| Step 5. Decide your Advertising Budget + set up your Gameplan The system will do a lot of things for you, it will present, train, make sales, collect payments, fill orders and explain many things for you, but you are still responsible for bringing people to the system so it can work for you presenting and explaining our offer and helping others see the benefits of joining your business. A lot of what you decide with your Advertising budget is going to determine how fast you are going to be able to reach your goals. I looked at it this way. When I started, I was looking for a business that would make me $1000 per month. That would earn me $12,000 US per year. I was willing to invest up to $3000.00 of my own money to reach that goal. Now, I did not spend near that much, as once I got my business off the ground, I just kept re-investing the profits to grow it. How much would you like to make a month? $_____________ How much would that earn you in a year? $_____________ How much time (spare time – can be at any time of day) can you dedicate to your business each week? Hours __________ Budget for Advertising – how much money are you willing to spend to reach your income goal? $__________ The average incomes from Regional Director and up are posted once a month on the www.abezine.com site. They seem to get higher every month. As I am writing this, the average incomes for each rank posted there are as follows for April of 2006: Regional Directors averaging $445+ per month (that would be $5,340/year) National Directors averaging $775+ per month (that would be $9,300/year) International Directors $1480+ per month (that would be $17,760/year) 1 Star Directors averaging $2200+ per month (that would be $26,400/year) 2 Star Directors averaging $4500+ per month (that would be $54,000/year) 3 Star Directors averaging $8000+ per month (that would be $96,000/year) What position most matches your income goal? Ok, now I here’s the methods I recommend you consider using to get your business off to a Fast Start with your Advertising budget: Guaranteed Tour Takers (also known as GTT’s for short) - $348 per set. These are the most effective and hands free advertising that we can use – what you save in time and ease of use, you pay for with money. These are leads that AutomaticBuilder has partnered with large lead vendors and sells to us a A LOSS. That’s right, they make NO MONEY selling us these leads. You will find these SAME LEADS on the market for $7-8 PER LEAD, as they are real-time generated EXCLUSIVE leads. You will find them in your Automatic Builder Members Area under "Buy Leads". To order them click where it says "<Click Here>" under their description on that page. You can also find an easy link to use to order them on the www.abezine.com site. This is the main method I have used to build my business. Personally I recommend you start by buying as many sets of GTT’s as you afford. If you can’t afford a set of GTT’s make sure you sign up for any drawings or promotions that give away a set – and when we get to the Gameplan to email to your upline, mention to them that you would like a set but can only afford to pay $$$ for them. Get Response - You will find them in your Automatic Builder members area under “How to Promote, Internet Marketing Secrets” – then click on Autoresponders and Read through the instructions and sign up through the link provided to get an account that is pre-setup with all the letters and ads you need. Costs anywhere between $90 - $650 for lead packages. Permission Emails – Find under “How to Promote, Internet Marketing Secrets” – then click on Permission Emails and follow the instructions – Cost = FREE – the only cost is the time you will have to dedicate each week to try to get leads. Plan on sending out 100 emails a week for at least a few weeks before you get results. The best part, is the kind of people you will sponsor using this method are experienced marketers and will go on to build a huge business with you. Now how much was that free time you spent doing this worth? Business Cards – You will find a link in your Automatic Builder Members Area to order Business cards. Cost = $33.95 and up. These are great to hand out. A tip we have shared many times on the training calls is to get a glue stick and use it to turn your business card into a kind of post-it and place them everywhere. They are great to add to bills when you send in payment or prepaid envelopes that come with offers in the mail. Your job when you have business cards is to get them handed out – they will not bring you any leads sitting in their box. Inviting Friends or Family to join with you – FREE. I know, some of you would love to build a big business without doing this, but that is exactly how a friend of mine – Shane Woods – sponsored me. He called me and I heard the excitement in his voice and when he told me it was only $2.95 to join and check it out, I knew it was too cheap not to join. You can always ask them later, but why not ask them now and you can build your business together. Some people might get mad at you later when you are making money and they wonder why you took so long to share this with them. I mean really, most people will be glad you are sharing with them an opportunity to get the B-12 at such a discount, that they could surprise you when they join and decide to build a business after going through some of the tools and training that you have. Many of the most successful leaders in our company have invited people they knew to join them in the business. Not everyone will join and grow a business with you, but you often will be surprised about who will. Don't miss asking someone to lock in their spot for the $2.95 only to have someone else in another downline sponsore them! Upline Co-op – Many leaders run Co-ops to help generate leads for their downline members. If you see Shane Woods in your upline support section – I recommend you contact him and see if he has any openings in the Co-ops he is running. You are not guaranteed leads in any co-ops, but it is often a great lower cost way to supplement any other advertising you are doing to get your business going. You might even bring in a great builder or leader through one! If you are NOT in Shane Woods downline – contact your upline leaders and see if any of them is running a co-op. I have included a section later in this manual to help you start your own co-op if you are interested. These are only a few of the methods in the “How to Promote, Internet Marketing Secrets”section that I wanted to highlight as they are the ones I most often recommend to new members that I am speaking with – but ALL the methods in that section work more often than not. Now that I have given you a few ideas about where I would start if I were you, go through the “How to Promote, Internet Marketing Secrets” section in your AB Members Area and come up with a plan of how you think to best spend your Budget of Time and Money in Advertising your business and getting traffic to your website. <3 Examples of How to Use your Budget> <Home> |
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