Wela SlimBerry

I’ve gotten involved with Wela, a new Network Marketing company that I really think is going to be huge and is already doing very well.

Here’s why:

- $50 to join, $50 a month, includes shipping, you never have to spend more in order to max out the compensation plan.

- Great Acai Berry product with more to come.

- Reputable owners, these guys have been around a while and I’ve known of them for many years.

- Free Successline (powerline) marketing system. This is a big deal, while most companies are charging for various marketing tools or systems, these guys are giving away one of the most powerful marketing systems you can use.

- Timing, this company is just getting started and really taking off.

- Global.

- Compensation plan. It’s a binary, but unlike many, you don’t need much volume to get a check, it’s very simple, not a lot of qualifications or hoops to jump through. It also has matching bonuses and a company wide bonus pool. You won’t need an accountant to understand this pay plan.

I have to admit to being really impressed with the marketing system and the fact that they give it to all members, plus, you can buy tour takers to the marketing system and that volume is commissionable. That’s another big deal, it shows the company is not trying to make every penny they can off their members and their main focus is our success. If you purchase 50 tour takers, the money you spend goes into the commissionable volume for your group. You can even buy the tour takers as your product for any month, this will really help with growth and duplication. Anyone can buy tour takers instead of the nutritional product, everyone gets the marketing system, you don’t have to worry about most people not using the tools because they are too expensive or because they are new and don’t have the marketing experience. This is done for you.

I believe this solves one of the biggest problems, which is that most people join but then don’t do anything, either they don’t know what to do or they don’t have the money. In this case, the money they would have spent on the product can go to tour takers which will give them upgrades and the system itself is included. No one ever has to spend more than $50 and that could be on tour takers. It’s just too easy to pass up.

Check it out here: http://www.slimberrypro.com/jimvigilante

Let me know if you have any questions.

Jim Vigilante

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Jim Vigilante & Aaachoo

I am not involved with Aaachoo. I am not one of the owners, I am not a member, I have no involvement. It has become obvious that people think I am involved in the ownership of Aaachoo, I’m guessing it’s because the owner of Aaachoo is the company that owned Wowzza, which I created and managed but did not actually own. I was out of Wowzza in Feb. 2009. I am not sure when it closed, if it has even closed, but I have no involvement with Wowzza either anymore.

So, this is really just a public service announcement and to save myself time on questions about Aaachoo.

Looking Forward,
Jim Vigilante

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Turbo Tycoon pays you to get special offer messages to your Cell Phone!

This is a nice little deal. Sign up free to get discounts, special offers and coupons to your cell phone, plus, get paid each time an advertiser sends you a message.

They share Ad dollars with you. You can also get paid when someone you refer gets messages.

If you refer a business, you can make some big money.

Your cell number is kept private, you do not need to be a Networker to benefit from this, it’s for anyone.

http://www.TurboTycoon.com/jimvigilante

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Stop Selling! Really?

I’ve had it. I just watched a video that was the last straw.

I’m sick and tired of it.

Here comes the rant.

How many people do you think will tell us to Stop Selling this month.

I just watched one more video, created by some chick with a couple of years experience, who thanks to creating god knows how many videos of herself sitting in her home office and rambling off reruns of other marketers content thinks she’s a Guru, telling me that I need to stop selling while using Social Media.

Hmmmmm.

Don’t sell on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the others, plus, I guess that also means I should not use social bookmarking sites like Delicious and StumbleUpon to promote my web site or blog.

It’s not just her of course, I’ve been hearing this bullshit from many different so called experts for 2 years now. Her little video just hit the last nerve.

Here is what really drives me nuts about this.

1. They will say, it’s called Network Marketing, NETWORKING is the key.

Well, I’m here to say that MARKETING is the key. You want to sign up your friends and family members, go ahead and believe that Networking is the main focus of your network marketing business. It’s called Network Marketing because you are building a Network of distributors/members.

The word Network in Network Marketing does not mean Networking, it means a Network of people and it is referring to the network of people in your orginization, those that are already in the business, not networking as in Social Networking.

Originally called, Multi Level Marketing, the word Network was not even in the original version, but Marketing was.

This isn’t just about Network Marketers though, plenty of other Internet Marketers are spewing out the same garbage.

2. They are pretty much telling you to be a scam artist. To pretend that you have nothing to sell, that you have no motive, just hanging out here, making friends, nothing to buy, nothing to join. I’m here to help you, that’s all.

Really now? That’s a bold face lie and a misleading tactic to get people to think you are actually interested in them and not their credit cards. You may care about people, you may want to help them, you may want them to succeed, but you didn’t create 200 videos and countless blog posts for their benefit, you did it to name brand yourself, to get visitors and subscribers, to get sign ups and sales.

That’s the fact and everyone knows it.

3. This is the proof that they don’t even follow what they say. Look on their blogs and videos, what you will see is the same, Retweet buttons, the same, Share On Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and all the other social networks and social bookmarking sites available, just like you see on this blog but I’m not sitting here telling you not to sell. So, they tell you not to sell
on social media, then they ask you to share their content with all of your social media contacts by clicking on the little buttons that go to all the social media sites.

I’m not sure exactly how someone even does that with a straight face.

What would they say if asked, oh, but my content isn’t selling. No, but the banners and buttons all over your blog are selling, the newsletter you want me to subscribe to will eventually send me messages selling me something. Selling a business opportunity is selling, no different than any other product or service. You are selling.

4. This is the biggest, most annoying, most unbelievable point.

The same people, the exact same people, will then sell you a book, course, membership site or some other product that promises to teach you how to get rich using Twitter, how to create an endless supply of leads using Facebook, how to drive massive amounts of traffic to your site using social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon and Tumblr.

Basically, they are going to sell you a solution to a made up problem they created.

They are going to show you the correct way to do it, since the way you are doing it is obviously wrong, why is it wrong, because they said so.

That just makes me want to go work at Costco.

How on earth do you do that. How do you create videos and blog posts chastising people for using Social Media to promote their businesses and then have the nerve to sell them a product that teaches them how to do exactly that.

It’s like bizzarro world around here.

Here is my conspiracy theory. There are a bunch of Guru types that got together and said, hey, let’s tell everyone not to sell anything using Social Media, then we will sell all our products, services and opportunities using social media and we will be the only people doing it. HA! Brilliant!

Another point.

Most people can’t sell, you see what they do, it doesn’t work.
Most people, using Facebook for example, will send a friend request, you accept, you immediately get a message from them telling you to check out the greatest business opportunity ever created or the latest get rich on Twitter ebook. That’s not the way to do it, I’m not saying it is, but building a relationship with someone for 6 months just to feel comfortable enough to invite them into your business opportunity isn’t the way to go either.

Creating intelligent, helpful, interesting content and then sharing it with me,
yes, that helps me to remember your name and if you are selling something
that I am looking for at the time, I may buy it or join it.

You should do that too. Obviously doing that helps your business.

You are selling the entire time though. Don’t say you weren’t selling anything because if
that was true, there would not have been anything to buy.

What really works for most people? The name branded, famous, ICONs, don’t count, people join with them or buy from them because of their Name.

What works for most people is the numbers. Plain and simple. The more people that see your product, service or opportunity, the more people that will buy or join.

That’s it. No big cosmic secret.

The reason we use Social Media to promote our businesses is because everyone else is using Social Media. It is the cheapest, easiest way to get your business in front of a billion people. Again, plain and simple.

The reason we create videos is not to be helpful little teachers, it’s because videos come up first in search engine results and they catch and hold a prospects attention better than a web page.

The reason we create blogs is to show everyone that we know what we are talking about and because they are keyword rich, so like videos, they do well in the search engines.

The reason we create webinars is to create momentum and excitement.

We do all of those things to drive traffic, to name brand, generate leads and build a mailing list.

The reason we create mailing lists, ezines or newsletters is so that we have a list of people to SELL STUFF to.

It’s a sales/marketing funnel.

No one is creating videos and blog posts just to help everyone else.

You can create all the content, systems and training you want, that’s just wonderful, but don’t pretend you did it just for my benefit, don’t pretend you aren’t selling anything.

You want me to subscribe to your newsletter, you want me to click on one of the banners or links on your site, you want me to buy or join something.

We are Marketers, Network Marketers, Affiliate Marketers, Internet Marketers and there is nothing to be ashamed about, nothing to hide,
no reason to feel insecure. Sales person is the highest paid profession in the world.

Look up the definition of Marketing on Dictionary.com and you will see this:

“Many people believe that marketing is just about advertising or sales. However, marketing is everything a company does to acquire customers and maintain a relationship with them. Even the small tasks like writing thank-you letters, playing golf with a prospective client, returning calls promptly and meeting with a past client for coffee can be thought of as marketing. The ultimate goal of marketing is to match a company’s products and services to the people who need and want them, thereby ensure profitability.”

I just love that. It makes my point.

We are using Social Networks and Social Bookmarks to market our businesses.

There is nothing wrong with that. It is smart business, perfectly acceptable.

There is something wrong with watching some guy in a Ferrari or some woman on the deck of her beach house telling you not to sell.

Trust me, they didn’t get that Ferrari or beach house by not selling. It’s a gimmick, a magic trick, look I don’t sell anything and I have this amazing house and car. Bullshit, they are selling their little hearts out and doing a really good job of it.

I saw Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys on Joe Buck Live on HBO and he said something like this,
“I’m not the greatest or smartest sales person in the world, but I know the 3 rules to selling:
Rule #1, ask for the Money.
Rule #2, ask for the Money.
Rule #3, ask for the Money.”

I don’t remember his exact words, maybe it’s on YouTube, but you get his point I’m sure.

So, stop telling me how to run my business and I will sell wherever I like, however I like, to whomever I want and I will be upfront and honest about it, this is my business, I’m proud to be a self employed home business owner, I’m a marketer, I sell business opportunities and other various products and services. That is what I do. What do you do?

That’s it for now, I feel so much better.

Go Sell Something!

Jim Vigilante
Professional Internet MARKETER

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Whose Really Making Money Around Here? Part 2

Who else is really making money around here, besides the Video Stars I talked about in the last post.

It’s the product creators.

They aren’t all Network Marketers, but the Network Marketers have started getting in on the game.

That’s not really anything new, when I first started out, my sponsor had his own courses, the other top guys in that company and most other companies also sold tapes, books, courses, etc. They were doing this long before the Internet. Most of the time though, Network Marketers create products for their own company or downline, to make some extra money and to get leads that they can turn into downline members.

The difference is why that do it and how they do it, not that they do it at all. Plus, in the past, you had to actually be a top Network Marketer, one of the top earners in your company and well known for it before you could even consider selling your own products.

Now a days, anyone can do it and no one really knows if they’ve ever built a downline or not, no one really knows if they are making any money or not, but that’s one of the problems with this business online anyway, same goes for affiliate marketers selling products, you don’t know if they have ever made any money doing anything but selling their courses.

I’ve always had an issue with some guy saying he’s making $100,000 a month and he’s going to show me how he does it for $37 bucks. I’m calling bullshit on that every time.

Now, you do have guys like Eben Pagan (Brilliant), Jeff Johnson (Gives away more free info than most people sell) & Frank Kern (the coolest dude online), selling products at much higher price points, this makes more sense to me, if Eben is selling something for $2000 bucks, it’s a fair deal, you will get value and he gets a nice amount for his product.

The Network Marketers, not to be left out, have come out with their own products in the same way, they sell them the same way, they have affiliate programs attached to them, they do the contests, they do the videos, sales pages, etc. It’s not just some top guy in a company selling books and tapes to the rest of the members in that company, they don’t care who buys, they aren’t trying to sign up everyone they sell to into their company, although this happens by default anyway, they are selling a product, making money doing that and that’s really that.

Historically, Network Marketers have been very guarded with their training, information, who they spend their time with, who they will even talk to and their lists. They would never send out an eMail promoting another Network Marketer or another Network Marketers product, same difference really, they would never do free training for anyone that wanted to watch the video, if you wanted their training, any time with them at all, you had to sign up in their organization.

That way of thinking is long gone, the affiliate marketers have shown that sharing their lists is a good thing, everyone is on everyone’s list anyway, the Internet has turned everyone into a customer, no matter if they identify as Internet Marketers, Network Marketers or Affiliate Marketers, they are all just customers to the guys selling the products. The Network Marketers jump from company to company so fast now a days that they really are just customers aren’t they? They don’t stay long enough to be attached to that company or considered anyone’s downline member.

I remember the drama we used to have because some guy left one company to go to another, or one persons downline to go to another persons downline, in the same company. It was a big deal. Not anymore, now everyone just jumps around, whose got the best system, whose giving away the most perks, whose paying my way in, there they go, no one cares.

The affiliate marketers have also shown that it’s better to sell your products through an affiliate program, like I said, this would not have worked in the Network Marketing arena 10 years ago, not even 5 years ago. The only people that would be affiliates for a network marketers products were people in their downline and the main reason they were affiliates was not to make money, it was to get leads that they could sign up into their business.

A great example is; Jonathan Budd is now a top Network Marketer, he’s also a top Affiliate Marketer. He became well known as an Affiliate Marketer by winning Mike Dillards contest for one of his products. As far as I know, these guys are not in the same Network Marketing company, yet, they promote each others products/services. Many people actually promote their products, it has nothing to do with downline culture anymore, it’s about making money.

This would not have been done a few years ago. The mind set has changed.

Just to point out, Joe Schroeder is the first Network Marketer I know of that sold products using an affiliate program. Like I said though, back then, only his people were selling his products and everyone that purchased a product was then pitched into the network marketing company. This is the original version of the funded proposal.

Guys like Jonathan Budd and Mike Dillard are making boat loads of cash and it has nothing to do with their network marketing check. They create products that teach you how to build your network marketing check, but what you really should be thinking is, how are these guys really making most of their money.

Network Marketing or product creation.

Those two guys have obviously made fortunes in Network Marketing and still do, but I will say that they are the exception. Others have made money in Network Marketing, they realize how unstable it is, how hard it is to keep going and they use the name recognition they got when they were on top of the industry to sell their products, look at the retired guys that have well known names but no downlines anymore, they are retired after all, still doing training, consulting, creating and selling products, live shows, etc. Why is anyone buying anything from them, they retired, they aren’t up to date, they can teach mind set and intangibles but they really can’t teach marketing, the way we market online changes so fast, anyone who has been out of the business for 6 months is way behind and out of the loop.

So, whose really making money around here? The Network Marketers that have merged Network Marketing and Affiliate Marketing into one. Even if they don’t have their own products, many of them will promote the products created by others, in order to create more income, the Internet has changed are mind set on income in general, we don’t care where it comes from, who writes the check is irrelevant, money is money and there are so many different ways to make it online that the downline we may build in a network marketing company is just a small part of the overall business model.

Just look at this blog, some of the ads on this blog have nothing to do with business at all, but if someone decides to buy P90X after clicking the banner up top, I get a check. Do I care that the check didn’t come from a network marketing company or that it didn’t come from an affiliate product geared towards Internet Marketing? Not even a little. My bank doesn’t care either.

I have another blog about Marriage, I have another one about Fantasy Football, I have a social network that has nothing at all to do with Internet Marketing, Home Businesses, etc. it’s a completely separate revenue stream, they all are.

I should mention that the people really making the money around here also are the company owners, membership site owners, system owners, autoresponder owners, all of the people selling us the tools we need or think we need to succeed.

I have always owned my own programs, since 2000 I’ve been creating stuff, most very small compared to the big network marketing companies, but I’ve made more money from them then I did being a distributor for any particular company. Actually, if you combine the money I’ve earned owning my own membership sites, I call them membership sites because they vary greatly so membership sites is just easier, combine that income and compare it to the income I’ve made being in all of the other companies I’ve been involved with, mind you, it’s a bunch of them, the income isn’t even close.

Just a quick example:

Wowzza made me a small fortune (Six Figures) in a few months.
MyCapturePage was pulling in 25K a month for a year, that’s an average for that year.
Just8Bucks did 9K a month for about 18 months.
Pro-List, the second paid list builder online, a little pat on the back for that one, had 6,000 members sign up at $25 bucks a pop, over a few years.

There were others, my passion is creating, that’s just what I do.

It’s unfortunate that they didn’t last and none turned into the next Giblink or Xango, but I blame the flaky Internet mind set, makes me feel better.

You can’t touch that income with your network marketing check and you know it, neither can I so don’t worry about it.

The simple conclusion to this very long post is this:

Don’t do what the people making money say to do. Do what they do.

That’s the solution. I could have just put that at the top and saved you some time right. I know.

Do what they do:

Create your own social network, membership site, marketing system, training product.

Start out small with an ebook.

Start out small with a free social network.

Get yourself name branded.

Do something impressive that gives you credibility.

Create, Sell, Sign Up.

Build a downline, sell a product, sell a system.

It’s easy now a days since you can hire programmers, designers, buy software, even pay someone else to write for you.

Do something extraordinary.

Create many streams of income.

Get rich, retire, get richer telling everyone how you got rich.

That’s it for now, thank you for stopping by.

Have Fun,
Jim Vigilante
Professional Multi-Income Generator

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