Can blogs help in building your MLM?
Today I was on a discussion board and someone was asking whether or not blogging works for network marketing. This was my answer:
There is more to blogging than simply writing a blog post.
Did you use keywords in the title? Did you tag the post?
Do you submit the post to news/marketing/bookmark sites like Digg, PlugIM, Marktd, Sphinn, Propeller, etc?
What was the content of your article?
How did you follow up the article?
Did you encourage people to comment on your articles or leave a question for them to answer?
Here is a BIG trick.
1. write a controversial article
2. use every bit of contacts with friends and family you can to get them to digg, sphinn, plugim, etc. your article.
3. post to forums that day with signatures linking back to article
4. announce to your mailing list to read that article
5. encourage people to comment
That’s more than most of you do… BUT You have to go one step further. You have to follow up IMMEDIATELY with some of your best articles ever. Whether or not it’s more controversial stuff or giving away some really good free tips and advice. Whatever it is make sure you follow up the very next day with some of the best content you’ve ever written.
That way when you get momentum you keep the momentum going. If someone reads your blog because of your controversial article you want them to keep coming back. If your blog is dormant for 5 days after your controversial article you’ll loose most of the new readers you picked up.
- Ben Fitts
The Custom Greeting Card Guy
Keeping the momentum is a must for any blog and so for an MLM network marketing blog. If you don’t post often all those readers that you have attracted gradually will abandon you.