What Do You Say & Do In A “Welcome” Video That Warms Your Prospects To You?

I thought I would write this post because of the great response I have been getting with my welcome video that I use in Facebook, Twitter, Ning sites and on my Blog here.

Here is my video…

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I constantly receive a steady stream of comments (daily) from people who have watched this video and liked it. There is something about the content in this video that resonates with people that makes them want to comment back to me in some fashion.

The goal of this video when I created it was simple… I wanted to greet them in a humorous way them to REMEMBER me.

I wanted the video to be different, that would get a response, and that would cause people to warm to me without mentioning BUSINESS at all.

Does it work? Like a charm!

So here are my HOT TIPS on creating a welcome video with content that GETS A RESPONSE…

1. Don’t mention your business
2. Don’t try to sell anything
3. Make it VERY friendly
4. Make it personal with info about you & your life
5. Try and come up with an ORIGINAL concept
6. Don’t make it too long
7. Don’t be BORING in your message
8. Include your lifestyle
9. Have fun

In the video I also mentioned things like…

1. The location of where I live
2. Towns that visitors to my area may know

And so that’s it really. Nice and simple and very personal. And like I said the response I get from viewers is exceptional.

It makes it very easy for anyone who has seen this video to remember me when I post in Facebook or other places.

So there you go… think about your lifestyle and where you live and get out there and create a welcome video to send to your followers.

Got comments or questions? Leave them below…

What did I gain from reading Magnetic Sponsoring from Mike Dillard?

I purchased the Magnetic Sponsoring around the end of 2008 and read it a couple of times. I found that it had a profound impact on my thinking and that it brought significant change into my life as a whole, not just my marketing & business life.

Not that the impact was immediate. It wasn’t. But what it did do is show me the mindset that was required to become a leader, an alpha in the home business industry as well as in my personal life. Up until that point I did not have a clue about how my mindset would impact my business ability.

Now I will say this as a disclaimer… I CANNOT say that I have arrived to a total state of alpha leader, nor can I say that I am where I would like to be in my business, but I can say that I am a long way from where I was, not only in my marketing but also in my personal life. The change has been slow and deliberate but it has been ever so worth it and I find myself a much happier person today because of this process I put myself through.

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My belief is that we are all on a journey, you… me… everyone, and that unless you are deliberately guiding your internal self in the direction you want to go, you will by default, end up some place you DO NOT want to go.

Like Yogi Berra said… “If you don’t know where you are going you might end up some place else”.

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So with that said, here are a few points that I have discovered that helped me to get where I am. Perhaps you can relate to these…

1. Instead of viewing my business activities with a mindset of someone that was just starting out, I began to look at what the leaders in this industry did and how they thought, and began to implement a strategy of being and doing just like they did. Instead of working from the bottom up in my mind, I began to think in terms of top down
2. I began to ask questions inside myself like… what would an alpha leader say and do if they were to create the video, article or Blog post that I am about to create. I entered into the content creation cycle with the thoughts of being an alpha from the word go
3. It set me free from the opinions of others. Alpha leaders are not moved by the opinions of people around them and I discovered a certain sense of freedom when I realized that opinions from others only have a negative impact on my self worth if I allow them to
4. It allowed me to set people free. Rather than trying to project my thoughts and ideas onto others I was able to allow them to be who they are and if they said something that I did not agree with, I was strong & secure enough in myself to allow them to have their own opinion. After all we are all entitled to have our own opinion
5. It set me free to make my own mistakes and that I didn’t care what an idiot I made myself out to be, because we have all been the idiot at some stage in our life
6. It set me free from fear based reactionary responses to negative input from people in my life and business. The world is a very negative place and I decided that I was not going to allow negativity to impact my destiny

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So there you go… that is a very brief breakdown of what occurred to me after reading Magnetic Sponsoring. My belief is that if you don’t have a copy then get yourself one, it is the corner stone book for leaders within the home business industry.

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Are you an alpha, pre alpha or a beta? I would really love to hear your feedback on this subject.

Requirements To Build A Six Figure Monthly Income From Home

Hi there and welcome to the Blog post.

What we are going to cover with the information in this post is vital to those of you who are looking to Build A Monthly Six Figure Income from home using the internet.

The goal of this information is to equip you mentally and emotionally for what is actually required to create that level of income, and also what is not required.

This list of points is not meant to be a detailed list of everything needed, but a brief look at the main ingredients for your home business success.

The first question you need to honestly answer is…

How badly do you want to make your A Monthly Six Figure Income From Home?

The reason I ask, is that this is a key to your success because if you really don’t want to put in the effort and it’s just a wish for you, then it probably won’t happen. But if you are absolutely serious in your desire then read on to get  some valuable keys.

So, exactly what are the requirements that you need to have in place in order to build your Monthly Six Figure Income From Home?

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Personal Attributes

Firstly we will take a look at the basic personal attributes required to accomplish your income goal from home business.

Mindset – You need drive, desire & ambition to achieve your goal without a doubt, but you will also need to adopt what is called an Alpha level mindset. Most people in life fall into the level of beta or Pre Alpha, but it’s the Alpha leaders that stand out from the crowd and are sought after by others… especially in business.

I first became aware of this alpha mindset for home business markets when I read Mike Dillard’s book Magnetic Sponsoring. If you don’t have a copy of this manual and a six figure monthly income is your goal, then get yourself one. It’s that simple. This book will reveal to you the attributes of an alpha leader and will change the course of your life.

Leadership – This is vital because the whole of the home business industry is built upon leadership. To lead and inspire others to take action will determine the success of your business.

The three levels of leadership that people need to be aware of are…

1. Following a leader – you need to be able to spot a leader and follow that leader
2. Become the leader – you need to become the leader yourself that other people want to follow
3. Train the leader – as mentioned your home business is built upon the foundation of leadership and you must acquire the ability to lead and inspire others to take action and turn them into leaders as well

As the old saying goes, give a person a fish and you feed them for a day, teach them how to fish and you feed them for life… and you ultimately feed yourself as well.

These are just two of the very necessary personal attributes required to build your business. Now let’s have a look at the tools that you need.

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Foundational Tools

Blog – A definite tool to have when it comes to personal branding is of course your own Blog with your own domain name. This needs to be a WordPress self hosted Blog and not a free service Blog. It also needs your name or some variation of it as the domain name. A Blog constitutes your own piece of real estate online that nobody but you owns and controls which will then become a central part of your marketing. The Blog must have pictures and information of you on it as well as being optimized for the search engines.

Lead Capture Pages – These also form a vital part of your marketing system and are another great way of personally branding yourself. Lead capture pages or marketing funnels as they are also called is where you capture your prospect’s name and email address in exchange for free information like an eBook, a report or some form of other training or information.

As an example in my case I have a free video course at www.onlineMLMgold.com where I teach new people how to create their own marketing funnels, drive traffic and generate leads and upfront cash for their business. Your own marketing funnel is where you can also educate your prospects on who you are and what you have to offer. My recommendation is that you learn how to create your own marketing funnel and if you don’t know how to achieve that already then the course at www.onlineMLMgold.com is a great place to start.

Autoresponder – An autoresponder is essential for you to capture and store all of your prospects into a database that you can continually drip feed information to and make sales to over and over again. Autoresponders automate your email campaigns from the time someone decides to opt in to your website all the way through to making sales and also through to joining your main opportunity.

The database of prospects that you build with your Autoresponder becomes a powerful asset in your business. The bigger your database the more power you have in your marketing and the more money you will make.

Products To Sell – This category can be broken down into several components…

1. Your Own Info Products that you create, such as an eBook or a video training course etc
2. Affiliate Products that are relevant to the industry and to your subscribers. Examples of this are Mike Dillard’s products like Magnetic Sponsoring, MLM Traffic Formula and others
3. Tools such as Autoresponders, webhosting, websites and other 3^rd party tools like Traffic Geyser. As an example I make considerable money each year from selling Autoresponder subscriptions with webhosting and Blog setup to people in my team
4. Your primary business opportunity

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Branches To The Marketing Tree

Marketing systems – this is simply just the usual means of getting you and your message out there in front of the masses and branding yourself as a leader. Examples include but are not limited to video sharing, Twitter, social media like FaceBook, articles, eBooks, reports, podcasts and others.

You can also produce Blog posts and have them syndicated all over the web, but whatever it is that you do, it all constitutes a major part of your marketing tree that continually feeds people into your marketing funnel.

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Primary Income Producing Opportunity

Of course the major part of your income will come from your primary business opportunity. Your ability to create substantial financial change in your life to a large extent depends on the effectiveness of your primary opportunity that you offer your subscribers.

You will need a system that is fully congruent with the internet age that we live in and that has the ability to produce results fast. The last thing you want is something that is outdated and slow and MOST multi level marketing systems these days fall I to that category.

A great primary income opportunity I use is CarbonCopyPro because of…

• Low Startup Costs… It had to be easy for people on small budgets to start. I didn’t want those that are struggling financially to be left out because they couldn’t afford it. I know there are entrepreneur’s out there that are gifted and talented and who are just looking for the right opportunity but who, for one reason or another, are struggling financially. It was these people that I DO NOT want to exclude.
• Massive Leverage… I wanted the opportunity to have massive income potential. I am talking about multiple 6 figures per month type potential where an entrepreneur could start at the bottom level and build huge monthly profits within a very short period of time.
• Real Proof… There had to be proof that other people who were using the same system were actually making the big money from starting small. I wanted to know that the system was capable of delivering the results it was claiming to deliver.
• Up To Date Training… Most old school network marketing home business opportunities are still employing industrial age based thinking in their marketing. I wanted training that was totally up to date with today’s internet based marketing strategies. In fact I was looking for THE leaders in this field and because of my technical background I knew exactly what to look for.
• State Of The Art Marketing Funnels… I didn’t want to have to build my own sales funnels with follow up email campaigns for this opportunity. I wanted to begin marketing immediately so that all I really had to do was create an article, a video or a blog post and refer people to my company affiliate page and that the system would take over for me and close my prospects automatically.
• Duplication… The system had to be very easily duplicatable. If it was easy for me and people in my team to duplicate then success would come easy for me. And if it came easy for me then it would also come easy for those in my team.
• Not MLM… so your income is not dependent on the performance of those below you

These are just some of the many reasons why I choose to run with CarbonCopyPro. If you are looking for a powerful income producing opportunity and you have had enough of dead downlines and tiny checks from your MLM then click on the link below and register for your free copy of the Coffee House Letter.
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Mentoring And Training

I mentioned this point AFTER the income producing system because as a member of CarbonCopyPro you get all of these as part of the package.

You need to be plugged in to training that can transform your marketing and your thinking so that you know what it takes to become a top producer.

To use a metaphor, imagine for a moment the branches of a tree. The branches of the tree receive ALL of its nutrients and growth from the main trunk of the tree which is also part of the root system. If the branches abide on a weak tree with weak roots then the branches will be weak. Alternatively if the branches abide on a strong tree with strong roots then the branches will be strong.

You too… if you are looking for a strong business then you simply must be connected to a strong system that can produce the results you are looking for. Nobody is looking for weak results with their business and the strongest income producers online are those who are connected to strong systems.

And that concludes the post on what you need as the requirements for building your six figure income from home in the new millennium.

Please feel free to leave your comments below and if you have any questions you can easily contact me by visiting the link above.

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From experience with building lists and working with people in the home business industry I can guarantee you that there is a big difference between having a list and having a tribe of followers who like you and want to deal with you.

You have to remember that some of the biggest income earners in the home business industry online are developing tribes of people that they regularly interact with and add value to. If you aren’t pursuing this in your online business career then you are definitely leaving some serious money behind.

Anyone can acquire lists of people. Heck you can even buy them and send regular SPAM emails to them, but that does not mean you have a tribe of followers. And remember, when it comes to home business success… you definitely want followers.

You may have heard of Seth Godin’s book called “Tribes” where he outlines the differences between people who build tribes and those who don’t. In short… tribe building is a major part of your online success and I have some tips here to help you develop a tribe from your list.

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Personal Attributes To Help You

This is a brief list of attributes that you need to consider to help you build your tribe.

1. Transparency – Be real with your people and be available. Most people get turned off when they suspect that you are hiding something from them or that you have an ulterior motive in your business or marketing. When you produce content, especially video content where people can see you, make sure you are genuine in what you say and offer.

2. Value – Everybody loves someone who can help them solve problems or that can add value to their life. If you can be that type of person that positions themselves where you can help those in your list you are well on your way. The premise for this of course is that you have knowledge in the first place that can actually help people. If you don’t have knowledge to help those in your list, go get it.

3. Authentic – Be a person who is worthy of belief. I notice some people online, especially in video marketing, that carry on very unprofessionally. If you are setting out to build a large six figure monthly income then consider your posture when it comes to being authentic. Do you come across as someone who you consider to be believable? If not then change the way you deliver your message.

4. Professional – In this game of entrepreneurial mastery nobody likes to deal with someone who is unprofessional in their dealings. Be a business person not a get rich quick opportunity seeker.

5. Presentable – Do you have problem with your appearance? And I am not asking you if you are ugly and have a great face for radio… do you present yourself as someone who is neat & tidy? Especially in your video presentations, consider what you are wearing and also the backgrounds that are behind you. Also consider the tone’s in your voice when you are speaking and ensure that you sound pleasant and easy to deal with.

6. Relevancy – You need to ensure that what you are presenting to your list is relevant to what they need and want. As an example, there was a marketer I know who used to deliver valuable content through video but now all I hear from this person is “save the planet” type stuff. And I am not interested in that type of stuff when I am looking for information on how to market. The content must be relevant to your tribe.

These are just a few to get you thinking but you have the general idea here. You are involved in business, and earning six figure per month is big business. So in all that you do, be the person that other people would want to deal with and you should be fine.

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Methods Of Delivery

Now that we have covered the personal attributes let’s have a look at how you put these things into place. There are various levels of interaction that you can use to help build your tribe. You probably won’t be using all of these initially, especially for new people, but this will give you an idea of what you need to aim at implementing.

Level 1. Educational Interaction – This is the level that I am operating at now with you. Providing valuable information that is relevant to what people want.

Level 2. Transactional Interaction – This is where people from your tribe are either buying product from you or joining you in your primary business.

Level 3. Communal Interaction – This is where people from your tribe comment on your blog posts, video’s and articles and/or interact with through social media methods.

Level 4. Virtual Live Interaction – Virtual meaning “online”. This is achieved through live webinars or teleseminars. This method is proving to be a great income producing source for many professional marketers who know what they are doing with their tribe.

Level 5. Community Interaction – This occurs when you provide a place for your tribe to not only interact with you but also to interact with each other. This can be achieved using 3rd party social networking platforms like hosting your own forum or running your own online community using software like Ning, Drupal, SocialGo and others. This is also a great way of increasing status in your tribe as well.

Level 6. One-on-One Interaction – This level is for things like private coaching a running small group training events.

Level 7. Live Group Interaction – This is hosting your own seminars offline at places like function centers etc. This is a great way to brand you as the ‘guru’, plus you can also video record your event and share it with your tribe which is also another great way of interacting and building your status in your tribe.

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As you can see each level is like another rung in your ladder of interaction with your tribe. If you are only new to online marketing and are wondering what your business should like in the future, this is a great illustration to see what type of activity you will be involved in with your tribe. In fact you could quite easily use this as a business building guide to know what level you need to be working towards next.

I hope you enjoyed the post and please feel free to comment below.

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I heard this quote the other day and it grabbed my attention as I believe this is an issue that many new marketers stumble over when they begin to market online.

And this is the quote…

Amateurs SELL — Professionals SORT.

In the end, this entire process can be summed up in just three steps…

Now let me start by asking you a simple question.

Would you rather have people eagerly contacting you about your products or services, or would you rather hunt them down and beat them over the head with a sales pitch until they runaway calling you a crazy person?

Well if you like option #1 more than option #2, pay VERY close attention because I’m about to fill you in on how we make that happen each and every day for our members here at CarbonCopyPRO…

The first thing you need to know is that “marketing” is king. Period. If you don’t believe me, let me prove it to you.

(By the way, making a list of your friends, family and business contacts to pitch the latest fruit juice, lotions, potions and pills to is NOT marketing. It’s called “laziness” and does not work)

Let’s say that you have the chance to market what you think is the best new product in the world, so you have the company ship $3,000 worth of it to your front door.

Well guess what…It’s just going to sit there.

Have you ever heard those weird stories about Amway guys who had garages full of product?

Well that happens because products don’t sell themselves… “Marketing” does.

So here’s to make that happen in 3 very simple steps:

* Step #1 — Build a prospect list. This is a list of the people who respond to your advertisements, signaling to you that they have in interest in what you offer.

* Step #2 — Build a relationship with your list. People buy from those they like, respect, and trust, and it’s no different here. The best way to do that is to offer true, honest value.

* Step #3 — Market to your list. This is when you market products and services that will help the people on your list get what they want.

I like to cal this process “building your tribe”. Anyone can easily build a list online but it takes more skill to build a tribe of followers that want to hear from you, that respect you and want to buy from you than it does to simply build a list.

Remember, this isn’t about you making money….It’s about you serving others. The money follows.

So that’s the process in a nutshell and it’s these fundamental steps that the biggest marketers on the Internet are doing to build their 7 figure businesses.

See you at the top.

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