Category Archives: Advice

Advice, Beginners, Help & Support, How To

Five Ways to Ensure Success as a New Affiliate

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  1. Get in touch with your upline. Now is the time to make sure you have open lines of communication with your upline. If you don’t already have their contact information, click on Upline on the lefthand navigation in the Members Area. Ask questions and get connected with your most powerful resource.
  2. Begin you learning bonus. GDI Learning Bonus rewards new affiliates for learning more about GDI. The Learning Bonus will walk you through the steps you need to understand all GDI has to offer. Best yet, you earn a $25 bonus by completing these steps. Learn more here.
  3. Follow GDI’s social media accounts. We are every active on social media sharing information, news, videos and responding to your questions. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Pinterest to get started. Have a site you want to connect with us on? Let us know!
  4. Decide what you will do with your .WS domain. Will you use your domain for personal or professional use? Do you want to create a blog or a full fledged site. Decide what you want to create and take advantages of our services to do so. Learn more about branding your site here and building your site here.
  5. Set goals and create a plan for success. You’ve signed up, that’s the first step, congrats! Now it’s time to set some goals. Talk with your upline and other affiliates to set realistic goals, or just browse our bonuses in the Members Area for some ideas on what you can achieve.

Advice, Affiliate, Contest

Your Winning Advice Final Round: Content is Key

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Our Big Tipper Contest that has been asking you for your advice since November has finally come to a close. We gave away $600 dollars to the winners and in turn got some great advice for all to benefit from. The final $100 winner and winner of the fourth round is GDI affiliate Keith Bless. We want to take the opportunity to share Keith’s winning advice as well as our take on it.

Finally, even though the contest is over, we still love hearing your advice! Feel free to share advice on our Facebook Page or tweet us with it.

Winning Advice: As you do your marketing and advertizing, do your best to focus on actions that bring RESIDUAL benefits. For example, one great “cold call” might bring you one person, but one great bit of content might bring you dozens, hundreds, or thousands.  Keith Bless

 This of advice is right up our alley. If you follow this blog, you know we often talk about the power of content in marketing and building your team. You can even see some past posts on it here, here, and here. Keith is 100% right in his advice. While that one cold call is worth a celebration, seeing the big picture is also extremely helpful to building your team. Great content can attract and keep the attention of many at one time. Put effort into creating content like helpful blog posts, videos and more for a large audience to build that long term income. But don’t forget about those individual cold calls, they help too!

Thanks to all our GDI affiliates who entered the Big Tippers Contest!

Advice, How To, Motivation

New Year, New Goals

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Just a few days ago we talked about reflecting on your experiences as an affiliate in 2012. After sometime looking back, it’s now time to look forward! As the holidays come to a close, it is the perfect time to set goals, make plans, and work towards 2013 being your best year yet.  Follow our advice below to get 2013 off to a great start!

Set Goals

Decide what you want to achieve in 2013, weekly, monthly and more and write it down. Set easy goals as well as harder to reach goals to keep you on the right path. Goals don’t have to be just about money or signups either. Goals can deal with things like commission numbers you would like to hit or number of blog posts you want to publish.

Set Clear Measures of Success

Setting goals is the easy part, setting when you hit them and how is a bit trickier. Maybe you’re monthly goal is to get 4 new sign ups. But if you get 6 one month and 2 the next, is that good enough for you? Set markers so that you know when you have achieved a goal. Once that happens, set new and tougher goals to keep moving forward.

Schedule Yourself

Setting a time to work on building your business each week is a great idea. Many of us are so busy these days that if we don’t set a specific time to do something, it wont get done. If you spent 2012 only working on your business in random spurts, change that this year. Pick a time each week to dedicate to your business and add it to your schedule or agenda to hold yourself to it.

Tie Up Loose Ends

GDI unveiled the Learning Bonus in August of 2012 to make sure new affiliates had an understanding of GDI as well as everything they needed to get started and get paid. If you joined prior to August 2012, you missed the opportunity for this bonus, but it is still a great guide for getting started. Listed below are a few steps from the Learning Bonus that are helpful for all affiliates. See any you haven’t accomplished just yet? Now is the time to check them off your list!

  • Create a “GDI” email address with your domain
  • Create a WebSite using SiteBuilder or WordPress
  • Set Your Preferred Commission Method
  • Send Your Documentation to GDI Support