Why Should Your Prospects Be Attracted to You?

In order to be successful at any kind of business, especially Network Marketing, you need to be able to answer clearly this question: why should your prospects be attracted to you? Unfortunately, many people fail because they are unable to answer the question.

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Do You Believe The Shortest Road to a Goal is a Straight Line?

Do you believe the shortest road to a goal is a straight line? If you do, did you know that on its way to the moon, the Apollo is off course 97% of the time? And yet it gets there. “Why? Because of continuous course correction,” Says Jeff Olson, author of the Slight Edge.

And as he continues, that means for you and I, to match the degree of accuracy of the Apollo is to be on course only 10 days of the entire year. I don’t know about you but it drives me crazy. You see, I like to know, feel in control, and be on track, all the time.

Yes I love having control over my life, and all entrepreneurs do. The one common characteristic to all entrepreneurs is a great need for control. That’s because we know that we have to create our own life, our own destiny and that if it’s going to be, it’s up to us.

Do You Believe The Shortest Road to a Goal is a Straight Line?

So we craft a vision, devise a strategy to turn it into goals, and come up with tactical plans to implement the strategy. Then we get off track. We get back on track and try a bit harder, just to fall off track again. Finally we seek advice and learn that we will be off track less than one day per month.

Yes sometimes, I feel like screaming. So I have learned to live with it; I get off track faster than it takes me to write this post. But in the process I have also learned something more valuable; the frustration I get for being off track is a powerful force to get me back on track and moving toward my goal.

No, the shortest road to your goal is not a straight line. But if you learn to correct your course, you will get there. Correcting your course is the slight edge that will take you where you are going. How do you do that?

You do every single day something towards your goal, no matter how you feel, no matter how off track you are. What you do is not as important as the fact that you do something. And if you really have no strength, then do this; express your lack of strength in a way that contributes to your goal.

No, I don’t always feel like writing, but then I write about how I don’t feel like writing and why. And when I do, I know I have engaged in course correction. I will back on track, just in time to get off again. And that is alright, because sooner than I expect, I will reach my goal. Just don’t ask me to draw the line.

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What Keeps You Going?

If you have been in business for a while, then you know that at times the going gets though. What keeps you going? When you feel discouraged and unable to move another step? Yet you know you cannot stop for if you do you will be trampled down.

What keeps you going? When your heart has been broken one more time and you tell yourself everyone is right; you are probably just a dreamer who takes his wishes for reality. What makes you take that one more step and then the next?

Success is not easy, the road is bumpy. It’s amazing how dark it feels sometimes in the middle of a perfect summer day. It’s incredible how lonely it is even when surrounded by all our loved ones. The success road is a long and difficult one.

What Keeps You Going?

Yet you ask yourself; what else is there? What keeps you going? I don’t about you but for me, there is no alternative. Success is not a goal, it is the way I live my life. Success is not a dream it is how I define myself.

What else is there but to be successful? I know, many settle and give up because they believe it is easier that way. Yes being successful is not easy. But I also know why I have never considered giving up.

It is a lot easier to be successful than it is to fail. Once you have given up, you have all the rest of your life to live a life that you call mediocre. You see, once you embarked on the journey to become a better person, you agreed that it was unacceptable to live otherwise.

To give up without achieving that standard mean you will have to justify to yourself every single day of the rest of your life why it is acceptable to live a life less than what you can and deserve. You will have to explain to yourself for the rest of your life why it is ok to be a failure.

And that is very hard. So hard that no matter how hard it seems today to take another step into this dark and lonely world toward success, I will do it anyway. And I hope you to take it with me. For the road less travel if you and I the only road to travel.

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Are You Doing The Right Thing?

You are working your Network Marketing business. You are handling paper work, checking your back office, visualizing. You have a calculator in hand and everyday you go through the compensation plan to see how much you could make.

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How Can You Market Your Network Marketing Blog?

Creating a blog for your Network Marketing Business is a great start. Filling it with valuable blog posts for your intended audience is another great step. However, unless people can find their way to you blog, you won’t be able to serve them.

For them to find you blog you have to bring it to them; this is call marketing you blog. How can you market your Network Marketing blog? Here a few ways that will help you drive traffic to your blog without costing you much.

How Can You Market Your Network Marketing Blog?

• Submit your blog to Search Engines to increase your chances of being found sooner rather than later. The most popular are Google, Lycos, MSN, Yahoo!, DMOZ.
• Select six keywords for your blog and strategically place them around your blog where they are appropriate, for Search Engines to find them. Do not overdo.
• Always tag your blog posts to increase your chances of being found by Search Engines.
• Add videos on you blog; people are always looking for video and your blog will come up in the search results.
• Enable RSS, Atom or XML feed on you blog and submit it to blog directories. The most popular are Technorati, Blogexplosion, Weblogs, Blogrolling.
• Use Link Exchanges to promote other related or complimentary blogs, who will also promote you in return.
• Use Trackbacks to increase your exposure to readers of other blogs you referenced in your own blog posts. Learn more about Trackbacks.
• Use social bookmarks to notify your friends of new blog posts.
• Leave comments on other related blogs with your blog address in your signature. People who read your comments might visit your site to learn more about it.
• Post everyday; Search Engines love regularly updated website and will notice and come to favor you.

Marketing your blog is a long time process and will require patience from you. However, with persistence and consistency, you will soon build a system that will bring thousands of traffic daily to your blog.

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What Can You Blog About For Network Marketing?

Blogging is the new trend and if you don’t have a blog yet, you are missing out. More than ever, network marketing is about relationship marketing. Blogging gives you the best opportunity to build those relationships with people all over the world.

As we discussed in How Can You Use Blogging For Network Marketing, you need a topic that’s valuable and relevant to your audience. Blogging is about providing information that readers consider worth their time and attention. Unless you can hold their interest, they will not stick around.

So, what can you blog about for network marketing? First identify who you want to attract. The best place to start is with your network marketing vision. Certainly you want to build a large organization, but what sets you apart?

What will be the values of that organization? Who are the people most likely to succeed when doing business with you? Look at what you are doing now and who you work best with. Do you want to attract people in your current profession?

What about the particular reason you joined? Did you have a traumatic situation that caused you to open a Network Marketing business? If so there might be others out there who can relate to you and share their experiences with you. Your background, your passions, your hobbies are best place to look for a target audience.

Once you have determined your target audience and what link you to them, it will be easy to find the topic you can share with them. For example, if you are an insurance sales agent, you can talk about the challenges of the profession to attract other sales agent. Or you can talk about insurance needs for couples to attract stay at home parents.

Before you start blogging, be clear on how you will tie your audience needs to your Network marketing opportunity. For example, stay at home parents might need an extra income to afford those insurance needs you have helped them identify. Or maybe building residual income can be a great complement to the limitations of some insurance policies.

Your goal is to build a relationship with your audience to the point where they will trust you and do or refer business to you. To be relevant your topic must be timely. To be valuable, it must address a specific need. To be profitable, it needs to tie into your business. Planning might take some time, but in the long run, it will save you more time.

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How Can You Use Blogging For Network Marketing?

Chances are you have read many blogs, and you know that you can blog about anything. You have even heard and saw how many people use their blogs for their business.  So, how can you use blogging for Network Marketing?

First, let’s look at why people blog. Although blogging can be for anything, the goal, if you want to be successful, is always Read more

Have You Heard Yourself Lately?

Do you even know what you sound like? Have you heard yourself lately? Do you know what you say and how it comes across to others? Are you aware of your good and bad speaking habits?

Most of us will not leave the house without visually checking ourselves in the mirror. It does not matter how many times we have worn an outfit, and even though we have not changed the way we brush our hair, or apply our makeup in years, we will Read more

Have You Been Trying to Manage Your Time?

Have you been trying to manage your time? Chances are, you have been failing. You have probably read many books and participated in many programs, yet time still seems to fly by you. You can’t get things done on time.

Time management is a myth because it forces you to focus on Read more

How Can You Influence People More Effectively?

If you are unable to influence people, you cannot be in business and you cannot be an entrepreneur. Influence is one of the most important qualities you need to possess if you want to succeed.

How can you influence people more effectively? Unfortunately you can’t. Read more

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