I just ran this quick video to share some enthusiasm for the quickly growing area of online video. The more I work with it the more into it I get!
The real trick though is to really work to give your audience a reason to watch. Don't just pitch them. Really deliver something that people will find valuable. If you just pitch all the time then people will see that's all you're about and stop watching your videos and reading your content.
Video marketing is becoming the new article marketing, and if you use it properly you can continue to build strong relationships with even more people in your network marketing business.
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Do you remember when you first started your blog? Remember how excited you were, and how easy it was to write posts? Well, after a few dozen blog posts it seems like you have talked about everything sometimes, doesn't it?
A few weeks ago I picked up an idea from one of the Internet marketing "gurus" about how to quickly create content for your blog. I really like it because it helps leverage technology, which I'm always a big fan of. The technology is voice recognition software.
How This Works for You
Most people can talk more prolifically than they can write, and in fact I'm dictating this to my computer right now!
At first, I was a bit hesitant about trying out this technology. My previous experience with voice recognition software had not been real positive. But now, I have taken some time to learn how this works and have put it to great use.
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It has been awhile since I've talked about building up the "you" brand, but I think it's time to re-emphasize it. With a growing number of marketers going to social networks to practice their trade, I have seen a lot of bad examples of what you should not do in those networks.
Let's look at some of this, shall we?
Stop Selling!
The main thing that people really ought to pay attention to is how they are coming across to other people. The first thing is stop selling. Imagine you're going to a cocktail party, and you know that you're going to meet some really interesting people in there. And you could probably have really good conversations with them. What is also going through your head is that you're a marketer and these people would be a great audience for your product.
Get that thought out of your head right now!
You go to a cocktail party to meet some friends and make new friends. And not just friends for the sake of marketing to them later. It's true that some of them may do business with you in the future, but you can't know that right now. The people you talk to may actually be a great fit for what you offer, but if you come across too strong that's going to turn them off immediately.
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When I was first introduced to uVme several months ago, I thought it was a perfect combination of business and product. I really enjoy playing games, whether online or off-line, and network marketing is something I've been doing for many years. So combining the two was just a great opportunity.
Now that we are finally into launch and half a chance to play the games, it seems like a dream come true. Here you get to play games and call it work!
I've been going in and trying out the games every day since the launch, playing some free games playing some with an entry fee, and seeing that more people are there each day. What's really enticing about it is that you can play any of the games for free for as long as you want. And when you're feeling confident enough, you can wage as little as one dollar and have the chance to make back $1.50.
This may not seem like much, but as your business grows, and you have dozens, hundreds, even thousands of people all playing games every day than it really begins to add up. And since these games only take a few minutes to play each, it's nice to take a little break from whatever else you're doing and bump up your skill a little bit.
So if you find yourself wanting to take a break for a few minutes sometime in the day had over to the uVme.com site and try the games. It won't cost you anything am sure you will have a bit of fun doing it. :-).
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I had an enlightening conversation with a network marketing business colleague the other day. This is someone I've known for years and who originally taught me to prospect via telephone. He has a nice system for doing that, but it turned out to be just not my thing, and also not a thing for people who want to do Internet marketing combined with network marketing.
He was calling to ask me what I thought about a new MLM training course he had come across. This is kind of ironic, since I had told him about my experience in Internet marketing and network marketing as well as the trading course that I support here.
He Was Pretty Excited
Now my friend was pretty excited about the system. I can understand that as it is pretty exciting when you learn how to combine Internet marketing with network marketing. It opens up a whole new world of possibilities for you. He was learning about affiliate marketing, creating your own products, and learning how to create your own personality on the Internet for people to find. Of course, these are all things that I teach here and in the MLM training course I support.
I let them go on for quite awhile and he was me a lot of the things that I had told him previously, but he wasn't paying attention then apparently. When he finally wound down little, I tried to explain to him that we do the same thing in our course. But he would have none of it. And he would go on another tirade for several more minutes. I would try to contribute some of my experience and knowledge on the subject, but he would just completely ignore what I had said and go back on another tirade.
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This week, the uVme game system and business has finally gone live! Now not only can we promote our uVme business, but we can invite people to play games against us as well. From the feedback that I've seen, people are really having a good time with the games and so promoting the business should be a piece of cake.
At this point for those of us who've already signed up for the free membership, we need to contact our existing outlines and let them know that everything is gone live and that they could begin earning income right away.
The Product: Casual Online Games
One of the very important and attractive aspects of this business is the product. If you have seen any of the videos for uVme you can see that the online games market is large and getting larger all the time.
Why is that?
These things are just fun! Playing games online is a neat little break from the stresses and routine of the day. Games like these can give you a sense of satisfaction and some positive feedback in a day when that may be the only place you're getting some positive feedback.
An additional fun aspect of these games and how uVme is doing it. Is that you actually get to challenge other people to play against you. So it adds a social aspect to what used to be a solitary activity. And people are loving it!
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Things are happening so fast anymore it's difficult to keep up with. Six months ago the top internet marketers were saying there was no money to be made from spending time on social networks.
Now people are paying upwards of $1,500 for courses on how to market in social networks. What a difference a few months makes, eh?
The good news for network marketers is that the online world is starting to look a lot like the offline world when you start thinking about how we are able to build relationships, make friends, and find new business partners. Marketing in the online social space is a lot like working in the offline world. You build your reputation and people get to know you. If you are too blantant that you are trying sell people stuff, then you will turn off just about anyone you come in contact with. Just like it happens in the offline world.
If you have been following an mlm training system, it likely does not go into a lot of detail on how to navigate these networks. It's not because those marketing systems are bad, it's just that it takes time for the trainers to learn it, and then translate it into something they can teach. And I can tell you from experience there are a lot of people doing it wrong.
What is "wrong"?
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How much "work" did you do last weekend? How much will you do next weekend? How many hours are you working each day?
If you're like many Internet Marketers and business owners you're working incredibly full days and you're even squeezing in work time on the weekends. Is it working for you? Why did you get into Internet Marketing or owning your own business? The answer for many is to be able to make money while still having time to do the things we love, whether it is fishing, volunteering at your children's school, or just having time to spend time with and take care of your family. It's one of the reasons I started my own business.
What I found is I now work 60+ hours a week taking care of the business of doing business. Borrowing from Michael Gerber's great book, the E-Myth, as an Internet marketer you're an Entrepreneur, a Technician and a Manager. You're doing it all. You're probably throwing away money because you're too busy to focus on the key tasks that bring in more profits. More on Outsourcing, the Key to Saving Sanity and Making More Money in 2008
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As we get closer to the official launch of uVme, I just keep getting more amazed at well things are going with so little input from myself. Not that I would be affecting the success of the overall endeavor, but the growth happening in my own business group.
In fact, at first I did promote the uVme business strongly using the methods in my MLM training course because I was at a point in my business cycle where I had some time to focus on it. Through those efforts there were about a hundred people that joined my group. Out of those, perhaps a dozen continued to work on bringing new members in. Since there is no cost to join and promote the business (at least until the launch in January) it's pretty easy to introduce new people.
Then a couple of months ago the thing happened that we all like to see in our businesses - explosive growth!
It turns out that my earlier business building efforts reached into Thailand where dozens of people are joining my group each week. And that is the power of having a business that works globally. I've been in network marketing businesses where you need to ship a physical product and you always end up with a problem when you want to expand outside of your home country. Plus you have the expenses associated with shipping physical product and handling any returns.
With uVme there are none of those hassle because the product is entirely online. The product (the games) are turning out to be hugely popular and successful as reported by the beta testers. This is a business model that is easy to get behind and promote, so I'm going to enjoy seeing the efforts of all the people in my downline get rewarded as people both come in to play games or come along to join the business.
If you have not been introduced to uVme yet, check out this uVme intro video for an explanation on how it works.
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