Tag Archives: marketing

Beginners, Marketing, Social Media

Marketing on Twitter for Beginners

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Social Media is great for building your network. If you’ve yet to join Twitter because it seems overwhelming, it’s time to change that. Just a few tips can help you to truly utilize the service and grow your network and influence.

Engage

Once you join Twitter, don’t go silent. This isn’t an open invite to babble either, unless you don’t want any followers. Balance your general statement tweets with tweets that engage others. Post that engage other can be ones that ask questions or any post where you @ another user. You’re not limited to engagement with your followers; you can tweet @ anyone to start a conversation and hopefully a connection.

Build a Following

Why do you follow someone? This is the question to ask yourself when building a following. The qualities that cause you to follow one user are those you want to emulate and build you follow. Post content that is worthy of a retweet like great videos or blog posts. Tweet on the trending topics that you can find on the left-hand side of your feed, other users following them will see your tweet. Stay topical. Tweeting on the news and current trends helps you to set yourself apart as a thought leader people will want to follow. The followers you gain can quickly become part of your network as you engage with them.

Don’t Link Blast

Sending out only tweets that link to your WebSite or blog is a quick way to get people to ignore you. Balance any links to your own site with tweets without links, conversations with others in your network and even retweets of others. This shows you are on Twitter to engage in conversations and not just self promote.

 

Beginners, Domains, Marketing, WebSites

Brand Yourself with .WS

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So you’ve been with GDI for a few months and work towards bonuses, build your team, and are trying to build your network. But have you really taken advantage of GDI’s biggest asset?

The personalized domain.

GDI offers you the chance at domain names you could never get with a .com and allows you to build your brand around it. Here are a few ways you can take advantage of your personal domain. This is also a great marketing point for anyone who is considering GDI, so pass it along.

Secure Your Identity

With the abundance of social media sites out there, it’s hard to just keep track of your own profiles on each site. Now imagine how hard it might before for someone to find you. Are you active on Twitter? Is that really you on Facebook? A great way to ensure that people who are looking for you actually find you is to secure your own personal domain. YourName.ws is a great way to brand yourself online.

Instead of having tidbits about yourself spread all over, why not use YourName.ws to broadcast your story, your business and your GDI opportunity. You can share blog posts and updates all in one place, as well as links to your social sites so people can be sure they found the right you.

Brand Your Business

Social sites and reviews sites should be a supplement to you business’s online presence, not the whole thing. When someone wants to find more about your business, your own website is most trustworthy. Whether you have a brick and mortar, and online business or just want to grow your GDI downline, a branded website is just for you. Secure a .WS that uses your business name or what you offer to ensure the most success.

Add Professionalism

We send and receive countless emails each day and it can be hard to sort through what is junk and what isn’t. Many people take a quick glance at an email address and decide whether or not to delete the message. To help your messages stay out of the trash, consider your own personalized email at your .WS. With each .WS you get 10 email addresses at that domain. This is great if you are using your .WS for your business. You can now send emails with confidence that people will know just who you are and what business you are representing. Sending an email from your personal domain will help you stand out among tons of other email names.

Advice, How To, Motivation

New Year, New Goals

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Just a few days ago we talked about reflecting on your experiences as an affiliate in 2012. After sometime looking back, it’s now time to look forward! As the holidays come to a close, it is the perfect time to set goals, make plans, and work towards 2013 being your best year yet.  Follow our advice below to get 2013 off to a great start!

Set Goals

Decide what you want to achieve in 2013, weekly, monthly and more and write it down. Set easy goals as well as harder to reach goals to keep you on the right path. Goals don’t have to be just about money or signups either. Goals can deal with things like commission numbers you would like to hit or number of blog posts you want to publish.

Set Clear Measures of Success

Setting goals is the easy part, setting when you hit them and how is a bit trickier. Maybe you’re monthly goal is to get 4 new sign ups. But if you get 6 one month and 2 the next, is that good enough for you? Set markers so that you know when you have achieved a goal. Once that happens, set new and tougher goals to keep moving forward.

Schedule Yourself

Setting a time to work on building your business each week is a great idea. Many of us are so busy these days that if we don’t set a specific time to do something, it wont get done. If you spent 2012 only working on your business in random spurts, change that this year. Pick a time each week to dedicate to your business and add it to your schedule or agenda to hold yourself to it.

Tie Up Loose Ends

GDI unveiled the Learning Bonus in August of 2012 to make sure new affiliates had an understanding of GDI as well as everything they needed to get started and get paid. If you joined prior to August 2012, you missed the opportunity for this bonus, but it is still a great guide for getting started. Listed below are a few steps from the Learning Bonus that are helpful for all affiliates. See any you haven’t accomplished just yet? Now is the time to check them off your list!

  • Create a “GDI” email address with your domain
  • Create a WebSite using SiteBuilder or WordPress
  • Set Your Preferred Commission Method
  • Send Your Documentation to GDI Support