Unless you haven’t been online for long, you’ve probably heard of a new concept called social networking sites….

So, what does it mean?

Social network sites allow you to connect with old friends and make new ones — sort of like a giant dinner party with old friends that never ends. And, you don’t have to talk to that creepy person who keeps wanting to show his photos, if you don’t want to:-)

These types of sites aren’t really That new.. MySpace.com has been round for a long time, but it’s really been more for the teenie bopper crowd.

Today, there are 2 major players that are both fun and easy to use:

Facebook and Twitter.

If you don’t have an account with either of these, I highly recommend it.

Just go to:

FaceBook.com

and you’ll see “Sign up for Facebook” and “It’s f’ree and anyone can join”..

You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to track down roommates from college, old high school friends, and people you were in Boy or Girl Scouts with…

Once you get an account, search for “Julieanne van Zyl” (that’s me) and also “John van Zyl” and add us as a friend.

My page is also here:

Julieanne van Zyl Facebook

Got that done?

As soon as I see your name pop up, I’ll add you as a friend, and we’ll be able to share ideas, messages, videos and all sorts of stuff.

Next, get on Twitter, which is like blogging one sentence at a time.

Twitter.com

After you register your f’ree account, hit the “follow” link on my page at:

Twitter Julieanne van Zyl

Twitter is great for connecting and sharing on a one to one level, and it’s amazing how easy it is to get questions answered or get almost immediate feedback.

Want someone to give you advice about something you’ve written?

Get on Twitter.

Want to find out the least expensive restaurant in LA?

Get on Twitter.

I’ll see you online, add me as a friend on Facebook, and “follow” me on Twitter, and we’ll be able to get know each other better.!

Nothing to buy - they are free - hope to see you on both sites soon!

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Since you started on the first day of your first j.o.b., in this day and age, have you imagined what it would be like to have your own business where you are working for yourself?

Have you thought about it everyday?

Have you thought about what it would be like to be your own manager and not have someone, who could care less about you, as your boss?

Any loser can be a boss. You will understand this, more and more, as you progress with your job career. It takes an intellect with compassion to be a manager. Any loser can be a boss. See differences?

You will have managers along the way of life that you will actually enjoy working for, unfortunately though, they are rare birds.

Would you like to be a manager of yourself and your life and everything in it or would you like to be or have a boss?

In the world of today individuals are finding different employment avenues to pursue which enable them to stay at home with their children.

So what is the big deal? Actually, it is a big deal. Please read on to find out why.

You can forego the treacherous daily commute. Read the rest of this entry »

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So you consider joining an MLM home business opportunity, or even joined one already. That’s great, but now starts the real battle – you have to promote your MLM home opportunity and have other people join your team. How do you go about doing that?

Well, here’s a list of 7 strategies you can use, online and offline, to promote your business:

1. Newspaper advertising – This is an old method, that still works great today. Think about it: people look for a job or a business in the newspapers. Besides, if you were able to persuade someone who is reading a newspaper to log to the Internet to see your business – than this person is a highly targeted prospect! – just what we want.

You can advertise your website, or a 1-800 number where you give people more details about the business.
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What do you look for in a home based business opportunity?

Do you seek a product or service you will enjoy sharing?

Do you study the compensation plan before joining?

Do you understand what your target market is?

Do you seek a mentor who will provide one on one training as needed?

Do you plan to become a mentor?

Would you join an MLM company based on yours or someone else's greed?

Just 4 Marcello….LOL.

1. I look for a company that is financially solid and has a product that I feel can help people.

2. Yes, I look for a product I would enjoy sharing. It would be pretty difficult to market something I hated or thought wasn't worth the money.

3.Yes, I study the compensation plan. The beauty of that is you can see what your potential income would be based on your sales and how much work you're willing to put into it…unlike many people who accept JOBS without ever asking what their income will be.

4. You have to understand who your target market is or you will waste a good deal of your time and/or get discouraged and give up.

5. If a company is worth it's while, it will come with not one but several mentors who will all teach you their own unique way of doing business. You can choose which one works best for you.

6. I am a mentor.

7. I don't think greed has anything to do with it. I have never been greedy nor have I ever signed anyone who signed up based on greed. Wanting to have unlimited income has nothing to do with greed and everything to do with being a good business person. Most people strive to be the best that they can be, regardless of whether they're working a menial job, they're a real estate broker or they're an oil tycoon.
Anyone who considers it greedy to want more out of life and are willing to work hard for it, is not a business person and has some deep hang-ups about money.

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I am tired of working long hours. I would like to work from home, so I may spend time with my family. I am wanting to hear from someone who is actually involved in an MLM or home party plan and earning enough money to support themselves. I want to know if there is a system out there that really works without scamming friends and family. If not, I guess I will have to stay in the corporate world.

I would def go for party plans…some are great companies to work for! I am a consultant with Purse Party…a very new company and it's great!! Fun, profitable, and I love the purses and jewelry!!

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Many people think that taking their MLM Home Business Opportunity online is just too difficult. They are often proved wrong and maybe they just don’t understand the dynamics of making money online. While this is common among ordinary folks, it is surprising that even big companies also adopt this attitude.

Many multilevel marketers and companies that have dabbled into taking their businesses online without success the first time have often just thrown in the towel and given up on the goldmine that is called the internet.

However, I have noticed that one of the single most important reasons this often happens is because of the mindset that MLM Home Business Opportunity owners bring to marketing their businesses online. In this post and in the concluding part, we’ll be looking at the three keys that you need to successfully build a profitable multilevel marketing business online.

1. Stop thinking that you are not dealing with people. Funny as this may sound, the tendency to think that your prospective clients are just some set of people that I don’t have to really talk to is pretty common online. People often think that because it is the internet, you do not need to know these people. This is a mistake. Regardless of whether you see them or not, you should treat them as you would if you were looking right at them. This will ensure your business’ stability and resulting profitability. So, let people get to know you on the internet for your MLM Home Business Opportunity.

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In the last post, we started looking at the many different means of cheap effective advertising available for an  MLM Home Business Opportunity businesses. In this second part, we will be concluding the series.

2. Article sales. This method works wonderfully. A well-written article has the ability to be picked up by many webmasters who like it and thus get to spread it fast all over the internet . A smart Network Marketing business owner will make sure that he writes high quality articles that are filled with information and post them up on article forums, directories and discussion boards. From these posts the articles can then get picked up and posted to their lists or on their websites. This single article can drive a lot of prospects to your website.

3. Classified Advertising. This simple method has the ability to so drastically improve your leads if you only know how to maximize it and where to advertise. For this article , I’ll show you just 5 websites that if used properly can drive lots of traffic and prospects to your website:

-Ebay classifieds: Choose the featured ads. This costs only $9.95 and you have maximum exposure for 30 days to over 2 million visitors who visit the website per day.

-Usfreeads.com: Also use the featured ads option. This also costs $9/month

-Kijiji.com: Although it is sort of integrated with ebay now, it still doesn’t cost anything to post here and they have about 1.2 million unique visitors per month. You can post in as many cities as you want. Make sure and vary the ads and the titles.

-Gumtree: It’s best to post in the large cities.

-Craigslist: I put this one last on the list because I haven’t had much success with it. The adverts do not stay on the Craigslist for very long.

So, that’s it folks , use these tips and you will increase your prospects and the profitability of your MLM Home Business Opportunity.

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Taking your marketing efforts for your MLM Home Business Opportunity to the web  is one of the best business decision s you can ever make.   What with over 500 million folks constantly surfing the internet everyday looking for information, solutions, tips, advice, money making opportunities and lots more, you could never have made a better decision .

Compared to the ‘real’ world where you had to get involved in direct marketing and lesser conversion rates, you can build a trustworthy relationship with your prospective clients over the internet.  One of the biggest problems and challenges that many folks face when selling their products and services on the web, is where and how to advertise their products and services.

In this post, you will find that there are many different means through which you can advertise your MLM Home Business Opportunity without having to part with “an arm and a leg”:-).

1. PPC. I am sure you’ve heard the term pay per click on the radio, television or on the internet . This simply means that you advertise your business on a website like Google, Yahoo and MSN and pay for every click according to a predetermined price. This is very easy and effective as the folks who will click your link(s) will be folks who are specifically looking for what you have to offer.

For instance, you could easily target the keyword “Verve Energy Drinks” and all those who do a search on Google, would see your web link, click the link and visit your web office –your website. Customers like this are very targeted and are looking specifically for what you are offering in your MLM Home Business Opportunity.

To be continued…

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There is an important lesson to be learned from traditional business that can be applied to Network Marketing.

I’d like to discuss 10 key benefits why an MLM Home Business Opportunity is great. Use these benefits to promote your MLM Program and to recruit anyone in your organization.

1. Small amount of risk:
There is a certain amount of inherited risk involved when you become an entrepreneur.

We are confronted with losing money, wasting time, not being in profit right away, etc. In a traditional brick and mortal business, the startup cost associated with opening that business is what holds many people back from becoming the creators of their own destiny.

People do not like risk and try to avoid it by all means. We’d like a “guaranteed bet” and stay within “our safe zone”. In business, you don’t eliminate risks you learn to minimize them.

The advantage of starting an MLM Program is that there is a small risk to get started. With a couple of hundred dollars, it is possible to get started with a company of your choice, marketing products that you consume already. The amount of financial commitment is insignificant compared to that of traditional business.

2. A huge demand for good quality products:
There are a myriad of network marketing companies that promote very good products. If I were considering a company to get involved with, I would always ask myself:

• Would I still consume these products/services if there were no opportunity to market them?
• Do these products bring any benefits to a consumer besides the opportunity to make money?

• Would I bring “value” to my customers if they consume these products?

Every business needs repeat customers. Distributors only get paid when they have consumers for their products and when these customers continue that consumption, then that creates the money flow. Read the rest of this entry »

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My partner and I have been involved in an MLM Home Business Opportunity for many years, and for most of those years, we’ve used “purchased” leads to build our business. By “purchased” leads, I mean those you buy from a lead company. Over the last few years, we’ve found that leads are not nearly as good as using the search engines. Read on to find out why they’re not as good.

Purchasing Leads
A purchased lead for an MLM Home Business Opportunity is a person who’s filled out a form on the internet asking for information about a home based business. A lead vendor has generated this lead from advertising they do on other people’s websites or from email messages they’ve sent out to people who’ve indicated they are interested in starting a business. The questions the person (lead) answers on the form are very general, and don’t usually ask for specific details like “what kind of business would you like?”

Anyway, so the vendor generates the leads, then sells them to the lead companies, who then sell them to the home business owners. By the time the home business owner receives the lead, it’s been at least 3 or 4 days, and sometimes weeks or months since the lead first filled out the form. The leads might even (usually are) shared with others or perhaps sold a few times, to different companies.

Look at this from the Lead’s perspective

Meanwhile, this person (lead) is either still looking for a home business opportunity, or perhaps they’ve lost interest because they’ve filled out so many forms. They may have received so many phone calls from all this activity and are just totally overwhelmed. In addition, none of the offers of opportunities may be exactly what they want.

Using the Search Engines

Nowadays, most people on the internet know how to type a few words into search engine, so they can find what they want. And, most of the time, the search engines come up with relevant information. So, this person (lead) may decide they’ll forget about all those people who’ve contacted them, and they’ll just type into google (or some other search engine) what they want.

Find exactly what they want from Search Engines

Maybe this person knows all the benefits of an MLM home business opportunity so they would really like to do that. He or she also likes the idea of marketing energy drinks, so they type in “MLM energy drinks” and arrive at your blog on energy drinks. You have this little advert on your blog, which leads to a site with your home business opportunity and a free tour they can take. They have a good look at everything, and because it’s exactly what they’ve been looking for, they join right away.

What happened to the Lead you Paid for?

All those different business owners who paid for two or three dollars for this lead end up with nothing. Why? There are probably two reasons:

1. When this person (lead) filled out all those forms, he or she was looking for a home business right at that moment, but then they got bombarded with the information a few days or weeks later.
2. The information they received wasn’t specific to what they wanted, it was very general. They may not want an MLM business or they might not want to work in someone’s nutritional dog food business. They want to do whatever they want, not what someone else is trying to sell to them.

So, can you see how getting your blog or website into the search engines is a good idea, if you want to build your business simply and easily? You can attract people who really want to do whatever you’re doing, and you will save yourself a lot of time talking to leads who don’t really want what you have.

If you’re not sure how to attract customers and prospects using the internet, then I have a simple and easy step by step training course, especially for owners of an MLM Home Business Opportunity.

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