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Get Your Online Biz “Up & Running”

David Merrill 101 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:04:18 +0000

Are you having trouble getting your business up and running?

Maybe it’s time to get down to… or even return to… the basics of doing business online.

In this 4 minute video, I lay the foundation for getting you out of your comfort zone, and into the flow of success. I’ve even got a super Action Plan that you can embark on at the end of the video.

No more watching others fly by with their online success while you are grounded in frustration and overwhelm.

Network marketers, internet marketers, bloggers… here’s a great place to begin, to finally get your online business, your MLM or your business opportunity up and running.

I created this “Up & Running” tutorial a little while back, and it was specifically aimed at MLM entrepreneurs looking to get free leads. Despite it’s Network marketing slant, though, the techniques, strategies and resources are identical to the ones that would benefit internet marketers and bloggers, too.

“Up & Running” is a great launchpad for your online business, whatever your niche, whatever your business. If you need to build a list, develop customers, subscribers and prospects… watch the above video again. Then grab your own free copy of “Up & Running” at the end of the video.

Carpe Diem!

I love to read your questions and comments, and encourage you to share this post within your social media streams. I’d also love to hear what you think about “Up & Running” after you’ve reviewed it.

Cross-Recruit With List Building Strategies

David Merrill 101 — Wed, 11 May 2011 23:52:49 +0000

Build your team, your business, your organization by Cross-Recruiting, using List Building Strategies. Internet marketing techniques commonly utilize this strategy, while network marketers, team, business and MLM organizers tend to overlook or misunderstand it.

Here’s how it works.

Now that you’ve got an idea of how to build your organization and recruit your down-lines, it’s time to TAKE ACTION.

For some greater detail to help you get started, get my free Up & Running Video series right here!

Love to hear your comments below, and please, feel free to share this information on Twitter, Facebook and all your other social media outlets.

Building Your MLM Downline with Social Media

David Merrill 101 — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:36:44 +0000

It is often thought… and taught… that it is bad business to try to develop your MLM business through the use of Social Media.

This is true in one respect. You don’t want to use your personal blog, video channels and social media to brand yourself as a top MLM recruiter for a specific company. Unless, of course, that is the only objective to your online presence.

It is not necessary to involve your personal blog and video channels in your MLM marketing effort though.

So, in fact, yes, you can build downlines for your MLM business using internet marketing techniques. You just shouldn’t be using your personal blog and video channel to do it. Those should be reserved for offering generic content that can apply to any online business.

An effective way to promote exclusively to prospects for a particular MLM opportunity is to create a separate video channel and blog site dedicated purely to training and informing those lead. Then cross-promote between those videos and blog posts.

Video

Create a YouTube video channel dedicated to trainings for your company.

Create a series of video trainings branding yourself as a leader in the company.

Link the videos to blog posts you write about your MLM company on your blog site dedicated to that company.

Blog

Create a blog site dedicated to your company or your company’s niche.

Post information on your blog to teach potential downlines how to market your company’s product or service.

If you cannot or do not wish to use your company name, you can discuss products your company features, such as travel discounts or vitamins. Use keywords that would be likely to attract prospects researching your company, its services or products.

Create information products designed to help market your company. Give them for free as Opt-In offers. Develop a prospect auto-responder mailing list from these opt-ins.

Offer free webinars, teleconferences and other marketing trainings in email blasts to your auto-responder list.

Social Media

You can even create dedicated Social Media sites, such as a Facebook Fan or Business Page, to syndicate your video and blog content, and to create friendships and associations with prospects.

Personal Branding

Using the videos in conjunction with your blog, and ultimately conducting live trainings via webinar or teleconference will brand you as a legitimate leader of your MLM company. Prospective downlines will be attracted to your leadership and your training, and will want to join your organization to capitalize on your professional guidance and stature.

This is the most effective way to use free social media and blogging to develop a downline for your MLM company. Social Media is a powerful recruiting tool. If used properly, it can be the backbone to building your MLM downline organization.

Social Media Is The Key To Internet Marketing Success. Part III

David Merrill 101 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:38:04 +0000

In the final part of this series on using Social Media as the key to your Internet Marketing Success , I will show you how to execute an extreme offensive attack from the positions you have established. Executing proven strategies such as these will become the foundation for driving traffic, prospects, and down-lines from Social Media sites to your blog and, ultimately, into your sales funnel.

In the first part of this series, I discussed how creating a path to online marketing success requires taking up precise Social Media positions. In the second part, I illustrated how to reinforce these positions consistently and systematically with valuable content that is specifically meaningful to your target clientele.

Use Your Positions To Co-Ordinate and Execute Extreme Marketing Campaigns

Now that you’ve assumed your Social Media positions, and have established a plan for the ongoing reinforcement of those positions, you are ready to unleash an extreme marketing campaign. There are many types of campaigns you could embark on, of course, but let’s look at just one. This will show you what a marketing campaign might look like.

Case Study

One of my clients (let’s pretend it is you) was interested in building up her MLM downline for a health products company.

Here’s one marketing campaign we devised.

Step One:

Create a single video discussing the product line: what it is, what its health benefits are, and who would want to use it.
Create a SERIES of 3 videos discussing the benefits of becoming a distributor of the product.

Step Two:

Release the videos (post them) onto You Tube and other video sites, one at a time, for 4 consecutive days.

Step Three:

On day one of your first video release (about the product), you will post an entry on your blog about health in general, pertaining to the product you are promoting, but not specifically. So for instance, you could post about how your diet could reduce the likelihood of heart attacks, reduce high cholesterol and lower blood pressure. (One of your key products utilizes these same principles, but that is only discussed in your video, not on your blog post).
On the second day, enter a pillar post on your blog about MLM marketing, showcasing your skill-set and capability to lead people through a marketing process. This post is NOT about your MLM opportunity, it IS about how any MLM can be effectively marketed. This post should link directly to the “work with me” (or whatever you call it) page on your blog that will show prospects more about your MLM and HOW THEY CAN CONTACT YOU to get involved. It should also backlink to your You Tube video.

Step Four:

At the same time that you post the two blog posts outlined in Step Three, you will post two ezine articles that are essentially the same as your blog posts, but reworked for article SEO formatting.

For SEO formatting, I recommend that your articles should be heavily key-worded to your niche.

In addition, the first paragraph should comprise a fairly detached and academic statement of (in article 1) the health issues that your product addresses; and (in article 2) the nature and history of MLM marketing.

These articles should backlink to your You Tube video, and to your “work with me” blog page, or, probably best of all… an “excluded” blog page dedicated strictly to the campaign.

Call To Action

This campaign was designed for a client desiring to build her downline. Its purpose was to root out all the browsers and seekers of MLM opportunities in general, and attract those ready and able to join the specific opportunity offered.

In order to have people ACT on my client’s video, blog and article discussions … a Call To Action had to be in place. For the most part, I suggested that this be offered in the form of the “work with me” static page of the blogsite, or the excluded page linked to directly from video and article content.

In addition, Facebook links and Tweets are used to encourage people to view the blogs, as are email blasts to prospects already in the sales funnel, and direct messages to the Facebook sales funnel list of prospects.

The call to action in this case was essentially a “call me for more information” offer. Optional to this, you could also employ an optin box on your “work with me” page, or even within the blog post itself. Still another call to action could be an optin box on your Facebook Business page.

Summary

Marketing campaigns are designed to obtain prospects and clients, but also to put your business on the map and establish you as a force to be reckoned with in the world of cutting edge internet entrepreneurs and online marketers.

Besides the prospects you seek for the immediate opportunity you are promoting, you will also be adding to your overall online credibility. This might lead to people joining other opportunities or products you offer on your blog, or at the very least, should add to your online visibility and personal branding.

Campaigns like the one I just demonstrated, can put your business over the top. They can establish you as a force to be reckoned with in the world of internet entrepreneurs and online marketing. Your Social Media sites will be the base from which all operations proceed, and your Internet Marketing Success will be measured by how effectively you carry out missions to attract and convert prospects, leads, down-lines and business partners into your marketing funnels. Visit my other posts that detail the first and second parts of this 3-part series designed to propel you to rapid victory in Online Marketing.

From The Ground Up: The Foundation of Your Online Marketing Business – Part ONE

David Merrill 101 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:39:31 +0000

GET A QUICK CHECK-UP TO DETERMINE THE HEALTH OF YOUR ONLINE MARKETING, BLOG AND SYNDICATION EFFORTS.

Could your business suffer from malnutrition?
In the developed world, it is common for people to be overfed and undernourished.
Are you “feeding” into your business a whole lot of calories with very low nutritional value? Are you giving it the “nutrients” it needs to grow and regenerate on a daily basis?

Are the nutrients you are feeding your business of the right quality? It’s great to have lots of widgets and plugins and bells and whistles… but do they complement your most immediate, high impact goals. Are they nourishing the most essential organs of your enterprise? Remember, the quality of the nutrients your business ingests is far more significant than the quantity.

Is your business properly “digesting” and “assimilating” the nutrients you are feeding it?
Making the nutrients your business requires available is only the beginning. Then they must undergo enzymatic activity sufficient for their assimilation into the bloodstream of your undertaking.

Are you continually energizing the nucleus of your online marketing efforts?
Through proper assimilation, key nutrients are transported through the bloodstream of your business, to the cell sites where they are utilized as the energy blocks that are transformed into energy. It is this energy that manifests as the ACTION required to make all your efforts meaningful.

In Part TWO…
We Will Explore The State of Your STRATEGIES…
strategies for coordinating your daily actions with laser sharp precision.
You will learn how to employ strategies for reaching your BIG goals with lightning speed and efficiency.

See You There!

Come TRIBE WITH ME!

David Merrill 101 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:02:05 +0000

This is your chance to get a FREE education into what tribes are all about. I took a TMI (Tribe Mastery Intensive) course about 5 weeks ago. Watch my video as I describe that incredible experience. A new TMI Course is on it’s way and YOU can get in on a really great FREE webinar coming up. Don’t pass it up, friends. The learning you’ll receive on this webinar will rock your world and costs you NOTHING!!

Watch the video, then read on and contact me so I can get you signed up for the FREE 2-hour information packed TMI webinar coming up in JUST DAYS. I’d hate to see you miss out on it. I’m highly recommending this educational MUST to all my students, clients, friends and visitors. Take Action Now! You will thank me many times over.

My Tribe

If you’d like to learn more about My Tribe, I’ve got GREAT NEWS. We’re doing a FREE… Absolutely FREE WEBINAR in which we will give you all the basics of getting started with Social Media techniques to Drive Your Internet Marketing campaign and to Drive leads to YOUR BLOG. No buying leads, no paid advertising… all free techniques to market online. You do not want to miss out on this. Space is limited. Please, leave a comment below, or call me, or email me… do whatever works best for you, but PLEASE get yourself registered for this FREE WEBINAR before it fills up. Worm to the early bird, guys!

PS: THE BEST place to join in the action is here: MY TRIBE

Learn How To Blog Effectively

David Merrill 101 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:44:46 +0000

Many of my students, lately, are asking me how to start a blog. A lot of them want to know how to start a blog for a life success coaching business. Maybe because it’s the new year… resolutions to finally create a blog are catching fire. To create a blog is one thing. To build a blog is quite another. Learning how to get your blog noticed, how to make money from your blog, how to get your blog noticed and then increasing blog traffic… all of these elements are essential to the whole purpose of writing a blog to begin with.

When students or clients ask me how to start a blog, my first question is WHY do you want to create a blog in the first place. The most common answer I get is that they want to drive traffic to a place where they can capture people’s interest in what they are doing. Then, not surprisingly, they want to know how to increase blog traffic fast. So, for instance, if you want to start a blog for a life success coaching business, you clearly need to attract people that are interested in self-development, in creating “success” in their lives, perhaps in their career, financially, maybe with relationships or in terms of a specific skill like public speaking or being more assertive.

To attract these specific kinds of people–self-identified “prospects”–to your blog, I teach my clients to meet them where they are, enter their lives and learn who they are. Many such prospects can be found in the social media, seeking out life success coaches. They appear on search engines, typing in questions about self-development, or maybe even asking how they can connect with a reputable life success coach. There are specific online techniques I teach clients for capturing the attention of these people who are specifically seeking what they have to offer.

One such technique is to direct friends and visitors of your social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg and others… to YOUR BLOG. If they are out there seeking expertise that you have, and if you can show them in your blog how you apply your expertise to solving their problems or making their lives more valuable… then YOUR BLOG is a great place for them to improve their lives. Your job is to send them there. Post links to your site in the social media, let people know you have valuable information and methods they can apply. Let them know that YOUR BLOG is the place to go to find this.

Some of my clients have voiced concern that such a technique is self promotional. Of course it is. If you are in business, and especially if the business is focused on the professional help YOU have to offer, then you better promote yourself. YOU are your entire offer.

The only concern you should have about being self-promoting is if you are pushing your promotion on people who have not asked for it and may very well have no interest in it. That is simply spamming people. It’s analogous to the door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman of old, who would knock on the door (not too many doorbells in those days) and throw a handful of dirt on the floor as soon as someone opened it. Then he’d “sell” you on how great his vacuum is, if you’d just let him in to clean up the mess he just created. This is spam. Don’t do it if you want your blog to be taken seriously, and moreover, if you want your professionalism to be undisputed.

There ought to be plenty of people out there who want your services. (If not, you better reconsider the value of your business at the outset.) People who are interested in your services (1) need to be attracted to explore your invitation to visit your blog, (2) need to have sufficient trust in you as a person that they are willing to give you the information you request to follow up with them, and (3) need to be able to clearly and quickly see how you can help them and at what cost.

Attracting people to your blog at the outset is a matter of meeting them in social circles (the social media) and letting them get to trust you from a personal standpoint. This is accomplished by offering information, insights, perspective, tips… anything you think will be of value to your target prospects. These things can be shared in the social media, with links back to your blog. Once on your blog, the prospect will be able to get the immediate information, insight or tip he was looking for, plus will be afforded the opportunity to spend some time on your blog and get to know you better.

Once the prospect knows you sufficiently to trust you, he or she will most likely proceed to exploring your blog to determine your offer and pricing. At that point, they will be likely to give you their contact information so you can contact them and give them more detailed information about how you can give them the products and services they are looking for.

So this gives you an idea of the power of having and why you should have a blog, one method of getting your blog noticed and, finally, how to make money from your blog. This information is pertinent to those my clients who want to know how to start a blog for a life success coaching business as well as for those who want to promote an MLM opportunity or teach people to play the guitar.

There are MANY other techniques to explore in order to create a blog that is effective and valuable to people, and in order to market your blog to prospects that are looking for what you have to offer. Perhaps the most powerful way, in fact, to promote your blog, is to syndicate it through the efforts of other bloggers who have the same goals in mind… creating and maintaining a blog that will drive prospects to them. This is called “content syndication” and the people who come together to help each other out in this way are often referred to as a “tribe”

PS: THE BEST place to REGISTER FOR THE FREE WEBINAR and join in the action is here: MY TRIBE

Post To MY TRIBE: “Well boys (and girls), It’s Up to Us…We Start Here”

David Merrill 101 — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:07:38 +0000

The TRIBE concept is here, fellow Social Media entrepreneurs, MLM folk and online bloggers. Right here! It’s the most powerful and effective way to share our internet marketing efforts to benefit us all. And benefit we ALL shall!

As I’ve told you before, in this Tribe, there’s simply NO ENTREPRENEUR LEFT BEHIND. Not one!

King Vidor’s classic 1934 movie, “Our Daily Bread” (above video clip) gives a quick glimpse into the inner workings of OUR Syndication Tribe.

Remember: “What We’ve Got To Do Is Help Ourselves By Helping Others” – I guess that summarizes the workings of this Tribe. It’s been so great… so profitable… so virally effective… working with my Tribe partners. This is what I call organic growing– and my internet business is GROWING.

Thanks to all of you for your partnership. And we’re JUST GETTING STARTED!

PS: If you want to get started in My Tribe, Contact Me Anytime

Talkin’ Tribes: Social Media Syndication For YOUR Blog!

David Merrill 101 — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:22:16 +0000

If you’re serious about personal branding for yourself… about utilizing the Social Media craze that is JUST BEGINNING to emerge to generate FREE buzz for your MLM, business opportunity, products and services; about content syndication for your blog, website, You Tube, Facebook or Twitter pages… about tribes and tribal syndication: YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO… NOW.

This is SERIOUSLY… The most important thing I can teach you about Becoming An Internet Sensation in just months, and, honestly, some people have done it in WEEKS!

I have learned some of the most amazing internet marketing techniques from MASTER ENTREPRENEURS in the internet marketing industry. I will be creating posts on my blog to teach you as much as I can. In the meanwhile… ACTION IS REQUIRED.

If you are interested in joining me and my tribe associates, let me know… ASAP. We’ll be doing some pretty intensive trainings in the upcoming weeks and I’m inviting a few commited entrepreneurs… at this time… to join in. Contact me to learn more about this developing opportunity that could catapult you into Internet Marketing ORBIT!

PS: THE BEST place to REGISTER FOR THE FREE WEBINAR and join in the action is here: MY TRIBE