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Affiliate Marketing Mistakes, Misconceptions & Pitfalls

Because affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and quickest ways of earning money online many people assume that affiliate marketing is going to earn them huge sums of money overnight. While it is a fact that affiliate marketing is very profitable, those that have put in the time, energy and worked through the challenges to success actually reap the rewards.

With affiliate marketing programs being so easy to join, implement and paying commissions

Twitter versus Blogging

While I have titled this Twitter verses Blogging, the heart of this debate goes much further than simply comparing Twitter to your blog. I am sure we must all agree that Twitter has become all the rage for a number of reasons, not the least of which are high profile celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, and Oprah Winfrey just to name a couple.

With all the hype and new found stardom of Twitter, there seems to be a large number of people that are forgetting

Generating New Leads for Your MLM Business

A constant source of new leads and prospects are the life blood of any business. If you are a relatively new business owner, hopefully your sponsor has helped you put a plan in place that will fill this need. For those of you that are hearing this for the first time please pay close attention as your chances of success are directly tied to you understanding this concept.

There are a number of decisions that you will need to make as it pertains to the generation of new leads and just as important the process by which you will manage those newly acquired leads. Below are just a few

Using Effective Sales Copy to Explode Your Business

Let me set the record straight right from the beginning: Learning to write effective sales and advertising copy could take you years upon years. Like any other profession, the people that specialize in writing effective sales copy continually learn new effective techniques to compel people to take action.

With that understanding I am not recommending that you drop everything you have on your plate to become a pro at writing effective sales copy. However, I am recommending

What’s in a Name

This is probably one of my biggest soap boxes and primarily because the problem can be fixed so easily and with very little cost. The question, “What’s in a name”, can be applied to so many different aspects of our business and yet there are still countless numbers of people running around that have given little to no thought to this VERY important question.

If you are in the business of

Do You Want to be a Successful Entrepreneur

Take a look at the most successful entrepreneur’s in the world and you will find something that is common with every one of them. They all take risks!

Don’t take that statement to mean that these guys haphazardly go about getting involved with every opportunity that crosses their paths. That is NOT the case at all. However, once they have enough information to make an informed decision and more importantly their intuition tells them to jump, they are in with both feet.

I can imagine that a number of people reading this are

Are You Really Working Your MLM Business

So, you’ve found a MLM business opportunity that you are expecting to be your backup plan in the event you lose your job, need extra income, or simply for money to save.

What are your plans to make that happen?

Yes, that’s right, you really have to plan for success in your MLM business or by default you are planning to fail. Success does not happen by accident and in fact

Network Marketing: Does it Really Work?

The answer to this question is an emphatic: YES!

Now that we have that out of the way, let’s take a look at the reasons why there are so many people that have questions about the validity of the network marketing business model.

All too often what happens

Are You Targeting the Right Prospects?

Coming from a background of both the corporate world and later moving into small business, one of the common discussions that I have participated in centered around defining the target market for a business owner. However, I find it strange that when asking the owner of a home based business to define their target market, I often find that the response is “anybody”.

The problem with that answer is that

Posture and Why the Importance

After having spent a large number of years in the corporate world before turning my attention to network marketing, I was surprised by the fact that I kept hearing about “Posture”.

Having always had a passion for health and fitness I was most familiar with posture as it relates to the characteristics of the body. However, the conversations that I was engaged in at the time had nothing to do with health and fitness. We were focused on how well someone was