today i found this incredible video on the website of Derek Sivers http://sivers.org/ff
Transcript:
If you’ve learned a lot about leadership and making a movement, then let’s watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under 3 minutes, and dissect some lessons:
A leader needs the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous. But what he’s doing is so simple, it’s almost instructional. This is key. You must be easy to follow!
Now comes the first follower with a crucial role: he publicly shows everyone how to follow. Notice the leader embraces him as an equal, so it’s not about the leader anymore – it’s about them, plural. Notice he’s calling to his friends to join in. It takes guts to be a first follower! You stand out and brave ridicule, yourself. Being a first follower is an under-appreciated form of leadership. The first follower transforms a lone nut into a leader. If the leader is the flint, the first follower is the spark that makes the fire.
The 2nd follower is a turning point: it’s proof the first has done well. Now it’s not a lone nut, and it’s not two nuts. Three is a crowd and a crowd is news.
A movement must be public. Make sure outsiders see more than just the leader. Everyone needs to see the followers, because new followers emulate followers – not the leader.
Now here come 2 more, then 3 more. Now we’ve got momentum. This is the tipping point! Now we’ve got a movement!
As more people jump in, it’s no longer risky. If they were on the fence before, there’s no reason not to join now. They won’t be ridiculed, they won’t stand out, and they will be part of the in-crowd, if they hurry. Over the next minute you’ll see the rest who prefer to be part of the crowd, because eventually they’d be ridiculed for not joining.
And ladies and gentlemen that is how a movement is made! Let’s recap what we learned:
If you are a version of the shirtless dancing guy, all alone, remember the importance of nurturing your first few followers as equals, making everything clearly about the movement, not you.
Be public. Be easy to follow!
But the biggest lesson here – did you catch it?
Leadership is over-glorified.
Yes it started with the shirtless guy, and he’ll get all the credit, but you saw what really happened:
It was the first follower that transformed a lone nut into a leader.
There is no movement without the first follower.
We’re told we all need to be leaders, but that would be really ineffective.
The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.
When you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first person to stand up and join in.
]]>In business, many companies and products come and go and most that manage to make it past the 2-3 year mark have a better chance at surviving. Rarely does a company, much less one using the direct sales or relationship marketing business model get me excited. However, when I first saw Talk Fusion I couldn’t help but pay attention and get excited.
Be sure to check out the videos below to see Talk Fusion in action for yourself so you can see what got my eyeballs glued to the screen. Have a look and hear what others are saying:
The first time I saw a Talk Fusion video email, I was shocked. WOW – Video Email? Seriously? It was professionally designed with a custom header, logo, picture and a video message personalized to me on the left. Talk about grabbing my attention – it definitely had the Wow Factor! What if you could grab your customers, congregation, or targeted audience’s attention like that on a daily basis? What if you could WOW them every day with your personalized message? Do you think you would create a loyal following? You bet it will!
Today, everyone is marketing or promoting something. Regardless of the industry, staying connected and building solid relationships with your customers or targeted audience is vital to success. Let’s be real…if you’re not building relationships with your targeted audience – what’s going to keep them coming back over and over again? Billion dollar companies like Apple, Nike, Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Rolex have known the secret for staying connected for years. Anyone can advertise and market. Billion dollar companies understand that it’s all in the branding. They understand the power of “the brand” and how to create a following of people identifying with that brand.
Build a brand – Build relationships – and Build a loyal following.
The Power of Talk Fusion
The use of video has EXPLODED over the last few years and is now the most effective marketing strategy that exists. Think YouTube, UStream, and Hulu. Being able to express your passion and energy directly to your customers is the secret to creating a powerful brand. In this economy no-one can afford to lose a customer. Talk Fusion allows you to build bridges with your audience so they NEVER leave.
By utilizing video technology you are able to consistently get your brand and your message in front of your customer’s eyeballs with little or no effort on their part. That is EPIC! Video technology helps you quiet all the “noise” online and push your brand and your message to the forefront. That is HUGE! Marketing with video technology will take your brand and your message global as your videos work for you 24.7. That is AMAZING!
Talk Fusion will Skyrocket Your Brand!
I am confident that Talk Fusion can help you be better at doing whatever you do. The product is diverse and fully customizable to any industry. You will stand out from the crowd using any or all of the 8 products from Talk Fusion and build your brand recognition. Talk Fusion is dominating the competition with revolutionary products at a price point that can’t be matched. It is a global company with the latest in video communication technology available today. Talk Fusion gives you the ability to brand and market your business like those billion dollar companies without the high advertising budget. The secrets of billion dollar branding is in your hands with Talk Fusion and has been proven to revolutionize businesses overnight!
The Facts About Talk Fusion
Now that I’ve told you how Talk Fusion can help you, let’s focus on what’s “under the hood”: the Facts about the company and its products. Talk Fusion started in 2007 on CEO Bob Reina’s simple concept of emailing videos to his friends and family. The company was built on the revolutionary idea of its crystal clear video emailer platform with the WOW factor. Today, Talk Fusion is on a crash course to being a billion dollar company. Talk Fusion’s documentation beats conversation:
- debt-free company
- owns its technology 100%
- available in over 100 countries
- the 8th largest online video provider in the world – surpassing AOL, Yahoo, Viacom, CBS, and MegaVideo
- one of only 200 companies granted membership into the prestigious Direct Selling Association (DSA)
- featured in USA Today, Forbes, and various Local News around the country
Cisco Systems predicts that by 2013 80% of all online content will be video content. Over the next 5 years 80% of the email market will be dominated by video emails. Talk Fusion’s superior state-of-the-art technology is on the cutting edge and perfectly positioned to help you capitalize on this trend. There are 8 products that provide a comprehensive arsenal of marketing tools that will arm you with the ability to explode your brand, skyrocket your results, and amplify your message. These products include: video email, live video conferencing, live video broadcasting, video auto-responders, and video social media. Click the video below to tour this cutting edge suite of products guaranteed to skyrocket your exposures online.
Talk Fusion provides professional video marketing tools that are user friendly that you can feel confident will represent your brand. Want to see who’s already using Talk Fusion? In addition to Applebees, Westpoint Academy, and Norwegian Cruise Lines, the video below provides samples of those already taking advantage of these revolutionary products.
These are the industries that have seen dramatic results with Talk Fusion products:
Network marketers
Dentists
Internet marketers
Hairstylists
Real estate agents
Schools
Charities
Churches
Sales reps
Small biz owners
Photographers
Musicians
Insurance agents
Talk Fusion Compensation Plan and Benefits
Talk Fusion realizes that the best advertising is word-of-mouth advertising. The most loyal customers are those referred by people they know. When was the last time you told someone about a great restaurant? Or a an exciting movie? Or the best place for ice cream? Did you get paid when the person you told ate at that restaurant, saw that movie, or grabbed a scoop of that ice cream? With Talk Fusion you get paid for what is called “referral marketing”.
Talk Fusion, a leader in video technology is now the leader in direct sales compensation plans. Talk Fusion offers Instant Pay. That’s right – make a sale today, get paid instantly. Meaning, right now! Not next week, or at the end of the month. Instant Pay! No other company in direct sales or network marketing offers instant pay.
Talk Fusion is the first and only company to do so and goes to demonstrate that it is a solid company with the cash flow to sustain this type of program.
The compensation plan offers 6 simple ways to get paid when you refer someone who becomes a customer or someone who chooses to market the tool as another avenue of income. To check out instant pay watch the video below.
To see how you can add 6 additional revenue streams through Talk Fusion’s instant pay – visit http://1440649.tourtalkfusion.com
In the final analysis, Talk Fusion is a solid company financially, with cutting edge products, a price point that is competitive, backed by integrity, professionalism, stable corporate headquarters, and unquestionable 3rd party documentation. If additional streams of income interest you, Talk Fusion offers a solid referral-based compensation plan with its one-of-a-kind industry first Instant Pay program.
If you have any question and want more info about Talk Fusion go here:
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You can also contact me here:
Dennis Koray
Video Marketing Consultant & LifeStyle Coach
Skype: denniskoray
email: info@denniskoray.com
Tel: +49-2235-1704 064
P.S.: If you want to see a live webinar go here:
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Things are really starting to develop around the new Global NPN website update.
If you haven’t looked at it, there are some new videos that the Admin Geoff has put up, including some great member testimonials (my testimonail starts around 2:45min) that already received great comments … This site is designed to sell and all of Geoff’s testing has resulted in very good conversion rates – even without any sort of ‘pre-sell’. As an NPN member I’d recommend that you start firing some qualified traffic at it to see for yourself.
Global NPN also added a new capture page to our selection of capture pages in the same style as the website, which tested well also. This is connected to the ‘free report’ that has been responsible for thousands of NPN signups since it was first introduced. There will be more capture pages created as NPN goes along…
Also..
There are brand new plug-n-play banners for promoting our GlobalNPN business! There are the standard size banners, plus some ‘blog ready’ sized banners for you to use right away. Also on the banners page there are some really cool looking ‘membership cards’ that you can use as banners as well. As always, I’d recommend sending your banner traffic to a capture page first – preferrably the new one!
Note: Click on “NPN Banners” in the menu in your backoffice, under “Promotional”..
NPNDirectorMachine is coming along nicely. Personally I think the Director Machine capture page is looking BETTER than the new NPN website! Start getting excited – we’re going to create some ‘super-sized’ incomes with this one..
That’s it for this update, let me know what you think about the new banners etc. in the comments below..
Cheers
Dennis
]]>Internet Marketers should love Facebook. With 500 million+ users, Facebook is destined to become the No 1 source of traffic on the internet and the most visited website in the near future.
The best place you can place your brand or business on Facebook is through a Facebook Fan Page. The best thing about a Fan page is that you can customize it to your liking. In this post i will share with you how you can create a custom Facebook Fan Page for your business. All you need is a little knowledge of HTML.
But before i show you the strategy though, think about the last time you entered your email in exchange for a free download or something.
If you entered your email you perceived the value of the download much larger than the “expense” of joining another mailing list. This also works with Facebook. In other words, the strategy i will share with you in this post only works if you’re offering real value in exchange for a new fan. On my page i am offering a 76 minute exclusive Facebook marketing webinar…
So the goal is simple: Create an incentive for visitors to become a fan of your Facebook Page.
First have a look at my Facebook Fan page here to see what i mean.
So here we go:
Step 1 – Create a Facebook Fan Page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
Select a category (i chose “Public figure”) and name for your page and click the “Create Page” button.
Step 2 – Add Static FBML to your Fan Page
Click on “Edit page” and go to the bottom of the page to find “More applications”
Do a search for “static FBML” on Facebook (or just click here) and click “Add to my Page”. A pop up will appear with a list of your pages. Select the Page you want to customize by clicking the “Add to Page” button next to the Page, and when you click the button it will disappear from the list. Now click “Close”.
Static FBML
Step 3 – Go Back to your Fan Page and Edit FBML
Once you’ve added the Static FBML app, click “Edit Page” below your Fan page profile image. This will bring up all your settings and apps. Scroll down and find the FBML app and click the “Application Settings” link. Now another dialog will appear. Click “add” next to the Tab field and click Ok. You’ve now just added a blank Tab called “FBML” to your Page. Now you need to customize it.
Step 4 – Add Content to Your Custom Tab
So go back to your settins and app and scroll down to your FBML app and click the “Edit” link under the Static FBML app.
fbml
This opens a standard text field where you can add your content and rename that tab to anything you wish. “Box Title” will be the name of your tab, so you’ll want to change it to something appropriate, depending on how you plan to use your Page. I have called it “Free Training”.
Edit fbml
The main field is where your content goes, and you can add standard HTML like any other website. No need for HTML, BODY, or HEAD tags.
Note that your images must be hosted on your own server (see my image above). Make this tab as eye catching as possible.
Step 5 – Make your new Static FBML tab the default landing page
Step 6 – Hide Content to anyone who is not a Fan
I have a tab called “Free Training”. This tab has hidden content not seen by “non-fans”.
Facebook fanpage Dennis Koray
But once the visitor becomes a fan, this tab will display the hidden content.
The Facebook Fan Page FBML “hidden content trick” revealed:
Go to your Wall tab, Edit Page link, locate the Static FBML icon under Applications and click Edit.
To the beginning of your page add:
<fb:fbml version=”1.1″>
To the end of your page add:
</fb:fbml>
Your “hide to non-Fans” code is:
<fb:visible-to-connection>
Anything between the tags will be hidden.
</fb:visible-to-connection>
When you are done save changes and go to your tab. Note: As admin ALL HTML will be visible to you even if you are not a fan. Use another account to test or ask a friend.
Conclusion
As i have just showed you, a Facebook Page is a powerful tool that you can use to enhance and strengthen your brand, gather more fans and generate more leads for your business. Be sure to make use of the Facebook Static FBML app, customize it, and make it work to get get thousands of fans and generate more leads for your internet marketing business. Facebook is growing massively at the moment and i am sure it will hit 1 billion users in the near future.
I hope you found this post helpful and will make use of this cool strategy for your own business. Retweet and share this if you like it and leave me your comments…
If you are looking at lead generation to multiply your MLM prospects several times over too, this is what you have to do.
Step 1 – Create a Squeeze Page
A squeeze page or a lead capture page is a page where a person is asked for some information about themselves, such as their names and email addresses. These pages have to be very attractive and concise. They must speak directly about providing the information and how it will be used to send them some quality online products such as an eBook or a regular newsletter and that their personal details will never be used for any other reason or sold to someone else. Put a ‘Continue’ button on the squeeze page which takes them to where the product is. So, the squeeze page is an intermediate page between the advertisement and the actual product, where you can capture leads. (Click here to see one of my squeeze pages)
Step 2 – Advertise the Squeeze Page
Now, you will have to advertise the free product that you are giving your visitors. You can advertise this on your MLM blog or website. Give them a link in this advertisement that leads them to the squeeze page. They will fill in their details here and upon pressing the ‘Continue’ button, they will be led to the area on your website from where they can opt in for the newsletter or download the eBook, as the case might be.
Step 3 – Build the Leads
Once you get all these email addresses, they become your list of leads. Your squeeze page has, thus, acted as a means of lead generation for you. It has done so in a completely automated fashion without any intervention from you. I highly recommend using Aweber.
Step 4 – Promote Your Opportunity to the Leads
There are many ways in which you can promote your business opportunity to these leads. You can keep sending them informative emails (as newsletters or otherwise) that can build their interest into the opportunity. Also, you can invite them to a business opportunity meeting or seminar where they can get to know the opportunity in a better way. A lot of interested persons will respond, based on how you have worded your email communication to them.
]]>Just don’t ask how it happened, please.
But what’s really interesting is that how do people go through the usual part of life when faced with vein-popping stress? I mean, the new age thing like Zen or yoga is one of the good things and it actually works. Is there room for the intellectual side of people who can actually smell the roses-in-a-can while on the move? It kind of had me thinking that there really must be something in this ‘mind-over-matter’ thing.
Humor is indeed the best medicine there is whenever you are. I mean anyone can pay good money to listen to a comedian just to make you wet your pants after laughing so hard. Despite of what’s been happening, and to those who has gone though the ordeal, it’s better to just laugh while facing the troubles with a clear mind than anger with a clouded vision. One of my favorite celebrities of all time may have to be Woody Allen. Now this is one guy who gives you the in-your-face bluntness that he pulls out with gusto, even without even trying. You can talk just about anything with a man, and he’s bound to mock the subject and you’ll end up laughing rather than being upset about it.
Woody Allen has this to say:
1. “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” It sounds good to me, I mean the practicality of all things does involve money but it doesn’t have to take an arm and a leg to get it.
2. “I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government.” ‘Nuff said.
3. “There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?” This happens to be one of the classic ones. I mean the issue about life’s little problems isn’t all that bad, until ‘he’ shows up.
Sure, relationships can get complicated, or does have its complications that probably any author about relationships is bound to discover it soon. We follow what our heart desires, unless you’re talking about the heart as in the heart that pump blood throughout your body.
4. “Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.” And if you want more, just keep on asking!
5. “A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said ‘no’.” It sounds, ‘practical’, I think.
And when it comes to everyday life, he really knows how to make the best out of every possible scenario, and it doesn’t involve a lawsuit if he strikes a nerve.
6. “Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.” I never had a boat in my bathtub before. Just staring at it while soaking in hot water makes me seasick already.
7. “I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” If it rains, it pours.
8. “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” It could get worse when you’re guzzling on beer… or mouthwash, and it happened to me once!
9. “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” At least he doesn’t smite us with lightning, and I’m thankful for that.
And despite of what may happen to all of us in the next ten, twenty, or even thirty years, I guess we all have to see things in a different kind of light and not just perspective. I can’t seem to imagine life without any piece of wisdom that could guide us. Whether we’re religious or not, it takes more courage to accept your fears and learn how to deal with them is all that matters when it comes to even just getting along.
And to sum things up, here is the last nugget of wisdom to go by… however, whenever, and wherever we may be.
10. “The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.”
Ciao!
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i found an interesting video about failing in MLM.
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]]>An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.
The Mexican replied, “only a little while.” The American then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and catch more fish? The Mexican said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs. The American then asked, “but what do you do with the rest of your time?”
The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life.”
The American scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise.”
The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?” To which the American replied, “15-20 years.”
“But what then?” The American laughed and said that’s the best part.
“When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions.” “Millions..
Then what?”
The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos.”
In this section I will explain the concept of a “Self-Funded Proposal”. If you aren’t familiar with this, then read on, because this WILL transform your MLM business GUARANTEED!
If you are already familiar with the funded proposal concept and are using a “self-funded proposal” of some kind… great! If you’re not using one in your marketing efforts… why not? Read on…
A self funded proposal is a way of marketing that allows the MLM leads you generate to actually pay for themselves. Not only are your leads paying for your marketing expenses, you are at the same time generating high quality prospects that you can promote your primary business to. You get paid even if they don’t join your MLM business!
This strategy starts by offering a solution to a critical problem that your prospects face by offering a free course, eBook, audio, video or resource of some kind. Promoting a “how to” resource that solves a pressing issue, will attract 10x more prospects than pitching your MLM business.
Your prospect will enter their contact info to receive this free solution. They will be taken to a sales page that promotes an upgrade of some kind for a small price. A certain percentage of your prospects will upgrade giving you a small commission – and funding your marketing efforts!
Now in addition to that, and more importantly, you are now actively building a list and if you have read anything about Internet marketing you already know that “the money is in the list”.
By offering solutions you separate yourself as an expert from the crowd of sales people all pitching their MLM business. You solve your prospects problems. You offer valuable information and content. You build trust with your prospects through follow up. Now when you eventually present your MLM business opportunity, your conversion percentages dramatically increase.
This strategy will transform your online prospecting for your MLM business! GUARANTEED!
You can actually generate MLM leads for free for your MLM business!
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