Category Archives: Tips

Incentives for Downline Longevity

The longevity of your downline members is one key to success with GDI. Having a strong team that is always growing will keep you earning commissions. But when team members don’t stay for long, you can find yourself scrambling to build your downline each month. The easy solution is to just retain team members while adding new ones, right? Well sometimes that is easier said than done. Here are a few ways to sweeten the GDI offerings and keep your team members around longer.

Contests

GDI has recently ramped up our contest offerings. At any given time, chances are we’re running a contest to give you a chance to win more cash from GDI. GDI contests are separate from bonuses, so they aren’t based on the number of signups you have. Currently, GDI members have a chance to win $25 for creating a GDI board on Pinterest or even $100 for sharing advice with us. These are chances to win cash from GDI for just taking a few simple steps. Have your downline members follow GDI on Facebook and Twitter to know about the newest contests. Always encourage your downline to enter for a chance to win cash from GDI. An affiliate earning money is more likely to stick around and work on building their business.

Education

People are much more likely to stick with a business when they understand it. This tip may seem like a no brainer, but often new downline members are confused and feel left behind by their sponsor. Don’t let this happen to you and your team. Organize what you have learned in your time with GDI in a way that is shareable with new members. Reach out to your downline when they struggle to help them along instead of letting them quit. Education for your downline can be simple and shared in the form of videos, emails, blog posts, or just a quick phone call.

Bonuses

GDI’s Learning Bonus is designed to encourage longevity. The bonus does not require new signups to get several signups of their own in a short time, but just encourages them to learn more about GDI. The Learning Bonus asks new affiliates to accomplish simple tasks like setting up their .WS email, and then rewards them with $25 when all tasks are complete. The Learning Bonus helps to create an educated downline and encourage them to make more money. Be sure your new signups know how to take advantage of the Learning Bonus.

Four Sites to Take Advantage of Right Now

There are many sites that can help your share your business, build networks, and get your questions answered. Here are a few sites that can benefit affiliate marketers.

SlideShare for Presentations and New Audiences

SlideShare is a site that allows anyone to upload presentations and slideshows created with PowerPoint and Keynote. The presentations then live on the site where anyone can browse them or watch. SlideShare helps to get your presentations out to new audiences while offering some powerful SEO in the form of links back and another site where you and your message can be found.

Twitter for Network Building

Twitter is about content sharing in a short, digestible way. In this way Twitter is great to get your message out and find others who care about it. Start an account with Twitter to share your content and WebSite in 140 characters of less, but to also find others with similar interests. Retweet, message, and follow others like you to build your network easily.

Quora for Leading Discussions and Getting Answers

According to its website: “Quora connects you to everything you want to know about. Quora aims to be the easiest place to write new content and share content from the web.” In short, Quora is a smart question and answer site where people wanting to gain and share knowledge meet. Quora can be helpful to answer some questions you have about your business, but also to share your knowledge. You can start an account with the site and search for questions your have special knowledge on. This can help to build your persona as a thought leader and also grow your network.

Google News Alerts for News and Information

There’s a lot going on in the world of affiliate marketing and your GDI colleagues. To make sure you don’t miss a news story or a chance to connect, you can set up a Google Alerts. Google Alerts can be made for anything you wish to know about. Click on the link above and type in your search terms. You can then add settings so that you will be emailed whenever your search topic has news. You can also subscribe to an RSS feed for your alert to see your search whenever you log into your reader. Set GDI as a search term to find other affiliates and build your network.