Category Archives: Beginners

Advice, Affiliate, Beginners, Marketing, Opportunity

Conversations Build Relationships; Relationships Build Your Team

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It all starts with a conversation. Affiliate marketing is about building relationships and opportunities. The best way to do that is with conversations, but it has to be the right kind of conversation. Stumbling over words and making an uneducated sales pitch isn’t going to get anyone interested in their own domain. Mastering the art of a powerful conversation while sharing information about your opportunity will surely help you to succeed. We share a few tips to help you have the right conversations.

Educate Yourself

A dialogue between you and a prospective team member will include questions on their part and you need to answer them. If you find you don’t have all the answers, brush up on some of your GDI knowledge. A great way to do this is to reach out to you upline with your questions. If you don’t have time for that log in to your Members Area and check out the FAQs and the Tutorial Videos there. Lastly, this blog is a great resource. Take advantage of the search box at the upper right to find posts on specific topics.

Practice

If you had a big speech or a presentation on your calendar, you would practice, right? These relationship building conversations are just as important. Think of what you would like to cover in your conversation and reach out to your upline to have a few practice conversations. You can even reach out to a friend who doesn’t know much about GDI to help you be prepared for what kind of questions may be asked of you.

Have the Right Conversations

Lastly, for these conversations to work, they need to be natural. That may seem impossible when you have a specific motive, but try to find ways to connect with those you are talking to. Use personal stories to nail down a point or talk about specific GDI offerings like .WS email and how they’ve made your life easier. Remember, you’re just talking to another person like yourself with goals and dreams, try to relate to them as much as possible while sharing your opportunity.

Beginners, Bonuses

Learning Bonus UPDATE

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UPDATE! Thanks to the great response and your hard work, GDI has decided to extend the Learning Bonus til 12/31/12!

Great affiliate marketers are those who know their stuff, that’s why GDI is giving new affiliates the chance to earn a $25 bonus just for learning more about GDI and how it works. The GDI Learning Bonus is a $25 bonus that you work towards in steps. All you need to do is just set up email, send out a few invitations and a few more steps and EARN $25 as you LEARN!

Each step towards your $25 Learning Bonus can be found in your Members Area in the new GDI Bonuses section. Simply click on GDI Bonuses and select “Check My Learning Bonus Status.” Here you will see the steps you need to take to receive your bonus and how many you have completed so far. The steps are very easy, like setting up your email, so there is no reason not to start. GDI wants to reward you for getting to know us better, so take advantage of it and start working towards your Learning Bonus today.

The Learning Bonus is available only to new GDI affiliates who signed up on or after 8/2/2012 and is specifically geared towards helping them learn more about GDI. However, all our existing affiliates can still participate in a new bonus of their own; our new Duplication Bonus has been launched to reward our established affiliates for encouraging new referrals to achieve their own learning bonuses. Check out the blog post here to learn more about the Duplication Bonus or head to your Members Area to more information.

The Learning Bonus is a NEW bonus offering from GDI that ends October 31, 2012. So get started working towards your bonus today! The Learning Bonus has been extended to December 31, 2012. Keep working hard!

Affiliate, Beginners, Marketing, Opportunity

Interested in Affiliate Marketing?

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Why did you consider affiliate marketing? To make money, right? Well there’s a lot more to it than that. Affiliate programs and affiliate marketing can help to give you freedom, extra income and a way to take ownership of your future. We break down three reasons affiliate marketing might be right for you.

Freedom

Affiliate programs, especially those available online like GDI give you freedom that you just can’t get from your 9-5 job. Affiliate programs allow you to work and network at times that work for you. Whether you have a few extra hours a week or are looking to put full time effort into an affiliate program, you can find one that works for you. There also no set time frame that you must work on building your team. So even if you’re a night owl or a morning person, you will be able to connect with other affiliates like you and work on your own schedule.

Security

If you’re saving for your future or just a rainy day, working to make extra money with an affiliate program can ideally help to provide some financial security. While there are no guarantees to how much money you will make with a program, hard work with the right affiliate opportunity offering can pay off. Building income with an affiliate program outside of your full time job can help to provide security and savings for the future.

Ownership

While affiliate programs are part of a larger company, they allow you a unique opportunity at ownership of something. You decide how much money you make and how much to work with an affiliate program, essentially giving you ownership. Affiliate programs let you make the marketing decisions, hours and set the goals each day, week, month and year. Where else will you find freedom, security and ownership without a big investment?

To learn how to know which affiliate program is right for you, check out this post.

Did we miss a reason to try affiliate marketing? Leave it in the comments below!