Owning your own domain name is the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to increase the professionalism of you and your business, virtually over-night. Understand that in network marketing, or any business for that matter, you are selling yourself.
In actuality, people are much more concerned with YOU, than they are about your network marketing business opportunity. I do not care if you have the greatest business in the world.
If you don’t successfully position yourself as a leader in the eyes of your prospects, you will go no where.
With this in mind, understand that you are constantly being judged, sized up, measured, and compared to other potential up-line partners. People want to work with winners. They are attracted to leaders.
It is a survival instinct that is a part of our very DNA, and you cannot escape it. But you can also use this to your advantage! So what does all of this have to do with registering a little domain name?
Well it is simple. It’s all about professionalism. If you do not even know how to register a simple domain name, how can you possibly expect other people follow you to financial freedom?
But there is much more to it than that. Having your own domain name is crucial for self-branding, tracking your advertising results, and ensuring that your prospects successfully make it to your site instead of someone else’s, but after writing this guide, I realized there is much to this process than meets the eye.
Personally, I will spend hours and even days selecting the perfect domain name that meets all 5 of my exclusive criteria which allows me to find a domain that protects my brand from competition, pulls in maximum traffic from advertising, and gets listed in the top search engine rsults. (Just to name a few of the considerations I put into play).
Ok, enough of my soap-box chit-chat. I am glad you are here because we are going to completely change the image of your business in about 30 minutes, so let us get started!
95% of network marketers who actually register a domain name put very little thought into the actual domain selection process. Not me.
I will spend hours or even days selecting the right domain name because I am always thinking five steps ahead of the average business owner, and that is what I am going to teach you how to do as well.
Three reasons you need to own at least one domain name: First is the increased professionalism it gives to you. Having your own domain names does not necessarily put points in your professionalism column because it is an expected practice today.
But not having one, will definitely hurt your image.
Again, because having one is an expected practice today. Let’s say that you were one of my cold market prospects and you did not know anything about me at all. I have your contact information, so I decide to send you a quick introductory email from my address which is: bigboymike429787@aol. (Not a real email address).
What would your first impression be? Do I sound like a professional business owner? A successful CEO? A leader?
Or do you picture some big college dropout making $8.00 delivering pizzas? The truth is irrelevant. I am being judged by that email address the instant it arrives in someone’s inbox.
On the other hand, how would your perception change if my email address had my company name in it?
Now you are left with two options. The impression you get is going to be either positive due to the professional nature of the name, or neutral because the actual domain names themselves are neutral in meaning.
You can avoid negative stigmatisms because they are generic domains. The second advantage to having your own domain name is that you can now have a personal email address that is not dependant upon a 3rd part provider like AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite, or GMail.
If you have your own domain name, you can choose any address you would like, and the e-mail address will include your domain name.
Finally, the third advantage to owning a domain name is that you can use what is called a “redirect.” In network marketing, we often use replicated website addresses or affiliate links in our businesses.
These are usually fairly long web addresses that are difficult to give out over the phone, or place in advertising pieces.
Most of the time your domain name will include numbers, phrases, and often your name. The bottom line is that it does not look professional. You are losing business just because of the web link itself.
Let me count the ways this will cost you. 1: Anytime you give someone your domain name or link with additional information in it like your name or ID number, people will automatically erase the extra part and go straight to the primary domain name just out of curiosity. It happens all of the time.
The bottom line is that you stand to lose out on that business. 2: You cannot put a website address like that in an advertisement of any kind. It means DEATH to your results.
Why? People are not going to remember the number at the end of your web address. Not only will people do exactly what I stated in #1 and leave your ID number
off so they can go to the primary site, but anyone who actually spends money on an advertisement, and does not even bother to set up a real domain name with a redirect obviously does not have a clue as to what they are doing.
Which means you will only attract leads who are even less savvy and less professional than the person who placed it. When I see an ad with a full link like that only one word comes to mind: “amateur.” Which means I would not even bother responding to that ad for that reason alone.
3: You are just asking for trouble if you try and give out a long link like these to a prospect over the phone. Chances are they are going to spell it wrong or leave a piece out.
Try giving out a link like this on a conference call and you are going to lose professionalism along with all of the listeners who could not write it down correctly no matter how many times you were asked to repeat it.
URL Redirect. So like I said, the third advantage to owning your own domain name is that you can use what is called a “URL redirect”, or “domain forwarding.”
This simply means that you can instruct the company that is hosting your domain name to “redirect” all traffic coming to your domain (A), to site (B). This is like telling the post office to forward all of your mail to a new address because you just moved to a new home.
Instead of advertising your long link with your name, numbers and codes etc., you would instruct your hosting company to take all traffic coming to your catchy domain name (that you came up with) and have them sent to your long affiliate domain. That way you can market your catchy domain name.
Your “redirect” domain name that you come up with should have something to do with what it is you are selling. It should be easy to spell, say, write down, and remember.
If you don’t have your own “redirect” domain name for your on-line business, you losing a lot of good customers and prospects to smarter competition.
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009Ten Essentials Skills For Making Money on the Internet
Thursday, December 10th, 2009I found myself sitting in front of my PC, scratching my head again. There must be thousands of people making money on this stupid machine but not ME. Why not? Am I stupid or something. I do not think so, not according to the last IQ test I took. So what is it I am missing. Scratch, scratch, scratch. Wow! There it is, this is my answer. Checking out yet again one of these super dupper-poo-poo-scooper systems that would actually make me a ton of money, I found my answer. Well let me tell you, no more scratching my head. Want to know what I found?
Here is what I found, a site full of this video training material on the topics I needed training in. These were the basics, and I could repeat them over and over until they became my basics. Here, let me share just a few.
Mastering Google Search Network: Now of course I knew how to search on Google, and usually I could find anything I wanted. Well, so I thought. This guy shows you so many ways to actually find what you are looking for, but related topics as well or like in keywords, which I hope you understand how important those are-he shows how to find a broader band of associate keywords and how to maximize their use. Cool man.
Master Social Networking: Even I knew about MySpace, but he reveals several more. I must admit I have not worked on this one as I should. I do know people are making barrels of money just blogging their friends on these social networks and when I finally make friends, I might try this. LOL
Writing Great Classifieds: How many times have you purchased a package they promise you to make “mucho dinera” and all you did was spend money. And how many suggested that direct marketing was the way, so write a few classified ads, and sit back and wait for the money to roll in? Do not know about you, but I am still waiting. But, now, I know why my old poorly written ads did not generate money-I just used the key word, poorly written. So why not learn how to write good ones, those that put sizzle in your ad and make people take action.
You will notice I am telling you about videos which teach you the basics. That was what I was missing, an understanding of the basics so I could repeat a process over and over and make money. But again, I had to learn how to do these correctly. This guy saved me big money.
Write and Publish Your Own Articles: Hey! You out there, I heard that. Yes you can. This guy will show you how easy it truly is to write an article. You can do it, I know you can if you follow his training. Let you in on a great secret, just you and me, huh? You can make a lot of money writing articles and they will not cost you a red penny. Sheeee! Do not go telling everybody. Just follow this guy around until you get the topic idea, do the research which he shows you how to do, put a few paragraphs together and there you have it. Then he shows how you can get your wonderful article published, really he will. He has this list of ten top ezine publishers who took mine so I know they will take yours. Hee hee, tell all your friends you are a published writer, an author yet.
How to Find the Best Ezines Online: Okay, you learned how to write a great article on that other video, but now you want to publish it on the very best ezine. Why not the best, you wrote a great article, people like to go to the best publishers so they can find the best articles. What a great marriage, you the writer published on the best ezines, people are going to love you.
How to Get Free Traffic: Wow! Free traffic, can you see the money you will make? Oh! I used to get so frustrated. Years ago when making a web site was not so terribly complicated I even managed to develop several. I thought they were darn good, only one problem: traffic. Actually, that is not correct, it was the lack of traffic. After I forced my family and friends to go and browse my home page, traffic stopped. Why? Because I did not know how to drive traffic there. You do realize if you have a web-site that YOU must drive traffic there or you do not make money. This one will make you money. In the online business it is accepted that one person in a thousand will purchase your product. I was getting one visitor or on some occasions I could get maybe ten, long way short of making money.
How to buy Domain Names: Hun Huh! Noticed the ’s’ on name did you. You asked yourself right off, why do I need more than one Domain Name???? If you even came close to asking yourself that questions, you are now really getting your money values. This little video will be worth a lot of money to you for it helps you level the playing field and at a very, very low price for such a valuable technique. Looking back and reflecting on so many of my failures, I see this is one of those areas I really could have profited had I had this knowledge.
How to us Domain Forwarding: This is a companion training video with the above. Another technique that will help you clean up your act so to speak. Here you have this great affiliate product you want to advertise or to promote. You go to whatever site you want to use, they ask for a url, the one that will get people to your product. Two things may be a problem. Those people who see your url know you are an affiliate, can go direct without using your ID. The second, it is ugly. There is sometimes a third problem, you affiliate link is so long it will not fit in the allowable space and they will not accept a forwarding url like from tinyurl. Here is a gold mine nugget, maybe there are more just inside.
YES, there are more nuggets inside, I just touched the edge. But I promised ten essentials.
Blueprints, a term used in the ‘make things’ industry where things that need doing are outlined, giving you step by step instructions. You must be trained to read, understand and execute the instructions found in blueprints. That is what the first eight elements were given to you for, to help you execute the blueprint. As I said, there are more than these eight by this guy.
Blue Print 1: Yahoo Answers: I have a confession, boy this is embarrassing. I have had a Yahoo account for years. I in particularly enjoy playing online Yahoo Pool, pretty good at it too. Yet! I was never conscious of Yahoo Answers, WOW have I been missing out. Just briefly let me tell you it is a free way to advertise, but also can easily replace a lot of searching you would have to do if you did not know about Yahoo Answer. But, back to the blue print and making money. You get the step by step tour, no shortcuts, no chasing down trails by yourself, not really knowing for what you are looking. Man, it is like he says, here take my hand and I will walk you through this until you make some MONEY.
Blue Print 2: Free Trial Offers: Oh! Come on, making money with free trials, you have to be kidding, you may say. NO, I am not kidding. There are tons of sites offering free trials of their products, and if you have the right plan, you can make more than just a living, you can buy a lifestyle. Again, let me remind you of a purpose of a Blue Print, it shows you step by step of what needs doing, how to do it and when to do it, Ssooooooo, you can make money.
There are other blueprints, greater in depth training of the overall basics of Making Money on the Internet. More videos on the other basic techniques, all to help you make money. The beauty of any video is you watch when you have time, you watch it over and over until it is yours. Most of us who have tried to make money on the Internet failed, ninety five percent of us, failed because we did not know the basics. I got tired of me being one of the 95% so began to learn the basics, you can too.
Domain Registration
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009The WHOIS is updated in 24 hours after the Domain is set to Private Registration. Now when you do a WHOIS on your domain, it will show: Under Address information for all contacts, 1&1 Internet, Inc. corporate address is listed: 1&1 Internet, Inc. You can check the availability of a domain by typing the domain name in our domain checker or just go to a Whois websites and type the designated domain name. If no record are found that that domain is available to register. Domain registration is your first step towards getting online. A domain name is an online Web address and, once you have one, you’re ready to create a website. . . . Search for a Domain Name. . . Domain search allows you to search com/net/org and country domains all at once in real time! . . . Search Multiple Domain Names From Around The World! A domain name is a company’s unique identity on the worldwide Internet. All computers, or servers, connected to the Internet are identified by a unique number called an Internet Protocol address (IP address). A typical IP address appears in the form 205. 206. 197. xxx. ;A parked domain is an inactive domain reserved for later use or one that points to another existing domain. A parked domain is not a unique website. A parked domain is one which simply points to an existing domain.
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