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When I first got started in Network marketing one of the things I knew I was not good at was selling. My sponsor told me that was not a problem as I would get a website and it would do most of the selling for me. At the time I thought that was a great idea. All I had to do was do a bit of advertising about my website then sit back and watch things happen.

The problem was I was not educated on how marketing on the internet works and nor was my sponsor. Nothing happened. No one except myself a few people I asked to, visited my website.

After a while I told my sponsor and she said it was my responsibility to find ways to get traffic to my website. The way to do this was word of mouth, my circle of influence as she said, or to advertise. Looking back, What poor advice this was. She did not understand the power of the internet and now the internet worked.

The word of mouth thing did not work very well nor did the advertising, so I was told to buy some internet leads. They were a great way to get customers, i was told. You have to pay about $10 – $20 per lead but you would get a new customer at least every five leads, mony well spent my sponsor told me. I practiced my scripts and called but after paying hundreds and hundreds of dollars I never got one person interested. The only people to prosper from those bought leads are the people that sell them.

Naturally I did not stay with that MLM Company they operate with an out of date system. Instead of giving up on Network Marketing what I did decide to do was to investigate what makes a website successful. By that I mean ones that have a high rate of traffic which equates into high sales.

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