Working on an internet marketing plan for a friend's new offline business. We're going to blow her competition out of the water!

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”- Oprah Winfrey

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.” Edith Lovejoy Pierce quotes

I want you to have a Merry Christmas. Have a great time with your families today. http://ping.fm/9MR8w

"To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart."- Christy Borgeld

My Christmas tree looks so small in my house, it looked way bigger in the old house...lol I think next year we'll get a bigger one.

"Nothing is impossible to a willing heart."- John Heywood, sixteenth-century English poet

I've been so focused on creating valuable content its been like an obsession but, its almost 1am and its time to call it a day.

I love sitting at home with my dogs and hot chocolate in hand watching the snow fall outside my window and today's no exception.

Been having issues with technology, been downgraded to working in the basement since my wireless doesn't work...do what u got 2 do I guess

Working on a new video about taking responsibility for your results or lack thereof and taking action that lead to business success.

"If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake." Frank Wilczek

3 Network Marketing Monsters reveal their secrets (webinar info on my blog) http://ping.fm/VVSoX

Dec. 1st New FTC regulation for internet marketing http://ping.fm/kydO7

I'm craving flavors of the exotic, so I'm creating Thai green curry shrimps from scratch. Thailand is a great place u must visit!

Did U hear about the FTC Regulations & how it relates to your marketing? [blog] http://ping.fm/NjxJF

"A man can do all things if he but wills them." Leon Battista Alberti

I'm watching my dog's dream...Hector's tongue is sticking out...lol

I had a great day with Tai putting up Christmas lights & decorating the house. Still got the tree to do.

I'm on amazing Beyond Discovery call with Garret Gunderson. Pure Value!

Hanging out at my sister's palce today. Eating some pizza for dinner. Going home tomorrow.

Spent the whole day palying Monopoly with Tai and my sister...having fun. Going to a food & wine festival tonight :)

Getting ready to go visit my sister for the weekend. 5hr trip..good thing I washed the dogs ;)

I have to wash the dog's today before we go visit my sister...5hrs in a car with stinky dogs, not fun

Tai and I are planning to beautify our kitchen with some granite...going to check out some granite..later :)

working on SEO for my blog...fun fun fun :)

Funny Insurance commercials. These cracked me up..lol http://ping.fm/W5iaH

Common Mistakes Marketers Make Promoting Their MLM Business on Social Media Sites

Social Media sites like Facebook, Twitter and My Space, are fantastic places to generate leads for your MLM or home business opportunity. They are free and there is a lot of traffic that is generated each day on those sites and they can be a powerful tool for your opportunity. However most network marketers make fatal mistakes on these sites and end-up failing to generate any leads from social media because they do not know how to do it properly and end up being perceived as nothing more than spammers.

The one thing that has to be realized when using Social Media is that people are very sensitive to someone trying to sell them any MLM opportunity or product. Twitter, Facebook and My Space is not a place where you promote your business opportunity it is where you promote yourself first, by branding yourself and building connections with people and never ever pushing your MLM business on any one you connect with unless they ask you about it and even then it should just be mentioned in a causal way just to create more interest and curiosity where they ask for a link to your site and put their name on your list.
You may ask yourself "How am I supposed to promote my business if I can't do it on Social Media?" The answer to this is us your blogs where you have lots of useful information that will interest people that click on your website links. Never ever send people directly from Twitter of Facebook to your capture or company page. Send them to your blogs or YouTube channel. On those websites you can have links to your business capture pages and other money making opportunities that you may be promoting.

Another thing to remember on Social Media sites, is that its mostly about branding yourself as an expert and a leader. No one on those sites cares about your business, most of the people there have their own businesses and are trying to promote those. You have to stand out of the crowd as a person of interest that has something of values to offer not just an MLM distributor that is trying to get his/her hand in their pockets. You have to remember that people join you not the business, the business is just an avenue to make money. Lets face it being up front and promoting your business opportunity doesn't work on your friends and family why you think it would work on total strangers. People do business with people they trust, that is why you first have to build connections and relationships with people on social medial networks.

If you want to promote your business upfront do it in classifieds where people are actually openly looking for MLM or home business opportunities. That is expected on these sites and that's what people are looking for, but not on Twitter or Facebook. If you do promote your business openly on these sites using DM's or privet messages or tweets you will be seen as a spammer and lose your following of friends, that is a price you don't want to pay because these are powerful lead generation tools if you do it right.

So remember become a person of value and brand yourself not your MLM home business, drive traffic form Twitter and Facebook to your blogs or YouTube channels that contain useful information and where people can get access to more information about you and that is where you want to have links to your capture pages. This way you are less threatening, you will build trust and be branded as an expert and leader. That is when you will get more and more leads for your business and you will have prospects calling you with credit card in hand wanting to follow you, a leader, and join your business opportunity.

Remember to leave your comments or share your experiences on social media marketing or just let me know you are alive and kicking ;)

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