Marketing

3rd Vital Component of 6 – The Sales Funnel – Or Down The Rabbit Hole…

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Written by: Al

Moving right along here – if you’ve kept up with the earlier 3  videos on the 6 vital components, you are seeing a pattern.

You’ve probably seen all of these pieces scattered around by various random marketers. If they are random and scattered, that will be what your business will be – random and scattered.

The better integrated each of these components are, the better your business will “convert,” or the better the valuable final product of your business will be achieved.

Watch the video:

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Remember – get each of the 6 steps into action one by one, as best you can. Start with step 1 and do it all again at a higher lever of quality and completeness. Don’t stop. Keep moving through the “circle” of these 6 steps and one when you get it right you will start to see your business grow.

Al @ Components of Success

The First Of 6 Vital Elements In Successful Business Explained: Branding And Positioning

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Written by: Al

Branding? What is it and how does it work?

That is the question…

I introduced to you in a video post of 20 October – just the post-before-last – the 6 utterly essential components of a successful business on line. Here is the first of those ingredients gone into in more depth. There is a wealth of information on this most key of marketing subjects in books. I highly recommend “The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding” by Al Ries – veteran marketing maven.

Here is the video – look it over and then get into action – learning this subject and applying it to your business could create a marked change in the way you do things.

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Realize, that this is what marketing is – not just a frill – it is marketing itself. So, take a close look and see what this trendy term is – “branding” is not just a nice thing to do or have. It is one of the key components in making it or not making it.

Most important is how one actually accomplishes branding – it’s not just by splattering your name all over your website or having a nice “me.com” domain name. Just doing that can well position you in the mind of your viewers as an valueless spammer… so learn this skill and learn it well.

You have to discover and then deliver.

The better you do those 2 actions, the better you create a brand in your niche.

Al @ Components of Success

The 6 Vital Components Of A Successful On-Line Business

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Written by: Al

Here are the 6 things that the big boys in marketing all have in.

In building a business with a network marketing opportunity as part of your income streams, there are  things that after close observation, the most successful invariably have.

Watch the video presentation:

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Now, the key here is not trying to do all of one point at once.

The most successful and practical way to do this is to envision these 6 things as a pie – a circle.  Get one in as best you can, then go to the next item. Get that one in as best you can. Then to the next and on in that fashion until you come full circle.

Then start at the beginning again, and move through that circle, getting in each point as best you can as you go.

If you continue to cycle through each of the 6 points in that fashion, educating yourself as you go to improve each facet of your operation, at some point, depending on your skill and bright implementation of the correct training materials or mentors, you will crack the barriers and your business will begin to increase in traffic, conversions and income.

If you are faint of heart and weak in faith and you let up on the forward pressure, you will be left with a failure.

So, know that only some make it in those advertised few months – for the rest realistically if you are diligently working at it and learning as you go, it could take 6 months, to 1 to 3 years to break through into big income.

You can see the milestones, the marks on the trail that tell you how you are doing. It’s not  a mystery, and it’s not rocket science – correct actions taken, not pondered, but steps taken = progress.

So, action is the other most key factor in getting a real business built. Focus and don’t stop.

Read the signs on the road to your progress. Keep statistics  and do the things that have increased statistics in and drop the ones that decrease them…

If you do, you will become a visible force in this competitive market – and that’s what you must do in order to create a profitable business on line.

Leave a comment and tell me how you are doing and what step you are working on. Share this post with friends and lets get a move on!! It’s time you got big and successful in your business.

Al @ Components of Success

Repulsion Marketing – The Flip Side Of The Coin

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Written by: Al

C'mon, can you stop it?

Repulsion Marketing…

If you aren’t doing Attraction Marketing, you are doing Repulsion Marketing or you’re not marketing at all.

If you’re in business at all, trying to sell a product or service of any kind, you are in the field of “Attraction Marketing.” Whether you think so or not, whether you like it or not.

Attraction Marketing is an age old skill, with a fancy new name.

And, don’t let your company or your upline fool you.

I said to a network marketer something about recruitment and he told me, in a snap, “I don’t recruit, I present…”

Okay, got it. I guess you don’t sell either and your products move themselves. Ever hear that pitch? “No Selling… No Recruiting…Money just falls from heaven…”

Well, if you’re not selling and don’t recruit, how does the company pay you – do they print their own money?

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The Greatest Wisdom Sometimes Comes In The Fewest Words

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Written by: Al

I went to Austin Texas to meet with Mike Dillard at the end of September. I got the chance to interview him after a day of good stiff coaching and dissecting my business and the businesses of the others in our small group. I kept it simple, because, despite the apparent complexity, this is a very simple business – if you know the key fundamentals and know them in your sleep.

Here is my question and here is what Mr. Magnetic had to say…

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So, realizing this, now compare what you see flying by at 1,000 miles per hour on social media, and in life – pitch, pitch, pitch and join this one and that one and endless sell, sell, sell yet, that’s not what’s going to get you where you want to go. (I get pitched so much, I have to hide – imagine on facebook getting 3 chats at a time, all trying to sell a different biz op? Imagine that several times per day… It gets that bad sometimes!)

So, what you I do?

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