Building eCommerce

By Willie DeJarnette

Why building your list is without a doubt the most profitable use of your online time and why it is absolutely critical to your success.

When building a list, always give before you attempt to receive. While this applies to Internet marketing in general, it is especially true in list building. If you do not freely give powerful advice, software, and information to your list members when you first begin building your list, you really cannot expect them in turn to be willing to shell out money when you launch a product.

Offer a specific benefit for joining your list. For instance, ‘join my list in the next week and receive this special report’. This gives visitors a compelling reason to actually join your list, especially if you do not charge them anything to join. Some examples of what you can give are discounts, audios, videos, reports, and ebooks.

Compile a list of forums related to your niche. Open up accounts on all of those forums and begin posting regularly. Once you have established a reputation as an authority or at least a knowledgeable person in your niche, create an attractive signature with compelling copy that links to your free opt-in page.

Setup joint ventures with site owners in non-competing, but related niches. For instance, if you sell surfing info products, you may want to look for joint venture partners who sell surf boards and wet suits. Clearly communicate the benefits of working with you whenever you contact a joint venture partner in an attempt to grow your opt-in list.

Search for experts in your niche on Clickbank. Compile a list of everyone who has a viable product and has included contact information. Make an attempt to contact each of them if you can interview them. Communicate clearly that they will benefit from the exposure. Put this expert interview in PDF format, add a link to your opt-in form in it, include an affiliate link to the person’s product at the end, and circulate it for free.

Answer every single email you receive from your list. Many list owners neglect to do this and end up paying dearly for it on message boards. Generating a reputation through word-of-mouth or virally is one of the fastest ways to gain credibility or lose credibility. Pay attention to your customers and they will remember you when posting on forums.

Test a squeeze page format for your landing page. This can be similar to a short copy format, but in general, it usually only contains one paragraph of language that could be described as sales copy. In many cases, a squeeze page is simply an opt-in form that contains two or three sentences of copy inside of the actual form. Remember to test this format with pay per click traffic.

About The Author

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By Thien Kai Wei

MLM marketing, in its traditional form, has always relied on marketers having a list of warm contacts, such as relatives and close friends and acquaintances.

Internet MLM, on the other hand, has revolutionized the way that MLM business is conducted and taken the pressure off of marketers to rely on bugging their friends and family.

The Old MLM Vs Online MLM
If you have been involved in MLM in the traditional sense, you will be all too familiar with this particular scenario: You find a great MLM company, join and write out your warm contacts list. This mainly consists of friends, family, relatives and next-door neighbors.

You call them and tell them all about the business and how much it has to offer them. In return your friends and family will begin avoiding you through fear of you bugging them again or pestering them to join your new business.

The problem here is that, in order to find people who will thrive in your MLM business, you need to reach further than just your warm contacts, yet you don’t want to start cold calling people through the telephone directory.

This is how the Internet has changed the way that MLM prospecting is conducted. With the Internet, you have a limitless reach to find prospects regardless of distance or even geographical boarders. In fact, you don’t even need to know the contacts that you are making. They can and more than likely will be complete strangers. The contacts that you make over the Internet will also have a higher sign up percentage, as well.

Let me explain:
When you make contacts through the Internet, those people get to know you through the information you present to them. Whether it is the products your MLM Company is offering or the lucrative business opportunity.

Internet users see this information and they have a choice. If they are interested, they will click on your link to learn more about it. Instead of trying to find interested warm contacts, you can instantly draft out who is interested and who isn’t simply by using information to find these interested people.

Internet multi-level marketing has given marketers the opportunity to make contacts who are interested enough to click on a link or an ad and contact you themselves. You no longer have to risk losing your friends and family to get your MLM business off the ground, making you more likely to succeed.

The latest trend in MLM is selling information as a product. In fact, some programs specialize in educating and informing their participants in order to enrich their lives. These information products are very cost effective, which means you need less capital in order to get your business up and running.

Promotion is also much easier since the product is not physical, it can immediately be presented to a prospect with as little as a laptop and an Internet connection, regardless of the prospects’ location.

Does That Mean Internet MLM Is Easier?
Internet marketing is easier, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that with the use of Internet MLM you will be able to set up a website and immediately have money come rolling in without any effort on your part.

You still need to put in a lot of effort and be dedicated enough to experiment with your marketing techniques, as well as be prepared to spend time with your down line to ensure their success, which is the key to growing your own business.

Are All Online MLM Businesses Good?
Online MLM is no different to traditional MLM in the sense that careful research and thought must go into the opportunity before signing up for it. Often, you may come across MLM businesses that are selling the business opportunity as the product.

When looking for a good MLM business you need to make sure that they have a stable, good quality product as well as business opportunity. Products and the business opportunity are two very different things.

In order for an MLM opportunity to work, you will need both a great product as well as an equally good business opportunity. Without both of these things you can’t have a successful MLM business

When you begin your business you can promote the products. Once you have satisfied customers, you have opened the door to the promotion of the business opportunity by offering them the chance to promote the products that they love to others, as well as make an income.

MLM groups that don’t have a solid product never last for long. It doesn’t take long for those who start the business opportunity to realize that they aren’t making any money and drop out. Once this happens the entire structure of the MLM begins to crumble. MLM groups that rely on these tactics are using an illegal pyramid scheme rather than a real MLM opportunity.

Conclusion
The main reason people seek out an MLM opportunity is to achieve success, to obtain a means to reach a goal, whether it is to gain a little extra income or to quit their day job all together. By using online methods to run your MLM business, you have the advantage of finding success easier and quicker than ever.

But remember that even with the use of the Internet, you still have to be motivated and determined to make your MLM business a success, give your business the time, effort and respect that it deserves and it will be worth it for you.

About The Author

Kai Wei

Find out at OnlineSuccessBiz the SECRET he use to build his MLM business without touching his relatives and friends! Click on the link to know more and receive a FREE ebook by Napoleon Hill!