I just want to pass this on to you since you are always looking for good classified sites on which to advertise your Directmatches business and/or find prospects. Here is a blog post from a site I subscribe to called NetBusinessBlog.com and it is entitled Budget Marketing Using Free Classified Sites. Go check it out and see if there are any sites you haven’t used yet.

Directmatches offers you the ability to earn money promoting a community that appeals to a wide variety of people in a wide variety of markets. Although I am sure we could come up with many more if we really thought about it, these are the 5 I feel are the largest and most lucrative.

1) Network Marketers/MLMer’s – According to the Direct Selling Association in 2005 there where 14.1 million salespeople in the Direct Sales industry. Think about that for a minute…14.1 MILLION people. Many of these people are looking for leads, information and people to network with. You and Directmatches can help them with that.

2) Affiliate Marketers – There are people everywhere looking for a place to promote there products. Directmatches provides them with a place where they can find a targeted audiences to market their products too and these savvy individuals will no doubt appreciate another opportunity add to their income portfolio. Just look at how MySpace attracts these types and they don’t even pay to invite.

3) Bloggers – Blogging is becoming a great way to for people to speak their mind about any subject of their choice and make money doing it. Directmatches offers bloggers another avenue to drive people to their blog while at the same time adding another source of income.

4) Opportunity Seekers – There are millions of people worldwide looking to work from home and this trend is only going to grow. Directmatches is perfect for anyone looking to work from home, be their own boss, earn extra cash or replace a fulltime income. Many of us started out like this and can appreciate the advantages Directmatches offers. Lets spread the word.

5) Dating and friendship – Often time getting lost in the shuffle is the fact that Directmatches offers singles everywhere the opportunity to meet their better half. This is a huge market and promises to get much bigger. Many times people pay for this service, imagine if they knew they could be the one getting paid for the service.

As I stated earlier, your market doesn’t stop there. Remember, we have over 15 countries we can work in. Each one of those could be its own market.

Right now there is only about a million or so people involved in Directmatches. The size of each markets above is much more than a million on its own. You heard all of the cliche’s; timing is everything, right place right time, etc. These phrases tend to get over used and abused. In this case, they are right on the money.

Many of you might have thought that Directmatches was just a place where you could network, advertise your business, find a job or make a few friends.But what some of you might not realize is that this rapidly expanding social networking site offers a great opportunity for you to make some money as well, just for being social. In this post I am going to take a few minutes to give you a quick explanation of the Directmatches compensation plan.

For starters, you get a 50% referral bonus when anyone you personally sponsored upgrades. So when they become a customer for $10 you get $5, when they become a Managing Representative for $20 you get $10 and an Executive Representative for $30 you get $15. The amount of money you make here is limited only by the amount of people you can sponsor and upgrade. Pretty good just for handing out invitations don’t ya think?

There is also a residual plan. You have two legs, a left and a right (If you are a member you can see them in your back office under “binary genealogy”). Every time you match 4 customer on your left with 4 customers on your right it produces what is called a “cycle” which pays you $10. When you match 4 managers right and 4 managers left you get another cycle and earn $20. And when match 4 executives right and 4 executives left you trigger yet another cycle and get $30.

Now when you and the team really get things rolling, cycles can happen many times a day. You can earn up to $6000 per week if you are a Managing Representative and $12000 per week if you are an Executive Representative. Again, just for sending out invitations. Just imagine what you could do with money like that laying around.

Also, keep in mind that for cycles to happen, all of the customers, managers, and executives “do not” have to be personal sponsors. They can be spillover from people above you Spillover. If you have leader or two above you, one of your legs could be filling up making it that much easier for you to cycle.

All this and you get your money pretty quick. With Directmatches you get paid every week.

There you have it. The Directmatches compensation plan in a nutshell. Just think, 5-10 years ago who would have thought you and I could have earned this much money just by starting conversations and inviting people to be a part of community full of positive and ambitious people. This is a great opportunity for you to be a part of while at the same time cashing in on one of the hottest trends on the internet today, social networking. Can you hear the opportunity knocking?

In this post I wanted to show you where you can get a series of pre-written Directmatches auto responder letters and why you should consider using them.

Why use them? Two reasons; they can put you and your business in front of the prospect every 2-3 days and they are educating your prospect about your opportunity. Think of the amount of time you’ll save by not having to follow-up before they come aboard and spend as much os your time training them once they are in.

I have been using them for awhile now and they are great. I can tell they are effective. I often see prospects signing up weeks after they were initially exposed to Directmatches (after about 5-6 letters). Some of you reading this post may have signed up as a result of these letters.

Where you can find them? Typically it would take quite awhile to put together a series of well written auto responders but thanks to the Directmatches marketing team you don’t have to. In your back office you will see “marketing tools” under Training and Marketing (on the left side of the page), click on it. On the next page, about three quarters of the way down, you will see a link for the pre-written letters, click again and you are in business.

How do I set them up? You will need to use an auto responder service to capture your prospects information and get them into your series. A Google search will provide you with a ton of options to choose from. I my experience AWeber and 1ShoppingCart are two of the most popular among internet marketing guru’s. I looked into them both and they are very similar. To choose one I literally flipped a coin. I have been using 1ShoppingCart for about six months now. Their tutorials are easy to understand and their customer service has been fast and helpful. They also have an affiliate program, of which I am a part of (hint, hint), that is always a bonus.

There you have it. Autoresponders are basically just another step towards making your prospecting a hands free experience. They are a great way to leverage your time and setting them up is pretty easy and, best of all, only need to happen once. Make them part of your marketing plan today.

In this post I am going to give you a few tips on using Directmatches Group Contact eMail feature. This can be a great way to promote your primary business or any affiliate products that you know people in the community would find useful and purchase.

I’ve made a few dollars with a few mlm affiliate products using this method.

If you want to try this out, it is simple to do. Here’s a short checklist of things you need to do;

1) Get contacts. Before your can do anything you need to have contacts. To do that you should be either reaching out to people on your own or approving every single person that asks to be a contact.

2) Build your group contact list.. To do this just go to the front page of your profile. Once there go to the box containing all of your contacts and click on “manage” in the upper right of the box (opposite side of title). You will now see a different window. Your contacts will be shown, one on top of the other, with more information showing on the right.

Once here, select the members you want to send a message to by clicking in the check boxes next to the contacts picture. Once the desired box is checked, click on the button titled “Add To Group Mail” (at the bottom right). Now go up to the top of the page and click “Show My Contact List.” you should see all of the members you just selected.

3) Write a killer email and send it.. You have the contacts and you have your list made, now you just need to write an awesome email and send it off. Starting from page of your profile, click on “Inbox” in your “My Mail” box. In your email menu you will see a link entitled “Group Contact List”…click it.

Now it is time to do the most important of all the tasks; compose an email that will convert readers into sales and/or leads. If you aren’t familiar with how to write good sales copy, a good place to start is copyblogger.com. I’ve been reading this blog for a few months now, its a great learning and reference tool. For those of you who like books or would like to use good copy but save time by using templates, I have a few products available on my MLMHelpingHand site that are extremely helpful.

Once the letter is composed to your satisfaction, just send it off. Now just wait for the questions and the sales.

For those of you with a ton of contacts, keep in mind that Directmatches only allows you to have 60 contacts on the “Contact List.” Also, you cannot send more than one group contact email a day. If you would like to contact more than 60 you will need to wait 24 hours before sending the email. The contacts are all alphabetized so what I do is just keep track of where I left off the day before and start there the next day. You can send out an email everyday until you have contacted everyone on the list. If you have a big list it might take a couple days to get through all of the contacts but it only takes a few minutes each day once you get the system down.

There you have it. Another way to use Directmatches to promote you, your business and/or affiliate products. Try it out.