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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March 29, 2009 by DSM.

I found ViralURL recently when I started getting into the new Twitter phenom.  Yes, I know, now I need to start adding my own tweets for everything that I am doing, LOL.  Well, with an Internet and Network Marketing business, there is always something that needs to be done.  So I should have lots of updates that I can post.

While I was checking out someone’s Twitter page, I found a link for Viral Followers to help build your own Twitter following.  I have used this kind of site before.  They post an update on your Twitter page, as a way of advertising their site and building a mini-twitter downline to help build your followers.

On the Viral Followers ad page, they had a link for ViralURL, so I clicked it to see what it had to offer for extra internet advertising potential.  Once I gave them all of the personal information, clicked the email authentication links to make sure it was me, I was able to login. After each login they help you with the setup by displaying the Text Ad setup or Banner ad setup pages.  Kind of nice to help you get started.

As part of ViralURL they offer to help build your downline automatically, and the usual we can help make you money.  I have a hard enough time managing my primary businesses, without worrying about how some other site can make me money.  If I get a few extra visitors to my site, to help with my own marketing efforts that’s all I am interested in.

They also have a Success University sign-up link on their profile page, which can be used to increase your downline.  That is one of the reasons that I did not just chuck them into my Junk Email list.  I am always interested in new ways of recruiting new people into my Success University business.

There are also ClickBank, and Add2it links.  Not sure what Add2it is all about.  I ignored most of the special one-time offers when I first created my account. I am still learning more about how they can be used, but one of my mentors Janet Legre has an account, so it can’t be that bad to use.

When you have their code added to your own website, their ads are displayed on your site.  You earn credits to advertise your business on another website, who is also a ViralURL member.  Kind of like a text/banner ad exchange. From my own site testing, it seems like the text and banner ads have one of yours as the first one, and then someone else for the second ad.

Once you create your own ViralURL account and during your own website testing, you may notice a slight delay in loading the ads, since ViralURL has to find the right ads to display.  Not sure why it takes them so long, all they have are URL links and images to lookup and load.  My blog site does the same and it does not take that long.  I guess they underestimated their growth and have not kept up with their web and database server farms.  So when they hit peak periods, their servers have terrible performance.

Here is my ViralURL signup link, so you can evaluate them for yourself:

http://vur.me/millerds

and my ViralFollowers link to help build your own Twitter followers:

http://ViralFollowers.com/darrinmiller/vu

and my Twitter page so you can follow me:

http://twitter.com/DarrinMiller

Here is one of the ViralURL code segments that you can post on your site to earn credits to display your text ad on other sites.

Here is one of their banner ad code segments, that you can post on your site to earn credits to display your ads on other sites.

…Darrin…

See part 2 here… http://blog.lazy-mountain.info/viralurl2/

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