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.

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.

And do you know what? The answer usually lies in how they are structuring their day. In other words, much of the stuff they are doing has nothing to do with building a business. The bottom line is, as humans we think we can juggle more than one thing at a time. Maybe some of you can but the truth is, focusing on one task at a time is when you get results.

The home business landscape is “littered with the corpses” of people who have simply thrown up their hands and declared it’s just too much to handle or cries of burnout. But much of it was self inflicted. Looking busy doesn’t mean you are being productive.

One of the problems I see in internet network marketing is that instead of building their primary business which is what they need to be doing, people branch off into other areas of making money online. Suddenly they notice money making opportunities everywhere and before long, using the internet to generate leads gets pushed to the background.

As a network marketer, the reason you are using the internet is to generate leads. Get good at that first, build your business and then look at other ways to generate income if you want.

Meanwhile, another “killer” for productivity is technology. Getting distracted is the number one issue. There’s an excellent article at blogs.hbr.org which looks at the magic of doing one thing at a time and how technology inhibits being productive. The first solution is my favorite where the author suggests setting time blocks when working.

As a writer, I work in blocks of 45-50 minutes and then take a 15 minute break. It works wonders for increasing productivity.

Why is it that between 25% and 50% of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work?

It’s not just the number of hours we’re working, but also the fact that we spend too many continuous hours juggling too many things at the same time.

What we’ve lost, above all, are stopping points, finish lines and boundaries. Technology has blurred them beyond recognition. Wherever we go, our work follows us, on our digital devices, ever insistent and intrusive. It’s like an itch we can’t resist scratching, even though scratching invariably makes it worse.

Tell the truth: Do you answer email during conference calls (and sometimes even during calls with one other person)? Do you bring your laptop to meetings and then pretend you’re taking notes while you surf the net? Do you eat lunch at your desk? Do you make calls while you’re driving, and even send the occasional text, even though you know you shouldn’t?…..

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So, did you get some inspiration on how to increase your productivity. Maintain momentum and intensity for designated periods of time and then rest to renew. And during this time, ignore technology such as your phone, the internet and email.

Sounds like a plan to me!

Are you productive? If so, leave some feedback on how to avoid distraction and increase productivity and what works for you. Always appreciate hearing from you.

Downloaded The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto yet? If you need responsive leads without all the rejection then click here to get your copy.

There are several things when penning an article on the web you need to keep in mind. The people you are appealing to in internet network marketing generally have short attention spans. They are looking for a solution to a problem and have been attracted to your article because of your headline.

It’s like a window in a big department store where they get a shopper’s attention by putting attention seeking items “front and square” to get them into the store. That’s what you want to do with your article; get them to start reading it. The key is to make your article easy to read.

I was going to make a long post on this but found a terrific post at demo.studiopress.com. The author has “hit a home run” with their tips on how to get your reader’s attention when writing articles. Here are the seven things they suggest you need to be doing:

- use short sentences
- use subheads
- make your paragraphs short
- make your content easy to read by using a good font size
- use block quotes in your article
- make the most of bulleted lists
- make use of images in your article

You might have noticed that people’s attention spans are getting shorter.

You can probably thank/blame the internet for that. But it doesn’t matter what’s causing it — what matters is that you’ll have to factor it in when creating your content.

Because if your reader gets bored and drifts away, they’ll never get the chance to benefit from your terrific content.

There are a couple of nifty tricks you can use to help make your content easier to read — and easier for your readers to stick with.
1. Use subheads

Subheads are the various headings and subheadings you can add to your text…..

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One of the things internet network marketers forget when writing articles is that a large part of their audience are baby boomers. I like the fourth point about using a good size and readable font size. As a baby boomer myself I will literally turn away from a website if the font is too small. I bet some of you can relate to that.

As I mentioned earlier, a lot of this stuff can come naturally in a short space of time. Just practice doing it and not only will you be doing it without thinking, people will be reading your articles and better still, they will be potential leads that could become part of your main business model.

Meanwhile, I know many of you still haven’t got the skills necessary to effortlessly put a WordPress site together. Several weeks ago I told you about WP Make Easy. Have you checked it out yet? Click here to learn more about WP Make Easy.

And don’t forget to get your copy of Ann Sieg’s The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto. Combining the two and utilizing the skills taught in both will make you an irresistible force to prospects. A major reason for getting a prospects attention online is a good presentation. A clean looking and professional website is just as important as getting their attention with a good headline. Then teaching them to earn their trust is the next step.

Click here to get your free copy of The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto.

Many of you have heard of the importance of having a website for your network marketing business. Internet network marketing is now a buzz term and building a website, preferably a blog is vital to you being able to brand yourself.

Okay, that’s fine and congratulations. But how do you get exposure for your blog? How do you get traffic to your blog so people can read, hear or watch your helpful, solution solving content? How do you promote your website to attract leads to your business?

Well, one of the problems I see a lot and despite all the advice and training I give, am still seeing it a lot is that people simply won’t promote their blogs. But if you want people to see them so you can gather leads it’s something you must do.

Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets is still a must course you should have if you are a network marketer desperate to get your blog online and attracting visitors. But for now, I have a brilliant little piece for you to read from one of my favorite online marketers in Mark Ling at traffictravis.com.

Mark is one of the premier affiliate marketers on the planet and put together an article on his site about how to get more pages indexed. Remember, it starts with getting your site posts or pages indexed before the traffic will come unless you have a huge email list but I’m betting 99.9% of you don’t.

Mark simply goes through each of the strategies you can use to get your site in front of lots of people. It’s simple and straight to the point and will be the best 5-10 minutes of your time spent online today building your business.

In the last Traffic Travis newsletter, we looked at the importance of having a Sitemap for your website. Today you are going to learn how to get web pages indexed quickly, especially if you have created new pages or an entirely new website.

Getting your pages indexed in search engines is important – without being indexed, your website will be all but impossible to find.

Today we are going to cover some useful strategies for getting your website indexed fast. These include:

* Social bookmarking & signals.
* Submitting articles.
* Internal linking.
* Pinging your website.
* Comment on authority blogs.
* Updating content regularly…..

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Google likes to see diversification in your backlinks. Using each of the methods in this post will give you that. What I suggest is spend a little time with each one once a week until you have used them all. Don’t try and apply them all at once. It’s not natural.

So what do you think? Are you already implementing these strategies? How are they working for you? Got any questions? Leave some feedback at the end of this post as I always appreciate it.

Of course you can shortcut the learning curve with Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets course and watch over his shoulder as he guides you through the process getting traffic for your sites.

Click here to download your copy of MLM Blog Secrets.

Well, that’s been put on hold because I received an email from Ann Sieg recently and she was excited about a new course called Make WP Easy. I took a look at the course and was impressed by how easy it was to learn from.

One of the biggest mistakes I see people making network marketing online is going to one of the third party platforms and building a site they don’t own. The big problem with this is that these platforms can be volatile; in other words, they can cut your site without notice and you lose all your valuable work and information.

The internet network marketing landscape is littered with the “corpses” of frustrated people who spent a lot of time building what they thought were hubs of information only to lose it because someone at these third party platforms didn’t like the fact that MLM was mentioned.

The answer? Well, we’ve been saying all along is to build your own site using the WordPress platform. You own it wholly and solely and no one can take it away from you. Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets is a fantastic resource that you should have. It’s a full online marketing education.

Make WP Easy is the platform for creating your sites. I don’t care how technophobic you are. Many people come back at me with this excuse but when it’s visually point and click follow, you can’t mess up. I understand Ann Sieg’s excitement about promoting this because it’s filled an extremely important void in an area that has been sadly lacking tuition in.

Here’s what’s in the course:

• How to create a site that matches your brand and personality (not plain and out of the “WordPress box”)
• Detailed visual instructions on everything from selecting a theme, adding the right plugins and images, to making your site SEO-friendly
• How to make your site super easy to edit and update, while also keeping it safe and secure from spam and hackers
• The must-have tools that will impress visitors while saving a ton of time
• How to easily integrate your site with social media
• Plus he’s going to keep this up to date, so it will never get old with changing and updating technology.

Click here to learn more about WP Make Easy.

Need more information. Reviews are always good. I was going to record one for this post but decided to post a review I spotted on Ann Sieg’s blog. It’s from one of the stars in online marketing Kate Buck Jr., and it’s just Ann’s way to check the credentials of people promoting courses through her brand.

If you are proficient at building a WordPress site then you probably don’t need the tuition. This course is something I highly recommend if you haven’t got a site of your own yet or you need to spruce up your current site. I’d be happy to build a site for you but it would cost you a lot of money and I’d feel guilty taking it when you find out just how easy it really is.

Click here to get your copy of WP Make Easy.

We posted about guest posting a short time ago and in fact, I am opening up InternetNetworkMarketingReview.com to guest bloggers who want to post helpful articles on internet network marketing topics with links back to their own sites. Click here to learn more.

Today, I just wanted to reiterate that guest posting should be part of your promotional strategy. It’s a great way to get quality links back to your sites and offers and when you are able to get links back from authority sites, your rankings are going to soar. And that means more traffic and leads for your primary business. I can’t understate just how powerful a strategy this is.

One of the world’s top bloggers in the make money online niche is Zac Johnson and he recently featured a young man who is earning up to $4K a month through guest posting on his blog. He is only 17 years of age and faces more challenges in a week than most of us would face in a life time. Here’s a little of what Zac wrote:

For those of you who don’t already know, Onibalusi is a 17 year old student, blogger and young entrepreneur. Oh yea… he’s also from Africa and has quite the story! You can read Onibalusi’s story here.

Onibalusi had many challenges in life, but with his incredible dedication and drive, he is one of my favorite success stories out there, and he’s just getting started! It’s hard enough to break out in the blogging space, but Onibalusi could be on his way to be the “CopyBlogger” or “ProBlogger” of Africa!

This success story is a perfect example of picking something to be good at, and killing it!

Be sure to take the time to read through Onibalusi story and blog, and also download his free Guest Blogging Guide that walks you through the same process he used to generate over 300 guest posts and bring in over 10,000 high quality visitors to his blog…..

I was asked recently by one of my readers how much money can you make guest posting? I can’t answer that because I didn’t know the person and his work rate. But take it from me, if you are consistent with this, you can make a lot of money. It’s an excellent way to get lots of people to your blogs and when you do that, you increase the chances of converting them into leads for your business.

Onibalusi is “kicking butt” with guest posting. Here’s just three reasons why:

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Have you downloaded Ann Sieg’s life-changing free report The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto yet? Use the strategies Ann teaches in turning leads into business partners in conjunction with guest posting and you will take your business to the next level. Click here to download The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto.

Dwayne has refined it down to a three step process which he calls:

Inviting
Exposing
Closing

Now we are talking about the old style approach but it always seems when you hear it from someone doing it successfully that it sounds simple. The truth is, it is. What Dwayne is also demonstrating is that unless you ask you’ll never know.

This approach is great for people you meet once and are never likely to meet again. It’s great for using with people you deal with in a business sense as Dwayne explains in the video such as someone in a job who might be a little down or not having a good day.

Now you’re saying “hang on a minute, what about internet network marketing and teaching prospects before you ask the question. Good question and as I’ve always said and explained before, unless you are combining both the internet and offline methods in your network marketing business then you will be leaving money on the table.

The trouble with just going online and building a business that way is that too many people lose sight of what network marketing is…it’s a people business, always has been and always will be. In a sense, many saw internet network marketing as a way to escape having to talk and deal with people. I’m here to tell you you can’t and there needs to be some sort of interaction either by phone, face-to-face and email. Preferably all three but if you are going down the email route then at least interact with your prospects by phone as well.

Hope that makes some sense.

Before you check out Dwayne’s video a couple of things…if you want your articles or videos featured on InternetNetworkMarketingReview.com then let me know. This is your chance to be a guest blogger and get more visitors to your sites. Click here for more details.

If you haven’t checked out Ann Sieg’s Attraction Marketers Manifesto then get it for free by clicking here. This is a must read.

Here’s Dwayne’s tips on sponsoring more people in your network marketing business.

We have another ten tips for network marketing success for you from Mark Ford who follows up on a recent post. It’s simply titled “10 Further Tips to Succeed in Network Marketing” and while you recognize some of the tips he reveals, as I mentioned above, this is the type of stuff you should be spending a little time each day to maintain a focus.

And while on the subject of focus, one of the problems with people struggling to learn how to succeed in network marketing is adapting to the work at home environment.

Yes, working from home is as good as it gets and when you are able to earn an income from the comfort of your own environment it instills a sense of freedom which is hard to describe. But here is the problem when people decide to work at home…they get into comfort mode too quickly. In other words, at the beginning treating your home business like a job will be a huge advantage.

For example, clocking into work at a set time each day, turning off distractions, setting yourself a set amount of time you spend on your business, getting constant training and having a mentor to make sure you have someone you can be accountable to at the end of the day, week or month just like boss.

Are you following? One of the reasons failure is so high is because many people just aren’t self-starters and if truth be known, they like the idea of a steady salary and having a boss present to make sure they get their work done.

Interesting to get your thoughts on this so leave a comment.

Click here to read Mark’s post on 10 network marketing success tips.

Now this is nothing new and we’ve been promoting internet network marketing for several years now but the key here is, it doesn’t hurt to brush up on internet network marketing tactics on a regular basis.

The truth is, most still don’t understand this stuff and it’s completely foreign to them because all they’ve been taught is offline methods; prospecting friends, family and acquaintances and there’s nothing wrong with this when you use it in conjunction with online marketing methods.

Ann Sieg released two life changing reports in the past five years; The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing and The Attraction Marketers Manifesto. If you haven’t read either of these reports which are completely free then grab them here. It’s an important grounding before you start working out how to utilize the power of the internet to attract network marketing prospects.

Matt raises a good point with his last tip in the video below and that’s getting aligned with a network marketing system. There are some excellent choices out there including The Renegade Network Marketer which is a must read, Magnetic Sponsoring and Ty Tribble’s MLM Blog Secrets.

I often get asked which is the best and my response is always the same…I can’t split them. But I will say one thing…if you really want to fast forward your ability to get something going online then you need to start branding yourself and a blog is the best way to do this. That’s where Ty Tribble’s course comes in and it’s a decision you won’t regret.

In the video below Matt covers:

• Identify your target market
• Social Networking
• Video Marketing
• Web 2.0
• Blogs
• Network Marketing Systems