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The GDI Opportunity: How It Works

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As many of our season affiliates know, Global Domains International (GDI) is an amazing opportunity to take control of your career and earning power and create Income for Life. Beyond the income opportunity, GDI offers you the chance to have your own branded website, email addresses, internationalized domain names and many amazing features. Our offerings outside of the income opportunity are reason enough to sign up with GDI, but if you’re new, you may be asking yourself “how does it all work?” We’ve explained it simply below. Feel free to leave any questions you have in the comments.

Signing Up

When you sign up for GDI, you are essentially signing up for two things. You have agreed to sign up with a sponsor, or if you registered without a sponsor, one will be assigned to you. When you sign up with a sponsor, you become part of their team or downline. When you sign up people below you, they become a part of your team or downline. For each person you sign to your downline you are paid out $1 per month per person in your downline. This works the same way for the people above you, it just happens that you are part of their downline.

The second thing you are signing up for is our GDI products, which in the basic membership include a domain registration, hosting and 10 email addresses. All of which you can brand anyway you like and are yours for life. You also have access to GDI’s own SiteBuilder to simply build a great site as long as other add-ons like a message boards, photo gallery, URL forwarding and blogs that can be created using our WordPress plugin.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is how you are able to build you Income for Life. Above we talk about the $1 per level pay out. This is essentially your commission for marketing and selling GDI’s domain services and income opportunity.

Affiliate Income

As GDI affiliate, you will be rewarded with a 10% commission on the revenue generated from each layer, down through a total of 5 generations, with no limit to how many “front line” (Layer 1) affiliates you may have and therefore no limit to your potential income. If you personally introduce just 5 affiliates and each of them do the same, you will have built a network of 3905 affiliates. Whenever one of them makes a sale or spends money themselves on a GDI service, you will receive 10% of every transaction, whether it is monthly or annual, which means long term, residual income for you.

The Products

From the moment you sign up with GDI you have access to some great products and services. These include 10 email addresses, a photo gallery, forum, WordPress plugin, our Inviter and more. To learn more about each product, check out our GDI Products Post.

Selling It

How you sell the GDI opportunity is up to you. What sold you on joining GDI? You can sell people on the products, the income opportunity or both. For some tips on choosing how to market GDI, check out our post on The Product or the Opportunity.

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Complete WordPress Tutorial Part:III

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11. When you scroll down in the window there’s a lot of options you may want to learn on your own, but for getting started sake, we wont cover here. You can always visit the blog for posts on specific WordPress features. You will see “Users,” for the sake of posting a blog, the user you select is whose name will appear as the author.

a. To add users or change how your user name appears navigate to Dashboard>Users. When you click on users, your submenu options are: Add New and Your Profile. Add New is to add a new user for your blog and Your Profile is to adjust the main user’s (your) profile. To change how your name appears, select your profile.  Though your username cannot be changed, you can change your first and last name, and what name appears in your posts. You can also change your email and add some biographical info too.

12. You’ve selected tags, categories, and your author, checked for the best keywords and proofread your blog. You’re ready to publish. To do this, click “publish” in the right hand corner of the page. You can also change your publishing options by changing the default Publish: Immediately to a specific calendar date, marking the post as private or saving the post as a draft instead (drafts are saved, but not published until you choose to do so). Once your post is published, you can select “view post,” which will appear above your headline box. Your post will now appear in the list of posts that can be seen by selecting the main Post link from the left side navigation or selecting Posts>Posts. This post will always exist here and can be edited at any time.

13. You’ve got your posting mastered, now it is time to select a them to customize your blog. Before you start posting you may want to choose a theme. WordPress offers a huge number of themes and GDI now offers its own customizable theme. You can easily find the GDI theme by logging into your WordPress site and navigating to appearance>find themes. The GDI theme will be right at the bottom of the page. Just click apply and you’re ready to customize or just start posting.

To find other themes, you can easily search within WordPress or any search engine for free WordPress themes. You can search for themes in a number of ways including by color, features and columns. Many themes are totally customizable allowing you to create and add your own header and background. Themes also allow you to add widgets to make your page more functional and professional. You can also search outside of the WordPress database for free themes, simply by searching for “Free WordPress Themes,” just be sure you trust the author and site before you download.  When downloading a them from within WordPress all you need to do is activate it when the install is complete. For themes you found outside of WordPress, once your theme is downloaded, simply return to the themes area in WordPress and navigate to install themes>upload. Once your theme is uploaded, you will need to activate it before if will appear on your page and you can begin customizing.

14. Once you have a theme you can start adding widgets. Now that you have a theme, you can get creative with customizing your page and making it easy to use with the addition of widgets. The many different widgets that WordPress offers can be overwhelming. However, widgets are there to make setting up your site even easier and they really aren’t as complicated or tech savvy as they sound. On the GDI Affiliate blog you can see down the right hand side: “recent posts,” “archives,” etc. These are all widgets.

WordPress is very user friendly and gives you many widgets to choose from and all you need to do just drop them in and activate. I will use the “recent posts” widget as an example of how to add a widget:

People will want to see past posts they missed, so the recent posts widget is a great way to give people access to this. Simply go into widgets, find the “recent posts” widget and drag it to the right hand side where ever you want it to appear. Depending on the theme you have chosen, your options may be “sidebar” “bottom bar” or more. Simply drop it where you want it and customize it before you save. Repeat this process for any widgets you may want to add. Some widgets may require a bit more work and coding, so be sure always check your site to see how things show up.

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Complete WordPress Tutorial Part:II

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6. Now you are ready to add you first post. To add a new post, select Add New in the Posts submenu. This will open up a new post. You will see an area for your post title and text. These are self explanatory. Type in your desired title and add your main text. You can also paste text into this window, but may lose some formatting, so be sure to check your work.

7. You will notice that the top of this text window has options that you might see in a word editor like underline, bullets, and font color. Font options are limited because the font that will show up is usually dictated by the theme you chose.

8. Once you have added your text and title, it is time to optimize you blog posts with tags, categories and even the URL. After you have added text to the title box, you will see an option below it with your posts permalink. This is a link that will always take you directly to this post. There is a button to the permalink that labeled “change permalinks.” Click it. When you click this button it gives you the option to choose how your permalinks are displayed. For search engine optimization (SEO) reasons, you do not want your post permalink to be blog.yoursite.ws/123. This will hinder search engines from finding the post. You should select any option you like where your title will show in the permalink such as blog.yoursite.ws/make-money-with-gdi.

9. Once you have saved the way your permalinks will appear, you will be returned to your blog posts. Before you post you should pick some tags for your post. These tags should be words that appear in your post and are great keywords. To see what keywords are best visit Google Keyword to see what words receive more searches. If you see a great keyword, it is a good idea to use it a few times in your blog post for SEO reasons.

10. Categories are an easy way for people to find posts by what they are looking for. Create categories that make sense for your blog like “How to”  “Business Advice” and etc. You can always add a new category whenever you like.