Location, location, location is what they say in real estate. When it comes to home based programs, it is all about marketing, marketing, marketing. When you have a large budget to market with, it is very easy to drive traffic to your website. But many people that jump into network marketing do not have much money at all. Free marketing is where its at.
I have been successful at home based programs since the end of 2006. Before then, I failed at every work at home program I tried. Reason was, I never marketed correctly. I asked family and friends and we all know how that goes, then I gave up pretty quickly. I just didnt know how to reach out to the masses.
Only reason I am successful now is because I finally learned how to market correctly. I was able to plug into a proven marketing system that my sponsor developed. I just duplicated the system for myself. When I joined the programs I am in now, which are Ambit Energy, Cash Gifting and The Little Guy Network, my mentors had a great marketing system that was easy to follow and it was like magic when I started driving traffic to my website. I truly felt like I did something that was impossible. The way most people find success is not by joining a specific home based program, its by working with a group of successful people that have a proven marketing system that you can follow and duplicate.
The way I got started was free marketing and here are the steps I used:
1. Make videos, lots of videos. Videos can drive a lot of traffic to your website, especially when you use a free service like TubeMogul.com (they submit your videos to 15 different videos sharing sites at once). Videos not only drive traffic to your website, they also help attract people to what you are selling. You only have 10 seconds to grab someones attention. Videos do a great job in creating an interest level and generating fresh leads. Some video sharing websites are YouTube.com, MetaCafe.com, DailyMotion.com and MySpace.com.
2. Craigslist.org is free and can also drive traffic to your website. It is time consuming to post ads, but since Craigslist is in the top 10 most visited websites on the Internet, chances are just by posting a couple of ads someone will see them and go to your website. Again, the key is to market as much as you can.
3. Free classified ads work too. There are many free sites where you can post classified ads. There are also services that can send your ads to hundreds of sites at once.
4. Article submission is a great way to build back-links to your website. There are services that will submit your articles to thousands of publishers. Once a publisher picks up your article, it will be distributed to thousands or even hundreds of thousands of viewers.
5. Social networking sites like MySpace.com and FaceBook.com are a great way to setup a profile and push people to your website as well.
These are just the basics and this is how I got started. As long as you never quit and keep marketing, you should be successful. Never let a day go by where you do not market, you have to be consistent. After you start getting momentum, everything starts snowballing and you will be on your way to becoming part of an elite group of network marketers that are truly successful. Then you will start to understand that 5 figures per month can be a reality and if 5 figures per month is a reality then 6 figures per month has to be a reality.
Ben Needles has sinced written about articles on various topics from Business Credit Cards, Anger Control and Business Credit Cards. About the Author (text)Phil has over 10 years experience in Internet marketing and has helped countless people succeed at making money online.
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