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I have become involved with many network marketing companies the
last year.
All are based on the internet and this is the big difference
than when I last had a go at it about 10 years ago. Back then it
was all phone calls, letters, group presentations and one on one
coffee shop presentations. After a while of almost making it
work I gave up. It just had enough of all that and ran out of a
warm market. I should say they ran away from me when they saw me
coming. Haha.
Well, I got back into it because I knew a few people who had
made money and one was my brother. Not only were these people
making money, they were making a lot of it. When I saw that now
I could have a website to promote and could buy leads, email
them, call them, work on getting traffic etc... I thought I
would give it another try.
A year later I have had some success. I have been able to put
together a group of a couple thousand members in a few companies
and it is growing.
What I am realizing now though, is that to be real successful at
online network marketing, you should have some offline
strategies also. It just makes sense and will give you a great
advantage over your competition if you do so. ( By the way, I
have tried two companies that strongly push the idea of just
buying leads and sending them emails using an auto-responder.
Both of them failed miserably and I lost a good amount of money.
That just doesn?t work well enough to build a good business in
my opinion. Auto-responders work but don?t use them
exclusively.)
Here are a few ways to get an offline recruiting and advertising
campaign going.
1. Put ads in your local paper. This is still working for many
people. If they didn?t work you wouldn?t keep seeing them there.
2. Put ads in a national paper or magazines. This is obviously
much more expensive but also reaches a greater amount of people.
If you do this you need to be prepared to handle all the leads
and calls.
3. Distribute flyers.
4. Use drop cards.
5. Hand out business cards.
6. Advertise on the radio; expensive but effective. I used it
last year and will use the radio again at some point.
7. Television advertising. Again, expensive but worthwhile if
you can afford it. I actually belong to a TV Co-op company that
will use TV ads as a main source of growth. Here is that
company:
Click here
The television advertising seems to be a currently popular way
to advertise for network marketing companies. I have heard
several companies say they are planning to do this in 2005
including Better Universe, Fruta Vida and Vergance.
8. Mail coupon advertising such as Money Mailer or Adworks. This
advertising usually costs about 3 cents a home and can go out to
tens of thousands at a time. Or even hundreds of thousands.
9. Posting ads on bulletin boards.
10. Buying leads and calling. This is still a very powerful way
to recruit people and get to know them. Here is a company that
not only sells quality leads but also has terrific training to
help you when you actually do call them. The training is awesome
and very in depth.
Click here
So make your chances of succeeding online much better by using
these offline techniques to reach many more prospects. You will
be ahead of the game if you do.
About the author:
Tim Phelan has been a full time internet marketer since late
2004 and is currently helping others try to fire their boss.
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