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.

In this post I am going tell you about an unlikely benefit I received by being a member of Directmatches. It has to do with my newly found confidence and posture. Let me explain.

Perhaps most of you came into network marketing with skills and a chip on your shoulder. You are an unbelievable recruiter, an awesome networkers or savvy business builder. A real “this stuff is easy type guy.” NOT ME!

The cold hard truth is that I really sucked for a very long (and painful) time. I was bumbling around, scaring the living hell out of every prospect. My prospects would run screaming in the other direction. They could smell the desperation from a mile away. Other than that I was a freakin’ mess. I worked for three years in various companies, I went to the big seminars, attended Dani Johnson “First Steps To Success” (highly recommend her by the way)and worked unbelievably hard. The only thing I was building was credit card debt.

Then came Directmatches. Now I have a modest (but nice) income rolling in, a large downline, some great contacts, some new skills and, most importantly, CONFIDENCE and POSTURE. Two key things resulting from some of the methods being taught and the feeling that “yes I can be successful.”

Funny thing happens as you see your downline grow. You notice things; People come, people go. Some people put in hundreds of reps, some do nothing. Some are good right away and then fade, some do nothing and then one day BAM they are working. I was seeing how an a network marketing organization works. How to not let every little thing bother me and concentrate on two big things, putting more people in and duplicating my efforts with the people who are willing. Concepts I’ve heard over and over before but never quite experienced until my downline started to grow.

Also, since Directmatches is free it allows for people to come in and participate without making the big commitment. This in turn allows a struggling guy, like myself, see how it’s supposed to work. I get a glimpse of what my leaders in other companies get to see. Up until now I only saw my 2 or three poeple not do anything. I worked my prospects like I had to do everything. I worked the prospects like I needed the money.

All this newly found optimism started to bleed into my other endeavors. I do not sweat the big stuff anymore because I know I will be successful. Been there. Who cares if so and so doesn’t sign up, NEXT.

Bottom line. I now have confidence and posture. Two of the most critical elements when it come to surviving in any entrepreneurial endeavor. I’ve heard about these concepts many times before (they are part of network marketing 101), but, until I “experienced” them the light bulb just didn’t go on. Now that I’ve had an opportunity to see the bigger picture and taste some success, the future is much brighter.

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.

Today I am going to do a quick how-to on reverse reply marketing. Many Directmatches reps, including myself, have built a nice downline using these very simple methods. After reading this post and applying some of the techniques, you will too. Lets get started.

First, you need to know who you are looking for. With Directmatches you have a variety of people you can target. For this post I am only going to talk about two types. People looking to get involved in a home based business and people who want to advertise their home business business or MLM opportunity. I recommend that you start with the people looking to advertise and network. They are everywhere plus they are experienced and are more likely to be receptive to everything you and Directmatches have to offer.

Now that you know who you are looking for, need to now where to look. There are many places both online and off line. If you want to work online, go find yourself a large social networking site. MySpace is the king but there are currently many other social networking sites. There are many being put up everyday. One great resource I stumbled onto was Wikipedia.org. They have a large list of social networking sites (notice that they even give an estimate of the size of the community).

Another great place to find leads is in classifieds; online or offline. USfreeAds and Craigslist are examples of some large online classified sites. For offline leads, check your local Newspapers, magazines and the bulletin boards and those “shoppers” at your local supermarket . You can find all kinds of classified by doing a search with Google or Yahoo. Also, keep in mind that Directmatches is available in many countries throughout the world so you can use the following techniques using classified in place like South Africa, Australia and France.

Now that you know who who are looking for and where to find them, it is now time to start a conversation with them. All you need to do is either directly ask them about their business or reply to one of their ads. Here is an example of the approach I use. It all starts with a simple question or two like this;

Hey ,
Sounds interesting, how’s business?
Do you have a website?

Let me know,
Corey

That’s it. Best thing about this is that you can really leverage your time and do many of these very fast. Just have a template like the version above saved in a word file (or any text editor) for when you are ready to start working. Just right click to copy your template, find a bunch of ads and then right click to start pasting. Depending on how hard you want to work you can really knock out a ton of these, fast. In just an hour you can send out 25-50 messages or more. To put it in perspective, if you’ve done any phone calling with your current business, just think of how many calls you could do in that same time…not many.

Now all that you have to do is check your inbox over the next few days because many of these people will be replying to share their opportunity with you. At this time you can reply with something like this;

Hello ,

Thank you for the information …I am associated with many thousands
of networking professionals who may be interested as well.

You’re invited to post a free profile on my site. Many serious
entrepreneurs from around the world will view your contact and
business information.

Join Free! Advertise For Free! Use The Business Directory

Add your profile because I will send some people your way.
http://directmatches.com/yourname “The Business Space”

P.S. New! Join for Free – win $1000’s of dollars in cash or prizes for best
profile and more!

Much Success!
Corey Koehler

Thats it! Now you have establish a relationship with the prospect. At this point, most will either click on the link and sign up or they will reply with questions.

The template for the second reply is also very effective to use with the SPAM you get in your email everyday. For more specific info on that check out this earlier post of mine here – http://yourdirectmatches.com/2007/02/11/how-to-use-spam-to-your-advatage/

There you have it. Now you know who to look for, where to find them and what to say. Just tweak the above examples to include your information and get to work. You can spend as little as an hour or two a week doing this with great results. Before you know it your downline will build and the weekly checks will be in the mailbox. As always, let me know if you have any questions or anything else to ad. Happy prospecting!