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Viral Marketing : Why should you care about viral traffic generation?
Why should you care about viral traffic generation?
Viral marketing is not just for the big boys out there. You might think that you need a huge marketing budget to take advantage of viral traffic, but that is simply not the case at all. You don’t need any flashy ads to be produced to benefit from viral traffic, and it should definitely be an important part of your overall marketing effort.
There are several reasons that you should be using viral traffic generation, so let's take a look at some of those right now.
It's Fast and Effective
We’ve already touched on just how fast it can be.
It's Inexpensive
Viral traffic generation does not have to cost you a single dime.
It Shields You from Any Negative Comments
As soon as you start making yourself known on the internet by offering a product or service, nine times out of ten it's going to be received very well.But remember, the internet is a voice box for everybody out there.
And there is always the chance that someone will say something negative about your site or service, probably for no reason other than to be nasty.
By utilizing viral marketing and taking advantage of viral traffic, you shield yourself from negative comments.
How? Because you're beating them with sheer numbers. If you’ve got so many positive comments out there, the occasional negative one will get lost in the noise.
It Can Find Customers
Viral marketing can find customers that you never knew you had. Your current marketing plan might target very specific niches, while viral marketing could open up your traffic income to whole other demographics you just didn’t even know were there.
How much will it cost me?
The 21 methods, click here, that we’re going to follow here range from free, which is the vast majority of them, to some that could start to cost you a little cash. But remember, the majority of the techniques we’re going to look at are free.
Once the message is out there, the message takes care of itself. The population of the internet takes care of spreading your message for you. The only cost that it may incur would be to pay for the extra bandwidth that you're going to need because of the huge amount of traffic you're about to receive!
Now that we've talked about the benefits of viral traffic let's get down to the nitty gritty and talk about some of the questions that you may have right now.
And first and foremost in your mind is likely: how do I make my message go viral?
Well there are no guarantees, obviously in life, and also in viral traffic generation. But there are things you can do that will increase your chances of success.
Successful viral marketing is a mixture of skill, timing, know-how and luck. You might get lucky right out of the gate and find the technique that works best for you. It might take you ten times to find the one that really works for you. But the key here is to keep at it because you will find at least one method that will drive quality traffic to your Web site.
The key to successful viral marketing is to be unique. We've probably all received emails (I know I have) from friends that point me to a YouTube video. And it's something that obviously caught the attention of millions of people because it's unique in some way. It's either really funny or it's a new take on something that’s been done before. Perhaps it's visually unique. Any one of these will cause people to pay attention and pass the message along.
If you can think outside of the box with your message, you're really going to increase your chances of success.
It's important, before we get started, to remember that internet users are pretty savvy. They're not gullible people (for the most part). Typically they're not the 12:00-flashing-on-the-VCR type of people.
If they’ve spent any amount of time on the internet, they’ve been exposed to a number of different things. Always keep that in mind; don’t assume that you're smarter than they are or that you’ve got one up on them in any way. Just always keep in mind that they're just as savvy as you are and therefore it's easy for them to recognize a cheap knockoff.
Why do I mention this?
Well, if you were just replicating and duplicating something that you’ve seen out there before, they're not going to waste any time on it. They’re going to skip along to the next email or Web site link or whatever. What we want to do in order to be successful with viral traffic generation is to give them something useful and unique. If we can do that, then as has been proven countless times before, the message will spread like wildfire.
If you can become skilled at viral traffic generation the traffic flood that results from this simply won't stop. Once your message is out there, it propagates and spreads and multiplies. The traffic might start as trickle at first but quickly develops into a torrent and it spreads to corners of the world that you never expected.
It's important to remember that there might not be any one method we’re about to discuss that will give you huge success. It's more likely that you're going to have to employ several of these methods to create that flood. One or two might bring in a trickle at a time. Others might bring more traffic. But added together the greater the likelihood you're going to succeed and drive a huge amount of traffic to your Web site.Find the ones that you're most comfortable starting with and give it a shot first.
And again, as I said earlier, think outside of the box. If you find an existing message out there, a Web site, or a YouTube video and it caught your attention, start with that. Work with that as a base, try and adapt it, make it unique, but there is certainly no harm in starting with an existing good idea, and taking it from there to create something that’s completely your own.
Okay, without any further ado, let's start looking at the methods!
What is Viral Traffic?
Empower Network Viral Marketing
Rudy | on June 23, 2013
What is Viral Traffic?
Viral marketing on the internet has exploded in recent years. We’ve all seen the likes of YouTube and Facebook soar in popularity -these are great examples of viral marketing. What makes them so successful is the way in which they spread their content – through word of mouth (or the internet equivalent). When you consider that the population of the internet is 360 million people and growing, you can begin to appreciate how effective viral traffic can be!
So how does viral traffic work?
Well, in a nutshell, visitors to your site see what you have to offer, and if they like what they see they’ll tell their friends. They’ll either email their friends or post it on a site like Facebook. Their friends will see these emails or site postings and visit the site that their friend suggested.Chances are that they’ll also like what they see, and they’ll tell their friends. The message spreads like wildfire, just like a virus -it doubles and doubles and doubles every time. That’s viral traffic in action!
As you can imagine, the traffic potential here is limited only by the population of the planet. I mean, that’s outlandish and it’s not realistic but the potential here really is unlimited as the population of the internet grows and the growth in social Web sites takes off.
Word of mouth spreads incredibly quickly.
If we take the analogy that we spoke about earlier and you assume that one person tells two of their friends and they tell two friends and so on and so forth, it only takes 10 generations of that to happen for one message to reach over 1,000 people.
What would happen if you started not with one person but with 100 or 500 or 1,000 people?
Can you imagine how much more quickly your message will spread if you tap into this incredible resource?
Consider social networking sites like Fark, Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon. They are hugely popular, and the traffic that these sites get everyday would make you green with envy.
Visitors come to these sites because they’re looking for recommendations to find stuff on the internet. These sites have built a reputation of showcasing interesting web sites, and so when people visit these sites and find a link to your site they’re going to be far more likely to visit.
We want to use that trust element to our advantage when building our viral marketing plan. As you’re about to see, building that trust relationship between you and your visitors is key to successfully generating viral traffic.
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
THE BASICS OF BLOGGING AND ONLINE PUBLISHING
By Brandon Cox
Blogging is such a weird word. We never used it until people started keeping “logs” on the “web” of their life called “weblog” and for some reason, we dropped the “we” and were left with the art of blogging. And in a sense, it has changed everything. How? Because now, everyone is a publisher.
Every business, and every institution is now a publisher, and those who publish with the most gusto win. It’s the age where people with few connections and little resources can grow their voice in the marketplace in inexpensive and creative ways.
I’m writing this post for those who haven’t jumped in yet. I’d love to dialog about the latest developer’s beta version of WordPress or Google’s search algorithm, but my goal is instead to reach out to those who are on the verge of blogging and push you over the edge to take the dive. If you need to read no more, head over to WordPress or Tumblr and get started! If you’re still looking to rationalize your decision, read on…
Still with me? Let me give you some reasons to jump in.
Everybody is doing it. This is normally a stupid reason to do anything, but in this case, what I mean is that everybody is talking and conversing about everything, and your voice matters.
It’s easy. There was a time when you needed to know html or write the code for your own blogging platform. Now, with a few clicks you can sign up and from your smartphone, you can blog.
It’s cheap. In fact, it’s usually free, or costs peanuts, to get started.You can earn some income. Don’t plan on getting rich off of blogging. It’s been done before and will be done again, but don’t assume you’re going to be the next John Chow, who makes money online by telling people how to make money online. Most of the “six-figure bloggers” were in the game early, but you can still earn a bit of an income if you’re patient and consistent.You can expand your influence. Ideas change the world, and today, ideas are shaped by the conversation online.
In other words, this isn’t just for geeks and nerds anymore. It’s for you too (assuming you don’t fall into either of those categories).
Convinced? With me? Good.
Now what in the world are you going to blog about?
What does “blogging” look like for you? You can make blogging a time of personal journaling, but I want to challenge you to think a little harder than that. Let’s re-define blogging as putting your passion into words for the world to experience.
Your passion.
If you are passionate about underwater basket-weaving, blog about it. If it’s vintage and retro living, go for it. If you’re all about the latest flip-flops coming out of the fashion scene, blog about it. The blogs I read are those written by people who are passionate, whose passion spills out in a contagious way. In words.
Blogging can include video and other forms of media, and will more and more as time goes on. What I’m getting at is that blogging is the act of allowing your passion to escape your heart and find expression online in a form others can consume.
For the world to experience.
I talk a lot about the experience of reading blogs because I’m a design and communications nut. For me, content is highly important, but so is its aesthetic surroundings. I’m not drawn to mere words. I’m drawn to the experience of reading them in their creative context.
So blog about what you know, what you love, and what you can speak authoritatively about to the world. Stay focused. I blog about an array of subjects, but they are mostly related to each other. If I started blogging entirely about weedrat recipes, I’d lose my readers, no matter how good weedrat stew might be.
Writing is good, but reading is better. Speaking is great, but listening is even greater.
Blogging isn’t simply the dissemination of information. Rather it’s the joining of an ongoing, developing conversation about a niche. The more people you help, connect with, and pour into, the more you and your blogging influence will ultimately benefit.
Don’t read them all – you’ll go nuts. There are too many of them.
But some of my own favorites are:
WeBlogBetter.com (I started this one, but Kiesha Easley has taken it beyond my wildest dreams).
ProBlogger (A lot about earning money, but a lot about powerful networking too).
Copyblogger (A whole lot of longer posts about writing, communication, and marketing).
Fuel Your Blogging (I used to be the Editor, but Christopher is much better!).
Kikolani (She gathers together some of the best resources on the web).
Social Media Examiner (Not all about blogging, but the broader topic of social media, of which blogging is one part).
Chris Brogan (An expert who blogs his expertise rather freely).
Danny Brown (Few understand blogging activism like Danny).
Michael Hyatt (He understands blogging from the perspective of a respected publishing executive).
For Bloggers By Bloggers (A steady stream of great tips).
Blogussion (Another great site with great tips).
Hubspot offers another list of great blogs too.
Here’s my step-by-step guide to getting started with blogging in a half an hour or less. Understand that if you can get hosting, a domain, and a custom-designed WordPress theme, you’ll be better off in the long run. But this isn’t the long run. This is the moment of taking the plunge.
So here’s my challenge:
Sign up for an account at here.
Pick a nice theme that reflects the personality of your blog. You can change later, and even move your WordPress blog to a self-hosted platform. For now, pick something pretty.
Create an “About” page where you tell the world whom you are and other ways to connect with you (link to your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social profiles).Write a blog post. No, “This is your first blog post.” doesn’t count. Craft a catchy, attention-getting title and briefly pour your heart out.
Post the hyperlink on Twitter, Facebook, and wherever else you hang out online. Don’t be shy. Do it!
Oh, and below, in the comments, tell me where you blog! What would you add to what I’ve said (for the soon-to-be newbie bloggers)?
Source: BrandonACox.com
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Step by Step Blogging System
If you’re a blogger, your most common problem is likely not knowing what to write. You open your word processor or editor to find a blank canvas staring back at you, which causes the same thing to happen to your mind — it goes blank.
Week after week, you struggle to pull together coherent posts that are just this side of rambling, and in the back of your mind, you know that you’re not doing the best job of managing your blog to ensure that it helps you reach your goals.
The solution?
Develop a system around your blogging efforts.
Here are the steps I took to create a system for producing and managing content for my own site.
About a month ago, I was approaching yet another week of blank canvases, so I set out to find a way to be more intentional and focused with my content. The first thing that came to mind was an editorial calendar. Big magazines and newspapers have used them since the dawn of the publishing industry, so I was fairly confident the solution would work for me, but I didn’t want to just throw together a calendar in spreadsheet form and think that all my problems would go away. I really wanted to approach this as a big magazine would, so I started by thinking in terms of a single magazine issue and how an editor might produce andmanage its content.
If you think about a single magazine issue, there’s generally a theme to it, a common thread that ties together the articles within it, so that was my first step — develop a theme. I decided to have “focus months” on my site to guide the content for a given month. This would help me accomplish a couple of things.
First, it would make my content more intentional. It would center my efforts around keywords and information that was relevant to my target audience.
Second, it would help me better anticipate the content I was going to create, which would allow me to line up guest experts and interviews that were relevant to the content.
I was immediately able to come up with themes for the next six months.
Step 2: Choose Your Sub-Topics
Once I had a theme in mind, I was able to think about sub-topics within that theme that would deepen my coverage of the content that month. At first, I just listed out the possibilities for sub-topics without thinking too much about them, and created a list of ten or twelve ideas. As I created the list, I noted possible guest experts who might provide greater insight into the sub-topics than I could provide on my own.
Step 3: Establish Your Schedule and Content Needs
With my topic and sub-topics ready, I had to decide on the frequency I would publish. I settled on publishing one content piece per day (could be an article, an audio piece, etc.). I decided to interview guest experts within the sub-topics and then spread out the content over the course of the month.
My plan would be to line up and interview guests the month before I intended to publish the content. That way, I would avoid last-minute scrambling to produce content and could instead focus on quality well in advance of publishing. This would also help when I got sick or took time off, since I would already have content on tap for the given week or month and could simply schedule it to be published (or, even better, hire someone else to do it for me).
I decided that the number of weeks there were in a given month would be the number of guest experts I would line up for that month (five weeks, five guest experts). And to make things simple, each guest expert would produce one week’s worth of content (five content pieces per guest).
My site has a mix of articles and audio, so I decided to do one-hour interviews with each guest (and then each interview would be divided into four shorter content pieces) and then have each guest contribute one article in addition to their interview. That made it really easy on my guests, since they only had to show up for a one-hour interview and create one article. Plus, that little bit of effort on their part would equate to weekly promotion for their businesses, since I would be spreading their content out over the course of the month.
The great thing for me was, instead of having twenty to twenty-five separate content pieces to create on my own in a given month, I would simply do four to five interviews (depending on the number of weeks that month) and knock out four content pieces in one hour. Of course, that meant a lot more planning on the front end, but then the actual content creation part would become very easy.
So, I knew how many guest experts I would have (the same as the number of weeks that month), and I knew how many content pieces I needed from each of guest (always five), so that let me know how many titles I had to create for the month.
Say, for instance, the month’s theme was “balance.” I knew I needed five content pieces, so I created five generic titles.
Stress-Reduction Tips
Personal Renewal
Food and Mood
Balancing Home and Work Life
Disconnecting from Technology
Then I could create more interesting titles from the generic ones:
60-Second Stress-Busting Techniques
The Importance of Personal Renewal
Is Food Affecting Your Mood?
Creative Ways to Balance Work and Home Life
Cut the Cord: How to Disconnect from the World
This part was surprisingly simple. While I normally could sit and ponder blog post titles for what seemed like hours, I was immediately able to think of several ideas when thinking about picking the brains of experts on a given topic.
Step 5: Create an Editorial Calendar
I had my theme, my sub-topics, and even the specific post titles for the content I wanted to create. All that was left to do was actually create the content, edit it, and publish it. That meant that I actually had to conduct the interviews and then lay out exactly when I was going to edit and publish the audio and articles contributed by the guests.
Why a System? Why Not Just Blog?
If you’re running a business blog, there’s generally an underlying purpose behind it. Maybe you want more clients or to create a fan base for an upcoming book. Whatever the case, there’s a reason that you blog, and the content you create should help you reach your end goal. By being more intentional and focused with your content, you’ll achieve greater success in a much shorter period of time and make sure that your content is, in fact, serving the audience it’s intended to serve.
My favorite things about having a system?
Content has become so much easier to create
My efforts are more focused and are helping me reach my goalsI’m more intentional when it comes to guests, which means greater cross-promotion, back links, and visibility with new audiences.
I’m no longer staring at a blank screen wondering what I’m going to write.
So, what’s your blogging system?
How are you staying on track and organized when it comes to your blogging efforts?
by amber singleton riviere
AUG. 26, 2010
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The Reason
The reason I look at Network Marketing is to change my life.
And why I choose an Empower Network as mine?
Because this is my opportunity to get:
Extra Income
Financial Freedom
Having My Own Business
More Spare Time
Personal Development
Helping Others
Meeting New People
Retirement
So even if you have only one reason of these, I believe it worth trying and giving your best shot as your life will change so you will never want look back again!
Extra Income:
It doesn’t matter how much you earn you always spend it and there’s always more month than money. everyone can use extra income. Whether it be to pay for a specific small item, to clear outstanding debts or to supplement (or replace) an existing income.
Financial Freedom:
This can mean different things to different people. It could be being able to afford the things in life you want. The car, the house, the boat , and go travel around the world.
Having Your Own Business:
Empower Network offers one of the few means by which you can own your own business with little or no investment.
Most business usually involves major capital investment and is often exposed to serious risk. Most businesses do not survive the end of their first year and even established franchises are not risk free and require large fees. But at Empower Network you just need a little investment or FREE. But with a little investment you can be RICH.
More Spare Time:
In today’s economic climate employers are expecting their staff to work more hours for the same pay. People in jobs (Just Over Broke) are having less time to spend doing the things they want. People who own their own businesses are also subject to long hours and increasing stress. Often working more to pay banks and institutions than themselves. Whether you would choose to spend more time with children, family, friends, hobbies and quality lifestyle, and Empower Network can provide the means of achieving this.
Personal Development:
From the day we are born we are told more often that we ‘can’t do’ rather ‘can do’. Empower Network offers the opportunity and encouragement to fulfill your true potential. This benefits people in so many ways, giving them greater self-confidence and awareness that many things are possible if you just try.
Helping Others:
Join with Empower Network can only be successful if they help others in their teams grow. You can help others by improving their incomes, through the business opportunity. One of the greatest sources of joy is to see peoples lives improve and know that you have played a part.
Meeting New People:
Empower Network provides a social environment in which to work. Because other member have similar desires and are positive people it is a great way to make long lasting friendships. It’s more of a social business club than self-employment, which can often be lonely.
Retirement:
There are not many people who will retire from their current occupations and be able to afford to live on their pensions. Indeed, many do not have a pension at all. Because people are living longer this is becoming a major concern. With Empower Network, your income continues and grows after the time you would normally retire. It’s a non-contributory pension scheme that you can start drawing immediately.
And what are your reason?
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
All About Empower
When a company pays out over $50 Million in commissions to its affiliates within 18 months and is rated at No1 in the Alexa ratings, then you know you are looking at something very special. May be once or twice in a lifetime do you come across such an amazing Global Opportunity.
Allow me to take you through “All About Empower”
Empower CEO’s Dave Sharpe & Dave Wood are not just CEO’s, they are also active affiliates within the Empower Network Opportunity.
While steering this amazing company to the No1 Opportunity on the Internet today, they also maintain a “hands on” approach on building a team.This is rare into day’s day & age and is one of many reasons why the Empower Network Opportunity is so successful.
Their combined years of experience in this Industry, knowledge and training offered to you put the Empower Network Opportunity as the best there is.
The Empower Network Opportunity offers you world beating training products, an amazing blogging system, 100% commissions and a Global Opportunity. Whether you are in business for yourself and want to use the trainings & blogging system to increase sales and productivity or as 100,000 Empower affiliates around the world are now doing, using the Empower Network Opportunity to generate huge personal incomes while changing their lifestyle, the choice is yours.
From Car mechanics, to Lawyers, Nurses to School teachers, Mums at home to the Unemployed, the Empower Network Opportunity is an equal opportunity for all to achieve success, whether you are looking for an extra $500 per month or $50,000 per month the Empower Network Opportunity offers you the tools, training, & commissions to help you become financially free.
At its core is the Viral blogging system, the modern way to communicate for both business and personal use, create a following and build a Global team.
The 8-part video training is the bed rock to your success, it is truly amazing as it guides you step by step on how to make money from blogging.
The 100% commissions structure is a world beater, how does it work?
just like it says, you make 100% on promoting the Empower Opportunity product range.
You can make from $25 to $3,000 on each Empower product, paid direct to your own credit card or bank.
Add to this your residual Income paid to you every 30 days from $25-$100 for every member on your pay line. Its easy to see why the Empower Network Opportunity is changing people lives around the world.
BENEFITS TO YOU AS AN EMPOWER AFFILIATE:
$25 Joining fee100% Self-financing, break even with one referral, you make $25 or $100 instantly with your first person 100% Commissions
FREE Global Empower Team viral Website
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All commissions are paid direct to your Ewallet, transfer to your own debit card or bank
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Make from $25 to $3,000 on each package purchased
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Monday, June 17, 2013
GLOBAL EMPOWER TEAM
We are a team of Professional Network Marketers with a combined Network Marketing experience totalling over 100 years.
Many of us have made millions of dollars within the Network Marketing industry and continue to do so. This hard earned experience has been gained from working around the world, supporting our networks & developing systems & trainings to take our teams to great heights within the Industry of Network Marketing.
We have learned the skills, the dedication needed to succeed, and above all the ability to seek out NEW and exciting opportunities that will take us and the people we choose to work with to even greater heights within this Industry.
The secret is to be part of a company that is young and dynamic, in momentum, forward thinking and allows its members to be Entrepreneurs, allowing them to do what it takes to reach the TOP.
After 2 years of looking at many MLM companies, comparing compensation plans, looking deep into the integrity of many companies, we are pleased to say…
…We have found that company -
the timing is perfect and YOU will be offered the opportunity of being part of one of the largest teams with the Empower Network
We have set out to change the rulebook, and we have cracked the MLM code. We have spent 12 months developing a viral system with a different approach to building a network, an approach you would not have seen before.
We are about to share with you a lead generation system that will build YOUR business in a way the industry has never seen before. This system has the potential to bring in 100’s of new members into your business and allowing you to earn huge commissions.
You will be able to use our unique system for FREE to build your Global Empower Team. No matter which country you live in, this opportunity & system will work for you.
If you commit to this system we will commit to you, guide you, support and assist you, and will work with you to take you to the TOP within the Empower Network.
If making money in your business isn’t EASY, you ain’t doing it right…
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Ok……this might sound a bit ‘off‘ from what a lot of people are saying, but I PROMISE you, that what I’m saying here is not only true, but when you really get it – I don’t think you’ll ever struggle to have money in your life again.Let me define this for you…
When I say that making money is easy – I’m not saying it doesn’t involve work – what I am saying is that there should be no struggle involved in the process, and when you understand the flow of money and how to create income on demand, your income will ‘flow’ instead of having that feeling that you’re beating your forehead against a wall with nails in it…
Here’s how this post got inspired:
Iwas in an airport the other day, and got talking to a speech pathologist who is traveling through Costa Rica with some friends for the next month or two. After 2 or 3 minutes, she asked me what I do for a living, and I just decided to tell her the truth…
“I’m a drug dealer.”
After she got nervous, I laughed and said ‘kidding, seriously – what I do is EVEN better – I get paid to live like I want all day.
’We then started talking about economics, the government, the Federal Reserve System, and how the internet and instant communication fits into the future of the world.
(well, OK – it was me talking and her being bewildered by foreign concepts that almost no one understands…)
It became very clear to me in about 10 minutes, that this 35 year old gal had NO IDEA how the flow of money worked in the world, and it got me thinking……
I wasn’t really able to create income on demand until I learned how the flow of money worked – and once I understood HOW it worked – I got rid of a bunch of silly concepts that were holding me back from creating what I wanted to create in my life.
Since that time – I’ve consistently made around $30,000 per month, and sometimes a lot more from my various businesses – and honestly, with very little struggle, it just ‘flows’.
So what the HECK did I learn?
Well, I was raised in a Mormon family, went on a mission, went to public school, my Grandpa was a University president for UAF in Fairbanks, Ak – and BOTH of my parents were exceptional students and products of the ‘system’ of the baby boomers……all of this nonsense resulted in me (along with the entire baby boomer generation – WHICH by the way, isn’t as true anymore, they are waking up to the real nature of what’s been happening to them in a BIG way right now) not understanding AT ALL the truth behind creating income.
I was raised with the philosophy that if I worked hard – I would be paid a fair wage for my labor – whether it is mental labor, as a product of my intellect and education, or whether it was physical labor (as a product of skipping school too much… lol)In any case – it took me A LONG TIME to figure out that what I just described has absolutely nothing to do with how much money you’re going to have.
Let me give you an example of how my personal stupidity resulted in a lot of poverty in my life:
I got involved in Amway in 2002, right after I was done being a Mormon missionary for 2 years in the British midlands. When I was a missionary – I had paid for all of my bills 2 years in advance, and the finances were managed by someone who was good with numbers (a mission accountant, essentially). My bills were paid from a central location that I didn’t manage, electricity, land-line (we weren’t allowed to have cell phones) and then about 40 pounds was direct deposited into my bank account every 2 weeks that was for ‘extra food’ when people didn’t feed us. (true story).
So I was completely free from financial burden, had my needs met all the time, never knew how much anything costs – and could focus on mission work (the point of the accountant guy – usually one of these guys manages about 300 missionaries).I don’t know if I consciously thought this – or if it was an unconscious belief – but for some reason, when I got in Amway – I thought if I just ‘worked hard’ that I would have money mysteriously appear in my bank account.
NOT the case!It’s funny – but if you’re an employee and you just ‘work hard’ you’re pretty much guaranteed a set wage as long as you have a job and perform – but employee’s rarely think about where the money for that wage comes from, that it has to come from several things:
1. Money changing hands from one person to another
2. Profit being generated from the difference between cost of goods and the revenue created.
3. BAMB! There’s now money to pay the employees, and hopefully some left over at the end of the month for the boss! (otherwise, you ain’t going to have that job for long)
Let me tell you the important part of that scenario though – that is the KEY indicator of a successful business:
1. MONEY CHANGING HANDS
You see, when I was in Amway, I worked REALLY HARD – the problem was, I didn’t understand that working hard has nothing to do with how much money you make. Let me explain the formula in a little more detail, and I’m going to show you how most people get hung up:
The formula is this:
Person A has money, and gives it to Person B in exchange for something he wants.
Here’s the thing most people don’t get (it’s not that they don’t understand it – it’s that they never really think about it). To get the money from Person A – Person B doesn’t have to actually be involved in that process AT ALL.
?!?!?!?!?! WHAT?!!?!?!?! YOU MEAN I DON’T JUST HAVE TO WORK HARD TO GET MONEY!@!!@!!
Nope – in fact, how hard you work has nothing at all to do with how much money you are going to have in your life – how much money you’re going to have has literally only one key factor – how many people give you money, how much they give you, and what your profit margins are after you pay for everything.
When I figured that out – I started asking the next key question:“Gosh dangit – how then do I get lots of people to give me lots of money – and what do I give them in exchange that’s so valuable that they’ll KEEP giving me money over, and over again???”Lol.
Kind of funny in one way – but thinking along those lines let me to a fascinating discovery – there are only actually a FEW WAYS of getting people to give you money! (legally, anyways – we’ll throw out gun-point robbery and drug dealing for now) All you have to do is pick one of these ways (they have different levels of pain and work depending on the method) and BAMB! Let’s make you some easy cash now!
Method #1 (The Stupid Way):
Trade your manual labor (either mental or physical) for money your boss gives you, and just expect that it will keep working. The reason this way sucks, is that you’re intimately involved in the money-getting process, meaning that you have to show up to get paid.
Method #2 (The Smarter, But Not So Smart Way):
Sell stuff to people that they don’t want or need, by getting really good at selling. This method can work to make lots of cash now – but the problem is, you’re still intimately involved in the process and are trapped – just like the employee – and since people don’t really want your stupid product, you won’t have any recurring purchases and selling will eventually burn you out.
Method #3 (Getting There – But Not Quite The Greatest Money Getting Method): Find a group of people who want something, and find a way to sell your product or service to them by leveraging what THEY WANT, to sell them what YOU WANT. This method actually works quite well if you know how to sell, but the problem with it is, there’s always a limited market with this method – if you have to convince people to do something that they don’t quite want, you’ve always got to be coming up with crazy ways to sell it to them.
Although this isn’t my MAIN METHOD of earning income – I still use it all the time to sell valuable products and services to people who don’t know they want them… (yet)
Method #4 (ALMOST the greatest money making method ever, but not quite):
Find out a product that a lot of people already want, and find the cheapest, best way of delivering it to them. Man, this method just rocks – the reason? No real selling required, you can acquire customers and keep them cheaper and longer if you give great value – PLUS, you can also upsell them products that they didn’t know they needed yet. However, this method still, although somewhat leveraged, is a high paying job – however, it’s a relatively easy one if you manage it properly. But unfortunately, if you stop working, your income stops, which leads us to…
Method #5: The BEST Way Of Money Getting In The History Of The World!
Are you ready for this?
Ok, grab a pen….
“Find a people who want a product with high profit margins and repeat purchases, find the best way of selling it to them WITHOUT you being involved in the process at all…
”I just had an orgasm ;-)
Ok, got my new shorts on – the cool thing about this method is that once you set it up – people give you money without you doing anything! Now that’s cool!
That means, you can make a ridiculous income, live wherever you want in the world, do what you love, and money just flows into your account on autopilot – with no hard work, effort, or energy involved.
That’s why I like Network Marketing (when done properly)
So here’s the couple of questions I have for you:
1. Are you trying to sell something that people just don’t want, or do you just suck at selling it?
2. Is there high enough profit in what you do to eventually outsource it so you don’t have to continue managing something for the rest of your life?
3. Is there a big enough market to sustain your dream lifestyle?
4. If you want – you’re welcome to send money my way, any time – just click on this network and join this.
In any case – I hope that you take these concepts and make a boat load of cash – the world needs more rich people to create jobs, buy nice stuff, and otherwise show us all what’s possible when the mind of man (or woman) is focused on a singular cause.