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One of the most asked questions I receive from new GDI affiliates is what can I do to get started?, or how do I get traffic to my website? That is where this blog comes in as I take you by the hand and show you step-by step what I do to make money with Global Domains International.

The first step you should take if you have not done so already is sign up for the V.I.P. team. If you have not done so, send me an e-mail requesting an invitation and I will send you the team sign up page as soon as possible.

If you have already signed up for the team I suggest you follow all of the steps and start sending out solo ads, but please do not do it if you are not tracking results, because you are going to lose money. Also be sure to try and take part in the monthly co-ops when you can.

The next thing you need to do is get familiar with GDI and how everything works.

Here is the link to sign in to the members area:
GDI Members Area

Browse around and get yourself familiar with everything. Learn about GDI and how it works so you can best promote yourself.

Next thing I want you to do is log in to the GDI forum and see what people are doing and asking. Take part in discussions and ask questions. You can find answers there to any questions you might have. There is a lot of good information for new affiliates and answers to common questions. You can also contact me for additional support and advice anytime.

If you are a member of the V.I.P. team, I also want you to do the same and get yourself acquainted with your Aweber autoresponder and Residual Wealth Factor website and learn how the system works.

Simple Things You Can Do Right Now To Get Traffic To Your Website

The basic goal in Internet marketing is to get your website in front of as many targeted audiences as possible. The are many ways to get website traffic, but we are only going to concentrate on the most effective means of advertising both paid and free. Paid advertising like solo ads will get you results quickly, while free advertising methods could get fast results but generally take a little time and are more long term results.

You want to saturate the Internet with as many links as possible pointing back to your website. This is how we get traffic. The more traffic you get, the better chance their is of getting GDI sign ups, it’s that simple.

I am going to go into much more detail in future posts about many of these methods, but these are just a few simple things to start you off with. You can also expect to see some traffic from my rotator which I have put you in, but don’t rely on this to build your business, it won’t happen.

1. Use The GDI Invite System

In the members area there is a invite system that will send out e-mails to friends and prospects. If you know anybody and would like to invite them great!, if not move on. Also don’t get to excited about buying leads. This is a sure way to lose a lot of money. You don’t need to buy leads because you are going to be generating your own with the Residual Wealth Factor system.

2. E-mail Signatures

From now on when you send out an e-mail, I want you to include a signature at the bottom with your website URL in it. If you use Outlook Express you can simply do this by going into the drop down menus and click signatures to set it up.

Here’s a little secret to getting a ton of viral traffic from e-mail sig’s. You know when you get those e-mails that are forwarded to that have been forwarded about a thousand before you times like a joke or a cool story. If you start one of these you will be getting your sig out in front of a lot of potential prospects if the e-mail goes viral. Just send a joke or story to a friend and hopefully they will forward it to there friends and it will go on and on.

3. Free Classifieds

There are literally hundreds of places on the Internet that you can post a free ad. Stay tuned for a list I am putting together of the top free classified sites. One of the best places to Advertise is Craigslist. I have read about many other GDI affiliates getting sign ups through it. You can place an ad in the “Small Biz Ads” section in any city. Craigslist gets millions of hits a month. Just go to Google and type in “free classifieds” and you will find thousands of sites. Another one that is getting popular that is similar to Craigslist is Gumtree.

With free classifieds you can either promote the GDI business opportunity or promote it as web hosting or domain name registration for the .ws extension and also the web site builder software. Just don’t make the ads to much hype or they will be ignored or flagged for spam.

4. Blogging And Social Networking Sites

The Internet is all about content and Web 2.0 is taking over. Sites like Squidoo, MySpace and HubPages are taking over the search engine results and filling the net with content for everyone. Sign up for these sites and start a lens or page about GDI and write about the opportunity and yourself. These pages are like food for the search engines and will get picked up and shown in search results for certain keywords over time.

You can also start a free blog at Blogger or Wordpress. These are also great ways to get search engine traffic. You also want to update them weekly so you constantly provide fresh content for the search engines.

Here is an example of a blog I just started. This is also a blog which you will see has banners and links to GDI with your URL being rotated in it. This blog is in most of my forum sig’s so it will be sending you traffic in the future.

Tip: You can also comment on other people’s blogs and leave a link back to your website.

The Internet Marketing Den

Another one that I forgot to add was YouTube. This one is huge and has so many possibilities. We will cover this in depth in future posts on this blog.

5. Article Marketing

This is one of my favorite and most used techniques to drive traffic to my website. All you have to do is write a 300-500 word article about a topic related to GDI like web hosting, domains, mlm, network marketing, making money online or a review of Global Doma insInternational and submit it to top article directories like:

http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.searchwarp.com
http://www.goarticles.com

Articles let you include a signature in the authors resource box with a link pointing back to your website. These articles also get picked up by other websites which will drive even more traffic. We are going to go very in depth with advanced article marketing techniques as we move along down the road.

6. Forum Marketing

This is a real easy one. Sign up for a few forums related to MLM, Internet marketing, making money online, affiliate marketing, web hosting, domaining, etc. Go to Google and search for forums. Sign up and start asking and answering people’s questions. You can leave a link to your website in the forum signature.

7. Thinking Outside Of The Box

There are many obscure everyday marketing things you can do to get exposure to your website. I have a sticker in the back of my car window with my website on it. Try other off line techniques like business cards and flyers. Put a business card every time you mail out your bills.

Every time you get e-mail from another marketer or advertisement respond to it and put a link to your site. This is called reverse marketing. I have even tried writing my website on the back of money. Think about how many times a dollar exchanges hands everyday!

I hope this is enough to keep you busy and get started. Remember we will go into much detail all of these techniques and more in future posts. Make sure you bookmark this blog and come back every week to check for updates.

My best advice would be to track everything you do with an ad tracker. Take it slow. Don’t get overwhelmed and if you get a sign up, send them a welcome e-mail with an invitation to the V.I.P. team and offer them any help they need. If you can’t answer their questions, forward it to me or another upline and we will answer it for you.

Not a member of GDI yet? Click here to get started and help someone out on my team.

Before we get started and take the first steps in getting targeted traffic to your website, I want to recommend to you something that is going to be a valuable asset to your business if you want to maximize your returns over the long term and also tell you if your advertising is working.

Now I don’t want you to spend a ton of money on software, e-books or anything else that is marketing related to get started. Any of that money is worth much more if you put it into paid advertising like e-zine solo ads. I have wasted so much money on junk software and I wish I could go back and put it into advertising.

Before you spend any money on solo ads, banners, text links, classifieds or any other form of paid advertising you MUST HAVE SOME KIND OF AD TRACKING SOFTWARE!

Even if you are doing free advertising like article and forum marketing, you have to use ad tracking so you can spend your time online efficiently and only run campaigns and use ad sources that are converting for you.

The benefits of ad tracking are:

• Being able to see where your clicks are coming from (article directories, solo-ads, forums, banners, etc.)
• Testing different headlines to see which ones convert better (This is known as split-testing ads.)
• Knowing how many people are signing up for your mailing list (Essential for knowing if a solo-ad is effective.)

This is how we make money with solo-ads. We track and see which ones convert well. If it does good, run it again. If it is a failure, trash it and move on. Put half of your profits back into solo-ads and other forms of paid advertising.

This is how every online marketer is able to consistently make a return on their investment. I can’t stress enough how important it is to track your ads. Like I said before, I don’t want you spending money on lots of useless software and books, but investing in an ad tracker can be one of the smartest investments you will ever make and will make you a very big return on your investment.

Now their are lots of different options when it comes to ad tracking. You can pay for a monthly service that is web based or you can buy software that installs on your server.

I recommend installing it on your server yourself because you pay only once and once you recoup your investment back you don’t have to pay no more and you are in profit. You also are in full control of it having it on your own server.

The software that I use and think is best for someone new to ad tracking is called Adtrackz.

It is very simple to install and setup or you can pay for them to install it for you. It’s affordable at only $77 and it can track leads, sales and also features a very valuable link cloaking device so you can cloak your tracking and affiliate links so they look like normal links.

Click here to learn more about Adtrackz

Trust me, if you want to save a lot of your valuable time, money and frustration, you will be better off getting an ad tracker. Having one will not have yourself wondering if anything that you do to market is working or not.

Stay tuned for my next post where we will start the official training and get your first hits to your website.

Regards,
Daniel Cassidy

Hello,

My name is Daniel Cassidy and this is my training blog which I have put up just for my GDI team members so that I can train you to become a super GDI affiliate right away. I am going to show you everything you need to know if you are an absolute newbie and don’t know where to start. Even if you are an experienced marketer you can benefit from some of the tips that I will share. We will cover every week all levels from basic to advanced and teach you the right way to start marketing your GDI business right away.

The most important bit advice I can give you is to really treat this like a real business and take massive action. Many people make attempts at Internet or network marketing and fail because they are always searching for the magic pill. I know because I use to be one of these people. Now I am going to share with you all of the knowledge that I have learned in the past two years so you can learn from my mistakes and get off to the right start with your GDI business.

Take everything in small doses and don’t move on until you fully grasp the concepts. You can always contact me and I will help you one on one if you need it. It is important to have a good attitude and never give up. Building a business takes time. Don’t let anyone tell you there are get rich quick programs, they do not exist. Anyone who makes a lot of money really fast on the Internet has a really big mailing list which they have built up over the years and that’s why they can do it. Don’t worry, one day you will get their also, it just takes some time.

In addition to the training that you will receive from my blog I am also going to help you out as much as I can in trying to get you new affiliates by placing your URL in my own rotator which will bring traffic from a variety of sources including this blog. Don’t count on this to build your business. You still have to do work to keep the momentum going and keep recruiting.

Not a member of GDI yet? Click here to help a random member of my team out.

I want you to make as much money as possible with GDI. If you make $10,000 a month, my income increases by $10,000 a month. That is the beautiful thing about residual and leveraged income that GDI offers to us. Just remember to always keep in contact with your new affiliates that you recruit and help them out as well. Teach them everything that I teach you. Put up your own blog and do the same. DUPLICATION!, This is why this business works so well and without it your team will crumble along with your income.

Let’s get started and make some serious money!

Your success is our success! To the top

Regards,
Daniel Cassidy, GDI Team Leader
http://www.MoneyFlowForLife.com