April 28, 2009 by DSM.

I joined a free program a few years ago called Follow Our Lead (FOL).  Here is some information about that site, why I joined, what is on the inside, about each of the programs (Empowerism, GDI, Hot Conference, Leaders Club), and how you can become part of our team.

Follow Our Lead was created by one of my mentors, Derek Bohlken.  I knew of Derek years ago when I was in his Retire Quickly downline before it evolved into Financial Freedom Society, and then finally died due to too many program changes or commission payment revisions.   Derek created the Follow Our Lead site to be a central place for all of us to get re-organized, and moving forward again with our network marketing business interests.

The site works on the premise that together everyone can achieve more than trying to do it all yourself.   We work as a team with Yahoo group discussions, weekly online conference room meetings, and sharing ideas about what is & what is not working.  Overall, I have been both a member of this group and a leader at different times sharing my personal experiences, just like I am doing in this blog.

Follow Our Lead consists of these four (4) different network marketing programs.  You can be a part of the group if you are in just one of them, or you can join all of them as a way of better managing your network marketing risk. They all provide different levels of training, or have tools you can use to help build your own online businesses.

• Empowerism

• Global Domains International (GDI)

• Hot Conference

• Leaders Club

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==What is on the inside==

The back office has daily training lessons to help you get started, with the best ways that we have found to build your interest and your own network marketing business.

You will find each of the links for the main Yahoo discussion group and the Yahoo tagging group.

There are audio archives from past meetings to help you learn more about the team, or meetings which were topic specific.

The team training meetings use Hot Conference, and we have meetings scheduled twice weekly online.

You can also use your own FOL site to help market each of the different businesses, use it for internet marketing, lead capture, and to provide contact information for your own team.

Depending on which programs you are in, you can select which marketing pages you want to use and enter your IDs.   Now you have one generic marketing page to help with your internet and follow-up marketing, and to help train your own downline.

==What are each of the different programs==

• Empowerism = Internet and email marketing training, SEO optimization, online tools, with additional lead purchase options.  $25 to get started, then just $20 a month.

• Global Domains International (GDI) = Only $10 a month which includes your own domain name (www.yourname.com), website hosting, and email.  It’s a network marketing business and website all together with some great marketing materials.

• Hot Conference = Is an internet software we use for the weekly FOL training meetings.  You can use this when prospecting to create your own online conference room, or for your own team training meetings.

• Leaders Club = Network marketing training and mentoring, 30-day trial, hundreds of hours of audio and video training topics.  Live weekly training sessions.  Just $50 a month for the training package.  More if you want regular, premium, or super premium leads.

==How to join Follow Our Lead==

To be a member of the team all you have to do is join one of the programs listed above.  If you are already a member, you can still join the team to check out what we have to offer before you join the other programs.  There is no-cost to check out our team, or to join our discussions.  There are no monthly fees to create or use your own Follow Our Lead website.

You can use the REGISTER link at the top of the webpage to get started, and to create your own Follow Our Lead site.

I look forward to seeing you in the weekly team meetings and asking questions in the Yahoo group.

…Darrin…
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April 19, 2009 by DSM.

Here is the ViralURL - part 1 article >>> http://blog.lazy-mountain.info/ViralURL

After a few weeks of using ViralURL, I need to add some important notes for everyone to review.  Otherwise your inbox will get filled with unnecessary junk when you create your own free or paid account.  There is also a way that I have found to dramatically increase your ad bar credit balance.  At the end of this article, I have included one of my computer savy email tips, for how you can use different email addresses and keep them all organized for topic review.

==> Easy Way To Accumulate Ad Bar Credits <==

Using my Traffic Exchange Rotation technique, I found a way to accelerate the number of ad bar credits that I can add to my account.  When you receive one of the member email messages, there is a section in the bottom that allows you to open a webpage to view other member websites & earn 30 credits for doing so.

What I was able to do was to copy that link, and paste it into 10 tabs in my Firefox internet browser software.  You can also just open 10 of the links from the emails you receive.

Since the webpage display has a 30 second timer, you can use tab rotation for credit earning over and over.  Using this technique and in just about an hour of tab surfing, I was able to raise my ViralURL - Ad Bar credit balance to 20,000.

Let’s do the math:  30 credits every 30 seconds * 10 tabs = 600 credits per minute * 10 minutes == 6,000 credits.  Even the Elite members only get 5,000 ad bar credits once a month automatically, but they have to pay for theirs.

Here is a screenshot showing you that it does work…

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==> Create A Separate Email Account <==

When you first setup your own free ViralURL account, make sure that you create a separate email account just for that site.  If you don’t purchase their OTO (one-time-offer) for the Elite package or one of the other paid packages, all of the other members can send you email messages.  The result is that your inbox starts to fill up with those upline member spam messages.

You can change your email address to a different one.  Just login to your Account Settings and put in a different email address.  They will send you a new confirmation message that you have to approve.  After that is setup and working, once a month you visit that email account and purge all of the extra messages.

Or you can use those member emails as a prospecting source for bounce-backs.  I check each message to see if they included some form of contact details like Skype, their phone number, email address, etc.

With that information I add them to my contact manager and follow-up with them to see how their business is growing, or we share business building ideas.  In some cases, I have found other network marketers who are interested in the programs that I am a part of, and they join my downline.

==> Summary <==

With these techniques you should be able to maximize your credits in your free or paid ViralURL account, and set it on auto-pilot for the next few months.  While keeping the member emails separate from your main business contact email.  Personally, I have about 20 email accounts that I use for different purposes.  Some for registration on a splash page, safelist emails, twitter messages, email marketing testing, etc.

That’s one of the reasons that I like GDI (Global Domains International).  GDI lets you have up to 10 email accounts, and they have no spam protection so you will not miss any important email messages.  With POP3 settings & Outlook 2007 email rules, I can have different email accounts drop into different folders.  So I can review all messages related to one topic at the same time, instead of them all dropping into one mixing bowl in my Inbox.

…Darrin…

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April 10, 2009 by DSM.

At the end of Feburary 2009, I joined a new network marketing program which offers personal development & success training.  That program is Success University (SU).

Success University is an online training resource with workbooks, audios and videos.  Here are some of the speakers & trainers on their roster that I recognized:

• Jay Abraham
• Robert Allen
• Ellie Drake
• Earl Nightingale
• Dr. Wayne Pickering
• Zig Ziglar
• Jim Rohn
• Mike Filsaime

Success University (SU) has a 14-day trial for just $2.00.  So I decided to give it a try, it was for a good cause since that trial cost is given to the “Save The Children” Fund.

After I received the sign-up information and gave them a credit/debit card to start the process.  The monthly cost is about $57.00 per month which includes shipping for their monthly training CD’s.  It’s always nice to get something physical for your money.

During the last part of the sign-up process, I was also given information about their $150 Premium option.  It includes the first month of service, double-commission amounts, some e-book downloads, and some DVD videos to be mailed as part of your welcome package.  I paid this fee, since I was interested the network marketing business.

After I joined, I was contacted by different team leaders some of which are at the top of the leader boards, and others who were my direct uplines.  Each of them have their own training sites, marketing pages, or blog sites to help with marketing and team training.  My SU Infinity Team has been very supportive, with lots of ideas for how to get started with my own marketing efforts.

During the last 7 weeks that I have been a member of Success University, what has impressed me are the updates and notifications that I have received from the main site.  For each of the conference calls, I receive prior notification via email with details about what is planned for that event.  I have also been receiving the Boot Camp business training which is sent every few days.

For my own site testing, I added my name to the Business prospect list, and have been receiving the SU marketing emails from Matt Morris (the founder and president).  The SU Newsletter splash page adds names/emails to this Business Contacts database too.  It can be used as your own personal email autoresponder and contact manager.  The only limit is it can only hold 100 people.

Overall, Success University has a lot of content on the inside which keeps growing.  They keep in continuous contact with their members, this is a huge-plus.  The only downside to this is that I have received a lot of emails that I have not read, but they are also available in the Training section or Business back office.

Final Thoughts:  I would recommend Success University (SU) for anyone thinking about getting started in their first online business opportunity and/or with network marketing.  It is a great site to join if you are a seasoned MLM veteran too.

For most newbies you will not understand everything that is included for weeks/months. Just start your own success and personal improvement training first.  You have to understand what you are marketing, before you can effectively sell it to someone else.

Use some of your business investment capital for a monthly marketing budget:

• Purchase physical marketing materials (the SU Magazine is great for that)
• Learn how to purchase paid advertising in ezines
• Use safelists & solo ads for Email marketing
  
• Advertise your marketing links in free & pro traffic exchange sites
• Join free or pro list building memberships
• If you are new to network marketing, join a professional training site to help you learn how to be in profit in 90 days or less.

As your business grows and is in profit, then you can get fancy with all of the automated tools and custom splash sites. Once you are familiar with your entire program and your upline training sites, all that experience will help you to be successful.

…Darrin…

For more information about how join my Success University team, click on this link & banner:

http://www.Success-Training-Online.com

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April 2, 2009 by DSM.

They sold out after 12 hours. 

I got in during the first hour, sorry if you could not get in during their launch.  As I learn more about their techniques, I will be posting new articles for your review.

Make sure to add yourself to my mailing list, so you can be informed about those new topics.

They may re-open for new members sometime soon, and if they do I will make sure to create a new post to let you all know.

…Darrin…

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