Microsoft To Acquire Linkedin!

Microsoft To Acquire Linkedin…

CrowdFunding Critical Step

CrowdFunding Critical Step is making sure you have a solid reach! 

Reach is not being able to reach a goal, it's reaching a massive audience with your message. Without a huge reach your crowdfunding efforts will not achieve the results you are looking for. 

Imagine you are launching a new product or service and you want to use a crowdfunding platform such as Kickstarter, or Indiegogo. You develop a nice website on the crowdfunding platform that you chose, that is very attractive and compelling for the reader. It will have a high conversion rate and almost insure that when anyone gets to the site they will contribute by purchasing your product purchase or service. 

Now imagine, how you will get the people to the site. How many friends do you have? Is your social media large enough to prime the pump? This is where many crowdfunding programs stop and don't reach their goal.

The crowdfunding platforms will promote your companies products or service, if you are getting visits but if you aren't they will not help. Their reach is for the popular traffic, and they will not help unless you are getting traction. You have to create the initial push, and prime the pump, then they will assist you. 

Without a massive reach few will learn about your program outside of your sphere of influence. You can go to social media companies and pay for them to use their social media reach, but what happens after that? Do you keep going back to others to use their social media contacts? The cost can skyrocket!

You Can Do It On Your Own!

We all know you can go to social media companies and get them to promote your product or service, but that can get very expensive depending on the quality of the social media reach. The more targeted you get the more cash you will lay out. Every time you send out a promotional campaign you will have to pay fees to get it done. Every time you spend money you are eating into the funds you are trying to raise. 

YOU CAN BUILD YOUR OWN REACH, on your own and target it to a specific audience, and then reuse it anytime you want. There is a platform that allows you to do this and the learning curve is minimal. The concept is called "Inbound Marketing" and the platform is Markethive. It's a free platform that allows you to create a massive reach and build a campaign that is specific to your crowdfunding product or service.

Just as the graphic indicates the reach is a far as you want to take it. You can reach 100,000 or 100,000,000 it's up to you. Imagine how many people you can inform of your crowdfunding efforts when you reach over millions of people. 

So the critical step in crowdfunding is developing a continuous reach and then nurturing the reach so as to inform as many as possible about your offer. Imagine how easy it will be if you are building a business, and looking to get your message out to millions of people. The results are mind blowing!

Thanks for reading,
Dr. Raymond Jewell

PS: Dr. Raymond Jewell is a leading Economist specializing in the Small and Home Based Business Marketplace. He is a Alpha Founder with Markethive and manages several blogs on the hive. Dr. Jewell is a professional Network Marketer and represents several companies successfully. He can be reached through Markethive.

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Perpetual Fundraising

FundRaising Relief 

Fund Raising issues

FundRaising Relief is something that all Charities and Non-Profit need. Raising money becomes a tough business with many Charities and Non-Profits going back to the same people over and over again for funding. 

One of the newer ways to raise money is through perpetual fund raising. This enables the group raising the money to receive cash flow to pay their bills. With a perpetual cash flow, running the charity or non-profit becomes an easier task, and allows the group to focus on the core function that the group was established to do. 

What ends up happening is groups spend more time raising money then doing what they were founded to do. We all know that time is something that can't be recovered so enabling the group to raise funding, out into the future, with only the up front effort is highly desirable. 

Fund Raising Solution

One of the ways to create a perpetual fundraising system is to offer something that is highly desirable  with huge value. When the public perceives when they are giving a charity or non-profit money, and they are getting huge value for it, they will continue to give. When they give and get value in return, over and over again, then the public will continue to come back for more giving. 

Instead of just giving out of duty, they public gives for value. We have prepared a video that will explain how our FundRaising Platform works so you can see how the perpetual giving idea will enhance your Charity or Non-Profit's future. You can also access another video that has some brainstorming ideas on how to use the platform. 

Thanks for reading,
Dr. Raymond Jewell

PS: Dr. Raymond Jewell is a leading Economist specializing in the Small and Home Based Business Marketplace. He is a Alpha Founder with Markethive and manages several blogs on the hive. Dr. Jewell is a professional Network Marketer and represents several companies successfully. He can be reached through Markethive.

Incredible Network Marketing Principal to Success

Incredible Network Marketing Principal To Success – that is over looked by most is, 

Respect the process = Success will come… 

Having respect for the process of Network Marketing is something that most people don't follow. This is why a small percentages end up failing. Now I know these are harsh words, but without the process the results will not happen. 

This is obvious and most know it, so you probably are asking the question, "why don't people follow a winning process"? The answer is right in front of us, it's intimidating! 

Yes, new and existing Network Marketers find the process intimidating, and will try every way they can to shake it off. I know, I just did it, and I've been doing this a long time!

Here is my story, "I signed up for the MLM Recruit On Demand System that dials calls for me and then people return my calls and then I call them back. Well I tested the leads sent to me without the call back option, and boy did my palms sweat. They were cold calls, I had done them early on in my business, and I knew how to do them but didn't want to. I feared the rejection that in reality would never happen. I tried to look for every reason not to call the leads. Finally I got myself together and said I must follow the process. I then called a few of them to get a feel for what happens when the new leads call me. I caught myself looking for reasons to not follow the process. The reason I signed up for this system was that interested people would call me back."

I needed to follow the process and get my head out of my backside. 

The process is laid out for a reason, do you know what that reason is? It's to make your success easier and quicker, but what do we do? We decide to not do it! Duh! We wonder why we are not able to achieve success. Phone calls are a major part of the network marketing business and if you can't do that you will not succeed. 

Every time I catch myself trying to not follow the process, I have a long talk with ME, and get back on track. You all know the process, and if you don't, message me through Markethive, and I will take you through it. 

Marcus Lemonis  who is on television with his show The Profit, always talks about People, Process, and Product. Process is primary to profit, after people. Without people you have no process, but with people, you can execute a process. Without a process a company is out of business so one can conclude that its is the most important part of building a business. 

In Network Marketing following a process is the difference between success and failure. This is the major key reason why many don't succeed in network marketing. This is the recipe for success or failure, there is not shortcut. 

So if you need to find out where to get the PROCESS, contact your up-line and ask what they do. If they don't know then keep asking up the ladder, someone will know. If that does not work, I will help you. But if making phone calls is hard for you I am sure you will not call me, but if you do I will be here for you.

Thanks for reading,
Dr. Raymond Jewell

PS: Dr. Raymond Jewell is a leading Economist specializing in the Small and Home Based Business Marketplace. He is a Alpha Founder with Markethive and manages several blogs on the hive. Dr. Jewell is a professional Network Marketer and represents several companies successfully. 

Network Marketing Company Pays Daily

If you got paid daily for your business, would that be ok?

Do you keep your options open to creating revenue outside of your core business?

If you were introduced to a business that you could do easily and would be accepted by all of your friends and family would that be of interest to you?

If you answered YES to the above questions you owe it to your self to read further. This new company that I am going to present to you, will change your life forever, and will blow your mind. It's so easy that anyone can do it, that can talk. If you can talk, you can refer!

This new company will give you anywhere from 92% to 192% return monthly on your monthly expenses. You will add money to your life for doing what you normally do, on a daily basis. Getting a return on monthly expenses is a unique concept, but it really boils down to cash back. 

You also earn money for referring people to it, and they in turn get the savings you are getting. You can earn anywhere from $5 per day to $3000 per day. No sales just referring others. 

The Company:

The Company's name is Saivian and it is a brand new concept in affiliate marketing. Saivian is a BUYING CLUB that provides cash back on purchases. When people join they get 20% cash back on all the purchases that they normally make on a daily basis. The cash back far exceeds the monthly cost, so the club has benefits whether you run it as an affiliate business or not.

The cash back concept has been around for quite some time. Credit cards do it, big box retailers do it, so why not do it through affiliate marketing. In the other cases the cash back is very small, but with Saivian it's 20% which is huge. Most credit cards only give 1%-2% back which is nice, but not 20%. 

Affiliates:

There is more money through the affiliate program. All you have to do is refer others to Saivian and you can get paid daily. The referral fees are from $5 per day to $3,000 per day, depending how many people you refer. The magic is that regardless of whether the person you refer decides to take advantage of the affiliate program or not, they will get tremendous savings through the cash back program, and you get the referral fee daily.

Everyone is a winner! 

Let's put it in perspective. In our current economy people are having trouble making ends meet and are looking for ways to supplement their incomes in a painless way. The Saivian program gives them a solution. When anyone joins the buying club they get an instant 20% cash back on existing purchases they make on a weekly basis. If they tell others they will get additional income through the referral program, and the more referrals that are made the income flow increases. 

The referrals do not have to be personally sponsored, except for the first 3 which gets the first $5 per day income stream going, they can be brought in by others on your team. At this point I would highly recommend that you watch several videos that can explain further how this program works, and then if you still have an interest in Saivian, please fill out the form and I will call you. Click here. 

Thanks for reading,
Dr. Raymond Jewell

PS: Dr. Raymond Jewell is a leading Economist specializing in the Small and Home Based Business Marketplace. He is a Alpha Founder with Markethive and manages several blogs on the hive. Dr. Jewell is a professional Network Marketer and represents several companies successfully. 

WordPress meets Markethive

WordPress meets Markethive

At one point the decision or revelation became the foundation of the Markethive blogging system. Markethive would make WordPress better.

Let me explain. At one time we considered creating a blog software solution, (Blog Press) with templates that would compete with WordPress. I know, stupid. But at the time, there were many who thought it was a good idea.

The argument went like this, “Joomla, Drupal, Blogger, Typepad, etc.” offer others options so we should too. OK, I said, but then the list of competitors grew from WordPress to a much larger list, and not only did it make us another “ME TOO” company instead of an innovative cutting edge customer centric juggernaut.

I made the decision to “not” jump in as yet another standalone (CMS) blog platform like Word Press, but rather to create a powerful system to make Word Press and other CMS far more manageable, with the goal to make them better. Particularly functioning on making the world heavy weight Word Press even better by enhancing the WP platform with a supporting blog platform so multiple content could be constructed with partner contributors, so we could build a Broadcasting system utilizing literaly millions of members social networks, so we could build massive WordPress sites by many members in collaboration producing powerful SEO campaigns.

The whole idea has manifested as one of the most powerful blog collaboration Inbound Marketing systems ever devised, and that is Markethive.

Our roll being to fuse a powerful vertical targeted social network of Entrepreneurs, thereby making the Word Press and other CMS system powerful by the very spirit of the Rise of the Entrepreneur!

The following lists have become our goal to support the top contenders with plugins, widgets and collaborative power and function.

But the video tells it all.

Choosing blogging software can be a scary process, especially if you are new to blogging. There are many different types of engines and content management systems (CMS) that could be used. Picking the software that you’ll need is not an easy task, given the wide variety and types on the Web today.

There are many different aspects to consider when choosing which blogging software to pick. For instance:

Programming language.

Many blog platforms run on either PHP or Rails, but you can find just about any flavor of programming language you are looking for.

What features you’ll need.

The type of software you might choose is very dependent on the type of blog you are going to run. Some blog software is geared more towards new users, while others are more developer and designer-friendly. It’s a matter of finding software based on the features you need.

The size of the software’s community.

If the software community is larger for one blogging system and much smaller and less active than another, the more active community is usually a better choice for software. More active users within the development community means more improvements on the code base, in a faster time frame.

The age of the software.

The age of the software shows the maturity of the blogging platform. Young projects are more unstable, and are more likely to have bugs.

If you are planning on extending the blog.

If you are thinking about adding things like forums, a store, or some other feature to your blog, some blogging software will be more suited to fill that need than others.

The blog software that you choose can have a big impact on your blogging. It’s important to choose the right software in the very beginning, so you can avoid the hassle of migrating to different engine later on. Here are the pros and cons of the 10 most popular blogging systems.

Here is the list of the top 10 blogging CMS solutions:

1.Wordpress
Alexa Rank (276)-45

WordPress is the most famous and widely-used blogging platform. It features a very intuitive web-based installer so anyone from skill level novice to expert can quickly install the software without any hiccups.

The WordPress community is a major asset to the blogging software. It has one of the largest and most passionate communities of developers and users, so one could find just about any theme or plugin imaginable. The possibilities for extending the software are endless, and many web sites and services have used the WordPress code base to build entirely different applications. WordPress also features integration with Akismet, one of the most effective spam protection systems for blogging software.

WordPress makes it easy for new bloggers to not only install the software, but also to download and install automatic upgrades to plugins with only one click. The learning curve for WordPress is fairly minimal, and if a new user runs in to problems, they can always check the extensive documentation. WordPress is perfect for the new blogger who wants to get his feet wet installing their first blog software, or the advanced developer who’s looking to extend the stable code into something entirely different.

If you are wanting to start a multiple-blog site, you can also check out WordPress MU. WordPress MU is the same code base as the mature WordPress single blog code base, with some added functionality.

2. Drupal
Alexa Rank  (2,497)-17

Drupal isn’t your typical blogging software. While it has an incredible community behind the code and many blogs use it for blogging software, it’s not just blogging software. Drupal is community software.

Drupal really shines as blog software for a blogging community. Performancing is a great example of using Drupal as a community of blogs. Whether you are wanting to power one blog to a 100, Drupal is an excellent choice.

Another strong point about Drupal is the versatility of the software. It comes packaged with a robust user system, but also a lot of community-friendly features like forums, books (for creating documents in a “book” structure) and a tracker which allows you to follow updates and content that other users have published recently.

Drupal also comes with a large community of developers and modules. With these modules, one could build any type of site or add nearly any sort of functionality to their Drupal installation. Many top-notch sites use Drupal to publish their multiple blogs and user communities. Performancing, Spread Firefox, The Onion, and Ubuntu and others.

Drupal is the perfect blogging software for anyone wanting to add a community to their blog with forums and extensions.

3. Joomla
Alexa Rank (2,689)-570

Joomla is a CMS that is similar to the community-friendly Drupal, and gaining traction every day. While Drupal is geared more towards developing community-flavored sites and blogs, Joomla seems to be geared more towards ecommerce (you can read more about the comparison between Joomla and Drupal here).

Regardless of their differences, Joomla is very much like Drupal in the fact that it’s easy to get anything from a simple site to a community blog in minutes. Joomla has a vibrant development community which has created many extensions.

Joomla is perfect for anyone wanting to build a blogging community site, or add ecommerce functionality to a blog.

4. ExpressionEngine
Alexa Rank (12,422)-2,466

ExpressionEngine is a very robust blogging platform, but isn’t free. The best feature about ExpressionEngine is the feature to publish multiple websites, either using different subdomains on a single domain, or across multiple domains.

You could use one code base to power multiple sites across multiple domains. The software features an extremely clean and simple backend that shouldn’t confuse the blogger. Designers and developers love ExpressionEngine for the fact that it’s quite easy to hand over a site and have the client update his own blog. It’s a solid all-in-one package.

ExpressionEngine is really geared for people who are trying to start a multi-blog site, but anyone can use the software quite easily thanks to its thoughtful and elegant design. A single license costs $99.95, but if you’re running a personal blog you can download the core version of EE.

5. Liferay
Alexa Rank (26,959)+3,284

Liferay Portal is a free and open source enterprise portal written in Java and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. It allows users to set up features common to websites. It is fundamentally constructed of functional units called portlets. Liferay is sometimes described as a content management framework or a web application framework. It comes with certain portlets preinstalled. These comprise the core functionality of the portal system.

The reasons to use Liferay Portal for your website are simple: it provides a robust platform to serve your site to all clients, be they desktop, mobile, or anything in between; it provides all the standard applications you need to run on your site; and it provides an easy to use development framework for new applications or customization. In addition to this, Liferay Portal is developed using an open source methodology, by people from around the world. The code base is solid, and has been proved to be reliable and stable in mission critical deployments in diverse industries.

6. DotNetNuke
Alexa Rank  (32,058)-238

DotNetNuke is an open source platform for building web sites based on Microsoft .NET technology. It is written in VB.NET and distributed under both a Community Edition BSD-style license and a commercial proprietary license. The Community Edition is a popular web content management (WCM) system and application development framework for ASP.NET, with over 6 million downloads and 600,000 production web sites as of October 2010. More than 8,000 DotNetNuke apps are available for purchase on Snowcovered.com. DotNetNuke.com has over 800,000 registered members as of October 2010.

Major Features:

Distinguishes between community (common features) and enterprise (full set of features) editions. 
Various modules, and data providers.
Provides language packs for about 60 languages.
Customizable through skins and templates.

7. MODX
Alexa Rank (32,333)+1482

Modx is not just an open source CMS but also a web application framework. Raymond Irving and Ryan Thrash began the MODx CMS project in 2004 as a fork of Etomite. In 2008 MODx users created a new logo and branding for the project. Now MODx allows for full segregation of content (plain HTML), appearance and behavior (standards compliant CSS and JavaScript) and logic (PHP, snippets).

Major Features:

As with Joomla, modx officially supports only MySQL database.
Not just CMS but a PHP framework for Web.
Freedom to choose jQuery, Mootools, ExtJS, Prototype or any other JavaScript library.
Supports PHP 4.3.11 and above.
Complete control of all metadata and URL structure for SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
Unlimited hierarchical page depth.
Can create custom fields and widgets for templates.
Role-based permissions for the Manager.
Ability to customize the Manager on a per-deployment basis.
Ecommerce integration via Foxy Cart.
Extensions: 622, also known as add-ons.

8. concrete5
Alexa Rank (33,631)-292

Concrete5 is an open source CMS started in 2003 as a rapid-design approach to building the now-defunct LewisAndClark200.org, the official site for the Ad Council's National Council for the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial. Concrete5 is developed in PHP and is distributed under MIT software license.

Concrete5 features in-context editing (the ability to edit website content directly on the page, rather than in an administrative interface or using web editor software). Editable areas are defined in concrete5 templates which allow editors to insert 'blocks' of content. These can contain simple content (text and images) or have more complex functionality, for example image slideshows, comments systems, lists of files, maps etc. Further addons can be installed from the concrete5 Marketplace to extend the range of blocks available for insertion. Websites running concrete5 can be connected to the concrete5 website, allowing automatic upgrading of the core software and of any addons downloaded or purchased from the Marketplace.

9. Typo3
Alexa Rank (36,110)-8,334

TYPO3 is a free and open source CMS released under the GNU General Public License oriented to small to mid size enterprise-class users. TemplaVoila is an alternative template engine extension for TYPO3. A graphical mapping tool for creating templates is included, an alternative page module, the ability to create flexible content elements and an API for developers. New content element types can be created without programming. TemplaVoila facilitates more flexibility for maintaining web pages than TYPO3's standard templating, while making it possible to enforce a strict corporate design and allowing editors to work with content more intuitively.

Delivered with a base set of interfaces, functions and modules, TYPO3's functionality spectrum is implemented by extensions. More than 5000 extensions are currently available for TYPO3 for download under the GNU General Public License from a repository called the TYPO3 Extension Repository, or TER.

TYPO3 can run on most HTTP servers such as Apache or IIS on top of Linux, Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X. It uses PHP 5.3 or newer and any relational database supported by the TYPO3 DBAL including MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and others. Some 3rd-party extensions – not using the database API – support MySQL as the only database engine. The system can be run on any web server with a modern CPU and at least 256 MB RAM. The backend can be displayed in any modern browser with JavaScript. There is no browser restriction for displaying user-oriented content generated by TYPO3.

10. Alfresco
Alexa Rank (36,854)+2,483

Alfresco is an open source enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Alfresco includes a content repository, an out-of-the-box web portal framework for managing and using standard portal content, a CIFS interface that provides file system compatibility on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, a web content management system capable of virtualizing web apps and static sites via Apache Tomcat, Lucene indexing, and jBPM workflow. The Alfresco system is developed using Java technology. John Newton (co-founder of Documentum) and John Powell (a former COO of Business Objects) founded Alfresco Software, Inc. in 2005.

11. b2evolution
Alexa  Rank (80,628)-14,427

b2evolution is another blogging platform that allows for a single installation of a blog, or a whole network of blogs, right out of the box. b2 probably has the weakest developer community behind it, with only a 200+ plugins (compared to Joomla’s 3,400+).

The software features a very easy-to-understand backend, ideal for beginners. b2 also has has a built in stats feature, which is something most blogging platforms don’t have out of the box. The software also features a post editor with a very minimal WYSIWYG editor, which is perfect for a beginning blogger.

While the b2 developer community may not be very large, it has a very promising code base and many people still use b2evolution to power their blogs and blogger communities.

The Irrelevant Others

Plone.org                           
Alexa Rank (102,395)+10,174

cmsmadesimple.org
Alexa Rank (104,671)-32,048

umbraco.com
Alexa Rank  (116,439)-16,212

ez.no
Alexa Rank (154,173)-43,687

movabletype.org
Alexa Rank (174,802)-9,166

textpattern.com
Alexa Rank (187,704)-45,048

Being Irrelevant,

mephistoblog.com
Alexa Rank (8,419,219)-2,169,053

There is no other blogging platform, that integrates support for all Blog CMS systems, engages social networks so reaches high into the stratosphere, nor institute a learning environment so building competent content teams is easily achieved.

Markethive, It is that easy It is that powerful

*Written by Thomas Prendergast, CMO, Markethive, Inc.

Re-published with permission by:

Dr. Raymond Jewell, Leading Economist and Consultant. Dr. Jewell has been consulting with Small and Home Based Business Clients for over 35 years. He is an Alpha Founder with Markethive and manages several blogs on the hive. Dr. Jewell is giving away FREE Markethive system just click and join.

Network Marketing – Who Are You Listening Too?

In Network Marketing who are you listening too? 

There is so much background noise in the network marketing industry it is hard to see and hear what is right and wrong . Everybody is an expert, and they also claim to know the secrets that enable others to earn millions of dollars per year. Many people are spending hard earned dollars to get the secrets of network marketing, by proclaimed experts, who have the inside track to wealth. No wonder people are confused! 

I am not an expert, but just another network marketer who loves the industry and has spent thousands of dollars to learn those secrets. What I have found out is there is no special secret. No matter what anyone says, there is no magic bullet that is going to take you from zero to sixty fast, it doesn't exist. 

What does exist is certain specific tasks that one has to follow to reach success. I am going to save you a ton of money here, and you will not have to pay for another course to become successful in Network Marketing. Granted this is not conclusive, but the steps are necessary. 

Successful Network Marketing Steps:

Step 1: Find a company that you can enjoy being associated with, and one that is easy to present to others. You have to have a passion for what you are talking about, otherwise the people you are presenting your program to will sense you really are only out for the money. Go with your gut when looking at companies, if it doesn't feel good, don't do it. 

Step 2: Don't throw-up information all over others. In other words please don't present your company to people unless you are in a specific meeting where everyone is mentally prepared to hear it. When everyone is expecting to hear what you are offering, then and only then should you present your company or product. There has to be a meeting of the minds before any presentation will be effective. Never try to give anyone a presentation in the wrong setting. 

Step: Make sure that you have become an expert in your company or product and you have a smooth presentation. Use your up-line, as much as you can, to learn how to present your product or service. Always bring your up-line in to your calls, whether on the  phone or in person, for at least 90 days until you feel so comfortable you can do it yourself. Most seasoned network marketers will do this till they feel comfortable. 

Step 4: Join a company that has an achievable compensation plan where you can make money relative to your efforts. So many times the comp plan is designed to drive revenue to the company and pay the distributor a mer pittance. A lot of companies comp plans require you to have a ton of customers in order to make money and until you get to that point your income is not relative to your efforts. 

Any compensation plan should give you rewards up front so you can see the return on your investment quickly. Make sure the up front income is not from signing up distributors but for quick start efforts. 

Step 5: Join a company that places emphasis on CUSTOMERS and not distributors. The Federal Government is on a witch hunt and is looking for companies that have more distributors than customers. They have some kind of ratio, I am told its somewhere between 65% to 70% of customers vs distributors. This does not include affiliate programs like, buying clubs and programs where representation as an affiliate is optional. 

Affiliate programs are just what they say they are, customers can use the product, and enjoy the benefits, without representing the companies. If the want to create an income stream they can join an affiliate program, and create a revenue stream, as they introduce others to the program. They are rewarded for the referral.

Step 6: Create a plan and a goal! Give your new business at least 36 months before you bail. Set reasonable goals that you can achieve and work toward them with blinders on. Don't be swayed by the glitz and glitter of other deals and companies. There are a ton out there, and they are ruthless in trying to get your attention. When you are on the internet looking for information about a company that's when you'll realize that there are thousands of them, and thats when they get you. 

Put your plan together and make a list of who you will contact. Remember, Step 1 that talked about finding a company that you can easily talk about, and present to your friends and family, without fear of embarrassment. Represent a company that provides a product or service that everyone can use and wants. They are out there, all you have to do is find them. 

Make your list and put together a presentation, or use the companies presentation, and go to work. Don't be a salesperson, just present and let others buy. 

Step 7: Follow-up! The fortune is in the follow up. If someone says NO, that doesn't mean never. There is a book, "Go For NO", that is an excellent book, on how to deal with NO's. This little book can make your life stress free in building your business. 

In conclusion: 

This business is simple all you have to do is work. Novel idea! If you do what is required and follow the above steps you will make a lot of money. If you don't, well no one can help you no matter how much money you spend for books, and courses. It becomes a waste of money. 

This list is not a conclusive list but is a good start. Just sit down and make it happen, you can do it. You have the innate skills to create wealth all you have to do is create your plan on who to talk to and go talk to them. That's really the hard part, the rest is easy. 

Thanks for reading,
Dr. Raymond Jewell

Dr. Raymond Jewell is a leading Economist and Home Based Business Consultant. He has been consulting with home based business owners for over 35 years. Dr. Jewell is also an Alpha Founder with Markethive and manages several blogs on the hive. 

Distributor Acquisition Paradigm Event

Distributor Acquisition Paradigm Event

I have talked in great depth about customer acquisition and how that will eventually become the primary core of a mega success MLM someday likely sooner than later. Like Amazon revolutionized department store shopping and delivery to the Internet, MLM will eventually represent the subscribers need to build customers and distributors as a partner with the company, not a just another alienated liability consumer.

Making the case (a perfect example)

Case in point a company I made a small fortune in however,  I cannot mention on the Internet because it violates one of their many anti marketing policies. So I will give them a name most of you will be able to put 2 and 2 together.

This fictional company I will illustrate shall be called TryBeta. You see TryBeta sells vitamins and juices and weight loss products and pays a multi-level commission. There are literally 1000s of other mlms that do the same. No big deal. Rather redundant and just another “ME’TOO” type of organization.

What put TryBeta on the map is they did coop marketing, customer acquisition. You basically bought the customers TryBeta’s infomercials and direct mail produced. This was different, unique and TryBeta hit a powerful vein and grew exponentially. Distributor organizations represented 60% – 70% as high as 80% customers.

When ships collide (Ideas destroying conventions) 

I am going to digress a little here. Let’s talk about the trucking business, railroads and ships a little. Back about 60-80 years ago, trucking, railroads and ships competed. They were separated from each other. Then a man named McLean realized that these three separate business entities actually were all about shipping products from one place to another. He called it “intermodal transportation”. That the separate industries all fought and believed, like the ships companies, they were a ship transportation company, the trains were a train and Rail Company and the trucks were a truck delivery service.

His concept that “intermodal transportation” was in the business of moving goods, revolutionized the industry. His business put out of business many truck companies, many rails and many ships for they were not thinking big.

McLean revolutionized the industry with his container shipping business that streamlined trucking, rail and ships into the combined business of “moving goods”.

McLean's vision gave the shipping industry the jolt that it needed to survive for the next fifty years. By the end of the century, container shipping was transporting approximately 90 percent of the world's trade cargo.

TryBeta failed at the vision (Ideas destroying conventions) 

Now back to TryBeta, as they had become a customer acquisition company, yet failed to see the revolutionary new concept they had discovered. How that concept moved the entire industry of MLM into a customer centric industry. Alas poor TryBeta lacked vision and they rejected their customer acquisition model and went backwards embracing the distributor telling friends using “hopes and dreams” and forcing “home parties” as the only convention to sell the products. Most of the distributors fled from that as a result. A tried and failing concept that was old and no longer viable. One just has to look at the growth curve of TryBeta to see the disastrous results of rejecting the customer centric model.

You can also compare and look at real customer centric companies like Amazon which has become the juggernaut of our time. Yet no one has moved forward with this trend that I believe is just waiting to happen. A real affiliate company, that has great goods and services, but has also evolved into partnering with their potential subscribers, customers and distributors to give them a viable solution to just purchase the customers and distributors as the main product for building wealth.

Interesting to note:  Jeff Bezos of Amazon is redefining the shipping industry by incorporating shipping and delivery as an integrated function of Amazon, eliminating the traditional shipping industry and turning it on its ear, so, here we go again: (Ideas destroying conventions) 

Instead of forcing the distributors to sell, “The Hopes and Dreams” that many of us recognize as just short of lying, now new distributors can utilize tools to build their business like self-replicated Amazon accounts filled with product the world markets (customers) want, coop marketing campaigns that utilize the cloud funding concept sharing the customers and distributors to the small distributor with a huge leverage, gaining them success for the first time, and 800 numbers telemarketing  services that do the follow up and closing when the time comes. Utilizing the power of technology within the Inbound Marketing shift, again (Ideas destroying conventions)

This forward thinking is at the core of the hybrid I am about to build, with the (DW) “The Distributor Acquisition Company”, (Aroga) “The Products Distribution Company” and (Markethive) “The Inbound Marketing Social Network Company”.

I would like your attendance at this Saturdays meeting as I illustrate how Markethive makes all this possible, you will also meet the owners of the 3^rd party contractors who call, close and sell distributors on your behalf in conjunction with Markethive and how this will be your Distributor acquisition program if this should all come together.

The owners and IT guy for the potential company will also be attending, more for them to see the power of Markethive and hear from Markethive members, Alpha leaders and BOD founders. I am hoping for a large turnout.

What this is not! This is not a recruiting call, nor will I accept anyone attempting to position or sign up into this potential company.

What I am going to do is invest $1000 of my money to acquire 50-100 fully registered and paid distributors into this business. If this does work as expected, I will then decide to make this happen for all interested. I will put together a coop marketing offer using Markethive assets. I will also consider building a “group” utilizing Press Releases (I will fund) and rotate to the “group”. As we build the real back linking power, capture page campaigns and social networking broadcasting.

My Agenda:  To put real teeth into a campaign so we push the edge of Markethive to identify the additional tools we need and fine tune the tools we already have, and make substantial alternative income in the process.

You have my commitment to determine the viability before I open it up to you reducing the risk as much as possible.

Come to the meeting. It will only be to your benefit no matter what transpires. Check the calendar in Markethive.  

Dr. Raymond Jewell, Leading Economist and Home Based Business Consultant. Dr. Jewell has been consulting with clients for over 35 years. He is an Legacy Founder with Markethive and manages several blogs on the Hive. You can contact him through the messaging system on Markethive. Markethive is FREE to use and learn it's inbound and outbound marketing power.

*Article Author is Mr. Thomas Prendergast, CMO Markethive. 

Looking For Money For Your Business, Listen To The CEO of Indiegogo Tell You How

"I love huntin’ through data to find the weird little trends; it’s how you learn how things actually work. I also really, really dig the concept of crowdfunding. Put the two together, and you’ve got my attention.

During a chat with John Biggs today at Disrupt Europe, Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin dropped a rapid fire stream of knowledge. If you’re considering doing any sort of crowdsourcing campaign, this is probably stuff you should know.

The tips Slava gave were almost entirely pulled straight from the data that Indiegogo has gathered over the past few years, rather than random guess work. “I used to have a lot of opinions. Now, luckily, I don’t have to have opinions. We can talk on data.”

While these pointers are based on Indiegogo’s data, the overall concepts likely apply to pretty much any crowdfunding platform.

Slava broke his advice down into three categories: pitching, being proactive, and finding an audience.

On pitching:

• If you have a video, you’ll raise 114% more money on average than if you don’t.
• Wondering how many perks to offer? The magic number seems to be somewhere between 3-8.
• On average, successful campaigns will cross their target fundraising goal on Day 36.
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• Average contribution size on successful campaigns comes in at around $70.
• If you have 4 or more people on your team, you’ll raise 70% more money than if you only have one person.

On being proactive:

• Update your backers (and potential backers) regularly. ”If you do an update every 5 days or less, you’ll raise 4x more than if you do an update every 20 days or more”.
• Need to reach potential backers? Indiegogo sees most contributions coming from email campaigns. Facebook is second, then Twitter.
• Momentum matters: you’re 5x more likely to hit your target if you can reach at least 25% of your overall goal within the first week

Finding an audience:

• “We like to think about it as 1/3, 1/3, 1/3. Indiegogo multiplies whatever you can accomplish. If you’re only able to raise $0, Indiegogo can only multiply [by zero]. You need to start by finding the first 1/3 of the money for your campaign [through your network], often the next third comes from friends of your network, and Indiegogo will, on average, get you that last third.”
• Have your family and friends help to get the ball rolling: “No one wants to fund your empty campaign”
• On whether your project should be as polished as possible “I don’t think it’s about [that]. It’s about being authentic. […] Some campaigns should be more polished, because that’s what they’re trying to sell. Some campaigns can just use flipcams and iPhones. It varies, and the data really doesn’t prove yet that it’s important to be polished.”
• On how important it is that your campaign is in english: “There’s a debate on that. To get as many international dollars as possible, you definitely will want english as part of your campaign. But, obviously, if you want to focus first on your local community, [use that local language].”

*Article was swiped from Techcrunch.com Disrupt Europe 2013 Conference.

Dr. Raymond Jewell is a leading Economist and Home Based Business Consultant. Dr. Jewell is an Alpha Founder with Markethive and manages several blogs in the hive. Markethive is a revolutionary new marketing tool that is a game changer in marketing on the web. Sign up for a FREE Markethive system and see for yourself.