Making a Plan - Stick to Your Guns

If you are newer to Network Marketing you know how crazy it can get. You have so much to learn and so you start signing up for free reports and you start learning bits and pieces of everything. There is social media (MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and hundreds of others), there is blogging (Wordpress, Blogger and many others), there is Article Writing and then Bookmarking them, there are RSS feeds, there are email autoresponders and email campaigns, there are PayPerClick (PPC), there is placing ads at the free sites like USFreeAds (and thousands of others), there are placing paid ads at several sites. You can purchase leads from lead generators. You want to generate your own. You can purchase email lists. You can pay someone to send out an email to their lists. What do you choose? There are as many paths as there are network marketers but the one thing that you must do - is create a plan and a path. You then need to do whatever it takes to stick to that plan and ignore all those FREE reports and all those FREE webinars. If you don't start to work a plan you will find yourself all over the place as you start into this business. The following is A plan%u2026 again this plan can be tweaked to incorporate the things you may feel you will be good at, or you may choose to do some things because you have the extra marketing dollars to invest. Basically this is an example of a plan that you could put together and follow and dedicate your time and action steps towards. The following list is something you can stick to and build on a shoestring budget.

Your ultimate goal is to find people that want your product.

1. Determine your Target Market
This is an important step that many people forget. You must know who you are talking to in order to reach the correct audience. Future articles will help out with this step.

2. Sign up for a Facebook Account and become familiar with the etiquette and techniques - take notice of the things that you like and things you don't (SPAM like activity)

3. Understand your computer skills; if you are lacking here - find a way to get step by step training or sign up for some training on how to work the computer. (Opening multiple windows, cutting and pasting, Internet Browsing are all things that you should feel comfortable with, if not find a way to get there.)

4. Decide on whether you will have a website. If you are associated with something that has landing (or lead capture pages) you may not need this.

5. Understand what monetization is.
This is something that you should be doing, it is a way to create multiple streams of income.

6. Understand how you will present yourself as a professional
Using yahoo, gmail or other free email addresses can come across as unprofessional. It is important to look into getting a domain that you own which will give you a professional email address.

7. Understand what type of marketing you want to do. Look into what Attraction Marketing is.

8. Learn Squidoo.

9. Create an ezine article.

10. Learn bookmarking

11. Create a Twitter account and become familiar with the etiquette and techniques and again take notice of the things you like and things you don't.

Again, I will stress this is only one possible plan out of thousands possible plans. But, HAVE A PLAN and then stick to it and ignore everything else that starts tempting you - free does not matter%u2026 free is everywhere%u2026 stick to your guns.