Can you really learn the truth of earning lots of money with one of these ebooks?
The answer to this question can be enlightening. Yes, any one of the gurus in the world of affiliate marketing can offer you that answer to dilemmas you are experiencing as a marketer. While there is far too much hype found as a marketing tool with some of the affiliate marketing ebooks, you can benefit a great deal from many of them.

Not all affiliate marketing ebooks provide you with the same information.
Affiliate marketing offers you more than one way to earn money. You can use one method of marketing or you can build a system that involves using several of them. Some gurus find that one method of marketing works better than others. Other gurus will tell you that the nature of the product of service has a lot to do with choosing the appropriate marketing method. It makes perfect sense that some target markets will not respond to one method and other types of buyers would in a heartbeat.

You will find affiliate marketing ebooks offering you tricks, tips and education.
Education is imperative to opening up cash streams as an affiliate marketer. You have to learn how things work and why if you are to know how to construct a profitable campaign for any product of service you want to promote. You are not required to be some genius. These are merely how marketing is done and if you aren’t effective in putting together a campaign, you cannot hope to open up a cash stream.

You will need to get affiliate marketing ebooks that cover all areas of the marketing industry.
Granted, you can learn a great deal online about affiliate marketing without paying for the information. This method of education can be prone to error by reading the writings of someone who is not actually an affiliate marketer. This type of internet marketing is complex and getting the wrong information is not going to speed up the time it takes to understand it and make money at it. If you seek to start earning money quickly, your best bet is to pay for you education and get on with the show.

You will want to find affiliate marketing ebooks that teach you the following things:

o Campaigns created using PPC, SEO and article marketing or email marketing.
o Digital products versus physical products or services.
o Building an effective affiliate website or squeeze page.
o How to identify a high profit producing product.
o Identifying the best approach to your niche market buyer group.
o Social marketing and Twitter procedures and advantages.
o Why all marketing programs are good.
o What causes affiliate marketers to fail and how to avoid it.

Once you have determined to enter the Multilevel Marketing arena, you will soon realize that leads are the heartbeat of your business. Without leads your business will fail. It’s that simple.

Some of the gurus say that you need to put up some money upfront and purchase leads. That is certainly an option but for the most part the leads that you purchase are usually not targeted for your business and can end up costing you anywhere from 5 cents a lead to 5 dollars a lead. The more expensive the lead, the more targeted they are to your opportunity.

Free MLM leads are just that. They are free of charge to you. The following are ways that are most useful in generating free MLM leads.

Before starting, you will need to have a website to drive traffic to. Probably the easiest way to create a website is to create a blog. There are many blog sites out there. The easiest way to find one is to type “blog sites” in the Google search engine and they will give you all kinds of places to put up a blog.

The best source, by far, is to create a blog using WordPress. If you use WordPress, you will also need a hosting account and a domain name. Go-daddy is a good place to obtain that. The cost is minimal. You will be required to pay around $90 – $100 dollars a year to have your domain name hosted on your website. The benefits to this method far out way the benefits of using a free blog site. However, if you want to do it for free, you can search Google and find a good site to place your opportunity. Blogger.com is a good place to start to drive free MLM leads to.

#1. Video Marketing. This is a very popular way and a very effective way to generate free mlm leads. Most people who spend much time on the internet have a webcam or maybe a video recorder in their home. With a little bit of practice you can make decent videos that people can see on websites such as YouTube, Flickr, Metacafe and many others. There are free video conversion programs that can be downloaded to your computer to convert videos that you have produced into formats that can be uploaded to YouTube or any of the other video sites.

While making the video you will want to promote your business opportunity and make sure in doing so you point them to your blog where they can see what you have to offer or promote. The more creative you are the better opportunity of driving them to your site.

#2. Article Marketing. This is my favorite way of generating free MLM leads. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of article directories out there on the internet. Most of them allow you to post articles that you have written on any subject imaginable for free. You can also place as many as you want and they even encourage you to post as many as you like.

Some of the directories are better than others depending on your business opportunity. You will need to spend some time and research that information. The best site and most accepted is ezinearticles.com. They go out of their way to make sure that your articles are formated right and have good content. If they accept your article you will have a better chance of ranking higher on the search engines.

#3. Social Marketing. Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and others are ways to create free MLM leads. I would recommend that you sign up for all of these but you focus on one. You will have a hard time at first keeping up with all that is required in all three of these sites to generate free leads. The idea with these social sites is to network with other like minded people and in doing so develop a relationship that can turn into a lead. Any of these sites can become addicting and therefore you will need to take caution not to spend too much time interacting and not enough time on your business goals. 30 minutes to an hour a day should be plenty of time to develop those relationships.

There are other ways to create free leads and ways to optimize your efforts. These three are a good start and will help you in your efforts to obtain free MLM leads.

Today the computer is seen by millions as the next gold rush. People are flooding to get their piece of the pie.

With a 97% failure rate in the MLM industry, a fact most don’t want to acknowledge. People are losing their money long before they start earning anything, if they ever do.

So, it makes sense that the lure of “You too can earn an extra … blah, blah, blah a month by just getting on the Internet and promoting your companies products.” is appealing to many.  Sounds all too familiar to the “all you have to do is… and you will be wealthier than you ever imagined.” that we all heard in the past.

This hype mentality has been a big part of the shady reputation that network marketing companies have brought upon themselves.

I find the basic flaw to most, if not all of MLM is that the word marketing is used, but never taught.

Most network marketers are totally untrained in the field of marketing. The most training I ever received was how to peddle what my company produced. I was taught, “if you put a mirror under their nose and it fogs up, they’re a prospect.”  The Internet sequel to this is, “If they have a computer, and are on line, they’re a prospect.”

When someone begins Internet network marketing, and still hasn’t a clue about marketing, chances are they will, in no time at all, find themselves frustrated. They may even find themselves more out of luck because, face it, to many of us, new to the Internet, we have a lot more to learn then when we were told to drag a person to a hotel meeting.

I believe that the Internet is the future for MLM. Internet network marketing. It offers people the ability to reach many more people than was ever possible , anywhere, anytime. What needs to be taught, and should have been taught in the old school, is social marketing. I don’t just mean using social sites, but learning how to be vigilant in building not just a business but relationships.

Without the focus being on, what’s in it for the person we are talking to, we are no better than the outrages MLM enthusiast, who caused friends to cross the street, to avoid being asked to another meeting.

It’s been said, “there is power in knowledge,” and most people over 40, are pretty clueless, when they first arrive on the net, They need a great deal of education to learn not just skills and techniques, but theory and etiquette to do this correctly.

I see a major need for skilled Internet gurus, to mentor and guide these often insecure Internet fledgelings with step by step instruction, in all aspects of Internet network marketing.

I could say, “it’s up to them to avail themselves to all the resources out there.” Why do I care whether they get the extra help? The main reason, is because I know what it’s like to feel hopeless and terrified when you first start using the Internet.

I thought I could just go out there and spew my product information to the millions with the sole purpose of making the big bucks. I was a stranger in a strange land, to put it mildly.

I also feel a desire to take part in sparing the Internet all the unprofessional baggage these people will be flooding the net with, until they get that it’s not always about selling.

What I’ve realized through my experience, is that it takes time and hard work to learn what you need. No matter how fast you can surf, or how easy it may seem at first, this is not a get rich over night experience. This is especially true, if you want to have your presence seen out there on the the world wide web. Even more so, if one of your goals is to be respected as a valuable resource to others.

I believe those who first invest in their own education about marketing on line, through mentors, books, seminars, tutorials, will be the ones that avoid failing. If for no other reason than to be a good resource of information. Isn’t that what ultimately makes the net such a powerful tool, people providing value for people.

This brings me to my final point. One of the qualities about the Internet that appeals to me is that with it, the individual can truly own their business. Their on line business can reflect not just their network marketing company, but who they are as a person, with all the knowledge and expertise they have gained through living.