Blogging Your Network Marketing Business

A lot of network marketers want to be on the Internet but don’t really have the gift of building websites or the money to have one built for them.  Today, I am going to share with you how you can build a website for your network marketing business that:

  • You don’t have to spend a dime on
  • You don’t have to be a technical genius or even know what html is

 This MLM Secret Business Tool is Called – Blogging

 I guess the first thing I should do is tell you what a BLOG is.  A blog is a type of website where you can add regular entries.  Blogs started as a form of online diaries where people would keep track of their personal lives.  A friend of mine used a blog to track his weight loss journey.  It took him over a year to lose all of the weight he wanted and he kept track of his progress on his blog.  He posted weekly pictures of himself, how often he worked out, what exercises he was doing, what food he was eating, his struggles and his successes.

Today, blogs can be used for just about anything that you want.  You can use it as a place to put down the interesting things that your kids are doing so that out of state family members can stay up to date with what is going on or you can use a blog as a business tool for your network marketing business.

With a blog, you can share your network marketing product, your business building systems and/or your expertise.  Let’s say that you have a background in home security like I do.  You could build a blog where you share your expertise and help people with their security issues.  Here is the link to my other blog http://www.EasyDIYHomeSecurity.com.  It’s not in your traditional blog format so you may get an idea of how you can make your blog look like a regular website.

Benefits of Using a Blog for Your Network Marketing Business

There are a few benefits to using a blog for your network marketing business some of these benefits are:

  • Search engines love content and they love websites that change often.  Blogging gives you a simple way to add content to your site.  The more content that you have the more the search engines will like you.
  • Blogs are easy to build.  Really, you don’t have to be a computer geek to do it.  You don’t have to have any special software or know html or anything like that.   If you are a computer geek, then you can do some really cool things with your site but it’s not necessary to have a great website.
  • Blogs give you a simple platform to share your passion, your expertise, and your network marketing product.
  • You can make money with a blog.  There are a lot of ways that you can monetize your blog so that you can make money.  You can put Google Adsense on your site, sell advertizing space, sell affiliate products, etc.

I’m sure that there are more benefits to blogging than the ones that I have listed but you get the idea.  I happen to love blogs because they are so easy to build.  For example this site that you are on is a blog.  I used WordPress to build it.  Now this site is one that I host myself and there are benefits to hosting your blog but it’s not mandatory.  If you are in the market for a good website hosting service, then I recommend Bluehost.  They are the service that I use to host all of my websites and they are very cheap (yes, I am an affiliate and that is one way that I monetize my site).

But if you are looking to have a free blog website then I would recommend that you use either www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com they both provide a great service and you can do a lot with a free blog.  There are some drawbacks to using a free service however.  Such as; your domain name will have an extension after it.  For example: http://howtobeonstage.blogspot.com/ , and you may be limited as far as the features that you site has but all in all they do a good job.

Well that’s it for today.  I hope you can see how having a blog can help your network marketing business.  It’s a great way to share your ideas, tips, and information about your network marketing product.  Stay tuned for more information about blogging because I will be sharing some things that your blog must have.

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Amy Howard, October 20th 2009 | Tags: , , ,
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What Makes A Good Prospect

Whether you are in your first year network marketing or you are a seasoned MLM’er, you have to be able to sell your network marketing product if you want to succeed in business.  A common mistake that many network marketers make is believing that everyone wants or already uses something like their MLM product.  I don’t want to burst your bubble but that just isn’t true.  Not everyone wants your product.  I don’t care how great it is.

If I had a dollar for everytime a marketer told me “it practically sells itself”, I would be as rich as Oprah. 

Network marketing is just like every other business there is in at least one area – you have to make sales if you want to make mlm income.  I’m going to let you in on a little MLM secret – if you want to make mlm sales, you have to know what makes a good prospect.  Here’s why:

Knowing what a Good Prospect is will save you TIME and MONEY

The best way to know who will make a good prospect is to know who your target market is.  There are two key things to know to determine if someone is a good prospect for your network marketing product:

1.  Your prospect has a WANT or a NEED for your network marketing product.  You can have the best product in the world but if no one wants it or needs it, you won’t be making very many sales. 

For example, I was talking to this network marketing not too long ago that was looking for more information about how to make more MLM sales and they were in Enagic.  Enagic is in the business of filtering water.  The marketer that I was speaking to (the one that was looking for more information on how to make more MLM sales) tried to tell me that their business was about to take off because everyone drinks water and needs to filter it.  Obviously, this network marketing was notready to hear about my MLM training program.  My guess would be that this marketer hasn’t been with Enagic for very long and they don’t have very much experience in sales either.  If they did, they would know that not everyone cares about the water they drink, in fact, I know quite a few people that just don’t like to drink water at all.

I know, I know, it’s because they aren’t drinking the right kind of water.  If they tried the water after it’s had all the harmful chemicals filter out, they would definately want to drink more water.  Yeah, my husband also knows that he shouldn’t drink so much diet soda either but he does it anyway.  Which brings me to the second thing that a good prospect has:

2.  The prospect has to want a solution.  I’m sure that you know people that, for whatever reason, don’t see the answer to their problem even when it’s right there in front of them.  If your prospect has given up all hope of fixing their problem, then there isn’t anything that you can do for them.

Let’s say that your network marketing product is the water fitration system like what Enagic offers.  Everyone may NEED water but not everyone knows or even cares about all of the chemicals that can be found in ordinary tap water.  There are some that may care but found their solution in bottled water or in one of those simple little water filters.

If you have a network marketing product that you want to sell, go find people that have a WANT or a NEED for your product and (this is important) also WANT a solution.  It’s much easier to help someone that wants help than it is to try to force someone to look at a solution to a problem they don’t even know they have.

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Amy Howard, September 14th 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
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