I’ve written a lot of stuff on this site on attraction marketing and many of you have used these powerful principles to attract leads online in an effortless manner. But I see far too many folks still hitting up people online using direct tactics to get someone interested in looking at their business opportunity.

I cringe. It’s awful to watch. Most times, they are poorly taught.

The following post Seth Godin wrote is simply title how to make money online and one of things I thought as I was reading it was “gee, there are some things in this that tie in with attraction marketing”. For example, how about the following:

- focus on trust
- figure out how to create value
- become the best at something that people value
- learn to lead

Sound familiar? That’s just four tips. Seth has listed 21!

1. The first step is to stop Googling things like, “how to make money online.” Not because you shouldn’t want to make money online, but because the stuff you’re going to find by doing that is going to help you lose money online. Sort of like asking a casino owner how to make money in Vegas…

2. Don’t pay anyone for simple and proven instructions on how to achieve this goal. In particular, don’t pay anyone to teach you how to write or sell manuals or ebooks about how to make money online.

3. Get rich slow.

4. Focus on the scarce resource online: attention. If you try to invent a way to take cheap attention and turn it into cash, you will fail. The attention you want isn’t cheap, it’s difficult to get via SEO and it rarely scales. Instead, figure out how to earn expensive attention.

5. In addition to attention, focus on trust. Trust is even more scarce than attention.

6. Don’t worry so much about the ‘online’ part. Instead, figure out how to create value. The online part will take care of itself.

7. Don’t quit your day job. Start evenings and weekends and figure it out with small failures.

8. Build a public reputation. A good one, and be sure that you deserve it, and that it will hold up to scrutiny…..

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When I started to learn how to make money online working from home the biggest thing I needed to control was “chasing fad” and yesterday’s big thing. That’s extremely important.

Let me know how valuable you found this post and when you get a chance, click through and check out some of Seth’s other stuff. You won’t regret it.

Meanwhile, have you downloaded The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto yet? It’s free. Click here to get your copy.

Don’t get me wrong, social media is crucial in building your business and creating qualified leads but we’ve gone into all that before so there’s no lesson here today in how to use social media to attract new leads.

No, today’s post is more of a maintenance issue and it revolves around putting a heap of stuff on your blog that distracts from the message. And the main culprit is usually social sharing buttons and images to do with social media.

The following post highlights this issue, how it can hurt your brand and blog and what to do about it. Pay particular attention to putting Twitter comments on your blog. In this business and for your image, it can backfire in a big way.

Barely a day goes by without happening across a new blog and finding that the owner has littered the site – their public face on the web – with Twitter boxes, shout-out widgets and social networking buttons.

The intention, of course, is to enable promotion of the website by visitors who might find something useful and share it, perhaps on Facebook, Digg or a similar service. By displaying a Twitter box in the sidebar, the site owner hopes to impress upon visitors the notion of following the site on the popular microblogging service.

In most cases, however, using all of these services untempered usually results in a mish-mash, a blog that looks a mess and lacks focus. This can severely impact the image of the site.

The important thing to recognize is that you need to be careful not to overdo things. After all, you don’t know who is reading…..

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I remember running into an issue with Twitter comments on my site several years ago and some of the comments that were appearing. I had no control over it other than to remove the plugin I was using. That’s what I did. But I know some people were offended and left the blog.

Don’t let this happen to you. And if you have a similar story to share or want to add to the tips given in this post feel free to leave a comment.

Meanwhile, learn how to build a blog the right way from scratch. Learn how to build a blog that becomes a lead attraction magnet. Check out Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets course.

But what is the best social networking site for business and which social network is best for network marketing? To tell you the truth, I really don’t have a definitive answer other than you need to be using several of them in conjunction with each other.

The top four that should be part of the promotion and attraction marketing tools in your arsenal are:

- Facebook
- Twitter
- LinkedIn
- Google+

So, no surprises there. A report I came across recently at Mashable.com might just be the best five minutes you spend online today as they try to answer “which social network should you use?” Each of the top four networks is analyzed including what it’s best for, who uses it and how many users it has.

For example, the report suggests that Facebook is best for…”interacting on a more personal level”.

My definition of social networks and their power is they give you the opportunity to expand your neighborhood and give you the chance to meet or do business with folks you may never have had the chance to meet and do business with.

Does that make sense? It’s a little like internet network marketing with the internet giving networkers the chance to expand their networks to a worldwide audience rather than be confined to their own local neighborhood.

This is a report you might want to bookmark and share with your teams.

Want to make the most of the social web? It’s more complicated than just posting status updates at random and seeing what sticks.

When is Facebook most effective? When are you better off using Twitter, or LinkedIn? And what exactly is Google+ good for, anyway?

The business consultant network Zintro recently pulled research from more than a dozen sources including Mashable, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google and Quantcast to put together this nifty infographic, which will help you develop your social strategy. Check it out below for the full report…..

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I’d love to hear your comments on how you use any of the social networks mentioned in this report. Do you use all four? Do you just use one? How are they working out for you?

Meanwhile, we mentioned Ann Sieg’s attraction marketing principles and you can get a jump on your opposition by downloading her report The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto. It’s free and probably the most important document on what we’ve discussed in this report. Click here to get your copy.

So I decided to stop by and tell you why you should download The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto? Not because it is free but because it will take you from the “struggle zone” to the making money zone and that’s where we all want to be.

Permission based marketing is a term that may not be as sexy as attraction marketing but when you understand what it is and how it really is the true foundation in building an online business and succeeding in internet network marketing, I get the feeling you will pretty much sprint to the download link for The Attraction Marketing Manifesto.

Eric Walker posted an article at The Renegade Blog a few weeks ago about why you won’t succeed in network marketing this year. It’s because of your business model. And if it’s not based around a permission based marketing model then you will struggle.

He explains just how important an email list is to your business.

In the permission based model of marketing, you have something of value to offer your audience OTHER than your main business opportunity.

You offer this to your audience for free in exchange for their email address.

Here are is a made-up example:

You offer a recorded call with your 6 figure earning Double Diamond upline, and how she built her MLM business using “these 5 low budget strategies.”

Remember, people don’t care about your opportunity.

It’s the result they want. They care about the result that that opportunity can bring them, and they are looking to buy into someone who has already achieved the same results.

Market results, not the opportunity.

So you freely give something away of value that represents getting results in exchange for the email address…..

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Here’s the bottom line; with an email list you don’t care what happens to your rankings because you still have the core of your business.

Affiliate marketers with no list and who rely on getting good rankings to sell other people’s products may make money, but they are still at the whims of Google who can de-index their sites from the search listing at any “tick of the clock” if there’s something they don’t like.

Can you see how that makes sense? Anyways, with The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto combined with Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets course, you have pretty much all you need to get your permission based model up and running. Here’s where to get them.

Click here for The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto.

Click here for the MLM Blog Secrets course.

Then I had a change of heart. In the main, MLM folks generally like to read the same stuff don’t they? Well, I am going to list some of the internet network marketing blogs I read all the time and I suggest you make these a part of your staple reading diet to.

Why?

Because you are on a constant learning curve and the thing you need to consider is, if you want your blog ranking high and being read by lots of folks then why reinvent the wheel when you simply take bits and pieces from some of the best in the business and apply it to your blog. Make sense.

Before I share I need to confess that the list below are not all MLM blogs. They cover different aspects of working online and each one is extremely useful in it’s own right.

This is not going to be a long post and I will simply list the blogs below but top of the list for me other than InternetNetworkMarketingReview.com is Ann Sieg’s The Renegade Blog. Not because it gets updated every day but because it contains so much “in the trenches” style information that can help you take your business to another level.

Second on the list is Ty Tribble’s Husband, Dad and Entrepreneur blog and again, while Ty does it a little differently than Ann, learning from how he does it and what he posts about is golden.

The others include:

- CopyBlogger.com/blog
- Mashable.com
- SocialMediaExaminer.com
- TrafficGenerationCafe.com
- SearchEngineLand.com

That’s just a shortlist and I have much more to add to the list but I don’t want to overwhelm you right now. So how do I utilize these blogs? As I said, look at what is written, the way it’s written, how the ads are posted etc. and just learn. If there’s something you like, apply it to your model and test it. Basically, get ideas for posting on your own blog.

In my previous post I said to learn from the so called spam that lands in your inbox. Do the same with other marketer’s blogs. Make note of what catches your interest. If there’s a story or post you like, curate it and add it to your blog with a reference to the original story.

Blogging isn’t rocket science and finding material should never be hard to find.

We mentioned Ann Sieg and Ty Tribble above. Have you downloaded Ann’s free report The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto yet? How about Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets?

Leave me your feedback about where you are at with your blogging and if you found the resources mentioned here useful.

One of the things that overwhelms in this business is distraction. Distraction when working online is usually caused by all the information you receive from different marketers. It’s a little like traveling through the strip in Vegas and being dazzled by the bright lights.

This is where I was several years ago until one marketer who became a mentor pulled me aside and said why don’t you change your mindset and instead of being overwhelmed by the emails you receive from other marketers, think of them as actually being important to growing your business.

So instead of treating them as a chore to go through and complaining about the fact that many times they are marketing to me to sell me something, just tell yourself you are in control and that the information you are getting can help you build your business.

As an example, instead looking at the copy I receive on a daily basis as spam, I learn from the copy writing and the marketing strategies being used and look at ways on how to apply them to my own business.

I have a swipe file of the ones I like and the ones that actually catch my attention and make me read them. I try to analyze what made me read them and why. And when I figure it out, I use them in some form in my business.

Sure, many marketers will send me an offer or two but again, you are in control; you decide whether it fits into your business model and if it does, buy it. But if you buy it, use it.

So in a nutshell, instead of looking at all the marketing material that lands in your inbox as a negative, look at it as a positive and dedicate a small amount of time each day to sift through the helpful stuff and then file it away. The reality is, most times the stuff you file away you may never get to use but occasionally, you will.

Just as an exercise, when you check your email again make a note of the ones that catch your attention. Copy the headlines and save them for use in your own business.

Hope that made sense. Let me know if it has helped you to overcome overwhelm in your business. I will highlight shortly one marketer who is launching a new product and the strategy he has used to get a lot of people interested in it. Stay tuned for it.

Meanwhile, two marketers I listen to a lot are Ann Sieg and Ty Tribble. If you haven’t downloaded Ann’s The Attraction Marketer’s manifesto yet you can get it free by clicking here.

And if you want to take your blog to the next level or learn how to build a blog from scratch so it will attract leads for your business then you need to check out Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets course.

How did they do it?

Simple. They split-tested and while many of you may just be starting to use online marketing for your network marketing business, there are also many of you who have been doing this for a while now using attraction marketing strategies either through Ann Sieg’s courses or Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets course.

Now I want to make one thing clear; they were able to increase their opt in rate by over 300% but that doesn’t mean you will be able to. However, by making the changes listed, you can experience an increase which is the aim of this test.

But one of the things many don’t really understand is that internet network marketing is a moving target and it evolves constantly when it comes to promotional strategies. Things change and if you are not testing what works with your opt in page then you could be missing out on a lot of leads for your business.

Now we don’t want to get into offering people something of value to get on your list tday; that’s a topic for another day but the following report from the team at Aweber really shows how much juice you can extract by changing things up and implementing what works today; not yesterday.

They provide examples of their old opt in page and the new page with the changes and give a detailed analysis of why the new additions worked. In a nutshell, the successful tweaks included:

- giving people a reason to opt in
- adding testimonials which they show you how to get
- speak directly to your potential leads about the profit motive
- making it easy for people to sign up

If you’ve been doing email marketing for over a week, you’ve probably heard all about split testing: why you should, easy split tests you can implement today, split testing your web forms and calls to action, and so on.

If people liked email as much as they like cats, “test it!” would be our “I can has cheezburger?” (It practically is around AWeber.)

You’d think there’s no way we wouldn’t be testing everything possible around here, right?

Wrong.

I just got done running a test and it reminded me why we go back to this topic over and over.

If you’d like to build your list over 321% faster, take a couple minutes to read this post.

The Sad Story of a Neglected Landing Page

Thanks to loyal readers like you who read, comment and tell other people about the email marketing tips here (thanks!), this blog and its readership have grown steadily over the past 6 years.

We’ve done a number of things over the years to make it grow faster. One important thing that has made it easier to build our blog newsletter is our subscribe page, which we link up in our emails and also push people to from the signup form in the blog’s sidebar.

Below is a screenshot of what this page used to look like, before our test…..

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If you have an opt in page can you see where you can increase your leads list starting today by making some necessary changes? I would recommend going over this a few times and really understand what they’ve done and the triggers they’ve added to get people to opt in willingly.

And leave us some feedback and let us know if this stuff worked for you.

Also, make sure you get your copy of Ann Sieg’s Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto. And if you are having trouble either building your blog or attracting leads with your current blog then go and get Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets.

Well, in a nutshell…YES!

Actually, I ran across this in my emails and nearly deleted it. I have an itchy trigger finger and if emails don’t grab my attention in less than a second they get flushed!

Anyways, this email did and it’s funny because I thought exactly what I mentioned above…”oh no…”; but read it anyway. So I thought how do I publish this for you without just posting someone else’s email? Well, I found the original post and it was first publish just under a year ago.

It’s aimed at home business owners and one of the things I’ve found as an internet network marketer which I got on top of very early is that working alone from home might sound great, but very few people can do it. Why? Because they don’t have supervision; there’s no one to keep them honest and most will soon start to get slack and make excuses for why they can’t do something.

Folks, it’s not easy working from home alone and that’s why you need to keep reading these “oh no, not another how to stay on track with your home business” type articles.

If you have got off track then this will be the best five minutes you spend in front of your computer today. I guarantee it.

I can’t tell you how important this is. If you did the work to create a workable plan like I suggested, just follow it! For example, let’s say you decided that you would use article marketing to get free visitors for your site. Your plan was to write one new article every other day, so you could add a few new ones per week. You’d be surprised at how few people will actually stick to a plan like that.

It’s a reasonable plan, and when you think about it, it’s not so hard to get it done. But most people give up after a month (not sure why that’s such a common time period, but it is).Here’s a practical way to stick to your plan. There are two steps. The first step is deciding that you WILL do it.

I know that sounds insane, since your problem might be that you’re not doing it. But listen, you have to lay down the law for yourself. Tell yourself that your future depends on sticking to your plan. Then refuse to compromise on it.The next step is to kill the one thing that gets you off track the most…procrastination…..

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How about that; you’ve just read another article on how to stay on course with your home business. Congratulations, I’m proud of you.

Seriously though, you need to be doing this almost every day especially when you first start out. Your business will be all the better for it.

Have you downloaded Ann Sieg’s free copy of The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto yet. Click here.

And have you built your blog yet. Are you stuck? You need Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets. Not only will you build a blog fast but you will build it right from the start and have it pulling leads for you. Ty Tribble has the number one rated network marketing blog in the world so he knows a little about blog marketing. Click here to get started.

Keep reading.

I was looking at some of my bookmarks from way back the other day and came across the following short video where Jim Rohn teaches the why behind personal development. I hear from folks who are simply stuck in a cycle like a hamster on a wheel and most times I can pinpoint their problem right away.

They are doing the same old things over and over and expecting something different. When I tell them this many respond a little “offishly” with something like…

“Yes, yes, I’ve heard that all before; it’s insanity right? I know all that stuff.”

Okay, but are you doing anything to change yourself so you can get something different and better from your circumstances? In many cases, the light then goes on.

“Oh, I’ve got to change?”

If you are really struggling in making any progress in your home business take a step back and watch the following video. Jim Rohn talks about two secrets to becoming successful in home business. They are that your income is in direct proportion to the value you give others. Sound familiar. This is stuff Ann Sieg teaches with great results.

And the second secret? The amount of income you make reflects your mindset. The quality of your thinking determines what you get in life. Change it and change just about anything you want to change.

Here are some of the take-aways from the presentation:

- too many people blame everything and everyone else; people are comfortable with a blame list and find it hard to move out of that comfort zone

- do something different in the next 90 days that you did in the previous 90 days

- it’s not what happens that determines the major part of your future; the key is what you do about it meaning starting a process of change

- do this and you’ll start doing different things with the same circumstances…you cannot change the circumstances but you can change yourself

So, did that make sense? Yes, you may have heard it before but if you haven’t tried this I urge you too. If you are struggling right now then it’s a fair bet what you are doing now is not working.

Is Jim Rohn a favorite of yours? If you liked or disliked this presentation, then leave a comment. We always appreciate your feedback.

Meanwhile, to give you an extra boost, click here to download your free copy of Ann Sieg’s The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto.

At a recent meeting a prospect posed the question that went along the lines of “what are the steps to network marketing success?” It created a lengthy pause in the room but between several of us, we were able to combine our thoughts and provide a solid answer.

The truth is, my steps to achieving internet network marketing success involve consistency. Dean Jackson is one of the smartest marketing men on the planet. He once said…

“People start to make money online when they’ve been doing something CONSISTENTLY for a minimum of 90 days. Before 90 days – not so much. But at the 90 day point, things start to happen and take off.”

Why is that?

Anyways, an article I saw at internetnetworkmarketingmentors.com caught my interest and it listed the 12 daily methods of operation. It explains that there is not one thing that will achieve success in this business but a variety of things that when they all come together and are performed in a consistent fashion, then magic can happen.

It’s an excellent read and one that will challenge you to get some consistency in your efforts on a daily basis as you build and consolidate your business.

It’s not one thing that creates your millionaire status in this business.  It’s a bunch of things compiled and completed every single day that translate and affect everything we do for our business, making us more successful each step of the way.

Each day there are certain things I do in my business to create lead generation.  None is more important than the other because every task fits somewhere and does something especially important in order to make sense of all of the other tasks I perform.  Some days I get mixed up and frustrated and overwhelmed.  Some days I’m spot on and I am a machine making use of my time like a Ninja Turtle.  Ha!
Daily MMA (Money Making Activities)

If you haven’t heard about daily MMA, you will when you get to No Excuses in Vegas.  Register HERE for this because it’s something you CANNOT MISS as a new network marketing professional.

MMA is what creates our dreams, it’s what solidifies our success, it’s what makes us believe in ourselves and our business.  When we see the leads come in, when we watch the commissions in our back office, when we see the referrals from others and then when we see what someone has to say about our concerted efforts because the effort we put forth has affected them; well, it’s all worth our time…..

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So, what are the things you perform on a daily basis that drive you towards success in internet network marketing? Do you agree that being consistent over a period of time can build the momentum necessary to propel you towards achieving the success you desire?

Just don’t get being busy confused with being productive.

Meanwhile, the No Excuses in Vegas seminar was mentioned in the post and Ann Sieg will be one of the speakers. Many folks attending will be well versed in attraction marketing having followed Ann’s training in The Renegade Network Marketer and The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto.

Did you know The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto is free? Yes, it’s crazy isn’t it; one of the most powerful marketing success books ever written is free. Click here to get your copy of The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto.