How To Pick An MLM And A Review Of Web Prosperity

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The major thrust of my teaching is for you to have your own information products, and supplement your products with complimentary affiliate marketing.

You’ll likely come across network marketing opportunities that are like affiliate marketing programs on steroids (or crack – depending on how good they really are).

You may not know this, but network marketing is kind of like a secret piggy bank for most of the internet marketers I know.

In fact, I don’t know any successful internet marketer who ISN’T also generating some of their income from this type of revenue.

So although you should focus your energy on your expertise, you’d be missing out on a potentially important stream of income if you ignore this area completely.

However, picking the wrong opportunity can wind up costing you in both time and distraction.

Today, I’d like to demonstrate the thought process I go through when looking at any network marketing opportunity. I have a few tests I put these companies through, and thought you might find it helpful. To do this, I’ll also be using a real company that is trying to become the new “It”: Web Prosperity.

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[Mailbag] Using Affiliate Marketing To Pay For Your Expenses

From the mailbag, I received this question…

I am looking for affiliates to join where the subscriptions of new members below me pays for my subscription without paying anything myself! is that possible? – Piet Venter

I love this question because it’s remarkable how many of our typical business expenses can be turned into profit centers. Web hosting, autoresponders, teleseminar services, and most mentoring programs I’ve enrolled in all have affiliate programs so that I earn more than I pay out.

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Automate Your Downline With Instant MLM Squeeze Pages

If you promote a network marketing business, or you’re open to the idea of understanding the concept that *some* legitimate network marketing companies are powerful affiliate programs, then this post is for you.

My Michigander friend, James Grandstaff is one of those quiet leaders in internet marketing who has successfully bridged the gap between IM and MLM.  For many, MLM is a four-letter word because of their experiences in getting hassled by friends and family or feeling like that’s the only way to share network marketing opportunities.

I don’t claim to be an expert in network marketing, but I do get bill-paying residual checks every month from a couple. And part of my (albeit limited) success is due to automation strategies I learned from James. Plus, I learned when I first got started in network marketing a long time ago that generating your own leads instead of paying for them from someone else was the only real way to build a profitable organization and customer base.

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The Low-Down On This Week’s Internet Marketing Products

This week and next are severely crowded. You are likely to see big name marketers promote up to 8 different things over these two weeks, and it’s extremely difficult to make sense of it all.

So you have three choices…

  • Ignore them all and stick to what you are already trying to accomplish (if you have bought anything in the last two weeks, this is the best thing to do).
  • Pick one of the new products and turn down everything else, and tune out any other product until you finish digesting and tearing through what you buy this week or next (if you are ready for something new to help you, then this is the best thing to do).
  • Pick more than one of the products, spend a lot of money, and get none of them done because it’s too hard to focus (try not to pick this one!).

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The Most Common Question: How To Get Started Quickly

From this page last night, new questioner Ray Painter asked…

“What is the fastest way to get started and see results (money) in an internet business?” — Ray

I can’t say that’s the first time I’ve heard that question. But I can say it’s one of the most important questions that I should be able to answer for you.

First, I’d say, there’s no real get rich quick scheme that I’m going to teach.

However, if you want to make some money quickly, and grow with the profits, then you have a few legitimate choices.

  1. Resell rights products
  2. Affiliate Marketing
  3. Network Marketing

Eventually you want to create and sell your own product. And truth be told you can do that really quickly, too.

But if you have no list, no product, and no clue what you want to actually create, then these are your best bet.

Now on Tuesday, I’m going to reveal a new training mini-course to help you understand the fundamentals of affiliate marketing.

I can’t say much about it, other than it involves the core truths of affiliate marketing… and you’ll definitely want to make sure you look for my email on Tuesday.

As for network marketing, you should definitely listen to the first part at least of my seminar I held last Thursday.

I did focus on a specific company during that session, but the first 25 minutes are really just about whether network marketing is right for you.

As for resell rights, there’s definitely a right and a wrong way to do this. What most people don’t understand about resell rights is the complete process you need to follow in order for you to actually start taking orders.

Most of the people selling resell rights products conveniently leave that part out, but you probably already knew that…

So I’ve got a video for you that goes through the process…



After watching this intro video, you want to learn the complete story of how to make money quicker with resell rights products, I encourage you to pick up one of my remaining in-depth training courses I created and compiled in this area. In addition the other 3 parts of the video you just watched, it includes a 3 part ebook series and several products you can “practice with”.

I’ll be taking it down after the weekend (if they last that long) to focus on what’s coming out on Tuesday.

If you know what you are doing, resell rights are a great way to get the cash flowing, and the doubting spouses off your back a bit. Then work your way towards making your own products. Once loaded, resell rights packages make a great upsell or back end offer for your own products or membership sites that you create later.

Enjoy your weekend!

Bob Jenkins
www.AskBobTheTeacher.com

p.s. Membership sites are great, too. If that’s something you are interested in, then check out www.DiscoverMembershipSites.com.

p.p.s. Got your own question? Post it to the blog below…

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BookWise And You: A Perfect Match?

Will you join me for a seminar about multiple streams of income?>> Click To Learn More

I’d like to give you a clearer picture of why network marketing should be a part of your overall business structure.

Matched to your particular passions, the right network marketing company provides you with great opportunity.

However, I’d be the first to tell you that not all network marketing companies are right for you. I’ve found several that weren’t right for me in fact.

I can also say that maybe you aren’t right for network marketing.

But you can find out which camp you belong in tonight with a free seminar.

I’ll be teaching you about BookWise, a company I’ve come to love over the last few months.

I say that with all sincerity — because the people I’ve met, the opportunities presented to me personally, and the way the founders run this company through the philosophies of enlightenment, enrichment, and empowerment.

Find out if it’s right for you tonight.

When you reserve your seat, I’ll provide you with three tools you can use right away to evaluate BookWise.

Find out more now, and reserve your seat for the seminar…

Hope to see you on the call!

Bob Jenkins
www.OurBookBusiness.com

p.s. I’ll do my best to keep the call to about 30 minutes (in case you have an engagement with the Colts and Saints), but we will have ample time for questions, too.

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“How Can I Start A List In A New Niche?”

Long time subscriber Charlie Poxon asked me this morning, “How can I start a list in a new niche?”

This question is a well-timed one actually.

I have two answers for this. One is to find the forums in that niche (Google “your topic forum”), and become an active member. Add your signature to each of your posts, and be helpful.

Make sure people see you as a trustworthy person who adds value to the community. And in your signature file, be sure to link to a squeeze page where you can give away your ezine or free report.

But what if you don’t have an ezine or free report yet….

Well, that’s why this question is so timely. I’ve been talking about MyViralSpiral for some time now, and using it since it’s 1.0 release early this year (the one I’m recommending is now 2.1).

A person who wants to start a list in their new niche has a perfect tool with MVS because it automates that process of giving away the report, and letting your new subscriber give it away, too.

Every referral that comes into the system belongs to their list AND yours.

But there’s one additional perk about MVS that I haven’t stressed, that will help Charlie and others thinking the same thing: “I don’t have the time to write a new report.”

MVS comes with 300 Private Label Rights products that you can use to break up into a subscriber newsletter, a series of articles, or use as a standalone free report.

You can see all the PLR products that come with MVS here.

Personally, I’m reworking the one on Beef Jerky recipes in order to build my list in that targeted niche, so I can build my Jerky Direct business even faster on autopilot. But with 300 to choose from, you have a lot to work with.

And if you don’t find a niche in that list that you are looking for, then simply search at Google for “your term PLR” and see what comes up.

The important thing to remember about MVS is it makes it easy, AND profitable for your subscribers to give away the reports you put into your system.

It comes pre-loaded with 6, but you can put as many in there as you want.

Be sure to watch the video from Saturday’s post to get a clear picture of how it works.

If list building is a major goal of yours, then my strongest recommendation is to grab the MyViralSpiral system for yourself. Get the free trial, test it out, then license the whole package before Tim raises the price (I know this is happening in mere days). His hosted option is great for techno-phobes, but the best option is the Silver (Tim’s support team is superb, too).

To your list building success!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. I’m hosting a call with Tim tomorrow afternoon at 4 p.m. EDT. Watch the blog for an alert — but he’ll be revealing the the strategies behind MyViralSpiral in an intense training session.

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Can A Lazy Downline Make You Money?

Can a lazy downline make you money? That’s the question that everybody in any type of multi-tiered affiliate rogram or network marketing company would love to say Yes! to.

However, most of the time, these types if income programs take a lot of hard work to build up a significant residual income.

Unfortunately most people “quit before the blessing”.

Know what I mean?

The truth is, I love network marketing, even though I don’t spend a lot of time talking about it in my newsletter.

That’s because I spend my advertising energy for network marketing with free methods, and automated systems.

I’m not a big fan of calling leads, and I’d rather record training (or share others’ recordings), than chase down my downline for one on one calls.

So in fact, you might say that I am a lazy downline for my upline.

Yet, I’ve made them a lot of money over the last couple of years.

This space isn’t enough room for me to explain all the systems that I use.

Bob And James Meet Up In 2006But I would like to share one with you. Instead of me telling you about it, though, I’m going to let my good friend and all around great guy, James Grandstaff tell you more.

Tomorrow, he’s releasing a nifty little book.

But for now, he has a free video you can check out.

Over the next week, you’ll be hearing a lot about this report, and James’ methods.

Whatever you hear, know this…

This stuff works really well, and it doesn’t require much energy to put it into action.

The results will speak for themselves.

Watch James’ Video Now…

Then, leave a comment below, and let me know what your biggest frustration is with network marketing!

– Bob

(By the way, my favorite network marketing company, in case you wanted to know: Bookwise. Check us out. )

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