Midweek Motivation: Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Commitment

There are many misconceptions about affiliate marketing, one being that it is a get rich quick scheme. You surely know that there are no get rich quick schemes that work, and GDI in no way claims to be one of them.

Quite the contrary, we suggest our affiliates be ready to invest time into and commit to growing their business. Dedicating yourself to this opportunity and sticking with it will truly pay off. While it is possible to make great money in those first few weeks, it doesn’t happen right away for everyone. When we ask our most successful affiliates for their advice, it’s always the same “Stick with it.” Our affiliates with big checks form GDI coming in each month simply wouldn’t be where they are if they had quit early on.

GDI does not charge you sign up fees or cancellation fees. You can sign up and quit right away if you truly want to, but you won’t be any better off because of it. You can stay with GDI as long as you’d like, but to be truly successful, you need to put in the time and be ready to commit. Commit to building Income for Life and not quitting because you had a bad week. Commit to signing up others and helping them build their income. Commit to learning all you can and sharing your success with others.

GDI’s affiliate program gives you the freedom to build your own business, so you’re not committing just to GDI, but really to yourself. Stick with it and keep moving forward.

Facebook Marketing Advice for Affiliates

A Page for Your Team

GDI’s Facebook Page allows us to connect with many of our affiliates as well as potential affiliates and fans all at once. Your team Facebook Page can serve the same purpose. Create a Facebook Page for yourself and your downline members. Use the page to stay in touch with your team as well as to tout successes and share any news or ideas. As you build out your page and you and your team become active, it becomes a great marketing tool. Link potential team members to your team Facebook Page as an easy way for them to learn more and get proof of your achievements. Don’t know how to build a Facebook Page? Watch the video below.

Fill Out Job Information

Your Facebook profile allows you to add job information if you please. Take advantage of this to publicize your work with GDI in a subtle way. Visitors to your profile can see you’re a GDI affiliate and reach out to you to learn more. To add your job information, go to your Facebook profile, click About and then Edit and Add Job.

Don’t Spam

Facebook is a way to connect with people and start conversations. Conversations are never started with link blasting and SPAM. With Facebook’s feature that allows people to control what they see in their news feed, uninvited content could get you hidden forever. Share your successes and news, but don’t junk up your friend’s news feeds with useless links.

GDI Features: WordPress

What it is

WordPress is a free open source blogging software that has become one of the most popular and prominent content management services on the web. In WordPress.org’s own words: “The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” – we’d love you to join the family.”

Features

WordPress has many great features, not the least of which is an easy to use blogging platform that can be customized in many different ways. You can edit, format, and publish blog posts with WordPress. You can customize your blog by adding new widgets or new themes. There are thousands of themes available for WordPress that can be easily found by searching and installing directly through WordPress or searching with and outside search engine. If you already have a WordPress blog, you can also easily move it to GDI. With GDI, regular customers may use up to 10 GB of space for the sum of all their plugins. Premium customers have 100 GB of space available for the sum of all their plugins.

How to take advantage of it

Log in to your Members Area and navigate to Plugins. Here you can activate your blog or create new ones. Once your blog is live take advantage of it by customizing it every way you can. Add plugins, manage widgets and play with themes. Once your blog looks the way you would like, utilize WordPress to its fullest by adding and scheduling posts, posting video and sharing photos. The possibilities with WordPress are endless! To get up to speed right away, watch our WordPress tutorial video above.