I wholeheartedly agree Kathleen. I think a dream presidential ticket would be Herman Cain and Allen West, two great patriotic Americans. They are two of the smartest men I have ever seen and with them in charge I truly believe this country could get started back on the right track.

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Hi Mary Evelyn,

In my opinion, Herman Cain is the BEST President this country could ever hope for! I truly believe that the President should be the person who's most capable of running this country in a way that's best for the people. Everyone has some flaws, everyone is human, there are no perfect candidates. If each person really wanted this country to be run in the best way possible for everyone, they wouldn't have badgered him out of running. In his humanness, he was more concerned about his wife & family, he has goodness, and I hope he decides to run again in the future, or at least be an important part of our government in a way that he can help everyone to the utmost. People shouldn't try to hold back a brilliant mind and great new ideas just because the mind is within a person who may or may not have character flaws. Who doesn't?

Which voter out there is perfect?

Which non-voter is perfect?

Which media reporter is perfect?

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I deal with people that are interested in having the work or service done.

What I do is completely different. I usually sell natural products through MLM or affiliate programs. I do that because I don't have $200,000 to open up my own health store.

The beauty of MLM and affiliate programs is that it costs almost nothing in most cases to start up a business. Affiliate programs pay about 20% and all of it goes into your pocket. You don't have to pay rent, insurance, employees, utilities, etc. You aren't stuck in the store for 9 to 13 hours per day. Your income is unlimited. An MLM business can be done easily in an hour or two per day but you have to do it for those one or two hours and you have to do it every day.

I pick the best products I can find. I love the way natural products help people. Surprisingly, they are not always an easy sell. First, the competition is rough. Second, people have trouble believing that their disease could be helped with a mere natural product when they have been to every doctor known to man (I exaggerate, of course :))

I used to sell a product where people who used it for cancer got rid of their cancer in just mere weeks, sometimes days. Try telling that to someone and they stare at you blankly and think if the doctor can't help me, what makes you think your little natural product will do anything.

If they are serious they can contact me by filling out the contact form with their

information. I have illuminated the unnecessary and unwanted phones calls.

So let me ask you this. How are people finding you for the product you are selling?

I collect email addresses. I might do it online through emails that people send me (spam and such) or when I have time I send a quick email to people to see if they would like to be on my email list.

Evelyn is on my email list. She can tell you that I send a variety of informative emails 2 or 3 times a week that are not always about selling. Most of it is interesting and meaty, not too much fluff. I do let people know that I will be sending an occasional selling email, as well, however. I ask them to Delete any email that is not to their liking ...because some topics are quite controversial. They can try my emails for a while and then if, for any reason, they wish to be taken off of my list, they let me know and it is done.

I also collect email addresses locally. These are all about selling emails and I come right out and say so. I strike up a conversation about anything like the weather or better yet, I try to find something to say about them. Then I say (I don't lie ever), "I sell one of the most interesting products in the world. People are reporting results with Migraines, Fungus, Pain, Sleep Disorders, Arthritis, Inflammation, Back Pain, Knee Pain, Nuerapathies, Nerve Disorders like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Autism and addictions like alcohol, street drugs, prescription drugs and some people even lose the desire to smoke. I could go on but instead, could I send you some more information by email. May I have your email address?" This whole thing takes about 2 or 3 minutes. Notice also that I am not asking them to buy or sell anything. I am just asking for an email address. I do not give them the name of the product and I do not give them a business card or my email address. Sometimes, if I have not been able to get their email address, I will give them mine ...but I know in that case I will not hear from them. Often I don't hear from them anyway. It's a numbers game.

Out of 100 people, about 40 to 50 give me their email address without hesitation. Out of 100 emails collected, I make about 2 to 4 sales.

When I get the email addresses, I try to send them something once in a while. This works especially good when you have testimonials to send. So they get an email once a week or once every 2 weeks.

Would you say your where a go to person (trained expert) on pain and sleep problems and have a understanding of how they are made, any side affects, long term exposure, and an expert in the field medication and depression?

I simply assume that anyone who has any of these disorders knows more about it than I do. I am not a doctor I tell them so sooner or later in my emails. I hesitate to send them to doctors as required in Disclaimers because doctors know nothing about natural products. I tell them that, too. However, sometimes I put Disclaimers in my emails about my products. No product I sell has any side effects except for the possibility of a detox reaction which I talk about in my product emails. The odd person might be allergic. My current product is simply a food product. I have seen what pharmaceutical medications do to people so there is no way I would tell them to take some of that chemical stew. Our body often have nutritional deficiencies, not chemical deficiencies. No one has anything to lose by trying my current product. We even have a 90 day guarantee.

Are you also protected by law suits from people that may use this product that came from you and had serious problems?

I am a distributor for a company that is not my own company. Let them try to sue me. I am not making the killing they think I am. Did you ever try sucking blood out of a stone?

Are you claiming to make money and how much, and are marking this as to, if they sign up they can make money too.

My marketing efforts is just like any other business. I make money and people know exactly why I am sending information about this particular product. My goal is to make money ...eventually. I don't have to tell them but many times I do.

How much money do I make? When I go to my local health store, do I ask them how much money they are making before I buy from them?

What would you say to me if I came to you to buy one of your services and said, "Oh, by the way, you how much money do you make?"

Are you providing a detailed disclaimer that what you say and claim, that you are not responsible for any money lost, may not make a dime, or any side affects that may or may not be.

What you need, Mark, is to be on my email list and you would get the answers to all these questions and more, sooner or later. Send me an email to my private email and I will put you on my list. :)) That goes for anyone. I just require one thing from you and that is when you want off of my list, you let me know because if you block me, the email people might think I am a spammer.

Don't take my wrong but this is just a few things to look at. I started with programs to make money shortly after I learned how to turn on a computer and use it. It took three months for me to come to a understanding that it is not the program that failed. It is the marketing and the no experience I had. Nothing…

I have been on the internet for over 10 years so I have learned a quite a lot of stuff but I still need to learn more, of course, and it would help if I had an unlimited source of funds to do all I would like to do. But for the most part, my system works very well ...if I work it (that's another story)

For the next two years I did nothing with trying to promote or market anything and started learning all I could on Marketing, Social Networks, Search Engines, User Names, Creating Optimized Profiles, Article Writing, and Blogging, just to name a few and you know what?

I am still learning and still don't know crap, well maybe a little. What I do know and work hard on is that there are so many using the Internet to find solutions to their problems, Qualified Professionals, Heath Products, and just way to much to mention, and having them come to my Website. Going after people is one thing but for them to come to you and are already interested in your service or product with money in hand. WOW, what a concept. Not one once of energy put into safe list, traffic exchanges, multiple postings day in and day out, and and and and, oh I am just tried already just talking about traffic sites. They do work for some just not even remotely anything that I need to do.

I feel a lot like you do. I don't use safe lists, traffic exchanges, etc. I have my own system. I believe in personal contact ...even if it is minimal. For example, I don't mind cold-calling if all I am asking for is an email address. It lets the person know that the email they will be getting is from a real person and not a cold uncaring robot. I tell them a little about me. I do not hesitate to give them my phone or email address if they ask but my first goal is to get their email address.

When you have a new product, you cannot wait for people to come to you. You need to create desire for it and hope they have the money to buy it. People will not come to you. You have to go to them. From some of the work that you offer, you will eventually get a lot of work by word of mouth.

One thing I would use if I were you is the fact that you are there to do a job for them and not to case the joint. I would be concerned if I had to hire an unknown or if he had an unknown helper because I wouldn't know if they are looking around at everything to see what they can come back and steal later, especially since I live alone.

This is a fact: Programs are designed and put together for the owners to make money and to make it sound so good that they get others to advertise for them and offer peanuts. I think it is about 96% will fall short of getting any peanuts.

You cannot blame owners for wanting to make money. If you don't like the peanuts, you should not work for them. If you are looking at the initial money you will be making, yes, it will be peanuts but if you look at the whole picture, you can quite easily be making several thousands a month eventually but you have to work at it and not give up. Let me show you how easy this is.

Do you think you could, for example, spend $40 per month on a fantastic natural product month after month while you build your business? If this business only required you to get two distributors who would commit to buy $40 per month and refer just 2 people each, could you do that? If you could do it in one month or so, you would be earning about $12,000 per month in approximately a year from now. You will be lucky if you make $100 in your first few

months. The major growth is at the end ...it's not from you but

from those after you.

There is a secret though ...you must never give up, you must not stop buying the minimum amount of product and you must find 2 distributors. All those who join with you must agree to do the same. Not only are you building a business, you are consuming an excellent health product.

Most people do not succeed because they do nothing. They are too chicken to talk to people and they don't have money to run ads. Or they just don't really believe it will happen ...it makes you wonder why they joined in the first place. I offer to hold their hand through the whole thing and they still will not do it in the way I tell them to do. Another thing people do is let everything else be more important than sending a few emails. They don't have to get email addresses in the way I get them. They can buy good targeted lists.

It does not matter how exciting your product is, you will eventually get bored with it. You have to realize this will happen. You know it's good but you just don't have the same feel for it as before. That's why so many people jump to other new programs. They like the excitement of a new product. Many networkers join a minimum of 2 or 3 programs a year, some many more than that. When these people don't make money, they often blame MLM or the company's owners or anything as long as it is not themselves that is to blame.

I will admit that I am not making a lot of money ...yet. It is my own fault because I am not working hard enough. I know how to get 10 emails a day in just an hour's worth of work. That's 50 email addresses in one week. That's 200 in a month and I am not doing it. When I do get some, I often never bother sending them anything. No wonder I am making peanuts.

What you do is what you believe in and by all means do it the way you want to.

I am just what you would call: "Sounding Off"

Honesty and Professionals are awarded, not claimed, and will come to you if you are trusted to be the expert in your field of interest and not to mislead.

One thing that I do do when I join a program is I learn all I can about the product and the pay plan and the company etc, etc. I make myself the expert. Join my email list and you will see. Very few people are willing to do that. When people see that I know my stuff, they will join with me over someone else.

I do believe a person can claim to be honest, knowledgeable, an expert and people will usually believe you ...until they find out otherwise. It is important that if you claim something, you make sure you follow through on it.

Maybe you could help me with some information....

1) What is the difference between a blog and website? What would I expect to pay for a website?

2) Can you suggest a good blog place for me ...preferably for free.

3) How can I go about sending a thousand emails or more at a time? Do I have to have an autoresponder? How much do they cost? Every month? Which one?

Thank you for any help you can give me. I wish you success as well.

Helen

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Hello Mark

I wasn't ignoring your comments about me putting my phone number and email address out there. I lost sight of which forum from which you sent it.

I put my phone number and email address out there because I want to be seen as an approachable and honest person. I have on occasion wanted to talk to some people online about the program they are offering and they don't want to talk and they don't want emails; they just want people to sign up. I don't want to do business with those people, would you?

I am aware that there maybe some danger in doing that. I do get some calls and maybe that is why but when I get to talk to them, I try to recruit them into my program :)) The same with the emails. If I get too many, I will remove the phone number and email address but for now if they pester me, I will recruit them or put them on my email list.

Helen

Mark and Helen, if I may, I'd like to add to this conversation a little.

Most reputable network marketing companies make sure that all safe guards, for not only the company, but their distributors are put in place before they ever open for business. With most companies whenever someone joins as a distributor they are given a personalized company website to advertise and to send people to. There they'll find the answers to most of their questions and if not they almost always have an 800 number to call or they can call the distributor and they can find out for them.

We don't need to be an expert in anything and we should never try to claim expertise, especially in anything health related. We can get into trouble fast and can even risk being terminated by the company if we make certain claims not supported by the company. You can be sure that most companies now are fully compliant with all laws regarding MLM or they can be shut down and this has happened to a few companies in the past. I know some of the products my company sells are backed up by clinical trials and medical research and this is posted on our websites. They have been in business for over six years now so that should tell you something.

All companies also have a money back guarantee if someone is not satisfied with the products, so really what has anyone got to lose? Also usually the compensation plan will be on the sites too and on mine I have a video explaining how it works but still if anyone has questions and I don't know the answer we have a very good customer service to answer those questions as do most companies.

Helen, excuse me, I'm not trying to jump in front of you and your product, just trying to explain a few things about how things work. Helen you're right, it does take time to build but then so does a brick and mortar business. Most of them don't make much money in the beginning. It takes time to build up and yes a lot of the brick and mortar businesses don't make it either and a lot of them go out of business.

People need to do their due diligence to find the right fit for them before they invest their time and money into any venture.

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Hello Mark

I will answer inside your post - see quote and red text.

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I deal with people that are interested in having the work or service done.

What I do is completely different. I usually sell natural products through MLM or affiliate programs. I do that because I don't have $200,000 to open up my own health store.

The beauty of MLM and affiliate programs is that it costs almost nothing in most cases to start up a business. Affiliate programs pay about 20% and all of it goes into your pocket. You don't have to pay rent, insurance, employees, utilities, etc. You aren't stuck in the store for 9 to 13 hours per day. Your income is unlimited. An MLM business can be done easily in an hour or two per day but you have to do it for those one or two hours and you have to do it every day.

I pick the best products I can find. I love the way natural products help people. Surprisingly, they are not always an easy sell. First, the competition is rough. Second, people have trouble believing that their disease could be helped with a mere natural product when they have been to every doctor known to man (I exaggerate, of course :))

I used to sell a product where people who used it for cancer got rid of their cancer in just mere weeks, sometimes days. Try telling that to someone and they stare at you blankly and think if the doctor can't help me, what makes you think your little natural product will do anything.

If they are serious they can contact me by filling out the contact form with their

information. I have illuminated the unnecessary and unwanted phones calls.

So let me ask you this. How are people finding you for the product you are selling?

I collect email addresses. I might do it online through emails that people send me (spam and such) or when I have time I send a quick email to people to see if they would like to be on my email list.

Evelyn is on my email list. She can tell you that I send a variety of informative emails 2 or 3 times a week that are not always about selling. Most of it is interesting and meaty, not too much fluff. I do let people know that I will be sending an occasional selling email, as well, however. I ask them to Delete any email that is not to their liking ...because some topics are quite controversial. They can try my emails for a while and then if, for any reason, they wish to be taken off of my list, they let me know and it is done.

I also collect email addresses locally. These are all about selling emails and I come right out and say so. I strike up a conversation about anything like the weather or better yet, I try to find something to say about them. Then I say (I don't lie ever), "I sell one of the most interesting products in the world. People are reporting results with Migraines, Fungus, Pain, Sleep Disorders, Arthritis, Inflammation, Back Pain, Knee Pain, Nuerapathies, Nerve Disorders like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Autism and addictions like alcohol, street drugs, prescription drugs and some people even lose the desire to smoke. I could go on but instead, could I send you some more information by email. May I have your email address?" This whole thing takes about 2 or 3 minutes. Notice also that I am not asking them to buy or sell anything. I am just asking for an email address. I do not give them the name of the product and I do not give them a business card or my email address. Sometimes, if I have not been able to get their email address, I will give them mine ...but I know in that case I will not hear from them. Often I don't hear from them anyway. It's a numbers game.

Out of 100 people, about 40 to 50 give me their email address without hesitation. Out of 100 emails collected, I make about 2 to 4 sales.

When I get the email addresses, I try to send them something once in a while. This works especially good when you have testimonials to send. So they get an email once a week or once every 2 weeks.

Would you say your where a go to person (trained expert) on pain and sleep problems and have a understanding of how they are made, any side affects, long term exposure, and an expert in the field medication and depression?

I simply assume that anyone who has any of these disorders knows more about it than I do. I am not a doctor I tell them so sooner or later in my emails. I hesitate to send them to doctors as required in Disclaimers because doctors know nothing about natural products. I tell them that, too. However, sometimes I put Disclaimers in my emails about my products. No product I sell has any side effects except for the possibility of a detox reaction which I talk about in my product emails. The odd person might be allergic. My current product is simply a food product. I have seen what pharmaceutical medications do to people so there is no way I would tell them to take some of that chemical stew. Our body often have nutritional deficiencies, not chemical deficiencies. No one has anything to lose by trying my current product. We even have a 90 day guarantee.

Are you also protected by law suits from people that may use this product that came from you and had serious problems?

I am a distributor for a company that is not my own company. Let them try to sue me. I am not making the killing they think I am. Did you ever try sucking blood out of a stone?

Are you claiming to make money and how much, and are marking this as to, if they sign up they can make money too.

My marketing efforts is just like any other business. I make money and people know exactly why I am sending information about this particular product. My goal is to make money ...eventually. I don't have to tell them but many times I do.

How much money do I make? When I go to my local health store, do I ask them how much money they are making before I buy from them?

What would you say to me if I came to you to buy one of your services and said, "Oh, by the way, you how much money do you make?"

Are you providing a detailed disclaimer that what you say and claim, that you are not responsible for any money lost, may not make a dime, or any side affects that may or may not be.

What you need, Mark, is to be on my email list and you would get the answers to all these questions and more, sooner or later. Send me an email to my private email and I will put you on my list. :)) That goes for anyone. I just require one thing from you and that is when you want off of my list, you let me know because if you block me, the email people might think I am a spammer.

Don't take my wrong but this is just a few things to look at. I started with programs to make money shortly after I learned how to turn on a computer and use it. It took three months for me to come to a understanding that it is not the program that failed. It is the marketing and the no experience I had. Nothing…

I have been on the internet for over 10 years so I have learned a quite a lot of stuff but I still need to learn more, of course, and it would help if I had an unlimited source of funds to do all I would like to do. But for the most part, my system works very well ...if I work it (that's another story)

For the next two years I did nothing with trying to promote or market anything and started learning all I could on Marketing, Social Networks, Search Engines, User Names, Creating Optimized Profiles, Article Writing, and Blogging, just to name a few and you know what?

I am still learning and still don't know crap, well maybe a little. What I do know and work hard on is that there are so many using the Internet to find solutions to their problems, Qualified Professionals, Heath Products, and just way to much to mention, and having them come to my Website. Going after people is one thing but for them to come to you and are already interested in your service or product with money in hand. WOW, what a concept. Not one once of energy put into safe list, traffic exchanges, multiple postings day in and day out, and and and and, oh I am just tried already just talking about traffic sites. They do work for some just not even remotely anything that I need to do.

I feel a lot like you do. I don't use safe lists, traffic exchanges, etc. I have my own system. I believe in personal contact ...even if it is minimal. For example, I don't mind cold-calling if all I am asking for is an email address. It lets the person know that the email they will be getting is from a real person and not a cold uncaring robot. I tell them a little about me. I do not hesitate to give them my phone or email address if they ask but my first goal is to get their email address.

When you have a new product, you cannot wait for people to come to you. You need to create desire for it and hope they have the money to buy it. People will not come to you. You have to go to them. From some of the work that you offer, you will eventually get a lot of work by word of mouth.

One thing I would use if I were you is the fact that you are there to do a job for them and not to case the joint. I would be concerned if I had to hire an unknown or if he had an unknown helper because I wouldn't know if they are looking around at everything to see what they can come back and steal later, especially since I live alone.

This is a fact: Programs are designed and put together for the owners to make money and to make it sound so good that they get others to advertise for them and offer peanuts. I think it is about 96% will fall short of getting any peanuts.

You cannot blame owners for wanting to make money. If you don't like the peanuts, you should not work for them. If you are looking at the initial money you will be making, yes, it will be peanuts but if you look at the whole picture, you can quite easily be making several thousands a month eventually but you have to work at it and not give up. Let me show you how easy this is.

Do you think you could, for example, spend $40 per month on a fantastic natural product month after month while you build your business? If this business only required you to get two distributors who would commit to buy $40 per month and refer just 2 people each, could you do that? If you could do it in one month or so, you would be earning about $12,000 per month in approximately a year from now. You will be lucky if you make $100 in your first few

months. The major growth is at the end ...it's not from you but

from those after you.

There is a secret though ...you must never give up, you must not stop buying the minimum amount of product and you must find 2 distributors. All those who join with you must agree to do the same. Not only are you building a business, you are consuming an excellent health product.

Most people do not succeed because they do nothing. They are too chicken to talk to people and they don't have money to run ads. Or they just don't really believe it will happen ...it makes you wonder why they joined in the first place. I offer to hold their hand through the whole thing and they still will not do it in the way I tell them to do. Another thing people do is let everything else be more important than sending a few emails. They don't have to get email addresses in the way I get them. They can buy good targeted lists.

It does not matter how exciting your product is, you will eventually get bored with it. You have to realize this will happen. You know it's good but you just don't have the same feel for it as before. That's why so many people jump to other new programs. They like the excitement of a new product. Many networkers join a minimum of 2 or 3 programs a year, some many more than that. When these people don't make money, they often blame MLM or the company's owners or anything as long as it is not themselves that is to blame.

I will admit that I am not making a lot of money ...yet. It is my own fault because I am not working hard enough. I know how to get 10 emails a day in just an hour's worth of work. That's 50 email addresses in one week. That's 200 in a month and I am not doing it. When I do get some, I often never bother sending them anything. No wonder I am making peanuts.

What you do is what you believe in and by all means do it the way you want to.

I am just what you would call: "Sounding Off"

Honesty and Professionals are awarded, not claimed, and will come to you if you are trusted to be the expert in your field of interest and not to mislead.

One thing that I do do when I join a program is I learn all I can about the product and the pay plan and the company etc, etc. I make myself the expert. Join my email list and you will see. Very few people are willing to do that. When people see that I know my stuff, they will join with me over someone else.

I do believe a person can claim to be honest, knowledgeable, an expert and people will usually believe you ...until they find out otherwise. It is important that if you claim something, you make sure you follow through on it.

Maybe you could help me with some information....

1) What is the difference between a blog and website? What would I expect to pay for a website?

2) Can you suggest a good blog place for me ...preferably for free.

3) How can I go about sending a thousand emails or more at a time? Do I have to have an autoresponder? How much do they cost? Every month? Which one?

Thank you for any help you can give me. I wish you success as well.

Helen

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Hello Mark

I wasn't ignoring your comments about me putting my phone number and email address out there. I lost sight of which forum from which you sent it.

I put my phone number and email address out there because I want to be seen as an approachable and honest person. I have on occasion wanted to talk to some people online about the program they are offering and they don't want to talk and they don't want emails; they just want people to sign up. I don't want to do business with those people, would you?

I am aware that there maybe some danger in doing that. I do get some calls and maybe that is why but when I get to talk to them, I try to recruit them into my program :)) The same with the emails. If I get too many, I will remove the phone number and email address but for now if they pester me, I will recruit them or put them on my email list.

Helen

Mary and Helen: You are both right on track, just adding to the conversation by bring up other ideas.

Maybe you could help me with some information....

1) What is the difference between a blog and website?

Now First, I am only stating what I think it is. People blog about anything, stories, pictures, facts, news and you name it it is out there. There a few free services that allow you to create a blog. You have your own url but with an extension to it, but you can always point you own domain to it.

Example: http://kalamazoohandymen.blogspot.com

Real Website: www.kalamazoohandymen.com

Blogs are full of features for constantly updating content and storing all posts in the side lines, creating articles, news, updates, fresh content, are more interactive with comments, and can create more traffic to your main store front (Website) and that is just a very short of it.

They Are Free and easy to set up and published on the Internet.

The key differences between a blog and a web site is that a blog's main function is being a web log or online diary. As the term "online diary" suggests, this is where a blogger can generate a lot of interesting personal comment and intimate details and information about a particular niche subject or topic that they have chosen to cover. Blogs are quick and easy to set up. Blogs are a less expensive way of advertising your business to the online community.

A web site on the other hand is the official address and location of a web-based business. Just the place you would expect to find ecommerce tools and landing pages where customers can make a purchase online. Blogs and websites can work hand in hand with one another.

The truth is that a blog is hardly the place where you would want to reach for your credit card. Yet a blog is not less important. Blogs are classified as being increasingly important to any web based entrepreneur because it is where all the action is. In actual fact traffic is generated in large quantities at blogs and then re-directed to web sites for the actual sales transaction to be consummated.

In conclusion none can really totally replace the other and both blogs and web sites have their individual very important key roles to play in the marketing success of any online enterprise.

What would I expect to pay for a website?

That would depend on how many pages you need. 5, 10, or 999 pages is between $ 8 to $15 a month with hosting included. You can pay to have it done, but for the ones that I know had that done, there is a cost for making changes or adding updates to it, if they can and want to be reached. Learn to do it yourself and own all rights.

That is one part of my training is to help others build their Website and what is most missed is the configurations and setting with all the right keywords, meta tags, and descriptions that make site more search engine friendly. You only pay for your domain name and hosting account with a Website Builder. You can add more power to it with other products with Search engine submissions, and SEO Checks to give you ideas to make you site better, and email management.

Website start with a domain. Take the time do look into keyword research to see what people are searching for, how much, or how little to find the right domain name for you. This is missed by so many how this can affectively increase traffic.

Small example: I target Kalamazoo area with Handyman service.

So my domain name is KalamazooHandymen.

It would not be Marks Services, there is not no data on anyone doing any searches for Mark's Services but there is very high numbers for Handyman Services.

2) Can you suggest a good blog place for me ...preferably for free.

I use Google products: (Blogger) They have a lot of free features and can be redesigned from the starting templates. I know a lot use WordPress and to me they all look about the same. They are free and paid.

3) How can I go about sending a thousand emails or more at a time? Do I have to have an autoresponder? How much do they cost? Every month? Which one?

Yes to be protected for getting blacklisted with your personal email, it is a very good idea when creating an email list to safely send to all subscribers. There are free ones and after going through several of them, Mail Chimp was by far the best free and can send out to…

this is mine:

Forever Free (your current plan)

send 12,000 emails per month to 2,000 subscribers

I am moving all campaigns and list to my new management program through my hosting account. It is paid but a lot more powerful and can create more email templates that are far more better looking.

The Free ones are limited. There is a learning thing that will take a little time to get them set up. They have training to help you with all that. If you never used them you might want to start with the Free then upgrade latter if needed. Your list are yours and can go with you if you move on.

Email management lets you build a list from your connections to opt-in to receive emails from you with their servers. (not yours) and run campaigns to all subscribers after you have created and formatted them.

Autoresponder is a set of more then one campaigns (emails) that you build and scheduled delivery to all subscribers.

One day after sign up

two days after

4 days after

one week after

and so one.

Thank you for any help you can give me. I wish you success as well.

One Last Point: Most all affiliate sites and MLM Sites that are give to you are the same ones that hundreds it not thousands are using and You have to drive traffic to them. You are missing the millions of people searching for your products and or services when using their websites.

You can not make any changes to them, only the covers, and not the back end of them that can make it rank higher and be placed in front of others. There are exception to this.

But if you do your research on what people are searching for, (you brand, product) build your own Website and learn how to rank for the keywords or set of keyword or phrases, then you will grow ahead of all others. You then redirect your visitors to the "call for action" site to make the deal.

Second: If all you can say to someone that asked question about what you are selling, just watch the video or just visit this site, you might be losing them as not knowing what you are talking about. Being an Expert is an open term not meaning being a doctor. Do you know that hundreds can not hold a conversation on any thing they are trying to sell as not knowing a thing about it. Just go to my Website…

I have asked many people about what they are doing to give me more details on it and they can not even come close to answering any questions. Sorry They just lost a sale or a sign up not knowing anything.

So being an expert is an open term as knowing all about what you are doing and may help when asked.

Hi Mark, GREAT information and I will be back to read and study it in more detail when I'm not pushed for time as I am this morning. Have an awesome day. :)

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Mary and Helen: You are both right on track, just adding to the conversation by bring up other ideas.

Maybe you could help me with some information....

1) What is the difference between a blog and website?

Now First, I am only stating what I think it is. People blog about anything, stories, pictures, facts, news and you name it it is out there. There a few free services that allow you to create a blog. You have your own url but with an extension to it, but you can always point you own domain to it.

Example: http://kalamazoohandymen.blogspot.com

Real Website: www.kalamazoohandymen.com

Blogs are full of features for constantly updating content and storing all posts in the side lines, creating articles, news, updates, fresh content, are more interactive with comments, and can create more traffic to your main store front (Website) and that is just a very short of it.

They Are Free and easy to set up and published on the Internet.

The key differences between a blog and a web site is that a blog's main function is being a web log or online diary. As the term "online diary" suggests, this is where a blogger can generate a lot of interesting personal comment and intimate details and information about a particular niche subject or topic that they have chosen to cover. Blogs are quick and easy to set up. Blogs are a less expensive way of advertising your business to the online community.

A web site on the other hand is the official address and location of a web-based business. Just the place you would expect to find ecommerce tools and landing pages where customers can make a purchase online. Blogs and websites can work hand in hand with one another.

The truth is that a blog is hardly the place where you would want to reach for your credit card. Yet a blog is not less important. Blogs are classified as being increasingly important to any web based entrepreneur because it is where all the action is. In actual fact traffic is generated in large quantities at blogs and then re-directed to web sites for the actual sales transaction to be consummated.

In conclusion none can really totally replace the other and both blogs and web sites have their individual very important key roles to play in the marketing success of any online enterprise.

What would I expect to pay for a website?

That would depend on how many pages you need. 5, 10, or 999 pages is between $ 8 to $15 a month with hosting included. You can pay to have it done, but for the ones that I know had that done, there is a cost for making changes or adding updates to it, if they can and want to be reached. Learn to do it yourself and own all rights.

That is one part of my training is to help others build their Website and what is most missed is the configurations and setting with all the right keywords, meta tags, and descriptions that make site more search engine friendly. You only pay for your domain name and hosting account with a Website Builder. You can add more power to it with other products with Search engine submissions, and SEO Checks to give you ideas to make you site better, and email management.

Website start with a domain. Take the time do look into keyword research to see what people are searching for, how much, or how little to find the right domain name for you. This is missed by so many how this can affectively increase traffic.

Small example: I target Kalamazoo area with Handyman service.

So my domain name is KalamazooHandymen.

It would not be Marks Services, there is not no data on anyone doing any searches for Mark's Services but there is very high numbers for Handyman Services.

2) Can you suggest a good blog place for me ...preferably for free.

I use Google products: (Blogger) They have a lot of free features and can be redesigned from the starting templates. I know a lot use WordPress and to me they all look about the same. They are free and paid.

3) How can I go about sending a thousand emails or more at a time? Do I have to have an autoresponder? How much do they cost? Every month? Which one?

Yes to be protected for getting blacklisted with your personal email, it is a very good idea when creating an email list to safely send to all subscribers. There are free ones and after going through several of them, Mail Chimp was by far the best free and can send out to…

this is mine:

Forever Free (your current plan)

send 12,000 emails per month to 2,000 subscribers

I am moving all campaigns and list to my new management program through my hosting account. It is paid but a lot more powerful and can create more email templates that are far more better looking.

The Free ones are limited. There is a learning thing that will take a little time to get them set up. They have training to help you with all that. If you never used them you might want to start with the Free then upgrade latter if needed. Your list are yours and can go with you if you move on.

Email management lets you build a list from your connections to opt-in to receive emails from you with their servers. (not yours) and run campaigns to all subscribers after you have created and formatted them.

Autoresponder is a set of more then one campaigns (emails) that you build and scheduled delivery to all subscribers.

One day after sign up

two days after

4 days after

one week after

and so one.

Thank you for any help you can give me. I wish you success as well.

One Last Point: Most all affiliate sites and MLM Sites that are give to you are the same ones that hundreds it not thousands are using and You have to drive traffic to them. You are missing the millions of people searching for your products and or services when using their websites.

You can not make any changes to them, only the covers, and not the back end of them that can make it rank higher and be placed in front of others. There are exception to this.

But if you do your research on what people are searching for, (you brand, product) build your own Website and learn how to rank for the keywords or set of keyword or phrases, then you will grow ahead of all others. You then redirect your visitors to the "call for action" site to make the deal.

Second: If all you can say to someone that asked question about what you are selling, just watch the video or just visit this site, you might be losing them as not knowing what you are talking about. Being an Expert is an open term not meaning being a doctor. Do you know that hundreds can not hold a conversation on any thing they are trying to sell as not knowing a thing about it. Just go to my Website…

I have asked many people about what they are doing to give me more details on it and they can not even come close to answering any questions. Sorry They just lost a sale or a sign up not knowing anything.

So being an expert is an open term as knowing all about what you are doing and may help when asked.