Domains, WebSites

Four Reasons Everyone Should Have Their Own Domain Name

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Some of you have come in contact with people who are interested in GDI, but do not want a domain name. To combat this problem, we shared a few tactics to work around it, but today we want to share the power of the domain. The next time someone doesn’t want a domain, share a few of these reasons why having your own, personal domain is so important.

Easy to Remember

Having a .WS domain gives you a chance to get a short, easy to remember domain name that represents you, your interests, or your brand. No matter what you want to do with your domain, a short name will be easy to remember and share. Unlike .COMs or services like tumblr, Facebook, and Google+, a personalized site doesn’t have to be a long name with numbers and letters. It can be whatever you want with a .WS. Easy remember domain names, like those GDI offers you, means more hits and more repeat visitors.

Easy to Find

As people search for you and your site, the right domain name can mean a higher search results. When you take the time to brand yourself and create the right domain name for your business, search engines respond. This domain is more likely to come up on a search engine than a Facebook page with no user name.

Safe Keeping

Maybe you don’t have a plan for your domain just yet, but someday you will. Securing your own domain name ensures that your brand and your name are protected from someone else snatching it up. Building a brand and a business is much easier when you are able to secure a straight forward logical domain name as opposed to having to get creative because your first choice domain name is always taken.

Credibility

Having your own site builds credibility and shows visitors you take your site and your business seriously. Think of all the websites you visit in a day, which do you trust?

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The GDI WebSite Contest: Next Steps

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Thank you to everyone who submitted their sites to our WebSite contest. The contest is now closed.

What Now?

We are sorting through your submissions to ensure each one qualifies for the contest and is matched with the right category. In the coming weeks we will share the submitted sites on our Facebook page, giving you, your friends, family, team members, and GDI fans a chance to vote for their favorite site with their “Likes.”

How Does it Work?

Each site submission will be placed in a corresponding category based on the tools and services you used to build your site. Your submission will be placed in one of the following categories:

SiteBuilder Sites or WordPress / Hosted Sites

Each submitted, eligible site will be shared in a Facebook album for their category. Sites will be shared as a screen shot with a link to the site in the caption. Simply click the Like button underneath a screen shot to vote for a site. The site screenshots with the most votes will be the winners.

An album for each category will be shared for a one week time period. Winners will be selected based on the number of Likes their screen shot receives. There will be first, second, and third place winners in each category and a special GDI Staff Pick Winner that will be chosen from either category.

You will be able to vote for your SiteBuilder sites on Facebook April 23-29th. You will be able to vote for your favorite WordPress or Hosted sites on Facebook April 30-My 6th.

The winners will receive a cash prize, have their site shared on Facebook and a special blog post, and also receive a GDI Top Design Site badge to be displayed on their site.

The winners will receive a cash prize, have their site shared on Facebook and a special blog post, and also receive a GDI Top Design Site badge to be displayed on their site.

First Prize: $100 (one per category)

Second Prize: $50 (one per category)

Third Prize: $25 (one per category)

GDI Staff Pick: $100 (one chosen from all submitted, eligible sites)

So, starting April 23rd, head to Facebook, browse the album and Like your favorite sites!

Advice, Marketing

Marketing to Provide Value

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Recently, we posted about affiliate marketing versus affiliate selling. GDI is an affiliate marketing opportunity, meaning that adding new team members is not about just getting rid of or selling a product, but connecting people with the right product, price, and opportunity for them. Affiliate marketing is about providing value to prospects and team members, not selling inventory. We share a few tips to ensure you’re providing value while working to build your team.

Educate

While the chance to generate income by referring people to GDI is enough to get many people excited, you need to go beyond that when sharing the opportunity. Start educating potential team members about GDI and how to be successful with GDI right away. This is a chance for you to provide value before someone even considers joining your team. This value means more educated team members and in turn more successful team members.

Don’t Sell

As we said in our previous post, don’t sell GDI, but market it. When you are in a “selling” mindset, you may end up with the wrong people and struggle to meet your goals. You do not want to sell to just anyone. You want to market the right product to the right people who can be an active member of your team. Market to people to ensure they are interested in GDI for the right reasons.

Qualify

This tip came from our successful Tissa Godavitarne. He advised that when you are looking to grow your team, reach out to many people, but then take the time to qualify them. Get to know people before you add them to your downline to decide if they will be good for your team. Switch roles and instead of having potential team members study you and decide if they want to join, study them, get to know them, and then decide if they will be an effective part of your team.

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