you grow your business. Have a great week! Until next time,
16. PRESS RELEASE: Gold Coins for Sale PRESS RELEASE: Gold Coins for Sale (Amherst, NS) BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding good prices for gold coins and gold bullion. The site is located at http://gold-coins-for-sale.BuyItForLessHere.com Collectors who are looking for gold coins or gold bullion now have a new resource to help them search out great deals. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can use their favorite RSS reader to monitor when the particular types of gold coins or gold bullion they are looking for are available. The site currently lists only American and Canadian coins and bullion. Gold coins and gold bullion from other countries will be added on a regular basis over the next few weeks.
Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at 17. Effective Link Partner Strategies Bill's Bully Pulpit: Effective Link Partner Strategies Welcome to my Bully Pulpit for December 19, 2008
This week's issue includes: 1) Effective Link Partner Strategies =================================================== 1) Effective Link Partner Strategies What is a link partner? Quite simply, a link partner is someone who links to your site in return for you linking to their site. These are also known as 'reciprocal links'. Google places great value on incoming links to your site when it is determining your page rank, especially if those links come from what Google considers to be an 'authority site'. And the higher your page rank, the better chance you have of appearing high up in the search engine results for your chosen keyword phrases. A link partner strategy is only one way to leverage your internet marketing efforts. Before we discuss this strategy, let's review some of the other methods. You should consider implementing some or all of these over time: - Advertising in ezines, online forums, websites and other sources - Participation as a member in online business and marketing forums, and forums related to your business niche - Participation in Social Networking sites - Get yourself a Gold Veretekk system and learn how to dominate the search engines With each of these leveraging systems, it may take some effort and time to get them set up and to begin establishing your website presence, so you need to be patient. You are in this for the 'long haul', so take your time and do it right. The advantage to any or all of these systems is that once set up, they will produce results for you with minimal effort and will continue to do so for quite a long period of time. Now back to link partners... Links can be in text ad form or banner form. Links might be included in an article, a site review or a blog post. Or they might be listed in a business services directory. The style or nature of the link exchange should be agreed upon before the links are posted to prevent any misunderstandings or disappointments. Link Partners may be easy to find, but the real essence of an effective Link Partner strategy is exchanging links with quality websites - sites with a respectable PageRank and who are already attracting the same kind of visitors that you are targeting for your online business. There are many good web tools available that can be used to check the PageRank of a website. You can do an Internet search for page rank tools. I personally use the Google toolbar, which can be set to show the pagerank of the current page in your browser. You can download the Google toolbar at To find quality sites and to encourage them to want to support your Link Partner strategy, here are some recommended steps. Keep in mind this is an ongoing process. Google loves to see sites where incoming links grow over time. So try to set a goal of getting 1 or 2 new link partners a month. 1) When you are surfing the net, watch for and bookmark sites that you believe are suitable for your purpose. You could also do internet searches for your keywords, then check out the sites that rate the highest in the search engine results. 2) Once you identify a suitable link partner candidate, write a complimentary review for the site and post the review on your website or blog. 3) Contact the webmaster or owner of the reviewed site, advise them of the review and give them permission to publish the review on their site along with a link pointing back to your site as the review source. As an alternative to publishing the review on their site, they can simply include a link that points to the review on your site. 4) Once the link has been established, be sure to check once a month or so to ensure the link is still in place. If not, contact the site webmaster or owner to find out what happened. This is supposed to be a reciprocal process; so if the site owner or webmaster has disabled the link to your site and you can't find out why or they will not re-establish the link, remove your review from your blog or website and keep looking for more suitable sites. No freeloaders here! A number of Veretekk members have reported good success with using the following method as an adjunct to the primary method given above: 1) Use the following search in Google (include the quotes) "powered By: hot links sql 2" This will provide you with a list of sites that are set up to allow you to request reciprocal links. You simply visit the sites and input your information. You will be given the information you need to place the reciprocal link on your site. Some of these sites will not allow you to request a link unless you pay; bypass those and keep looking. 2) Once you have requested the reciprocal link, check on a regular basis as usual to ensure the link is still active. If not, take the reciprocal link from your site. The links generated by this process will not have as much value as those generated by the first method. However, there is still some value in doing this every once in a while to get more links. You can apply these link partner strategies to any number of partners you choose, keeping in mind that the more link partners you have, the more effectively you will be able to leverage your efforts and expand your reach. An effective link partner strategy is one of the most important tasks in your internet marketing efforts. 2) Quote for Today
http://brincom.dailymessageonline.com/ to get the code. 3) Do You Have Any Comments? Comment on articles I've run in the newsletter, give me your thoughts on changes or your ad testing results or questions relating to your business, etc. In other words, just talk to me about what you think I need to do to improve the newsletter. Be sure to include your website address too, because if I use your comments in a future issue of the newsletter, I'll thank you by posting your address so that you can get additional free traffic to your site! Email your questions or replies to: brincom@veretekk.com with the subject "Bully Pulpit Feedback". All articles from this newsletter are also published in my blog at http://brincom.com/blogs/LeadGeneration That's a Wrap for this Week Don't forget to send me any comments or questions you may have. I would be only too happy to help you in any way that I can. From time to time I'll send you important updates that will provide information that has the potential to greatly improve your online business... and of course your profits! However, you can rest assured that I will only ever recommend products that are considered to be of HIGH value and will provide indisputable benefits to help you grow your business. Have a great week! Until next time,
http://www.brincom.com/weekly-marketing-tips.htm 18. Search Engine Optimization Tips Welcome to my Bully Pulpit for December 11, 2008 This week's issue includes: 1) Search Engine Optimization Tips 1) Search Engine Optimization Tips One of the powers of the Veretekk system lies in its ability to take advantage of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques to propel your small business website onto the first page of Google in record time. In this article I'd like to answer some of the basic questions that new marketers often have about SEO.
SEO is a collection of strategies that can be applied to a website to increase its search engine ranking. Search engine ranking is the position that your site occupies on the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) when a search is done using keyword phrases that are relevant to your website and your business.
The higher your site's position in the SERPs, the more people will see it. Many of these people may click on your listing, especially if you appear in the top 2 or 3 positions, thus bringing you more traffic. Google lists 10 search results per page. Most searchers never look beyond the first or second page of search results. If you can get your site listed in the Google top ten for your search terms, you will get significantly more traffic than if your listing shows up on any subsequent pages. There are two broad categories of SEO techniques: on-page factors and off-page factors.
On page factors are all the things you can do on your website to increase SEO. These usually revolve around keywords, and you use these techniques to let the search engines know what your site is about. On page factors include things like the use of TITLE, KEYWORD and DESCRIPTION meta tags, the use of the ALT tag for images, HTML header tags, keyword placement, and so on.
Off page factors revolve around backlinks. Keywords are important here as well. Backlinks are the links placed on other sites that point to pages on your site. Backlinks are also known as "inbound links", a term which is often easier to understand. Inbound links are those links pointing to pages on your site.
1. Always use TITLE, KEYWORD and DESCRIPTION meta tags For every page on your site you should have meta tags unique to that page. Here's a good reference for using meta tags: http://www.freelancedesigners.com/tools/meta_tags.cfm The TITLE tag is what will appear on the top of the browser window when someone views the page. It should be keyword-specific, and no more than 60 characters in length. The search engines use this tag as well. The KEYWORDS meta tag is a comma-separated list of keywords that are relevant to your site. Keywords don't have to be single words - you can and should use keyword phrases relevant to the content of that page. Do not use too many keywords or keyword phrases in this tag; I usually recommend using no more than 6. More than that and you will run the risk of having Google designate your page as keyword spam and thereby not indexing the page. Also, try not to repeat any single words more than 5 times. For the DESCRIPTION meta tag write a short description of your site that would make someone want to click your link. The recommended maximum length is 150 characters. This tag is used by Google as the text description of your site. So it is not just for the search engine's benefit, it is also likely to be seen by a person and it may be the difference between that person clicking on your site's link or another site.
The HTML code for including an image in your page has an optional attribute called the ALT tag, short for 'alternative text'. It was originally intended as a text description to aid viewers surfing with images turned off or using a screen reader so they could get an idea of what an image was about, since they couldn't see it. But search engines also use the ALT tag to find out more about your page. The ALT tag should contain keywords relevant to your site and the image they are describing. Instead of just putting "header" in the ALT tag for your header image, use the opportunity to tell the search engines what your site is about, with something like "Puppy Training Header", if your site is about puppy training. Don't over do it though, you want this description to be concise rather than stuffed with every keyword relevant to your site. Here's a good reference for learning more about image tags: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/article.php/3478181
The header tags such as H1, H2, and H3 are used by search engines to figure out what the important keywords for your site are. You can easily change the appearance of the header tags by using stylesheets, so try to use the standard HTML header tags instead of custom styles for your headers. Then just make sure you've got relevant keywords in the headers. The H1 tag should contain the primary keyword for your page, the H2 tag should contain the secondary keywords for your page, and so on.
Get backlinks. Lots of them. This should be an ongoing part of your SEO campaign. The more backlinks the better, but you want to grow your backlinks naturally. It looks a lot more natural if you work on getting a handful of backlinks every week than if you suddenly got 10,000 backlinks overnight because you bought them from a link farm. The search engines are watching for these unnatural patterns, and you are likely to be penalized for engaging in such practices. There are many ways to get backlinks: - You can develop relationships with other webmasters to get reciprocal links from other related sites. - Participate in forums related to your topic and be sure to have a link to your site as part of your signature. - Write articles for article directories which include a link back to your site in the bio box. - Create Squidoo lenses or HubPages with a link back to your site. If you have a blog submit your RSS feed to RSS Aggregator sites, and add it to your Squidoo lens or HubPage. - Use Social Bookmarking services to bookmark your pages and encourage your visitors to do the same. - Use Twitter to send out a 'tweet' when you post a new article. - And by far the most powerful technique: get yourself a Veretekk Gold system and configure it to target your keyword phrases. You will be able to generate hundreds of quality backlinks from many different domains very easily. For more information on Veretekk, see my information site at http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk This is just to get you started, it is not an exhaustive list by any means.
In some cases you don't have the option of specifying the anchor text. But don't miss the opportunity to specify it where you can. If you trade reciprocal links with another site, specify what you want your anchor text to be. The other webmaster will probably appreciate it because it saves them time having to decide what it should be. When you create Squidoo lenses and HubPages, or for your forum signatures you have total control over your anchor text. Use it wisely. In this article I have covered just a few basic, but very important, aspects of SEO. This is a very good place to start if you want to improve your sites search engine optimization. Keep applying these techniques until it becomes second nature and you should see an improvement in both your search engine rankings and an increase in the traffic to your site. 2) Quote for Today
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19. Building a Business Ethically and Easily Building a Business Ethically and Easily - by Bill Brine, Lead Generation Master As regular readers of my blog know, one of my main sources for internet revenue is the Its Good Business model. This morning I received and unsolicited email invitation to look at a business (i.e. spam), but the authors of the letter did not seem to be hyping the usual get rich quick stuff (although there was a bit of that in the letter). So instead of sending my usual spam reply and adding them to my blacklist, I decided to send a thoughtful reply. I will include the letter and my reply here, with some editing, for your education. First, here is a copy of the letter. The subject of the email was "This will be the hottest home based business this holiday season." Sounds a but like hype, but let's see what it says: ------------------------- We are with a large and established media company that has had a lot of success producing many winning infomercials for the last 10 years. We would like to show you how you can earn a passive, residual income with us from the TV business with a new business model that combines direct response, network marketing, and the Internet. While building traditional MLM we've made substantial money but we established a couple of key things right now (1) people can't afford costly leads (2) people are sick of bugging friends and family (3) there are no real customers in a traditional model of MLM.
We were introduced to TV infomercials about 10 months ago. For the first time we could see real customers that ordered from TV and grew one’s business very rapidly from home. Let us highlight a couple of things for you. Picture people sitting in their homes, watching TV. They see a 30 min infomercial and pick up the phone, dial an 800# and place an order. Now, imagine that a percentage of those customers who placed an order through a call center become your customers. Picture that you don't have to host another party or buy another lead. Picture that you have a chance to work and be mentored by some of the best in the industry. Picture that you can start for under $100 (includes kit, website, and product) Listen, we know that you have likely been pitched and promised before and don't want to reinvest your sweat and tears in something that will fall through. We understand! We know where you are coming from. But imagine being able to partner with one of the top infomercial companies on the globe that is poised to do 300 million in sales this year, spend 80-90 million on media, that is right now generating 15-30k customers a WEEK and you can capture a percentage of those customers.
Opportunities like this don't come around every day. So what do you do next? TAKE ACTION!
Call us at: 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx to find out more! We always enjoy talking to others in the industry, and we have many friends throughout the networking community. If this is not for you we would still love to hear how your business is going. Sincerely, Chris Herriford and Ariana Reed
Well, that's not too bad in terms of hype, But it sounds a lot like our Its Good Business model, so here is my reply. Due to legal restrictions, I am not permitted to mention the name of the company I am promoting in a public forum like this without prior permission, so I have replaced the name of the company with XXXX. The original reply, of course, does contain the name of the business. ------------ This email address is used exclusively for my XXXX business, so that must have been the website you saw. Normally I would consider an unsolicited email like this to be spam and take appropriate action, but you seem like someone who is actually serious about business building and not promoting a get rich quick scheme, so I would be happy to continue our conversation. Are you by any chance promoting XXXX? If not, perhaps you might like to look at our model. Here are some details: What you have described is exactly how XXXX works, and it works very well. They have been doing this for over 10 years now. They call it co-operative marketing. They own one of the largest media empires in the US, and they run infomercials on the cable networks that they own, they swap time with other cable networks, they run infomercials on radio and now are starting to run infomercials in Canada as well. They do all the customer followup and continue marketing to existing customers to keep them buying. All I have to do is purchase customers whenever I want, and the commissions from those customers are mine for life. In addition, the team that I belong to has blown the doors off this model by incorporating the most powerful internet marketing system on the planet, Veretekk, to drive massive amounts of traffic to our business model to introduce it to people who are sick and tired of the traditional MLM business model, which we know does not work. The entire team works to build the organization, without regards to crossline, downline, or sideways. I have never before worked in such a cohesive and motivated team. As members of the team, each of us contributes what he or she is good at and interested in to the overall team effort, and everyone benefits. XXXX is not an MLM, but it uses an MLM model for commissions. So I still have to build an organization that contains distributors. However, unlike traditional MLM, the focus is not on building an organization of salespeople who are all buying products in the hope that they can make money by recruiting other salespeople. Our organizations are built upon a stable customer base that we purchase from XXXX. As members of the team, we will occasionally have new customers assigned to us that we did not purchase, or even new distributors that we did not personally recruit. So there is no great pressure to recruit, even though it is still a good idea to do so. As a consequence, I do not have to send out any spam or do massive amounts of marketing. Nor do I subscribe to the '3 foot rule'. I only have to speak to people who are interested in building a real business, and who have seen our business plan and are excited about it. I spend my time contributing to the team effort and purchase customers on a regular basis, and regularly report on all this to the subscribers of my marketing newsletter, from which I have already had one person sign up as a distributor. This business model has propelled some of our team members to Presidential Director, the highest rank in XXXX distributors (we are called Business Associates or BAs), in a 2-3 month period, a process which before our team appeared would normally take a year or more. I personally advanced one rank within the first 2 weeks of signing up. In any traditional MLM, as I'm sure you are well aware, this would take 6 months or more, depending upon your ability to sell and recruit. So far I have not had to sell to or recruit anyone. I love this model! Our team offers free advanced training on all aspects of internet marketing from some of the most knowledgeable marketers online today. These are not the 'gurus' you will see promoting their crap ebooks which tell you nothing. These are people who are making real money by using ethical methods and powerful tools to promote real businesses. With our team working together employing our Veretekk marketing technology, we can easily dominate any keyword category in Google within a matter of days or weeks, and none of us have to learn everything about everything in order to get anything done. We simply concentrate on one area and learn as much about it as we can. So I invite you to take a look at our model. All you have to do is go to http://www.ItsGoodBusiness.net There are regular Saturday presentations you can attend online. If you are unable to attend, contact me and I can send you to a website where I have archived some of our past presentations. We don't do conference calls and you will not come across any of the usual hype in our presentations. We don't believe in that stuff. We don't need it, because we only seek people who 'get' our model and are interested in participating.
So there you are, I hope this has been of some use. At least now you know what the Its Good Business model is all about! ------------------- 20. PRESS RELEASE: Snowshoes at discount prices Snowshoes at discount prices A new site has been launched to help winter sport enthusiasts find snowshoes at discount prices. (Amherst, NS) BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding snowshoes at discount prices The site is located at http://discount-snowshoes.BuyItForLessHere.com Winter sport enthusiasts who are looking for good prices on new or used snowshoes or accessories now have a new shopping resource to help them search out great deals on snowshoes. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can use their favorite RSS reader to monitor when the particular types of snowshoes they are looking for are available.
Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at 21. PRESS RELEASE: Cool and Fun Online and Downloadable Games Cool and Fun Online and Downloadable Games A new site has been launched to help gamers find cool and fun games to play online or download to a PC or Mac. (Amherst, NS) BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding cool and fun games to play online or to download to a PC or a Mac. The site is located at http://fun-online.games.GetItForLessOnline.com Gamers who are looking for new cool and fun games to play online or download now have a new resource at their fingertips. New games become available on a regular basis. A large selection of online games is available, as well as games that can be downloaded to a Mac or a PC. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can monitor the release of new games in their favorite category by using their own RSS reader. An online gaming community is also available. ---------------------------------- Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at 22. Cheap Video Games, Systems and Accessories Cheap Video Games, Systems and Accessories A new site has been launched to help consumers find great deals on video games, video game systems and video game accessories. (Amherst, NS) BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding great deals on video games, video game systems and video game accessories. The site is located at http://cheap-video-games.GetItForLessOnline.com Consumers who are looking for a new or used video game, video game system or video game accessory now have another shopping resource which they can use to find good deals. A large selection of video games, video game systems and video game accessories is available. New items become available on a regular basis. The site is based on eBay auctions, and presents specific real-time pages devoted to video games, video game systems and video game accessories. Most popular brands are represented, such as PSP, PS2, PS3, Xbox, and Xbox 360. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can monitor auctions for video games, video game systems and video game accessories using their own RSS reader. For those who are unfamiliar with eBay, a short training video is available. "We have done all the hard work for our visitors", says Bill Brine, the CEO of the company. "We have determined where most sellers post their auctions within the eBay structure for video games, video game systems and video game accessories. All our visitors have to do is click on the type of video game, video game system or video game accessory they are interested in and they will be presented with a list of current auctions for those products." ---------------------------------- Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at 23. Canon G9 Best Price Canon G9 Best Prices The Canon G9 Powershot digital camera was launched in 2007 as the successor to the PowerShot G7. It is a 12.1 Megapixel camera which incorporates a number of improvements. For more information about the Canon G9 and to find a Canon G9 at the best price, visit my Squidoo Lens at http://www.squidoo.com/canon-g9-best-price Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master 24. PRESS RELEASE: New Shopping Site for GPS Systems and Accessories A new site has been launched to help consumers find great deals on GPS systems and accessories. (Amherst, NS) BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding great deals on GPS systems and accessories. The site is located at gps-navigation.GetItForLessOnline.com Consumers who are looking for a new or used GPS system or GPS system accessories now have another shopping resource which they can use to find good deals. A large selection of GPS systems and accessories is available. New items become available on a regular basis. The site is based on eBay auctions, and presents specific real-time pages devoted to GPS systems and accessories. Consumers can search by brand name and type of GPS system, as well as the type of GPS accessory they are looking for. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can monitor auctions for GPS systems and accessories using their own RSS reader. For those who are unfamiliar with eBay, a short training video is available. "We have done all the hard work for our visitors", says Bill Brine, the CEO of the company. "We have determined where most sellers post their auctions within the eBay structure for GPS systems and accessories. 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BrinCom Internet Business Services has just launched a new website devoted to finding great deals on electric guitars. The site is located at http://electric-guitars.GetItForLessOnline.com Consumers who are looking for a new or used electric guitar now have another shopping resource which they can use to find good deals. A large selection of electric guitars is available. New items become available on a regular basis. The site is based on eBay auctions, and presents specific real-time pages devoted to electric guitars. Consumers can search by brand name and type of camera. A unique feature of the site is that visitors can subscribe to each pre-defined search as an RSS feed, so they can monitor auctions for electric guitars using their own RSS reader. For those who are unfamiliar with eBay, a short training video is available. "We have done all the hard work for our visitors", says Bill Brine, the CEO of the company. "We have determined where most sellers post their auctions within the eBay structure for electric guitars. All our visitors have to do is click on the type of electric guitar they are interested in and they will be presented with a list of current auctions for those products." ---------------------------------- Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at www.BrinCom.com More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at www.ItsGoodBusiness.net 26. 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For those who are unfamiliar with eBay, a short training video is available. "We have done all the hard work for our visitors", says Bill Brine, the CEO of the company. "We have determined where most sellers post their auctions within the eBay structure for digital cameras. All our visitors have to do is click on the type of digital camera they are interested in and they will be presented with a list of current auctions for those products." ---------------------------------- Bill Brine, the CEO and owner, specializes in teaching small business owners how to generate premium leads for their businesses using the power of the Veretekk Lead Generation System and the Its Good Business model. Mr. Brine also assists small business owners to develop multiple streams of internet income using a variety of techniques and programs. More information on Veretekk is available at www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk More information about the company is available at www.BrinCom.com More Information on the Its Good Business model is available at www.ItsGoodBusiness.net
27. Bill's Bully Pulpit: Your Business Office Anywhere Bill's Bully Pulpit: Your Business Office Anywhere Welcome to my Bully Pulpit for October 17, 2008 For those of you who are new to my newsletter, my name is Bill Brine and I am a Lead Generation Master and a Veretekk Marketing System owner. As always, I am here to help you if you have any questions. My contact details are at the bottom of this email. If you wish to contact me, use the email address supplied there. If you are not familiar with Veretekk, see the overview page I put together at http://www.squidoo.com/whatisveretekk =================================================== This week's issue includes: 1) Your Business Office Anywhere =================================================== 1) Your Business Office Anywhere These days, modern technology makes it simple to set up an office almost anywhere. Cell phones, email, laptops and updated office situations offer unlimited opportunities to start your own business. Whether you want a full-time enterprise or a part-time income, you need the right setup to be successful. Take advantage of advanced technology to have a convenient, functional office on your own terms. Home Offices The Mobile Office Virtual Offices Managed Offices Outsourcing Start your own business, gain credibility and build profits by customizing your offices to suit your unique needs. Whether you want to quit your day job or supplement your current income, you can create your own perfect office anywhere and anytime. 2) Quote for Today
http://brincom.dailymessageonline.com/ to get the code. 3) Do You Have Any Comments? Comment on articles I've run in the newsletter, give me your thoughts on changes or your ad testing results or questions relating to your business, etc. In other words, just talk to me about what you think I need to do to improve the newsletter. Be sure to include your website address too, because if I use your comments in a future issue of the newsletter, I'll thank you by posting your address so that you can get additional free traffic to your site! Email your questions or replies to: brincom@veretekk.com with the subject "Bully Pulpit Feedback". All articles from this newsletter are also published in my blog at http://brincom.com/blogs/LeadGeneration That's a Wrap for this Week Don't forget to send me any comments or questions you may have. I would be only too happy to help you in any way that I can. From time to time I'll send you important updates that will provide information that has the potential to greatly improve your online business... and of course your profits! However, you can rest assured that I will only ever recommend products that are considered to be of HIGH value and will provide indisputable benefits to help you grow your business. Have a great week! Until next time,
28. Make Money Online Advice 8 Make Money Online Advice 8 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master So you've out a lot of time and effort into doing some market research, and have designed a great product that you think will sell like wildfire. Unfortunately, it doesn't sell well. It hardly sells at all... Now what? Is there still a way to make money online with this product? Or should you just throw it out and start again? Well, there are some things you can do to resurrect the situation. Here are 10 ideas you can use to make use of the product and still make money online: 1. People are always looking for new products to sell. Sell the reprint or reproduction rights to the product. Sell a resale license. 2. Give the product away as a freebie from your home business website. Just because it won't sell doesn't mean people won't visit your home business website to get it for free. They may see another product you sell and buy that one while they're there. 3. List the product at an online auction site such as eBay. You may make part of your investment back. If you're lucky, you may even make a profit. People sometimes get into bidding wars and will bid a higher price than the product is actually worth. 4. Offer your product as a free bonus for another product you sell. This will increase the perceived value of the product you're selling. People will feel they're receiving more for less. 5. Contact businesses with the same target market and see if they would be interested in using your product as a free bonus for their product. You can get free advertising by placing your ad on the product. 6. Sell your product to businesses at wholesale cost as a promotional item. Businesses are always looking for products they can give to their customers with their advertising on the product. You could make part of your investment back. 7. Barter your product to other businesses for things you need for your own business. You could trade for their products or services. This will save you money and help make up for your profit loss. 8. Create an online contest with the product as a prize. This will attract traffic to your web site. You could also get free advertising by listing it on online contest directories. 9. If you decide to give away the product for free, allow other people to give the product away for free as well. Place your home business website ad on the product. This will spread your advertising and attract even more people to your site. 10. Ask businesses with the same target audience if they would be interested in combining your product with their product. You could then sell them together as a package deal and split the profits. You may have better results selling your product this way. There are many more creative ways to make use of a product that is not selling for some reason. You can still make money online, even if the product is a poor seller for some reason. ------------------- 29. Make Money Online Advice - Increasing Sales Volume Make Money Online Advice - Increasing Sales Volume Are you frustrated in your efforts to make money online because of low sales volume? This article may help. Here are 10 proven strategies that will help increase your sales volume. 1. Make people feel safe when they order. Remind people that they are ordering through a secure server. Tell them you won't sell their email address and all their information will be kept confidential. 2. Make your ad copy attractive. Do not concentrate on features; market the benefits instead. Make sure your headline is attractive to your target audience. Always include testimonials and/or guarantees. 3. Remind people to come back and visit. People usually don't purchase the first time they visit. The more times they visit your site, the greater the chance they will buy. The most effective way to make them return is to give them a free subscription to your ezine. 4. Tell people about your business. They will feel more comfortable if they know who they are buying from. Publish a section called "About Us" on your home business website. Include your business history, profile of employees, contact information etc. 5.Give people as many ordering options as possible. Accept credit cards, checks, money orders, and other forms of electronic payments. Take orders by phone, email, home business website, fax, mail, etc. 6. Make your home business website look professional. You must have your own domain name. Your web site should be easy to navigate. The graphics should be related to the theme of your home business website. 7. Let people read your ad before they get your freebie. When you use free stuff to lure people to your home business website include it below your ad copy or on another web page. If you list the freebie above your ad they may never look to see what you're selling. 8. This may sound simplistic, but be sure that you are attracting the target audience that would buy your product or service. A simple way to do this is to survey your existing customers to see what attracted them to buy. This information will help you improve your target marketing and advertising.
------------------- 30. Make Money Online by Working At Home Make Money Online by Working At Home - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master So you want to make money online? In researching you have probably come across dozens of money making home business opportunities websites saying just join our program or that program and the money will flow in while you sleep. Be careful and take everything you read with a large degree of skepticism. Every make money online program out there needs your effort and money for the program to work. Not a lot of money, in some cases. Even just a little can go a long way. But any business will require time, effort and some of your own money to be successful. If you know how and where to invest your money, work at home online success can be yours. If you are not willing to work hard and wisely and spend money on your work at home business to make money, the odds will be stacked against your success. This is where you get an unfair advantage in your pursuit of success. You will have to guide yourself to finding quality information, tools and tactics to become successful at making money online. With some or absolutely no idea how to make money online you have to be diligent in your efforts to succeed. My experience suggests that you should follow the path you feel comfortable pursuing. This will enable you to be successful and happy in the pursuit of your goals. You'll see lots of no cost work for free business models on the Internet and in business opportunity magazines. Stay away from these! How can anyone possibly make money if it costs nothing to sign up? If it looks to good to be true, it probably is. You need to find proven business models that are working. Stay away from pre-launches and new programs. Be sure to contact other business owners in whatever programs you are investigating to find out their experiences. Any reputable business owner will be happy to share their experiences with you. Good luck with your search. Now go make money online! ------------------- 31. Make Money Online Advice 7 Make Money Online Advice 7 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Here are more tips for those of you who are looking to make money online. Today we'll once again look at ideas for increasing sales volume for your products and services: 1. If you are using mass media advertising, consider investing in targeted advertising instead. Don't waste your limited ad dollars on people who aren't interested. 2. You can increase your profits by concentrating on small details. Improving small things like text size, color, or graphics can really make a positive difference. 3. Keep your offers flexible. For example, if you offer a set price for your product, offer an optional payment plan for the people can't afford the whole cost up front. 4. You can offer your knowledge or consulting as a bonus to those who order a product. For example, you could offer a free 15 or 30 minute consultation. This will add tremendous value to your product. 5. Make sure to personalize all your email messages so they get read. Include the recipient's name in the subject line. This will grab peoples attention quickly. 6. Keep your home business website consistent. Do not keep things on your home business website that are unrelated to the theme of your home business website. 7. You can attract more subscribers to your free ezine by giving them free bonuses like ebooks, software, online services and other incentives. 8. Sell advertising space in your ezine and on your home business website. This will create an extra income stream for your business. 9. Make your home business website ready for the public. Have an "About Us" page and clear descriptions of what actions you want your visitors to take. 10. Don't just start advertising everywhere. Plan out your marketing. Locate places and publications that your target audience would congregate around. These 10 ideas will help you to ramp up your online sales volume. Stay tuned for more ideas in the next article in this series. Now go make money online! ------------------- 32. Make Money Online Advice 6 Make Money Online Advice 6 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to another in my ongoing series of articles to help you make money online. Today we'll look at more ideas for increasing profits:
2. Cut down on expenses by taking on as many of your business' chores as you can handle. Outsource what you can't handle. 3. Don't be afraid to try out new business opportunities, even if they are not related to your main focus. Multiple streams of income are the way to go if you want to make money online. 4. Search out home business websites that are related to your market and create an alliance with 3 or 4 of them. Include each of your ads or banners on the other home business websites. You will all share targeted traffic from each other. 5. Create a free ezine directory. This will attract a lot of traffic from ezine publishers and people that want to subscribe to the ezines. Gather contact information by offering people the ability to sign up to be notified when a new ezine is added to the directory. 6. Offer freebies from your site and submit them to free stuff sites. These sites provide target categories, which means targeted traffic for you. 7. Make your visitors curious about your product by telling them they need to sign-up to get into a password protected site to read the rest of the ad. 8. Keep in mind that the little things about your web pages really do count. Include the title of your site at the top right corner, a description of your site, make it easy to navigate, etc. Do not assume that anyone who visits your website understands how it all fits together. 9. When you ask someone to sign-up to receive a freebie, don't ask for really personal information. This is a fast way to lose a potential prospect. 10. Make use of newsgroups. Newsgroups are still very popular. You can post your ad in ones that allow it or you can simply leave messages with your signature line included. Stay tuned for more tips designed to help you boost sales and make money online. ------------------- 33. Make Money Online Advice Make Money Online Advice - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master If you want to make money online, you have to sell something. And if you want to sell something, you are going to have to design ads or sales pages. When designing an ad, one of the most important considerations is how to end the sales message. Here are 10 ideas for ending your sales message that will persuade people to purchase the product you are selling: 1. End your sales message by telling people what will happen if they buy your product. Use your most powerful benefit as the example. 2. End your sales message by telling people what will happen if they don't buy your product. Use a problem that they won't be able to solve without it. 3. End your sales message with a question to which they will always answer "Yes". This will put them in the right frame of mind to answer "Yes" when you ask them to order. 4. End your sales message with a short review of your whole ad. Repeat all the major benefits and features they will receive. 5. End your sales message with a deadline. Tell them it's a limited time offer and they need to order by a specific date. 6. End your sales message with a powerful guarantee. Give them a lifetime or triple your money back guarantee. 7. End your sales message with a testimonial. Use one or more of your customers' testimonials that are believable and include specific results. 8. End your sales message with a free bonus. When you give them a free bonus it increases the product's perceived value. 9. End your sales message with a discounted price. Just list your regular price and then offer a discounted price off the order right now. 10. End your sales message with a free sample or a trial version of your product. If your ad didn't attract them to buy, maybe a free sample or trial would. Using one or more of these strategies to end your sales message will make your readers more disposed to purchase the product. Try different combinations, and be sure to test the different combinations of strategies to see which works best. Watch for more articles in my Make Money Online Advice series. ------------------- 34. Make Money Online Advice Make Money Online Advice - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master If you are trying to make money online, you are no doubt offering some sort of product or products for sale. In this ongoing series of articles I will offer short ideas to increase your sales so you can make more money online. Here are 10 more tips to increase sales for the products and services you offer in your home business: 1. Create instant rapport with your target audience by expressing the same views as your audience. Bring up common likes and dislikes in your ads. 2. Consider adding viral marketing to your promotional plans. Allow your visitors to give away your free stuff, just include your ad somewhere on all the freebies. 3. Design your website to be less confusing. Don't use a lot of graphics, links or anything else that takes away from your sales message. The best sales page for any product is a page that has no outgoing links to anywhere else, except perhaps for the usual terms of service and contact page. 4. Your website visitors may not have the time to review your entire website at the time they visit. Give them the option of viewing your web site by autoresponder or printing it out. It is also a good idea to provide an "Add to Favorites" button. 5. Want to increase your opt-in email list quickly? Give away a product at no cost as long as people subscribe to your ezine in exchange. 6. Seek out joint ventures with offline businesses. Look for businesses that have the same target audience and create a win/win deal with them. 7. Expand your target audience by adding a new product line or packaging your main products with other ones. You could also add-on extra services. 8. People buy from people they like, so if you can persuade your visitors to like you, you will automatically be more trustworthy in their eyes. You could tell them a joke, give them a compliment, give them a freebie, etc. 9. Submit all the free stuff you offer to online freebie directories. These directories get tons of traffic, because people like to get things for free. 10. Always use headlines and sub headlines that are aimed directly at your audience. For example, if you're selling things to real estate agents, use a headline like "Attention All Realtors!".
------------------- 35. Make Money Online Advice Make Money Online Advice - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master When you are designing ads or sales pages for the products that you develop and/or sell, try to design them with certain things in mind. If you want to make money online, you have to hit people's hot spots - you have to motivate them to want to buy your stuff. Here are 10 motivational triggers to keep in mind that will make people eager and willing to buy your products and services: 1. Everyone wants to make more money. For example, they may want to start their own home business, get a higher paying job or invest in the stock market. This makes them feel successful. 2. Everyone wants to save money. For example, they may want to invest for the future or save for a big purchase. This makes them feel more secure. 3. Everyone wants to save time. For example, they may want to work less and spend time enjoying life's pleasures. This makes them feel more relaxed. 4. Everyone wants to look better. For example, they may want to lose weight, tone their body, or improve their facial features. This makes them feel more attractive. 5. Everyone wants to learn something new. For example, they may want to learn how to change their car oil or build a deck. This makes them feel more intelligent. 6. Everyone wants to live longer. For example, they may want to get in shape, eat better or gain extra energy. This makes them feel healthier. 7. Everyone wants to be comfortable. For example, they may want to relive aches and pains or want to sleep in a more comfortable bed. This makes them feel relieved. 8. Everyone wants to be loved. For example, they may not want to be lonely anymore or want to start dating again. This makes them feel wanted. 9. Everyone wants to be popular. For example, they may want to be a famous celebrity or be more popular in school. This makes them feel praised and admired. 10. Everyone wants to gain pleasure. For example, they may want satisfy their appetite or their sexual desires. This makes them feel more fulfilled. Work one or more of these ideas into any ads or sales pages you are designing. This will increase your chances to make money online. ------------------- 36. Make Money Online Advice Make Money Online Advice - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome once again to my ongoing series of tips to help you make money online. Today we'll continue looking at ideas for increasing the order rate for your products and services: 1. If your business is an online business, automate as much as possible. This will save you extra time for marketing and advertising. Consider such tools as auto- responders, time saving software, submission software, etc.
I hope these ideas will trigger some creative thinking on your part. You have to be constantly looking at new marketing ideas when you want to make money online. ------------------- 37. Make Money Online Advice Make Money Online Advice - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you trying to make money online with a business? Wondering how to increase sales for your products and services? Well here are some ideas that may help:
------------------- 38. Make Money Online With Words That Make People Buy Make Money Online With Words That Make People Buy - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you selling a product or service online? Then you are no doubt designing ad copy or sales pages. In today's article about making money online, I'll show you 10 words that you can use that will make people purchase the products or services that you are advertising. 1. "Fast: - People want fast results, fast delivery, fast ordering, etc. Nowadays, we usually value our time more than our money. Use this word somewhere in your ad.
If you work these 10 words into your ad copy, you will vastly improve sales for your products and services. Stay tuned for more ideas to make money online. ------------------- 39. Smoothies - a Healthy and Tasty Weight Loss Treat Smoothies - a Healthy and Tasty Weight Loss Treat Have you noticed all the smoothie shops springing up lately? There seems to be a new one opening up almost every day. Why makes these drinks so popular? Smoothies can very soothing and invigorating. When you are in a hurry they can be a great meal replacement. Plus they are quite tasty, and if they are made right, they are low in fat. They can be a great weight loss tool. Smoothies fill you up so don't feel hungry. They are easy to make. You can grab them and take them on the go. These are all huge advantages in our busy lives. You can pack lots of fruits and vegetables in your meals or snacks by making a smoothie. They refresh and energize your body. Best of all, drinking smoothies as an aid to weight loss really does work. You won't feel hungry or deprived. You won't feel like you are on a diet. Smoothies are so filling that you will never feel hungry. There are a few tricks to preparing your smoothies and some special ingredients you can add to your smoothies that will assist with your weight loss goals. Because smoothies can contain so many different ingredients, not all smoothies are created equal. To lose weight with smoothies you need take care that your smoothies include a variety of nutritious vegetables and fruits. The majority of the ingredients should be low fat and low calorie. This does not mean that your smoothie won't be delicious, however. You can make smoothies that are highly addictive because they taste so delicious! Smoothie recipes that encourage weight loss and improve your health are simple to find online and in many recipe books. You can hasten your weight loss, boost your energy, enhance your health and improve your appearance all by adding nutritious tasty smoothies to your daily regimen. So try adding smoothies to your menu today and start to see those extra pounds disappear and the new healthy you begin to emerge. Lose weight with smoothies! ------------------- 40. Make Money Online in a Home Business 080918 Make Money Online in a Home Business 080918 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome once again to my ongoing series of tips for those of you who are trying to make money online with a home business. Today we'll look at 10 ideas for increasing the order rates for your products: 1. Set up a reward program for repeat customers, and for referrals. This will keep people revisiting your home business website and buying your products. Sample rewards could be small gifts, discounts, discounts on future purchase, etc. Be creative.
Stay tuned for more in this series. ------------------- 41. Make Money Online with Blogging - But Not At Wordpress! Make Money Online with Blogging - But Not At Wordpress! - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Most everyone who knows anything about internet marketing knows that blogging is a great way to drive traffic to a business website. Put up a blog, start posting some unique content, and include links to your business website. Post new articles regularly and often, and you will start seeing Google pay more attention to your business website. This is a very important step on the road to helping your business make money online. You may have heard that Wordpress is great software for blogging. That's true, but you need to be very careful. Whatever you do, DO NOT set up a blog at Wordpress.com. You need to own your own domain, upload the software, and set it up where you have total control. Here's why: I set up a blog on Wordpress.com to promote a home business website. Since I never do anything black hat, but always employ standard and ethical internet marketing techniques, I did not read the Wordpress TOS before I set up the blog. I figured that Wordpress, like other free blogging sites, would welcome unique content giving great information to others who are struggling to build an online business and make money online. Big mistake! A couple of weeks after setting up the blog and posting regular unique content, I was happy to see that other blog owners were linking to my articles and I was starting to get some traffic. Then suddenly my blog was deactivated by Wordpress for "violation of the Terms of Service". What??? As it turns out, Wordpress does not welcome business-related blogs at their site. Anything else is OK, as long as you are not trying to promote a business. Here is a quote from their TOS: "here are some examples of blogs that are banned from Wordpress.com (all of these fall under the general heading of "spam blogs", or splogs, and we will be deleted as soon as we find them or they get reported): * Scraper blogs: Blogs that take content from other blogs and re-publish it without permission (this is sometimes called scraping). If a blog contains all or mostly stolen and unoriginal content, it's gone! * SEO blogs: Blogs that are written for search engines instead of humans. These blogs are dedicated to trying to fool Google and other search engines into ranking them highly. Wordpress.com is not meant for this type of activity. * Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes ("Make six figures from home!!", "20 easy steps to top profits!!", etc). To be clear, examples like people writing original book or movie reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category. * Warez blogs: Blogs that promote pirated copies of ebooks, software packages, music, movies, games, etc. I was doing none of these things, but Wordpress deactivated my blog anyway. I have not bothered to try to get them to reactivate the blog, since I know from others who have experienced this, that the geeks at Wordpress are very unresponsive. Fortunately, I have saved all my posts and I will set up a new blog at a site which I own and control. So, lesson learned: stay away from Wordpress.com if you are trying to promote a business. Set up blogs only on domains that you own and control. Don't let Wordpress.com, the Big Brother of the Internet, control how you run your business! ------------------- 42. Weight Loss Advice 15 Everyday Weight Loss Advice 15 This is the last in my ongoing series of weight loss advice articles. I hope you have found this advice useful. Here are today's tips: 1. Stop slouching in your chair! Try to maintain an erect posture with your tummy tucked in. Slouching is a very bad habit. It is bad for your back, and it also contributes to your flab. It is your way of saying yes to a comfortable position that detracts from your weight loss program. Always make it a point to sit as erect as you can. This is also a terrific way to ward off back problems. 2. If you have a banister rail or a balustrade that will support you, sit on it and pump your legs as if you are riding a bicycle. Be careful not to fall off! This might sound like a crazy idea, but by doing crazy things like this, you are in fact not missing a single chance to lose that weight. It is a way of keeping your mind alert all the time. Try to fit some form of exercise into everything that you do and into every situation in which you find yourself.
4 Here is a list of various exercises and the number of calories that are burned by each exercise during a 20-minute workout. Choose what you can do best, and choose something that you will enjoy doing on the long run. The choice of the exercise is completely up to you. Try to do whatever exercise you choose for at least twenty minutes. It is only after you do the exercise for twenty minutes that the actual calorie burning sets in. Aerobics: 200-250 calories You can see that even walking is good for you. If you really find your days to be too full to fit in any other form of exercise, then walking is your best bet. Walk as much as you can. Try getting to places and leaving places a little early. This will give you time to walk. Well, that's it for my series of weight loss advice articles. The ball is now in your court, so what are you waiting for? Get rid of those extra calories and pounds and try to enjoy life the best you can without inviting all those terrible diseases that come with a few extra pounds. Good luck with your weight loss program! ------------------- 43. Weight Loss Advice 13 Weight Loss Advice 13 Are you feeling overloaded with weight loss information? You're not alone. There is so much information out there today that it can get confusing, and each and every program is hyped as the answer to your prayers. In reality, of course, there is no foolproof way of knowing what works and what doesn't. There is no way of knowing if the diet is one that enables you to lose weight and then keep it off. This is what is most important. When considering any weight loss program, start by trying to determine if the diet has a scientific basis for its claims. Have there been any significant trials done to ascertain if people have been able to lose weight effectively? Is there any data to show how successful the program participants are in keeping the weight off after 1, 5 or 10 years? Do your research. Did you know that you can lose weight by eating a diet high in a particular type of fat?. This fat is called a MUFA - monounsaturated fatty acid. MUFAs are the good fats you find in food like peanuts, olive oil and avocados. Current research has demonstrated that MUFAs help to seek out and reduce your belly fat. They all also have additional health benefits: they help to lower cholesterol levels in your blood, and they lower your risk of heart disease and strokes. Other studies have shown that MUFAs can also help fight diabetes. Experts believe that MUFAs prevent and even eliminate central fat distribution in your body. One of the most difficult things about any weight loss program is usually the diet. Whatever program you choose, you will be reducing the amount of food you consume, or you will be replacing those foods you crave with foods that are not all that interesting until you get used to them. This means that, at least for a time, you will be left feeling unsatisfied and hungry. This is a another benefit to MUFAs: their higher fat content will have the effect of satisfying your appetite for a longer period of time. As a result you will be less likely to want to snack, and you will also be less likely to have cravings for sweets. As with any weight loss program, it is advisable to add some exercise to your dietary regime to encourage your body to lose weight more effectively. With as little as 10 minutes exercise, your brain will begin to produce beta endorphins. These chemicals will calm you down, regulate your stress hormones and make you feel good. A recent study demonstrated that the secretion of beta-endorphins can actually offset the belly bloating effects of cortisol and insulin. An exercise plan that will help you with weight loss will take no longer than 25 minutes a day. The plan consists of three parts:- 1. A cardio component - this can be as easy as walking 2. A strength training program to build lean muscle 3. A Pilates-based workout - this is excellent for building your core strength A combination of these will provide all you need for a successful weight loss regimen. Remember, its all about balance. With a good healthy nutrition program, combined with sensible eating habits, plus some daily exercise, in time you will be successful in your weight loss efforts.
44. Make Money With Better Banner Ads Make Money With Better Banner Ads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Have you ever tried to sell something via banner ads? 1. Use reverse psychology when designing your banner ads. You could tell people not to click on your banner ad. For example "Don't Click Here Unless You Want to Make Money".
------------------- 45. Weight Loss Advice for Every Day 12 Weight Loss Advice for Every Day 12 Welcome once more to my series of daily articles about things you can do every day to help you with your weight loss plan. Here are today's tips: 1. Try doing pelvic rotations when nobody is watching. The mid section of your body is the part that gets the least amount of exercise. That is probably why weight gain is mostly seen in that section. It is hard to lose weight around your midsection for the same reason. The best thing you can do is to consciously try to give that part of your body a little bit of exercise. Stomach crunches might be too strenuous an exercise to start off with, but rotations are relatively mild. This is the best way to tighten every muscle in that midsection.
4. Try yoga. Yoga is one of the best ways to supercharge your weight loss program. One of the benefits of yoga is that you learn to control virtually every muscle and joint of your body, which will really help you with your weight loss regimen. Stay tuned for more weight loss tips in tomorrow's article. ------------------- 46. Weight Loss Tips 11 Weight Loss Tips for Every Day 11 Welcome back. Once again here are some tips you can incorporate into your everyday life to help you with your weight loss program: 1. Wiggle your toes and your fingers whenever you can. This is a great stress buster, and it gives you a chance to at least work your hand and leg joints. This will tell you how sore they are. If their condition is so bad, What about the rest of your body? 2. When watching TV, walk around during commercial breaks. If you want to sit all evening with your eyes glued to the tube, then do so. But at least spare your eyes the agony of a commercial break. When the next commercial flashes on screen, instead of channel surfing, get up and take a walk. Reach over and try to touch your toes or do some simple exercise that will at least get the blood flowing in your veins. 3. Turn on music and dance wildly. Let your hair down once in a while. Go back to the days of your childhood. Close the door of your room, turn on your sound system to the highest volume possible (but a little lower than the level at which your neighbors start to complain) and then do the wackiest dance that you can think of. Jump on your bed and jump off it again. Just get moving! 3. Carry a soft flying disc or Frisbee with you. Toss it around and get up to fetch it. This is also an excellent way to beat stress. It makes you feel good to throw something away forcefully when you are all worked up. And since the thing that you throw is something soft, you can't damage anything. It is not really the throwing part that we are interested in. It is the fetching part. Each time you get up to fetch it back; you are giving yourself a chance to stretch those muscles and joints 4. If you are taking a taxi somewhere, get off a block before your destination and walk the rest of the way. You might not have time to fit in long walks in your busy schedule, so this is one way of ensuring that you at least get to walk for a little bit every day. If you take the bus or the subway, get off at an earlier station and see if you can walk the rest of the way. If you drive to work, see if you can get space in a parking lot that is a little further away from your office.
------------------- 47. How To Succeed in a Home Business How To Succeed in a Home Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master We all want to have a viable home business that offers financial security and time to enjoy life. However, looking for that "cash cow" can sometimes mean that you can fail to realize what it really means to market online. The first thing to remember when working a home business is this: do not to try to do everything at once! You will come across tons of gurus online who tell you to do all sorts of things that will make you fabulously successful. What you have to do is to successfully separate the real from the fictional. That is not always easy to do. Look at the sales letter and see if there are exaggerated claims such as, "Purchase this item and you will never need any other marketing tools" or "This particular item will be so easy to use that you will have thousands of dollars in your bank account next day". Claims such as these are a definite indication that you are being hyped. Only one situation will bring you success online: hard work, diligence and service to your customers. Always, always, spend time researching your niche, your marketplace and your competition. Your customers have a certain mindset. They have a certain way they like to shop. They have a certain way they will find your website. The list is endless. You must make it easy for them to find out about you, your business, your products, your attitudes, your service policies, and your abilities. Do not hide behind your computer. Make it easy for your customers to contact you. Check out other websites in your niche and see what they are doing. Can you offer a better product, solution or package? Can you offer a better price? Price points for products or services can make or break a home business. You do not have to have the highest price or the cheapest offer, but you do have to provide value for the dollar or you will not get repeat customers. Repeat customers are your bread and butter, so do all that you can to keep people coming back for more. It takes a lot to get a customer to your website, so you had better be prepared to do more than one follow up to complete that sale. You need to decide how you will accomplish this. Will you use autoresponders, an ezine or newsletter, a blog? How will you correspond with your website visitors to continue to convince them of your integrity and honesty and build a trusting relationship? You need to decide this before you even design your website. You will need the proper tools to build a home business online. Consider the purchase of such tools as part of your research and development expenses. You will need one or more domain names, a webhost, a product or service that you own and can profit from, a way to build a website either by yourself or with a web designer, and multiple ways to bring traffic to your website. Without any of these components, your online home business will not be successful. All of this will require a lot of work. Building any business takes time and effort. There is no short cut, despite what the gurus might say. There will be a lot of late nights and time spent in front of the computer before you see success in your business. If anyone tells you differently, that is a good sign that you need to run, not walk, to the next website! Of better yet, stop looking at all the offers you get about the latest and greatest tools, and start actually building something! Continue to believe in yourself and in your product or service and you will soon operating a successful and viable home business. Keep a positive attitude and you will avoid countless mistakes. Trust your instincts and watch out for hype. Continue to build and you will reap the rewards of having a successful online business can make you very happy. ------------------- 48. Work At Home Business Ideas: Print Brokers Work At Home Business Ideas: Print Brokers Can you imagine a work at home business that is always in demand, thrives in any economic condition, and requires no special skills other than the ability to read and write? Can you imagine a work at home business you can start on Monday for less than the cost of a tank of gas, and can have people practically begging you to take their money by Friday? Believe it or not, there is such a business. It is called print brokering. Starting and operating a work at home business as a print broker may just be a perfect business. Think about this for a moment. Business people need business cards, printed forms, and documents. Every business, club, group, or organization in any town, city, or county... need and use various printed forms and documents in doing business. And, they all need these forms and documents over and over again. Virtually any business or business person uses at least two or more types of documents or forms that need to be printed. As a work at home business print broker, you simply take orders and forward them to printers who do the work for you wholesale, and then ship the work to your customers. Operating a work at home business as a print broker is quite straightforward, and will grow to make as much money as you desire without paying a penny for advertising or getting more customers. How is this be possible? It is possible because of a concept in the print business known as co-op printing. One customer's non-conflicting document is printed on the back of another customer's document. Using this concept, you, as a print broker, can easily grow your work at home business to make as much money as you desire... without spending one red cent on advertising. Here's an example: Norah's beauty shop needs to drum up some more business, and Norah decides to have 1,000 flyers printed up on color paper to distribute locally. Local printers would charge about $50, plus tax for the job. You offer the same service for $40... if Norah allows you to print your non-conflicting discount printing services flyer on the back of her flyer. The beauty shop saves 25% on the cost of printing, and you get 1,000 of your advertisements printed and distributed free or charge. The beauty shop is happy, and you are happy. It is a win-win situation for both of you. However, note what just really happened: you were actually paid to advertise and grow your work at home business because your printer only charged you $25 for the order. 1,000 people and businesses will see your discount printing services... which will cause more orders to come rolling in without any effort or expense on your part. And, you can repeat this free money making work at home business growth technique as often as you desire by offering co-op printing services to other customers and businesses. Be careful with this technique, however. Many work at home business print brokers have used this technique too often, and found themselves overwhelmed with orders that they cannot handle on a quick enough basis. There is probably no other work at home business you can imagine that is so easy, costs so little to start, recession proof, and actually pays you to grow it. Of course, this is a simplistic view of this work at home business. There would still be a lot of legwork to set up the business, find and strike deals with discount printing services, and do your initial advertising. But I think it is an intriguing idea. ------------------- 49. Make Money Online Tips Want To Make Money Online? Defeat Your Competition - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you struggling to make money online in your work from home business? Here are some tips that might help. One of the best ways to make money online is to scout out your competition and offer things that they don't offer. Here are some ideas to consider: 1. Offer free useful original content. If your website is the only place where your visitors can find this stuff, your home business website will get lots of visitors.
Stay tuned for more tips on how to make money online in future articles.
50. Weight Loss - Your Big Belly Weight Loss - Your Big Belly It seems that everywhere you look these days, you see an advertisement for a weight loss product. We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, and advertisers and product manufacturers are itching to cash in. You see so many compelling commercials to sell you on why a particular weight loss product is the best. Weight loss claims are subtle enough to stimulate the imagination and create the illusion of benefits in your mind. Have you considered purchasing an exercise machine? What about diet pills. Have you ever talked to your doctor about these drugs? Have you walked into a health shop and looked for information about weight loss, fat-burning or muscle-building supplements? Have you bought the latest fad diet book? Have you done a Google search or watched TV and listened to a fitness guru talk about an amazing new diet that helps you to lose weight in record time? Have you searched the web for information about diet, nutrition or weight loss programs? If you have done any of the above then the chances are you've been told a lot of things that are just not true! It is an unfortunate fact that if you are looking for honest and accurate information about nutrition and effective weight loss, you will find that it is hard to come by these days. Nearly everyone has been misled at one time or another. Now, it could be that the so called "guru" thinks that the information they are giving is correct and may have been misled themselves. But to ensure that you are receiving or giving accurate and honest information you need to look very carefully at the scientific evidence surrounding the claims. One of the most important principles in any weight loss program you may follow is to be able to see visible results quickly. Getting rid of that big belly can be a great incentive for most people. Better to get rid of it from the start than be left with it at the end of your diet. So what causes this big belly? Ingesting foods that your body cannot tolerate can cause inflammation. This is one of the main reasons for a bloated belly, especially if that belly is of the pot belly variety. Inflammation and excess gas caused by undigested food can be a major cause of both inflammation and a bloated belly. Most people who have tried any weight loss program will be familiar with the term "water retention". Although this can often be more prevalent in the ankles and other joints. it can also be a contributory factor for a swollen midsection. For weight loss to take place it is advisable to address these underlying intolerances first, especially if you want to a flat belly not a fat belly as a result. ------------------- 51. Everyday Weight Loss Advice Everyday Weight Loss Advice 8 Welcome to another in my ongoing series of weight loss advice. Once again, we will explore some of the many ideas you can implement in your life to help you with your weight loss program. Let's get started. Today we'll continue our focus on exercise. 1. It is important to stop exercising when your body has had enough. There is no sense in pushing it. When you have worked out for a considerable time, your body will start giving you signals. Heed those signals. This is particularly true in the initial stages. Take it one step at a time. Stop when you are out of breath or when a certain part of your body tells you that it has had enough. It is the cumulative amount of exercise over time that will help you with weight loss. Take it slow and easy.
5. Are you sitting down? Don't just sit there. Stand up! If you can stand, then do not sit. The golden rule is to choose a position that is less comfortable. 6. Are you lying down? Don't lie down. Sit! The rule that we mentioned above rings true here as well. 7. Stop being a couch potato. It is the easiest thing in the world to become a couch potato: that shapeless thing that sits or reclines on a shapeless chair in front of the television and stupidly munches away at something fried! If you are inclined to become a promising old couch potato, break the habit. What is the best way to do that? Take away that favorite chair of yours. In fact, it would be a very good idea if you could keep a chair that isn't too comfortable in front of the TV. This will discourage any tendency to become a couch potato. I hope these daily advice articles are helping you with your weight loss program. Keep up the good work! ------------------- 52. Work At Home Business Advice Work At Home Business Advice: Increase Your Profits With These 10 Tips - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to another work at home business advice article. Today, let's look at more ways to increase your profits.
53. Everyday Weight Loss Advice Weight Loss Advice for Every Day 7 Welcome to another article in my series of weight loss advice for every day. Today we'll look at exercise in more detail. We all know that exercise is an important part of any weight loss program. 1. Check your weight before you start your exercise routine and keep checking for changes. But do not expect a radical change immediately. It might be one or two weeks before you notice some weight loss. In fact, your weight may increase for a bit as you turn fat into muscle. However it is crucial that you continue to monitor your weight. Even a few pounds or inches lost is a big achievement. 2. When you do notice a change, reward yourself. Now, don't go for some goodies like chocolates or sweets. After all, this is a weight loss program! Maybe you could go for a movie or buy yourself something like a new dress or a trinket. This is something that can keep you going. 3. You can take a day off from exercise every week. This is not just a very good idea but it is part of the exercise routine. Your body needs a day off from an exercise routine. 4. Exercise outdoors as often as possible. There are two advantages of exercising outside. One advantage is that it gives your body a chance to get much needed fresh air and sunshine. The second advantage is that the surroundings keep you perked up and it is a break from remaining cooped up all day long 5. Try to collect some information about exercise. There are a lot of things that you can do at home. Extensive research has been done on exercise and plenty of this information is easily available. You can try browsing the net or getting a book or two on how to exercise at home. This information will be useful to you to know how much you need to work out on each specific exercise in order to burn off the desired number of calories. 6. Try to get somebody to exercise along with you. It should be somebody committed to exercise and/or weight loss or else your interest might dwindle. One of the advantages of getting a committed person to exercise with you is that it keeps you going. There may be days when you feel just too lazy to crawl out of bed in the mornings. On such days, the knowledge that somebody is waiting for you is enough to slide out of bed. Another advantage is that you can discuss your progress and fears with another person and be a sympathetic listener to the other person as well. This is a great way to get motivated your self. In the next article in this series, we'll continue looking at exercise, an important part of your weight loss program. ------------------- 54. Tips to Make Money Online Tricks to Make Money Online - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Wouldn't it be great if you knew some easy tricks to make money online on the internet? Now, the word "tricks" implies a short cut or a cheat of some sort. As a general rule, using a short cut is bad news for anyone looking to build an online business. Building an online business properly requires a plan, then a foundation, and then a structured system of making money. However, there are some "easy" tricks to make money on the internet. The word "easy" is a bit of a misnomer here - each of these tricks will require that you know exactly what you are looking for and that you have some skills to pull them off. For example, Ebay recently changed its policies so you can no longer sell digital products in auctions. A lot of people went out of business overnight. The more savvy Ebay marketers used a great trick to keep using this service - they now offer their digital products as physical products in the form of CD's and DVD's. To save even more time with this trick you can use a product fulfillment service to take care of everything for you. This change actually made things better for the marketers who did not give up. Now there is a lot less competition, so there is a much higher conversion rate for the products. This is a good example of 'going with the flow' in an online business. Instead of throwing up your hands and saying "I'm out of business", these business owners looked at the problem and said "How can I sell the same products in a different manner?". This is how you operate an online business. This is how you make money online. Next is a neat trick to make money online through Clickbank: - Find a product that is selling well (high gravity).
Another trick to make money online: - join a CPA (Cost Per Acquisition) program. And, of course, my favorite trick to make money online: Join us at Its Good Business where you will build a solid business by simply buying customers. No cold calling, no website development (unless you want to), no marketing to acquire or retain customers (unless you want to), and all the free training you will need to build a serious walk away income. Check Out Its Good Business 55. Everday Weight Loss Advice Everyday Weight Loss Advice: Creating your Weight Loss Program So, the time has finally come that you realize that you need to lose weight. But, what plan will you follow to help you with your weight loss goals? There are a certainly lot of plans and methods available on the internet to help with weight loss. Have you ever thought about creating your own plan for weight loss? Weight loss programs can serve as motivation and as a guide for a lot of people, and have helped them realize their goals for weight loss. Programs for weight loss, whether they be local or online, can give you a plan to follow. You may also like the idea of doing your own thing.
Well, the first thing to do is educate yourself. Become familiar with the different types of diets that are out there. Be aware of fad diets, and supplements that can do more harm than good. After doing some reading, you may find yourself putting together several components from different diets, thereby building your own unique diet. The most important thing is to eat healthy, no matter what diet you pursue. When creating your own weight loss program, you need to eat healthy, and avoid situations and ideas that will cause you to not eat enough. Calories, fat, carbohydrates and sugar are all important in your diet, and it's important to not eat too much - or too little - of any one food. Depending on your personality type, you may be able to allow junk food in your diet once in awhile, rather than eliminating it forever. Or you may allow yourself cheat days every so often. You need to keep a close watch on your diet. No matter what kind of weight loss program you decide to follow, it is important to keep track of what you're eating. Keeping a journal of calorie intake, along with sugar and fat intake will keep you aware of what you consume. It also helps you in real life: soon you'll have all kinds of food and the caloric content memorized. Big bonuses if you weigh and measure everything - after a bit of time you will be able to eyeball anything and know how much you're getting. You must exercise to lose weight. Exercise is important. But don't let having to exercise along with dieting put you off from starting a weight loss program. It is perfectly ok to start a diet and then begin exercising down the road. If you are obese, you will most likely not be able to do much exercise anyway when first starting out. But stick with it: as your weight loss adds up, you will be able to exercise more and even like it. You may not like the idea of visiting a gym an exercising around other people. That's fine. There are lots of home exercise programs and equipment you can use. Your best bet; just start walking! Everyone can do that. It can he difficult to stay motivated to exercise. If you need support, ask friends, your partner or a coworker if they would like to accompany you. Get an "exercise buddy" and challenge each other to go a little further or do a few more reps each day. Put your weight loss program in writing. If you have a plan of action for your weight loss program, write it down! Record any exercise you participate in, as well as what you eat. It can be a great motivator as you try to improve with each passing day. Also be sure to measure and weigh yourself no more than once a week. It is a great motivator to see those pounds dropping off and the waist getting thinner. Creating your own weight loss program can be a challenge and a huge motivator for you to succeed with your weight loss goals. I hope you are successful with your weight loss program. ------------------- 56. Make Money Online Advice Make Money Online Advice: Autoresponders - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you trying to make money online with a home business? One of the many ways to get your message out and promote your products is to use email autoresponders. Listed below are 10 innovative ways to use your autoresponder to help you promote and sell your home business products so you can make money online. 1. Use your autoresponder to collect leads. Your autoresponder will provide you with an email digest of the email addresses of everyone who requests information. 2. Use an autoresponder to publish a price list of all your products and services. You could also include order forms, product descriptions, and other sales material. 3. Publish free reports in autoresponder format. These reports should be related to your home based business or your website. Giving away free stuff will quickly increase your traffic. 4. Use your autoresponder to publish a survey to collect vital customer satisfaction information. This type of information will help you serve your customers better. 5. Instead of answering every customer question that's emailed to you, publish a "Frequently Ask Questions" in your autoresponder. This will save you time and money. 6. You could publish your home based business testimonials or endorsements in autoresponder format if you don't have enough room in your ad copy. It's more effective to include all of them. 7. Provide back issues of your ezine archives in an autoresponder. This will give your subscribers and web site visitors easy access to them. 8. Publish your entire web site in autoresponder format. Sometimes visitors don't have enough time read your entire site. They could print it out and read it offline. 9. Do you publish an ebook? Offer it in autoresponder format. Your visitors won't have to download it or have the software to read it right away. 10. Publish the terms and conditions to any business transactions in autoresponder format. This could include return policies, purchases, refunds etc. Think out of the box and you can come up with more creative ways to use your autoresponder to market your home business products and services. Stay tuned for more articles in my series of advice for online home businesses. Now go make money online ! ------------------- 57. Everday Weight Loss Advice Everyday Weight Loss Advice Here we are again with more everyday advice to help you with your weight loss plan. 1. Do not completely deprive yourself of the foods that you love. Go ahead eat them, but only for flavor and only once in a while. There are many things which you have to avoid from your diet but which you may have an undying craving for. Do not avoid them altogether. You could call them cheat foods and indulge in them once in a while. But take care just to tingle your taste buds, don't overeat. Instead of that, share them with others. 2. Watch your intake of fat. Each fat gram contains 9 calories. By reading the total calories on a food item and knowing the quantity of fat, you can estimate the % of fat, which should not exceed 30% of the calories from that food. 3. Go easy on salt. Too much salt is one of the causes of obesity and high blood pressure. Make it a point to really cut down on salt. Try to bring down your salt intake to half of what it was last year. Here's a great tip: make a cup of tea out of ground parsley and have a cup once a day. This will reduce your salt cravings over time. 4. Use cholesterol free butter. Bear in mind that small changes like this can go a long way towards helping with your weight loss. 5. Stop frying food! Try baking food without fat. Baking is a far more healthier method of preparing food than frying. Baking requires less oil or fat. 6. Use a non stick frying pan for your cooking so that you do not have to add oil. The golden rule is to try and avoid as much oil as possible and a non stick pan is one solution to this problem. 7. Boil your vegetables instead of cooking them. Even better, eat them fresh. However if you do not like eating your vegetables raw, try steaming them without adding anything at all. This is probably the healthiest way to eat cabbages, cauliflowers and a host of other vegetables. 8. Carry parsley with you. Parsley is an excellent food to munch on in between meals. Not only is it good for you, but it is also a perfect way to freshen your breath. That's all my advice to help you with your weight loss plan for today. Stay tuned for more! ------------------- 58. Work From Home Business Advice Work From Home Business Advice: Sell Your Products Now - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome once again to my ongoing series of work from home business advice. Today we're going to look at 10 ways to sell your products now. We'll discuss ways to design sales pages: 1. When writing the copy for your ad, try to make your reader visualize that they have already bought your product. Tell them what results they have gotten and how it makes them feel. They'll become emotionally attached before they buy.
I hope you have found this short list to be of use. Stay tuned for more work from home business tips in future articles. -------------------- 59. Everday Weight Loss Tips Everyday Weight Loss Tips Here we are once again in my ongoing series "Everyday Weight Loss Tips". Here are today's tips: 1. Believe it or not, you will each your weight loss goals if you make carbohydrates 50 to 55% of your diet. It is a myth that you should try to avoid carbohydrates when you are on a diet. Carbohydrates are a ready source of energy. But be sure to pay attention to the quality of the carbohydrates. 2. Proteins should make up 25 to 30% of your diet. Various processes are taking place in your body. Things are broken down and being rebuilt. Resistance has to be built up, recovery from disease is needed. For all this the body needs plenty of proteins. 4. Fats should only be 15 to 20 % of your diet. 5. Consider adopting a vegetarian diet. A vegetarian diet is a very healthy weight loss plan. There are a lot of advantages of keeping to a vegetarian diet. Make non-vegetarian food a weekend or once in a while event if you find it impossible to give up eating all that meat. 5. If you do eat meat, choose white meat rather than red meat. White meat, which includes fish and fowl, is much healthier than red meat, which includes beef and pork. 6. High fiber multigrain breads are better than white breads. This is a great way to increase the fiber content in your diet. 7. Reduce or eliminate your intake of pork. Pork is not something that can help you with your weight loss goals. So the less pork you eat, the better chances you have of losing weight. Remember that pork includes the pork products as well, like bacon, ham and sausages. 8. Limit your sugar intake. If you can't have things unsweetened go for sugar substitutes, or, better yet, Stevia. 9. Graze 5 to 6 times a day. Instead of sticking to just three meals a day, try grazing. Grazing means try having 5 or 6 smaller meals instead of three king sized meals. It is an excellent way of eating smaller quantities of food. Stay tuned for more everyday weight loss tips in future articles. ------------------- 60. Work From Home Business Advice Work from Home Business Advice: More Ways to Increase Your Sales - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to another article in my Work from Home Business Advice series. Today we'll look at more ideas for increasing sales for your work from home business:
2. Maximize the effectiveness of your banner ads. Don't just use the same ad on every banner. Use a variety to attract the greatest number of clickers. 3. Offer free advertising space to well known and respected companies on your work from home business website. This will help build your credibility. 4. People have been taught all their life to respect people in authority. Tell your visitors that you are the president or CEO of your business (which, in fact, you are!) 5. Offer people a free telephone consultation before they order your product. When they get to know you personally, it could convert to more sales. 6. Test the "bill me later option" on your website. Most people are honest and will pay you. It is a powerful little niche and could increase your sales. 7. Find a charity your target audience would likely support and commit to donating a percentage of your profits to this charity. Tell people on your ad copy that you will do this. 8. Hold a "buy the most wins contest" on your web site. Tell people each monthly winner will get their entire purchase refunded. 9. Attract visitors to your work from home business website by offering them a free course. The course can be set up in a follow-up autoresponder to send lessons daily. 10. Interview people related to your industry and get their permission to convert the interview into an article. Promote your website by submitting this article to ezines and article directories. That's all for this article. Stay tuned for more advice designed to help you make more money in your work from home business.
------------------- 61. Everday Weight Loss Tips 080830 Everyday Weight Loss Tips Welcome once again to my ongoing series of articles presenting things you can do every day to help you wight your weight loss goals. Here are today's tips and tricks: 1. As hard as it seems, try to count calories as you eat. Its a good idea to have an idea of the calories that most food items have. Fewer calories equals weight loss! 2. Do you feel that you have consumed more calories than you should have during the week? Then make sure that you work off those extra calories by the end of the week. 3. Stay away from fried food at all costs. Lots of hidden fats here, and bad fats as well. 4. Do not skip meals. The worst thing you can do while watching your diet is to skip a meal. It has just the opposite effect of what you want. You need to have at least three regular meals every day. 5. Eat fresh or frozen vegetables rather than cooked or canned vegetables. Try to eat your vegetables raw. When you cook them, you are in fact taking away nearly half the vitamins and nutrients in them. Canned vegetables will usually have all sorts of added ingredients that are not good for you, especially salt. 6. Do you like chocolates? Its OK to indulge very occasionally, but make chocolates a luxury and not a routine. Chocolates are not a food group! So do not indulge too much. 7. Make sure to choose a variety of foods from all food groups every day. This will help keep deficiency diseases at bay, and it will help you to experiment with a variety of dishes so you won't get bored with your diet. 8. Stay away from alcoholic beverages as much as possible. Alcoholic beverages too are not good for you. Beer can be fattening. Other alcoholic drinks may not be fattening by themselves, but after a couple of swigs you will be in no position to watch your diet and control your appetite. One glass of wine with dinner is probably OK. 9. Try to have breakfast within one hour of waking. It’s always best to have breakfast within an hour of waking up so that your body can charge itself with the energy it needs for the day. The idea is not to wait for yourself to get really hungry. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day but that does not mean that it should be the most filling meal of the day. More tips to help you wight your weight loss program will be coming in future articles in this series... ------------------- 62. Work From Home Business Advice Work From Home Business Advice: Tips to Increase Sales - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome once again to my ongoing series of tips for your work from home business. Today I have some ideas that will help you to increase sales for your products: 1. Place a customer survey on your work from home business website. Be sure to offer your visitors a freebie for filling it out, otherwise the vast majority of website visitors will not bother. Surveys can give you valuable insight into your business and your customer base.
Stay tuned for other work from home business tips in future articles. Read More About Work From Home Businesses ------------------- 63. More Everyday Tips to Lose Weight Everyday Tips To Lose Weight 3 Welcome to another in my continuing series entitled Everyday Tips To Lose Weight. Here are today's tips and tricks: 1. Set scheduled times to have meals and stick to it. You can stretch these times by half an hour, but anything more than that is going to affect your eating pattern. The result will either be a loss of appetite or that famished feeling which will make you stuff yourself the next time you eat. This of course will defeat your efforts to lose weight. 2. Eat only when you are hungry. Don't use food as an excuse to fill time or to comfort yourself. Some of us have the tendency to eat whenever we see food. We use parties as an excuse to stuff ourselves. Understand that the effect of a whole week of dieting can be wasted by just one day’s party food. Whenever you are offered something to eat do not decline it completely, but just take off a nibble so that you appear to be polite and at the same time can watch your diet. 3. Stop snacking between meals! This is especially true if you have to travel a lot. When traveling, you may feel that the only time you can get a bite to eat is snacks and junk food. The main problem with most snacks and junk food is that they are usually less filling and contain a lot of fat and calories. Just think about French fries - tempting but terribly fattening. Remember your goal: lose weight! 4. If you must snack, snack on vegetables. You might get hunger pangs in between meals, but it is something that you can control. Even better, try munching on carrots. They are an excellent way to satisfy those hunger pangs and are good for your eyes and teeth. 5. Go easy on tea and coffee. Tea and coffee are harmless by themselves. It’s when you add the cream and sugar that they become fattening. Did you know that having a cup of tea or coffee that has cream and at least two cubes of sugar is as bad as having a big piece of rich chocolate cake? 6. Try to stick to black tea or coffee. Black tea or coffee can actually be good for you. Personally, I recommend tea rather than coffee. The caffeine in the coffee is not really good for you because it is an alkaloid and can affect other functions of your body like you metabolism. I hope you are finding these tips useful for your efforts to lose weight. Stay tuned for more in future articles. Read More About How To Lose Weight ------------------- 64. Home Business Advice Your Home Business Should Give You Freedom - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master As home business entrepreneurs, we know that setting goals is crucial to our home business success. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you're there? Or, more importantly, when you're heading in completely the wrong direction? As the owner of a home business, what is your goal? To make it to the end of the month with enough money in the bank to cover your expenses? To take a holiday for the first time in five years? Every home business owner should have the same goal - sooner or later, to become independent of the business. Small businesses turn into big businesses only when they are able to operate smoothly without the owner being present. When you can stay away for a week, or a month, or a year, and return to find the business running better than before you left, you have the opportunity to do whatever you like - sell the business and start a new one, retire, buy a yacht and sail around the world. True financial independence is the ability to live your life doing what YOU want to do. Do you really want to show up for work an hour early every day, leave late at night and never take a holiday, for the rest of your life? I know I don't! What is the key to being able to walk away? Simple: you need a system in place so that everyone in your business knows exactly what's expected of them. Does your home business employ others? When you take on a new employee, how do they learn what they're expected to do? Does an existing employee take them in charge, explaining how things work? How can you be sure that the new employee is learning what you want them to know? As the owner of the business, it's your job to ensure that a system is put in place as the business grows. The system will ensure that everyone knows what they need to know to do their job effectively. How do you think companies like McDonald's are able to manage thousands of restaurants across the planet? McDonald's Head Office doesn't sell hamburgers. They sell franchises, and their customers are the franchisees. The most valuable asset they have is their system. It regulates what employees wear, the words they say to customers, how many seconds a patty is left on the grill. Every contingency is dictated by the system. The system makes it possible for new employees to fit in. They are educated on 'how we do things around here'. They are taught the specifics of their job. They may be required to sign a performance agreement. In a well-designed system, there is still space for individual creativity. Better ways of doing things should always be sought out and encouraged - and written into the system for the future. The system provides the framework for ensuring that the business is never entirely dependent on any one person. If you own the business, your future depends on the quality of your system. But you say that your business does not have employees? Well, this principle applies to us sole home business owners as well. We need to develop systems and processes to handle all the various tasks and to take action when the unexpected arises. And we need to put systems in place that will allow us to eventually walk away from the business and let it run on autopilot. This is what we have done with the Its Good Business model that I often write about. Our system is simple: we buy customers, not leads. We all work as part of a team of experts building each other's businesses and training each other in our respective areas of expertise. And it works. Do you know that, after only 3 months in this business, I could walk away right now and receive residual income for the rest of my life? And that income will continue to grow even if I do nothing. Granted, it would only be a small income at this point, which is why I will stay involved for a few years yet. But my point is, that from day 1, our Its Good Business model is based on a system that will let you walk away from it whenever you have reached your income goals, and never have to worry about it again, except perhaps to buy more customers once in a while. How great is that? Come see us at http://ItsGoodBusiness.net You'll be glad you did... ------------------- 65. More Everyday Tips to Lose Weight More Everyday Tips to Lose Weight Welcome once again to my series of articles presenting tips to lose weight. Here are some more tips to help you with your program: 1. Include foods in your diet that contain more water, such as tomatoes and watermelons. These foods contain 90 to 95 % water, so that there is nothing that you have to lose by feasting on them. They fill you up without adding to the calorie count. Cut the calories and you lose weight! 2. Stay away from sweetened bottle drinks, especially sodas. All those colas and fizzy drinks are sweetened with sugar, and sugar means calories. The more you can cut out on these sweetened bottle drinks, the better for you. So if you must drink sodas, then stick to diet sodas. Even better: just drink more water! 3. Eat fresh fruit instead of drinking fruit juice. Juice is often sweetened with sugar, but fresh fruits have natural sugars. When you eat fruit, you are taking in a lot of fiber, which is needed by your body, and fruits of course are an excellent source of vitamins. 4. If you do have a craving for fruit juice then go for fresh fruit juice instead of those that contain artificial flavors and colors. Or even better, try making your own fruit juice. Take care not to sweeten it with too much sugar! Instead of artificial sweeteners, try Stevia. 5. Choose fresh fruit rather than processed fruits. Processed and canned fruits do not have as much fiber as fresh fruit and processed and canned fruits are nearly always sweetened. 6. Increase your fiber intake. Your body needs a lot of fiber. Try to include in your diet as many fruits and vegetables as you can. 7. Go crazy on vegetables. Vegetables are your best bet when it comes to losing pounds. Nature has a terrific spread when it comes to choosing vegetables. And the leafy green vegetables are your best bet. Try to include at least one salad in your diet daily. 8. Eat intelligently. The difference between man and beast is that we are driven by intelligence while beasts are driven by instinct. don't just eat something because you feel like eating it. Ask yourself whether your body really needs it. 9. Watch what you eat. Keep a watchful eye on everything that goes in. Sometimes the garnishes and accompaniments can be richer than the food itself. Remember that it is the easiest thing in the world to eat something without realizing that it was something that you should not have eaten! Discipline yourself and you will lose weight. 10. Control that sweet tooth. Remember that sweet things generally mean more calories. It is natural that we have cravings for sweet things, especially chocolates and other confectionary. Go easy on these things and each time you consume something sweet understand that it is going to slow down your weight loss plan. Stay tuned for more everyday tips to help you in your quest to lose weight. Read More About Ways to Lose Weight ------------------- 66. Work From Home Business Advice Work From Home Business Advice: Creating Sales Pages - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master At some point in your work from home business career, you will no doubt have to create a web page or sales letter to sell your products or services. Since we are all not born salespeople, it can be hard to get it just right. You should study successful sales pages to get some tips from them. Here are 9 strategies that I have come across when perusing sales pages: 1. Many advertisers use a hand written letter as part of the sales page instead of text. Write the ad on a piece of paper, scan it and publish the ad on your web page. A personal touch will always increase your sales. 2. Show before and after photos for your products on your web page copy. Show the problem picture and then beside it, show the picture of the resolution to the problem when they use your product. 3. Do you have some famous or respected people who have purchased your product? Publish that list on your sales page. People will think that if these people bought from you, they should also trust your work from home business and purchase your products. Make sure to get their permission first. 4. Include an article or review that has been written about you or your work from home business within your sales page. This will show people that your work from home business is respected and will increase your credibility. 5. Do you offer free bonuses on your sales page? Then list the dollar value beside each bonus. People will feel they're getting a good deal and it will increase the value of your product. 6. Include a good professional picture of yourself on your sales page. This will show people that you're not hiding behind your sales page and will increase their trust. Also, include your work from home business contact information below the picture and a brief statement or quote. 7. Make a commitment to donate a certain percentage of the product purchase price to a specific charity, and tell your potential customers about it. This will show them you really care. They may just buy your product to donate to the charity. 8. Ask your potential customers plenty of yes and no questions in your sales page. The questions should remind them of their problem and make them think about what will happen if they don't purchase your product. 9. Tell your potential customers they will receive a free prize if they find the five words in your sales page that are misspelled or spelled backwards. The longer you can keep someone reading your copy, the greater chance of them purchasing. Selling is a fact of life in a work from home business. No sales, no profits! Follow some or all of these strategies when designing a sales page and your work from home business will thrive. Read More About Work From Home Businesses ------------------- 67. Everyday Tips to Lose Weight Everyday Tips to Lose Weight: The Importance of Water Welcome to the second article in my series entitled Everyday Tips to Lose Weight. Each article will explore various strategies you can apply to help you lose weight. Today we will look at the importance of water to your plan to lose weight. We all need to drink plenty of water. Most people don't get enough water. Our bodies need a lot of water, so drink it! Water is not just a way to flush out toxins. If you have more water in your body, you will generally feel healthier and fitter. This itself will discourage any tendency to overeat. The best thing about water is that it has no calories at all. First, start your day with a glass of cool water. Its a wonderful way to start your day, and you will only need a smaller quantity of your breakfast drink after that. A glass of water lets out all your digestive juices and lubricates the insides of your body. You may have your morning cup of tea or coffee but have it after a glass of water. It is good for you. Drink a glass of water before you start any meal. Water naturally needs some space so that you will feel fuller without actually having to stuff yourself. One of the goals of losing weight is to eat less. You will eat less if you feel full even before starting the meal. Drink that water! Also, be sure to have another glass of water while you are having any meal. This is another way of making yourself full so that you can actually rise from the table eating less. Instead of drinking it one gulp, take sips after each mouthful. This will help the food to settle faster so that you get that feeling that you are full. And finally, have a glass of water after the meal. This again will contribute to feelings of fullness. Water is such a remarkable thing, but seldom do we give it the credit that it deserves. Did you know that over 66% of your body weight is nothing but water? It’s amazing! Water also plays a vital role in weight control. Stay tuned for more articles about strategies to lose weight. Read More About Strategies to Lose Weight ------------------- 68. Home Business Tips Home Business Tips: Boost Your Sales With These Ideas - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to another segment of my ongoing series presenting home business ideas and tips. In this article are 10 ideas to help you increase sales and profits for your home business: 1. If you don't have a website for your home business, create one! A website is an extremely important part of your internet marketing strategy. 2. Your home business website should be a targeted resource center, full of all sorts of useful information for your target market. Choose one subject and build on it. You will gain repeat visitors that are interested in that topic. If you sell more than one class of product, build a targeted site for each different class of product. 2. Add a forum to your home business website. People love to interact with other people that have the same interests. Make sure to participate yourself as an 'expert' who can answer some of the questions being asked. 3. Want to increase your search engine rankings? Entice people to link to your home business website by giving them something free in return. 4. Trigger your reader's emotions in your ad copy. For example, if you sell a book on weight loss, tell them the feelings they'll get when they lose a lot of weight. 5. Ensure that your site looks good in all browsers and at all screen resolutions. You could be losing sales because it looks distorted in some web browsers or on smaller screens. Also, don't use too many large graphics - there are many internet users who still use dialup access. A slow-loading website is a sure way to lose sales. 6. More and more people are using cell phones to browse the internet these days. Create a mobile version of your home business website for these users. 7. Increase your sales by emailing full page ads to your ezine subscribers. Remember to tell people before they subscribe or they may consider it spam. 8. Ask people questions in your ad copy that make them think about their problems. For example: Do you want to be free of your debts? 9. Magnify the size of your prospects problem in your ad; show how your product can solve it. The bigger the problem, the more sales you will have. Focus on benefits and solutions rather than hype. 10. Always invest a percentage of your profits right back into your home business. Set a target percentage up front, and stick to it. Spend it on marketing, product improvement, customer service, advertising, outsourcing - basically anything that can improve your home business. Stay tuned for more articles on home business. ------------------- 69. Everyday Weight Loss Tips Everyday Weight Loss Tips Welcome to the first in my ongoing series about weight loss. In these articles I will be presenting things you can do every day to help you shed those pounds. Once upon a time, the weight loss was not a problem. People ate well, and they worked all day at physically demanding jobs. As a result, they could eat almost anything they wanted in whatever quantities they wanted. And the food was more nutritious before big business got involved in the distribution and sale of food. The world has changed so much since those days. Lifestyles have changed, and the comforts and facilities have increased. As a result, our state of physical well being has changed as well. Now most of us have sedentary jobs that demand little or no exercise at all. Modern farming and food distribution methods have stripped our foods of much of their nutrients, and processed foods give us nothing but taste and a lot of sugar and salt. And so, weight loss has become a major concern for almost everyone. When we're young, this is not such a major concern, although in recent years even the youngest of our children are experiencing obesity problems. However, as soon as you turn twenty, you start showing signs of weight gain - and that in all the wrong places. It’s not about the hour glass figure or the perfectly sculpted and toned body. It is more about staying fit and remaining healthy to ensure a long, disease-free life. Every body knows that those extra pounds lead to serious long-term physical problems. People everywhere are switching to a healthier lifestyle. The phrase "weight loss" has almost become a mantra. This series of articles will be dedicated solely to the cause of helping you with your weight loss program. Some of what you read may surprise you. There is only one thing that you have to bear in mind. Weight loss does not happen by itself. There are only two ways to accomplish it: The first is by watching what you eat and the second is by seeing to it that your body gets the exercise that it needs. Stay tuned for future articles in this series where I will present some of my everyday tips for weight loss. My hope is that you will be finally able to shed those pounds by implementing small but important changes in your life. ------------------- 70. Home Business Tips Home Business Tips: Exploding Your Orders - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to another article in my ongoing series about increasing sales for your home business. Here are 10 tips that will definitely help you to explode your orders: 1. Persuade visitors to link to your home business website by giving them a freebie in exchange for their link. It could be content, software, free service, etc. 2. Link to websites that provide useful information or services for your visitors. If you have many useful links on your site, they may make it their start page. 3. Spice up your website's wording using plenty of adjectives. It gives your visitors a clearer vision of what you are explaining or describing to them. 4. If you use banner ads for marketing, don't make your banner ads look like ads. Most people ignore banner ads. Design them to look like content and have them click to read the rest. 5. Join affiliate programs that are related to the theme of your home business website. Your visitors will have little or no interest in affiliate programs that are not related to what they are looking for. 6. Market your website as a "free club" instead of a website. People enjoy belonging to groups. This will increase your repeat visitors and sales. 7. Interact with your online customers on a regular basis by setting up a forum or chat room. This will show them you care about them. 8. Check your website links on a regular basis to make sure they still work. After people click on one link, and it doesn't work, they usually won't bother wasting their time clicking on another one. They'll just go to another site where all the links do work. 9. Give visitors a positive experience when they're at your home business website. Provide them with original content and free stuff. They'll tell all of their friends about it. 10. Share customers with other businesses that have the same target audience. Offer their product to your customers if, in exchange, they do the same for you. Stay tuned for more articles in this series about improving your home business. ------------------- 71. Help Teens to Lose Weight Teen Tips: Ways to Lose Weight Are you the parent of a teenager looking to help him or her to lose weight? Here are some tips that may help.. These days, teenagers face more than just hormonal changes. For a teenager, losing weight is a perpetual issue. During their times of raging hormones and attempting to adapt to their changing bodies and social roles, you'll find teens complaining about their looks, especially their weight. The first think you need to do is to consult a doctor or dietitian to determine if your teenager is indeed overweight or if he/she needs to lose weight fast. If a teen is really overweight, then moral and emotional support is one of the most basic things needed to overcome their weight problems. Weight loss and weight management is a long-term process and involves not just the person who is trying to lose weight. It also involves the people who prepare his or her food, as well as many other factors. Teenagers that have the support of their families show much better results in weight loss programs that those teens that try to lose weight on their own. When trying to lose weight, be sure that you approach the process in the safest way possible. Recent medical studies recommend losing not more than about two pounds per week. Losing weight can be accomplished through a combination of programs, including exercise and decreased calorie intake. Make sure to get into a program that helps you lose weight the right way. The medical community warns that it is unsafe to lose more than 2% of your body weight in a period of 24-48 hours. The results would be a decrease in aerobic performance and endurance. Meanwhile, losing more than 5% of your body weight in three to four days will have detrimental effects on your power, muscle endurance and strength, aerobic performances and even mental concentration. With such extreme programs to lose weight, the body also loses the ability to cool itself, which can cause a host of other problems. Aside from the right exercise, you need to compliment this increased activity with the right diet. Avoid drinks that are high in calories like sodas, high-sugar juices, and other drinks. Stay away from low calorie drinks that are sweetened with sugar substitutes such as aspartame. These products have been proven to have serious detrimental effects over the long term. Make sure that you drink lots of water and fruit juices that do not have added sugar. This will help you stay away from those sodas. It is best to take your program to lose weight one step at time. More often than not, we all tend to go back to our normal ways quickly if changes are introduced drastically. That's why it is better to move forward gradually rather than leaping two to three steps forward and finding yourself five steps back after a few weeks. One great tip to reduce your food intake is to stop eating when you're already full. Avoid eating when you're emotionally unstable. This happens a lot, especially in teens with constant body changes. When people eat because they are bored, lonely, or stressed, they tend to continue eating despite the fact that they are already full. Eat slowly since it will take about 20 minutes before your brain recognizes the amount of food in your stomach. A good strategy here is to put down your fork or spoon after each mouthful. Eat slowly, and take the time to really enjoy what you eat. Be sure to eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Try to replace most of your junk food intake with fruits or vegetables. Not only will you lose weight, but it will keep your heart and body healthy. Don't replace food groups or avoid eating them in your attempt at weight loss. As a teenager, you should avoid such forms of diets since your body still needs the nutrients for growth and development. Diet pills are also a no-no. These pills can be very dangerous to your health even if taken with a doctor's prescription. It is better to go about losing weight the more natural way. It will create discipline and is more sustainable in the long run. Read More About Easy Ways to Lose Weight ------------------- 72. Work From Home Business Tips Work From Home Business Tips: 9 More Ways Increase Sales - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to another article in my continuing series on how to increase sales for your work from home business. Today we have 9 more ideas to consider: 1. Consider multiplying your marketing and advertising efforts on the Internet. How? Start an affiliate program or use viral marketing for products that you sell in your work from home business. 2. Increase the ratio of visitors that purchase your product(s). Make changes to headlines, offer a stronger guarantee, add testimonials, and so on. Be sure to track everything you do, and once you find something that shows an improvement in sales ratio, work on improving that. 3. Offer a free and informative ezine. This will uncover the strongest potential customers for your work from home business. The visitors that are very interested will subscribe to it. 4. Team up with your competition by starting an association for your specific industry. It could lead to a profitable partnership with them. 5. Search for your name and the name of your work from home business in newsgroups, discussion boards and forums. Some of the comments you find could help you improve your business. 6. Attract people to link to your work from home business web site. You could offer them a discount on the products you sell or give them free stuff for linking. 7. Develop your own opt in email list by giving your visitors a reason to give you their email address. Allow them sign up for free stuff or contests. 8. Create a "PR" web page for your business. On this page, place information items that could be considered newsworthy for ezines, newspapers, magazines, etc. Submit these items to online Press Release services as well. 9. Make sure your home business website links to websites that have written positive stories about your business. This will give both you and your business credibility. As you can see, its all about getting your message out there in a positive manner without hype. Implement some of these strategies and over time you will see an increase in sales for your work from home business.
------------------- 73. Help Teens to Lose Weight Helping Teens to Lose Weight - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Teenagers can be plagued by many health problems triggered by many factors. One of the most basic issues during this stage of life is the peer pressure to maintain a normal weight. Teens sometimes will take extreme weight loss measures to get to that "ideal" weight, even to the point of becoming anorexic. Losing weight for teens requires discipline, perhaps more discipline than for adults. This has to be more than just skipping meals - all that will do is make you feel tired and haggard as you struggle with your weight loss program. Want your teens to lose weight? Start at home. If the environment has erratic schedules, chances are the lifestyle is chaotic too, and this will affect your meal plans. Your teens can end up eating at fast food chains or they will keep busy in front of the TV nibbling junk food. Take the time to plan and serve healthy meals on a regular schedule. After all, the long-term health of you and your family is certainly worth more than any form of recreation. Get a book which lists the calorie counts of various foods, and keep it handy. Encourage your teens to keep track of calories consumed. Get them off sodas and diet drinks. Ice cream is a big culprit in adding extra calories. One serving of ice cream can be more than 450 calories, which is almost a third of an average person's complete meal. Hardly conducive to losing weight! Fruits and vegetables are an important part of any diet. Teens must not forget to take these food groups in larger quantities to help them with an efficient diet. Cakes and fancy pastries are rich and tasty, but they can't fully satisfy your hunger. A good serving of natural cereals for breakfast is a good start for the day. If you want your teens to lose weight, encourage them to focus on getting trim. Don't fall for all those fad diets or diet pills you see advertised everywhere. At this young age, diet and exercise should be sufficient, and you will be ingraining lifelong healthy habits. Diet pills and tablets may sound encouraging, because of the promise of instant and seemingly spectacular results.. But they can have serious side effects, particularly at so young an age. Don't fall for the hype. The only key to permanent weight loss is still limiting the amount of food taken, knowing the calories consumed, and exercise. This is the healthy and natural way for teens to lose weight. Read More about How to Lose weight ------------------- 74. Work From Home Business Tips Work From Home Business Tips: Ignite Your Sales With These Strategies - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Here is another article in my ongoing series of work from home business tips. Looking for ideas to boost your sales? Here are some that should get you thinking: 1. Join online business associations or clubs. If you join, they will usually list all their members on their website. It will give your work from home business extra exposure. 2. Sign up your work from home business website for website awards. When you win, some award sites will publish your website link, name and description on their site. 4. Improve your work from home business by encouraging customer feedback. Tell them you want their honest opinions about your business, good or bad. Publish those comments and your replies on your work from home business website. 5. Design your packaging so it sells your products. Utilize colors and lettering that make your product more attractive to your prospects. 6. Compare your product's guarantee to your main competitors. Can you design your guarantee to be more powerful? 7. Do not assume your audience understands everything in your ad copy. Avoid using acronyms or technical terms. Define any words that you think they may not know. I read once that if you write your ad copy as if you were explaining it to a ten year old child, the vast majority of your audience will understand you. 8. Build alliances with other online businesses. You could trade links or ads, create joint venture deals, cross promote your products - there are all sorts of things you can do. 9. Design your work from home business website to be a valuable resource for people. Include original content, links to other interesting websites, ebooks, software, forums, and so on. 10. Compete with highly branded businesses by practicing good customer service, strong product quality and speedy service. Implement these ideas in your work from home business and you will see an increase in your bottom line. Stay tuned for more work from home business tips in future articles in this series. Read More About Work From Home... ------------------- 75. Work At Home Business Tips Work At Home Business Tips: 10 Ideas For Increasing Profits - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Looking for ideas to increase your profits for your work at home business? Here are ten ideas that I came up with: 1) Do your market research before creating new products of services. Only create new products or services if there is a strong need for them. You won't have anyone to sell them to if you don't have a market! 2) Be sure to always use a "P.S." at the end of your ad copy. Use this section to repeat a strong benefit or offer a free bonus. 3) Compliment your visitors in your ad copy. This will earn their trust and put them in a positive mood. In return they will be more receptive to your marketing messages. 4) Publish a free ebook and give it away on your web site or in your ezine. This will increase your traffic, your sales and ezine subscribers for your work at home business. 5) Investigate ways to create multiple streams of income with your work at home business web site. You can sell your own products, join affiliate programs, sell advertising space, use Google Adsense - there are many options. 6) Sell your backend products to your customers right after they order. Take them to a "Thank You" web page that includes other products you sell as an upgrade or add-on. 7) Sell only a few products on your work at home business web site instead of selling a large amount of products. Too many choices can overwhelm your visitors and they won't buy anything. 8) Include content and free stuff on your web site that promote the products you are selling. If your visitors don't read your ads, they may read your offerings. 9) Show your visitors that you are human and not just a web site. Publish your contact details, a little information about yourself, and a good picture. 10) Provide a "Contact Us" page on your work at home business web site. Give your visitors as many options to contact you as possible. This will add credibility to your work at home business. Stay tuned for more work at home business tips in future articles.
------------------- 76. Home Business Tips Home Business Tips: 10 Awesome Ways To Attract More Orders - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Your home business website can be a great part of your lead generation efforts. Here are ten tips on improvements to your website that will increase its lead generation capabilities and lead to increased orders: 1. Create a free ebook directory on a specific topic at your website. People will visit your website to read the free ebooks and may see your product ad. 2. Turn part of your website into a members only website. Instead of charging for access, use it as a free bonus for one of your products. 3. Add a free classified ad section to your website. You could then trade banner ads with other websites that have free classified ad sections. 4. Create two versions of your ezine so people can choose if they want ads included with it or not. This will attract the people who hate ads to subscribe. 5. Publish your ezine only on your website. Have people subscribe to a "new issue" email reminder. This could really increase your traffic and sales. 6. Sell advertising space in your product package. You could sell inserts, flyers, brochures, booklets, and digital ads for electronic products. 7. Offer daily or weekly visitor bonuses. This will increase your repeat traffic and sales because your visitors will visit regularly to get the visitor bonuses. 8. Allow people to download software or ebooks from your website at no cost. Just ask your visitors in return if they'll refer their friends to your website. 9. Build up the number of people that join your free affiliate program quickly by temporally offering your product for free to the people that sign up. 10. Negotiate with ezine publishers to get free or discounted ads by letting them join your affiliate program and earn commissions on the ad you run. Stay tuned for more ideas to increase website visitors and revenue in future articles in this series. ------------------- 77. Business Opportunity Leads Tips Business Opportunity Leads Tips: 3 Quick And Easy Ways To Build A Profitable Opt In List - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master There are all sorts of ways to generate leads for your business opportunity. In most cases, you will then funnel the email addresses of the leads you capture into an email autoresponder series, also known as an opt-in list. Have you read countless articles, sought expert advice and read many success stories of people creating a small fortune with opt-in lists? Have you followed their advice to the T and you still weren't able to make a profit? So what could have gone wrong? Why have others succeeded where you have failed? The most common mistake is that you dove right in. You chose a topic which you thought could be quite popular and would earn you money. This just not the case. Just because you wrote people from the list doesn't mean they are going to buy instantly. Here are some ideas for rejuvenating your opt-in list. For those who are just starting out, here are three quick and easy ways to build a profitable opt-in list. 1) Get your customers to trust you and your products first. Just launching your opt-in list will not make you an expert and a believable seller. Start a blog and write many articles first before you start an opt-in list. Write about the topic you know and have started and used for your site. Visit forums first to gain knowledge about your customers, about their wants and needs and target those wants and needs. Join forums from other sites as well. Provide expert advice and recommendations. When you feel that people trust you already, you will be able to start your own opt-in list. You can build a base as well with other forum users. You can ask them to join your list. Friends are always good customers. Put up a link to your site so that they may be able to see what your business is all about. The money will only come in when the consumers and subscribers believe and trust you. They want a product or service that will be good value for their money. People are not going to buy something on your recommendation if they don't know you. 2) Find a product or service that people want and need. Although it may not be your forte, if you provide a service and product that you have researched and learned about, you can make it successful. While it is true that it is best to sell something that you have an interest in, there are not many people who have the same interest as you if you decide to sell something that is not entirely popular or profitable. Do your market research well and you will see the profits come in. Provide your subscribers with promotional material that they can actually use and spread around. 3) Make friends with other opt-in list users. This is beneficial especially if it is someone who has already launched a successful opt-in list. These are people that have the experience in this venture and experience is still the best teacher. While there are many articles available for you on the internet to use, there is nothing like getting a first hand account from someone you trust. Experienced opt-in list users will be able to tell you what to do and what not to do because they have gone through it. While different situations occur for different people, the general concept can still be very helpful. There are many things to avoid and these people will be able to tell you which ones. Building a profitable opt-in list doesn't just happen overnight. A lot of preparation and effort goes in upfront. Opt-in lists are built from scratch. As your list grows, you should also maintain the quality of your list. Keep it organized and manageable. Get or hire help if need be, just make sure that your subscribers are happy and satisfied and they will be willing to buy from you. ------------------- 78. Business Leads Tips: Wow Your Customers Business Leads Tips: Wow Your Customers - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you a small business owner who runs your own retail store? Once you have put strategies in place to generate leads and turn them into customers, what are you doing to turn those customers into loyal customers? Whether your retail store is a small convenience store or a specialty store, like one that sells collectible figurines or plus size clothing, you will likely have some type of competition. There is a good chance that most of your competition will come from large businesses such as department stores; ones that have more financial resources at their fingertips. Although it may seem like your competition has the advantage, it doesn't have to be that way. There are a number of different ways that you go about "wowing" each and every one of the customers who walk through your door, to the point where they will be a returning shopper. When it comes to "wowing" your customers, the "wowing" process isn't actually as hard as you may believe it to be. For instance, the first step is to make sure that your store is completely clean and free of debris. If you have shopping carts, you will want to make sure that your customers can push a shopping cart down each of your aisles, without running into merchandise or boxes on the floor. You will also want to make sure that your store shelves are organized in a nice, professional matter. The last thing that a consumer wants to do is shop at a retail store that leaves them feeling unclean or dirty. You want your customers to walk into your store and say "wow." Another way that you can go about "wowing" your costumers is by just being nice to them. It really is as simple as it sounds. In today's society, where everyone is in a rush to get things done, we often forget to be kind and polite to others. The best way to "wow" your customers is to treat them with kindness. You will want to make sure that all of your employees greet your customers as soon as they walk into the door, ask them if they need any help finding anything, and thank for them for their business after being checked out. Just being kind and compassionate to your customers is a great way to "wow" them and bring them back for more kindness, especially since that kindness is now missing from many big box retailers. Another simple way that you can go about "wowing" your customers, is by offering them free discounts or savings. You may want to think about making coupons that can be handed out to all of your customers, preferably those who end up spending a certain amount of money, like fifty dollars or more. Moneysaving coupons are actually used by many shoppers, but most have to actually go searching for them, as most retailers don't hand them out free of charge. Giving your customers moneysaving coupons is a great way to give your business a good public perception and it also tends to up your chances of returning customers. These strategies are just a few of the many that you may want to take when looking to "wow" your customers. What you need to do is look at it from the perspective of your customer. If you were to walk into your store, what would you want it to be like and how would you like to be treated? ------------------- 79. Business Opportunity Leads Tips Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Viral Marketing - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Viral marketing is a great lead generation strategy for online businesses. Here are some of my thoughts on this strategy: Creativity is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition for business on the Internet today. With so much competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed. It doesn't matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website: if people don't know that you exist, you are not going to make it big. Worst of all, you business could fail miserably. There are many different methods of getting noticed online. One of these is called Viral Marketing. While the term Viral usually depicts a virus, a word very much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it seems. You do not actually use a computer virus to spread your business. Viral Marketing Overview Viral Marketing, also known as Viral Advertising, is a marketing technique used to build public awareness of a product or company. Viral marketers use many forms of media to reach out to the public without actually promoting the product, by promoting other forms of addictive media that people love to pass on to their friends and acquaintances. The media will normally contain some subtle form of advertising for the company or product in question. In a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if people like the content of a media they will pass it on to their friends and family. They sponsor the media, such as a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story and such, which one may pass on to another with the company brand or logo or the products description or any other content to help promote the company or its product. Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because it is relatively low cost. Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and rebates to help in spreading their viral marketing. They rely on the number of recipients a viral marketing gets from one person in determining the amount or number of incentive they can be attributed with. Using Viral Marketing to your advantage The main advantage of viral marketing is that you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your site and your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic that are potential leads. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and announce your existence. Most sites and companies these days use some form of Viral Marketing and Advertising. Not using it could kill your business. Along with other schemes and methods in promoting your site, like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral marketing could easily push you ahead in the rating games. Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people to know about you and your company. You get them to pass your advertisement along. All it takes is a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story - many ideas are still out there. Create a buzz. Hollywood has this down to a science. Ever notice how many movies are promoted by using scandals and gossips to make them more popular? Many big companies have tried viral marketing and have had much success with it. A classic example is Microsoft's Hotmail. They were the first known big company to utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders for them. Now it's your turn to use viral marketing to work wonders for you. Act now and reap the benefits Viral Marketing will provide for you and your business. ------------------- 80. Business Opportunity Leads Tips Business Leads Tips: Solving Writer's Block - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master One of the most effective strategies for generating leads for your business is to brand yourself on the internet as a leader or expert in your chosen market. And there is no better way to do that than to write articles consistently and post them to article directories and blogs. But writing about the same thing day after day can get tiresome, and you will often experience writer's block - what on earth am I going to write about today? Here are 5 easy ways to get your creative juices flowing:
Ideas can be triggered by anything you may hear, see, or smell. Your senses are your radar in finding great ideas. Write all of them into a journal and keep it with you for future reference. You may also write down anything that you have read or heard. Someone else’s ideas could be used to develop your own ideas and this is not stealing. Remember that ideas and creativity can come from anywhere; it’s the development of the idea that makes it unique. One thing I do is check online news items at Google every day for keywords that are relevant to my chosen niche. A good news item can trigger an article in which you give your view of whatever was reported.
A jumbled mind cannot create any space for new ideas. You must have a clear mind if you wish to have your creativity up to full speed. Get rid of all obstacles that can be a hindrance to your creativity. If you are bothered by something, you cannot force your mind to stay focused. Try to relax whenever you can and think about your experiences and interactions with others. Your experiences are what shape your mindset and your opinions, and these will be reflected in your writing. Try to discover yourself, find out what triggers your emotions. Discover what inspires you and what ticks you off. You can use these emotions to help you in expressing yourself and your ideas.
Your working place can be quite a hindrance if it doesn't make you feel happy or relaxed. Creativity comes from being in a good state of mind and a messy workplace that causes distraction won't be conducive to firing up your creative flow. Surround your working place with objects that make you happy and relaxed. You may put up pictures, objects that inspire, or anything that can get your creativeness cranking. A clean and well organized workplace also gets rid of distractions and unwanted hindrances. With a good working place, you can work in peace and never notice the time pass by.
Setting the mood requires you to just go with the moment or to induce yourself to feeling what makes your mind works best. Finding out what makes you tick could help you find ways to get your creative juices flowing. Set the pace and tempo for your mood and everything else will follow.
Letting yourself go and have fun produces adrenaline that can make your imagination go wild. Take an adventure or a solemn hike. Whatever it is that is unusual from your daily routine can take the rut out of your schedule. In no time at all, your creativeness will make use of that experience and get your imagination to go on overdrive.
------------------- 81. Business Opportunity Leads Tips 080809 Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Why Do I Need a Website Anyway? - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master You've no doubt seen it said again and again that a website is an indispensable tool for generating and maintaining leads for your business. If you are a brick and mortar business, you may think that you don't need a website. Why would you need one? The 20th century internet boom showed us that even the smallest of businesses needs a website to compete in today's market. As we entered the 21st century, this became even more apparent as everyday people gained internet access and started searching for products on services online. Over 90% of all American families have a home computer, and some form of internet access, whether it be dial up or high speed broadband. Out of those 90%, over 65% will search online first when making a new purchase or hiring someone's service. If those numbers alone do not convince you to build a website for your business, then these reasons should: 1) Sell your products online 2) Provide information that you would not normally be able to 3) Websites are global 4) Website are cheap 5) 24 Hour Product Purchases 6) Minimize customer problems and questions 7) Keep Up With Your Competition Bottom line: your business needs a website! ------------------- 82. Business Opportunity Leads Tips Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Website Mistakes - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Your business opportunity website can be a great source of leads for your business. But you must be careful about how you design and manage your business website these days. The website boom of the early 21st century showed us that the business world was indeed ready to enter into the world of the internet. However, times have changed, and many of the websites have not changed with it. Here are a few mistakes that website owners make in today's internet culture: 1)Infrequent updates 2) JavaScript pop ups 3) Heavy graphics 4) Using heavy, high contrasting colors 5) Cluttered pages 6) Lack of a navigation system 7) Overusing Advertising 8) Audio that plays as soon as the page loads Avoid some of these errors and people will visit your website more often and stay there longer. ------------------- 83. Business Opportunity Leads Tips 7 Surefire Ways To Increase Your Website Traffic Starting Yesterday - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Internet. Business. Profit. To fully integrate all of these words into a successful whole, you will need another word. Traffic. Every article you will find about making your site or company successful will always include the importance of generating traffic to your website Traffic is the most essential thing to a successful internet based business. Aside from ensuring that you have a great product to sell, and you have your company's internal organization well taken care of, you need to start generating traffic to your website. Timing is essential. But with generating traffic, you should always be on your toes and be a day ahead of your competition. Never think of today and tomorrow as a starting point for increasing your site traffic - you should have started yesterday! To help you out in generating more traffic for your site, here are seven surefire ways to increase your traffic starting from yesterday. 1) Invest in good advertising with search engines Google's Adwords and Yahoo's Overture provide great advertising schemes that are very truly popular and assure great traffic. Although this way to increase your traffic does cost some money, it is a surefire way to generate traffic quickly. You can see for yourself the success this search engine advertising methods have reaped rewards for so many companies. Lots of sites feature these advertising systems and many have signed on to reap the benefits. Do not be left behind. Every penny is worth it with using Google and Yahoo's advertising. But be careful to track your results so you don't spend more money on ads than you take in from product sales. 2) Exchange or Trade Links with other sites When you exchange links with other sites, both of you will benefit from the efforts from both business owners to enhance site traffic. The more links you trade, the more traffic can be expected. Be careful here to only trade links with sites that are related to your market and would be of interest to your site visitors. 3) Use Viral Marketing Viral marketing allows you to spread the word about your company and product little or no cost. This is a marketing method that can be quite sneaky; you can attach your company's name, product or link to a certain media such as a funny video, a free ebook, entertaining game, an interesting article or a gossip or buzz. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the medium and they will pass it on to many people. 4) Do keyword research and make sure you use those keywords on your site. Your site needs to be optimized for the keywords that your potential customers are searching for on Google. Don't guess at what you think they may be searching for. Use a keyword research tool to find out what people are actually searching for, and target the top 1 or 2 keyword phrases with the content on your site. Also remember to set the TITLE, DESCRIPTION and KEYWORDS meta tags in the html code for your site pages. 5) Write Articles that can lead traffic to your site Submit articles to sites that are of interest to your potential market. For example: if you sell car parts, write press releases and articles about cars and car parts. Attach your sites description and services at the end of the article as well as the link back to your site. 6) Join forums and form online communities Capture a market and show your expertise and credibility. When you put in place a good foundation for your site, people will trust you and your site and will recommend your site to others. Traffic will certainly increase because they know that you can provide what they need. 7) Offer newsletters If many people know what you are about and your existence is shared with many others, traffic to your site will increase and it will be loyal traffic. Create a newsletter on a regular basis. Implementing these 7 strategies will increase traffic to your website and will thereby increase the number of leads you bring into your business. ------------------- 84. Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Using Myspace to Promote Your Business Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Using Myspace to Promote Your Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master One of the newest phenomena hitting the business world on the internet is using interactive community sites, such as Myspace, to promote your business and generate good targeted business opportunity leads. Why have business owners chosen to promote their businesses on Myspace? With an average of over half a million visitors a day, Myspace is easily one of the most popular websites on the internet. With this kind of traffic, every business is sure to find a target group that is interested in their products, or services. Perhaps one of the best reasons for using Myspace to promote your business is the fact that it is free. The only investment you will need is some time to build your profile, and time to find and add people to your "friends list," which in this case is actually your targeted group. Setting Up Your Profile Once you sign up, you will be asked to create a profile. Your profile is the single most important thing to consider when you decide to advertise using Myspace. Your potential leads will look at this profile first. It will give them their first impression of you. You will want to set up your profile with as much information as you can without sounding like an advertisement. Describe yourself and your business, and what you are all about. A good balance is key. Do not over use images or other media within your page, so it will load fast for even the slowest of internet connections. Gaining Leads Once you have everything setup on your profile, you will want to begin looking for leads. Look for the type of people that may be interested in your business. Myspace provides a search feature that allows you to search by age, gender, status, and location. Use this feature to search and find people in your area. Click on their profile, and if they fit your criteria, then use the "add to friends" button. A message will be sent to them, and then they will be able to add or deny your profile. Once you see that they have accepted you, then post a "thank you" message on their profile.
When using Myspace to promote your business, you will want to practice some etiquette. It is easy to overdo it, which can greatly hurt your image, especially with potential local consumers. After all, the idea is to promote your business, not to hurt its image. Spamming, or sending unsolicited messages to random users and addresses, is strictly prohibited, and will get your account deleted. Never send unsolicited or unwanted messages to anyone. However, if the person contacts you first (whether it be by comment, or message) feel free to communicate with them about your business. Another type of spamming, which is potentially dangerous for your business, is over-posting comments. The comment system on Myspace allows you to post comments on other's profiles, that is usually viewable by everyone that views that person profile. This can be a great way to reach additional contacts, provided that you follow some rules. First, never post a comment solely about your business. Instead, you can post a message thanking that person for accepting your friend request, or thanking them for sending you a friend request, whatever the case may be. The only acceptable way you should post a comment about your business is if the user posted a comment on your profile first. Never post pictures on other users profile. ------------------- 85. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Business Opportunity Lead Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master The only way that companies can be assured of survival in today's remarkably competitive world is to maintain an ongoing supply of leads for new business. But many companies, especially small businesses, don't have enough personnel or simply don't have the expertise to generate targeted, qualified leads. In most cases, they are happy to outsource lead generation. The results are usually not all that great unless you have the money to purchase large numbers of these types of leads. Don't fall into this trap. You need to learn how to generate your own exclusive leads for your business. If you take the time to learn how to do it, it is not as onerous a task as you may think. In fact, once you learn how to do it for your business, you could then apply the same principles and sell your services to other business who are looking to generate leads. I'm not talking about reselling leads here. I'm thinking more of you creating yourself as a consultant who, for a fee, will set a business up to generate its own exclusive targeted leads. Companies will pay handsomely for such a service. So how can you leverage the power of the Internet to effectively generate targeted, qualified leads? The first step to generate leads from your website is to make sure that you're attracting the right kind of visitors. It's essential that you understand your target market. Being completely knowledgeable about the kind of lead you're looking for will help you focus your message and will make your efforts more cost-effective. You've got to be visible where your target market tends to congregate. This includes spending time in forums and other online communities to get the word out about your site. This will also help you understand the needs and wants of your target market. Next, it's essential for you to tailor your message to your target market. You have to clearly communicate what problems you can solve, the benefits you can provide, and the results prospects can expect. All of this must be shared in a way that's meaningful to them, not necessarily to you. It probably won't be possible to convert a website visit into a lead unless you build faith and trust with your visitor. You can help to do this by providing information that they really care about in the form of articles, research reports and white papers. A professional website design that appeals to your target market also plays a large role in building credibility and trust. Regardless of the importance of the foundational steps listed above, it's impossible to generate leads without the use of an effective web form. Your lead form can't be hidden or buried somewhere on the "contact us" page. It must appear at the appropriate time in a location on your website where interested visitors are likely to be. Testing and tracking the performance of your forms is crucial. Test multiple forms and monitor the conversion rate of each. As soon as you have a winner, create another form and try to beat it. It's often effective to offer additional means of contact. Even though your visitor found you on the Internet, they might be more comfortable providing their information over the telephone. Companies of all types and sizes are hungry for leads. If you could learn how to generate leads quickly and show other how to do the same, companies will beat a path to your door. And they will be ready to pay you handsomely. ------------------- 86. Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Low-Cost Advertising Ideas Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Low-Cost Advertising Ideas - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master How to Save Money When Advertising Your Work at Home Business Are you looking to market your work at home business to the general public, preferably your targeted market? Your targeted market should be the individuals who are most likely to need what your business has to offer. For instance, if you run a professional resume writing business, you will want to target those who are currently unemployed or those who are looking for jobs. As important as advertising is, it can sometimes be time consuming and costly. The costly part is what often causes many work at home business owners to cringe. The good news is that there are a number of different ways that you can go about advertising your work at home business without having to spend more money than you need to. One of the best advertising methods is word of mouth. In today's society, many consumers like giving a company feedback or ratings, literally or figuratively. That is why many consumers tell their friends when they find a nice new store; one that is worth visiting, or a store that they had a bad experience at. You should never underestimate the power of the customers that you already have. Not only will keeping your current customers happy increase the chances of them coming back again, it also ups the chances of them recommending your business to those that they know. Another easy and relatively cheap way that you can go about advertising your work at home business to your targeted market is by carefully choosing where you choose to advertise your business. In keeping with the above mentioned example of running a professional resume writing business, you may want to think about distributing flyers or business cards to local coffee shops or college campuses. The same can be done for other types of businesses. For instance, if you run a dog grooming salon, you can advertise your business in local pet supply stores, vet offices, and such. Of course, you will need to get permission from other businesses before placing your business cards or flyers on their properties, but you will find that most are willing to assist you. In fact, you may even want to think about doing a flyer or business card swap. In addition to handing out traditional business cards or flyers, you may also want to think about giving away free coupons. There are many consumers who like free stuff, even if it is only a few coupons. When a customer has a money saving coupon, they are more likely to buy what you are selling, whether it is a product or a service. If you are trying to target a specific group of individuals, you may want to carefully choose how you distribute your coupons and how much in savings you give away. If you are just trying to generate as many sales as possible or create a "buzz," you may want to think about contacting one of your local newspapers to put coupons inside their paper. Another idea to attract the bargain hunters: hold a contest or a drawing for your customers. For instance, if you run a pet supply store, you may want to think about creating a pet gift basket, like one that may include food, treats, or grooming supplies. Allow each of your customers, the ones who make a purchase, to enter into your contest. If the prize is nice enough, you will find that some customers will buy something just to get entered into the contest. Hosting a contest is a great way to generate sales and business "buzz." These approaches are just a few of the many low-cost, affordable ways that you can go about advertising your work at home business to the general public or even just to your targeted market. The decision as to whether or not you want to use any of these methods is yours to make, but they are at least worth looking into. ------------------- 87. Avoiding Business Opportunity Failure Avoiding Business Opportunity Failure - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master If you are researching work at home business opportunities, you have no doubt been inundated with all sorts of schemes that promise to make money. Most of them seem too good to be true, and probably are. How do you make sense of all this stuff? In this article I will analyze a recent promotional email that I received, and point out what you need to look out for. The email is shown below, with my comments in italics. 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I visited the website URL in the email - it was, as you would expect, nothing more than a page with more of the same meaningless hype, along with an lead capture form. Presumably if you were to sign up for more information, you would be inundated with all kinds of emails extolling the virtues of this scheme without telling you much of anything else. Folks, you have to learn to stay away from stuff like this! Get it into your head that there is no quick and easy way to make money. It saddens me to see so many people duped by hucksters like this every day. MAKE IT STOP! Building a proper business takes time, effort and capital. Stop throwing your money away on hype and promises. Research legitimate business opportunities which offer proven, stable income opportunities and where you can contact the business owner personally to talk about the business. Do your due diligence before investing your money. I offer such an opportunity. I don't purchase leads, cold call people, or send out spammy emails like the one above. How do I build my business? I buy customers to provide a stable base income. I work with a team of internet marketing professionals to promote my business ethically and responsibly. Our team offers complete training in all aspects of internet marketing and business building to all newcomers. And I don't hide behind a website. My contact details are below. If you're tired of all these schemes and dreams, come to my site at Watch the movie, attend one of our weekly presentations where you will be given facts, not hype. And be sure to contact me if you have any questions. I build real businesses. ------------------- 88. Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Forums Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Forums - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Want to generate more leads for your work at home business opportunity? Create and manage a forum related to your products or services. The best solution here is to create a forum incorporated into your work at home business website. Most web hosts these days provide this software for you. Make sure you link to your forum from every page on your site. Alternatively, you can set up a forum at one of the many free online services set up for this purpose, Just do a Google search for "free forums". Setup is usually quite straightforward. During setup make sure that you enable all protection from unauthorized signup, otherwise your forum will become a target for spam and porn bots. Once you do get the forum set up, though, you will need to be prepared to manage the forum on a regular basis. This is usually not too onerous a task, but it must be done. Why set up a forum in the first place? Well, here are eleven reasons I came up with: 1. You'll be able to communicate with your visitors. They'll begin to trust you and get to know you on a more personal level. People are more willing to purchase products from somebody they already know and trust. 2. People will revisit your web site to participate in your forum. They will meet other people with similar interests and your web site will become a hang out were they can chat. 3. You can learn important information about your visitors by reading the conversations they have. They may chat about your web site or products. With this information you could learn to market your products more effectively. 4. You can answer the questions your visitors ask in your online communities. You'll become known as an expert by giving the answers to their questions. This will give you and your business more credibility. 5. Add an online conference room and you can teach a free online class. This will give you an expert status and increase traffic to your website by offering the free class. You can get a free online conference room at http://brincom.vereconference.com/ 6. When your forum becomes popular, you can sell advertising space on it. This will give you an extra income stream for your web site. 7. You can network with other businesses by having a forum. You could exchange business ideas, leads, advertising, etc. 8. You could allow other web sites who don't have a forum to use yours. You will get free advertising by allowing them to link to your online community. 9. When you have a forum you can get free advertising by listing it in online community directories. You can also join web rings with similar discussion topics. 10. You can make money by advertising your own products and services on your forum. You could also join other people's affiliate programs and make commissions advertising them. 11. Search engine spiders love forums! And since most of the posts in your forum will probably be rich in the use of keywords related to your niche, the spiders will visit more and more often as more people use the forum. And when they visit the forum, they also visit all the pages that are linked to by the forum... Forums are another very important component in your online marketing arsenal. Used correctly, a forum can provide your work at home business with highly targeted leads. ------------------- 89. Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Viral Marketing Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Viral Marketing - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Viral marketing is another great way to generate leads for your work at home business opportunity. Viral Marketing is a process whereby you allow people to use and give away your free product or service in order to multiply your marketing messages quickly over the internet. The idea behind viral marketing is that you include your ad with the freebie people use or give away. There are many things you can do to start a viral marketing campaign. Here are ten viral marketing strategies to get your creative juices flowing: 1. Allow people to reprint your articles on their web site, in their ezine, newsletter, magazine or ebooks. Include your resource box and the option for article reprints at the bottom of each article. 2. Allow people to use any of your freebies as free bonuses for products or services they sell. Include your ad on all your freebies. 3. Allow people to use your online forum for their own web site. Some people don't have one. Just include your banner ad at the top of the board. 4. Allow people to sign up for a free web site on your server. Since you are giving away the space, require them to include your banner ad at the top of the site. 5. Allow people to add their link to your free web site directory. Just require that they return a link back to your web site, advertising your directory. 6. Allow people to provide your free online service to their web site, visitors, or ezine subscribers. They could be free email, email consulting, search engine submissions, etc. 7. Allow people to give away your free software. Just include your business advertisement inside the software program. 8. Allow people to give away your free web design graphics, fonts, templates, etc. Just include your ad on them or require people to link directly to your web site. 9. Allow people to place an advertisement in your free ebook if, in exchange, they give away the ebook to their web visitors or ezine subscribers. 10. Allow people to give away your free ebook to their visitors. Then, their visitors will also give it away. This will just continue to spread your ad all over the internet. These are just scratching the surface of what you can do with viral marketing. I'm sure you can think of many more. ------------------- 90. Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Web Traffic Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Web Traffic One of the strategies you must use when building your work at home business is to create a lead capture page and then drive traffic to that page. In many cases, this page will be incorporated into a website that presents your business and your services to website visitors. So how do you drive traffic to that website? Here are ten ideas I thought of: 1. Are you publishing an ezine for your work at home business? If not, you should be. Give people a free subscription to your ezine. Almost everyone is publishing a ezine nowadays, so be sure to give something extra with the free subscription. You could offer a free gift or some free advertising to new subscribers.. 2. Provide your visitors with free content. Your content will be more attractive to your visitors if it is up-to-date or original. You could also offer people the option to reprint the content in their ezine or web site. 3. Offer a free online directory. The directory could be full of interesting ebooks, ezines, web sites etc. If people find your directory to be a valuable resource they will visit it over and over. People love it when someone else does their research for them. Make sure you update the directory on a regular basis, and give visitors the option to subscribe to be notified when there are updates. 4. Give your visitors a free ebook. You could also include your own ad in the ebook and allow other people to give it away. If you don't want to take the time to write one, you could ask other writers permission to use their articles, or you can hire ghost writers at websites like elance.com. 5. Hold free online classes or seminars. They could be held in your web site's chat room. The idea of "live" information will definitely entice people to visit your web site. You will become known as an expert on the topic. 6. Give visitors a free entry into your contest or sweepstakes. The prizes should be something of interest or value to your visitors. Most people who enter will continually revisit your web site to get the results. 7. Let visitors download free software. It could be freeware, shareware, demos etc. You could even turn part of your site into a free software directory. If you created the software, include your ad inside and let other people give it away. 8. Offer free online services or utilities from your web site. They could be search engine submission, copywriting, proofreading, a niche-specific forum, etc. The service or utility should be helpful to your target audience. 9. Give free consulting to people who visit your web site. You could offer your knowledge via email or by telephone. People will consider this a huge value because consulting fees can be very expensive. 10. Give your visitors a free membership to your online club. People want to belong to something, why not your online club? You could also give away a free ezine for club members only. There you are, ten ideas to drive traffic to your work from home business website. There are many other ways to drive traffic - put your mind to it and you can find all sorts of creative ways to increase traffic. ------------------- 91. Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Ezine Articles Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Ezine Articles Ezine Articles are a great way to generate leads for your business. Writing is not easy at first, but it does become easier after a while. Why would you want to put all this effort into writing articles? Well, here are ten benefits of submitting articles to ezines: 1. You will brand your website, your business and yourself by submitting articles to ezines. You can include your name, your business name, your credentials, your website address and your email address in your resource box. 2. You will become known as an expert on the topics you write about. This will give you and your business extra credibility which will help you compete against your competition. 3. Your article might also be placed on the publisher's home page. This will give you some extra exposure as well as powerful backlinks to your website. 4. You will get extra exposure if the ezine publisher archives their ezine on their site. People might want to read the back issues before they make the decision to subscribe. And this generates more backlinks to your website. 5. You will get free advertising. This will allow you to spend your profits on other forms of advertising. You could buy advertisements in other ezines that don't publish your articles. 6. You might get extra income from people wanting to hire you to write other articles, books, or even ask to speak at seminars. This is a great way to multiply your income. 7. You could allow ezine publishers to publish your articles in their free ebooks. Since people give them away, your advertising could multiply all over the internet. 8. You will get your article published all over the web when you submit it to an ezine publisher that has a free content directory on their website. They will allow their visitors to republish your article. More backlinks.... 9. You will gain people's trust. If they read your article and like it, they won't be as hesitant to buy your product or service or to contact you for information. 10. You could get your article guaranteed to run in an ezine. You could agree to run one of their articles in your ezine if, in exchange, they run yours in their ezine. It's a win/win situation. Good, relevant, keyword-rich content is the key to getting yourself known on the internet today. Submitting articles to ezines is one way of achieving this goal. Now get writing! ------------------- 92. Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Ways to Increase Traffic Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Ways to Increase Traffic - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master In any work at home business, you need leads. We all know that. If you have a business website that captures the email addresses of interested prospects, you need to get a lot of traffic to that website. Here are ten high powered ways to increase traffic to your website. These are not presented in any particular order. Perhaps these will trigger some ideas in your own marketing strategy for your work at home business: 1. Trade links with other web sites. They should be related to the subject of your web site. Instead of trading links, you could also trade banner ads, half page ads, classified ads, etc. 2. Start an e-zine for your web site. When people read each issue they'll be reminded to revisit your web site. They'll see your product ad more than just once which will increase your orders. 3. Form an online community. It could be an online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room. When people get involved in your community they will regularly return to communicate with others. 4. Write articles and submit them to e-zines, web sites and magazines that accept article submissions. Include your business information and web address at the end of the article. 5. Give away an electronic freebie with your ad on it. Allow your visitors to also give the freebie away. This is known as viral marketing and will increase your ad exposure and attract people to your web site at the same time. 6. Combine your products or services into one big package deal with other businesses offerings. You could share a web site and advertise the package deal; which means double the traffic. 7. Submit your freebie to the online directories that list your particular item or service for free. If you're offering a free e-zine, submit it to all the free e-zine directories on the internet. 8. Participate on forums. Post answers to other people's questions, ask questions and post appropriate information. Include your signature file at the end of all your postings. 9. Exchange classified or sponsor ads with other free e-zine publishers. If there is a huge subscriber difference between e-zines, one can run more ads to make up for it. 10. Post your ad on free advertising areas on the internet. You can post it on free classified ad sites, free for all links sites, newsgroups that allow ads, free yellow page directories, etc. While very few people actually see these ads, they are great food for the search engine spiders and will build up backlinks for your website. There you are, 10 ideas for increasing traffic to your website. Happy prospecting! ------------------- 93. Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Using Forums Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Using Forums - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master If you are building a work from home business on the internet, you most likely are aware that an important part of generating traffic to your website or blog is to rank highly in the search engine result pages (SERPs). Good, relevant content on your site, and lots of it, is important, but you also need high quality backlinks to your site. A backlink is a hyperlink on another website which links to your site. The most powerful backlinks are one-way backlinks. This means that another website has links pointing to your site, but you don't have reciprocal links pointing back to theirs. One good way to generate high quality backlinks is to use forums. Forums have the added advantage that they can create traffic to your site as well. If other forum members like your posts, they are more likely to click on your links to find out more about you and your business. Be very careful when using forums for marketing. Do it wrong and you will be branded a spammer and most likely get your forum account closed. If used correctly, forums can be a very powerful tool in your business opportunity lead generation arsenal. Here's how to do it correctly: Step 1: Find forums that are relevant to your market This part is easy: just search in Google for your niche keyword followed by the word 'forum'. For example, suppose you have a blog about Jazz music. Go to Google and search for jazz music forum Why would you want to find forums related to your niche? Well, there are two reasons. First, the search engines will give more weight to links pointing to your site if they come from sites centered around the same niche as your site. Second, you'll get much more direct traffic from a forum where the members are interested in your niche and in what you have to say. Step 2: Pick the best forums and join them The forum should have a good number of members, and should be fairly active. Poke around to see when some of the last postings were made; if there were a lot in the last day or so, this is a fairly active forum and you should consider joining. Search Engines love sites where content changes quite often. Before joining, make sure the forum allows you to set up a signature. Look at some of the posts: are there signatures at the bottom of other people's posts? If not, move on to another forum. Without the ability to create a signature, you will have no place to put your links. When you find a forum that meets the criteria, follow the steps to register and confirm your membership. If you find just three or four forums that's plenty to start with. Step 3: Set up your signature Forums use a special kind of code to allow members to format their posts. It's called BBCode and it's quite simple to use once you get the hang of it. Copy the example below and change the URL to your URL and the text to some catchy keyword-rich text. Paste the code into your signature box and save it. Link to your website or blog with code similar to this: Learn all about [URL=http://www.jazzmuscicblog.com/]Jazz Music[/URL] at my blog. There are many other things you can do with BBcode such as changing the fonts, bolding the text, changing the text color and so on. I won't go into them here. Most forums will usually have a link to a BBCode help page to assist you if you wish to be more creative. Personally, I like to keep my signature as simple as possible. Less is more. If you make your signature look like you are marketing something, people will treat you like a spammer. You don't have to use up all available lines in your signature. Make it short, sweet and to the point. If you post great content and people are interested, they will click on your link. Step 4: Participate Be sure to have good content in your posts. A post should say something more than "Great post, I agree". You need good relevant keyword-rich content. Every post you make will give you a backlink to your site. The higher the quality of your post, the more powerful your backlink will be. If you simply participate in the forum and try to be friendly and helpful, chances are your content will take care of itself. That's it. Have fun. And remember, you can change your signature any time you want. Try changing the text a bit from time to time to find out what generates the most clicks through to your site. ------------------- 94. Business Opportunity Leads Tips Business Opportunity Leads Tips - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Leads Tips - Using Safelists Continuing with my ongoing series about free online lead generation techniques, today we will discuss safelists. A safelist is somewhat like a traffic exchange. You sign up and agree to read the emails sent by other members of the safelist. By doing so, you build up credits to send your own promotional emails to the members of the list. This is another way to get your message out. Marketing with safelists can be a total waste of time if you do not do it correctly. And you must be prepared to set aside some time each day to wade through the hundreds of emails you will receive. Before you start using safelist marketing, here are 3 tips to help you get started correctly: 1. Set up a separate email account with Gmail only for your safelists. Use that email account to receive messages from other marketers. Gmail is the best option here, as it does not do anything with spam other than send it to your spam folder. Most of the messages coming from the safelists will most likely get flagged as spam. Other services such as Hotmail and Yahoo filter spam and do not deliver it all. 2. Spend time reading emails. Join credit-based safelists that reward you for opening your mail. Read the messages to earn credits and in turn create opportunities for your email to be read. The more credits you collect, the more messages you can send. Much like traffic exchanges, and other forms of internet marketing, marketing with safelists is a numbers game. With credit based safelists, even an average ad with an average title will get seen because your audience is trying to create credits. This is good for you as long as you have plenty of credits built up. With most safelists, you can buy credits, or you can spend your time and earn them reading emails if you are working with a credit based stateliest. Pay attention to the emails that you read, and make note of any ideas they generate for good titles and content.
Using this approach will enable you to get the most out of your safelist marketing efforts. Read More... 95. Business Opportunity Leads Tips Business Opportunity Leads Tips - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Traffic Generation Techniques: Using Traffic Exchanges You have probably heard of, or have used, one or more traffic exchanges. Properly used, Traffic Exchanges can be another source of free traffic to your website, but you have to use them correctly. Here are a few tips. The concept is simple. In exchange for you spending some time (usually 15 to 20 seconds) viewing someone else's promotional page, your page gets displayed to someone else who is using the traffic exchange. Your Promotional Page Keep in mind that people are seeing your page for only 20 seconds or less. That is barely enough time to read what's on the page. This time will be shortened if your page contains a lot of graphics or other things that make it slow to load. Also, if the page needs to be scrolled, your viewers will probably never do that. For these reasons, you should never just insert an affiliate page or a long sales letter. Your page should be short and to the point, load quickly, and should be designed to fit within an 800 by 600 pixel screen, as this is the smallest screen that people can use. Use a Traffic Exchange page as a lead capture page. Your page should contain a form to collect at least an email address for your autoresponder system. When I design my pages, I always add 2 links to the page: Open This Page In A New Window, and Add To Favorites. Many times when surfing I have come across something that piqued my interest, and I often want to save that page in my favorites or open it in a new browser window so I can view it later. Many traffic exchanges do not provide these capabilities, so I provide them for the people who view my pages. The code to open the page in a new window is very straightforward: <A HREF="YOURURL" TARGET="_blank">Open In New Window</A> where YOURURL is the full URL to your traffic exchange page. The Add to Favorites code is a bit more complex and usually involves adding some Javascript to the page. Do a Google Search for "Add to Favorites" and you will find some solutions. Always make sure to consult your traffic exchange terms of service for what kinds of pages you can promote. Some do not allow pages with audio. Some do not allow page rotators. Many allow you to promote more than one page. Using the Traffic Exchange Now that you have set up your promotional page, it's time to start using your traffic exchanges. It is a good idea to join more than one traffic exchange. To save time and effort, when surfing, use a tabbed browser like Crazy Browser or FireFox. You can set it up to load multiple traffic exchanges, one on each tab, and then rotate through the tabs to surf multiple exchanges. Before you start using a traffic exchange, make sure your computer is well protected from viruses and malware. Unfortunately there are many unscrupulous people who use traffic exchanges to spread viruses and other nasty things through traffic exchanges. Most of the traffic exchanges have protection in place to catch this, but there is always someone who managed to slip through the protection. It is best to be safe. If you really want to be safe when using traffic exchanges, use a Sandbox. Sandboxing is a way of protecting your PC by corralling off potentially dangerous applications such as your browser from the rest of your PC. Sandboxing your browser means that your browser effectively runs in a virtual PC within your PC. Anything nasty that happens in this sandbox cannot affect your real PC. And when you close the Sandbox, anything that was placed on your virtual PC is gone. You can find more information and suggested free Sandbox software here: http://www.techsupportalert.com/safe-surfing.php Discipline Discipline is very important when using traffic exchanges. Set yourself a daily goal of surfing a certain number of total pages across all the traffic exchanges, or set aside a certain amount of time to surf. Resist the temptation to respond to the promotional pages that come across the screen. Your focus is to generate hits, nothing more. Most traffic exchanges will allow you to purchase hits so you don't have to spend time surfing. If you have the budget, I recommend this. Surfing can get very boring after a while, and you really have to discipline yourself to do it every day. If you are not using a sandbox, then when you are done surfing for the day, clean out your internet cache and reboot your computer. This will help to clean out a lot of the clutter that is left on your computer from using traffic exchanges. Keeping Track It is very important to track whether or not your promotional pages are actually being displayed, especially if you are paying for hits. So I recommend adding a tracking code to each page. You can set up free tracking accounts at Veretracking ( http://brincom.veretracking.com/ ), or at Google Analytics ( http://www.google.com/analytics/ ) Once you start joining more than one traffic exchange, it is a good idea to set up a text file where you track all the details of each exchange: Your login URL, your surfing URL, a short note of what kinds of pages are allowed, and the URLs of the page or pages you are promoting in that exchange. Whenever you design a new page and want to test it, this information will be invaluable. In my experience, you will get the best results if you surf 5 or less exchanges at the same time. Any more than this and sometimes your web browser may become bogged down or even crash. I have joined 30 traffic exchanges, and I then assigned 5 of those to each day of the week and Saturday. Then I surf those 5. Occasionally, if one of the exchanges of the day is not working, I'll add one from another day. Over time I build up a lot of hits across all the exchanges. You will find over time that many traffic exchanges will go out of business or just not deliver the hits you are looking for. That's fine - just drop that one and go looking for a new one. There are plenty out there! Properly used, traffic exchanges can be a good source of leads. Use them wisely, and you will be rewarded. ------------------- 96. Two Free and Easy Methods to Generate Leads and Traffic Two Free and Easy Methods to Generate Leads and Traffic - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Your work from home business will only be successful if you have traffic coming to your business website. Traffic generation is the most important part of your online business promotion efforts. Without traffic, your business is dead in the water. Here are two free and easy ways to get traffic to your website: Blogging You probably already have a blog or have at least have heard of blogging. If not, I urge you to learn about blogging and set one up. Do you know how important it is to develop an informative blog that people are going to follow? A successful blog should be updated daily and should present only quality information. No pitching of deals here. You want to present solutions to problems, and talk about the benefits of your services and how you can solve those problems. To keep people coming back to your blog, offer free stuff that is related to your business. It could be a free e-book or report that you have written, or a free template that will be beneficial to the people that are reading your blog. Search engines love blogs and will crawl them more and more often as more content is added. Research has shown that search engines will start to pay more attention to blogs once there are more than 100 posts, so it is important to add new content. Daily is best. Two of the more popular blogging sites are Blogger.com, which is very user friendly, and Wordpress.com, which is a little more advanced. Both of these are free to use.
Forums are another free way to get traffic. Here your approach has to be a little more subtle. Do a quick search in Google and find a few active forums that are related to your business topic. Sign up for the forum and then read through a few of the posts to get a feel for the way that things are done. Find out what people are talking about. Find out what questions they're asking. Once you get familiar with how the forum operates then simply start posting. One important point here: do not spam the forum. Do not just start posting all about your business and products with a bunch of links to your website. This will get you promptly removed from the forum. Just post relevant information that will help solve some of the problems that the people on the forum are talking about. Just make sure that each time you post it has value to it and you'll never be accused of spam. What you are really doing with these methods is branding yourself on the internet. You are building up your reputation. As you produce more quality content and become known as an expert in your chosen niche who is willing to help others, people will actively seek out your posts and comments to see what you have to say next. They will click on the links in your signature or About Me page to see what else you are offering. Both of these methods of traffic generation are free and easy, and have the added advantage of generating targeted traffic. So there you have it, two free ways that you can drive traffic to your Website. There are many other methods of traffic generation, but these two are simple and you can start using them right away. ------------------- 97. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Business Opportunity Lead Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Lead generation is absolutely necessary to run a profitable business. Whether you are a Fortune 500 company or a small work from home business operation, you need people who are interested in what you have to offer if your business is to be viable and profitable. Word of mouth is fine, but getting started in a small business, or growing an already existing operation, requires more proactive steps. One common approach is to purchase leads. On the surface, this seems like a good approach. In the vast majority of cases, you will simply lose your money doing this, especially if you buy generic leads or those who've shown only a marginal interest in your business. One of the worst strategies is to purchase a list of email addresses for generic leads. These have usually been sold to multiple users. If you do this, don't just start sending the marketing messages. You must send am introductory email that asks them to opt in to your autoresponder series only. After all, these people don't know you. If they start receiving marketing messages out of the blue, you will end up with a lot of abusive replies and maybe even some spam complaints. A safer, and more profitable approach, is to develop an automatic lead generation system that is either free or else costs very little to set up and maintain. In particular, you require the exact steps that will put your lead generation on auto-pilot - techniques that come with step-by-step instructions. If your business requires phone numbers, this can be taken into account when you set up your free lead generation system. Design it so that your leads are not only pre-qualified but you are able to obtain telephone numbers at this time. Postal leads (snail mail) are another solution, but these are also risky, as well as being expensive. As with generic email leads, don't just send a full package and hope for the best. First, send a post card with a reply coupon to find out who is interested. This way you won't incur costs on people who simply aren't interested or who may have already joined your program. It isn't easy to even recover costs with postcards. It isn't all just doom and gloom, though. You still need leads and there are methods which enable you to set up an automatic lead generation system, put them into an autoresponder for a series of emails, and send them a postcard later. One of the best systems I have come across for doing this is the Veretekk Lead Generation system. More details are available at this site: The secret is to pre-qualify. The essential ingredient in building a lead generation system is to be sure you pre-qualify them for your offer. Fortunately, there are free and low-cost methods for doing this. Some of them will be mentioned briefly here. You should follow-up with a fuller, in-depth study of each. Method 1. Viral List Builders: Techniques that encourage users to pass the product onto others, such as ebooks, jokes, cartoons, pictures, and important information. Method 2. Ad Co-Op Publishing: Co-operative ventures with others who agree to place your advertising on their web pages in exchange for you doing the same with their ads. Method 3: Forum Marketing. There are thousands of forums covering just about every topic. These provide opportunities to become known and to introduce readers to your informal advertising through your forum signature. Method 4. Article Marketing: Articles are valuable as sources of content and information, as well as providing back links to your web site and pages. Method 5. Special Bonuses: There are many ways incentives can be used to persuade prospects to join your email list and to convert visitors to buyers. Method 6. Reverse Marketing: Join every offer you can find that is related to your market and contact the person making that offer. They have already demonstrated an interest in your particular niche and are likely to require more quality information. Method 7. Joint Ventures: Contact others who have shown a similar interest and invite them to joint venture with you. They provide leads and you just close the sales, offering a discount to their list. Method 8. Buy Customers: Instead of buying or generating leads, there are certain businesses for which you can buy customers. This shortcuts a lot of the work necessary to create a viable and profitable work from home business. Business Opportunity Lead Generation can be a costly and time-consuming process unless you have the right tools and the right training. But it is possible to put in place a low-cost automated system that generates pre-qualified leads with whom you can develop a relationship. Do further research in any of the areas I have touched on in this article and you will no doubt find something that fits your business. ------------------- 98. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Techniques Business Opportunity Lead Generation Techniques - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation Techniques - an Overview What is Lead Generation? According to Wikipedia, lead generation (commonly abbreviated as lead-gen) is a marketing term that refers to the creation or generation of prospective consumer interest or inquiry into a business' products or services. Often lead generation is associated with marketing activity targeted at generating sales opportunities for a company's sales force. Therefore a lead is correctly described as information regarding or provided by a consumer who may be interested in making a purchase. Generation is one of a myriad of activities that may produce that information and perceived interest. Every conceivable business participates in some form of lead generation. After all, businesses must make sales to stay in business, so they are always looking for leads that they can turn into customers. Lead generation is a very broad subject. For the purposes of this article, we will concentrate on the various forms of business opportunity lead generation that are available on the internet: 1. Email marketing, e-zines, newsletters (1) Advertising in e-zines or newsletters can be a good method for acquiring targeted leads. You should subscribe to various e-zines to verify that the readers would be interested in your offer. Then select those e-zines you feel are targeted to your niche and place a solo ad, a sponsored ad or a classified ad. Usually the solo ad is more expensive, since this type of ad gets a full page or a separate mailing, whereas the sponsored ad is about a quarter page and the classified ad is only a few lines. Your best bet is with the solo ad. Costs can vary widely among e-zines. The total circulation of the e-zine guides the price of these e-zine ads. The larger the e-zine circulation, the higher the price per ad. (2) Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results or the higher it "ranks", the more searchers will visit that site. SEO can also target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. SEO is an art as much as a science, and much work and testing has to go into improving website results. The key here is consistency - producing lots of relevant content, on a regular basis, which subtly promotes the main website. (3) The terms pay-per-click (PPC) and cost-per-click (CPC) are sometimes used interchangeably, sometimes as distinct terms. When used as distinct terms, PPC shows payment based on click-through, while CPC shows measurement of cost on a per-click basis for contracts not based on click-through. In a PPC agreement, the advertiser only pays for qualifying clicks to the destination website based on a pre-arranged per-click rate. Popular PPC advertising options include per-click advertising networks, Google's AdWords or Yahoo's Search Marketing, and affiliate programs. To utilize PPC. you write a short, three or four-line ads to be displayed by the search engine, that contain the keywords on which you have bid money. Each time one of the ads is "clicked on" by a viewer; you must pay your bid amount to the search engine. If you manage to convert enough of your visitors into sales, your PPC campaign will be profitable. It is very important to track your income and expenses and the ROI for your ads when utilizing PPC. You can lose a lot of money very quickly if you are not very careful. Pay-per-action is the action defined in a cost-per-action agreement that relates directly to some type of conversion. A sale being made or a registration of some sort is the most common type of action. In a pay-per-lead agreement, the advertiser only pays for leads generated at their destination website. No payment is made for visitors who do not sign up. Pay-per-impression is a typical referral link/banner ad arrangement where the website wanting to purchase advertising space pays the host's website for each time it displays the ad. Typically, prices are set per 1000 exposures and software is added to the hosting web server to track the number of impressions displayed. (4) Free Classified and Free For All advertising is not really recommended. No-one really looks at these sites any more. The main use of such services now is to provide backlinks to the site you are promoting. (5) Buying leads from any of the various lead generation companies out there can be very costly, both in terms of time and money. You will normally find that when you call such leads, they have already heard from many other entrepreneurs pitching them all sorts of deals, and they will insult you and hang up. You'll be fortunate to get 1 or 2 out of every 100 leads who may be interested. Unless you're a crack telemarketer who enjoys this sort of thing, you will soon give up in disgust. (6) There is one type of lead purchase that has recently seen some success: Co-Registration leads. Co-Registration occurs when someone registers for one thing (for instance, a membership or a magazine subscription) and then is offered more information on a related topic (such as making money from home). In another case, they might be visiting a website targeted to entrepreneurs and a pop-up asks if they would like related free information by email. Those who sign on are very good targeted leads as they have opted in to receive more information. Once you have your leads opt-in to your own list, now you can pamper them, shower them with gifts and take extra good care of them because they are now your future. You must gain their trust and once you have that, you have to live up to that trust by being honest and above board with them at all time. They will then buy from you again and again. (7) The best way to generate leads is to learn how to generate your own targeted leads. The best way to do that is to grab yourself a Gold Veretekk system, which will provide you with all the tools and training you will ever need to dominate the search engines for your chosen keyword categories, and also to generate leads who are already familiar with your name, are expecting your call, and are interested in what you have to offer. I hope this overview of Business Opportunity Lead Generation Techniques has been useful. For more information on any of these strategies, you can contact me. I have tried them all. My contact information is at the end of this article. And if Business Opportunity Lead Generation seems like a lot of work, you're right! But there is a way to shortcut the process. Drop by my website at for more details. ------------------- 99. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tools Review Part 3 Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tools Review Part 3 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master In this series of articles, I am reviewing 2 similar free business opportunity lead generation tools which I have used: the First Family Classifieds portal (a component of the Veretekk business opportunity lead generation System) and the Isell Classifieds Script from Becanada. In my last article, I reviewed the facilities within each tool that are available to help you promote these business opportunity lead generation tools on the internet. In this article, let's talk about results. How do these tools compare in terms of delivering leads? How good are the leads that are delivered? What opportunities are there to develop these leads into business partners or paying customers? First, leads quantity: As far as I can determine, both of these business opportunity lead generation tools have delivered about the same number of leads in the time I have been testing them. I say "as far as I can determine", because it is difficult to measure how many leads are generated by the Isell script - the contact details are stored on a category basis and disappear once the ad has expired. They are not stored in a central location. With First Family Classifieds, on the other hand, the ads never expire, and the contact information for the people who post ads are stored in my Veretekk leads database and are always available, Very simple to track the number of leads that are generated. What about leads quality? Here again, First Family Classifieds is much better. The nature of the Isell script is such that the vast majority of the postings come from automated ad blasting services. Yes, the ads have to be confirmed, but I have found that these types of leads are generally not responsive to any reply emails that they get, since they are probably getting thousands of emails and are just deleting them. First Family is all about a person actually submitting an ad themselves. In that situation they are much more likely to respond to email marketing. I have never gotten any responses or any clicks on the 'email ads' that are included in the emails sent from the Isell script. As there is no way to easily incorporate an autoresponder with Isell, this is the only contact I ever have with them. I have never been contacted by anyone using my Isell sites. First Family Classifieds is very different: the confirmation email from the ad posting allows the people posting the ads to opt in to my Veretekk email list, and the autoresponder takes over from there. I also have the ability to send a newsletter once week to all the leads generated by all my Veretekk portals. Sometimes people have questions - they can email me right from the First Family Classifieds interface and I will respond. This allows me to start developing a relationship with these leads (relationship marketing), which often turns into something profitable for both of us. As for developing a relationship with these leads, again First Family Classifieds is the clear winner. If someone is interested in using First Family Classifieds as a business opportunity lead generation portal, they sign up for a Veretekk system from the portal. Now I have a legitimate reason to contact them and develop a deeper relationship as I help them get going, learn a bit about their business and see if my business can be of any assistance to them. And, if they decide to upgrade to the full Veretekk system, I will get paid an affiliate commission on the monthly membership fee. With Isell, there is an affiliate link at the bottom of the page through which a lead can download the script. That's it. If they decide to upgrade to one of the paid versions, I will get a one-time commission. All help with setting up the script is done through Becanada, so I don't have the chance to develop a relationship with these leads. So there you have it, my review of 2 business opportunity lead generation tools. As you can probably tell, I am a big fan of the First Family Classifieds portal as a business opportunity lead generation tool. In fact, I am an even bigger fan of the Veretekk business opportunity lead generation system, which provides me with 23 different business opportunity lead generation tools like this, and an email system which ties it all together. I hope this series has been useful for you when deciding on business opportunity lead generation tools for your business. ------------------- 100. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tools Part 2 Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tools Part 2 In this series of articles, I am comparing two similar business opportunity lead generation tools which I have used: the First Family Classifieds portal from the Veretekk Lead Generation system, and the Isell Classifieds Lead Generation script from Becanada. In my previous article, I gave a general overview of each business opportunity lead generation tool. In this article we will discuss the built-in capabilities that are provided within each system to help you to promote the system on the internet to start generating leads for your business. First Family Classifieds Business Opportunity Lead Generation Portal In order to use First Family Classifieds as a business opportunity lead generation portal, you must first sign up for a free Veretekk Lead Generation system. After 7 days, you upgrade to the Gold system and then you have the capability to configure the portal to your liking. Once inside the Veretekk Gold back office, you have the following tools to help you to promote your First Family Classifieds Lead Generation Portal: 1) You can set the Title, Description and Meta Tags to whatever you wish, allowing you to target selected keyword categories in the search engines. 2) You have the capability to add a 'displayed text' section. This is used to provide keyword-rich text on the page, allowing you to further enhance your portal for the search engines. 3) You have the capability of adding any RSS feed to the portal, so that the contents will change over time. Again very important for the search engine robots. 4) The portal has 5 slots into which you can put links to other websites. 5) A flash ad is provided which you can use as part of any promotional page, such as a traffic exchange page or a squeeze page. 6) The portal has an 'action URL' so that you can register your classified ads system with any network that accepts new classified ad sites. This will get your portal into lists that get lots of automated entries from ad blasters. 7) You are provided with a form code which you can place on any promotional page such as a squeeze page, so that people can submit ads right from the page that you have created. 8) You can select any of a number of pre-written autoresponder messages which will go out to people who post ads. You can also create your own autoresponder messages. 9) You have access to The Hammer - Veretekk's proprietary ad blasting service which you can use to blast information about your portal out to over 2 Billion places on the internet. This is the same technology which drives the Veretekk Leadsomatic Ad Blaster service, but it costs you nothing to use it to promote your First Family Classifieds portal. 10) You are provided with a full-featured tracking service, called Veretracking, which allows you to see how well your various promotional efforts for the portal are doing. As you can see, the possibilities for promotion here are almost endless. And don't forget that free training is available from Veretekk on how to do any of these! I especially like the ability to target specific keyword categories in the search engines. That way, if you are searching for specific kinds of leads, you can get them. Isell Classifieds Lead Generation Portal The possibilities for promoting the free Isell Classifieds Lead Generation Portal a quite limited, or will require much more effort and some programming expertise: 1) Unless you know something about CGI programming, you do not have the capability to set Title, Description or Meta Tags. 2) There is limited capability to add extra text to the page, and the admin interface is quite basic. 3) There is no way to add an RSS feed to the page, unless you know something about CGI programming. 4) There is the capability to add 2 links to the page. 5) If you want to use a Flash Ad, you will need to create one yourself. 6) There is no action URL provided. You have the capability to register your classifieds site with the global network of existing Isell classified sites so that you will get automatic postings from that network. 7) There is no form code which you could place on another site to enable people to post ads. The best you can do is to provide a link to the classifieds page. 8) There is no way to associate an autoresponder with ad postings. You are provided with 3 types of emails that go out that you can customize: an email that confirms placement of the ad, an email that goes out when the ad expires, and an email that goes out if someone chooses to use the "Send This Ad to a Friend" function. Each of these can be customized with an 'ad' at the top and the bottom of the email. If you want to do anything else, you would need to download the emails from the classifieds database that is kept by the Isell script and then upload them into an autoresponder service. 9) If you want to blast information about your classifieds site out to the internet, you will need to use a third-party blasting service. A good choice here would be the Veretekk Leadsomatic Ad Blaster service at $10 a month. 10) Tracking your promotional efforts can be accomplished by using the website stats available from your web hosting provider. These may not provide all the details that you need; more precise stats would require that you be able to modify the Isell script. In terms of promotional capabilities and ease of use, the Veretekk First Family Classifieds Lead Generation Portal far outshines the Isell Classifieds Lead Generation portal. However, I do like the Isell capability to register your classifieds site with a large and growing network of classified sites. I have registered my First Family Classifieds site with that network using my action URL, so I get the best of both worlds! In the next and final article in this series, I will review how each of these portals has served me in terms of business opportunity lead generation. Until then: keep generating those leads! ------------------- 101. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tools Comparison - Part 1 Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tools Comparison - Part 1 There are many different tools online for Business Opportunity Lead Generation. In this series of articles, I will be comparing two very similar tools that I have used for Business Opportunity Lead Generation: the First Family Classifieds service from the Veretekk Business Opportunity Lead Generation System, and the Isell Classified Ads service from Becanada. Introduction to the two Business Opportunity Lead Generation Systems Both of these Business Opportunity Lead Generation tools have one primary goal: to collect the contact information of those who are placing online classified ads. Once someone has posted an ad to the site, the site owner now can email them back with a thank-you email which incidentally will contain a subtle promotion for a product or service, First Family Classifieds is a free service. To get your own First Family Classifieds portal, you sign up for a free Silver Veretekk Business Opportunity Lead Generation System. Then you can start promoting your classified ads service. The system automatically captures the information of everyone posting ads, and by using the Veremail system (part of the Veretekk System), you can send these people emails which promote your Veretekk system. If you upgrade to the Gold Veretekk system at $41.95 a month, you can create your own autoresponder series and send them in either HTML or text. The ads that are posted do not expire. If you have any problems with signing up for Veretekk or configuring and using your portal, there is plenty of online free training available. You will also have the complete contact details of your Veretekk sponsor. I've never had any problems with the First Family Classifieds Portal, or any of the other Veretekk services, so I've never had to contact my sponsor. The free training was more than sufficient to get me going. The basic version of Isell is also free, but it is a script which you download and then install on a server. So that means that you will need a domain name and a hosting account. Once you install it, the system provides the capability to send one email to the ad poster to confirm placement of the ad, and another when the ad expires. These emails can be in HTML or text format. The documentation to install it is clearly written and the install is very simple - just upload the script to the proper place and follow a few simple instructions and you are ready to configure the system. Configuration is a bit more complex - you may have to read the instructions a few times before you understand what they are trying to say. This system also stores the contact information of ad posters in a database on your site, and you can email them all from the online administrator interface. Isell has 3 Upgrades available, each of which adds additional features: The Silver Version for $29,95, the Gold version for $69.95, and the Platinum version for $129.95. There are many options available, such as the ability to run paid ads, that would make this a good choice for anyone who would want to run a full-fledged online classifieds service. If you run into any problems with Isell, all you can do is send an email to Becanada and hope for the best. I recently tried to install Isell, but could not get the admin functions to work. As it turned out, my hosting provider had recently installed some new security software which rendered the Isell admin script inoperative. I dutifully reported this to Becanada. Their reply: "Find another hosting provider." So much for customer support... In summary then: - First Family Classifieds is your choice if all you want to do is provide a classified ads portal to enable you to offer a free classified ads service. Signup is easy, you do not need to install or host anything, and configuration help is available. - Isell Classifieds is your choice if you want to manage and run a complete online Classified Ads service, including paid ads, banner exchanges, and the like. Configuration is moderately difficult, and help is spotty. In the next article in this series, I will explore how each of these Business Opportunity Lead Generation services provides its own promotional capabilities. ------------------- 102. Work From Home With FreedomRocks - Part 4 Work From Home With FreedomRocks - Part 4 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Welcome to part 4 of my series "Work From Home With FreedomRocks". In the previous article in this series, we looked at the FreedomRocks work from home business opportunity. In today's article we will explore some recent additions to the FreedomRocks opportunity - tools to help you manage your finances and get out of debt more quickly and in a disciplined manner. As we all know, rising consumer debt and poor credit is becoming an international epidemic. The gap between the wealthy and the middle-class is widening. More and more people are falling further and further behind and may never achieve their dream of financial freedom. The best way to get started is to become and stay debt-free. At FreedomRocks, financial tools such as the Freedom Accelerator will help you optimize your monthly payments and calculate the date when you'll be debt-free. Depending upon your financial situation, this can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest and years on your mortgage - all without increasing the amount of money you're currently paying each month. The FreedomRocks Freedom Accelerator allows you to visually document your debt profile. You can perform optimization analysis on your outstanding debt (what-if analysis), track your plan progress by month, and even get email reminders when your payments are due. FreedomRocks also provides their members with other types of invaluable financial information to assist them in maintaining a good credit profile. The importance of proper documentation in order to obtain the tax advantages of operating a home-based business is stressed.
- a solid and proven tool for investment Work From Home With FreedomRocks ------------------- 103. Work From Home With FreedomRocks - Part 3 Work From Home With FreedomRocks - Part 3 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master In the previous article in this series, we reviewed the FreedomRocks Wealth Builder product. In this article, we will explore the FreedomRocks Business Opportunity. The FreedomRocks Wealth Builder product is a great help in learning to trade properly and profitably in the Forex market. In addition to trading your own money, you can also, if you so desire, introduce the concept to others and earn commissions on the monthly fee they pay to use the product. This is the basis of the Work From Home aspect of your FreedomRocks business. The cost to become a FreedomRocks representative is very minimal, basically a small annual charge for a website maintenance fee. There will also be a training fee in the first year only, to cover the cost of the compliance training that all new representatives must complete. As with most MLMs, there are restrictions on what you can and cannot do while marketing your business. Of course, spam is not tolerated within the FreedomRocks community. You may not list your FreedomRocks website URL on ANY e-mails directed to people you don't know. If you choose to send e-mails of this nature, you MUST create your own website (containing no reference to FreedomRocks) where people can enter their e-mail addresses for more information. Once they've done that, you may send them your FreedomRocks website address. You may not use the "FreedomRocks" name or logo on ANY website. There are certain groups who have been granted the ability to create 'affiliate websites' and you can sign up with these groups to further your marketing efforts. You must NEVER state anything about potential returns, interest rate numbers, bonus check projections, and so on .A simple rule of thumb: If it has a number on it, DON'T SEND IT!! Compensation Plan Sales representatives are first paid on the sale of products only. Each sale of a full product package earns a one-time commission. Bonus commissions are paid on the total sales made in your own team based upon the FreedomRocks Compensation Plan. As an Independent sales representative, you are required to maintain 100 US dollars in personal sales volume each month. This is easy since that is the monthly cost to access the trading software. In addition, you are required to sponsor at least one new Independent Sales Representative onto each of your two teams who does the same. When this happens, you become what FreedomRocks calls an Independent Sales Manager and are now eligible for cycle and bonus commissions. FreedomRocks calculates and pays compensation on a weekly basis. At the end of each weekly pay period, the FreedomRocks computer counts the total sales volume on your left and right teams. For every $200 in sales volume you accumulate on the weaker team and $400 on the stronger team, you will earn a cycle bonus of $40. You may cycle as many times as you like each pay period, right up to a very generous cap of $25,000 per week. As you sponsor new representatives into your organization, you will begin climbing the FreedomRocks leadership ladder: - Sponsor your first new representative, you become a Bronze Leader. - Sponsor four and place at least one active representative on each leg, you become a Silver Leader. - Sponsor eight, you become a Gold Leader. Now you become eligible for the first leadership bonus - the Matching Bonus. - When at least 10 of the representatives you've sponsored have reached the Bronze level or higher, you become a Platinum Leader. Now another bonus kicks in - the Car Bonus. - After achieving the Platinum level, your status in the company is then based on the average amount that you receive in your weekly cycle bonus. If you can then maintain an average of 25 cycles or more per week, for five consecutive weeks; you will become eligible for the fifth bonus - the elite Freedom Bonus. Spill Factor FreedomRocks has developed a key to explosive growth and incredible stability - the "Spill Factor". When you sponsor a new representative into your organization, you can choose where to place them if you wish. By default the FreedomRocks computer will count the representatives on your left and right teams and place your new representative on whichever team is smaller. The way they're placed though is significant. New people will always be placed on the extreme left side or the extreme right side of your organization, also known as your outside legs. Placement in this manner allows the previous representatives you sponsor to receive the maximum benefit from your continued sponsoring efforts. This same thing is happening to your upline, so it is very possible that new representatives will appear in your organization whom you have never met. This is a brief overview of the FreedomRocks compensation plan. For more details, see the FreedomRocks corporate website at www.FreedomRocks.com. In our next article we will look at the FreedomRocks Freedom Accelerator and other financial management tools. ------------------- 104. Work From Home with FreedomRocks - Part 2 Work From Home with FreedomRocks - Part 2 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master In the previous article in this series, I gave an introduction and overview of the FreedomRocks work from home opportunity. In this article we will explore the FreedomRocks Wealth Builder program in more detail. The cornerstone of the FreedomRocks Wealth Builder program is an online system that helps you, as in investor, participate in the Forex market. Simply, the system gives buy and sell recommendations, using a proprietary algorithm. It also employs a hedging strategy, allowing you to earn interest on your investments while you are holding currency pairs. What makes this so different from other Forex trading systems? The FreedomRocks Wealth Builder program is a complete paradigm shift from more traditional trading models. Here are just some of the differences: - There are no charts or graphs to read. - You do not have to do any research. - There are no signals that you have to worry about. - You always trade currency pairs which (historically speaking) move in opposite directions. - You will seldom exit your positions. - A portfolio of any size can be managed in just a few minutes per week. - There is no need to monitor your portfolio all night when the markets are their most active. - In addition to your trading gains, you can set your portfolio to produce virtually any level of interest. The interest you are paid is based on the interest rate differences between the currencies in the pairs you buy. If you buy the currency with the higher interest rate (and therefore, sell the currency with the lower rate), you will net interest each day. The interest is calculated (depending upon the broker) at 5:00pm EST. Since interest is not paid on the weekends, it is normally tripled on Wednesdays to compensate. The FreedomRocks Portfolio Allocator will allow you to select virtually any interest rate you desire on your portfolio (based upon today's approximate rates). Keep in mind that higher levels of interest may significantly increase the volatility and overall risk of your portfolio. What sort of returns can you expect? Neither FreedomRocks nor any authorized affiliate websites will provide any numbers on the FreedomRocks system. As with all financial systems, individual results will vary depending upon your available capital and your investment strategy. Besides, if no claims are made, FreedomRocks cannot be accused of fixing the numbers in their favor. ANY results received from system authors should be intensely mistrusted. Instead of providing results, FreedomRocks offers a free 15-day trial of their trading system. Forex brokers allow you to open one or more demo accounts, after which you can try the FreedomRocks system for yourself for free and without risking any real money. This also allows you to listen in on a few FreedomRocks weekly training calls, and see the power of the FreedomRocks Wealth Builder program for yourself. In the next article, we will explore the FreedomRocks Business Plan, which allows you to earn money by selling the FreedomRocks work from home opportunity to others. 105. Work From Home with FreedomRocks, Part 1 Work From Home with FreedomRocks, Part 1 - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master If you are researching online opportunities to start a work from home business. you may have come across FreedomRocks. You probably have some questions about this work from home opportunity. In this series of articles I will attempt to answer some of the most frequent questions about FreedomRocks. The flagship product offered by FreedomRocks is an online system which assists you in trading the Forex market in a disciplined and lucrative manner. According to Wikipedia: "The foreign exchange (currency or Forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is the largest financial market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions. The average daily trade in the global Forex and related markets currently is almost US$ 4 trillion." Until very recently, only banks or extremely wealthy people were able to trade in this market. Over the last few years, this market has now been opened to the modest investor through the introduction of online brokerages. How much do you need to start investing? However, you CAN start with as little as $2,000 - $3,000, but there are always tradeoffs in risk. At this lower level of capital, you will need to focus on just 2 currency pairs, use a 400:1 leverage, and likely use at least 10% of your margin to reach the suggested minimum of 25 lots of each currency pair. Remember, 10% at 400:1 is the equivalent of 40% on 100:1. You do not invest your money with FreedomRocks. FreedomRocks is not a Forex broker. You will open your own brokerage account with the brokerage firm of your choice. FreedomRocks does have a recommended broker; but you can choose any broker you wish. FreedomRocks never has any control over your investment dollars. What if you know nothing about Forex? In my next article, we will explore the FreedomRocks Wealth Builder Program. Read More about Work From Home ------------------- 106. The FreedomRocks Work From Home Income Opportunity The FreedomRocks Work From Home Income Opportunity - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master FreedomRocks is fast becoming a strong contender in the work from home industry. Did you know that, according to the Direct Selling Association (DSA), over 185,000 people join the network marketing industry each week? Why do they join? Because, in theory at least, network marketing allows you to start a work from home business with virtually unlimited income potential for very little upfront costs. There are some challenges, however. Customer retention rates can vary. In some work from home business opportunities, those with more cash on hand are able to simply buy their way into higher levels of the company. In other cases, there are back-end requirements that make it very difficult to get any meaningful commissions. The FreedomRocks work from home income opportunity offers some innovative solutions to these and other challenges. The power of the FreedomRocks investment strategy and some of the unique characteristics of their compensation plan has resulted in a business opportunity which is structured for success. Some of these unique features include: - Extremely high customer retention rate due to the success of their revolutionary investment strategy product - No possibility of buying your way into a higher representative level - No back-end requirements to prevent you from getting paid - FreedomRocks is completely computer-based company. Your business can grow exponentially almost overnight. - FreedomRocks features a virtual product, so geographic boundaries are a thing of the past - Because FreedomRocks features a virtual product, the company doesn't need to pay for development, manufacturing, packaging, warehousing, or shipping, As a result, the compensation plan pays out up to an unprecedented 90% of the income back to representatives. No other program even comes close. These unique features make the FreedomRocks income opportunity an attractive option for anyone looking to build a work from home business. ------------------- 107. FreedomRocks - Wealth Building By The Numbers FreedomRocks - Wealth Building By The Numbers - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Like many people today, are you shrinking your dreams to match your income? Perhaps. Here are some symptoms: - You work more and live less. There is no magic solution to building wealth. Building wealth happens one step at a time. It is a process. It can be learned, and more importantly, it can be repeated. The FreedomRocks 3 step financial freedom plan and associated products and services can help you achieve each step. Phase 1: Increase Your Cash Flow Are you spending money faster than you make it? If so, you'll never be financially free. Budgeting is a help, but it is not the solution. You cannot budget your way to financial freedom. You can deprive yourself and your family only so far. At some point, increasing your cash flow is the only option. FreedomRocks can show you how to do that. You can get an immediate pay raise that could put hundreds of dollars each month into your pocket. Phase 2: Stabilize Your Finances Rising consumer debt is becoming an international epidemic. The gap between the wealthy and the middle-class is widening. More and more people are falling further and further behind and may never achieve their dream of financial freedom. The best way to get started is to become and stay debt-free. FreedomRocks financial tools such as the Freedom Accelerator will help you optimize your monthly payments and calculate the date when you'll be debt-free. Depending upon your financial situation, the Freedom Accelerator can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest and years on your mortgage - without increasing the amount of money you're currently paying each month. Phase 3: Invest For the Future FreedomRocks will introduce you to investment concepts used by the wealthy for decades that very few people even know exist. FreedomRocks has do-it-yourself trading programs. For those with little or no time, special arrangements have been made with licensed, professional traders to do the work for you.
108. Business Opportunity Lead Generation Business Opportunity Lead Generation Tip: Want More Leads? Stop Advertising! - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Do you want to generate more leads for your business? Then stop advertising on the internet! This probably sounds like bad information to you. However, on the internet today, getting out of the advertising mindset can help you to generate many more leads for your business. Most new internet marketers have been presented with lots of information that tells them to start writing little classified ads and use automatic ad blasters to blast their ads to classified sites, safelists, FFA sites, and so on. It seems like an easy way to do low-cost or no-cost advertising. Do you really think anyone actually see these ads? Think about it. When was the last time you went to a classified ad site looking for something specific? What did you do instead? You used Google or some other search engine. Well, that's what most everyone else does. And in those search engine listings, did you concentrate on the paid ads on the right hand side, or did you pay more attention to the organic listings - the summaries of web pages that contain the phrases you searched for? Most everyone will tune in to the organic listings, under the assumption that the website that is behind the paid ads will try to sell them something. They want free information! Providing good, relevant content on a consistent basis is the key to getting your message out on the internet today. Writing and blasting ads will not be of much use, except for providing backlinks to your website that may help with website ranking. You have to get out of the advertising mindset and into the content mindset. Attract leads with great content that offers a solution to their problem, and they will want to know more. With this in mind, you can still use ad blasters and the like. But use them with as food for the search engine spiders, not as a venue to advertise your business. What does that mean? Well, in order to get your website to the top of the search engines, you need to learn about search engine optimization, or SEO. SEO is an art, and you need a good set of tools to support your efforts. This is where the Veretekk Lead Generation System shines. Free training from some of the top SEO experts and internet marketers, and an integrated set of lead generation and marketing tools that are incredibly powerful, will help you to become an SEO Master. Want to find out more? Stop advertising. Grab a Veretekk system and attend our free SEO training, and you will be well on your way to generating some of the best leads for your business that you have ever seen. We'll show you a better way! And while you're at it, we'll show you how to buy paying customers for your business, so that you can start building a profitable business from day 1. So stop wasting your time with all that ad blasting. We don't buy leads. We don't blast ads. We buy customers. We produce quality content that gets us to the top of the search engines and attracts serious business builders to partner with us. No hype, no fluff, no get-rich-quick foolishness. If you are serious about building a business, forget all the hype. Come visit us at
109. Legacy for Life Leads Legacy for Life Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Legacy for Life Leads - How Well do they work? Are you building an Legacy for Life business? Legacy for Life is certainly a great product and a great business concept. The Legacy for Life patented product line will provide you with a secure, lucrative home-based business opportunity in the exploding health & wellness industry. Have you seen what’s going on and where the opportunities exist for your future? Just take a look at some recent headlines: Loss of Jobs in America Don't let these converging trends overtake you or pass you by. Grab your chance to act and take advantage of the next huge business revolution. Billions are being made in the wellness industry. Legacy for Life has a proven plan to ensure you get your share. Building Your Legacy for Life Business If you are involved in the Legacy for Life opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your Legacy for Life business. How is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM companies are usually paranoid about allowing any of their distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor None of this was of any benefit whatsoever in building a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLM opportunities and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions, for life. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 110. Legacy for Life Leads Generation Legacy for Life Leads Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you building a Legacy for Life business? There are as many different reasons to be in this business as there are Legacy for Life Distributors. A Legacy for Life business can help with those tuition bills. It can help reshape your work week. It can help you build a future for your family. It's your life and Legacy for Life can help you build your own business - the way you want it. Discover the tremendous opportunity that awaits you with Legacy's "Power of Teamwork" Compensation Plan. Of course, to build your Legacy for Life business, you are going to have to recruit customers and distributors. How do you do that? You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with Legacy for Life, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is so important that I will repeat it: Do not purchase leads! This is a waste of your time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your Legacy for Life business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby... You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the Legacy for Life products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% of the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of Legacy for Life, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using search engine optimization techniques to get your replicated Legacy for Life affiliate website to appear on the first page in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong and stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the Legacy for Life business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is called Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- Are you worn out and tired from your MLM experience? I know at times, I have certainly been emotionally and physically drained. It always seemed like I had to be out there recruiting every day to build my residual income. If I stopped for even a few weeks, I saw my income drop. I have been active for the past 10 years in network marketing and was actually introduced to the concept originally back in 1985. So until March of 2008, I thought I had seen all the different ways of building a home business. When I was first introduced to Its Good Business in March of 2008 and the concept of Buying Customers, I was amazed at the simplicity. Tom Prendergast went on to explain how he was able to build his business approximately 7 years ago for a 3 month period and then had to leave it alone to work on completing Veretekk for the next 6 years. Yes, he left his business alone for 6 years. He didn't call his customers as the company looked after following up with them. Yet, his income kept going up each month. Sometimes by only a small amount, but nonetheless, it kept increasing. I don't know of any network marketing business that you could leave alone for 6 plus years and have an income afterwards. Finally, I found a business model that made complete sense. The company operates as a traditional business, acquiring customers like any other business. However, they then allow you to buy those customers and they get placed in your data base. every time a customer orders, you make a commission. When I analyzed the business model, I realized that well over 90% of my business would be made up of paying customers and not distributors. The light bulb finally went on about why I had not had the level of success I had hoped and worked so much for during the past 10 years. I was following a business model about duplication which has a 95% failure rate in the industry. With Its Good Business Team, we operate as a traditional business, delegating various tasks within the group, like all other successful businesses out there do. It's interesting, when you look at Network Marketing companies, they have a delegation business model themselves. They have an accounting department, customer service, training section etc. Yet, teach us the concept of duplication to build a successful business. Those companies go on to say, we should look at the successful leaders and duplicate what they are doing. Hmm? No thanks, that's a recipe for failure. I really got it and hopefully you will take a look at what we are doing. There is no hype, lies and BS going on in this team. We use the power of Veretekk, advanced technology for marketing on the internet. We really are marketing at the speed of thought. We have broken all the records in the company we have partnered up with in 60 days. Thank you Tom Prendergast for your leadership, vision and putting together the best team on the internet today. Make it a great day Darrell Lischka- Business Coach Darrell is just one of our very successful recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 111. Its Good Business: A Ray of Sunshine in the MLM Industry Its Good Business: A Ray of Sunshine in the MLM Industry - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Once upon a time. internet marketing was simply a way to create a home based business and make some residual income. These days, however, the internet marketing arena is filled with those who have it all and those who seem to have nothing and are continually losing money. Over and over again we hear stories of people who have had their hopes and dreams dashed, and have lost a lot of money while trying to build an online business. They have used all their retirement funds, maxed out their credit cards, and gone heavily into debt in order to chase that elusive dream of easy online profits which is promoted particularly by the Network Marketing (MLM) industry. But there is hope. In this plethora of internet marketing hype, scams, shams, lies and greed, a ray of sunshine has recently broken through. A quiet little business is literally changing the face of how businesses are built on the internet. Through the application of a proven and ethical business model that is offered by no other company in the world today, this business is putting an end to elitist MLM pyramid schemes which promise much and deliver only broken dreams and empty wallets. This business has found a way to generate long term residual income and wealth creation, ethically and responsibly, with no hype. This new marketing group is simply called Its Good Business. So from day 1, your business is successful. You acquire customers who are already purchasing your products. This is the heart of Its Good Business wealth creation and long term residual income plan. But that is only the start of the plan. Once you become part of the Its Good Business group, you will be become part of a team which works co-operatively in the areas of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and lead generation. blogging, writing press releases, and sales. You do not have to learn how to do all of these things. Now you can concentrate your efforts in the one area in which you already have skills or which you want to develop. By working in your designated are of expertise or passion, you will benefit from the efforts of the entire team. You may get new customers from other members of the team. You will get new distributors (called Business Associates or BAs) from the efforts of the team. Even better, Its Good Business trains their team members to become complete marketers and business entrepreneurs by providing information on how to properly use internet marketing techniques to grow any business successfully. With this business model, you no longer have to learn how to do everything before you are successful. The team as a whole does everything that needs to be done. There is even a sales team who does nothing but provide information to interested parties and help them join the group. This eliminates the number one reason for failure of 95% of online business ventures: the new business owner is not a salesperson, hates rejection, and is frightened of that phone. With the Its Good Business model, individuals get strategic placement based on their skills and the group's downline gets filled. No one has to purchase leads, make cold calls, or attempt to recruit everyone in sight. All you have to do is buy customers, which creates long term residual income for the life of the business relationship, and work at your designated team task or tasks. You may think this sounds too good to be true. I know I did. But I can assure you, it is worth checking out. There is no other business model out there that works as well and as ethically as this one. All you need to do is attend one of our weekly information sessions, given on Saturdays at 1 PM Pacific time. If that is not convenient for you, contact me and I can send you to a recorded presentation. There will be no hype, and no-one will try to sell you anything. Just solid and proven information to help you make a decision as to whether you want to build a business this way. You can register for our sessions and watch a short introductory flash movie at this site: Come join us, watch the presentation, and don't be shy to ask questions. We present facts, not hype. Of course, this business may not be for you. But you won't know that for sure until you get all the details, will you? ------------------- 112. Business Opportunity Lead Generation For Your Legacy for Life Business Business Opportunity Lead Generation For Your Legacy for Life Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Legacy for Life Business - Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your Legacy for Life business. As you know, Legacy for Life is a world leader in the health and wellness arena. The company has gone beyond nutrition to bring you the best, most natural health and wellness products; each uniquely designed to keep you feeling and looking your very best. The Legacy for Life Compensation Plan rewards Distributors with one of the most lucrative plans in the global marketplace. In fact, there are 7 highly lucrative ways to earn money with Legacy for Life. Of course, to earn in these 7 ways, you need distributors. Where do you get them from? As I'm sure you have already experienced, generating quality leads for your Legacy for Life business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your Legacy for Life business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? How many times have you bugged your family and friends, to the point where they run the other way when they see you coming? So what do you do? As a Legacy for Life distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Have you lost family and friends due to your aggressive recruitment techniques? Perhaps its time to consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation 2) Learn how to generate your own exclusive quality leads. Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders as long as they continue to order products. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who recognize my name and are expecting my call, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! I don't even have to know all that much about the products. This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 113. Lead Generation For Your Quixtar Business Lead Generation For Your Quixtar Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Quixtar Business - Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your Quixtar business. The Quixtar Sales and Marketing Plan is a low risk, low start-up cost business opportunity that is open to everyone. It allows you to build your business through retailing products and sponsoring other people who, in turn, can retail products and offer the business opportunity to others. By passing your sales and marketing knowledge to your developing team, you not only build your own business network but also enable others to build one of their own. The core of the Quixtar Sales and Marketing Plan's income opportunity is the sale of quality products and services to retail customers. As your Quixtar business grows, the rewards you earn grow in proportion. The Quixtar Sales and Marketing Plan does not compensate anybody for simply recruiting others as Independent Business Owners. Generating quality leads for your Quixtar business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do you do? As a Quixtar distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation 2) Learn how to generate your own exclusive quality leads. Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who know a bit about me, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 114. MLM - Truth or Fiction? MLM - Truth or Fiction? - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master In these day of high interest rates, high gas prices, credit crunches and job losses, more and more people are looking for alternative streams of income. Many will turn to the internet for their solution and Google terms like MLM, network marketing, home business, or other such keywords. Mostly what they will find is a lot of sites that promise quick wealth without much work. The vast majority of such sites are promoting MLM opportunities. These MLM companies promise quick wealth and overnight success with a minimum of effort. The concept is very attractive to those who are desperate to find alternative sources of income and who are not business savvy. Many people will put their hard-earned money and their valuable time into these opportunities, only to find out that the company is unwilling to help them build a real business, beyond selling them 'tools', which are usually motivational tapes and books designed to keep them from quitting the MLM business. All that really happens here is that the MLM company gets richer. You see, their basic business model is flawed: all that new distributors are taught is to recruit more distributors. No-one is actually buying the products because they like the products - they are buying the products because they have to in order to qualify for commissions. And the winner: the MLM company of course! An organization consisting of only salespeople will eventually collapse, especially when most of the 'salespeople' are incredibly uncomfortable with selling anything, as are most people who get into MLM opportunities. You cannot build a business on salespeople alone. You need a stable base of customers. Customers who purchase the products on a regular basis because they like them. I have been in many MLM businesses over the years. Why I kept coming back, I'm not sure. I guess I knew that there was something there, but I could never quite make it work. If I tried to get customers rather than distributors, my upline and the company would disown me, and sometimes put all kinds of obstacles in my way. And yet I knew, deep in my heart, that this was the proper way to build a business. Finally I gave up in disgust, until I was introduced to the only company that does it correctly. I was extremely skeptical at first, but once I saw how it worked, I was captivated. Here at last was the correct business model. We call it the Its Good Business model. We don't buy leads to build our businesses. We buy customers. We don't try to recruit everyone that comes within three feet of us as a distributor. We don't need to. We only talk to business prospects that are already presold, who understand how the business works, and are ready to get started. Our parent company is skilled in selling products to the end user, the customer, and then selling the buying customer to us, the business affiliates (BAs). Why would they do this you ask? This allows them to reduce their marketing costs and to create multiple streams of revenue at the same time. They call it Co-operative Marketing. We call it Good Business. It's a win-win situation. As a consequence, this model has no failure rate. As soon as you sign up and buy customers, you start receiving revenue from those customers. For a one-time fee, you get commissions on their purchases for life. You don't have to market to them, you don't have to encourage them to purchase more products, you don't even have to follow up with them unless you want to. The parent company does all that. This is the total opposite of the traditional MLM model, where 95% of people fail to build a significant income, because they are unskilled at selling, whether it be to leads or to potential business partners. This is unique; a real paradigm shift. It requires your immediate attention. If you want to build a real business with real business people. come see us! ------------------- 115. Quixtar Leads Quixtar Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Quixtar Leads - How Well do they work? Are you building an Quixtar business? Quixtar is certainly a great product and a great business concept. Quixtar is the North American version of Amway, a multi-level marketing, or network marketing company founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Rich DeVos. The company's name was a contraction of "American Way." Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Alticor reported sales of US$7.2 billion for the year ending December 31, 2007, marking the company’s sixth straight year of growth. Its product lines include personal care products, jewelry, electronics, Nutrilite dietary supplements, water purifiers, air purifiers, insurance and cosmetics. The company conducts business through a number of affiliated companies in more than ninety countries and territories around the world. In the United States and Canada it now operates as Quixtar. Building Your Quixtar Business If you are involved in the Quixtar opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your Quixtar business. How is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLM opportunities and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions, for life. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 116. Quixtar Leads Generation Quixtar Leads Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you building a Quixtar business? There are as many different reasons to be in this business as there are Quixtar® Independent Business Owners (IBOs). A Quixtar business can help with those tuition bills. It can help reshape your work week. It can help you build a future for your family. It's your life and Quixtar North America, part of the Amway global business, can help you build your own business - the way you want it. But if you want to build your Quixtar business, you are going to have to recruit customers and distributors. How do you do that? You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with Quixtar, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is so important that I will repeat it: Do not purchase leads! This is a waste of your time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your Quixtar business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby... You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the Quixtar products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% of the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of Quixtar, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using search engine optimization techniques to get your replicated Quixtar affiliate website to appear on the first page in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong and stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the Quixtar business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is called Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- Not only am I an MLM junkie, but I am guilty of joining more sites and opportunities online than I care to admit to. I haven't dared to add up the total amount of money I have spent online over the last 18 months, some large amounts and lots and lots of small amounts on this and that. None of these things offered me the answer I was looking for, and so I kept searching and spending. I am not one for giving up and my positive resolve to be successful online and find that perfect business opportunity kept me searching ever onwards. Just three weeks ago I was sent a presentation by an online friend. That presentation has changed my life. While I was watching it I knew I had stumbled upon the Holy Grail, the answer I had been looking for, and although the cost to join was far more than I could really afford I knew that I had to make that commitment there and then. Buy Customers Not Leads, was music to my ears. I had had my fair share of cold calling and the negativity that brings and so to think that my money would be wisely spent on buying customers made a lot of sense to me. I was also delighted to learn that part of the deal was using Veretekk to promote the business. Although I had not fully utilized Veretekk in the past I was very aware that it had great potential as a marketing tool and I was eager to get to know how to use it to best advantage. I have to say that so far I have not been disappointed. The training and support are first class and I am thoroughly enjoying all I am doing and all I am learning. The approach to the business has a simplicity about it that is very appealing. I am also delighted to be part of such a professional team. The potential here is quite mind blowing and I have no doubt that I am in the process of building the foundations for something really big. Tom Prendergast and Butch Hamilton are 3 steps ahead of the game and I would like to personally thank them for all they are doing to master mind this team. It is a privilege to be a part of it. Its Good Business is the best opportunity I will ever have and I intend to do all it takes to make it work. Thank you Janet is just one of our very successful recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 117. The Evolution of Lead Generation Techniques The Evolution of Lead Generation Techniques - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master As a Lead Generation master, I keep my eye on the lead generation business. A recent news article caught my eye this morning. According to the CEO of a company called Incisive Media, online marketing specialists will have to turn more and more to new methods of lead generation to keep up with developments in the media industry and to stay on top of new models of marketing. His company's approach is to build an online lead generation engine, where the company offers leading content in the form of whitepapers and webinars. People are allowed to gain free access in return for their contact details. Hmmm - so what's so new about this? It is still basically the same process - offer something for free in return for contact details, which are then sold or resold. All that has changed is the free stuff! And not only that, but his company charges up to $100 per lead! Veretekk has been doing this for years, with the added benefit that the contact details are made available only to the Veretekk system owner. Not only that, but the method used to sign up for the free service ensures that the Veretekk system owner's name is exposed to the prospective customer, so that he or she will already be familiar with that name when he or she is contacted by the Veretekk system owner. And with a Veretekk system, you pay a low fee once a month to generate all the leads you want. Now that is a great deal! Couple that with the Its Good Business model of buying customers to provide a solid income foundation for your business, and you can't lose. If you are sick and tired of buying worthless leads, getting rejected by all the leads you call, and losing money on leads purchases, come see us at Its Good Business. We can show you how to escape all that drudgery and frustration and build a strong and stable business. ------------------- 118. Business Opportunity Lead Generation For Your Quixtar Business Business Opportunity Lead Generation For Your Quixtar Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Quixtar Business - Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your Quixtar business. The Quixtar Sales and Marketing Plan is a low risk, low start-up cost business opportunity that is open to everyone. It allows you to build your business through retailing products and sponsoring other people who, in turn, can retail products and offer the business opportunity to others. By passing your sales and marketing knowledge to your developing team, you not only build your own business network but also enable others to build one of their own. The core of the Quixtar Sales and Marketing Plan's income opportunity is the sale of quality products and services to retail customers. As your Quixtar business grows, the rewards you earn grow in proportion. The Quixtar Sales and Marketing Plan does not compensate anybody for simply recruiting others as Independent Business Owners. Generating quality leads for your Quixtar business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do you do? As a Quixtar distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation 2) Learn how to generate your own exclusive quality leads. Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who recognize my name and are expecting my call, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to for a no-obligation preview of our business model. I will personally give you a free tour. ------------------- 119. The Quixtar Business Opportunity The Quixtar Business Opportunity - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Looking to build a business online? Have you seen the Quixtar opportunity yet? Here is some introductory information from their website: What do you want out of life? There are as many different reasons to be in this business as there are Quixtar® Independent Business Owners (IBOs). A Quixtar business can help with those tuition bills. It can help reshape your work week. It can help you build a future for your family. It's your life and Quixtar North America, part of the Amway global business, can help you build your own business - the way you want it. Back in the 1950s, Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel were sales reps for a vitamin company called Nutrilite®. They envisioned an even better sales and marketing plan, however, and created a little company called Amway to set it into motion. Working with a core group of Independent Business Owners (IBOs), they provided a new opportunity to people in the U.S., Canada, and, today, more than 3 million entrepreneurs around the world. In 1999, Quixtar was launched to combine the best aspects of Amway with the power and convenience of the internet. Three years later it became the company's exclusive opportunity in those markets. Now, Quixtar North America is making a transition to the Amway Global brand to leverage the power of the $6.8-billion business Rich and Jay built. This business opportunity features: - An industry-leading compensation plan. Quixtar is the number-one online retailer in the Health & Beauty category based on sales, and 22nd among all e-commerce sites, according to Internet Retailer magazine's "Top 500 Guide." People who register with Quixtar today become Quixtar® IBOs. By 2009, following unprecedented improvements to all aspects of the business opportunity, the rebranding of this business to better align with the global Amway® brand will be complete. ------------------- 120. Amway Leads Amway Leads - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Amway Leads - How Well do they work? Are you building an Amway business? Amway is certainly a great product and a great business concept. Amway is a multi-level marketing, or network marketing company founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Rich DeVos. The company's name is a contraction of "American Way." Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Alticor reported sales of US$7.2 billion for the year ending December 31, 2007, marking the company’s sixth straight year of growth. Its product lines include personal care products, jewelry, electronics, Nutrilite dietary supplements, water purifiers, air purifiers, insurance and cosmetics. Amway conducts business through a number of affiliated companies in more than ninety countries and territories around the world. In the United States and Canada it now operates as Quixtar. Building Your Amway Business If you are involved in the Amway opportunity, you have probably been advised to do all of these things to build your Amway business. How is this working for you? When I was in the MLM game, I found that, for every 100 leads I called, maybe 1 or 2 were vaguely interested. The rest were not happy to hear from me, and many threatened or abused me on the phone. Not a great way to build a business. And recruiting family and friends? Forget it! You will find that your family and friends are the last people who will have any confidence in you when you try to recruit them. Their answer will usually be: If you become successful then I will consider it. As for advertising: almost impossible. The MLM company was paranoid about allowing any of its distributors to advertise, especially on the internet. If you had an advertising idea, it had to be approved by the company. Hey, I thought this was MY business!! And when I discussed all this with my upline, the usual answer I got was: Get 100 no's and you are closer to the next yes! Just keep calling! Recruit everyone who comes within 3 feet of you (the Three Foot Rule)! Show the plan! Then show it some more! This is a business plan? After a while, it dawned on me that this MLM business model was severely flawed. The only thing we as distributors were taught to do was to recruit more distributors by selling them on the concept of buying from themselves and showing everyone they know how to do the same. At first glance, it sounds good. But think about it: what we are really doing here is building a network of other salespeople who are buying the products simply to play the money game and allow them to earn commissions. Is this a real business? What business in its right mind operates in this manner? Any real business will try to get customers to buy their products, not a platoon of salespeople. Regular customers who purchase the products simply because they like them, and have no interest in selling the products or becoming a distributor - this is what builds a real and stable business. Yet whenever I tried to run my MLM business in this manner, my upline would put all sorts of obstacles in my way. And the company itself was no help. The message was always the same: 1) Recruit everyone you know or see as a distributor None of these company and upline messages helped me to build a strong and stable business. It stands to reason that a network of salespeople will give up in disgust after a while, when all their customers are other salespeople! Unless you are really good at motivation and willing to work 24/7, you will lose money. Another problem I found was that the company products were usually much more expensive than similar products on store shelves, which made it even more difficult to get customers anyway. The only way to sell the products was to promote the concept of buying from yourself and showing others how to do the same. Does this sound familiar? Are you ready to give up? Have you already given up in disgust and vowed never again to venture into the MLM world? I know I did, after trying many different MLM opportunities and running into the same problem over and over. Recently I was introduced to a new way of building an MLM business by a company that understands how a real business is built. This made so much sense that I joined up as soon as I saw it! We do not buy leads. We do not cold call people who have no interest in starting a business. We buy customers. Paying customers. Customers who like the products. Customers who buy the products on a regular basis. Customers that earn us commissions, for life. We do not have to market to these customers. We do not have to follow up with them. We do not have to encourage them to buy more products. Our MLM company does all that for us. This is called co-operative marketing. We also work together as a team to attract people who are interested in building a business. We show them a better way. And wow, are we building a big team! It is so refreshing to talk to people who are interested and eager to start a business! The difference between how I was doing business before and how I operate now is like night and day. If this interests you, check out our online Flash intro at Register for the weekly business overview, and see what you think. There is no obligation. One caveat: we are looking only for serious business builders. You will not get any hype or any get-rich-quick mentality here. Come on over and take a look. I assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised! 121. Amway Leads Generation Amway Leads Generation - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Are you building an Amway business? Amway is a global leader in direct selling, with over three million Independent Business Owners (IBOs) in over 80 countries and territories around the world. No other direct selling company can compare with our longevity, stability, and global reach. For more than 45 years, Amway Corporation has enabled people to have a business of their own. Originally known for direct selling of our household cleaning products, such as SA8 Laundry Detergent and L.O.C. Liquid Organic Concentrate, our business opportunity is now supported by an excellent portfolio of hundreds of high-quality products and brands that can only be purchased through our IBOs. You will see many network marketers who try to recruit people by the use of hype rather than lead generation marketing. This is generally not considered to be a professional way of building an MLM business, and even though it works, I do not recommend doing it this way. There are better ways to build an MLM business. But first let's talk about how NOT to do it. 1) As I said above, don't use hype. Provide prospects with the good solid information about products and services from materials provided by your MLM company. This is particularly important with Amway, where you must not make any income claims whatsoever. 2) Do not purchase leads. This is so important that I will repeat it: Do not purchase leads! This is a waste of your time and money. Unless you are a really sharp telemarketer type who excels at phone sales, you are wasting your time and money. Believe me, I've been there and it is not a rewarding experience! 3) Do not attempt to recruit everyone as a distributor. This only turns people off.
1) Become an expert in your Amway business. Become familiar with all the products and services, and with the compensation plan and how that works. After all this is a business, not a hobby... You need to become knowledgeable in your business so you can talk to people about it with confidence. 2) Use the Amway products yourself so you can have a personal story to tell. Again, this gives you more confidence to recommend the products to others. 3) Concentrate on acquiring customers. NOT distributors. A business needs customers, plain and simple! do not make the mistake of assuming everyone automatically wants to start a business. 90% of the people you come in contact with will have no interest in joining your organization as a business, and in fact will be turned off by your business pitch. 4) Review the Terms and Conditions of Amway, and then start using various advertising methods that are in compliance with their terms. There are many avenues to explore here: articles, blogs, websites, and so on. An important tip to keep in mind here: no matter what you do, you will not be successful in using search engine optimization techniques to get your replicated Amway affiliate website to appear on the first page in Google. It will simply not work. If you are going to use Search Engine Optimization techniques. you must own and manage your own website. Sure seems like a lot of work, right? Well, it is. Building a strong and stable business with walkaway income takes time, effort and patience. You will not get rich overnight, despite what you may have been told. But there is a way to shortcut the process: I am not involved in the Amway business, but I am building an MLM business. Here's how I do it: I buy customers for my MLM business. I do not have to market to them. I do not have to follow up with them. I do not have to encourage them to continue buying products. My MLM company does that for me, and all I do is add more customers to my business by purchasing them on a regular basis. Since I have a ever-growing and reliable source of income from these customers, I can concentrate solely on doing what is necessary to add new distributors by exposing like-minded entrepreneurs to this business model. How do I do that? By working as part of a team who is building a huge organization by using internet marketing techniques and the most powerful lead generation system on the planet: Veretekk. In this team, I only have to learn how to do one or two things. No longer do I have to know everything about everything before I can start building my MLM business. Everyone who contributes to the team will benefit from the efforts of the team. This new business model is called Its Good Business, and it is breaking records at our parent MLM company. Many people who have never been successful elsewhere are having phenomenal success with us. Want to see more? Come join us at
----------------- After spending a decade struggling with starting and running 3 businesses, I was ready for a change. Let's face it, dealing with all the issues that come up everyday (employees, payroll, permits, sales etc.) is enough to drive anyone nuts. I was introduced to mlm about 9 years ago and I loved the idea of leverage and residual income. Isn't that the goal that all of us would like to achieve? The problem I have had with the industry has been bothering my friends and family, buying expensive leads, standing at street corners handing out flyers and all the other crap they tell us to do to be successful. Come on, even if I had the time and money to do this - how many other people would be willing to do this on a daily basis. As I found out, not too many. I have been left bruised, battered and a little cynical with the industry. This all changed in April 2008. This was when I was introduced to http://ItsGoodBusiness.net and the concept of Buying Customers. Instead of begging family and friends to try the products, I buy customers and let the company market to them. What a concept. My business will be made up of primarily paying customers not distributors that I need to train and motivate. Plus the selling and questions from my customers are taken care of by the company. Every time a customer orders, I make a commission. I have been equally impressed with the marketing plan that Tom Prendergast has created. I have always been looking for a way to utilize the Internet. The power and leverage that the Internet provides the average person to succeed is unparalleled. Tom has developed a way to harness that power and leverage with his Its Good Business team. The team operates like a traditional business by delegating various tasks within the group instead duplication. Tom and the other successful Internet marketers on the team have been very supportive and willing to teach what they know to be successful online. This supportive team atmosphere at Its Good Business has been refreshing. I'm learning and having fun everyday. The lessons on how to market on the Internet have been very valuable plus I'm getting paid while I learn. The team has broken all the records in the company we have partnered up with in 60 days with the Its Good Business marketing plan. I can't wait to see where we'll be in the next 60 days. Thank you Tom and the IGB team for letting me be a part of something so special. Dave Shlitemeier Dave is just one of our very successful recent team members who is excited about what we are doing. This business model makes so much sense! Folks, this works and works well. Do yourself a favor. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall. Come see us at Its Good Business ( http://ItsGoodBusiness.net ) and see how a real business is built! 122. Lead Generation For Your Amway Business Lead Generation For Your Amway Business - by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master Business Opportunity Lead Generation for your Amway Business - Simpler Than You Think We all know that quality leads are the lifeblood of any business. Without a good reliable source of business leads, no business will succeed for very long. This is especially true for those of us who are promoting business opportunities online, such as your Amway business. The Amway Sales and Marketing Plan is a low risk, low start-up cost business opportunity that is open to everyone. It allows you to build your business through retailing products and sponsoring other people who, in turn, can retail products and offer the business opportunity to others. By passing your sales and marketing knowledge to your developing team, you not only build your own business network but also enable others to build one of their own. The core of the Amway Sales and Marketing Plan's income opportunity is the sale of quality products and services to retail customers. As your Amway business grows, the rewards you earn grow in proportion. The Amway Sales and Marketing Plan does not compensate anybody for simply recruiting others as Independent Business Owners. Generating quality leads for your Amway business can be a difficult process. How many times have you purchased leads for your business, only to find out that most of these leads had no interest at all in your products or services? How many times have you purchased business opportunity leads and found that 99% of them were tired of getting business opportunity phone calls and are abusive to you when you called? So what do you do? As a Amway distributor, have you been told to purchase leads? "Get 100 no's and you are one step closer to the next yes!" Does this sound familiar? Are you tired of calling all those so-called quality leads and getting rejected time and time again? Consider a different approach to generating leads and building your business: 1) Buy customers to give your business a solid foundation 2) Learn how to generate your own exclusive quality leads. Imagine the following scenario: - To acquire customers, you simply purchase them on an regular basis from your parent company. You do not have to market to them, you do not have to follow up with them, you do not have to process their orders, you do not have to babysit them in any way. These are people who like the products, who purchase the products on a regular basis, and most likely have little or no interest in starting a home business. But that's OK, because you get commissions from their orders. Want more customers? Just buy them! - You work as part of a powerful team to market your business opportunity on the internet. You focus not on acquiring customers. but on getting good quality leads who are interested in joining your business as a distributor and participating in the team effort. - Your lead generation system or your team leader notifies you that you have a new lead, and provides you with complete contact details for that lead. - You call your new lead, and he or she is already familiar with your name and is expecting your call. In fact, you find you are talking to a lead who is interested in building a business, and is looking for some of the very products and services which you offer. Or imagine this: - You are notified by your lead generation system or your team leader that a new lead has come in. - Before you get a chance to call your new lead, your new lead calls you! Do you think this is a dream? Actually, its not! There is a system available on the internet today that makes the above scenarios possible. I know, because I experience this daily. It sure is great to talk to leads who know I am going to call, who know a bit about me, and who are interested in what I have to say. No more rejection for me! And it sure is great not to have to worry about marketing to acquire customers. All I do is buy them! This provides me with a growing source of reliable income while I concentrate on acquiring new business partners. The system is called the Its Good Business model. Need more details? Just pop over to |