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A lot of people shun away from Social Media and Social Marketing, because many associate Social Marketing with just sites such as Facebook and often consider this a ‘waste’ of time spent chit chatting. The majority are not aware of how effective Social Marketing is to build a fan base, to brand yourself as an expert in your niche and to generate more traffic to your business. But this is only guaranteed if one knows how to use Social Marketing the right way.

In this article I am going to go over the several different types of sites that make up Social Media, and categorize them in 5 sections.

1. Social Networking (Community Sites):-
These sites are where one enters to network with different kinds of people. Each site is usually for a specific group of people.
 Facebook – student communities
 LinkedIn – manage and share your resume (CV)
 MySpace – friend site
 MeetUp – find common interests and organize meetings
 Twitter – update your followers what you are up to

2. Social Bookmarking (Social News Sites):-
These are the user-submitted and voted news sites where anyone can post stories and take advantage of the traffic flowing through the sites to get targeted visitors. Communities can share their favourite bookmarks, articles, videos, etc – anything that is news.
 Digg – submit links and stories; vote and comment on the content
 Technorati – find what people are saying
 Del.icio.us – store, share and discover web bookmarks
 Reddit – submit, rate and rank news
 StumbleUpon – discover great websites that match your interests

3. Content Sharing Sites:-
Websites where you can generate your own content and share it with the community.
 Wikipedia – contribute and get smart (can create a Wiki for your site)
 Squidoo – create pages (called lenses) for subjects of interest
 HubPages – submit magazine-style articles which are posted as individual webpages (referred to as Hubs)
 Gather – share, earn and gather information
 EzineArticles – expert authors share their best quality original articles

4. MultiMedia Sharing Sites:-
Websites which specialize in all kinds of media sharing and creation.
 YouTube – upload and share your video
 Flickr – manage and share your photos
 SlideShare – upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations
 JamGlue – create and personalize audio. Upload, record music and remix it.

5. Blogging Sites:-
Blogging platforms allow you publish content directly onto your blog, to communicate and share your knowledge with your customers.
 Blogger – a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world.
 WordPress.com – another free blog publishing tool
 Movable Type – build websites, blogs and communities on a single platform
 WordPress.org – own your blog and install on a domain name of your choice

In future articles I will be showing you the different ways of how I use the above multi-faceted marketing strategies to promote my businesses (internet marketing business, service provider offline business, and service provider online business). In the meantime start contributing to the places and get links. Just do it responsibly and the way the other members of each community do it to keep from getting banned. You do NOT want to spam these places.

Be aware – this Social Media trend is HUGE and is extremely under utilized by the majority of online business owners, offline business owners and network marketers. However, be warned… there is a right way and a wrong way to use Social Media and Social Marketing to get massive levels of exposure – including more traffic and more leads – for your business.

If, on the other hand, you are aching to learn immediately the correct way of how to use Social Marketing Strategies, so as to start implementing the strategies ASAP to market your business, then Click Here if you would like to generate leads for your MLM business or Click Here if you would like to generate traffic for your Online, Offline or Small Business, especially if it is service related. You would need to input your e-mail to get access to some phenomenal training, and a chance to have a coaching session with me where I will personally show you the ropes and how to specifically use Social Media Marketing for your particular business.

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This is a continuation of MLM Lead System Pro Review Part 1. So first I would recommend you reading Part 1 before tackling Part 2.

What is it that makes MLSP so good over other systems?

 The training – you are taught how to brand you and not their system – they are interested in seeing you achieve the success that you deserve.
 Customizable down to every single last detail on your landing pages – you can get to choose your brand name, the layout, colours, template, title, subtitle, body content, meta title, meta description, meta key words, subdomains, video, pictures, …
 Can add separate articles linked to your landing pages – like this your landing page can rank for keywords, as the search engines would now view your landing page as a website. As usually the search engines don’t give any rank to landing pages.
 Can track every hit your landing pages get, including unique visitors.
 Can create unlimited number of ad campaigns with this system and target anybody, anywhere, and in any niche. Example can buy one domain from Go Daddy, where you will have free subdomains – and each subdomain can have a different landing page. For example I have my main on www.BrandingYouandCo.com, then I have my 5 day training on how to set up your online business and brand yourself online at http://training.BrandingYouandCo.com, on http://company.BrandingYouandCo.com I have a presentation for my primary company, and http://webinar.BrandingYouandCo.com I have an invite for the weekly webinar. And what’s cool is that each campaign can be linked to a different list from my autoresponder, where I target each list differently, and can create a form for each campaign to include it wherever I want – my blog, facebook, within a post, …. All this with the same monthly price – no additional fees.
 A community of members, including some top producers in the industry on Skype, as well as a forum, and tech support. As far as I am concerned, I always had my questions answered within 24 hours max, if not immediately.

What are you expected to do once you join?

There is a ‘Getting Started Section’ showing you exactly step-by-step how to set up the system. Each step also includes a video showing you how to go about it. You will buy a cheap domain name from Go Daddy, set-up your affiliate links, and set up your autoresponder – I use Aweber, which is an automatic system which will send your e-mails for you to your leads. If you are new – expect to spend quite a few hours to set it all up.

From my experience, if in the beginning you are not comfortable with making videos with you talking on them, then don’t step out of your comfort zone – just add a picture of yourself or add one of MLSP’s default videos or your ‘upline’s’ video – you will still do well with MLSP. Then once you start seeing it work, and putting some steady cash in your pocket, then you will be motivated, encouraged and more confident to be bolder and add videos and maybe even your own trainings.

Next step is where the training and the consistent work begins. The trainings can be quite addictive, so my advice is to first focus on building your website, customizing your welcome videos and video for your landing pages, writing articles, and generating traffic to your sites first, then watch and listen to the training calls. And in the beginning, only go over enough training videos to get you by generating your first traffic to your new website, as you’ll soon find out that experience can be your best judgement whether something will work for you. I would recommend focusing on one strategy in the beginning – choose between Facebook Marketing, Linkedin Marketing, Article Marketing – I personally use Article Marketing as my main traffic generation marketing strategy. Once you join MLSP, I would guide you as to which videos are important for you in the beginning to help you start generating traffic.

Is MLSP too saturated?

With MLSP you have the advantage that the more you customize your marketing system, the more unique your websites will look and the more you brand yourself not the MLSP system. This will eliminate the problem that other systems have – where you find everyone with the same default website with similar videos.

The fact that there are hundreds of programs out there, all with the same company cookie-cut website trying to promote their primary program, shouldn’t discourage you at all. It should only worry you if these people were instead promoting a cash-flow inducing funded proposal system like MLSP.

In addition, there is no competition out there, as unfortunately, due to various reasons, 95% of network marketers fail, therefore your real competition is hard to find. And you are actually promoting a system and a training that teaches ‘how to market your business and how to brand you’ that any online business desperately needs to learn and implement to succeed.

How Much Is All This Going To Cost Me?

 Monthly price of $47 (a membership fee)
 Trial period for a nominal fee
 Other tools that you need – an autoresponder – I use Aweber, buying a cheap domain name from Go Daddy (these are the basics), then you can add other tools depending on what marketing strategy you are adopting to generate traffic (I personally use Article Marketing which is free, although I use a software called Automatic Article Submitter to help me out, to make my life easier – saving me time and money)
But these are all minimal costs that will put your business in profit, as soon as you have the system set up and you are starting to drive traffic to your website.

My Sincere Conclusion

MLSP is a fantastic system. Without it I would definitely not be where I am today. But please join MLSP for the right reasons, and if you are prepared and determined to prosper online, then it is an obvious choice that you can’t do much without MLSP.

If, on the other hand, you are willing to give it a try, you are dead serious about taking your life and business to the next level, and would like to join a system which would teach you how to brand you as an expert in your niche, then START TODAY by simply signing up in the box to your top right, for this Wednesday’s FREE training.

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You might have landed on this article if you are researching MLM Lead System Pro and would like to learn more about this system and how it can help you in your business. In this review I won’t disappoint you as I’ll give you a detailed outline of how the system works, for you to be able to make your next step in your business.

However, if you are new to how business is done over the internet, and you just happened to land on this page, then I urge you to read this article as it will change the way you will look at things in the future, and how you will operate your offline business.

How Things Are Done On The Internet

Switching your business from offline to online to generate more leads is relatively easy and will ignite your business. However, there are some certain rules, tools and systems that you definitely want to have in place, for your business to prosper.

For example, if offline you were promoting your business through calling prospects, sending out newsletters and flyers, advertising on the local newspaper and other such things, with the internet it works pretty much the same although you can have an automated system which works for you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – even when you are asleep and on vacation.

Top producers in the internet world practice attraction marketing where they build an online presence to brand themselves as the person-to-go-to in their niche and promote funded proposals to generate income. MLSP is both an attraction marketing system and a funded proposal rolled into 1 amazing system.

What will MLSP do for you?

Here is a list of things that MLSP offers and how these will help you:
 It is an attraction marketing system, providing you with fully customized and repeatedly tested
o Landing Pages – it is a page where people leave their e-mail address for something in return such as a training video or an e-book. Since this Lead Generation Page is fully customizable, it builds your list and your brand, not MLSP’s.
o Introduction Pages – where your opt-ins (the people who left you their e-mail address and optional phone number) will have access to their video training or downloadable e-book.
o Sales Pages – tells people about MLSP – testimonials, etc, and a price at the end – for people to join MLSP.
 Top notch training via members’ area back office (archived) plus weekly training calls with top network recruiters – you’ll learn from the best for your business to keep propelling forward. Note: I offer this weekly webinar for free to my guests/readers of my blog, but if you want to access the archives and to have the whole system you would need to become a member.
 MLSP is what we call a funded proposal. It increases your cash flow, as even if people don’t join your primary business or MLSP, they can still buy from you products that will help their business. The affiliate programs are all top tier programs that offer the best services, products, and e-books in the entire industry.
 28 follow-up e-mail messages that have your affiliate links in them. The emails have been tested for effectiveness, and they provide value to your leads (not spammy at all). These e-mails are fully customizable and they allow you to build a long-term relationship with your leads.

Who is it for?

The main reason why Brian Fanale, Norbert Orlewicz and Todd Schlomer created this system was to teach struggling MLMers how to market effectively and how to brand themselves first and not pitch in their business opportunity to strangers. And this system has worked wonders, as a lot of people involved in network marketing have failed miserably because they are not taught how to market effectively.

However, I also use this system effectively to brand myself and my offline business on the internet. You’ll find that most of the capture pages and the videos that you add can easily be customized to your needs, and the marketing training can easily be adapted to be valid for creating any business online. For example, you can easily use the same system (mainly the training) to brand you if you are a service professional such as a personal trainer. In addition, you might enhance your personal training prospects, and maybe decide to join an MLM company or just use affiliate marketing to promote some products related to personal training or to enhance your offline personal training business.

So, although MLSP mainly targets struggling MLMers, I have also used it effectively with the solo entrepreneur, the small business owner, the service professional and the next aspiring entrepreneur. After all, MLSP is a lead generation system – and who, of those who want to build an online presence and brand himself / herself on the internet, doesn’t want to generate leads?!

Who is it NOT for?

MLSP is a system and they offer you good training on how to market, but it is you who is responsible for the hard work to generate traffic to your websites, and be creative as to ways to build a relationship, brand you and to convert your leads into paying customers. However, the system and the tools and the training are what will propel your business forward.

An interesting comparison that I like is comparing MLSP to fishing. So they will give you an excellent state-of-the-art fishing rod, they will tell you from where to buy tasty bait, they will train you how to fish, but then it is entirely up to you to choose your strategies as to what time is it best to go fishing, the best season, the best place and so on.

So, for those lazy individuals who expect to buy into a system and they just sit on the sofa waiting for the money to fall onto their lap, this system is not an option. This is no easy get-rich scheme system – and thanks God for that.

In the MLM Lead System Pro Review Part 2 tomorrow we will discuss:

What is it that makes MLSP so good over other systems?
What are you expected to do once you join?
Is MLSP too saturated?
How Much Is All This Going To Cost Me?
and my sincere conclusions.

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If you are involved in an MLM company (also known as network marketing companies) or are interested in joining one, then you must be familiar with the phrase… ‘make a list of friends and family’. If you are anything like me, you must be really frustrated with this phrase, as you are aware that most often than not this strategy simply doesn’t work.

Another frustrating phrase is …‘talk to as many people as you can’. This in other words means pitching your sales-story to strangers, assuming that all their life they were waiting for this moment, and they will jump in the boat too and will make you rich! However, an interesting analogy is, that if you become an accountant you don’t ‘pester’ others to become an accountant too and work for your firm?!

After trying a couple of these strategies, one becomes to realize how frustrating this is and most often than not will lead you nowhere or with just a couple of dollars, which is not much compared to the hard work you put in, or worse off spending more than you are earning.

Why do most people fail?

A lot of people are shown a different view of the business model. A lot of people are told that there is no selling involved, and that the products are so good that they sell for themselves. ‘Once people try, they will buy for themselves and their family…’, the pitch goes. This myth is misleading, and brings a false relief to people who don’t like selling. However, people, with no experience of sales and no proper training in marketing and business, struggle desperately, often quitting within a few months. Some people might even join another MLM company, thinking that the problem is the company – but they are wrong.

THE MAIN PROBLEM is that most often than not, people are not taught how to market properly. What you want is people being ‘attracted’ to you and calling you to join your business. And this is done through learning how to market correctly, and through learning how to brand you as the expert. If you haven’t read Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring, then grab a copy now, as it will change your outlook in how business is done.

In addition, people are given false beliefs that by joining an MLM one is going to become rich instantly. You can make money in network marketing, but it takes determination, hard work and patience, plus the PROPER TRAINING. Unfortunately, most of the training of most MLM companies is ‘outdated, offline-only, old-school techniques’, which although might work for a few, there are other cutting-edge marketing strategies (based on science) that can actually guarantee you results if implemented persistently.

Another frustrating problem within an MLM company is the attrition rate. The ratio at which people join your team and the amount of people who quit is horrendous. You find yourself training someone to leave you for another company. This can easily be resolved by giving your team proper ‘modern’ marketing strategies which actually work. Once they see that it’s working, they view you as an expert, and would want to continue being in your team.

So How do People Earn The Big Money in Network Marketing?

From research of different MLM’s brochures and website, in the success stories page, one always finds in small print that the typical annual gross income is much much less than otherwise advertised. A lot of articles state that 97% fail in the network marketing industry with only less than 3% actually live the life that is often the bait to many to enter the network marketing industry. While I won’t go into the exact percentage, it’s a fact that only a few succeed to earn a substantial income from their MLM business. MLM is often compared to a pyramid scheme where the bottom people ‘slave’, so that the few at the top become richer and richer at their expense.

However, it is important to note that those who have made it to the top, have done so through a lot of hard work, maybe luck too. For sure they didn’t do it just through talking to family and friends. A probable answer is that they might have already had a large network of people, which made their list of family and friends much longer than yours. It could also be that they previously came from a sales background. An interesting fact is that if someone sticks to the same company for 10 years, they are in the running of becoming part of the top few – but could this also mean that they were persistent, worked hard towards their goal, had a vision and did not give up easily?

Is There A Future For Me in Network Marketing?

Nowadays, there are different strategies of how to go about your MLM business, and achieve success – dare I say it… guaranteed success. But this is done through proper training, and being determined to put in hard work. The get-rich-quick-and-easy mentality does not work. My favourite strategies that I personally use are:

1. an attraction-marketing based system that teaches me how to market successfully to the target people that I want and who are interested in what I have to say. I don’t waste my time giving meetings to people who are not interested, and only end up buying because they pity me. You can check out the system here.

2. the second strategy is providing free valuable information first, and building a relationship with my readers, while branding myself as an expert and positioning myself as the-person-to-go-to in my industry. And this I do through my own self-hosted blog. Subscribe to Claire Morawski’s free training on how to create a successful blog.

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I first learnt about David Wood, about 3 months ago, when I was invited to attend a training call in which David Wood revealed all his secrets on Article Marketing and how he personally uses this strategy to get traffic to his websites, to generate leads and to sponsor distributors in his primary company. The maxed-out training call was one of the turning points in my internet marketing career.

Three months ago I was following a lot of people who were industry leaders in the internet marketing, and I learnt a lot from them. However, somehow I resonated with David Wood for various reasons, some I will mention, and decided that he will definitely be one of my mentors. So I deliberately chose to join the Marketing Funnel System that we both use in our business, specifically through him than anyone else, because I figured that like this I can have him as one of my great mentors.

Who exactly is David Wood?

He had started in the network marketing industry about 7 years ago. However he was doing the old traditional network marketing methods, because he knew no better. He failed in the first 2 companies he got involved in, and in his third attempt he became somewhat successful, because of his persistency and determination to make it work, and because of his right mental attitude, which I highly encourage, of continuous personal development and growth. However he had bigger dreams for what he wanted his business to be like. Failing 3 times was a blessing in disguise, because it helped to lay the grounds to what happened to him next. His continued quest for answers, led him to figure out the secrets of the network marketing industry, and to go from struggling in this industry to massive success in a very short period of time.

How did he do it?

Let’s look first at some of his characteristics that I admire. First of all he has the mindset of an entrepreneur. He is 100% focused – he has his eyes fixed on his goals, and knows the process he will be implementing to get him there. Because I have been following David from nearly the very beginning of when he started online, I have had the privilege to watch David grow from someone determined, but still testing his grounds, to someone who is confident, a true ‘alpha-networker’, yet still down-to-earth, in just 4 months. And, seeing this change for myself, gave me the encouragement necessary to believe that I, and anybody for that matter, can succeed online – only if you have the drive, enthusiasm, passion, determination, attitude of embracing personal growth and mindset that David Wood has.

In addition, he is creative – always coming up with innovative ideas, he is a great entrepreneur with laser focused vision, and he is on fire, working hard to achieve his dreams. And it is all these combined together, that has enabled him to win a brand new BMW as part of a contest of who generates the most sign ups in the Marketing Funnel System I mentioned before, and a sum of money from another contest of whose team sells the most copies of Magnetic Sponsoring – which is a book based on the psychology of Attraction Marketing.

Speaking of which, David has embraced Attraction Marketing himself, and realized that the key to developing an organization is to develop oneself to be a person that attracts people to one’s organization. This is one of the fundamental ‘secrets’ that one has to acknowledge, to be able to prosper like David and other industry leaders. Another ‘secret’ that David Wood mastered is that relationships come before recruiting – hence one has to have a series of escalating exposure to have people join you.

David also came to understand something that 99% of entrepreneurs will never grasp or implement. Even though all businesses are competitive in some way or another, yet David has an ‘Abundance Mindset’, and figured out that eventually everyone will benefit, when he decided to reveal ALL his top online article marketing secrets for free during the training call. With this mindset, David also does free weekly training calls to people on his list, because he is a huge fan and understands the importance of personal development and personal growth. And I think it is this common approach – of giving without hesitation, before expecting anything in return – which ‘attracted’ me to David, and which leads us to prosper – because in the end everyone will benefit, as the internet is so vast that there is enough opportunity and money for everyone to gain success and financial freedom.

An Invitation to YOU

David and I have implemented strategies in our businesses, because we believe in personal growth, and hence have continued to search for answers on how to grow our businesses. We have come to realize that ‘old school’ MLM strategies, such as opportunity meetings, in-home presentations and prospecting to complete strangers, are a thing of the past. We have moved on with the times, and embraced fresh marketing strategies which took our businesses online, and where we really wanted to be.

I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to join forces with me. I’ll introduce you to David Wood and other leading MLM trainers, and also I’ll personally train you how to build your business successfully using internet marketing.

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