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Are you tempted to start an on line business but just don’t how to get going? Start here!

Today was a special day in Wales (UK) – the sun was shining!  Last Spring the UK weather Guru’s forecast a Bar-B-Q summer and it has seemed to rain every day since but today the sun shone in the garden of our friends Mike and Karen. Mike owns a Kitchen Planning business my home town of Cowbridge and my wife Bee and I were invited to a feast of burgers and sausage, chicken and ribs, salad, baked potatoes, Tiramisu, cream and Coconut Ice cream. Life should always be this good.

Wales is very beautiful, very green and very wet, nearby is the place  Tom Jones was born and it is our classic wet weather which gives the lush scenery Tom sings about in his song “The Green Green Grass of Home”

Today though a dozen or so of Mike and Karen’s friends enjoyed idyllic weather and I met Roland, a Mortgage Advisor. The conversation turned to ‘What do you do’ and I told Roland how my blog ‘Internet Marketing Virgin’ helps people who are new to Internet Marketing by giving straight forward ‘non-techie’ advice. Roland is on the upper side of 50 and like many of us golden oldies would love to build a late life career which would give him flexibility to work when and where he likes and go on giving him some residual income when he gives up work altogether.

 ‘I want to figure out how to make money online’ Roland said ‘So tell me, just how do I get started?’

That’s what we do here, this section of ‘Internet Marketing Virgin’ will explain

• What internet marketing is and is not
• How to decide if this is a suitable business for you
• The tools and training you will need to get started
• Making a business plan for your e commerce business
• Researching to see how to make money online
• Building a blog or a website (if you need one at all!)
• Creating content for your website that will draw people
• Getting traffic to your website
• How social networks can help you
• Using e-mail to keep your existing customers
• Earning money from your online business

Subscribe now and week by week day by day your knowledge will expand – it needn’t be a struggle

Your e mail Signature is your Fortune | How to Use Your Signature to Promote Your Business

E mail signatures (those few lines under your e mail or posting describing you and your business)  are said to be the most effective way of promoting your goods and services when used with your e mail provider on social marketing sites and within an autoresponder.  But how is that done?

Internet Marketing Virgin is test driving Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring products which are designed to find distributors for MLM companies using low cost Internet marketing methods.

 In the of Magnetic Sponsoring getting started section Mike offers advice about content and we recently published a blog on that subject see “How to use your e mail signature to promote Magnetic Sponsoring” below, but newbies might find setting up a signature series a bit of a challenge.

 Is it Better to receive and send your mail in Outlook or Gmail?

 I only used Outlook until last year but then I discovered Google Mail and now I find I use g mail all the time. I like it.

G Mail is easier to use on the move, has a faster and more accurate search facility, a labels system which is far easier that the outlook folder system, a simpler rules and filters interface, better spam filtering, and best of all huge free storage space. BUT there are a couple of flaws.

I have a number of businesses and the signature for one business is not always appropriate for another. In Outlook you can add as many signatures as you like and select the one you wish to use for a particular e mail but in G Mail there is only provision for creating only one.  You can get over this using g mail ‘Canned Responses’ but it is a bit clumsy. A proper multi signature system would be better.

 It is possible to access G Mail using Mozilla Firefox and then download a Plug In from  http://www.wisestamp.com  however if you are an Outlook user it might be better to carry on using a system you are familiar with rather than be distracted by learning something new when time is of the essence.

That’s what I am doing, cutting out time wasting learning of new systems ands using the tools I have.

 The procedure for entering signatures is in Outlook is straight forward.

 Create or modify e-mail signatures in Outlook

There are few better ways to spread the word about your business than a well crafted e mail signature

An e-mail signature consists of text or pictures, or both. If you choose to create and use a signature, Microsoft Outlook automatically adds it to your outgoing e-mail messages.

Create and use signatures

 You can create custom signatures for different purposes.

1. In Microsoft Word, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
2. Click E-mail Options, and then click the E-mail Signature tab.
3. In the Type the title of your e-mail signature or choose from the list box, type a name for your signature.
4. Under Create your e-mail signature, insert the text or pictures, or both, that you want to use for a signature. Use the formatting tools to apply formatting to your text.
5. Click Add.

To create another signature, click New, and then repeat steps 3 through 5.

Set or change the default signature

1. In Microsoft Word, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
2. Click E-mail Options, and then click the E-mail Signature tab.
3. If you use more than one e-mail account in Microsoft Outlook, select the account for this signature in the Select the signatures associated with box.
4. Do one or more of the following:
   1. In the Signature for new messages list, click the signature you want.
   2. In the Signature for replies and forwards list, click the signature you want.

Add a signature to a single e-mail message

If Word is your e-mail editor and you want to add a signature to only one message, you can manually insert it.

1. In the e-mail message, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
2. Click E-mail Options, and then click the E-mail Signature tab.
3. In the Type the title of your e-mail signature or choose from the list box, click the name of the e-mail signature you want to use. Under Create your e-mail signature, select the signature text you want to add to your e-mail message, and then press CTRL+C.
4. Click Close, and then click Cancel.
5. In the e-mail message, place your cursor where you want the signature to appear, and then press CTRL+V.

 Note   The signature will not automatically appear in all new e-mail messages.

Select the most suitable signature for the e mail you are sending

If you have defined more than one signature, you can switch between them.

1. In the e-mail message, right-click the existing signature.
2. Select the name of the signature that you want to use.

Just Choose the most appropriate for the e mail you are sending.

Need More Sponsors in your MLM ?| Black Belt Recruiting Shows You How

Mike Dillard explains that he launched his “Black Belt Recruiting” program together with his friend Mark Wieser for the purpose of training network marketers (MLM) in how to recruit more effectively and how to sponsor more distributors.

How good is it?

Internet Marketing Virgin is test driving  Magnetic Sponsoring products.  To learn a bit more about it log on to BlackBelt Recruiting today at http://TonyBee.blackbeltrecruiting.com Watch a free 60-minute training video before you decide if you want to work alongside us!

Review of Mike Dillard  and Mark Weisner’s Black Belt Recruiting

This is what is promised in Black Belt Recruiting.

• How six and seven figure network marketers close prospects on the phone without doing any “selling.”  (In fact, with Mark’s methods, the LESS you sell, the MORE people you sponsor!)
• A sneaky way to get your competition to help you sponsor people into your business… without them even knowing it.
• How to sponsor people who have already decided NOT to join your business!
• My “wrong number” secret that lets you sponsor FAR more prospects than you are now… and with a LOT less effort.
• Four words that will destroy your chances of sponsoring new reps — even the ones who already want to sign up!  (When Mark stopped saying these four words — words that 99% of network marketers say during calls — his sponsoring rate shot through the roof.)
• The secret of getting your prospects so “fired up” about your business you can literally sponsor them without even saying what company you’re in or what product you sell!  (You may even have people call you a couple days later asking, “Ummm, what am I selling again?”)
• How to instantly “de-fang” loud and obnoxious prospects — and actually have them apologizing and pleading with you to show them the plan.  (This secret works even if they were dead set against MLM before!)
• Startling facts you MUST know about sales people before you talk to them about MLM.  (Sales pros can be your best reps — but there’s a “trick” to talking to them if you want to sponsor them into your business.)
• How to “position” yourself as a network marketing expert before you even sponsor your first distributor!
• A weird (but effective) way to make money when distributors quit your team.
• Why the best time to talk to a MLM lead is AFTER they’ve talked to other network marketers!  (If you do things “Mark’s way”, you will never again worry if other network marketers talk to your leads — in fact, you’ll actually prefer they do.)
• A little talked about fear every human being has… and how to use it to sponsor even the most skeptical prospects.  (This tactic is often used by car salesmen, jewelers and other people who sell high ticket items.  And it works even better for network marketers.)
• The great “Guru Hoax”: Why having your team study and follow MLM “gurus” can destroy your business and income.
• A brand new breakthrough (recently discovered by social scientists) that makes even total MLM “newbies” irresistibly attractive to almost any prospect.  (This incredible little secret is how some new distributors are able to sponsor dozens of people right off the bat.  Here’s how they do it.)
• How to get your prospects to ask YOU to make their decision to join your team FOR them.  (This advanced recruiting technique makes sponsoring as easy as taking candy from a baby.  And you will probably never hear about this anywhere else.)
• How to get people at parties and other social gatherings to approach you and ask about your business…

Without You Having To Say A Single Word!

Click here to find out more

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How to use your e mail signature to promote Magnetic Sponsoring

Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring is based on his Funded Proposition where the funds needed to advertise for recruitment to a network marketing (MLM) business are generated by selling his digital training products. But how good are they? He says that adding a promotion for one of the Magnetic Sponsoring products capture pages to your e mail signature or autoresponder messages is an extremely effectiveway to promote your business.

“It is one of the most important ways of kicking off  your plan to self fund  the building of an effective network marketing team. And it’s FREE so don’t skip it!. Adding a Magnetic Sponsoring signature line to all of your personal e-mails (it doesn’t matter which one, just pick your favorite) and autoresponder e-mails will generate free traffic and more affiliate commissions.”  Lets test that.

 I have been using my signature to promote my web sites and businesses for some time now and so far as I am aware my messages haven’t caused a shower of prospects so I thought, if e mail signatures are so effective, what I am doing wrong?

Well I have researched and I have learned and if you have an old e mail from me you will know! I have loaded up my signatures with descriptions and lists for everything that’s my mistake. This is one case where less is more.

 Mikes suggested signatures for the various magnetic sponsoring products are below. They work wonderfully for him, are quite brief and he suggests that you feel free to mix and match your favorite lines to make your own version.

Customizing your Signatures – What do you want your reader to do?

When creating a promotional email signature, first you have to figure out how you want the reader to react. Do you want him/her to visit your web site, to purchase your products, or to subscribe to your blog perhaps?

Maybe you even want to create several signatures for different reasons: One to promote your newsletter, one that links to your blog or web site, one that fits the signature rules of your favorite discussion list, and so on.

Once you have decided on the goal of your signature, you can go on and create your email signature. It is best to use a real simple text editor to create your first signature, such as Notepad. Notepad is easier to transfer to your mail server than Word.  I recommend creating a text file that contains all your signatures. Then it is easy to find a specific signature when you need it, and when you create a new one, you do not have to start from the scratch but modify an existing signature.

Your signature always starts with a greeting and your own name. Depending on the audience, you can also include your title and company name. However, I do recommend that you do not include your phone and fax numbers, at least not in promotional signatures and remember KISS – (Keep It Simple Stupid!)

Recognize the Opportunity that e mail signatures offer
it is generally acknowledged that email signatures are one of the best selling tools internet marketers have. Think about it, how many emails do you send out on a daily, weekly or monthly basis? Every email you send out is a chance to sell yourself and your product or services. Don’t waste it!

Now that you recognize the opportunity, how do you write an effective one? How long should it be? What do you say? Following is a step-by-step method to writing an effective email signature to bring in sales.

 1.                 Step 1 – Link to Your Profile – Who is the I M Virgin?
Effective email signatures often link to an online profile. This is one of the best uses of this space. And, all it takes is a simple line, here’s mine “To learn more about me, please visit my online profile http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=192655.” That also links to my ecademy.com page, a great source of internetworking. 

 2.                 Step 2 – Link to Other Websites – But only the ones that matter.
Many business builders and online marketers have several domains that showcase their various specialties and interests. For example, Bee and I have a primary site that we’ve had for years. It’s an information portal about hypnosis, life coaching and publishes articles about how the mind works www.thelifedesignstudio.com I have two other sites as well, one dedicated to health wealth and happiness for the over 50’s www.50pluslifedesign.com , and another to the helping people stop smoking www.stopsmokingconsultants.com . One www.yummychoc4health is a portal to my healthy chocolate business, four separate sites for three branches of my business.

Remember KISS (Keep  It Simple Stupid) You cannot write an effective email signature that covers all of this, it just causes confusion.  Instead list those details in your profile and send your reader there to satisfy their curiosity. For business building I include the address for the capture page which I want the prospect to click on and my blog www.internetmarketingvirgin.com which has articles which reinforce the value of my proposition.

You may need more than one   Effective signatures will target a specific market to take a specific action which is why you may need a number of different signatures and ways to attach then easily.

 3.                 Step 3 – Link to Products and/or Services You Sell or Promote
This is of course the main point an effective email signature can and should include links to products or services you sell or promote. Consider a  p.s.. (post script)statement says, “p.s..: Want to learn more about my business proposition? Click here for more details.” The “here” is hyperlinked to the sales page for my business (in this case www.yummychoc4health.com )

 4.                 Step 4 – Leave it out! – What NOT to Put in Your Signature
Forget the cute, inspirational or poetic phrases in your email signature. Unless you’re a comedian with a “Joke a Day” site, you’re just wasting precious ad space.
Making a living as a freelance writer and/or an internet marketer is hard enough. Why give away ad space.

 5.                 Step 5 – Make them an offer they can’t refuse

Offer a reason why they should contact you now, to get an offer or a gift. If you have written an effective article or post, suggest an additional resource you could provide to them, or a way you could help them. Make sure they know how to quickly request this additional help.

Don’t let one more day go by without taking a moment to create an effective email signature. It can take less than two minutes to set up, and is perhaps the most cost-effective online marketing you can do. After all, it’s free!

Then Test Test and Test again – Overall, while there are no hard and fast rules regarding your signature file, there are some guidelines. Your “sig” in your everyday emails might be shorter – not containing each of the items above, while sigs for your articles or posts or sales letters may be longer. Use your good judgment, use this list of guidelines, and experiment to find what works best for you.

Remember your Market

Your language will be different if your market is American than in the UK

These are the model signatures provided within Magnetic Sponsoring

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Anyone in any company can use this generic recruiting system
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Learn How To Create Your Own Leads And
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In my next posting I will explain how to store and use signatures in Microsoft Outlook and GMail.

Register free for Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring – what happens next?

Mike Dillard promises that his methods will have people queuing up to register for your network marketing business. Buy the Magnetic Sponsoring Course, he says, and you earn the ability to view and use the training program AND become an affiliate for all Magnetic Sponsoring products. When you register what happens next?

You can register without any charge and get access to a free ‘7day Internet Marketing Boot Camp’ which will tell you a lot more and give you a taster. If you would like to try it out for size yourself you can get the full program for a 7 day free trial (and keep all the bonuses which come with it.

Where will the money come from to promote your business on line?
Every business needs funding and most people setting out on a career in internet marketing do not have all the funds it needs to get the ball rolling. Promoting Magnetic Sponsoring gives you working capital you need to fund the advertising you must use to do to attract more sponsors for your business.

You gain even when they say NO
97% of the people you approach about your business will say no but many of them may be interested in how they can enter the industry or if they are already in it, how they can improve their performance. Even though they say no to you Magnetic Sponsoring gives you the opportunity to profit from that contact and build a large list of qualified prospects in the process.
• Lead capture pages tried and tested on a daily basis for their effectiveness, (see sample here)
• Training programs designed especially for promoting network marketing over the internet.
• Proven and tested sales copy to turn your leads into paying customers
• All customer support issues are looked after
• Contact management tools are provided with easy to use tracking features
• Prospects are ‘upsold’ and followed up. A process that puts more money in your pocket.
• All shipping and printing costs are covered

Your Job is to bring them to the table – Magnetic Sponsoring feeds their hunger
This just leaves you to do the important things of driving more traffic to your sites and sponsoring more people into your business..

You won’t be pestering your family friends or collegues
One thing you are NOT allowed to do is to spam people you don’t know.
If you were to spam to genealogy lists or leads lists with your Magnetic Sponsoring web site address and your account would be deactivated immediately. The only people who will get your capture pages are the people you send to them so you don’t have to be worried about being a nuisance sales person

Mike walks you through the steps of getting started one by one .
Internet Marketing Virgin is following the system through to build a business in Xocai Healthy Chocolate follow us at www.internetmarketingvirgin.com and www.twitter.com/anthony_bennett

Internet Marketing Virgin follows Mike Dillard

Mike Dillard- is a huge network marketing success. At 20 he was a starving waiter but became  a self made millionaire before he was 22. Now, just over a decade, later he is one of the foremost sources of advice in the world for network marketing and internet marketing newbies .

Do his methods work?  They are certainly at the top end of the market pricewise – are they worth it? Find out as IMV uses his methods to build a real MLM team.

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