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Are You In One Of The Top Network Marketing Companies?

Firemantom — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:03:25 +0000

First, they ONLY included companies that were in business for 10 years or more. As you may know, a 10 year anniversary in network marketing is practically a miracle… Let’s face it, the ONE year anniversary is a miracle for network marketing companies. The fact that these companies have been around this long says something about the way they do business.

You may also notice that the majority of companies on this list are in the health and wellness field. This trend is still the most popular among network marketing companies. The health and wellness industry has just exploded in recent years. In fact, many of the fastest growing newer network marketing companies that are not on this list are also in this field. This is clearly not a trend to ignore.

Some of their other criteria were companies that are U.S. based, have a Google Ranking, show up in Google Trends and have an Alexa Ranking. If you don’t know what an Alexa Ranking is, burn that phrase into your brain if you are in Network Marketing. Alexa.com ranks every website on their traffic and web views. If your network marketing company doesn’t have an Alexa ranking, it’s either extremely new or something to be concerned about. Also, if you company’s website is trending downward in it’s Alexa ranking, that’s not a good sign either. Another great source you should consider is http://www.mlmrankings.com/top_mlm_performers.aspely You can get a lot of very important information there.

Some very popular newer companies are clearly not on this list, and it’s really just a function of age. For example, you won’t see the extremely popular Monavie, which has been around for 5 years and has reached a billion dollars in sales. 5 years is generally considered to be a long enough time for a Network Marketing company to show stability but it doesn’t meet Nexera’s 10 year criteria. Others with high Alexa scores but that are too young to be considered for this list are Xango, Agel and Send Out Cards.

YES IT IS TRUE ACTION IS REQUIRED

Firemantom — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:21:50 +0000

Action is the solution. Starving People are led to a potato field and there are spades and sacks there also but they sit there waiting for the potatoes to some how magically jump into there bag. Every thing is there for them but they don’t take the action needed to save themselves and dig the potatoes so they wont be hungry. Yet they sit there and wait

ACTION is needed.

That is my all time favorite quote. I first heard it over 12 years ago on a conference call. It cracked me up back then and it still makes me smile. The illustration is so ridiculous yet so appropriate.

If you want to eat you have to do something to get it. Action is required. These days you can go to the store so its pretty easy.

Sadly many people approach their business as though they were sitting in a field waiting for something to happen. I guess they are hoping osmosis will kick in and things will just happen.

They start their network marketing business with a glimmer in their eye. “One day I’ll retire from the drudgery of a job,” or “I will earn a thousand or so to supplement my income”, or “I’ll earn enough to cover a car payment.”

Remember that feeling? You learned about how network marketing worked and bought into the dream. The problem is, far too many sign up as distributors but they don’t take any action. They just wait for something to happen.
Network marketing is a business that you can fulfill your dreams. You can open up unimaginable freedom and lifestyle changes but . . .
. . . one thing is required. Well, actually a few things are required but they all require ACTION!!

Here are ways to help keep yourself motivated for action:

1. Know Your WHY -This is really important. Recently I heard someone say your why should be big enough to make you cry. Mine sure did. Even still I can get choked up when I tell my story of how I got started. It needs to be emotional and inspiring. Although others will benefit from your cause, it has to be about you.Example: My why was freedom: emotionally, financially and the ability to do what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it and have the recourses (money) to accomplish it with no worries – I was financially in trouble and the future was not looking good in fact it was looking worse that it already was if that was possible.
Having been in network marketing already but not feeling a good fit, I realized that I needed a company that I was passionate about not just excited about, excitement wears off. Passion stays. The other thing I needed was a very active team with lots of support not one that signs you up and says good luck and you never see or hear from them again.
Pre-paid legal was the one that worked the passion for me. With the mess I was in I really needed it, and I knew many others just like me having an attorney at your beckon call at any time is awesome Unlimited use amazing.
Freedom from all that mess was my HUGE WHY!
2. Focus Daily on your WHY – When you are doing that, make sure you think deeply for a few minutes and let yourself access the emotion under it. This is VERY important. You’ll find motivation if you focus on this why EVERY SINGLE DAY. Start your day with it so you set the tone for the day. I ask myself who can I help today.
3. Take Daily Action – Read books, listen to audios and conference calls, work on personal development, use at least 3-5 ways to promote your business, etc. Learn what you need to do and do something daily. Write your goals very important. Make contact and talk with at least two people a day about your business

Even if you take small steps in the beginning, keep stepping forward and making progress. Visualize, set goals, work on personal development, learn to be a good marketer and leader. Stick to it. The night before write out three or four things that you are going to accomplish the next day and have a Daily Method of Operation Follow it.

If you stick to it and keep taking action, you won’t regret it.

Firemantom AKA Tom Carter

951-757-5034 tcarter301@gmail.com

Have You chosen the best topic to blog about?

Firemantom — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:55:45 +0000

Tom Carter aka Firemantom

At some stage early on, you nervously wonder if you’ve chosen the right topic to blog about. Of course, you’ve done your research and opted for a subject that’s a good match for your knowledge, experience, and passion. A lot of bloggers wonder if their topic is the one people what to read or if people will be interested in it. If you put out good factual information on a continuous basis you will be fine as long as the topic are the things people are very interested in of course.

You can also go into how too’s in your blogs and build on the subjects people are doing to promote their businesses. You can pick subjects like you tube,facebook, article witting, and even bloging write about all of them. But, until you start seeing results, how can you be sure it’s the best niche for you?

The fact that you decided upon a topic based on your interests is a reasonable indication that you’re on the right track. As you’ll be producing content for a long time (hopefully), you need to maintain an enthusiasm for the subject matter from the outset. That way, you’ll want to learn more so that you can pass on new insights to your readers in the future. The main thing for a blog is consistency you must post minimum once a week and for best results once day I think even twice a day could even get you more exposure at least in the beginnig. Set you goals for how often you are going to blog and and try to beat your goal.

If, however, after only a few months of blogging you find yourself struggling to come up with ideas for posts, or you haven’t the heart to publish regularly, this is usually an early warning sign that you have to rethink your first choice of blog topic. Go to some of the top bloggers and see what they are doing read a number of blogs and you will soon see what people are reading and you can get inspired to write article that are in the readers interest.

Don’t panic keep bloging and if you are consistent and keep an eye on what others are doing that are some of the top bloggers and kind of follow their lead you will develop your own following and you will be amazed at the content you can come up with.

Great Advice to Use When Attending A Net Work Marketing Event

Firemantom — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:05:20 +0000

Jessica Perretti wrote an article that I think is the very Important for every network marketer to read and follow. Networking is the art of getting to know and trust the people you are in contact with so that they want to work with you. Then as Jessica says we build relationships and help as many people as we can to become successful.

Jessica is a very successful internet marketer and is always very helpful and a friend. Thanks for the article Jess

Firemantom at Home

How many of us have gone to a networking function, only to feel like we were a piece of meat and had been pitched a million times?!

Everyone is running up to you, throwing you their card that say “I am a coach and teach people to work from home while increasing their financial, spiritual, and physical health” while you think to yourself, “What the H#%ll does that mean??”

I know almost every time I used to go to a networking function/business get together or whatever, I seriously just wanted to hide in the bathroom and never come out until it was all over! I went because I knew it would help my business, (after all it’s about relationships right?) but I never really did what I was supposed to do because I was sooo warn out by people pitching me their network marketing opportunity!

We all have been through it, and no matter what the latest greatest work from home business ideas are, there’s one sure fire way to make sure you stand out and don’t look like every other “salesy” person in the room:

How to Stand Out…

DON’T PITCH YOUR BUSINESS!!

“But Jess! The reason I go to networking functions is to get my business out there and let people know what I do! Why WOULDN’T I pitch them??”

I get this question ALL of the time! Trust me, It’s OK to be a piece of meat and let people pitch you, just don’t pitch them! Naturally they are going to ask you what your network marketing opportunity is or what you do, and your response should be nothing more than a few sentences, and then tell them if they want to check it out you have some online videos. After that, just let them keep talking and ask them questions.

So What’s Your Job at a Networking Function??

Your job is to build relationships! That’s it! People are shocked when I tell them I don’t carry business cards to a networking function, you know why? Because even if I hand them out no one will follow up with me anyways!

YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW UP WITH THEM! When someone asks me for my business card I say, “You know, I didn’t bring any with me (I’m not here to pitch) but I would love to get YOUR information, do you have a card?” I tell them I’ll email or call them and the rest is history. Just build a solid relationship, remember the things you talked about and follow up with the person later, see if they’re open to looking at something else. That’s it!

We always try to make things more complicated then they are. Trust me, when I first got started I was absolutely terrible, now that I’ve practiced and learned from experience, I’ve noticed that the one true way to build is to say a little to a lot of people. If we continually build relationships and are constantly talking to people, you’ll be amazed at where your business can go .

Why even bother with an MLM or Internet Marketing Business

Firemantom — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:36 +0000

That is a great question if I do say so myself. I obliviously don’t know your situation but I will relay mine and hope it helps you.

I thought I was pretty well set up for retirement and I was working as a Realtor. I had a lot of control of my time and could usually pick my work hours and days. Great right? I was making a good living and the future look bright ahead.THEN the market came tumbling down and it hasn’t stopped yet. at least for me

I just closed my third escrow of this year. I use to do 12 or more fairly easily. When I was averaging 8 or more a year and they were over double the income they are now. With the 60% drop in home value and Realtors work on a % commission. The income from each was 60% less. Three escrows at 60% less doesn’t quite meet my financial obligations.

What to do? I looked for a JOB well guess what they are few and far between and I don’t have a degree in anything so that is even worse. The only people I knew that we able to get Jobs were very specialized in what they did.

I really didn’t want a JOB with regular hours. I did work the Census which paid well and really helped out but it wasn’t long enough and I could some what pick when I wanted to work. I have been self employed since I retired from the Fire Department and that means There was no unemployment available. The only thing that made any sence to me was multilevel marketing or internet marketing. There you can achieve unlimited inciome and pick your own hours.

MLM has it down side YOU HAVE TO WORK ! There is a lot of information on the Internet about people who make $20,000 or more there first month while that may be true that is REALLY and exception.

After looking at all my possible ways to make money the one that made the most sense to me was MLM or Internet Marketing. I have done it before with some success and it was fun to me. I love to meet and help people. I remember the saying “help enough people get what they want and you will get what you want”

Just so Happens I chose Numis Network. They don’t have any competition and it is marketing Gold and Silver.

I think there are a lot of great companies out there Some old ones are Arbon International (cosmetics) and Mona Vie (health drink)and xocal or (Healthy Chocolate0 some of the newer ones that are looking good are Zowii ( health Products and energy drink) IZIgg ( a text messaging co.)and Numis (Gold and Silver marketing.

Hope this helps.

To Your success!

Firemantom aka Tom Carter

951-757-5034

Put your name and email address in the box to the right and get a lot more information no obligation

EVERY NETWORK MARKETER NEEDS A REASON WHY

Firemantom — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:40:09 +0000

My Reason Why. Here is a very timely article written by Amy Jo Neal. Amy is a very accomplished Internet Marketer and My sponsor in Numis Network. She always has good content and I really enjoy her articles.

Today I was confronted head on with my reason WHY. You know what I mean…my reason

“WHY” I am doing this wacky internet marketing thing…My reason WHY I joined my primary MLM business….my reason WHY I spend every spare second when I’m not taking care of my other commitments or not with my family, every spare second working on what I’m really passionate about… building my business.

My reason WHY came out of its dark lair and showed me its fangs today. Now, this is not the first time I’ve seen it do that of course. But today, those beady red eyes stared at me and dared me to give up. Dared me to stop all this crazy network marketing, all this business building and marketing training I give and receive… Dared me to stop writing articles, connecting with other marketers and growing my downline. That monster tried to will me back into complacency — that place I existed before I started to TAKE ACTION, changed my life and became an Entrepreneur.

You know what I did? I looked that reason WHY right in the eye and I sang out “NOT TODAY!” In fact, “NOT TOMORROW, NOT EVER”. I will not go slink back to my corporate existence with my nice little golden handcuffs and watch what the independence I’ve sweated to build for myself go quietly away. I REFUSE. FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION.

Now that felt good! I love when my reason WHY shows itself because it reminds me WHY I’m here and why I started this all when it would be so much easier not to. And now that I’m down this road, there’s no going back. I’m no longer content to just exist and earn what someone else thinks I’m worth. I want more. And I deserve more. And I will have it. In fact, I do have it.

Okay, now you have a short glimmer into my day today. Whew! But enough about me. The point is – EVERY NETWORK MARKETER NEEDS A REASON WHY. And it had better be a good one, because no matter how many spammy emails promise you that you can have the world on a plate with the click of a mouse on autopilot and 7-figure income streams will knock down your door with little to no work involved, you know better. There are many great opportunities out there but they all require work. Commitment and work…and consistency. And when that reason WHY guides you, and you give it your commitment, that’s when the great successes begin.

So, take this moment and either figure out what your reason WHY is (if you haven’t already) or let yourself reaffirm it right now. See it. Feel it. Let it guide you to your greatest achievements.

Remember: FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION.

Take action now sign in on the side and see how to really explode your business

To your success!!

Thanks firemantom

primary business http://www.firemantom.info

If Your Not using Facebook Shame on You

Firemantom — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:33:14 +0000

If Your Not using Facebook Shame on You

Facebook seems to be the hot social network these days that people of all ages are getting involved with. If you don’t currently have a Facebook account, I highly recommend that you go and signup now. If you already have an account, it is time to start using it to your advantage. Facebook is not just a place where you can connect with your friends, it can actually be used to further your personal brand and career. Here is how you can use Facebook to its full potential:

With Facebook Don’t stay in your circle – You need to get away from just interacting with your high school or college friends and start interacting with people within your industry or other industries that you want to get into. An easy way to do this is to join groups that interest you as well as make friends with people that you want to get to know.

Fill out your profile (fully) – The best profile on Facebook is a complete one. This doesn’t mean you should fill out your name and contact information, it just means you need to complete all the fields available.

Don’t be shy – The purpose of Facebook is to connect and interact with other members, so don’t be shy! Interact with other members by writing on their wall, commenting on pictures, asking your friends questions, and most importantly telling all your friends happy birthday. Doing all these things will help others to get to know who you actually are instead of just knowing your name.

Spice up your profile – Facebook Applications lets you spice up your profile by adding things that interest you. For example, I added a YouTube application to my profile which allows me to embed YouTube videos onto my profile for others to see. Now if you are lame like me you can place funny videos on your profile or if you are smart like Robert Scoble you can add videos of yourself that are related to your profession. By taking the Scoble route more people will learn more about you and what you are good at.

Build it, and they will NOT come – This isn’t the Field Of Dreams, you actually have to market yourself on Facebook to become popular. In most cases this is done from interaction, which I talked about above, but you can also do things like adding photos of yourself and other Facebook members. When you do this the other people that you tagged in the photo will get emailed, thus increasing the number of people who see you on Facebook. Some of the other things to consider are creating a group on Facebook as well as creating your own application, which could be distributed to all your friends.

Keep your profile up-to-date – If you don’t keep your profile up-to-date it will start dying down. By keeping it up-to-date it will gain more traffic and more people will get to know you.

This is pretty much how I leveraged Facebook so far and it has worked for me. I haven’t gotten too many job offers from it,

but I did get to meet new people within my industry.

Your Call To Action Might Not Be Strong Enought

Firemantom — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:00:58 +0000

5 Signs Your Call-to-Action Needs a Makeover

You MUST have a Strong call to Action one that is very easy to find and one with something of value your target market will sign up for and be GLAD they did. The more value you can offer the more sign up you will receive. There is a lot of competition out there with people offering 5-7 day boot camps. extensive Face book tanning. Even if you don’t have that much value firgure the most you can give like a e-book for article witting or an SEO video tanning

A call-to-action (CTA) is an image or text that tells your readers what action they should be taking next on your site. Hopefully your calls-to-action lead to landing pages where you will collect your visitors’ contact information in exchange for Your offer!

Unfortunately, there are many wrong ways to create a CTA (including a complete lack of an actual CTA). Here are a few ways you can tell that you need to makeover your site’s CTAs.

1. Your Landing Pages Aren’t Getting Traffic

One of the most obvious signs that you need to rethink your CTAs is that you’re not getting traffic to your landing pages even though your site overall is getting decent traffic. This may be because your offer and corresponding CTA don’t answer the crucial question your visitors want to know: “What’s in it for me?” One of the weakest calls to action is “Contact Us.” You want to be sure that you’re offering something that visitors are willing to exchange their contact info for. Something specific for your target market!

Some ideas for lead generation offers include:

Free eBooks
Free whitepapers
Free webinars
FAQs
Kits

Also make sure that your CTA is clickable. Many times I’ve seen a great offer on the page that either isn’t a link or is a broken link.

2. You’re Not Getting Leads

A lack of leads is another obvious sign that your CTAs need an overhaul, and is also tied to the fact that you need a compelling offer. But you also want to be sure that your CTA accurately matches the offer. Don’t overpromise on the CTA in hopes of increasing your click-through rate! If your readers click the CTA and reach a landing page where the offer doesn’t match up, they’ll navigate away from the page instead of filling out the form. So it’s also important that you follow landing page best practices to ensure that your landing page matches the CTA and offer

3. Your visitors have to dig to find a CTA

I often see the only CTA hidden away that takes three clicks to get to. That means that if your site gets 300 visitors per day, that’s 300 lost opportunities to get leads (minus however many actually navigated or Google-searched to that exact page the CTA lives on). There’s nothing wrong with having your primary call to action right on your homepage. In fact, there should be a primary and secondary CTA on nearly every one of your website pages.

4. Your CTA Is Below the Fold

People are lazy. It’s the truth. Just like most people don’t go past page #2 in Google, people don’t like scrolling down if their eyes don’t find something interesting in less than 5 seconds. Place your CTAs above the fold so the user can see them without scrolling down. It is also helpful to make it as colorful as possible!

5. Your CTA doesn’t stand out

A bit of text in the sidebar isn’t going to be enough to grab your visitors’ attention. Make Your Call To Action Bold, with graphics and colors that they can’t miss. Use arrows to make sure they see it. Contrasting colors can help draw a visitor’s eye to the action you want them to take. You can check out www.ezinearticles.com about powerful calls to action and get some fantastic Ideas

To your massive success

Tom Carter aka Firemantom

primary co. www.firemantom.net

Reasons to have a MLM Home based Business

Firemantom — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:35:20 +0000

MLM Home Business

One of the reasons that MLM has become so popular, is because of the potential for an MLM home business. The appeal of working at home is a key factor in making MLM home business such an attractive venture. Of course there is the biggest reason making more money! To set up an MLM home business, one needs only to have an internet connection, a phone, and a computer. If your MLM home business is selling a product, you may need sufficient storage space usually provided by one’s garage. There are numerous MLM business that don’t require a large or maybe no additional space for product storage like the Mobil media industry and the Numis gold and silver collectible coins.This is the basis of an MLM home business is that you are able to communicate with all of your potential customers through the internet or phone, so there is no need for an actual office. Since more MLM home business owners work alone, they do not need an office to provide space for employees.

However, an MLM home business cannot be run entirely from your home. At some point you will likely need to meet with customers in order to create a better relationship with them and to finalize business deals. Again, an office is not needed for these activities, further lending credit to your MLM home business. However, the difficulty with an MLM home business is the ability to keep yourself motivated with all of the distractions that are present in your own home. If you were working at an office, you would be surrounded by co-workers (not to mention your boss) which would help you stay focused. However, in an MLM home business there is no one around to keep you on task. If you think

you are the type of person that can overcome this obstacle, an MLM home business may be an ideal venture for you.

One very good way to overcome the work at home lack of motivation is to get up and get ready just like you do for a regular JOB

Don’t work in your bath robe or PJ’s

To your success

Firemantom AKA Tom Carter

business www.firemantom.net

Phone 951-757-5034

Big Secret To Increase Lead Flow and Conversions

Firemantom — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:41:22 +0000

I found this article written by the best copy writer around or at the very least one of the best “David Garfinkel”. This is the way we should write articles and a very good lesson for us all. I have used his technique’s and they have worked well for me epically when I remember to follow them. Reading this article is very informational and tells you some critical thing to do in your marketing.

My Thanks to Davids for writing such a great article and the timing could not be better for me and probably every one else his articles are always so full of important information He is a great one to keep track of.

Bringing recruiting and product sales online is an important next step for many network marketers. Others who are already here share a common concern with those just arrived:

“What am I doing wrong? Why aren’t my ______ (ads, videos, lead capture pages, sales pages) working?”

Of course there’s no “one size fits all” answer to that question. But I can tell you the Number 1 problem in online copy for network marketers:

They start where THEY want to start… instead of starting where the CUSTOMER IS.

If you have this problem, and you fix it, your lead generation and sales conversions will skyrocket!

In this blog post, I will tell you how to solve it. This is one of my favorite subjects. In fact, in The Ultimate Copywriting Course, I share 6 simple secrets to put the power of copywriting in the palm of your hand… and the first one is: Start Where Your Customer Is!

Now what does this mean?

Well, it’s the marketing equivalent of walking a mile in the other person’s moccasins. It means: Instead of looking at your opportunity or your product, or service, from YOUR point of view, look at it the way your prospect would look at it…

… if they had never heard of it before!

This means getting into your prospect’s thinking by understand what their life is like, what frustrates them, what their secret desires are, what their fears are, and how they think about things… which would be different, maybe, than you do. It might even be different than they would after they know about what you have to offer and become a part of it, or start using it!

How do you figure out “where your prospect is?”

It’s actually very simple. You simply have to pay attention to a few things most people don’t usually pay attention to.

The next time you are making a presentation, in person or over the phone, listen carefully to the questions people ask and the comments they make.

If someone says, “I’m homeschooling my kids and I want something I can do from home and I can use to teach my children about being an entrepreneur,” for example, think back. Have you ever heard that before?

Especially, early on in a relationship?

Some opportunities and some products fit that need well. Others don’t.

If yours does… and you’ve heard that same statement (or a question asking if the person can stay at home and how appropriate would it be to involve their children in the business), that should give you a pretty good idea of what’s on the minds of a lot of your prospects.

See? That wasn’t so hard.

But it did require you to think about casual sales conversations in a new way. Like your own personal market research.

The great thing about this is you can take this information and make it part of your marketing message easily and without a lot of cost.

Let’s say you have a video on your website. And let’s also say you sell a great nutritional supplement, an antioxidant that science has proven will strengthen the immune system.

In the past, you might have started your video, (if you were me),

“Hi, I’m David Garfinkel. If you would like greater health for yourself and your family, with a stronger immune system and an overall better feeling of well being, I have some important news for you… ”

However, now you know that, while people may ULTIMATELY buy your product because of the health benefits of antioxidants, talking about that FIRST would violate the rule: “Start where your prospect is.”

So, you could start this way instead:

“Hi, I’m David Garfinkel. If you’re like a lot of my friends, your family is important to you and you may be interested in opportunities that allow you to stay at home and even run a home-based business where you can involve your kids.

“In fact, some of my best distributors homeschool their kids and use what I’m about to tell you about as a very important part of their ‘real-world’ education!

“Now hang on because I’ll tell you more about how that works, but first let me say that I’m sure your family’s health is important to you…. ”

… and then, continue with the health benefits of anti-oxidants.

Just by starting your marketing messages “where the prospect is” can make a world of difference in the conversion and lead generation results in your business.

And you don’t have to limit this to videos, of course. You can use the same idea with:

- articles in social media

- pay-per-click advertising

- blog posts

- lead capture pages

- sales pages

and every other form of marketing you use.

I have helped people completely transform their businesses, in very short periods of time, simply by changing the point of view from what’s on THEIR minds, to what’s on their PROSPECTS’ minds.

It’s a very elite group, those people I have helped.

Would you like to join them?

It’s simple, and all you have to do is start thinking a little differently, and change the beginning of your marketing messages to follow.

Try it. It’s easy, and it can make a world of difference in your business!

David Garfinkel
Author of Advertising Headlines That Make You Rich

I am sure you got a lot out of this one article

Thanks to your success

Tom Carter AKA Firemantom