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LinkedIn for GDI and Affiliate Marketing

LinkedIn is a great way to establish yourself online with a profile that is essentially your online, ever growing resume. Your profile is free to build and can showcase your special skills, experience and past and current positions and can even be synched to social media sites like Twitter and your blog.

What it’s good for

LinkedIn is great to connect with other network marketers and people interested in new marketing and business opportunities. You can create or join groups that may be related to GDI, affiliate marketing or just new business opportunities. Groups can help you with tips from people who have been there and gives you the chance to ask questions of other professionals. The best aspect is that these groups can also be used to directly connect with others just like you.

How it’s unique

LinkedIn is unique in that it focuses more on professional networking rather than just social networking. LinkedIn gives you a chance to have nay business contacts in one place, kind of like and online rolodex.

Ways to use it

Utilize your profile to post updates about your work and accomplishments just like you would on Twitter or Tumblr. LinkedIn is a great way to connect with other affiliates, even the ones that haven’t joined GDI just yet. LinkedIn will show you degrees of connections with other professionals. Someone you may think will be a good contact may be a contact of one of your connections. Simply ask to be introduced and you can start a great dialogue and connect with tons of new people that may be helpful in building your business Lastly, LinkedIn can replace all those business cards floating in your wallet and connect you permanently with contacts you have met in person. The bonus of this is that you can stay with a contact as they change jobs as well.

Your Year End Business Plan

As 2012 approaches, many of us will be taking the time to reflect on our personal successes and challenges in 2011. You should also be taking the time to reflect on your network marketing experiences in 2011. We share some questions you should be asking yourself about 2011 and our tips for making 2012 you most successful year below.

Assess 2011

It’s always a good idea to measure you success at the end of each month and keep a running document of this information. But if you haven’t been too good at keeping track of this information in 2011, you can still easily assess the year. Ask yourself a few key questions. What was my biggest success? What was my biggest challenge? How often did a lose a team member? How much time did I spend on building my business with GDI each week? The answers to these questions can give you a simple overview of your year and allow you to get brainstorming for 2012.

Set New Goals

Based on the answers to the above questions and what you hope to achieve in 2012, it’s time to set some new hard goals and deadlines. These goals can be based on numbers, like how many hours put into building your business, or how many team members you signed up. You can also set goals based on personal growth and helping others, like making sure to attend each GDI webinar, or to help answer questions new affiliates may have on Facebook.

Make Plans to Reach Those Goals

Now that you’ve set your goals, you need to take the time to write out the steps that will help you achieve those goals, like we did below:

Goal: Sign up 5 new team members per month

Steps to Achieve Goal:

  • Create simple duplication system
  • Build network through social media
  • Attend local business events to share my GDI opportunity
  • Reach out to upline each month for advice
  • Attend weekly webinars and encourage new team members to attend

Check back with these goals every couple of weeks to ensure you are on your way to achieving them and making 2012 your most successful year yet!

How to Benefit from Twitter’s New Activity Feed

For those of you already on Twitter, you may have noticed that within the past few months, Twitter has rolled out a new way to see what the people you following are doing, and what your followers have to say about you and who they are. This can all be found under the “Activity” heading on your Twitter homepage. This new feature is great for those using Twitter to build their GDI business and team. Here’s how:

Who is Following Whom

In your activity feed, you can now see some of the recent activity of people you are following all in one place. This includes being able the recent followings of those you follow. This will enable you to build up a network even faster, see who these people are following and if they can be any help to you. You can always immediately follow these people in hopes of a followback and chance to start up a conversation.

Favorited Tweets

Also in this activity timeline you can see recently favorited tweets. This is beneficial to helping you learn more about the people you are following, but also what they are sharing. People often favorite great articles, blogs or just great tweets, so check them out and see how these favorites might help you.

Instant Retweets

Twitter always allowed you the power to see who was retweeting what including your tweets, and now you can see it in real time. Check on this activity and take the time to thank people who retweet your tweets to build up a dialogue. Also see what people are retweeting to see top information and news.