Category Archives: Marketing

Advice, Marketing, Opportunity

Marketing the Right Way

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There is quite a difference between marketing and selling. There is a reason why the GDI opportunity if part of affiliate marketing and not affiliate selling. Sales and selling refer to getting customers to buy a certain product, whatever it might be. Marketing is the process of finding that right product, price and placement to ensure it meets the needs of the customer. As you share your GDI opportunity, you should be marketing not selling. Here’s how:

The opportunity and domain that GDI offers can be tailored many different ways to meet the needs of each potential new team member. As you approach people with the opportunity, don’t think about how their joining GDI will benefit you, but how it can benefit them. You need to find out the needs and wants of a potential team member to decide how best to present the opportunity. This is marketing.

Learn what someone might be most interested in and then market the opportunity to them in that sense. Is someone looking simply for another income source? Market the affiliate program. Is this person in need of a site for their business? Market the domain and site building services.

Remember, when you solely look to get someone to join your team for your benefit, you are selling. When you look for someone to join your team for their benefit as well as yours, you are marketing. Always market to build a successful and happy team.

Advice, Beginners, Marketing

Tips for Affiliate Marketing Beginners

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Here are four quick tips for our beginners to help you build Income for Life.

Be a People Person

Affiliate marketing, network marketing, whatever you call it, it’s all about people. When you start with GDI you shouldn’t be looking to just put whoever in your downline, you should be consciously building a strong team. The difference is that a team will work to help each member succeed and keep the success going. To build a team you need to be a people person. This means really connect with the people you want to add to your team and get to know them.  As you take the time to talk with potential team members you will quickly learn who is in it for the long haul or who might quit after one month. Build your team with people interested in being successful together and staying with GDI.

Expand Your Network

Many beginners with GDI often turn to their friends and their family first to sign them up. While this may work for some people, this can often backfire. Don’t attack your friends and family with the opportunity. These people will always be there, and if they do show interest, work with them, but there’s no need to brow beat your friends and family with the opportunity. If you don’t get immediate excitement from your close circle, it’s OK, move one.

You need to step a bit out of your comfort zone to build new networks and get connected with others. Reach out to old coworkers, local small business owners and entrepreneurs. They might be interested in GDI and they might put you in contact with people in their network. Don’t leave GDI just because mom and dad don’t want to sign up, branch out and tap into huge numbers of people.

Schedule Yourself

Many people begin working with GDI and building Income for Life while they are still employed. GDI can be a great source of “extra” income, but be sure to schedule time to build your business of you will never see this income. Set aside time each day or week specifically for GDI to build your business and network. GDI can be done anytime, just make the time for it!

Be Patient

This is a tip we often hear from very successful affiliates: be patient. These affiliates often say that if they had given up in their first week, month or even year when things got hard, they wouldn’t be as successful as they are today. You may start off slow or have slow weeks, but be patient, stick with it and get creative. Just $10 is one of the smallest investments in a business you can make, stick with it and work hard and you’ll start to see results.

How To, Marketing

Marketing Your Opportunity with the Four P’s

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GDI offers you the opportunity to build Income for Life with our affiliate marketing opportunity. While affiliate marketing differs from traditional marketing in many ways, there are still lessons to be learned from the more traditional form. One of these basic lessons is the importance of the four P’s when it comes to your business. They are product, promotion, place, and price. Each of these pillars are essential to successful traditional marketing, but can also be applied to affiliate marketing. Learn how.

Product

The product is the domain, site building services, and email. The GDI product offers a unique opportunity for anyone looking to the brand themselves of their business. The product GDI provides includes your own personalized domain name, 10 email addresses at that personal domain and the tools to build your site our host it on our servers.

Promotion

Promotion is the way you communicate your product and all it has to offer. GDI gives you many tools to promote the products and affiliate opportunity. These tools include the 7 minute movie, your own website, personalized email addresses, your own blog, and the Inviter. You can also promote using many other tools like social media, videos and guest blogging.

Place

Place refers to getting the product to a point where it is easy for someone to access it. This is simple with GDI since domains can be purchased and accessed from anywhere there is an internet connection.

Price

GDI offers its products and services of the low price of $10 per month and even offers a free 7 day trial. This price allows you to easily market it with out fear of people saying there product is too costly.