Empowered Networker What are your Views Forum Post

Written by Harry Fassett on Jan 26, 2012 1:31 pm

Re: Empowered Networker What are your Views

by Harry Fassett on 07 Nov 2011 09:39

You have some valid points Roger, but you would be a little more credible if you would quit slapping your affiliate URL into your posts. That's what the resource box is for. Anyway, I do make mention of what I do most of the time in arenas like this, because after all, they are promoting Empowered Networker here (questions or no questions) and just doing it in a "round about" kind of way.

That's ok with me, but all is fair if that's the case, and I don't blindly follow anybody or any Company for that matter even if they have a few good guys or people running the business or Company, because it all comes down to the Affiliate, or Network Marketer in the end how much money they individually are going to make with the business.

No sponsor or business for that matter is going to make you successful. They may help you along the way, but again the buck stops with the Affiliate/MLM Marketer to get the results they are looking for in their business.

The what I call the "Wizard of Ozz" marketing strategy has been around a very long time. Ever watch the Wizard of Ozz? Dorthy and her companions go to see what they think is a great Wizard of Ozz that can help them with their dire needs only to find out it's just some short, fat bald guy frantically pulling some handles behind a curtain.

So again, basically what I can see the deal is: I'll give you your $25.00 bucks back if you go to work for me and help me build my lists while you are looking at my marketing training material in my back office. Oh, and if you bring in more referrals that do the same, I'll pay you more as the pay plan is laid out. Oh, and if you help us get upsales we'll pay you even more as the pay plan structure offers.

Of course in this economy, I don't think paying hundreds of dollars for training materials you can get for hundreds less or nothing is a great idea, when 95% of Americans would be out in the street if they were out of work for 30 days or more.

The wise choice is to do efficient training programs that cost little or no money and there are tons of great ones the give you all the basic marketing 101 information and materials, and move you along to much more advanced proven strategies (best practices) for online and offline marketing as one goes along.

Plus many of the MLM Co's offer great training too which most never even complete let alone complete additional 3rd party training courses that eventually may cost you 100's of dollars with no guarantee you are going to recoop the costs, because it's all based on your performance, and no one can guarantee your performance and results from it.

Again, perfect examples of inexpensive and proven programs along with many great marketing tools are: IMtoolsuite, Sitesell/SitebuildIT, and IBOtoolbox. I like the first and second, because you get high quality training and tools for very low cost, and you can be making good money right away (because you have to pay at least a little money to get into the training and get started up front) if you are willing to really work them like a real business, and most don't so why pay the big bucks just to end up not getting results which most won't.

IBOtoolbox is above par too from what I can see so far, but you give "free" up front first, and the bad thing about that is you end up chasing the 99.9% who just want something for nothing, and never upgrade or get upsold from things in the back office. In other words the conversions are much lower from my experience over the years of how these deals work, i.e nothing new under the sun.

I still give IBOtoolbox an A+ for what they've created for no cost to the end user, but they are making a ton off selling members ads, and doing quite well at it, so it works for IBO too, because afterall nothing is totally free in business. IBO still has to pay for servers, up keep, upgrades, bandwith, techs and staff to keep things rolling and it's a lot more work and money than meets the eye to the average Joe/Jane who just sees what's happening on the front end. Kinda like Google; you see one search box on a page with their logo and it looks simple right? Not exactly, it takes billions of dollars a year to run google and it's operations around the world.

CONCLUSION:

Send the little bucks first and see if you are even cut out to move to the next level in business, Internet Marketing, and all that it entails to make money in your very own home based business. If you are smart, you'll look at the stats, and you'll not be so hasty to jump right in spend the big bucks because you have to know yourself, and if you have any doubts about making it in any business you are in, you are pretty much doomed in the long run anyway.

TRUE STORY

Years ago I was helping a retired couple with their Search Engine Marketing, and found out they were not in the position to keep the online business and systems they had in place going because they were flat broke after spending 100K over the past two years getting Internet Marketing advice and help from many so called gurus that were hocking their products and services at the time.

They them proceeded to tell me that they wish they have found me much earlier because they were in the process of filing for bankruptcy. Again, this elderly couple staked their whole future on their Internet business, and after spending one hundred thousand dollars, they were in the position of having to go back to work. As the song goes, "Sad but true.

Harry Fassett - Founder of Amazines.com has been working in the Search Engine Marketing industry since 1995. Currently an Independent SnackHealthy Distributor and Consultant for http://www.snackhealthysnacks.com