Have you heard of drop cards? Drop cards are best used along with a funded proposal. If you’re a network marketer and you don’t know what either of these are, there is a good chance that you are either new to the industry or you have been struggling along using the same worn out methods that people have been failing with for decades.

Either way, this day is your lucky day because you’ll know exactly what these are shortly. You’ll also know how a funded proposal works.  

Drop cards are printed to look exactly like real money making them difficult to throw away. Some people make them into business cards. They are available in any size bill but the $100 bill is ideal.

They look like a bill that has been folded in thirds but being only two thirds the length of an original, just folding in half will make them the size of a business card.

People naturally pick them up. Then they open them to see your catchy slogans and your email address and the URL of your site.

If the lines you’ve printed get their interest, you can get some quality leads this way. It is a good idea to make them curious.

Those who are interested will get in touch. The best leads are the ones who look you up. There’s a big difference in interested leads and trying to convince your family or friends that they can start their own business.

Interested leads are much more worth your time than those who are just listening so they will not hurt their feelings.  

Now let’s get to the funded proposal. A funded proposal is a car that you use to earn money while you are building your primary MLM or network marketing business.

The way it works is through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is where you get a commission, for every person that buys, when you direct them to the site.

If it’s a service they buy, you get monthly commissions. For a product, you earn commission for every product they buy from that source.   Since the World wide web gives network marketers an unlimited source of leads, unlike a limited personal contact list, anyone who wants the ideal opportunity to succeed, will need certain on the internet tools and services.

These resources and services that everyone who markets on the internet needs would be the affiliates you would promote.

All of these tools would be used for building your list of prospects and shown to them for their use also. Each prospect that uses them would earn you some money for you to use for advertising. This is the basic marketing model of all the income leaders.

One other thing, drop cards and all of the other resources needed for marketing would be integrated into your funded proposal. Not to mention, the funded proposal would be an affiliate for you too.

This is network marketing in the Technology age. It only makes sense to put these modern tools to work for you.

OK, now you’ve your funded proposal and your drop cards and I’m going to give you 15 ways to use them. Just remember, these are all marketing zones and it is better to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission.  

1. After paying for gas at the pump, slide one in the credit card slot on the pump. And others.

2. Bookstore, inside books and magazines for personal growth, success, entrepreneurs, and MLM

3. Mall stores like Macy’s, put them in pockets of jeans, jackets, and other costly clothes on the shelves and racks

4. Anywhere that sells leather coats, in the pockets

5. Mall benches, food court, walkways

6. Escalator

7. Elevator

8. Wall-Mart - inside of Success and entrepreneur magazines

9. Restaurant bathrooms and parking lots

10. Newspaper stands - open the stand and put one in each newspaper

11. Airport - same places as in malls and on airplanes in the Sky-Mall magazines

12. Waiters - When you have a great one, use this, “We really enjoyed having you as our server and appreciate what a hard worker you’re. Could I ask you one question?” wait for answer, then “Do you keep your options open when it comes to making extra money?” Then “I do not want to go into it now but I am going to leave something on the table for you to check out later” Then leave a GOOD tip and a drop card. That way they know you are leaving something for them.

13. Hotel - The next time you stay at a hotel, leave a $5 or more tip and a drop card and a note that says “I know your job can’t be very much fun but you’re the type of person I need on my team because you’ll do what it takes to make money. If you keep your options open when it comes to making money, check this out and send me a message.”

14. Junk mail - When you sort through your mail you should keep the envelopes that state “No postage necessary when mailed in the United States.” Send only a drop card back in the envelope. The mail clerk is stuck in a mail room and may be looking to get out. You might as well put it to good use, it is for marketing.

15. Just remember, they’re called drop cards, so drop them, just don’t be obvious about it. People will pick them up, and either throw them away or keep them long enough to show to a friend. You never know when someone will come in contact and decide the timing is right.    

These strategies are easily adopted into daily habits. With a tiny creativity, you can have lots of fun with them. People who join you through these strategies are sure to use them also. Just like leads generated on the internet, you don’t have to deal with rejections, either.

About the Author

By Dan Lambeth, If you’re not using the global billboard of the Internet to build your business you’re falling behind. Get your own funded proposal and change that. If you want the drop cards that look like real money visit my blog and for free training, sign up for my newsletter.

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Sometimes you just need a jump start in the creativity department when coming up with article topics.

We all get stumped for ideas sometimes, and it’s extremely helpful to have a list of “idea starters” to help get our creative juices flowing so that we can think up our next batch of article topics.

Here are 10 article topics to help boost your creativity:

1- Use title templates to jump begin your creativity. Here are some I use:

Top 10 [your topic] Tips

7 Reason To Do [your topic]

Top 10 [your topic] Mistakes

How To [your topic]

Reader questions: “How Do I ____?” or “What is ____?”

2- Create a “Newbie’s Guide” article where you introduce an absolute newbie from your target market to your topic.

3- Write a “Top Mistakes” article.

What mistakes do you notice folks in your target market engaging in routinely? A ‘Top Mistakes’ article warns your readers what NOT to do and also provides corrections to the mistakes.

4- Use the same article topic, but write two articles–one for a beginner and another for an expert.

Although on the same topic, these two articles will be very different and include different material. Beginners need extra details on how to get started. Experts want tips on how to take their performance to the next level.

5- Customer FAQs.

If it’s a question that customers or potential customers are commonly asking, then it is worthy of being made into an article. You might want to put the title in question form, so that the entire purpose of the article is answering the frequently asked question.

6- Magazine headlines.

Find a magazine that is in your niche or in a related niche. Look at the article headlines on the front of the magazine. Those titles are there to stimulate interest in a reader and make them want to read the articles. Can you adapt those titles to suit your specific topic?

7- Bounce articles off of your blog posts.

My blog is my biggest gold mine of article topics. I routinely write blog posts, and then the next month I rework each blog post to be suitable as an article. It’s like killing two birds with one stone! Just be sure that when you do this that you rewrite the article so that it is different from your blog post. You want to keep the content on your own site one-of-a-kind for SEO reasons.

8- Take your last 7 previous articles and dig deeper.

Look each of your last 7 articles–there is a way (often several ways) that you can approach the same topic from a different angle and provide more in depth information. This would be like zooming into a specific aspect of your article and magnifying it in a new article.

9- Give an aerial view of your topic.

You can also do the opposite of “digging deeper”–make some articles that are broad overviews of your topic. Instead of giving really detailed info, give a wide range of information on your topic that’s not as deep. Whatever your article topic is, you can either go much more in depth (and in that case you would be covering a smaller topic more in depth), or you can cover a broader topic more superficially. Each of these types of articles has value to a reader.

10- Look through your website for helpful info about your topic that you can morph into an article.

You took a long time creating the content on your website, didn’t you? Why not adapt that info to your articles? Just be careful that the info from your website is not about your own business or products. The type of website content that would be perfect for a free reprint article is educational material about your general topic.

You’ve more article topics under your nose than you realize! Explore these 10 creative article topics and see how many new article ideas you can generate.

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Steve Shaw is an article marketing expert, and founder of the popular article distribution service, SubmitYOURArticle.com, used by thousands of business owners. Discover how to use the power of article marketing to reach thousands of potential prospects for your website - download a powerful free report on successful article marketing from http://www.submityourarticle.com/report

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Not long ago, a prospect called me and he was depressed and frustrated because his new network marketing business was not going well and, in fact, had left him friendless and avoided by members of his own family.

When I asked what he had been doing to cause all of this, he stated he had just been doing what his sponsor had instructed him to do. I almost could have told him his story. But I let him tell me how he had made a “warm list” of everyone he knew or was related to. How he’d called all of them and either invited them over for a home presentation, with hardly any of them showing up for, or went to see them to “place” some of the product with them.

He also told me about all of the promotional products he’d bought and the extra products for samples he’d and how he had written down his goals and his “why” and all of that stuff.

He stated the product was great and he couldn’t understand why all the people he knew would not even try his opportunity to make lots of money. That, in fact, a lot of his friends and even some of his family wouldn’t even answer his phone calls anymore.

As I said before, I almost could have told him his story. He was on the fast track to the NFL club. That does not stand for National Football League either, it means No Friends Left.

The ideal way to wind up in this club is to try all of these “old school ” MLM methods. It really is not your fault if you are in the club, just as it was not this man’s fault. It is only logical to wind up there when you use these methods to try to build your network marketing business.

If you get nothing else out of this article you need to comprehend this. If you wanted to build a football team, where would you look for members? Would you go down to the basketball court or to the closest construction site? Of course not! You would find football players that are looking for a team to get on.

Consider this! What kind of people would you want if you wanted to build a network marketing business? Uninterested in starting their own business- relatives? Football players? What about network marketers? Wouldn’t it make more sense to build a list of prospects that went looking on the web for solutions, found your site, and left their contact info for you?

By learning how to position yourself online with business opportunities and sites that offered solutions for network marketers, you can build a list of people who are interested in your product, service, or opportunity and not have to pester your uncle Bob or cousin ever again.

Why do not we check out some of the ways that a “warm list” and a generated on the internet list like my list differ

Warm list- Most likely you would have to go through 20 to 30 names before you found an entrepreneur and then it may be one that hates network marketing because of a failed attempt in the past using old school methods. My list- Almost all of them are working network marketers, but there could be a few that are not. Nobodies list is perfect.

Warm list- You have to ask every one very carefully before you’ll know if they’ve any interest in starting their own business-and most of them do not.

My list- Every one of them have some interest or they wouldn’t have found me on the internet and left their contact info for me which is how they got on the list.

Warm list- It is really a list of your personal contacts and they know you and probably know that you’re new to the business- this means they know you are still learning. It is limited by how many people you know.

My list- It is a list of people who went online and found me and therefore know that I’m at least knowledgeable enough to position myself as a leader on the web and solve some of their problems. It is limited by how many people go online searching for solutions.

Warm list- It is definitely going to dwindle down to the trickle of how many people you can personally meet in your each day life. And it probably started out at 200 to 400 names.

My list- Grows every day on autopilot by about 15 to 20 people and that number will go up as I learn and implement new strategies. By the way, those new names will be added to the 1500 name I was able to add to the list over the last 6 months.

Warm list- No way to stay out of the NFL club when you’re going after your friends.

My list- No way to get in the NFL club with this list. When you are helping these people with your marketing tools and resources, it is the opposite . They want to hear more from you.

Many people who are industry leaders will tell you that the money is in the list. These list building techniques are so different it is nearly laughable that anyone even still uses those “old school” methods.

If you want to attract experienced network marketers into your business and have a place online for those who are looking for a new business opportunity, you need to wake up to the Age of Technology and put some of the most modern tools known to man to work for you.

About the Author

By Dan Lambeth, After I learned about this network marketing leads generation system and marketing training service I knew that I could succeed in this industry. You can too if you can follow my blueprint to MLM success outlined on my blog.

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Copyright (c) 2010 Ivana Katz

Men often watch women drivers and roll their eyes in disbelief; women regularly shake their heads disapprovingly at the aggressive driving habits of men. There is no shortage of driver stereotypes in America. Seniors observe teenage motorists warily, expecting them to drive recklessly at too-high speeds. Teens watch their older counterparts and chuckle, believing them incapable of making swift decisions behind the wheel. Does pigeonholing everybody supply a good illustration of each group’s abilities behind the wheel?

This article will explore who are the best and worst drivers among men, women, teens, and seniors. We’ll contrast the driving habits of different groups on the road today. You may discover that your beliefs aren’t totally true.

Men Versus Women: Who Are The Superior Drivers?

Traditionally, men have considered themselves to be more proficient behind the wheel than women. This belief may be due to stereotypes about women that have been cultivated among men for generations. However, the presumption about driving ability oversimplifies a potentially murky issue; and it is based more upon anecdotal evidence than data.

In 2003, the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety (IIHS) found that young male drivers were responsible for a higher percentage of crash-related fatalities than women. The trend shifted among the over-50 population; female drivers over 50 years of age were responsible for more crash deaths than men in the same age group.

In 2006, a road risk analysis report was published by Carnegie Mellon University for the American Vehicle Association (AAA). The report advocates other factors play an important role in determining accident and fatality incidence rates between the genders. Teenage males are far less apt to perish while driving than octogenarian females, for instance. However, the reason is due to their fragility rather than driving capability. The age and model of car driven can also be an important factor (e.g. SUV versus small sedan), number of average miles driven, and likelihood of distractions.

So, to the question of which gender is the better driver, there are far too many variables to know for certain. I should point out that women generally pay less for auto insurance than men. Even though men and women have an equal number of accidents annually, accidents involving males usually cost more. Studies also show that male drivers are more likely than women to be involved in traffic violations.

Teens Versus Seniors: Recklessness And Response

The difference in likelihood of teens and seniors being involved in traffic accidents is less ambiguous than that of men and women. As you might anticipate, teens pose a significantly higher risk of road-related injury and death. This may be due to a penchant for racing, tendency toward distraction, or less-refined decision-making skills than older drivers.

In 2007, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a report showing that teenage motorists represent a disproportionately higher percentage of traffic fatalities than all other age groups. For example, while drivers between the ages of 15 and 20 comprised only 8.5% of the driving population in 2007, they represented 12.7% of accident-related fatalities. Moreover, they represented 15.4% of auto accidents.

For their part, senior drivers cope with limitations behind the wheel that are largely exclusive to their age group. These limitations include decreased response time, partial vision impairment, and a reduction in hearing ability. However, seniors tend to be aware of these constraints; with their greater driving experience they tend to compensate by driving slower. They also tend to drive fewer miles per capita. While there is a marked increase in accident-related fatality rates among seniors as they age (e.g. from 65-69 to 70+), the percentage increase is lower than that for crashes. As such, the increase in fatalities is likely due to their fragility.

It is almost impossible to identify which group (i.e. men, women, teens, and seniors) represents the best and worst drivers in the context of driving skill. Auto insurance premiums seem to favor female drivers between the ages of 50 and 65 due to that age group’s lower proclivity toward risk-taking.

About the Author

Kade Phillips is a contributing writer for several popular insurance quote comparison websites powered by Kanetix. Want to learn more ways for low cost car insurance? Visit us this day! If you are from Canada, we invite you to visit: www.Kanetix.ca to compare all of your personal insurance quotes.

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Copyright (c) 2010 Riley West

Getting a big flow of good, targeted traffic to your web pages is not only the most difficult thing to do but it’s the most important thing to do in world wide web marketing.

That is because a site without traffic is “dead”.

But achieving you traffic goals doesn’t have to be a puzzle and it doesn’t have to have the possible consequence of driving you broke from ad bills.

When you get it right SEO (search engine optimization) is the best way to get traffic to your offer. It’s free, it comes with a good dose of credibility, and, depending on your keyword choice, it can be VERY targeted.

Here we will cover a few SEO tactics that you can use to get more great traffic in a reasonable amount of time.

Most of the time, in discussions about SEO, the two main ingredients to the recipe for traffic are “keywords” and “backlinks”.

Another dichotomy that exists is the “onpage” and “offpage” SEO tactics.

For example, if you want to, and can, rank for “red umbrellas” you want your keyword in your title, preferably toward the front and you want it in the first paragraph, also preferably toward the beginning.

These rules are not hard and fast in SEO but they may well be when submitting articles.

So there you have the “on-page” factors.

The “off-page” factor that most people would like to know how to do and how to get right, are backlinks. Preferably one-way backlinks, although the merit of two way links is commonly discussed.

So here is what you want to move up fast for a keyword you’re targeting.

You want it in your title and your first paragraph. On-page.

And then there is the off-page SEO maneuvers.

You want it on another site as a hyperlink made of THOSE words. In this case it could be in an article resource box, as “the author will also show a good selection of red umbrellas and some…” where “red umbrellas” is a clickable link to the pages URL that you’re SEO’ing for. I’m SURE that’s not a word but I hear myself saying it now and then.

You see, Google sees a link from another site that has the link text as “red umbrellas” as a VOTE for YOUR site.

Theoretically, at least, Google will advance your ranking for red umbrellas if they see some “votes” in the form of red umbrella links pointing to your page from out there in the blogosphere or web page universe.

So there it is. Your on-page text content includes your keywords and your links back to that page come from in-context placement of “your keyword here” at another site.

This could be done with articles, in the resource box, or a post on a blog somewhere and there’s one more consideration to where your backlinks originate from.

It’s a simple as this. A keyword link from a low page rank site carries a lot less “link juice” than a link from a PR5 or PR6 does.

So a easy way to start pushing for superior ranking for “your keyword here” is to get it in your on page content adequately and to secure some backlinks from “your keyword here” in context at another site, if possible from a higher PR ranking site or page.

Here is a great exercise.

Go to Ezinearticles and find some articles about your topic (your keyword here). Take a look at what keywords they’re using to get links back to their site and compare it to what you are doing. Live and learn.

And remember this… Offer + Traffic = Sales

About the Author

Would you like to have a nice flow of FREE targeted traffic to your site? Getting ranked for a keyword is the “holy grail” of on the web marketers and it can be for you too! For more on this and a plan to get it done see Riley West’s Famous Blog at Free Targeted Traffic and see the plan for a FREE domain name and Web Site and how to get it to have FREE Keyword Google traffic at One Week Marketing.

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