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)

The Internet Attraction Network Marketing community got a huge boost with  Ann Sieg and Mike Klingler announcing the opening of the Internets premier marketing training site. “The Renegade Professional” for training on how to generate leads on the internet for free and building a list of contacts opened on April 2, 2009.

I have been studying this material for a while now and can say I am impressed with the high level of value presented in the training videos.  If you haven’t seen any of the free video training go to our resource page  and watch the videos listed there.  Watch the “Squidoo” training videos and you will learn enough to immediately start generating your own free leads online.

What Makes Renegade Professional Training Different?

Here in this brief video clip Mike Klingler (the Founder of Renegade Professional) explains why or how this training is different.

There are more than 275 Videos in Renegde Professional totaling over 104 hours and 55 minutes! And if you can somehow secure a spot in Renegade Professional you’ll have unlimited access to every second of it.

Squidoo, EzineArticles, Digg, and Facebook. These are only four of the many free/low-cost methods taught in Renegade Professional. There’s still HubPages, YouTube, Twitter, blogging and much, much more

Don’t be intimidated by the amount of training inside the program…Because you WON’T  be left on your own once you’re in there.  There is a Getting Started Check list to guide you through your first 90 days and clear-cut instructions on how to go through the training.  It lays out the order and helps you customize your own training so you can get quick results.  With in a matter of hours you can have material on the internet working to attract prospect, customers and partners to you.  In fact you won’t need to go through all of it to start getting results – a couple of lessons and you are up and running.

ANYONE WITH A COMPUTER AND  INTERNET ACCESS CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE

It’s NOT a book that leaves you with more  questions than when you started.

It’s NOT some course that will sit on your shelf and collect dust.

No slogging through pages of dry text.

No complicated HTML or software to learn.

This program will spoon-feeding you the exact methods some of the top internet marketers haved used to build a $250,000.00/month income… The exact methods Mike’s used to generate over 93,000 free website visitors every month…
CLICK-BY-CLICK….ONE CLICK AT A TIME.

There’s NEVER any confusion or stressing out about what to do next! You can also pause, rewind, and fast forward  these tutorials as many times as you want.

The testimonials coming out of Renegade Professional are amazing and inspiring.  Click Stories from Renegade Professional  and you can read of a “Full time mom who uses Renegade Professional 1 – 2 hours per day to build a downline of 500 and multiply her income by 10″.  Or read of “A stay at home mom with no budget brings in 300 leads a month using free internet marketing methods taught in the Renegade Professional”… and many more.

Johnny knew nothing about internet attraction marketing and Web 2.0 Social Marketing but he had heard someone speaking about doing something to make an impact on the customers that came to the store where he worked as a bagger.  What could he do… well I should let you hear the story for yourself. 

If you have a minute, please watch the following video clip. It’s a beautiful (& true) story of Johnny, the grocery store bagger.  It’s very short, but will remind you of why and how we make an impact in what we do.  You may even want to share it with others & I hope you will.  Make Their Day, too!  Don’t forget to turn on your sound

Click here to view Johnny, the grocery store bagger

A lot of people in the network marketing industry are asking questions about Internet attraction marketing. What is it exactly? How can you use it in your business? Is it only for Networking or can it be applied to other businesses? Can a technically challenged person get started and can they really make it work without a lot of headache?

This FREE WEBINAR will break it down for you. In this event we will be explaining topics including:

1. What is Attraction Marketing
2. Mechanics of what you need in place to use it effectively
3. How to use it to attract prospects for ANY type of business or product

You will want to hurry and register for this event on Monday March 17, 2008 before it books up. To get your link to the webinar you will have to register at the University for free adminsion as this free event is only available to Renegade University members.

]]> http://www.marketbyattraction.com/2008/03/attraction-marketing-what-is-it-webinar/feed/ 1 http://www.marketbyattraction.com/2008/03/attraction-marketing-applied-ezine-articles/ http://www.marketbyattraction.com/2008/03/attraction-marketing-applied-ezine-articles/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:45:46 +0000 admin http://www.marketbyattraction.com/?p=38 Before Web 2.0 Internet marketing it was simply too expensive or too complicated for the average network marketer to afford and implement an effective marketing campaign.    With television, radio and print media out of reach the MLM industry resorted to tactics like the 3-foot rule, the warm market names list, and cold calling. But now, with Web 2.0 Internet Marketing, ‘non-techie’ networkers low on cash can realistically generate huge numbers of leads and attract their customers and prospects to them just like a real business.

 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

I am a baby boomer.  I can remember black and white TV, no computers or even calculators (fingers worked good).  I remember stories trying to explain to children what it would be like to go to the moon “it would take xxx months or years on a train” just to get there never mind coming back.

Speaking of trains.  We were living near Edmonton Alberta when we moved to Ft. McMurray.  The only way in was by train over the swamp.  It was a steam engine and because of the swamps had to go very slow.  It took us 6 days to make that trip which can be made now with cars over the road in 3 to 4 hours.  And Ft. McMurray?  Now that was another story.  At that time it wasn’t much more than a trading post on the river (okay a bit more but not much!).  Today it is a busy little city, the home of the Alberta tar sands having world wide impact.  Who would have thought back then that it would become what it did.

 We moved to Ft. McMurray just when Network Marketing or MLM was getting its start, the beginnings.  Since then Networking has gone through its metamorphasis, going through tremendous changes since its early days and now entering into what Dr. Charles King refers to as “The New Professionals”. I will not take the time to go through those stages but the advent of the personal computer and FedEx have had a huge impact on how business is done.  Those that have changed with the times are reaping the benefits, Network Marketing and Direct Sales have gone on to become something of a major impact on the world.

The style of marketing is changing.  Moving from trying to beg or coerce family, friends, neighbors and any one within 3 feet to attracting new friends and building relationships. The methods of attracting customers or partners is changing.  WEB 2.0, the next wave or phase of the internet is here.  This has tremendous potential for what we can do to grow our businesses.

The sudden and fast rise of Social Networking is one of the key drivers (at least relative to what we are doing) in this change.  In a recent webinar at The Renegade University  we learned that 33% of internet users visit MySpace or have a page there, 29% either are on or go to FaceBook, 35% use YouTube. There are lots of Social Networking sites in cyber land with the number of users doubling every month. The top keyword searches bring up a social site.  Social buyers make 20% more and also spend 25% more of their income.  Some feel that over the next 2 years this is where the action is going to be and if we are going to take advantage of these trends now is the time to do it. 

Social Networking is comprised of a lot of methods:

- Social Networking sites like Facebook, MySpace

- Social Bookmarking sites likeSocialMarker.com

- Content sharing like Squidoo and HubPages

-Video, Photo and Music Sharing Sites like YouTube, MetaCalfe, Flickr

- Blogging sites like SquareSpace,Wordpress or Blogger

- Adapters like Ezine Articles

If we are going to succeed in our business we are going to need to grow and develope in the relatively new art of attracting our customers not attacking.  Not really new, I recommend reading “How to Win Friends and Influence People” originally written in 1937.  (Okay – I guess some things never change). We need to be adapting to new methods using the tools of Social Networking to develope friendships and relationships so that people get to know, like and trust us.

Over 2000 members have joined this month… proving just how much networkers need this kind of step-by-step help to start building their business in the modern age.

You’ll be able to leverage this to attract more (and higher quality) prospects to you, while increasing monetization (that means you earn more while you go about building the business you’re in right now).

With so many people eager to upgrade from the University level to Professional at same time, they are going to do it in two phases. They will be letting those of you who registered for the last Webinar know about it first. If you’re a part of that group you are more than welcome to email and contact your teams and prospects and let them know they can come in as well.

If you’re new to the University you have plenty to plug into and move forward with…

Log into your Renegade University account and get through the tutorials so you can get caught up and start attracting prospects to you using modern strategies. Be sure to watch the archived Webinar in the Step 3 area at the University if you haven’t already–and refer your team there. It’s a powerful introduction to all your marketing options. They will be taking that down soon so watch it while it’s still there.

Most importantly, if you haven’t picked up a copy of the University course book, do that now in Step 1 at the University I would suggest you do that. I found this book gave me a foundational understanding of where the networking industry is going and how I can start attracting prospects, while earning more and building my business with less effort. The step-by-step video tutorials make this realistic for anyone.

If you are not already part of the University you can get a FREE basic version just, click here: Renegade University  What I like about it is that it is generic training and is beneficial no matter what your primary business is.

Evaluation of History

In the early 1950’s, there were no network marketing companies worth talking about. It was not until the late 1950’s that companies like, Shaklee, Neolife, and Amway were developed The unemployment rate was low in the first half (in fact in 1953 it was an all time low of 2.9%). In the last half of the 1950’s, the unemployment rate was highest since the Great Depression in 1958 it was at 6.8%.

The early 1960’s saw all networking continuing to flourish with advent of Mary Kay in 1963, and Avon, Tupperware, and Fuller Brush all achieving momentum. Again the late ‘60’s saw a great softening in the industry with no new companies coming on of any significance. Here we see the same scenario: unemployment high in the first half of the decade; over 2½ million workers were back to work in the second half.

1980’s: again we saw the network marketing industry really flourish in the first half; while in the second half of the decade, it softened and many network marketing “fiascos” occurred. When networking is soft, people and companies take more risks. There were twice as many lawsuits in the second half of the 1980’s as were in the first half. In the first half the unemployment rate reached its highest level in 40 years at 9.7%. While at the end of the ‘80s there were almost ½ the number out of work as there were in the early ‘80’s.

In the1990’s the trend continued. In the early 1990’s (1990- 1994) huge momentum in the industry, in fact “there was more wealth created in by way of MLM from 1990 to 1994 than any other time in history.” (Network Marketing Lifestyles May 2000). From 1996-1999, we had a network marketing recession. In the early 1990’s, the unemployment rate was very high and then in the later years in the 1990’s it hit a 30 year low of 4.2%.

Why were the 1970’s an exception? They really were not but they played out differently. It was an exceptional decade…the first half of the ‘70’s saw unemployment rates jump. The attention to network marketing took off. However, with all the heightened attention, five times as many lawsuits were filed from 1970-1974 than all of those filed in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s, and the big one, Amway, which challenged the very existence of network marketing, lasted until finally beomg settled in 1979. This legal dispute of course dampened what otherwise would have been a greater boom in network marketing in the second half of the decade. In the first half, recession of ‘73-’75, many MLM companies’ growth took off.

Where are we headed in 2008? All major indicators suggest recession: stock market, credit card debt, mortgage foreclosures, fall of the dollar against foreign currencies, company earnings reports across all sectors, manufacturing sector, employment figures, etc.

How do we take advantage of this opportunity?

Do we market products? This does not solve the average person’s perceived need/want. Health and many other items can not be a major priority in this time. During times of recession peoples attention turns to a “just trying to get by” mentality. What we should be doing is making a shift to support people in building residual streams of income to empower them to withstand any kind of economic downturn. “Recession causes people to open their minds to gaining alternative sources of income.” Lou Clements, Marketwave Inc.

What are the selling points of a network marketing business?

(a) Security (not found in a recession)

(b) Financial freedom

 (c) Time freedom

(d) Self-development

(e) Self-employed; no boss so no sacrifice of your own values; Creating your own standard for the ethics in your business

(f) Time freedom

(g) Purpose driven: helping others with focus on them

(h) Unlimited income: no one telling you what you are worth

(i) Residual income

(j) Dream again

(k) Great relationships

(l) Reduce stress

(m) Great incentives to get opportunities to travel the world

(n) No employees

(o) Tax benefits are terrific.

I am finding that The Renegade System and University fit within this model perfectly as an approach to support people in gaining streams of residual income.

Use this as an answer to the upcoming recession.

Need…fulfillment; we must learn how to promote the business and do it well. Those who do will surely be overwhelmingly successful in the next year.

SO, STRAP YOURSELF IN AND GET READY FOR THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE!!