The Allinson Blog

Our industry is filled with much hype and loaded with
sales-pitches. Everywhere you turn you’ll find someone trying to
sell you SOMETHING. They’ll do their darndest to convince you that
you absolutely NEED what they are selling.

It’s extremely rare to find folks nowadays who are just looking to
add value to you by giving you some good content to help you build
YOUR business for free.

Yep, believe it or not the adage, “give without want”, still rings
true to some folks.

Well, here’s a couple of my friends, Raymond and Ferny doing
exactly that. They surveyed a bunch of home business entrepreneurs
like you to find out what their biggest obstacles are to generating
leads online. Then they proceeded to providing valuable solutions
to overcoming those obstacles.

Here’s the video they produced:

http://tinyurl.com/ylr2odw

And here are what some of the viewers are saying:

“Hey Ferni and Raymond,
Awesome introduction webinar yesterday. I am looking forward to
watch the next ones. You provide incredible information that every
serious networker should now.”
- Cheers, Perig

“Great work boys - a little fast, but I’ve listened to you twice now
& I will be very interested in your future more detailed teaching.

Thanks for being so willing to give back to us for no cost -
you really HAVEN’T forgotten how difficult it can be financially!”
- Val Flint

“Finally, someone has given solid information and not taken me
around and around for nothing! Thank you.”
- Joy

So if you are serious about getting traffic to your website and
building your online business, this is a must watch.  Go check it
out:

http://tinyurl.com/ylr2odw

P.S. Make sure to opt in via the opt-in box to the top right of
that page to hear about how a 4-year Amway failure was able to
finally retire his wife and find success online with what Raymond
and Ferny taught him.

1. Establish relationships first (people buy from those they trust and like).
2. Give without want and it will return tenfold later.
3. Make sure you write “hypnotically” – we are all bombarded with e-mails daily, so yours needs to connect and capture attention.
4. Be yourself and let your “voice” or personality come out in your posts, articles, sales letter, ad copy. etc.
5. Check your ego at the door, and instead think about what your reader wants (not what you want to sell!).

With the explosion of social media and Web 2.0 sites and their popularity, many marketers and networkers have jumped on the bandwagon and are actively promoting their opportunities and products there. However, this blog post is to serve a polite but firm reminder to those to remember the principles behind attraction marketing and the etiquette required to make social media “work”. Sadly, we have become an entitlement and instant gratification society, and as a result perhaps many “marketers” feel obliged to immediately vomit their opportunity links, hard sell video embeds, webinar invites, or even blatant sales pitches on other people’s Facebook, Twitter, or My Space profiles. Whatever happened to the SOCIAL aspect of social media?! In other words, instead take 30 seconds to read my profile, read my recent posts, or check out my own links, and then ask me APPROPRIATE and INFORMED questions about my life and/or business. That way, you are more likely to get a polite response from me instead of an immediate delete keystroke of your spam of MY page! Then perhaps later and if it seems fitting, you can send me information on your program or training. Stop drooling over the prospect of “an avalanche of traffic” simply by posting your links on my pages when you see that I have 4000+ Facebook friends or 12,000+ Twitter followers (or better yet, do the work involved to create your own following)! In the end, just be real and genuine, and that way you will most likely get my attention and assistance.

As an internet marketer, one of the most important—and difficult—things you’ll have to do is to drive traffic to your website or blog.  Because let’s face it—the most beautifully designed, well written site or blog in the world is worth absolutely nothing if nobody visits it.  Making money online is all about traffic, and one of the best ways to generate traffic is to keep your website and blog chock full of crisp, fresh, relevant and timely content.  Content is king and if you want to succeed online you’ll need it.  In fact, you’ll need lots of it. 

<The problem is that not everybody is really good at creating content of any kind, let alone the really good stuff that brings people flocking to your sites.  Content represents value, and if you have the kind of high impact, high value content that people are clamoring for, they will search you out, find you, and very likely, do business with you.  Again, content is king.  So if you’re not the kind of internet entrepreneur who is really great at creating content—we’re talking about guys like Robert Kiyosaki here, or maybe Mike Dillard—you have a simple and easy alternative available to you.  Simply borrow the content. 

In the fraternal world of the internet, borrowing quotes from industry thought leaders is perfectly legal, perfectly acceptable and usually encouraged.  There is one caveat though, however—you need to give credit where credit is due.  Borrowing someone’s valuable content, trying to repackage it and label it as your own is a huge no-no that could land you in very big trouble.  You simply can’t do it. 

But if you paraphrase content, and then give credit to the author, and even better, a link to their site or blog, you create a win-win situation.  You look smart and authoritative for finding the valuable content.  And the author gets site traffic from your site traffic.  It’s how the internet works. 

Some people actually operate very successful blogs—and very profitable ones—without creating one single word of content themselves.  They spend their days surfing the internet for valuable nuggets of content, repost them—giving proper credit of course—and in the process become known for their high value sites.  Oh and by the way—they also make money in the process.

Jeffery Combs of Golden Mastermind Seminars Inc provides a great endorsement for David Allinson.

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