Saturday, March 31, 2007

The Credibility Of An Online Business From Home
Copyright © Yan Fortin

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Since the time I am surfing and visiting websites that are promoting opportunities on the Internet, the market is invaded of scams like “make money 15 minutes from now”. I am personaly fed up with these million ads running around traffic exchanges, classified ads or junk safelists.

My personal online experience makes me think that the scam phenomenon and the lack of credibility are among the reasons why less than 5% of people make an acceptable level of income with an online business from home. When it’s too good to be true or too easy, be carefull before you enroll. An online business is like a business in the real world, it takes time and determination.

Even for the traffic packages or advertising sites you might be tempted to buy for you MLM to ease your advertising efforts, when you read the words “blast” or “prospect to millions” on the website, be carefull because most of the time, this is pure scam, period. There are only 600 million people on the Internet so if your package blasts to millions each month, ask yourself where do they get their million prospects from.

Unfortunately, the good and trustable opportunities are sometimes getting hard to find and the perception of people who are looking for ways to make income from home is influenced and harder to get trusted from. I’ve been scamed like many others and I’ve bought traffic packages that were pure hits to my back office. I lost money.

Scam advertisers do not realize how hurtfull they hurt themselves because prospects get burned and most of the time these same prospects live a bad online experience ending with broken promises and money spent or invested with no results at all. A lot of opportunities train their prospects to simply pitch their programs strictly to make more money (for the top owners) without caring about people enrolled in their downline. The only motivation is to make a quick buck and have a deeper hand in your pocket, not to help.

This is a downward spiral that burns the market as it affects the credibility of earning a confortable and honest income from home. Everybody is screaming their ads hoping it will grab someone’s attention because they are unfortunately trained to do so. It’s like a cahos with people starving from food thinking that louder they will scream, more food they will eat.

Hopefully, among the scams and the screams, there are great opportunities out there and honest people. The most important thing in having an online business from home is to learn and to be educated. Before you pitch your MLM, find an opportunity that trains you first about online business. Like anything else in life, the more you know, the more you avoid the traps and the hurts in this business. Being educated is also the greatest way to help others achieving success because people are looking for help, mentors and support, not a compensation plan. People don’t care about a compensation plan, people care about being guided through a step-by-step success path.

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Sunday, March 25, 2007

How Do You Duplicate Your MLM?
Copyright © Yan Fortin

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When you have enrolled in your MLM opportunity or your affiliate program, you expected to make money without too much effort and fast because you've been sold to it. You got excited in the first days or weeks and you already have put some of your dreams in it. Soon after, let say after few weeks, unfortunately reality falls back for most of us and you got to a point where discouragement reached your door faster than your initial excitment. What did happen to you? It's not your fault!

Most affiliate programs train their members to pitch their personalized link right and left expecting and hoping it will grab someone's attention, even to bug your friends and family. That's how you call sale pitch. Nobody likes to be sold, I've been sold myself and I have never liked it.

What about the duplication aspect of your business? What about the training material provided with your MLM? How to train your downline? Once you enroll a new member, what do you do with him or her? How can you help your new members? Ask yourself, what can I do myself since I'm enrolled?

A lot of MLM or affiliate programs on the Internet are limited in the training material and the tools provided to use for advertising. That's how Pay It Forward 4 Profits (PIF4P) comes in this way. PIF4P is a franchise system that is designed to train and educate yourself first on how to advertise on the Internet, the biggest challenge for all of us. It's a step-by-step system that trains you about your business by enrolling other PIF4P members and then to duplicate your efforts. Remember how McDonald's started more than 30 years ago. They had success - and still today - because it is a fully duplicatable system, step-by-step process but on a larger scale of course. PIF4P has exactly the same concept of duplication using the Internet.

People are not looking for a compensation plan, they are looking for information and education first. From my own experience and by surfing and enrolling with different affiliate programs, the home business industry desesperately needs education and training. That's one of the main reason 95% of people fail - I failed too - with Internet home business, lack of education and training.

PIF4P provides the training, support, conference calls and material you need to succeed for free. It's also designed to help you build your downline (new PIF4P members under you) for your MLM or affiliate programs. Imagine having hundred's of PIF4P members under you, how much easier it is to simply present your MLM or primary program.

I have personaly tried all sort of things, loosing money, hit walls, buying expensive marketing material, etc. PIF4P has help me in my home business and it has been a significant turning point when I was just about to give up on my dreams. I have never came accross a program that offers so much information and education for free. Everything I need know now about Internet marketing comes from PIF4P. You can learn what I have learned too. You can do it.

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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Starting An Internet Business Without Bricks And Mortar
Copyright © Yan Fortin

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When you are starting an internet business, there are certain notions that will require conscious thought. Things like how to advertise your business and where as well as who do you need to help get it off the ground. While starting an internet business may seem like a daunting task, it is no different than starting a traditional business in the real world.

While traditional businesses require advertising, it is usually done with a shotgun approach. You shoot advertising all over the place and hope to grab someone's attention with your message. By default, your advertising for a traditional business will be focused on the geographic area in which your business is located. You must also adjust pricing to meet what your market will bear.

When starting an internet business, your market can be less focused on location since your business will be global. You will also need to be more descriptive in your product presentation as people will not be able to touch and feel the items and will have to rely on what you say about them. You not only have to market the what but also the how and why. Getting people to part with their money through an internet net business involves selling the business as well as an individual product or service.

Many old-style sales persons know that the biggest part of sales is selling yourself. People who can make a potential buyer feel comfortable with them have a higher success rate. Those who simply sell the product can usually experience a certain success if they are selling a worthwhile product, but experiencing growth may be limited.

Once you have chosen the type of business you want to start and the people who will work with you, your marketing plan will need to be executed. Once you have made your announcement and made the promise of what you will do, you need to do what you have promised. Customer service needs to be more than a promise, it needs to be a way of life. Unlike a traditional business, on the internet you will never be the only game in town. If you make mistakes with customer service there will be hundreds, if not thousands of other businesses ready to take your place.

Many traditional businesses eventually fail because they are not willing to change with the shopping habits of their customers. The product mix may become stale or new competition may offer merchandise the old store does not and since success has been around for years, many do not see the need to change.

With an internet business, changes are required almost daily and there is no real harm in looking at your competition to see what they are offering and some of the ideas may be worth mimicking. However, make sure any new ideas you implement are filled with you personal touch to keep your customers satisfied with you.

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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Making Money With Home Business Income
Opportunities
Copyright © Yan Fortin

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There are many ways to make money with a home business and some of them even live up to their promises. No matter what type of work you do, there is a home business income opportunity for you. Thousand's are available on the Internet. Whether you work at home or from home, you can find a line of work that you can do and make money doing it.

Multi-level marketing (MLM) knows no boundaries, in fact when was first developed it was referred to as distributorships and a few companies were able to experience tremendous growth due to these home business income opportunities. Companies like Fuller Brush, Amway and Avon are a few of the bigger names that used multi-level marketing in their sales plan. A sale representative would work in a territory, developing other sales representatives and then they would become area managers, supervising and helping those they trained.

This representative would earn a small commission on the sales of the people they helped develop, all the while working from home. This enabled these companies to develop a national sales team with minimal expense to the company itself. This method also assured that the company’s approach to sales remained consistent as each sales representative used the same sales pitch, injecting it with their own personality, but the main pitch was written by the company and followed by everyone.

With online businesses, the process is similar with one person developing an area and working with others to become sales representatives for a company. The first person in an area will earn income from the sales of others working under them. One main difference is that with many multi-level marketing plans, there is a limit to the number of persons they can recruit to work under them.

Online affiliate programs are the newest rage and they can produce a steady income stream. Many companies use affiliate marketing almost exclusively, shying from traditional advertising venues, paying only for responses from advertising. It works since you own your website and place ads on your site for other companies. When a visitor to your site clicks on one of your affiliate ads and makes a purchase, you receive a commission on the sale. If no sales are made, the advertiser does not pay for the space on your site.

For a company, having all of their ads on affiliate sites works in their favor in two ways. First, it gives their advertising visible on thousands of websites. Secondly, one of the methods used by search engines to determine ranking is the number of quality links to a site. With affiliate ads, especially those with similar content linking back to them, they can achieve a higher ranking on search engines, increasing their odds of attracting more visitors and prospects.

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