Monthly Archives: March 2012

Advice, Beginners, How To

Getting Ahead as a New Affiliate Marketer

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In many industries, the most successful people have been around for quite some time and for good reason. When one finds success in a business, it’s smart to stay and keep growing that success, which in turn attracts more business. This can be discouraging for anyone just starting out. Luckily as a GDI affiliate you don’t have to be the most experienced or with GDI the longest to build Income for Life. Take advantage of what you do well, whether it’s building relationships or building websites, to develop your business quickly as a beginner.

You Don’t Have to Be an Expert

There are many things you will learn about network marketing just from experience, so don’t worry about being an expert on everything right away. Instead take the time to focus on the relationships you build. Invest just as much time into your team and potential team members as you do into learning about GDI. Building and investing in relationships as you build your network with help people to feel comfortable with you and trust you. People will be more likely to do business with someone they trust.

Build Your Site

If you’re not the best with building personal relationships, you can still succeed with GDI. A well designed, functional site can make up for any issues you have relating to people. Let your site do the talking for you when it comes to building your team.

Take the time to create the best site possible based on your skill level. If you’ve never created any sort of site before, try out the GDI SiteBuilder. It offers great looking templates and can help you get a site up in no time. If you want a more customizable look, try our WordPress plugin. Though WordPress is most often used for blog you can build out your WordPress site to be just about anything you want depending on the theme, widgets and layout you use. We also offer hosting, giving you the ultimate power over what kind of site you create.

Create a Community

Don’t make communication a one way street. Encourage your downline to reach out to you and to each other. Opening these lines of communication can help people feel like they belong to a community, making them less likely to just walk away. Establish relationships across your team by creating groups on Facebook, and Google+ or even having a weekly email conversation or team webinar with everyone. Creating a community keeps people involved and investing in building Income for Life for all involved.

Q&A

Your Top Webinar Questions from March 13

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Q: How do I contact a lead if they do not leave a phone number?

A: A lead is someone who leaves you contact information after a visit to your site or replicated site. In order to be a lead they have to leave some form of contact information, preferably email or a phone number. Someone who visits your site but does not leave any information is traffic, but not a lead since there is no way to follow up with that lead. This is why it is important to have a contact form and some lead generation tools on your website to ensure people are leaving information and you can follow up with them.

Q: When you have a missed sign up, what do you do if you cannot contact them right away?

A: When someone leaves your site during the sign up process, GDI will send them an email letting them know this happened and inviting them to finish the process. GDI will also send you an email informing you of a missed sign up to ensure you can follow up with them yourself. Find out more about missed sign ups here.

Q: Do you offer the webinar in Spanish?

A: At this time we don not offer the webinar in Spanish. However, we do cover many blog topics in the webinar. Our blog can be easily translated to Spanish with the “Translate” button above each blog post. You will be able to follow along with most of the topics we cover on the webinars.

Contest

The GDI WebSite Contest

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The GDI WebSite Contest is a chance for YOU to share your site, gain recognition and show off what you have worked hard to build. Many of our customers have built great sites using SiteBuilder, WordPress and our hosting and we want you to share them.

Take the time to submit a link to your site on Facebook or Twitter for consideration in the contest. Once we have all the submissions it will be up to GDI fans, family, friends and the public to vote. Entries will be shared on the official GDI Facebook page, giving any visitors a chance to vote for what they think is the best site with their “Likes.” The page or pages with the most “Likes” will be eligible for our cash prize.

The winners will receive a cash prize, have their site shared on Facebook and a special blog post, and also receive a GDI Top Design Site badge to be displayed on their site.

You must submit your site to be entered. All sites are subject to review. We reserve the right to refuse any site due to spam, offensive or objectionable content, and/or failure to meet eligibility rules.

Eligibility Rules

In order to be eligible to win a cash prize in the GDI WebSite Contest you must:

  1. Submit your website for consideration via Facebook or Twitter.
  2. Create your own website using any service. Replicated or forwarded sites (masked or unmasked) will not be considered.
  3. Your website must be a GDI domain, purchased through GDI.
  4. Entries must be from registered, active GDI customers in good standing.

How to Enter

We will be posting on Facebook and Twitter in the coming weeks asking for your entries. Simply leave the link to your website in the comments of a Facebook post or tweet us @gdicorporate with your site for consideration for the contest. You can even leave you link in the comments of this post.

Last day for submissions is Friday, April 13.