MLM Networking Women

Wow!

This is exciting news from Ezine Articles!

They have created a plug-in for WordPress that will allow you to submit one of your blog posts as an article to Ezine Articles!

Talk about a time saver and spreading your valuable content around the web!

Fantastic!

Check it out on Ezine Article’s Blog.

Happy Writing!

Believe In Your Success, I Do!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

David Mathison is launching his new Blog Talk Radio Show this January 6th at 5 pm EST.

David is an author, media expert, and consultant in how to use media to promote your message.  He emphasizes low or no cost avenues so anyone has a platform to be heard.

Be The Media is the title of David’s how-to book, his freedom in media organization, and his new Blog Talk Radio show.

Wednesday’s premiere episode is titled “How to Create Your Own Free Radio Show.”  David will be interviewing Blog Talk Radio’s CEO Alan Levy.

This promises to be an amazing free training opportunity to learn the how to basics for creating your own Blog Talk Radio show and how to make money in the process.

Tune in to the live show at Blog Talk Radio, Be The Media and interact with David and Alan via live chat, Twitter, Facebook, and dial-in.

Believe In Your Success, I Do!
Karen  

So you’ve entered the field of Network Marketing and you’re beginning to realize that you’re one of many fish in a really big pond.

Is it time to give up on your dreams of financial freedom?

Or is it time to do something to bring yourself to the level of “Professional Network Marketer”?

I have collected 5 essential must do actions to brand yourself and make your business stand out from the rest.

1.  Decide on a user name that you will use on Social Networking and Social Bookmarking sites. 

• Your real name is the best choice.
• If your name is common (like Jane Doe), choose something with your name in it like “MentorJane” or “Jane.Doe”. 
• Avoid cutesy slogan names like MLMMegaMama.
• People join people, not tag-lines.
• Check a site like namechk to check the availability of your chosen username on over 130 sites.
• Do this before creating your accounts!  Continuity throughout the sites you use strengthens your personal brand.
• Once you’ve chosen a username, go create those accounts to lock in your username, even if you’re not ready to use the sites yet.

2.  Open an email account with Gmail.

• Gmail is one of the best free email accounts you can use for your business.
• Gmail won’t block emails that other providers would identify as spam…emails with the words “free”, “opportunity”, “MLM”, etc.  When you have an MLM business, you will be receiving a lot of legitimate email with this vocabulary and you don’t want to miss it!
• Do not join email blockers like Boxbe.  These types of services will block important emails.  If you are doing business on the internet, you don’t want to make it hard for people to contact you!
• Again, choose your real name if at all possible.  The email mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com is easier to identify with as a real person than the email k.j.miller.777@gmail.com.

3.  Create your own website.

• You do not want to use your company’s splash pages as your personal website.
• Start a blog where you offer unique, valuable content for your readers.  Host your blog through a service like HostGator or GoDaddy.
• If blogging isn’t for you, develop a simple webpage where you introduce yourself, offer some valuable content, and tell people how you can help solve their problems.  Take a look at Blinkweb for a free website.
• Your website will contain links to your products or business opportunity.

4.  Buy a domain name

• Again, use your own name if it’s available.
• Use your domain name for your personal website.  It looks much more professional and is easier to remember.
• Consider buying other domain names that capitalize on your brand.  Think of a unique domain name you can redirect to your affiliate page with your company.  KarensDiet Crunchies.com is easier for a customer or new prospect to remember than www. BestCompanyOnThePlanet.com/affiliate123456.
• Domain names are inexpensive, $10-15 a year.  Try GoDaddy, NameCheap, or HostGator.

5.  Make business cards

• Create business cards that are unique to you.
• Include your photo.
• Include your name, phone number, email, skype ID, etc.
• Include a tagline that tells how you will solve people’s problems.
• Include your website with your personal domain name. 

Starting your own business takes planning, patience and persistence.  Getting off to a solid start with creating your own brand will help you focus your marketing efforts.

Wishing You the Success of a Lifetime!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com

As you start reading the beginning of this post, you find yourself wondering… “What on earth is a Central Hub and Why should I care?”

If you are a professional Network Marketer, and are using the internet to promote your business, you need to know what a Central Hub is and how it can benefit your business.

Allow yourself to imagine the bustling scene of your family kitchen.  Most women would agree that their kitchen is the central hub of their homes.

This is where the family meals are prepared, children may be doing their homework at the table, you may be working on your home business there.  The kitchen is where all of the activities of your household and family’s lives come together to find cohesion and harmony.

In Network Marketing, we often start several marketing strategies with the goal in mind to attract potential prospects into our businesses.  But if we do not have a central hub, our marketing energies are not focused.

Secret # 1 

A Central Hub serves as the focal point of your marketing strategies.  It’s a home base so to speak.

All of your marketing strategies should point to your Central Hub.  If your other marketing strategies are ways to become introduced to people, then your Central Hub is a way to invite them in to get to know you better.

Secret # 2

If the term Central Hub sounds intimidating, don’t let it. 

Your Central Hub is generally a website, quite often a blog.  That’s easy enough isn’t it?

It’s important to remember that you should never use your company’s website or splash pages as your Central Hub.

Remember you’re inviting your new friends over to get to know YOU better, not throw your company or products at them.

Secret # 3

In using a blog, you will want to focus on content that adds value to your audience, or new friends.

Charles Heflin teaches that your content should entertain, educate and/or enlighten.

We should always be adding value to the network marketing community, especially to your niche.  This value needs to be interesting to your audience…so interesting that they will want to share your content with other people.

Secret # 4

Your Central Hub, or your blog, like in my case, needs a clean, crisp appearance. 

Avoid cluttering your sidebar with a lot of advertising.  The small amount of income you may make won’t compensate for detracting your visitor’s attention away from your content. 

It also makes it appear that you are desperate to make money.  So perhaps your primary business is not all that lucrative after all.  (Not a good impression.)

Your sidebar IS the place to offer a free ebook, newsletter, or other training information.  Do not be tempted to spam your audience with your opportunity.  You are still in the process of building your relationships.

Secret # 5

Once you have written your blog post, you will want to submit it to some social news websites like,

1. StumbleUpon
2. LinkInn
3. Digg
4. Reddit
5. HubSpot

Make sure you are visiting other’s sites and commenting and voting on their posts as well.

This gets you backlinks to your site and shows the news websites that you are not just submitting your own work. 

Get your wheels turning and generate your energies on making your central hub the focal point of your online marketing strategies. 

Wishing You the success of a Lifetime!
Karen Miller
k.j.miller.777@gmail.com

The time has come to blog with the Big Dogs!

We are now officially hosted through HostGator and are living under a real domain name, www.mlmnetworkingwomen.com!

We have a new look with a new theme, color scheme, and WordPress software.  This is going to be exciting learning a new format and playing with the plugins and widgets…as soon as I learn what those are for…haha! 

This is a new phase of my blogging journey and I am excited to share it with you.  Blogging is an important facet of your online marketing campaign.

The first step was signing up with HostGator.  They have a lot of tutorial videos and live chat support.  The technicians don’t mind if you ask what you might think are “stupid questions”.  If you’re like me, this is unchartered territory and there is NOTHING obvious about this process.  Some days I just sat and stared at the computer screen waiting for the heavens to open up and enlighten me. 

You want to talk about alphabet soup?!?  cPanels, FTP, IP, SSL, SSH, MySQL, php, MIME, and what the heck is a GnuPG key????  I am a Green personality type and I like to research and understand everything I do before jumping in.  But this was getting ridiculous!  I may not understand all of this stuff until my kindergartener graduates high school!  Besides, being techie is not my passion or talent…I had to accept the fact that I couldn’t afford the luxury of being an expert in this case and just get off the bean and DO IT. 

I got through the process though, and so will you.  I watched the videos and learned how to set up my cPanel (by the way that is your Control Panel).  I even learned how to upload a new theme and “unpack” it…process also known as “unzipping”…something you do to a bunch of related files that get packed (like in a box) or zipped (like in overstuffing and zipping a suitcase for your vacation) so they are smaller in size for sending through the internet.

Why host your own blog?, you may ask.  Because it is going to be the center of your internet business efforts.

If you are building your business and use your blog as your central hub, it would be catastrophic if you logged in one day to your blogging account and found that your blog was blocked.  Why would they do this?   Perhaps the blogging service you’re using found your content in violation of their terms of service.  Yikes!  There goes your connection with your clients and target market!

Hosting your own blog, like with HostGator, allows you to own your blog.  The content is stored on your host’s servers.  You pay a monthly subscription fee for the service.  HostGator still has their terms of service you have to abide by which are generally no illegal activity, no spam, etc.

Also with hosting, your blog has a more professional presence…you have a clean and accurate domain name that remains consistent with every page of your blogging site.  This is different than buying a domain name and having it redirect to your free blogging service blog (like Blogger).

I was happy with the service at Blogger and have no complaints.  Like I said, it came time to start blogging with the Big Dogs.

Wishing You the Success of a Lifetime!
Karen
karen@mlmnetworkingwoman.com
skype ID karen.j.miller