What Is Blogging And How Can It Help You Generate Leads For Your MLM
A blog is an online diary of your thoughts where people can come and share comments, read, interact with you, and even buy things. A blog can also be a terrific source for leads for your mlm business. Here is how you could do that.
First of all you can add a sign up form on the side bar of your blog to collect the name and email address of your blog visitor. You could offer a free report or ebook or something of value in exchange for their contact information. Maybe your upline or the company you are an mlm distributor for has something for you to give away also.
The point is you are trying to collect names for follow-up and you can use your blog as a way to do that. You would need an autoresponder as well. This gives you a chance to deliver the free information you promised.
It also gives you the opportunity to follow up and present more useful information. This is called relationship building and is an essential part of building a successful mlm business and converting some of your subscribers into distributors. It has been said a person has to hear about something up to 12 times before they act on it.
O.K. so now you have the basics down about how you do it. Let’s go back and talk some more about blogging. You can successfully use your blog to talk about your mlm business as well as other topics related to mlm as an industry, internet marketing, and other things related to home business and work at home.
Incorporating a strategy of offering free training and information is a great way to generate leads from your blog and the traffic you get to it. This is a very soft sell approach to giving first and receiving later.
Getting traffic to a blog is for another training article, but suffice it to say that you will need traffic. That means promoting your blog with every free, nearly free, and paid advertising method you can come up with and afford.
Generally setting up a Blogger.com is the fastest and easiest way to get a blog up and running. It is owned by Google and is very user friendly. For a little more comprehensive blogging platform look at setting up a hosting account and using WordPress. It offers many plugins that are very search engine friendly and make adding social bookmarking to your articles easy as well.
Because of the many benefits of blogging you should get one started and use it to generate mlm leads and to build a mailing list for future new distributors as well.
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Setting up a Free Blog
Most blogs are now created using software or services designed specifically for this purpose. Some of the software is free. The easiest place to set up a free blog is Blogger.com which is owned by Google.
You can set up a blog with Blogger.com in five minutes or less. If you want to host it yourself you can do that or you can let Google host it for you. It only takes 3 steps to set your blog up with them and you get to choose the template you want.
Blogs offer you huge marketing potential if you use them right. They key to running a successful blog is to publish in it on a regular basis. If you can type you can blog. It really is as easy as putting your thoughts in your blog.
Before you officially launch your blog plan think about what you want in it. Keep in mind that you’ll want to include an easy way for readers to respond to the content on your blog. Most blogging software such as Blogger have this feature already built-in to your blog with an easy ON/OFF switch to allow or not allow reader interaction.
Let your downline know you have a blog and intend to use it to recruit new distributors as well as you will post product and distributor training updates in it.
Here are a couple other things to be sure and do when you post a blog.
1. You want to make sure you ping your posts. Pinging is done automatically on blogger when you set the ping box to yes. You will find this in the settings tab and then click on publish. You can use a service like Pingoat.com to ping your posts as well.
2. Join OnlyWire.com and bookmark your post to several social directories with one click. You will have to register with each directory one time first. Then submit your posts to over 15 directoires bringing you potential new visitors and business.
3. You can customize your blog if you are comfortable doing it.
Once you get your blog set up be sure and post articles in it on a regular basis. You can read more about blogging on just about internet marketing forum. this is a good skill to master as it can play an important role in helping you build your mlm business if you use it right.