I just found a new comments system that Aaron Cook Dot Com is now using. Like Aaron, I have never been a fan of bloggers comment system. The new blogger is very user friendy and they have some great new features, the comments system is not one of them. Thanks Aaron for posting about this.
By the way, Intensedebate directly support Wordpress, Typepad, and Blogger. So if you want to add this to your blog please visit them, and be sure and add me to your friends list when you get setup.
Showing posts with label Online Marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Online Marketing. Show all posts
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
GodTube Marketing Finds Its First Critic
I just posted a few days ago that just 6 Network Marketing related videos appeared on GodTube. While the site is obviously about spreading the message and earning a "few" dollars in ad revenue, a few are bound to find a creative and not too in your face way of promoting their businesses.
The comment left on this Video shows that some believe there is no room for promotion on the site:
This video bothers me alot...it sounds too much like what those prosperity preachers teach which isn't in the bible. If property wasn't from God, then why does Paul say this: 2 Corinthians 11:27 I have worked hard and long, enduring many sleepless nights. I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm. Paul WAS doing the work of God and he suffered from hunger, from lack of warm clothes, was thirsty and on and on. Taking up our cross never meant having a comfortable life. In fact Jesus speaks against wealth! Matthew 6:24 รข��No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. He also tells us to NOT store up treasures here on earth...that our treasures are in Heaven. You need to back up what you are saying with scriptures and you didn't...that raises alot of red flags. The abundant life Jesus was speaking of had nothing to do with money. << less
GodTube.com - Is Your Dream Alive?
The comment left on this Video shows that some believe there is no room for promotion on the site:
This video bothers me alot...it sounds too much like what those prosperity preachers teach which isn't in the bible. If property wasn't from God, then why does Paul say this: 2 Corinthians 11:27 I have worked hard and long, enduring many sleepless nights. I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm. Paul WAS doing the work of God and he suffered from hunger, from lack of warm clothes, was thirsty and on and on. Taking up our cross never meant having a comfortable life. In fact Jesus speaks against wealth! Matthew 6:24 รข��No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. He also tells us to NOT store up treasures here on earth...that our treasures are in Heaven. You need to back up what you are saying with scriptures and you didn't...that raises alot of red flags. The abundant life Jesus was speaking of had nothing to do with money. << less
GodTube.com - Is Your Dream Alive?
Monday, October 22, 2007
Entrepreneurs On Call
Len Clements to be Interviewed on Live Radio
Topics to Include the State of the Industry andDefending Against Competitor Hype
October 22nd, 2007
This Wednesday, October 24th, and next Wednesday, the 31st, I will be interviewed by Dale Stefancic, host of the live "Entrepreneurs On Call" radio program. The show airs on WELW 1330 AM in the Cleveland area, but can also be heard live on the web by going to EntrepreneursOnCall.com and clicking the ON AIR button.
The show will air from 2:00-2:30 pm PST (5:00-5:30 pm EST), but if you are new to the network marketing industry and still have to be at work during those time ;-) you have a couple of options:
1) Wait a couple of weeks for the show to be archived online, or;
2) Get Radiotime ($39.99), Magix Webradio Recorder ($29.99) or Replay Radio ($49.99), which are all basically like Tivo for internet radio. If you're a Mac user like me, by far the best Webcasting auto-recorder is Audio Hijack Pro ($32.00).
On a side note, there are other great MLM-centric radio shows, such as Tom Chenault's "Home Based Business Show", that might air too early for some of us left coasters. These cheap audio grabbers are a great way to collect these shows and then listen to them later in the day.
On Dale's show this week we'll be focusing on the State of the Industry, some of the challenges it is currently facing, and some very compelling reasons to believe that we've got some good times ahead of us.
The following week we'll be talking about some rather "out of the box" techniques for growing and expanding your business, including an overview of what I refer to as "Network Marketing Defense".
To see an announcement of these two shows, and Dale's entire upcoming guest list, click HERE. I hope you can join us. It should be fun!
Len Clements
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Be The 2nd Network Marketer To Market On The Fastest Growing Site In The US
Launched earlier this year by a group of Dallas entrepreneurs GodTube
has quickly become the fastest growing website in the US. With 2.1 billion Christians worldwide it's not hard to imagine why.
Doing a keyword search for MLM on YouTube returns over 7,000 results and just 6 results on GodTube. It looks like all 6 are from the same user. There are lots of Christian Networkers out there and this looks like a great place to share the message. I don't think your latest company video with a link to your replicating rep site will fly here however as they do screen all videos.
has quickly become the fastest growing website in the US. With 2.1 billion Christians worldwide it's not hard to imagine why.
Doing a keyword search for MLM on YouTube returns over 7,000 results and just 6 results on GodTube. It looks like all 6 are from the same user. There are lots of Christian Networkers out there and this looks like a great place to share the message. I don't think your latest company video with a link to your replicating rep site will fly here however as they do screen all videos.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Buying Your Own Domain Name -- Follow Up
I put up a post here back in February titled:Buying Your Own Domain Name. This is an update to that post.
I wrote:
Are you using your company's replicating website to promote your business? You know...the kind that has one of those easy-to-remember addresses like mysuperjuice.com/drinkhealthy.
Think someone is going to remember that? What if you change businesses in 6 months? You handed out 500 business cards with mysuperjuice.com/drinkhealth on them, but now you're promoting a new opportunity, and 500 potential customers can't reach you since the company immediately shut down your affiliate site as soon as you quit.
So the point of my post was that: It just makes good business sense to spend a few dollars per year to create and register your own domain. The benefits are pretty obvious:
*Self-branding
*Easy for your customers and prospects to find you - including those prospects who are intent on contacting you but haven't had a chance yet - maybe they were just referred by a friend, found one of your fliers or business cards, or saved your affiliate domain in their favorites so they could call you this coming weekend when they're at home.
*Portability and great versatility if you change companies, if your company changes domain names, if they go out of business (you'll lose your affiliate site and domain in all these instances, and your customers/prospects will be left hanging in the wind unless they already know your personal, non-business e-mail address or have your cell phone # already programmed into their speed-dial list) etc. etc.
Back to my story...it was brought to my attention by the compliance officer up at headquarters that it is absolutely against policy to utilize your own domain or non-replicating site for promoting the business - you can't even simply use your own domain as a forwarding domain to send traffic to their company (even without domain masking): "Unless you've reached a higher rank in the chain" than I have so far. That's right, a guy or gal making more money than me can go out and spend $8.00 on their own personal domain, log into the domain hosting control center and forward said domain to the replicating website, but I can't! I have (had) a good search-engine ranking for my own domain (from working my posterior off), and since I'm outranking one of their "golden boy sellers" who ranks higher in the sales volume than I do, they're not going to stand for it! By golly, they've got to keep their golden boys happy so they keep raking money in for the "powers that be." For those of us ladder-jumpers who have been more successful in promoting our online presence than some of their top sellers, we are getting the ladder knocked out from under us to leave more room at the top for their existing "Diamond-level Sellers" who are already at the top of the ladder. That's like telling me, "You can't use all the steps of the ladder to get to the top of it. Only those who are already at the top can use all ladder steps." Duh.
I mean that's as ludicrous a rule as saying one guy with a McDonald's franchise can use coupons to drive business to his store, but the guy on the other side of town can't. Only the higher-profit-level guy is allowed to use coupons to bring people to his store. The other poor guy wants to use coupons so he CAN BRING MORE CUSTOMERS TO HIS STORE TO INCREASE HIS PROFITS. It seems like the mother-company is shooting themselves indirectly in their own foot- actually - it doesn't SEEM like it...they really are. They are limiting possible sources of profit ultimately for themselves.
Keep in mind, in this post, I'm not talking about a domain name that infringes on the company's trade name or intellectual property rights. I'm saying, for example, that Bill Smith would not be allowed to use his BillSmith.com domain in any way in conjunction with his affiliate business.
Oh well, I guess they didn't want my high-volume, hard-earned traffic, so I forwarded the domain to this blog for now. I can always use more visitors here. I guess if I keep working hard and achieve in affiliate rank at that company, I will get a letter says something like:
Dear Joe,
Congratulations - your hard work has paid off. Here is your $100,000 bonus and you may now forward your little $8.00 personal domain to your replicating website. By the way, as you may have read, our website has changed, be sure you forward it to the new domain.
I wrote:
Are you using your company's replicating website to promote your business? You know...the kind that has one of those easy-to-remember addresses like mysuperjuice.com/drinkhealthy.
Think someone is going to remember that? What if you change businesses in 6 months? You handed out 500 business cards with mysuperjuice.com/drinkhealth on them, but now you're promoting a new opportunity, and 500 potential customers can't reach you since the company immediately shut down your affiliate site as soon as you quit.
So the point of my post was that: It just makes good business sense to spend a few dollars per year to create and register your own domain. The benefits are pretty obvious:
*Self-branding
*Easy for your customers and prospects to find you - including those prospects who are intent on contacting you but haven't had a chance yet - maybe they were just referred by a friend, found one of your fliers or business cards, or saved your affiliate domain in their favorites so they could call you this coming weekend when they're at home.
*Portability and great versatility if you change companies, if your company changes domain names, if they go out of business (you'll lose your affiliate site and domain in all these instances, and your customers/prospects will be left hanging in the wind unless they already know your personal, non-business e-mail address or have your cell phone # already programmed into their speed-dial list) etc. etc.
Back to my story...it was brought to my attention by the compliance officer up at headquarters that it is absolutely against policy to utilize your own domain or non-replicating site for promoting the business - you can't even simply use your own domain as a forwarding domain to send traffic to their company (even without domain masking): "Unless you've reached a higher rank in the chain" than I have so far. That's right, a guy or gal making more money than me can go out and spend $8.00 on their own personal domain, log into the domain hosting control center and forward said domain to the replicating website, but I can't! I have (had) a good search-engine ranking for my own domain (from working my posterior off), and since I'm outranking one of their "golden boy sellers" who ranks higher in the sales volume than I do, they're not going to stand for it! By golly, they've got to keep their golden boys happy so they keep raking money in for the "powers that be." For those of us ladder-jumpers who have been more successful in promoting our online presence than some of their top sellers, we are getting the ladder knocked out from under us to leave more room at the top for their existing "Diamond-level Sellers" who are already at the top of the ladder. That's like telling me, "You can't use all the steps of the ladder to get to the top of it. Only those who are already at the top can use all ladder steps." Duh.
I mean that's as ludicrous a rule as saying one guy with a McDonald's franchise can use coupons to drive business to his store, but the guy on the other side of town can't. Only the higher-profit-level guy is allowed to use coupons to bring people to his store. The other poor guy wants to use coupons so he CAN BRING MORE CUSTOMERS TO HIS STORE TO INCREASE HIS PROFITS. It seems like the mother-company is shooting themselves indirectly in their own foot- actually - it doesn't SEEM like it...they really are. They are limiting possible sources of profit ultimately for themselves.
Keep in mind, in this post, I'm not talking about a domain name that infringes on the company's trade name or intellectual property rights. I'm saying, for example, that Bill Smith would not be allowed to use his BillSmith.com domain in any way in conjunction with his affiliate business.
Oh well, I guess they didn't want my high-volume, hard-earned traffic, so I forwarded the domain to this blog for now. I can always use more visitors here. I guess if I keep working hard and achieve in affiliate rank at that company, I will get a letter says something like:
Dear Joe,
Congratulations - your hard work has paid off. Here is your $100,000 bonus and you may now forward your little $8.00 personal domain to your replicating website. By the way, as you may have read, our website has changed, be sure you forward it to the new domain.
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