Global Resorts Network and Web 2.0

Representatives of Global Resorts Network – and Internet business opportunities in general – face so many choices when figuring out how to market their business properly. The only thing they are sure of is that the essence of a successful.profitable GRN business is traffic.

Unfortunately, often this can only be achieved after mastering a serious learning curve and spending a lot of money on info-products, only to give up – either because they’re frustrated or they have run out of funds. Time, money, know-how – these are the foundations that make or break a business.

In this article, I’m going to show a way to get your Global Resorts Network marketing strategy up and running – without wasting your day on your PC or breaking the bank.  But first, let’s take a look at what’s happening in the world of Internet marketing.
 
Web 2.0 – Blessing or Curse?

Web 2.0 is a catch-phrase that basically describes the new way Internet marketing has been heading for quite some time now. It’s all about information, interaction, and interest. If you’re at the point where you’re ready to launch your online business, you’ve already discovered that it needs to be widespread – on WordPress, HubPages, Squidoo, Blogger, Digg, Twitter, Furl and a ton of other sites that can help you rise in the Google rankings.

But every one of those pages you have requires a learning curve, and everything you write needs to be disseminated in a way that is original, fresh and powerful  – or Google will penalize you for duplicate content.

Web 2.0 owes its appeal to the fact that it’s easy and usually free – just generate content and stick it on your site. But as we all know, Internet marketing is all about numbers. You want to rank high in Google, but at the same time be found in unlikely places – everywhere. For this kind of Internet presence, numbers become your bread and butter – traffic, pages, sites, clicks, views, everything is measured in numbers.

Your easy plan for Internet success starts to seem like a burden – building your sites and pages and profiles, spending way too much time on disheartening grunt work, and never seeing the results you know are out there.  You’ve got your setup, you’ve got a great idea, and you’ve got a budget – now, you need the time, the experience and the know-how to put it all together.

Successful Marketers Go Virtual

Ask every leader in the business, and you will find that many of them don’t do their own busy-work – they have others do it for them.

That’s because they know what’s important – talking to interested prospects on the phoneand closing sales. A full marketing pipeline is what matters. Everything else is “tinkering” with your money and your profits.

It comes down to simplifying your life. When you call in the troops – a Virtual Assistant, an article writer, someone to set up and maintain all your sites, pages, content and such – you’re spending your budget on bringing in business instead of disorganized attempts that have no cohesive plan connecting them all. 

When you outsource your marketing tasks you simply monitor your traffic, and then get back to working toward your goals – answering phone calls, designing new strategies, making videos, and setting aside time to sit with pen in hand, doing some outside-the-box thinking.

A New Web, A New Way

With a Global Resorts Network business, you’ve always got a lot of work if you want to reap the rewards. The last thing you want to do is spend all day in front of your computer, navigating confusing software and trying to remember passwords, throwing all your money at Google Adwords and being flooded with an incredible amount of new possibilities.

By outsourcing to a Virtual Assistant – or even a couple of them, depending on your budget and your marketing plan – you’ll be able to concentrate on spending your time with leads, making Global Resorts Network sales, training – and enjoying life.

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Marketing A Global Resorts Network Business

No one likes “selling.” The very word conjures up images of shady men trying to sell junky cars or overzealous people on your doorstep, trying to get in. Everyone has been the target of such a salesperson at some time in their life. It is uncomfortable, and at best, the salesperson receives polite disinterest. About ninety-five percent of the population finds the idea of selling unappealing and even outright repellent. This puts people who depend on Global Resorts Network sales in an unenviable position – but it does not have to.

The difference between trying to sell a product and having interested parties come to you is in how you market yourself as well as your business and your product. As the owner of an MLM or online home-based business you face some stiff competition, which makes successful marketing all the more important. By the end of this article, you’ll know exactly how to take your marketing to the next level without having to use the Reverse Funnel System.

For starters, let’s take a look at MLMs.

A Quickly Growing Market

The world of Multilevel Marketing (MLM) is a seriously competitive field, as well as a hard one to succeed in. The reason why people like MLM home-based businesses is that you are in business for yourself but not by yourself. The name of the game is to build a network through which to move your products. Income is derived from these retail sales as well as from sponsoring other distributors.

The Global Resorts Network business provides an excellent example for us as we talk about the most effective way to market your MLM business.

GRN offers goodies for members as well as distributors. For a one-time fee, members can travel to four and five star resorts of the unheard of price of about $298 a week. In addition, members receive steep discounts on airfares, cruises, and last-minute package deals. As an example of the savings, a family of six can book a vacation at a five star resort in Mazatlan using already-discounted Priceline for about $2369 per week. GRN members can book the same resort for $298 per week.

Benefits do not extend only to members. Affiliate distributors or MLM owners of Global Resorts Network businesses have the opportunity of taking part in the seven trillion dollar a year travel industry. For every membership they sell, they receive $1000 in commissions. In addition, they also receive $1000 if one of the distributors whom they sponsor makes a sale. This way, Global Resorts Network business owners can seriously expand their income by actively selling as well as with “passive income.”

A great opportunity: But what about the actual “selling” – the job that so many people find so difficult and unappealing and which is time-consuming and ineffective? How can you effectively sell your product, GRN memberships for example, without having to resort to traditional (i.e. ineffective) sales tactics, cold-calling, and lead chasing? This is where your marketing platform or strategy comes in.

Understanding The Popular Reverse Funnel System

A marketing platform that is often associated with %Global Resorts Network % businesses is the Reverse Funnel System (RFS). This is not the only method of marketing your MLM business, but because it is often mentioned in the same circles, it is worth taking a look at. The RFS is touted as being a “hands-free online home-based business program” that can earn you serious cash – thousands of dollars – every week. In the program, MLM owners have the goal of building a network marketing organization and focusing on traffic generation to build income. The RFS takes bits and pieces of the Funded Proposal method (more on this later). Budding entrepreneurs are told that they are “buying into a real business.”

What, however, is this “real business”? It can be difficult to tell. RFS websites sing the praises of the system without ever telling prospective business owners exactly what the product or service actually is. The highlight that sells potential business owners on the RFS is the automation. It “takes you out of the equation; you can’t mess it up,” according to their campaign. Fully automated and free of the messiness of human interaction, it claims to ensure success.

The RFS is one way of marketing your Global Resorts Network business, but by no means is it the only way. Owning a business is nerve-racking under any circumstances, and it is doubly so with MLMs. Remember, only about five percent of MLM home-based businesses make it. Why not give yours the best chance at success?

There Are Other Ways To Succeed

As the owner of a home-based business, you have to be constantly aware of marketing. You can do this through methods like RFS, but an alternative that you may find to be more effective for your Global Resorts Network business is self-branding – making your business unique and recognizable amongst all the others out there. As an MLM home-based business owner, you have to ask yourself – why are people going to buy from you as opposed to another site? The simple answer is YOU.

You are, in essence, marketing you. This helps you develop a strong customer base founded on trust. You develop and build your brand – your business’s or your personal identity – and get noticed, which is key. Your brand is what separates you from the rest of the pack. This is not a one-size fits all approach, like turn-key businesses can be. This is personal. It is your business.

This sounds wonderful in theory – and it is an effective marketing strategy. But what do you do about cash flow as you are building your brand and your customer base, especially when you have a relatively costly product? As a new or growing home-based business owner, advertising and marketing probably take huge chunks of your operating budget. They may even exceed your budget constraints. The solution? Another form of marketing called Funded Proposals.

Funded proposals Might Be Your Answer

It is very difficult to sell a $3000 product to someone with whom you have no relationship. With Funded Proposals, your $3000 product becomes secondary. Your primary product will be an inexpensively produced and distributed line of products, such as ebooks, CDs and DVDs, newsletters, or email series. You can find many of these ebooks, CDs, DVDs, newsletters, and e-mail series for free. These products, while inexpensive to your customers, provide valuable content. Instead of trying in vain to sell expensive products to make ends meet, you sell smaller ticket items to generate both income and interest. The people who land on your homepage and opt to sign up for the inexpensive product become your prospects. You can develop a relationship with them and sell them the more expensive actual product later.

A funded proposal creates interest in the product and interest in purchasing the product through you and your business – which is where self-branding plays into this effective marketing strategy. You are not cold calling or pulling names out of a hat to try to get uninterested people to buy. You are instead giving an opportunity to people who are already interested in your product and in your business.
For GRN, a generic information-related product like an ebook also appeals to the MLM field as a whole, not just those specifically interested in GRN. This allows you to expand your customer base and encourage others to become Global Resorts Network business owners, which adds to your passive income.

The funded proposal system works hand in hand with self-branding. You develop your customer base; you build a bond that lasts; you reap the rewards of your effort. I can’t see any way to take the human element out of any business, nor should that be your goal. What makes you different as a person and a business is what makes people want to buy from you as opposed to your competitors. It is what keeps your customers loyal to you.

Being the owner of your home-based business means you must be actively working to build your business. The worst thing you can do is nothing; you must be proactive. There are many ways to market your business. Whether that means using the RFS platform, self-branding, funded proposals, or other methods, you can give your Global Resorts Network business the best chance of success.