I Don’t Know How To Start Marketing My Business Online!

The internet is a world all it’s own. It has created new job possibilities for lots of people and it’s also revolutionized the way that traditional businesses operate. However, many home based business owners still tend to shy away from online marketing.

Why this is I’m not exactly sure but I have a feeling that for a lot of people it is simply that they don’t know where to start. So many network marketers have gotten use to the idea of marketing in their local area that they forget about the internet and how advantageous it can be.

The internet brings the world to you. You can literally market your business to people all over the country as well as overseas it just gives you a much larger pool to draw from. You can market to anyone who has a computer and these days that’s just about anyone.

So if you’re like a lot of network marketers and you don’t know how to get started marketing your business online here are three simple things that you can do to get started.

1. Article Marketing – Article marketing works for every type of online business not just network marketing. Article marketing allows you to be the expert in whatever you want to talk about. Then once your article is written you can submit it to free online article directories and boom! It’s up there for millions of people to read and gain knowledge from.

Article marketing works because it gives people the main thing they come on the internet for… information. Provide someone with free in formation and they’re gonna love you for it. Combine that with putting your blog or website at the bottom of the article and your guaranteed more traffic to your website.

This is important because no matter how great your website is it’s not doing you any good if lots of people aren’t going to it every single day. So anything that increases traffic is a good thing online.

2. Blogging -  Blogging is very similar to article marketing but instead of posting your articles on article directories you post them on your very own blog. You can blog about any topic (obviously it helps if the topic has something to do with your business) and your blog posts can be as formal or as casual as you want. It’s your blog so you get to set the tone.

A blog is a great place to say what you want to say. It’s YOUR BLOG so you’re not going to be edited or muffled. It’s your platform to get your voice and your message out there. A blog can also be a terrific way to increase website traffic and get a ton of new prospects.

3. Free Classifieds – If you’re a network marketer you’ve probably thought about placing an add in your local newspaper. Well, online free classifieds are just like that only they’re generally more effective and instead of spending hundreds of dollars you’re not spending a dime! There are a lot of free classified sites but Backpage.com and Craigslist.org are the most popular and will get you the best results.

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How Do You Know If Someone Will Be Good In A Home Based Business?

One of the things that I have gotten asked is how you can know if someone is going to be good in network marketing or not. Obviously you don’t want to waste your time with a prospect if they aren’t cut out for this type of business and you don’t want to look over someone who could be a network marketing rock star… so how can you tell if someone is going to be good or not?

Unfortunately there isn’t a way to know if someone will be good or bad in any home based business. That is because it all really comes down to a few things. The first thing is how much do they want it. It’s one thing to sort of want to make more money from home and it’s another to really WANT it! If you have an intense desire to succeed in a home based business chances are you will be willing to take the extra steps needed to become really successful. Some people will claim that they want it really bad but their actions will show that they don’t.

                                    

So it’s really up to them. If they don’t have a desire that is strong enough they won’t do as well as someone who really wants it.

A lot of people don’t realize that personality actually has very little to do with being successful. While a lot of people see someone with a big outgoing personality and think they would be great in a home based business that is actually not always the case. Personality matters a lot less than other things like desire and passion and motivation. You could give me the option of having 10 really loud, outgoing type A personalities on my team or having 1 or 2 people who might be more shy but have a really strong desire for success and I would take the motivated people all day long.

There is no way of knowing who will be good in a home based business and who won’t. So don’t ever look over anybody and don’t count anyone out because you never know who your next big money maker is going to be.

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Turning Your Articles Into Videos… A Good Idea?

If you have a Youtube account and you are currently using video marketing as a part of your online marketing campaign you might from time to time be looking for new content for videos. Video marketing is most effective when you have a lot of content and when you update your Youtube channel often. And if you’re looking for content you might have heard or thought about using some of your articles as content for your videos. But is that really a good idea? Or should articles just stay articles and videos just be videos?

I believe it’s a really good idea and it’s something that I recommend to a lot of people especially if they are having trouble coming up with content for their videos. The good thing about using your articles as videos is that you’re getting the most use out of what you already have. I recommend that people use their articles on article directories, on their own personal blog and also use them as videos. Because if you’re going to go through the trouble of creating a great article you might as well get a lot of use out of it!

Now, before you begin turning all of your articles into videos I would recommend that you not read directly into the camera. Try to take the content of the article and turn it into something that is better for the camera. You can use the same points just don’t hold a paper and read to the camera (seriously, I’ve seen this) you want it to sound like the content is coming directly from you, not a piece of paper and even if you were the one who wrote the article it just doesn’t seem very professional.

Also, use pictures, video, graphics or other things to make the article seem more interesting while you’re giving it to the camera. Looking at the same person talking for several minutes can be a little boring so give them something else to look at if you can… it will hold their attention better.

I believe that turning articles into videos is a great idea just use a little creativity and you’ll have some great marketing videos on your hands!

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Are You Really Doing What You Need To Do To Succeed In Your Home Business?

I think a fair amount of being successful working from home is learning to be honest with yourself. As someone who has been around home based business owners for many years I can honestly say that a lot of them are really just kidding themselves. it's not enough to be a part of a great company and have the drive to succeed.

You have to put a lot of action behind your intentions of the money is just never going to come. I have seen too many bright, driven, well educated people fail in this type of business because they simply don't do the work that it takes to really succeed.

While it is true that you don't have to work a home based business like a full time job it's not true that you only need to work a few hours a month. It's going to take several hours a week of hard work every single week if you want your business to grow. And I don't mean spending time on a conference call or at a meeting but several hours actually WORKING your business... talking to people, giving presentations, marketing yourself aggressively online real hard work.

I say all of this because if you are reading this article and you're thinking about joining a home based business you deserve to know the truth. Too many people are willing to lie to you to get you to join their business and that's just not fair. Any business takes hard work and effort. You have to be intentional. You have to set some time aside during the week and really work the business or it just won't work for you.

However, the good news is that when you do that you will find that working for yourself is seriously amazing. You will also find that the harder you work now the easier it will be. A home based business tends to snowball so the more work you do in the beginning the easier it gets and the more fun it becomes. You will also find that being your own boss is a million times better than working for someone else.

So don't let the hard work fool you because once you start to see success in your home based business you'll never want to go back! Just don't be fooled by the people who tell you that you won't have to work for it because you most certainly will! 

How To Make Money Part Time From Home While Still Keeping Your Full Time Job

There are a lot of articles out there promoting the idea of quitting your full time job and working from home full time. However, I know that there are a lot of people out there who really don’t want to quit their job they just need a little bit (or a lot) of extra money to make life easier.

If you’re in a career that you love but it’s not giving you the lifestyle that you want a home based business can still be right for you. You don’t have to be someone who hates their job and wants to quit. Anyone can be successful working part time from home no matter what your motives or desired end result is.

The main thing you will need to do is find a business that only has to be worked a few hours a week. Many home based businesses require 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week of work and if you’re already working full time that is just not going to work. However, a lot of home based businesses will work with you even if you only have 7-10 hours a week to invest. So make sure that that is one of the first questions you ask someone when you’re talking to them about a possible business.

Network marketing is a great type of business for someone who works full time already because it doesn’t require a huge time commitment and a lot of the work has already been done for you. It’s mostly about getting the word out about the business, marketing and a little bit of training.

If you want to start your own business from scratch you can do that too but it will require more time in the beginning and it will defiantly require more money up front to start.

Whatever you decide to do just know that it is possible to make good money from home part time even if you still want to keep your full time job. 

It is Not That Complicated

What I have found through years and years in the home based business industry is that most people make it way more complicated than it actually is. When you make the business sound complicated people don’t understand it and therefore they don’t want to be a part of it. MLM is really not that complicated and once you look at it in a simplified way it will make it much easier to make money doing it.

MLM, or network marketing, or direct sales or a home based business is just simply marketing a product or service. That’s IT! And as you marketing that product or service you bring other people on to your team who want to market that same product or service. As you build a bigger team you will make more money because one person selling 10 products a month is a little money but 50 people selling 10 products a month is big money.

As you build your team you make money from what you’re doing as well as making money off of what your team is doing.

Think of it this way. If you had a business where you sold t-shirts and you personally went door to door or store to store and sold and many t-shirts as you could in one day it would never be as much money as if you had 100 people out there doing the same thing and selling your t-shirts for you every day. That is all network marketing is, simple huh?

There is a misconception that in MLM you get paid JUST to bring people into the business not true. You bring people into the business but it is only when you get those people working and making money that you really start to make money. So when you help other people get rich you get rich in the process. Sound simple? It is!

MLM might be a lot of things but it’s not complicated.

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Are You Making Your Home Based Business Fun Enough?

If you are going to be a part of a home based business you’d better make it fun! Are you enjoying your business enough? Yes a business is a serious thing and certainly the money you can make is very, very serious however that doesn’t mean that you have to be all business all the time. That’s one of the best things about working from home.

You can work in your pajamas, you can vacation whenever you want and you can joke around and be silly whenever you want. In fact having fun will actually help your business out a lot! People will be drawn to you and what to do business with you when they see just how exciting and fun working from home can be.

Everything that you do for your business should be fun. And that fun should come across in everything that you do for your business. From the blog posts you write, to the conversations you have with people, to the videos you make it shouldn’t have to be super serious all the time.

Also, making things fun will help to push you to work even when you don’t really feel like it. We all have days when we’d rather not work and we just want to be lazy and stay in bed. But if you can have a good time while making money what better combination could their be? You’ll make more money and you’ll be less stressed out when things don’t go the way you want them to (and trust me that will happen!)

So don’t take yourself or your business too seriously. Start having fun with your business and you’ll be happy that you did!

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Ease Your Way into Internet and Network Marketing

Internet marketing is the way of the future. If you’re involved in a home based business but you don’t do anything online to market it you are missing out on a lot of business and a ton of money. If you’re use to the old school methods of marketing your business you might think that you don’t need to learn how to market online or you might think that it’s too tough and you’ll never be able to learn. Neither of these are true.

The fact is that everyone should be marketing their business one the internet. It allows you to reach more people for less money, and since the internet is always there 24/7 it allows you to work during house of the day when you wouldn’t be able to call prospects of do anything else like that.

Learning the internet can be scary if you’ve never done anything on it but once you take the time to learn it you’ll see just how valuable a tool it really is!

If you want to start learning internet marketing but you don’t know where to begin my advice is to start slow!

Don’t try to learn everything all at once because you’re just going to get frustrated and that’s not going to get you anywhere. Start be easing your way into the internet. Find one thing that you want to try and learn that one thing really well. Once you know how to do that and it’s not so intimidating try to learn something else. Soon you’ll be able to do lots of things online and none of it will seem so scary anymore.

Here is a short list of things that an internet marketing newbie could start out with:

A free online blog
Article marketing
Youtube marketing
Facebook marketing
Forum marketing

Any of these things will help you get more business and more free prospects for your business each and every month. Again, you don’t have to learn them all at once just pick one that sounds fun and work on it until you’re confident and comfortable with it.

The internet is a great tool to use for any home business. Don’t miss out on all the money you could be earning. Start learning how to market your business online today.
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Why Success Is ALL Mental And How To Get Your Head In The Game!

So very much of business is mental and this could not be more true in anything else more than network marketing. If your head isn’t right you’re not going to make money… PERIOD. However, when your mind is in the right place you will be able to accomplish amazing things.

Here are a few quick tips to help you get your head in the right place to have a ton of success!

#1 Friends and Family don’t know everything!

Listen, I have nothing against your family, friends or spouse. However, sometimes you just have to learn to ignore them! People are way, way, way too concerned with what everyone thinks of them and their business.

No matter what you do there are always going to be people who are going to speak negatively about it. The truth is they probably mean well, but they just don’t know what they don’t know.

If you freak out every time someone you know says something negative about your home based business you’re never going to get any work done.

Simply put… if you want to be successful you have to learn how to block some people out! Don’t let your friends and family cheat you out of living the life of your dreams because of negative talk.

#2 Write all your goals down and LOOK at them!!

Writing down your dreams and goals is just SO important! It’s good to know what you want and have it in your head but writing it down is 100 times better.

When you have your dreams written out where you can physically see them they can help to motivate you in a way that they just won’t if their stuck in your head.

When you write down your goals you have to get specific too. Don’t just say “I want a new car” write down exactly what kind of car you want: make, model, color, everything!

#3 It’s not just about the big stuff, celebrate everything!

It’s really easy to get so bogged down with trying to reach your ultimate goal that you forget all about the mini victories that are happening in your life all the time.

Did you get your first sign up? Victory!

Did you call someone even though you were shaking and nervous? Victory!

By keeping track of each and every small victory that comes your way you’ll feel more successful and keep yourself in a better more positive frame of mind.

If you can master these three things you’ll be well on your way to a more positive and successful home based business. Remember that the key to finding true success working from home isn’t in your product, upline or company. It’s right between your ears!

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