Showing posts with label economic downturn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economic downturn. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Internet Home Based Business Opportunities!



Internet home based business opportunities! Whoa: Make it do what it do, baby!

Right now there seem to be a million “internet home based business” opportunities on the web. Do a search and see for yourself. Tell me how many you find in the space of 20 minutes.

Recently I clicked on Google Good Keyword Tools and found some mind-blowing results. During the month of March 2009 alone there were a decent 60, 500 for keyword search phrase “internet home based business”: And that’s just local. There’s got to be a solid reason for this high volume of searches.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to crunch these numbers. At a glance they should tell you the need for internet home based businesses is on the rise. It stands to reason, doesn’t it? The figures did not go back to the months of January or February. But this recent economic downturn is opening up new doors in our lives.

I jumped in and started swimming before crunch time in the economic downturn. I didn’t do any surfing prior to my involvement with internet home based business. I learned about the one I chose through a friend. He sent me a link in my email, I clicked on it, and voila. I’m in like flint.

My internet home based business is ranked highly on the list of favorites. It is known as the BiB (Business in a Box) with Carbon Copy Pro.

Jay Kubassek and the crew have done a killer job to set up their turnkey full marketing system. It’s incredible what they have accomplished. Their goal is to raise 100 millionaires in 4 years; and let me tell you this. They’ve made a believer out of me.

I hopped onboard with CC Pro a couple of months ago, and I couldn’t be more satisfied. It is really unbelievable how the system works. And let us not speak of the Compensation Plan. Hang in there, baby. Stick with it and learn it. Not many of the home based internet businesses offer an upfront payment of a thousand dollars per sale on first level product. That’s why I said “stick with it”. My bank manager might soon get to know me on a first name basis, my friend. And what’s nice to know is that you can do it too.

I love not having to drive across town to sit in a classroom, or attending weekly business opportunity meeting. No more inviting strangers to my house. No wondering if I’ll return home to find items missing.

CC Pro frequently conducts conference calls and webinars. The training is not built around the “old rah-rah” excitement “Go-get-em-dog” "3-foot rule" principles. Carbon Copy Pro is a total deluxe internet home based business.

Naturally I’m still in the trenches, learning how to use the ammunition. So I don’t intend to come across like a high-rolling internet home business owner. Although my goal is $50k a month in a couple of years: I wouldn’t deceive anyone.
I’m not an overnight millionaire in my internet home based business: Far from it. For me it is a sharp up-swinging learning curve. The biggest mountain I have to climb is the technical side; the actual hands-on branding me, and marketing the product to the millions of people who surf the web daily.

Marketing! Even if you have a peanut size idea of what internet marketing is, it's still good. The idea of branding yourself might be something new to you?

Years ago the word branding was used to describe the act of distinguishing cattle. With a red hot poker, ranch owners and cowboys seare logo in the cows' hides. But like everything else, the word branding has taken on a new meaning. It is currently used in regards to advertise a distinctive design, to link consumers with specific manufacturers, and to link customers with you as a unique product.

To brand yourself means to establish you (the internet business owner) as an authority in your area of expertise. It defines you as a leader in the business and has nothing to do with hot metal pokers, cowboys, and logos.

Branding is done through writing blogs, articles, creating videos, and offering information of value to the consumer. When you help them to identify their problems, offer working solutions to these problems, and assist in stoning their enemies, they will be a friend for life.

Another form of branding is having your own personal website.
My old MLM companies gave me a web site that branded them and their products: not me. My picture or my voice was nowhere to be seen or heard on their sites. My name, email address, or a phone number might have appeared in a couple of places on the sites, and that was it. All the rest of the stuff was about them; not about me. They branded themselves; not me.

Not so with the latest wave of internet home based business ownership. One of the ways you brand yourself is by getting your own personal domain name, and following their instructions to set up the site. Case-in-point is MLM Lead Systems Pro.

MLM Lead System Pro is a lead generating internet home based business opportunity. The system is tailored to funnel visitors through a series of pages offering information on how to get FREE leads as well as paid leads for your business. Your business needs two things. You need more leads and more money.

For a minimal monthly cost ($1 for the first 14 days) MLM Lead System Pro will teach you all you need to know to set up your own system and get it running within a short space of time; even if you are new to the internet. There is a series of tutorial videos to walk you through the set-up process.

A big challenge for me was videotaping. As good as I am at photography and speaking to audiences, videotaping was not ‘a walk in the park’. Parading alone in front a camera is a task of a different nature. There never seems to be enough rehearsal to confidently brand myself in this area of marketing. I’m getting better, however.

I use MLM Lead System Pro in tandem with Carbon Copy Pro . They work like ‘needle and thread’, ‘hand and glove’. They go great together to form the perfect internet home based business.
Check it out and see for yourself
http://allanrussell.com

Monday, April 20, 2009

Shoe String Budget.


I received a few emails just recently that were really quite interesting. There were a couple of them in particular that mentioned the need to start network marketing businesses on shoe string budgets. The questions were…
“How can I start to build a home-based business with around $50?” In another message there was a similar question. “Can you introduce me to a hot low cost marketing strategy?”
With the recent economic down-turn, everyone needs to earn extra money: Everyone needs to cut corners and save money.
And you know what? The great American dream is still alive. Even if you are on a limited budget, it is doable. You will have to use a slightly different approach.
One of the worst things you could do is to throw every last dollar you earn at buying leads, pay-per-click campaigns, postcards, banners, or co-ops.
Sadly, that is exactly what many young entrepreneurs are doing right now.
That doesn’t make a lot of sense. The biggest mistake you could make is to spend your last dollar on advertising campaigns. And there’s a reason for that.
When you spend $500 on leads, pay-per-click, fliers, business cards, or postcard campaigns, it is quite possible to obtain a handful of prospects. But if you never sponsor any of them, not only have you lost your money, you are also back to the starting point. There is no way that money can work for you any longer. It’s gone. After you’ve called those leads, the game is over. You need more leads. It’s like the story of the gerbil on the treadmill: a never-ending cycle. You’ll be building your business on a pay-check to pay-check budget. Very few people ever come out ahead. So they are forced to call it quits.
So what is the recommendation?
You ought to invest in what is known as “high leverage” skills and simple activities which (over a period of time) will quickly and easily produce the kind of results you want: more leads without lifting a finger... for FREE.
And, right now, that is very easy to do; thanks to the massive changes that have taken place in the online world to date.
In the past, if you were considering marketing your products and services online, you had to be an expert at using search engines. You had to be a wizard at pay-per-click with ever-lasting deep pockets full of cash. That was the only way to get the kind of traffic you want.
The good news is, thanks to the new Web 2.0 sites like MySpace, FaceBook, YouTube, CraigsList, and Ebay, you won’t have to shell out the big bucks in order to tap into this huge flow of FREE traffic.
Why would you want to pay for advertising and getting leads when you can get leads and advertise for FREE?
On the other side of the coin, you do not need to be a computer expert to utilize these simple procedures TODAY.
In closing, I want to recommend to you, right now, some unbelievable training by one of my favorite mentors. I can truly say that the training has personally helped me to leverage some really simple skills and build a thriving business on a shoe string budget.