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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If you wanted to start a home business, you could not go far wrong with MXI Corporation, which markets Xocai (pronounced sho-sigh) Healthy Chocolate.  A billion people eat chocolate everyday, so I guess you have a ready market!  You can guarantee to get more people interested than you would by selling the latest vitamins!  Also the health and wellness and the chocolate industries are touted as being big growth areas over the next few years.

 MXI Corp was set up by Jeanette Brooks and her son Andrew Brooks In June 2005 in the USA and arrived in the UK in January 2009 and is now moving into the rest of Europe. Jeanette used to be involved in low-carb chocolate, marketed under the name Pure De-Lite. They also have a doctor onboard, Dr Steve Warren, who explains all the science behind the healthy chocolate.

Xocai chocolate is said to be made from unprocessed cacao powder and to have no added sugars and bad fats as chocolate confectionary has. Xocai is therefore very good for your health as it contains high levels of antioxidants.  The word ‘Xocai is made up of two parts.  The Xo stands for Xocolatl, an ancient Central American chocolate drink made from raw cacao, and ‘cai’ from the Acai Berry, which again contains high levels of antioxidants.  The antioxidant levels, or their ORAC score (Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity) has been certified as correct by the Brunswick Laboratories.

 MXI have a binary compensation plan where you need to have two equal legs in order to receive your full entitlement. They have seven different ways for you to get paid, starting with a quickcheck for referring someone to the business and  several different bonuses. The recommended daily intake of Xocai chocolates is 3 square, or chunks, and at $1.50 each portion, I doubt that a great deal of chocolate is going to be sold to customers. The distributors therefore will be buying the majority that is sold.  In the lower stages of the comp plan you need to buy one box a month, and once you reach executive this goes up to two boxes a month.

 The recruiting for the business is done in the usual MLM way, at home parties and meeting at various hotels.  They have regular conference calls.  Each rep pays approximately $40 for a company replicated website and back office, which they can then customise with their own front page.  They are not fully integrated into internet marketing, although you can actually enroll someone online, as well as order chocolate and business tools.

  But if you really intend to succeed in Xocai, you need to learn how to market yourself not your business.  Branding yourself as a leader is the modern way to do MLM, especially on the internet.  If you do not know how to do this online, you need a system to show you exactly what to do, just like all the big leaders do. I actually use MLM Lead System Pro, which is a brandable system to generate leads.  Before that I had no idea how to market myself online.  This is an awesome system and is used by many of the top names, like Brian Fanale and Norbert Orlewicz. to market their businesses.

 It really is a simple decision really, keep on doing what you are doing now if you are getting good results, but if you are not, I would heartily recommend you move onto the internet and learn how to be a leader and get people coming to you!  Now is the time, coming up to the New Year, when we need to make the right decisions for the new decade and move forward, not remain the same.

So if  the time is right for you and you are ready to move forward and become a leader in MXI you might want to take a look at http://www.PrimeMLMTraffic.com and get a system set up which will take you as far as you want to go with MXI!

If you were looking to start a ‘business from home’ offering something for everyone you would not go far wrong with Forever Living Products.

Forever Living is a Network Marketing/MLM Company which has been going for over 30 years, so is a very solid company to get involved with.  It boasts over 9 million distributors in over 140 countries worldwide and has its International headquarters  in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Forever sell mainly Aloe Vera nutritional products, from drinking gel to vitamins and ranges of skincare and everyday products such as deodorant and shampoo.  Forever own the entire distribution chain from the aloe fields to the processing works and have their own transport and distribution centres, so are able to assure the quality of their products.

Forever is well known for its high standard and quality training.  They achieved the prestigious ‘Investor in People’ award and offer a full e-learning website, regular emails,  upline mentorship and a professional Advisory Board.  They hold monthly ‘Success Days’ as well as weekly ‘Business Meetings’ all over the country.  You will be offered your own company website,  which you can personalise to suit your own taste.

It is free to join, although the majority of new distributors start with a £200 box of products.  One of the biggest hurdles for the new distributor to overcome is the requirement to purchase approximately £400 of product each month in order to access many of the bonuses and incentives.  However, their products are very consumable and the majority of their customers order repeatedly for many years because of the health benefits they derive.

If you are a distributor for Forever Living (or any other MLM company) and are looking for ways to prospect online, you are welcome to have a look at the system I personally use to generate leads for my business.  It can be used with any Network Marketing company and is duplicatable, so you can offer your downline the same system!  See http://wwwPrimeMLMTraffic.com for details.