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Archive for September, 2008
Carbon Copy Pro
Sep 10th
Carbon Copy pro is another one of those tools to simplify the marketing aspect of your business, Quite honestly I do not buy that. You see that is the problem with the industry, everyone is looking for the silver bullet, the knockout punch to financial freedom and the exploitation of the internet. Carbon Copy pro is simply a tool used to aggregate leads with bits of info on how to market ONLINE! having reviewed the product the hype does not match the bill of sale, in fact it looks no different from the Lead Capture pages of the Home Business people…the catch 22 is that it is a funded proposal, free info upsold to paid info, upsold to the high ticket items that are the hot topic of the industry.
Lead generation is quite simple with a unique landing page, not a replicated one that has for so long saturated the net. You see the messages of these lead capture pages or marketing tools are all too common, they differ simply from the header at the top.
“FROM THE DESK OF, JOHN DOE, X,Y,Z”
What now happens is every knook and cranny like a Thomas’s English Muffin is now saturated with BS marketing, a poorly written message, and ultimately an unexcited prospect or a not so highly targeted one. Funny how these founders are very smart marketers, but they are working for themselves NOT the individual who signs up and uses their product.
Let me Explain: Carbon Copy Pro
Markets Mike Dillard and Jay Kubasek, they have finger prints all over these replicated sites, and so the newbie marketer is actually paying these men to MARKET these EXACT 2 MEN, creating brand recognition and often times leads to the potential prospect to perform due diligence and seek out the “LEADERS” directly, simply because no one wants to work with a LOSER, or a Newbie so to speak.
So my advise to you is this MARKETING is no SECRET, it takes a bit of creativity and coaching, that can be done on your own. Think about it, when using these tools do you want to be known as affiliate number 12345 or Do you want your own marketing tools that are Tailord to YOUR BRANDING EFFORTS, not someone else’s ?
The answer is obvious. If you truly want free marketing tutorials or strategies that help to brand you and no one else, shoot me an e-mail or give me a call or follow the contact me link towards the top of this page, honestly you owe it to yourself to build a succesful business known as JOHNDOE.com not Carbon Copy Pro!
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The purpose of this blog is to motivate, stimulate and educate. I am in no way affiliated with Lifepath Unlimited, but act solely as a coach. I sort of adopt most of my clients, and act as their sponsor, since we know that some of these guys out there know nothing about leadership and building your business. Read more in this blog or CONTACT ME: I encourage it! Contempo at 708-714-1680 Also check out my new affiliate site 17 sleeve see how I use this affiliate site to generate over 12K a month on autopilot, if you would like to learn more, on how I can set up the same for you, simply give me a call 708-714-1680
Liberty League International, Lifepath Unlimited, Emerald Passport – The Same Difference
Sep 10th
Ok so you’ve done your due dilligence, surfed the net and compared these “Incredible” companies and well you are trying to figure out which has the competitive advantage, which has the cleaner “AG” record, and which promises to make you the most money with the best compensation plan, oh and as if it really mattered, who has the best product!, How about training and support ? Yeah they all have that too!
So what really matters and what can these companies do to distinguish themselves in the 21st century ? What can they do for their distributors in reference to a unique product, that has strong market demand ? How can the “Proven System” be as pliable and unique as the individuals who participate in business building?
Don’t get me wrong, I love network marketing, and the opportunity it affords us all to leverage ourselves into money, lifestyle, and opportunities typically not afforded by the common 30K a year national average salary.
My personal story is not rags to riches or as inspiring as the single mom who made it big within this industry. But I will share my introduction to the industry, and explain my retirement from. I was born hearing impaired, with a speach impediment, you see my left ear was there but not functional, an ornament these days as I joke around with friends. As a kid growing up my mother begged for my teachers not to treat me indifferent, my speech was blurred a bit, and though I could hear class instruction fairly well, it was my speech that was the red flag, I was then put in the special education program, my mother furious sent me to a speech therapist, over 3 years I endured school for 7 hours and 3 hours 3 times a week with the specialist, by the time I was in 4th grade I was even steven with my colleagues, as my handicap was no longer viewed as impeding me scholatically. I basically surfed through school graduating High-school “high honors” and accepted to Columbia University. Through that time I had built an arrogance that anything was possible, that as long as I put my mind, effort and believed in myself I could accomplish virtually anything, and yes that is true!, but the world can funny, and unforgiving.
You see, I began my first internship as a freshman in college, though one could not tell I was hearing impared it showed gravely in team meetings, eventually drawing red flags to my employer. This vicious cycle or reality remained constant no matter where I went no matter who I worked for, as my employers found my disability a LIABILITY. By my junior year in college I had already decided to go into grad school. I have a knack for Business and felt that I would need the education in order to go into business for myself, but honestly I thought it would make me more marketable in the corporate sector hopefully my employers could over look my “LIABILITY”. BOY WAS I WRONG! I took on another internship my junior year that lasted 2 months later to be told that I should seek another major or find something else to DO….WHAT?????? disgusted, and my self esteem shattered I quickly ventured into the self employment route, and thats how I found NETWORK MARKETING. By my senior year and part time I was clearing 3K a month, peanuts by most standards but for a kid in College, IT WAS AWESOME…..once I graduated and took the summer as an opportunity to do the business full time, I quickly found my income doubling, quadrupling, up to 15K a month.
By the end of the fall semester in graduate school, I was clearing 33K a month. The caveat ? I was not using the proven system marketed by the company, I was using good old fashion text book smarts mixed with creativity and common sense. I became the black sheep of the industry, quickly climbing from 33K a month to 65K a month starting my 3rd semester in grad school. I could have very easily just dropped out, and yes I was very close, until I realized OMG! I’m only 23 years old, what will I do with this income, you see in grad school we are taught that your first 5 businesses will fail, I felt lucky, but thought…what if the well ran dry ? Hmmm what do I do now, call it luck or divine intervention, but I stumbled across Foriegn Exchange and Commodities taught in one of my classes. While my colleges where getting the THEORY, I actually had the MONEY to really get my hands dirty. Yes I retired from the industry in a short 3 years, as the commodities and exchange was netting me 15K a week on 8 hours total work, incredible to say the least.
So now here I am writing to you and well I hope you read this far down. My point is this, everyone’s approach or reason for joining this industry is different, there is no true plug an play, as all of our circumstances are unique and so the game plan should be as unique.
Here’s an example…I had a gentlemen write to me asking how can he work his business with a full time job, he would market by day and call by night, his connection rates were paltry, NO ONE WAS PICKING UP THE PHONE, he asked his sponsor why is this so, and the answer he got was “You are not following the system, you need to leverage yourself and step up to the next level (Product Purchase)…WRONGGGGGGGG, I suggested to the gentleman to take a week off from work, so that he may call his leads as soon as they were aggregated, this makes a world of a difference, and it sure did for him. By the end of that week he made 2 sales, more than what he had made in 7 months, this alone was proof that proven systems need not be embedded into the associates mind as much as unique circumstance……………
So what is your unique circumstance ? LET ME HELP YOU, email me or drop a phone call 917-359-9930
The purpose of this blog is to motivate, stimulate and educate. I am in no way affiliated with Lifepath Unlimited, but act solely as a coach. I sort of adopt most of my clients, and act as their sponsor, since we know that some of these guys out there know nothing about leadership and building your business. Read more in this blog or CONTACT ME: I encourage it! Contempo at 708-714-1680 Also check out my new affiliate site 17 sleeve see how I use this affiliate site to generate over 12K a month on autopilot, if you would like to learn more, on how I can set up the same for you, simply give me a call 708-714-1680
Lifepath Unlimited – They Suck, You Suck, Because The “Proven” System SUCKS!
Sep 8th
Lifepath Unlimited among many other companies tout a great system, the best compensation plans, the best teams, leaders, product, and opportunity. Though there are partial truths to some of these suggestions I only care about “great systems” you see I have spent many years marketing, consulting with other marketers, working with leadership throughout the industry, and seeing repeatedly how “simple the proven system” really is. Unfortunately the simplicity of these systems are not conducive to building solid business but rather conducive to building a turn-style mechanism forcing the business owner to take part in a never ending process of “building wide” , building wide refers to the front-line, and is usually done to combat the attrition of the front-line. The turn over rate in this industry is absolutely horrific, again it’s not the company, the product, the leadership, or even the new “recruit” that is the problem. It’s the system, PERIOD!
Remember the days of Belly-to-Belly and the NFL (No Friends Left) club, remember when all you simply had to do was talk to friends and family ? only to recieve the silent treatment ? Remember how that then evolved into candle parties, hotel Meetings, and just plain cold calling ? Remember when unlimited long distance was not the norm in calling plans ? How about when the internet came into the horizon ? remember the “Prosperity Automated System” or PAS, marketed as pure automation ? Hmmmmmm wonder is HP or Dell are receiving royalties from these sales since everything was Desktop and Server Based…..uhh no lol, PAS went out of business. Why? well some argue they were a scam, others argue there was no product (sure there was it was in the system), in any case PAS is no longer with us, they PAS-sed away a few years back. And Dare I say Web 2.0 wowwwwwwwwwwww, the newest, revolutionary, most practical way of marketing, oh! it’s the newest “Proven System”. LOL, “I put videos on youtube and make millions and so will you”, come on guys laugh because its totally rediculous.
How about Liberty League International and the “No Selling, Telling, Explaining” ? or How About Emerald Passport, and their Built for the internet approach? Or how about you do a search on google on any one of these companies and look at the ads to your left, THEY all seem to bash one another, with “Why I didn’t Join”, the “truth about…” as their headlines, oh man is this a new system I never heard about ? the “proven method of BASHING” and destruction of a very common business practice called “building good-will”, you see the former method is doing nothing but bringing shame to the industry as everyone is touting the real mountain of gold in different flavors, but all truly inherently the SAME DAMN THING, a proven system….that is about to GO OUT THE DOOR, and its going to take the industry with them.
Now I want to rescind the headline of this article: Titled, “Lifepath Unlimited – They Suck, You Suck, Because The “Proven” System SUCKS!” I mean just because you suck doesn’t mean your business has to suck, Just because the proven system sucks, doesn’t mean your business sucks, and just because your opportunity sucks, doesn’t mean your business sucks. What it all means is you need to find a different way of doing things. IT’s YOUR BUSINESS DAMNIT, OWN UP TO IT!
So how to you work anti-proven system ? EASY! go to the library and learn some very simple marketing techniques. Place an ad in the paper (oh don’t do that 
) but purposely place the ad UPSIDE DOWN, be smart guys, after taking up a few marketing sources, take an ART CLASS, because marketing is all about creativity and this is what “proven systems” strip us all of entirely, once you plug into to them, you are the same boring purple as everyone else….STAND OUT AND BE A NEON GREEN DAMNIT! this little tid-bit will blow your business to the o-zone, careful! make sure you have proper sun block and UV protection!
So you want some tips to creatively market your business and end the dependence on the proven system that’s making you a paltry nothing, every 30 days ? …Here we go guys
Internet marketing is the one of many ways, to market your opportunity, first and foremost ditch the landing page you have, you know the one that shows pictures of you living the good life, but are merely pictures of you at your exotic “seminar” destination, full of trite common language, oh and reads on forever and ever like some contract found on closing a home loan.
Create an Effective landing page: email me .. Contempo160@yahoo.com
So now the nitty gritty
Marketing Online is easier than you think, adwords, blogs, and search engine optimization are the norms. DO IT.
But if you really want to exploit the net, try
Press Releases. Write and distribute press releases that are newsworthy, and send them to newspapers, magazines, and television and radio stations: to tired and busy to do that, try PRweb.com you’ll have access to hundreds of thousands of people. Design the headline to grab readers’ attention in as few words as possible. Use active verbs. Get to the point quickly, with a lead sentence that will draw the reader into a convincing piece, usually your “Optimized” Landing page so that you can aggregate the prospects info.
Press release feasibility usually looks like the following: a “well” ( emphasize well written, a simple 2 paragraph sales pitch will not work) written press release and a $200.00 contribution to PRWEB will garner about 75,000 readers or more depending on subject and target, expect 7 to 9 percent of your readers to then follow the link from Press-Release article to Actual Landing page, that equates to about 6000 people on your page, now from the visitors to your page expect a 2% to 3% conversion rate (the people who actually fill your form) that equates to about 150 to 200 leads that are targeted to your business exclusively yours, and are truly excited about your opportunity and the notion of working from home….NO MORE DEADBEATS, What Can that Do for YOUR BUSINESS ?
Viral Email Marketing: You guys love using emails, especially to follow up with a prospect you left a voice-mail for, or to try to solicit business, with a horrible sales copy…Most emails go straight to the spam folder so your success will be limited, Spam killed email marketing, but you can still DO IT, and DO IT RIGHT
The concept is known as:Inspired Word of Mouth: For the Digital Age
Inspired WOM marketing, occurs naturally and without incentives. This can be as simple as one soccer mom telling another about the great experience she had at a hair salon, or an influential blogger who reviews a product he or she had a great a experience with.
Customers who engage in inspired WOM marketing typically aren’t just customers, they’re raving fans. Their passion may be based on the product, service, or the entire experience. In all likelihood, the customers that are engaged in this type of WOM are your target audience and potential customers
So how do you create genuinely inspired WOM?
MAKE THEM LAUGH!
People love to share funny stuff, ever been a recipient of that hilarious office joke and felt the need to pass it on ? Yes it works, and it will never be spam, and your email open rate will be much higher as the email will be forwarded from trusted sources (the recipients contacts) as opposed to a companies mail server, also the spam filter is NOW EXPLOITED.
So what you do is find hilarious, stuff and put together an email, include in the email YOUR LOGO, company link and briefing towards to bottom of the email, Somewhere towards the middle of the email you would want to put “This email was sponsored by (xyz.com)” but make sure it is not so intrusive. The head of your email such include hard and funny punchlines that grab attention IMMEDIATELY and includes the FORWARD ME MESSAGE, such as “Tickle 10 buddies with this, FORWARD NOW message will self destruct and turn your dell into mush if you dont, LOL” you get the idea I’m assuming.
So now you have a viral matrix working for you that is also branding you, your company, driving traffic and aggregating leads
THANK YOU PAGES….WHAT A WASTE
Surprisingly, many Lead Capture Pages waste the thank you page by making it a dead end. Instead of encouraging your visitors to close the window, continue to engage your customers with one of the following tactics:
1. Refer a friend form: After the user completes the form, ask them if they would be willing to tell a friend or family member about your opportunity. Obviously, if they trusted you enough to give you their own money, information, they might be willing to recommend you to a friend.
2. Feedback Survey: Ask your prospects about the experience they just had. Because the experience is fresh on their mind, they will tell you about any frustrations while using your site.
GOOGLE PAY PER CLICK
1: SEO Your PPC Landing Pages: Recent changes to google quality score now look at on-page text and load time to determine relevancy, and therefore your final click price and ad position. By applying basic web usability tactics to your landing pages, you can save a bundle and improve your ad position.
2: Turn Off the Content Network: In my experience, the content network is extremely difficult to generate acceptable ROI with. Even if you’ve had success with the content network, be sure to separate it from your keyword campaigns, as mixing them will blur the ROI between the two.
3: Avoid Bidding Wars: Focus on ROI, not your ego. The number one spot doesn’t always convert best. In fact, some think spots #2, and #3 outperform #1, since it tends to get clicked automatically.
And many more………………want to learn more call me I don’t bite 917-359-9930
and the biggest SECRET. HAVE FUN AND THROW OUT YOUR SCRIPT
More coming soon!!!!!
The purpose of this blog is to motivate, stimulate and educate. I am in no way affiliated with Lifepath Unlimited, but act solely as a coach. I sort of adopt most of my clients, and act as their sponsor, since we know that some of these guys out there know nothing about leadership and building your business. Read more in this blog or CONTACT ME: I encourage it! Contempo at 708-714-1680 Also check out my new affiliate site 17 sleeve see how I use this affiliate site to generate over 12K a month on autopilot, if you would like to learn more, on how I can set up the same for you, simply give me a call 708-714-1680
Lifepath Unlimited – Network Marketing
Sep 3rd
The Network Marketing Industry is Flourishing!, that is the common and novice statement for the “network-preneur”. I beg to offer a rebuttal, the industry is NOT flourishing, it is chugging along sporadically at best, simply because the industry relies on a limited few organizations who promise to offer financial freedom within 6 to 12 months, actually every company in this industry promises financial freedom in the first 6 to 12 months. Companies like Liberty League, Wealth Masters International, Lifepath Unlimited, Emerald Passport, Quixstar (Amway), MonaVie, and Yes EVEN AVON!, all strike a nerve in us in the not so flourishing of times, with a opportunity to leverage our financial situation with “out of the box” thinking.
After all, we have depleted our wealth via the current real estate bubble, Ask Fannie Mae or Freddy Mac if these are flourishing times. We then ran for the hills and threw the little bit of money we did have into the dow, recorded record highs in the end of 07 at 14164.53 then we liquidated and watched as the the dow slimmed down to the 12000 arena. We then see the dollar weakening and banks putting the clamps on easy credit, we see oil prices shoot higher and gas prices dig deeper and deeper into our pockets, oh the poor folks with SUV’s, we see foreclosure rates jump 20 % per quarter. The economy is shrinking, jobs are being created as fast as Bentley’s and Maserati’s are leaving the show-room floor. You want flourishing then you move on over to the Arab Emirates where they are TRULY FLOURISHING!. But enough on my rant on the current state of economies. TIME TO THINK OUT THE BOX !
Network Marketing as a whole offers a tool that ideally would FLOURISH if it embraced the adage of “out of the box thinking” as well as it markets it. You see not everyone is this industry is making it big, but those who truly embrace out of the box thinking are. They invest in themselves, they invest in educating themselves on the nuances of this industry, from marketing to prospecting, to truly understanding their product and audience, they refrain from plugging into the system, (The proven system) why ? well because if only 5 to 10 % of the people are seeing success from the system then I want NO part of it, and neither should you. What about a system that works 100% of the time? You know the system (YOU) create, the one that works for you.
I revisited one of my favorite movie’s, Training Day, the Narcissism conveyed by the lead Character (Denzel Washington) leans himself to a lesson, “are you a wolf or are you the sheep”. Self image plays a big role in the success of this industry. Are you a leader ? or are you a True Leader? Self proclamation of Leadership is just the beginning, merely thoughts and words, but acting as such is the manifestation of true “OUT OF THE BOX THINKING”
Three Habits of Great leaders are ….
1. Communicate, Communicate, Communicate: You hear too often from new recruits that they can’t get a hold of their sponsor, many of them find this blog and begin writing me and calling me, I have no problem with adopting them…But shame on the sponsor who neglected them and their efforts
2. Serve Your People: There is a Story about leadership in the bible, Mark 10 and it is the story of two brothers who both want to be very important and very powerful. They come up to their teacher Jesus and ask him if it would be possible for them to sit on little thrones next to his big one in heaven someday. Jesus must have had to resist the urge to punch these two brothers for such an arrogant request. Then he says to them, ‘Whoever desires to be the greatest has to become the least.’ In essence, Jesus is telling them if they want to be good, impacting, successful leaders they must learn how to be a servant of others.
3. Empower Your People: It is amazing how so many successful individuals in this industry fail to succumb to transparency. You see those who are chipping away at the mountain of success are not going to point you to that mountain, they will not show you north from south, why ? because with more people chipping away at the mountain of “Flourish, and prosperity” the more and more it will be rationed thus $100,000.00 months turn into 20K, 10K , then nothing as the resource has been DEPLETED* please refer to the economies lesson in paragraph 2 if this doesn’t make sense. Now honestly this is great business practice, as I would assume Microsoft will never disclose their tricks of the trade to Apple and vice verse, However a true leader must empower an individual, with an education, and concrete the fact that nothing in this world is as static as proven systems. If that were the case, we would still be rolling in the economies of the Clinton Era, but we are not, times change, circumstances change and by god so do proven systems. A true leader empowers the the sheep to shed it’s coat and reveal the wolf in disguise…
So in the end Network Marketing is not a Flourishing Industry but rather a network of flourishing economies, businessmen and woman, and wolves who are hungry enough to see the big picture.
For those who would like to contact me I am available at Contempo160@yahoo.com or by phone 917-359-9930. Look forward to helping sheeps become wolves, god bless
The purpose of this blog is to motivate, stimulate and educate. I am in no way affiliated with Lifepath Unlimited, but act solely as a coach. I sort of adopt most of my clients, and act as their sponsor, since we know that some of these guys out there know nothing about leadership and building your business. Read more in this blog or CONTACT ME: I encourage it! Contempo at 708-714-1680 Also check out my new affiliate site 17 sleeve see how I use this affiliate site to generate over 12K a month on autopilot, if you would like to learn more, on how I can set up the same for you, simply give me a call 708-714-1680
