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Hi everyone,

You’re probably wondering why I haven’t been writing as much this week.  Well I’m happy to say it’s because I have been working on a new podcast called: Home Business Interviews!

This will be a regular weekly interview program where you can hear from top producers in our network marketing industry, the brightest personal development coaches, expert internet marketers, and much  more.  Every Wednesday I’ll post a new interview with another expert.

I’ve already recorded the first several shows.  They’re really good!  And I’ve got a half dozen more experts lined up for interviews in the next few weeks.

Best of all the web site is free to join (or download on itunes!) So check out Home Business Interviews today!

- Ben Fitts

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This sounds like a contradiction because MLM is about duplication but I don’t think everything has to be duplicable!

You see a few weeks ago I was wondering if some of my marketing wasn’t effective because my team couldn’t duplicate what I was doing. I’m pretty darn good at the internet marketing stuff.  What if my team can’t duplicate what I do?  Should I stop doing it even though I’m “great” at it?

A couple of weeks ago I was hanging out with Big Al and I thought I’d mention it to him and get his opinion.  He simply replied with a question.

If you had a team member who had 600 family members would you tell them NOT to talk to their family because it isn’t duplicatable?

It hit me like a ton of bricks.  Of course you wouldn’t tell them not too.  They shouldn’t be held back simply because they have a larger family than most people.  They should be able to use that advantage.

Since I’m great at internet marketing I should use that advantage.  Even if not all my team members can do what I do.  There’s no reason for me to penalize myself because I am so good at something that it’s hard for others to duplicate.  After all I can share my knowledge with my team and some of them can do what I do…  I should play to my strengths not my weaknesses.

It’s like if you sponsor someone famous you don’t tell them to hide their celebrity status. Instead you tell them to use that sphere of influence as much as they can.

So MLM doesn’t have to be about duplication.  Do you think I’m crazy?  Do you agree? Do you have any suggestions for me?

- Ben Fitts

MLM Training > internet marketing

Here is a real powerful way to use blogs.

Go to all the free blog sites and setup a blog.

WordPress.com
Blogger.com
Myspace.com
thoughts.com
livejournal.com
clearblogs.com

(Note I haven’t Thoughts.com or Clearblogs.com before. I googled “free blog” to see what I could find. I will try them out though.)

There are many many more.

Now even if you don’t post to them regularly, post to them a few times.  In one day you can write say 10 posts. Then “post date” them to come out once a week over the next 10 weeks.

In your blog posts link to your main web site.

Now submit each of these blogs to rss directories and blog search engines.

The way this works is like the spokes on a wheel.  You have 5 freebie blogs (or more) that all point back to your main web site.  Don’t link your main web site back to the blogs only link one way.

This way you’re passing your link juice to your main web site.

You also don’t want to waste your link juice pointing at your company web site. You want to point to a unique web site that you and only you own.

Does that make sense?

So in my case I’d setup a bunch of blogs and point them all to my custom greeting card guy web site. NOT my Send Out Cards corporate web site.  If I point it to my corporate web site I’m just passing all my link juice to the corporate web site not to my own sites. AND the corporate web site doesn’t need any more link juice!

MLM Training > internet marketing

So you want to learn how to market your MLM opportunity or product on the internet?

One of the most important things to remember about internet marketing is it takes time.  There are dozens of different ways to market on the internet and learning to master them will take you time.  Depending on how fast you learn and who is teaching you it could take months or even years.  I’ve been on the internet since 1993 and I’ve been building and marketing web sites since 1997.  Heck even this blog is 3 years old.  I didn’t get good at it for probably the first 2 years!

You can learn the internet stuff and it can be great for your business but don’t let it distract you from building your business.  Keep using offline marketing methods.  Keep talking to your friends and family.  Keep passing out your company DVD or product samples or whatever you do.  Keep inviting people to opportunity seminars and passing out flyers.

That way you continue to build your business WHILE you learn the internet stuff.  That’s what my good friend Jack did.  He was already a sales person and was good at the offline marketing but he didn’t know the online stuff.  So he started learning the online stuff while continuing to grow his business offline.  Pretty soon he had a thriving business both on the internet and off.

If you want to learn the internet stuff I recommend a great place to start is my 44 page ebook Nichework Marketing.  It gives a great overview of how I market on the internet.

- Ben Fitts

MLM Training > internet marketing

The Nichework Marketing blog is now live!

 http://www.nicheworkmarketing.com/blog/

A few of the things you’ll find on the blog….

• Annoucement of 2 job openings at Nichework Marketing.
• Announcement of  the Nichework Marketing scholarship program for those that really want to learn to grow their network marketing business but don’t have the money to pay for the training program…

Check out the new blog and let me know what you think.

And if you’re tired of waiting you only have to wait a few more days!  Nichework Marketing goes live April 14th at 10 AM Eastern time.

- Ben Fitts

MLM Training > internet marketing