Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Marketing On The Internet

To Market on the Internet for free requires some basic skills, the right mind set and a good amount of time. What does that mean?

Some basic skills might be writing, spelling and teaching. If you're not a good writer, speller or teacher, then using a blog probably won't work for you.

The right mind set involves helping people, positive branding of you or your service and not pressuring people or trying to sell them something.

And of course it all takes time. So what does this all mean?

If you have the time, desire and knowledge to help people understand a subject, product or service, then by doing it, people will "find you" on the Internet and potentially be attracted to what you have to offer.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Free Leads System Forever Simplified

I couldn't but help notice that most of the websites commenting on or reviewing Free Leads System Forever were just surface information and invitations to join it under them. So I thought I would try to explain FLSF as simply as I could.

Free Leads System Forever is a service of Priceless Possibilities owned by Michael Price operating out of California since 1996. Their phone number is 559-726-1262. They claim they help network marketers get results with their custom, fully automated global marketing systems. One of them is the Free Leads System Forever.

How Does Free Leads System Forever Work?

The Free Leads System Forever works on the basis of referral marketing. As a free member of FLSF you are asked to refer the lead program to other networkers like yourself and they in turn recommend it to others they know. Over time there is a network of referrals in your organization.

The incentive for people to give their contact information is 1) to get their own free leads marketing system and website and 2) to receive the free gifts "How To Get Unending Referrals" and "Enroll More Distributors Now" (audio files and transcripts, a $197.00 value).

Is The Free Leads System Forever Free?

Quite simply, as a basic member by having 3 referrals under you that have seen the value of upgrading and paying the monthly service charge of $29.97 and as a Premium member having 1 paying referral, you can get the system free. The best way to know why people upgrade, they say, is to try the Premium Membership 7 day trial period and to use the comparison chart below:


Where Do You Start?

You start with accepting the Free Leads System Forever by filling in the form after you watch the introductory video. As a free member you will be offered the opportunity to try the Premium Membership for free for one week.

The Free Leads System Forever Review

I've used a number of marketing systems over the years and I personally found the Free Leads System Forever somewhat confusing and difficult to navigate through. I had a few other concerns as well.

In the first few seconds of the introductory video, you hear that the Free System has a premium membership. Turns out that the system is free only if you sign up three people at this premium level. Why would they upgrade and pay almost $30 a month if you're not?

Now if you upgrade to a premium member, then you only need one member under you at the premium level. Did I say "need"? Why do you "need" one? Its no longer free when you upgrade. It seems to me the free forever is actually only 90 days because after that you're locked out and the your site redirects to the owners site.

On top of all this, the "leads" are actually people you already know who you refer the FLSF to. Seems to me you're actually giving away your leads or contacts not getting new ones. As I said, the idea is to ask your leads (contacts) to give up their leads (contacts) and so on and since most people probably drop out of this when their 90 days are up, all those contacts roll up.

So, yes, there are free leads forever, it seems to me, but they just don't quite tell you who they may end up with. So in my objective (nothing to gain) review of Free Leads System Forever, I'd say pass.
m26-1262 559-726-1262559-726-1262

Monday, January 28, 2013

FHTM (Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing) Closed Down

Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing (FHTM) has been closed down as of January 28, 2013 as part of a federal investigation initiated by Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway's office after filing a lawsuit in federal court claiming Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing of Lexington Kentucky has been operating a massive pyramid scheme. Here's the FTC's report.

This post is not to cast judgement on FHTM or those who were a part of it. Rather it is to educate people about doing research before they join or commit to a supposed mlm or similar company. For example:

Seems like a concerned networker was giving off warning signs back in 2005:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/multi-level-marketing/fortune-hi-tech-mark/fortune-hi-tech-marketing-comp-3y6a8.htm

Back in 2010 growing concerns were posted here:
http://www.whas11.com/community/I-Team-Investigation-Fortune-Hi-Tech-Marketing-94273719.html

Same year, different source: Also notice the quote from the article below:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/2010-10-15-multilevelmarketing14_CV_N.htm

"Critics of Fortune, including the Montana Commissioner of Securities and the plaintiffs in a new lawsuit seeking class-action status, say Fortune is a "pyramid scheme" because salespeople are primarily paid for recruiting, not product sales, and more recent recruits can't earn anything close to what the early entrants do. Fortune has until Nov. 2 (2010) to respond to the lawsuit seeking class-action status."

Just last September (2012), Business For Home reported this about FHTM:
http://www.businessforhome.org/2012/09/fortune-hi-tech-marketing-class-action-suit-update/    

Now, granted, if you were a member of FHTM, you were "riding the wave" perhaps because you were earning an good income from it. But if you recently joined it, did you do any research on it? And if you did, do you understand what's it's telling you?

The obvious point here is to do some research on the company and leaders you potentially may promote. If the company is brand new and there's very little or nothing about the company and its owners, don't ignore the signs on the way that tell you something's not right.

For you network marketers, haven't you found your success has a lot to do with getting the right kind of leads? If you agree then check out The Free Leads Forever System.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Push Button Power Leads

Push Button Power Leads is a do it all for you method of marketing producing direct calls to you from pre-qualified proven buyers. This allows direct sellers to spend their time on the phone offering their products or business rather than spending time or money on finding leads or marketing for them. How does it work?

Push Button Power Leads is owned by Dennis Bayne of Push Button Pro's. Dennis and his team has offered marketing tools to marketers for many years including ones such as Push Button Emailer, an online emailing tool, Push Button Dialer, an online voice broadcasting tool and The Lead Dawg. a once purchased, free unlimited lead generation for life tool.

So Push Button Power Leads takes the learning of how to market and the time it takes to market out of the equation and allows people to focus on what leads to sales, talking with people. Mr. Bayne and his team combines the use of all of his "power" tools for each member of PBPL's and sends them a minimum of 100 calls per month.

What would getting 100 calls a month from pre-qualified proven buyers do for your business? Would you share Push Button Power Tools with leaders and members of your downline? What if you also received a 100% up front bonus and a monthly residual as an affiliate?

There are also Power Player Packages that will produce more calls per month for heavy hitters. The three additional programs are in addition to the Basic 100 calls per month. The Plus, is +200 calls or about 10 a day, the Premier, +500 calls or about 20 a day and The Powerhouse, +800 calls or about 30 calls a day. So the 4 power player packages choices are for 100, 300, 600 and 900 calls a month.

The Push Button Power Leads Compensation Program for affiliate members involves a Reverse 2 Up. Your second and fourth sales commission moves up to your sponsor, both the one time fee and the monthly residual. So the second and fourth sale moves up to your sponsor and so does their second and fourth sale. You will share the residual commission on the monthly auto-ship for all your personals with the administration. The exact split and prices will be released at launch.

Upon enrollment, you will be asked to make three separate payments. One will be to the sponsor who qualifies for 100% of the one time up front payment. Another payment will be for the initial monthly share/split amount, with some going to the sponsor and the rest to the Admin. And the third payment will be for the monthly autoship, which is the same as the second payment, its just that the payment processor has to distinguish between a one time split payment and a monthly split payment.

How much will all this cost you? Would you say it all depends on how well it works? If you end up with 2-5 product purchases or signups to your business a month, would the price matter? The price is $200. initially and $97. a month. Is it worth it?

Let me ask you a question? Do you think you know someone who would be interested in using this marketing system? If they enroll under you, you get your $200. back, so now you're even there. How about the $97. a month. That may seem steep to some, but you can get that covered by enrolling 5 people (you get $20. per month residual per person). If you did enroll 5 people you could potentially earn $1800. as well.

What will you be required to do? You must actually do some initial set up steps that should be exceptionally easy. You must record two messages (from a script), one 10 seconds long and the other 20 seconds long. You also, through your back office, will need to input leads contact information into a Contact Manager so pre-written emails can be sent to them and set up your profile.

Is there any training? Yes. There is video training on how to talk with these prospects when they call. What do you say? What don't you say? For some, this may be the first time they are actually getting someone interested in their business to call them. So the training is for how to handle the calls, not how to find leads. What could be better?

Will there be good calls and bad calls? Of course. The company doesn't guarantee what will happen with the callers after they call. I can't help but think some of them will be interested in how you got the calls, how you generate leads and how they too can get calls. Either way, the caller could end up being in a business relationship with you indefinitely.

Push Button Power Leads Review

My review of Push Button Power Leads is simple. Being an Internet Marketer, I know how time consuming it can be to generate leads. Often the leads are business opportunity seekers who are indecisive and tire kickers. Being able to focus on network marketers who are proven buyers can be a blessing. And what could be better than having 3-30 prospects (network marketers) calling you everyday? Is this what happened?

Here's What I Had Experienced After Three Months of Push Button Power Leads:

Monday through Friday I had gotten anywhere from 3 to 10 calls. At least half the calls were from businesses not connected to network marketing. Granted, most if not all of them are very polite, friendly and curious to know why the system called them. However, I didn't want to "convert" a house cleaner, an auto mechanic or a secretary into network marketing. These obviously were not "proven buyers".

On some days, most of the calls were from network marketers. What was their response? Many networkers are familiar with "reverse marketing" and are not interested in another "business opportunity". However, many were interested in knowing more about the PBPL's Marketing System, some to the point of giving their contact information. So you may just end up promoting PBPL's to them.

The idea behind  PBPL's is to get them involved with the marketing system first and then down the road, introduce them to your primary business. I didn't find as many people interested in the system as I thought would be. This is why I "tried" the product before presenting it to people I know. Yes I made some posts on Facebook about it but that was about it.

I even had the calls directed to someone sitting at a desk who is an excellent closer just to see if the way I was handling the calls was off. He too got contact information from a few. We put them into the system (contact manager and auto responder) and we followed up as best as we could. Seems like the most interest we got was from this blog post as they would call and ask my opinion.

How Well Does Push Button Power Leads Work?

First of all, you should have the circumstances that allow you to talk with callers Monday-Friday. The program is designed to ask callers if they are interested in growing their business by having proven qualified buyers calling you. The reality is a conversation can go any which way if you don't stay in control. The call can end up being time consuming and not useful if you're not careful.

Is being "good" with callers the key? Perhaps. If you're really good at talking with people on the phone then you may just find that people are attracted to what you're offering and may take a look at Push Button Power Leads. Most people won't be interested in your primary business initially unless the timing is perfect, like when their primary company folded or they're looking for something new.

Or it may not matter to you. You may be the type that just wants people in network marketing calling you no matter what they're in. You might feel you can sway them over to what you're doing or offering. So it's obviously up to you as to what to do with PBPL's.

Conclusions

My first impression of how well PBPL's would work was extremely good. The idea behind it is very well thought out and network marketers do call you practically everyday. There is a great follow up system in place so you do get your money's worth based on what's offered.

However, the calls from people who weren't networkers and the "pretense" that you are interested in their business to get them to call you back wasn't my cup of tea. Reverse marketing does have its place in this business because you may actually be doing someone a favor. Push Button Power Leads didn't work for me like I thought it would so I am not recommending it at this time.

Push Button Power Leads Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ'S):
Question: Are the leads you generate exclusive to me?
Answer: Click HERE Yes. No one else gets them.
Question: You do ALL the marketing. Really?
Answer: Click HERE Yes. The result is that they will call you directly.
Question: I need more than 100 calls. Can you do that?
Answer: Click HERE Yes. There will be more than one power player packages.
Question: What type of leads will I be getting?
Answer: Click HERE These leads are mlm/network marketing proven buyers with experience.
Question: How do I record my messages?
Answer: Click HERE Through the back office and with a microphone.
Question: How often will I receive calls?
Answer: Click HERE Expect about 3-5 calls a day any day of the week any time of day.
The marketing is done Monday through Friday.
Question: Will this work if I don't live in the US?
Answer: Click HERE The calls come from North America, USA and Canada so you
would have to call forward the calls. You must have a North America phone number
to enter into the system.
Question: Im not good at recording. What should I do?
Answer: Click HERE Sounds like you're qualified. No problem.
Question: What Do I lose if I cancel my service?
Answer: Click HERE You lose everything you got.
Question: Can I promote more than one business?
Answer: Click HERE Yes just not at the very same time. However, you can have two
accounts (enroll yourself after you join).
Question: Be honest. What all do I have to learn?
Answer: Click HERE No marketing to learn, just how best to handle phone calls.
There will be video's for that.
Question: Do I need a microphone?
Answer: Click HERE Yes, unless one is installed on your laptop.
Question: Should I use my land line or cell phone?
Answer: Click HERE The phone number you're around the most would be best to use.
Question: Do I get access to ALL the leads?
Answer: Click HERE You get all the leads that call you.
Question: What niche are the leads from?
Answer: Click HERE The leads are experienced mlm industry leads.
Question: Is Push Button Power Leads for everybody?
Answer: Click HERE Just those who do netWORK Marketing.
Question: Who writes my voice broadcast scripts?
Answer: Click HERE The company.
Question: Is there a monthly fee involved?
Answer: Click HERE Yes there is.
Question: Please define pre-qualified, proven buyers?
Answer: Click HERE They're not business opportunity “seekers”. They're people
with experience in network marketing.

Question: Do I have to buy everything individually?
Answer: Click HERE No, because you're not doing the marketing and you're not owning the tools.
Question: How soon will my calls start coming in?
Answer: Click HERE Usually within 24 hours unless it's Friday, then on Monday.
Question: What days do you send out my calls?
Answer: Click HERE Monday – Friday during business hours.
Question: Do I write the auto responder messages?
Answer: Click HERE No, the Company does it. They handle the content and use of the auto-responder.
Question: Is there an Affiliate Program included?
Answer: Click HERE Yes. A Reverse 2-Up and monthly residual. See website for details.
Question: How is my downline handled?
Answer: Click HERE Best to get your group in place sooner than later.
Question: Do you call statewide or worldwide?
Answer: Click HERE Calls are from North America, USA and Canada.
Question: Do I take the calls live or via voicemail?
Answer: Click HERE It's always better to take the calls live.
Question: What type of businesses will this work for?
Answer: Click HERE Mainly an mlm business.
Question: Can I cancel your service at anytime?
Answer: Click HERE The MISC. button will give you the option to cancel and you must discontinue the payment subscription (through PayPal) to your sponsor as well.
Best to do this before a new monthly payment is made.
Question: What should my messages say?
Answer: Click HERE The company writes them.

Question: Where can I join Push Button Power Leads?
Answer: You can enroll at (check back Feb. 12, 2012)
Question: How do messages get from my PC to you?
Answer: Click HERE They are recorded in your back office so there's no need to do
anything but record the messages.
Question: Are the two outgoing messages different?
Answer: Click HERE Yes. One is a short voice broadcast message about 10 seconds long.
The other is a voice mail message of about 15-20 seconds.
Question: What's in the auto responder messages?
Answer: Click HERE Messages will look like they are coming from your email account, be simple, brief and conversational and be generic enough to cover any mlm business.
Question: Are the leads looking at my business?
Answer: Click HERE No. But having them call you first is better. People join people, not businesses.
Question: Can I make a change to my system?
Answer: Click HERE Not much to change, maybe a phone number or website link or
a message, but it can be done.
Question: Does 4 products mean 4 back offices?
Answer: Click HERE No, just one back office, Push Button Power Leads.




Monday, November 12, 2012

Best Free Online Marketing Tools

There are an abundance of free online marketing tools and not all of them may suit what you're trying to accomplish. However, I consider these the top 5 best online marketing tools for Internet marketing of a product or income opportunity. Here is the list:

Here are the best free internet marketing tools:

1. The Prosperity Central Lead Capture System.
2. The Mail Chimp Autoresponder System
3. The Screenr Video Capture Tool.
4. The Home Page Pays Marketing, Branding and Advertising Tool.
5. The Free Biz Opp Leads Tool.


Here is a brief explanation of these tools:

1. The Prosperity Central Lead Capture System. Click below to see an example of a free lead capture page: http://andrewsinay.mlmleader.biz/go/index

2. The Mail Chimp Autoresponder System. Although Prosperity Central offers an autoresponder, lead management and other features too numerous to mention, you must upgrade to be able to use them. Thus, you can place the leads you get with Prosperity Central in the Mail Chimp autoresponder.

3. The Screenr Video Capture Tool. You'll love Screenr. It enables you to video capture what's on your screen, also enabling you to explain or teach what others need to do or see that are in your downline or about your product.

4. The Home Page Pays Marketing, Branding and Advertising Tool. This is the 1.0 version. The 2.0 version will be released very soon and it will become the best all in one marketing tools you'll ever need or use. You must take a few minutes to absorb it all.

5. The Free Biz Opp Leads Tool. Plain and simple free business opportunity leads. Email them a free offer (with great value) to get them to opt into a lead capture page. Best not to cold call them or sell them directly. In other words, take some time to get them to become YOUR leads.

For more information on the best online marketing tools, go to:
http://aandrews-and-sons.com/best_free_internet_marketing_tools.html


Thursday, October 25, 2012

Keep Your Marketing Current

Here are some of the best ways to keep your Internet marketing current for 2013.

PPC Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising can be a fast way to increase traffic and find customers.
Allows you to focus on a particular product or service.
Ad must direct to content that is highly relevant to the keyword.

SEO Search engine optimization (SEO) is essential for claiming valuable online real estate:
Keep website current and refined.
Use keyword research to help optimize your site.
Use this research to provide valuable online content, perhaps with new blog posts.  
Sometimes you should leave your marketing to the experts.
The best places to advertise on the Internet, must fit your niche or product.

EMAIL Marketing
Email marketing for established clients or opt in lists can be extremely valuable:
It can build a relationship.
It can make your company THE Top of Mind company, product or service.
It can be used to provide valuable free content and education.

However, care needs to be taken in these ways:
Not too much content.
Not too frequent of emails.
When asking people to opt in. Do they want a "newsletter" (time consuming) or some "tips".

SOCIAL Media
Social Media like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ are another way to help get your website ranked better. Rather than a means to convert to sales, it is better used as a branding tool.

Offer free value to your followers through links to your website or blog.
Let others know that you are the authority/expert in the field of which you post.
Ask questions about whatever your potential clients are interested and ask for responses.
Comment on other peoples post, pictures and current status to build relationships.

MOBILE Marketing According to recent research from ComScore, Smartphone users account for 42% of all mobile web visitors. In fact, the number of mobile web users is expected to surpass the 1.7 billion mark by 2013.

Put together a mobile website
Integrate a mobile strategy in your overall marketing.

CONTENT Marketing
Content marketing—the process of creating valuable, relevant content for the purpose of sharing—plays an important role in building your authority online. By producing and sharing valuable content through various channels and platforms, you effectively strengthen branding and increase overall brand awareness. This is crucial to establishing your company as an authority in your industry and your executives as experts in their field.

Case studies, eBooks, infographics, blogs, whitepapers and videos are just a few of the various content marketing assets that can engage and attract potential customers as well as help maintain your current customer base by increasing customer loyalty.

Content is a driving force behind the Internet and social media. The more shareable content you can produce, the more visibility and authority you can build for your business.

ANALYTICS
One of the most important tools for any business owner is web analytics. Analytics is the brain for any Internet marketing strategy. Understanding and using this information actively can result in better results. 

Look at website and mobile analytics to provide you with insights regarding web traffic origin and sources, visitor behavior, visitor interest, engagement and much more. 

Quite simply, by keeping your internet marketing current and consistent with up to date methods, you end up with far better results, not only with the Search engines, but with your customers.


Best Email Marketing Tips

Best Email Marketing Tips

1. Get Permission

Without permission you can lose customer goodwill and possibly get CAN-SPAM penalties
for spamming complaints have against you.

Get permission through lead capture pages, offering tips or other free valuable content.

2. Build a Targeted Mailing List

Ask friends, fans, followers and family to forward your emails to their friends ect. so they too
join your list.

3. Work With a Clean, Targeted Database
What can you do if you don't have a list or circumstances to build one?

A good place to look is with well established data merchants for your industry. In some cases they
will allow you to email to their database. Keep in mind, there may be a number of companies
without up to date email addresses.

4. Be Persistent.
It takes time to build customer relationships. Consistent emails that offer outstanding value will
help make sure the content is read. If not, at least contact is made and your name is put before
your customer.

I believe people will click and do before they'll read lenthy emails. The first 3 emails are critical
in establishing this.

5. Tell a Short Story or Use Brief Illustrations
Storytelling can be a successful marketing strategy. Email also provides the opportunity to tell the
story in installments.

Both the story and illustration must fit what your talking about.

6. How To Design Your Emails
Email filters are getting extremely thorough in what they're filtering out.

Use flat text with hyperlinks to your Web site. Try not to use logos, graphics and videos in your emails.

7. Have an Exit Strategy
People who gave you their email address did so because they wanted to hear from you.
But that can change and often does.

Know when to stop sending emails or at least when to cut back. Even put a message at the top of your
email (in smaller print) that says they can unsubscribe at any time.

8. Change With Change
People change. Things change. Marketing changes. You must keep current with new marketing trends.
If people don't want free "information" for example, provide something else of value, like a free
Home Page.