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In today’s world of Network Marketing there seems to be an abundance of information to help Network Marketers build their business online.

With all this information you could have a serious information overload that will do the opposite of helping your business, it could harm it as you simply do not have enough time to learn all this new info.

From Facebook and Twitter, to Pay Per Click and Gmail article writing and blogging you have so much to learn and not enough time to learn all this great stuff.

I always tell people to pick one subject to learn and master before moving onto the next. However with today’s market a new strategy is coming out every month so you can see why it’s easy to get bogged down.

If you are a full time business owner then you have more time in the day than someone who is just starting out and has a full time job to work. Where do you start, what’s the best training? This can be a very daunting prospect trying to figure out what to learn.

Well help is at hand from Network Marketing legend, Mike Dillard. For the very first time you can have the best training each and every month sent to you inbox. What’s Working Now is a step by step video tutorial of the latest and best new training around.

You will literally be walked through each stage of the process to learn a new skill each and every month and also put those new skills into practice. This will free up your valuable time to concentrate on your family and business.

Click here for further information about What’s Working Now.

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Tristram Lodge

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Last weekend David Beckham tore his Achilles tendon playing for AC Milan wrecking his chances of being the first English man to play at four consecutive World Cups.

His dream of achieving this as well as the opportunity to be a World Cup winner are now in tatters. This is something that he has trained for all his life and now the dream is gone.

So what now for David? Is this the end of his glittering career? Will he ever play for England again?

Well I can tell you he will be doing everything he can to get back doing what he loves most. But how did a young lad from Laytonstone, London get to be one the most famous faces of world football?

Dedication and consistency. David would practise everyday, for hours on end just kicking a ball until he hit the crossbar. He would do this over and over again, day in, day out. He would stay behind after training in order to achieve his dream of playing for Manchester United. His dream come true in 1992 when he got his first team debut.

If you want to be a top network marketer then you must be consistent in everything that you do. When you want to learn how to do something new, be it social networking, Pay per Click, article writing or blogging up must keep going until you have successP

I had one prospect a couple of weeks ago who signed up for some Facebook training, this is training I have used very successfully and I know that others have as well so I know that it works. A week later she sent me an email saying that she had already tried the training for a week and it didn’t work!

Try something for a week and it’s not going to work. What was expecting, a get rich quick scheme? When you start out you must pick your niche and stick with it until you are an expert in what you do. Someone who can take their experience and pass it onto others.

If you want to change your career and become say a lawyer, would you turn up at the courthouse and say “Hi, I’m here to fight your case!” What reaction do you think you would get?

To be a lawyer takes years of study and so will learning to be a network marketing. Are you prepared to do whatever it takes to be a success in your niche? Are you prepared to take the bad times with the good times? If the answer is no then you really need to decide if this is for you.

You MUST keep going, learning and growing everyday until you succeed. They say that all the good things come to those that wait, why wait, what are you waiting for?

The big question is how much do you really want it? How badly do you want a lifestyle that most will only ever dream of? Don’t try something for a week or a month and give up because you didn’t get the results you were expecting.

I’m not saying stick with something that you don’t enjoy or find boring. Your business should be most of all FUN with a capital F, find something you enjoy and make it your passion. I have just started out with blogging, a year after starting with social networking. I wanted to branch into blogging as I loved social networking and this is the next step.

So will David Beckham be heading to South Africa in the summer, well England Manager Fabio Cappello has said he wants him to be there as he is so influential in the dressing room.

David will not get his dream of playing at the World Cup but because of his positive mental attitude he has achieved great things in his career and so can you, I can promise you that.

England will kick off their World Cup campaign against the USA on 12^th June, Come On England.

Thanks for reading, please leave a comment and share this. Here’s to your massive success.

Tristram Lodge

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When you start out in your new business, advertising can be very daunting. Do you start a Pay-Per-Click campaign, advertise on classified, run ads in newspapers and magazines. Well I have tried many different types of advertising for my business opportunity and I want to share with you what I have learnt over the years.

There are thousands of places on the internet where you can advertise your business opportunity. Some of it is FREE and some you have to pay for. But the best thing you can do is not to advertise your business opportunity. What I mean by that is don’t advertise you primary opportunity, you your main MLM system.

Now you maybe thinking if I don’t advertise my business how will it ever grow. The thing is most people out there couldn’t care less about your how great your marketing plan is, how wonderful your product is or that the company CEO is a family man. What they care about is can you help them achieve their goal.

You should be advertising yourself and what you can do to help people. If you’re already doing this your onto a winner, if not start doing it today.  I have talked about this on other post on this site so check it out.

So you need to advertise yourself and not your opportunity, so what’s the best method to use. Well like I said earlier there are many different types of advertising you can use.

The best and quickest method to use is Pay Per Click, due to the fact that it is targeted marketing. You can setup a campaign and within an hour you can be getting quality leads to your website. You can advertise for any kind of person you want, chose how many leads you get a day and how much you are willing to spend.

But be warned if you don’t know what you are doing this will cost you a lot of money and time and you won’t get the results you were looking for. If you are going to use this get some training if you have never used it before. I use this method and it gets results but I start without the training and it cost me a lot of money. Please don’t fall into the same trap I did.

The second best way is video marketing. There are hundreds of sites out there at the moment for you to use. The video can be about anything as long as it is useful to the viewer and it’s free! Video market is great because potential prospects get to see who you are. Remember people buy people not products. Get this right and you’re on to a winner.

The next fantastic way to advertise is through social networking sites. By setting up a profile on these sites and joining the various groups you can but a network of people and contacts easily and quickly. The best thing about these sites is that they are free to use and some even pay you. If you want to get paid to use these sites I can point you in the right direction.

The same social rules apply on networking sites as they do in the real world. Please do not spam your opportunity to people, it is very annoying, it will make you look like a newbie and true leaders don’t do it! You wouldn’t start going on about your opportunity to a complete stranger in the street would you? Offer help and support and build a relationship with people and you can’t go wrong.

The only downside to this type of marketing is that it takes up a lot of your time, which is OK if you have the time, but if you are doing this part time you need to look at something to suit your needs.

The next and possible my favourite is content or article writing. This is great if you don’t want to get in front of the camera as you can do the same thing but in words. The other great thing about this kind of marketing is that once you upload to the internet it will stay there forever, which means you will get traffic from your articles for years to come. So you do the hard work now and pays over and over again for years to come.

There are two areas which your article will been seen, the first is from the site you put the article on in the first place and the second is from Google. If you do article and content writing correctly you can get on the first page of Google in a matter of hours. All you need to do is keyword research and place the words in the title of the article and throughout the article itself.

It really will pay to get a good wordtracker as if you get the keywords wrong you could end up wasting your time. Your article will be picked up by the people on the site you uploaded to but it may not figure very high in Google no matter how great the content is.

There are a ton of other advertising options open to you. I would recommend that you start with one or two and master them first before moving onto something new. I have only given you these as they are my favourites and the ones I enjoy using. I don’t do anything that’s not fun and enjoyable.

So go out, start promoting and advertising yourself, have fun and enjoy it. Thanks for reading, until next time.

Tristram Lodge