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Banners Broker Review

May 17, 2012 by Reginald Liggins Leave a Comment

Welcome to this not so unbiased Banners Broker Review. When I first started researching this company for this article, I had no intention to join. But the more I saw, the more I realized that I would be crazy not to join. But my intention here is not to sell, but to inform. I will attempt to just lay out the facts about Banners Broker as I understand them and let you draw your own conclusions. But before I get into what Banners Broker is, let me start with what it is not. It is not an investment program, neither is it a network marketing or mlm program, and it’s not even an affiliate marketing program. However in my opinion, it does have trace elements of all of these.

Banners Broker (BB) is a new concept in online advertising, web traffic generation, and revenue sharing. This is a total innovative, cutting edge business model. Banners Broker was founded in November 2010 by Kul Josun and Chris Smith. The company is based in Toronto, Canada. As the name suggests, BB acts as an advertising broker between advertisers and publishers, marketing banner impressions and advertising inventory. This is done in a manner similar to business models employed by Google, Bing, Yahoo, Bing, and Facebook PPC, to name a few.

Google is the king of online advertising with revenues in excess of $30 billion a year. Google’s AdWords is on the advertising side of the equation and allows advertisers to display their advertisements in the Google content network, through either a cost-per-click or cost-per-view scheme, on search engine result pages. The sister service, Google AdSense, on the publisher side, allows website owners to display contextually sensitive ads on their website, and earn money every time the ads are clicked.

This is pretty much exactly what BB does, connects the advertisers and publishers and then takes a portion of the advertising money as a brokerage fee. The major difference between Google and BB, is that Banners Broker then shares a portion of that money with its customers. As a BB customer you can buy advertising space on the global Banners Broker extensive online network consisting of hundreds of thousands of publishers and advertisers around the world. BB then sells this advertising space to advertisers, pays the website owner (publisher), and splits the revenue with you, the customer. In addition to becoming a BB customer and advertiser, you can also become a BB publisher and earn publisher revenue even if you do not own a high-traffic website! So what can you expect, if you became a member of Banners Broker?

Although BB is not an investment program, you can expect to receive a guaranteed 200% return on your investment in advertising. For example, should you purchase $100 worth of advertising you will receive $200 worth of advertising. In addition, you will double your capital again and again (guaranteed) with Banners Broker. So you can expect to receive $200 in revenue sharing in addition to double the amount of banner impressions that you purchased. You have the option of re-investing all or half of what you make, over and over again, into new banner advertising. In the meantime, BB is sending targeted traffic to the website(s) of your choice, while you are getting paid for it and maintaining full control over the monetization of your advertising campaigns.! What differentiates BB from other banner impression sites is that they are motivated to sell advertising inventory on your behalf.

The beauty of this program is that no matter how attractive your banner is, or how attractive the subsequent offer is, you will make money with Banners Broker. You do not have recruit a single soul to make money, although you can certainly make a lot more if you do recruit. You do not even need to have an external offer, you can advertise your Banners Broker business through this opportunity. I mentioned earlier that you do not have to have a high-traffic website to be a publisher. BB will supply you with online advertising space on various websites on their network that already have a lot of traffic. You will be compensated for the impressions your ad space produces. This truly is the least expensive way I have ever seen where one can profit from the online advertising business.

You can join Banners Broker for free and receive 1,000 banner impressions for your trouble. You can purchase an Ad-Publisher Combo Package for as little as $25, $15 of which is the monthly admin fee. There are six packages in all, the most expensive of which is $3655. The admin fee for each package is $15. Again you can expect to receive a 200% return in both advertising and capital. This is truly a win-win proposition. Truly, it is impossible not to make money with this opportunity.

Again, I admit to being biased. However now you may understand why I thought it would be crazy not to join this business. But don’t take my word for it. Be sure to check it out for yourself. There is obviously quite a bit of detail that I had to leave out of this article. So, do your due diligence and feel free to contact me if you feel I have gotten anything wrong anything here. You can find out more about this extraordinary opportunity below.

I hope that you enjoyed reading this Banners-Broker Review.

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Reginald Liggins is an internet marketing trainer and coach who resides outside of Portland in Beaverton, Oregon.

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FHTM Review

April 1, 2012 by Reginald Liggins 2 Comments

Welcome to this FHTM or Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing opportunity review. First, full disclosure, I am in no way affiliated with FHTM. This is a completely independent review. I normally choose to write about relatively new opportunities, but I find this particular 11 year old company very intriguing. While not original, Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing has a very distinct business model that makes FHTM a market leader in several different industries. This in turn has generated a success that has led the Direct Selling Association to rank FHTM as one of the top 100 international MLM companies in the world. So if you’re wondering if FHTM is a scam, I can tell you that it most certainly is not. So what is FHTM all about?

Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing is an international direct selling and marketing company that will allow you to build a significant residual income for marketing and gathering loyal customers for many different companies, products, and services in a number of industries. FHTM was founded in January 2001 by Paul Orberson. An ex-teacher and basketball coach, Paul Orberson was a very successful distributor in a company called Excel Communications back in the 90′s. He had developed a monthly residual income that exceeded one million dollars a month before he retired. (You read that correctly, over $1,000,000 per month!). While in retirement, Mr. Orberson decided that he wanted to build a distributor-friendly company where the average person could experience the kind of success that he had achieved. After six months of working and brain-storming with good friend Tom Mills, Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing was born.

Eleven years later, FHTM is still going strong. FHTM has been featured in, and even on the cover of, many magazines including Success, Success at Home, American Executive and Your Business to name a few. FHTM even has a monthly nationwide television show on the Dish Network that showcases its leaders, products, successes and contributions to society. The company has developed a series of joint ventures with numerous companies in multiple industries that will allow you to become a middleman between these companies and consumers. For example, in the wireless industry you could be the middleman that sells that Verizon or T-Mobile cell phone to a consumer instead of Radio Shack or the guy in the kiosk in the mall. Naturally you will be compensated for bringing the company and consumer together. But I digress. Let’s look at a few of the companies that FHTM has joint ventures with.

FHTM is an authorized retailer for satellite TV provider Dish Network, the Roadside Auto Club, wireless alarm company Front Point Home Security, health and beauty care company Envy Organics, health and nutritional company True Essentials, and the wireless cell phone provider the Wireless Shop, to name a few. As a consumer, members of FHTM can expect to receive 30-40% off the price of these products and services. As a retailer, FHTM members can expect to receive $50 for every Dish Network or Front Point Home Security customer that they refer, plus a monthly residual for as long as the customer uses those services. Similar bonuses are available with other products. Again the products, companies and industries listed above are just a small sample of the products and services that are available through FHTM. FHTM also has a Rewards Mall that allows your customers to shop at over a thousand name brand retail and online outlets over the internet or phone, with you earning a portion of each sale. We’re talking about stores like Sears, Walmart, Best Buy, Apple, Macy’s, etc. The list is seemingly endless.

But you’re probably here to find out if you can actually make money with this company. Obviously as a distributor for this company, you have the opportunity to sell goods and services that meet just about every conceivable need in our society. That means your potential market is everybody. You could also specialize in a particular niche and develop a more select customer clientele. Now there is no way that I can do the compensation plan justice in this article. I strongly suggest that you check that out thoroughly for yourself. I mentioned earlier that you will receive immediate bonuses for customers that you refer as well as a residual monthly income from people who subscribe to services that they pay for month after month.

But if you want to truly explode your income, then you need to leverage the efforts of many others so that your income grows exponentially. You do this by introducing the FHTM opportunity to others and developing a team of distributors. You will earn immediate commissions on the first orders of all new distributors as well as ongoing residual commissions on the overall volume down through eight levels in your organization. In addition to commissions and residuals, there are a number of bonuses you can earn for introducing FHTM to others. There are also incentives like all expenses paid vacations and a Platinum car program where you can earn a luxury car of your choice.

As good as the compensation plan is though, whether or not you will make major money with this program is largely up to you. Fortunately, you do not have to build this business by yourself. Because the company is over eleven years old, there are plenty of leaders who have done what you want to do and who know the most effective ways to build a huge FHTM business, online and offline. Calvin and Diana Haley are such leaders. As a retired military veteran and youth football coach, leadership and teaching is something that Calvin has excelled at over the years. Diana is also a military veteran and she thoroughly understands what it takes to be successful in the network marketing industry. Together they are a formidable team. Not only are they both very knowledgeable about FHTM, the MLM industry, and the latest marketing strategies and techniques, they are very excited about the opportunity that FHTM provides them to help others. If you want to work with people who are willing to work as hard for your success as you are, then you definitely need to get with Calvin and Diana Haley. You can find their website here at the Haley FHTM Site. I’m sure they would love to work with you.

The key to success in any marketing company is of course marketing. In order to succeed, you will eventually need to go beyond your circle of influence to find customers and distributors. If you are not fortunate enough to find someone willing to show you the ropes, you will need to figure out a way to learn how to market on your own. Far too many people end up quitting on FHTM and all of the other companies in this industry because they never took the time to learn how to market effectively. There are a number of resources online available to teach you how to market. There are also a lot of sharks looking to separate you from your money. So do be careful when choosing a sponsor and any advisers. Feel free consult with me about marketing or you can simply check out the resources on my site.

There is so much that I had to leave out of this review, so many products and services, so many ways to be paid, and so many people who have flat crushed it in this opportunity. Just know that Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing is definitely not a scam. There are lots of people making very good incomes, and with hard work, determination, drive, the right training and leadership, you can too.

To find out more about the FHTM opportunity, products, and compensation plan, go to this FHTM Site.

I hope that you enjoyed reading this FHTM Review.

Reginald Liggins is an internet marketing trainer and coach who resides outside of Portland in Beaverton, Oregon.

Reginald can be reached at: regliggins@gmail.com

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5iphon Viral List Builder Review

March 18, 2012 by Reginald Liggins Leave a Comment

The 5iphon Viral List Builder, pronounced Siphon, is a relatively new tool that you can use to build an email list or list of subscribers. It is often said that a marketers most valuable asset is his or her list. This is especially true if you are building a business on the internet. Email marketing is today one of the most effective ways for businesses, small and large, to reach out to customers and potential customers or prospects. It is said that prospects usually need up to seven exposures to your offer before they make a buy decision. It is also said that all things being equal, people would much rather do business with people they know, like, and trust. A well structured email marketing campaign can provide those needed exposures and help you build a relationship of trust with your prospects. Developing a permission based email list filled with your prospects and customers is about the most effective internet marketing strategy you can have. Bringing a tool like the 5iphon Viral List Builder into the mix can literally put your email marketing on steroids.

The 5iphon Viral List Builder is based around a ‘Send 5′ Viral list builder. That is for every subscriber you introduce to the 5iphon Hardcore list builder, you receive up to 5 subscribers. This list builder was designed and crafted by master marketer Bryan Winters. Bryan Winters started out as a factory worker believe it or not, and worked at a number of part time Internet marketing ventures before finding success with a system he designed called Push Button Publishing. After months and months of struggle, he was able to quit his factory job, go full time with his online business, and eventually become a millionaire. Bryan is one of the most successful and respected Internet marketers around today. He is highly respected because of the personal touch he brings to his projects and because he is personally accessible and accountable to his customers and prospects.

With 5iphon, Bryan Winters has put together about the easiest way out there to build a profitable list. I forgot to mention that this program is FREE forever! Like most programs though, there is an option to upgrade, but everything you need to build a massive list can be done through the Free option. Bryan provides a number of marketing strategies and techniques that you can use to get your list building off to a fast start. He also provides the training that you need to help you succeed with these strategies.

The first thing he gives you though is a highly converting capture page where your prospects can sign up. On this capture page is a quick two-minute video of Bryan explaining the 5iphon List Builder to your prospect. Signing up is as easy as simply entering your email address. And here is where the magic begins. Because for every prospect or subscriber you send to this page, you will receive up to five more virally. Here is how it works.

Your first five referrals are called ‘Base Referrals’. They are passed up to the person who referred you. After your first five, your account automatically ‘unlocks’ and everyone else who signs up goes onto your list. Of these people, the first five people that they refer will be added to your list. After they get their first five, their account unlocks and they start building their own list.

Now, if you were to upgrade to 5iphon Extreme, then you don’t have wait until you get five, but your account unlocks automatically and you start building your list immediately, as well as getting the Base Referrals of those you refer. 5iphon Extreme obviously has many benefits including additional profitable income streams that make instant deposits directly into your Clickbank account. You will receive a 55% commission on every person that you refer who decides to upgrade for starters. So you can make an excellent residual monthly income while you build your list to promote your other offers! By upgrading, you can also direct visitors to your 5iphon website to any offer you choose by adding the URL for your page in the 5iphon Extreme members area. There are several other advantages for upgrading, so I would strongly suggest that you explore that option as well.

As I mentioned earlier, Bryan provides you with some great strategies and training to get you off to a fast start. He also provides you a number of tools, including ready made swipe copy for ads, Facebook and Twitter posts, banners, and your own capture page. He also provides training and resources for Ad Swaps which is another effective marketing technique where you can send your offers to the email lists of fellow marketers. The most impressive thing about 5iphon, in my opinion, is how easy and ‘newbie’ friendly everything is.

So what do you have to lose? It only takes a few seconds to sign up and get rolling. All you have to do is enter your email on the 5iphon website and be instantly enrolled in the fastest and best list builder around. This really is a complete win-win, no brainer opportunity. In my opinion, you have everything to gain and nothing to lose. But don’t take my word for it, check it out for yourself.

Thanks for reading my 5iphon Viral List Builder Review.
You can get move information and sign up for 5iphon by visiting this 5iphon Site.

Reginald Liggins is an internet marketing trainer and coach who resides outside of Portland in Beaverton, Oregon.

Reginald can be reached at: regliggins@gmail.com

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The Other Side of the Google – Google Tools

February 1, 2012 by Reginald Liggins 4 Comments

When most of us think of Google, we tend to focus almost exclusively on the Google search engine. If we are bloggers or online marketers one of our primary concerns is optimizing our websites to rank high in the Google search results in order to drive more and more traffic to our websites and blogs. You should be aware though that Google has a wealth of inbound marketing tools, that largely go unnoticed, that can help you drive more traffic to your sites for both free and paid marketing. I’m talking about tools like Google Adwords, Google Places, Google News, Google Reader, Google Alerts, the Google+ Social Network, Google Analytics, and Google Docs to name a few. We will briefly examine a few of them here.

In my opinion, Google Places definitely gives you the most bang for your buck, especially since it’s FREE! It is one of the easiest ways to get your business listed on the first page of Google when people in your local area search for your type of business. Google Places will get your business found on both Google Search and Google Maps. Let’s face it, most people would be more comfortable doing business with someone in their local area than they would with someone in another state or country. You often hear that people tend to do business with those they know, like, and trust. Nothing develops trust like face-to-face contact. I think if you aren’t using this, it could be a real boon for your business. Just go to google.com/places to create your Google Places listing. Be sure to optimize it for the keywords you want people to use to find you. You should enhance your listing by adding images and videos so as to help capture your audience’s attention. You also want to be sure to provide links to your website and current contact information.

Google Adwords is the vehicle for paid advertising where you can purchase Pay-per-Click (PPC) ads. These are the ads that show up on the right-hand side, and sometimes in a shaded area at the top, of the Google Search Results page. These are known as Sponsored Links. These ads also show up on many other websites via the Google Display Network through the use of Contextual Targeting. Contextual Targeting uses your keywords and themes to find the best placements for your ads across the GDN. For example, if you are marketing vitamins, your ad can show up on certain health and wellness sites. Adwords actually has a Context Targeting Tool that allows you to create ad groups based on the keywords you enter. When it comes to the Sponsored Links, because there is so much competition for the top spots, you need to be smart about picking your keywords so that you can rank higher in the ad placement order than your competitors. Adwords has a Google Keywords Tool that can help you create a thorough keyword research strategy. You can use Google Keywords whether you are using paid (Adwords) or free marketing. There isn’t nearly enough time to adequately describe Adwords and paid strategies. You really should educate yourself about paid strategies like PPC before embarking on this type of marketing, as it could get pretty expensive if you are not careful. You should also know that about 75% of searchers will click on the organic (free) search results and only 25% of online searchers will click on the paid ads.

Google Analytics is one of a number of Google tracking tools. This one is for websites and basically provides you with a wealth of information about the visitors to your website, where they came from, how long they stayed on your site, and what actions they took while there. This also is a free service. It can provide the data you need to measure the effectiveness of your ads, capture pages, and other marketing efforts so that you can tweak your marketing to improve sales and conversions. Other tracking tools includes Adword’s Conversion Tracking and Conversion Optimizer. Conversion Tracking shows you which visitors to your site actually performed the desired actions. The Conversion Optimizer uses the Conversion Tracking data to adjust your ad placements on the Google Display Network to get your more profitable clicks at a lower cost.

Google News and Google Alerts are basically used by marketers to generate content ideas. Google News allows you to stay on top of the latest information about your industry, so that you can take advantage of the newness of the information to write a blog post about it before your competitors. Similarly, with Google Alerts you can be instantly alerted about news and messages related to keywords that interest you. So instead of monitoring Google News, you can be alerted when something that interests you comes across the wire. You can filter the alerts to limit them to the type of content you’re interested in, for example, news articles, videos, blog posts, etc. You can also get them in a daily or weekly digest if you prefer. Google Reader is similar in that it can be used to generate content ideas. You can use it to subscribe to websites, blogs, and RSS feeds so that you can stay on top of industry happenings.

Google+ aka Google Plus is a relatively new social network that can drive both search engine and social media traffic to your site. You can set up any number of circles on your profile for different categories of associates, and share content with the whole circle or select individuals within the circle on a message by message basis. Another thing you can do to increase traffic to your site is to install the +1 Button on your website. Similar to the Facebook Like Button, this button allows you to easily share links and promote results in the Google organic search results. Research of over 5,000 sites has shown that you are 3.5 times more likely to receive traffic if you have the +1 Button installed on your site. There are now also Google+ Business Pages that are relatively simple to create. Google+ Business Pages will allow you to better develop relationships with prospects and customers. There is also evidence to suggest your Business page will be more apt to show up in the Google search results, and just like any other page, you should optimize it as best you can. Google also created a Direct Connection integration between Google+ and the search engine, so that all anyone has to do is put a plus sign (+) in front of your business name in the search window, and Google will skip over the traditional search results page and go directly to your Google+ Business Page.

Again this is just a taste of what is available out in the Google universe. If you think any of these tools could help in your marketing, you owe it to yourself to do a deep dive on the tools of your choice to get more information. This is especially true if you are considering paid marketing. One thing is true when it comes to getting traffic from Google is that you will pay one way or the other to get listed. You can pay cash directly to get immediate results in the form of paid ads in the Sponsored Links and on the Google Display Network. Or you can pay with the time that it takes to create content and optimize your website or blog to be listed in the organic or free search results. Paid marketing strategies are a short-term solution that yield immediate results. Search Engine Optimizing your site for free traffic is a more long-term strategy as you can conceivably receive traffic forever organically, whereas paid marketing can only generate traffic for you as long as your budget for the marketing campaign allows. Once you stop paying, the traffic dries up. Which ever way you decide to go, I hope that this information can help you pick the right tools.

Thanks and I hope you enjoyed reading my article The Other Side of the Google. If you found this information helpful, please click the Like button and share this with your friends. And whether you liked it or not, I would appreciate any feedback, so feel free to comment as well. Thanks again!

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Reginald Liggins is an internet marketing trainer and coach who resides outside of Portland in Beaverton, Oregon.

Reginald can be reached at regliggins@gmail.com

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Akea Life Review

January 31, 2012 by Reginald Liggins 4 Comments

The Akea Life company comes at Health and Wellness quite a bit differently than most of its MLM counterparts. Akea promotes an almost total lifestyle change and its signature product is just a small, but important, part of their formula for total wellness. Akea Life promotes the concept that the quality of our lives depends upon the “whole” of our living. Akea’s Blueprint for Life breaks this whole down into nutrition, connection, relaxation, purpose, and movement. Speaking of movement, you could say that this push to help people live healthier, fuller, and longer lives is a movement in itself. The name Akea comes from the Sardinian greeting that means, “May you live well for 100 years”. Who wouldn’t want to do that?

Akea was founded in 2010 by Founding Visionary William King, a life long entrepreneur, and a few others after extensive study of Longevity Hot Spots. There are nine of these longevity hot spots around the world that have been identified so far. These hot spots have populations that experience low rates of chronic disease and high incidents of longevity, that is they live to be 80-100 years of age with a high quality of life. People in these spots have a 300% better chance of reaching 100 years old than mostly all Americans. After studying the habits, lifestyle, and diets of these populations, it was determined than 80% of the cases of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, and 40% of cancer cases could be prevented or reversed if we ate a better, more nutritious diet, increased our physical activity and exercise, and stopped smoking. William King eventually enlisted his personal physician, Dr. Maurice Werness for further research which led them to Sally Beare, who was a full-time longevity hot spot researcher. These people laid the foundation for, and were the beginning of, the all-star scientific advisory board that subsequently created Akea Life.

The signature product of Akea Life is a fermented whole food supplement called Essentials. The founders discovered that the people of the hot spots all consumed some kind of fermented food. Fermenting puts your food into an optimal state before it enters our bodies. Essentials also contain enzymes that helps our bodies break down our foods even further, and probiotics that optimizes our ability to extract nutrients from the food for our cells to use. Each serving of Essentials contains the equivalent of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables, which reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke, as well as mellows our blood sugar. It also contains the probiotic power of six servings of yogurt, the oat beta glucans of 8 bowls of oatmeal which lowers our cholesterol and enhances our immune system. And finally it has the same amount of resveratrol found in 28 glasses of red wine which is chock full of antioxidants that have anti-aging properties and that also increases brain and kidney health. Altogether Essentials is said to increase our enery and stamina, improve digestion, improve recovery from exercise, decrease joint pain, helps us to sleep better, lose weight effortlessly, and eat less.

Another benefit of Akea Life is the Blueprint for Life. Based on extensive study, Akea partnered with some of the world’s most renowned experts to identify the foremost factors that contribute to health and longevity. This blueprint is a guide, a roadmap, a passport to better living. This consists of the 60-day Challenge which has daily focus videos and other items to help you take responsibility and give you more control over how well and how long you live. It covers the 5 elements of longevity that I mentioned earlier, nutrition, connection, relaxation, purpose, and movement. Joining with others in the Akea community helps to keep you focused and committed to your goals while on the challenge .

Yet another benefit is that you can make money by sharing Akea Life with others. I would advise you to check out the Prosperity Plan yourself for all of the details. It is pretty lucrative, with a number of bonuses designed to get you into profit quickly. They have a Preferred Customer bonus that basically will allow you to get your product for Free when you refer three preferred customers. They also have matching bonuses and fast start bonuses. The compensation structure is binary, so you have two teams with the weakest leg being your pay leg. Like most binaries, the bonuses tend to compensate for that lost volume. So you will find that the company is giving distributors double fast start bonuses and what they call Double Down bonuses. That is for every six people you enroll, the all bonuses are doubled, if I understand it correctly. There are also leadership pools which pays you on the growth of the entire company. And there are Founders club positions available which allows you to share in a pool with 10% of growth for the rest of your life. However, there are only 25 of these positions available and I believe twelve of them are taken. There are other bonuses and incentives that I didn’t mention, so again I advise you to check out the Prosperity Plan yourself.

But no matter how lucrative a compensation plan is, it doesn’t matter if you cannot bring in enough people to take advantage of it. So it is important to know how to market and to have the type of leadership that can help you get off to a fast start as you learn how to market. There are a great number of training courses and automated marketing systems out there that can shorten the learning curve when it comes to learning how to market. It’s important to choose a marketing strategy that works well with your strengths and your personality. Your upline leadership can help you with this as well as point you to great tools you can use.

Akea Life has some fine upline leaders, but my friend and fellow Oregonian Mike Neel really stands out. If you want to work with someone who has the fruit on the tree and who has done what you want to do; who always has your best interests at heart, and who is there to support you, then Mike is your guy. Mike is very knowledgeable about Akea and strongly believes in its vision for healthy living and longevity. He is also very adept at marketing online and knows the most effective and efficient ways to succeed with Akea both online and offline. He is an excellent coach and mentor. You really can’t go wrong working with Mike Neel.

Even though I feel I’ve gone kind of long here, there is so much that I did not get a chance to put in this article. I would strongly suggest that you go out to the Akea website to get more information about this opportunity or product assuming you read something here you like. You can get more information at Mike Neel’s Akea Life Site here.

Thanks! I really hope that you enjoyed reading this Akea Life Review

Reginald Liggins is an internet marketing trainer and coach who resides outside of Portland in Beaverton, Oregon.

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Newbie Launching Pad Review

January 28, 2012 by Reginald Liggins 1 Comment

The Newbie Launching Pad is an excellent answer to the concerns of those new to making money online with network and affiliate marketing. So many in this industry fail simply because they never learn how to market effectively and quit before they do learn. Often times the company they joined or the sponsor they joined with aren’t equipped to teach them the skills, tactics, and strategies needed to be successful online. Most people who enter network marketing have never been in business before and have no concept of what it takes to succeed in business, let alone on the internet. There is definitely a technical learning curve when it comes to the internet and computers that most people find daunting. The Newbie Launching PadCourse not only addresses the marketing, business and technical challenges, but also helps the new person get into profit quickly, so that they can earn while they learn.

The Newbie Launching Pad is the brainchild of two men who have experienced massive success in network marketing, both online and offline. But like most people who have experienced that kind of success on the internet, that success did not come easilyor quickly. It came via a lot of hard work and dedication, as well as a lot of money spent on training, seminars, and courses. Web Designer and Developer Vincent Webb has created hugely successful automated marketing systems such Simple2Profitand MyLeadCompany, to name a few. Master Marketer Mike Grady has built large downlines in a number of companies and has trained and developed many a marketing superstar. They created Newbie Launching Pad to address the challenges mentioned abovethat newcomers face, and did it in a way that literally anyone can absorb. They virtually take the new person by the hand, and show them step by step how to set up and maintain a profitable business online. To use the exact marketing language, this course is an “Irresistible Click by Click Journey That Will Have YOU Posting Ads, Generating Leads and Taking Names LIKE A PRO…IN MINUTES!”

The Newbie Launching Pad Course consists of six extensive and thorough video training modules. Bear in mind that I can only scratch the surface here of what’s included in each module.

Module 1 consists of a number of Mindset Interviews with industry giants such as Cedrick Harris, Ray Higdon, David Wood, Burke Hedges, and Riccardo Ferrari. Each of these leaders have generated millions of dollars in sales for the companies they have been involved in. They will explain network marketing to you and teach you the tips and techniques they used in order to overcome obstacles and take the necessary action to succeed. When you look at how they rose from their humble beginnings to where they are now, you will know that you can have similar success, if you follow their examples.

Module 2 is the Foundation – Getting Setup module. It will walk you through how to get started with websites, email, autoresponders, etc. It will teach you how to choose a domain name and how to brand your self. It also covers the often over-looked skill of how to organize your work and manage your time for maximum efficiency and effectiveness. Getting set up to succeed is vitally important as it lays the foundation for everything else that follows.

Module 3 is the Lead Capture module. This module walks you through how to generate leads online, how to set up capture pages and marketing funnels. It teaches you advanced capture page techniques, like which colors to use, how to incorporate video, and what type of headlines are most effective.

Module 4 is the Social Media Tactics and Traffic Building module. This module covers how to brand yourself on social media sites, what type of people to befriend, how to build your network across a number of social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. It also teaches you a number of super secret traffic generation techniques that you can use to drive traffic to your capture pages. You will also learn Paid Traffic strategies and learn about the best places to buy traffic and leads.

Module 5 is the Prospecting module. This module teaches you not only how to prospect, but how to get started right away. It teaches you how to follow up with the leads generated from the steps learned in previous modules. It teaches you how to contact your leads by phone and EXACTLY what you should say to them, what type of questions you should ask them, and even howto get your leads to close themselves! This modules covers the different communication techniques you can use with both your warm (people you already know) and cold markets. It also covers how to leverage your team, upline and downline, to learn how to close prospects with three-way calls.

Module 6 is the Offline Marketing module. This vitally important module teaches you how to find local people who are interested in your opportunity and how to get them to join you. It covers how to connect with people you encounter offline when you’re out and about. You will also learn different techniques like Bandit signs, direct mail campaigns, postcards, drop cards, and other forms of offline advertising.

All in all, what you have here is a pretty comprehensive course complete with skills and techniques that can be learned and implemented immediately to generate instant profits for you. You can leverage some of the many lessons that Vincent Webb and Mike Grady have learned over the years and get off to a fast, profitable start or you can go to the school of hard knocks like they did and take years to try to figure it all out yourself.

There is a one-time cost involved to access the course. So no, they won’t be back next month looking for more money, or trying to upsell you some missing link. They have put everything that you need to be successful in this one course at a very affordable price. I won’t mention the price here, because there is currently a special going on where you can get all of thisand more at a substantial discount. I have no idea how long the special will last, but I will advise you pick up this course fast.

There are over 200,000 people starting a home-based business every week. You can have an unfair advantage over all of them by implementing the skills, tactics, techniques, and strategies that you can learn with the Newbie Launching Pad. You owe it to yourself to get your hands on this course, or at least get more information. You can order the course or get more information at this NEWBIE LAUNCHING PAD site.

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Rastelli Direct Review the Sequel

January 24, 2012 by Reginald Liggins Leave a Comment

Welcome to my second review of the Rastelli Direct opportunity. It is not often that I write a second review for a company that I am not affiliated with. Ok, it has never happened until now. So why did Rastelli rate a second look? First of all, I got an opportunity to sample the actual product. Secondly, I have gotten to know some field leaders and they are an impressive group. And third, marketing and training systems for Rastelli Direct have taken significant strides in the last six months. Before I delve into each of these areas, let me briefly describe the company for those who haven’t read the first article I did on this company. If you want, you can read the first article HERE.

Rastelli Direct is the direct marketing arm of the 35 year old Rastelli Foods Group. Rastelli Direct itself is only a little over a year old, as of this writing. The company specializes in delivering over 175 5-Star quality meats, seafood, and other chef-created food items directly to its customers’ doors all over the United States. Rastelli Direct also provides an opportunity for people like you and I to earn a significant residual income by showing others how they can “Earn While You Eat”. The compensation plan offers over 7 different ways to be paid, including up-front right now money, fast start bonuses, and long-term residual income. So to recap, its Individual Business Partners (IBP) can earn a handsome income for sharing the opportunity with others while enjoying 5-Star restaurant quality food in their homes.

Now it’s one thing to read about 5-star quality food, and another thing to actually experience some. I was recently able to sample a nice variety of Rastelli’s meats and seafood. I was able to try Scottish salmon portions, some all natural Poulet Rouge chicken breasts, Black Angus Beef Filet Mignon, Pureland Prime pork Chops, and my favorite, chicken sausage stuffed With Feta cheese and spinach. Any questions I had about the freshness and quality of meats being shipped to door my have been firmly put to rest. All of the meats were frozen with no sign of thawing. Now, I’m no connoisseur, but I know good food when I eat it. I can honestly say these were some of the best meats that I have ever tasted. Even the packaging is attractive. And I also thought the portion sizes were appropriate; finely cut and substantial but lean. Whoever termed Rastelli Direct as a “delicious opportunity” certainly were not exaggerating. I was very impressed with everything I tasted.

I have also been very impressed with the quality and caliber of the people involved with the Rastelli opportunity. The founder Ray Rastelli started with just a small meat market some 35 years ago and, along with his brother Tony, have built the Rastelli Group from the ground up into a multi-national, multi-million dollar business. To manage Rastelli Direct they brought in impressive leaders like Rich Gauger and Royce Reed. Rich serves as the General Manager. Royce is an Executive VP of sales who has experience building several successful network marketing businesses and thus understands the distributor’s perspective. I’m also deeply impressed with the field leadership. I mentioned Brian and Felicia White in my previous article. They continue to add exceptional value and leadership to the network marketing community as a whole, as well as their Rastelli Group. I’ve also gotten to know Mike Grady, who introduced me to Simple2Profit (more about that later). Mike is a very accomplished marketer, trainer and business coach. If you check out the compensation plan video on the Rastelli Direct home page, you will encounter Andrew Hillman. Andrew is very knowledgeable about all things Rastelli and excels in teaching people how to be successful building a Rastelli Direct business. I’ve also had the pleasure of getting to know up and coming leaders like Rosemary Sommers and Audrey Daniels. One common thread that I noticed about these Rastelli leaders is that they are not pushy. They don’t try to shove their business down your throat. They just “share” the information with you and let you come to your own conclusions. Another common thread is that they are all absolutely crushing it and enjoying a high level of success marketing this product and opportunity.

Now speaking of marketing, in my last article about Rastelli Direct I alluded to marketing and training as being an area of weakness. I talked about the importance of hooking up with the right upline leadership. As far as that goes, you can’t go wrong with any of the people mentioned above. I also talked about the importance of third party marketing systems to help bring in a constant flow of leads. Enter the aforementioned Simple2Profit. Simple2Profit is billed as an automated sales machine, complete with customizable lead-capture pages and a customizable automated follow-up system. Just a few months ago, Vincent Webb and the Simple2Profit team built a complete marketing funnel within Simple2Profit for Rastelli Direct. Included with the lead-capture pages and autoresponder series are personalized presentations of the Rastelli Direct opportunity that directs prospects straight to the Rastelli Direct enrollment page. In short, Simple2Profit expertly presents the Rastelli Direct opportunity for you and automates the process of capturing prospects and following up with them until they buy from you. You can find more information about Simple2Profit here.

So as you can see, in the last few months since I wrote the first article Rastelli Direct continues to impress and improve. It has also attracted some of the top marketers on the planet to within its ranks. This is a company that I plan to continue to watch. It markets consumable products that everybody needs and it offers those products at very competitive prices. The products are every bit as good as advertised, it not better, in my opinion. It also provides an excellent vehicle for the average Joe to achieve financial independence. And finally I believe that all of the pieces are in place to make it easier for the average person to succeed. To find out more about this exceptional opportunity, you can check out the video at the bottom of this page. You can also go to this Rastelli Direct site.

I hope that you enjoyed reading this Rastelli Direct Review Take 2 article.

Reginald Liggins is an internet marketing trainer and coach who resides outside of Portland in Beaverton, Oregon

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What’s All the Fuss about Attraction Marketing

January 17, 2012 by Reginald Liggins Leave a Comment

Attraction Marketing has been around for awhile now, but is the latest craze in the network marketing/MLM industry. However, it flies in the face of a lot of the “old-school” or traditional marketers, who tend to put more stock into the hard work of pursuing prospects instead of the other way around. Attraction Marketing is all about positioning yourself to have prospects come after you, as Mike Dillard would say, “with credit card in hand, ready to buy”. But before we jump into Attraction Marketing, lets look at where we came from.

We are all aware of what Seth Godin calls “Interruption Marketing”. We are confronted with it all day everyday, pretty much everywhere we go. We are interrupted by commercials on television or on the radio, when trying to enjoy our favorite programs. You get on a city bus, and there are generally advertisements alongside the outside of the bus, as well as all througout the interior. You’re pitched products in the urinals of public restrooms, along the sides of building, on your grocery carts, public benches, airports, everywhere you go there are advertisements of some sort clamoring for our attention. If we didn’t learn to block most of it out, we’d go crazy from all of the sensory input.

In network marketing, it takes the form of cold-calling, or a lot of the spam that you get in your email inbox, promising you all kinds of riches if you join their program. Or maybe you’ve gotten a phone call from a friend you haven’t seen or heard from in ages, and you’re real flattered that they thought of you until they start trying to get you to come to a meeting to see this wonderful opportunity they came across. But in almost every case, they are pitching the idea of business ownership to people who have not expressed an interest in such.

Attraction marketing has its roots in yet another Seth Godin popularized term, “Permission-based marketing”. According to Seth, this alternative to Interruption Marketing “offers the consumer an opportunity to volunteer to be marketed to”, and by only talking to volunteers this “guarantees that consumers pay more attention to the marketing message”.

Mike Dillard, with his book “Magnetic Sponsoring” took the idea of Attraction Marketing to a whole new level and created legions of adherents who whole-heartedly embraced the ideas of Attraction Marketing. I mean, who would you rather talk to about your business, a potentially hostile stranger or somebody who is calling you because they are interested in your business or in something else you have to offer? The latter, I’m sure. Mike teaches you how to market yourself as opposed to a business or a product, since people tend to join people instead of businesses. He teaches you how to position yourself as a leader with something of value to offer to people. He introduces the concept of the ‘funded proposal’, where instead of pitching your business on the front-end you, you offer an inexpensive generic product to the prospect and to generate revenue to fund your advertising. He teaches you to first develop a relationship with the prospect, and THEN introduce your business after a relationship and TRUST is established. I highly recommend “Magnetic Sponsoring” to everyone who has a interest in marketing and/or sales, online and offline.

The founders of MyLeadSystemPro (MLSP), aka MLMLeadSystemPro, took these ideas and others and created the ideal automated Attraction Marketing system. MLSP is also the premier attraction marketing training system in the world. MLSP addresses the four major problems faced by network marketers, namely a lack of: leads, money, marketing training and duplication.

They address the lack of leads by teaching you a myriad of ways to generate tons of traffic to your website(s), including social marketing strategies, article, video, and search engine marketing strategies, to name a few. They address the problem of money by adopting Mike Dillard’s funded proposal idea, and using a sales funnel that contains almost 20 marketing tools and affiliate programs (including Mike Dillard’s “Magnetic Sponsoring”) that one can market on the front-end to create immediate multiple income streams. They address the lack of training by teaching the lead generation strategies mentioned above, prospecting, closing sales, personal branding, how to position yourself as a leader, etc. It is truly a world-class internet marketing education. And finally,they address the lack of duplication by giving you an automated duplicatable system that basically allows you to create a serious web presence that attracts prospects to you in droves.

If you have any interest becoming a true marketing professional and attracting prospects to you, you owe it to yourself to checkout MLSP. As the great Jim Rohn once said, “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” So you should really learn how to market. Learn how to work smart as well as hard, and I will see you at the top.

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Nick Bramble’s Million Dollar Internet Marketing Blueprint

January 15, 2012 by Reginald Liggins 1 Comment

Welcome to my take on Nick Bramble’s Million Dollar Internet Marketing Blueprint. Some of you might ask, just who is Nick Bramble. Just know that he is a premier marketer, trainer, and success coach in the home based business industry. And that he has used this blueprint I’m about to share with you to consistently create incomes between $30K and 93K since adopting this blueprint. Nick says it cost him over $15K to learn this strategy and over $50K to implement it his first time out. Now fortunately people like you and me can take advantage of what Nick has learned without going through that kind of pain. Nick has even found a ready-made, done-for-you system that has all four characteristics of the million dollar formula or blueprint.

The first characteristic of the blueprint is Right-Now 100% Money. Yes, it is important to have instant commissions, paid directly to you, and straight into your bank account. Right-Now money enables your business to be instantly scalable. Wouldn’t it be refreshing not to have to wait weeks or a month to get your money
after you have made a sale? And wouldn’t it be even nicer to get a 100 percent commission on that sale?! 100 Percent commissions will give you enough of a profit margin for you re-invest some of the profits back into your business and grow your business even quicker. And again, because those commissions are instant, you don’t have to wait until the end of the month or next week to re-invest or otherwise enjoy your earnings.

The second characteristic of the million dollar formula is a High Converting Sales Funnel. In Nick’s example, this funnel consists of a lead capture system, a high converting front-end product that creates recurring income, immediate higher profit upsell offers, effective follow-up items since most customers don’t buy at the first exposure, and the introduction of on-going additional products and offers that will allow you to maximize the funnel. An example of some of the follow-up items that can be deployed are email autoresponders, webinars, teleconferences, etc.

Needless to say, it can take quite a bit of money and technical know-how to put this kind of funnel together. You would need to know or hire someone who knows how to write effective ad copy in order to get high conversions. This ad copy will need to be incorporated into websites, product brochures, videos, press releases, etc. You would also need website design, product design and creation, graphics design, software and database design and creation, back office construction, merchant vendor integration in order to enable instant commissions and product upsells, website hosting and implementation, webinars, teleconferences, teleseminars, and then you have to support all of the above.

The third characteristic of the million dollar formula is Leveraged Income by way of affiliates. This is basically the model that the whole network marketing industry is built on, the ability to make money from the efforts of others. I believe it was J. Paul Getty who famously said that he would rather earn 1% from the efforts of 100 people instead of 100% of his own efforts. Leveraged income basically enables you to earn from a team of people and create income in zero minutes of your own time. This gives you the opportunity to earn truly exponential income. So if you had a
situation where you introduced your business to two people, and they introduced theirs to two people each, and so on down to say nine levels, then you can earn off of the efforts of over 8,000 people! This is how walk-away (from your job) residual income is created. Nick correctly calls this situation Leveraged Wealth.

The fourth and final characteristic of the blueprint is simply Traffic. There is so much competition on the internet, that you really need an intelligent, highly leveraged traffic source that continues to route people to your business whether you are working or not. And because the Googles, Facebooks, and YouTubes of the world are constantly changing the rules, you need to keep current on the latest and greatest ways to generate effective, targeted, highly converting traffic both on and off the internet. It’s not enough to get eyeballs on your sites, but to get the right eyeballs, that is truly interested people, looking at what you have to offer.

As I mentioned earlier, Nick Bramble has identified a ready made, all done-for-you million dollar profit funnel system that incorporates each of the four traits mentioned above. For very little cost, you can actually get your hands on a system that embodies all of this without your having to build websites, develop products, or have any specialized knowledge or experience. I don’t have enough time to get into this system here, but if you are interested, you can find out more in a sec. I also know that I can’t explain Nick’s blueprint better than Nick himself. In fact, I know that I haven’t done it the justice that it deserves.

So if you would like to know more about the system Nick discovered, know how you can leverage the technology, done-for-you systems, and teams to create leveraged wealth, and see the video that inspired this article, then head on over to this Nick Bramble Video.

Thanks! I hope that you enjoyed reading about the Nick Bramble Million Dollar Blueprint

Reginald Liggins is an internet marketing trainer and coach who resides outside of Portland in Beaverton, Oregon

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Free versus Paid Traffic Strategies

January 12, 2012 by Reginald Liggins Leave a Comment

Free versus Paid Traffic strategies, which strategy is better? I guess the answer to that question depends on what you need, and how deep your pockets are. Generally speaking, if you want fast or instant results, then paid traffic would work better. If your strategy is more long-term, then free or organic traffic may be your best bet, especially if your budget is limited. But before we get into the pros and cons of each strategy though, let’s look at some of the ways you can generate free and paid traffic.

Free Traffic Strategies.
There are quite a few ways to generate free traffic to your site. Not all of these methods deliver Targeted traffic however. The best ways to drive targeted traffic to your site is by using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques or Search Engine Marketing; content marketing which includes blogging, article marketing and video marketing; social bookmarking through sites like Digg, Reddit, etc.; and by Social Networking through sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter to name a few.

The first advantage of these strategies is that, with the exception of some inexpensive tools you may wish to use, these methods are 100% free. So you don’t have to worry about busting your budget. More importantly though, organic traffic is the gift that keeps on giving. That is, unlike the Paid methods, you can receive returns on your investment long after you do the work, which brings us to the disadvantages.

It does take some time and effort in order to generate free targeted traffic. You will have to work. Also, it usually takes a couple of months before you start seeing significant results.

Paid Traffic Strategies.
Paid strategies include Solo advertising, Ezine advertising, banner advertising, Pay-per-Click (PPC) and Pay-per-View (PPV). The most effective of these appear to be PPC, hands down, especially utilizing the Google Adwords PPC campaigns.

The advantages of paid traffic strategies is that you don’t have to wait long at all to start seeing real results. Also, the results from paid traffic are a lot easier to measure and track. You get a good idea of what works, and what doesn’t, so that you can tweak your keywords, ads, and other elements accordingly.

The disadvantages start with the cost, of course. PPC and paid ads can be very expensive if you are not careful. Another disadvantage is that after your campaign ends, the traffic to your site dries up.

So Which is Better?
Is one way better than the other? I don’t think so. The optimal way to market would be to incorporate both strategies. What is important though is to make sure that your site does a good job of converting visitors to leads and eventually to customers. I mean what good does it do if after all of your hard work, or after all the money you spend, that you get tons of people to your site but nobody buys anything. That would be very discouraging indeed. On the other hand, you can have that most dynamic site in the world, but if no one ever sees it, you won’t make any money that way either. So it is important to get as many people as you can to your site. It is also important to engage them once they arrive, whether you use free or paid strategies to get them there.

I hope that you enjoyed reading Free vs. Paid Traffic.

Reginald Liggins is an internet marketing trainer and coach who resides outside of Portland in Beaverton, Oregon

Reginald can be reached at regliggins@gmail.com