Category Archives: Marketing

Advice, Marketing, Motivation

Looking Back on Your Business Plan from 2012

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The end of the year is fast approaching; you should have a plan to work with it. The end of the year should mean assessing goals, plans, and progress from the past 12 months. Here is one breakdown to apply to your opportunity to see how far you’ve come this year and what you might need to change for the New Year.

Signs Ups and Bonuses

  1. How many new sign ups did you get this year?
  2. How many of those sign ups are still with you?
  3. The Learning Bonus launched in August, how many of your sign ups since then have achieved it?
  4. How far off are you from your Duplication Bonus
  5. What bonuses have you earned this year?

Time and Effort

  1. Did you have a business plan for 2012?
  2. On average, how much time did you spend on GDI weekly?
  3. How often did you market offline?
  4. What forms of marketing did you use online?
  5. How active were you on social media?
  6. How many times did you take a break from your business? For how long?

Education and Content

  1. How many tutorials have you watched?
  2. How many blogs posts have you read and shared?
  3. How often did you help your downline?
  4. How often did you update your blog or WebSite?
  5. Did you share your business plan with your downline members?

These questions are just a guideline to get you thinking about the progress of your opportunity this year. What questions help you reflect and set new goals?

Advice, How To, Marketing, Opportunity

Five Ways to Enjoy Your Vacation and Maintain Your Business

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Whether you’re traveling for the holidays or just taking a mental break, here are five simple ways to maintain your business while you take a break.

  1. Set up an auto responder for emails when you’re out of town. This will reply to any incoming emails with a preset message. Keep your message short and let senders know you’ll be in touch soon.
  2. Create blog posts and schedule them to post while you’re way, keeping content fresh and the appearance you’re still working behind the scenes
  3. Let your downline know you’ll be away form email and phone for sometime and direct them to other resources to help them, like this blog or our Support Team.
  4. Include a signup link in your auto responder and any profile. You don’t need to post on social media that you’re traveling, but be sure a link to your WebSite is easy to see so people can join while you’re away.
  5. If you’re feeling ambitious, you can easily access .WS email on your smartphone to stay on top of your business form afar. .WS mobile email supports Apple iOS and Android.

Advice, How To, Marketing, Q&A, Social Media, Tools

Quora for Affiliate Marketing

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You may not have visited Quora just yet, but it’s very popular and gaining momentum. Quora, as its own website states, “A continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.”

What it’s good for

Quora is good for answering questions you feel you are an expert on and of course getting answer to your own questions. Search a phrase like “affiliate marketing” and you will be given a list of results with that phrase, most of which will be helpful. You can also add your own answer to questions that come up in search results.

How it’s unique

Quora is unique in quite a few ways. First off, if gives you a great direct opportunity to be a thought leader and establish yourself as an expert in you field. Twitter and Facebook offer this, but it can require lots of searches to find people discussing the information you interested in. With Quora there is a direct way to do this. The site is also different from other social question and answer sites in that each question and following answers are held to strict guidelines and are peer reviewed often to be sure those guidelines are respected. For example, when addressing a poster you must address them by first and last name, to ensure there is no confusion if there are multiple posters with the same first name. Questions must also be formatted in a specific way, which Quora will show when you start to post questions.

Ways to use it

Use Quora to establish yourself as in expert in the fields you have the most knowledge, like affiliate marketing or website design. Ask and answers and follow questions to get updates. You can also follow people on the site to see when they ask or answer a question. Link your Quora and your Twitter to drive your followers to see your answers and discussions. Quora is great to establish as a thought leader as well as ask and learn other leaders.