Stand Tall With Your Recession Proof Business Opportunities!
With the current state of the economy it has left many people bruised and batterd.
All you hear now-a-days are how people are loosing their homes, their retirements, even their cooshie corporate jobs they’ve depended on their whole lives.
And if you haven’t read anything about the current state of our economy,from credible sources not just the news, you need start to right away because their is worse to come…
That being said more and more people are turning to the internet for answers to their problems that have arised as a results of the economy.
The average american is loosing trust in the mega-corporations and turning more to their neighbors and local community for help.
While the government continues to spend billions on these companies to make sure they don’t go under…
As the average american sits at home thinking where to turn to…
As an entrepreneur I choose to look at this problem and see the positive potential.
Today the old saying of “If its to be, its up to me.” Coudln’t be more true.
You are the only one that you can trust to put food on the table for your family.
Their is an estimated 70 Million people who are going to start a business in the next ten years, so the income potentials in the home business industry are massive!!
This is exactly why network marketing, mlm, direct sales and internet marketing are all recession proof business opportunities.
You are the answer to people problems!
Don’t be ashamed that you have a home business, be proud and let people know.
In my life I’ve been blessed tremendously. I got fired right before the economy got bad and I made it work.
Now today we get to travel, golf and play wherever we want and our income has climed every month.
All because of the internet…
So my question to you is, “Are you doing what it takes to grow your business? Or are you going to be a victim of this vicious economy? The choice is yours…
Dwayne Phelps
info@dwaynephelps.net
503-616-3986
How to Generate Free MLM leads With CraigsList
Many of you know of Craigslist or been on it. Usually when someone mentions CraigsList they think of classifieds used for buying and selling different items.
Well I’m here to tell you it can be used to jump start a network marketing business for free!
Craigslist is one of the world’s largest websites. It allows you to place free ads in various cities across the United States and create interest in whatever product or service your offering. It was also ranked by Alexa.com as the 60th most visted website in the world! So you know your ad will have some eyeballs on it.
We will be using Craigslist to place classified ads which will direct traffic to our capture page.
The first thing you have to do is setup your Craigslist account. You will be required to enter a phone number and verify it by phone. Next, you’ll pick a catagory that you will advertise under. You will get the most concentrated amount of traffic by advertising under the “small business ads”. You’ll find this under “services”.
After that is all setup just click the link at the top right hand corner to post. This is all really easy and doesn’t take a computer geek to do. Most of the actually work will be in writing a creative ad.
First select the title you want to use. Remember, your title will be important for search engines to find you. If your stuck on what to write on just go see other people’s ads. Find one that stirs up emotion in you. Either in a good way or a bad way and use those same principles in your writing.
You want your ad to pop out of the headlines when people are skimming through and once people click on that ad your information better be of value and deliver exactly what your title expressed. The title also will determine what type of person you attract to read you ad. If you put “no selling network marketing” or “turn-key mlm system don’t do anything and get paid” it will attract exactly that, people who will complain about the price of success. There will always be a price when it comes to being successful in network marketing.
When writing the main body of your ad you want it to be no more than a few paragraphs. Remember, people don’t read on the internet they skim.
Make sure that what you write is valuable to the person reading it. If your title is “How to learn Marketing on a budget”, then do exactly that. Come up with an outline of a beginning, middle and end section.
The end section should always be a call to action. Whatever it may be. Usually it’s a link of some kind for them to find out more information on the subject at hand. A capture page or a blog works perfect!
Once your done writing pick your “specific location”. Just enter the city in blank. The trick to getting massive traffic is to post in the 27 major cities and to post often. Craigslist though will not enable you to use the same ad more than once. You have to change your title at least 20% along with the body of your ad. Doing this daily can be very time consuming. I recommend you use outsourcing to companies that place ads. You can also do a search for different outsourcing sources. Just interview all of them to find the one that will work for you
These are the basics to using Craigslist to develop free leads. As you can see it’s simple, easy to do and free. Just be consistent and it will work for you.
Dwayne Phelps
info@dwaynephelps.net
503-616-3986
Online Video Marketing- How You Can Improve Your Google Rankings
Have you been doing video marketing as one of your marketing methods?
Well if you have, you sure as hell want them to get indexed in the search engines.
Without the search engines you won’t get anywhere but to complete dissapointment.
The main search engine that’s close to ruling the world today is Google.
And a few months ago they implemented a stratagy in which every video, that is submitted, is converted into text.
Im not joking…
You might be asking yourself, “why would they do this?”
Well the answer is pretty simple, it’s because Google is looking for relevant content.
So everything you say is now “spoken text” and will be used to categorize and rank your video.
Here is how I have found you can improve your ranking…
1.) Make sure you use your keywords in your audio, don’t just play music or waste the audio bits thinking they aren’t important.
2.) Put your keywords in your speech in a natural way, Google also has it set up to find out if you are actually giving good content about your keywords.
3.)Everything you have been doing for your articles and blog posts should now carry over to your spoken word as far as SEO.
All in all this is great thing. Google is really taking charge of sorting the worlds information. And this is where as online entrepreneurs you need to be putting out valuable content so they see you as someone who can deliver “relevant content.”
Dwayne Phelps
503-616-3986
info@dwaynephelps.net
Internet Network Marketing- My Road To Success In This Industry
If You Like This Video And Want To Know More Info On What It Takes To Make It In The Home Business Industry Just Click On The Link Below To Read More About My Story And What I Finally Figured Out To Build Large Income With Internet Network Marketing.
Dwayne Phelps
info@dwaynephelps.net
503-616-3986
How To Google Adwords Part #3- A Quick Guide To “Pay Per Click Marketing”
This part #3 of the “how to Google Adwords” series. In the last 2 you should have learned the basics. Now we get to do the fun part! Here is what we are going to cover…
Signing up for adwords
Preparing Your Keywords
Preparing Your Adgroups
Writing Ads That Work
Pretty simple right? Yeah I can hear it now…”sounds to complicated, I don’t have a technical background!” Your going to have to figure it out, and if you don’t, your never going to make any money as an entrepreneur. So Take Charge!! I will give you the general guidelines but actually implementing them is up to you.
Signing up for Google Adwords is really simple. Go to google.com/adwords, on the right hand side click on “start now”. It’s then going to ask you which addition you would like, pick “standard” and press continue. You will then pick an email and password, if you already have a gmail account pick the option to use that account. It’s good to have all your Google services within one account. Now go ahead and sign in.
It will then ask you “how would you like to pay for this account?” Go ahead and select the currency that you use(USA would be US Dollars). It will then give you a notice that your account has been created.
Now just go to your email and click on the confirmation link they sent you.
Now we have to prepare our adgroup and keywords. First thing you do is set-up your “Base Keywords” which will be what you name your Adgroups as well. So consider them your foundation. I use Google Docs to keep track of everything. Its a note and spreadsheet online service, it keeps all your records for you. You can then in-turn use any computer and have access to all your records…AWESOME!!
Use the spreadsheet feature, I would start with 5 Base Keywords and keep them very short, a good example would be “make money” or “home business”. Put them across the top of your document. Now you are going to get additional keywords that include your “base keywords” in them. Exp: “make money online fast” or “home business online opportunity”. Notice how they both have the base keywords in them? Add 5 additional keywords to you base keywords list.
Use the Google Keyword Tool or Free Wordtracker, these are the tools to help you find your long tailed keywords(Google These Tools If You Aren’t Familiar With Them). The longer the keyword the more serious the prospect. Someone looking for “home business” is less serious than someone searching for “online home based business opportunity”…Specificity Is Important!
Now lets add them to your Google Adwords Account…
You have different of ways to enter them: Broad Match, which is just the word itself. This means that when someone searches on Google you will show up for any of the words in your keyword. Its not ideal way to get high quality prospects. So for example if one of your keywords is home business, you will show up for any search that has business or home in it…Hence the name “broad match”…
The other type is phrase matched. This would be a keyword with quotes around it, “home business online” would be one. This mean that whenever someone searches for a keyword that has this exact phrase, your ad will come up. A few keywords your ad would appear with are: “best home business online” or “legitimate home business online opportunity”. Making sense?
The third type is Exact Match. This is when you put brackets around your keywords, [online home business]. Then the only time your ad will show is when people type in this exact keyword. No additional words and in just that order.
Now putting the quotes and brackets into all of your keywords can be time consuming. But not anymore, there is a tool that does it for you, just put in your words and it spits them out with brackets and quotes…Go to http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/cgi-bin/adwrapper.cgi and play around with it. When it spits them out just copy and paste them onto a text document and name the document according to your base keyword.
Now lets create your first campaign!!
Log onto your account. Pick a country to target, I would stay with the US until you are more advanced. In your ad you are only allowed three lines, so make them count. Learn to write persuasive ad copy, go to an online bookstore and buy books on writing sales copy, you will need it for almost everything you do online.
We will use the keyword home business for our example. In your headline make sure you put your base keyword, Google will make it bold when it shows up on searches.(When Your More Advanced You Will Know Of Other Ways Then Putting The Keyword In Your Headline To Get Attention)
Your headline might read: Lucrative Home Business
Then you have the second line which is your first description, which should be a benefit of some type your offering to the person searching. “Learn To Market Online Fast” Could be considered a benefit to people looking at your add.
In your third line which is your second description you will add a feature that describes what you are advertising. In this example it could be, “Step-By-Step Instructions”…
The last step is to add your URL. Make sure to make it pretty and even. You can either add the www or take it away. I like not having it. I also add my base keyword sometimes to the end of the URL so it gets more bold in my add…
Here is how our add would look like:
Lucrative Home Business
Learn To Market Online Fast
Step-By-Step Instructions
UnlimitedEntrepreneur.com/HomeBusiness
Now go ahead and add your keywords at the bottom. Just copy and paste them from your text document . Set your daily budget high enough but low enough that it won’t break you. Now bid for your clicks, bid high at the beginning so more people are clicking on your add. And in-turn Google will reward you and cut your prices or you can cut them yourself. Now just press continue to get it posted.
There is a lot more to Google Adwords but these are enough to get you started. I recommend, if you are serious about this advertising method, that you read everyday for the next week on how you can improve your skills with Adwords. I personally have spent thousands of dollars and hours figuring out this advertising method, so if you feel overwhelmed or maybe even scared its a good thing, I was too at one time. The most important thing as an entrepreneur you can do is just dive in with a positive attitude and keep learning everyday.
If you have any questions you can email me directly or post a comment down below and I will try my best to answer what I can.
Dwayne Phelps
503-616-3986
info@dwaynephelps.net
How To Google Adwords Part #2- A Quick Guide To “Pay Per Click Marketing”
Do you want the fastest and most efficient marketing strategy to work for you or against you? I would have to say I have never found one like Google Adwords, I know their are many ways to market your product or service online but none that will deliver this type of high quality visitor to your website. That is why I created a short series of articles explaining some of the essentials of pay per click advertising.
What Im going to talk about here is making your website “Google Friendly”. If your new to the ppc world you are probably asking yourself what this means, right?
First let me explain a trend that has been taking the internet marketing world by storm…
There are a lot of phony claims and scams being thrown around online and Google wants nothing to do with it, especially when the FTC(Federal Trade Commission) breathes down their necks about these issues. So Google has been “blacklisting” and “slapping” people websites and will not let them use them in Adwords Advertising.
They have a system for determining that your website is “relevant” to the keywords you are bidding on. If you are bidding on the word “blue suits” they want those results to show up first then results on the word “suits”. This is exactly what makes them such an amazing tool! You get what you search for immediately, without the BS…
And if they don’t think you should be bidding on certain words because they are not relevant, they will either up the price so high you won’t be able to bid or just shut you down all together…neat huh?
So, to battle this we have to make sure you have a website optimized to the keywords you intend to bid on…make sense?
The first step is to make sure that your domain is in-line with the keywords you are bidding on. They do not allow forwarded or masked domains, if your affiliate marketing a product have your own customized domain name for that page. Same goes with your personal pages…
The second step to making your website Google friendly is by adding outbound links. If you know anything about Google you know they are all about content, so having some links from your page is like dessert for them!
Adding outbound link means you have links going to other websites, usually in relation to the keywords you are bidding on. If you are in the home business industry you might have an outbound link going to homebusiness.com.
The third step you need to take is adding inbound links. This means that somewhere in internet land there is a website that has a link to you. Some good places to put them would be article submission sites and social media sites. Like Facebook and Youtube… Placing blog comments with your link is also a great way to get inbound links.
The fourth technique would be to include the keywords you are bidding on in your website. One quick way to know if your site is optimized for a certain keyword is by using Google’s keyword tool and instead of searching for a specific word you choose to search a specific website. Then just put your URL in and it will scan your site to reveal the words your site is most optimized for…
These are some of the basics to getting your site Google Adwords friendly, if you stick with them you will have great success when it comes to actually putting your website up and not getting banned or blacklisted.
Dwayne Phelps
503-616-3986
info@dwaynephelps.net
How To Google Adwords Part #1- A Quick Guide To “Pay Per Click Marketing”
Many people have built 7 Figure businesses with Google Adwords. I know first hand that this advertising method is one of the most powerful paid methods of advertising in existence today. But guess what, it ain’t easy to learn! Not only that but if you jump in without proper knowledge you can loose you shirt, and by that I mean your bank account balance.
I have created a three part Pay Per Click series for that reason. This is the first one in the series. Here you will find the basic terms and a solid explanation on how this advertising method works.
Google Adwords, in short, is a “pay per click” service, meaning you pay only when someone clicks on your ad. You do this by first placing a bid on a keyword that has to do with the type of visitors you want to attract to your website. For example, if you are advertising a home business opportunity, you would bid on the keyword “home based business opportunity”. Then when someone on Google searches for the word home based business opportunity they will find your ad on the right side of the page.
Then the person searching for that term will have to click on your ad, if it catches their attention, you would then pay the price you bid on for that word.
Some of the terms you will have to know include:
CTR(Click Through Rate) This is the number of times someone clicked on your ad divided by the times your ad was shown. Here is an example, if your ad was shown 100 times and it was clicked on 3 times, you would have a CTR of 3%.
CPC(Cost Per Click) This is the average price you pay for every click you receive. The amounts will be different for every keyword but if you add them all together and divide by how many there were, you will get the average price, which is your CPC.
Conversion Rate, This is the percentage rate of people who visit your website to the ones who take the action given to them. A good example would be if you have a newsletter opt-in form on your website for people to subscribe to your newsletter. The amount of people that visited, divided by the people who actually subscribed would give you a percentage, which is your conversion rate.
Average Position, this is average number of where your ad shows on the right side. In my testing its always good to be between 4 to 7. 1 to 3 gets a lot of click happy people and 8 on usually shows up on the second page which gets your ad unnoticed.
Keywords, this is your main piece of the pie. It is the words people search for, that you bid on to have your ads show up. A keyword can be either one word like “home” or it can be multiple ones like “home based business”. Some people call these keyword phrases, but to keep it simple lets just say they are all keywords no matter how many are clustered up.
These are the basics of how to Google Adwords. Here is some quick advice… I would not go and try using this advertising service until you have a solid understanding of the principles that will make you successful in this type of advertising. You will then be able to dominate whatever market you want and not go through an expensive learning curve that many people can’t bounce back from when they are just starting.
Dwayne Phelps
503-616-3986
info@dwaynephelps.net
LifePath Unlimited Review, Genuine Online Home Based Business?
Lifepath Unlimited has been around since 2006 and is based in the state of Arizona. They are a home based business opportunity company that promotes the sales of personal development products. They started as a personal development company wanting to help people achieve greatness in all areas of their lives. They did this before they came out with an opportunity side to help people get financially free.
The three founders are Joe Neid, Dave Mackenzie, Patrick Combs all of which are entrepreneurs and have owned large businesses before Lifepath Unlimited.
They have three main products in there line, they include:
The Discovery Series, this is their main upfront product and its a home study course. It walks your through 56 days of multi-media, which include interactive websites, and mentorship sessions held every week. Priced at $1695.
The Breakthrough, is a live event. Usually at a nice resort for 3 days. You’ll hear from personal development experts and all kinds of entrepreneurs. This event is held two times a year with a price tag of $8995.
The Destiny Event is a one time a year live personal development event. This event is similiar to the Breakthrough but is usually at higher end resorts and lasts for 5 days. The main focus is masterminding with like minded entrepreneurs. At a price tag of $14,995.
Lifepath Unlimited has a direct sales compensation model. They are not a traditional mlm company.
You earn $1,000 for every Discovery Series you sell, $5000 for every Breakthrough and $9000 for every Destiny product.
With the Breakthrough and the Destiny you have to pass up the first commision to your upline then you are fully qualified to recieve them.
They also have a residual component that encourages you to help your team. This happens because most of the people your bring in will upgrade to the higher product and thus more commision come your way. You also earn certain percentages from your first level sales. Just like any other direct sales model.
Lifepath Unlimited, all in all, is a great model and a lot of people have made crazy amounts of money fast because of it the high priced products involved…
But there is one component your going to have to learn if you want Lifepath or any other direct sales company to produce income for you…
Thats The ability to market online…
That right, no matter what company you join, you will never make a dime if you don’t know how to find your customers and speak their language, to have them buy products from you. Expecially products with large price tags.
In my experience ,of marketing online most of my life, if you don’t know how to market, invest some money and take 3 to 6 months learning the in’s and out’s of advertising and internet marketing. This will allow you to join and make money within your first 60 days.
It’s that valuable and its the reason why 97% don’t make it in the home business industry. If you want to make money and not be part of the masses who fail in this industry go do your homework and learn the skills needed to market any product or company online…
Dwayne Phelps
503-616-3986
info@dwaynephelps.com
Trivita Review- The Good & The Bad
If your here your probably looking to join Trivita, or have already joined them…
Well you have to come to the right place because I’m going to give you my opinion on everything related to Trivita.
When first looking at the company it doesn’t look too exciting. Their website doesn’t have all the fancy graphics of other companies.
But this shouldn’t stop you from looking closer…
Trivita has been around for 10yrs now. Being a home business company, that is very rare. Companies now-a-days go out of business left and right.
They are also privately owned and have no stock holders! They are in perfect position because they dont have to please investors they can do what’s right then worry about profit.
The leadership is fantastic as well…
Michael Ellison is a Media King. He owns a very large company called Ellison Media. If you don’t know who they are, they do all the media for The Rich Dad Company.
Yeah…Big Stuff!
When It comes to products Trivita doesn’t loose any points. All of their products are completely natural and have very low refund rates. Having such a large line of nutrition supplements allows them to stay very competitive in the Wellness Industry.
One great thing they just did was launch a product by the name of Sonoran Bloom. Its from the Napal Cactus Superfruit and it claims to cure inflammation. That would include problems like arthritis and allergies. The testimonials with this product have been great so far.
As far as Trivita’s compensation goes, they do a Co-Op model and use Media to get customers. And in-turn affiliates can buy the rights to these customers as Trivita keeps marketing to them 14 times a year.
You can also enroll other affiliates to do the same. In-turn you get paid off of their customers as well.
With the introduction of Sonoran Bloom they have now gone to more of a traditional Network Marketing Plan. It looks to promise great residual income, which is a must for any network marketing comp plan.
Now comes the most important part of my review… How well do they teach you to market?
They have great resources when it comes to being able to purchase customers right off of the commercials they produce. This allows the new person to see immediate results with their money!
As far as recruiting new affiliates, that part is totally left to you.
Hopefully you have learned the precious skill of marketing because if you haven’t…
You are not going to get very far in building a large residual income.
If your looking at Trivita as a company to join you need to take a few months and learn how to market yourself first!
Most people do it backwards and find a company first and then try to recruit people with no marketing skills…
So they end up burned out and fail as a result…
All in all Trivita is an awesome company, but without the knowledge of knowing to market yourself. You’ll never get anywhere…
Dwayne Phelps
Internet Marketing Consultant
503-616-3986
info@dwaynephelps.net
Work From Home, Crucial 6 Steps To Financial Freedom
Everybody wants to work from home fast. We live in a get rich quick society filled with people who expect exactly that.
But if that’s the case then why do only 3 to 5% actually become financially independent?
It’s because nobody takes the time to establish exactly what they want…Seriously, what have you done to stir up a desire in you to attain your goals. If you don’t put them down in detail your never going to create desire to achieve them.
I can remember when I was a “green pea” in my online business. All I wanted was to make money online by working at home! Had no clue the amount I wanted, what I was going to do with it, how I was going to earn it and when I wanted to earn it by…
Till I met a friend, who was around my same age that was making 80k plus every month. I had to ask him his secret.I thought he was going to tell me some secret marketing method or cutting edge strategy… He told me I needed to put everything I wanted in complete detail on paper so they would stir up desire in me to complete them….that’s it!
He said if I didn’t do that then I would never make it, because it all starts with creating that desire in you to succeed.
I relate it to looking for treasure without having a treasure map…you’ ll never get there!
You must also understand that wishing for something will not bring it to you. You must DESIRE it into obsession. Then make a plan of how to make that money online with your business opportunity.
Then just back that plan with persistence everyday!
So I had no clue where to start, I thought wanting money would be enough..
I started to read different books on exactly what I needed to write down to stir a desire for success in myself.
After many months of reading I started to see certain principles a lot. Here are the 6 Principles I read to creating desire (in this case it would be to work from home)…
Fix your mind on exactly how much money you want to make, be very definite, 30,60,90,180 Days all the way to one year.
Put done exactly what your willing to give up to have that money (There is no free lunch…EVER!)
Once you know an amount you desire put down an exact date with it
Create an exact business and marketing plan for carrying it out and begin immediately. Speed of implimentation is a must!
Now take all those and put them into one mission statement…”I want this much by this time and Im going to give this up to get there with this plan of attack”
It will then be your responsibility to read that statement aloud twice a day at minimum. I like to do it upon waking and going to bed…
Only those people who become “money conscious” will ever accumulate anything worth mentioning in their online business. If you’ve never read positive thinking books this might seem a little weird to you but if you ask anybody that’s a millionare in anything, including making money online, they do exactly the same…
So I challenge you to do this quick exercise with yourself, put away all the thinking that you have to learn how to market, or the newest thing online to get leads and customers so you can make money…
Get these crucial steps done in your journey to make money online and next time we talk you’ll be in a completely different position in your life…
Dwayne Phelps
info@dwaynephelps.com
503-616-3986
