Read my post on social media Syndication to see how using social networking sites correctly, can change the way you drive traffic to your blog or content;  When I decided to make a go again at Network Marketing, I said, “I will succeed” and you know what. 5, 10 than 30 people join my organization. Then more people join underneath them and in less than six months I had 170 plus people under me. W0W! I said, “I’m making it”, so you would think. So you may ask what happened next. Well it seemed as fast as they joined people start dropping off like flies. “What is happening?” I said “why me” poor me. “It always happens to me”. (You’ve probably heard and said that one before). Feeling defeated once again, I started looking within myself and not blaming others to why I was not being successful.

Very shortly after that I was browsing on the Internet and came across an online chat forum where I started reading all these posts about Attraction Marketing (Is doing this for me) & Social Marketing (is doing that for me) and it all started to click. It was an Ah Ha moment for lack of better words. I was sure at that moment. I mean as sure as the day I realize I wanted to spend the rest of my life with my wife that I was hearing something that resonated to the core of my being. Now at the time just knowing wasn’t enough. I had to learn how to apply these principles to my life and practice action, not only in myself and my life but in how I was approaching and working my business.
I started going online and searching for websites and blogs talking about Attraction Marketing and reading books on this Power of Attraction. I began reading and hearing success story after story of people applying this to their life their family and friends and of course how to apply this in there on and offline businesses. Man did I have it backwards. I use to say if I had a product or service that everyone wanted or needed if I just had one or two big marketing builders. Now don’t get me wrong. Those are very important things. But I had it backwards. You may ask then what was it? In one word Relationships. Yes relationships first.

I learned that by creating trust with others and offering recourses and information before products or services that people begin seeking me out for more information. This is powerful, this is meaningful and this is what of helping others first is all about.

Mike Alter

Do you ever feel stuck? Not knowing what to do when you hit a roadblock. Are you spending most of your valuable time in a negative space or a positive one? If you stay just a bit more positive, just by doing that you are on the right track to changing your mindset.

Yes this is like that old saying “Is the glass half empty or full. Let me give you an example. I was visiting one time with a wonderful friend of mine who is always seeking to better himself in all areas of his life. (I recommend surrounding yourself with people like this) We were talking about a work situation and to make a point he pulls out the old glass of water and asked, so what do you see? Of course I said the glass if half full. He says Nope! The glass is totally full. In fact it is over flowing. Hmm I said, explain. He said there’s not just water in that glass but air. Things are sometimes not always what you think they are, unless you’re choosing to just look at it that way.

By applying new ways of thinking when it comes to your Network Marketing business. You may see things a little differently. For example don’t label yourself meaning something like “I’m not good at talking when it comes to communicating my product or services to others” or “I’m not a good writer”. Instead say to yourself something like “I am going to talk about _______ (you fill in the blank) with kindness”. Say “I am a good at writing” then just start writing the way you talk to others, just be yourself. In time it will become easier.

When you start to look at how you see things in a more positive way, even if it is just a little. Then over time, these situations that perhaps used to frustrate or concern you will not be so daunting and you will be better prepare to handle it.

Patients and practice- Just start surrounding yourself with people that are striving for the same or similar things.  Seek out people that are helpful, kind and enjoy life. Let it rub off on you. To learn about changing your mindset here is a wonderful free report on Attraction Marketing you can download now.

Seems like everyone that has a company or someone that is starting an Internet business is trying to tap into Social Media with their product or service. They may have an up hill battle, by spending all their time marketing  instead of just running there online business.

Now with information overload on how to get customers. They end up spending most of their time and money trying to market their online business, which can take away valuable time and resources to developing a true strategy that is more productive to their Internet business. Like the saying go’s, “Time is money” or “work smarter not harder”.

Being productive can mean leveraging your time and hard earn money on results by knowing how to use social media as a platform to share not sell your online business. There are effective ways that don’t take all your time to archive this. One is by building relationships and trust through social channels. In this manner you’re sharing and creating relationships with social marketing. There is a right and wrong way of doing this. If you’re just standing on your soap box shouting about your product this tends to be a turn off.  However if you’re providing value to others, people tend to start pay attention to what you have to say.

The question is then what works when it comes to online marketing?

Well that depends on who you talk too. There are many that use Adwords, others with social media and paid advertising. SEO companies for a large fee will implement many of these. Some use banner advertising and business forums. I may be leaving out some but that’s about it. Seeing that there are only so many ways to market online you’ll want maximum impact that benefits not only your business but your customers.

There is a way to market online with Social Media  that doesn’t involve hours of twittering and facebooking, that can get your content and information out to social networks, so that is seen throughout the different channels. Remember though, that social media marketing and social media networking is two very different things. Networking will happen if Social Media Marketing is done correctly. What I mean by this is don’t use Twitter to find prospects. You will want to use tools to network with your prospects. This way they are seeking you out not the other way around.

Now you can always pay a SEO company to get traffic to your site and get a higher ranking in Google and Yahoo or use social media marketing to have prospects find you and push your search ranking up at the same time, which is a win win for you because you are not only getting the benefit of high search rankings, you are also creating a network of people that want to do business with you and share your business with others within the social media communities.

Here in this easy to understand PDF report that will show you how to apply social media marketing and begin to understand the power of content syndication through social media.

Thanks for time

Mike Alter