Lois Tuzeneu

Every day, thousands of people go online to make money.  Most of them fail miserably because they either truly believe one of the 7 Internet Marketing Myths, or they believe all of them.

You can discover a grain of truth in all of them.

Over the next several blog posts, I will be sharing these myths with you.

Myth #1:  Internet Marketing is EASY

This is probably the biggest myth of all.  Let me tell you right now, internet marketing is hard.  It takes time and effort, not to mention money.  Anyone who suggests otherwise is trying to sell you their program, which is probably a bunch of baloney.

Granted, it is comparatively easier than a traditional business in that there’s no inventory to carry, no shipping of goods, no sales staff, and virtually no overhead.  But a lot of work is still involved.

So don’t fall for Myth #1, or you will end up a failure, too.

Stay tuned for Myth #2 next time!

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If you are making good money with your online business, then you can just ignore this blog post, as it will not apply to you.  You are doing well, and know some things about network marketing that most people don’t know.

The rest of you, pay close attention!  This is for you!

What are you missing?  Why isn’t this working as you want it to?

It is quite possible that you don’t have the skills you need.  You may not even know what skills are needed!  You may not even know that you need skills in the first place!  Don’t you just set up the business like that program you are in tells you to and sit back and watch the money flow in?

Well, it is not working, is it.  Because you really do need skills to set things up the right way and understand what you are doing.   Skills are very important.

As soon as I get to a point in my skill-learning where I can, I am going to reveal a wonderful source for skill-learning, with a really great teacher, who will tell you everything you need to learn, and who will really teach you the skills you need to know to succeed.  Then you can watch your business grow the right way.

So stay tuned for more information on this in the days and weeks to come!

And by the way, in case you were wondering why I am not blogging as often right now, it is because I am pouring my time and energy into learning these skills quickly so that I can share them with you sooner.  So I will try to post at least twice a week, but hopefully will be back up to my regular schedule as soon as possible.

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I am so excited!  I have been getting some GREAT intensive training, with more to go, and I am very excited about it!

This is why you have not been seeing updates quite as often from me as usual.  There are only so many hours in the day, and with my training, and homeschooling my son, who is now in high school, I am not having as much time or brain-power to blog as I usually do.

But it will be worth it!

Once I have the learning to the point where I can actually implement things, you will be seeing great things on this blog!  I will be going in a little bit of a different direction, but my theme will be the same.

So stay tuned!  I will be blogging about things I am learning very soon!  I hope you will stay with me here and learn along with me!  It is so fun!

Talk to you again soon!

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Why would I say such a thing?!  If I am in affiliate marketing, shouldn’t I be more positive than all that?

Remember the subtitle of my blog site?  It is “Best Network Marketing Secrets.”  And one of the secrets of affiliate marketing that not many people want to tell you is that. . .making money in affiliate marketing takes TIME!

Why do the “experts” not want you to know this?

If you know this dirty little “secret,” you may not be so ready to buy their programs that claim that you can make thousands of dollars in a short period of time!  And then the people selling the training programs or ebooks would not make the kind of money THEY want to make!

Does this mean that you can’t make good money in affiliate marketing?

The answer to that is “NO!”  You can make VERY good money in affiliate marketing, but you have to be prepared to spend lots of time and energy (WORK) training; setting things up; deciding on your market, product, advertising, etc.; and then building your list before you can expect to make much, if any, money.  Once you put in the effort, once you spend the time that it takes to get everything in place, once you get your list well on its way, THEN you can start making money.

And it may not be thousands right away.  You may make $34 here, $75 there, eventually working up to $100-$250 per day.  After some more time and effort, you may then start seeing $1000 days.  But not if you want it NOW.  You will need to be patient and work hard to get there.

And if you are willing to put in the time and effort that it takes, you will make a good income in affiliate marketing.  But if you just want the big bucks NOW, than you really need to rethink going into business for yourself, because anything you do to make money from your computer will take WORK.

Stay tuned for some more tips on affiliate marketing in my next post!

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Ask yourself this at the end of the day, would I hire myself tomorrow?  Be honest.  Do you spend your time wisely and get lots done, or do you find yourself being lazy, doing busy work, and putting off what you know needs doing?

Some days you have the motivation and inner drive to work hard and get a lot of work done, and other days (like today when it is cloudy and dreary) you feel lazy and tired.  It is just so HARD to think and do any work except busy work.

How do you make yourself get work done when you feel that way?  Do you have a schedule that you follow no matter what, and just DO what you need to?  Do you take a nap, hoping that will take the edge off so you will feel more like working?  Do you declare a vacation day for yourself?  Do you have motivational phrases posted around your office to inspire you to get busy?

I would love to hear from you what you do when you feel this way!

Are you getting work done, or are you being lazy?

Think about what you do every day at your computer, or whatever you do to start your work day.  Do you do a lot of busy work, like check email, headlines, facebook, twitter, your stats?  If this only takes you a few minutes, that is fine.  But if it ends up sucking you in and taking you half the day, this is not working hard or smart.

If you need to write an article or a blog, or write some ad copy, this should really be tackled fairly early in your day so that you can get it done while your mind is fresh and you have the time.  If you let things slide while you do your busy work, your mind will be more sluggish and you will find it easier to put things off that you really should be doing.

Once your important tasks are finished, then you can make time to do the other things, and then you can spend as much time as you want or need in those tasks.  You will feel like you got things accomplished, and you will feel good about yourself and your business.

Or if you feel some of those things are important to your business, set a time limit, do what you really need to first, then move on to your other more important tasks, returning to the emails, etc., later.

And sign up on the right for email training in affiliate marketing, if that is your niche.

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One of the best ways to make money online is to find your strengths and work with them in your business.

How Do I Find My Strengths?

• One way to find your strengths is to think about what you do well.
• Another way is to think about what others have told you that you do well.
• Another is to ask other people what you think your strengths are.
• And another is to find a professional who can test you to find your strengths.

Just What Will This Do for Me?

If you are not getting the results from your business that you had hoped for, it may be that you are not taking advantage of your strengths.  If you are good at, say, public speaking, but not a very good writer, and you have a blog but are not utilizing video, then you need to work harder at getting a video account going.  You can then do your marketing through video.  If you like having a blog, then put video in you blog.

Or maybe you are trying to do video, but that isn’t your strength.  Try something else that you ARE good at, and see if your success increases.

Maybe you are trying to sell a product about how to train dogs, but you really don’t like animals.  Then you shouldn’t be selling products about animals.

Find what your strengths are, and try to work with them.  Then you will be more successful in your business ventures.

For more training on being successful in your business, sign up for our emails on the right.  And then let me know what you have been learning from me, or what you would like for me to write about!

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I read a great blog today by Katie Freiling about getting more work done in less time.  Wow!  What a great tip she had for us!

Getting More Work Done in Less Time

Katie talked about Parkinson’s Law.  I have never heard of it, and wondered what a law related to Parkinson’s disease had to do with business!

Well, come to find out, nothing!  Parkinson’s Law states that “Work will expand so as to fill the amount of time available for its completion.”  That really made me stop and think.

I don’t know about you, but I really suffer from this kind of “Parkinson’s disease!”  I can take all day to do something that should only take a little while, just because I have all day sometimes, and then I wonder how in the world I will get anything done when my son goes back to school next week (we homeschool, and he starts high school)!

Well, now I know how I will get things done – I will apply Parkinson’s law to my day, only allotting a small time frame in which to get some things done.  We will see how that works out for us!

And if you decide to try this for yourself, let me know how it works out for you!  I would love to hear from you!  If you are reading this on the home page, just click on the title of the article, and it will take you to its own page with a comment box at the bottom.

And if you would love to learn more about affiliate marketing, sign in on the right for some email and video training from my friend, Vick.

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If you are anything like I was a few months ago, you didn’t even know there was a difference between features and benefits.  They may seem like the same thing to you.

Is there really a difference?  And if so, what?

The Difference Between Features and Benefits

The difference between features and benefits is this:

• Features are things that the product or service has or does, and
• Benefits are things that the product or service does for you.

Let me illustrate this for you.  You want to buy a car.  You look at the classified ads in the paper (I know, I’m dating myself, but bear with me here).  The classifieds list the bare bones – year, make, model, sedan, a/c, fwd [front wheel drive], pw/l [power windows and locks], mileage [if used], automatic, price, etc.  These are the features.

The reason the classified ads put in just the features, and in such abbreviated form, is because one pays by the word for these ads.  They want to get you interested in the car because it is the kind of car you want and has the features you are looking for.  But that doesn’t make you want to buy the car, it just tells you to go look at it because it has the features you want.

When you see the car and test drive it, what will make you want to buy the car is if it drives nicely and comfortably, is the color you like, doesn’t need any or much work, and is in good condition (looks nice).  You will like the way it makes you feel, and you will like the way it makes you look when you drive it (it will impress your friends and family).

So, as you can see, the features tell you what the car has, and the benefits tell you what the car will do for you – comfort, look good, little or no work, etc.

What Does That Mean for My Business?

Now, to put this in perspective for the network marketer, you need to try to sell your prospects on your product or service’s benefits, not its features.

How do you do that?  Well, will the product help them to solve a problem they are having with their business?  Will it help them get out of their financial difficulties?  Will it lessen their pain?  Will it help them quit their job?  Will it help them pay their mortgage or rent?  Will it free up their time to be with their family and/or travel?  If you can help them solve their problems, or make them feel better about themselves,  that is what you need to sell them on.  Not the features.

Benefits speak to the heart and features to the head.  So if you can touch their heart, you are more likely to sell them your product or service.

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Do you have a website and autoresponders set up, but just aren’t getting the business you would like to be getting?

There may be several reasons for this.  You may want to research to find out why, or just try to do things differently and see if that changes things around.

How to Get Contacts to Become Customers

One of the ways to get your contacts to become customers is to be generous.  Give them lots of good information that they can use.

But you have to be careful not to give too much information to them, or they will have no need to buy anything from you.

According to Starr Hall at the Entrepreneur website, you need to have a 3/3 Rule.  This says that if you are approached three times by a contact for free information or answers to questions, you need to politely request that they purchase one of your products that will answer their questions for them.  Go ahead and give them the information they want the first two times, but not the third.

Make sure that you build a relationship with the contact before you make a sales pitch to them.  A sales pitch right away will turn people away who may be really needing or wanting what you have to sell.

And last of all, just be yourself.  If you try to put on a false persona to try to impress someone, they will see through you and will be turned off.  But if you will just be yourself, you will come across as genuine, and people will be more likely to trust you.

If you need or want more information that will help your business be more successful, sign up on the right to start receiving my free training emails.  If you click on the links in the emails, you will get even more free training, as well as access to a much greater amount of training then I would ever be able to give you here.

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Are you tired of the promises you see from all the sales letters, capture pages, emails, and ads?

“$10K in 29 Days!”

“I made $109,231.59 in 30 Days!”

“You can make $10K in 10 Days with our program!”

And on and on, ad nauseam.

They grab your attention, and sure, you would LOVE to make that kind of money.  You may have even been roped into some of these headlines and parted with your money.  But did it really get you that kind of money?

If it did, you wouldn’t be here right now, probably.

So how do you deal with this kind of sensationalism?  Do you go along with it and hope the money starts rolling in?  Do you write it off as “typical network marketers,” or “scammers?”

In my opinion, the best thing to do is try to look beyond the sensationalism and see if what they have to offer is any good.  Research THEM.

And if you are the one thinking about using these kinds of headlines, you might want to re-think your strategy.  Put yourself in the shoes of the ones you are trying to reach.  When you read these headlines, how does it make you feel?  If you buy the product and it doesn’t deliver, THEN how does it make you feel?

I, personally, am most impressed with programs and products that do not claim any amount of money that you can make in any specific time period.  If they say it all depends on you, they are right on.  Every person is different; the way people go about working their business is different; their personality and what they bring to their business is different; the money they have to bring into the business is different; the time they have to spend and the quality of time they spend is different.

People who promise you the moon can’t deliver.  And if you see that they claim to make so much money, that doesn’t mean you will make what they make.  You may – it IS possible – but then again, you may not.  And if you don’t, then you will feel let down, and like they ripped you off.  So don’t do that to other people.  And who knows, they may not even make that kind of money themselves – it may be pure sensationalism to try to sell you their program or product!

The best way to make money in network marketing is good, old-fashioned hard work.  Find products that you think will help you succeed, then find products that other people want, and do your best to sell the products in an honest way.

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