Using Photos on Your Website or Blog

April 2, 2015 GDI Corporate Leave a comment

Using photos on your website is essential — photos break up text, can help explain difficult concepts, and generally keep site visitor’s interest. However, to make sure your photos are supporting your website in the way you need, follow the guidelines below.

Permission

Websites like Creative Commons or Flickr are great resources for photos taken by others that you can use on your site. However, many of these photos have stipulations for their use, often you need to attribute the original owner and link to their website. Be sure to check for the requirements before adding a photo to your website. If you see a photo you like on a website, you can also try to reach out to the site own to ask for permission to use that photo. If you can’t get permission, do not use the photo.

Quality

Photos can make your website look more professional, but only if they are of the right quality. This means what the photo actually looks like. Is the photo you want to use blurry or pixelated? Don’t use it. Sometimes photos can look good at one size, but not bigger. It’s important to always check your website after adding a photo. What looks good in the editing box may not look good when you view your website from the front end. If you can’t find a quality photo, don’t use it.

Screen Shots

Screen shots are an easy way to include photos on your website or blog post without having to track down photos or worry about permission. You own screenshots because you created them. Consider adding screenshots in a blog post that shares tips on website design. Screenshots also offer great proof to your success with GDI. Share screenshots of your monthly payments or your ever-growing downline. Use programs like Paint to highlight or circle parts of your screen that you want others to be directed, like your commission amounts.

Opportunity

Five Reasons to Work From Home

March 26, 2015 GDI Corporate Leave a comment

Working with GDI is a great way to build additional income without having to punch a clock or check into an office. Others around you not convinced of the benefit of this untraditional set up? Read on to discover five reasons to work from home with an organization like GDI.

1. Make Your Own Schedule

Many people who are affiliate marketers have full time jobs, family commitments and many more things taking up their time. Yet they still are able to earn income in affiliate marketing. How? Working from home allows you to make your own schedule and work when you have time. Don’t think that means that you have to put in four hours as an affiliate marketer after your full time job. Making your own schedule often means putting in 20 minutes when you have time or a longer chunk on a rainy Sunday afternoon. As an affiliate marketer you decide when you will work and how much money you want to make.

2. No Time Lost on Commute

A second source of income is great, but it can come with tradeoffs. Say your second job is at a brick and mortar location and you have to drive there after your full eight hour shift. You’re now losing time in your day as you make your way to another place of work. Why not skip the commute all together and still earn income? As an affiliate marketer you can telecommute. All you need is access to a computer and the internet.

3. Work Around the Globe

Working in a brick and mortar location means you are limited to your number of customers. Most will be local and live close to your business. With affiliate marketing you can work with customers around the globe. You have easy access to new prospects with your computer and your unique schedule lets you set up time to connect with people in other time zones.

4. Residual Income

Affiliate marketing gives you a chance to build income even when you’re not working. As you build your downline out, others like you will spread the message of GDI, contributing to your residual income. Build your downline with the right people and you can confidently earn income without logging hours and hours on your computer.

5. Others Like You

Not everyone wants to work from home or work in affiliate marketing, and that’s fine! Working from home allows you to easily connect with and work with others like you. You can build your downline with people just like you who want to earn extra income but on their own terms. Decide what kind of people you want to build your downline and team with and go find them!

Marketing

7 Marketing Myths

March 19, 2015 GDI Corporate Leave a comment

As a GDI affiliate, you are a member of the affiliate marketing world. This means that marketing is often the key to your success as an affiliate. However, marketing, much like sales and advertising can get a bad rap for being pushy or annoying. While marketing can be seen as unfriendly sometimes, the work that goes into marketing is anything but. As you build relationships, that’s marketing. When you share news with others interested in GDI, that’s marketing. When you teach others about GDI’s tools and plugins, that’s marketing. Marketing doesn’t have to be overwhelming to you or to others. Read our list of marketing myths and get comfortable with earning income in the world of marketing!

Expensive

Many people think the only way to market is to pay for ads or to sign up for expensive email services. While those methods can be productive, you don’t have to spend a lot of money to be a successful marketer. Sites like Facebook and Twitter allow you to broadcast your marketing messages to many people at once for free, whether you’re promoting GDI or your own business. Creating videos and emails cost nothing more than your time. This is all marketing and it’s all free.

Time Consuming

Marketing does not have to be time consuming. Lots of marketing of GDI can actually be passive–meaning you don’t have to constantly work at it to see results. This kind of passive marketing can be in the form of helpful videos or informative blog posts. This content will live on your .WS website and can attract visitors without you spending hours promoting the content. Simply use the right keywords to drive traffic and link to your content on social media sites and visitors will see your videos and website without you doing extra work.

Confusing

As you can see from the examples above, marketing doesn’t have to be confusing. You don’t need to worry about audience reach and retention or email timing or anything professional marketing firms worry about. You just need to create great content that is valuable to others. Add the right keywords and share in many places and you’re already doing powerful content marketing.

Need to Pay for Ad Space

Before social networks and easy to build websites, this was true. The only way to get your content in front of people was to pay for it. Now that’s not true. Find out where people are spending most of their time online. Is it Facebook? YouTube? Tumblr? Take advantage of these free networks and promote your content on them. You’re essentially sharing an “ad” for your business, but your visitors actually get something out of the “ad” (like learning how to use a plugin) and you didn’t have to pay for people to see it.

Need a Whole Team

GDI offers many opportunities to work with a team and succeed with others. However, you only need one person to start marketing. Identify your strengths, like web design or video editing, for example, and start creating content that uses those strengths. The information you share about web design or the videos you create are both content marketing and can be done by just one person.

Need to be Everywhere

Marketing is all about being where your intended audience is. So before you decide how you are going to market, find out where potential prospects and customers are. Are these people in your town or business community? Consider flyers or attending local meetings. Are these people online? Use social networking and websites to connect with them. There is no need to be any place that your intended audience isn’t.

Anyone Can Do It

This is a partial myth. Many people will attempt affiliate marketing, but some will fail. Often this is the result of not putting enough time into marketing or cutting corners. If you produce quality content to market with and work on building relationships success is sure to follow.

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