Beginners, How To

The Beginner Checklist

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You’ve just made the great decision of joining GDI and working to build income for life. What next? Here are 10 great ideas to take advantage of as a GDI beginner.

  1. Find out how to contact your upline. To confirm who your upline is, log in to your Members Area and select Upline in the left hand navigation. Here you can see who your upline members are and the ways you can contact them.
  2. Build a relationship with your upline. Now that you know how to contact your upline, take advantage of this. Build a relationship with your upline and ask for help as needed.
  3. Follow us on social media. We share great information, news and answers to your questions on our social media sites. For a list of where you can find us, click here.
  4. Know who to ask for help. With GDI, you’re never too far form live help. Reach out to support@website.ws and 760-602-6000 for technical issues. For other issues, feel free to ask us and your fellow affiliates for help on our social media sites. Don’t forget to reach out to your upline, they should be your first line of help as a beginner.
  5. Head to the forums. GDI has an expansive and long running forum at www.Talk.ws Here you can post new questions and topics and search for answers or just browse old threads for ideas.
  6. Select your site. Part of what makes GDI so powerful is the .WS domain, so make sure you use it! When you first sign up with GDI you should decide what kind of site you would like. Do you want to take advantage of our replicated sites, SiteBuilder, WordPress or hosting? You can always adjust this setting, too. Log into your Members Area to either DNS of Replicated Sites to select the service that is right for you.
  7. Consider blogging. Blogging is a great way to help build your business and show visitors that you’re committed. GDI offers blogging platforms with SiteBuilder and WordPress and allows you to host your already created blog with us.
  8. Share your site. Your website is only as powerful as the people viewing it, so get it out there! Share your site and opportunity on social networks, email friends and ask others to share.
  9. Step outside of your comfort zone. Don’t attack your friends and family with the opportunity. 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.
  10. Set goals. Set beginner goals, achievable goals and reach goals. Keep assessing and moving your goals. If you do not set goals, how can you be sure when you have been successful?

Advice, How To, Marketing, Social Media

Blogs and Affiliate Marketing

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Blogs can be a great tool to share your opportunity, update your team, and help to educate prospects. Anyone can blog, but there are a few best practices to keep in mind for your blog.

*Remember, GDI gives you multiple ways to take advantage of blogging with SiteBuilder blogs, WordPress and hosting.

Post Often

Blogging gives you the chance to update content in a way that’s simple and doesn’t require you changing your whole website. Because of the ease of use, visitors expect blog posts to be updated on the regular and offer new content. Creating a posting schedule and sticking to it will keep visitors engaged and also show new visitors your dedication to your site and opportunity.

Post Your Own Content

Blogs provide a great platform to share videos and images created by others, but your unique content is what will keep visitors coming back. Take advantage of the “stage” your blog provides to share your own experiences and advice for affiliate marketing. Visitors will appreciate the unique content and come back for more.

Switch Up Your Posts

When you start blogging you need to be conscious of what people are and are not willing to read. Many people are put off by long blog posts and big blocks of text, so much so that they may leave your site. To avoid this, make sure your posts are short and to the point. You can also switch up your types of posts. This can mean breaking your posts in to list format, adding bullets or even posting a video blog every so often. Get creative!

Share, Share, Share!

Your blog is only as powerful as the people viewing it, so get it out there! Share your new posts on social networks, email friends and ask others to share. Don’t be afraid to ask visitors to share a post if they like it. The more shares, the more popular your blog and the bigger your network can grow.

Do you blog? What’s your #1 blogging tip?

Video

GDI Vlog: Blogging, Targeting Team Members and Social Media Tips

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GDI has taken on something new! To give you more insight and advice we’ve started vlogging! What is vlogging? It’s a video blog and it gives us another chance to connect with our affiliates and give you information you can learn from and share. So take some time to watch our vlogs and share them with your team. We’d love to hear your comments and responses too. Leave your comments here or create your own vlog to talk back to us. If there is a topic you want to see covered on our next vlog, let us know!

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