If you are reading this article than you are in the same boat I was. You are in a network marketing company (or MLM) and are struggling to make it work. You joined your company with high hopes and aspirations only to find out it was not as easy as your sponsor led you to believe. You don’t have a lot (if any) money to spend on advertising and are searching for some low cost or free ways to build your business.
There are several great ways to build your business that are completely free in terms of money, but will take some time and effort. Keep in mind there is a cost associated with every effective means of marketing. If it is to be effective, it will either cost you money or time. There is no free lunch.
One of my favorite forms of free advertising that I use to build my MLM is Free Classifieds. When used properly you can generate some very highly targeted leads for both your business as well as your product.
There are literally hundreds if not thousands of free classified sites on the web, but the two I have found to be most effective are Craig’s List and Backpage.com. Craig’s List is by far the most viewed classified site on the internet, and the one I have had the most success with. They are somewhat restrictive in the number of ads you can place and you will have to get creative to work around this. There are software programs you can purchase that will post ads for you, but we are discussing free marketing.
To be effective on Craig’s list, you will need to set up several e-mail accounts and if possible, post ads from several different computers. For e-mail accounts, I use gmail and set up Outlook so I can check all my accounts at the same time. I have found that you can post between 6-10 ads from the same computer before Craigslist’s spam filter catches them and removes them.
You will want to create 5-10 ads that you rotate posting. These ads can be similar in content, but should each be unique as to get past the spam filter. I post ads at least 5 days a week and leave them up for 2 days.
You will need to experiment with the best place to put your ads. I have had limited success posting under Business Opportunities, but the leads I have gotten from this section have been high quality. Placing ads in the job section will get you a lot of response, but you will get a lot of people who are not interested in an income opportunity, only a paycheck. I have also placed ads in other sections that have nothing to do with a job or a business opportunity, but receive high traffic, such as the electronics for sale section. These ads will get flagged and removed, but my experience has shown that the leads that respond to them are very interested.
The most important piece of advice I can give you is to be persistent. Place your ads every day and don’t give up when you don’t get any response for several days. When this happens, change your ad, place it in a different section, market in a different city, but don’t give up. I know people who have built their entire MLM organization, by placing 2 ads a day on Craig’s List for a year.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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Are You Pumping a Dry Well? MLM Marketing Secrets
Let me borrow your imagination for a minute. Imagine you are lost in the Sahara Desert wandering aimlessly just hoping you’ll come across an oasis. After what has seemed like an eternity you come across and old fashion water spout. You know the kind you would find on most farms in the Midwest a century ago. They have a long handle that you have to pump in order to get the water to start flowing.
After you touch it to confirm that it is not a mirage, you begin to pump after 5 pumps no water comes out. You give it another 5 then 10, still no water. You have been walking for so long you can barely stand up and don’t know how much longer you can keep it up. But you keep pumping 10, 20, 30 more times and still no water. The question now is when do you stop pumping? The next pump could be the one that starts the water flowing. If you stop and take a break, all the effort you have already put in will be wasted. But you know for sure if you don’t get water soon, you won’t survive. This well offers you the only possibility of survival. So keep pumping. If you are going to go down, don’t let it happen with out a fight.
Marketing your MLM is much the same. There are many techniques you can use to pump the well in an effort get leads and grow your business. They are all effective when you are persistent with them. Even when you don’t think there is any reason to continue writing your articles, posting to your blog, taking part in forums, ezine advertising, pay per click advertising, or whatever strategy you have been using, you must continue. All of these strategy work, that has been proven. They just take time. You never know when the next thing you do might be the one that starts the leads flowing into your business. The one I can tell you with certainty is if you stop, you won’t get anything and your business will die.
The MLM industry offers you an opportunity unlike any other. There is no other industry where everyone has the same opportunity to achieve financial freedom. It does not come without work. The ones who get in and fail did not pump the well long enough, they gave up too easily. But those that had the perseverance and determination to continue to work and pump the well until the water started flowing will tell you that once it starts flowing it takes very little effort to keep it flowing.
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2 comments:
Hello Troy,
Nice that I found your blog...
I'm in the same boat that you are now. Network Marketing and using magnetic attraction. I'm just starting and I liked your blog. You can check mine, but I have to say that is written in Portuguese, to bad because you can't read and give me your opinion, ;-). I have another one in English, but I'm dedicated to Portuguese people now.
Well, I guess I will have to come to your blog often now that I found it to learn from you. Have a nice week. And I will be back.
Aliane
http://marketingdeatraccao.blogspot.com/
Thanks Aliane, I did take a look at your blog, can't read it, but layout looks good. Keep it up and it will pay off.
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