Services You Absolutely Need In Your Network Marketing Business
Starting a MLM business requires very little in the way of money at the start. There are some opportunities that can have you up and running inside a day for less than $500. However there are services that you will need to grow your business. These service cover your web hosting, capturing information from your website, uploading your articles and videos and others. These services have a monthly fee but that is the cost of doing business.
Web hosting (IT support): Everyone knows that you need to have your domain hosted. Come on you would not be on the Internet for very long without it. Yes, you can sign up with a MLM company that will duplicate their website and tell you to go get a Domain and forward and mask it towards a set of web pages they have put together. This will work great if you are using all other forms of marketing except Google Adwords. Google does not like (meaning will not allow) to send customer to a masked and forwarded site from pay-per-click. So you have two choices 1) Set-up the pages on your own server (hosting company like Host Gator) or 2) Have the MLM Company host your domain name. Your choice will depend on how comfortable you are with html code and Internet works.
Autoresponder: Part of any MLM Company you choose you need to have your own autoresponder. You want your own autoresponder this is where your list will be gathered. That way the leads that you have brought to the opportunity will be yours. You did the marketing for the list you should keep them. There are several companies that you can use. Aweber or GetRepsonse are both very good. They have a lot of flexibility in forms and list generation and you can manage your lists very easily. After creating your account and initial list, you create a Webform that you put on your blog, website, etc. Anywhere you want to have people OptIn. When people enter their name and email address and hit submit, their information is captured by the autoresponder’s form. What you do with that information is where the money comes. You should set-up some automatic messages to be sent out to your new subscribes. You want to stay in touch with them and deliver value to them.
Video upload service: You will be using video to promote your opportunity. That is a given. In today’s market you must use video. Just start doing it. Do not worry about the quality of the video at first. It will improve with practice and time. Do not wait for you skills to be perfect before you start. Just look at what is on the YouTube. You have all kinds of video. Once you starting do videos you will want to upload to as many sites as you can. TrafficGeyser is a great service to do just that. For a monthly service their service will upload your videos for you with description and URL you are trying to drive traffic. There are over 60 sites that they up load to.
There are a variety of other services that you may need but it will depend on your marketing. If you are going to write articles you will want to have article submission software. A good one is called Article Submitter. You want to use Twitter to market; then you will want to use Twitterfeed to deliver good content to your followers and Tweetlater to schedule specific tweets. The services are endless. You need to develop your marketing strategy and plug in the type of marketing you are going to use. What you pick and how you implement it will be guided by your marketing budget. While Twitter and Facebook only require your time, all the other services will charge you a monthly fee.
