Achieving financial
freedom with Network Marketing on The Internet
By Tasos
Vasilopoulos
Part 18 - Time to take action – The “Follow-up”
method
Introduction
This article makes part of a series of 20 articles. The subject of this series is the creation and promotion of a
website as a cost-effective method to establish a profitable home based business
on the Internet.
In my previous article, “Achieving financial
freedom with Network Marketing on The Internet – Part 17 – Your
first visitors - Where do they come from?”, I have presented to you a few
important issues to take in consideration regarding your first visitors.
In this article I will teach you how to follow-up
with them effectively.
The “Follow-up” method
Personal contact with your new affiliates is the
best method to start your relation with them, but this is not always possible.
Network Marketing on the Internet has its particularities. I refer more than 40
people daily from all over the world. I cannot communicate directly or by phone
with all of them. I do not even speak English fluently. Communicating by phone
with your co-workers is very important, if you are able to do that. Because it
makes them understand that you exist, that you are a real person and they are
important for you and that you really want to work along with them. So, if you
can communicate with them by phone or in personal, do it. It will bring you
results. But, since this business is conducted mostly online, most of your
communication with your group will be held through email.
There are some rules you must have in mind in the
“follow-up” part of your job.
When people communicate with you asking questions,
they want answers and they want them fast.
Also they are different persons and they want to be
treated as it. They do not want to start receiving series of messages from auto
responders. They want personal communication. They want to know that there is a
really person behind all these. Many of them are disappointed from a previous
experience with another online or offline Network Marketing opportunity. So they
want to be treated fairly and with respect. What you have to do is to present
them things as they really are, not make any fake promises, be real right from
the beginning and be a real human being.
I have come up with a follow-up method, which I use
it for the last 24 months and it brings me good results with SFI Marketing
Group. People in my group, who decided to use it, are also getting good results
and started building their personal group of effective network marketers. You
can find a sample of my follow-up letters in Appendix D of my ebook, which is
available at
http://www.netincome.gr/nm-ebook/ebook.htm.
Here it is my follow-up method:
1. I sent one welcome message to all new
affiliates in my group.
I send this message twice, one in the same day they joined my group and a copy
in the next day. I do this to be sure that they have received it (I am
mentioning this in the beginning of the second message). In this small welcome
message:
· I make
clear to them that my job is to help them, so they can communicate with me
any time they want to ask something.
· I let
them know that they will receive two more emails from me with instructions
as how to proceed in their first days with the company.
· I let
them know that they will be also getting messages from the company regarding
their new home business and how to proceed.
· Finally I
especially point one issue to them. I strongly suggest them to do their
homework and study the educational procedure of the company (in SFI it is
called Smart Start).
This message is not longer than 10 lines.
2. After two days I send them the second message.
It contains:
· A
reminder to go through the education procedure of the company
· A recap
about the affiliate program this Network Marketing company offer (the way it
operates on the Internet)
· A
description of their every day work
· Suggestions
on how to start promoting their new home business and where to find useful
information about it
3. After two days I send them my third message
follow-up message. It contains:
· Recommendations
on resources about their job
· Essential
comments about their every day work
· A
description of my every day work and my duties in order to help them make a
good start with their new home business
· The
start-up packet. This packet consists of two parts:
o The business plan
I suggest them to follow my plan of work. It is the way I find new
co-workers. I suggest them to develop and promote their own website with
my help and under my instructions. I present them the advantages (no money
investment, very good results) and the disadvantages (education about
Internet and every day personal effort).
o The rewards schedule
this “rewards schedule” will keep them motivated and also will help
them start building their group of personal affiliates quickly. For every
step they make I reward them by assigning new co-workers to their personal
group. This way I keep them enthusiastic, motivated and I help them
understand how the system works. Having people in their group forces them
to get educated on the system, so they can answer their questions and
support them. The more they try, the more are rewarded in their first
months.
In these first 7 days of my new affiliates I do not
give long and descriptive answers to their questions. I just refer them to my
three letters and the letters that the company sends to them. Most of the
letters I receive are from people who do not read my emails or the emails of the
company. Or they do not have the patience to follow my instructions and get
educated about this home business opportunity. So I do not spend my time on
these people, because they do not have many chances to continue and become
successful co-workers.
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Next article in the series “Achieving financial
freedom with Network Marketing on The Internet” :
Part 19 – Become a teacher, a co-worker, a mentor
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About the author:
Tasos Vasilopoulos is a successful Network Marketer on the Internet as Group
Leader of SFI Marketing Group. His main method to promote his home business on
the Internet is websites properly optimized to obtain a good rank in the
listings of the major Search Engines.
Get his ebook with an in depth analysis of all the steps of his method and find
more resources on proper domain registration, effective website design and
search engines optimization in his website at http://www.netincome.gr.
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