MLM SEO or Affiliate Marketing Using Free Methods? Where Should You Concentrate Your Time?

Fri, Mar 19, 2010

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MLM SEO or Affiliate Marketing Using Free Methods? Where Should You Concentrate Your Time?

Following on from yesterdays MLM training secrets I wanted to discuss something. On my journeys I have come across a few debates about MLM SEO or Affiliate Marketing using free methods. I thought that I would chime in with my $0.02! So, where should you concentrate your time?

MLM SEO

MLM SEO

The Benefits and Problems of MLM (Using SEO)

With MLM you need to focus on building your brand to project that you A) Know what you are doing and B) someone that people want to work with. The benefits of this is once you get it right you build a personal brand that can plug into any opportunity and build big teams and long term residual income. You have to get your content out there and give useful information to build a rapport and trust with your prospects.

The negatives are, in most cases, it takes longer to really see a decent income. You have to build the residual income from pennies up to massive monthly income. Obviously this does not happen over night. The impatient person will give up before the rewards are delivered.

The Benefits and Problems of Affiliate Marketing Using Free Methods

Affiliate marketing is more of a direct approach to collect commissions by putting out Free content about your product or service. Depending on your choice of product you can get up to 75% or more in commissions without owning the product. Obviously the sale prices can widely vary. You can also get paid smaller commissions for just collecting leads for large companies or merchants via the CPA route. So the beauty is, it is easier money and you do not need to ever be known or have a brand built, you just need to know how to drive traffic to an offer and make profit from it.

The negatives are that if you do not know how to generate profitable traffic you have no income. Also you will not build a brand online that will be of value to you in the future. Some may argue that it is a benefit to be “underground” making money but it depends on your personal preference. In all honesty I can see the appeal on both sides of the fence.

What Is Better? - FORGET THAT WHY NOT HAVE BOTH!?

If you are looking at both of these models of income why not go for both? If you setup your sales funnel the right way you can collect home based business leads and then offer them relevant affiliate products. Then if they feel that they get value from you, you can recruit them into your primary business. All from one lead, one campaign!

Personally that is the route that I follow using MLSP and is an easy way to get up front cashflow and back end primary sign ups - Good old funded proposal via attraction marketing! And if you are even more clever you will generate those MLM leads for free using SEO!

Have you got any more attraction marketing tips?

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  • Too many people underestimate the value of several incomes. They get stuck in a comfort level and are afraid to branch out into anything else. What happens when that single stream goes away? T-R-O-U-B-L-E

    Unfortunately, a ton of people are finding that out the hard way right now. Good for our industry, but awful fro the ones going through it.

    Eric
  • Hey Wayne!

    Excellent point you make about doing both. Branding yourself and building up a primary business does take time, and those tiny (at first) commission checks do end up getting people frustrated. We live in a world of instant gratification. Definatly not something that is going to happen while building a downline. It requires patience, like you said.

    Have a great day!
    Twila
  • Hey Wayne

    Great post.

    A way of looking at both way and deciding which way is best for you. If you have the capacity to do both that is just a bonus. Of course MLSP make this relatively easy
  • For sure, using such tools as MLSP makes it effortless.

    Thanks for passing by my friend.
  • Hi Wayne,

    Just last year I added both of those to my business ventures. You're right, with branding there is a lot to learn and it does take more time. There are ways to shorten the time though, you just have to plug in to the right training asap.

    Great article. Thanks!

    Susanna
  • Hey Susanna,

    Thanks for passing by.

    Nice to hear you added both to your business ventures, that is definitely the right path to go. I know you give some great training on your blog so I can be sure people can get great value from you.
  • Hey Wayne,

    I am into the multiple streams of income thinking. Why not have both? And three other income streams, and some JV side projects, and maybe some real estate. Plan a bank robbery or two.

    You know what I am saying. As long as it fits with your market, market it.
  • That is it - The more streams the better, well maybe apart from the bank robbery! (ha)

    Thanks for passing my friend.
  • Two HUGE benefits there Wayne...

    I adopt these two in my biz and it's great way to get our messages across our prospects and to make a nice chunk of change in the process.

    Not that bad of an approach. I'm right there with you Wayne.

    Get some R&R this weekend,

    Jerome Ratliff
  • Hey Cheers Jerome,

    Yeah, it is important to get the two things working for you.

    Thanks for passing by my friend.
  • Hey Wayne,

    The great part of it is when you do know how to drive targeted traffic. You can pretty much put that big smile :) all the way to the bank.

    Now, I like to give back...Just like you do too! I like to provide info on how people can do the same as I'm doing.

    Have a great weekend...
    Josh
  • Josh,

    Great to hear you like to give back, I know you do by the value on your blog.

    Have a great weekend.
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