It is easy to become bogged down, paralyzed and lost in the great expanse of information.  Trying to find that perfect training, that tidbit of information that may give you the “big break”, trying to become a “jack of all trades but master of none”, trying to find the right system, causing one to become scattered, even paralyzed in your activity and not producing results.  It is of no use if you have a perfect website, perfect blog, produce technically correct and aesthetically pleasing videos if you are not producing results.  Jim Rohn says that “Results are the score card,  if you are not producing results you are doing something wrong”  . So how does one sort through it all and overcome information overload to produce results?

Over coming Information overload

 Here are three pointers that I recently came across that have helped me refocus and get back on track.

1. Have a streamlined focus:  Besides being focused on your goals, target market etc we must also be very focused and selective  in our training.  Don’t worry about doing everything or learning everything.  Rather focus on one or at most two activities, or methods and master them.  In Social Media Marketing you don’t have to be active on every site available.  In fact those who are highly successful in building a business on line do focus primarily on only one or two as their main thrust.  Master one thing at a time, don’t try to be a “jack of all trades and master of none”.  Even if you are using The Renedage Professional with its 275 videos and 105 hours of training focus on mastering only one of the ideas at a time.  Learning and training are not the end, they are only the means to the end – which is results
2.  Focus on Marketing:Remember our main job as a marketer is to market.  If we spend all our time trying to get the perfect website, blog, article, video then we are distracted from the activity that is going to produce the results we are looking for, which is marketing.  Sure we should improve and tweek things as we go but we can hire experts to build a website or blog for us.  If we market more we will get more.  We should be focusing the biggest part of our activities on producing and publishing the material that is going to bring in the results that we are looking for, get results and then improve.  Don’t worry about being a technical genius be a marketer.
3. Focus on being Consistent:  Never quit producing material until you are getting the results you want.  It is better to produce a little less each week but be consistent rather than doing it all at once then nothing for 6 months.

FOCUS

Other Recomended Reading (click here): “The Power of Focus” (from Amazon)

 One way that a marketer by attraction can get started with no cost is by submitting ezine articles to sites like EzineArticles.com  and content sharing sites like Squidoo and Hubpages. There a  number of others as well, each with its own style and requirements.

Some sites such as Ezine Articles are intended more for editorial and technical type content and have a higher standard for submission.  It’s thrust is less tolerant of “marketing” type of content but if the material is good it may get picked up by Editors looking for content for their ezines, and you gain the exposure with your “resource box”, that is the spot reserved for you to share about yourself and your website.

Some of the content sharing such as Squidoo, for example, you can do more of a “marketing pitch” with embeded links etc., however you still want to provide content of value.

The (3) Keys to Article Marketing:

 1.  Create great, original content to
     position you as an expert in your niche.

 2.  Create great, original content that
     does not “sell” or promote in your
     article body content, but provides
     useful information for your reader.

 3.  Submit your best original content
     frequently to build a steady stream of traffic
     back to your website.

Each article you submit contains different components and sections. While some sections carry more weight than others; each section must be crafted with care and foresight. A truly great article can increase traffic to your website. 

 1.  Proof your Work: Credibility and expertise in
     your article subject matter can be diminished by
     typos or grammatical errors in any part of your
     article. Here’s a proof-reading tip: Read your
     work out loud. Often times this will help you
     catch mistakes you missed while reading the
     article to yourself silently.

 2.  Keep Your Audience in Mind: If you are writing
     an article on a technical topic, it’s fine to
     use technical terms, but be wary of alienating
     a wider target of readers with information they
     may not be ready to understand or digest.

 3.  Keep An Ace Up Your Sleeve: Always keep a tidbit
     of important information in reserve to make your
     readers want more. Remember, your article can
     generate traffic, so use the Resource Box to
     entice your readers to click on your website
     link.

 4.  Be Clear and Concise in Your Writing: A 500 word
     article will always out-perform a 1000 word
     article. You are writing for a medium that
     embraces instant gratification: the Internet.
     Keep your articles clear and concise, so the
     reader can quickly comprehend the quality
     content you are sharing.

Each of the sites have good training and tips as well as blogs written by those with experinec on writing articles that can really help.  As well, Renegade University provides excellent step by step video tutorials on how to register and submit articles at some of these sites.  The video tutorials are great because you can see exactly where to click and what to enter as well as numerous tips for improving your results in attracting a large list of customers or prospects.

Interestingly enough BusinessWeek  recently ran an article:

“Social Media Will Change Your Business… Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later.”

Of course, blogs were only one of six different social marketing methods we went over on the Webinar.  Each of the Social Marketing methods we talked about, blogs and the rest of it, are going to revolutionize business, whether that’s a networking business or a traditional business.

How a Blog helps you grow your business:

- Gets people to your website

- Gets people to your lead capture pages

- Positions you  as the expert

- Pre Sells your prospects

- Builds Prospects list continously

- Increases Monetization (cash-flow)

- Brings People into your business

We’ll start with the basics.

What is a blog? I’ll give you a few definitions from Google.

• Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the website.
• A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis.
• A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and web links.
• An online journal.

Obviously a blogger is someone who owns or operates a blog and blogging is considered updating or writing posts on your blog.

When you set up a blog for yourself you’re instantly adding to the professionalism of you and your business. Establishing yourself as an expert and authoritative figure is crucial to success in any industry. Having your own online presence with your own customized website that you have control over will help accomplish this.

Just ask yourself: What professional business doesn’t have their own website or blog? It’s hard to imagine any without one. Even supermarkets and gas stations have websites these days.

A major benefit of having your own blog that you cannot get with just an affiliate url is the free “organic” or “natural” search engine traffic that you’ll receive.

Just so you don’t get the wrong impression though, this isn’t something that happens overnight after your blog is built. You have to put some work into optimizing it so the search engines can easily find you. And also know that the search engine optimization process is never really over – there are things that can be done on a daily basis to improve your position or rankings in the search engines. But for now, just realize that if you have a blog you open yourself up to another (free) traffic opportunity that normally wouldn’t be available to you.

Step-by-step ‘Build Your Blog’ class  

If you were able to attend Renegade University’s Webinar last night about how “Blogs Bring Prospects” you already know about our first step-by-step ‘Build Your Blog’ class on Friday February 29/08 (live).

It is recorded and available at the Renegade Professional back-office.

If you are not yet at the Renegade Professional level, now is a very good time to put our training course to the test…

Since the Blog Service is free the first two weeks, and it’s only $1 to Upgrade to the Professional level for 7 days, it’s a perfect chance for you to check out everything Renegade Professional offers, while learning what this Blogging Gig is all about.

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For those looking for a more aggressive approach to blogging Click Here!

Here is a basic outline showing how to set up a Business Plan in the new attraction-based model of Network Marketing:

1. Build your email list and attract prospects to you by setting up a simple Internet marketing process (i.e. advertise and track your results so you can do more of what works and drop what doesn’t). 
2. Create multiple income streams while you’re prospecting to cover your advertising costs or even make a profit while prospecting. 
3. Use auto email campaigns to continually attract higher and higher qualified prospects to you. Provide value to them in your emails. 
4. Provide value to your prospects when they contact you so they want more of you and not less. Never push your agenda. Provide prospects with solutions that are based on what they need right now. These could be products or services you sell, free assistance you offer to establish a relationship or, this could be something you offer to those who decide to join your network marketing team (as an incentive for them). 
5. Continue learning Internet marketing and people skills to attract a higher and higher caliber prospect as you go forward.  

 For learning to build a business online using attraction marketing and monetization principles I have found Renegade University  to be one of the best for the beginner and an excellent opportunity for the experienced guru to “monetize” their building efforts.  This course is committed to giving as many people as possible free access to Internet attraction marketing training so that more people can build their networking business in the modern age. In deed the material is highly beneficial to building any online business. At the heart of the university training is “attraction marketing” and “monetization” using Web 2.0 technology.

Attraction Marketing is playing a major role in professionalizing the networking industry by replacing the old-school ‘chase your prospects’ mentality with the more progressive approach of getting them to come to you by providing value and service first.

The University provides tons of free training… but when you’re ready you can upgrade to Renegade Professional where you are taught the most current (and easy to follow) methods at a cost anyone can afford and in a way all beginners can follow.

If you want to set up your own social marketing campaign that works for you night and day to bring endless prospects your way, who see value in what you offer before you even talk with them, Renegade University will show you how to do this at the Professional level. You can learn Adwords, Ezines and dozens of other methods (you choose) where there is built-in monetization so you actually generate your own prospect list without it costing you one cent.

By implementing just a couple of the techniques I have been able to generate cash and add to my list of contacts.

Click Here to learn more about Attraction Marketers University