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Join us and Renegade Professionals’ WordPress blog expert, Steve Anderson, this Thursday and get help with WordPress.

A blog can explode your business when done right–allowing  you to generate leads on a shoe-string budget while establishing credibility and building trust with prospects and clients. If you’re interested in getting started with blogging, or have already started a WordPress blog, don’t miss this free Webinar Thursday, July 2nd!

Click here to register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/814985802

This webinar will be 1 hour in length and we will be covering:

• Why wordpress is such a great platform for blogging
• 16 plugins that will make your blog a magnet to the search engines and a joy for your readers
• How to structure your blog to get maximum search engine rankings and improve your conversions
• 13 hot tips for building a better blog
• 9 key strategies for promoting your blog content
• A technique to automatically distribute your content through the social networks

If we have time we’ll also do a Q&A at the end of the call. After you register for this call you will be redirected to a page were you can download and print the workbook for this call (there will be lots of notes to take).

Below is a list of some very cool tools that you can use to help you build a network on Twitter with a little more ease and effectiveness. These were given to me by two of my twitter friends Skeeter Handsen & Al Ferretti. So, I thought I’d share them with you. Enjoy!

1. Twitter Local
With this service, you can see tweets from Twitter users in a specific location.

2. Twubble
Twubble will expand your Twitter bubble, picking out people you may like to follow.

3. MyCleenr
Sort your friends by their last tweets, and you can get rid of the inactive and useless accounts you’re following.4. Follow Cost
This tool will tell you how much effort it takes to follow someone.

4. Follow Cost
This tool will tell you how much effort it takes to follow someone.

5. Tweepler
Use Tweepler to organize your tweeps based on whether you’re following them or not.

6. Just Tweet it
Find Tweeple, tools, Twitter bots and more through this directory.

7. TweetWheel
TweetWheel will help you discover which of your Twitter friends know each other.

8. Socialtoo
SocialToo will help you keep track of all of the people who have followed or unfollowed you.

9. Twitoria
Reduce your clutter on Twitter by finding your friends that haven’t tweeted in a long time.

10. Twitdir
With TwitDir, you’ll be able to search for people, and exploring categories including top followers and updaters.

11. Who Should I Follow?
Using this site, you can get good recommendations for Tweeps to follow.

12. Nearbytweets
Learn about all of the Twitter users in a specific area with the help of Nearbytweets.

13. Twellow
Find Twitter users in a specific industry using this service.

14. Mr Tweet
Mr. Tweet is a personal networking assistant for Twitter, helping you find relevant followers.

15. Qwitter
Qwitter will help you manage your network by sending an alert when a person unfollows you.

What a strong statement that embodies our society’s strongest emotional feeling toward network marketing: Skepticism.

I don’t think there’s one person in our society that hasn’t heard a network marketing horror story about someone getting scammed, tried out several business opportunities and it didn’t work, or stories of deception and false claims. Many people have experienced first hand the negative stigma that’s been placed on the industry due to how network marketers have gone about their business over the years. I know I have. I didn’t realize it was so bad until I got involved in MLM and saw the response from family and friends. It was a sense of “oh no, you’re involved with that?” Some however, didn’t quite respond that way, but I knew they shared some of those feelings as well.

Network Marketing is a legitimate business model and has been said to be a very viable source of income by self-made millionaires like Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump.

But…

1. Why are people so skeptical about network marketing?
2. What network marketers can do to get over the hurdle called skepticism in their marketing?

Exaggerated claims are one of the main reasons people are skeptical about network marketing. According to any publication that is focused on network marketing, making a 6 figure income is as easy as pushing a button ad after ad after ad. People aren’t stupid. They know that anything that is worth something takes effort and hard work to achieve. So when they see advertisements like this, it makes it easy for them to just brush it off and move on. Not only does this kind of hype come from advertisements but from network marketers as well. You see it all over the internet about making money from home and earning 6 figures within 90 days with no selling or effort, basically easy money to be made fast. These kinds of claims are crippling the industry and have been for a very long time. They are also creating major obstacles for network marketers who are sincerely doing business with honesty and integrity.

Disgruntled former network marketers also contribute to the strong feeling of skepticism toward network marketing and for good reason. Let’s face it, their just sharing their experience and you know bad news spreads a lot faster than good news. After hearing about how great the business opportunity is with XYZ Company, how their upline was literally going to build their business for them, how it only takes 8 to 10 hours a week working from home, and how you only need 3 to 5 people recruited into the business to grow a huge organization etc. They then go about business the exact same way they’ve been taught, constantly approaching people who aren’t interested, and writing names lists of family, friends, co-workers and calling them several times to get them to see “the plan”. Going to overly-hyped hotel meetings and weekend “block buster” trainings with the company’s top income earner that’s going to somehow magically make their business explode simply because he’s in their presence all while getting massive rejection and being told “your why is not big enough” , “you just don’t believe enough” and “just do more and more of what you’re doing”. They poured their soul into it, and failed miserably. They conclude that this was a bad experience, network marketing doesn’t work and of course they share it with people.

The secret to blasting through skepticism is this:

Address Your Prospects Skepticism Right Off the Bat.
DO NOT AVOID THIS….Address it immediately.

I know, you’re probably saying “well what if they’re not skeptical?” please believe me…they are  eventhough they don’t voice it. But it would make them much more comfortable with you, if you address it first.

Believability is so crucial when it comes to marketing. One of the main reasons people won’t buy your products or join you in business is because they don’t believe you. The minute you start slapping them over the head with hype and exaggerated claims, you lost them completely.

With any kind of marketing, differentiation is key. There has to be uniqueness about you. This gives people a good reason to pay attention to what you have to say. Use the hype to your advantage and tone down your claims because the bigger you make your claims, the more you blend in with everybody else.

People just want to work with someone who’s honest and realistic, that’s not going to just blow hot air but someone who’s going to give it to the straight.

Be sincere, show your prospects that you’re not just trying to make a quick buck, but that you really do have their best interest in mind. If you do this, you can blast through the skepticism and get down to business with your new business partner.

Thoughts and comments please…

Success in online network marketing can be boiled down to 5 main ingredients that combine to form what I like to simply call the “Profit Formula.”There are hundreds and even thousands of different methods you can use online (or off) but all of them end up falling under one of these 5 main categories.Just like an algebra equation that balances itself out, when you put all of these 5 ingredients together, the only possible outcome is a money-making business. But just like with a recipe for baking a cake, you need every one of them in order to produce the results you want.

Here’s what you need to make your business work:

Traffic + Content + Conversions + List + Monetization = A Money Making Home Business

Let’s look at each one…

1. Traffic

This is the glamorous part of online marketing. Anytime we think about making more money we naturally assume that the only sensible way to do this is to get more people to our website. This is true to an extent – but it’s far from being the only thing you need. Too many people are led astray in a never-ending search for the “holy grail” of traffic generation. The “silver bullet” that will solve all their problems and flood their website with more traffic than an eight lane superhighway during rush hour.

Well, in case you’re still looking, here it is:

The Secret To Getting More Traffic Than Any One Person Could
Ever Want Is To Get The Rest Of The Formula Right

The truth is, traffic generation is the easy part…

IF you’re faithfully implementing the other four ingredients. Of course that doesn’t mean traffic generation should be ignored. Nothing happens until someone sees your message! Here is what your traffic-getting strategy should be:

If you’re just starting out, the incredible power of social media is the way to go. It’s free, it’s leveraged, it doesn’t require any complicated knowledge of search engines to get initial results, and it builds powerful relationships with prospects and customers. Then, as soon as you can, you want to move in to paid methods as quickly as possible (while continuing to build and leverage your social media traffic streams).

Who in their right mind would ever pay for traffic when they could get it for free?

I’ll write more in another email explaining why this is.

2. Content

This is the oh-so critical “value” component of the equation that I’m always ranting and raving about. The reason this is so important is because this is the biggest part of the equation that has been missing from network marketing for decades! This is the “uniqueness” that you and you alone provide to the world. It’s what sets you apart and gives prospects a compelling reason to do business with you over everyone else.

Your content should educate your prospects and solve their most pressing problems. And there are many different types that you can use at different stages of your marketing funnel. There are basic forms like articles, blog posts, videos, emails, etc. And there are more advanced forms ranging from webinars to ebooks to coaching to home study courses all the way to full blown in-person seminars. The goal is to gradually progress to more and more advanced levels of content. It’s very simple:

The More Content You Create And The More Advanced
Forms Of Content You Create, The More Leads You Generate

It’s crucial that you understand this component of the formula because the people who own and control content have the most leverage. They control the traffic. They have the most joint venture opportunities. They have the biggest lists. It’s basically like controlling the oil supply.

This is what my free report The Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto  is all about. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s 45 minutes wisely spent.

3. Conversions

While value (content) attracts the audience to you, it and it alone is not enough to get most people to take action. A decent amount will, but not the majority. And not the amount you need to make a full time income.In order to do this you have to learn how to motivate people to take action. That’s what a conversion is: Whenever any type of action takes place. To put it in more layman’s terms: You have to learn how to close. But just so we’re not mistaken:

Learning how to close doesn’t always mean having people give you their money. That is the end goal of business, but there are conversions points along every single step of your marketing funnel that require people to take action. Believe it or not, you still have to sell the value you’re giving – even if it’s free! If you’re struggling to make money, my greatest advice to you is to become a voracious student of copywriting. It has a dramatic impact on every single aspect of your business.

It determines whether or not people decide to…

• Read your ads
• Click on your ads
• Opt in to your email list
• Read your subject lines and open your emails
• Read past the first paragraph of your emails
• Click on the links in your emails
• Read your articles or blog posts
• Watch your videos (and continue watching them)
• Ultimately buy your product

Copywriting is basically what moves the whole process along. It makes sure that a prospect goes smoothly from point A to point Z without getting stuck or lost or distracted along the way.

4. List

Which one of these ingredients you need to focus on depends on where you’re at with your business. But the goal of all these activities is to be continually building your list of prospects. See, building your business online really isn’t that different from doing the warm market/cold market thing after all The point is still to build your list. The difference is how you get people on the list and what you do with them after that.

In fact…

The Turning Point For A Network Marketer Comes When They Truly Begin To Learn The Science And Business Of List Building

All – I repeat ALL – successful marketers have a list.

When Mike Klingler and I launched Renegade Professional just over two months ago, we did over $1.1 million in sales in 3 days. One of the single biggest factors that allowed this to happen was the list that I had been building over the past three years online. Big pay days never happen overnight. But if you continue to grow your list it will. I guarantee it. For a primer course in list-building, I recommend picking up a copy of How I Built My First List . It’s an excellent resource for beginners who need more leads.

There is one overarching golden rule to always remember when it comes to list building…

The quality of the list is more important than the size. There are a few things that affect this.

• How did people get on the list? Did they come from a glowing endorsement by another marketer? Did they come from pay-per-click? Did they come from your facebook account? Were they opportunity leads that you purchased? Every traffic source produces different quality leads.

• What steps did they take before getting on your list? Have they already consumed a lot of your content before they opted in? Did they double opt in or single opt in? How much information did you require they give you to get on your list? In some cases you want to make it easy as possible to get on your list and in some cases you actually don’t. Just know that the more hoops someone jumps through the more qualified they are.

• The most important: What is your relationship with the list? Do you continue to provide them with tons of value once they get on your list? Do you relentlessly pound them with offer after offer? How often do you follow up with them?

5. Monetization

Monetization is simple: Offering products that relate to your prospects needs.

This is where your MLM fits in. Building a list comes first, not building a downline. Monetization is the fun part and it’s where you really want to start thinking outside the box. Obviously you want to generate income with your business as fast as possible.

This means asking yourself:

What Else Are My Prospects Looking For?
What Else Could I Offer Them?

Affiliate programs are the fastest and easiest way to begin selling other people’s products to earn commissions. But my biggest tip for you here is to begin developing your OWN products. It’s much easier than you think and the benefits are beyond what you could imagine.

Having your own products (info products are the best) gives you more profits, more control, more credibility with your prospects, more lead generation power, more advertising options… and… it makes selling other things like affiliate products or your MLM a thousand times easier!This is a major focus of our mentoring program and the results that people have already been getting are astounding. The goal is to have automated monetization so your income isn’t dependant on you always having to work. But if you don’t have a huge list yet, a great way to begin making serious money with yours right from the get-go is by offering consultations. It’s an easier sell than most products because your prospects are desperately looking for one-on-one help (it has to be value based though and not a pitch-fest).

 This is how I got started and it’s one of the quickest ways that many of my students have gone from zero to $2-3k/mo in almost no time flat.

Just imagine what you could do for your business and your life with an additional two to three thousand a month. Things start to get very exciting when you can…

• Buy more money-making tools for your business
• Buy any product you need to keep learning new skills
• Expand your advertising
• Have less stress and more free time because the bills are being paid

The key to selling your own products or services is to simply be a couple steps ahead of your prospects. And believe me, you already are.

Traffic + Content + Conversions + List + Monetization = A Money Making Home Business

That’s the profit formula. Tape it to your computer desk and never lose sight of these 5 ingredients.

If you’re not making money you’ll know it’s because you’re missing one if them.

To Your Success,

Ann Sieg

Someone finally put together a step-by-step system that shows “normal” people how to build their network marketing business on the internet. The only problem is, it’s been closed for the past two and a half months!

The first launch completely blew everyone’s expectations out of the water and did an astonishing $1.1 million in sales in less than 72 hours! For many of our affiliates it turned out to be record-breaking as well by helping them achieve their most profitable month ever as a home based business owner!

Well, in case you didn’t get in the first time

Ann Sieg and Mike Klingler has re-opened the doors to Renegade Professional ! If you don’t know what Renegade Professional is I’ll explain why I think this is such a big deal in a minute.  But first, I should tell you that it sounds like they’re going to be keeping the doors open for good this time.

WHAT IS THE RENEGADE PROFESSIONAL?

It’s Ann and Mike’s monthly video training site that teaches you what you need to know to MASTER lead generation. If you’ve struggled to build your business online in any way this is honestly my number one recommended program to get started with.These two have built a reputation for having an unusual ability in helping people go from beginner-to-expert in no time flat. And the number of internet-newbie success stories theyhave to prove it is truly jaw-dropping, both in terms of  the results and the amount of them.

Their training focuses on showing you exactly how to attract high quality prospects using free social media techniques – like Twitter and Facebook – so it’s perfect for people who are on a “low-or-no dollar” marketing budget.

And they cover everything else too, from…

–Creating lead capture pages and websites specifically
designed to sell your unique products and opportunity

–Building a world wide audience using simple and free
tools like Blogs

–Getting people to pay you to prospect them and making
money with your network marketing business right away
(instead of waiting months for residual checks)

–Setting up automated email campaigns that build
relationships with thousands of people in the same time
it takes to build one

–What to do when prospects start calling you (believe me,
it’s a shock the first time it starts to happen to you!)

And a lot more.

It’s basically a complete A-Z learning system.

But what’s so different about it is that it’s easy for the average person to follow and they show you how to make it work for your unique situation, business and products. Plus, the sheer volume of training they provide (over 104 hours and 14 trainers) is STAGGERING compared to what they actually charge for membership – only $49.95 a month. And of course you get new stuff all the time.

If you haven’t experienced internet attraction marketing yet (and you’re tired of hearing about how everyone else is) it will be well worth your while to stop and reserve your own spot in their program.

Here’s the link:  Renegade Professional