A lot of people let emotions like hope, desperation or just plain excitement influence their decision to start their first MLM or network marketing business. Since almost none of them have ever owned their own business they have no idea what it will take to be successful.
When you have never done it before, spending money on a business and investing a lot of time doing radically different activities will feel very uncomfortable and strange. Everything you do will be influenced by emotion so every lead you call will feel like it is make it or break it, every meeting you go to will be the one you expect to hear the “big” secret.
Each rejection will be painful and every dollar invested will cause more desperation. Instead of the prosperity or abundance mind-set you need you will be harboring a poverty consciousness that will work against you. 97% of all new marketers quit within 3 months and this is one of the leading causes.
When you sign up because of an emotional decision and let your emotions influence every reaction to you business the results will be painful and almost predetermined. You will never figure out that you are supposed to fail at some things but learn from them too.
Think about a pendulum. However far the pendulum swings on the side of risk or failure, it will swing equally far on the side of success. This is a natural and universal law. The bigger the risk of failure you allow the more potential for success you set yourself up for. Most people limit their risk swing because they are scared and if that side is limited the other side is limited the same.
True professionals will feel no different about failures as they do about successes. They will know that there is a connection and the more risk of failure they expose themselves to the more potential for success they set themselves up for.
You have to get emotions out of your business if you want to run your business like a professional network marketer. You cannot be emotional about failures or successes. Being enthusiastic and positive is required but emotions have to be left behind in business.
On TV there is a show called Shark Tank and ordinary people come out one by one to pitch a business idea to 4 millionaires. Invariably one of the millionaires will tell the prospect to let their emotions go and do not cry over money because money doesn’t care about anything.
Business is business and it is about making money. What goes up must come down so when something good happens and emotions are in control you will be set up for disaster when you come back down. If you lose the emotions in your business and concentrate on acting like a leader you will reach your goals no matter what failures you have to endure.
Just remember, some things you try will fail but YOU will not be a failure unless you quit. Learn what works and teach it to your prospects. That will position you as a leader and someone of value to others.
People join leaders and it doesn’t even matter what company you are in. Leaders offer value to others and that creates a following which attracts more people. There are so many amateurs out there you will be able to stand out fairly easily if you conduct yourself with professionalism and exhibit your leadership by helping others.
Help as many people as you can by becoming a student of the industry and get the emotions out of your business and you will be network marketing like a professional.
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If a person visits your website and leaves, chances are that he or she will not come back, especially if there are no compelling reasons to do so. After all, we all behave rather impulsively on the Internet, so much so that we can easily forget where we were 10 web pages ago.
But the bottom line is that your visitor may not come back to your website again. If 1,000 visitors visit your website, leave and never come back again, you can imagine the amount of potential revenue lost, simply because they do not come back. You could have converted a fraction of the visitors into your customers.
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All in all, you want to convert as many visitors into subscribers as possible and obtain the potential revenue you rightfully deserve the easy and wise way.
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This article is a synopsis of an hour long talk given by Sole Practitioner, Paul Hajek of Clutton Cox to the Bristol Sole Practitioners group on Thursday 28th January.
When Harold MacMillan was asked what was the greatest challenge for a statesman he replied “Events, dear boy, events”.
Well, as Sole Practitioners we seem always to be dealing with events. I remember writing a response paper in 1993 on behalf of the Bristol Sole Practitioners’ Group in response to “The Cost of Default”. More recently, we have had to deal with fundamental changes in Legal Aid, Professional Indemnity, Referral Fees and now the Legal Services Act.
Here is a leaflet from Quality Solicitors which has a banner headline;
If “Tesco Law wins will the last lawyer to leave Britain please turn out the lights”.
But, how about some good news on referrals.
This week on Monday, I had 48 referrals; on Tuesday I had 44 referrals and yesterday I had 52. At this rate, excluding weekends, I will have some 10,000 referrals this year.
ALL these referrals were FREE and courtesy of Google and the Internet
The Topics which I will cover
1. Google, Websites and Internet Marketing 2. Blogging-and why you should start straight away 3. Twitter: How you can build your brand 4. LinkedIn
Your Website
Before Google can refer potential clients to you, you need a website or a blog.
Your website should form the HUB of all your marketing efforts, both on and offline.
Your website should be seen as the start of the process and not the end of the process. Your website is a dynamic tool to attract existing and potentially new clients.
Your mission is to get found by Google. The quality of the content on your website is crucial. Google loves content new and refreshed. The new world is now governed by the maxim “CONTENT IS KING”
The internet has subtly changed the rules of marketing so that it is not so much, who you know, but more, who knows you.
Website Basics
There are literally millions of websites in existence. Yours will not be unique or ground breaking. Do not get hung up on design and look.
You need a 7 -10 page site to start the ball rolling. You can always add to it later and change the design if you need to.
You need a straight forward “Content Management System (CMS) provided by your website company to allow you to update your site whenever you want.
3 Steps
1. CREATE Remarkable Content 2. OPTIMISE your content for search engines (SEO) and other audiences 3. PROMOTE your remarkable content in social media, e-mail marketing and other channels
Your mission should you decide to accept it is to lead people to your website, and convert that traffic into clients
SEO-Search Engine Optimisation
You will not be able to embark on the creation of a new website or a revision of your existing website without encountering the term SEO or SEM- Search Engine Marketing.
Google looks for relevance when it trawls websites for answers to questions that people type in to its search engine.
Google is particularly keen to get local relevance. You can put your site forward for free to Google Local.
You will have seen this in practice if you type in a localised question to Google and seen the Google Map and a list of firms down the side of the map.
You should also encourage your client to give you a testimonial on Google Local, as those testimonials will give you the edge over a site with no such referrals.
Organic or Paid Links
The so called organic links are the ones you find on the left hand side of the page, normally underneath a couple of paid links. On the right hand side of the page you will find paid links.
I have not gone down the paid link or Adwords as it is called and try to produce remarkable content to vie for high spots on the organic left hand side of the page. Adwords can be very expensive as you will pay for any click through to your website. It is possible to limit your expenditure by putting a cap on your monthly expenditure.
Google Analytics
You should also ensure that your new site has the codes included from Google Analytics. This is another powerful and free tool from Google.
It will allow you to check how many people have visited your site, which were the most popular pages and which page they exited on.
Blogging- Why you need to start straight away
I have mentioned before that moving up the rankings on Google takes time.
The quickest route to success is by way of a blog, or web log for its longer name.
By creating blogs on your areas of specialisms, using keywords and phrases you will be found a lot sooner by Google.
There will be little activity when you first start. It is a long slog to get found regularly by Google. Once found Google will revisit your website more regularly..
The more content I add the more frequent Googles robots crawls my site.
I try to blog every 3-4 days or 8 times a month, sometimes more sometimes fewer
You will also demonstrate to your existing and potential clients your area of expertise.
Every blog post you make is another page added to your website, so your basic site can grow very quickly.
You can also send internal links to other parts of your website for other keywords or phrases
If you in turn send your blogs to other websites, free or paid for, these will be indexed by Google and provide links back to your website. Every link is a vote for your website in Google’s eyes.
These links plus size of your site comprise your Google page Ranking score on a 1-10 basis. The BBC will be a 10. Clutton Cox has a Page Rank 4 for its home page.
If you want Google to rank you as high as possible you should be looking to attract links from high ranking sites. It is better to have 1 link from a high ranking site than many links from low ranking sites.
My property blogs have been shortlisted for the prestigious PrimeLocation blog awards.
Find other blogs on your subject and get into conversations. This increases your visibility on the web.
In the UK, the Law Society has its own blog in its publication the Law Gazette. Through leaving comments on the blogs I have begun a joint venture with a marketing expert.
Twitter
Twitter is a micro blogging site where you are limited to 140 characters or a couple of sentences.
For business purposes you follow people of interest and in turn you are followed.
As a rule of thumb for every 10 tweets as they are called 1-2 can be overtly business orientated.
Twitter allows you to put a personality behind the on dimensional website. People tend to do business with people they like.
You will also meet like minded souls. The internet is a giving rather than taking community. Social Media sites such as Twitter spread interest and knowledge.
I am following and being followed by other solicitors and lawyers in the US and elsewhere.
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a professional networking site. 27 million registered professionals. 8 million unique visitors each month. The idea is to connect or stay connected with past companies, and join new groups and forums.
It can be characterised as taking business cards to the next level.
Bringing It All Together
I thought I would conclude with an example of how it is working for me and should be working for you.
Last Friday at 5.00pm I posted a blog entitled “Conveyancing in Yate” 10 Things You Need to Know if You Are Moving Home”
Yate is a town a mile away from me in Chipping Sodbury and dominated by corporate Estate Agents from whom we get no business. To get to these potential clients before they do, creating remarkable content on their relevant topics is my strategy.
I checked on Monday morning first thing, and typed into Google “Conveyancing in Yate”. My blog had been indexed by Google over the weekend and sat proudly at No. 5 in the organic left hand side list.
Later that morning, I had an email from my website from a new client who had instructed me to do his Conveyancing online.
I telephoned the client and asked what had led him to choose us. He lived about 10 miles away but had found our website through Google. He had read my blog on Conveyancing in Yate and was taken by my local knowledge.
He had all the information he needed to make his choice. We had been preselected.
Google had referred him to us.
Work in Progress
I want to put video testimonials on the site, audio content, and more cartoons.
I also want to help as many Sole Practitioners as possible achieve what I have achieved and to fight the next “event”, the advent of the Legal Services Act
Thank you.
About The Author
Paul Hajek has been managing partner of Clutton cox Solicitors in Chipping Sodbury since 1985
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For example selling domains is one of the largest network marketing opportunities in the world. There is no shipping involved so it’s very easy to sell this type of product.
Online shopping clubs is another example of a network marketing opportunity that people are making a lot of money with. Selling memberships in the shopping club does not require shipping a product on your part.
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Because you can set it up where you do not have to do much work running a blog on autopilot is smart. You can hire freelancers to create content after your blog is developed.
Monetizing your blog with advertising from Google Adsense as well as other affiliate programs makes it a very hands-off way to sell products. Using social media tools to promote your blog is a very easy way to develop traffic as well.
In summary these are 3 residual income streams that people make money every day with. A good way to develop long term income for the work you are doing today is doing one or more of these online opportunities.
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