Archive for January, 2009

How to Get an Army of Salespeople in YOUR Business for FREE?

sales-manAre you one if those solo-entrepreneurs or small business owners who try to do everything on his or her own and as a result struggle to find the time to actually do everything like: running the business, doing the marketing, prospecting, networking, selling and trying to get new clients all at once? 

Would you like to discover how you could put an army of salespeople in YOUR business for FREE?
The answer is to start your own affiliate program to have a sales force working for you, for FREE. Starting your own affiliate program is the easiest and fastest way to increase sales and greatly increase your profits.
As an example, look at my own affiliate program and sign-up here. Each time you refer me to a client I will pay you a 20% commission. That is passive income for you. The only thing you will have to do, as soon as you sign-up, is to copy and paste the promotional text I provide, mention it on your website and/or newsletter and get the money. It’s easy and simple!!

 

 

 

 
I am an affiliate of various successful entrepreneurs who I know. I recently promoted somebody’s program on my newsletter, copied and pasted the text she provided, which took me less than two minutes. As a result, someone signed up for her program and my commission in this case was $500. Yes, $500 for less than two minutes of work. Don’t you like that!

An affiliate program is a win/win situation. You help people make easy money promoting your products and services, and at the same time, you get an army of salespeople working for you for FREE.

So how can you start your own affiliate program?
Contact anybody you know who is looking for a complementary revenue, or anybody who has a business that complements yours, and would be happy to cross-promote with you.
The more affiliates you have, the more access you have to thousands of people, who will see your products or services on somebody else’s website or newsletter. You are not the only one to promote your products now. You have a sales force. Better still, you don’t have to go through a recruiting process to find people to sell your product the way that you would have to do if you were hiring salespeople.
Big advantage, you don’t pay them until you make money.
Your affiliates/sales force promote your products or services for free and you don’t pay them until they generate a sale for you. When they make a sale, you will be more than happy to pay them a commission, since you would probably never have had this client otherwise.
So you have nothing to lose but everything to win.
What better way to promote your products or services without doing anything.
In addition, you gain a lot of more traffic on your website.

Having all of these people/affiliates/sales force promoting your products and services will definitely bring lot of traffic to your website. So, maybe not everybody will buy the first time but if you offer a newsletter, the chances are that a number of them will subscribe to your newsletter. And since you only pay your affiliates when they make a sale, you are getting this traffic absolutely free!

You get better search engine placement.
Having all of these affiliates who link to your website definitely helps you get a better ranking on the search engine. The more sites that point to your website, the higher your position will be.
 

 

Better than an ad in a newspaper, you don’t pay anything for advertising unless you make money first!
Make it easy for your affiliates to promote your products. Prepare your marketing messages and emails for them to promote your products or services. So the only thing they will have to do is cut and paste your message, either on their website, newsletter or solo-message, that they will send to their mailing list.

To do so, you will need to use one of these software companies, (personally I use and recommend

1Shoppingcart). As soon as it is set up, they will take care of everything for you. They do all the tracking and inform you by email each time somebody signs up as one of your affiliates and each time somebody makes a sale.

 
An affiliate tracking software is a perfect marketing tool to automate an advertising campaign that promotes your products or services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, when you are on vacation and even when you sleep. All of this is done automatically.

It is the same for the affiliate registrations and sales reports. Everything is done automatically, you don’t have to track anything, the software is doing it for you. All you have to do is inform people about your affiliate program, encourage them to sign up, help them to set up the program, which takes only 2 or 3 minutes, and pay them at the end of the month or the quarter. It is that simple!

When I started my own affiliate program, I contacted the people I know who either have the same target market as me or who promote marketing tools on their website. Within 48 hours, I already had 15 affiliates.
Who can hire 15 salespeople to sale products without going through a hiring process, training people about products and spend hours and hours doing?
You definitely can’t ignore this proven method of increasing your sales and profits.
You simply cannot lose with an affiliate program, because you invest nothing up front except the cost of the software (check out

1shoppingcart). And more important, you don’t have to pay for advertising unless you make money first!
So what are you waiting for? Start your own affiliate program today. Let others work for you and start making lots of money.

 

 

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Better than an ad in a newspaper, an affiliate program is an automated advertising campaign.

Are You Using Social Networking?

FacebookEven though I’ve been known as ‘The Connection Queen’ for quite a few years, it took me a while to really get into Social Networking.facebook, and everything changed! So many of my friends who are coaches or consultants where on facebook. Over 10% of Internet users all over the world use facebook. A few months ago, I finally filled out my facebook profile, ‘friended’ all the people I knew on the site, and connected with their friends. Navigating on facebook is pretty much the same as going to a live networking event, and talking to the people you know and the people they know or introduce you to. However, there are many advantages to e-networking over live networking. Compared to a live event, you can view a person’s profile even before you connect, so it is much easier to contact people on your field or have the same interest than you or are your target market.Join me on facebook and let’s connect NOW.

When I started Biba4Network, I discovered Ryze, a site for networking. I used it for a while, but found it was too time consuming. I didn’t put in the effort and didn’t get to know the program like I should have. I ended up spending about 2 hours per day, and never got any business out of it. Then I joined Linkedin, created my profile on it, responded to people who asked to be connected but once again, didn’t use it in an effective way.

Then came

Social networking is one of the fastest growing and most inexpensive ways to reach your target market. You can invite people to visit your website, send them a private message, or mention that you already have friends in common. It is very important that you complete you profile with as much information as possible about your business, so when people come to your page, they will see immediately the benefit of being connecting with you. At first, It took me about two weeks to really begin to navigate facebook to contact the people I already knew and to answer to their messages.

It was time consuming, but now it is just a question of an hour or two a week to follow up with people, send them messages, contact new people, expand my business, promote events, invite people to seminars, teleclasses, or programs. In essence, it takes only a few hours a week to help your business grow.

Social networking really has changed the way we interact.

People are more willing to work with others they can see from a distance or have friends in common with. It comes down to having common interests or goals while also having a set purpose. Social networking definitely changed they way I network. Since I moved to Miami about a year and a half ago, I don’t attend many live networking events anymore. With the social websites, I can instantaneously reach a large number of people all over the world; while at a live networking event I would meet mostly local people, and a lot less of them.

Another advantage of online networking is that you won’t forget names and faces, you have them right in front of you along with what the person does, what they like and dislike and what their goals are – if you’re networking for business. You don’t have to worry about losing someone’s business card or forgetting what another person does. The other advantage of social networking beside the fact that everything works faster than with live networking is that it cost a lot less than advertising. Every business owner knows that they need to advertise to promote their business but very often the expenses are misdirected because the advertising is not always targeted to the right people. With Social Networking, each time you send a private email, or put a comment on people’s page, you can mention your website or your product, post a video, promote your events, so everybody all over the word can see it and the best part is that it will not cost you a dime.

Social networking just cost you our time to do research, promotion and follow-up, so make sure to organize your time wisely in order to be effective without burning yourself and spend over time doing it. The most efficient way to use online social networking is to dedicate an hour or two a week as part of your marketing plan, to promote your business, and stick to it.

 

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