by Cenay Nailor

Do you ever feel like if you learn/see/hear one more thing, you brain will start leaking out of your ears? Welcome to Information Overload .

I feel your pain.

I keep hearing from all the trainers, coaches and guru’s that it’s simple . And they each list "everything" you should do to be successful.

And guess what? Their lists don’t match!

Each trainer/coach/guru lists 5-9 things you MUST do to be successful online. How do you know which is really the one that you need to do?

Well, frankly, it’s gonna depend on you. I know that wasn’t what you wanted to hear, but dang-it, it’s the truth and I promised you truth above all, right from the beginning. It’s going to depend on your goals, the results you are expecting and the method you choose to give you those results.

But I digress. We are talking about how to avoid information overload.

It’s a matter of mindset, discipline and habits. When you are first starting out with a new "prospecting" method like using the Internet, you need to do some research, explore your options and then pick one .

Notice I didn’t say buy every book or product out there to teach yourself, nor did I say read only one . You do need an overview of what’s possible. And you need to know who is doing it successfully. But in the end, you need to choose one thing and then master it. Test it. Track it. Apply it. Study it. Don’t move onto the next "method" or "process", until you have the first one "down pat".

Trust me, I know it will be tempting to spend all your time researching, buying books that promise you 3 simple steps to financial freedom or listening to training calls from marketing guru’s morning, noon and night. But do you know why it will be tempting? Because if you are still researching and studying, you aren’t doing .

If you aren’t doing, you aren’t failing. Can you say "comfort zone"?

Listen, the number ONE reason you will succeed in this (or any) business, isn’t the marketing method, or the capture page, or the autoresponder (although these are all important pieces of the puzzle). No, the number one reason you will succeed, is because you took action. Massive action. Focused action. And you can’t do that if you are still chasing the hype.

There are thousands, no - tens of thousands of people on the Internet today, all hawking their "get rich quick" products, books and training courses. Each one promises you that you can quit your day job, fire your boss and retire in 1 year.

Tell me . . . in your heart . . . do you really think that is possible?

Nope, me either.

Success requires work. Anyone who tells you they have a system you just have to join to be massively wealthy overnight is flat out lying to you. But, I digress again. Sorry for the rant.

To Avoid Information Overload

1. (Focus ) Train yourself to look at one thing at a time. For example, if you are building a list using free traffic techniques, focus on that. All your efforts should be on that one thing until you can do it in your sleep.

2. (Consistency ) Train yourself to be consistent. You can’t succeed doing something only when you have extra time , or when everything else "pressing" is done. Allocate [X] minutes/hours per day for that task, and do it. No matter what.

Not doing it is only hurting you.

Don’t let obligations to others short-change you . If you are spending all your time doing something for someone else, who is growing your business? Short Answer? No one .

3. (Action ) Train yourself to be action oriented. If you are lying awake at night and an idea about how to do (better) what you are trying to do flitters across your brain, do it. The very next day. Take action. Even if it’s wrong action, it’s still got value to you, especially if you are tracking and testing like you should be. It is teaching you what doesn’t work .

You should have noticed that all three things I listed involved the word "Train ". That’s not an accident. You control your success or failure. No one else. Do you want it? Then train for it.

Alright, this post turned into a kind of a rant, and I am sorry about that. I just get so frustrated when I start mentoring someone and they come to the "table" with 43 eBooks, 14 DVD’s and 29 CD’s but not one single "action" under their belts.

I blame it on Information Overload.

Cenay Nailor is an Expert Internet/Affiliate/Network Marketer who hates rejection and chasing dead-end leads. To learn more about how she completely stopped having hotel meetings, home parties and *bump into’s* and still grew a lead database of over 400 prospects while generating over $3,000 in less than 30 days, even though no one joined her business, click this link ==> Cenay Nailor - Online Success Coach

It’s a social world now a-days, with people spending more time in forum’s, discussion groups and in their email program. Did you know that each of these places can send free traffic to your web site ?

If you read any posts in a forum or joined in a conversation in a discussion group, I know you have seen them, those small blurbs at the bottom of each post. Perhaps you just didn’t know how to create them. In this article, I will show you exactly how to build them. From now on, every time you post or reply on a forum, a mini ad will display, directing web visitors to your site.

I guess I don’t have to tell you that *good copy* is important, however, discussion of what good copy techniques are — is a little outside the scope of this post.

Just the mechanics first.

HTML Version

A signature line can look like anything you want, but a Heading, Description and Link are pretty standard. I will use those for these examples. And before you send in comments about my *good copy*, please know that I am just using simple phrases to demonstrate my point.

Some forum’s or bulletin boards allow HTML, and some require BBCode. Don’t panic. It’s really not hard and they are pretty similar.

<strong>Stop Buying Leads And Start Attracting Prospects</strong>
My free videos will show you how to become the <strong>Hunted</strong>, 
rather than the <strong>Hunter</strong>.<br/>
<a href="http://Recommended.byCenay.com/stop-buying-leads">Help me stop buying leads</a>

This is what the ad looks like *in real life*.

Stop Buying Leads And Start Attracting Prospects
My free videos will show you how to become the Hunted , rather than the Hunter .
Help me stop buying leads

I guess I forgot to put my name in it, as would be proper in any signature line, but I did that on purpose. (I tend to *sign my name* without even thinking about it, so I didn’t want my name shown twice, which would look down right silly, or perhaps even worse, a bit egotistical).

BBCode Version

The BBCode is slightly different. Basically, there are only three major differences.

• BBCode uses square brackets ( [ ] ), instead of angle brackets { < > )
• BBCode doesn’t require the quotes around the web addresses
• BBCode uses "b" for bold, not "strong"

Otherwise, they are almost identical. Here is that exact same ad, written in BBCode.


[b]Stop Buying Leads And Start Attracting Prospects[/b]
My free videos will show you how to become the [b]Hunted[/b], rather than the [b]Hunter[/b].
[url=http://Recommended.byCenay.com/stop-buying-leads]Help me stop buying leads[/url]


Standard Practices

I probably don’t have to say this, but I will. It’s generally acceptable to have 1 or 2 links in your *sig line*, but frowned upon to have more. Obviously, there are acceptions, but it’s a good rule of thumb.

It’s also acceptable (and might be preferable) to actually display the URL as the final line. If you are in a forum where the members might be printing out the content and sharing it with others, you should show the URL. Clickable links are great, but the address doesn’t print if they send it to the printer.

Yep, you lose a little *link love* when your anchor text doesn’t contain your keywords, but if the content is *likely* to be printed more often than not, show your links.

To do this, just replace the link text with the actual address.

Hope this helps. Drop me a note if you have any other questions.

…Some startling facts, a few disappointments and a couple new friends.

Thirty days flies by if you aren’t watching. I just completed a 30 day case study on what it takes to achieve Google Page Rank using commenting as a traffic strategy.

Found a couple of "tools" to make the job easier, but ultimately, it boiled down to just manually finding and commenting on worthy blogs.

You can read more about the results (440K reduction in Alexa ranking) and my Google Rank is…

It used to be…

• You called all your friends
• You called all your family
• You “pitched” everyone you came in contact with
• You pumped your new team mates for their friends
• You pumped your new team mates for their family
• You went to parties to talk about your business
• You quickly went broke buying leads because you ran out of people to talk to

Not any more.

Mike Dillard and his home study course titled “MLM Traffic Formula” are redefining the “rules” of network marketing. Following his guidelines, you can change the dynamics of “prospecting”. Tell me, how many more people do you think you could convince to join your organization if THEY called YOU first?

MLM Traffic Formula (MTF) teaches a few simple techniques to position you exactly where your prospects are looking. It teaches you how to be a better leader. It teaches you the steps necessary to become the Hunted, instead of the Hunter. In other words, it teaches you how to succeed in network marketing.

These are just words though. You have no reason to believe me. Yet. Let me tell you exactly what it did for me.

I bought the course in August. I listened to all 11 CD’s. I read the supplemental manual. A real manual by the way, not just a transcript of the recordings. I watched the two DVD movies. And then I Googled my name — to establish my “baseline”. I got 5 pages returned, which surprised me — I didn’t think there would be any. I found some posts I made on a newsgroup from 1994 for goodness sakes!

Then I began implementing the steps outlined in MLM Traffic Formula.

It took a little while to build some momentum. Almost two weeks. And then I Googled my name again. 1012 pages returned. Sweet.

I continued doing the steps. I focused my energy for a solid month - all my spare time, every extra 15 minutes I could find. Googled myself again, and guess what? More than 2500 pages returned. Even better.

Fast forward 3 months and there were 12,200 pages returned. But even more impressive than all this was what was happening to my business. People started calling me. Can you imagine what it was like to GET a call asking me about my business? And even though many weren’t interested in my particular company, I still earned commissions on those that said no.

Why?

Self-funded advertising. I was offering a tool that helps people succeed in business. . . any business. So, even if they say no to Nussentials, many said yes to a “retail” product I endorsed. And I should mention that although MLM Traffic Formula carries a “price-tag” that is out of the range of many “start-ups”, I made back my money in less than a month, and I continue to earn 3 times what I paid, every month.

Google changed their indexing method again (they do this about every 3 months or so), and despite the number of pages dropping to less than 5000, I am still getting calls. More every week. My business is growing. My commissions are growing. My confidence is growing. Can you put a price on that?

If you are serious about network marketing (and I assume you are since you are here reading…), then you need to consider a different approach. MLM Traffic Formula is that approach. It offers the skills necessary to dramatically change the way you grow your business and income.

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.

MLM may never be the same!

If you have spent any time in multilevel marketing, I am sure you know his name. If not, then do yourself a HUGE favor and jet on over to Magnetic Sponsoring and check him out. He has rocked the MLM world with his “Attraction” techniques and is creating successful marketers in any company or program.

The reason I mention Mike Dillard (one of my mentors) is that he has just release a new product that I personally think will take MLM to the “next level”. Recruit With Words is a new call series on copywriting. This skill is what allows you to write “the prefect presentation”, that works for you 24/7 without rest, pause or potty breaks.

Frankly, the value he provides makes any product he releases a*sure bet* in my book. I took the 10 day boot camp (no longer available), the 7 video series, bought the Magnetic Sponsoring eBook and then the MLM Traffic Formula. I can tell you that everything he delivers is worth about 2000% more than he charges.

Success in this business means doing what about 95% aren’t willing to do. That includes learning new skills. Copywriting is one of the required skills (again, in my book), that every single network marketer on the planet needs to learn, and as soon as possible.

The Recruit With Words call series Mike is doing will be 3 (1.5 hour) classes. I have listened to several “calls” he has done with other marketing giants like Tom Beal and Tim Erway, and the content is always astonishing. The price for the call series is $297, but if you promise to email Mike a testimony after the call, you can get it for $97. (Didn’t I tell you he over delivers?)

So, stop what you are doing and go reserve a spot while there are still some left. He always limits the classes and they will fill up fast.

Give Me The Details And Let Me Register For Mike Dillard’s Copywriting Call Series