Have you just started your blog or thinking about starting to market online?

And, you’re not really sure what you’re going to blog about?

If you’re a Network Marketer and you want to promote your business opportunity or your products, decide first of all, which of those you want to talk about.

Your products OR your opportunity?

One mistake that many network marketers make, is to try and market both on one website.  Marketing 2 completely different products/services  makes it really hard for people to find your website.

Next, think about what problems people have that your product or opportunity could solve.

With regard to your “Business Opportunity”, that’s easy.

People have problems like…

• how can I make more money,
• how can I market my business,
• how do I generate leads?
• how do I build a marketing system so I can have more free time?
• what business should I join?

So, instead of marketing your business opportunity, you can help people solve the problems they are having.

When people are looking for someone they want to join in a Network marketing business, they look for someone who can help them.

They are looking for valuable information and if YOU provide that information, they will be want to look at your opportunity.    You will be a Valuable Resource and a Valuable Teacher.

Providing valuable information also gives you a LOT more to write about!

Imagine if all you have to write about, is your biz opp – you soon run out of things to say. Plus, it becomes boring!

I remember way back when I first started network marketing, and my upline had screeds and screeds of stuff about the company.  We emailed it out to people. Fair enough, people want to know about the company!

But, they want to know about WHO they’re joining first!

What if you want to Market your Company’s Products or Services?

The same thing applies when you’re marketing products/services – your prospective customers want to see that the product or service will provide a solution to one of their problems.

So, think about the problems your product can solve and create a blog related to those problems.

For example, if you sell healthy pet food, you could have a blog centered around pets and their health.   Advertise your product on the blog, and have swarms of people coming to read all the stuff you have to say about their precious pets’ health!

Imagine how much more you’ll have to write about, and you can involve your readers in discussions also.  It will be lots of fun!

Write in the comments below, telling me what your business and products are.  Then, I’ll come up with some ideas for a website you could start.

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Are you one of the hundreds (more like thousands) of people who are wanting to make it in the Network marketing industry on the internet?

Maybe you’ve been working offline and you’ve had some success or maybe you’ve had no success at all, and you would love to build a huge business on the Internet.

Obviously, there ARE network marketers who are doing really really well on the Internet.

And, there are LOTS of network marketers who are making m’oney, but not nearly as much as they should be!

And there are others who just haven’t found the right path just yet, and are not making any money.

Let me tell you a little about my journey on the internet over the last few years. This story isn’t all about me though, you can learn a lot from it also:-)

I got lucky and I got lazy all at the same time!!

You see, if you want to build your network marketing business on the internet, there are all different groups of people you can market products or opportunities to.

For example,

• You could target people who are looking to join someone in your company.
• You could target Network marketers who are looking for a way to build their business online.
• You could target people who are new to network marketing and looking for an opportunity.

Attraction Marketing is also  Relationship Marketing

Quite a few years ago, “Attraction Marketing” had a different name. We used to call it “Relationship Marketing”, but it was the same thing.

A group of us had been growing our businesses by “building relationships” with people in different communities.

There was one community around at that time, which was for people who believed in the Law of Attraction, and wanted to learn more about it.

I was one of the co-founders of that community and was very active there. I spent way too much time there, as a volunteer building the community for other people. I had blogs and forums and participated a lot!

And as a result, I was easy to find on the Internet! I had pictures up of all my scuba diving trips, and of holidays I had been on.

I had a little story about me and my family on my “home page”.

So, people could get to know me easily. And, I attracted people to my business. One person I attracted was actually looking for someone in my company to join, and has since gone on to attract over 4 thousand people into his own business (and mine).

So…. that’s where I got lazy!!

I thought just getting out there giving value in communities and being myself was enough!

So, for a few years that’s what I did and it was fun! I also learned how to attract customers so I sold a reasonable amount of company products during that time.

However, over the last few months, I’ve realised that I’ve just been “pussy footing around” all this time, and I could do much better. Sure, I’ve been lucky and made some m’oney, but I want to do MUCH more than that!

I was lazy because I didn’t get serious about following up with people (by building a list).

I never bothered to work out my sales funnel, so I’ve been missing huge opportunities.

Attraction Marketing is  More than Just Giving Value to Others

Over the years I’ve come to understand that “Attraction Marketing” means much more than just putting yourself out there, and attracting people to you. It works that way to some extent, but there are actions you can take to make it work even better. It’s no good just giving value to people and never asking for anything in return.

It IS VERY important to “be out there” giving value to people, like I’ve been doing.

However, there are other important pieces to the puzzle also.  You can’t just continue giving value to people and expect things to “just happen”.

The following things are also a very important part of Internet Network Marketing:

• Provide a way to continue your relationship with people who come across you at forums, communities and your blog (i.e. Build your List).
• Plan how you’re going to make money online – look at how you’re Marketing (or sales) funnel will work.
• And, work out how you’re actually going to launch your products or opportunity or whatever you’re planning to make money from.

My Goals for this Blog

My goal now, is to help you understand the process and shorten your learning curve, so you can BE as successful as you want to be in a short time.

The first thing I want to offer you is a Quiz. This isn’t just any old quiz, where the answers to the questions just “sit there”.  With this quiz, you will  get a free instant evaluation of your answers.

The evaluation will give you valuable feedback on your online Marketing. So… answer the questions honestly and you’ll receive the kind of feedback you require to take the next step in your Internet Network  marketing!

Click to Take the Quiz and Get an Instant Evaluation in Your Email Box

I would love to hear your story about your Internet Network Marketing journey.   Tell me in the comments below, or  better still, write your story on your own blog, then  come back here and post a link to your story in  the comments.

Have fun!    Julieanne

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Blogging has been around for many years now, and there are now huge numbers of bloggers having a lot of success.

Many of those bloggers are Network marketers, and those who give away stuff are the most successful. Of course, when you give away stuff, make sure you also have your sales funnel in place. Otherwise, you’re not going to make any money from blogging.

I’m on holidays right now, visiting with my 2 cute little grand-children. Because I don’t have much time to write posts for you, I’m sending you to some great stuff that other people are writing.

Jill Chivers is a relatively new blogger, but you won’t believe she’s new when you read her excellent post giving 17 Easy steps to brilliant blogging

Want to find out more about YOUR Online Network Marketing? Take a Quiz and get an Evaluation of your Answers sent to your email right away. Click here to take the Quiz

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So… is commenting a good thing or a bad thing?

The answer is…. it depends on how you do it.

If you just write a very short kind of lame comment saying something like “love your article it’s very good”, then you’re not going to get much traffic going back to your blog.

However, if you make meaningful comments on other people’s blogs, and people see those comments as valuable, you will get a lot more visitors wanting to visit your blog and find out more information.

Copyblogger discusses how comments can lead to real traffic and create relationships with people. You can read the whole article about blog comment traffic here.

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Michelle Greer wrote an interesting article demonstrating why its not good to try and market to everyone. She talks about how if you hire a PR firm, to write a press release for you, they will interrogate you until they find out something that will maximize the impact of the story.

Then, Michelle speaks about the audience we are targeting, WHO we want to hear the story. She says “the answer often becomes “as many people as possible”.” But that’s not good because not everyone likes the same things. You can read the rest of Michelle’s article here: As many as possible not a marketing segment

The main message is that we should think about WHO our target market is before writing a story.

Technorati Tags: define target market, research target market

Have you had one of those “heads up” emails from Squidoo yet? I received one last week, which says “it appears one of more of your lenses are violating our Terms of Service”

The “topic” of my lens was what violated their terms of service. The topic was “internet network marketing”, so I guess this means we’re not supposed to build lenses about that topic anymore.

There are still lots of Network marketing and MLM lenses on Squidoo, so I’m not sure how they determine which ones will be deleted.

If you have a lens on one of the “violated topics”, it might be best to leave it as is, and not edit or add to it.

This is a perfect example of what can happen on sites that you don’t own yourself, and it’s a really good reason to have a blog that’s hosted on a hosting site you pay for. It’s great to use the free sites, but make sure your “own” sites are the ones you focus on most.

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Merry Christmas to everyone who sees this post!

I wish you a Safe, FUN and Happy Holiday!

We are spending Christmas down in a small city called Port Pirie in South Australia this year, where my parents live. It’s very warm (40 degrees C) today, and luckily it will cool down by Christmas day!

Here in Australia, we don’t have white Christmases, except on the beach if the sand is white.

What are you doing for the Chrissy holidays?

Bye for now, Julieanne and John van Zyl

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Have you thought about using the internet to find people local to you, who are interested in joining your business?

And… I’m not talking about going down the street talking to everyone you meet:-)

I’m talking about using the Search engines and Social marketing to attract people to you that are interested. There may be people looking to start a home based business, who live in your town or city. And… they may be looking for someone who lives nearby to help them get started.

I reckon it would be a lot more fun to help a group of people who live nearby. You would be able to meet up every now and again, and show them how to do exactly what you’re doing to get leads online.

If you’re interested in doing some local marketing, have a look at this f’ree webinar (below)

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Just put your email in the box below and click “Free Instant Access” 

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 You will immediately get taken to a 20 minute VIP video that will show you how to use the Internet and free social media to explode your profits now!

Technorati Tags: Branding Yourself, internet network marketing, Social Marketing

Google chrome is already the fastest browser I use (I use others for different activities).

Originally posted as a comment
by julieannevanzyl
on Mashable – The Social Media Guide using DISQUS.

If you are looking for a Network Marketing business that you can be passionate about, it’s not always easy. You might love the idea of being a network marketer, and you just can’t find the product you’re wanting to market.

The internet has provided us with so many different things to choose from, sometimes it makes it more difficult because there are so many! Click on the link below for a video showing how to find a product and company you can be passionate about….
Choosing a Network Marketing Company

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