Ask Tristram Lodge – MLM Mentor & Coach

Social networking is fast becoming the internet marketer’s best friend. Original designed for high school and collage students to keep in touch it has evolved into a community of professional business owners interacting with one another.  You can get targeted traffic from your niche to your profile and promote yourself as a leader within that niche.

Now this is where a lot of people who use Facebook social networking fall down.  Your profile should be an online billboard that promotes you and your particular expertise. Let me explain, if you own a network marketing business and you have used article marketing to build that business show people how they can also build a network marketing business using articles. Don’t promote you business its a sure fire way to get yourself unfriended.

A lot of people may disagree with me on this one but if you are doing what 97% of people are doing on Facebook then you are just like everyone else and you will never stand out from the crowd. Facebook social networking is not about promoting your business, but about building relationships with people.

People do business with people not with companies, products or comp plans.

This is another promotional tip, under the “Info” tab put as much information about yourself as you like. What music you like, books you like to read, films you enjoy. Include your interests and hobbies, this is a great icebreaker. You get the picture, but once again don’t promote your business, just your expertise.

Another great area you can build relationships on Facebook is by joining groups and participating with those groups in the discussion area or putting links to articles you have written or to your blog. If the group will allow you to post video then this is internet prime real estate. If you can put up free training videos than you will have people falling over themselves wanting to network with you. This puts you as a leader and you will stand out from the crowd for all the right reasons.

The last little tip that I will give you today on Facebook social networking is do the social networking bit with your Facebook friends. On the home page you will see all of your friends status updates and you can click the “Like “  word under the update or even better respond to their update.

If they are having a bad day, give them some words of encouragement, if they are not feeling well tell them you hope they feel better soon. This will help build your relationship with that person, but also all of their friends will see your comments and you could attract more people into your group of friends that way.

 It will also show that you are not just out to make a quick buck from everyone whom you come into contact with on the internet. Facebook social networking is a great way to keep your target audience up to date with your latest training and offers.

For an indepth look at how to use social networking to grow your business click here and start using this fantasic media the right wat. Most of your competition will not be using any of this cool stuff so while your sitting on a beach drinking cocktails they will still be struggling to $10 a month.

Thanks for reading

Tristram Lodge

So in part 1 we talked about why people run out of money how something could be done to stop this from happening. As you know we have all been told that the money we make from our retail can be used to invest back into the new business venture. Well why would you want to use the money you have just worked so hard for to put back into your business.

At the end of the last post I mentioned a Funded Proposal System. Now you may be wondering what it is and how do they work. Well they are very simple. As network marketers we can offer people a solution to there problems. If you do this business the traditional way you will have made your list and gone out and pestered your family and friends and may have not gotten very far.

You run out of people to talk to about your opportunity, you spent a load of money on leads and advertising and still no much to show for it. The reason is actually very simple; by offering your opportunity you are in fact offering another problem. How do you expect someone to do a business without having a clue how to do it?  

By going in all guns blazing with your opportunity is going to be a disaster. But by offering them a solution to a problem they will see you as a leader. This is where the system comes into play.

A Funded Proposal System is a low cost front end product. It can be a book, an ebook, anything as long as it adds value to that person. By low cost I mean £15 – £30, and forget all about your main opportunity at that time.

So who do you offer this to, well other network marketers who have had the same problems as you in there business. By offering them a solution to the problems they face they will be more receptive to you. Suddenly you are someone that can help and not give like everyone else, trying to get them to join there business. I mean why would they join your business when they are having problems with there own?

Now most systems pay out a commission to there affiliates which can anything up to around 50% of the course. Now if we take 50% of £15 that’s £7.50 in your pocket just to prospect. That money can then be used to put back into your business, also you have a great lead who is already involved with network marketing, so knows the system. Also it allows you to advertise for FREE.

So the money you get from your information product pays for your advertising, which gives you endless FREE leads, which in turn gives you endless business growth. It dose not matter if that person never joins your primary business, as now you have made a new contact who you can share ideas with and network with and best of all you will meet others through that one person.

I have been using a system like this for over a year and I will not do business any other way. The system I am using is Magnetic Sponsoring and you can join today at www.MLMHintsAndTips.com

Don’t waste your time and your money talking to your family and friends. They have no interest in your business. Spend your time working with people who want to be successful. Now I’m saying that everyone you know at the moment will not be any good for your business as you may know people who are already successful but are looking for a change.

Thanks for reading

Tristram Lodge

P.S If you don’t get success from Magnetic Sponsoring with in 12 months I will buy the book back from you at the full price. That means zero risk to you.

P.P.S If you do want your money back I will let you keep all the bonus material you get with the course just for you trouble. Sign up today at www.MLMHintsAndTips.com

A few months ago I started to use Facebook as a way to generate leads for my business. I have decided that I need to use this system and learn everything I can over the next year or so then move onto learn something else. Now what I am going to share with you I really want you to pay attention to as I lost a lot of hard work when my account got disabled.

Now the system I use has some great training in the back office so I spent a day going through the training and making a start to learn what some people are doing to use Facebook to generate leads. I was ready so started doing the things I had learnt.

Everything was going well for a couple of weeks with no problems, no warnings flagged up or anything. Then I started to get a couple of warnings when adding friends and wall posts. I slowed down what I was doing, then started to push the system again and you guessed it, bang my account got disabled.

So what did I do wrong, some of you will know this but some will not and you could end up having your account disabled and allot of your hard work being lost. With Facebook you must treat it with respect, if you abuse the system you will get banned.

Here are some of the things to be careful of doing when using Facebaook. First adding friends, take your time with this one. Do not add more than 50 friends a day. When you are adding friends add between 5 and 10 at a time and always add a message.  Rotate the groups where you add friends from each time. Once you have added 10 friends post some wall posts on group walls.

When posting on group walls do a maximum of 3 at a time and rotate the post you put on the walls every 3 times. Do these after adding 10 friends. What I do now is log out of my account and spend half an hour doing something else. Come back login and carry on. Make sure you do not post the same post in all of the groups you belong to in the same day, this is the quickest way to get your account disabled. Also do not do all your wall post at one time even if you are rotating them. I believe this is how my account got disabled.

I have also noticed that wall posts on group walls and on peoples profiles seem to be classed as the same thing by Facebook. Even sending someone a message after doing wall posts can throw up a warning.

If you do get a warning, stop what you are doing logoff your account for 24 hours then carry on. Do not try and keep going, it will only throw up another warning, then your account will get disabled.

If you send a welcome message to new friends by tagging them in your video make sure you delete the old tags before you start this or you will get a spam warning. I do this once a day now and have not had any problems.

These are just the items that I have found, I don’t want to find any more but if anyone else out there can add to this I’m sure it would be most welcome. Please treat Facebook with respect, you will get a number of warnings before your account is disabled but if you take your time when using it you should not have any problems. Spending a bit more time each day is better than having your account disabled and you losing all your work.

If you do have your account disabled you can try and send Facebook a very grovelling email and hope they enable your account again. It worked for me so I have been luckly and have learnt a big lesson.

Hope this helps you guys out and Thanks for reading.

Tristram Lodge

Having used Facebook for a while now and made some mistakes, (account deleted!) I have found it a useful source of connections and leads. However on my travels through Facebook I have picked up a few things that may be useful to know.

The first thing people are going to see when they become friends with you is your profile page. This should be an advertisement not for your opportunity but an advertisement about you. This is the place you can sell yourself and done right you will have a ton of people following you wanting what you have to offer.

These are some of the things you can do to make your profile more appealing so you can build better relationships and a bigger list.

1. Your profile picture, this is the top item that people will be drawn to on your page. Make sure you put a good picture of yourself on the page. Don’t put up a logo or a picture of Mickey Mouse! If I wanted to do business with him I’ll go to Disneyland. Let’s see what you look like and who you are. A picture of you will help when others are looking to connect as on Facebook nobody can see your profile until you confirm them as a friend.
2. Your information section should be filled out. This might sound a bit obvious but so many people get this wrong. Put up as much info about yourself as you can, let people know what sports you like to do, your hobbies, films, books and shows you like to watch. This gives others something to connect to when you start building a relationship. I have people who have not asked me about MLM but about something I have out on my profile. They have gone onto my site and signed for more training without me doing anything. Whatever you do don’t put up your corporate company website for your primary business or go on about how much you love to help people. Also stay away from putting anything up about MLM, network marketing etc. People want to know about you not that you are an internet marketer. Do put up your blog, lead generation website and maybe your Twitter page and that’s all you need.
3. Added other pictures of yourself, family, friends and if you have met any of the leaders in the industry even better. That will give you creditability as a network marketer. Pictures make a great talking point and people can see what you are like outside of MLM.
4. Add a welcome video and birthday video. These are great way of introducing yourself when you make new friends. It’s just something else you can do instead of just writing on their wall. Not many people do this at the moment. Most just write a message on your wall so this will get you to really stand out from the crowd.
5. Your status update should be update at least once a day. I have found adding  motivational quotes from people is a great way to get noticed. Also ask a question is another way to interact with your friends.  Don’t add links to your opportunity, find a group that will allow you to do that. I have seen profiles where they are just covered with links to opportunity websites.

Your profile is an extension of yourself so make it about yourself. It can be used to generate leads and build a business so use it to add value to others. If you come across with great quality content and information that’s useful you will build great relationships and friends on this site.

Tristram Lodge