I was recently made aware of a new site that claims that you can reach one billion people by simply telling 3 friends via email and its free. Can you help me test it out?

To help, just send a “disposable” (I’ll explain in the next paragraph) email address to me and I will forward you the information. You can promote any site you want but if you sweet talk me I might just set you up with my battle tested, custom YourDirectmatches capture pages. These capture pages are responsible for 51 automatic sign-ups over the past three months. They will no doubt work for you as well.

Now about the disposable email address. I figure we should use disposable email addresses in case we get some SPAM (which wouldn’t be a bad thing…see my earlier post on using spam to your advantage). Better yet, if you can, set up an email address somewhere you can set up rules or do auto-replies for spam. You can use an automated reverse reply marketing strategy to handle the spam and snag even more sign ups.

These types of campaigns are always fun, especially since we have nothing to lose. As they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Lets get testing. Send your email address with the subject line “I WANT TO HELP” to corey@yourdirectmatches.com right away. As soon as I get 3 email addresses we’ll get started.

The other day I came across this cool website, called Squidoo. It lets you make up a webpage on any topic you desire. It is almost like MySpace or Directmatches but more topic oriented. Also, when people visit your page, you can earn a little cash (for yourself or donate it to charity) when they click on an ad or buy one of the products on display.

I’ve only done a few pages (they call them lens’). You are invited to check them out.

Here’s a lens I put up for Directmatches.
Directmatches on Squidoo

And here’s a lens I did on Theodore Roosevelt. I’m a bit of a history buff and this guy is amazing. He did more with one lifetime than 10 people put together.
Teddy Roosevelt on Squidoo

Those are just my inexperienced attempts at building lens’ so make sure you check out some others to get an idea of the creative ideas out there.

This is a great way way to promote anything (for your own pocket or your favorite charity). If you have any questions about Squidoo shoot me an email. I don’t know a lot but I can point you in the right direction.

In this post I am going to show you a very inexpensive way to promote any website. This inexpensive way is viral marketing. A great viral marketing website that you will want to check out is Program Hoppers.

The site uses the power of hit multiplication to promote your site. When you enroll people who want to promote their site, you get more unique visitors; you find 10 people, you receive up to 100,000 additional unique visitors, you find 25 people then you receive up to 5,000,000 additional unique visitors, and so on and so on.

Straight from the Program Hoppers viral marketing website, here’s a simple description of how it works:

Forced Advertising

The price of admission to the Program Hoppers system is to visit five member sites.

Each site visited contains a unique code which is valid for an undisclosed amount of time. You will spend no more than ten seconds to generate the code which provides guaranteed reading time for all ads listed by our members.

Your personal listing is about to be part of this process. When you join our system, your item’s URL and description will be listed in the Site #1 position to begin. As more and more members join your personal ad network, leverage becomes part of the process to help generate thousands of views and clicks to your listing.

The Process

A. On the main page, visit each of the five links that lead to member websites.

B. Collect each of the five unique codes and enter the details into the provided fields.

C. Enter the URL to the site you would like to promote.

D. Enter the description for the site you would like to promote.

Leverage

As a new Program Hoppers member and business builder, it should be your goal to have no less than 5 (try to shoot for 10) or more people who will enroll through your unique referral link. This will trigger a duplication pattern which generates thousands of new unique visitors to your website.

The larger you grow your personally sponsored team, the larger and quicker your entire team will develop with your ad being displayed in five advertising positions.

This system is dependent on each member generating new visitors to their site. If you do nothing, you will have nothing to show for it. If you do something, the results are quite impressive.

As a Premier Member (Paid/Upgraded) of our system, you will leverage the entire community with your ad listed on each member page. Complete details are found within your account manager for this option.

Premier Member Services

The Program Hoppers system includes unique tools and services to help you go beyond viral. With visual displays of your ideas, you’ll help others to see “The Big Picture” of the goal you have in mind.

Join in today. See how we can help you to not only get your ideas into the hands and eyes of thousands, we’ll also help you save money and make money with something you’re already good at.

Can you see how this could really help out your websites visability?

As an example of how well it is working for me, here’s a screen shot of my back office statistics page. You can see the steady amount of traffic I’ve been getting for the whole month of February (and thats only with 9 personally enrolled).

Programhopper Statistics

I am not the only one who’s had success with the website. Here’s an endorsement from Mark Stevens. He is by far one of the most successful representatives of Directmatches and has one the the communities largest teams. Program Hopper has been a big part of his generating hundreds of leads. This is what he had to say in an email sent to his team members.

Hello everyone,

For those of you who have not taken a serious look at Program Hoppers. Please take a moment and see the potential. I will begin by saying you must upgrade to to the premier level and promote ph everywhere you can. Get great clickthrough’s (ctr) in your premier listings. People pay a lot of per click fees with Google and others. List your primary business in the premier listing for only 9.95, get only two people to do the same and its free . No click fees to draw prospects.

Within one week I have gotten 10 leads sign ups for being a premier listing program hoppers!

Mark A. Stevens
The Success Group

There you have it. A great way to promote your website. Just think in a few days you could have a nice flow of traffic to your website. At that piont you only need to worry about converting each visitor into a customer (or subscriber). Check it out for yourself and get started, go to Program Hoppers now.

For those of you interested in signing up for a premier account and using it to promote Directmatches, there are a few more tricks you can use to get some great results. Just shoot me an email after signing up and I will reply with the information.

Here is some great instruction on how you can actually use SPAM to your advantage (bet you never thought you’d hear that).

This letter comes straight from a recent Directmatches mailing authored by Bill Weber. He has years of experience in the MLM industry and his son is the one who put the business space together. Stop by his profile (username “Megladon”) and introduce yourself sometime, very nice guy.

So without further ado, Bill Weber everyone.

Hello,

It’s Bill again, at popular request from members I have put together a brief on one of the most effective free marketing methods that you can do online. This method is simple and any one interested in making money can do this. As the originator of this simple reverse response concept years ago, it literally has made me a fortune over the years and put millions of people into one of my past companies.

Give your down line something free, simple, fun and effective to do and guess what? …You will make a fortune.

Here you go….

Most people hit their computer in the morning and delete all the incoming emails from people they do not know. Delete the junk of course, “but never ever delete an email from a business builder that is promoting anything.” Many people pay small fortunes for leads, so why pay for leads when you and your down line are deleting hundreds or even thousands of free leads every day.

It takes no more time to respond to a person than it does to delete them. So load up, arm your mouse with the following ammunition. Reply with a soft powerful note which invites these bold business people into your DirectMatches business. This is target marketing at its very best, not only are the people who email you other marketing minded people, “they need what you have to offer through DirectMatches – Business Exposure.”

Start this reply method today, it’s both safe and FREE. Make sure the people you have in your down line are doing this and teach the people that come in to do the same and your DirectMatches income and organization will explode.

STEP RECAP:

A. NEVER EVER DELETE EMAILS OR SPAM FROM OTHER PEOPLE , MARKETERS OR BUSIENSS BUILDERS.

B. REPLY TO ALL SPAM OR EMAIL FROM REAL PEOPLE WITH A SIMPLE NOTE LIKE THE BELOW SAMPLE.

C. TRY THIS METHOD OUT AND START TO TEACH YOUR DOWNLINE – watch your business grow and you’ll make a fortune.

SAMPLE REPLY:

Persons Name,

Thank you for the information on (name the company here.) You’re invited to post a FREE business profile in a world wide business community where 1000’s of like minded business people will review the same information you sent to me. We have many thousands of people and professionals who may be interested in you business.

Just use the link below to signup and let thousands of serious entrepreneurs from around the world view your business and contact information. Why not get free exposure!!

URL http://directmatches.com/username

JOIN FREE—Advertise Your Business—Meet Business People– Make Connections—Make Money

Wishing you Success,

Add your Name and Contact Information.
DirectMatches -The Business Space!

END

Get started replying to SPAM today and you’ll start making more money. If you need help and want to learn more please feel free to contact me back.

Bill Weber

There you have it, another shining example of the quality people and quality knowledge being shared within the Directmatches community.

In case you missed the title, in this post I am going give you some examples of what are, from my experience, the 3 types of dead-end leads and how I turned them them into living, breathing business associates.

Now its not a stretch to assume that the main reason you joined, or were initially interested in, DirectMatches was so that you could find a ton of people to fill up your downline or contact list. Am I right? Of course. BUT what you might not have thought about where the ways you could use Directmatches as a way to add another stream of income. Heck, I didn’t at first either, I just wanted to get in, post a profile and get thousands of sign-ups for my primary business (aim high isn’t that what they say).

Then out of the blue a phone conversation with a competitor, trying to bring me over to the dark side, inadvertently had me looking at Directmatches in a whole new light. Over the course of the next few months I followed my gut, racked my brain and wound up signing-up people who I wouldn’t of normally been able to work with in the past.

Here are description of these three types of leads and the techniques I used to get them to join me in my pursuit of another income stream.

Type #1 – Tire-Kicker-Can’t-Commit Guy
If you’ve been in the MLM business for awhile, I’m sure you know who these people are. They are interested in starting a home-business and change their life and blah, blah, blah BUT when it comes down to it, they don’t want to make the investment.won’t take the leap. Either that or they are just plain expecting something for nothing. A typical way for these people to let you down easy is to give the old “I would really love to but I just don’t have the money right know” response. NEXT right?

Not quite.

Now since you are associated with Directmatches, that is not the end of it. You can say something along these lines, “Tell you what Mr. Tire-Kicker, your in luck, I have this other opportunity where it’s free to join AND you can kick the tires, look under the hood, take it for a spin, whatever! Bottom line, you get the opportunity to mingle with networkers and be a part of winning team. Oh, and all you have to do is start conversations with people to be successful…are you in or what?” If they say still say no then well…now you know. NEXT!

Type #2 – Mine-Is-Better-Than-Yours Guy
How often does this happen to you. Someone sees your ad out there somewhere and decides to give you a call. He asks some questions to let your guard down and tickles the old hope bone. From then he proceeds to, in so many words, imply that your MLM biz op stinks and his is the real deal. Now if you are passionate about your company and you aren’t careful, you can easily end up in a game of one-up that will get neither of you anywhere except Stress Island.

But “serenity now!”

Here again is a perfect opportunity to bring up the Directmatches opportunity. You can direct his attention from signing “just you” to salivating over the MILLION or so like-minded entrepreneurs just waiting for him when he puts up his profile. Plus, as a bonus you now have an experienced networker who will, after reading this post…hint, hint…, recognize the opportunity at hand and help you grow your team.

Type #3 – Too-Bad-He-Would-Be-Great-To-Work-With Guy
I’m sure you’ve had this happen to you. You meet someone who you just hit it off with. They’re great to talk to, laugh at the same jokes, want to be having beers on the golf course on Wednesday while everyone else is at work JUST LIKE YOU, etc. You guys have a ton in common and your gut is telling you that working together with this person could bring about great things (OR this person is just darn good at networking, you just would like to have him/her on your team). Either way it doesn’t matter, they are in another company, in direct competition with you or they just don’t want to get involved in another company at the moment.

No problem!

Call them up explain how they can be a part of Directmatches, how they can be a part of your team, advertise their current opportunity for free AND maybe even make a few bucks, all under one roof. If their as good a friend as you thought or as good at networking as you thought, how can they say no.

There you have it. In the future you should be able to turn any of these negative situations into a positives ones for you and the lead. Hopefully this post started your wheels turning. If so, it’s time to try it out for yourself. Start digging through those old emails, contact lists, and leads lists. I just bet theirs a few 1′s, 2′s and 3′s who would be more than willing to be a part of the greatest entrepreneurial melting pot that is Directmatches. In the end you will be doing them a service by getting them involved with such an upbeat, positive community and at the same time putting your income portfolio on the road to wellness.