Kalvin Black  
I like the way you are thinking here Becky,

The whole idea of Network Marketing is to work as a team. I am doing all I can to build a team on the internet. Lets see what we can do with this!
May 21st 2007 00:09   

Rebecca Beasley   
One thing that I don't want to do is try to sell everyone on what I'm doing.
You may be into something else and want to sell me on that, and we'd
be pretty much selling ice to eskimos.

I have lots of time and I'm not worried about how I'll build my organization
right now. Right now I want to take a break from building and focus on
friendship and get to know people better for who they are.

You build an organization with people you know and people you don't know, and it's a lot better to get to know them than to start trying to sell them on what you're doing. If they're truly looking for a home based business, they'll ask.

If they're already successful with what they're doing, why would we want to pull them away from it? So we promote that to people who have requested the information, not the ones who are sending you ads.

I'd be interested in getting some feedback on this.
How do you promote your business to people? Do you use the phone?
Do you send the links in emails? Do you have your own contact lists?

Does anyone know why internet marketing is so hard to do?

Becky
May 21st 2007 19:22   

Beth Schmillen   
Hi Kalvin and Becky ~

and i quote...from Becky... "If they're truly looking for a home based business, they'll ask."

Now, i have never been asked about a home based business out of the blue except... when networking and a new person is just enquiring to see what I do and we exchange info and that may lead to one or the other of us joining one or the other's biz op!!!

but... networking for me is meeting and getting to know others now... to find people I'm comfortable networking with and to learn from... or to help if I have a bit more experience than they do.... but that's not always the case! some are better at hiding their experience than others!

(smile)
Beth



Jun 4th 2007 08:57   

Robert Roebuck   
Hello Rebecca

Nice to see you joined up I know you have a lot to offer people to your group members Rebecca is always willing to help others

I look forward to your articals rebecca
Jun 4th 2007 22:03   

Curtis Dunn   
Reminds me of ancient history back in the 20th century, I believe around 1997, when groups still met in IRC chat rooms and could have a decent conversation without being bothered by spam. Anyone remember one of the first social networks, MyEcom?
Jun 10th 2007 04:49   

Lisa Lomas   
Hello Becky,

Its great how apsense have done tags now, as I found your group
here just today. I beleive your concept and motives are in the right
place and hope I can provide some insights and great conversation.

Thankyou
Lisa

CMU7 Coach
Aug 9th 2007 16:47   

Rebecca Beasley   
Social Networks are not about how many people you can get into your downline. They're not even necessarily about network marketing. They're about people meeting and mingling with other people and sharing whatever interests they have to find common bonds.

We're getting away from the old concept of street vending and touting our wares all over the place and moving into the new concept of just being a human being sharing space with other human beings who have their own agendas.

Some may be into music, or art, or just want to find a friend or a date.
I think the trick is to find people who are actually doing what you would like to do and just imitate them. Monkey see monkey do..so to speak.
When in rome, do as the romans. Just interract, comment, share, and "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
What would you like for others to do for you? Visit your sites? Visit theirs.

For me, I'm looking forward to having a lot of new friends to share with and to contact through email and messenger and take a break from the advertising nonsense.

You can have all the money in the world, but if you have no one to share it with where are you?

Becky
Aug 25th 2007 21:12   

Rebecca Beasley   
I realize it's been a while since I posted here but I'm still doing a lot of social networking and I've met up with a great team of networkers called Our Hive Team. We're all promoting the same programs with a single url. The proceeds from sales we make are used to buy more resell rights software and profits are split evenly amongst the full members. All of us come in as temps and are voted in according to activity in the hive forum.

It's a win win situation and I am really excited to be a part of it. We're seeing people make money online for the very first time.
I'll post more info later.

Becky
May 8th 2008 13:12   

Rebecca Beasley   
I think the whole idea of social networking is to make friends and share your thoughts. People who join social networks for the soul purpose of building a business are missing the point entirely. It's the friendships we make that give us the encouragement and help us to "keep on keeping on" when we feel like quitting.
I don't know about you but I've found that friends are the worse people to do business with. You tend to give too much away to friends and wind up eating up your profits. Why else have they always told us to keep business and pleasure seperate? Friends are those people who send you a joke or an ecard to cheer you up when you're feeling down. Your friends give you things because they love you, and not because it will help them to build their downline.
If you make friends just to have more people to sell to, then what will you do when you run out of friends? That's exactly what will happen if you use them to make money and things don't work out like you planned.
If you've ever been in a high school band or club where they sold candles or whatever for fundraisers, did you only sell to the people you knew? Or did you go door to door and sell to strangers? If you only sold to friends then you probably didn't do very well. I went door to door and hit all the neighborhoods and sold over $1000 worth of oranges and grapefruit. Sure my mom and grandmother and a few of my aunts bought some too but for the most part it was strangers who bought it and when it came time to deliver it they were the ones who paid the most money.
I guess my point is that if you are using social networks for the wrong reason you'll wind up not having any friends and not making any money. Everyone will see you as just someone who is trying to make a buck.
Use them as a way to establish yourself as someone who has expertise and can help them to do better at whatever it is they do. And use the tools they provide to make money.
That's what the business center is for.
Mar 22nd 2009 21:59