Thursday, September 27, 2012

Tony Manifold just posted a new Press Release titled The wait is finally over!.

Tony Manifold just posted a new Press Release titled The wait is finally over!.

Friday, September 14, 2012

How I got to Number 1 on Google in less than a week

Recently I have ended up on the first page of google searches for 2 seperate keywords I have been targeting. For one of the searches I was number 1. The top link. The most clicked link. When it comes to online marketing traffic is key. And when it comes to traffic Google is king.

To do this, I used three tools. The Tools are IBOToolBox, SocialAdr and Trafficswarm. I also used on process that takes advantage of these tools. The process is what Rob Fore calls, Posting on Purpose. The idea is you take a search phrase and post in a way that it directly relates to that search. This involves using the phrase in the title and through out the article.

IBOToolBox is a site that allows you to post to IBOSocial.com. It is a blogging/ Social networking site that get thousands of views a day. Google loves these big sites because they are reliable sources of material. The large number of hits is an indication that it is not some scam site. So by posting your material on a big site like IBOSocial.com you get a "bump" in search rankings.

SocialAdr  is a site that helps you create backlinks among web 2.0 sites. Backlinks are very important to Search engine optimization because they are a way gauge popularity. More Backlinks equals more popularity to Google. A web 2.0 site are sites like Facebook, Digg, twitter, Tumbler, etc. The reason you want back links on these sites is the same reason you want to post to a site like IBOSocial. The bigger the site, the more important it is and backlinks on important sites equal more popularity.

The third tools is Trafficswarm. TrafficSwarm is a link sharing site where members click on each other links. The idea is that it is advertising to the other members. However, it is not targeted so it doesn't convert real well. The real power is increasing your website hits. To google Website hits equals popular and important.
So to recap, you post to a popular site. You link to your post on popular web 2.0 sites. Finally, you drive traffic to your post to make it more popular and important. This results in a first page search result. Using this method, I went from page 5 to 1 in less than a week, Give it a shot.

Hope that helps.
Tony

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Save money on Electricity

I don’t know about you but my house is entirely electric. Electric heat, electric stove and electric fridge. That doesn’t count the TVs, two computers, dvd players, the air conditioner in the summer and all the other gadgets I own. My electric bill can really get up there if I am not careful.

Last night during the Global One conference call, another product was revealed. There have been some awesome products launched so far and this one is as good or better than any of the others. What would you say to being able to cut your electrical costs by 20% just being being a more efficient user of electricity? How much would it help the environment if all users of coal generated electricity cut their electrical usage by 20%?

As you may know, electricity does not flow in a perfectly even flow. There are spikes and surges in the current. Most electronics are designed to ignore these spikes and surges, in fact those power bars you buy for your electric devices often have a surge protector built in to them because of this. This new product takes those surges and spikes and stores them as usable energy that can be used later. It is part surge protector and part battery. The best part is that it is plug and play. All you do it plug it into an outlet and BAM!

Now the price hasn’t been set but we do know that it will be sold at a discount. The only product that I was able to find that is similar sells for about 300 dollars. So we can expect this to be under 300 dollars. The manufacturer is even willing to help affiliates sell to commercial customers.

Another day another awesome product from Global One.
Sign up and check them out at http://www.ultimatepowerprofits.com/tmanifold

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Some tools I am using tight now

Here is a run down on some of the tools I am currently using. I use the tools for a variety of reasons including building backlinks, focused advertising, assessing my web presence, driving traffic to my site or communicating with and building an email list.

Building Backlinks
I have posted about this one before so I will be brief. SocialAdr.com is a great site for building web 2.0 backlinks. Web 2.0 sites are sites like Facebook, Twitter and Digg that google loves because they are big traffic sites. Links from these sites are seen as “better“ then links on less well known sites.
Focused Advertising

Here is another site I have written about before. IBOtoolbox.com and it`s sister site IBOSocial.com is a combination of a Facebook/Myspace blogging site and an internal site for network marketers. IBOSocial.com ranks very well with google and in fact, one of my article is #1 in an exact match phrase search and on page 4 otherwise for a search term I was targeting. In less than a week.  IBOtoolbox.com is a great place to advertise to like minded people. It works on a credit system and is free but you can purchase credits at a very reasonable price. As I write this my Banners are getting a 3% click thru rate and text ads 2%. This seems to be regardless of the opportunity, so I believe it is a good indication of what you could get on there. And since these people are already interested in Network marketing, they convert at a higher rate than other sites.

Autoresponder Service
The last one I am going to mention today is an autoresponder service. Currently I am using Trafficwave.net it is a service like Aweber and has all the same perks but as you can see from their pricing page they are much cheaper. Especially in the early days online, every penny counts so why waste money. They also have an advertising service that guarantees views but I have not used it so I can’t speak to its efficiency. You can read about it here.
In my next post on the subject I will talk about a traffic building website which will drive massive amounts of hits to your website and some great wordpress plugins and a few other online tools I use.
Hope this helps.
Tony

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Heading back to the army

So I am heading back to the other side of the country to return to the army after spending 3 weeks with my family. You know I love the army but I sure wish I didn't have to spend as much time away as I do. Last time it was almost 6 months and this time, who knows. I was lucky enough to get home in time for my daughters birthday but I am leaving just before my son's. That sucks.

I am lucky enough that for me, being in the military is my dream job. However, it is still a job and I have to work for someone else and on their schedule.  I really would like to be the one deciding how long I go away for, if at all, and work around my kids birthdays instead of the other way around.

I think most people who get into network marketing have that as their ultimate goal, even if it is not their most immediate goal. Most people just want to make extra money easily but I think they all secretly want to be their own boss while making a lot of extra money from home.

For me, I truly believe that http://www.ultimatepowerprofits.com/tmanifold will be the easiest way to make extra money online when it goes live this month. But there are other options, you could get yourself a wordpress blog and your own domain from http://website.ws/tmanifold and use it to sell advertising or some of the other great products out there.

What ever you choose remember that to make extra money easily you have to work hard up front and choose the right opportunities.

Hope that helps,
Tony

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Earn Extra Money Easily

I hate to say it but I have been a little lazy. I can’t believe that I haven’t written this yet to tell you all about the products that Global One will be releasing in the coming weeks and months. On Tuesday Global One founder Scotty Evans hosted the conference call to tease us with some of the amazing products that will be available for members to sell, promote or use. These are amazing products that are not available in any other Network marketing business I have heard of.

How about a full service travel agency like Expedia for member use and promotion? Not to mention being able to legitimately ask for travel agent discounts from hotels and resorts.

How about an Online Mall which features over 100 of the biggest stores world wide like Walmart and Target that you can earn commissions from?

How about an ebook, music and video download site similar to ITunes?

How about access to the multi billion dollar design water industry?

There are more including cutting edge bio-science products and health products.

Now you don’t have to sell any of this to make money. Some of it will be retail focused. But all of it will contribute to the Global Profit pool that all members will be able to profit from though Spinfinity and Infinity.
Don’t take my word for it. Listen to Scotty speak in the recorded call here http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventID=32670633
Sign up here:  www.ultimatepowerprofits.com/tmanifold and be invited to Thursdays call when they speak about even more products.
Hope to see you there.
Tony

Monday, August 27, 2012

Focused Advertising

How are you advertising? If you are in a network marketing business, or any business for that matter, you need to get the word out to people who will be interested in your product or opportunity. Thousands of people will purchase leads or clicks from advertising companies and will spend hundreds of dollars doing so. Yet they often have very little to show from it. Why is that?

The reason is that their advertising is not focused, or targeted, at people who actually care about what they are selling. You could have the greatest beef cookbook ever but if the only people seeing your ads are vegetarians, you are not going to sell a lot of cook books.

So how do you get focused advertising? One way is blogging. If you have a blog, with well written content, you will draw people who are interested in the things you are. People who are not interested in what you have to talk about will not visit your blog and you have instantly have targeted traffic for your product. There are many different services for blogging but I believe that you should have your own domain name in order to brand yourself. I currently have my main blog host with  website.ws/tmanifold which allows me to have my own domain, a Wordpress blog and hosting all for 10 dollars a month. It also has a great affiliate program, which is currently offering a 25 dollar bonus to setup a site.

The other method is Sites like IBOtoolbox. For a small fee (or free if you put in the work), I get advertisements targeted at Network Marketers. In general, if you are involved with one program, you will be much more interested in another program. Maybe you are not making money in your current program or maybe you want to add another source of income.

So in conclusion, I have offered two choices. You can great your own targeted traffic by blogging or you can advertise on a community full of the type of people you want to focus on.

Hope that helps,
Tony

ps. Don't forget Global One goes live next week. Get in early at http://www.ultimatepowerprofits.com/tmanifold

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Camping and making some money

You got to love technology, don't you? I am sitting out in a camp site with my family and I am using my cell phone to check my Blogs. I am enjoying my time with my family and I am running ads, blogging and making money. I sure can't do that with my "real" job.

In less than two weeks, we will have a chance to make even more money when Global One goes live. At my level, I'll get paid at least 10 times a month. That means I will have cash put into my account while I camp for the weekend. Now that is passive income. Isn't that why we do this, so we can enjoy more time with our families? At the highest levels, you could paid more than a thousand times a month.

I am going to sign off here in a second and go put my son to bed but be assured that I will be making money the whole time.
Check out the opportunity at  www.ultimatepowerprofits.com/tmanifold

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Global One Training Call - Star Leaders

Just got off the Global One Tuesday training session. Tonight’s call focused on the benefits of being a platinum member and the extra benefits of being what they call a Star leader. The call can be accessed here:
 instantteleseminar.com/?eventID=32498076
Like many other programs, there are levels of investment in the company ranging from Ten dollars to $100 dollars. At the higher levels you are entitled to higher matching bonuses then the lower levels. As you can see at  www.ultimatepowerprofits.com/tmanifold a Platinum member who has referred 3 people has 234 matching bonuses a month vs 6 times for a Silver member with one Affiliate.
As this is an opportunity where 100% of all members get paid at least 6 times a month, being a Platinum member is going to be a lot easier on the pocket book than many other programs where you pay in for months before making little if any money.
A Star member is a Platinum member who has referred 10 Platinum members. Start members can get matching bonus of up to 1000X a month. 20% matching bonus 1000x a month. Can you believe that?
Listen to the call, check out the website at  www.ultimatepowerprofits.com/tmanifold and sign up now. It goes live in just over a week.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Just a quick note. I am still here and enjoying my time with my family. I haven’t seen my children in almost 6 months and only saw my wife once. I have 2 more weeks with them before I have to head back to the other side of the country with the army. For anyone who reads this, cherish your family. Even when the kids are fighting and your spouses is annoyed with you, it is better than extended periods away from them. My wife has been getting annoyed because I am kind of enjoying the sounds of the kids fighting right now. It won’t last long but for right now it is a sound that I miss.

In the coming weeks I have a ton of new info that is going to be posted. As soon as I have time to right a lengthy review I am going to let you know about this great tool I have been using lately called IBOToolbox and its partner site IBOSocial. In short, it is a social marketing site filled with like minded people but it is also a blog portal. I have got a ton of views on my affiliate links and am averaging about a 3% click thru rate.

I also have more on Globalone and its founder Scotty Evans. Globalone goes live at the end of the month so it is an exciting time. That business is already growing strong and looks to be extremely profitable.

Talk to you later,
Tony

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Global One Conference Call

I attended a conference call last night featuring GlobalOne founder Scott Evans. It was a Q & A session and was hugely informative. The first thing Scott told us was that we were about 2 weeks out from going live. This is huge. A lot of people, me included, are super excited about this and can’t wait for it to go live.

He also explained spinfinity which is one of the compensation methods used in the program. With spinfinity, every 3 days, members will be divided in to thirds and the top two thirds get paid out of a global profit pool. This is strictly linear so if you didn’t get paid the first time, you will get paid the next two times. With in those groups you have a top tier and a bottom tier of pay. From my understanding where you fall within those tiers is “random” with various factors influencing how many “chances” you get to hit the top spot.

This is pretty cool. The problem with most network marketing programs is you don’t get paid for a long time. With Global one, you will get paid with in 6 days of joining (after they go live). And that first payment could be small like a dollar or two or huge like 500 dollars. Imagine having a prospect join your program and hit the 500 dollar slot on spinfinity. You would have the most dedicated affiliate ever after that. And this is just one of many income streams with in GlobalOne.

Another thing Scott mentioned is that their business model is not predicated on having hundreds of affiliates. You can do quite well with 10 or so affiliates. This is great if you struggle with signups.
Well more to follow on this as I have a chance to check through my notes. If you want to listen to a recording of the call, you can find it here
 instantteleseminar.com/?eventID=32241288
More info can be found at  www.ultimatepowerprofits.com/tmanifold

Friday, August 10, 2012

Just a quick update. As of tomorrow, I will be posting sporadically for the next three weeks. I am in the Army and have been away from my family for almost 6 months. Tomorrow I head home for three weeks and will be spending some much needed time with my wife and kids. Spending quality time with them will be my number 1 priority for the next little while so I may not have a great deal of time to post.

This is a great time to remind everyone to keep the reason they get involved in network marketing in mind. For me it is to improve the life of my family and build a lifestyle as stress free as humanly possible. Every dime I make online makes it that much easier for me to provide for my family. If I was ever fortunate enough to retire early because of the money I make through programs like GlobalOne/Ulitmate Prower Profits , Global Doamains International, GVO or some of the other business ventures I am involved it, I would never have to spend this much time away from my family. This is my motivation and when I don't feel like promote my sites, or writing another blog post, I just think of that. It helps keep me focused and on the right path.

One last thing before I sign off, Ultimate Power profits closes their founder positions as of Sunday night but you can still join as an affiliate at anytime. A a bit of an incentive to get the most out of the remaining time to join as a founder, I am offering a money back guarantee. Anyone who joins as a founder and doesn't make money when Ultimate Power Profits goes live will get their founders fee refunded through the ewallet you set up in Ultimate Power Profits.

I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their summer and continues to grow and advance in their journey to make money online.

Tony

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Just got off a conference call

Just got off a conference call with the guys at Ultimate Power Profits.  They had a few key announcements to make that I thought I would pass on. First, because of the overwhelming response to opening up the founder positions, they have extended it to Thursday.  This is great for anyone who hasn’t had a chance to get in yet. This has the opportunity to blow up bigger than zeekrewards and a lot of guys who got in early at zeekrewards have made hundreds of thousands of dollars there.

The second is that all members at Ultimate Power Profits will get access to two investment newsletters by Livio Nespoli a well known investment adviser. Investment newsletters of this type often run hundreds of dollars a month. You get it for free, just by being a member of Ultimate Power Profits. The idea is to give you the tools to save and invest the money you earn from Ultimate Power Profits in order to enhance your life. Is that a great bonus or what?

If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, I really advise you do. This is an opportunity that doesn’t come around very often. Once they go live, I will be posting more stuff on blogging and Search Engine Optimization, so hang in there. I have been totally focused on Ultimate Power Profits for the last couple of days so I have fallen a little behind. Rest assured that I have a lot of stuff to pass on, it just might take me a few days to get it out.

If you have any questions about Ultimate Power Profits ask me in the comments and I will do my best to answer them.

Hope that helps,
Tony

Friday, August 3, 2012

Huge Network Marketing Opportunity.

Huge Network Marketing Opportunity.

Normally, I don’t post about the specific businesses I am involved in. There are enough blogs out there that are strictly advertising copy and not about real topics of use to real people. However, sometimes an opportunity comes about that needs to be shared. That opportunity is Ultimate Power Profits. Before I discuss what Ultimate Power Profitsis, I want to share something Rob Fore sent me about this opportunity.
Once in a blue moon an opportunity comes around that has the potential to be life-changing.
EVEN IF you are not a”promoter” and even if you “don’t have a list” and even if you suck at “selling stuff” both online and offline.
Because every once in a blue moon an opportunity pops up (like ZeekRewards) which gives ordinary people a way to literally DOUBLE their month in a 2-3 short months without recruiting…
Global One will be reopening for exactly one week to accept NEW FOUNDER positions.
What does this mean? It means YOU have a “once in a blue moon” opportunity to literally get in on the ground floor and be in an incredible position to make wonderful things happen.
You hear that? A Founder position in Ultimate Power Profits. What does that mean? It means you will be part of a group that will never get bigger after next week. You will always be at the top of the profit pool. This is where big money can be made.
So what is Ultimate Power Profits about? It is a group of 4-5 programs under one umbrella. The first business is an auction site that features higher end items like Rolex watches. The others have yet to be announced but may include a nutritional company.
There are a couple of really cool things that make Ultimate Power Profits different then some other Network Marketing programs. The first is that some of the profits are going to come from products solid in retail stores. That is pretty cool if you are not a salesman. Second is that the founders of Ultimate Power Profits have been involved in developing some really cool products to help the third world. Some of them include products to keep meat from spoiling so fast and a way to de-salinate a gallon of water in minutes to provide clean drinking water. Another cool initiative is having African kids paint small bottles for a dollar each which will become the bottles for a retail product. As a member you can round down your profits to the nearest dollar to help fund initiatives like this. The last one is really cool for any one who fancies themselves and inventor. Ultimate Power Profits will promote and make some of its members products. So if you have a great idea for a product, you have a ready made angel investor and a dedicated sales team waiting for you.
There are a ton of quality network marketing programs out there but every once in awhile you get a chance to get in on the ground floor of a company with the chance to blow up. Ultimate Power Profits is that chance. Give it a look and it may end up being the difference between being a internet marketer and an internet millionaire. Who knows but it sure is exciting. Check it out at Ultimate Power Profits or type  http://www.ultimatepowerprofits.com/tmanifold into your browser.
 
Hope that helps,
Tony

Monday, July 30, 2012

If you had $100 to build your business...

One of the things I am super driven to do is learn as much as I possibly can about everything I get involved in. In fact, I tend to obsess over things for awhile when I first get into them. In this vein, I have been researching everything I can get my hands on when it comes to SEO, Blogging, affliate marketing and building an online business. With that in mind, I recently asked a bunch of experienced online business marketers what they would do with 100 dollars to invest in their company, if they could go back to the beginning with the benefit of hindsight.

We all "know" that you need to spend money to make money. While in the online world you often substitute time for money they are some ways to save time by spending money. The problem is there are so many things to spend money on and most of them are worth next to nothing. That Ebook worth 397 that you can have for only 49.95? Chances are its crap and I could pump it out in about a day. That software bundle? it is probably free or cheap software, re-branded to make the seller money, not you.

So I decided to ask what should a marketer spend is first hundred dollar investment on. Why pick $100? Well, while some people have money to spend when they enter the world of network marketing, most of us are doing it to supplement our regular income, so I didn't want to high a price tag. I figured $100 dollars wouldn't break the bank for most people but would be high enough to get some real value. So here are the answers most of which came from the warriorforum.com

War room subscription (or subscription to another popular newsletter)
paid ads
buy content for your blog
Buy the rights to an item to use as a Special Offer
Invest in SEO
PPC marketing and
Quality WordPress themes

There were other ideas but the majority of them were along the same lines. With the exception of the newsletter subscription, they fell into two categories. One was driving traffic to your site whether by ads or better Search engine rankings. The the second was increasing the quality of your blog by buying high quality articles (in addition to writing your own) or making your blog more visually attractive.

The great thing for any of you readers out there, is that those two categories are covered in detail here. Hopefully, the stuff you read here will help you spend your money wisely if you ever decide you want to invest some cash into your online business.

Hope that Helps,
Tony

Saturday, July 21, 2012

A Great Web 2.0 SEO tool

During the I posted about earlier Rob Fore talked about the importance of social media, or web 2.0, sites in today's search engine optimization strategies. Rob is a master of SEO. He can get on the front page of google for just about any search term. So when he mentioned a free tool, I had to check it out. The website is socialadr.com and it automatically submits your webpage to over 25 social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Google +1, Stumbleupon, and Linkedin .
How it works it simple. You set up accounts to all these sites (for $11 Socialadr will do it for you), then you are given other peoples bookmarks in your share queue. You share these bookmarks to earn credits which will result in your bookmark being shared by others. It is important to note this isn't really about advertising, it is about creating web 2.0 backlinks. While people will see your website in your share queue, I wouldn't count on people viewing it from there. Take that as a bonus if it comes. Here is the beauty of the system in the words of the SocialAdr team:
Free traffic is what I really wanted, which means getting my pages indexed and ranked in the search engines.  That requires backlinks, backlinks, and more backlinks. I got turned on to social bookmarking sites as a great way to build backlinks to my pages...SocialAdr gives me time to work on the important aspects of my business.  Once I've put my pages in, I know I'm going to get hundreds of links pointing back at my site without doing any work at all.  I don't even have to wait for it to finish.  And since SocialAdr is a web-based tool, it works on any computer, any time. One of the best things about SocialAdr is that the bookmarks I'm getting on the social sites aren't all on my own account.  I'm getting links from hundreds of different users on each of the sites.
Take a look and give it a shot. Social media and web 2.0 backlinks are super important in today's SEO enviroment. These backlinks are on sites that Google already ranks highly, so they are given more weight then some free classified site, that many of you probably use now. It's free, its simple and it could mean the difference between being on the first page of google, and making some sales, or the 30th page and not even being read.

Hope that helps,
Tony

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Great free tool to help you improve your website

I ran into a website the other day that I just had to share. It includes many free tools that can help you improve how your website ranks on search engines. The website is www.aboutus.org and it is a free site that initially was started to catalogue who maintained websites based on their About Us page. Now it has become a full service Search Engine Optimization website that you can use free of charge. Start by placing your website address in the search bar. If they do not have data on your site, the system will compile it for you right there. When the report is ready you will see something like this:



As you can see it gives you a quick synopsis of how your home page stacks up. If you click on Home Page Analysis you will see the following image.

 

 Here you can see that my Search Engine Friendliness and Links & Images are good but there is a problem with my Titles and headings. So click on More details under problem and it takes you to this page.



As you can see my Title is good as is my Meta data. When I first did this neither of those passed. So i had to fix them. I have a problem with my H1 heading and it shows how my blog shows up in a search engine. For those of you who don't know what those terms mean you can click Learn More and it will explain it to you. In short Meta Data is HTML code that doesn't show up on a webpage but is used by search engines when it looks for keywords and H1 heading is an important sentence or phrase on a web page that quickly and clearly tells people and search engines what they can expect to find there. I still need to fix that and as soon as I can figure out how to do that in Wordpress, I will. Next if you go back to the main website entry (image 1), you can click Web Presence Report and get something that looks like this:



This gives you a real time look at your presence on the web. As you can see this is for a new site, so there is hardly any web presence. It can show you where to focus to increase your websites visibility online and drive more visitors to your site. In closing, www.aboutus.org is a really cool, free resource you can use to help you as you try to increase your online visibility. It can also help you fix the parts of your sites that are preventing you from getting maximum traffic.

 Hope that helps, Tony

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

More Downline Coaching Tips


One of the biggest excuses I see about failing at network marketing is, “I can't sell stuff? What do I know about Product X? How can I get people to buy my product?” I am the first guy to tell you that I am no master salesman. I can't sell ice to the Inuit, in fact, on my worst days I feel like I would have a hard time selling them heaters. But I what I do know is coaching and teaching. I have always been a guy that can make someone better than they are and make a team preform better than they have. Because of this, I am focusing on team building and coaching. This actually leads in to my first tip.

Know your strengths and the strengths of your team

Not everyone can be the star running back or quarterback. That is just a fact of life. However, without a good offensive line the running back and quarterback are going to get hurt, a lot. Not many people know this but the left tackle is one of the highest paid positions in professional football. To use another football example, how many placekickers can you name? Chances are not many but placekickers are responsible for more wins than any other single player. Now that you have heard about football, you may be asking what the point to all this is? The point is that we all have individual talent and skills. A good team is one where those talents and skills complement each other and a good coach will know how to put that together.

Find your leaders

As I said above, everyone is good at something and sometimes you will find natural leaders. Use them! Bring them in and have them work with people in your organization. Some people are natural sales people. Have them work with other to increase their sales or maybe use them as the “voice” of your organization. Let them sell people on the product or opportunity. The possibilities are endless you just have to recognize them

Get feedback from your team

Nothing happens in a vacuum. The decisions you make or the advice you give will have effects. The only way to understand those facts is to talk to your team and see how you are doing. Maybe you are not communicating as good as you think you are. Maybe your ideas need some tweaking. Never be afraid to get feedback from people above and below you, it is the only way you will improve. The best leaders are always looking for feedback and are not afraid of constructive criticism.

Don't micromanage

This is a universal truth that is double in this industry. One of the reasons people want to work from home in a network marketing business is to get away from the boss who always looks over their shoulder. Give general direction, what we in the army often call “Giving them their Arcs”. Point your people in a general direction based on some sound principles and let them be creative.

Hope this helps
Tony

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Review od My Lead System Pro webinar

Last night I had the chance to check out a webinar hosted by Brian and Norbert of My Leads System Pro. It ran a little long so I only could stick around for the presentations from Rob Fore and Deagan Smith. I want to say up front that I am not a member of any of these peoples organizations, although after the webinar last night that may change.

First up was Rob Fore. Rob has built multiple 6 figure income streams and is a real heavy hitter in the Network Marketing game.  Rob presented his five step process to making money in online marketing. The five steps are as follows:
1. Pick something to sell
2. Ask yourself who would be most likely to buy your product
3. Use keyword research tools to figure out what your target market is searching for when looking for a product like yours
4. Write content that meets those searches or in other words, solve the problem your target market has
5.Promote that content to have it ranked on search engines
Next Rob went into a short primer on how to get that content ranked higher on the search engines. The first tip was to get as many back links as possible. Of particular importance where facebook likes, tweets, google +1, linkdin and other social media sites. One really neat trick he shared was how to get more comments on your blog to have it rated higher. Turn off your spam blocker. Then when you get spam, edit out the link if they have put one in there and answer it as if it was a real person. While we obviously want real people visiting our blogs, when it comes to rankings quantity is more important than quality.
Next up was Daegan Smith. Daegan runs maximum-leverage.com and is one of the premier lead generators out there. I have to be honest, a lot of what he said just flew right over my head. However, one thing I got from his talk was the use of a scientific trial and error approach to creating lead capture pages. He has gone through dozens of different page designs, often tweaking one small thing and then compared them to the old page. Every time he got a bump in leads, or quality of leads, he kept it and continued tweaking. Eventually he began to see patterns which helped him improve those pages even better. If nothing else he proved with real numbers that you have to constantly monitor your marketing strategies and make changes to improve them.
Unfortunately the webinar ran late and I had to get to bed so I missed Todd Falcone's talk but I am sure it was as good as the others. I would like to thank the guys at My Lead System Pro for putting on this free webinar and the presenters for showing their trade secrets for no cost.

Tony

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Choosing Topics for your blog post

In my previous post about writing for blogs, I talk about how blogs are a crucial part of success for network marketing. However, one of the biggest challenges for new network marketers is coming up with good topics to write about. If you browse the blogs of successful network marketers, you will see lots of blog postings about how they have succeeded in various aspects of the business. But when you are new to the business, writing about your success is impossible, unless you lie which sadly a lot of people in this industry do every day. So what can you, as a new network marketer, write about?

Well one option is to do what I am doing, that is take an aspect of the business you do know about (in my case writing or coaching) and write about that. You can use your insights from your success in other areas and apply them to network marketing. This will give you some meaningful posts that can help people in the industry while you build you own positive experiences to share latter on. However, what if you don't have any skills that easily relate to network marketing? What can you write about then?

If you are like most people in this industry, you have failed with many systems in the past. A common number thrown about is that 97 percent of network marketers fail to make even 10 dollars from their businesses. What about looking at those failures as a source of blog articles? Human beings learn by failing, we gain experience by attempting something new and that often leads to failure. Failure is not a negative thing if it leads to success in the long run. So what have your failures taught you about network marketing? Where have you gone wrong and how can you help people from making the same mistakes?

People will read your blog if it gives them some insight in to questions they may have or motivates them in someway. In my experience, the people who never fail are of very little use to me as either motivation or examples to learn from. I want to see how people failed and what they did to overcome it because I know that I will fail many times in life and how I overcome that failure will be what defines me, both in business and in life. So embrace you failures and turn them in to successes by using them as topics for quality blog posts.

Hope that helps,
Tony

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Coaching your downline in goal setting

I believe that coaching is an integral part of success in a network marketing business, as it is in any endeavour. Successful coaching of a down line is one of the inherent strengths of network marketing. By fostering an environment of teamwork and support from an upline, you can make help make each affiliate greater than they would be on their own. Better affiliates means more success. You will be more successful because your down line will send more commissions up the chain and your affiliates will be more successful because they will feel empowered to work harder and stay with the program longer.

One of the traits that I have discovered reading blogs of top network managers is that they have had great coaches and become great coaches themselves. One of the fundamental aims of this blog will be to help you become a better coach to your affiliates. There are many aspects to good coaching but the aspect I will focus on in this post is motivation. One way to help motivate is to help your down line set goals.

A lack of realistic and concrete goals is a major reason for people quiting network marketing opportunities. They see the claims of tens of thousands of dollars being made with little effort and when that doesn't happen they give up. To combat this, I like to set 3 goals covering the short, medium and long terms with specific content linked to each.

Here is an example of my goals:

Short Term: Earn enough income to pay for the cost of my businesses at the premium level.

Medium Term: Make enough extra money to take my family on a nice vacation once or twice a year

Long Term: Have enough residual income to retire early on a reduced pension and still enjoy the lifestyle I have become accustomed to.

Notice there are no specific dollar amounts listed. I know about how much money I need to accomplish these things but I also know that over time those dollar figures will change. By giving the goals as something I want to do, I keep the focus on why I want to make the money rather than the money itself. The money is only an means to an end, not the end itself.

Set goals for yourself and help your down line set goals as well and you will all profit for it. Once your initial goals are reached, set new ones. They don't have to related to money either. Maybe you have goals of helping 20 people a year achieve their goals or getting your website a higher Alexa ranking. Your goals are only limited by your imagination.

Hope that helps,
Tony

Sunday, July 1, 2012

How to write a blog post

One of the best tools you can use to drive traffic to your affiliate sites is a blog post. Many people get scared or intimidated about the prospect of writing because they think, "How am I supposed to write a blog? I don't know how to write."  So they never write anything and maybe repost some form article. Check out most affiliate program blogs and see what I mean. They contain the same articles over and over. Heck, I've been there and I have done it too. So what if I told you that good blog writing is as simple as following a formula?
There are two main ways to structure any article. The first is to go from a wide focus to a narrow focus. That is what I am doing in this article. I am starting with a wide topic of blog writing and narrowing it down to specific tips about blog writing. The second way is to take a specific instance and move to a broad topic. These are really great for taking aspects of your daily life and turning them in to informative blog posts. You take something that happened to you or that you witnessed and you draw some conclusion from it.
The beauty of blogs is that they do not have to be huge articles. 200 to 500 words are ideal lengths of blog posts. Pick a topic and spend 10 minutes writing about it using one of the two formula's above and save it. DO NOT PUBLISH IT RIGHT AWAY! If you are writing for a business, you need to be professional. No professional writer ever publishes his first draft. You shouldn't either. Grab a coffee, take a break and come back to it. Spell check it and look for awkward phrasing or idea flow. Now you can publish it.
Congratulations! You have now become a blog writer. Do this once a week and you will begin to drive traffic to your site.
Hope that helps,
Tony

Tuesday, June 26, 2012




Review By Gene Wolff



Have you heard of this program? Or are you here doing your research looking for some reason on why not to join Affiliate Portal Network. No matter what you decide, let me point out some facts that you might not know about Affiliate Portal Network.
First off, my Affiliate Portal Network Review revolves around some legit facts about where the program evolved from. The system or network, was created by two well-known affiliate/network marketers names Brian Bear and Tissa Godavitarne. Both very successful and brilliant affiliates. I know Brian personally from my past experience in network marketing, he’s a stand up guy and cares a great deal about the people he surrounds him self with.  Brian first made his big mark in the network marketing scene using Kimball Roundys spiderweb marketing system.  Brian did some serious damage in this program by dominating the Global Domains International leaderboards using YouTube as his lead generation system.
affiliate portal network
What alot of people did not know, was that Brian was secretly using a Imacro Script to create massive amounts of hits on his youtube videos which in turn ranked them for all the top high traffic keywords like, Make Money Online, Work From Home etc. I my self was so intrigued by what he was doing, I ended up joining his team. Later of which I learned how to develop my own marketing and training system to filter more leads into our team.  Brian built a massive GDI team which then led him to create his own FREE system, The Bear Marketing System.
BMS was a great program, slowly it flopped into obscurity though, most of which because the lack of quality content kept the system from progressing into stardom.  However it is still kicking around today and I still believe has a great concept for people to earn from multiple streams of income.   the most awesome part about Brians success in internet marketing, is where he was before hitting the Youtube gold rush. He was a bankrupt truck driver looking for a new outlet to make more money.  This is the energy that drove Brians need to find Internet Marketing.
As a past affiliate of BMS and also working with Brian, I know for a fact he and Tissa both put alot of thought into this new program because of their own past experience in developing there own systems.  Meaning, you learn from your mistakes.

Affiliate Portal Network Review Of Tissa Godavitarne


Tissa is a genius marketer. He not only makes thousands of dollars in network marketing, but also does affiliate marketing promoting many different products online. I had my first run in with Tissa when he first came onto the Global Domains International scene dominating the GDI leaderboards with hundreds of affiliates per week. Brian Bear actually was on top for a while, then Tissa stepped onto the scene and basically man handled his way to the top. To me it seemed like childs play, especially with the amount of money this guy has.
His first system that he created was the “Acme People Search” marketing system. It revolved around the same concepts as the Spider Web System (automated referral system) and Brian Bear’s marketing system. Tissa allowed you to not only earn money through GDI, but also through other single tier based income streams such as Mylife.com, HDpublishing.com Adsense and a couple others. Although it seemed extremely easy as 1-2-3, it was not. Here is my opinion based on my personal experience.
The search engine allowed people to search for people online. It was kinda shady because people could not only find you, but actually get your address. Like a said a lil shady, but definitely profitable.
Here are a couple problems I had with his program:
It had way too much lead leakage. Not enough simple video training. Promoted Tissa and not the users. Basically in a nut shell, newbies Could NOT make money with this system. This does not mean it was a scam. It was just not newb friendly and was not for the light-hearted.  The thing about joining programs like this, is the long wait for commissions. So you would essentially need some type of bankroll to fund your cost to run your business before you make anything.  APS was in my opinion built for advanced or professional affiliate marketers. I my self,  made some decent coin from the system.
I really did and I was doing very well until Tissa opened up the acme people search forum. I eventually left acme people search because of the cult like atmosphere inside of the forum, it was nothing personally against Tissa, but more of the lack of elements and cult like followers which kinda disgusted me.  I ran a personal training site that allowed people to get tons of video training free of charge for acme people search setup,  but required opt in for membership info.  Because of this I was chased down by the prehistoric villagers and captured, burned and pinned to a cross for “Self Promotion”.
I did not see my self doing self promotion as all I was doing was giving a heads up to people about the content I offered for free. The optin was only to keep people updated on when new videos were added, and also on new free content that I offered.  At no point did I profit off anyone or cross recruit.  But naturally, people who see someone else succeed, they obviously became a little jealous. After I left I did creep around the forum a bit and found that alot of the people whom were “Hating” on me, eventually copied everything I did and duplicated there own training sites.  A little ironic dont you think..lol  Heres an APS review I posted prior to quitting.
Either way, it is a great program and you will hear alot of crys out there that say Tissa was a scam artist. Even though I quite his system, HE IS NOT A SCAMMER. By no means he is not. A bit of a affiliate marketing genius, yea, but thats just because hes in this game to make money so dont go screaming “SCAM” just because the guy make more money than you when you are using his SYSTEM. Please note, I have just under 4 years experience in making money online both in network marketing and affiliate marketing. So take my advice when I say, these two are stand up guys.
Transparency is an easy tool to decide on whether someone is trying to cheat you. Tissa actually invites people to his office to come mingle and hang while Brian runs weekly free webinar training for his team. Remember neither of these two need to do anything but market these days to make money. So the fact both of them take the time to work with their teams personally is a clear indication on who they are as individuals and affiliate marketers.

Affiliate Portal Network Is FREE!

This is what I love about the program. Its free, and it allows you to earn through multiple streams of income. This is an important factor in affiliate marketing. And the fact that both have huge mailing lists and hundreds of thousands of leads, is a clear indication of where this program is going. I my self will be joining up and promoting it. The reason behind that, is, both are brilliant marketers and offer alot of value to peoples memberships. Plus I am looking forward to promoting a quality system and product.
At one point, both of them were rivals, now they are partners.  Which in my eyes, one of the most powerful things you can do. I actually recommended Brian to work with Tissa in the past, by integrating APS into BMS.  But naturally Brian was hesitant because he thought he was promoting Tissa, when he was our competitor. Me I choose the middle path. I am in it to make money, help people and use the most powerful converting system available.  This system could that tool both for me and you.
Both Tissa and Brian are great marketers and have both struggled like many of us have before reaching affiliate guru status. The difference between these gurus and the others, is you dont have to be mel gibson to talk or hang out with them. And you dont have to pay them thousands of dollars just to say you work with them. These guys are great peoples and if your seriously looking for a great way to make money online in 2012, Affiliate Portal Network could be the ticket that helps you create the residual income you have been so desperately searching for.


Monday, June 25, 2012

Affiliate Portal Network

Affiliate Portal Network



As you may know by now, Tissa Godavitarne & Brian Bear have created the Affiliate Portal Network, a brand new 100% free marketing system that acts as a GVO and GDI downline builder with many more benefits. Some of these benefits include:

    An automated email list-builder
    Multiple income streams from promoting 1 link
    Automated referral sponsoring system
    2 customized steps that allow all members to add whatever other program(s) they want
    The ability to instantly embed promotional video(s) into the customized steps
    Free internet marketing training
    Zeek Rewards (Just happens to be TOTALLY awesome)
    And so much more, ALL completely free!

So the question is….Why WOULDN’T EVERYONE WANT to take advantage of the system, the Affiliate Portal Network?

From what I’m seeing, it is definitely helping many people make MORE money with LESS effort WHILE growing everyone’s GVO – Host Then Profits downline. It also allows you to earn money with Global Domains International, Zeek Rewards, or any other Network Marketing program you may be involved in.

Brian Bear and Tissa Godavitarne are consistently in the top earners of bother GVO and GDI. I have personal confirmed this. These guys are good. Joining the Affiliate Portal Network gives you access to these two individuals regardless of who may have sponsored your into your current programs. Having the support of top level marketers is crucial to succeeding in this business
Click on the link to check it out! It really IS free btw.

Affiliate Portal Network