"Is MLM an Answer to the Economic Recession?"

Here is the response I gave to the question posed by one my fellow members at www.sta.rtup.biz

Yes, MLM could be an answer to the economic recession, if you are affiliated with a reputable, legitimate company that has a profitable compensation and marketing model. MLM is a concept that makes it possible for the average person to make a lot of money by leveraging the efforts of many people. If you don't have a lot of time or money, then by investing a little time and money, you can still amass a lot of income, if you find many other like-minded people who want to make money by doing the same thing that you are doing. During recessions, many people are laid off. Some of these people don't have a lot of money to start their own traditional business. Because MLM businesses don't require a lot of money to start, some of the unemployed may want to consider joining an MLM company. But which one should they join? That's a good question. I recommend that you do your due diligence by investigating the company and checking with the Federal Trade Commission, your State's Attorney General's Office or the Better Business Bureau before joining any of these MLM companies. Don't allow yourself to be pressured or hoodwinked into joining a network marketing (MLM) company.

If you are interested in some of the MLM companies that I recommend, e-mail me or visit my website at www.charlesaki.com.

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Ten High-Impact Viral Marketing Strategies

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Viral Marketing is allowing people to giveaway and use your free product or service in order to multiply your marketing quickly over the internet. The idea behind viral marketing is that you include your ad with the freebie people giveaway or use. Below are ten high impact viral marketing strategies:

1. Allow people to reprint your articles on their web site, in their e-zine, newsletter, magazine or ebooks. Include your resource box and the option for article reprints at the bottom of each article.

2. Allow people to use any of your freebies as free bonuses for products or services they sell. Include your ad on all your freebies.

3. Allow people to use your online discussion board for their own web site. Some people don't have one. Just include your banner ad at the top of the board.

4. Allow people to sign up for a free web site on your server. Since you are giving away the space, require them to include your banner ad at the top of the site.

5. Allow people to add their link to your free web site directory. Just require that they return a link back to your web site, advertising your directory.

6. Allow people to provide your free online service to their web site, visitors, or e-zine subscribers. They could be free e-mail, e-mail consulting, search engine submissions, etc.

7. Allow people to give away your free software. Just include your business advertisement inside the software program.

8. Allow people to give away your free web design graphics, fonts, templates, etc. Just include your ad on them or require people to link directly to your web site.

9. Allow people to place an advertisement in your free ebook if, in exchange, they give away the ebook to their web visitors or e-zine subscribers.

10. Allow people to give away your free ebook to their visitors. Then, their visitors will also give it away. This will just continue to spread your ad all over the internet.

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10 Intriguing Ways To Propel Your Online Sales

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1. Add extra subjects to your web site. Most free ad sites only allow you to submit your web site to one category. This'll allow you to submit it to many.

2. Increase the perceived value of your product by making your offer scarce. You could use limited time bonuses, low prices, low quantities, etc.

3. Find out your competitions' weakness and use it as your "Unique Selling Proposition". It's the reason why people buy your products and not theirs.

4. Sell your products or services to a specific niche market. For example, instead of selling your fishing book to all fisherman, target it toward fly fisherman.

5. Test your advertising and marketing. You'll save time, money and big headaches promoting the right offer to the right group of people.

6. Persuade visitors to buy your product by telling them the future. Tell them what'll happen with their life in the future if they buy or don't buy.

7. Offer a free trial of your product for a set period of time. Don't charge or bill them until they decided to buy it. This'll take away any risk they have.

8. Create other web sites that draw your initial target audience. Then you can lead your prospects to your main web site by linking to your other web sites.

9. Inform people about your site or freebie through e-mail announce lists. You can find them by typing "e-mail announce lists" in any search engine.

10. Tell your visitors what they can avoid by buying your product or service will motivate them to buy. They may want to avoid pain, fear, danger, etc.

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How To Eliminate Your Competition Without Bloodshed

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So how do you eliminate your competition without bloodshed? You must create a niche for your business. A niche is something that makes your business different from your competitors. To compete with other businesses nowadays (especially online) you need something that nobody else can copy. One of a kind!

First you must know who your competitors are. Is your business the only one of its type? I doubt it. If so, it won't be for long. Do you know your exact target audience? If not, you will have to find out this information before creating any kind of niche. Below are two ways to come up with a competition eliminating niche.

1. Just Ask! The first way to come up with a niche is to think like your target audience or customers. Know their exact needs, wants, goals, problems and interests. There're two ways to do this: The first way is to put yourself in their shoes, think like them. The second way is to give them polls and surveys to find out what they're thinking. Pick a niche that none of your competitors are using. If you can't find one that your competitors aren't using pick one to improve.

2. Just Think! The second way to come up with a niche is to use your brain power. Ask yourself questions like: How can I set myself apart from my competition? What could I offer that they can't? Imagine or daydream that your business is on top of all your competitors. What niche put your business at the top in your head? Now, if you keep asking these questions your mind will eventually start shooting out more ideas than you can handle. One of those ideas may be the niche you're
searching for.

Now that you have your niche that's just half the battle. You must test it. Does your niche appeal to your target audience? Will it attract people away from your competition? If it does, you're done, until your competition comes up with a better niche. If your niche doesn't, than repeat the process above and test a new niche until it works. If you want to eliminate your competition and be successful you will use this process several times in your business life.

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10 Motivational Triggers That Make People Buy

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1. People want to make more money. They may
want to start their own business, get a higher paying
job or invest in the stock market. This will make
them feel successful.

2. People want to save money. They may want to
invest for the future or save for a big purchase.
This will make them feel more secure.

3. People want to save time. They may want to
work less and spend time enjoying life's pleasures.
This will make them feel more relaxed.

4. People want to look better. They may want to
lose weight, tone their body, or improve their facial
features. This will make them feel more attractive.

5. People want to learn something new. They may
want to learn how to change their car oil or build a
deck. This will make them feel more intelligent.

6. People want to live longer. They may want to
get in shape, eat better or gain extra energy. This
will make them feel healthier.

7. People want to be comfortable. They may want
to relive aches and pains or want to sleep in a more
comfortable bed. This will make them feel
relieved.

8. People want to be loved. They may not want to
be lonely anymore or want to start dating again.
This will make them feel wanted.

9. People want to be popular. They may want to
be a famous celebrity or be more popular in
school. This will make them feel praised and
admired.

10. People want to gain pleasure. They may want
satisfy their appetite or sexual desires. This will
make them feel more fulfilled.

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"Loneliness is the most terrible poverty." -- Mother Teresa

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Ten Reasons Why People Don't Visit Your Web Site

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1. You don't offer free original content. It's important
to give your visitors information they can't find any-
where else. If you're the only source for a certain type
of information, people will flock to your web site.

2. You don't offer free software. Most people like
to find good deals on software for their computers. If
the software is free, that is even better.

3. You don't offer a free contest or sweepstakes. It's
a fact, people like to win things. If you can fulfill that
need, people will stop by to visit.

4. You don't offer a free directory. Create a directory
of web sites on a particular topic that is related to your
target audience. People will visit because they will find
what they're looking for, all in one place.

5. You don't offer a free e-zine. Most people love to
get free information that they're interested in emailed
to them on a regular basis. This saves them time and
money.

6. You don't offer a free community. People like to
have a place were they can have discussions with
others on a particular subject. You could add a chat
room or message board to your web site.

7. You don't offer a free affiliate program. One of
people's basic needs to survive is money. When you
offer them a free opportunity to make money they'll
line up to visit your web site.

8. You don't offer a free online utility. When you offer
a utility that can solve a problem, people will visit your
web site. The utility could be a free autoresponder,
e-mail account, search engine submission, etc.

9. You don't offer free current information. Supply
news stories related to your web site. People want
up-to-date news on the topics they are interested in.
They will also be interested in visiting your web site.

10. You don't offer free samples of your product
or service. Have you ever been to a store and you
jumped at the chance to get a free sample of food?
This same concept will also attract people to visit
your web site.


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"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows like a
song. But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile when
everything goes dead wrong." -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Ten Awesome Ways To Attract More Orders

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1. Create a free ebook directory on a specific topic at your web site. People will visit your web site to read the free ebooks and may see your product ad.

2. Turn part of your web site into a members only web site. Instead of charging for access, use it as a free bonus for one of your products.

3. Add a free classified ad section to your web site. You could then trade banner ads with other web sites that have free classified ad sections.

4. Create two versions of your e-zine so people can choose if they want ads included with it or not. This'll attract the people who hate ads to subscribe.

5. Publish your e-zine only on your web site. Have people subscribe to a "new issue" e-mail reminder. This could really increase your traffic and sales.

6. Sell advertising space in your product package. You could sell inserts, flyers, brochures, booklets, and digital ads for electronic products.

7. Offer daily or weekly visitor bonuses. This will increase your repeat traffic and sales because your visitors will visit regularly to get the visitor bonuses.

8. Allow people to download software or e-books from your web site at no cost. Just ask your visitors in return if they'll refer their friends to your web site.

9. Build up the number of people that join your free affiliate program quickly by temporally offering your product for free to the people that sign up.

10. Negotiate with e-zine publishers to get free or discounted ads by letting them join your affiliate program and earn commissions on the ad you run.

Quote of the Day:

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." -- Horace

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10 Cool Ways To Attract People To Your Web Site, by Stone Evans

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1. Give people a free subscription to your e-zine. Almost everyone is publishing a e-zine nowadays so it's important to give something extra with the free subscription. You could offer a free gift or advertising when people subscribe.

2. Provide your visitors with free content. Your content will be more attractive to your visitors if it's up-to-date or original. You could also offer people the option to reprint the content in their e-zine or web site.

3. Offer a free online directory. The directory could be full of interesting ebooks, e-zines, web sites etc. If people find your directory to be a valuable resource they will visit it over and over.

4. Give your visitors a free ebook. You could also include your own ad in the ebook and allow other people to give it away. If you don't want to take the time to write one, you could ask other writers permission to use their articles.

5. Hold free online classes or seminars. They could be held in your web site's chat room. The idea of "live" information will definitely entice people to visit your web site. You will become known as an expert on the topic.

6. Give visitors a free entry into your contest or sweepstakes. The prizes should be something of interest or value to your visitors. Most people who enter will continually revisit your web site to get the results.

7. Let visitors download free software. It could be freeware, shareware, demos etc. You could even turn part of your site into a free software directory. If you created the software, include your ad inside and let other people give it away.

8. Offer free online services or utilities from your web site. They could be search engine submitting, copy writing proofreading etc. The service or utility should be helpful to your target audience.

9. Give free consulting to people who visit your web site. You could offer your knowledge via e-mail or by telephone. People will consider this a huge value because consulting fees can be very expensive.

10. Give your visitors a free membership to your online club. People want to belong to something, why not your online club. You could also give away a free e-zine for club members only.

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discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go
in search of something to fall in love with...something
about yourself, your career, your spouse." -- Dale Dauten

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Multiple Income Streams - An Idea Whose Time Has Come in a Declining Economy: Featuring CharlesAki.com

by Charles Aki, Ph.D.


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Browse through our site to find the right home business for you. When searching for a home business please be careful because there are many scams out there. However, the information and opportunities listed on this site have passed an intensive screening process and have proven themselves to be legitimate and effective. Feel safe & enjoy!

Below is a reprint of my blog on the case for generating multiple streams of income.

In stocks and mutual funds investing, risk is minimized by owning a diversified portfolio of assets in different industries and family of funds. Just as diversification is essential to reducing losses in investing, so is generating multiple streams of income paramount to avoiding failure and losses in business.

No longer can the average household depend on only one source of income, especially now that our economy is in recession and more people are in danger of being laid off. No business or industry is exempted. Even giant companies in the automobile sector and financial industries are on the verge of declaring bankruptcy and laying off thousands of their employees. Is there any hope or solution for people who face layoffs, loss of income, and other related problems due to the nation's economic downturn?

I believe there is hope, and the solution is in building alternative sources of income. Helping people do this is the main mission of this blog site. It is my hope that whenever you visit this blog site, you will find an idea for making money online.

You may have already noticed the various business ideas and recommendations that have been posted on this blog site the past few days. I promise that more of these ideas will be shared on this blog site in the future. You will be hearing from experts and people who are already successful in implementing these multiple income strategies. I encourage you to read and act on the ideas presented here. If you need additional help, I am available to brainstorm some ideas with you to help you accomplish your goals much faster. Feel free to leave me a comment or request for further assistance; and, if you leave your contact details, I will respond to you as soon as possible.

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