How To Cause a Breakthrough in Your Business
Producing great results in your business is often caused by careful planning and precise execution.
Causing breakthrough results in your business is a different matter. Breakthrough results are mostly caused by implementing powerful new ideas that you hadn’t tried before.
The best business mentors specialize in getting you to think outside of your box and showing you how to implement strategies you hadn’t thought of before or hadn’t thought of in those ways before.
Ann Sieg and Mike Klingler are those type of business mentors. They connect dots you hadn’t even seen before.
Build a List for Free Using Social Media
Building a list is one of the top priorities for any Internet Network Marketer. You can buy lists or rent lists. But building your own list is by far the best way to go. When you build your own, you have your own customers, or potential customers, not someone else’s.
So, where do you start?
Old-School Network Marketing List Building
In the old model of Network Marketing, you can buy leads from other people’s lists. There are some obvious problems with this approach:
- * It’s gets expensive
* You’re not necessarily getting "hot leads"
* Cold-calling to people who may or may not want to talk with you
What’s the solution?
Internet Network Marketing List Building
There are lots of free ways to attract leads to you on the Internet. The benefits of these attraction marketing methods are:
- * They’re free
* Your leads are already interested in what you’re providing
* You’re calling people who would welcome hearing from you (and may have requested that you contact them).
How exactly is this done?
"How I Built My First List"
Mike Klingler’s three-part video series "How I Built My First List" demystifies the list-building process by showing you step-by-step how he built his first list of 1,172 Prospects in 3 Days days when he was a newbie by using methods that are free and available to everyone.
Central to Mike’s approach is applying the concept of "leverage" to developing content that grabs the reader’s or viewer’s interest.
In the videos, Mike shows how he used the following techniques to generate interest and list members:
- * Leveraging a social movement
* Leveraging timely content
* Leveraging a well-known person
The most useful part of the series is that Mike breaks down how you can use these same methods to build your own list.
Use Social Media to Build Your List
Mike focuses in detail on social media as a means of list-building: Articles, Videos, Twitter, social networks.
"How I Built My First List" takes you beyond the obvious "socializing" aspect of social media and reveals the specific ways to use attraction marketing techniques to create an online presence that attracts prospects to you and build your list.
Video #3 is my favorite one. Here, Mike outlines how to use Twitter to develop relationships and potential prospects. He provides a wide range of specific examples of the type of tweets that attract prospects, how to create an "attractive" online presence, and how to leverage that presence into leads for your list.
The power of using social media to build your list is that even before someone joins your list, they have developed a relationship with you and vice-versa. They’re not just a name on a list, but a person that you know. More importantly, you are someone that they know. And that relationship strengthens your ability to market to that person over time.
The Value of Your List
"How I Built My First List" is probably the most comprehensive tutorial on free list building available.
Building a list by first developing relationships is powerful and will give you added leverage in marketing to that list over time.
As you continue to add people to your list, you will be continuing to develop those relationships. As your list grows and the relationships strengthen, you’ll have an increasingly powerful tool that will enable you to market effectively to an ever-growing number of people.
Want to fast-forward your business and your list-building efforts?
Then "How I Built My First List" is the video series for you.
Wishing You the Best,
Ben Mapp
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The Fundamentals of Lead Generation
Lead generation is critical to your business. And there’s no need for it to be a struggle. Some useful resources on the fundamentals of lead generation.
What You Need to Know About Generating Leads
An introduction to Lead Generation in Attraction Marketing.
6 Ways to Generate Leads for Free
A list of some ways to generate leads that do not require you to have a website or blog.
Build a List for Free Using Social Media
Use the concept of leverage to build a list using social media tools that are available to everyone.
Video Tutorial: Better Than Google
A detailed overview of how social media, or Web 2.0, can be used to generate leads. By Mike Klingler of Renegade Professional.
Video Tutorial: Online Real Estate
An in-depth, two-part tutorial on the power of acquiring free "online real estate" to generate leads. By Mike Klingler of Renegade Professional.
Wishing You the Best,
Ben Mapp
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Twitter Tools and Resources
Twitter can be a great social marketing tool. But you’ll need to know what you’re doing for Twitter to really be effective in generating leads for your business.
This page contains links to useful Twitter Tools and Resources to help beginner, intermediate, and advanced users become more proficient tweeters.
I’ll be updating this page over time. So, please go to the Contact page to send your suggestion(s) for posts or other helpful Twitter resources.
Twitter on RoadMapp Marketing
- Video Tutorial: Free Twitter Training
Fill out the form and the next page has the link to three free Twitter Training Videos for Beginners through Advanced Users. Excellent how-tos.
More Twitter Resources
- 13 Twitter Tips & Tutorials for Beginners (on TwiTip)
- Newbie’s Guide to Twitter (on CNET)
- Video Tutorial: TweetDeck (on The Social Network Marketer)
- 30 Essential Twitter Tutorials for Newbies & Experts (on Outlaw Design Blog)
- MyTwitterToolBar (on MyTwitterToolBar.com)
- 20 Twitter Badges to Show off Your Tweets (on Mashable)
- Twitter Buttons (on TwitterButtons.net)
- 114 Ways to Tweet: What to Tweet, How to Tweet (on BookMarketing.com)
- A Mind Map of Twitter Resources (on K-Maps.com)
- Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter (on WebDesigner Depot)
- 10 Twitter Tools to Effectively Manage Your Followers (on DailySEOBlog)
- 99 Essential Twitter Tools & Applications (on Smashing Magazine)
- 100+ Remarkably Beautiful Twitter Icons And Buttons (on Hongkiat.com)
Wishing You the Best,
Ben Mapp
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Renegade Professional Registrations Re-Open for a Limited Time Only
News Flash: Just got an email from Mike Klingler announcing that Renegade Professional Registrations have re-opened for a limited time only: this Monday-Tuesday, April 6-7.
If you haven’t heard, last Thursday, Renegade Professional had a huge re-launch — 3,000 new members in 14 hours — that brought their servers to their knees and contributed to closing registrations early. Shows you what great marketing can do!
Having registered on Thursday morning and started working with the material for the past few days, I can tell you that Renegade Professional gives you all the information you need to develop a successful business on the Internet using Attraction Marketing.
If you couldn’t get in on Thursday or you’re now interested in joining, now’s the time to sign up. This could be it as far as Renegade Professional registrations for quite some time.
