Carl Willis

Envisioning Your Network Marketing Business

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 Ever since I was a kid I have been fascinated by military precision flight teams. Throughout the course of my life I have gotten to watch teams from the US, Canada, UK
and Italy. My favorite team to watch is the US Navy Blue Angels. The colorful aircraft and precise maneuvering still leave me with child like wonder.  So what does this have to do with your
network marketing business?  I’m glad you asked.

A number of …

The 105% Principle of Network Marketing

In a field of literally millions of internet marketers. What is it that sets you apart from everyone else? 

Let’s be honest. There are literally hundreds, if not hundreds of thousands of people promoting the same products, services or programs that you are promoting.  The majority are following the
same steps you were given when you joined your opportunity.  Most are using the same company reproduced websites that you are.  The only thing that gives you a competitive advantage is the
value that you add.  This is where the 105% principle comes …

Cash Flow in Your Network Marketing Business

I was listening to a recent webinar, when I heard a statistic that the average person stays in their network marketing business for 63 days.  The number one reason for this figure, was a lack of
cash flow in their mlm business.  Today I want to talk about the importance of cash flow if you are going to truly build a long term network marketing business.

Let me help you quickly see why cash flow is so important by using this hypothetical illustration. Joe and Sally join XYZ network marketing company, after attending an …

Choosing Good Network Marketing Companies

With so many network marketing companies to choose from, how can you make sure you are choosing a good mlm company?   As you review network marketing companies, it is important to remember
that the way a company conducts their business can either build or destroy your credibility. A bad choice in company could tarnish your reputation for years to come.

Today I want to give you a few guidelines that should help you better evaluate the network marketing companies that you may be considering:

First of all is the …

Simple Lead Generation for Network Marketing

Effective lead generation for network marketing begins with the identification of your target market. Who are the people who are most likely to be searching for your
products,services or network marketing opportunity? Once you’ve identified this group, you need to become a student of the trends, motivations and actions of this target group.

The information you glean will make the efforts for lead generation in your network marketing opportunity much more laser focused. Your lead generating resources are
far to valuable to be haphazardly deploying them, …

Blogging for Network Marketers, step 5 – Monetize your blog

In my previous posts on this series about blogging, I’ve covered choosing your domain name, setting up your blog, producing content, publicizing your blog and now I want to get to the most important
piece…how to make money from your blog.

I’m going to walk you through this using an easy to understand example. Let’s say that I am a distributor for Forever Green,
and I am wanting to focus on their O3 Weight Management product line as my primary focal product. The natural tendency would
be to …

Blogging for network marketers, step 4 – Promoting your blog

Ok, so we’ve chosen your domain, set up your blog and discussed content. Now it is time to promote your blog. 
So how do you promote your blog?  

The easy answer is to buy advertising, but I’m going to assume if you’re reading this post, you are a beginning marketer who is no rolling in the dough at this time in your life.  So I’m going
to focus on free resources that are available to you and will allow you to build a substantial business. I would also recommend you …

Blogging for Network Marketers step 3 – What to Say

In the first two steps of this series, I walked you through selecting your “virtual address.”  In the last post we talked about the blogging infrastructure and I introduced you to both free and
paid options for your blog.   Today I want to tackle the issue of content.

Content is critical to the success of your blog and its effectiveness in your marketing efforts.  This is a place where you will need to utilize the Costanza principle of marketing. The
natural inclination is to make your blog a rehashing …

Blogging for Network Marketers Step 2 – Developing the Infrastructure

Yesterday, I talked with you about determining your address.  Today I’m going to take you through the next step in the process, the development of your infrastructure.

So you’ve chosen your new domain name; for the purpose of this teaching we’ll assume that you are going to use yourname.com as the domain. You now need to set up the structure that your readers will
arrive at when they enter that domain name.   This can be accomplished using no-cost tools or paid tools.  

On the no cost …

Blogging for Network Marketers Step 1 – What’s the address?

So you’ve decided it is time to claim your piece of virtual real estate, from where you will coordinate all of your online marketing efforts.  Now it is time to choose your location.  In
cyberspace, your street address is your domain. 

Your domain choice is very critical to your marketing efforts. Telling people I live at xyzcompany.com/storefront/default.aspx?id=1234567 is not very appetizing to your prospects, neither is
xyzrep.blogspot.com.  There are basically two routes you should be taking with your domain:

  • It should either contain the keyword or felt need …