When I run across helpful tools I love to share them with my online friends.  There are so many tools out there, that we do not always run into the same ones.  If they are helpful, then I want to make sure that you know about them.

So, today I am sharing ones that are not really related to one another, but will be of interest to people in different stages of their marketing process.

Many of you are on Twitter, but some find it hard to really make heads or tails out of it.  Meaning that there are so many little bits of information that it is hard to grasp the full potential.  So, the best-looking desktop Twitter application is called, Seesmic.  With this tool you can categorize the different feeds that you are interested in, such as sports, music and of course, Internet marketing.  This will help you be more productive with Twitter which is our goal.

http://seesmic.com/

So, you are now ready to design your first website, or maybe you want to design a capture page. But what about all of the HTML that you have been planning on learning that will be needed. Well, who has time to do that..?

Luckily for us there is a great full-featured Web editor called KompoZer.  It is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web editor, so you can build a sight visually, rather than messing with code. But if you want to get fancy, you can edit the code directly.

http://kompozer.net/

Now you have your site, or for those that are not interested in that, when you are branding yourself, a logo is always nice to have.  You could spend big bucks for a professional. But why do that? At Logoinstant you’ll find plenty of free logos.

Once you download one, you can customize it in a graphics program. Many logos are in Photoshop format, which leads us to our next tool.

http://www.logoinstant.com/

If you do not have Photoshop because you do not want to fork out the money for it, there is a powerful image editor called GIMP.  It’s a free image editing program. And it has an impressive set of tools. It can handle nearly any editing task.

Like Photoshop, GIMP is complex. It has a steep learning curve. In fact, it may be too much for a beginner.  But if you’ve found other programs lacking, this is what you want.

http://www.gimp.org

Lastly, when you have a blog, you want to be connected with other blogs that are similar to yours.  It is not always easy to find what you are looking for.  This tool allows you to search for blogs by theme and subject. You can then easily comment on the right blogs.

Link: www.fastblogfinder.com

All of these tools are free, which is always good.  However, the Fast Blog Finder has the following note:

“You can download a fully functional version of Fast Blog Finder and try it for free. So, you will get a good feel about how the software works and how you can benefit from it. The Free edition of Blog Finder requires registration and allows you find up to 50 blogs for each keyword phrase. You can upgrade software to the Gold Edition and search as many blogs as you want.”

Well, there you have it another list of great tools that make it easier to get things done.  If you have used any of these let me know.  I will edit my blog to include comments that I receive.  I want to make sure that these tools perform as they say that they do, as well as, if you have had great success with one of them then we should make sure everyone knows that too.

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In the sister/brother (just trying to be fair) post Advanced Tools For Online Marketing Part 1 I listed some resources for outsourcing marketing tasks to enable you to be more efficient and effective in your marketing without working 70 hours a week.  As promised, I am now sharing with you Advanced Tools 2.

So, the next level is to have someone available to do customer service via a phone call.  Wouldn’t it be great to have a professional person call your potential clients to let them know how important they are to you, direct them to training that you provide, and get them started.

A possible scenario could be, the professional customer service assistant in your virtual office has helped set these clients up in their back office of My Lead System Pro, and these clients were already on their way to the next  step, marketing.  At that point they get the opportunity to get a personal phone call from you, the leader.

The advantages of this are numerous, first of all you would already know that they were willing to do the initial work, i.e. they were not “tire kickers.”  Secondly, they would be ready to start marketing.  Thirdly, having reached the marketing stage, utilizing affiliate tools provided in the sales funnel, they are already providing profit for you.

So, you may say that you are not there yet.  Well, there is no better time to plan than now.  To help you set your sites on the future I am providing some resources for you to put in your planning folder for when you are ready to use them.

For those of you that are ready to take that next step I hope that this is useful.

For more expert customer service or client contact help, the following four companies can offer you high quality assistance.

What makes the following companies interesting is the advent of cloud sourcing.  This is similar to outsourcing, in that you are going outside of your company to have a task preformed, but with cloud sourcing there is more emphasis put on using off-site computer services.  Cloud computing is simply the fastest way to generate high value from IT infrastructure, platforms, and software all delivered as a service.  Another great aspect of cloud computing is, if you your need increases, there are services available, that is, the scalability is virtually unlimited.

First we have LiveOps.  They deliver full-service outsourcing solutions that can meet any call center need. In addition to handling all call types, they offer on-demand access to expert services for a variety of inbound and outbound calls.

http://liveops.com/

• Inbound Direct Sales
• Commissioned Agent Services
• Casual Dining Services
• Customer Care
• Licensed Insurance Sales
• Outbound Consultative Sales
• Bilingual Phone Services (Spanish & French)

The second one is Alpine Access Consulting, a provider of a wealth of hands-on experience and current industry best practices that comes from 11 years of implementing more than 100 at-home programs.  They offer access to their extensive knowledge of proven at-home business processes, technologies, workforce management tools, knowledge management and talent acquisition.

http://www.alpineaccess.com/en/

Next is West Corporation, who pride themselves on providing a higher level of customer care.  They want to make a difference in your bottom line.  They are a leader in providing outsourced communication solutions.  West at Home utilizes thousands of home-based agents located across the country combined with the industry’s most robust and advanced infrastructure to deliver superior service to you and your customers.

http://westathome.com

Lastly, Working Solutions claim that their advantage is their extensive agent network, proven technology, unmatched knowledge and expertise, and their tenured management team.  They have worked with many industries, you can see case studies for each of those industries on their site.  They have what they refer to as agents on demand which are  highly educated home-based call center professionals that are trained and available, as needed for specialized industries.

http://www.workingsolutions.com/

So, there you have it, your future!!  There were some interesting aspects of outsourcing that I learned from collecting these sites.  One is, the age of cloud sourcing has arrived and the virtual office is more useful than ever.

Hope you find this useful, let me know by leaving a comment below.

Sincerely yours,

Kathy Sammons

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In the sister post Social Networking Tools Part 1 there are some great tools for keeping abreast of your social networking sites in one organized platform.  Many of the tools allow you to do real time updating on the sites, as you see them.  That way, you can better monitor what is being said and can respond to it.  You can even direct them to one of the other sites where similar conversations are taking place, there by expanding your reach and theirs.  In this post you will find a very special tool for collecting and storing information.

Here we are going to look at a tool that will save you time when you are doing research.  You could use this when you are looking for information on a topic for your next blog post, research on a new opportunity, or a new online lead system.  You might even be on a mission to learn a new skill, or you may be collecting information for some other purpose.

For all of these purposes this tool I believe you will find it very helpful.

So, here is the problem,  we have all been in situation where we read something and we want to keep it for future reference.  I do not know about you, but I try to keep items in folders on my desktop to keep them organized.  Then my desktop gets too messy.  So I start a folder, such as one titled Internet Marketing, then I drag and drop all of the folders pertaining to that topic into that new catch all folder.

OK, now I am sharing too much about myself, oh well!  Here it is… one of my short comings is being able to remember where I put things or what I named them!!!!  That is why this tools is such a great one for me to have.

Zotero.org is the time and effort saving tool to beat all.  Here you can organize your data collection all in one place.  The best part is that it does not matter the format of the data collected, you can still put it all together.  It could be a PDF file, a website URL, and a note created on the embedded Word platform, all in one collection.  As you collect data you can add tags to each item that you collect and also define a related topic.

The purpose of that is, when you return to this data and you want to find a new string of information you can search on that topic and create new folders or sub folders of related material to develop a whole new collection of data.

For instance, if you were collecting information on SEO, the folder for that might contain a URL to SEO Networker where you can find valuable information about this topic.  You will probably also search blogs written on the topic.  When you find information that you like,  you can capture a snapshot of the page and it will place that in your folder.  Then you remember that you have something in your documents on your computer that would work nicely in this piece, you can attach a stored copy of that file.  As you collect each one and attach tags to them, such as SEO, Internet Marketing, Computer Progamming, Lead Generation Tools etc., you are preparing those pieces to be used in the future for other topics of interest.

What is even better, Zotero sits in the bottom edge of your Firefox browser so it is always there when you want to add to your collection.  One last critical function is that when you are saving information is it syncing to the web based server so if Firefox has a problem you do you loose your valuable research.

Stay tuned for other tools that will make life easier for you when doing the multiple tasks of online marketing.  Here’s to your success!!!

Kathy

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Social networking is a main stay of many businesses today.  It is essential to online marketing success.  I have gathered some tools that might help you keep track of all your different social networking sites.  Below I have listed some of the different ways that you can keep in touch.  Everyone has different needs so I have included a variety of social networking tools…

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Here is the Facebook Toolbar.  This will help you keep track of Facebook and  log on easily.  It will let you know how many messages, friend requests, pokes, group requests etc.  You can even search Facebook from this tool bar.

http://developers.facebook.com/toolbar/

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Put Facebook and Twitter right on your desk top.  This makes it easier to keep up with what is going on in your accounts.  This way you will not have to sign up to each one every time you want to see what is going on.  You can even post to both of them at the same time.

http://seesmic.com

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With this little tool you can post pictures right to your Facebook account from you desktop.  This one also allows you to keep track of your Facebook account

http://www.adobe.com

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There are so many things to see on Facebook it is sometimes good to know what is going on and then choose to look at them or not.  This is a quick way to see who is posting on your wall and who is sending you messages and more.

http://fbquick.com/

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If you want all of your social networks in one place, this is the tool for you.  It will display Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Linkedin all on one screen.  You can then tweet and post on Facebook at the same time and follow the response.  You can express yourself and keep up with liked minded people that are spread out over the whole  web.

http://www.sobees.com/

I look forward to seeing you on Facebook, follow me below and let’s stay in touch.  To see more tools that I use click this link and find the best online marketing training around.  http://www.MLMSuccessForYou.com

Kathy Sammons
Internet Marketing Coach
Phone: 314-882-7622
http://www.kathysammons.com

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In my blog I talk about internet marketing, debt reduction and personal development.  Today I am adding something about personal development, an area that we should all be active in.

Within each of us is a core belief that our words speak volumes about who we are. Can you honestly say to yourself that you always keep your word?  Do you let yourself slide when you make a commitment to others and yourself.  Do you make up excuses that make you feel better, even though deep down you really don’t feel good about not keeping your word?  It is always so easy to say you will do something and then at the last minute say you’re tired, you don’t have time to do the thing you said you would, you claim that it is unimportant now, and on and on as the excuse train of not following through takes off from the station of your mind, and you justify your decision to not keep your word.

Where do you find yourself not following through on what you say? Can you see a pattern in this behavior? The very fact that you commit to something will set in motion a series of events that will always lead to a fulfillment of a thought, as long as you Become One With Your Word and follow through on what you say.  This is the law of commitment.  Become what it is YOU want to be, and what you want will always be YOU.

This lack of follow through is not an isolated incident, we all do it. The good news is that we all have the power of choice to make the decisions that support us staying in integrity with ourselves and others. It is when you keep your word that the power of being who you are shines through. There is a beauty and magnificence of following through on what you say that sets in motion a creative process that brings forth all the excellence that you are. To be a person of his or her word is one of the most desirable things anyone can do.

Become One With Your Word in all you do and watch as everything around you seems to blossom and grow, because you are watering the garden of your LIFE with integrity, commitment, and an unstoppable determination of success. You are standing up for who you are.

If necessary, I hope that this raises your awareness of your commitment habits.  I am sure that most of us could use some motivation to take a look at how we operate.  I will leave you with a quote, although I am not sure where it came from, I though that it fit this post very well.

“When you keep your word, the doors to all we need to create the life we desire, magically open up because the message the universe hears is one of truth, integrity and a boldness in claiming your destiny… there is a certainty in your presence to become that which you say, that is infectious.”    Author Unknown

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I AM a keeper of my word in all I do
I follow through on what I say
The power of my word fuels my journey
I create everything I say through the choices of what I say
I know that I AM blessed with magnificence and excellence
Today is another great day
I knowingly Become One With MY Word always.

It’s your day…MAKE IT A GREAT ONE!

Become One With Your Word

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Keep your head up and keep pressing on,

Kathy Sammons

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In my last post about SEO there were many tips about what constitutes SEO.  I also mentioned that there was a lot to learn and really understand about SEO so that we can build a site that is effective in terms of Google search rankings.

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Although I can give you the SEO starting blocks, there are people that have studied this for years and have more of a handle on what really works versus what doesn’t.  So, when you can help you  should, but when you know you have reached the peak of your knowledge you should refer.

Please look at the banner below and see what these guys have done.  They are very serious about this stuff, it is what they do.  So, I feel very comfortable sending you to them so that they can lead you further down the road.

I hope you find exactly what you are looking for,

Kathy Sammons

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So, you want success in an MLM Business?  Well, you can have it with the right tools and training.

You may be thinking something like this: …

You have a business opportunity that you like and it is going alright, but you just would like to be more successful.  You have been online for awhile and you feel like this is where you want to market.  You are on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and other sites like you should be and you are talking to people, but you still want more.

If that sounds like you or someone in your organization I have some good news for you!

If I could show you a system that will educate and train you and your leads to be successful online, do you think you might be interested?

What if I let you try it out first for 14 days for a buck, are you curious yet?

Here is some of the background for this system. You may have heard of  Mike Dillard, he is one of the online gurus.  He has over 100,000 people on his list of leads, can you image that!  Well this system blueprint is his brain child and three other gurus took that blueprint and developed this system that is creating many more successful leaders online everyday.

I cannot put in words the quality of this training.  The new and different techniques that the members of this system have added in the back office make this system the best source on the internet.  I know that is saying a lot, but that is a fact.

So, now just click this banner and sign up for your trial period.  I will be shocked if you do not find exactly what I have told you and more.

To your success,

Kathy Sammons
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How many times have you heard that in the MLM industry that you have to have a duplicatable system?  This will ensure that you can train your new recruits the best way to build their business.  We assume that everyone should be able to build a business the way we have.

Well, I am now of the opinion that it is not so much about having a duplicatable system, as it is … about having a variety of different marketing methods available for your new recruit to choose from.  The duplicatable system assumes that we are all good at the same things and we all learn in the same manner.

So, a multifaceted system would seem like a better choice.  This system should have a wide variety of marketing methods.  If you choose to market online there is a plethora of methods to choose from.  You may be good at writing, so article marketing is a good choice.  If you are good at speaking then you can use YouTube to do your presentations and get your message out.  There is a method for every person out here.  More important than duplicating your system, is to help your new recruits figure out that they want to do in a short amount of time and then make sure that they stay focused on it until it works for them.  If you are going to do article marketing you cannot give up after you put out a couple of articles and do not get any leads.  It is about consistency and long term effort.  It will pay off down the road and for a long time to come.

I am not sure why it is such a mantra in this industry because of all the big successful groups out there, they all did it differently.  So, why should we think that we have to all do it the same.  The important thing is to get going right away and stay committed to what you choose.

To your success,

Kathy Sammons

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There are four structural pillars to creating success in an MLM business.  Under each of these pillars are a variety of different methods to obtaining success.  These methods form the matrix of the actions that are necessary.  Each action is important and needs to be done consistently over a period of time.  These pillars are, lead generation, lead conversion, training, and retention.

The first pillar is… lead generation.  There are two main categories of lead generation, there is face to face, or off line lead generation, and online lead generation.

Face to face marketing starts with your warm market, this is your friends, family, co-workers.  For many people this just comes naturally and they are very successful.  Every day you should have a set number of contacts that you need to make in order to keep your pipeline of prospects full.  The need for outside networking is huge.

The second category of lead generation is online marketing which has some similarities to off line marketing.  The main difference however, is in the way that you find people to talk to.  You have to develop an online personality and brand yourself. This is a very important step and something that very few online marketers do.  This can help set you apart from the rest of the pack.  In order to do this branding you need a website, such as a blog, it would be great if you could use your name as the website name.  You want to attract people to you, to your site, this is the key to lead generation and online success in an MLM business.

OK, so now you have leads, now what?  What good are leads if you cannot convert them into paying customers or new signups for your business?  Once you are talking to them, whether you can convert them or not will depend on how you move forward.  (Be aware of the different buying personalities).  This is going to be the same whether you are using online or offline lead generation.  Your sales training and/or skills are going to play a key role.  The key is to engage people.  Once you are engaged it is time to get excited and move toward some type of close!!

There are many different closing techniques that you should know.  You can learn these from teachers like Brian Tracy, Mark Victor Hansen, Roger Dawson, Sandlier Sales Institute, as well as others.  Not every sales situation is going to warrant the same closing technique, so you need to have several in your mind and be able to move into the one that will work best.  Do not fail to learn this, find a good source such as the trainers at www.nightingale.com, some of which I have listed above.

The last two pillars, training and retention, can be talked about together, because without one you cannot have the other.  The funny thing about the MLM industry is that although it is about sales, very few people that are involved have had any sales training.  So, how do you train someone to do something in a short amount of time that can take years to develop?

There are different schools of thought here.  Many MLM sales teams preach that you have to have a duplicatable system.  Many have been taught to have a system that everyone in their organization uses.   Well, not everyone learns the same and not everyone is good at the same thing.  The solution to the problem is to have several techniques and good training on them, then you can personalize the sales method based on each person’s set of skills.  But, you have to have a system in place to do this training.  If your company does not have one then you can look online for one of the MLM lead generation training suites.

When it comes to retention, suffice it to say that if you do not have good sales training you will not have retention.  The reason why you would have retention is because people are successful.  Without personal success in whatever MLM you are in, your recruits will not hang around long.

In summary when you are building your team there is a lot of things to consider.   The first is how are you going to get your leads?  When you have a lead, it is important to make sure that they are qualified.  The next thing is converting that lead to an associate and following through with the training.  This training structure should allow for them to choose what bests suits their style.  And finally, retention is achieved by having the other three pillars firmly in place.  That is how you will achieve success in an MLM business.

I wish you great success and blessings on your day,

Kathy Sammons

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Hello, I wanted to talk about my journey in the MLM industry and where I am today.

I started in this industry in… 2005.  I believed in this industry as a way to a better life, a better life that was not going to be realized by working an 8-5 job.  I also realized that I was just trading my time for money and saw that there was a better way.

When I started, I was trained to market using sales techniques that are traditional for this industry.  I talked to my warm market, invited them to meetings and prayed they would show up.  I talked to my friends and family about what a great opportunity this was, and how it was going to change their lives.

I was lucky enough to work with some really great companies along the way.  One was a wellness company that has a product that has really help a lot of people with health problems.  I could not image why everyone would not want to take this product.  I could tell them stories of how it was bringing people back from the brink of death, but they still did not see the value.  I could not understand why, but there I was struggling along trying to get people to join me in my mission, but they would not follow.

Another great company that I am doing business with showed me how to pay my mortgage off in 1/2 the time.  Boy, if I could just show people how to pay off their debt, there would be no reason for them to not join me in this business.  This business was revolutionary, because they utilized advanced software to help my customers get out of debt and save thousands of dollars in interest.  But again, they could not see the light.

So, there I was with 2 great companies.  But I was still not making as much headway in my marketing efforts as I had planned on.  This just was not making sense to me.

I decided to try online marketing to promote my businesses, that is were I was exposed to MLM Lead System Pro.  If you have not heard of this or you have not heard of Mike Dillard then let me explain some very important marketing tips that I have learned.  I had been a student of Mike Dillard for sometime learning about attraction marketing, however, I was still working in the traditional manner not realizing what I was missing online.  I had not connected the dots that would help me do what I am doing today.

The marketing tips that I learned focused on attraction marketing.  But the biggest realization was that I was not talking to the right people.  The people that I needed to be talking to were the people that were already in direct sales.  These people did not need to be convinced of the value of this industry, they were already in it.  They were actively seeking a better way to support themselves, so all I had to do was to provide them with what they needed to succeed.  Wow, that was a BIG aha moment.

Well, that is where I am today, showing people how to succeed in this business where they once only found failure.  It has been quite a journey but as most stories go, it is all well worth the travel.

Happy Trails,

Kathy Sammons

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