One of the biggest problems for any business owner is knowing what to do in their business on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Most people don't have a clue and stumble from one thing to another.
This ad hoc approach is a recipe for disaster. Would you get in a car and just start driving without knowing where you are going. Of course not!
So how do you expect your business to grow without an effective marketing maintenance plan.
Here's a simple plan to keep you on track.
DAILY TASKS
Answer email
This should be a priority. People expect a response at least within 24 hours. Gen Y mailers expect an answer in under 4 hours! Your quick response shows you are prompt and efficient and it helps build trust with the sender.
Post in Forums
Get involved in discussion groups or forums for your particular business. You can Google your industry + forum and get an extensive list to start joining and posting to. One of the best directories for forums is http://www.big-boards.com
Make sure you post intelligent, value feedback or posts and do not blatantly promote your business. A lot of administrators will boot you out for mass advertising in their forums. Give before you want should be your motto.
Social Networking
Make sure you update, add to your Facebook, MySpace and Twitter accounts daily. Fresh content helps you rank better. if you want to drive massive traiffic to these sites contact me for more information.
WEEKLY TASKS
Write An Article
Write an article and submit it article publishers weekly. Make the content of value and close with a signature file that promotes you and your business. Ezine Articles is the best article publisher but Go Articles is also a great source. If you want to mass blast your articles to many directories I use www.isnare.com
PPC Campaign
Run a good PPC campaign on Google Adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing. You can get cheaper pay per clicks on Miva but the big boys have the market cornered.
Craigslist
Place your free ads on Craigslist. Stick to the US where this company works best
MONTHLY TASKS
Submit Your Site
Do this at least to five new search engines on a monthly basis. There's plenty of free url submission services for you to use.
Promote Your Company Events
Keep promoting your company events to your members so as to keep the fire burning.
QUARTERLY TASKS
Joint Venture
Seek out a joint venture partner to help build your business while helping him/her promote theirs. This cross marketing approach is very cost effective and can explode your business if you have the right partners.
Have A Rest
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Be sure to give yourself some well deserved breaks. The 4 day weekend is a great bonus.
I hope these tips will move your business to new heights. It has for me. It'll work for you.
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Thursday, 27 November 2008
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
8 Reasons Why The Direct Selling Business Is Booming
With the fallout occuring from the US credit crisis many people are seriously looking at ways to add extra income into their households. Many people mainly our baby boomers approaching retirement are now being forced to work longer or supplement their income with extra jobs or new business ventures.
The direct selling industry in a major winner in this crisis with some people carving out a totally new career for themselves. When superannuation fund returns are declining, people question wheter such funds are really a safe haven for all their years of toil. Residual income in years of retirement is now being persude as a legitimate alternative in times of uncertainty.
Direct selling or network marketing or mlm (call it what you will) offers some great benefits like:
Flexibility and Freedom
Choose when, how and where you work. Traditional business isn't as flexible.
No Discrimination
There's no variation on a company's pay plan based on gender, age, race or religion.
Low Risk, High Return
Generally there's a very small investment to get started with the potential for a high return.
No Boundaries
Unlike buying a franchise where you are restrict to a certain territory or area, generally mlm companies allow you to market their goods in all countries in which they are opened. As new countries open, your market potential increases without having to pay extra licence fees.
The Tax Man Giveth
Runing a business allows you to claim business expenses. See your accountant for what you can claim.
Build Relationships
Network marketing is built on relationships. Share products or services with colleagues, family or friends.
Recognition
One of the key ingredients people need for survival. This industry praises people well.
Financial Prosperity
It's difficult to become financially secure by being an employee. Starting a business is almost essential. With low start up costs, direct selling is the beginning of establishing a financial dynasty for a lot of people.
It's easy to see why this industry continues to attract people. With such benefits lives are changed in a lot of cases for the good.
The direct selling industry in a major winner in this crisis with some people carving out a totally new career for themselves. When superannuation fund returns are declining, people question wheter such funds are really a safe haven for all their years of toil. Residual income in years of retirement is now being persude as a legitimate alternative in times of uncertainty.
Direct selling or network marketing or mlm (call it what you will) offers some great benefits like:
Flexibility and Freedom
Choose when, how and where you work. Traditional business isn't as flexible.
No Discrimination
There's no variation on a company's pay plan based on gender, age, race or religion.
Low Risk, High Return
Generally there's a very small investment to get started with the potential for a high return.
No Boundaries
Unlike buying a franchise where you are restrict to a certain territory or area, generally mlm companies allow you to market their goods in all countries in which they are opened. As new countries open, your market potential increases without having to pay extra licence fees.
The Tax Man Giveth
Runing a business allows you to claim business expenses. See your accountant for what you can claim.
Build Relationships
Network marketing is built on relationships. Share products or services with colleagues, family or friends.
Recognition
One of the key ingredients people need for survival. This industry praises people well.
Financial Prosperity
It's difficult to become financially secure by being an employee. Starting a business is almost essential. With low start up costs, direct selling is the beginning of establishing a financial dynasty for a lot of people.
It's easy to see why this industry continues to attract people. With such benefits lives are changed in a lot of cases for the good.
Saturday, 2 August 2008
Holidays And Cash - Is It A Scam
Online business opportunity seekers searching for the perfect business have been inundated with advertisements, flyers and articles about the latest travel website, HolidaysandCash offering bargain holidays and a cash rewards system for members.
I'm always a bit skeptical about these types of claims so I wanted to check things out a little further before I part with my hard earned cash. Here's what I discovered when I got below the shiny veneer.
Is It A Pyramid Scheme?
A new pyramid scheme pops up on the internet every 90 seconds. Staggering isn't it. The most famous ones center around the Nigerian scams offering unsuspecting recipients millions of dollars once they've paid an establishment fee. Unfortunately there is no money and many millions of people have lost billions of dollars worldwide.
Well HolidaysAndCash is NOT in this league but does it pass the litmus test of a traditional pyramid scheme. Does it offer a product or service unlike pyramid schemes? Well yes it does. Members have access to their own online travel portal which scouts hundreds of thousands hotels, resorts, cruises, flights etc to come up with the best bargains on the net. This would take people hours to research, but with HolidaysAndCash the bargains pop up in minutes.
Who's Behind The Company - Will It Survive?
Good management is needed in any company if it's to survive long term. Management needs to be experienced not only in business but more particularly in the areas of internet marketing, distributor relations, international expansion and network marketing.
Michael Faust is the CEO of HolidaysAndCash. I can't say I've heard a lot about him but digging deeper I came up with an impressive resume on the guy. Besides having experience in all of the above prerequisites, Michael's resume showed he was instrumental in expanding Club Freedoms domination of the travel market into Europe, Asia and Africa. One source tells me that CF grew to over 270,000 members in just 3 years. That's staggering!If Michael is bringing that experience and knowledge to the HolidaysAndCash table, it's future seems rosy.
HolidaysAndCash Offers A Cash Reward To Members
HAC outlines in it's online free tour that it pays back 60% of it's income to members. Is that all I thought but after speaking to a couple of heavy hitters in Herbalife, Amway, Agel, NuSkin and Isagenix, 60% payout is high. Most companies only pay 50%. (I think a couple of the "big boys" from these other companies might be creating a stampede to HolidaysAndCash!)
"Yeah Once They Get Your Money, You're Forgotten About"
Now that's not exclusive to online companies. I know plenty of people who pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for franchises and never get consistant training or support.So would I get any training from these "faceless men"? Well surprise surprise! The company puts out a 24 page Getting Started Action Plan. A step by step plan on what to do right from day one. There's also live internet based training held weekly around the world plus the helpline is available 24/7
And the "faceless men" even put their phone numbers on their websites. Gosh you can atually talk to a real person. Amazing!So after speaking with a lot of industry veterans, doing heaps of online research, checking out government registers for scammers, I've come up empty handed on negative comments.
It would seem that if you like luxury holidays and only want to pay a fraction of the retail price plus want to share in some very lucrative cash rewards (to fund more holidays), then you need to take a serious look at HolidaysAndCash and take advantage of it's pre launch phase.
While everybody's circumstances are different and you need to do your own due diligence, once the word gets out into the online business opportunity market, I can see other experienced industry networkers jumping onto the HolidaysAndCash ship. Hold onto your seats!
I'm always a bit skeptical about these types of claims so I wanted to check things out a little further before I part with my hard earned cash. Here's what I discovered when I got below the shiny veneer.
Is It A Pyramid Scheme?
A new pyramid scheme pops up on the internet every 90 seconds. Staggering isn't it. The most famous ones center around the Nigerian scams offering unsuspecting recipients millions of dollars once they've paid an establishment fee. Unfortunately there is no money and many millions of people have lost billions of dollars worldwide.
Well HolidaysAndCash is NOT in this league but does it pass the litmus test of a traditional pyramid scheme. Does it offer a product or service unlike pyramid schemes? Well yes it does. Members have access to their own online travel portal which scouts hundreds of thousands hotels, resorts, cruises, flights etc to come up with the best bargains on the net. This would take people hours to research, but with HolidaysAndCash the bargains pop up in minutes.
Who's Behind The Company - Will It Survive?
Good management is needed in any company if it's to survive long term. Management needs to be experienced not only in business but more particularly in the areas of internet marketing, distributor relations, international expansion and network marketing.
Michael Faust is the CEO of HolidaysAndCash. I can't say I've heard a lot about him but digging deeper I came up with an impressive resume on the guy. Besides having experience in all of the above prerequisites, Michael's resume showed he was instrumental in expanding Club Freedoms domination of the travel market into Europe, Asia and Africa. One source tells me that CF grew to over 270,000 members in just 3 years. That's staggering!If Michael is bringing that experience and knowledge to the HolidaysAndCash table, it's future seems rosy.
HolidaysAndCash Offers A Cash Reward To Members
HAC outlines in it's online free tour that it pays back 60% of it's income to members. Is that all I thought but after speaking to a couple of heavy hitters in Herbalife, Amway, Agel, NuSkin and Isagenix, 60% payout is high. Most companies only pay 50%. (I think a couple of the "big boys" from these other companies might be creating a stampede to HolidaysAndCash!)
"Yeah Once They Get Your Money, You're Forgotten About"
Now that's not exclusive to online companies. I know plenty of people who pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for franchises and never get consistant training or support.So would I get any training from these "faceless men"? Well surprise surprise! The company puts out a 24 page Getting Started Action Plan. A step by step plan on what to do right from day one. There's also live internet based training held weekly around the world plus the helpline is available 24/7
And the "faceless men" even put their phone numbers on their websites. Gosh you can atually talk to a real person. Amazing!So after speaking with a lot of industry veterans, doing heaps of online research, checking out government registers for scammers, I've come up empty handed on negative comments.
It would seem that if you like luxury holidays and only want to pay a fraction of the retail price plus want to share in some very lucrative cash rewards (to fund more holidays), then you need to take a serious look at HolidaysAndCash and take advantage of it's pre launch phase.
While everybody's circumstances are different and you need to do your own due diligence, once the word gets out into the online business opportunity market, I can see other experienced industry networkers jumping onto the HolidaysAndCash ship. Hold onto your seats!
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