Starting an online business can be a daunting task especially if you feel you do not know anything about computers, HTML, website design, or search engine optimization. One kind of business that people start on the internet is called affiliate marketing.
What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is where you sell another company’s products or services for a percentage of the pie. There are many companies on the internet that provide you the tools to become an affiliate marketer. The best part of this equation is that those same companies do not want any part of your money. They just want YOU to make room on your website for their advertising. They do not require you to stock any product or inventory whatsoever.
Some of the big guns that offer affiliate marketing programs are as follows:
Amazon PetSmart Office Depot Walmart
There are other affiliate programs that do not require you to have your own existing website but rather provide you one once you join the program. Some of the new smaller companies that offer affiliate marketing programs and give you your own website include the Lighthouse Marketing System (LMS). LMS is an affiliate program that gives you your own website to market over the internet. The product of LMS is an e-book that shows the customer how to get free leads for his network marketing business by utilizing the power of the internet.
The LMS affiliate program has revolutionized the network marketing industry. Your affiliate customer can use the techniques in this e-book so that he can generate his own leads for his multi-level marketing business strictly online. The benefit to you, the affiliate marketer, is that you have full resale rights to this e-book and collect the entire 100% of the proceeds. How many affiliate programs do that? LMS also operates as a two-tier program in which you sign up a distributor under you and you collect a percentage of that person’s monthly subscription.
You as the affiliate marketer can use this program to market the e-book to customers who are distributors of their own respective MLM company. In addition, the leads you generate on your own LMS website can be used to market your own MLM company.
Your own LMS affiliate website can be a stand alone business opportunity itself especially if you are a newbie to online marketing. It can also be an added weapon in your marketing arsenal to convert those leads you generated into members of your own downline in which ever MLM company you are a with.
By: Marco Abanico
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December 28th, 2009Network Marketing Information – Is the Ann Sieg Renegade Marketer System Any Good?
December 18th, 2009
We’ve all seen the network marketing information on the Internet, the powerful sales letters promising easy riches. People standing in front of brand new Porches and Ferrari’s with big snot-eating smiles on their faces saying if you just send us a few thousand dollars you can do it too!
Do you really believe it’s just that easy? Or does it seem like “something is rotten in the state of Denmark?”
In most cases something IS rotten. Would you like someone to just make it clear, before you make that huge life changing decision, what exactly you need to do to make your marketing and network strategy work for you and your budget? So you can get started the right way?
I think that the simplicity is really the true power of Ann Sieg’s Renegade Network Marketing System. Is it perfect? No. Is it really good. Yes, I have to admit it is a good and fair system to use. One of the nicest features of The Renegade Network Marketer, there is no hype, just good quality information and strategy to help you succeed.
But, for now, I will start my review with what I don’t like about the system, part 2 will deal with the benefits and there are a lot:
The 3 Cons:
1) You cannot add your opportunity to the back office url’s in order to promote yourself or your Network marketing program. The Renegade System takes away the “human variable” which takes away any “uniqueness” to you as an individual within the back office.
This is not all bad, because you also can’t screw anything up either. Depending how you refer your prospects to the Renegade System the branding aspect comes from your website content and offering good quality information and referring your prospects in an open-minded frame of mind.
2) You brand Ann Sieg, her business, and unless you join her opportunity you promote her Multi Level Marketing company. To be fair Sieg herself says you should be looking to brand yourself once you learn the advanced techniques she teaches inside her system.
Just like with any affiliate program, you are subsidizing someone else’s business by referring your customers and readers to someone else’s website. Ultimately I think this is fair, Sieg has certainly made a financial contribution to the success of her affiliates, having paid many thousands of dollars to keep an expert copywriter in the stable to keep the conversion rates for her Renegade System very high (for me it’s running right at about 7% opt in rate which is good).
Plus there’s a “no overwrite” status for any customer you bring to the system so once you’ve acquired a customer, they are yours for life.
3) I found that The 7 Lies of Network Marketing, while every point is true, didn’t quite capture the essence of how just badly it is really being done online. Around every corner, it seems, is just another schmuck peddling his “money making” opportunity with no real chance of helping you become successful doing the same.
I think Ann’s “soft” approach to the truth is probably better for your conversion rates, since most people not involved in network marketing would never join if they knew the truth from the very start.
You can judge for yourself.
By: Jesse Boland
Network Marketing Works & it Can Be Built Easier Than Most People Think
December 12th, 2009
Did you know that there’s no more job security in the world? Major companies have been going out of business daily. Even with the economy being as bad as it is, network marketing works. Most people struggle in this business because they never learn the strategies behind the top earners and top producers. The main three things you have to have are the right marketing system, the right training, and the right mentors. In my early years of being in this industry, I thought I had all of these things right but I was wrong. I didn’t even know what a marketing system was. Let’s go into these three things a little deeper.
To make the building of a network marketing company easier, you have to have the right marketing system. You need a system that eliminates the rejection process because this is the number one reason why people fail in this industry. One that shifts and sorts the tire kickers out so you only spend your time talking to qualified prospects. One that allows you to get paid on prospects whether or not they join your primary business opportunity. One that helps you sponsor people from your target market which are other network marketers. Last but not least, one that can be fully automated & can do most of the heavy lifting so you don’t have to.
Second, you need a system that comes with all the right training on cutting edge strategies that are working best today. I’m not talking about traditional methods of building a network marketing company either. Ninety-nine percent of network marketers make less than ten dollars per week and are still trying to build their companies the old way even though network marketing works better using the internet. You as well as your distributors need to be able to plug into training anywhere at anytime on demand. I highly recommend you using a system that will train you and your team on both online and offline strategies because there’s some offline stuff out there that are so easy that they will blow your mind. All of your marketing training has to be consistent with the principles of attraction marketing in order to be effective and will having people chasing you instead of you chasing them. The system is what makes duplication easy for even the distributor that started a few hours ago.
Lastly, you need the right mentors to show you how to get into profit quickly. I followed the wrong mentors and sponsors for years. It was like the blind leading the blind. Don’t let that happen to you. You need a leader, someone who will be there to help you but not do it for you because you need to develop into a leader as well. You need to learn from people who have been massively successful in network marketing online. They must also practice attraction marketing. By the way, this is the only way to build a business quickly and efficiently in my opinion. You need to listen to people that have what you want and understands internet marketing.
To wrap up this up, I want to let you know the bottom line and it is that network marketing works as long as you have the right marketing system, the right training, and the right mentors. Don’t build your business like the ninety-nine percent, build it like the one percent and you will absolutely explode your network marketing business.
By: Rob J Moore