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The GDI WebSite Contest: Next Steps

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Thank you to everyone who submitted their sites to our WebSite contest. The contest is now closed.

What Now?

We are sorting through your submissions to ensure each one qualifies for the contest and is matched with the right category. In the coming weeks we will share the submitted sites on our Facebook page, giving you, your friends, family, team members, and GDI fans a chance to vote for their favorite site with their “Likes.”

How Does it Work?

Each site submission will be placed in a corresponding category based on the tools and services you used to build your site. Your submission will be placed in one of the following categories:

SiteBuilder Sites or WordPress / Hosted Sites

Each submitted, eligible site will be shared in a Facebook album for their category. Sites will be shared as a screen shot with a link to the site in the caption. Simply click the Like button underneath a screen shot to vote for a site. The site screenshots with the most votes will be the winners.

An album for each category will be shared for a one week time period. Winners will be selected based on the number of Likes their screen shot receives. There will be first, second, and third place winners in each category and a special GDI Staff Pick Winner that will be chosen from either category.

You will be able to vote for your SiteBuilder sites on Facebook April 23-29th. You will be able to vote for your favorite WordPress or Hosted sites on Facebook April 30-My 6th.

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.

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.

First Prize: $100 (one per category)

Second Prize: $50 (one per category)

Third Prize: $25 (one per category)

GDI Staff Pick: $100 (one chosen from all submitted, eligible sites)

So, starting April 23rd, head to Facebook, browse the album and Like your favorite sites!

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Marketing to Provide Value

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Recently, we posted about affiliate marketing versus affiliate selling. GDI is an affiliate marketing opportunity, meaning that adding new team members is not about just getting rid of or selling a product, but connecting people with the right product, price, and opportunity for them. Affiliate marketing is about providing value to prospects and team members, not selling inventory. We share a few tips to ensure you’re providing value while working to build your team.

Educate

While the chance to generate income by referring people to GDI is enough to get many people excited, you need to go beyond that when sharing the opportunity. Start educating potential team members about GDI and how to be successful with GDI right away. This is a chance for you to provide value before someone even considers joining your team. This value means more educated team members and in turn more successful team members.

Don’t Sell

As we said in our previous post, don’t sell GDI, but market it. When you are in a “selling” mindset, you may end up with the wrong people and struggle to meet your goals. You do not want to sell to just anyone. You want to market the right product to the right people who can be an active member of your team. Market to people to ensure they are interested in GDI for the right reasons.

Qualify

This tip came from our successful Tissa Godavitarne. He advised that when you are looking to grow your team, reach out to many people, but then take the time to qualify them. Get to know people before you add them to your downline to decide if they will be good for your team. Switch roles and instead of having potential team members study you and decide if they want to join, study them, get to know them, and then decide if they will be an effective part of your team.

How To, Tips

Help Your Team to Build Your Team

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Sometimes we get questions on Facebook and Twitter about how to contact your upline. One of the best ways to avoid upline problems is to educate our affiliates on ways to be a good upline resource in the first place, so the education and best practices spread. Read on for a few great tips to be a great upline.

Be available

Don’t go AWOL. Once you have someone secured in your downline, that is not the end of the process. Network Marketing is about building a network. You need to work to maintain relationships and ensure you and your network are successful. If your downline emails, calls or reaches out, it is in your best interest to respond and help them in order to continue to successfully build your downline.

Be open

Aside from just being available, be open about that fact! Tell your downline and your network that you are available and encourage them to reach out to you if needed. You want to establish a level of comfort that ensures everyone in your network  can achieve their full potential.

Offer Help

Try to offer help and guidance even before it is needed. All affiliates experience the same process and tend to share many of the same highs and lows. Everyone, even our most successful affiliates, had to start somewhere. Take the time to share some of the important lessons and experiences that helped to make your GDI business a success. Is there a pitfall that you experienced, but now understand how to avoid? Share the knowledge!

It All Comes Down to Relationships

Success in affiliate marketing and with GDI, like many things in life, comes down to your ability to build and maintain relationships. Building a network takes time and effort and a little extra work in the beginning. Establish open lines of communication and relationships with your downline and you will ensure everyone in your network has a chance for success.

What are your tips for being a great sponsor?