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The Role of an Affiliate

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The role of an affiliate is just one of the many possible roles you can have with GDI.

Signing up with GDI doesn’t mean you have to pursue our income opportunity. In fact, the choice is all yours for how you work with us. But if you choose to be an affiliate, we want to help you get started. One of the common questions after signing up with GDI is “What do I do? Where do I start?” While there are many different ways to be successful with GDI, we shared some basic principles of what should be included in an affiliate’s role to be a successful part of GDI.

Build Income for Life

The phrase “Income for Life” echoes a passion many of us have. It first makes one think of quitting their 9-5 and living off their network marketing fortune forever. But it’s not quite like that. GDI can help you create Income for Life, but it takes work. As we often say, if you want part time income from GDI put in part time work. If you want full time income, put in full time work. GDI offers a variety of marketing tools and tips, but if you want to create Income for Life, you need to have that passion to stick with you and network marketing for just as long.

Share Your Passion and Our Products

Just like that passion for GDI will help you stick with the work that can create Income for Life, that passion helps others to see what they can gain from joining GDI and working with your team. Passion for businesses like GDI is contagious, so all we ask is that you be passionate about your business and share with people just how passionate you are. So, it’s easy to be passionate about income, but what about our products?! What sets GDI apart from opportunities and domain registrars like it is easy access to the products and services you need to get going. GDI offers you everything from a quick start site creating tool, to your very own WordPress account already set up for you to use, to inviters to simply share emails about your new business opportunity with as many or as few of your contacts. So get to know our products by using them or learn more about them first here.

Network

As you know, the GDI opportunity is considered network marketing, so networking is essential to building your business. Like many of our other tips, networking in this industry is not much different from networking in your standard 9-5, except a lot of it can be done on the internet. Do you research on sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to find others interested in GDI or network marketing and start conversations and see what connections they might have. You can even check out GDI’s Twitter and Facebook page to see who is a fan of us and how you might be able to work with them. Like networking in the traditional business world, not all connections are going to land you that great job or great opportunity, but the more people you are connected with the more chance you have of meeting the right people to add to your downline or offer you great advice.

What do you think the role of an affiliate entails?

Advice, Help & Support, How To

Pushbacks and How to Respond

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I Went Through My Personal Network and Have No One Left to Contact

If you want to succeed in any kind of business, you need to be creative and be able to work through the tough times This push back calls for you to get creative. So you’ve gone through your already established, network, so what!? GDI is about creating new networks and connections so come up with some creative methods to attract new people and try some of ours.

LinkedIn: Connect with anyone you have ever done business with and search for more people in network marketing, affiliate marketing or internet marketing, this is your key demographic for building your network. Search for groups on these topics as well and network online!

Twitter: Search for #networkmarketing and network marketing within tweets and profiles, these are people who understand the industry and may be looking for their next big opportunity.

Local Business and Networking Events: In a tough economy, these events seems pretty common as everyone is trying to get insight into a new business venture or build their network. Attend these events, talk to people and be honest about your experiences and motives. You have a business opportunity to share, treat it as such.

I Don’t Want to Commit

No matter how big or small, any type of time of financial commitment can be scary to a new prospect. If you have someone who is really pushing back we recommend:

Gift Cards: GDI gift cards allow you to give the gift of GDI to anyone who needs a domain, or in this case, wants to get started with GDI, but isn’t ready to commit. The gift cards can be given for 1, 3, or 6 months. Be sure to follow up often with people who receive gift cards!

The 7 Day Free Trial: Our huge marketing tool is still just as effective. Why not give people the chance to get their feet wet with GDI for 7 days and then decide? Be sure to inform these people of all GDI has to offer and even “show them around” with your own videos or our GDI Tutorials.

Isn’t This a Pyramid Scheme?

People often say this when referring to the structure of network marketing. However, network marketing is much like any other business.  GDI operates with one person at the top, much like a CEO, and that’s you! This “pyramid” then expands to levels of others underneath him, much like employees. And those who get in early make the most money.

The only difference between a network marketing model and the standard corporate structure of any business today is that YOU are your own CEO. You start at the top and build down, helping others do the same.

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Duplication: How to Benefit

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What is Duplication?

You’ve probably heard the word a lot on webinar as being a powerful tool, but do you know exactly what duplication means for GDI? When it comes to marketing your GDI opportunity and gaining new sign ups, duplication means simple and repeatable. It means that if you truly want to grow your downline and business that the way you market the opportunity has to be easy to understand and easy for those you sign up to recreate and get new sign ups themselves. A great way that duplication can be achieved is by sharing the 7 minute movie, sharing some simple facts about GDI along with your favorite features. It doesn’t take too much effort for your downline to share the same 7 minute movie, the same facts and their own favorite features to get others interested and signed up. Then their new downline members can do the same thing.

Why It’s Beneficial

It may take a little time to figure out your best duplication system, but once you do it will make your work that much easier. Duplication is beneficial because it gives those around you the simple tools to excel with GDI. Find a way of marketing that works for you, that is simple, direct and can be done by anyone, then allow your new team members to use the same marketing duplication system to build both of your downlines. So get started on a simple and duplicable marketing strategy today!