I have been stunned by the results of VWD’s recent launch of their ‘Viral’ site.

12,000 new members in under 30 days is not too shabby!

This one page includes a very short teaser video with some pretty ‘generic’ text discussing a huge market and encouraging visitors to opt in for more information.

I was watching some Frank Kern stuff the other day, about the ‘triangle of trust’ and the power of video on blogs and I think he made a real important point:

Video holds a relatively high ‘preceived value’ to website visitors, especially on a blog.

Frank talked about the blog being a fairly ‘non threatening’ environment. ie. it’s not perceived as something that will sell you something (like a sales page does)

So, maybe, it’s the video on this viral page that’s made all these people opt in…

Of course, once you have opted in, you get the info and all the ’social, tell a friend and bookmark tools’ to help get the word out about the site… I wonder though whether it’s those that’s driving the traffic to the viral page, numbers on the inside suggest the social tools are doing very well, especially for those just starting out on the net.

Anyway… here’s the page that’s creating all those members: http://stacktheodds.net/free what do you think?

VWD have just launched their much anticipated ‘Viral Marketing System’ to the affiliates on their network, and it’s proving to be a hit with the 200,000 current members of the website.

VWD dropped the £9.99 joining fee allowing affiliates to join the program for Free. This is great news for both new and more experienced affiliates and sets VWD up for explosive growth over the coming months. New affiliates get a 100% free, zero risk, online presence with built in viral marketing system, more experienced affiliates can focus on assisting new affiliates with the growth of their networks.

VWD’s affiliate program is one of those rare cases where payments are made on 7 levels of affiliate activity, almost unique!

Get more details here: http://stacktheodds.net/free

In my time building mlm businesses here are the 7 secrets that have been shared with me by some of the most successful online network marketers out there:

1. Have a VERY Strong Reason.
You’ll hear this referred to as ‘the dream’, ‘your goal’ and so on. The whole point of this is that you are going to need something to drive you on, even when things don’t seem like they’re working. Having a nice car is one thing, but as we all know, we can easily settle for less and give up. Get emotionally attached to your goal, make it something you can see, believe and feel strongly about. Amongst the easiest ‘emotional goals’ you can focus on are those involving your children and your immediate family. Imagine being able to provide that dream for your family. Visualise it and see it in your minds eye as if you have already have it, feel it, believe it, get attached to it.

2. Use a ‘System’ to Generate Your Own Leads and Extra Cash
Don’t make the mistake of buying leads. There are lots of systems out there designed to allow you to generate your own leads for free. The systems known as ‘funded proposals’ are designed to do two things: Provide you with an endless stream of new leads and Put money in your pocket. I cannot endorse the funded proposal system enough. Network Marketers suffer two problems: not enough leads and running out of money. The funded proposal solves both of these problems.

3. Promote YOU First.
People join you in business, mostly they don’t really join you in business for the products. People love to follow leaders and will join you in business for your leadership and the relationship they can build with you. By promoting You Inc. it maybe that you can lead your team to opportunities when things may have gone wrong in your existing company. (This doesn’t sound too positive but it is a reality and it does happen)

4. Focus on Attracting Experienced Network Marketers.
This is what we might call a ‘no brainer!’ Experienced network marketers already understand the principles of mlm, they already understand the power of leverage and duplication and most importantly they are usually educated and positive and are a lot easier to work with. By focusing on attracting experienced mlmers you are not going to  go through the whole pyramid, scam argument and all that other negative, time wasting blah blah stuff.

5. Take the Time to Build Relationships with Your Leads
Provide value, care about them, develop bonds, share your skills and experiences. Listen to their challenges and issues, empathise, understand and where appropriate provide solutions. Always remember: It’s the little things that make a BIG difference, one tiny act of kindness can go a VERY long way.

6. If You Can Help – HELP!
Support the network marketing industry, support your fellow network marketers. It really doesn’t matter which company they are with, whether they are cross line, upline, downline or whatever. Always help out where you can. Remember a rising tide will raise all ships. If you can suggest a solution to a problem, suggest it, If you know of a resource that will help someone, send them to it. What goes around comes around. What we give out is what we get back.

7. LEARN Stuff Fom People That Have Already Done It
You simply must be ‘Coachable’ Quite simply makes no sense to try and figure everything out on your own and effectively rewrite the book. there are thousands of successful online network marketers to learn from and they are giving giving giving! Find someone you can relate to and learn from them. Look for a mentor and become a student. ASK For Help!

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We had a pretty good training meeting up in Northampton on Sunday just gone, this was a training to support those people that have downloaded and have put to use the ebook authored by David Butler, Gordon Bunker and yours truly (The PIE System). It was really intended to help people out with the setting up of the various programs and systems once you dig in to IMSP and PIPS and then also how to get the best out of some of those programs. So, I spent a fair while preparing and getting materials together for that. It seemed like a good idea to put together video’s that could be shown at the training which show step by step how to perform various activities and actions.

It has become apparent that for the new net marketer things can be pretty darn daunting, not to mention highly confusing and overwhelming! As I cast my mind back to when I first set out on this amazing journey it was a mad time for me too, incredibly exciting, but downright crazy!

Like anything worthwhile, there’s quite a learning curve to deal with, and, to be honest, that learning curve doesn’t seem to stop, there’s always something new to learn about and lots of ways to fine tune and improve results. That’s really what I wanted to focus on in this post.

We’re in the business of building lists, opt in email lists… We hear it all the time “Build your list” and “The money is in the list”. What I have been taught, and what I teach others is rather than sending your traffic directly to your affiliate sign up page, where ever that may be, capture the name and email address of that person first with a ’squeeze’ or ‘data capture’ page so that they can be added to your auto responder list such as those provided by Aweber or Get Response. That’s all very well, but, the question has always been “How do I get someone to part with their name and email address on a capture page and end up on my opt in list?”. There’s lots of ways of doing this, but what’s worked really well for me is to use proven systems that are known to convert traffic into subscribers and subscribers into buyers. A great example of this is James Grandstaff’s Instant MLM Squeeze Pages, my favourite squeeze page of the lot is this one: http://www.theeasyprofitgenerator.com
I have spent many hours studying James’ system and techniques, and, through this I managed to put my own little squeeze page together which captures subscribers for my e-lottery business: http://stacktheodds.net

Having these great systems and capture pages is great, but it’s completely pointless if we don’t have traffic! So, I suppose that’s the next big question: “How do I get traffic to my squeeze pages?” This, for me, is where the fun really begins! So, what follows in this post is a few methods of creating traffic at low cost or for free and also what I’ve done to measure the ‘responsiveness’ of that traffic.

Talking to any good net marketer, they will always say ‘Track your results’. Simple web stats can tell you about where that traffic came from and what may have been searched for etc, but it won’t tell you what ‘actions’ occured on your page and it certainly won’t tell you what traffic turned into a ’sale’ or ’subscriber’.

Why Track?
If we’re going to spend time and money on developing a traffic stream to our squeeze page, we want to know which traffic sources are providing results. A really good service that was recommended to me is ProTrackerPlus. It’s a great service because it not only allows you to track all sorts of links and sources, it also teaches you how to track, or as the boys over there (Dam and Mark) put it… All you want in a tracker.. with the Training You Deserve!

Setting up a free account over at ProtrackerPlus allows you to set up 5 trackers. So, I deceided a while ago to track some of my pages to see what happened.. The results were surprising (at least to me!).

Heres my results from tracking my pages on 4 manual traffic exchanges over 5 days (in no particular order):

1. Dragon Surf
Clicks: 893     Actions: 15     Sales: 2     Conversions: 0.22%

2. Traffic Splash
Clicks: 498     Actions: 14     Sales: 1     Conversions: 0.20%

3. Traffic Gold Rush
Clicks: 127     Actions: 1     Sales: 0     Conversions: 0.00%

4. Hit Safari
Clicks: 509     Actions: 5     Sales: 2     Conversions: 0.39%

This test has been a real eye opener for me. Generating traffic for free in a Manual Traffic Exchange is not really my favourite pass time, and, to accrue the amount of traffic you see in the figures above for free takes a little while.

What have I learned?

In the last 5 days, Hit Safari out performed the other 3 exchanges with a conversion rate of 0.39% (for every 509 clicks I have got 2 subscribers to my list) It’s worth me spending a bit more time at Hit Safari or even worth buying some traffic

Traffic Goldrush has a bunch of traffic still left to deliver (something like 700 hits) but has not managed to deliver me that traffic over the last 5 days.

Dragon Surf is a steady 0.22% conversion and delivers the traffic at a good rate

Traffic Splash also steady 0.20% and delivers traffic at a good rate

The surprise here for me has been Hit Safari. While surfing I always pick up loads of free prize credits which always made me a little suspicious. Turns out my suspicions were unfounded and that this Traffic Exchange not only delivers traffic it also provides responsive traffic!

List Builders

Another good source of responsive traffic for me has been list builders. As part of the training we did on Sunday I produced a few videos, I’ll post two of them here.

The first one is based on List Joe. List Joe is a credit based list builder. This effectively means that if I read other List Joe members emails, I will earn credits, which in turn will enable me to email ListJoe members. The video is based on using a free account which allows you to deliver 2500 emails to ListJoe emails every 7 days.

My List Joe results have been to land 3 subscribers for every 2500 emails sent (which resulted in 120 visits) That’s a pretty good conversion rate of 2.5%

Finally, There’s Downline Builder Direct.
Downline Builder Direct is more of a ‘Safe List’. This means that I agree to receive other DBD emails in return for the ability to email DBD members in return. This is not credit based, so it means that we have to concentrate a little harder on writing a good email that encourages people to open it and read it. (There’s a great free course just come out by Michael Rasmussen called ‘Email Promo’s Exposed’ I would strongly recommend checking this out if you are interested in sending out promotional emails!)

That’s it for this post, I hope this has been useful to you in some way. Do comment, even if it bored your socks off I really enjoy any feedback…

Cheers!

Ian

A Video seemed a lot more sensible to me… enjoy!

Here’s a list of the tools I use in the video:

Aweber
Quick Tab Change by Jay Hines
ListJoe
Instant MLM Squeeze Pages by James Grandstaff

I do hope you’ve found this infomation useful and that it helps you save time and money in your advertising efforts.

Go ahead and leave a comment and let me know what you thought!

Cheers!

Ian

After quite a crazy weekend, I thought I’d jump straight back in this morning with a blog post. I say crazy because my brother, in all his wisdom, asked me over to his place to watch the Calzaghe, Roy Jones Jnr. fight on Saturday night.. well as it turned out it was very early Sunday morning! Paul told me the fight was due to start at 2.15am Sunday Morning… Heh! it didn’t get started until 4.30am and I rolled home to bed at something just before 6am. I’m just glad he won!! Anyway, onto today’s post…

I’ve had some great results from Downline Builder Direct and can happily recommend it as a service.
I was introduced to Downline Builder Direct by James Grandstaff, and, as you will see when you look at the site James’ endorsement of the service is slap bang in the middle of the home page.

James being on that home page quoting some amazing statistics encouraged me to go for the diamond membership, well, that and a one time offer which was very hard to ignore

So, I posted a couple of emails to the members and had some great results. I managed to achieve a 40% conversion on the squeeze page (This One) I was promoting, which is probably the best conversion rate I have ever achieved in any program.

I suppose this can also be attributed to the brilliant squeeze page I am using which is not my design, but one of those available to members of Instant MLM Squeeze Pages. I guess it can also be attributed to the kind of people that are members of the Downline Builder Direct community, they’re obviously interested in building downlines and downline building systems!

So, If you are looking to get more traffic to your pages and more importantly high conversion rates on the page then I would heartily recommend you go take a look at Downline Builder Direct

That’s all for now

Cheers!

Ian

A fantastic new squeeze page which pulls like crazy. James just announced the release of this first new squeeze page via his blog.
The new squeeze page is available to platinum members of Instant MLM Squeeze Pages James notes there are more pages to follow.
He also recently added the ability to use Get Response with the system as well as Aweber, this is now Live too.

Checkout the new squeeze page: Here

Cheers!
Ian

You see, when building any MLM business, the most important asset you have, apart from an upline who believes in you, is your list. In today’s ‘new age’ of MLM that list is actually your optin list, that’s your list of subscribers who optin to get information from you about opportunities and systems to help them build their MLM business. These optin’s, leads, people, individuals, however you like to refer to them have joined your list and probably your MLM downline system through using that MLM downline system.

So how do you choose which MLM Downline System to use?

Here are some very important questions you should ask yourself before you make that decision:

1. Do your optins actually join YOUR list?

OK, so you found an amazing, 100% Free MLM downline building system that produces leads and downlines for you. Did those leads actually join your list? I’ve seen this, you spend hours of hardwork in the Traffic Exchanges and List-Builders promoting this system that supposedly has evrything… It’s free, it provides lead capture pages, video, personalised to you, follow-up messages to send, everything, and great, you have leads appearing in your back office. Now all you want to do is broadcast a message to them. Can you do it? Actually in some scenario’s, No, you can’t, but guess what, the system owners can and, they do!

2. Who controls the messages sent out to your leads?

You really ought to be using one of the auto responders like aweber or get response to manage your list optins and control what messages are sent out to them. I have seen, and worked with, some MLM downline systems which purport to have those leads available to you, which they are, but they are not in your auto responder, they’re in someone elses and you have no control over what opportunities, offers and, importantly, links that are sent out to those individuals.

Successful New Age MLM downline builders all agree, have your own auto responder, have your own optin list, write your own series of follow up emails that you can control.

3. Can you obtain support and training from your upline?

In order to be successful in MLM, you are going to need training and support, period! It’s just the way it is. With some of the mlm downline systems out there, which I have worked with, I contacted my sponsor by email, the email that he joined with. It took me three weeks to get even a reply and for him to say, actually I don’t know what I’m doing, I’m new and No, I don’t know anything about all those emails I’ve been sending you about ‘our fantastic team’. Now this one is the straw tht broke the camels back for me, I’m a bit old school, I KNOW that you need to have the help and support of an upline team to be successful in MLM. If that downline building system does not encourage communication and training for it’s team members, it has a hole in it.

4. Are you put under undue pressure to part with your money?

Some free mlm downline systems suggest they can deliver 10’s and even 20’s of streams of ‘passive income’, great! Some of those streams of income are expensive to get started and, in fact, they maybe prohibitively expensive, particularly for the newcomer. The newcomer has put in lots of work and is seeing some success with his downline growing, a new stream of income is announced and unless the newcomer signs up within a very short timescale it’s going to be hard luck, your downline will join around you.

5. You want to stop using that system, what happens to your leads?

I built a list in a system I shouldn’t have done, other people were contacting my leads with their own offers and programs, this is just plain wrong! There is only one thing to do when this happens, quit that system and start to build your own list with an mlm downline system that builds YOUR list, not someone elses.

So, to conclude, I know how exciting it can be to discover a 100% Free MLM downline building system, I really do! But, before you go ahead and take out your wallet and credit card, consider your options very carefully. If the answer to some of the questions I have raised above is less than positive or they ring a bell, be very careful.

http://www.theeasyprofitgenerator.com/