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Words.

The most powerful tool in any business arsenal. Words can make you or break you overnight.

I have chosen to post this third installment of The Build a Better Home Based Business Series on this free blog to demonstrate the power of words and how to use them effectively to generate additional income for your business.

You won't find an English lesson here. The words I am going to use here today will work with any language.

Let's start with some quick basics:
Choose your words wisely.
Always 'Spell Check' any message before sending no matter how insignificant the message may seem.
Always proof read your messages before sending, do your words make sense?
Always save your sent messages for future use. (I'll explain that one more in a minute)
Make effective use of hyperlinks in your messages.
Update and use your signature.

O.K. now it's time for some explanation.

The first three basics should be obvious. No one wants to decipher your intended meaning through poor grammar and bad spelling. We all make mistakes, that's part of being human (and I am as human as it gets) so make the extra effort and spend a few extra seconds to proof read and spell check your message before you send it off.

Next I made mention of saving your sent messages. Many people don't for a variety of reasons but I keep each and every one. If space is an issue I copy and paste them into a text file and burn them to a disk for future reference or I forward them to one of my larger email accounts and place them in a folder named for the account from which they originated.

Why do I spend so much space for old, sent messages?

Simple.

Reference, Ideas and Ads.

I can always refer back to a link someone sent me that I failed to bookmark. I also use it as an inspirational tool to come up with new concepts and ideas for future promotions. Most importantly though I use these messages to generate ads!

Ad writing is an art that many of us unfortunately do not have the time to master. I for one am very time-limited and don't consider myself highly skilled in this area. The precious few minutes I do find during the day are usually spent answering questions and replying to requests for more information.

When I post a new ad I want it to be fresh and different. I need to stand out of the crowd to get noticed but I don't want to spend a lot of time doing it. I save time by pulling words and phrases from my sent messages to create my own ad copy. It's fresh, new and original. The best catch phrases are condensed and used for headlines and the rest is elaborated within the ad itself.

Think about it for a moment. Why work twice? I already spent the time compiling the information, choosing good words, proof reading and spell checking along the way so everything I need for an effective ad is already there. It just needs to be reformatted for its intended use. Besides, I hate doing things twice.

To make my words magnetic I hyperlink all the important words suitable for the subject at hand. I do it almost to a fault. The trick is not to hyperlink every word (because the recipient will tend to dismiss them) but concentrate on those which will benefit the recipient and you equally. I make it a habit to hyperlink my messages, blogs and ads.

Here is an example from a recent reply I sent out:

"I will most certainly take advantage of it in the near future. I too am a member of DirectMatches. You can view my profile here.
 
SFI is great! Growing fast! Getting larger every day! I am also a current member of the International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs.
 
As far as the SpiderWeb Marketing System goes, my downline is growing twice as fast as my SFI business! The SpiderWeb Marketing System is continually adding additional streams of income, currently up to 22 from 12."

Did you catch what I did there? Let's hit some of the finer points before we move on to the last subject.

First, I purposely did not hyperlink DirectMatches instead I hyperlinked my DirectMatches profile through the word here. This places emphasis on DirectMatches in a rather indirect way. Not too tricky but informative for the recipient and beneficial to me.

Next, look real close as you hover over the remaining hyperlinked words. Do you see it? Concentrate on the two SFI links and then again on the two SpiderWeb Marketing links. See it yet? What's different about these two pair of links? Step to the front of the class if you said that the links are different. Same words, same look and feel but different links. To the casual reader the two links are identical but when you study them closely you will notice that I have actually hyperlinked those words to my business partners. This is a very effective and powerful way to promote your downline without spelling it out so to speak. I'll cover affiliate promotion in a future Build a Better Home Based Business Series post.

Last but not least is the simplest thing you can do with words using all of the techniques we just discussed above. Place your hyperlinked ads, phrases and words in the signature line of your email messages. If you have more than one email account (which most folks do) use different signature lines for each account. Believe it or not, people do read these things! The downline of several of my businesses and my associate partners has benefited greatly from this gem. You already did all the work now use it for all it's worth. 

Well, we certainly covered a lot of information in this segment. I promise they won't all be this long. If you missed a post click here for the current list.

Hopefully this brief example has at least inspired you to take a closer look at the true value of WORDS.

Until next time.

Happy Marketing!

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I’ve heard a lot about the Reverse Funnel System lately. It looks like a good program. Here’s what I think about it.

You may have been attracted to Ty Coughlin’s guaranteed money-making machine, the Reverse Funnel System. Seeing the picture of him lounging around in his swim trunks at his Hawaiian beach house may have sold you on the dream. Or maybe it was the testimonial of Kursten with his bright yellow Lambourghini, or Doug with his private plane. Either way, the idea of guaranteed six figures sounds appealing to anyone, beach house, Lambi, or jet aside. Money talks.

So you’re in. You’ve paid the start-up fees and gotten good advice. You’ve got the ambition. You’ve got the direction. You’ve got the fail proof system.

You’ve also got a problem. Where is your money coming from? Multiple streams of income sound great, but these aren’t the kind of streams that spring up spontaneously from the earth. These kind of streams spring from someone else’s wallet. And that’s all cool, business is business, but its got to come from somewhere.

This is where many home business entrepreneurs run into a tough spot. All the family has been bugged. All the friends badgered. The lead lists have been bought and scavenged. The cottage meetings have been held with marginal results at best. The fliers have been hung up, rained on, ripped off, and are now being gently blown down the street, only to soon end up in someone’s trash pile.

You’re in a common spot. You’ve got a great product and all the enthusiasm in the world to make you wildly rich. You just need someone to start writing your checks. That is where The Spider Web Marketing System comes in as a perfect complement to maximize your venture in the Reverse Funnel System or any other Internet business. In economic terms, these are complementary services, not substitutes.

The Spider Web Marketing System is not designed to compete with your business. Its designed to enhance it. They’re not trying to convince you to sell their cancer-curing tropical fruit juice or travel package. The product behind the Spider Web Marketing System is… the Spider Web Marketing System!

The product is a streamlined Internet marketing program created to bring in interested, quality leads and revenue with no additional effort on your part. Its based on what is called a funded proposal system, which uses the original funds to continue to perpetuate the leads and income that it generates. Developed by a team with years of Internet Marketing experience, the Spider Web Marketing System perfects the Google Adword program to maximize its efficiency in directing leads to you. With only a small investment, (anything less than $50) the funded proposal system continually generates interested leads and builds your network, building upon itself and continually growing larger.

The interested leads are not just people who have accidentally stumbled across your website, either. These are people that actually sought out a chance to specifically become involved in your entrepreneurial business venture. They need you, and you need them. The Spider Web Marketing System is just the vehicle to bring everyone together.

No matter what your business venture is, you need leads. You may have the best product in the best system ever invented in the free market economy, but you still need someone to buy it. The Spider Web Marketing System will bring leads to you. It’s the perfect way to maximize your success in the Reverse Funnel System or any other business venture.

 To learn more about The SpiderWeb Marketing System read my other blog at: http://givingpower.ws/blog/

or visit: http://givingpower.ws/spiderweb for more information on how The SpiderWeb Marketing System can help your online business.

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As, I’ve learned, there are many different systems out there designed to help you develop your small business. Personally, I researched Reverse Funnel, MLM Traffic Formula, The Renegade System, One Year Plan. All are built on promises of what they can do and how they will bring you new leads and more money and that big MLM mansion you’ve always dreamed of.

You may have heard claims like this: “You too can become the next big thing in multi-level marketing, and your home business will explode! (Through this system of 17 videos and three E-books and two training courses.)”

Or maybe one like this: “You too can become a network-marketing guru and leads will flock to you! (After spending countless hours trying to understand, retain, and apply techniques that have taken the author years to develop.)”

The thing that they all have in common is that they will only teach you what you need to know. From there you are on your own. It is up to you to actually make the success happen. It is up to you to spend hours watching the videos, reading the books, and putting in all of the tedious legwork. And for many of us, the time just isn’t there. We already have full-time jobs, families, and other responsibilities that require our time. We have lives. Devoting hours of study to some guy’s Internet marketing book just isn’t realistic.

What’s missing is a system that does the work for you: an Internet Marketing/Advertising Agency - a system that will help you develop MLM success by doing the work for you. That’s the beauty of The SpiderWeb Marketing System. It truly works for you like an advertising agency.

The SpiderWeb Marketing System does something for you that no other system will do: it actually DOES something. Rather than trying to teach you or train you, The SpiderWeb Marketing System uses a complex system of Internet advertising strategies to advertise you and your business to thousands of interested entrepreneurs. It is extremely simple on your side. You follow the simple, step-by-step video tutorial process, the System does the work, and the leads come to you. It’s the easiest way to bring success to your small business.

When you visit the site and sign up for the SpiderWeb System, and follow the simple process to set it all up, the system goes to work for you. Using a streamlined advertising process built around Google adwords and search engine optimization, and other innovative marketing strategies will be used to promote your small business. That’s only the beginning of a process that took years of experience to fully develop.

That’s only a small part of The SpiderWeb Marketing System’s appeal. It is built on what is called a funded proposal, which means that once you sign up, its guaranteed to pay for itself. Not only does it pay for itself, it perpetuates itself to continue to market you and your business through thousands of interested leads. Only interested leads contact you and the frustrating work of tracking down leads ends.

This was such a relief to me because I worked so hard to find leads, often in vain. Reverse Funnel, MLM Traffic Formula, The Renegade System, One Year Plan.

There are other systems out there that make similar claims to help you increase your network and promote your business. Only a few processes actually come close to being as effective as the SpiderWeb System, but absolutely none do the work for you.

Since joining The SpiderWeb Marketing System, I’ve had so much more success at just about everything in my business.

The SpiderWeb Marketing System works for you by harnessing the power of the Internet and growing your business in the most efficient way possible. Less work and more success come from greater efficiency. The SpiderWeb Marketing System is the most efficient way to develop your business.

(For more information visit http://givingpower.ws/)

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Anyone who has ever bought into the dream of network/multi-level marketing knows that its not perfect, myself included. I became involved with it because I was excited by the comfort of working from home, I loved the idea of flexibility, I was interested in entrepreneurship, I had a desire to be my own boss. Many who tout it will promise that its a more efficient way to make money, that its easy to find success through friends and family, and that it can be done in a couple hours after your day job. But anyone who has poured countless hours and thousands of dollars chasing the MLM dream knows that its not as simple as uplines, downlines, and growing bank accounts.

It was a rude awakening, as I jumped in only to find that success didn’t come as easily as I had been told. I wanted to work hard and was willing to, but the fact of the matter is I didn’t know enough people, Company training was too expensive, My Sponsor is new too and couldn’t train me, I couldn’t keep my recruits excited, I didn’t have enough leads, so it didn’t go as smoothly as I had hoped.

As I experienced, there are some serious drawbacks to MLM. If there weren’t, every product sold would be through networks, and every distributor involved would be very rich. Not the case. Here’s why:

Shockingly, 99% of all MLM distributors lose money. The further down the line you go, the fewer leads there are available. It becomes a principle of scarcity. Too many predators, not enough prey. Basically, it becomes too difficult to search and track down more people to become involved, either as buyers or downline distributors.

Family and friends are not a reliable base for MLM success. No one wants to be hounded by their distant brother-in-law or old high school teammate to join up in the next big money making scheme or buy whatever wonderful irreplaceable product you happen to be pushing at the moment. Yes, your mother loves you, but she’s not going to make you rich.

Successful MLM also takes a lot of time, and a lot of talent. For being the part-time, work-from-home, independent moneymaker it is portrayed to be, any successful distributor must actually spend far more time to make the business viable. Industry “experts” will tell you that every second of the day is a potential time for marketing. No regular hours. No limits. Always ready with a pitch.

MLM is not your standard make-money-on-the-side job. For many, it becomes a lifestyle. Some have tried to incorporate spiritual principles. MLM “pep rallies,” training seminars, workshops, and retreats are the industry norm. Network Marketing has its own distinct culture, and financial growth is impossible without becoming part of that culture.

These four drawbacks become serious obstacles on the path to MLM financial success. Most Network Marketing Systems fail for some combination of these dilemmas, and until now, there hasn’t been any system that would allow distributors to bypass these hurdles.

However, a The SpiderWeb Marketing System allows business owners to overcome these obstacles easily and effectively. It is a network marketing system designed to create an efficient process for MLM financial success. Greater efficiency means less work, and more money.

The SpiderWeb Marketing System is based on principles that avoid the pitfalls of traditional multi-level marketing, where other systems fail.

Most ventures in MLM lose financially because clients, leads, and customers can’t be found. Eventually, the well dries up. SpiderWeb Marketing uses a highly developed Internet advertising strategy to actually bring leads to you. Instead of desperately trying to hunt down leads, the leads hunt you. Through SpiderWeb Marketing, clients are only contacted by interested leads. The frustrating search ends, and the money finds you.

The appeal of this system is that leads come to you. There is no more ruining important relationships by constantly nagging people to enroll. With The SpiderWeb Marketing System, you will never need to hit up friends and family, because, again, only the genuinely interested leads come to you.

One of the greatest assets of this system is that it does the work for you. It works while you sleep, so you don’t have to. The difference between it and other systems is that it will actually save your time while developing your business with no extra effort.

The SpiderWeb Marketing System is simple. No rallies, no spiritual-sales-enlightenments, no hand-waving testimonials. A simple phone call is all it takes, and then the money comes in. It is as simple as that. It makes money for you.

Since I joined The SpiderWeb Marketing System, my experience has been great and I am confident that I will continue to be successful because It is a brilliant business model that makes perfect sense, Kimball and his corporate staff have been very helpful, It has been wonderful so far.

There is no comparable system. Standard Multi-Level Marketing is hindered by several major barriers that keep you from becoming more prosperous. The SpiderWeb Marketing System ensures success by breaking those barriers in a way that nothing else can.

(For more information visit http://givingpower.ws/)

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I apologize for not introducing myself first but since I have implemented the SpiderWeb Marketing System I have found myself extremely busy managing all the additional new contacts I have made in the past few days. In 9 years of Internet Marketing I have never had such an immediate response rate. If you are looking to increase your targeted business leads this may just the thing for you. Click the banner below for more information on how to Spin Your Own World Wide Web:

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I am Power Of Giving,

I am an Independent Internet Marketer specializing in helping Ordinary People increase their income and Non-Profit Organizations raise much needed funds. I have been involved in Internet Marketing since 1999.

I try to inspire people to always give of themselves and live life for all it is worth.

My motto is:

Discover the Power of Giving so that we all may...

Transform Our Gifts Into Blessings On Those We Serve Today.

It has been my experience that what you give you truly receive tenfold.

I have utilized my marketing experience to help churches and other local NPO's raise funds. I also help individuals increase their income by introducing them to various online opportunities and then marketing those endeavors for them through my contacts and websites. The intention of this Blog is to teach, inform, and share ideas on marketing stratedgies and opportunities.

I hope you find my posts informative and inspiring.

If you need any advice or require my assistance I am more than happy to help. I am very busy these days but I do reply to every message that I receive. The easiest way to contact me for now is through comments on this Blog. When things have settled down a little bit I will post my e-mail address.

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When I first started in Network Marketing (Online and off) I was promised all sorts of help, free time and easy money. Unfortunately for me that never happened. My sponsor would leave me fending for myself struggling with cold calls and would send me his old contacts knowing the answer I was surely to receive. Not much fun and not very profitable either!

After several failed attempts I quit for a while. I didn’t quit the business I just quit putting up with my upline sponsors empty promises.

With that, I decided to start fresh and began reading heavily to educate myself. I also experimented with a few ideas using my own products and services with limited success.

During that time I learned to write my own effective ad copy, learned how to accumulate my own sales leads, learned how to obtain rankings in the major search engines, designed compelling (and not so compelling) websites, and learned NO the hard way.

To make a long story short, it seemed that whenever I attempted to do something for myself I failed but when I did something for someone else (without expecting anything in return) I excelled! That’s when it really hit me, if everyone just did one thing for someone else the world would be a much better place!

Then things started falling into place.

Using the knowledge I acquired from all of those books I read and applying it to a real business opportunity and then passing (giving) that knowledge on to my business associates through working their business with them I had a win, win situation for everyone!

With that I came up with two of my own golden rules of Network Marketing that still guide me to this day:

1. Never lead a new affiliate or business contact with a new business proposal.
2. Always promote your associates/downline/powerline first!

I’ll be happy to explain rule # 1 to you later, perhaps in an upcoming Blog but today I want to concentrate on rule #2.

If you were to promote every member of your network downline first as vigorously as you would promote your own business you would find yourself with one dedicated team of associates all working toward the same goal with the same amount of enthusiasm because everyone is working for one another to better themselves.

This may sound a bit twisted but I don’t know how else to say it.

Let me try an example.

Currently I am participating in a Global Business Opportunity http://www.ezinfocenter.com/10169284/FREE

and I am promoting it using The SpiderWeb Marketing System http://thespiderwebsystem.com/PowerOfGiving a powerful combination to be sure. Now every time I receive a notice of a new downline associate (sometimes several daily) I immediately gather the affiliate’s links and other vital information.

After collecting the data I submit the new affiliate links to the major search engines, post targeted ads around the world (if it is a global business) using several classified ads sites and immediately tell everyone I know about my newest online business partner.

I do this all for free before I even send the first greeting message and let the new associate know what I have done for them in that first welcome message. I also advise them to learn all they can about their new venture and encourage them make the same effort for their new associates as I have done for them. As new leads start to quickly fill the inbox of the new associate I have converted that associate into a team player, a business partner of our online business.

I let my business partners know up front that I will do everything in my power to help them succeed and I mean it, I prove it with every new affiliate that signs up! All I ever ask for in return is that they share the wealth of knowledge I have given them and to do everything they can to help their downline business partners succeed.

In conclusion, if you start with a solid business plan, market it with a great system and combine it with the Power Of Giving you will have one strong foundation on which to build yourself and your business partners’ massive income for life.

May your foundation be strong, grow deep and widen with each passing day.

Here’s to your success!

Power Of Giving

Please welcome my newest Business Partners!

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EyeEarn: http://www.ezinfocenter.com/10175202/EE

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FREE MONEY MALL: http://www.mypowermall.com/Biz/Home/131386

Free Traffic Exchange: http://hengeveldenterprises.com/trafficexchange.aspx

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