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!

Do you promise not to tell?  As the song goes, haha!  Well I have recently got involved with some lovely people who have a Traffic Secret that they are more than willing to share……and for nothing!  You see I recently left one of the major marketing systems online and at the same time decided to stop promoting the mlm I was involved with.  A pretty major shift in my internet home business life! At the beginning of this year I realised I was not comfortable with what I was promoting online.  It just didn’t feel like I was being my true self and felt I could not happily get other people involved in a business which I had lost faith in.  I feel that biggest is not always best because sometimes the quieter (or just the less loud?) people miss out!

Anyway I had begun clicking on lots of links that looked interesting looking for something I could believe in.  And this website hit the spot!  It is a growing at a rapid pace, its run by real friendly people, who are contactable by phone and email.  This Traffic Secret system is evolving as more and more people join; more marketing help is being added and more income streams too!  And to top it all, you can also promote your own business within the system.  What more could you want?

It is a great system for newbies as it is free to join and the instructions are simple to follow, with lots of videos and help. And it is attracting alot of attention right now.  This system uses Traffic Exchanges, Safe List Marketing and List Builders to grow your business, all of which I have had very little contact with before I joined.   The majority of these can be used for free, which in these hard times is great for anyone coming online with very little money!

I have only been involved for a few weeks with this company and have not yet worked my way through all the trainings, but what I am seeing already is results – and hands on effort from the owners to keep on improving the system and help you to build your own business and make some money online!

But don’t take my word for it, check it out yourself  NOW and make sure YOU benefit from this awesome system!

I didn’t really understand LinkedIn when I first joined this social media site!  I didn’t feel it offered much opportunity in the way of generating leads for my business in the way that Facebook or Twitter does.  But slowly and surely LinkedIn has gone up in my estimation, not just because of the very high calibre of the large majority of  people who use LinkedIn.  Indeed the annual salary of the average LinkedIn user is $109.00, so there are many ‘big fish’ out there in LinkedIn.

If you are looking for a job, creating a profile with all your previous work experience and a smart profile photo could be a very wise move.  You can even upload your resume!  It is believed that 80% of companies looking for new personnel use social media sites to do this, the majority of them using LinkedIn.

If you wish to become known as a leader in your niche or industry there are several things you can do on LinkedIn to become known.  You can update your status or ‘share an update’ as it is known on LinkedIn everyday or as often as you can.  Once you have shared your update, you can click on ‘share again’, and share the same information with the groups you have joined.  Join as many groups as you want to within your niche.  This means that any information you share is being shown to every member of every group you are in, which can be a very large number of people, as well as everyone you are connected to.

You can become a ‘thought leader’ by creating your own group on LinkedIn within your industry and regularly sharing information and answering questions.  This will establish you as the ‘go to’ person for your industry, because your name and website will be there for everyone who joins the group to see.

Another way to become known is to answer questions in your niche.  Under the ‘more’ tab at the top of the page, you will find ‘answers’.  There you will find lots of questions from people in your network.  By answering these questions on a regular basis, you will be listed as a ‘Top Expert’, which of course will get you seen!

The best way to connect with alot of people on LinkedIn is to join the Open Networkers groups.  These are people who are willing to connect openly with large numbers of people.  Generally LinkedIn does not let you connect with just anyone in the way that say Facebook does.  You can only connect with someone you have done business with or a friend.  However, most of the Open Networkers offer their email address, so it is possible to connect with them using that.

If you want to be found in the search facility on LinkedIn, you need to ensure that you have your keywords in your profile.  You will need to have them in your title, your current and past work experience, your summary and in your specialities if you want to rank on the first page!

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When you first open up your blog for business, you hope or expect lots of people to find it and leave you lots of comments and feedback.  Sadly, this rarely happens, unless you are a celebrity!  So you plug away, writing article after article wondering how other people manage to succeed in getting lots of comments when you are lucky to get one!  So you cheat a bit and retweet your own post a few times and ask your friends to retweet it too!

But unless you get very good, very quickly you are not going to get many comments.  I tried putting the odd comment on other people’s blogs, but rarely got any reciprocation!  Then I started to hear about syndication!  I looked into it and discovered that people were getting together into little groups to leave a little ‘love’ on each others blogs and other content all over the internet!  Wow, I thought, great idea!

I looked into one system that everyone was talking about, but decided against paying to have someone read my articles.  They aren’t THAT bad!!  Then I joined a forum called ThatMLMBeat!! And started to hear about two syndication groups that were in the process of joining together!  And you could join FREE!

So with some trepidation, I joined their ranks.  It all seemed simple enough!  You were put in a particular colour group each week; around 10 to a group.  Each person puts their own details on the system, their social media sites and their blog.  Then each day of the week, Monday to Friday only (which suits me) you syndicate a couple of people out of your group.

You comment on their blog, you like them on Facebook, add them on Linkedin, watch their videos on YouTube or whatever.  Then one day a week, they all come to see your work and suddenly your comments start to rise.  You get more friends on your social media sites and more retweets!!  Wow, you have got to love that!

And another great thing is that if people don’t do the syndicating they are meant to do, they slowly fall down the charts and then fall off the end.  So they no longer get syndicated!  If you do not feel that the article you are reading is up to standard, you do not have to comment or syndicate.  That keeps standards up!

The benefits of syndication go well beyond the extra traffic I am getting on my sites! I always found it difficult to comment on other people’s work.  Probably scared of saying something that someone didn’t like!  Now, I am typing a comment before I even put my mind in gear!!  So that’s great.  Syndicating also keeps me on my toes! I know by Sunday usually what day people are going to syndicate me, so I work on making sure there is something new for everyone to read or listen to!  Which again is always good for the search engines.  Regularly updating your blog gets you higher up the rankings!

And another thing!  Before I started syndicating, I had somewhat lost interest in Facebook, which considering the numbers of people logging on everyday, was a bit like business suicide!  I found it difficult to know what to say.  Well syndicating lots of other peoples blogs has put an end to all that.  I have a plethora of interesting material to put out on Facebook, so my name is appearing on the news stream regularly.  I’m rocking Facebook again!

And I am meeting some incredible people and finding out more awesome stuff everyday! I have to admit my first thought was ‘will this be worth the effort of reading all these peoples blogs??’  Well I have to tell you that ‘yes’ absolutely it is worth every minute I spend syndicating.

So, of course, I must give a great big shout out to TSA Tribes for being absolutely awesome.  When you give, you receive, and I am receiving such alot from you guys.  Thank you, everyone!

Article Marketing is a legitimate method of Lead Generation. Unfortunately lots of people are jumping on the bandwagon and beginning to write articles.  Why unfortunately?  Well because too many people think they can blast out ten articles and somehow throw a switch to massive traffic arriving at their page.  Sorry, but this will not happen.  If you are going to use Article Marketing as a method of lead generation for your MLM business, be prepared to put in some hard work.

Because using Article Marketing is not a quick route to riches!  Article Marketing is one of the main methods of lead generation used by people who start out with little or no cash with which to advertise their home business.  Anyone who want quick methods of marketing their business online, needs plenty of cash so they can invest in pay-per-click lead generation.  You either need time or money to market your mlm home business online, and if you have no money then you had better be prepared to work your butt off! And be consistent.

You also need to do more than just write an article.  That really is just the basic part of article marketing.  After that you need to do lots with it to promote it and get it seen.  For your article to get seen by the search engines, it needs to be all over the internet.  First of all it need to be published on your blog, or other main website.  Then you could do a video to promote it even more, linking back to your blog.

From there you should bookmark it, using social bookmarking.  The best way I know of doing this is to use the Onlywire service, which is free and takes only a minute to post.  The first time you set it up, this will take an hour or two, as you have to open accounts with the 30 or more sites that you will be bookmarking your article with.  In future, every time you write an article, you simply click on the icon on your browser, or if you have added the WordPress plug-in to your blog, simply click on that and your content will go out to 30 or more social bookmarking  sites, including Facebook and Twitter!

After that you need to post your article in as many directories as you can.  Some people use an article submitter for this, and they certainly save you alot of time.  I use Automatic Article Submitter, which means I can ‘spin’ my article.  This involves writing an alternative sentence for each sentence I write.  The submitter then spins these sentences, making new and different articles for each directory.  In this way you are really be making the most out of every article you write.

Lastly, I must warn you that if you are not prepared to CONTINUE writing articles and sending them out all over, you will not get results.  Because it will take much more than a dozen articles before you start getting traffic to your websites.  But this is just like anything else in Network Marketing;  you need to build momentum.  You need to keep on and on churning out your articles and doing everything else that I have said, and slowly the trickle of leads you were getting will build up to a wonderful solid flow!!

There are lots more pointers I could give you, but they will have to wait for another article………….

If you are ready to dive into Article Marketing then you should check out the Automatic Article Submitter that Sue uses.

If you are in a Network Marketing business, are you still focusing on your warm market ?  Chasing  your family and friends and discovering that they do not actually want to join you?  That they do not share you dreams and desires?   This has been the normal way to begin a Network Marketing business for many years.  However in the 21st Century, cold market is becoming more and more important.

Cold market prospects are not tied to you in any way, they have never met you before.  When they come online they are looking for certain things and  can now ‘shop around’ to find a leader who they believe can help them.  This means that they may not join you, even if they like your opportunity; they may prefer someone else. People are interested in YOU and what you can do for them, so it is not necessary to sell your Network Marketing opportunity to them.

They are generally  looking for several  things:

a) A Leader

b) Training

c) A Marketing System

d) A Good Team

 And this is where you can help them.  If you are positioned online as a leader, you can offer them the training and the system they require and show them that you are building a strong and successful  team.  97% of Network Marketers fail, so if you can address the main reasons that they fail, you will be helping to improve this percentage.  These are the two main reasons for failure:

1)  Lack of leads to talk to

2)  Lack of cashflow for marketing

Lack of Leads

Family and friends are no longer  enough, the new Network Marketer  has to learn marketing.  Internet Marketing is cheaper,  much faster and you can reach a global market.   People who have started a Network Marketing business in every corner of the world are reaching out to find the answers to their problems on the internet.   Even if they still want to do some marketing offline, it is possible to reach some local people online and arrange to meet them.

Lack of Cash

You cannot make alot of money upfront in MLM.  80% of the payout in Network Marketing is residual income, which does not kick in at the beginning.  This is when so many people give up on their business, because they cannot make enough money at the beginning of their MLM career and they cannot afford to continue.  They need to make some money upfront in order to pay for more marketing.

90% of your leads will not join your business.  This means you need to make money from this 90%, otherwise they are being wasted.  This is where a Funded Proposal comes in.  You offer your leads affiliate products, products you do not own, in order to receive a commission on the sale.  These are not just any old products, these are legitimate products to help the lead with their internet business.  You may suggest that they use a certain autoresponder, which is something they must have in order to start internet marketing, and when they decide to purchase this autoresponder, you get paid a percentage of the sale.  This is perfectly acceptable online as the majority of internet marketers will only recommend something which they are using successfully themselves.

So to start using your cold market online, instead of chasing your family and friends, you will need to do three things:

1) Use Attraction Marketing

2) Learn Internet Marketing

3) Apply a Funded Proposal

You can do this your own way, or use a system which is all of these things incorporated in an easily duplicatable system, using your own MLM business as your Primary Business.  This way,  everything is ready for you and you can make a leap forward in your education, instead of ploughing through mounds and mounds of different information to try to find out what you should be doing.

Writing Articles seems quite straightforward, but if you need your articles to be seen and ranked, you will need to put some thought into several areas which may not have occurred to you.

1.  If you are writing for article directories, your articles need to be in an editorial style, and you can definitely not swear!  However if you are writing something just for your blog, or to put on a social media site such as MySpace or LinkedIn, the article can be more personable.

2.  Use only one or two keywords.  Make sure you use these keywords a few times in the article body, but do not use them where they do not make sense.  Try to use them naturally.  Dont repeat them ad nausem just to try and rank higher.  This will not work; the article will be considered spam.

3.  The title must be optimised.  It must attract attention or interest someone enough to make them want to read the article  It must also convey to the readers clearly what the article is about.

4.  The description of the article is VERY important. This is what will show up when someone does a search.  Imagine you were doing a search for something and the first four or five results sounded like what you were searching for.  Which one would you choose?  Whichever sounded the most interesting, or compelled you to open it!  So think carefully about what you say.  Try to draw the reader in to read your article!

5.  Focus the article body around the subject.  This may seem very basic, but if you are writing an article around one or two keywords, do not go off at a tangent; try to keep within those keywords and save anything else for another article on the wider points.  If the body of the article does not seem to agree with the title, google will not rank it highly.

6.  Keep your article short.  500 to 700 words is ample.  If you write more than this it is highly unlikely that people will read it.  There is so much information on the internet that people tend to scan read alot, and anything over this amount would just be ignored.  If someone does not bother reading to the end of the article, you are missing out on them coming across your author resource box.

7.  Do not promote anything in your article, just give value to the reader.  Use your author resource box only to promote.  The best way to do this is to make it read as though it is part of the article, so that if the reader has enjoyed your article, they will be encouraged to find out more about you.

8.  Try to add  a personal story into your article whenever you have one.  Always remember: Fact tell, stories sell!  People get inspired by stories about other human beings.  If you can get someone to think ‘thats how I feel’, or ‘thats what I did’, they may feel a connection with you and want to know more about you.

9.  If you can create an offer at the end of your article, always make sure it is specific to the subject of the article.  If a person is reading an article about Facebook, for instance, they will probably be happy to click on a link with more information about Facebook after they have read your article.

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If you want Free Leads for your MLM business online because you are building your business on a budget there is one thing that you will need alot of!

  And that is TIME!

Free Leads come at the price of your precious time; this is a fact.  To market online you need one of two things, time or money.  If you have money you can learn pay-per-click and pay for advertising, but for the majority of people this is not a viable option when they first market online.  Your time is valuable, but once you have set up and mastered the skills needed to create free leads, the process will be much quicker.

Article Marketing is probably one of the biggest ways of producing free leads.  At the beginning it may seem like a long-winded way of going about generating leads, but writing does get easier the more often you do it. When you publish your articles in directories on the web, you get the opportunity to put in your links to your blog or other page, so someone who reads your article and finds value in it will click on the link and arrive at your blog, where you can request their details in exchange for say a newsletter or a freebie.

Social media sites are another hot-bed for free leads.

Facebook, for instance, is the second most visited site on the internet at the moment!

So how many Network Marketers, or would be Network Marketers do you imagine log into Facebook regularly?  An enormous amount!  It is so easy to connect with people, put up your contact information and start to befriend them.  You can join groups and get involved with discussions about the MLM industry, but try to remember not to thrust your opportunity at everyone as soon as you connect with them.  Marketing on the internet is different from offline marketing.  It is more about Attraction Marketing, whereby you attract people into your business by showing value and giving respect.

MySpace and LinkedIn  are two other social media sites where it is easy to make contact with people and find free leads.  MySpace is often connected with young people, or with dating, but is now very well known for making good connections in the MLM industry.  LinkedIn is much more professionally based, and therefore more difficult to find leads, because you cannot just add friends the way you do on other social media sites.  Having said that, a number of people are getting good numbers of leads from LinkedIn, and the quality of these leads is much, much higher than other social sites as many high-ranking professionals use it.

Twitter is rising rapidly through the ranks of important websites, although totally different from other sites.  It is very easy to build up a following of thousands of people on Twitter and also to have several accounts.  Many Network Marketers are building up a loyal following and can broadcast as many 140 character comments or ‘tweets’ as they like.  The secret is to make sure you are adding targeted people to your list, either by searching for keywords, or by following the followers of famous networkers or authors in the industry.

Video Marketing is another way to generate free leads for your business.  YouTube ranks as the third most visited site on the internet.  It is free to open an account, so you can upload as many videos as you can make!  You then subscribe to other peoples videos, or add them as friends and you will find large numbers of people will then subscribe to your channel and watch your videos.  It is easy enough nowadays to record yourself; most modern digital cameras will record a short video easily enough.What you need to do is make your video of value and ensure you put a link to your blog in the description box when you upload it.

These are just some of the ways to create free leads.  As I said at the beginning of this article, what you need most with these methods is time.  And you need to stick to it!  Rome wasn’t built in a day, and leads are not going to come chasing you in a week or two.  When I said time, I meant time to do these methods of lead generation and time to see the results.  Just keep on keeping on and the results will come!!

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 Lack of leads is THE number one reason people fail in their Network Marketing business.  If you are working offline, it can be a full-time job just trying to get the names and phone numbers of enough people who are even slightly interested in a home-based business.  You need to be constantly handing out flyers, putting up notices or stopping people in the supermarkets and malls!  And even when you get them, the percentage of them that will actually join your business is so low, it can be quite demoralising!

Online is a different kettle of fish!

For a start you do not chase leads online.  They come to you!!

And secondly there are far more QUALIFIED leads online!

You see when people are beginning to fail in their Network Marketing business, they do what the majority of people do nowadays when they need more information about a subject, they research it on the internet. So everyday there are thousands of Network Marketers looking online to see how they can solve their MLM problems!  And these people have been pre-qualified by someone else for you.  We know they are interested in this business because they are already in it!  They may be unhappy in their present MLM and looking for other opportunities; they may be looking for a way to market online.

However, what they all have in common is that they have problems and are looking for a solution.  And thats where we come in!  The majority of Internet Marketers have been in that same position at some time in the past, so we know what these people are looking for and we know they are going to be bombarded with offers.  Some useful and some definately not.  What these Network Marketers need is information.  They need information about how and and where to market online.  And if they have never done any marketing before, the best way for them is to find a system to follow.

When I first came online looking for a solution, I thought I would never sift through the information on offer.  I flitted from one page to another, getting excited about one thing, then disappointed when I researched it a bit further.  Eventually I found a guy who seemed quite normal and friendly, and I came across him on several social media sites.  Reading up a bit more, I found he was involved in a marketing system which he believed was the best and solved not only the ‘lack of leads’ problem, but also the ‘lack of money’ problem that I also had!

I joined the same system and both these problems were solved!  It has taught me what attraction marketing is all about (Thanks Mike Dillard!), how to generated leads (especially free ones) and how to earn money from my leads, even if they do not join my MLM business!  This system is generic, so it can work for ANY Network Marketing business.  And after several months, I still have lots more information at my finger tips to apply to my business, so my lead generation skills can only get better!

Its hard to believe that  I used to be in Network MARKETing, yet didnt know how to MARKET!

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Before Larry Beacham found out about LinkedIn, he was considering committing Network Marketing suicide!  In February 2009, not even a year ago, Larry decided that enough was enough and he should give up on MLM.  Before he gave up altogether, he decided to have one last look on the internet.  He was involved in one or two social networks, but had not heard of LinkedIn until he got an email that day from someone in his network of friends, and that email started him off on his journey to the top!

That email explained to him what he was doing wrong in his Network Marketing business.  The message was so clear it made him cry!  It was so simple, yet so powerful! It was about prospecting and it was simply that he should STOP! Yes, stop prospecting. What it told him was that he needed to become a Professional Marketer.  Larry Beacham had no college education, he was actually a TV cable guy at the time.  He had no marketing training. He had never made a video or written an article.  Immediately Larry joined a training system showing him step by step how to market online.

In the next 6 months Larry Beacham generated 1600 leads and over 95% of them were from LinkedIn!  Now these were not just leads, they were INTERESTED leads, who were looking to join an MLM or already in MLM but needed help with marketing.  Most days he got about 30 leads, but on 23rd June this year he got 46 in one day.  In his lead system he held the number 2 spot for recruiting, and the number 4 spot for lead generation.  And out of the 5,500 members at that time, he was ranking in the top 10 for three months.  He had 94 people join his marketing system, and 89 of them were from LinkedIn.

Using LinkedIn for lead generation compares favourably even against paid strategies like Pay Per Click and can generate similar numbers if done correctly.  Of course LinkedIn is a free strategy and with PPC you would need a minimum of $1200 per month behind you to get involved.

LinkedIn is a very professional social site. The average income of members is $109,000 and they include politicians, Best Selling Authors, Corporate CEO’s and such like.  They have over 47 million members in over 800 countries and executives from all Fortune 500 companies.  Because of this, a high standard is communication is required.  This is not Facebook; you cannot just add friends, you need to begin with people you know and you definitely need to get some recommendations before you will be taken seriously.  A recommendation needs to be from someone who you have worked with at some time, who is willing to write a short testimonial about you.

One of the main features of LinkedIn are the groups.  Every section of the community is represented by different groups and it is essential when joining or creating a group that you communicate with people and under no circumstances do you promote your business within the group.  Groups are for networking, offering help and advice and connecting with people.  On Facebook, many people connect with a new ‘friend’ and then immediately present their business to them.  This would not be tolerated on LinkedIn and would probably get you thrown out of the group.

If you request a connection on LinkedIn, you are asked how you know the other person, whether through business, friendship, a classmate etc.  If you do not know the person, you are told not to invite them.  This means that many fewer connections are made and many people give up on their LinkedIn profiles because it is not as simple as inviting someone to be your friend.  However LinkedIn has alot to offer in terms of the quality of the connections you can make if you have the time to involve yourself in the site.

Larry Beacham has now produced a book entitled “The LinkedIn Lead Generation Blueprint“  which tells you all the secrets he has used to generate leads on LinkedIn. He has been dubbed ‘King of LinkedIn’ by Cedrick Harris.

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