Becky Joubert asked:


Everyone wants something for nothing. It’s true. In a Network Marketing business, it is no different. Why is it, then, that we still think we have to pay out loads of money, particularly when it comes to business leads, to make money? Well, there are a lot of business opportunities out there that would like you to think you must pay to play. You can get plenty of things for free if you just take the time to look around.

We all want to believe that because we think our Network Marketing opportunity is great, so will everyone else that sees it. That belief alone will not help us generate Network Marketing business leads. That still doesn’t mean we can’t learn how to market our Network Marketing opportunity for free. That reminds me…your prospects have to be able to find you on the Internet in order to become your business leads!

So, before I get off on a tangent, I want to state that you CAN expect to get tons of business leads and traffic to find you on the Internet, without spending any money at all!

Start Getting Free Business Leads with Social Marketing.

Social Marketing is a form of Internet marketing that attempts to reach marketing goals by communication and participation in various Social Media markets such as MySpace,Facebook, YouTube; and bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Squidoo, and others, like Blogs.

What this means is that you can change the way you obtain business leads for your Network Marketing business opportunity, and remove some stress from your life. Be more social; take time to learn new Internet Network Marketing training concepts, and spend less money by learning free methods of attracting business leads to you, instead of paying for them, or hounding them. Think about what a unique tool this could be for your Network Marketing business!

How to start Attracting Free Business Leads:

By using Social Marketing methods, and socializing on social media sites to attract leads to you instead in hunting for them, you can enter the Social Media Sites and set up house with this new Internet Network Marketing style. This is a form of Attraction Marketing, which is the practice of attracting pre-qualified prospects, or business leads, to find what it is that you are offering on the Internet. So get started on setting up some new social marketing sites and make some friends! Try those listed above, or there are tons of other sites to choose from.

How Does Social Marketing Bring You Business Leads?

Just think of the extremely successful people you know in Network Marketing…what is different about them? In most cases, they are extremely likable and charismatic; some may say…lucky. People are drawn to them like a moth to a flame. Business leads just seem to appear. I think that’s the key…business leads come to them! They’ve established themselves as a “likable leader”. I doubt they chase any prospects, or pay for them.

That’s the way I want you to think…that success comes easily to you by just being yourself. You are already a leader. Your prospects just need to know “who” you are…without your “sales hat” on. You can do all this with Social Marketing; on sites like FaceBook, MySpace, YouTube, StumbleUpon, and others. Work on being a friend and sharing your knowledge, but in a giving way, and not selling. People usually do business with people they like and trust. Business leads will be attracted to you! Doesn’t that sound a lot less stressful? And, it doesn’t cost you a dime!

Next: To learn techniques on how these Social Media sites work best for business and Internet Marketing, just search the Internet for free training on Internet Network Marketing. You can find valuable training information at a support site for Internet Network Marketing trainees. I found that I really needed this type of support to keep my training on track when I was just starting out as an Internet Marketing Coach.

You can quickly learn how to set up these sites correctly and then learn how to get business leads and traffic to find your sites without sending unsolicited network marketing information. You can find tons of free Internet Network Marketing training on how to learn Social Marketing in order to help prospects, or business leads, find you and your business opportunity.

Once these wonderful, free business leads start coming to you, you must have a way to find out who’s interested in what you are offering. You need to have a “lead capture page” in place in order to capture the information of those who have “asked” for more information, or to be kept informed. After all those years of verbally bludgeoning people over the head to pay attention to your network marketing business opportunity, they simply ask to be associated with you, the leader! It’s a beautiful thing! I initially joined a free Internet Marketing training class to help me set it all up.

Last: There are Internet Network Marketing coaches out there, like myself, that enjoy teaching how to successfully bring in free business leads for your Network Marketing business. We are all beginners at some point, in something. And, it’s much easier to learn from someone willing to share what they’ve learned, than to stumble around and learn everything the hard way. I have plenty of my own examples to share about that subject!

Just remember the principles about being yourself, having fun, making friends, and presenting your Network Marketing business opportunity in a giving and “Attractive Marketing” manner. And don’t forget the Golden Rule, “Treat Others as You would Like to be Treated”.

Cindy King asked:


I wrote a blog post with a list of my 301 Twitter culture tips and international links. This list gives you quite a few interesting links to help you develop your international and cross-cultural skills.

A Social Media Marketing Plan

But there is something even more interesting about these 301 tweets. These tweets are what really started my social media marketing.

Just after I published this post, Michael Stelzner published an article on Copyblogger mentioning my twitter strategy for business.

When you look closely at this list of 301 tweets you can actually see the thread of my 5 daily scheduled tweets and the increase in third party links.

And remember, I am based in France… this is international web marketing for my business.

International Marketing On Social Media

Social media marketing can build relationships with your clients. And this includes your international clients.

But for international markets there is one big first step:

You need to identify the right social media to develop your business in each target country

And this takes a little bit of investigation… and also a trial run.
Different cultures use social media differently. Different web channels are used at different degrees of maturity and with different degrees of sophistication And, the intricacies of cross-cultural communication also come into play

I recently re-tweeted an article about Facebook increasing it’s number of users dramatically in Germany and Italy

Navigating The Different International Trends

In addition to learning how to use Twitter for business, there are two other trends to watch:

Customers all over the world are changing, taking control of sales processes… but at different degrees and with different nuances. It is a little like how “polite” can mean different things to different cultures. Users in different countries are at different stages in the adoption curve of social media. And you do not market to people with different levels of sophistication or expertise in the same way.

What this means is…

It can be hard to evaluate which social media to use in which foreign market. Today you still need to use educated guesses and thorough testing methods. Trial runs are needed to get to know people, and this is even more true in foreign markets.

More about social media marketing for international business development in the next post.



My social media marketing started last September when I joined Chris Garrett’s Authority Blogger course.

The main reason why I chose Chris above any other blogger was because of his superior social communication skills. Just follow his tweets and you will see what I mean.

A few lucky people are gifted in knowing how to bring people together and Chris is one of these people. It is this type of skill that sets you apart in social media.

Ryan C Murphy asked:


As annoying as dealing with all the kids can be, the fact that social sites are a potent force for marketing can not be denied. They are here to stay, and are the future of online marketing. Twitter has already proven how effective sending out simple short text messages can be. The way to think of them is communication tools.

Be it Myspce, Facebook, twitter or another of the myriad of sites that have popped up, they are all about communicating with people. They make it easy to reach a large number of people, sometimes very quickly. If you can learn to communicate at their level, and use that to promote a site and / or product, you can be very successful.

Just be prepared to deal with the people who will interfere. Some people hate internet marketers with a passion, and will try to get your account banned if they can. Others simply take up a vast amount of communication space. These “friend whores” are just looking to get as many people on their friends list as they can. They will send out an amazing number of bulletins, messages and comments, all in the pursuit of more adds, and comments for themselves.

Unfortunately narcissism rules the social networks right now. Myspace is probably the worst in this regard, but it is a problem everywhere. The point of the sites has moved from making friends, and has become how important can I make myself feel. Far too many kids, spend an incredible amount of time in pursuit of feeling important, because of the number of people in their list. Many probably have no idea what the word friend is supposed to mean anymore.

If you can navigate your way through the briar patch, you can put the social sites to good work for yourself. Just understand it will take time and effort on your part to make it worth while.