Networking Your Way to Online Success

Forums, groups, boards, and loops; they’re all synonymous for
online locations facilitating online networking. Some are
entirely public, where everyone and anyone can click to the URL,
read the messages and if they have no interest in contributing,
they can just lurk. Some require active participation and others
require registration before members can participate. These
online forums, groups, boards or loops are different from paid
membership sites in that there is no cost to network at these
websites.

Some are active, some are sleepy. Some are strictly for business
related topics; some allow more OT (Off Topics) and social
interaction. There are forums for every imaginable topic:
Entrepreneurs, International business, Health related fields,
Technology, Copywriters, Web Designers, Work at Home Moms,
Programmers, Finance, Ebay, Job Seekers, Internet Marketing,
Writers, Inventors and Virtual Assistants, just to barely scratch
the surface of what’s out there on the World Wide Web.

Time management skills need to be paramount when participating in
online forums. You can very easily get swallowed up and spend
hours and hours online networking with others who have online
businesses, yet you miss real opportunities to get some
productive work done!

From a business standpoint, there are two areas you should
consider before participating in a loop. It’s always good to
have a network of like-minded business people. If you’re a web
designer, hang out with other designers. You can help and
support each other. If you’re just starting out, you can learn
from the pros.

Don’t get stuck though, just hanging out with your own kind.
You’re not going to be very successful trying to promote your
design services to other designers. This is where balance comes
in. Pop into the boards, check new posts of interest, ask or
answer questions, then get out. Then move onto groups who need
your services or products. Who is your target market and where
do they hang out? Go there. Word of caution: Do not go to
these forums with the sole purpose of SPAMMING the group. You’ll
be tossed out on your ear quicker than you can blink if that is
your sole purpose. People like to do business with people they
know and trust – or at the very minimum have at least heard of.


If you’re trying to sell your curriculum to a group of home
school parents and you just pop in, spew your sales rap all over
the boards then expect any sort of return, you’re missing the
point of online networking. It’s networking – not advertising.
You need to build a rapport with your other “loopies”. Then if a
need arises and they know one of their own fellow networkers has
that special skill or product, guess who they’ll call first? You
hope it’s YOU.

For starters check MSN, Google, Yahoo, AOL, and Ryze. Inside
there are literally hundreds and thousands of groups just waiting
for you. Start networking your way to success today!

Downline Building – Necessary Skill or Marketing Smoke

So, you have your mind set on being an Internet marketing
professional and dream of making big money on the Internet. If
you look around Internet marketing forums one might soon get the
idea that building down lines was a necessary evil in order to be
a big success in the realm on online marketing.

Well here is some food for your brain that might just dispel that
thought for you. How about this does Google need a downline to be
successful? How about YouTube or MySpace? Granted they both need
pools of eager user, there is no doubt that in the realm of sites
like MySpace and Squidoo having networks of friends is helpful
from a marketing perspective, but is it necessary to build a
downline.

What is less clear is the skill of building a downline necessary
to become a successful online marketer. The term online marketer
used here because so many have the preconceived notion that in
Internet marketing downline building is a must. It is safe to say
that if you have been on any Guru's list for anytime they have
most certainly passed one program or another by you that required
becoming a member of one of their downlines.

In this scenario who is most often the one benefiting by this
proposed alliance with you the would be online marketer or the
list owning guru. We will not try to argue the point that many
have made a good living off of downline building and that there
is a certain merit to downline structured enterprises, but for
whom? Generally the one that benefits most from these programs
are the list owner or program owner not the would be online
marketer that is on average going to build a downline of no more
than a handful of sign ups.

Before you can answer the question is downline building a
necessary marketing skill you need to answer the question what
kind of online business are you after in the first place. This
question should be answered before you go any further into a
possible career as an online business owner. The second question
and even more important is what type of person are you?

Yes, the most important question in knowing whether downline
building is necessary is who are you. Without answering this
question, you will not know which type of business model is best
suited to your personality. Without this information you are
destine to spend months maybe even years bouncing around from
program to program from system to system trying to find your path
in the Internet marketing jungle.

Getting to know one's self sounds easy at first but many of us
have a hard time separating out the person we would like to think
of ourselves as and the true underlying you. If being a
cheerleader, a team player, a personal training coach, a hand
holder, someone who is constantly answering the same seemingly
ridiculous questions repeatedly than any online marketing career
that involves downline building is for you.

If taking charge, being responsible for your own actions, and
decisions sounds more like the true you, and the above make you
want to scream then you are probably better suited to an online
marketing career designed around being a lone wolf a person in
charge of there own destiny and responsible for no one but
themselves. If this is the case, we are here to tell you downline
building is not a prerequisite to being a successful online
marketer or even may we dare Internet marketer.

There are many ways to make a very comfortable living on the
Internet that requires absolutely no downline building skill at
all. Most websites owners have very little need for the skill of
downline building what they do need is the ability to grow
successful list of customers, build traffic to a website, and
maybe even the opposite side of downline building growing a list
of their own affiliates. This last one not being a prerequisite
to a successful website either.

So, in the end if you are finding building huge downlines a
problem, you just do not seem to have your heart in it maybe you
do not need to. Maybe what you need is a web business that does
not require the needed skills of downline building. Maybe you
need the type of online business that actually dominates the
Internet, maybe what you need is your own website business. Only
you can answer the question of what is right for you.


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Paid Membership Programs are a Great Way to Make Money

When it comes to making money on the Internet there is no
shortage of ways to do it. Of course if you have a product of
your own that is the best place to start. What if you do not have
a product of your own?

Here are a few ways you can sell stuff online with affiliate
marketing to make money for yourself.

- Affiliate Programs. Getting paid to sell other people's
products is the quickest way to get going that I have found.
Affiliate marketing has been around for over 10 years now and
many people look at Amazon.com as one of the first companies to
sell products this way.

You can make money selling clicks such as with Google Adsense.
You can make money selling leads with affiliate programs like Max
Bounty. You can make money selling products. One such way is to
sell information products like you would find at ClickBank.

Another thing you can do is affiliate program directories like
AssociatePrograms.com or Commissions Junction where they have
compiled some of the best products to sell in one place.

One way to make money online is to sell memberships. This can be
done through both affiliate marketing as well as network
marketing. Getting paid over and over for making one sale is
called residual income.

Certainly network marketing also offers some great residual
income for repeat business on a monthly basis. Many MLM companies
will set up your customers and distributors on auto-ship and the
products they order go out like clock work every month. When they
do you make a commission every month just like clockwork as
well.

Back to paid memberships. Products that can be accessed online
and offer value to your customer are great to sell. Paid
memberships fit this description. Subscriptions on how to run a
home business, personal development, paid newsletters on every
subject imaginable, website hosting, autoresponders, and just
about anything you can think of, offer you a chance to create
residual income.

Two tier programs where you get paid on the sales of people you
recruit work great for paid membership programs as well. Of
course network marketing falls into this category and can even be
better because you can make money every month on the sales of a
large group of people.

The key with most paid subscription programs is you make a little
bit of money on every sale. The first month this may not amount
to much. The second month it can be more. In a year it can be
quite a lot. Kind of like compound interest if you know how that
works.

Your efforts and your sales compound themselves offering you a
great chance to build an income that you could walk away from in
a few years.

Can you say that about your current job?

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Are You Using This Internet Marketing Secret?

If you are trying to sell a product or service on the Internet,
then you are probably doing so through an affiliate program. You
signed up as an affiliate (usually for free) and they gave you an
affiliate ID (user name or number). They may have even given you
a basic marketing package which includes text ads, banner ads,
and solo ads with a link to your affiliate sales page. All you
have to do is use these tools to get traffic to your affiliate
sales page.

Well that sounds pretty easy, doesn't it? This process actually
works too, except that your probability of converting your
traffic into sales is very, very, very low. In other words, you
may have to have thousands of people to visit your affiliate
sales page before you ever see your first sell. Now those aren't
very good odds, are they?

Unfortunately, that is what most people do. They spend a lot of
time, effort, and money getting all of those people to that
affiliate sales page and then they finally make a sale and earn a
referral fee or commission. But wait, it can get even worse.
Let's say that you made one sale and earned a $10 commission.
That's great, right? Well not really, because in the terms and
conditions of your affiliate program, you don't actually get paid
until you have accumulated at least $20 of commissions. So get
back to it and get another sale and finally get paid. Good
grief!

Don't quit! Internet marketing is a great way to make extra
money, but you have to know some of the secrets. Here's one.
"Don't advertise your affiliate program directly." You must use a
four step process.

Four Step Process

1. First, you must provide something of value. The easiest
valuable thing that you can give away is information. An
informative email course, special report, or ebook are all great
ways to give away free information.

2. This step goes along with the initial step above. Don't give
away your free information until you get an email address. You
must capture the name and email address of your prospective sale
in order to be able to implement the next step.

3. If the information that you are providing is good and helps
people, then you will earn some trust. If someone gives you some
information that saves you time, money, or effort; then you are
going to closely read anything that they send you - as long as
the information is still valuable. This is why it is so important
that you get that name and email address before you start giving
away your information. Now you can keep the information flowing
through an occasional email to your prospect.

4. Finally, if you have been providing valuable information and
earning trust from people, it is much more likely that they will
buy something that you recommend. This is especially true if you
can convince them that what you are recommending will help them
and that it is worth their money. The easiest way to do this is
to recommend something that you have actually purchased and use
yourself. Just tell them how it helped you and why you think that
it was worth what you paid for it!


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