Home Based Business Options

Author: Cindy Floyd

As a home based business owner it’s not breaking news that the only way to make money online is to get traffic to your site. What is newsworthy however is how you do that without costing you every dime you make!

If you’ve been in the network marketing space for any length of time you have heard of Web 2.0. Some people have a pretty good idea what all this means while others are a bit fuzzy on the definition. But I think I would be safe to say that most of us are just a bit cynical as to whether it all really works.

Well here’s what I can say; if you have a strategy, you work that strategy, you’re not expecting to become wealthy overnight, and your willing to let the system work, great things can happen!

Below are 5 Web 2.0 strategies that work and are free. Use them wisely and your home business will reap the benefits of tons of traffic.

___Create a Plan…Using sites like Facebook, Squidoo, HubPages, can help you market and generate highly qualified traffic to your site. The idea on these site is not to use blatant sales tactics, rather build relationships and they will come to you. Join groups with similar interest, post on others walls, create pages that inform and help…build it and they will come!

___Create a Blog…I can’t stress enough the importance of blogging for traffic. Providing relevant content to your niche is a great way to generate a loyal following. Give your subscribers tips, ideas and even some controversy keeps them engaged and coming back. You should ping your blog every time you create a new blog post, and make sure you tag that post at social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, and Technorati. These sites offer huge exposure for your blog.

___Social Bookmarking…the purpose of social bookmarking is to create backlinks to your blog or business opportunity website. By posting your site or post to Propeller, Digg, del.icio.us, and Technorati – just to name a few, will generate direct traffic to your site. You can use submitters like Social Marker to do all the hard work for you. They can submit to dozen of sites in minutes, boosting your traffic enormously.

___Comment on blogs…this may sound like work but its well worth your time. Subscribe to RSS feeds of blogs in your related niche. Post regularly and make sure your adding value to the post, don’t just say “I agree”. You can use a service called Blog Lines to track new posts as they happen. Responding quickly to posts will increase your traffic immensely.

___Twitter…are you twittering yet? This is a micro/blogging site that is just gaining some real traction in the social marketing arena. With a 140 character limit you will be surprised how much traffic you can generate with this tool. Don’t pitch your home based business here, people really don’t like that, but you can build a following that will be very profitable to your bottom line.

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Web 2.0 tactics can get you thousands of unique visitors with the right plan. To learn more online business building strategies visit http://www.BuildingOnlineBusinessSuccess.com

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Cindy Floyd

B & C Marketing Group, LLC

303-429-6333

Author: Carl Coffin

Pre-Paid Legal is the perfect home based business, but if you can’t PAY someone to join your team and are running low on cash, read on to learn how to solve your number one problem (CASH FLOW) and stay in business.

I joined Pre-Paid Legal in 2006 as an Independant associate. I joined for alot of the same reasons that many others join. #1 My wife and I worked all the time and we wanted more time for ourselves. #2 I saw the opportunity and got excited. #3 My sponsors were very caring and took an interest in helping me. #4 The Personal development the company offered was outstanding.

From the beginning I made a commitment to myself and my sponsor that I would be coachable. For over a year and a half I worked my business consistently on a part time basis. I went to my weekly briefings and super saturday’s. I went to the Las Vegas Leadership summit twice. I handed out between 2-5 tools everyday. I talked to my warm market and invited prospects out to the events. I purchased business opportunity leads and cold called them. I knocked on doors. I prospected small businesses and handed out tools and business cards. I did one on one, two on one presentations and PBR’s. In addition to all of my activity I coached and counseled my recruits.

I even had one of the top income earners tell me I was doing more than 96% of associates that join Pre-Paid Legal.

I said all this not to brag but to get to a point where I can share my results.

After a year and a half of doing the above activity I had recruited 6 front line associates with memberships and marketed 7 personal memberships and 1 small business plan. I achieved the Manager level but was far from reaching my income goals.

I know most of you are probably thinking that I must have done something wrong to only have six front line recruits but I can assure you (looking back) I followed the “easy duplicatable” system. As far as duplication, two of my frontline recruits recruited two associates.

I earned approximately $2,100 in commissions but I invested thousands buying marketing materials, briefings, travel, etc.

Let’s just say I was in the hole big time and was running out of money fast. I knew that if I couldn’t earn some money I would be forced to quit Pre-Paid Legal.

I knew deep down that I didn’t want to quit Pre-Paid Legal but I had to face facts and the truth was my business was failing.

This was the time that I began to do what just about every other struggling associate does, which is turn to the Internet for research. I learned from some other top network marketers that my problem wasn’t so much Pre-Paid Legal as it was my marketing system. You see, all successful businesses excel at SALES and MARKETING. I learned that I needed to learn how to market Pre-Paid smarter.

In my mind, there had to be a way for a brand new associate to make enough cash flow in the beginning (with very little effort) so they can stay in business long enough to begin seeing duplication in their Pre-Paid Legal business.

The answer I came up with was AFFILIATE MARKETING.

Affiliate marketing has been around for a long time and is based off of Network Marketing or Referral sales WITHOUT the team building. You market a product, refer a customer, and make a commission. It truly is a win win opportunity.

For example, what if you found a perfect marketing system that is geared to network marketers. The system is already set up and is designed to capture prospects and follow up via email. The system sells informational products as well as the same marketing system. This way you are able to set up a backend cash flow machine on autopilot.

Everytime you refer a sale you get a hefty commission. You can then pay for your Pre-Paid Legal marketing costs. All you have to do is market and send traffic online to your website (already created for immediate use).

I have been using affiliate marketing to help grow my Pre-Paid legal business for over a year now and my results have tripled. I now have prospects calling me instead of me chasing them down. I waste less time and spend less money on business costs.

Before you even think of quitting your Pre-Paid Legal business consider affiliate marketing.

Discover how to earn a whopping $4,567,09 per month in your spare time even if nobody joins your MLM business. Forget cold calling. Forget those home meetings. In fact, forget everything you’ve ever been taught about building a solid income in Network Marketing from the “gurus”. ==> http://www.powerprospectingsecrets.info/

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Veteran Online Marketer and Network Marketer