November 20th, 2008 admin
What is the Best Business Opportunity
To answer the question
what is the best business opportunity? I must first define a
business opportunity before we can determine the best. A business opportunity whether it is a brick and mortar or home based business should be based upon selling goods or services to consumers in exchange for a price. Notice, I said consumers, not distributors. Many business opportunies based on a network marketing model rely on distributors getting more distributors in a money making illusion, that will, 9 times out of 10 leave you scratching your head on what went wrong. In the end no money will end up coming in the door.
Due to the fact that most brick and mortar businesses cost over 75000 dollars on average, by time you count location and overhead needed, so I will not address this type of business.
So back to the question What is the Best Business Opportunity? It is a home based business based on customers, roughly 100 to 1 ratio of customers to each business affiliate. In my research I have only come accross one business that meets this requirement.
Michael Hall
530-354-2691
Skype ID: MentoringWithMike
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Business Opportunity - The New Global Village
As the internet grows into more of a global village, it is estimated that 22% of the people in the world are now on the internet, making the world smaller by speeding communications and expanding markets, it is of course going to increase the numbers of people wanting to work from home in some sort of business opportunity.
There is not a better place to find and advertise a home based business, than on Google, the natural searches of course, not any of the pay per click crap. pay per click will more than likely lead to your business opportunity into failure and you will never find the success you are looking in some sort of advertising campaign that allows you to purchase your way into some sort of targeted arena of hot prospects waiting for your business opportunity to end on their doorstep.
The way to use google to advertise your business opportunity effectively get positions organically using search engine optimization. This seo is done by putting out valuable information in certain places in an order to get the search engines spiders to take notice of the information you are putting out about your home based business or business opportunity.
There are other ways of generating traffic to your home based business webpage, but generally other advertising ways, such as email and traffic exchanges, never pan out into being viable in building a business opportunity. (read more)
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Why You are Not Successful in Your Business Opportunity
People are turning to the internet and google everyday to find a good business opportunity. One major problem people face is that a lot of the information out there is either skewed or outright lies. In order for people to be successful in a business opportunity they need to either get the correct information upfront (which will not usually happen), There are countless claims on the internet, in opportunity videos,work at home forums, websites, and others that make it look simple, when in fact there is nothing simple about it all.
I don't mean that a online business opportunity is hard, I just mean that it is not simple, most business opportunies on the internet, are going to require work, there are no, sign up, and go to the beach and money is at your door when you get home. No matter how many of those get rich quick schemes you try, it will undoubtably turn into a "fake it til you make it" or "give me a list of your family and friends".
This is not to mention when you find a business opportunity you are proud of, the products the comp plan, etc. no one tells you where to best get your customers from. Most look for some sort of free advertising, usually a email safelist program, or a traffic exchange, if that is you, how successful are you, you don't need to answer, I already know the answer, you can work on traffic exchanges and safelists til the buttons on your keyboard fall off and you will be lucky to get one signup for a free business opportunity.
The problem is not the business opportunity per se. Again it goes back to where are your customers going to come from. The above two methods will never bring long term success in your business opportunity, because it is sellers selling to sellers. There are no customers in that method. There are a lot of work at home program hoppers out there that jump from program to program trying to make money online, only to give it a month or two and then go to another, thinking it is the fault of the opportunity itself, instead of the marketing method they were using.
To be successful for the long term in a home based business you are going to need customers, and I think most importantly a team of mentors to help you. You are just not going to learn everything you need to know in a short period of time, no matter how many youtube videos or ebooks you watch or download.
Michael Hall
530-354-2691
Skype ID: MentoringWithMike
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Business Opportunity
As the Internet grows, as more and more people go online, thousands of them are turning to
GOOGLE to look for a solid
business opportunity. Not only that but most of these people are learning of the perks of a
home based business. You can see everyday on any of the search engines and traffic exchanges. So easy a kid could do it. Yeah Right. If it was that easy, everyone would be doing it and make money to boot.
A sad fact that I see is that 95% of the people that ever get involved in a business opportunity, especially one on the internet will never make any profit. It is not always the fault of the online business opportunity that 95% never make any money in their business opportunity. I have found that although some the business opportunities online are outright scams, but besides that, it is that 95% of the people doing those, will never do what is required in order to be successful.
Some of the failures may be attributed to bad advise, like surfing traffic exchanges. I personally think traffic exchanges are a total waste of time, it is a bunch of people trying to sell their business opportunity to people already in a business opportunity.
Typically it goes like this, this is why it doesn't work.
I will look at yours if you look at mine, I have the best...No you don't I do. I am making Thousands in my home based business and I know you are not. Well as a matter of fact I am and you are not..My product is the best...No Mine is...New Prelaunch, get in now...learn how to generate leads... new revolutionary system...
That is enough of that now, open your eyes and you will see that you have been lied to. Lied to by the companies, lied to by the distributors, you are lying to your self.
In order to be successful in a business opportunity you must have a team. a real business opportunity team that has a vested interest in your success. If you look at any successful big business, there is a CEO, do you think that CEO does sales calls, advertising, and everything else you are expected to do in a typical home business opportunity, No way, He or She delegates those tasks to those subordinates in his organization that have special training in those areas.
Why would you think that a internet business opportunity would be any different, it is not. you just need to find one that is not expecting you to do all those rolls and you will find success.
Michael Hall
Skype Me MentoringWithMike
GOOGLE ME MentoringWithMike Yes that is me
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November 20th, 2008 admin
Business Opportunity Leads
If you search the internet for business opportunity leads, you will find various tools and ways to monitor your SEO (search engine optimization) for driving those business opportunity leads. Here is something that you might not be aware of but it can be used to monitor not only your own stats but those of your competitors for certain things!
Google Toolbar does many things but I do not really want to get into most of them. I have to say though there are a few that come in really handy! I want to let you know about the one item that is helpful for monitoring SEO.
You will have to search the internet for "Google Toolbar" and then download the version that you will need whether it is for Firefox, Windows, etc. It is a short bit of code and the install goes quick. Once you have this loaded, on your browser bar, go to about the middle. There you will see an icon that says "PageRank". This is what you are looking for!
If you move your mouse and let it hover over that icon, it will show you the page rank for whatever web site you have pulled up. By clicking on the down arrow to the side of the "Page Rank" icon, you have other options which include Cache, Similar Pages, and Backlinks.
Clicking on "Cache" will show you the last time Google has last crawled that web site. This comes in handy if monitoring your web site or competition to see how often Google goes there. It also can give you an idea of keyword term positioning if you follow things closely. The option for "similar pages" does not really help you.
Clicking the "Back Links" option will tell you obviously how many back links that web site has. Good to know for what you and others are doing.
As I said earlier, there are other things this toolbar can do that definitely makes life easier on the internet but if you are using SEO for acquiring business opportunity leads, this toolbar is worth the download!
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When it comes to SEO (search engine optimization) in driving business opportunity leads to your web site, it is important to deviate from the main keyword phrase you are concentrating on. Let me tell you why?
Before I begin, it is important that you have the tools on or for your web site to monitor your web sites
statistics. If the hosting company you use does not provide one, do a search on the internet and find a good reputable one..you will need it! You are also going to need a good keyword analysis tool which...you should already be using one.
Okay, let us say you are going after a particular keyword phrase. You have already optimized your web site and pages for those keywords. You have already been involved with writing content, building links, and creating back links to your site. Let us say you have been doing it for weeks already and maybe you are getting some forms of business opportunity leads to your site.
By looking at your statistics on an on going basis, you will find that people will find your site by using a
variation or 'variations' of your keyword phrase. A keyword phrase that you had never thought about before!
If you are doing SEO correctly, you came up originally with a keyword phrase of 2-3 words. With the on going content that you are placing out there on the web, there is a whole myriad of phrases that people could be using to locate your site. Keyword phrases that you might have high rankings for that you did not even know you had!
What should you do if you notice a trend?
Well, you give the people what they are looking for! You can change or variate the content on your web site by maybe creating a new page and optimizing it. You can also start writing content specifically for any upward trend on a certain phrase.
Here is the deal. If you are writing content for a keyword phrase that you have researched and it theoretically would drive thousands of visitors to your site on a monthly basis, writing content for those lower keyword phrases will actually help drive up the positioning of your "main" keyword phrase!!
Take over the top spot in Google or the search engines for a lesser keyword phrase that might only drive in 20 visits a day...it still helps drive your main keyword phrase to the top that would give you thousands and you are already getting some traffic to your site!
What the heck, take over 10 or so of those lesser keyword phrases and maybe the combination would give you hundreds of highly targeted business opportunity leads each day.
You really can not go wrong by using trend and analysis. You started off with a plan when you began your SEO, you just have to alter it from time to time. Nothing you do is going to hurt where you are listed or ranked in the search engines at all as long as you have one or more of those keywords in the new phrase you are after.
I do not know about you but would it not be better to start getting targeted business opportunity leads early on even if they are only trickling in? Those rain drops could turn out to be a downpour!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Why Should You Concentrate On Google For Your SEO?
If you have been around network marketing using the internet for some time, you eventually figure out that driving highly targeted business opportunity leads to your web site using SEO (search engine optimization) is the way to go! Why should you only care about getting that top page for your keyword phrase in Google?
Google has a reported 75% of all search engine advertising. Yahoo commands between 11% and 15% of competitive search engine advertising. The two recently made a deal that would share resources. I am not sure what all of that entails other than the fact that Google would now have around 90% of the search market.
In my own experience with SEO (search engine optimization) using keyword phrases, getting to the top spot in search engines other than Google has drawn little to no traffic already.
Now what is going to happen?
Microsoft is challenging the agreement believing this creates a juggernaut. Google already was!
Regardless with whatever happens in the Google Yahoo deal, if you are getting started with SEO, you should have already been spending your time in pleasing Googles' search engine. Yahoo, MSN, and all of the others combined are not even worth messing with! Doing the work it takes to get to the top of a keyword phrase search is free and...you are driving highly targeted business opportunity leads to your web site.
Avoid handing over your hard earned money to all of those scam lead selling companies out there! Leads generated via SEO is the way to go! These are the kinds of leads that will make your business opportunity successful!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Why Should You Concentrate On Google For Your SEO?
If you have been around network marketing using the internet for some time, you eventually figure out that driving highly targeted business opportunity leads to your web site using SEO (search engine optimization) is the way to go! Why should you only care about getting that top page for your keyword phrase in Google?
Google has a reported 75% of all search engine advertising. Yahoo commands between 11% and 15% of competitive search engine advertising. The two recently made a deal that would share resources. I am not sure what all of that entails other than the fact that Google would now have around 90% of the search market.
In my own experience with SEO (search engine optimization) using keyword phrases, getting to the top spot in search engines other than Google has drawn little to no traffic already.
Now what is going to happen?
Microsoft is challenging the agreement believing this creates a juggernaut. Google already was!
Regardless with whatever happens in the Google Yahoo deal, if you are getting started with SEO, you should have already been spending your time in pleasing Googles' search engine. Yahoo, MSN, and all of the others combined are not even worth messing with! Doing the work it takes to get to the top of a keyword phrase search is free and...you are driving highly targeted business opportunity leads to your web site.
Avoid handing over your hard earned money to all of those scam lead selling companies out there! Leads generated via SEO is the way to go! These are the kinds of leads that will make your business opportunity successful!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Want To Read Some Good Stuff On SEO Involving Title Tags?
Say you are working on driving business opportunity leads to your web site and are designing your site for SEO (search engine optimization). Maybe you are just writing articles, the importance of a title can not be understated! They are major players in getting business opportunity leads to your site. If you are new or unfamiliar with what the title or title tag is...read on!
First of all, go do a search in Google or any other search engine for whatever keyword phrases you want. When the results come up, go to the first result and we will break it down.
The first line is your title tag. The next following lines are your description and your meta tag. As you can see, when you look at any of the results of your search, the first thing noticeable and which is also highlighted is your title tag.
This title tag is what you create on your web site under the section in HTML. It is just a bit of code of HTML code!
What you want in this title tag "must" contain the main keywords or keyword phrases that is relevant to your site and what you will be pursuing using SEO! If you play with it, you might be able to break it down into multiple keyword phrases or multipliers. Whatever you do though, use your main keyword phrase at the beginning. You are also limited to seventy characters so you are limited in what you put in there. It is a good idea to begin every single word with a capital letter as well!
To see what that title tag looks like, open up your web site and look at the top tab on the upper left side of your browser window. You will notice that it will contain the title tag.
The description of your web site...same deal! It is under the section and again, if you want to optimize it for SEO, you need to place as many keywords, keyword phrases, or variations of them in that description. You do want to do this right! If someone is looking at your title tag and description, they might or might not click on your web site depending on what they see! You do want your major keyword phrase listed in the first twenty or so words.
Do the same with the metatag even though the importance of it is not in comparison with the others.
If you are writing articles, (which if you are doing SEO you are doing a lot of), the same things apply. Configure your title and description in the same way!
The reason you are doing this and being consistent with your keywords is that...once your web site is created, Google will at some point in time crawl (take a picture) of your web site. They will then index each word "on" the web site giving more weight to your keywords than any "other" words on your site if you have done everything correctly. You are telling Google what this web site is all about!
They can tell by what you have placed in your title tag, description, and the content on your front page what words are given the highest weight!
Hope this helps! I believe nothing beats SEO in getting the highest of quality business opportunity leads to your site!
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Why Should You Avoid This With Your Business Opportunity Leads?
I am an information junkie. I sign up to just about everything when it comes to network marketing. Over time, I could not even count the number of mailing lists that I am on. I am actually one of those weird people who enjoys getting a variety of information about everything under the sun. In fact, I have learned much of what I know by doing this! But, if you are like me (and most people are), let me tell you something you do not ever want to do. Doing this could destroy any chances of monetizing your lead. Getting and converting your business opportunity leads is what you are all about!
Like I said, I thoroughly enjoy getting ebooks, newsletters, free software, etc..
What I do "not" like though is having someone "sell" me something. I will bet you don't like it either!
When people are giving stuff away, it is typically to get you on their list. That is okay! It is a great way to build a list and it is done all of the time by many many marketers. I will do the same some day. The problem I have noticed lately, is that as soon as I'm on someones' list, they start bombarding me with sales letters. When I was just getting into marketing, I was okay with this to some extent but usually by the third sales letter, I would just unsubscribe.
Knowing what I know now though, If for whatever reason I end up subscribing to somebodys' list and I get an email from them to "buy" something, I am "Gone"! I just simply remove myself from getting anything else from them.
This is why you do not want to do the same. Nobody likes being sold to! What you should do instead is slowly and steadily gain their trust. How do you do this? By teaching and guiding and giving information to your lead. By putting yourself in a position of authority!
Have you ever been fishing? Most everyone I know has at some point in time. I used to go daily. You don't put a lure on the end of your fishing line and start casting to maybe hit a fish in the head and knock them out! You don't put a hook on the end of your line and try snagging them! You use a lure or bait and "entice" the fish to take a bite. Once their hooked, you reel them in!
Over time, I have opted out of most lists. There are marketers though that have "reeled" me in. I enjoy being on their list and receiving information from them. I have been on their list for quite some time and do not plan on dropping out. Occasionally, these people will tell me about something that I can purchase that will help me out. I will sometimes buy! Why? Because I trust them! They have helped me grow in knowledge and have given me tools that are helpful. They have given me tips and hints and tricks (things that I can do) that have helped me in my business!
Do you see where I am going with this? If you have one hundred leads and don't make a sale and they all opt out - what good were those one hundred leads? Do the above and your successful! Try to sell me something and I am gone! It is important what you do with those business opportunity leads once you get them!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Thinking About Hiring Someone For SEO...Why You Should Be Careful?
I do SEO...for myself, friends, and those who I am working with to generate business opportunity leads to our web sites! I know enough to get by but I do not consider myself a guru on the subject. In doing SEO (search engine optimization), I do a good bit of article writing. From time to time, I will find my articles have been scraped (content removed) and placed on someone elses' web site. The people who do this should be giving me a link back but they do not...they are stealing!
I know this goes on all of the time and I really do not do anything about it. I recently had an article scraped "by" an SEO company which to me is very unethical and tells me they probably do not know their SEO. The fact is, there are a number of illegitimate SEO businesses out there that do "not" know what they are doing!
The purpose of this writing this is just really to make you aware! There are good SEO companies and some "not" so good. Over time, the more I learn and know about SEO, I am discovering that there are "many" internet businesses that are trying to sell themselves to do your SEO which in all reality, "Do Not Have A Clue"!!
When I began writing this, I planned on gearing it for more experienced network marketers. If you have been doing network marketing for awhile, you probably will be able to spot these unethical SEO companies or individuals. Following are some things you can look out for if your thinking about hiring out to do your SEO because you just might end up spending thousands and never see legitimate business opportunity leads coming to your web site!
I could go to someones' site and start by looking at title tags and description. I could check the source code on their web site which (by the way), is right clicking with your mouse on the specific web site and then clicking on view source. The reason you might want to look at these things is because, if they are doing SEO, their web site (you would think) should be optimized for SEO! Most people though (if they know about these things) probably have the knowledge to do SEO themselves!
Let us assume you are fairly new to SEO and you are looking for a good company. You would research the company or individual like you would anything else. Check on the internet for reviews or scams. Call these companies up! If they show you keywords and keyword phrases they have already obtained for business opportunity leads and they are "crap", hang up and leave. Look for something else!
What do I mean by "Crap"?
Some of these people will try to "snow" you by telling you they have their names at the top of the search engines or they might give you a keyword phrase they have obtained. Call them out on this and do a search on the internet for those specific keywords. You can look at the top right of that bar that is above your search results to see how much competition the keyword or phrase has!
Heck...I can get all the keywords or keyword phrases I want just by writing an article or two. Because there is no competition for them, they are probably worthless phrases in getting business opportunity leads!
A good SEO team should be able to provide plenty of results and statistics to prove out their merit!
As I began this article, I mentioned an SEO company that stole my material. I looked at their web site and they did have a good title tag. After that, it was all a joke! I even tried to leave a comment about my article and it would not work! I did find where they have hacked and slashed a good number of my articles and placed them on their site. After reviewing everything though, these guys are not going to the top of any search engines in my lifetime! They are wasting their time. Make sure that if you hire out, the SEO company (or individual) is not wasting your time as well!!
Getting high quality business opportunity leads for you specific niche to your web site is what network
marketing is all about. To make money on the internet...traffic is a must and the more, the better!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Thinking About Hiring Someone For SEO...Why You Should Be Careful?
I do SEO...for myself, friends, and those who I am working with to generate business opportunity leads to our web sites! I know enough to get by but I do not consider myself a guru on the subject. In doing SEO (search engine optimization), I do a good bit of article writing. From time to time, I will find my articles have been scraped (content removed) and placed on someone elses' web site. The people who do this should be giving me a link back but they do not...they are stealing!
I know this goes on all of the time and I really do not do anything about it. I recently had an article scraped "by" an SEO company which to me is very unethical and tells me they probably do not know their SEO. The fact is, there are a number of illegitimate SEO businesses out there that do "not" know what they are doing!
The purpose of this writing this is just really to make you aware! There are good SEO companies and some "not" so good. Over time, the more I learn and know about SEO, I am discovering that there are "many" internet businesses that are trying to sell themselves to do your SEO which in all reality, "Do Not Have A Clue"!!
When I began writing this, I planned on gearing it for more experienced network marketers. If you have been doing network marketing for awhile, you probably will be able to spot these unethical SEO companies or individuals. Following are some things you can look out for if your thinking about hiring out to do your SEO because you just might end up spending thousands and never see legitimate business opportunity leads coming to your web site!
I could go to someones' site and start by looking at title tags and description. I could check the source code on their web site which (by the way), is right clicking with your mouse on the specific web site and then clicking on view source. The reason you might want to look at these things is because, if they are doing SEO, their web site (you would think) should be optimized for SEO! Most people though (if they know about these things) probably have the knowledge to do SEO themselves!
Let us assume you are fairly new to SEO and you are looking for a good company. You would research the company or individual like you would anything else. Check on the internet for reviews or scams. Call these companies up! If they show you keywords and keyword phrases they have already obtained for business opportunity leads and they are "crap", hang up and leave. Look for something else!
What do I mean by "Crap"?
Some of these people will try to "snow" you by telling you they have their names at the top of the search engines or they might give you a keyword phrase they have obtained. Call them out on this and do a search on the internet for those specific keywords. You can look at the top right of that bar that is above your search results to see how much competition the keyword or phrase has!
Heck...I can get all the keywords or keyword phrases I want just by writing an article or two. Because there is no competition for them, they are probably worthless phrases in getting business opportunity leads!
A good SEO team should be able to provide plenty of results and statistics to prove out their merit!
As I began this article, I mentioned an SEO company that stole my material. I looked at their web site and they did have a good title tag. After that, it was all a joke! I even tried to leave a comment about my article and it would not work! I did find where they have hacked and slashed a good number of my articles and placed them on their site. After reviewing everything though, these guys are not going to the top of any search engines in my lifetime! They are wasting their time. Make sure that if you hire out, the SEO company (or individual) is not wasting your time as well!!
Getting high quality business opportunity leads for you specific niche to your web site is what network
marketing is all about. To make money on the internet...traffic is a must and the more, the better!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Aging Of Your Domain Name!
If you are thinking about starting your very own home based internet business, there are a myriad of things you need to do to obtain those business opportunity leads. Creating a domain name is the very first thing you should do right from the start. It has to be well thought out because it should contain as many keywords as possible within it. There is another reason though why you should start this process as soon as possible.
Aging of your domain name helps SEO!
Once you have purchased a domain name from a hosting company, it obviously is new to you. It is to Google as well! When I started out, I never really gave this much thought. Try doing battle with your competition for a top spot in the search engines though if they have a domain name that has existed for several years or more! It can be even months or more. Those things grow roots and can be firmly implanted in their location of the search engines for certain keywords. Obviously, that is not the only reason they are hard to compete with. They have done the other things they need to do for search engine optimization as well and have been doing so for quite some time. I believe though that having an aged domain name does give one an advantage.
I have read much about SEO (search engine optimization) and practiced it as well. I wish I could tell you I have seen this documented and everyone is saying the same things. But I have seen conflicting viewpoints. From my experience though and from talking to others, I do believe age counts.
Something else to consider is when you purchase a domain name, you can buy it for one year or more. It is to your advantage to get it for longer durations...two or more years if you can! I can not swear to this but search engines give more weight to domain names that they know are going to be around much longer than the one year. I am not 100% sure of this but we are not talking about a great deal of money and if it is true, every advantage counts!
Whether or not you believe aging of your domain name is important or not, getting the correct domain name is in my opinion, the most important thing you do when starting your business opportunity. Might as well get it, list it, and then begin the other steps to building your business! The process of getting your business going could take some time if you are already working full time and have a family. Life sometimes gets in the way! If you have your domain name set up already, this is time where it can season and...every day counts! Might as well get a head start while you are working on the rest of your business and gathering those business opportunity leads!
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Business Opportunity Leads...The Basics...What Is SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?
From the time I set out to learn what I could about network marketing, it became crystal clear to me that using search engine optimization (SEO) is the only way to go. Yes, there are other options out there to obtain business opportunity leads but SEO is at the top of my list. It just makes sense that people are browsing the internet and actually looking at what I might have to offer. Are those high quality leads or what!
Over time, in talking to others individually or writing articles about SEO, it is also clear that many people involved in network marketing do not know what SEO even is! I state this fact over and over whenever I write about anything...the fact that 95-97% of all people who have a home based internet business fail! The reason is because they do not know what they are doing! I know...I was there once!
I am giving the simple explanation for those who might have heard the term but do not know what it is!
I can tell you right now that, even though I do not know you, I know (if you have accessed the internet with a computer) you have browsed the internet using Microsoft Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, or some other means. Maybe you were looking for a CD, book, or a specific function you need to perform like working on your car! When you did a search using Google or some other browser, you typed in specific keywords to get the best matching results specifically for what you were looking for. A page came up with web sites and an internet address specific for each one that you could click on with your mouse. There are usually many other pages matching your search term that follow.
It is on that first page that you are wanting to position your web site. You yourself are not going to scan through dozens of search pages when there probably is a site somewhere at the beginning of your search that fits your needs! The bulk of those web sites that are not close to the top page of a search term are not making money.
This is what SEO is about! Using keyword phrases that many other people would use to do searches with and being on that first page where the bulk of the traffic is going to be. Getting top positioning can make any business opportunity successful! It is a simple plan and while learning how SEO works and applying it takes some work, the results can be incredible! That what this is all about...getting business opportunity leads.
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One Step On Your Way To Getting Business Opportunity Leads Many People Forget To Do!
You are ready to do SEO (search engine optimization) so that you can start acquiring business opportunity leads to your niche web site.
You have got a web site, a company to host it, and you've gone through the patient practice of selecting and choosing a domain name. The domain name is based on the keyword phrases you hope to pursue using search engine optimization to get your web site to the top page of the search engines.
One thing many people either aren't aware of, don't know how to do, or basically forget all about doing on their way to obtaining business opportunity leads is...submitting your web site address to Google or at least one of the other search engines. When I started learning about using the internet for marketing, I absolutely had no clue about this. I actually wasted months before I found out I needed to do this. I don't know if it's true but I've heard from others that this is must if you ever want to get your site indexed. I don't know if that's true but why take a chance?
Submitting your web site to Google ensures that your web sites address is indexed the next time they "crawl" the web. There is a possibility you could get picked up naturally when Google is doing its thing but like I said earlier, I wouldn't take the chance. Even when you submit your site, it could take a month or two before they even get there. It is definitely important you do this as soon as you can. I'm talking about Google but it sure doesn't hurt to do the same thing at Yahoo or MSN. It doesn't matter who scrawls the site first, other search engines will quickly pick it up then.
To submit your website through Google, go to www.google.com.
On the bottom of this page look for "About Google" and click on it.
Go to the column that says "For Site Owners" and click on the link that says "Submit Your Content To Google"
On this next page, Click on "Add your URL to Google's index". While you're here, go ahead and save this page into your "favorites" on your browser. This isn't on the same topic but when you get a chance, sign up and check out "Google Webmasters Tools". I won't get into that now but it's something you'll want to sign up into at a later time. Both of the pages you were just on have a lot of good information on them.
Just go ahead now and follow the instructions and Good Luck!
Don't miss doing this or it might be awhile before you start generating business opportunity leads!
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Business Opportunity Leads - What Is Your Target Group For Your Lead Generation?
I have seen this happen on many occasions from friends and family who have gotten involved with a home based business opportunity. This is something that most people do not really think about but I can guarantee you that if you are doing this - you are wasting your time!
In writing articles, I have been (for the most part) gearing them for people who have some experience in internet marketing. What I want to reveal here is the #1 reason why people who are new or relatively inexperienced get frustrated and quit their business opportunity before they even get going. Heck, this happens to people who have "had" some limited success with their business. This is a very big reason why they say that 95-97% of all internet and home based businesses fail.
You Are Talking To The Wrong People!
You are talking to friends and family and trying to get them involved with your business opportunity? Forget it! It will not work! You might have some success if they want to help and support you. In time though, most will drop out. You yourself are probably already thinking about quiting. It can be a very frustrating thing trying to "talk" people into doing what you are doing. Most if not all people don't like being sold to anyway!
If you are involved with a home based internet business, do you not think the best people to talk to are those who have been or already "are" involved with network marketing? That is your target market! Why? They already believe they can make money working from home. They already believe in the concept! They already have some apptitude for it.
Again, this was written to state the obvious. For many though (including me at one time) it is not!
If you are now involved or are planning to get involved with a business opportunity, know that it is a job and it takes work. With the internet, there is an abundance of business opportunity seekers. If you know what you are doing, these are the people you should be looking for - they are your target group! Please leave your friends and family alone! They will thank you for it! This is all about getting business opportunity leads though!
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Business Opportunity Leads...The Power Of SEO! Why Use It? Why Use It Now?
There are many ways of generating business opportunity leads both ethically and unethically. Using SEO (search engine optimization) in my thought process is the way to go! It does take a lot of work in most cases to make it work. Why would you use it?
First off...it is free! Well, that is after you purchase a domain name and hosting company. You have to purchase those things anyway if you are starting a home internet business. Many people, especially the ones starting out now are basically getting involved with home businesses because of the economy and a fixed income that is becoming not sufficient to meet their needs. I began looking at SEO to get my business opportunity leads because of situations like I just described.
The second reason is the targeted traffic you receive!
Search engines like Google make their money from advertising. People more and more often are usingsearch engine advertising by either looking for a specific item, product, or service...or selling that item, product, or service through the internet. Those numbers whatever they might be are going to continue growing rapidly. it is more conducive for people to do business at home, especially with the cost of fuel these days.
Because people are using keyword search phrases to find what they are looking for, and they end up clicking on your link..."You are getting business opportunity leads looking specifically for what you have!!".
These are the highest of quality leads you can get for your business opportunity!
Why should you do this now? SEO is (like everything else) going to be more competitive in the future to grab certain keyword phrases. The one thing about search engine optimization you need to know..."You have to be in the first page of the search engines for your specific keyword phrase"!
Why?
Think about it..How many times while searching for something on the internet do you go looking for something that is on (for example) page eleven for your search term?. Not very often!
Sure you might get some traffic on page two or three but generally speaking, you have ten spots on the front page or you lose! That is the bad thing about SEO, there is not much middle ground.
All in all, targeted traffic using SEO gives you the highest quality of business opportunity leads and can make whatever you are involved in powerful!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Thinking About Hiring Someone For SEO...Why You Should Be Careful?
I do SEO...for myself, friends, and those who I am working with to generate business opportunity leads to our web sites! I know enough to get by but I do not consider myself a guru on the subject. In doing SEO (search engine optimization), I do a good bit of article writing. From time to time, I will find my articles have been scraped (content removed) and placed on someone elses' web site. The people who do this should be giving me a link back but they do not...they are stealing!
I know this goes on all of the time and I really do not do anything about it. I recently had an article scraped "by" an SEO company which to me is very unethical and tells me they probably do not know their SEO. The fact is, there are a number of illegitimate SEO businesses out there that do "not" know what they are doing!
The purpose of this writing this is just really to make you aware! There are good SEO companies and some "not" so good. Over time, the more I learn and know about SEO, I am discovering that there are "many" internet businesses that are trying to sell themselves to do your SEO which in all reality, "Do Not Have A Clue"!!
When I began writing this, I planned on gearing it for more experienced network marketers. If you have been doing network marketing for awhile, you probably will be able to spot these unethical SEO companies or individuals. Following are some things you can look out for if your thinking about hiring out to do your SEO because you just might end up spending thousands and never see legitimate business opportunity leads coming to your web site!
I could go to someones' site and start by looking at title tags and description. I could check the source code on their web site which (by the way), is right clicking with your mouse on the specific web site and then clicking on view source. The reason you might want to look at these things is because, if they are doing SEO, their web site (you would think) should be optimized for SEO! Most people though (if they know about these things) probably have the knowledge to do SEO themselves!
Let us assume you are fairly new to SEO and you are looking for a good company. You would research the company or individual like you would anything else. Check on the internet for reviews or scams. Call these companies up! If they show you keywords and keyword phrases they have already obtained for business opportunity leads and they are "crap", hang up and leave. Look for something else!
What do I mean by "Crap"?
Some of these people will try to "snow" you by telling you they have their names at the top of the search engines or they might give you a keyword phrase they have obtained. Call them out on this and do a search on the internet for those specific keywords. You can look at the top right of that bar that is above your search results to see how much competition the keyword or phrase has!
Heck...I can get all the keywords or keyword phrases I want just by writing an article or two. Because there is no competition for them, they are probably worthless phrases in getting business opportunity leads!
A good SEO team should be able to provide plenty of results and statistics to prove out their merit!
As I began this article, I mentioned an SEO company that stole my material. I looked at their web site and they did have a good title tag. After that, it was all a joke! I even tried to leave a comment about my article and it would not work! I did find where they have hacked and slashed a good number of my articles and placed them on their site. After reviewing everything though, these guys are not going to the top of any search engines in my lifetime! They are wasting their time. Make sure that if you hire out, the SEO company (or individual) is not wasting your time as well!!
Getting high quality business opportunity leads for you specific niche to your web site is what network
marketing is all about. To make money on the internet...traffic is a must and the more, the better!
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Business Opportunity Leads...How Should You Design Your Web Site For SEO?
If you are doing SEO (Search engine optimization) to drive business opportunity leads to your web site...just what exactly should you do to optimize it to get better rankings?
Is nothing an answer?
Well, yes it is! I really should not say nothing! If you want to be successful in getting to the top of the search engines (or should I just say Google), all you really need to do is concentrate on marketing and designing your web site as if search engines do not exist!
Well yes, you do need to be keyword smart and aware of how SEO works because you are trying to drive business opportunity leads to your web site. But really, if you have concentrated on what keyword phrases in your niche that people would use to find your site, you for the most part just want to concentrate on your content..."Content is King"!
One point I want to make is that if you design and market your web site thinking only about your visitors, you are actually doing the best thing you can do for SEO!
You should design your site to be somewhat rich in the keyword phrases you are pursuing.
You do want to stay away from using flash and Javascript too much as they cannot be crawled by search engines!
You do want to make your site a pleasing experience to whomever lands there and have good functionality to get around it. People do not want to try and figure out what to click on to get from one place to another or they will leave!
SEO is one thing but marketing is another. If my web site is at the top of the search engines for a keyword phrase that you searched for, you then click my link and land on my site...If you are not attracted to my site, you will leave!! What good did it do for me to use SEO and drive traffic to my business opportunity if you are all leaving! They say it takes seven seconds for a person to make up their mind whether or not they like a web site! The design and functionality of your web site is very important!
The point I want to make, is that Google is not your enemy! They are in the business of search engine advertising. They have one hundred or so algorithms to determine what sites should be ranked higher than others. If you are active and providing good original content and are very patient, you will succeed!
If you are starting your SEO journey, know that it takes time. Getting a brand new web site up to the top for certain keyword phrases can take "quite" a bit of time. There are algorithms in place to ensure that!
When it comes down to marketing, there are many things you can do. I do believe however that if the design of your web site attracts visitors and you are active doing things all of the time with your content, you will do fine!
Do not be tricky with your SEO...concentrate on your design and marketing for your "visitors"! Everything else will be there! Converting business opportunity leads to customers is what this is all about!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Why Should You Concentrate On Google For Your SEO?
If you have been around network marketing using the internet for some time, you eventually figure out that driving highly targeted business opportunity leads to your web site using SEO (search engine optimization) is the way to go! Why should you only care about getting that top page for your keyword phrase in Google?
Google has a reported 75% of all search engine advertising. Yahoo commands between 11% and 15% of competitive search engine advertising. The two recently made a deal that would share resources. I am not sure what all of that entails other than the fact that Google would now have around 90% of the search market.
In my own experience with SEO (search engine optimization) using keyword phrases, getting to the top spot in search engines other than Google has drawn little to no traffic already.
Now what is going to happen?
Microsoft is challenging the agreement believing this creates a juggernaut. Google already was!
Regardless with whatever happens in the Google Yahoo deal, if you are getting started with SEO, you should have already been spending your time in pleasing Googles' search engine. Yahoo, MSN, and all of the others combined are not even worth messing with! Doing the work it takes to get to the top of a keyword phrase search is free and...you are driving highly targeted business opportunity leads to your web site.
Avoid handing over your hard earned money to all of those scam lead selling companies out there! Leads generated via SEO is the way to go! These are the kinds of leads that will make your business opportunity successful!
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Business Opportunity Leads...I Have A New Name For Scammers Selling Leads! Check It Out!
You know what? I thoroughly enjoy calling people who sell bogus business opportunity leads a name like "scammer". It is like road rage in a way in which someone will yell obscenities at you "from" the protection of their car. These same people would not dare do what they do if it is face to face. In such a way, I am able to call people names from the comfort of my home. The word scammer though does not seem like much of an insult.
I have got a suggestion for a new name though. Just an idea to banter around!
How about the word...Vermin?
Vermin is a term applied to various animal species that are regarded as pests or nuisances especially ones that are carrying diseases of some type. You think it would make someone angry if I called them a "vermin selling leads"?
I also looked up "varmints" because I thought it was singular for vermin. Turns out it that it means to raid instead of infest. This is usually used in describing an attack on a farm or farm land.
I did find out though that a varmint can "become" a vermin if introduced to a location or place in which it has no natural enemies. Yep! That does it! I am going to start referring scammers selling leads as "vermin" and the individual nasties in those companies "varmints".
I know this is probably not going to go anywhere but it is fun to write! At least at home I will refer to the people who are selling worthless business opportunity leads and robbing folks of their hard earned money as "vermin".
Using SEO (search engine optimization) is the way to go to drive the highest level business opportunity leads to your web site! Do not ever buy leads..especially from vermin!!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Keyword Phrases By Getting Inside The Minds Of Your Opportunity Leads!
If you need to come up with keyword phrases for SEO (search engine optimization) to drive targeted business opportunity leads to your site...Why is key word phrase popularity not enough? You really need to think about your potential leads and give thought to what they might use to search for what you have! A few things to consider.
The first thing is..What are the "specifics" of what you are offering?
There are various tools you can find on the internet to look up the popularity of specific phrases. What they do not show though is the relationship of the most popular term and just exactly what you are doing. They do and they do not!
Let me explain!
A good broad category is home improvement. I did a search in Google and it came up with nearly 82 million results. Probably too broad a category but it does show what I am talking about. Specifically, you can break your targeted business opportunity leads down quite a bit from here. Home improvement "projects" which is an extension has 12 million results. I just wanted to show you an example. You can break things down much further than this but you always have to keep in mind...Just what is it that your specific leads would type in the search engine to find you!
What is the motivation of your potential customer or business opportunity lead?
This really depends on what you are selling! Are we talking about saving money or maybe education? Maybe a service that can be provided! Maybe we are talking about saving energy which would be both education and possibly saving money! You see where I am going with this?
In Getting highly targeted business opportunity leads for your specific niche, you need to think how your potential customers would think and what words they might use in their search!
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Business Opportunity Leads - Scammers Selling Leads - Man Oh Man!
Got another email suggesting I could buy 50 thousand leads for $7.00 dollars as they have a surplus. Very tempting for me at one time! I will say that again. I can buy 50 THOUSAND business opportunity leads for $7.00 dollars! If I could convert just 1% of them, I will be a major earner in my MLM company or in my affiliate program, or in my niche whatever that might be! Whoo Hoo!
What if I spent $7.00 dollars once a month and received that many leads? In one year I would have received six hundred thousand leads for only $84.00 dollars and by just converting 1% of those specially targeted business opportunity leads into my organization or with sales, it would be safe to say I am freaking going to be rich!
Do not bet on this!
Getting high quality business opportunity leads for your specific niche are not obtainable at that price. The first thing you need to ask yourself is why $7.00 dollars. Many people in marketing will throw a dollar amount of less than ten dollars because people will part with that kind of money easily. The thought process is "only $7.00 dollars... no big deal... I will check it out for that"!
Another thing, how much money do you think that business is making in generating and selling leads by the bushel for that kind of money? Not hardly anything... unless... they are selling those same leads to hundreds of people... maybe even over and over!
Where are they getting all of those opportunity leads? Everybody including me has some sort of personal information out there on the web floating around from some kind of means. These lowlife scammers have their "tools" that go out there and strip that info, build it into a list, and then sell to unsuspecting honest people hoping to jump start their own business opportunity.
Generating your own leads is the best way to go... especially because the leads you generate are more than likely highly targeted leads for your specific niche. If you feel that you must buy leads, there are some lead generation companies that are ethical. In my opinion though, You will have better results learning how to do this yourself. Especially if you are in business for the long run, I feel that generating your own business opportunity leads through SEO (search engine optimization) is the way to go!
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Business Opportunity Leads...What Business Opportunity Should I get Involved With?
I was going through my email today and like every other day, I get numerous claims of how I can get tons of business opportunity leads easily and effortlessly. I will make $10,679 dollars in the next 30 days! I will average $30,000.00 dollars per month within the next six months or my money back! It goes on and on and on! If you are new to a home internet business, it is so very easy to get sucked up into one of these. What can you do about it?
I am a good one to talk about this because I fell for almost a half dozen of them. They all say and do the same things except the product is different or the money making matrix they are using is new and enhanced. The ones I tended to fall for are the ones that say people in my upline are going to build my business for me and will ensure I have a profitable income. They will be there step by step to nurture me and help my business grow!
Another pitch that hooked me when I first began, is that I just need to sign up three and then teach those three to sign up three and so on and so on! To my knowledge, this approach never ever works! It fails as soon as any of those people do not sign up anyone. This approach is usually done by creating a list of one hundred of your friends, family, and acquaitances. These people do not want to hear about your business opportunity unless you can show them the money and prove what you are doing works.
A good one that can still entice me some to this day is the business opportunity that is in "prelaunch". It is the dudes that are in pre-prelaunch that will make some money. I have been involved in several of those...each failed as far as I know! These sales people are good and even though I know better, I find some of these very tempting. In the past, I have actually been involved with multiple business opportunities not knowing what to do with any of them!!
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about how we have both been burnt in the past. If you would talk to him now though, you would know in five minutes he has got his act together with networking! I believe that the saying "wisdom comes through suffering" is a very real statement. It is almost like you need to fail some before you get a handle on what you are doing. This applies to everything in life!
Wisdom and success can be achieved much more quickly though if you can latch on to others who have already "been through the mill" so to speak.
What is the message I want to give you? Do not believe hype! If the statements that are made in regards to money and success are true, why are you being targeted so hard for a particular business opportunity? You might even run across (more often than not) a deadline. A claim is made that if action is not taken by a certain time or date, you just might miss out!
If anybody claims that you "will" make this or that or do this or that or be this or that...delete it from your sight!
My message is this...Do not just join any home based internet business opportunity...find a successful "person" who has been there and knows what they are doing...sign up with them! It is "who" you get involved with that will make or break you in getting those business opportunity leads!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Basics...Do You Know About Googles Webmaster Tools?
If you are at that point in time where you have done all it takes as far as designing your web site, choosing the correct domain name, and everything is optimized correctly for search engine optimization (SEO) to get those business opportunity leads....then maybe you need to look at Google Webmaster tools! Are you aware of them and what they can do?
Most everything I see on the internet regarding SEO almost makes Google look like the bad guy that you need to sneak around and avoid. Just the opposite though! They have many tools and documents that you can obtain to help you in your SEO quest.
I am not going to go into specifics here. This is for the newbies or maybe even more experienced marketers who were really not aware of this.
Go into Google.com home page and about a third of the way down you will see "About Google"...Click on it.
Under the column that says "For Site Owners", go to Webmaster Central...Click on it.
Bookmark that page. It is here that Google offers many things such as tools for improving your traffic, analyzing visitors, where your site is indexed, gadgets, even monetizing your website. There are other options as well. You also have help utilities and a forum where you can get help to assist you in your endeavors.
I'll be honest with you. I did not know about this for quite some time when I got involved with network marketing. It was not until a friend of mine verbally told me about this. You know what! Anything you can do, find out about and apply, is worth the time spent if it helps driving traffic to your site and you can monetize those business opportunity leads!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Scammers Selling Leads...Man Oh Man!
Got another email suggesting I could buy 50 thousand leads for $7.00 dollars as they have a surplus. Very tempting for me at one time! I will say that again. I can buy 50 THOUSAND business opportunity leads for $7.00 dollars!! If I could convert just 1% of them, I will be a major earner in my MLM company or in my affiliate program, or in my niche whatever that might be!! Whoo Hoo!
What if I spent $7.00 dollars once a month and received that many leads? In one year I would have received six hundred thousand leads for only $84.00 dollars and by just converting 1% of those specially targeted business opportunity leads into my organization or with sales, it would be safe to say I am freaking going to be rich!
Do not bet on this!!
Getting high quality business opportunity leads for your specific niche are not obtainable at that price. The first thing you need to ask yourself is why $7.00 dollars. Many people in marketing will throw a dollar amount of less than ten dollars because people will part with that kind of money easily. The thought process is "only $7.00 dollars...no big deal...I will check it out for that"!
Another thing, how much money do you think that business is making in generating and selling leads by the bushel for that kind of money? Not hardly anything..unless..they are selling those same leads to hundreds of people...maybe even over and over!
Where are they getting all of those opportunity leads? Everybody including me has some sort of personal information out there on the web floating around from some kind of means. These lowlife scammers have their "tools" that go out there and strip that info, build it into a list, and then sell to unsuspecting honest people hoping to jump start their own business opportunity.
Generating your own leads is the best way to go...especially because the leads you generate are more than likely highly targeted leads for your specific niche. If you feel that you must buy leads, there are some lead generation companies that are ethical. In my opinion though, You will have better results learning how to do this yourself. Especially if you are in business for the long run, I feel that generating your own business opportunity leads through SEO (search engine optimization) is the way to go!
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Business Opportunity Leads...The Power Of SEO! Why Use It? Why Use It Now?
There are many ways of generating business opportunity leads both ethically and unethically. Using SEO (search engine optimization) in my thought process is the way to go! It does take a lot of work in most cases to make it work. Why would you use it?
First off...it is free! Well, that is after you purchase a domain name and hosting company. You have to purchase those things anyway if you are starting a home internet business. Many people, especially the ones starting out now are basically getting involved with home businesses because of the economy and a fixed income that is becoming not sufficient to meet their needs. I began looking at SEO to get my business opportunity leads because of situations like I just described.
The second reason is the targeted traffic you receive!
Search engines like Google make their money from advertising. People more and more often are usingsearch engine advertising by either looking for a specific item, product, or service...or selling that item, product, or service through the internet. Those numbers whatever they might be are going to continue growing rapidly. it is more conducive for people to do business at home, especially with the cost of fuel these days.
Because people are using keyword search phrases to find what they are looking for, and they end up clicking on your link..."You are getting business opportunity leads looking specifically for what you have!!".
These are the highest of quality leads you can get for your business opportunity!
Why should you do this now? SEO is (like everything else) going to be more competitive in the future to grab certain keyword phrases. The one thing about search engine optimization you need to know..."You have to be in the first page of the search engines for your specific keyword phrase"!
Why?
Think about it..How many times while searching for something on the internet do you go looking for something that is on (for example) page eleven for your search term?. Not very often!
Sure you might get some traffic on page two or three but generally speaking, you have ten spots on the front page or you lose! That is the bad thing about SEO, there is not much middle ground.
All in all, targeted traffic using SEO gives you the highest quality of business opportunity leads and can make whatever you are involved in powerful!
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Business Opportunity Leads...What Exactly Is MLM And How Does It Work?
Most people who get involved with a home internet business (especially for the first time) usually get involved with an MLM! MLM stands for multilevel network marketing. Getting business opportunity leads are almost impossible for these types of businesses and I would not recommend you get into one unless you really know what your are doing. I do want to explain what they are and how they work!
First off, I have been involved with a number of these types of businesses. With MLM, it is not just about sales but about getting people to sign up under you in your matrix. A matrix is really a mathamatical formula in which you would sign up (for example) two people and place them in what are called "legs". Under these two "legs" or people would be two more legs for each. This would give you four positions and this would be the begining of the matrix for each of them! In other words, 2 becomes 4, 4 becomes 8, 8 becomes 16, 16 becomes 32, and so on. This is the same for anyone who comes into that business. The idea here is that your business matrix would grow exponentially. Matrixes vary from company to company!
Every MLM company is different in the way they pay out but usually the money comes from the sale of the products. In other words, you need to purchase product to keep your business intact. Bonuses and "levels" are usually obtained to get you into higher payouts. This is always related to how many people are signed up under you in your specific matrix. Again, payout plans vary from business to business.
Okay, as stated, payouts are based on how many people are in your organization. When I say "organization", I am talking also about what the people under you in "your" matrix have done.
This is key and what makes MLM alluring. Reciprical income can be obtained for you "yourself" based on what other people do in your organization! The more they achieve, the more "you" achieve!
What is reciprocal income or...what can be called the "law of reciprocity"? Reciprocity is in reality, the "Golden Rule". Biblically speaking, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you". Translate this into money or specifically MLM and I believe you could just use the term "duplicate".
In other words, you build your organization and those in it would duplicate what you are doing. You then earn residual income based on what everyone else is doing. This could translate into a very handsome income.
You might be confused as to why I use the terms "residual" and "reciprical". You might often hear both of these words thrown out there when it comes to MLM. Residual describes an ongoing streaming payout of money for past accomplishments where as reciprocal is the basis of MLM as you are teaching and hoping those under you in your organization are "duplicating" your efforts!
Making others successful makes you successful! While they are attractive when you first get in, many of these businesses fail because of that duplication factor or lack thereof. But that is another story! It is all about getting business opportunity leads and converting them to who buy into what you have to offer!
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Business Opportunity Leads...What Business Opportunity Should I get Involved With?
I was going through my email today and like every other day, I get numerous claims of how I can get tons of business opportunity leads easily and effortlessly. I will make $10,679 dollars in the next 30 days! I will average $30,000.00 dollars per month within the next six months or my money back! It goes on and on and on! If you are new to a home internet business, it is so very easy to get sucked up into one of these. What can you do about it?
I am a good one to talk about this because I fell for almost a half dozen of them. They all say and do the same things except the product is different or the money making matrix they are using is new and enhanced. The ones I tended to fall for are the ones that say people in my upline are going to build my business for me and will ensure I have a profitable income. They will be there step by step to nurture me and help my business grow!
Another pitch that hooked me when I first began, is that I just need to sign up three and then teach those three to sign up three and so on and so on! To my knowledge, this approach never ever works! It fails as soon as any of those people do not sign up anyone. This approach is usually done by creating a list of one hundred of your friends, family, and acquaitances. These people do not want to hear about your business opportunity unless you can show them the money and prove what you are doing works.
A good one that can still entice me some to this day is the business opportunity that is in "prelaunch". It is the dudes that are in pre-prelaunch that will make some money. I have been involved in several of those...each failed as far as I know! These sales people are good and even though I know better, I find some of these very tempting. In the past, I have actually been involved with multiple business opportunities not knowing what to do with any of them!!
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about how we have both been burnt in the past. If you would talk to him now though, you would know in five minutes he has got his act together with networking! I believe that the saying "wisdom comes through suffering" is a very real statement. It is almost like you need to fail some before you get a handle on what you are doing. This applies to everything in life!
Wisdom and success can be achieved much more quickly though if you can latch on to others who have already "been through the mill" so to speak.
What is the message I want to give you? Do not believe hype! If the statements that are made in regards to money and success are true, why are you being targeted so hard for a particular business opportunity? You might even run across (more often than not) a deadline. A claim is made that if action is not taken by a certain time or date, you just might miss out!
If anybody claims that you "will" make this or that or do this or that or be this or that...delete it from your sight!
My message is this...Do not just join any home based internet business opportunity...find a successful "person" who has been there and knows what they are doing...sign up with them! It is "who" you get involved with that will make or break you! This whole game is about acquiring business opportunity leads and converting them to sales or customers.
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Business Opportunity Leads...Basics...Do You Know About Googles Webmaster Tools?
If you are at that point in time where you have done all it takes as far as designing your web site, choosing the correct domain name, and everything is optimized correctly for search engine optimization (SEO) to get those business opportunity leads....then maybe you need to look at Google Webmaster tools! Are you aware of them and what they can do?
Most everything I see on the internet regarding SEO almost makes Google look like the bad guy that you need to sneak around and avoid. Just the opposite though! They have many tools and documents that you can obtain to help you in your SEO quest.
I am not going to go into specifics here. This is for the newbies or maybe even more experienced marketers who were really not aware of this.
Go into Google.com home page and about a third of the way down you will see "About Google"...Click on it.
Under the column that says "For Site Owners", go to Webmaster Central...Click on it.
Bookmark that page. It is here that Google offers many things such as tools for improving your traffic, analyzing visitors, where your site is indexed, gadgets, even monetizing your website. There are other options as well. You also have help utilities and a forum where you can get help to assist you in your endeavors.
I'll be honest with you. I did not know about this for quite some time when I got involved with network marketing. It was not until a friend of mine verbally told me about this. You know what! Anything you can do, find out about and apply, is worth the time spent if it helps driving traffic to your site and you can monetize those business opportunity leads!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Internet Statistics Are All Wrong When it Comes to Marketing!
Originally, when I first began learning about network marketing, I found it can be overwhelming! The more I learned though, it became obvious to me that to obtain business opportunity leads...SEO is the way to go! SEO by the way is short for "search engine optimization". Over time, I kept hearing and reading that 95% to 97% of all internet marketers fail. After doing SEO for some time now, I believe those numbers are worse than that!
There are several things you can look at or observe over time but I believe that in reality..."there is much less than 1% of everyone out there doing the internet thing that are making money"!!
Why would I say that?
There are several things through observation over time that leads me to say that. First of all, it is fairly apparent that if you are doing SEO on a daily basis, you will experience this first hand! I am not talking about killing yourself here. If you put out content for whatever keyword phrase you are going for on an almost daily basis. I believe you can get within the first 100 pages in Google for your search term.
You might be thinking "big deal" but look at it this way. Let us say you are going for a search term that Google shows as having over 45 million sites. If you are in the top 100 pages, at ten listings per page, you are in the top 1000! Think about this again. Over 45 MILLION web site listings...you are in the top 1000!!
Do SEO for a keyword phrase that only has one million sites listed and again, if you know somewhat how to do SEO, you will be in the top 50 pages within a month!
Obviously, you do need to know what you are doing with basic SEO. Also, a portion of those websites are using other means to get traffic for their business opportunity leads. They might be using social networking, something viral, or whatever but this brings up another point.
If you go and take a look at many of those web sites, you can tell by looking that they do not know what they are doing! If you know what you are looking for internally on a given web site, you can do a right click on their site and view their source code. It will be apparent that it is all wrong.
Why would I bring up this number thing?
It makes you pause and think about what all could be wrong with network marketing...that so many people get involved with it only to lose time and money. Maybe those that "do" understand how to market are doing a disservice to others by bringing them in. Getting business opportunity leads and following up with them is one thing, doing all we can to help them succeed is another!
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Business Opportunity Leads - Internet Statistics Are All Wrong When it Comes to Marketing!
Originally, when I first began learning about network marketing, I found it can be overwhelming! The more I learned though, it became obvious to me that to obtain business opportunity leads...SEO is the way to go! SEO by the way is short for "search engine optimization". Over time, I kept hearing and reading that 95% to 97% of all internet marketers fail. After doing SEO for some time now, I believe those numbers are worse than that!
There are several things you can look at or observe over time but I believe that in reality..."there is much less than 1% of everyone out there doing the internet thing that are making money"!!
Why would I say that?
There are several things through observation over time that leads me to say that. First of all, it is fairly apparent that if you are doing SEO on a daily basis, you will experience this first hand! I am not talking about killing yourself here. If you put out content for whatever keyword phrase you are going for on an almost daily basis. I believe you can get within the first 100 pages in Google for your search term.
You might be thinking "big deal" but look at it this way. Let us say you are going for a search term that Google shows as having over 45 million sites. If you are in the top 100 pages, at ten listings per page, you are in the top 1000! Think about this again. Over 45 MILLION web site listings...you are in the top 1000!!
Do SEO for a keyword phrase that only has one million sites listed and again, if you know somewhat how to do SEO, you will be in the top 50 pages within a month!
Obviously, you do need to know what you are doing with basic SEO. Also, a portion of those websites are using other means to get traffic for their business opportunity leads. They might be using social networking, something viral, or whatever but this brings up another point.
If you go and take a look at many of those web sites, you can tell by looking that they do not know what they are doing! If you know what you are looking for internally on a given web site, you can do a right click on their site and view their source code. It will be apparent that it is all wrong.
Why would I bring up this number thing?
It makes you pause and think about what all could be wrong with network marketing...that so many people get involved with it only to lose time and money. Maybe those that "do" understand how to market are doing a disservice to others by bringing them in. Getting business opportunity leads and following up with them is one thing, doing all we can to help them succeed is another!
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Business opportunity leads...One of the things you will definitely spend much time doing, is writing content...specifically article writing! When you submit your article to an article directory, just make sure it has a page rank of six or above! Quality article directories with the high page rank have search engines like Google and others regularly visiting their sites. Because they visit regularly, they often reindex the site (take a picture of it). If your article with your link is shown, once they get done crawling the article site, they will be spidering your web site.
Easy as that! Submit your articles to several high page rank article directory sites and you will get listed...probably that day! If you are doing SEO, you are writing articles anyway!
If you know someone who is getting ready to submit their web site, show them this. Maybe it will save them time and or money! Attracting business opportunity leads is what this is all about!
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Business Opportunity Leads....Know A Neat Way To Get Listed In The Search Engines Quickly?
There are multiple ways to get listed in search engines such as Google. You can go to each search engine and manually get your site listed. This could take four to eight weeks though before they come around to spider your site..if that! There is the theory that you can go ahead and work on your content and search engines will eventually find you. Never know when that can happen though!
There are other things you can do but they are insignificant. Some people will even pay some search engine expert to get their site listed...big waste of money and the person doing it should be ashamed of themselves. Well, I do not know if I should say that! There are many ways in life in which we could save money if we just had the knowledge on how to do those particular things. Anyway...
Getting search engines to list and rank your web site can take quite some time. If you want that early start though to use SEO (search engine optimization) and start driving traffic to your business opportunity, here is something you can do which works every time. I know because I tested this out and it works great! It not only works great but often the same day to get those business opportunity leads!
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Business opportunity leads...Why? Very few people can sign up one or two or even three using this method. None of these people went to college for four years and have a degree in talking people into opting into their business opportunity.
Most if not all MLM businesses offer ways in which you can purchase leads. If you could not talk your brother or sister into opting in with you...what do you think your chances are of talking strangers into signing up?
Zip..Ditto..Nil..Natta!
What kind or quality of leads are you receiving? No way of knowing but probably not good!
Now, most if not all MLM businesses do give you a web site or two and they (generally speaking) are very good at "selling" your business opportunity. The problem here though is that you can not change anything on the web site to optimize it for search engine optimization!
Here is what you have to do!
You need to purchase a domain name. Then, purchase the resources you need through a hosting company in which you could design your own web site! The reason for this is because you "can" optimize that web site for search engine optimization! This web site will become a landing page in which you could direct those business opportunity leads to the web sites that you were given for use in your MLM! Those sites are already designed to get your leads to sign up and you can make use of them for that purpose.
In my mind, SEO is the way to go if you want to build a business. In an MLM or any other type on
internet business, if you want to generate business opportunity leads, you must have a web site that you have control of and a place to direct your traffic!
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Business Opportunity Leads - In an MLM? Why You Still Need SEO to Get Business Opportunity Leads? It is one thing to do SEO (search engine optimization) by generating content through article writing, press releases, posting to blogs, or whatever. It is another thing though on where you direct those business opportunity leads! Traffic can be obtained but where do you send it?
Most if not all MLM businesses will have you approach friends, family members, or acquaintances with the hope that you will sign up some of them. The story you are told is that if you sign up three and they each sign up three, and "they" each sign up three, so on and so on, you will quickly build your business and gets lots of business opportunity leads!
This NEVER works!
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Business Opportunity Leads...What My Cat And Some Lead Generation Companies Have In Common!
I recently heard a story about someone who bought leads and during a phone call to one of them...found out that it was a young girl. Whether true or not, I believe things like that happen all of the time. This is an analogy between a cat that my family has had for years and some lead generation companies.
My daughter has an autistic fat white cat named Mia whom she has had for over 16 years. I say fat but in reality, she has suffered with anorexia for almost a whole year now. She pukes out what she eats almost on a daily basis. She was freaking huge most of her life but now, she is fairly thin with hanging skin that almost touches the floor when she walks.
I say she is autistic but she might just be eccentric. I have seen her stick her paw in her mouth to throw up, have known that she is into reality TV in a big way, and noticed over time that she does like reading the newspaper when she is laying on it.
As she has gotten older, she has been urinating on the carpet quite a bit. We recently got a new kitten who slept with my daughter for a few nights. Big white, of all places in the house, puked in one of my daughters shoes...of all the places in our home, she picked that shoe. I am sure there was malice in her heart when she did that!
You know how people later on in life as they get older either become very caring and nice people or mean with no tolerance? Big white went the latter!
Okay, I am done talking about the cat. What does that have to do with some lead generation companies?
These people selling bogus leads as a living to part you from your own hard earned money have all of the traits of our family cat! They are probably autistic. That is "not" a bad thing by itself. For these people though, I relate it to being very very good at what they do as they "can" get leads from whatever means. They are just irresponsible doing it! I do not want to make one on one comparisons with the other things I described above as it would just be gross.
As far as all other comparisons I mention above with certain lead companies, let us just say that these people have a very low self esteem problem or...Why would they sell bogus leads that they themselves have not verified to others? Most people who purchase from them are new or still finding their way with network marketing.
What kind of person or entity does this? While this in no way attacks all lead generation companies as there are sound ones out there, I do believe they should answer to a higher power and be held accountable for what they are doing.
This article for the most part was done tongue in cheek so to speak. Generating and obtaining quality business opportunity leads though is so essential for your business...Why leave this critical step to someone else? Generating your own business opportunity leads is your only option!
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Business opportunity leads...First off, I have been involved with a number of these types of businesses. With MLM, it is not just about sales but about getting people to sign up under you in your matrix. A matrix is really a mathamatical formula in which you would sign up (for example) two people and place them in what are called "legs". Under these two "legs" or people would be two more legs for each. This would give you four positions and this would be the begining of the matrix for each of them! In other words, 2 becomes 4, 4 becomes 8, 8 becomes 16, 16 becomes 32, and so on. This is the same for anyone who comes into that business. The idea here is that your business matrix would grow exponentially. Matrixes vary from company to company!
Every MLM company is different in the way they pay out but usually the money comes from the sale of the products. In other words, you need to purchase product to keep your business intact. Bonuses and "levels" are usually obtained to get you into higher payouts. This is always related to how many people are signed up under you in your specific matrix. Again, payout plans vary from business to business. Business opportunity leads.
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Business Opportunity Leads...What Exactly Is MLM And How Does It Work?
Most people who get involved with a home internet business (especially for the first time) usually get involved with an MLM! MLM stands for multilevel network marketing. Getting business opportunity leads are almost impossible for these types of businesses and I would not recommend you get into one unless you really know what your are doing. I do want to explain what they are and how they work! It is important for getting business opportunity leads.
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Business opportunity leads...Another pitch that hooked me when I first began, is that I just need to sign up three and then teach those three to sign up three and so on and so on! To my knowledge, this approach never ever works! It fails as soon as any of those people do not sign up anyone. This approach is usually done by creating a list of one hundred of your friends, family, and acquaitances. These people do not want to hear about your business opportunity unless you can show them the money and prove what you are doing works.
A good one that can still entice me some to this day is the business opportunity that is in "prelaunch". It is the dudes that are in pre-prelaunch that will make some money. I have been involved in several of those...each failed as far as I know! These sales people are good and even though I know better, I find some of these very tempting. In the past, I have actually been involved with multiple business opportunities not knowing what to do with any of them!!
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about how we have both been burnt in the past. If you would talk to him now though, you would know in five minutes he has got his act together with networking! I believe that the saying "wisdom comes through suffering" is a very real statement. It is almost like you need to fail some before you get a handle on what you are doing. This applies to everything in life!
Wisdom and success can be achieved much more quickly though if you can latch on to others who have already "been through the mill" so to speak.
What is the message I want to give you? Do not believe hype! If the statements that are made in regards to money and success are true, why are you being targeted so hard for a particular business opportunity? You might even run across (more often than not) a deadline. A claim is made that if action is not taken by a certain time or date, you just might miss out!
If anybody claims that you "will" make this or that or do this or that or be this or that...delete it from your sight!
My message is this...Do not just join any home based internet business opportunity...find a successful "person" who has been there and knows what they are doing...sign up with them! It is "who" you get involved with that will make or break you! Good luck with those business opportunity leads!
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Business Opportunity Leads...What Business Opportunity Should I get Involved With?
I was going through my email today and like every other day, I get numerous claims of how I can get tons of business opportunity leads easily and effortlessly. I will make $10,679 dollars in the next 30 days! I will average $30,000.00 dollars per month within the next six months or my money back! It goes on and on and on! If you are new to a home internet business, it is so very easy to get sucked up into one of these. What can you do about it?
I am a good one to talk about this because I fell for almost a half dozen of them. They all say and do the same things except the product is different or the money making matrix they are using is new and enhanced. The ones I tended to fall for are the ones that say people in my upline are going to build my business for me and will ensure I have a profitable income. They will be there step by step to nurture me and help my business grow and get business opportunity leads.
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Business Opportunity Leads - What Is Your Target Group For Your Lead Generation?
I have seen this happen on many occasions from friends and family who have gotten involved with a home based business opportunity. This is something that most people do not really think about but I can guarantee you that if you are doing this - you are wasting your time!
In writing articles, I have been (for the most part) gearing them for people who have some experience in internet marketing. What I want to reveal here is the #1 reason why people who are new or relatively inexperienced get frustrated and quit their business opportunity before they even get going. Heck, this happens to people who have "had" some limited success with their business. This is a very big reason why they say that 95-97% of all internet and home based businesses fail.
You Are Talking To The Wrong People!
You are talking to friends and family and trying to get them involved with your business opportunity? Forget it! It will not work! You might have some success if they want to help and support you. In time though, most will drop out. You yourself are probably already thinking about quiting. It can be a very frustrating thing trying to "talk" people into doing what you are doing. Most if not all people don't like being sold to anyway!
If you are involved with a home based internet business, do you not think the best people to talk to are those who have been or already "are" involved with network marketing? That is your target market! Why? They already believe they can make money working from home. They already believe in the concept! They already have some apptitude for it.
Again, this was written to state the obvious. For many though (including me at one time) it is not!
If you are now involved or are planning to get involved with a business opportunity, know that it is a job and it takes work. With the internet, there is an abundance of business opportunity seekers. If you know what you are doing, these are the people you should be looking for - they are your target group! Please leave your friends and family alone! They will thank you for it! Good luck with those business opportunity leads!
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Business opportunity leads...Here is what you should do. I always put my keywords into the very first part of my title. Maybe it looks dumb, I do not know and I do not care! It works! That is what Google likes! With the rest of the title, you should try and find some way to include one or more of those keywords if you can. Know that there are words that Google calls "stop words" which they always pass over. These are basic words like "an", the", "a",...you get the picture. They are your very common filler type words. By knowing this though, you can maybe have keywords seperated by stop words and come up with a good title and a variation of your keyword phrase! Obviously for emails, you would not need to include keywords.
Use start words like who, what , when, where, or why! People respond to these because they consciously know they are going to be shown something or presented with something new. You can use what are called "magic" words. These are words that subconsciously almost force someone to open your email, post, or article. I could give you a list of the best of these words but in all fairness, I seldom use them. You can however, find them in any newspaper, magazine, or any other medium on a daily basis. You are bombarded with them all of the time. Just keep your mind open to what attracts you! You will soon have your list of magic words that you can use. Hint: The above word "magic" or "magically" is one of them!
I am not an expert by any means but I do know that most of my articles go within the top five to ten pages of the search term I am focused on. That is by using titles like the one above which has business opportunity leads in it! If I can do it, I know for sure you can as well!
A good place to be and learn is at http://businessopportunitycoop.com/
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Business Opportunity Leads...How Should You Phrase Your Titles For Lead Generation?
Whether you are writing articles, posting blogs, creating press releases, email, or whatever to gather business opportunity leads...What are you putting into your title? There are three schools of thought on this. One is that you might be using your content for SEO (Search engine optimization). The other is that your content is genuine and offers something to the reader that they might find interesting or valuable. This by itself is very important for name recognition and if done right, you will be known as an authority in your particular area of expertise. The third (which I do not believe in) is making sales letters. However, I am not going to get into that in this article.
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Business opportunity leads...Use start words like who, what , when, where, or why! People respond to these because they consciously know they are going to be shown something or presented with something new. You can use what are called "magic" words. These are words that subconsciously almost force someone to open your email, post, or article. I could give you a list of the best of these words but in all fairness, I seldom use them. You can however, find them in any newspaper, magazine, or any other medium on a daily basis. You are bombarded with them all of the time. Just keep your mind open to what attracts you! You will soon have your list of magic words that you can use. Hint: The above word "magic" or "magically" is one of them!
I am not an expert by any means but I do know that most of my articles go within the top five to ten pages of the search term I am focused on. That is by using titles like the one above! If I can do it, I know for sure you can as well and you will have plenty of business opportunity leads.
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Business opportunity leads...Before I begin, know that this is so very important! this is the first thing Google looks at for SEO and the title is the first thing that your viewers look at. They are going to either look or pass that article by...and all within a few seconds.
Just what should be in your title?
You want it all! You want that name recognition because what many people do not understand, most people sign up or buy into a business because of YOU! It has nothing to do with the business. SEO is very important as well. Do you know that at least 85% of all people who access a web site on a daily basis, do so because they were looking for something using keyword phrases in a search engine like Google! That is a big number!!
Here is what you should do. I always put my keywords into the very first part of my title. Maybe it looks dumb, I do not know and I do not care! It works! That is what Google likes! With the rest of the title, you should try and find some way to include one or more of those keywords if you can. Know that there are words that Google calls "stop words" which they always pass over. These are basic words like "an", the", "a",...you get the picture. They are your very common filler type words. By knowing this though, you can maybe have keywords seperated by stop words and come up with a good title and a variation of your keyword phrase! Obviously for emails, you would not need to include keywords. Business opportunity leads.
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Designing A Website To Send Your Business Opportunity Leads?
So you are building your internet business and you're finding out that it can be extremely complicated. The learning curve is very high expecially if this is fairly new to you. Now you need to build a website to capture your business opportunity leads and if you are like me, it can be a real struggle. If you do a search on the internet, there are many free html tools out there to build that web site. There are even WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) programs that are free that will build them for you. I downloaded several of them and I still ran into all kinds of problems - you still have to know something about the code.
I struggled for literally several months working on building a web site. Not to mention, I'm the kind of person who wants everything to be perfect.
That's when a good friend of mine told me about Wordpress which is what millions of people are using for blogging. That was all good and dandy but I needed to design a web site where I have a main theme and I needed many "pages" related to the theme but under different topics. I needed that content to always be there and remain "static", never changing. To my good fortune, Wordpress can do this through the use of plugins. As a matter of fact, there are many hundreds of plugins to address all of your needs.
If you are building a web site, take my advice and scrap the html. With Wordpress, there are thousands of existing templates to pick and choose from and you can have your website built literally in minutes. The plugins (whatever you decide to use to modify your website load just as quickly. Other than placing your content into the web site, you are ready to start driving those business opportunity leads to your business.
One word of caution though. Not all templates are compatible with the various plugins and widgets available. Oh, widgets are plugins but they are used for your sidebars or columns. I ran into problems with some of the templates in this regard. If you decide to use Wordpress, check reviews on the template(s) you are looking at to make sure there are no reported problems. Good luck driving those business opportunity leads to your site!
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Business opportunity leads...These people selling bogus leads as a living to part you from your own hard earned money have all of the traits of our family cat! They are probably autistic. That is "not" a bad thing by itself. For these people though, I relate it to being very very good at what they do as they "can" get leads from whatever means. They are just irresponsible doing it! I do not want to make one on one comparisons with the other things I described above as it would just be gross.
As far as all other comparisons I mention above with certain lead companies, let us just say that these people have a very low self esteem problem or...Why would they sell bogus leads that they themselves have not verified to others? Most people who purchase from them are new or still finding their way with network marketing.
What kind of person or entity does this? While this in no way attacks all lead generation companies as there are sound ones out there, I do believe they should answer to a higher power and be held accountable for what they are doing.
This article for the most part was done tongue in cheek so to speak. Generating and obtaining quality business opportunity leads though is so essential for your business...Why leave this critical step to someone else? Generating your own business opportunity leads is your only option!
A good place to be and learn is at http://businessopportunitycoop.com/
(read more)Business Opportunity Leads
Business Opportunity Leads...What My Cat And Some Lead Generation Companies Have In Common!
I recently heard a story about someone who bought leads and during a phone call to one of them...found out that it was a young girl. Whether true or not, I believe things like that happen all of the time. This is an analogy between a cat that my family has had for years and some lead generation companies.
My daughter has an autistic fat white cat named Mia whom she has had for over 16 years. I say fat but in reality, she has suffered with anorexia for almost a whole year now. She pukes out what she eats almost on a daily basis. She was freaking huge most of her life but now, she is fairly thin with hanging skin that almost touches the floor when she walks.
Business opportunity leads
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Business Opportunity Leads...The Basics...What Is SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?
From the time I set out to learn what I could about network marketing, it became crystal clear to me that using search engine optimization (SEO) is the only way to go. Yes, there are other options out there to obtain business opportunity leads but SEO is at the top of my list. It just makes sense that people are browsing the internet and actually looking at what I might have to offer. Are those high quality leads or what!
Over time, in talking to others individually or writing articles about SEO, it is also clear that many people involved in network marketing do not know what SEO even is! I state this fact over and over whenever I write about anything...the fact that 95-97% of all people who have a home based internet business fail! The reason is because they do not know what they are doing! I know...I was there once!
I am giving the simple explanation for those who might have heard the term but do not know what it is!
I can tell you right now that, even though I do not know you, I know (if you have accessed the internet with a computer) you have browsed the internet using Microsoft Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, or some other means. Maybe you were looking for a CD, book, or a specific function you need to perform like working on your car! When you did a search using Google or some other browser, you typed in specific keywords to get the best matching results specifically for what you were looking for. A page came up with web sites and an internet address specific for each one that you could click on with your mouse. There are usually many other pages matching your search term that follow.
It is on that first page that you are wanting to position your web site. You yourself are not going to scan through dozens of search pages when there probably is a site somewhere at the beginning of your search that fits your needs! The bulk of those web sites that are not close to the top page of a search term are not making money.
This is what SEO is about! Using keyword phrases that many other people would use to do searches with and being on that first page where the bulk of the traffic is going to be. Getting top positioning can make any business opportunity successful! It is a simple plan and while learning how SEO works and applying it takes some work, the results can be incredible!
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Business opportunity leads...We all tend to blame others for our own actions! Following is the quick list of the pros and cons of having a home based internet business. If you are thinking about getting involved in a business, you should look at the big picture before doing so. The good side of having a business is self explanatory and I am just noting the one thing that comes to mind. It is the cons that you should give much thought too! I can tell you this, most people when they are trying to recruit or sell to you are not going to spell out the negative aspects of having a business. In fact, they will gloss things over and tell you unbelievable things in order to get you to commit. If you get anything out of this article, when you come across these types...just politely tell them you are not interested and go on.
The pluses come down to one thing...supplementing your income or even replacing it. You do good with your business and make lots of money, all of the things you are told about anytime a business opportunity is presented to you can happen.
The cons actually come down to just a few things. You can not just sign up and hope something will happen or that your upline will make you rich, you have to apply yourself, roll up your sleeves and work on it...daily. No matter what you are told, you have to take initiative to learn that business. Because it is something you have not done before, you also need to spend time and effort in training yourself and (later on) others about this business you are in.
If you do things right and have an understanding of what it takes before getting involved with any opportunity, you should go for it. There is more than enough reason to believe you will have success. Having your own business is one of the few ways I know of where you can create a better lifestyle for yourself. If you do not feel as you can give it the time and effort needed, you just should not do it!
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Business Opportunity Leads...What Is Your Target Group For Your Lead Generation?
I have seen this happen on many occasions from friends and family who have gotten involved with a home based business opportunity. This is something that most people do not really think about but I can guarantee you that if you are doing this - you are wasting your time!
In writing articles, I have been (for the most part) gearing them for people who have some experience in internet marketing. What I want to reveal here is the #1 reason why people who are new or relatively inexperienced get frustrated and quit their business opportunity before they even get going. Heck, this happens to people who have "had" some limited success with their business. This is a very big reason why they say that 95-97% of all internet and home based businesses fail.
You Are Talking To The Wrong People!
You are talking to friends and family and trying to get them involved with your business opportunity? Forget it! It will not work! You might have some success if they want to help and support you. In time though, most will drop out. You yourself are probably already thinking about quiting. It can be a very frustrating thing trying to "talk" people into doing what you are doing. Most if not all people don't like being sold to anyway!
If you are involved with a home based internet business, do you not think the best people to talk to are those who have been or already "are" involved with network marketing? That is your target market! Why? They already believe they can make money working from home. They already believe in the concept! They already have some apptitude for it.
Again, this was written to state the obvious. For many though (including me at one time) it is not!
If you are now involved or are planning to get involved with a business opportunity, know that it is a job and it takes work. With the internet, there is an abundance of business opportunity seekers. If you know what you are doing, these are the people you should be looking for - they are your target group! Please leave your friends and family alone! They will thank you for it!
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Business Opportunity Leads...Why Do You Need To Generate Your Own Leads?
You know what? Buying leads from some outfit would sure make life easier in regards to the effort involved with generating your own business opportunity leads. This is especially true if you had "no doubt" as to the quality of leads you are receiving. But, you are always left to wonder - How did they obtain these leads?
Lead generation companies will give you maybe "ideas" of what they did to acquire those leads but can you be sure? What kind of process did they use? What did they really do to get that person to give out their personal information? Are these generic leads looking for some kind of home business to get involved with? Just too many questions that you can ask yourself.
Here is another question to ask yourself.
If I have taken my hard earned money, time, and effort to get involved with an opportunity to have my own business.....Why would I spend my hard earned money on purchasing leads?
It really doesn't make sense to do this! I'll tell you why.
If you generate your own leads, you can be sure that they are of the highest quality. You know that because they opted in to what "you" are doing and saying. They are there "specific" to what your business is about. There are various ways of generating your own leads whether you use a capture page, ads, or whatever. The other thing you can know for sure, is that the lead who signed up under you (whatever method you used) is yours and yours alone!
The life force in any business is traffic and converting some of that traffic into sales or affiliates. Getting leads for your business opportunity is essential! It is so essential, I can not think of one reason why I would rely on some entity to do this for me!
If you really want to be successful in whatever business opportunity you are involved with, it only makes sense to make the extra effort in regards to generating your own leads.
A good place to be and learn is at http://businessopportunitycoop.com/
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Business Opportunity Leads...Should you Buy Leads For Your Business Opportunity?
What I'm going to say about generating business opportunity leads is going to upset some people but...it has to be said!
You have paid out hard earned cash to get into a good business opportunity...and you have applied yourself by giving up countless hours of time learning about marketing, designing your website(s), proper sequential mailsets, hosting your account(s), setting up blogs, etc. etc. The list goes on and on! Or, maybe you are with an affiliate program and you really can not change the web site you are given. Much of the work is done for you by the parent company. There is still a huge learning curve involved with just knowing the product(s) and payplan. There is a huge learning curve in just knowing how to talk to your lead prospects!
Why Would You Ever Consider Purchasing Leads From Some Company Advertising On The Internet???
While I know that there might be good lead generating companies out there that "can" get specific leads for your niche, it is "really" "really" hard to believe someone is going to give me 50,000 or 100,000 "high quality specific for my niche" leads for around fifty bucks! I have even gotten emails from particular entities stating that they have a surplus of leads and I can acquire one "million" of them for around seven dollars!
Think about this, if someone is going to give me 50,000 leads for fifty to a hundred dollars, how many times would they have to do this for others just to make one thousand dollars for that week? Instead of you doing the math, I'll tell you - at fifty dollars a crack, they are generating one million leads for one thousand dollars. They are not making much money - are they? Greatly enhance the numbers and it is still not believable. Realistically, businesses selling leads would have to sell "millions" of leads EACH WEEK to make me believe they are making money. There is the possibility they have other revenue generating streams of income but...
Bottom line is, if they are doing this to make money, numbers do not add up!
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Business opportunity leads...Let's face it! For some years in a row now, it is getting harder and harder to pay those bills. The economy has been taking a nose dive and it did "not" just start a few months ago. The way gas prices are rising, most people are eating up 1-2 hours pay of their 8 hour day just paying for the fuel it took for them to get to work!
This year, more than at any time, people are looking at home based business opportunities using the internet to supplement or even "replace" their incomes. If you already have a home based business, now is the time to get serious about it. What about those just now signing up into something? How can you get or keep your business thriving?
Get serious as well! That is what everyone needs to do. The biggest problem in being part of a home business is generating business opportunity leads! The second problem is taking that business opportunity lead and turning them into a customer or a signup! Everything you do in a business whether it is a retail store, home internet business, or supplying a service - centers around the fact that you need customers. Most home based businesses on the internet are designed to exponentially increase your earnings by building "legs" underneath you using some form of a matrix. In "theory", this sounds good. You can build your downlines and create earnings at all levels. This works if the people under you are replicating your efforts and are growing in knowledge every day. In "reality" though, this hardly ever works because people for whatever reason - Will not Do Anything!!!!!
You can get people to sign up under you and become an affiliate if you know what you are doing. Most people want somebody else to make that effort for them and reap the rewards. This sometimes happens but for the most part, if you have a downline full of people who don't know, do not have time, or just do not put forth the effort....you will make some money but soon see your business crumble apart. This will only get worse as I mentioned earlier...the economy is taking a nose dive and more people are going to be looking at the internet to enhance their incomes. These are people who know nothing about marketing or building a business!
In order for your business opportunity to work, it is necessary to spend a good portion of your time in mentoring or training those affiliated with you! Then teaching these people to do the same. An analogy would be this: You are a retail business owner of maybe a gasoline/foodmart type store. You need five employees to run the registers, rotate stock, keeping things clean..whatever. What if those employees never get past "making coffee" and running a register? This goes on for two years! I am not going to expand on this - I'll let you think about it. You can just guess what that owner is going through. A part of this analogy is that having well trained good people under you is necessary.
So...the secret to keeping your business thriving and alive? Mentoring and Duplication! Teach your affiliates everything you know - and that includes duplicating your effort with the people "they sign up!
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Business opportunity leads...You Are A Lead For Someone's Business Opportunity...They Are Pitching...Should You Opt In?
So...let us discuss what you should do if approached about someones' business opportunity. First off, we're not talking about friends or family trying to sign you up into some home business or MLM. If we are, the answer if a resounding but polite "No". You don't really want to get involved with something like this. Sometimes they work but more often than not, they fail. For one thing, there is a limited amount of people you can connect with if your not using the internet. If you are a business opportunity lead and maybe you became that by signing up into some web site for more information....the answer is maybe. Let's go on....
There are so many rewarding things about getting involved in a home business but the one thing that will make you wilt away and fail is not having a good upline. I'm talking about the person who you sign up under. The next is the business opportunity itself! Good news is that you can turn the tables on the person trying to sign you up as well as do some research on the business itself.
When you talk to this person, they're going to immediately start pushing hard on why this business opportunity is the best. That's okay! When they are done with the pitch, ask the following questions:
How much money have you made?
How long have you been involved with this particular business?
What is your method for getting traffic to your web site?
Okay, "You" might not know anything about that last question. If they don't know what they're doing though, it "will" trip them up. If they can give good logical answers with explanations to your questions, they might be the one to do business with.
There is also the question of whether or not that particular business is any good!
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