If you have ever looked at a no-cost or low-cost opportunity online and wondered “would it work?” then this article is for you!  Because two years ago when I started working on the internet, I would have said “NO, absolutely not”.   Step away from that business opportunity!  But times have changed.  We are and have been in an economic downtime and things have had to change online.  Companies are having to offer more than they used to.  They are having to make opportunities available to people who cannot afford high ticket prices.

But don’t get me wrong.  I’m not saying that people are not buying anything that costs money.  Just that there are more and more people, sometimes quite desperate people, coming online and needing to find some sort of opportunity that they can afford to do, without adding to their difficulties.  These people do, of course, have to give something else instead of their money, and that is their time.

Paid-to-Click sites have grown enormously over the last year or so and I believe some people with no money spend every waking hour clicking for .0001 of a cent or slightly more.  The clever ones realise they need to build a downline on these sites so that they are receiving money for the efforts of others and not just themselves.  But many clever marketers are adding paid-to-click sites to their advertising and telling people who want to join their opportunity but cannot afford to, that they should do some clicking until they have made enough money to join.

There are a number of business opportunities now with a one-time charge only and no monthly fees.  The day’s of the monthly autoship seem to be numbered when there are so many opportunities out there with no such charges attached.  Many involve a small one time fee which get’s you to one level in the company, then when you refer a few people into the company you move higher up, then refer a few more and so on.

As for no-cost  business opportunities, I have come across a few of late that clearly are working well, despite many people having doubts.  One in particular involves you signing up for a few offers (many of them free), then referring others to the site.  The large companies who make the offers are the ones who pay for you to refer people.   I have seen many people doing very well with this opportunity however for people living in England such as myself, there are not so many free offers, so it is more difficult to get started.

Recently I have even seen a few sites offering to pay YOU for joining!  Not sure how many of these are realistic, but I know that some of them offer you money, but you have to be prepared to work the system before they would let you withdraw your money, and they often set a level at which you can withdraw.

Overall, there are many great possibilities nowadays for making money with no-cost or low-cost opportunities.  Just make sure you study them for awhile and check out how any people are marketing the business over a period of time.  Of course with free opportunities you could grab a position yourself and check it out from the inside before you decide whether it’s a ‘goer’ or not.

To Our Continued Success

So why Global NPN?  Well you have probably seen hundreds of people promoting  Global NPN or the New Plan Network as it is sometimes called.  But why did I or why should you choose Global NPN above any one of the ton of opportunities out there?

Well first of all because it is only $10.75 a month to join, which in these hard times is excellent.  Yes there are higher levels, with a ladder level to help you move upwards.  Because obviously if someone joined your downline but at a higher level, you would want to upgrade otherwise you would miss out on commissions!

Secondly, and I think this is  an extremely important point for new people coming online, Global NPN provides you with your own Autoresponder, thus immediately saving you in the region of $18/$19 a month, because you cannot run an online business without an Autoresponder.

NPN also provides you with lots of other tools to help you market online, namely

******Task Manager
*****Email Blasting Tools
*****Ad Tracking Tools
*****Web Audio
*****Capture Page Creator
*****Downloadable Toolbar
*****Multi Downline Builder
*****Banner Rotator
*****Free Hosting (for Director level and above)
*****eCertificates
*****Amazing Training and Resources

In other words Global NPN gives you EVERYTHING you need to start your online business for just $10.75 a month!!

And then of course there is the compensation plan.  I can assure you that this is absolutely the best compensation plan I have ever seen.  What it means to you (and me of course lol) is that you get much more money for bringing people into Global NPN than for any other business I know.  Just check this out:

And one last reason I am promoting Global NPN is because of the owner, Geoff Stephens.  Geoff started NPN in 2005 and there are now over 120,000 members, which goes to show he must be doing something right:-) And believe me he is.  Geoff is a very ‘hands on’ businessman.  In Global New Plan Network, he has tried to incorporate every tool a marketer would need to build a business online.  Anytime he feels people need more information or help, he releases another video with ideas, suggestions and awesome content.

He encourages every team, is regularly to be seen on the forum (yes, another benefit) and certainly does not hide himself away in an ivory tower lol.

So that’s it – I will end here, though I could wax lyrical for several more paragraphs about all the different ways we get paid………

Maybe next time!

TrafficSwarm is a Text Ad Exchange, although recently they have started to offer banner advertising too.  Not everyone see’s the benefits of TrafficSwarm straight away, but I can give you

7 Reasons To Use TrafficSwarm In Your Marketing Efforts!

1)   It is FREE to join, which means that you can submit your adverts straight away and begin to click on other marketer’s links to start gaining credits.  This  equals  immediate traffic to your links!

2)  It works!  I get about one third of my traffic from TrafficSwarm.  If it works for me, why shouldn’t it work for you?

3)  It has a very simple, clear layout so there is no big learning curve, which means more time to focus on your business.  And it’s very simple to change your adverts, increase or decrease the number of views or cancel it all together.

4)  Upgraded members get 5,000 credits each month; this is a recent increase from 2,500 which you used to get before the recent transformation of the site.

5) Free members get something like 2-6 points for each click and each point gets you one view of your website, which is pretty good.  If you surf regularly, these numbers will increase and will grow much faster.  Also when you refer someone, you get 100 credits when your new member opens an account and one credit every time anyone in your downline 5 levels deep opens up their TrafficSwarm account!

6) As an upgraded member, when you refer another person and they upgrade, you get $10 immediately, then you $5 for every month they stay upgraded.  Plus, they pay out for up to 5 levels in your downline.  So if you refer one person who upgrades and they refers another who upgrades, then you get $4 as Level 2. Then $3, $2, $1 for levels 3 – 5!  Upgraded members also get a point for every CLICK their first level makes, so if you refer one person who upgrades and clicks on 100 links, YOU earn 100 credits too.

7)  TrafficSwarm even has a free Search Engine Submission Tool!  Free members can submit one website for automatic submission whilst upgraded or Pro members can submit as many as they wish.

So that’s TrafficSwarm.  Great free tool and certainly worth upgrading for extra traffic.  I have one more simple but effective ‘trick’ or ‘secret’ to use when surfing TrafficSwarm but I’m not going to give that to you here.  You can find this out inside my Free ‘Traffic Secret’ Marketing System in the TrafficSwarm video!  Suffice to say it will increase the number of opt-ins you can get with TrafficSwarm.

Thanks and I look forward to clicking on your adverts inside TrafficSwarm soon!

Safelists, Safelists, Safelists!!

Yes they work; No they don’t work!  So much disagreement going on!  The thing is this – YOUR  results in SafeLists can be totally different to the next guys.

WHY??

Well first of all think about our different circumstances.  We are all sending out different offers, from different countries, with different levels of marketing experience – from brand new marketers to six and seven figure earners!  So how can we possibly get the same results?  Some  just use 3 or 4 Safelists, others use 20 or more!  There are so many variables.  Of course the very best  thing to do is keep up-to-date with the Safelists that are giving the best results, but again you have to remember all those variables.

I use Traffic Hoopla and Jerry Iannucci to keep up with what’s working now.  You will never get exactly the same results as everyone else.  Just make sure you are always using tracking codes to check what is and is not working.  Then increase the ads that are working and ditch the ones that don’t.  Easy!

1)  Time and Day!

Amazingly, the time and day you send out emails really does make a difference.  Remember alot of the people who are opening your emails are in a different country, so the time may be completely different.  And it has been proven that some days are just better than others for getting your mail read.

2)  Composition of Email

If you are sending out a rambling, long, boring email, or failing to use paragraphs to make it easier to read, the recipient of your mail will probably close your email immediately or click  away quickly (I know this because I’m one of those recipients lol).

3)  Splash Page

If you are advertising your company website, you are unlikely to get many opt-ins.  Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but just imagine for one moment  how many of those replicated websites are out there on the web? Dozens?  More like hundreds or thousands.  You need to stand out in the crowd, so you need to find another way to advertise.  Either your own splash page, or a different offer where you are capturing your leads names and email addresses, so you can reveal your business to them at a later date.

4)  Your Name(!)

Just imagine if you sent out the exact same email to a Safelist as a professional marketer like Mike Dillard.  Do you think you would get the same results?  No, of course Mike would get a far bigger response because he is so well-known on the internet and demands far more respect than an unknown marketer.

Everyone can get results with Safelist Marketing but everyone will have different results.  But that is not something you need to focus on.  The secret to succeeding with Safelists is to work out a system to remind you when you can next send an email, maybe using Google Docs or something similar.  Persistence is key.  Just keep on sending those emails out.  And of course keep improving on them.  And keep tracking them lol!

And if you still think Safelists don’t work, consider your results.  If you only get an occassional sign-up, and only do occassional mailings, imagine if you ramped it up abit and started mailing everyday (or twice a day where you are allowed) and added more Safelists to your list, how much better your results could be!

If you want to know some Safelists that I use,  just click on the Safelists tab at the top of the page.

Let me know what results YOU are getting with Safelists!  And please share this post with your Facebook and Twitter friends.

Thanks!

Just had to share this video I found about MLM Pyramid’s!  Just goes to show you will never change everyones attitude, however much proof you give them, or however many prominent people like Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki get involved in Network Marketing!!

MLM PYRAMID SCHEME CARTOON

Have a GREAT Day

Newquay

A few weeks ago I spent some time at a lovely campsite overlooking the sea and the weather was lovely (I mention this because its quite unusual for us in England to have lovely weather!)  I spent some considerable time just sitting staringat the waves crashing on the rocks or sometimes just quietly lapping on the shore.

The thing I realised was that the tide will come in and go out everyday, whatever is in it’s way, whatever the weather, whatever else is happening in the world.  It is unstoppable!!  Exactly the quality that you need to build a Network Marketing business!  The sea doesn’t care how many barriers you put in front of it.  It doesn’t care if we build sea walls and sea defences; it will still come in everyday!  And this is what you need to do to build an amazing Network Marketing business.

So be unstoppable in your business.  Ignore the people who tell you it can’t be done (even if it is your family and friends!); you know it CAN be done!  Go around all the obstacles that you will find on your way, or if that doesn’t work, go over them!  And when you are having a bad day, simply give yourself an hour or two off and go out and have fun.  Treat yourself. Take the dog for a walk, get some fresh air; go somewhere you have never been before.  Then get back on the horse (!) and ride away to success.  Don’t allow anyone or anything to stand in the way of your success.

Because just like the sea, you can be unstoppable. You need to be focused, determined and consistent.  Make a detailed plan of what you want to achieve each day and follow it as closely as you can.  Realise that a Home Business takes consistent action for maybe a year or even two before you will see results.  Of course, your life will get in the way; that’s a given!  Just don’t let it get you down.  Understand that stuff happens.  Just totally focus on what you want to achieve and get your head down and keep working.

Keep your dreams alive and right there in front of you, and you will be unstoppable!

Traffic Exchanges get alot of bad press.  Too many people join one, surf for 20 minutes and then decide they are a waste of time.  Well if you spent 20 minutes writing an article, then gave up on it you would be in exactly the same place.  You would have generated no traffic and just wasted some precious time.  A few years ago, Traffic Exchanges probably deserved the bad rap that they have, but if you havn’t checked them out recently, maybe you are missing out on a great concept.

The thing is everything online works if you give it your time and effort.  And Traffic Exchanges are no different.  I had not tried them until late last year, when I decided I didn’t like the direction my business was headed in.  I changed direction and was shown not only what Traffic Exchanges were all about, but how to use them effectively and effeciently.  Yes, at first if you cannot afford to upgrade, you will have to click for your credits, but everyone has to start somewhere and for many newbies coming online, free is there favourite word.  This doesn’t mean they will not succeed in their business.  If they have drive to stay committed, they will succeed whatever!  And many of the top Internet Marketers today started off using Traffic Exchanges!  How else would we have so many rags to riches success stories online?

So, lets get on with the reasons:

1)  And this one is key: The very people who are surf in Traffic Exchanges are your target audience!  Yes, they are indeed there to promote their own business, usually a Network Marketing or Affiliate business, but that only makes them the exact people who would do well in your business.  They are your ‘Target Market‘. They are the perfect people to attract into your business, because they already know all about MLM, they obviously have a ‘Why’ already and are actively trying to build a business.

Think about it:  They probably were recruited into their Network Marketing business from someone in their Circle of Influence.  They didn’t get a chance to decide ‘which’ Network Marketing company would suit them, they were only offered one.  They were offered a ‘business model’, a dream life; the possibility of making residual income!  So they bought into the concept, but perhaps as much as they like the idea, the actual company that they are involved in is not a product which they are passionate about.

They go online and start using Traffic Exchanges.  Whilst they are surfing they come across you, advertising exactly what they need to grow their business; more traffic to their page, a system to help them grow their business or something else which will help them.  So they join your list and start to get to know you and eventually, you  introduce them to your own primary business.  Lo and behold,  your product is something they ARE passionate about!  Do you think then that they may decide to join YOUR company instead? Result!  Of  course, that is just one possible scenario.

2)  You can start for FREE! When you come online as a newbie, you need to start advertising your business and you may still be working. You have come online to make money and the last thing you want to do is start spending money.  Of course eventually you’ll need to spend some money, but whilst you are learning the ‘art’ of Internet Marketing, you need freebies.

3)  Once you are regularly surfing the Traffic Exchanges, you can see what sort of Splash Pages or Lead Capture Pages works best, so you can soon improve your own pages to make them convert better.  It also highlights the mistakes others make with their pages, such as slow loaders (waste of time having them in Traffic Exchanges as they may not have even loaded by the time the surfer clicks away!) or making errors with the URL, so no page shows up (always check the link before posting).  It also teaches you ‘best practice’ in advertising, as it is easy after a few weeks of surfing to work out who is having success and who isn’t.

4)  It’s very easy to duplicate!  Once you know where you are going with Traffic Exchanges, it is very easy to get your downline to follow suit.  This will not only mean that they will be getting results quickly because they are being advised by you, but also means that if they join under you, you can earn extra credits when they start to surf, but also sometimes cash for referring them!  And of course, once they get people in under them, they can also duplicate the process.

5) It is very easy to track your advertising in the Traffic Exchanges and find out which adverts and indeed which Traffic Exchanges are working for you, and which are not.  Then it is just a case of ditching what doesn’t work and doing more of what does!

6)  You can soon build up credits in the Traffic Exchanges by surfing regularly, especially when you know all the shortcuts to quicker surfing.  Of course, if you don’t have time to surf regularly, or if you are going to be away for a week or so, you can upgrade or buy credits, so that your own adverts are still being shown.

Brand Yourself!!

7)  Traffic Exchanges are excellent opportunties to Brand Yourself.  I’m sure you have heard time and time again that people only buy from someone they know, like and trust.  By branding your splash pages with your name and photograph, surfers get used to seeing you so begin to feel  you are familiar to them.  This begins to build trust.  Many people who use Traffic Exchanges are new to internet marketing and are often (maybe even without realising) looking for a mentor to show them the way.  Seeing you regularly on the Traffic Exchanges will make them seek you out and join you in your businesses.

Personally, I love surfing the Traffic Exchanges! I have had more success there than advertising in other places and you certainly learn very quickly.  I now have downlines in many Exchanges who are following my example, surfing for credits, building their business and earning cash and credits just like me!  And I, too have met some great mentors and friends!

What do you think? Do you love Traffic Exchanges or hate them?  When did you last try them out?  Are you having success with them?  Leave me your coments and let me know! I will be writing some reviews of the Traffic Exchanges I use over the next few weeks, so tune in regularly!

L& L

Give Traffic Exchanges A Try!    Here are some of my favourites:  Traffic Splash, High-Hits, HitsBoosterPro, Hit2Hit.  Try them, you just might enjoy them,lol

Are you concentrating your time on your IPA’s for your internet home business? What I mean by that is the income producing activities. Are you writing articles, producing videos, marketing on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn or surfing for credits in Traffic Exchanges?

You probably believe that you go online everyday and work hard on your business. But have you ever actually tracked honestly what you are doing and whether the activity is an API or not? I have to admit, although I usually follow a plan, some days I realise that I have not really been focusing on my IPA’s.

You know how it goes, you switch on your computer to work your Internet Home Business and what’s the first thing you do? Check your emails maybe? Stop right there! Because as soon as you open your email inbox (yes I know, you’re just checking how many opt-ins you had overnight, right?) you are sunk! Yes, you know its true and I know its true, lol. It happens to all of us if we will only admit it!

You need to check your emails, you really do, but they are not an Income Producing Activity, so leave them til you’ve done your work for the day. And emails are not the only activity you need to avoid at the start of a day. Chatting to friends on Facebook, answering phone calls and skype instant messaging, as well as tidying your desk (for the 5th time) and filing your papers away should all be left until after you have done your API’s!

In reality, you need to choose how much time you spend on the important things in your Internet Home Business and obviously the IPA’s are the most important. I believe the ratio should be something like 70/30/10, which is 70% doing income producing activities. 30% on Personal Development/Training and then 10% on Customer Service. Of course if you are a newbie, you may not have any customers, so the extra 10% will go on extra training for your business.

So tomorrow, when you turn on your computer, think’ Income Producing Activities’ first!!

We Can Help You To Generate More Traffic to Your Primary Business In Three Simple Steps!

I’m sure you can’t wait to find out the secret to getting your emails read so I will tell you immediately!  The secret is to write a headline which evokes some sort of emotional response in the recipient!  It may be catchy, questioning or just plain silly; but it must inspire them to open it.

As I have covered before in another article, the main reason someone will click on your email and actually open it is because they know, like and trust you! They may recognise your name as a trusted sender; someone who sends them valuable information worth reading.

Don’t get me wrong, your emails need to begin right from the start to build up trust.  Continuous link sending will just get you unsubscribed from many people or else they will just feel no reason to bother opening them at all.  So what do you consider in writing your headings?  Well first of all, make sure what you are offering or telling your email list about is relevant! Don’t just send weight loss information off to people who opted-in to a list about internet marketing!  They will be offended and may mark your messages as spam, unsubscribe or junk your emails and they certainly will not like or trust you any longer.

In mentioning Spam, always try to avoid using too many spammy words, or your message will probably end up in the spam folder.  I am always amazed at the words which are considered spammy – words and phrases such as ‘best price’, ‘cents on the dollar’, ‘get it now’, ‘giving away’, ‘pre-approved’, ‘risk-free’ and so on.

Questions make great headings because people naturally want to answer them, particularly if they are very relevant to what your opt-in is interested in.  Remember that your list have problems they need to solve and if you have the answer to their problem, they will open your email.  A call to action is another good thing to have in a heading, but difficult to include in a short heading.

The best way to check out that your heading is going to work is to use the Headline Analyser tool at the Advanced Marketing Institute which will give you a percentage based on the Emotional Marketing Value of your headline.  It also gives you an indication of whether your headline evokes Emotional, Intellectual or Spiritual feelings in your reader, or a mixture of the three.

And yes of course I analysed my heading first: 60%   Hope it worked in getting you to read it!

We all know about dotcom boom of the late 1990′s; well it is happening again.  Ws is the newest of the websites addresses and it is growing fast! There are 1,966,514,816 internet users in the world today, a growth of over 444% in the last 10 years, so demand for websites is rising constantly.  Every business owner is realising that they need to be online or they are massively missing out.  So the GDI opportunity or Global Domains International is here for all those people and businesses who missed out from getting their name on the the internet in the dotcom form. You may have missed out in getting your name.com or your business name.com but now you may be quick enough to get your name.ws

So what are GDI offering?  GDI charge $10 a month for your web address, which is a pretty good deal as it includes hosting and up to 10 email addresses as well as a site builder tool included in the price. This means that anyone needing a website can get everything up and running in one go, instead of having to shop around for a domain name and a hosting account separately, and paying someone to actually build their site for them.

But GDI is also a business opportunity, in that you can enroll others into the business, and you get paid £1 per month for everyone who joins below you. You also get paid for the people under you, five levels deep.  GDI also pay several different bonuses; in fact if you bring in 5 people in one week, you qualify for a bonus of $100, if you are an ungraded member, which is pretty good in my eyes:-)

The majority of people who recruit others into GDI use this company as just one income stream and maybe as more of a downline builder; often using their ws website to advertise a whole stream of income generators at one time.  There are also a number of GDI advertising c0-ops running.  These are for people to club together to advertise their GDI business.  They then share the people they recruit into the business.

Overall I believe GDI to be an great business opportunity as well as a competitively priced website option. The very fact that it costs just $10 a month makes it very popular.  Its a great product, which does not require any of the usual shipping costs associated with Network Marketing products, and is something almost everyone needs nowadays, making it something of a no-brainer IMHO!!

Check Out The System I Use To Promote GDI At http://www.SueCollier.ws